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Birthday July 6, 1903

• The temperature on July 6, 1903 was between 9.9 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). 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.
  • January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
  • February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
  • 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.
  • May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
  • July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
  • October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Elfriede Wever, German Olympic runner († 1941)
• 1900 » Frederica Sagor Maas, American author and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1903 » Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)
• 1904 » Erik Wickberg, Swedish 9th General of The Salvation Army († 1996)
• 1904 » Robert Whitney, American conductor and composer († 1986)
• 1905 » Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect († 1982)