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Birthday December 13, 1904

• The temperature on December 13, 1904 was between -1.8 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • 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 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
  • June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek philosopher and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece († 1986)
• 1902 » Talcott Parsons, American sociologist and academic († 1979)
• 1903 » Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer († 1993)
• 1903 » Ella Baker, American activist († 1986)
• 1905 » Ann Barzel, American writer and dance critic († 2007)
• 1906 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark († 1968)