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Birthday April 27, 1904

• The temperature on April 27, 1904 was between 3.0 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • 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 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
  • 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 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » August Koern, Estonian politician and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile († 1989)
• 1902 » Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté, Malian educator and activist († 1942)
• 1904 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author († 1972)
• 1904 » Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician († 1973)
• 1905 » John Kuck, American javelin thrower and shot putter († 1986)
• 1906 » Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright († 1966)