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Birthday August 26, 1904

• The temperature on August 26, 1904 was between 6.9 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 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 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
  • June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
  • June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Eleanor Dark, Australian author and poet († 1985)
• 1903 » Caroline Pafford Miller, American author († 1992)
• 1904 » Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic († 1986)
• 1904 » Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer († 1991)
• 1906 » Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine († 1993)
• 1906 » Bunny Austin, English tennis player († 2000)