List of last occurrences

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The following is a list of last occurrences. It can consist of last events, such as the last sending of a Western Union telegram; the last monarch of a monarchy (by either death or abdication); or the death of the last member of a group of people.

Contents

[edit] Chronological

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[edit] 1989

[edit] 1987

[edit] 1983

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  • Unknown date - Lt. Hiroo Onoda becomes the last Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, after hiding in the Philippines for nearly thirty years.[16]

[edit] 1971

[edit] 1967

[edit] 1955

[edit] 1952

[edit] 1950

[edit] 1941

[edit] 1936

[edit] 1932

[edit] 1922

[edit] 1917

[edit] 1916

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[edit] Topical

[edit] Titanic survivors

[edit] War Veterans

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ BBC News (2008-03-12). France's final WWI veteran dies. BBC News. Retrieved on 2008-03-12.
  2. ^ Bloomberg.com: U.S
  3. ^ Obituary in The Times October 4, 2007
  4. ^ "Last king of Afghanistan, dies at age 92", Associated Press. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "Afghanistan's last king, a symbol of unity who oversaw four decades of peace before a 1973 palace coup ousted him and war shattered his country, died Monday. He was 92. Mohammad Zahir Shah's demise ended the last vestige of Afghanistan's monarchy and triggered three days of national mourning for a man still feted as the "Father of the Nation" since his return from exile after the 2001 ouster of the Taliban. Though he was not always effective during his 40-year reign, Zahir Shah is remembered warmly by his conflict-weary countrymen for steering the country without bloodshed." 
  5. ^ "Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia, German kaiser's last grandson, dies at 85", Associated Press. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia, a grandson of Germany's last emperor, has died, the organization that he headed said. He was 85. The Johanniter order, which the prince led for several decades, said Wilhelm-Karl was the last surviving grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who abdicated and went into exile after World War I. Wilhelm-Karl died on Monday, the knightly order said in a statement late Wednesday, but it did not give the cause of death. Born in Potsdam, outside Berlin, he became the head of the Johanniter in 1958 and presided over an expansion of its charitable work, supporting hospitals, clinics and kindergartens. The order is now headed by his son, Prince Oskar of Prussia. Wilhelm-Karl's funeral is to be held next Thursday at Berlin's Protestant cathedral." 
  6. ^ "Last WWI Navy Vet Dies.", Associated Press, April 2, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "Lloyd Brown, the last known U.S. Navy veteran to fight in World War I, has died. He was 105. Brown died Thursday at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in Maryland, according to family and the U.S. Naval District in Washington." 
  7. ^ "Last Female WWI Vet Dies at 109", Associated Press, Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "The last known surviving American female World War I veteran, a refined Civil War buff who met face-to-face with the Secretary of the Navy to fight for women in the military, has died. She was 109. Charlotte Winters died Tuesday at a nursing home near Boonsboro in northwest Maryland, the U.S. Naval District in Washington said in a statement. Her death leaves just five known surviving American World War I veterans." 
  8. ^ "Last survivor from JFK’s fateful limo ride dies.", Associated Press, September 3, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "Nellie Connally, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy’s limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. The 87-year-old was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive." 
  9. ^ Miss Lillian Gertrud Asplund. Encyclopedia Titanica. Retrieved on 2007-02-14. “Lillian Gertrude Asplund was the last living survivor of the Titanic disaster with actual memories of it. She lived in Massachusetts until her death on 6th May 2006. Lillian's hobbies, when she was able, included gardening, flowers (especially roses) and it was said her favorite snack was pepperoni pizza. She declined ever to discuss the disaster, as had her mother.”
  10. ^ "The Telegram", New York Times, February 8, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "The last telegram ever delivered appears to have been sent by Western Union -- whose very name seems to say telegram -- on Jan. 27. It's easy to understand why the practice of sending telegrams lapsed. They simply could not compete with telephones, express delivery services, e-mail and text-messaging -- which, in its compression, bears some curious analogy to the telegram. But knowing that the last telegram has now been delivered is somehow a little like knowing that the last martini has been drunk or the last dinner jacket worn. I would like to believe that there will always be a world where telegrams come directly to the door, throwing a note of suspense into the air." 
  11. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1543163.htm
  12. ^ "Adella Wotherspoon, Last Survivor of General Slocum Disaster, Is Dead at 100", New York Times, January 27, 2004. Retrieved on 2008-04-06. "Adella Wotherspoon, the last survivor of the deadliest disaster in New York City history until Sept. 11, 2001 -- the burning and sinking of the steamboat General Slocum in June 1904, died on Jan. 26. She was 100, the youngest Slocum survivor having at last become the oldest. She died at a convalescent home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, said a close friend, Julia A. Clevett." 
  13. ^ "Hapsburg Grandeur Is Dusted Off for Burial of 'Our Sister the Empress Zita'", New York Times, April 2, 1989. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "Old Vienna dusted off its imperial finery today to lay to rest Austria's last Empress, paying a regal tribute to a woman who remained quietly true to her lost crown and to the late Emperor through seven decades of exile. For the first time since the 600-year Austro-Hungarian monarchy was dissolved in 1919, the ornate black imperial catafalque - borrowed from the Museum at Schonbrunn Palace -rolled past the old palaces and baroque temples of central Vienna to the imperial burial vault. There, under the Capuchin Church, Zita, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was laid to rest among the richly decorated caskets of the Hapsburgs." 
  14. ^ "Hess Dies at 93; Hitler's Last Lieutenant", New York Times, August 23, 1987. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "Walter Richard Rudolf Hess, the last of Hitler's lieutenants, died last week in Spandau Prison in West Berlin in characteristically murky circumstances. Allied officials said Hess had committed suicide, as did his long-dead fellow Nazis - Hitler, Goring, Goebbels and Himmler, strangling himself with an electric cord. They said he left a note pointing to suicide. But a lawyer for the partially blind 93-year-old prisoner suggested there might have been foul play." 
  15. ^ Queen Victoria's Grandchildren. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
  16. ^ "The War is Over ... Please Come Out", About.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese army to the remote Philippine island of Lubang. His mission was to conduct guerrilla warfare during World War II. Unfortunately, he was never officially told the war had ended; so for 29 years, Onoda continued to live in the jungle, ready for when his country would again need his services and information. Eating coconuts and bananas and deftly evading searching parties he believed were enemy scouts, Onoda hid in the jungle until he finally emerged from the dark recesses of the island on March 19, 1972." 
  17. ^ History of Tobacco Regulation. Retrieved on 2007-02-14. “The bill that emerged from conference differed only slightly from the Senate measure. The cautionary label to which the conferees agreed provides: "Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking is Dangerous to Your Health." "In a final concession to the broadcasters, the conferees agreed to delay for one day the blackout of cigarette commercials from December 31, 1970, to midnight January 1, 1971. That would give them a last shower of cash from the New Year's Day football bowl games" (Wagner, 1971: 216). It was estimated that the loss to television and radio stations would amount to about $220 million a year, or about 7.5% of their total advertising revenues.”
  18. ^ "Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China And a Puppet for Japan, Dies; Enthroned at 2, Turned Out at 6, He Was Later a Captive of Russians and Peking Reds", Associated Press, October 19, 1967, Thursday. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "Henry Pu Yi, last Manchu emperor of China and Japan's puppet emperor of Manchukuo, died yesterday in Peking of complications resulting from cancer, a Japanese newspaper reported today. He was 61 years old." 
  19. ^ Time (magazine); July 3, 1950; Died. Ella Florence Underwood, 100, last surviving member of the Oneida Community, a financially successful communal settlement (Oneida Silver) which practiced both promiscuity within its own group and stirpiculture; of a heart attack; near Oneida, New York
  20. ^ Template:Cite web=http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/josef jakobs.htm
  21. ^ "Hunting Tasmania's extinct 'tiger'", BBC, Sunday, 29 May 2005. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "The last known Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart zoo of exposure in 1936. The species had been quite deliberately hunted to extinction by farmers incensed at the number of sheep being taken by animals that were seen as nothing more than pests." 
  22. ^ Kroeber, Theodora (1964). Ishi: Last of His Tribe.. Parnassus Press. 
  23. ^ The Passenger Pigeon. Smithsonian. Retrieved on 2007-02-14. “The last known individual of the passenger pigeon species was "Martha" (named after Martha Washington). She died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden, and was donated to the Smithsonian Institution, where her body was once mounted in a display case with this notation ...”
  24. ^ Griffin, Cyrus - Archontoogy.org. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
  25. ^ [1] Mayflowerhistory.com. retrieved August 15, 2007
  26. ^ Derniers vétérans Guerre 1870-71
  27. ^ Atatürk'ün son askeri yaşıyor (Turkish)

[edit] Further reading

  • Corsinet: Unusual, unique, and uncommon facts about a diversity of subjects: The End: Famous Endings, the Last of Things
  • Brahms, William B.; Notable Last Facts: A Compendium of Endings, Conclusions, Terminations and Final Events Throughout History ISBN 0-9765325-0-6
  • Panati, Charles, "Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody", New York, New York: Harper and Row, 1989
  • Slee, Christopher, "The Chameleon Book of Lasts", Huntington, England: Chameleon Publishing Ltd, 1990 ISBN 1-871469-31-7
  • Slee, Christopher, "The Guinness Book of Lasts", Enfield, England: Guinness Publishing, 1994
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