Clarke Family Tree » Robert Louis Jacobs (1904-1990)

Birthday December 2, 1904

• The temperature on December 2, 1904 was between 6.7 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor († 1970)
• 1899 » John Cobb, English race car driver and pilot († 1952)
• 1900 » Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 († 1993)
• 1900 » Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect and professor († 1985)
• 1901 » Raimundo Orsi, Argentinian-Italian footballer († 1986)
• 1906 » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer († 1977)