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Birthday April 30, 1904

• The temperature on April 30, 1904 was between 9.5 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • 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 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 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.
  • June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet († 1984)
• 1901 » Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1902 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1905 » Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 2012)
• 1908 » Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic professor of law and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland († 1970)
• 1908 » Eve Arden, American actress († 1990)