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Day of death June 4, 1904

• The temperature on June 4, 1904 was between 8.9 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
  • May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
  • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1922 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Margaret Murray Washington, American Academic (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and coach (b. 1853)
• 1928 » Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
• 1929 » Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (b. 1881)
• 1931 » Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (b. 1853/54)