Eijsermans family tree » Peter Johannes Bax (1904-)

Birthday February 9, 1904

• The temperature on February 9, 1904 was between 5.0 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 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.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
  • December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1906 » André Kostolany, Hungarian-French economist and journalist († 1999)
• 1907 » Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic († 2003)
• 1907 » Trường Chinh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam († 1988)