Kennedy Family Tree » Harry Otis Philbrick (1899-????)

Birthday March 11, 1899

• The temperature on March 11, 1899 was about 3.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • January 1 » Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
  • February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
  • March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  • April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
  • May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
  • November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and physician († 1981)
• 1897 » Henry Cowell, American pianist and composer († 1965)
• 1898 » Dorothy Gish, American actress († 1968)
• 1899 » Frederick IX of Denmark († 1972)
• 1899 » James H. Douglas, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 9th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense († 1988)
• 1900 » Hanna Bergas, German teacher who contributed to the rescue of Jewish children during WWII († 1987)