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Birthday June 17, 1904

• The temperature on June 17, 1904 was between 10.1 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
  • 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.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
  • December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer († 1982)
• 1902 » Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1903 » Ruth Graves Wakefield, American chef, created the chocolate chip cookie († 1977)
• 1904 » J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian († 1988)
• 1904 » Patrice Tardif, Canadian farmer and politician († 1989)
• 1904 » Ralph Bellamy, American actor († 1991)