1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1920; Census Place: Philadelphia Ward 46, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1646; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 1738 / Ancestry.com
U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Ancestry.com, The National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri; WWII Draft Registration Cards for Pennsylvania, 10/16/1940 - 03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 1865 / Ancestry.com
1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1930; Census Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Page: 27B; Enumeration District: 0488; FHL microfilm: 2341872 / Ancestry.com
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
Christening day April 26, 1914
The temperature on April 26, 1914 was between 3.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
April 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
Day of marriage September 3, 1929
The temperature on September 3, 1929 was between 9.4 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
June 7 » The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
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