Sickler Family Tree » Joseph German (1884-1981)

Birthday September 22, 1884

• The temperature on September 22, 1884 was about 11.9 °C. There was 23 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal († 1946)
• 1883 » Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author († 1932)
• 1883 » Frank George Woollard, English engineer († 1957)
• 1885 » Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia († 1951)
• 1885 » Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1957)
• 1885 » Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library († 1940)