May 1903

May 1, 1903 (Friday)


May 2, 1903 (Saturday)

May 3, 1903 (Sunday)

May 4, 1903 (Monday)

May 7, 1903 (Thursday)


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)

May 11, 1903 (Monday)


May 12, 1903 (Tuesday)


May 13, 1903 (Wednesday)

May 14, 1903 (Thursday)


May 16, 1903 (Saturday)

May 18, 1903 (Monday)

May 19, 1903 (Tuesday)


May 20, 1903 (Wednesday)


May 21, 1903 (Thursday)


May 22, 1903 (Friday)

May 23, 1903 (Saturday)


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.[11]

May 25, 1903 (Monday)

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.[12]
  • 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 28, 1903 (Thursday)


May 29, 1903 (Friday)

  • Born: Bob Hope, US comedian and actor, in Eltham, Kent, UK, under the name Leslie Townes Hope (died 2003)

References

  1. Kentucky Derby History, 1903
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Mathews, Nancy Mowll (2001). Paul Gauguin, an Erotic Life. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-09109-5. p. 257 n.78
  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.
  6. "BP Amoco Timeline". Casper Star-Tribune. June 22, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2005.
  7. Foreman, J., 1906, The Philippine Islands, A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
  8. 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.
  9. R. J. Crampton: A concise history of Bulgaria, Verlag Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 121
  10. Suicide Note Archived 2014-12-26 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Marcel d'Herbeville (31 May 1903). "La Course Paris-Madrid". Le Sport universel illustré (in French). pp. 349–351. Missing or empty |url= (help) available at Gallica
  12. "Twenty-two Emigrants Drowned". Leeds Mercury. England. 30 May 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015 via British Newspaper Archive.
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