When Robert Newton Knipe Atkinson was born on 5 August 1897, in Queensland, Australia, his father, Robert Hyles Atkinson, was 37 and his mother, Mary Adelaide Knipe, was 34. He died on 11 April 1981, at the age of 83, and was buried in Queensland, Australia.
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First Federal election.
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
Edith Cowan is elected to the Western Australia Parlaiment. She is the first woman parliamentarian in Australia.
English (northern): patronymic from the personal name Atkin or Adkin, pet forms of Adam.
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