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Birthday August 31, 1904

• The temperature on August 31, 1904 was between 11.3 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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.
  • July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
  • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
  • August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
  • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Géza Révész, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1977)
• 1903 » Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television host († 1983)
• 1903 » Vladimir Jankélévitch, French musicologist and philosopher († 1985)
• 1905 » Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic († 2004)
• 1905 » Sanford Meisner, American actor and educator († 1997)
• 1907 » Valter Biiber, Estonian footballer († 1977)