Kennedy Family Tree » Leonard G Bridgeman (1903-1968)

Birthday December 25, 1903

• The temperature on December 25, 1903 was between -1.1 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. 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 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
  • October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester († 2004)
• 1902 » Barton MacLane, American actor, playwright, and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1902 » William Bell, American tuba player and educator († 1971)
• 1903 » Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor († 1981)
• 1904 » Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1906 » Lew Grade, Baron Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer († 1998)