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Birthday October 13, 1903

• The temperature on October 13, 1903 was between 9.5 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (53%). 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.
  • February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • 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").
  • November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Gerald Marks, American composer († 1997)
• 1902 » Arna Bontemps, American librarian, author, and poet († 1973)
• 1902 » Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic († 1987)
• 1904 » Wilfred Pickles, English actor and radio host († 1978)
• 1905 » Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer and manager († 1983)
• 1905 » Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1987)