January 1903 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1903 Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India.
• 02 Jan 1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Michigan, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.
• 04 Jan 1903 Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.
• 06 Jan 1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam.
• 07 Jan 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Blanched Soldier
• 09 Jan 1903 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to New York
• 12 Jan 1903 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170
• 17 Jan 1903 El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
• 18 Jan 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
• 19 Jan 1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced.
• 21 Jan 1903 International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City, New York.
• 29 Jan 1903 Dutch railroad workers strike.

Famous Birthday

• Ervin Nyíregyházi
• John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
• Johann Georg Elser
• Grimalda Gucci

  Italian noted family, the only daughter of the founder of the House of Gucci.

• Louis de Wohl
• Kalanag

  German magician and entertainer in the '50s.

• Alan Napier

  American actor (Alfred the butler on Batman), at age 85 (born 1903).

• Barbara Hepworth

  English abstract sculptor / actress (Rescued by Rover).

• Maurice Abravanel

  Greek-American pianist and conductor (d. 1993).

• Pierre-Henri Simon

  French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet and literary critic.

• Veronica Turleigh

  County Donegal, Ireland -- Actress (Promoter).

• Anton van Duinkerken [Willem JMA Asselbergs]

  literary.

• Leighton Lucas

  composer.

• Albrecht Haushofer

  writer.

• Joris Diels

  Flemish actor / director (Haagsche Comedy).

• Kay Francis [Katherine E Gibbs]

  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- Actress (False Madonna).

• Charles Foulkes

  Canada -- General.

• Stanley Smith

  Kansas City, Missouri -- Actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts).

• Sybil Marion

  Rosenfeld theatre historian.

• Tallulah Bankhead

  Huntsville, Alabama -- Actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling).

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Famous Deaths

• Augusta Holmes

  French composer (Born 1847).

• Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek Dutch surrealist painter

  dies at age 49.

• Hermanus J A M Schaepman Dutch clergyman/politician

  dies at age 58.

• Augusta Mary Anne Holmes composer

  dies at age 55.

• Jean Robert Planquette composer

  dies at age 54.

• Topsy the

  elephant (Born c. 1875).

• Ignaz Wechselmann

  Hungarian architect and philanthropist (Born 1828).

• Alois Hitler

  Austrian civil servant and the father of Adolf Hitler, born to a 42-year-old unmarried peasant, Maria Anna Schicklgruber, whose family had...

• Gulstan Ropert

  French-American bishop and missionary (d. 1903).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Harry Macdonough & John Bieling - Tessie
2. Mina Hickman - Come Down, Ma Evening Star
3. Harry Macdonough - In the Good Old Summer Time
4. Arthur Collins - Down Where the Wurzburger Flows
5. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Under the Bamboo Tree