March 1903 calendar

Events

• 02 Mar 1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City, New York.
• 03 Mar 1903 North Carolina becomes first state requiring registration of nurses.
• 05 Mar 1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn.
• 10 Mar 1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine.
• 12 Mar 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
• 14 Mar 1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in two games.
• 15 Mar 1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa.
• 19 Mar 1903 The oldest Turkish football club, Besiktas JK, is founded in Istanbul.
• 22 Mar 1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought.
• 23 Mar 1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent.
• 26 Mar 1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam.
• 31 Mar 1903 Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.

Famous Birthday

• Joan Crawford
• Alexandre Volguine

  Russian-French astrologer, scholar, historian and noted author, a leading figure in twentieth-century French astrology.

• Henri Guillemin

  French author, university professor, and historian.

• Empress Kojun

  of Japan (d. 2000).

• Otto Abetz

  German politician; Ambassador to Vichy France.

• Bix Beiderbecke

  American musician, composer and jazz great.

• Lawrence Welk

  American bandleader and accordion player who had his own TV show from 1955-1982 on ABC and, in 1953, was nominated for a TV Emmy as the most...

• Galeazzo Ciano

  Italian journalist and politician Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1944).

• Emilio Fernandez

  Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (Born 1904).

• Luis Carrero Blanco

  Prime Minister of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA.

• Adrian (costume designer)
• Maryse Hilsz
• Romeo Neri

  Italian gymnast, a winner of an Olympics Gold Medal in the floor exercise, Los Angeles 1932.

• Adolf Butenandt

  German organic chemist, a professor in Berlin from 1936-1960 who was also the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry.

• Betty Balfour

  English actress singer and producer (d. 1977).

• Jean Lods

  French film director who played an important part in avant-garde films, mainly documentaries and pioneer of film as an art media with the...

• William Haade
• Rudolf Serkin

  Eger Bohemia, Germany -- Pianist (Marlboro Sch of Music).

• Robert Vidalin
• Adolph Gottlieb

  American painter and sculptor (d. 1974).

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Famous Deaths

• Joseph Henry Shorthouse

  English novelist (Born 1834).

• George Francis Robert Henderson

  British soldier (Born 1854).

• Joseph H Shorthouse English writer (John Inglesant)

  dies at age 68.

• Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand] Dutch writer (Camera Obscura)

  dies at age 88.

• Johannes H Weissenbruch Dutch landscape painter

  dies at age 88.

• Roy Bean

  American jurist.

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