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Birthday May 9, 1904

• The temperature on May 9, 1904 was between 3.6 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. The average windspeed was 4 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 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
  • 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.
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator († 1988)
• 1905 » Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist († 1998)
• 1906 » Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator († 1988)
• 1907 » Baldur von Schirach, German politician († 1974)
• 1907 » Jackie Grant, Trinidadian cricketer († 1978)
• 1907 » Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and author († 1976)