The Brown Tree » Charles Biggar (1864-1947)
Personal data Charles Biggar
Source 1- He was born on October 16, 1864 in 57 Coathill Street, Glasgow, Lanark.
- He died on March 19, 1947 in 657 Edgefauld Road, Glasgow, he was 82 years old.
- A child of Nathaniel Biggar and ELIZABETH 'Betsy' BROWN
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Birthday October 16, 1864
- The temperature on October 16, 1864 was about 7.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- March 16 » American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
- June 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
- June 29 » At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
- August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
- November 11 » American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in preparation for his march to the sea.
Day of death March 19, 1947
- The temperature on March 19, 1947 was between 1.8 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
- May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- August 15 » Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
- August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
- November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
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- 1949 » James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)
- 1949 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
- 1950 » Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
- 1950 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
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Wesley Brown, "The Brown Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-brown-tree/P7027.php : accessed January 30, 2026), "Charles Biggar (1864-1947)".