May 1903
The following events occurred in May 1903:
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May 2, 1903 (Saturday)
- The 29th Kentucky Derby is won by Judge Himes.[1]
- Born: Bing Crosby, US singer and actor, in Tacoma, Washington, under the name Harry Lillis Crosby, Jr. (died 1977); Benjamin Spock, US childcare expert, in New Haven, Connecticut (died 1998)
May 3, 1903 (Sunday)
- The power system for the Mersey Railway, operating between Birkenhead and Liverpool by tunnel under the River Mersey, UK, is converted from steam to electricity.[2]
May 4, 1903 (Monday)
- Born: Princess Anna of Saxony, youngest child of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and his wife Archduchess Luise, in Lindau, Bavaria
- Died: Gotse Delchev, 31, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary leader, killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.[3]
May 8, 1903 (Friday)
- Born: Fernandel, French actor, in Marseilles (died 1971)
- Died: Paul Gauguin, 54, French Post-Impressionist artist (probable heart attack)[4]
May 10, 1903 (Sunday)
- The first article identifying what will later be known as Crohn's disease, by Polish surgeon Antoni Leśniowski, is published in the weekly medical newspaper Medycyna.[5]
May 12, 1903 (Tuesday)
- United States Navy Gunner's Mate 1st Class Edward Gray is accidentally shot and killed during gun practice.[6]
May 13, 1903 (Wednesday)
- In the United States, the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad (later part of Chicago and North Western Railway) begins a passenger service to Casper, Wyoming.[7]
- An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 strikes the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, then known as the New Hebrides.
- Died: Apolinario Mabini, 38, Filipino politician and the country's first prime minister (cholera)[8]
May 16, 1903 (Saturday)
- The first Coney Island Luna Park opens in Brooklyn, New York City.[9]
May 18, 1903 (Monday)
- Opening of the deep water port at Burgas, Bulgaria.[10]
May 22, 1903 (Friday)
- A Cuban–American Treaty of Relations is signed.
- Died: Misao Fujimura, 16, Japanese philosophy student, remembered chiefly for his farewell poem (suicide)[11]
May 24, 1903 (Sunday)
- The Paris–Madrid race for automobiles starts from the gardens of Versailles. The race became notable for the number of accidents, including at least eight rumoured fatalities. It is cancelled when the competitors reach Bordeaux.[12]
May 25, 1903 (Monday)
- Opening of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad in the United States; it is the first railroad in the country to use an electrified third rail.
May 26, 1903 (Tuesday)
- Australian passenger-cargo ship SS Oakland founders in stormy weather in the Tasman Sea near Cabbage Tree Island off New South Wales; 11 people lose their lives and the remaining seven are picked up by the steamer SS Bellinger.
- On departure from Antwerp, carrying emigrants to Canada, British passenger-cargo ship Huddersfield collides with Norwegian steamer SS Uto in the River Scheldt. All 22 passengers are drowned, but the 17 crew survive.[13]
- Died: Marcel Renault, 31, French racing driver and industrialist, of injuries incurred by crashing into a tree while competing in the Paris-Madrid race.
May 29, 1903 (Friday)
- Born: Bob Hope, US comedian and actor, in Eltham, Kent, UK, under the name Leslie Townes Hope (died 2003)
References
- Kentucky Derby History, 1903
- 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.
- Mathews, Nancy Mowll (2001). Paul Gauguin, an Erotic Life. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-09109-5. p. 257 n.78
- 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.
- "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.
- "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
- Woody Register (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.
- 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
- Marcel d'Herbeville (31 May 1903). "La Course Paris-Madrid". Le Sport universel illustré (in French). pp. 349–351.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) available at Gallica - "Twenty-two Emigrants Drowned". Leeds Mercury. England. 30 May 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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