Kennedy Family Tree » Horace Burt Link (1884-1917)

Day of marriage December 24, 1904

• The temperature on December 24, 1904 was between 0.7 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Day of death October 4, 1917

• The temperature on October 4, 1917 was between 11.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 20.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
  • July 27 » World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
  • October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
  • November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
  • December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
  • December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)