Zijper families » Willem Bakker Schut (1904-)

Birthday July 23, 1904

• The temperature on July 23, 1904 was between 11.2 °C and 26.6 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  • 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.
  • May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
  • 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.
  • 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

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• 1906 » Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist († 1931)
• 1906 » Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)