Family tree Van Britsom en Bax » Charles H Kendrick (1884-1968)

Birthday November 10, 1884

• The temperature on November 10, 1884 was about 11.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • 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 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
  • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor († 1959)
• 1884 » Zofia Nałkowska, Polish author and playwright († 1954)
• 1886 » Edward Joseph Collins, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1951)
• 1887 » Arnold Zweig, German author and activist († 1968)
• 1887 » Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer and academic († 1973)
• 1888 » Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company († 1972)