July 1903 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
• 02 Jul 1903 AL / NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
• 04 Jul 1903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President Theodore Roosevelt sends message.
• 06 Jul 1903 George Wyman arrives in New York City by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco.
• 07 Jul 1903 The British take over the Fulani Empire.
• 20 Jul 1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X.
• 23 Jul 1903 Ford Motor Co sells 1st Model A car
• 25 Jul 1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
• 30 Jul 1903 August 23 (July 17ampndashAugust 10, O.S.) ampndash Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London.

Famous Birthday

• Amy Johnson

  British pioneer airwoman who took flying lessons and aircraft maintenance with the reluctant support of her father.

• Robert Dalban

  French actor whose work included stage acting, roles in TV shows and dubbing American stars.

• Estes Kefauver

  American politician, a Democratic U.S.

• Jeanne Helbling
• Alec Douglas-Home

  British politician, Prime Minister October 1963 to October 1964.

• Roger Leenhardt

  French filmmaker, director, producer and critic.

• Georges Delplanque

  French artist, painter.

• Walter Camryn

  American ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer.

• André Rolland de Renéville
• Hector McAndrew
• OE Hasse
• David W Henderson
• Irving Stone

  United States -- Author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life).

• Sidney Franklin

  American bullfighter (Born 1903).

• André Fleury (organist)
• Honorine Rondello
• Kenneth Clark

  English historian and author (d. 1983).

• Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky

  Composer.

• Nikolai Cherkasov

  St. Petersburg, Russia -- Actor (Ivan the Terrible).

• Bozidar Kunc

  Composer.

• See more

Famous Deaths

• Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Leo XIII [Vincenzo G Pecci]

  Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93.

• James A McNeill Whistler

  US / British writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69.

• Servas Daems [Peeter Klein]

  Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65.

• August Reissmann

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Alphonse Francois Renard

  Belgian geologist (Born 1842).

• Pope Leo

  XIII (Born 1810).

• Ed Delahanty

  American Hall of Fame baseball player (Born 1867).

• Cassius Clay

  American emancipationist (Born 1810).

• See more

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Harry Macdonough - Hiawatha
2. Henry Burr - Come Down, Ma Ev'ning Star
3. J.W. Myers - In the City of Sighs and Tears
4. Dan Quinn - Hiawatha
5. Bob Roberts - I'm a Jonah Man