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Birthday February 5, 1903

• The temperature on February 5, 1903 was between 3.6 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. 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 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
  • December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1965)
• 1903 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist († 1975)
• 1903 » Koto Matsudaira, Japanese diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations († 1994)
• 1906 » John Carradine, American actor († 1988)
• 1907 » Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician († 2007)
• 1907 » Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France († 2000)