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Birthday March 25, 1904

• The temperature on March 25, 1904 was between 2.5 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
  • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
  • 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

• 1903 » Binnie Barnes, English-American actress († 1998)
• 1903 » Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader († 2001)
• 1903 » Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Ukrainian-American theologian and scholar († 1990)
• 1904 » Pete Johnson, American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist († 1967)
• 1905 » Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German colonel († 1944)
• 1906 » Jean Sablon, French singer and actor († 1994)