Genealogy Van Melzen » Jochem Grit (1903-)

Birthday May 3, 1903

• The temperature on May 3, 1903 was between 5.4 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (31%). 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 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • 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.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
  • 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

• 1902 » Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1903 » Bing Crosby, American singer and actor († 1977)
• 1905 » Edmund Black, American hammer thrower († 1996)
• 1905 » Red Ruffing, American baseball pitcher and coach († 1986)
• 1905 » Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic († 1988)
• 1906 » Mary Astor, American actress († 1987)