Sherren Family Tree » Kathleen Violet Lloyd (1904-1994)

Birthday November 22, 1904

• The temperature on November 22, 1904 was between -0.1 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • 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 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist and educator († 1942)
• 1902 » Humphrey Gibbs, English-Rhodesian politician, 15th Governor of Southern Rhodesia († 1990)
• 1902 » Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general († 1947)
• 1904 » Fumio Niwa, Japanese author († 2005)
• 1904 » Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1904 » Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator († 1957)