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Personal data William James Smithson Burn 


Household of William James Smithson Burn

He has/had a relationship with Nina Esther Wood.


Child(ren):

  1. Olive Martha Burn  1916-2000 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William James Smithson Burn

Willard B. Smith
1809-1875
Patience Bettina Otis
1818-1885

William James Smithson Burn
1871-1957


Nina Esther Wood
1884-1968

Olive Martha Burn
1916-2000

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Birthday March 14, 1871

  • The temperature on March 14, 1871 was about 10.7 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
    • February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
    • May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
    • September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
    • November 16 » The National Rifle Association receives its charter from New York State.
    • December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

Day of death April 30, 1957

  • The temperature on April 30, 1957 was between 6.6 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
    • March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
    • March 17 » A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
    • June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
    • September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
    • October 3 » The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
    • October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.


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