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Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe)

22 Aug 1885 - 31 Mar 1969

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Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe)

22 Aug 1885 - 31 Mar 1969

Grave site information of Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) (22 Aug 1885 - 31 Mar 1969) at The Strand Cemetery in Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa from BillionGraves

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Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe)

Born: 22 Aug 1885

Died: 31 Mar 1969

The Strand Cemetery

Hofmeyer Street

Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape

South Africa

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Drummond Corrie

July 2, 2015

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Sonia Smart (Bester)

February 19, 2015

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23 Feb 1880 - 27 Dec 1953

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The Strand Cemetery

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Hofmeyer Street
Cape Town,Cape Town,Western Cape
South Africa

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Life timeline of Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe)

1885

Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) was born on 22 Aug 1885

Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) was 9 years old when Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā – applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa – is now used worldwide. In India, he is also called Bapu and Gandhi ji, and known as the Father of the Nation.

Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) was 20 years old when Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity. Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory.

Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) was 32 years old when Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule. Nicholas II or Nikolai II, known as Saint Nicholas in the Russian Orthodox Church, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He was given the nickname Nicholas the Bloody or Vile Nicholas by his political adversaries due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Russian Revolution, the executions of political opponents, and his perceived responsibility for the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Soviet historians portray Nicholas as a weak and incompetent leader whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects.

Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) was 43 years old when Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy". Walter Elias Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) was 54 years old when Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. Adolf Hitler was a German politician, demagogue, and Pan-German revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator, Hitler initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and was central to the Holocaust.

Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) was 60 years old when World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China.

Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) was 68 years old when Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a physician scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr.

Deborah Elizabeth Lategan (Van Der Merwe) died on 31 Mar 1969 at the age of 83

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