♂ George Gawthrop

1886 - 1965

George Gawthrop
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Margaret Painter Van Deusen
Margaret P Van Deusen
1890 - 1981
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1886


Nov 14
1886 Uganda Martyrs: Charles Lwanga, twelve other Catholic boys and men and nine Anglicans are burned (and another Catholic speared) to death at the orders of Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda in Namugongo.

1922


Jun 18
Age: 35y

birth of child


George Gawthrop Jr.
1922 • The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy network created to link the British Empire, is opened, from England to Egypt.

1965


May 6
Age: 78y
1965 • The "glasnost meeting" becomes the first spontaneous political demonstration, and the first demonstration for civil rights in the Soviet Union.

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