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Birthday April 24, 1903

• The temperature on April 24, 1903 was between 2.8 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. 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 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
  • October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
  • November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
  • November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Elizabeth Goudge, English author and educator († 1984)
• 1903 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician, founded the Falange († 1936)
• 1904 » Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator († 1997)
• 1905 » Al Bates, American long jumper († 1999)
• 1905 » Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic († 1989)
• 1906 » William Joyce, American-born Irish-British Nazi propaganda broadcaster († 1946)