June 1903 calendar

Events

• 02 Jun 1903 Netherlands Korfball League forms
• 11 Jun 1903 Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenovic and his wife queen Draga.
• 12 Jun 1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city.
• 14 Jun 1903 The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood that kills an estimated 238 people.
• 16 Jun 1903 Pepsi Cola company forms
• 21 Jun 1903 Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Mazarine Stone takes place (BG)
• 24 Jun 1903 Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
• 25 Jun 1903 Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3
• 27 Jun 1903 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
• 29 Jun 1903 British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo

Famous Birthday

• George Orwell

  British novelist and essayist who won his greatest success in 1946 with his amusing and witty anti-communist satire, "Animal Farm," and in...

• John Dillinger

  American gangster whose robberies and daring escapes during 1933-34 made him the most famous of all U.S.

• Marguerite Yourcenar

  Belgian writer, classical scholar and the first woman to enter L' Academie Francaise.

• Aram Khatchaturian
• Gustavo Rol

  Italian psychic whose skills were studied by many parapsychologists and who was given mention in many books dealing with psi.

• Jeanette MacDonald

  American actress and singer (d. 1965).

• Raymond Radiguet

  French writer.

• Irène Jeanning
• Léon Gischia

  French artist, painter, set designer.

• Victor Brauner
• Suzanne Guémard
• Pierre Brossolette

  French foreign news editor, militant socialist and member of the resistance during the German occupation from 1942-1943.

• Lou Gehrig

  1st baseman (New York Yankee), dies at 37 of ALS in Riverdale, New York.

• Alec Badenoch

  Scottish physician and surgeon, a urologist and author of "Manual of Urology," 1953.

• Louis Seigner

  French actor and stage comedian, Emmanuelle and Mathilde's grandfather.

• Frances Gibson

  American naturopathy, one of the earliest woman chiropractors, combining homeopathy, Swedish massage, zone therapy and spiritual healing.

• Al Hirschfeld

  American painter and illustrator (d. 2003).

• Georges Izard

  Abeilhan Writer.

• Georges-Ernest Roux
• Wally Hammond

  English cricketer and coach (d. 1965).

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Famous Deaths

• Draga Masin

  Wife of Serbian King Aleksandar I, murdered at 35.

• Rentaro Taki

  Composer, dies at 23.

• Dragia

  Queen of Serbia, assassinated.

• Luigi Cremona

  Italian Mathematician (grafostatica).

• Alexander Obrenovich

  King of Serbia (Born 1876).

• Herbert Vaughan

  Roman Catholic archbishop (Born 1832).

• Alexander I

  Alexander I of Serbia (d. 1903).

• Nikolai Bugaev

  Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903).

• George White

  Black resident of Delaware, lynched.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Haydn Quartet - My Old Kentucky Home
2. Arthur Collins - If Money Talks, It Ain't On Speaking Terms with Me
3. Henry Burr - The Rosary
4. Dan Quinn - There's a Lot of Things You Never Learn at School
5. Arthur Collins - I'm a Jonah Man