Eijsermans family tree » Johanna Jacoba Petronella Bertens (1904-)

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 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • 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 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  • February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

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)