Kennedy Family Tree » Lucy Urania MacDougall (1900-1953)

Birthday November 24, 1900

• The temperature on November 24, 1900 was about 6.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1900: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
  • March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
  • March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
  • April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
  • June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
  • August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1897 » Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, English tennis player († 1953)
• 1897 » Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss († 1962)
• 1899 » Ward Morehouse, American author, playwright, and critic († 1966)
• 1904 » Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian captain and surgeon († 1988)