October 1903 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1903 Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
• 05 Oct 1903 Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
• 09 Oct 1903 11 (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hours (NYC)
• 10 Oct 1903 The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the UK.
• 12 Oct 1903 Lyric Theater opens at 213 W 42nd St, New York City
• 13 Oct 1903 Boston wins its first of seven World Series titles, beating Pittsburgh at their home park, Huntington Avenue Grounds.
• 16 Oct 1903 Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
• 20 Oct 1903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska and Canada.
• 24 Oct 1903 George Sutton becomes billiard champ.
• 26 Oct 1903 Yerba Buena is first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay.

Famous Birthday

• Vladimir Horowitz

  Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989).

• Evelyn Waugh

  British writer, a novelist best known for "Decline and Fall," published in September 1928, a book that made his name.

• André Costeseque
• Charlotte Perriand

  French architect and designer.

• Prince Charles Count of Flanders
• Cécile de Brunhoff
• Ermanno Roveri

  Italy Actor.

• Evangeline Day

  American astrologer known in the '30s and '40s as "the Futurist.

• William Berke

  American film maker, a cameraman until cataracts on both eyes forced him to change his venue to producing and directing.

• Leo Ferrero

  Italian writer, a playwright and essayist.

• Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II.

• Pierre Veyron

  French race car driver (d. 1970).

• Jacques Draeger

  French printer and publisher of art books.

• Milford Dolliole

  Pioneer jazz drummer.

• Vittorio Giannini

  Composer.

• Grayson Kirk

  Jeffersonville, Ohio -- Educator.

• Emile Enthoven

  Composer.

• Ambrose Thibodeaux

  Cajun accordionist.

• Charles T von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha

  Count of Flanders / Prince.

• Lord Roborough

  English large landowner / multi-millionaire.

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Famous Deaths

• Benedetto Junck

  Composer, dies at 51.

• Herbert Stanley Oakeley

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Victorin de Joncieres

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Francis Ellingwood Abbot theologian (Scientific Theism)

  dies at age 66.

• Jinmaku Kyugoro

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (Born 1829).

• Otto Weininger

  Jewish Austrian philosopher whose single work, "Geschlecht und Charakter" (1903; "Sex and Character"), served as a sourcebook for...

• Rudolf Lipschitz

  German mathematician and academic (d. 1903).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Parody on Hiawatha
2. Sousa's Band - Jack Tar March
3. Len Spencer - Reuben Haskins' Ride on a Cyclone Auto
4. Dan Quinn - The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous
5. Arthur Collins - Good-Bye, Eliza Jane