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Birthday July 1, 1903

• The temperature on July 1, 1903 was between 6.9 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (68%). 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 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
  • 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.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Irna Phillips, American screenwriter († 1973)
• 1902 » William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1903 » Amy Johnson, English pilot († 1941)
• 1903 » Beatrix Lehmann, English actress († 1979)
• 1906 » Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded the Estée Lauder Companies († 2004)
• 1906 » Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic († 1992)