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Birthday July 5, 1904

• The temperature on July 5, 1904 was between 11.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
  • January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1901 » Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer († 1981)
• 1902 » Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American colonel and politician, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1985)
• 1904 » Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist († 2005)
• 1904 » Harold Acton, English scholar and author († 1994)
• 1904 » Milburn Stone, American actor († 1980)
• 1905 » Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau, Haitian sociologist and educator († 1970)