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Birthday September 27, 1904

• The temperature on September 27, 1904 was between 2.0 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
  • May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and politician († 1981)
• 1905 » Conrad Heidkamp, German footballer and manager († 1994)
• 1906 » Jim Thompson, American author and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1906 » Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and author († 1980)
• 1906 » William Empson, English poet and critic († 1984)
• 1907 » Bernard Miles, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)