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Birthday October 22, 1904

• The temperature on October 22, 1904 was between 11.0 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • 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.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Curly Howard, American comedian and vaudevillian († 1952)
• 1903 » George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1904 » Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer († 1965)
• 1904 » Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and radio engineer († 1950).
• 1904 » Saúl Calandra, Argentine football player († 1973).
• 1905 » Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer († 1969)