Family tree Eilander » Hendrika Alberta Rietberg (1904-)

Birthday November 8, 1904

• The temperature on November 8, 1904 was between 6.1 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) 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 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • 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.
  • February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
  • June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist († 1980)
• 1898 » Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer († 1937)
• 1900 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author († 1949)
• 1904 » Cedric Belfrage, English-American journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian († 1990)
• 1908 » Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author († 1998)
• 1910 » James McCormack, American general († 1975)