Family tree Daneels » August Victor (?) van DROGENBROECK (1903-)

Birthday May 20, 1903

• The temperature on May 20, 1903 was between 0.9 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (33%). 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 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
  • 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 » Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor († 1969)
• 1900 » Sumitranandan Pant, Indian poet and author († 1977)
• 1901 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist († 1970)
• 1901 » Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author († 1981)
• 1904 » Margery Allingham, English author of detective fiction († 1966)
• 1906 » Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal († 1989)