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Birthday March 4, 1903

• The temperature on March 4, 1903 was between 2.4 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (46%). 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 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

Source: Wikipedia

• 1902 » Rachel Messerer, Lithuanian-Russian actress († 1993)
• 1902 » Russell Reeder, American soldier and author († 1998)
• 1903 » Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress and singer († 1990)
• 1903 » John Scarne, American magician and author († 1985)
• 1903 » Malcolm Dole, American chemist and academic († 1990)
• 1903 » William C. Boyd, American immunologist and chemist († 1983)