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Catherine Martha Black (1878 - 1949)
Catherine Martha Black was born in 1878. She was born to Black James Murphy Black and Catherine Anne Cunningham Black, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree. She died in 1949 in Wodonga, Australia at age 71.
Catherine Martha Black Biography
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Catherine Martha Black
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Catherine Black died in in Wodonga, Australia
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Catherine Martha Black died in 1949 in Wodonga, Australia at 71 years of age. She was born in 1878. She was born to Black James Murphy Black and Catherine Anne Cunningham Black, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree.
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1878 - 1949 World Events
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In 1878, in the year that Catherine Martha Black was born, in Africa, the death of the last confirmed Cape lion occurred. The Cape lion was slightly larger than other lions and had black ears, a black mane, and black hair on its belly.
In 1887, when she was only 9 years old, on January 28th, the largest recorded snowflakes fell in a snowstorm in Fort Keogh, Montana. They were supposed to have been 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. A rancher in the area said that they were “larger than milk pans”. A Wild West tall tale? Not according to the Guinness World Records book.
In 1903, at the age of 25 years old, Catherine was alive when two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, flew the first powered heavier-than-air plane. They flew 4 times in one day - the longest flight lasting 59 seconds and a little over 852 feet. While the brothers had notified several newspapers of their attempt, only one - a local paper - covered it. After their 4th flight, a gust of wind caught the plane, turned it over, and totaled it.
In 1920, Catherine was 42 years old when Italian born factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti were picked up by police on May 5th in connection with the April 15th murder and robbery of a guard and a paymaster at the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in South Braintree, Mass. Although in later years they were thought to be innocent, they were anarchists and were convicted of the crime and put to death.
In 1949, in the year of Catherine Martha Black's passing, on April 4th, NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established. Twelve nations originally signed the North Atlantic Treaty - the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. Greece, Turkey, and West Germany later joined. Today, there are 26 nations in NATO.
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