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Birthday November 4, 1904

• The temperature on November 4, 1904 was between 10.7 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • 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.
  • 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".
  • July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian sociologist and activist († 1954)
• 1901 » Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist, author, and academic († 1974)
• 1904 » Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer, technician, and academic († 1967)
• 1905 » Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet and translator († 2007)
• 1906 » Sterling North, American author and critic († 1974)
• 1908 » Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer and photographer († 1997)