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Birthday October 14, 1904

• The temperature on October 14, 1904 was between 0.2 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (84%). 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.
  • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
  • December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager († 1963)
• 1904 » Christian Pineau, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1995)
• 1904 » Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union († 1978)
• 1906 » Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist († 1975)
• 1906 » Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood († 1949)
• 1907 » Allan Jones, American actor and singer († 1992)