Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Pieter van Pelt (1903-)

Birthday May 26, 1903

• The temperature on May 26, 1903 was between 9.1 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 14.7 hours of sunshine (91%). 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 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
  • October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
  • December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Antonio Barrette, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Premier of Quebec († 1968)
• 1899 » Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate († 1997)
• 1900 » Karin Juel, Swedish singer, actor, and writer († 1976)
• 1904 » George Formby, English singer-songwriter and actor († 1961)
• 1904 » Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright († 1983)
• 1904 » Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-French pianist and educator († 2002)