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Birthday July 15, 1904

• The temperature on July 15, 1904 was between 16.8 °C and 32.4 °C and averaged 24.8 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • 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.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission († 1983)
• 1903 » K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician († 1975)
• 1903 » Walter D. Edmonds, American journalist and author († 1998)
• 1904 » Rudolf Arnheim, German-American psychologist and author († 2007)
• 1905 » Anita Farra, Italian actress († 2008)
• 1905 » Dorothy Fields, American songwriter († 1974)