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Birthday December 30, 1904

• The temperature on December 30, 1904 was between 4.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 7 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • 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.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Governor of Svalbard († 2001)
• 1904 » Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer and academic († 1987)
• 1905 » Daniil Kharms, Russian poet, author, and playwright († 1942)
• 1906 » Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter († 1997)
• 1906 » Carol Reed, English director and producer († 1976)
• 1910 » Paul Bowles, American composer and author († 1999)