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Birthday May 3, 1903

• The temperature on May 3, 1903 was between 5.0 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (31%). 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.
  • January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
  • March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1903 » Bing Crosby, American singer and actor († 1977)
• 1905 » Edmund Black, American hammer thrower († 1996)
• 1905 » Red Ruffing, American baseball pitcher and coach († 1986)
• 1905 » Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic († 1988)
• 1906 » Mary Astor, American actress († 1987)