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Birthday October 10, 1904

• The temperature on October 10, 1904 was between 0.1 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 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 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.
  • 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".
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » K. Shivaram Karanth, Indian journalist, author, and activist († 1997)
• 1903 » Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and academic († 2009)
• 1903 » Prince Charles, Count of Flanders († 1983)
• 1903 » Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter († 1969)
• 1905 » Aksella Luts, Estonian actress, screenwriter, dancer, and choreographer(† 2005)
• 1906 » Paul Creston, American composer and educator († 1985)