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Birthday June 21, 1904

• The temperature on June 21, 1904 was between 6.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • 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.
  • June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Pavel Haas, Czech composer († 1944)
• 1903 » Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator († 2003)
• 1903 » Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach († 1984)
• 1905 » Jacques Goddet, French journalist († 2000)
• 1905 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author († 1980)
• 1908 » William Frankena, American philosopher and academic († 1994)