User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Last events
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[edit] Chronological
- 2007 Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, died at age 92 on July 23, 2007. [1]
- 2007 Lloyd Brown, the last surviving U.S. Navy WWI Veteran died at the age of 105 March 29, 2007. [2]
- 2007 Charlotte Winters, the last surviving female U.S. WWI veteran died at age 109 on March 27, 2007. [3]
- 2007 Ekaterina Romanov de Farace di Villaforesta née Princess of Russia, the last living member of the Russian imperial family born before the revolution of 1917 died in Montevideo, Uruguay, aged 91 on March 13, 2007.
- 2006 Nellie Connally, the last surviving passenger in the John F. Kennedy limousine during the assassination dies. [4]
- 2006 Maria Esther de Capovilla, the last person born in the 1880s, died at age 116 on August 27, 2006
- 2006 Last American survivor of the Titanic, and last survivor to have memories of the event, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, died on May 7, 2006. [5]
- 2006 Last telegram sent by Western Union on January 27, 2006. [6]
- 2004 Last survivor of the General Slocum fire, Adella Wotherspoon, died on January 26, 2004. [7]
- 1995 Grace Hannagan Martyn, last survivor of the 1914 sinking of the Empress of Ireland died at age 88 on May 15, 1995
- 1989 Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last empress of Austria-Hungary dies on March 14, 1989. [8]
- 1989 Last person to die trying to cross the Berlin Wall, Chris Gueffroy died on 6 February 1989.
- 1987 Rudolf Hess, the last surviving defendant of the original Nuremberg Trials, last prisoner of Spandau Prison, and Hitler's last living Lieutenant, died in Spandau Prison on August 17, 1987. [9]
- 1974 Lt. Hiroo Onoda becomes the last Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, after hiding in the Philippines for nearly 30 years.
- 1972 Last person to walk on the moon, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan, 17 December 1972.
- 1971 Last tobacco advertising on American television on January 1, 1971. [10]
- 1967 Last Emperor of China, Henry Pu Yi dies in Bejing. [11]
- 1955 The last surviving German monarch, Ernst II Duke of Saxe-Altenburg died at age 83 on March 22, 1955.
- 1950 Last original member of the Oneida Society, Ella Florence Underwood (1850-1950), died on June 25, 1950 in Kenwood, New York near to Oneida, New York.[12]
- 1936 Rainey Bethea is the last person to be publicly executed in the United States, August 14, 1936.
- 1936 Last Tasmanian Tiger dies in the Hobart, Tasmania zoo
- 1922 Alessandro Moreschi, the last professional castrato, dies.
- 1916 Ishi the last of the Yahi died on March 25, 1916. [13]
- 1914 World's last Passenger Pigeon dies at Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914. [14]
- 1836 James Madison, the last surviving signer of the United States Constitution dies
- 1832 Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of United States Declaration of Independence dies on November 14, 1832.
- 1699 Mary Allerton, the last surviving Pilgrim from the Mayflower voyage of 1620, dies November 28, 1699. [15]
- 1681 The last dodo bird dies.
- 1520 Pier Gerlofs Donia, last King of Frisia dies at the age of 40 in Kimswerd, Frisia.
- 1453 Constantine XI, the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire dies defending Constantinople.
- 476 Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire is deposed.
[edit] Topical
[edit] Titanic
- Still Alive: Barbara Joyce Dainton (née West) (born 24 May 1911) and Elizabeth Gladys Dean (born 2 February 1912).
- America: Lillian Gertrud Asplund, died May 7, 2006
- Male: Michel Marcel Navratil, died April 18, 2001
[edit] War-Veterans
The last surviving veterans.
[edit] Revolutionary War
- America: Daniel F. Bakeman, died on April 5, 1869
[edit] War of 1812
- America: Hiram Cronk, died on May 13, 1905
[edit] Mexican-American War
- America: Owen Thomas Edgar, died September 3, 1929
[edit] United States Civil War
- Albert Woolson the last surviving Union Army Veteran, died August 2, 1956
- Pleasant Crump the last surviving Confederate States of America Veteran, died December 31, 1951
[edit] Franco-Prussian War
- France: ?
- Germany: Karl Glöckner, died 3.10.1953. [16]
[edit] Spanish-American War
- America: Jones Morgan, died August 29, 1993 or Nathan E. Cook, died September 10, 1992
[edit] Second Boer War
- Britain: George Frederick Ives, died April 12, 1993
[edit] World War I
[edit] Finnish Civil War
- Aarne Arvonen, still alive (Red Guards)
- Lennart Rönnback, still alive (White Guards)
[edit] Turkish War of Independence
- Turkey: Yakup Satar, still alive[17]
[edit] Animals
(see chronological list for details)
- 1936 Last Tasmanian Tiger dies
- 1914 Last surviving passenger pigeon dies
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "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."
- ^ "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."
- ^ "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."
- ^ "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."
- ^ 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.”
- ^ "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."
- ^ "Adella Wotherspoon, Last Survivor of General Slocum Disaster, Is Dead at 100", New York Times, January 27, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-06-21. "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."
- ^ "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."
- ^ "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."
- ^ 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.”
- ^ "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."
- ^ 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
- ^ Kroeber, Theodora (1964). Ishi: Last of His Tribe.. Parnassus Press.
- ^ 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 ...”
- ^ [1] Mayflowerhistory.com. retrieved August 15, 2007
- ^ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Worlds_Oldest_People/message/8043
- ^ http://dersdesders.free.fr/bio_veterans/satar.html
[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
