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Birthday December 23, 1903

• The temperature on December 23, 1903 was between -3.1 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (39%). 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 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
  • July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
  • December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Marie Bell, French actress and stage director († 1985)
• 1900 » Merle Barwis, American-Canadian supercentenarian († 2014)
• 1900 » Otto Soglow, American cartoonist († 1975)
• 1902 » Charan Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of India († 1987)
• 1902 » Norman Maclean, American author and academic († 1990)
• 1907 » Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean author and poet († 2005)