Dean William Murdoch (1916 - 1919)

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Dean William Murdoch
1916 - 1919
updated September 10, 2019
Dean William Murdoch was born in 1916 in Nagambie, Australia. He was born to Louisa Murdoch ( Pettifer, with siblings Irene, Marjory, Eva, Vera, and Jean. He died in 1919 in Nagambie, VIC Australia at 3 years of age.

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Dean William Murdoch

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Dean Murdoch was born in in Nagambie, Australia

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Dean Murdoch died in in Nagambie, VIC Australia 3608

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Dean William Murdoch lived 63 years shorter than the average Murdoch family member when he died at the age of 3.

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The Argus, Melbourne, 16 October 1920.
MURDOCH.- In loving memory of our dear laddie, Dean, who died at "Sunnyside," Nagambie, October 16, 1919.

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Victoria Australia Birth Records: 1846 - 1920 and Victoria Australia Death Records: 1836 - 1985
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1916 - 1919 World Events

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In 1916, in the year that Dean William Murdoch was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.

In 1919, in the year of Dean William Murdoch's passing, in June, the Treaty of Versailles - officially ending World War I - was signed. The European Allies demanded "compensation by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea and from the air.” The requirement of compensation is seen by most as the reason for the collapse of the German economy and gave rise to the rule of Hitler.

In 1920, when he was just 4 years old, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.

In 1926, at the age of just 10 years old, Dean was alive when on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).

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