Genealogische data Golse Genen » Hubertus Nicolaas Johannes van Aken (1904-)

Birthday July 5, 1904

• The temperature on July 5, 1904 was between 11.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
  • 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.
  • 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 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".
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer († 1981)
• 1902 » Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American colonel and politician, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1985)
• 1904 » Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist († 2005)
• 1904 » Harold Acton, English scholar and author († 1994)
• 1904 » Milburn Stone, American actor († 1980)
• 1905 » Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau, Haitian sociologist and educator († 1970)