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Birthday May 25, 1904

• The temperature on May 25, 1904 was between 11.8 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  • 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

• 1898 » Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television game show panelist; co-founded Random House († 1971)
• 1899 » Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, author, and flute player († 1976)
• 1900 » Alain Grandbois, Canadian poet and author († 1975)
• 1907 » U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma († 1995)
• 1908 » Theodore Roethke, American poet († 1963)
• 1909 » Alfred Kubel, German politician, 5th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony († 1999)