Kennedy Family Tree » Emily Martha Usher (1907-1997)

Birthday August 31, 1907

• The temperature on August 31, 1907 was between 9.8 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
  • February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  • July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
  • August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
  • August 29 » The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
  • December 19 » Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1907 » Altiero Spinelli, Italian theorist and politician († 1986)
• 1907 » Augustus F. Hawkins, American lawyer and politician († 2007)
• 1907 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain, engineer, and politician, 7th President of the Philippines († 1957)
• 1907 » Valter Biiber, Estonian footballer († 1977)
• 1907 » William Shawn, American journalist († 1992)
• 1908 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer († 1981)