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Birthday December 6, 1904

• The temperature on December 6, 1904 was between 5.7 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • 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.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Agnes Moorehead, American actress († 1974)
• 1901 » Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic († 1990)
• 1903 » Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager († 1946)
• 1904 » Ève Curie, French-American journalist and pianist († 2007)
• 1905 » Elizabeth Yates, American journalist and author († 2001)
• 1907 » John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician († 1989)