May 1903
List of events that occurred in May 1903
The following events occurred in May 1903 :
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Born: Fernandel , French actor, in Marseilles, as Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (died 1971)[ 7]
Died: Paul Gauguin , 54, French Post-Impressionist artist (probable heart attack)[ 8]
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Victoriano Lorenzo , a revolutionary freedom fighter for the liberation of Panama from Gran Colombia, was executed this day, in 1903.
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The Paris–Madrid race for automobiles started from the gardens of Versailles . The race became notable for the number of accidents, including at least eight rumored fatalities. It was cancelled when the competitors reached Bordeaux.[ 15]
The Australian passenger-cargo ship SS Oakland foundered in stormy weather in the Tasman Sea near Cabbage Tree Island off New South Wales ; 11 people lost their lives and the remaining seven were picked up by the steamer SS Bellinger .
On departure from Antwerp , carrying emigrants to Canada, the British passenger-cargo ship Huddersfield collided with the Norwegian steamer SS Uto in the River Scheldt . All 22 passengers were drowned, but the 17 crew survived.[ 16]
Românul de la Pind , the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II , was founded.[ 17]
Died: Marcel Renault , 31, French racing driver and industrialist, of injuries incurred by crashing into a tree while competing in the Paris-Madrid race .
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Born: Bob Hope , US comedian and actor, in Eltham, Kent, UK, under the name Leslie Townes Hope (died 2003)
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References
^ "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904" . Retrieved 1 August 2019 .
^ "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903" . Washington: Government Printing Office. 1903. p. 32. Retrieved 11 May 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
^ "Kentucky Derby History, 1903" .
^ Grudens, Richard (1998). The Music Men: The Guys who Sang with the Bands and Beyond . Celebrity Profiles Pub. p. 5. ISBN 9781575790978 .
^ Gahan, John W. (1983). The Line Beneath the Liners – a hundred years of Mersey Railway sights and sounds . Birkenhead : Countyvise. ISBN 0-907768-40-7 .
^ Пейо Яворов, "Събрани съчинения", Том втори, "Гоце Делчев", Издателство "Български писател", София, 1977, стр. 69. (in Bulgarian) In English: Peyo Yavorov , "Complete Works", Volume 2, biography Delchev , Publishing house "Bulgarian writer", Sofia, 1977, p. 69.
^ Pallot, James; Monaco, James (1991). The encyclopedia of film . Perigee Books. p. 189. ISBN 9780399516047 .
^ Mathews, Nancy Mowll (2001). Paul Gauguin, an Erotic Life . New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press . p. 257, n.78. ISBN 0-300-09109-5 .
^ Lichtarowicz, A. M.; Mayberry, J. F. (August 1988). "Antoni Lésniowski and his contribution to regional enteritis (Crohn's disease)" . Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine . 81 (8): 468–470. doi :10.1177/014107688808100817 . PMC 1291720 . PMID 3047387 .
^ "BP Amoco Timeline" . Casper Star-Tribune . June 22, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2005 .
^ Foreman, J. (1906). The Philippine Islands, A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons .
^ Register, Woody (2003). The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements . Oxford University Press . p. 339. ISBN 978-0-19-516732-0 – via Google Books.
^ Crampton, R. J. (1997). A concise history of Bulgaria . Verlag Cambridge University Press. p. 121.
^ Suicide Note Archived 2014-12-26 at the Wayback Machine
^ d'Herbeville, Marcel (31 May 1903). "La Course Paris-Madrid". Le Sport universel illustré (in French). No. 358. pp. 349–351. available at Gallica
^ "Twenty-two Emigrants Drowned" . Leeds Mercury . England. 30 May 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ Petcu, Marian (2016). Istoria jurnalismului din România în date: enciclopedie cronologică (in Romanian). Elefant Online. ISBN 9789734638543 – via Google Books.