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Birthday May 17, 1903

• The temperature on May 17, 1903 was between 5.5 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). 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.
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
  • 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

• 1898 » A. J. Casson, Canadian painter († 1992)
• 1899 » Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer († 1979)
• 1901 » Werner Egk, German pianist and composer († 1983)
• 1903 » Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player and manager († 1991)
• 1904 » Marie-Anne Desmarest, French author († 1973)
• 1906 » Zinka Milanov, Croatian-American soprano and educator († 1989)