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Birthday March 28, 1904

• The temperature on March 28, 1904 was between 3.7 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • 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 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
  • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Flora Robson, English actress († 1984)
• 1902 » Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech fiddler and composer († 1988)
• 1903 » Rudolf Serkin, Czech-American pianist and educator († 1991)
• 1904 » Isabel Cuchí Coll, Puerto Rican author and journalist († 1993)
• 1905 » Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host († 1986)
• 1905 » Pandro S. Berman, American production manager and producer († 1996)