February 1903 calendar

Events

• 04 Feb 1903 Stanley Cup: MontrTal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, two games to one and one tie.
• 11 Feb 1903 Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
• 14 Feb 1903 The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
• 16 Feb 1903 -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Pokegama Dam Minnesota (state record).
• 17 Feb 1903 El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
• 18 Feb 1903 Kuyper government launches anti strike laws.
• 20 Feb 1903 Nick Young remains as National League president as AG Spalding ends challenge.
• 21 Feb 1903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC.
• 22 Feb 1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water.
• 23 Feb 1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA.
• 24 Feb 1903 US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
• 28 Feb 1903 Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000.

Famous Birthday

• Anaïs Nin

  French writer who authored 60 diaries in her 74 years about her SELF (often capitalized), working on perfecting her self-absorption and...

• Georges Simenon

  Belgian-French novelist, whose prolific output included more than 400 novels, 84 detective novels, 100 psychological novels, and numerous...

• Raymond Queneau

  French novelist, poet, screenwriter, encyclopedist, multifaceted creative genius whose work influenced French prose, poetry & cinema.

• Irène Némirovsky
• Abram Topor
• Claudio Arrau

  Chilean-American concert pianist, one of the great pianists of the 20th century.

• Egon von Vietinghoff
• Vincente Minnelli

  American film director, dies in Los Angeles at age 76 (born 1903).

• Ella Maillart

  explorer.

• Franz Burda

  German publisher and founder of Burda Publications.

• André Berthomieu

  French director, the most prolific of his day with over 60 films from 1926-1960, including "Pas Si Bete," 1929.

• Heinrich Gottlieb Heer
• Edgar Bergen

  American ventriloquist who studied a 25-cent books on ventriloquism while in high school, and then paid a carpenter $35 to carve the head of...

• Giulio Natta

  Italian chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1963 along with Karl Ziegler, for their contributions to macro molecular chemistry, more...

• Orde Wingate

  Indian military man who, as a major general, organized and trained an effective commando force in 1941 to slice behind Japanese lines,...

• Matthias Sindelar

  Austrian footballer and manager (d. 1939).

• Pieter G

  Buckinx Flemish writer (Temptation of Poverty).

• Nathaniel Owings Indianapolis Indiana

  architect (Oak Ridge Tennessee; Sears).

• Ivan Galamian

  Tabriz, Persia -- Violinist.

• Joan Whitney

  Payson owner of New York Mets and horse stables.

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Famous Deaths

• Girolamo / Jeromin de Rada

  Albanian poet, dies at 88.

• George Gabriel Stokes

  Irish physicist (Born 1819).

• Richard Jordan Gatling

  American inventor (Born 1818).

• George G Stokes British physicist/presidential Royal Society

  dies at age 83.

• Henryk Szulc composer

  dies at age 67.

• Julie Verstraete-Lacquet Flemish actress

  dies at age 69.

• Joseph Parry composer

  dies at age 61.

• Frederick William Farrar writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903)

  dies.

• Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf Austrian composer (Corregidor)

  dies at age 42.

• Friedrich Grutzmacher composer

  dies at age 70.

• Albert Cahen composer

  dies at age 57.

• Richard J Gatling US inventor (Gatling Gun)

  dies at age 84.

• Hugo Wolf

  Slovenian-Austrian composer of approximately 300 solo songs with piano accompaniment.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins - Down Where the Wurzburger Flows
2. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Under the Bamboo Tree
3. J.W. Myers - Heidelberg
4. Haydn Quartet - In the Good Old Summer Time
5. J. Aldrich Libbey - In the Sweet Bye and Bye