Genealogy Meijer-Meyer, Prummel, Wormmeester-Wormeester en Schreurs » Jacques Wallage (1904-1988)

Birthday February 1, 1904

• The temperature on February 1, 1904 was between -0.1 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. 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.
  • 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.
  • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • 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

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• 1902 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright († 1967)
• 1902 » Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard († 1947)
• 1904 » S.J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1905 » Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1906 » Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian lawyer and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria († 1993)