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Gertrude Halling 1879 - 1943

Gertrude Halling (1879 - 1943)
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Gertrude Halling
Last Known Residence
M Park Australia
Born
1879
Death
1943
M Park
Australia
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Gertrude Halling of M Park Australia was born in 1879 to Keighley Watson Frederick Halling and Margaret Elizabeth Watson Halling. Gertrude Halling died at age 64 years old in 1943 in M Park.

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Gertrude Halling passed away at age 64 years old in 1943 in M Park. Gertrude Halling of M Park Australia was born in 1879 to Keighley Watson Frederick Halling and Margaret Elizabeth Watson Halling.

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Gertrude Halling lived 11 years shorter than the average Halling family member when she died at the age of 64.
The average age of a Halling family member is 75.
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1879 - 1943 World Events

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In 1879, in the year that Gertrude Halling 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 1907, Gertrude was 28 years old when radiometric dating, a recently discovered technology that could date rocks, found that the earth was 2.2 billion years old which was dramatically older than previously thought. Later refinements and advancements in science would date the age of the earth at over 4.5 billion years.

In 1922, at the age of 43 years old, Gertrude was alive when the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. on May 30th. More than 35,000 people attended the dedication including Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, and many Union and Confederate veterans - although the audience was segregated. The Memorial took 10 years to complete.

In 1938, at the age of 59 years old, Gertrude was alive when on October 30th, a Sunday, The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast Orson Welles' special Halloween show The War of the World's. A clever take on H.G. Wells' novel, the show began with simulated "breaking news" of an invasion by Martians. Because of the realistic nature of the "news," there was a public outcry the next day, calling for regulation by the FCC. Although the current story is that many were fooled and panicked, in reality very few people were fooled. But the show made Orson Welles' career.

In 1943, in the year of Gertrude Halling's passing, on September 3rd, the Armistice of Cassibile was signed in Sicily. Under the terms of the Armistice, Italy surrendered to the Allied Powers. After the Armistice was made public on September 8th, Germany attacked and occupied Italy. It took 20 months of fighting for the Allies to reach the northern borders of Italy.

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