Family tree Van Dijk » Johanna Henrica Antonia Broers (1903-)

Birthday June 28, 1903

• The temperature on June 28, 1903 was between 13.3 °C and 29.3 °C and averaged 21.2 °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.
  • 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.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

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)