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Birthday May 24, 1904

• The temperature on May 24, 1904 was between 4.7 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • 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.
  • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1901 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 1968)
• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1902 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor († 2004)
• 1905 » George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect († 1990)
• 1905 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)