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Birthday November 10, 1903

• The temperature on November 10, 1903 was between 4.8 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °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.
  • 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.
  • October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
  • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
  • 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 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » Kate Seredy, Hungarian-American author and illustrator († 1975)
• 1906 » Josef Kramer, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1907 » Jane Froman, American actor and singer († 1980)
• 1907 » John Moore, English activist and author († 1967)
• 1908 » Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient († 2000)
• 1908 » Noemí Gerstein, Argentinian sculptor and illustrator († 1996)