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Birthday January 5, 1904

• The temperature on January 5, 1904 was between -3.3 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 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 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  • 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".
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist († 1989)
• 1902 » Stella Gibbons, English journalist and author († 1989)
• 1903 » Harold Gatty, Australian pilot and navigator († 1957)
• 1904 » Erika Morini, Austrian violinist († 1995)
• 1904 » Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic († 1997)
• 1906 » Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist and academic († 1978)