The Brown Tree » Cyril Raymond PURVEY (1892-1973)
Personal data Cyril Raymond PURVEY
Source 1Source 2- He was born on September 24, 1892 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.
- Resident:
- Haywards Heath, Sussex Or Scaford, Sussex.
- in the year 1901: Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.
- He died on May 10, 1973 in Coquitlam, he was 80 years old.
- Alternative: He died on May 10, 1973 in Coquitlam, British Columbia, he was 80 years old.
- A child of George PURVEY and Nina Eleanor BUTTON
Household of Cyril Raymond PURVEY
He is married to Lily ARCHER.
They got married October 1915 at Oxfordshire, he was 23 years old.
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Sources
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- Canada, Ledgers of CEF Officers Transferring to Royal Flying Corps, 1915-1919, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday September 24, 1892
- The temperature on September 24, 1892 was about 14.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
- January 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
- May 28 » In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
- 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.
- 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 22 » Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
Day of death May 10, 1973
- The temperature on May 10, 1973 was between 4.4 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
- May 14 » Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
- August 2 » A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
- October 6 » Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
- October 21 » Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
- November 24 » A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
- December 18 » Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
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- 1893 » Blind Lemon Jefferson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1929)
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- 1968 » Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (b. 1929)
- 1974 » Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)
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