Genealogy Wylie » Mary Catherine Wylie [AWd] (1904-± 1972)

Birthday March 4, 1904

• The temperature on March 4, 1904 was between -0.6 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
  • April 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress and singer († 1990)
• 1903 » Malcolm Dole, American chemist and academic († 1990)
• 1903 » William C. Boyd, American immunologist and chemist († 1983)
• 1904 » George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist († 1968)
• 1904 » Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor († 1942)
• 1904 » Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain († 1973)