De bomen van Kreijkes » Johannes Marinus Konijnenbelt (1903-)

Birthday March 1, 1903

• The temperature on March 1, 1903 was between 1.8 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (43%). 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.
  • 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 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.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer († 1972)
• 1904 » Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader († 1944)
• 1904 » Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1973)
• 1905 » Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress, singer, and dancer († 2000)
• 1906 » Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam († 2000)
• 1909 » Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot († 1942)