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Birthday June 25, 1903

• The temperature on June 25, 1903 was between 7.6 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (82%). 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.
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Marta Abba, Italian actress († 1988)
• 1901 » Harold Roe Bartle, American businessman and politician, 47th Mayor of Kansas City († 1974)
• 1902 » Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu of Japan († 1953)
• 1903 » Anne Revere, American actress († 1990)
• 1903 » George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic († 1950)
• 1905 » Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer and academic († 1976)