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Birthday July 25, 1903

• The temperature on July 25, 1903 was between 12.3 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (27%). 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 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
  • 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

• 1901 » Lila Lee, American actress and singer († 1973)
• 1901 » Mohammed Helmy, Egyptian physician and Righteous Among the Nations (d.1982)
• 1901 » Ruth Krauss, American author and poet († 1993)
• 1902 » Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and author († 1983)
• 1905 » Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1905 » Georges Grignard, French race car driver († 1977)