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Birthday June 16, 1904

• The temperature on June 16, 1904 was between 12.0 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
  • May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Helen Traubel, American operatic soprano († 1972)
• 1902 » Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
• 1902 » George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist and author († 1984)
• 1906 » Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer († 1955)
• 1907 » Jack Albertson, American actor († 1981)
• 1909 » Archie Carr, American ecologist and zoologist († 1987)