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Birthday March 27, 1903

• The temperature on March 27, 1903 was between 7.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). 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.
  • May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
  • October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
  • October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
  • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
  • December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter († 2000)
• 1901 » Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1901 » Erich Ollenhauer, German politician († 1963)
• 1902 » Charles Lang, American cinematographer († 1998)
• 1902 » Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer († 1975)
• 1903 » Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright († 1950)