Family tree Torn » George Whelan (1872-1901)
Personal data George Whelan
Source 1- Alternative name: george whelan
- He was born on May 17, 1872 in madras, madras, India.Source 1
Attention: Was younger than 16 years (12) when child (Myrtle Mathew whelan) was born (??-??-1884). - He died on January 22, 1901, he was 28 years old.
- A child of David Whelan and ellen
Household of George Whelan
He had a relationship with Amy Amelia Clark.
Child(ren):
- Myrtle Mathew whelan 1884-????
- Edwin George Whelan 1888-1889
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Birthday May 17, 1872
- The temperature on May 17, 1872 was about 10.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. 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 January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
- In the year 1872: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- March 11 » Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
- March 22 » Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
- July 18 » The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
- September 18 » King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
- November 18 » Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
- December 9 » In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.
Day of death January 22, 1901
- The temperature on January 22, 1901 was between 7.1 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). 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 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- 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 1901: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
- January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
- August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
- August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
- December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
- December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
- December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
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- 1873 » Henri Barbusse, French author and journalist († 1935)
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- 1892 » Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
- 1900 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
- 1901 » Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
- 1901 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
- 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
- 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
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