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Birthday May 10, 1903

• The temperature on May 10, 1903 was between 5.5 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.9 °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.
  • January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
  • 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 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
  • December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist († 1979)
• 1901 » Hildrus Poindexter, American bacteriologist († 1987)
• 1901 » John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist († 1971)
• 1902 » David O. Selznick, American director and producer († 1965)
• 1903 » Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and SS officer († 1994)
• 1905 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player († 1972)