Family tree Jacobus Petrus van Dorp en Paula Frederike Sommerfelt » Henderikus van Dorp (1903-)

Birthday November 3, 1903

• The temperature on November 3, 1903 was between 2.7 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). 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 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
  • July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
  • December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » André Malraux, French historian, theorist, and author († 1976)
• 1901 » Leopold III of Belgium († 1983)
• 1901 » Lionel Hitchman, Canadian ice hockey player († 1969)
• 1903 » Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator († 1981)
• 1903 » Walker Evans, American photographer and journalist († 1975)
• 1905 » Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic († 1998)