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Walter William Handley (1880 - 1949)
Walter William Handley was born in 1880 in Rosedale, Australia. He was born to Handley Walter Handley and Caroline Sherwood Handley, and we currently have no other siblings in his family tree. He died in 1949 in Traralgon, Australia at 69 years old.
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Walter Handley was born in in Rosedale, Australia
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Walter Handley died in in Traralgon, Australia
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Walter William Handley passed away in 1949 in Traralgon, Australia at 69 years old. He was born in 1880 in Rosedale, Australia. He was born to Handley Walter Handley and Caroline Sherwood Handley, 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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1880 - 1949 World Events
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In 1880, in the year that Walter William Handley was born, on February 4th, five members of one family in Ontario, Canada were killed and their farm was burned by a mob. Called the Black Donnelly Massacre, the Irish family had been feuding with other citizens of the town. No one was ever convicted.
In 1899, Walter was 19 years old when the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
In 1921, he was 41 years old when in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.
In 1932, Walter was 52 years old 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 Walter William Handley'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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