1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1861)

Gerald Strickland

Gerald Paul Joseph Cajetan Carmel Antony Martin Strickland, 6th Count della Catena, 1st Baron Strickland,, usually known between 1897 and January 1928 as Sir Gerald Strickland, was a Maltese and British politician and, eventually, peer, who served as Prime Minister of Malta, Governor of the Leeward Islands, Governor of Tasmania, Governor of Western Australia and Governor of New South Wales, in addition to sitting in the House of Commons and later in the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Born

1861

May 24

Died

1940

Era

1860s

Country

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Gerald, in brief

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Key dates

1861 Born
1940 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

919 The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.

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The world in 1940

When Gerald departed

april 14 World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, preceding a larger force which will arrive two days later.
april 23 The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
april 7 Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
april 8 The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary, marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of Mongolia.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on May 24

Anthony Minichiello 1980– Australian rugby league player Artem Anisimov 1988– Russian ice hockey player Barry O'Farrell 1959– Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales Bartolo Colón 1973– Dominican-American baseball player Carmine Infantino 1925–2013 American illustrator (born 1925) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686–1736 Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (died 1736) Eduardo De Filippo 1900–1984 Italian actor and screenwriter (died 1984) Germanicus -15–19 Roman general (died 19) Henri Michaux 1899–1984 Belgian-French poet and painter (died 1984)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1861

Georges Méliès 1861–1938 French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1938) Henri Mathias Berthelot 1861– French general during World War I (died 1931) Maximilian von Spee 1861–1914 Danish-German admiral (born 1861) Nettie Stevens 1861–1912 American geneticist (died 1912) Pierre Duhem 1861– French physicist, mathematician, and historian (died 1916) Victor Horta 1861– Belgian architect, designed Hôtel van Eetvelde (died 1947) William Attewell 1861–1927 English cricketer (born 1861)

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