July 1903
| << | July 1903 | >> | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
The following events occurred in July 1903:
July 1, 1903 (Wednesday)
- The first Tour de France bicycle race, sponsored by the French newspaper L'Auto in an effort to boost sales, is launched from the Café au Réveil-Matin in Paris.[1]
- The metre gauge section of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) in Switzerland opens, passing through the 1,370-metre-high (4,490 ft) Albula Tunnel in the Alps.[2]
- The 1903 Wimbledon Championships draws to a close, with Laurence Doherty emerging as Men's Singles champion and Dorothea Douglass as Ladies' Singles champion.[3]
- Raymond, Alberta, is incorporated as a town in Canada's North-West Territories.[4]
- Born: Amy Johnson, English aviator, in Hull (died 1941)
July 2, 1903 (Thursday)
- Under the Cuban–American Treaty of Relations, signed in May 1903, a second lease on Guantánamo Bay is signed by the U.S. and Cuba, as a result of which the U.S. will send a payment to the Cuban government each year in return for permission to use the land as a coaling and naval station.[5]
- The 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup motor race is held at the Athy Circuit in Ireland and is won by Camille Jenatzy of Belgium.[6]
- Born: Alec Douglas-Home, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1963–64, in London (died 1995); King Olav V of Norway, at Sandringham, UK (d. 1991)[7]
July 3, 1903 (Friday)
- Born: Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player, in Bracebridge, Ontario (died 1992)
- Died: Harriet Lane, 73, First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her uncle, James Buchanan
July 4, 1903 (Saturday)
- Inaugural World Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Root loses his title, by a technical knockout, to George Gardiner at Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, less than three months after winning it.[8]
July 5, 1903 (Sunday)
July 6, 1903 (Monday)
- Born: Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist and Nobel laureate, in Linköping (died 1982)[9]
July 7, 1903 (Tuesday)
July 8, 1903 (Wednesday)
July 9, 1903 (Thursday)
- French writer Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen is arrested on suspicion of indecent behaviour with minors and offending the public decency; he is incarcerated at La Santé Prison.[10]
July 10, 1903 (Friday)
July 11, 1903 (Saturday)
- Born: O. E. Hasse, German film actor and director, in Obersitzko (died 1978)
July 12, 1903 (Sunday)
July 13, 1903 (Monday)
- Born: Kenneth Clark, English art historian and broadcaster, in London (died 1983)
July 14, 1903 (Tuesday)
July 15, 1903 (Wednesday)
July 16, 1903 (Thursday)
- Born: Adalberto Libera, Italian Modernist architect, in Trentino (died 1963)
July 17, 1903 (Friday)
- Died: James McNeill Whistler, 69, US painter
July 18, 1903 (Saturday)
- US paddle steamer North Pacific loses its course in foggy conditions, strikes a rock off Marrowstone Island, Washington state, and sinks.
July 19, 1903 (Sunday)
- The inaugural Tour de France is won by pre-race favourite, France's Maurice Garin.[11]
- King Edward VII of the United Kingdom makes his first visit to Ireland since becoming king in 1901.[12]
July 20, 1903 (Monday)
- Died: Pope Leo XIII, 93, Italian prelate (born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci)
July 21, 1903 (Tuesday)
- The first tropical cyclone of the Atlantic hurricane season develops northeast of the Samaná Peninsula of Dominican Republic.
July 22, 1903 (Wednesday)
July 23, 1903 (Thursday)
- The first Ford Model A automobile is sold to Chicago dentist Ernest Pfennig.[13]
July 24, 1903 (Friday)
- In the by-election at Barnard Castle in the UK, brought about by the death of sitting Liberal MP, Sir Joseph Pease, Arthur Henderson takes the seat for Labour, becoming the first Labour candidate to win against both Liberal and Conservative opposition, and only the fifth Labour MP in the House of Commons.[14]
July 25, 1903 (Saturday)
- The weekly magazine Truth is launched in Perth, Western Australia, under the editorship of John Norton.[15][16]
July 26, 1903 (Sunday)
- Argentina's soccer champions, Alumni Athletic Club, lose their first match in four years, and the only one of the season, to Belgrano AC.[17]
July 27, 1903 (Monday)
- Glasgow St Enoch rail accident: A Glasgow and South Western Railway train collides with buffer stops at St Enoch railway station, resulting in 17 deaths.[18]
- Construction work begins on the Baghdad Railway in present-day Turkey.[19]
- Born: Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, President 1974–75, in Kalamata (died 2002)
'Died'.*Mathridom of sultan attahiru of mbormie on 27 julx 1903 @mbormi funakaye bajoga Gombe state 3
July 28, 1903 (Tuesday)
- Idaho Springs miners' strike of 1903: Philip Fire, a striking union miner, dies in an attempt to dynamite the transformer house at the "Sun and Moon" mine.[20]
July 29, 1903 (Wednesday)
- An explosion at a United States Cartridge Company magazine in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, United States, kills 22 employees and local residents; a further 70 people are injured.[21]
July 30, 1903 (Thursday)
- The 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party opens in Brussels, chaired by Lenin.[22]
July 31, 1903 (Friday)
- Papal conclave, 1903: The Papal conclave brought about by the death of Pope Leo XIII begins at the Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Palace, in Rome, Italy.
gollark: There are some other !!FUN!! issues here which I think organizations like the FSF have spent some time considering. Consider something like Android. Android is in fact open source, and the GPL obligates companies to release the source code to modified kernels and such; in theory, you can download the Android repos and device-specific ones, compile it, and flash it to your device. How cool and good™!Unfortunately, it doesn't actually work this way. Not only is Android a horrible multiple-tens-of-gigabytes monolith which takes ages to compile (due to the monolithic system image design), but for "security" some devices won't actually let you unlock the bootloader and flash your image.
gollark: The big one *now* is SaaS, where you don't get the software *at all* but remote access to some on their servers.
gollark: I think this is a reasonable way to do copyright in general; some (much shorter than now!) length where you get exclusivity, which can be extended somewhat if you give the copyright office the source to release at the end of this perioid.
gollark: This isn't really "repair"y, inasmuch as you can't fix it if it breaks unless you happen to be really good at reverse engineering.
gollark: Maybe what you mean is banning DRM-ish things, so you can definitely copy the program and run it elsewhere and such?
References
- "1ère Tour de France 1903". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012.
- Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-707-X.
- "Grand Slam Tournaments – Wimbledon" (PDF). usta.com. United States Tennis Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
- "Order in Council 234/03" (PDF). Government of the North-West Territories of Canada. 1903-06-20. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
- Boadle, Anthony (August 17, 2007). "Castro: Cuba not cashing U.S. Guantanamo rent checks". Reuters. Retrieved September 3, 2012. The article incorrectly reports that the amount is sent each month.
- eMercedesBenz, A Look Back At Camille Jenatzy And The 1903 Gordon Bennett Trophy (3 June 2008); Mercedes-Benz History:Â A Look Back At Camille Jenatzy And The 1903 Gordon Bennett Trophy | eMercedesBenz – The Unofficial Mercedes-Benz Weblog at www.emercedesbenz.com
- Sandelson, Michael (28 October 2011). "Norway's Queen Maud in euthanasia speculations". The Foreigner. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- "The Lineal Light Heavyweight Champions". The Cyber Boxing Zone Encyclopedia.
- Dalziel, K. (1983). "Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell. 6 July 1903-15 August 1982". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 29: 584–526. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1983.0021. JSTOR 769814.
- "Pornographie mondaine". Le Rappel. 12 July 1903.
- Augendre, Jacques (1996). Le Tour de France: Panorama d'un siècle (in French). Société du Tour de France. p. 9.
- Owens, Cóilín; Joyce, How (May–June 2011). "July 1903: Edward VII, the Gordon Bennett Cup and the Emmet centennial". History Ireland. Dublin. 19 (3). Retrieved 2014-01-20.
- Lacey, Robert (1986). Ford: The Men and the Machine. Little, Brown and company. ISBN 0-316-51166-8.
- The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 143 (167 in web page), Durham
- Cannon, Michael (1988). "Norton, John (1858–1916)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- "Truth". State Library of Western Australia catalogue. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
- Argentina 1903 at Historia y Futbol
- "Accident Returns: Extract for Accident at Glasgow St Enoch on 27th July 1903" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-02-10.
- "Baghdad Railway". Trains of Turkey. 2004-12-01. Retrieved 2005-07-22.
- James Cowie and W. H. Montgomery, Ninth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of Colorado, 1903–1904, 1904, p78-79.
- "U.S. Cartridge Company" (PDF). Lowell Land Trust. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2013-02-06.
- Lenin: Account of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.