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Birthday May 18, 1904

• The temperature on May 18, 1904 was between 8.9 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • 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.
  • July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
  • December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Henri Sauguet, French composer († 1989)
• 1902 » Meredith Willson, American playwright and composer († 1984)
• 1904 » Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General († 1986)
• 1904 » Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator († 1971)
• 1905 » Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier († 1943)
• 1905 » Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot († 1930)