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Birthday October 16, 1904

• The temperature on October 16, 1904 was between -3.1 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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).
  • 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.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1982)
• 1903 » Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist († 2003)
• 1904 » Björn Berglund, Swedish actor († 1968)
• 1905 » Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager († 1990)
• 1906 » León Klimovsky, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1907 » Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic († 1973)