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Birthday April 13, 1904

• The temperature on April 13, 1904 was between 7.6 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Marguerite Henry, American author († 1997)
• 1902 » Philippe de Rothschild, French Grand Prix driver, playwright, and producer († 1988)
• 1904 » David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist († 1987)
• 1905 » Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey († 1964)
• 1906 » Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader († 1991)
• 1906 » Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)