Kelley Tree » Anna Margaret Hancock (1904-1965)

Birthday June 10, 1904

• The temperature on June 10, 1904 was between 10.6 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver († 1933)
• 1901 » Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer († 1988)
• 1904 » Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet († 1955)
• 1907 » Dicky Wells, American jazz trombonist († 1985)
• 1907 » Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic († 1975)
• 1909 » Lang Hancock, Australian soldier and businessman († 1992)