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Birthday November 13, 1903

• The temperature on November 13, 1903 was between 7.5 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °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.
  • February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
  • April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
  • April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » David Marshall Williams, American convicted murderer and firearms designer († 1975)
• 1900 » Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1904 » H. C. Potter, American director and producer († 1977)
• 1906 » A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic († 1987)
• 1906 » Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-American potter and designer († 2011)
• 1906 » Hermione Baddeley, English actress († 1986)