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Francis John Hill (1879 - 1949)
Francis John Hill was born in 1879 in Richmond, Australia. He was born to Hill Francis Hill, and we currently have no other siblings in his family tree. He died in 1949 in Tongala, Australia at 70 years of age.
Francis John Hill Biography
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Francis John Hill
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Francis Hill was born in in Richmond, Australia
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Francis Hill died in in Tongala, Australia
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Richmond, Australia
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Francis John Hill lived
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Francis John Hill died in 1949 in Tongala, Australia at age 70. He was born in 1879 in Richmond, Australia. He was born to Hill Francis Hill, and we currently have no other siblings in his family tree.
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Victoria Australia Birth Records: 1846 - 1920 and Victoria Australia Death Records: 1836 - 1985
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1879 - 1949 World Events
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In 1879, in the year that Francis John Hill was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.
In 1880, by the time he was merely 1 year old, in October, the "Blizzard of 1880" began in North America - considered the most severe winter ever known in the US. Many areas were snowbound throughout the whole winter, which was made famous in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book The Long Winter.
In 1908, at the age of 29 years old, Francis was alive when unemployment in the U.S. was at 8.0% and the cost of a first-class stamp was 2 cents while the population in the United States was 88,710,000. The world population was almost 4.4 billion.
In 1932, at the age of 53 years old, Francis was alive when on February 27th, actress Elizabeth Taylor was born in London. Her parents were Americans living in London and when she was 7, the family moved to Los Angeles. Her first small part in a movie was in There's One Born Every Minute in 1942 but her first starring role was in National Velvet in 1944. She became as famous for her 8 marriages (to 7 people) as she was for her beauty and films.
In 1949, in the year of Francis John Hill's passing, comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."
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