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Birthday April 30, 1904

• The temperature on April 30, 1904 was between 9.6 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • April 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
  • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
  • June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
  • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
  • December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet († 1984)
• 1901 » Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1902 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1905 » Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 2012)
• 1908 » Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic professor of law and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland († 1970)
• 1908 » Eve Arden, American actress († 1990)