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Ellen Rebecca Matheson (1868 - 1949)
Ellen Rebecca Matheson was born in 1868. She was born to Dwyer Andrew Matheson and Isabella Matheson Matheson, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree. She died in 1949 in Wbeal, Australia at 81 years old.
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Ellen Rebecca Matheson
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Ellen Matheson died in in Wbeal, Australia
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Ellen Rebecca Matheson passed away in 1949 in Wbeal, Australia at age 81. She was born in 1868. She was born to Dwyer Andrew Matheson and Isabella Matheson Matheson, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree.
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1868 - 1949 World Events
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In 1868, in the year that Ellen Rebecca Matheson was born, on January 9th, Great Britain ended the practice of transporting its prisoners to Australia. It ended with the arrival of the convict ship Hougoumont in Western Australia. The trip took 89 days and there were 62 Fenians - people fighting for a free Ireland - among the transportees.
In 1870, by the time she was merely 2 years old, on June 26th, Christmas was declared an official federal holiday in the United States. By 1860, 14 states had declared Christmas a legal holiday but the practice of celebrating Christmas was a local - and religious - choice previously.
In 1906, at the age of 38 years old, Ellen was alive when Finland became the first European country to give women the vote and to allow them to run for political office. (Women in Australia and New Zealand already had that right but couldn't run for office.) Although Finland belonged to the Russian Empire, there was great unrest and the Tsar wanted to broker a quick peace. As a part of the brokered peace, women got the vote.
In 1915, by the time she was 47 years old, Audrey Munson, playing a model for a sculptor in the film "Inspiration", became the first actress to shed her clothes on screen. Fearing that banning the film would mean that censors would also have to "ban Renaissance art" the film was released, with Munson in the nude scenes and a stand-in doing the acting. (Munson had previously been "America's First Supermodel" and posed nude as the model for many famous artworks.) The film was a hit with audiences.
In 1949, in the year of Ellen Rebecca Matheson's passing, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.
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