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Birthday April 24, 1903

• The temperature on April 24, 1903 was between 2.6 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. 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 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
  • February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
  • 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

• 1900 » Elizabeth Goudge, English author and educator († 1984)
• 1903 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician, founded the Falange († 1936)
• 1904 » Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator († 1997)
• 1905 » Al Bates, American long jumper († 1999)
• 1905 » Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic († 1989)
• 1906 » William Joyce, American-born Irish-British Nazi propaganda broadcaster († 1946)