Eijsermans family tree » Albert van Seijen (1903-)

Birthday March 16, 1903

• The temperature on March 16, 1903 was between 3.1 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). 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.
  • 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 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • 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 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
  • December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Cyril Hume, American novelist († 1966)
• 1900 » Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin († 1964)
• 1901 » Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer († 1987)
• 1903 » Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan († 2001)
• 1906 » Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator († 2009)
• 1906 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player († 1944)