June 1903

June 1, 1903 (Monday)

June 2, 1903 (Tuesday)

  • An earthquake of 6.9 magnitude strikes the Alaska Peninsula, part of the United States.

June 3, 1903 (Wednesday)

June 6, 1903 (Saturday)

June 8, 1903 (Monday)

June 9, 1903 (Tuesday)

June 10, 1903 (Wednesday)

June 11, 1903 (Thursday)

June 13, 1903 (Saturday)

June 14, 1903 (Sunday)

June 16, 1903 (Tuesday)

June 17, 1903 (Wednesday)

  • The British ironclad turret ship HMS Scorpion founders in the Atlantic Ocean while being towed from the United Kingdom to the United States to be scrapped, and is lost.[11] The Royal Navy ship had already been decommissioned, sunk as a target, and raised for its scrap value.

June 18, 1903 (Thursday)

June 19, 1903 (Friday)

  • The M1903 Springfield rifle is officially adopted by the United States military.
  • A minor earthquake (4.9 magnitude) strikes an area of North Wales, UK, centred on the town of Caernarfon.[12]
  • Born:
    • Lou Gehrig, American baseball player, in New York City (died 1941)
    • Wally Hammond, English cricketer, in Dover (died 1965)
  • Died: Herbert Vaughan, 71, English Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster

June 20, 1903 (Saturday)

June 21, 1903 (Sunday)

  • Born:
    • Al Hirschfeld, US caricaturist, in St Louis (died 2003)
    • Alf Sjöberg, Swedish theatre and film director, in Stockholm (died 1980)

June 22, 1903 (Monday)

  • Born:

June 23, 1903 (Tuesday)

June 25, 1903 (Thursday)

  • Born:
    • Pierre Brossolette, French journalist and resistance fighter, in Paris (died 1944)
    • George Orwell, English author, in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India, under the name Eric Arthur Blair (died 1950)

June 27, 1903 (Saturday)

June 29, 1903 (Monday)

June 30, 1903 (Tuesday)

References

  1. Penlee Gallery biography
  2. "A Timeline of the History of Women in Trinity". A Century of Women in Trinity College. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  3. Brenner, Morgan G. (2009). The Majors of Golf: Complete Results of the Open, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Masters, 1860–2008. 1. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3360-5.
  4. Dorich, William (October 1992). Kosovo. ISBN 0-317-05074-5.
  5. Work On Italian Cabinet; Premier Zanardelli Tries in Vain to Get Strengthening Material, The New York Times, June 21, 1903
  6. "Oregon's Top 10 Weather Events of 1900s". National Weather Service. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  7. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p762 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  8. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  9. Roald Amundsen and the Exploration of the Northwest Passage. Oslo, Norway: Fram Museum. 2008. pp. 63, 65. ISBN 9788282350013.
  10. James Martin Miller; Henry Ford (1922), The amazing story of Henry Ford, M. A. Donohue & co., p. 72
  11. "HMS Scorpion". Navy Historical Center (United States Navy). Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
  12. "Notes on individual earthquakes". British Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  13. Harry Themal (January 9, 2017). "Harry Themal: New Castle County's gruesome 1903 lynching by fire". Delaware Online. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  14. "Women in Transportation – Changing America's History: Reference Materials" (PDF). United States Department of Transportation. March 1998. p. 10. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
  15. Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual for 1904. New York: American Sports Publishing Company. 1904. p. 119.
  16. 1903 U.S. Open
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