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Birthday May 1, 1904

• The temperature on May 1, 1904 was between 7.6 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
  • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Antal Szerb, Hungarian scholar and author († 1945)
• 1901 » Heinz Eric Roemheld, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1985)
• 1901 » Sterling Allen Brown, American poet, academic, and critic († 1989)
• 1905 » Henry Koster, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1988)
• 1906 » Horst Schumann, German SS officer and physician († 1983)
• 1907 » Hayes Alvis, American bassist († 1972)