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Cynthia Naomi POOLEY

Female 1914 - 1951  (36 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
  • 1918: UK - Influenza Epidemic
  • 1918: Russia - Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed
  • 1918: UK - Summer:Great Influenza Epidemic begins, reaches height end of year, new outbreak first quarter of 1919: England and Wales lose 150,000 (15,000 in London alone)
  • 1918: UK - Final casualties for World War I - almost 1 million British Empire men killed, about 3 million maimed (744,000 killed are from UK)
  • 1918: UK - Women over 30 given the vote (complete voting equality with men comes in 1928), all men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) given vote
  • 1918: UK - Consumer purchasing power now about 1/3 of what it was in 1914
  • 1918: USA - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
  • 1918: UK - Police strikes this year and the next
  • 9 Nov 1918: Europe - Kaiser abdicates, peace signed two days later at Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
10 1923 
11 1924 
12 1925 
13 1926 
14 1927 
15 1928 
16 1929 
17 1930 
18 1931 
19 1932 
20 1933 
21 1934 
22 1935 
23 1936 
24 1937 
25 1938 
26 1939 
27 1940 
28 1941 
29 1942 
30 1943 
31 1944 
  • 1944: France - D-Day landings
  • 1944: France - First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
  • 1944: Berlin, Germany - Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
  • 1944: USA - The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • 1944: USA - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
32 1945 
33 1946 
34 1947 
35 1948 
36 1949 
37 1950 
38 1951