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Birthday March 9, 1903

• The temperature on March 9, 1903 was between -3.4 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (51%). 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.
  • March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
  • August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
  • December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian politician († 1971)
• 1892 » Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet, and gardener († 1962)
• 1902 » Will Geer, American actor († 1978)
• 1904 » Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American soldier and engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies († 2002)
• 1910 » Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer († 1981)
• 1911 » Clara Rockmore, American classical violin prodigy and theremin player, († 1998)