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Birthday September 8, 1903

• The temperature on September 8, 1903 was between 9.5 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). 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 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
  • October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
  • 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 » Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician († 1989)
• 1900 » Tilly Devine, English-Australian organised crime boss († 1970)
• 1901 » Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa († 1966)
• 1903 » Jane Arbor, English author († 1994)
• 1906 » Andrei Kirilenko, Russian engineer and politician († 1990)
• 1907 » William Wentworth, Australian economist and politician, 11th Australian Minister for Human Services († 2003)