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Birthday September 24, 1903

• The temperature on September 24, 1903 was between 9.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (88%). 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.
  • February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
  • March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
  • 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.
  • November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
  • 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

• 1900 » Ham Fisher, American cartoonist († 1955)
• 1901 » Alexandra Adler, Austrian neurologist and psychologist (d.2001)
• 1902 » Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran († 1989)
• 1905 » Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1906 » Józef Nawrot, Polish footballer († 1982)
• 1906 » Leonard Marsh, Canadian sociologist and academic († 1982)