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Birthday May 6, 1903

• The temperature on May 6, 1903 was between 9.0 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (49%). 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.
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Harry Golden, Ukrainian-American journalist and author († 1981)
• 1902 » Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter († 1957)
• 1903 » Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant († 1977)
• 1904 » Catherine Lacey, English actress († 1979)
• 1904 » Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1904 » Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic († 1984)