Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Adriaan Michiel Louter (1904-)

Birthday December 29, 1904

• The temperature on December 29, 1904 was between 1.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing († 1992)
• 1902 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player († 1957)
• 1903 » Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter († 1962)
• 1904 » Kuvempu, Indian author and poet († 1994)
• 1908 » Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author († 1993)
• 1908 » Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author († 1992)