April 1903 calendar

Events

• 06 Apr 1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws).
• 07 Apr 1903 Fredrikstad Football Club (FFK) is founded in Norway.
• 14 Apr 1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (New York City, New York).
• 20 Apr 1903 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Massachusetts in 2:41:29.8.
• 22 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
• 23 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders (New York Yankees) win their first game beating Washington Senators 7-2.
• 29 Apr 1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta).
• 30 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders (New York Yankees) first home game, (Hilltop Park-168th Steet and Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Washington Senators, 6-2.

Famous Birthday

• Clare Boothe Luce

  American diplomat (Born 1903).

• Francis D Ommanney
• Daphne Akhurst
• Ward Bond

  Actor (Wagon Train), dies of heart attack at 57.

• Peter Huchel

  writer.

• Thomas Baron

  Pitfield composer.

• Siegfried F Nadel

  Austrian / British anthropologist (Black Byzantium).

• Yury Sergeyevich

  Milyutin composer.

• Leonid Kinskey

  St. Petersburg, Russia -- Actor (Casablanca).

• Eliot Ness untouchable (Prohibition Agent for Department of Treasury-Chicago

  Untouchables).

• Dagmar Edqvist

  Swedish author (Kamrathustru-Wife and Comrade).

• Mike Michalske NFL guard (New York Yankees

  Green Bay Packers).

• Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov

  Russian mathematician (d. 1987).

• Camilla Horn actress (Rebus

  Vertigine, Polterabend, Matinee Idol).

• Geoffrey Worthington

  Air vice-marshall.

• Nicolas Nabokov Near Lubcha Minsk Russia

  composer (The Holy Devil).

• Niven Busch

  US screenwriter (Postman Always Rings Twice).

• Hans Walter

  Kosterliz biochemist.

• Frank Belknap

  Long American writer (Rim of the Unknown).

• Carl Gustav

  Sparre Olsen composer.

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Famous Deaths

• Derk J A Haspels Dutch actor

  dies at age 65.

• Paul du Chaillu

  French explorer (Born 1835).

• Gemma Galgani

  Italian Roman Catholic saint, a stigmatist and a dramatic figure.

• Emily Stowe

  Canadian physician and suffragist (Born 1831).

Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Byron G. Harlan - There's No Place Like Home
2. Billy Murray - Tessie (You are the Only, Only)
3. Harry Macdonough & John Bieling - In the Sweet Bye and Bye
4. Harry Macdonough - Two Eyes of Blue