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Birthday May 10, 1904

• The temperature on May 10, 1904 was between 5.7 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist († 1979)
• 1901 » Hildrus Poindexter, American bacteriologist († 1987)
• 1901 » John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist († 1971)
• 1902 » David O. Selznick, American director and producer († 1965)
• 1903 » Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and SS officer († 1994)
• 1905 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player († 1972)