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Birthday June 28, 1903

• The temperature on June 28, 1903 was between 13.9 °C and 30.5 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 15.2 hours of sunshine (91%). 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).
  • February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
  • March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  • October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
  • October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Francis Hunter, American tennis player († 1981)
• 1902 » Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer († 1979)
• 1906 » Maria Goeppert Mayer, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1907 » Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer († 1983)
• 1907 » Yvonne Sylvain, First female Haitian physician († 1989)
• 1909 » Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter († 1998)