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Birthday May 21, 1904

• The temperature on May 21, 1904 was between 4.5 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
  • June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1974)
• 1902 » Earl Averill, American baseball player († 1983)
• 1902 » Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the Ameritrust Tower († 1981)
• 1903 » Manly Wade Wellman, American author († 1986)
• 1904 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1943)
• 1904 » Robert Montgomery, American actor and director († 1981)