Louis Somers Prikler

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Born	1 NOV 1905 , Bermuda
Died	18 MAR 1997 , Mountain Lea Lodge, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
Parents	Louis Prikler (Father) Family Alice Annie Taylor (Mother) Family
Marriage	Verda Louise Dukeshire — 1952 Family Page

Occupation & Residence

Type	Date	Detail
Occupation		Electrical Engineer
Residence		LeQuille, Nova Scotia
Occupation	BET 1939 AND 1945	Merchant Navy

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In their lifetime

Born in the reign of Edward VII

Birth

1 Nov 1905

Born at Bermuda
Age 1

17 Jun 1907

Brooklands motor circuit opens

At Weybridge, Surrey.
Age 2

13 Jul 1908

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 3

1 Jan 1909

First old age pensions paid
Age 3

25 Jul 1909

Blériot makes the first flight across the Channel
Age 4

6 May 1910

Accession of George V

Reigned 1910–1936
Age 4

13 Aug 1910

Florence Nightingale dies
Age 5

18 Aug 1911

Parliament Act limits the power of the House of Lords
Age 6

16 Dec 1911

National Insurance Act
Age 6

Mar 1912

Captain Scott dies returning from the South Pole
Age 6

15 Apr 1912

Titanic sinks
Age 7

8 Jun 1913

Suffragette Emily Davison dies at the Derby
Age 8

1914–1918

Britain declares war on Germany: First World War begins
Age 9

25 Apr 1915

Gallipoli landings
Age 9

7 May 1915

Lusitania sunk
Age 10

24 Apr 1916

Easter Rising in Dublin
Age 10

5 Jun 1916

Lord Kitchener lost at sea
Age 10

1 Jul 1916

Battle of the Somme begins

About 57,000 British casualties on the first day.
Age 11

31 Jul 1917

Battle of Passchendaele begins
Age 12

6 Feb 1918

Some women get the vote

Representation of the People Act.
Age 12

1918–1919

Spanish flu pandemic
Age 13

11 Nov 1918

Armistice ends the First World War
Age 13

14 Jun 1919

Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic flight
Age 17

28 Apr 1923

First FA Cup final at Wembley
Age 18

22 Jan 1924

First Labour government
Age 20

26 Jan 1926

John Logie Baird demonstrates television
Age 20

3 May 1926

General Strike begins
Age 22

2 Jul 1928

Women get the vote on equal terms with men
Age 22

Sep 1928

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Age 23

Oct 1929

Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
Age 24

5 Oct 1930

R101 airship disaster
Age 30

20 Jan 1936

Accession of Edward VIII
Age 31

2 Nov 1936

BBC begins the world's first regular television service
Age 31

11 Dec 1936

Accession of George VI

Reigned 1936–1952
Age 31

11 Dec 1936

Edward VIII abdicates
Age 31

12 Apr 1937

Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
Age c. 34

1939

Occupation

Merchant Navy
Age 33

1939–1945

Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
Age 34

26 May 1940

Dunkirk evacuation begins
Age 34

10 Jul 1940

Battle of Britain begins
Age 34

1940–1941

The Blitz
Age 36

23 Oct 1942

Battle of El Alamein
Age 37

1 Dec 1942

Beveridge Report published
Age 38

6 Jun 1944

D-Day landings
Age 38

3 Aug 1944

Education Act creates free secondary schooling
Age 39

8 May 1945

VE Day
Age 39

15 Aug 1945

VJ Day
Age 41

15 Aug 1947

India and Pakistan become independent
Age 42

22 Jun 1948

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
Age 42

5 Jul 1948

National Health Service launched
Age 42

29 Jul 1948

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 44

1950–1953

Korean War begins
Age c. 47

1952

Married Verda Louise Dukeshire
Age 46

6 Feb 1952

Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

Reigned 1952–2022
Age 47

5 Dec 1952

Great Smog of London
Age 47

31 Jan 1953

North Sea flood
Age 47

28 Feb 1953

Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
Age 47

29 May 1953

Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
Age 47

2 Jun 1953

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Age 48

6 May 1954

Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
Age 48

4 Jul 1954

Food rationing ends
Age 49

22 Sep 1955

ITV launches
Age 50

5 Jul 1956

Clean Air Act
Age 50

29 Oct 1956

Suez Crisis
Age 51

4 Oct 1957

Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
Age 52

6 Feb 1958

Munich air disaster

Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
Age 52

9 Jun 1958

Gatwick Airport officially opened

In Sussex.
Age 53

25 Jul 1959

First hovercraft crosses the Channel
Age 56

5 Oct 1962

The Beatles release their first single
Age 57

1962–1963

The Big Freeze

One of the coldest winters on record.
Age c. 58

1963

Father Louis died
Age 58

22 Nov 1963

President Kennedy assassinated
Age 59

24 Jan 1965

Sir Winston Churchill dies
Age 60

8 Nov 1965

Death penalty for murder suspended
Age 60

30 Jul 1966

England win the World Cup
Age 60

21 Oct 1966

Aberfan disaster
Age 61

27 Oct 1967

Abortion Act
Age 63

2 Mar 1969

First flight of Concorde
Age 63

20 Jul 1969

First Moon landing
Age 65

15 Feb 1971

Decimal Day
Age 67

1 Jan 1973

Britain joins the European Economic Community
Age 70

21 Jan 1976

Concorde enters passenger service
Age 70

Jun 1976

The heatwave and drought of summer 1976
Age 71

7 Jun 1977

Queen's Silver Jubilee
Age 72

25 Jul 1978

Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born
Age 73

4 May 1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
Age 75

8 Dec 1980

John Lennon shot dead
Age 75

29 Jul 1981

Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Age 76

2 Apr 1982

Falklands War
Age 78

1984–1985

Miners' strike
Age 79

13 Jul 1985

Live Aid
Age 80

26 Apr 1986

Chernobyl disaster
Age 80

29 Oct 1986

M25 motorway completed

It circles London through Surrey.
Age 81

6 Mar 1987

Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster
Age 81

16 Oct 1987

The Great Storm

Hurricane-force winds hit Surrey and Sussex especially hard.
Age 82

18 Nov 1987

King's Cross fire
Age 82

6 Jul 1988

Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
Age 83

21 Dec 1988

Lockerbie bombing
Age 83

Mar 1989

Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
Age 83

15 Apr 1989

Hillsborough disaster
Age 84

9 Nov 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Age 85

22 Nov 1990

Margaret Thatcher resigns
Age 85

17 Jan 1991

Gulf War begins
Age 86

20 Feb 1992

The Premier League is formed
Age 87

24 Feb 1993

Bobby Moore dies
Age 88

6 May 1994

Channel Tunnel opens
Age 90

8 Jun 1996

Euro 96 begins in England
Age 90

5 Jul 1996

Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, is born
Age 91

18 Mar 1997

Died at Mountain Lea Lodge, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia