Richard Carver Family Tree » Ernest Charles Whittle (1888-????)

Birthday November 11, 1888

• The temperature on November 11, 1888 was about -1.0 °C. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
  • April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
  • September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
  • October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » George S. Patton, American general († 1945)
• 1887 » Roland Young, English-American actor († 1953)
• 1888 » Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education († 1958)
• 1888 » J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (d.1982)
• 1891 » Grunya Sukhareva, Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university lecturer († 1981)
• 1891 » Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager († 1954)