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Birthday April 17, 1903

• The temperature on April 17, 1903 was between -1.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (40%). 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 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
  • June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
  • June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
  • October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
  • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator († 1976)
• 1903 » Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach († 1975)
• 1903 » Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator († 1978)
• 1905 » Arthur Lake, American actor († 1987)
• 1905 » Louis Jean Heydt, American journalist and actor († 1960)
• 1906 » Sidney Garfield, American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente († 1984)