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Birthday August 10, 1903

• The temperature on August 10, 1903 was between 10.5 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (23%). 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 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • 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.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
  • December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1994)
• 1902 » Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1902 » Curt Siodmak, German-English author and screenwriter († 2000)
• 1902 » Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress († 1983)
• 1903 » Ward Moore, American author († 1978)
• 1905 » Era Bell Thompson, American journalist and author († 1986)