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Birthday April 1, 1904

• The temperature on April 1, 1904 was between 4.0 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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".
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
  • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
  • 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

• 1900 » Stefanie Clausen, Danish Olympic diver († 1981)
• 1901 » Whittaker Chambers, American journalist and spy († 1961)
• 1905 » Gaston Eyskens, Belgian economist and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium († 1988)
• 1905 » Paul Hasluck, Australian historian, poet, and politician, 17th Governor-General of Australia († 1993)
• 1906 » Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer, founded the Yakovlev Design Bureau († 1989)
• 1907 » Shivakumara Swami, Indian religious leader and philanthropist († 2019)