William Bernard Ellis
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Spouse
Pauline A Roetzheim
Pauline A Roetzheim
1889 - 1964
Children
Irene Marilyn Ellis
Irene Marilyn Ellis
1920 - 2000
Marian Bernice Ellis
Marian Bernice Ellis
1922 - 2009
William Raymond Ellis
William Raymond Ellis
1924 - 2009

1894


Feb 5
1894 • A syzygy of planets occurs as Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both transit the Sun as seen from Saturn, but no two of the transits are simultaneous.

1919


May 28
Age: 25y
1919 Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.

1920


May 16
Age: 26y
1920 • The Khorezm People's Soviet Republic is officially created by Bolshevist Russia as the successor to the Khanate of Khiva.

1922


Jan 18
Age: 27y
1922 • The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia Herald Sun, is founded.

1927


Mar 11
Age: 33y
1927 • Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City, just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland had first demonstrated an electromechanical television system to the members of the Royal Society in London.

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