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

The following events occurred in January 1903:

January 1, 1903 (Thursday)
Tsiolokovsky
  • 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)

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.
Herr Oberoffizial Hitler
  • 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)

January 6, 1903 (Tuesday)

January 7, 1903 (Wednesday)

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)

January 11, 1903 (Sunday)
  • Born: Alan Paton, South African author and anti-apartheid activist, in Pietermaritzburg (died 1988)

January 12, 1903 (Monday)

January 13, 1903 (Tuesday)

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)

January 16, 1903 (Friday)

January 17, 1903 (Saturday)

January 18, 1903 (Sunday)

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)

January 22, 1903 (Thursday)

January 23, 1903 (Friday)

January 24, 1903 (Saturday)

January 25, 1903 (Sunday)

January 26, 1903 (Monday)

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)

January 29, 1903 (Thursday)

January 30, 1903 (Friday)

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]

gollark: A camera and subscription probably cost more than the likely cost of lost packages.
gollark: You can still do that while storing it locally, but people don't like anything which requires actually having any technical competence whatsoever nowadays.
gollark: They could get a non-"cloud" security camera.
gollark: And apparently provides video to local police or something.
gollark: They have a known awful privacy record. Are you sure you can't get them to reconsider?

References
  1. L. A. Knight, "The Royal Titles Act and India", The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1968), pp. 488–489.
  2. К. Ціолковскій, Изслѣдованіе мировыхъ пространствъ реактивными приборами, 1903 (available online here Archived 2011-08-15 at the Wayback Machine in a RARed PDF)
  3. "Palmas". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  4. "Historic hotels | Unique hotels | Luxury accommodation – Moscow". National.ru. 1995-05-09. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
  5. PLATT IS RENOMINATED, ONE VOTE AGAINST HIM; ...Devery Protest Against an Utterance of Mr. Stanchfield in Democratic Caucus, New York Times, January 20, 1903
  6. "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.
  7. "Resultados de la búsqueda: abril 1948 brla muerte del caudillo". Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  8. "22 Dead; 45 Injured: The Estimated Casualties of the Southern Pacific Catastrophe Yesterday", Arizona Daily Star, January 29, 1903
  9.  Grove, George, ed. (1900). "Planquette, Robert" . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan and Company.
  10. Mérimée PA67000073, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) (in French)
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