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Birthday August 12, 1904

• The temperature on August 12, 1904 was between 8.1 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 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 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • 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 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia († 1980)
• 1904 » Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia († 1918)
• 1904 » Idel Jakobson, Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer († 1997)
• 1904 » Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter († 2009)
• 1906 » Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach († 1985)
• 1906 » Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 1972)