June 1903
The following events occurred in June 1903:
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June 1, 1903 (Monday)
- Born: Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian bishop and martyr, in Stanislav (died 1973)
June 2, 1903 (Tuesday)
- Patrolman Joseph P. Keenan of the Kansas City Police Department in Missouri drowns when a boat capsizes during the rescue of three men from a flood. The other three men survive.[1]
- An earthquake of 6.9 magnitude strikes the Alaska Peninsula, part of the United States.
June 3, 1903 (Wednesday)
- English artist Laura Johnson marries painter Harold Knight.[2]
June 4, 1903 (Thursday)
- City Marshal William R. Kinard of the Eagle Lake, Texas Police Department is shot and killed by an intoxicated man whom he had disarmed at a saloon an hour earlier and told to go home. Kinard shoots and kills the suspect.[3]
June 6, 1903 (Saturday)
- Sir Edward Elgar conducts his oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius, at Westminster Cathedral, the first time it had been performed in London.
- Deputy Sheriff Jack Faul Williams of the Valley County, Montana Sheriff's Office is shot and killed during a prison break from the county jail. One of the escaped suspects is immediately recaptured and lynched.[4]
- Born: Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer, in Tiflis, Russian Empire (died 1978)
June 7, 1903 (Sunday)
- Patrolman John Ledbetter of the Joplin, Missouri Police Department is struck over the head with a rock by the leader of a group of disorderly individuals he was trying to disperse. Ledbetter will die of his injuries on June 10.[5]
June 8, 1903 (Monday)
- Born: Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author, in Brussels (died 1987)
June 9, 1903 (Tuesday)
- Trinity College, Dublin, announces its intention to accept women as full members in the following year. "Steamboat ladies" from Oxford and Cambridge would be among the first recipients.[6]
- Died: Gaspar Núñez de Arce, 68, Spanish poet
June 10, 1903 (Wednesday)
- Born: Theo Lingen, German actor (d. 1978)
June 11, 1903 (Thursday)
- Harry Vardon of Jersey wins the 1903 Open Championship golf tournament at Prestwick in Scotland.[7]
- Died:
- King Alexander I of Serbia, 26, and his wife Queen Draga, 38, both shot dead in a coup d'état in Belgrade by conspirators from the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) society.[8]
- Nikolai Bugaev, 65, Russian mathematician
June 13, 1903 (Saturday)
- Italy's Prime Minister, Giuseppe Zanardelli, resigns after losing a vote in the Italian Chamber of Deputies; he reconsiders, and remains in the post until November.[9]
June 14, 1903 (Sunday)
- Heppner flood of 1903: The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood that kills an estimated 247 people.[10]
June 15, 1903 (Monday)
- Posseman Charles Hill of the Valley County, Montana Sheriff's Office is shot and killed during a gunfight with the prisoners who had murdered Deputy Sheriff Jack Faul Williams during their June 6 jailbreak. Williams' killer is also shot and killed; another suspect escapes.[11]
June 16, 1903 (Tuesday)
- In Germany's federal election, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) wins the popular vote, but the Centre Party remains the largest party in the Reichstag.[12]
- In the Danish Folketing election, the Venstre Reform Party, under incumbent Council President Johan Henrik Deuntzer, wins 73 of the 114 seats.[13]
- Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen sets off from Oslo in an attempt at the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage.[14]
- The Ford Motor Company is incorporated in Detroit by Henry Ford.[15]
June 17, 1903 (Wednesday)
- The British ironclad turret ship HMS Scorpion founders in the Atlantic Ocean while being towed from the United Kingdom to the United States to be scrapped, and is lost.[16] The Royal Navy ship had already been decommissioned, sunk as a target, and raised for its scrap value.
June 18, 1903 (Thursday)
- Born:
- Jeanette MacDonald, US singer and actress, in Philadelphia (died 1965)
- Raymond Radiguet, French author, in Saint-Maur (died 1923)
June 19, 1903 (Friday)
- The M1903 Springfield rifle is officially adopted by the United States military.
- A minor earthquake (4.9 magnitude) strikes an area of North Wales, UK, centred on the town of Caernarfon.[17]
- Born:
- Lou Gehrig, American baseball player, in New York City (died 1941)
- Wally Hammond, English cricketer, in Dover (died 1965)
- Died: Herbert Vaughan, 71, English Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster
June 20, 1903 (Saturday)
- US magazine The Saturday Evening Post begins its serialization of Jack London's third novel, The Call of the Wild.
- Special Police Officer Maurice Ahearn of the New Rochelle Police Department in New York is shot and killed while questioning a burglary suspect.[18]
June 21, 1903 (Sunday)
- Born:
- Al Hirschfeld, US caricaturist, in St Louis (died 2003)
- Alf Sjöberg, Swedish theatre and film director, in Stockholm (died 1980)
June 22, 1903 (Monday)
- Born:
- John Dillinger, US gangster, in Indianapolis (died 1934)
- Jiro Horikoshi, Japanese aircraft designer, in Fujioka (died 1982)
- Ben Pollack, US jazz drummer and bandleader, in Chicago (died 1971)
June 23, 1903 (Tuesday)
- Nadir of American race relations: George White, an African-American suspected of murdering Helen Bishop, a minister's daughter, is lynched in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.[19]
- Detective William F. Murphy of the Peoria, Illinois Police Department is shot and killed while trying to arrest a coal thief.[20]
- Born: Anthony Veiller, US screenwriter and film producer, son of screenwriter Bayard Veiller and actress Margaret Wycherly, in New York City (died 1965)
June 25, 1903 (Thursday)
- Deputy Marshal Gus Hall of the Olive Hill, Kentucky Police Department is shot and killed while trying to serve a warrant for tool theft. The town marshal is then summoned and shoots and kills the suspect.[21]
- Born:
- Pierre Brossolette, French journalist and resistance fighter, in Paris (died 1944)
- George Orwell, English author, in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India, under the name Eric Arthur Blair (died 1950)
June 27, 1903 (Saturday)
- 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, “No. 9”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.[22]
- The Women's Singles competition at the 1903 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament is won by Elisabeth Moore (US).[23]
June 29, 1903 (Monday)
- A meteorite fall, classification H5, is observed in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- The U.S. Open golf tournament is won by Willie Anderson of Scotland.[24]
- Born: Alan Blumlein, British electronics engineer, in London (died 1942)
June 30, 1903 (Tuesday)
- Marshal James C. A. Parsons of the Centralia, Washington Police Department is shot and killed by railroad laborer John Smith, who had reportedly made obscene remarks to children.[25][26]
- A meteorite fall, classification L6, is observed in Rich Mountain (Watauga County, North Carolina), United States.
References
- "Patrolman Joseph P. Keenan, Kansas City Police Department, Missouri". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- Penlee Gallery biography
- "City Marshal William R. Kinard, Eagle Lake Police Department, Texas". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- "Deputy Sheriff Jack Faul Williams, Valley County Sheriff's Office, Montana". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- "Patrolman John Ledbetter, Joplin Police Department, Missouri". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- "A Timeline of the History of Women in Trinity". A Century of Women in Trinity College. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- Brenner, Morgan G. (2009). The Majors of Golf: Complete Results of the Open, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Masters, 1860–2008. Vol. 1. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3360-5.
- Dorich, William (October 1992). Kosovo. ISBN 0-317-05074-5.
- "Work On Italian Cabinet; Premier Zanardelli Tries in Vain to Get Strengthening Material" (PDF). The New York Times. June 21, 1903.
- "Oregon's Top 10 Weather Events of 1900s". National Weather Service. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
- "Posseman Charles Hill, Valley County Sheriff's Office, Montana". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p762 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Roald Amundsen and the Exploration of the Northwest Passage. Oslo, Norway: Fram Museum. 2008. pp. 63, 65. ISBN 9788282350013.
- James Martin Miller; Henry Ford (1922), The amazing story of Henry Ford, M. A. Donohue & co., p. 72
- "HMS Scorpion". Navy Historical Center (United States Navy). Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- "Notes on individual earthquakes". British Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- "Special Police Officer Maurice Ahearn, New Rochelle Police Department, New York". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- Themal, Harry (January 9, 2017). "New Castle County's gruesome 1903 lynching by fire". Delaware Online. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- "Detective William F. Murphy, Peoria Police Department, Illinois". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- "Deputy Marshal Gus Hall, Olive Hill Police Department, Kentucky". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- "Women in Transportation – Changing America's History: Reference Materials" (PDF). United States Department of Transportation. March 1998. p. 10. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
- Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual for 1904. New York: American Sports Publishing Company. 1904. p. 119.
- 1903 U.S. Open
- "Marshal James C. A. Parsons, Centralia Police Department, Washington". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- Schwartz, Eric (19 June 2010). "Retired Detective Details 1903 Murder of James C.A. Parsons". The Chronicle. Centralia, Washington. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
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