Downs Tree » Houston Lucious (Luke) Thornton (1899-1963)

Birthday October 9, 1899

• The temperature on October 9, 1899 was about 12.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
  • March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
  • June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
  • June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
  • November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
  • December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1898 » Joe Sewell, American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame († 1990)
• 1898 » Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1899 » Bruce Catton, American historian and author († 1978)
• 1900 » Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic († 1976)
• 1900 » Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented the bendy straw († 1982)
• 1900 » Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic († 1990)