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Birthday January 16, 1904

• The temperature on January 16, 1904 was between 0.2 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  • April 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba († 1973)
• 1902 » Eric Liddell, Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary († 1945)
• 1903 » William Grover-Williams, English-French race car driver († 1945)
• 1905 » Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor († 1989)
• 1906 » Diana Wynyard, English actress († 1964)
• 1906 » Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer and pilot († 1975)