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Birthday April 16, 1904

• The temperature on April 16, 1904 was between 8.9 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Polly Adler, Russian-American madam and author († 1962)
• 1903 » Paul Waner, American baseball player and manager († 1965)
• 1904 » Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American vaudevillian, actress, and singer († 1983)
• 1905 » Frits Philips, Dutch businessman († 2005)
• 1907 » August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician († 1947)
• 1907 » Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. († 1964)