January 1903
The following events occurred in January 1903:
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January 28, 1903: Head-on collision of express trains kills 14, injures 53 in Arizona Territory
January 1, 1903: Edward proclaimed Emperor of India
January 14, 1903: Hotel National opens in Moscow
January 1, 1903 (Thursday)
- King Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India, a title first established during the reign of his mother, Queen Victoria.[1]
- Konstantin Tsiolkovski's article, Explorations of outer space with the help of reaction apparatuses, is published, describing his Basic Rocket Equation.[2]
- In the United States, Syracuse Athletic Club defeats Orange Athletic Club 36–0 at Madison Square Garden, to win the 1902–03 World Series of Football.
January 2, 1903 (Friday)
- Born: Kane Tanaka, oldest living person in the world from 22 July 2018 to 19 April 2022.[3]
January 3, 1903 (Saturday)
- The Norwegian ship Remittant is towed into quarantine in Queenstown, Ireland, as a result of an outbreak of beriberi among the crew.
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- Died: Alois Hitler, 65, Austrian civil servant, father of Adolf Hitler (suspected pleural hemorrhage)
January 4, 1903 (Sunday)
- Died: Alexandr Aksakov, 70, Russian writer
January 5, 1903 (Monday)
- Died: Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, 77, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1825)
January 6, 1903 (Tuesday)
- Born: Maurice Abravanel, Greek conductor, in Thessaloniki (died 1993)
January 9, 1903 (Friday)
- The Irish cargo ship SS Palmas is last sighted whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, England, to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The vessel is never seen again and is presumed to have sunk in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 39 crew.[4]
January 10, 1903 (Saturday)
- Born: Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, in Wakefield (died 1975)
January 11, 1903 (Sunday)
- Born: Alan Paton, South African author and anti-apartheid activist, in Pietermaritzburg (died 1988)
January 12, 1903 (Monday)
- Born: Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist, in Simsky Zavod (died 1960)
- Born: Andrew J. Transue, American Congressman and attorney (Morissette v. United States) died 1995
January 14, 1903 (Wednesday)
- The Hotel National, Moscow, designed by Alexander Ivanov and financed by The Varvarinskoe Joint-Stock Company of Householders,[5] opens to customers.
January 15, 1903 (Thursday)
- On a street corner in Columbia, South Carolina, James H. Tillman, the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, shoots and mortally wounds newspaper editor Narciso Gener Gonzales, who will die on January 19. Tillman will be acquitted of Gonzales' murder on the grounds of self-defense on October 15, but the press will condemn the verdict, and Tillman will retire in disgrace from public life.[6]
January 16, 1903 (Friday)
- A powder explosion in an 8-inch (203 mm) gun turret aboard the battleship USS Massachusetts kills nine men.[7]
- Born: William Grover-Williams, French racing driver and war hero, in Montrouge (executed by Nazi Germany, 1945)[8]
January 17, 1903 (Saturday)
- El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System, as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
January 19, 1903 (Monday)
- The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been made in 1901).
- Died: Narciso Gener Gonzales, 44, American journalist and newspaper editor (gunshot wound sustained on January 15)[6]
January 20, 1903 (Tuesday)
- In the New York election to the United States Senate, incumbent Republican Senator Thomas C. Platt is re-elected by the New York State Senate.[9]
January 21, 1903 (Wednesday)
- The American tugboat Leyden founders in heavy fog in the Atlantic Ocean off Block Island, Rhode Island, while returning from Puerto Rico.
- Robert Reid is appointed to the Australian Senate for Victoria to replace the recently deceased Senator Sir Frederick Sargood.[10]
January 22, 1903 (Thursday)
- United States Navy Seaman Alexander Newton Dossett dies from powder burns sustained at target practice.[7]
- Born: Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
January 23, 1903 (Friday)
- Born: Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician, in Cucunubá or Manta[11] (assassinated 1948)
January 27, 1903 (Tuesday)
- Born: John Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in Melbourne (died 1997)
January 28, 1903 (Wednesday)
- Esmond Train Wreck: Fourteen people lose their lives when the Crescent City Express, bound for Benson, Arizona, United States, collides head-on with the Pacific Coast Express, bound for Tucson, Arizona. The accident was caused by a communication failure.[12]
- Died:
- Augusta Holmès, 55, French composer (cardiac arrest)
- Robert Planquette, 54, French composer[13]
January 29, 1903 (Thursday)
- U.S. Navy Machinist 2nd class Edward Lee Baker is fatally injured in a steam accident during repairs of a boiler safety valve aboard the protected cruiser USS Boston. He dies on the way to the Naval Hospital at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California.[7]
January 31, 1903 (Saturday)
- An inaugural concert is held at the newly-opened Palais des Fêtes (then called "Sängerhaus") in Strasbourg - then in Germany, now in France.[14]
References
- L. A. Knight, "The Royal Titles Act and India", The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1968), pp. 488–489.
- К. Ціолковскій, Изслѣдованіе мировыхъ пространствъ реактивными приборами, 1903 (available online here Archived 2011-08-15 at the Wayback Machine in a RARed PDF)
- Jozuka, Emiko; Kolirin, Lianne (April 25, 2022). "World's oldest person, Kane Tanaka, dies in Japan aged 119". Asia. Cable News Network. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
- "Palmas". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- "Historic hotels | Unique hotels | Luxury accommodation – Moscow". National.ru. 1995-05-09. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
- Helsley, Alexia Jones (17 August 2016). "Tillman, James Hammond". South Carolina Encyclopedia. University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
- "Casualties: US Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Killed and Injured in Selected Accidents and Other Incidents Not Directly the Result of Enemy Action". Naval History and Heritage Command. 3 November 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- "WWII Casualty Lists find two motor racing aces executed by the Nazis". Featured Articles. TheGenealogist. Genealogy Supplies (Jersey) Limited. 8 February 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- PLATT IS RENOMINATED, ONE VOTE AGAINST HIM; ...Devery Protest Against an Utterance of Mr. Stanchfield in Democratic Caucus, New York Times, January 20, 1903
- "Reid, Robert". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
- "Resultados de la búsqueda: abril 1948 brla muerte del caudillo". Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- "22 Dead; 45 Injured: The Estimated Casualties of the Southern Pacific Catastrophe Yesterday". Arizona Daily Star. January 29, 1903.
- Grove, George, ed. (1900). . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan and Company.
- Base Mérimée: Palais des Fêtes de Strasbourg, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) (in French)
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