Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1876)

James Scullin

James Henry Scullin was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the ninth prime minister of Australia from 1929 to 1932. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), having briefly served as treasurer of Australia during his time in office from 1930 to 1931. His time in office was primarily categorised by the Wall Street crash of 1929 which transpired just two days after his swearing in, thus heralding the beginning of the Great Depression in Australia. Scullin remained a leading figure in the Labor movement throughout his lifetime, and was an éminence grise in various capacities for the party until his retirement from federal parliament in 1949.

Born

1876

September 18

Died

1953

Era

1870s

Country

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1876 Born
1953 Died

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96 Emperor Domitian is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects. Nerva is then proclaimed as his successor.
324 Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1048 Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army and a Seljuq army.
1066 Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England.

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The world in 1953

When James departed

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1876

Alvin Kraenzlein 1876–1928 American hurdler and runner (died 1928) Arthur Edward Moore 1876–1963 New Zealand-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (died 1963) Bert Vogler 1876–1946 South African cricketer (born 1876) Bruno Walter 1876–1962 German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1876) Carl Ruggles 1876–1971 American composer and painter (died 1971) Fevzi Çakmak 1876–1950 Turkish field marshal and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1876) Fred Duesenberg 1876–1932 German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (died 1932) John Macleod 1876–1935 Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876) Kim Koo 1876–1949 South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (died 1949)

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