Clarke Family Tree » Lillian A Akeroyd (1884-1968)

Birthday April 26, 1884

• The temperature on April 26, 1884 was about 8.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
  • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • 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.
  • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
  • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1879 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
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• 1886 » Ma Rainey, American singer († 1939)
• 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1889 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1951)