Database Van Broekhoven » Geertruida Lydia Been (1903-)

Birthday September 23, 1903

• The temperature on September 23, 1903 was between 7.5 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (34%). 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.
  • March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
  • April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1900 » Bill Stone, English soldier († 2009)
• 1901 » Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1902 » Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and academic († 2003)
• 1903 » Cec Fifield, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1957)
• 1904 » Arthur Folwell, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator († 1966)
• 1906 » Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom († 1995)