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Birthday June 12, 1904

• The temperature on June 12, 1904 was between 8.3 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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".
  • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • February 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
  • 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 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
  • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Hendrik Elias, Belgian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Ghent († 1973)
• 1905 » Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football player († 1988)
• 1906 » Sandro Penna, Italian poet († 1977)
• 1908 » Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster († 1988)
• 1908 » Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator († 2010)
• 1908 » Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer († 1975)