Genealogy Wylie » Elizabeth Bradley (1904-1982)

Birthday July 20, 1904

• The temperature on July 20, 1904 was between 8.6 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • 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.
  • June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach († 1967)
• 1901 » Eugenio Lopez Sr., Filipino businessman and founder of the Lopez Group of Companies († 1975)
• 1901 » Heinie Manush, American baseball player and manager († 1971)
• 1901 » Vehbi Koç, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, founded Koç Holding († 1996)
• 1902 » Leonidas Berry, American gastroenterologist († 1995)
• 1905 » Joseph Levis, American foil fencer († 2005)