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Birthday December 22, 1903

• The temperature on December 22, 1903 was between -1.7 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. 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.
  • April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
  • November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1973)
• 1901 » Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor and composer († 1980)
• 1903 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1905 » Kenneth Rexroth, American poet, translator, and academic († 1982)
• 1905 » Pierre Brasseur, French-Italian actor and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1905 » Pierre Levegh, French ice hockey player and race car driver († 1955)