Kennedy Family Tree » Gertrude Ellen Bridgeman (1910-1987)

Birthday May 30, 1910

• The temperature on May 30, 1910 was between 10.6 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 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 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
  • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
  • October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1908 » Mel Blanc, American voice actor († 1989)
• 1909 » Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader († 1986)
• 1909 » Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer († 1988)
• 1909 » Jacques Canetti, French music executive and talent agent († 1997)
• 1910 » Harry Bernstein, English-American journalist and author († 2011)