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Birthday July 27, 1904

• The temperature on July 27, 1904 was between 10.7 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • 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 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist († 1949)
• 1903 » Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright († 1990)
• 1903 » Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece († 2002)
• 1903 » Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor († 1966)
• 1904 » Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player († 1986)
• 1905 » Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager († 1991)