Kennedy Family Tree » Steward Colwell Brown (1884-????)

Birthday November 24, 1884

• The temperature on November 24, 1884 was about 4.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
  • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1951)
• 1882 » Nikolai Janson, Russian politician († 1938)
• 1884 » Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Ukrainian-Israeli historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel († 1963)
• 1885 » Christian Wirth, German SS officer († 1944)
• 1885 » Theodor Altermann, Estonian actor, director, and producer († 1915)
• 1886 » Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review († 1973)