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Birthday May 10, 1903

• The temperature on May 10, 1903 was between 5.5 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.9 °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 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • 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.
  • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist († 1979)
• 1901 » Hildrus Poindexter, American bacteriologist († 1987)
• 1901 » John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist († 1971)
• 1902 » David O. Selznick, American director and producer († 1965)
• 1903 » Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and SS officer († 1994)
• 1905 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player († 1972)