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Birthday June 17, 1904

• The temperature on June 17, 1904 was between 10.5 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 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 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer († 1982)
• 1902 » Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1903 » Ruth Graves Wakefield, American chef, created the chocolate chip cookie († 1977)
• 1904 » J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian († 1988)
• 1904 » Patrice Tardif, Canadian farmer and politician († 1989)
• 1904 » Ralph Bellamy, American actor († 1991)