Today in History for Year 1903

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 173

Jan 2nd - Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
Jan 4th - Topsy, an elephant, was electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.
Jan 5th - SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
Jan 6th - Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
Jan 7th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier" (BG)
Jan 7th - Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
Jan 9th - 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 & moved it to NY
Jan 9th - Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
Jan 9th - Wind Cave National Park, SD established
Jan 9th - Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Balt franchise for $18,000 & move it to NYC (Yankees)
Jan 12th - Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam
Jan 12th - Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170
Jan 19th - 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
Jan 19th - New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
Jan 21st - "Wizard of Oz," premieres in NYC
Jan 21st - Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
Jan 21st - International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle NYC
Jan 29th - Dutch railroad workers strike
Feb 3rd - Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini Feb 4th - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 & 1 tie
Feb 7th - VVV '03 Soccer team forms in Venlo
Feb 11th - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
Feb 14th - US Dept of Commerce & Labor forms
Feb 15th - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
Feb 16th - -59°F (-51°C), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record)
Feb 18th - Kuyper government launches anti strike laws
Feb 20th - Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
Feb 21st - Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
Feb 22nd - Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
Feb 23rd - Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
Feb 24th - US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
Feb 28th - Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
Mar 2nd - Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC
Mar 3rd - North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
Mar 5th - Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn
Mar 10th - Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
Mar 10th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games
Mar 12th - NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
Mar 14th - 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL
Mar 14th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games
Mar 14th - WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass," premieres in Dublin
Mar 15th - Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa
Mar 22nd - NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
Mar 22nd - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
Mar 23rd - Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
Mar 25th - Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
Mar 26th - American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
Mar 31st - Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (NZ)
Apr 6th - General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
Apr 6th - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
Apr 14th - Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
Apr 20th - 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8
Apr 20th - NY Highlanders play their 1st game, with Jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth & Washington
Apr 22nd - American Power Boat Association forms
Apr 22nd - NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
Apr 23rd - NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Wash Senators 7-2
Apr 27th - 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Phila A's win 6-0
Apr 27th - Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
Apr 29th - Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
Apr 30th - NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St & Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Wash Senators, 6-2
May 2nd - 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09
May 3rd - AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo
May 6th - Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt May 14th - President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
May 16th - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
May 16th - George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
May 17th - Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
May 22nd - Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
May 23rd - 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
May 23rd - 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
May 26th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" (BG)
May 27th - 37th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75
May 27th - Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
May 29th - May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
May 30th - 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
Jun 2nd - Netherlands Korfball League forms
Jun 2nd - Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
Jun 12th - Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
Jun 12th - The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
Jun 16th - 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
Jun 16th - Ford Motors incorporates
Jun 16th - Pepsi Cola company forms
Jun 16th - Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
Jun 18th - 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later
Jun 21st - Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
Jun 24th - Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
Jun 25th - Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
Jun 25th - Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 & 5-3
Jun 27th - 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol GC NJ
Jun 29th - British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo
Jul 1st - 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
Jul 2nd - AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
Jul 2nd - Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs
Jul 4th - Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
Jul 6th - George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF
Jul 20th - Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
Jul 23rd - Ford Motor Co sells 1st Model A car
Jul 25th - Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
Aug 1st - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
Aug 2nd - Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 416

Jan 2nd - Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary
Jan 3rd - Charles Foulkes, Canada, general
Jan 4th - Joris Diels, Flemish actor/director (Haagsche Comedy)
Jan 5th - Leighton Lucas, composer
Jan 5th - Harold Gatty, Australian aviator, navigator with Wiley Post (d. 1957)
Jan 6th - Boris Blacher, Newchwang China, German composer (Orchester-Ornament)
Jan 6th - Francis L Sullivan, London England, actor (Missing Rembrandt)
Jan 6th - Maurice Abravanel, Saloniki Greece, conductor/composer
Jan 6th - Stanley Smith, KC MO, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts)
Jan 7th - Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)
Jan 7th - Albrecht Haushofer, writer
Jan 7th - Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer
Jan 7th - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer
Jan 8th - Gene Roth, [Eugene Stutenroth], SD, actor (She Demons, Spider)
Jan 9th - Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
Jan 10th - Barbara Hepworth, English abstract sculptor/actress (Rescued by Rover)
Jan 10th - Jean Morel, Abbeville France, conductor
Jan 10th - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
Jan 10th - Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
Jan 11th - Alan Paton, South Africa, writer (Cry, the Beloved Country)
Jan 12th - Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist - helped develop 1st Soviet nuclear weapon
Jan 13th - Kay Francis, [Katherine E Gibbs], Oklahoma City, actress (False Madonna)
Jan 14th - Veronica Turleigh, County Donegal Ireland, actress (Promoter)
Jan 15th - Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
Jan 17th - Warren Hull, Gasport NY, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World)
Jan 17th - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953)
Jan 18th - Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British (opera)composer (Beatrice Cenci)
Jan 19th - Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur
Jan 20th - Leon Ames, Portland Indiana, actor (Mr Ed, Father of the Bride)
Jan 20th - Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian
Jan 22nd - Robin Humphrey Milford, composer
Jan 22nd - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
Jan 23rd - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
Jan 24th - Robert Gwathmey, artist (Arts & Letters)
Jan 25th - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker
Jan 27th - John Eccles, British physiologist/neurologist
Jan 27th - Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (d. 1979)
Jan 28th - Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer (1st woman in Royal Society)
Jan 29th - Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist
Jan 30th - G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist (Treatise on Limnology)
Jan 31st - Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder (Look Magazine)
Jan 31st - Tallulah Bankhead, Huntsville Ala, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling)
Feb 1st - Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer (The Bees Novel)
Feb 2nd - Frank McGrath, Mound City Mo, actor (Wagon Train)
Feb 3rd - Priaulx Rainier, composer
Feb 3rd - Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor
Feb 4th - Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician
Feb 4th - Berend van den Amstel, [Bernard CED Hattink], actor (Beatrice)
Feb 4th - Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, US dance critic/poet (Snoring in N)
Feb 4th - Frank Howley, Hampton NY, Brigadier General (Answers for Americans)
Feb 4th - Siro Cisilino, composer
Feb 5th - Ivan Galamian, Tabriz Persia, violinist
Feb 5th - Joan Whitney Payson, owner (NY Mets & horse stables)
Feb 5th - Nathaniel Owings, Indianapolis, architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears)
Feb 6th - John Dunning, cricketer (NZ medium-fast bowler of 30's)
Feb 6th - Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (Temptation of Poverty)
Feb 8th - Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia
Feb 8th - Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
Feb 9th - Georg Trexler, composer
Feb 10th - Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, composer
Feb 10th - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
Feb 10th - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
Feb 11th - Hans Redlich, composer
Feb 11th - Rex Lease, WV, actor (Fast Bullets, Sunny Skies, Custer's Last Stand)
Feb 12th - Chick Hafey, baseball player (d. 1973)
Feb 12th - Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
Feb 13th - Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
Feb 16th - Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy)
Feb 16th - George-Henri Lévesque, Quebec priest and sociologist (d. 2000)
Feb 17th - Johannes Linthorst Homan, director of the queen in Groningen
Feb 18th - Nikolaj V Podgorny, pres USSR (1965-77)
Feb 19th - Kay Boyle, St Paul Minn, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales)
Feb 20th - Ella Maillart, explorer
Feb 20th - Karel Janacek, composer
Feb 20th - Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer
Feb 21st - Eric Fogg, composer
Feb 21st - Madeleine Renaud, Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day)
Feb 21st - Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit)
Feb 21st - Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
Feb 21st - Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977)
Feb 21st - Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
Feb 22nd - Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
Feb 22nd - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
Feb 22nd - Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
Feb 23rd - Grigori V Aleksandrov, Russian director (Veselye Rebjata)
Feb 25th - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
Feb 26th - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
Feb 27th - Reginald Gardiner, Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator)
Feb 27th - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
Feb 28th - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (d. 1986)
Mar 1st - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
Mar 3rd - Gilbert Adrian, [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer
Mar 3rd - Rabbe A Enckell, Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen)
Mar 4th - Harold Berens, comedian
Mar 4th - William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
Mar 4th - John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
Mar 5th - Lowell Peters, Cleveland Tn, vocalist (Southernaires)
Mar 6th - Elizabeth Pinkston Becker, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
Mar 6th - Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
Mar 10th - Bix Biederbecke, rocker

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 85 of 85

Jan 3rd - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
Jan 4th - Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49
Jan 4th - W H M "Dicky" Richards, cricketer (score 4 & 0 in Test for S Af), dies
Jan 4th - Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
Jan 4th - Topsy the elephant (b. circa 1875)
Jan 17th - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
Jan 21st - Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58
Jan 28th - Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer, dies at 55
Jan 28th - Jean Robert Planquette, composer, dies at 54
Feb 1st - George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83
Feb 3rd - Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59
Feb 11th - Henryk Szulc, composer, dies at 67
Feb 12th - Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
Feb 15th - Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69
Feb 17th - Joseph Parry, composer, dies at 61
Feb 22nd - Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
Feb 22nd - Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
Feb 23rd - Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57
Feb 23rd - Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70
Feb 26th - Richard J Gatling, US inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84
Feb 28th - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88
Mar 4th - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68
Mar 5th - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
Mar 13th - Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88
Mar 14th - Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88
Mar 16th - Roy Bean, American jurist
Apr 11th - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25
Apr 13th - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65
Apr 29th - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
Apr 30th - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831)
May 1st - Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies
May 1st - Luigi Arditi, violist/composer, dies at 80
May 4th - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872)
May 8th - Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies
May 16th - Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72
May 19th - Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies
May 29th - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
Jun 10th - Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated
Jun 10th - Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated
Jun 10th - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies
Jun 11th - Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered at 35
Jun 11th - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
Jun 22nd - George White, black resident of Delaware, lynched
Jun 29th - Rentaro Taki, composer, dies at 23
Jul 2nd - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
Jul 7th - Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64
Jul 7th - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64
Jul 9th - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)
Jul 13th - August Reissmann, composer, dies at 77
Jul 17th - James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69
Jul 20th - Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93
Jul 22nd - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
Jul 30th - Servas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65
Aug 2nd - Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies
Aug 2nd - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
Aug 11th - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
Aug 22nd - Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73
Aug 23rd - Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75
Aug 28th - August Labitzky, composer, dies at 70
Aug 28th - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
Aug 30th - Vincente F Lopez, historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
Sep 1st - Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies
Sep 3rd - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
Sep 4th - Herman Zumpe, composer, dies at 53
Sep 6th - Charles Ammi Cutter, US bibliographer, dies at 66
Sep 18th - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67
Sep 18th - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer, dies at 79
Sep 28th - Jesus Monasterio, composer, dies at 67
Oct 3rd - Benedetto Junck, composer, dies at 51
Oct 4th - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
Oct 7th - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
Oct 23rd - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
Oct 26th - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer, dies at 73
Oct 26th - Victorin de Joncieres, composer, dies at 64
Nov 1st - [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies
Nov 13th - Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies
Nov 13th - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
Nov 24th - Charles Dupee Blake, composer, dies at 56
Dec 2nd - Victor Roger, composer, dies at 50
Dec 6th - Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54
Dec 8th - Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83
Dec 11th - Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies
Dec 14th - William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
Dec 20th - Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56
Dec 28th - George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46