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Birthday August 16, 1903

• The temperature on August 16, 1903 was between 10.7 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (41%). 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.
  • January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
  • July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
  • December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Ida Browne, Australian geologist and palaeontologist († 1976)
• 1902 » Georgette Heyer, English author († 1974)
• 1902 » Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright († 1934)
• 1904 » Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician († 1989)
• 1904 » Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1908 » Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator († 2010)