Genealogy Harssema » Jacob de BOER (1904-)

Birthday June 9, 1904

• The temperature on June 9, 1904 was between 5.7 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (38%). 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 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
  • July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1902 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1969)
• 1903 » Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver († 1953)
• 1903 » Marcia Davenport, American author and critic († 1996)
• 1906 » Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice († 1997)
• 1908 » Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist († 1993)