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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert H. Polk

Simon Polk
1810-1885
Sintilla Polk
1814-1889
Mollie Polk
1857-1936

Robert H. Polk
1893-1910


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    Birthday April 26, 1893

    • The temperature on April 26, 1893 was about 15.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
      • June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
      • July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
      • August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
      • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
      • December 4 » First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.

    Day of death August 24, 1910

    • The temperature on August 24, 1910 was between 8.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
      • April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
      • August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
      • August 29 » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
      • September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
      • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
      • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
    

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    • 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
    • 1889 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1951)
    • 1894 » Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician († 1987)
    • 1896 » Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot († 1941)
    • 1896 » Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director († 1967)
    • 1897 » Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder († 1967)

    Source: Wikipedia


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