Descendants Hemerik-Broekhuizen-Huner-Koper-Barink » Johannes van Hooidonk (1904-)

Birthday January 20, 1904

• The temperature on January 20, 1904 was between -3.9 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -2.0 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (37%). 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.
  • January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • 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.
  • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
  • 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.