Clarke Family Tree » John Thomas McLeary (1904-)

Birthday July 13, 1904

• The temperature on July 13, 1904 was between 13.4 °C and 26.6 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  • February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Eric Portman, English actor († 1969)
• 1903 » Kenneth Clark, English historian and author († 1983)
• 1905 » Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general († 1990)
• 1905 » Eugenio Pagnini, Italian modern pentathlete († 1993)
• 1905 » Magda Foy, American child actress († 2000)
• 1907 » George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist († 2002)