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Birthday May 1, 1903

• The temperature on May 1, 1903 was between 7.9 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (11%). 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.
  • April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
  • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
  • December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
  • December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Aleksander Wat, Polish poet and writer († 1967)
• 1900 » Ignazio Silone, Italian journalist and politician († 1978)
• 1901 » Antal Szerb, Hungarian scholar and author († 1945)
• 1901 » Heinz Eric Roemheld, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1985)
• 1901 » Sterling Allen Brown, American poet, academic, and critic († 1989)
• 1905 » Henry Koster, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1988)