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Birthday May 24, 1904

• The temperature on May 24, 1904 was between 5.1 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • 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.
  • May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
  • June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1901 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 1968)
• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1902 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor († 2004)
• 1905 » George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect († 1990)
• 1905 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)