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Birthday April 25, 1904

• The temperature on April 25, 1904 was between 0.6 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1902 » Mary Miles Minter, American actress († 1984)
• 1902 » Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic († 1964)
• 1903 » Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic († 1987)
• 1905 » George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player and referee († 1986)
• 1906 » William J. Brennan Jr., American colonel and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court († 1997)