Barber Family Tree » Arnett R Weatherspoon (1884-1908)

Birthday February 7, 1884

• The temperature on February 7, 1884 was about 3.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
  • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist († 1947)
• 1878 » Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor († 1936)
• 1885 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal († 1953)
• 1885 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1887 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer († 1983)
• 1889 » Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American engineer and theorist († 1976)