May 1903 calendar

Events

• 02 May 1903 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09.
• 04 May 1903 The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.
• 06 May 1903 Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers.
• 14 May 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco.
• 15 May 1903 US Treasury Department purchases 250,000 ounces of silver for the San Francisco Mint.
• 16 May 1903 George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
• 17 May 1903 Cleveland Indians beat the New York Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
• 18 May 1903 The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens.
• 22 May 1903 Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
• 24 May 1903 The Paris-Madrid race begins, during which at least eight people are killed.
• 26 May 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of 3 Gables (BG)
• 27 May 1903 37th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75.
• 29 May 1903 May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• 30 May 1903 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8.

Famous Birthday

• Fernandel

  French actor and mime comedian with a long, sorrowful, equine face and a radiant and toothy smile.

• Bing Crosby

  American singer who was a world famed crooner for his mellow baritone.

• Bob Hope

  English entertainer and comedian, a superstar who is noted for his quick-witted one-liners on current events and his world tours for service...

• Gopi Krishna
• Luis César Amadori
• Benjamin Spock

  American pediatric physician and author of a best selling child care book.

• Marguerite Monnot
• François Billoux

  French politician, who died on 14 January 1978 in Menton.

• Billie Dove

  American actress (Born 1903).

• Yves Rocard

  French physicist and academic (d. 1992).

• Willy Schneider

  Austrian medium known with his younger brother, Rudi, for trance phenomena involving materialization and telekinesis.

• James Beard

  United States -- Culinary expert / author (Delights & Prejudices).

• Charles Spaak

  Belgian/French screenwriter.

• Ugo La Malfa

  Italian politician, and an important leader in the Italian Republican Party.

• Ralph Bushman
• Cliff Carlisle
• Jerzy Fitelberg

  composer.

• Douglas Packard

  British Lieutenant General.

• Oivin Fjeldstad

  composer.

• Cool Papa Bell

  baseball player (d. 1991).

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Famous Deaths

• Luigi Arditi violist/composer

  dies at age 80.

• Eduard Rappoldi composer

  dies at age 72.

• Gotse Delchev a revolutionary from the Balkans

  leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (Born 1872).

• Draga Masin

  Queen of Serbia (Born 1864).

• Paul Gauguin

  French artist, painter, sculptor and ceramist.

• Apolinario Mabini

  Filipino lawyer and politician 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (d. 1903).

• Bruce Price

  American architect designed the American Surety Building and Bank of the Metropolis (d. 1903).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Harry Macdonough - Two Eyes of Blue
2. Harry Macdonough - Heidelberg
3. J.W. Myers - Dear Old Girl
4. Harry Macdonough - Since I first Met You
5. J.W. Myers - If I But Knew