January 1903
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The following events occurred in January 1903:
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)
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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.
- 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 7, 1903 (Wednesday)
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January 8, 1903 (Thursday)
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.[3]
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)
January 13, 1903 (Tuesday)
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January 14, 1903 (Wednesday)
- The Hotel National, Moscow, designed by Alexander Ivanov and financed by The Varvarinskoe Joint-Stock Company of Householders,[4] opens to customers.
January 15, 1903 (Thursday)
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January 16, 1903 (Friday)
- Born: William Grover-Williams, French racing driver and war hero, in Montrouge (died 1945)
January 17, 1903 (Saturday)
January 18, 1903 (Sunday)
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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).
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.[5]
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.[6]
January 22, 1903 (Thursday)
- Born:Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
January 23, 1903 (Friday)
- Born: Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician, in Cucunubá or Manta[7] (assassinated 1948)
January 24, 1903 (Saturday)
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January 25, 1903 (Sunday)
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January 26, 1903 (Monday)
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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, US, collides head-on with the Pacific Coast Express, bound for Tucson, Arizona. The accident was caused by a communication failure.[8]
- Died:
- Augusta Holmès, 55, French composer (cardiac arrest)
- Robert Planquette, 54, French composer[9]
January 29, 1903 (Thursday)
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January 30, 1903 (Friday)
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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.[10].
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)
- ^ "Palmas". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ "Historic hotels | Unique hotels | Luxury accommodation – Moscow". National.ru. 1995-05-09. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
- ^ 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 23 April 2023. 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)