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Birthday September 15, 1903

• The temperature on September 15, 1903 was between 8.3 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (30%). 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed Bailey bridge († 1985)
• 1903 » Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler († 1992)
• 1904 » Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, journalist, and author († 1988)
• 1904 » Umberto II of Italy († 1983)
• 1906 » Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1960)
• 1906 » Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter († 1973)