December 1903 calendar

Events

• 03 Dec 1903 Panglima Polim surrenders to Captain Colijn at Atjeh.
• 06 Dec 1903 Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders.
• 09 Dec 1903 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage.
• 10 Dec 1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre / Marie Curie
• 11 Dec 1903 British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet.
• 12 Dec 1903 Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo.
• 13 Dec 1903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (New Jersey).
• 14 Dec 1903 The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• 16 Dec 1903 Majestic Theater, New York City, New York, becomes first in US to employ women ushers.
• 17 Dec 1903 At 10:35 AM, the first sustained, controlled, powered aircraft flight is made by Orville Wright in 12hp Flyer I at Kill Devil Hills, Kittyhawk, North Carolina. The flight lasts 12 seconds.
• 19 Dec 1903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
• 28 Dec 1903 Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die.
• 29 Dec 1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari.
• 30 Dec 1903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans Louisiana.

Famous Birthday

• John von Neumann

  Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (Born 1903).

• Yasujiro Ozu

  Japanese film director (Born 1903).

• Earl Hines

  American pianist and bandleader (d. 1983).

• Johannes Heesters

  Dutch-born actor of stage, television and film as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stage, with a...

• Una Merkel

  Covington, Kentucky -- Actress (42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln).

• George J Lewis

  Guadalajara, Mexico -- Sacotr (Don-Zorro).

• Mikhail Kalatozov
• Erskine Caldwell

  American best-selling writer known for his two most successful novels, "Tobacco Road," 1932 and "God's Little Acre," 1933.

• John H Nelson
• Fred Freed
• Joseph Cornell

  American sculptor and director (d. 1972).

• Christian Matras

  French director of photography and cinematographer.

• Mykola Kolessa
• Elisha Cook Jr

  American actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane), dies at age 91 (born 1903).

• Carlos Montoya

  Madrid, Spain -- Guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966).

• Fredi Washington
• Ilarie Voronca
• Cleo Brown

  pianist.

• Irene Eisinger

  singer.

• Cyril Dean Darlington

  England, United Kingdom -- Biologist (hereditary mechanisms).

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Famous Deaths

• Victor Roger composer

  dies at age 50.

• Frederick Grant Gleason composer

  dies at age 54.

• Herbert Spencer British engineer/philosopher

  dies at age 83.

• William Ennis

  first cop to die in the electric chair.

• Gavriil Musicescu composer

  dies at age 56.

• George [Robert] Gissing English novelist

  dies at age 46.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins - Any Rags?
2. Harry Macdonough - When Kate and I Were Comin' Thro' the Rye
3. Bob Roberts - By the Sycamore Tree
4. J.W. Myers - You're as Welcome as the Flowers in May
5. Billy Murray - Up in a Cocoanut Tree