Kennedy Family Tree » Sydney Victor Hudson (1905-2005)

Birthday August 14, 1905

• The temperature on August 14, 1905 was between 10.1 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 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 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 5 » In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
  • June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
  • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
  • August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
  • September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Margret Boveri, German journalist, recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany († 1975)
• 1901 » Alice Rivaz, Swiss pianist and author († 1998)
• 1903 » Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter and illustrator († 1995)
• 1910 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and producer († 1995)
• 1910 » Willy Ronis, French photographer († 2009)
• 1911 » Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor († 2006)