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Birthday April 23, 1904

• The temperature on April 23, 1904 was between 6.0 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • 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.
  • May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » E. B. Ford, English biologist and geneticist († 1988)
• 1902 » Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1903 » Guy Simonds, English-Canadian general († 1974)
• 1904 » Clifford Bricker, Canadian long-distance runner († 1980)
• 1904 » Duncan Renaldo, American actor († 1985)
• 1904 » Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter († 2001)