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Birthday January 12, 1903

• The temperature on January 12, 1903 was between -4.5 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (50%). 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 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
  • October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Karl Künstler, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1903 » Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney (Morissette v. United States) († 1995)
• 1903 » Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic († 1960)
• 1904 » Mississippi Fred McDowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1972)
• 1905 » James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist and academic († 1997)
• 1905 » Nihal Atsız, Turkish author, poet, and philosopher († 1975)