Sickler Family Tree » Elmer Henry Willis (1904-1947)
Personal data Elmer Henry Willis
Source 1- He was born on November 30, 1904 in Holly, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
- He died on December 7, 1947 in Genesee, Michigan, United States, he was 43 years old.
- A child of Wolon Willis and Mable May Locke
Household of Elmer Henry Willis
He is married to Mary Miles.
They got married in the year 1925, he was 20 years old.
Child(ren):
- Esther Willis 1935-2001
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Historical events
Birthday November 30, 1904
- The temperature on November 30, 1904 was between 1.8 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
- January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
- February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
- February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
- May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
- November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death December 7, 1947
- The temperature on December 7, 1947 was between 0.3 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
- January 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
- January 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
- February 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
- March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
- August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
Same birth/death day
- 1898 » Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and manager († 1976)
- 1904 » Clyfford Still, American painter and educator († 1980)
- 1906 » Andrés Henestrosa, Mexican poet, linguist, and politician († 2008)
- 1906 » John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright († 1977)
- 1907 » Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author († 2012)
- 1909 » Robert Nighthawk, American singer and guitarist († 1967)
- 1941 » Attack on Pearl Harbor:
- 1947 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1947 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
- 1949 » Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
- 1956 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
- 1956 » Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
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