September 1903 calendar

Events

• 06 Sep 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Creeping Man (BG)
• 07 Sep 1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in New York.
• 09 Sep 1903 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
• 11 Sep 1903 The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
• 14 Sep 1903 New York Giants Red Ames no-hits Saint Louis, 5-0 in a five inning game.
• 15 Sep 1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers criminals
• 17 Sep 1903 Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3
• 19 Sep 1903 King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo
• 21 Sep 1903 1st cowboy film Kit Carson, premieres in US
• 22 Sep 1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone.
• 24 Sep 1903 Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia Premier
• 27 Sep 1903 Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
• 29 Sep 1903 Prussia becomes the first locality to require mandatory drivers licenses for operators of motor vehicles.
• 30 Sep 1903 The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.

Famous Birthday

• Mark Rothko

  Latvian-American painter and educator (d. 1970).

• Claudette Colbert

  French-American actress on stage and more than 50 films.

• Theodor Adorno

  German philosopher, social theorist and music critic.

• Diana Vreeland

  French-American columnist and editor in the field of fashion.

• Roger Chapelet

  French artist and painter, he died in 1995.

• Jean Aurenche

  French screenwriter who first made contact with films from 1932 as a director of commercials, then short documentaries.

• Lucien Raimbourg

  France Actor.

• Edward Upward

  British novelist and short-story writer (Born 1903).

• Georges Flamant

  Actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86.

• Roy Acuff

  American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 1992).

• Alan Villiers

  Australian sailor, the author of many books on sea voyages.

• Gustave Thibon
• Phyllis Whitney

  Japanese-American writer who is the best-selling author of romantic suspense novels.

• Christian Stengel
• Joe Venuti
• Saginaw (Michigan)
• Yisrael Kristal
• Frank O'Connor

  American actor and representationalist painter (Born 1897).

• Vladimir Horowitz

  Russian-born American classical pianist and composer.

• Milton Brown

  American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing.

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Famous Deaths

• Isidor Vorobchievici

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Jesus Monasterio

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Herman Zumpe

  Composer, dies at 53.

• Charles Ammi Cutter

  US bibliographer, dies at 66.

• Joseph Skipsey

  British poet (Born 1832).

• Charles Renouvier

  French philosopher, a leading exponent of neo-critical modification of Kantianism, convinced that progress was not inevitable.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Harry Macdonough & Joe Belmont - Beautiful Bird, Sing On
2. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Hurrah for Baffin's Bay
3. William H. Thompson - The Rosary
4. Arthur Collins - You Can't Fool All the People All the Time
5. Mina Hickman - Congo Love Song