Family tree Van Knippenberg » Joseph Donahue (1892-1955)

Personal data Joseph Donahue 

  • He was born on August 31, 1892 in Hoffman, Allegany, Maryland, Verenigde Staten.
  • He died on October 8, 1955 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten, he was 63 years old.

Household of Joseph Donahue

He is married to Ann Myrtle Delaney.

They got married in the year 1919 at Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland, he was 26 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday August 31, 1892

  • The temperature on August 31, 1892 was about 16.2 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
    • June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
    • July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
    • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
    • August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
    • September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.

Day of death October 8, 1955

  • The temperature on October 8, 1955 was between 3.0 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
    • May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
    • June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
    • July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
    • September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
    • October 1 » The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
    • November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.


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