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Birthday June 21, 1904

• The temperature on June 21, 1904 was between 6.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • 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 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Pavel Haas, Czech composer († 1944)
• 1903 » Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator († 2003)
• 1903 » Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach († 1984)
• 1905 » Jacques Goddet, French journalist († 2000)
• 1905 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author († 1980)
• 1908 » William Frankena, American philosopher and academic († 1994)