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Birthday July 27, 1904

• The temperature on July 27, 1904 was between 9.8 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1902 » Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist († 1949)
• 1903 » Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright († 1990)
• 1903 » Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece († 2002)
• 1903 » Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor († 1966)
• 1904 » Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player († 1986)
• 1905 » Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager († 1991)