September 1903
The following events occurred in September 1903:
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September 1, 1903 (Tuesday)
- A miners' strike in Idaho Springs, Colorado, United States, that started on May 1, is brought to an end by the Western Federation of Miners.[1]
September 2, 1903 (Wednesday)
- Died: Julia McNair Wright, American author (b. 1840)
September 3, 1903 (Thursday)
- Reliance, entered by the New York Yacht Club, defeats Shamrock III, representing the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, successfully defending the 1903 America's Cup.[2]
September 4, 1903 (Friday)
- Born: Princess Anna of Saxony, seventh and youngest child of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and his wife Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (died 1976)[3]
September 5, 1903 (Saturday)
- Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus receives permission to paint a portrait of Pope Pius X.[4]
- Dick Molyneux becomes manager of Brentford football club, leaders of the UK's Southern League First Division.[5]
September 7, 1903 (Monday)
- Arthur Rowley, playing for Burslem Port Vale against Bolton Wanderers, becomes the first player in British football history to score from a direct free kick.[6]
- The Federation of American Motorcyclists is founded in New York City.[7]
- Constable William Bolton of the Pulaski County, Kentucky Constable's Office is shot and killed when he and another constable attempt to serve a warrant on two brothers in Mt. Victory, Kentucky. The brothers shoot and wound Bolton, who shoots and kills both of them; a relative of the brothers then shoots and kills Bolton and escapes.[8]
September 8, 1903 (Tuesday)
- Boxer Joe Riley (also known as Oliver Knight) collapses after a six-round fight with Griff Jones in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He will die at St. Agnes Hospital on September 10.[9]
- Born: Jane Arbor, British author (d. 1994)
September 9, 1903 (Wednesday)
- 18-year-old Special Agent Andrew Creason of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Police Department is assaulted at the railroad's coal and material yard in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Creason is struck on the head with a blunt object, causing multiple fractures to his skull. He will remain unconscious at the company hospital until his death on September 19. No suspects will ever be identified in Creason's murder.[10]
- Texas State University opens in San Marcos, Texas, United States, with Thomas G. Harris as its principal and around 300 students.[11]
- Born: Phyllis A. Whitney, American mystery writer, in Yokohama, Japan (died 2008)[12]
September 10, 1903 (Thursday)
- Born: Cyril Connolly, English critic, in Coventry (died 1974)[13]
September 11, 1903 (Friday)
- An Atlantic hurricane strikes Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, resulting in 14 deaths and extensive damage.[14]
- The Milwaukee Mile racetrack in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States, then a dirt track, holds its first motor race.
- Born: Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher and sociologist, in Frankfurt am Main, as Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund (died 1969)[15]
September 12, 1903 (Saturday)
- The U.S. armored cruiser USS Maryland is launched at Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia.[16]
- Arthur Schnitzler's one-act play, Der Puppenspieler ("The Puppet Master"), is premièred at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Germany.[17]
September 13, 1903 (Sunday)
- Vladimir Lenin writes to Alexander Potresov, apologising for his irascible behaviour but refusing to accept that his recent decisions might be wrong.[18]
- Sheriff George F. Wharton and Deputy Sheriff Frank W. Brugh of the Jackson County, Texas Sheriff's Office are shot and killed by a prison escapee from Montana whom they have just arrested. Wharton shoots and kills the suspect.[19][20]
- Born: Claudette Colbert, American actress, in Saint-Mandé, France, as Émilie Claudette Chauchoin (died 1996)[21]
- Died: Carl Schuch, 56, Austrian painter (degenerative disease)[22]
September 14, 1903 (Monday)
- The Serbian football club FK Šumadija 1903 is founded in Kragujevac.[23]
- British prime minister Arthur Balfour agrees to the resignation from the Cabinet of Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, over the issue of free trade.[24]
- Police Officer Albert C. Schaneman of the Seattle Police Department in Washington is shot and killed when he approaches two armed robbery suspects.[25]
September 15, 1903 (Tuesday)
- The Brazilian football club Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, by European immigrants Andy Fairbank and Paul Cochlin.[26]
September 16, 1903 (Wednesday)
- The 1903 New Jersey hurricane makes landfall near Atlantic City, United States, with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h). It is the only hurricane ever known to have hit the state of New Jersey.[27]
- Born: Rabbi Yosef Greenwald to his father Rabbi Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald in Brezovica (Hungary).[28]
September 17, 1903 (Thursday)
- Born: Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
September 18, 1903 (Friday)
- Died: Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher, 85[29]
September 19, 1903 (Saturday)
- A weekly newspaper, the Gaelic American, is launched in New York, United States, by John Devoy.[30]
September 20, 1903 (Sunday)
- Police Officer Thomas Hadican of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in Missouri falls off a streetcar on his way home from work and fatally strikes his head on the pavement.[31]
- Born: Gertrud Arndt, German photographer, in Ratibor, Upper Silesia (died 2000)[32]
September 21, 1903 (Monday)
- A solar eclipse takes place.[33]
- In the Serbian parliamentary elections, Sava Grujić of the People's Radical Party wins enough votes to form a government in coalition with several independent members.[34]
September 22, 1903 (Tuesday)
- The 1903 Norwegian Football Cup Final is won by Odds BK.[35]
- Italo Marchiony, an ice cream salesman from New York, United States, files for a patent of a machine to manufacture ice cream cones.[36]
- Died: Nicholas John Brown, 64, Australian politician, Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly[37]
September 23, 1903 (Wednesday)
- Marshal Gustive H. Schwake of the North Vernon, Indiana Police Department is shot and killed by domestic abuse suspect William Wilkerson, who then takes his own life.[38][39]
September 24, 1903 (Thursday)
- Edmund Barton, after experiencing health concerns, resigns as Prime Minister of Australia to join the newly established High Court of Australia as a judge. He is replaced by Alfred Deakin.[40]
- British warship HMS Hampshire is launched at Armstrong Whitworth's Elswick shipyard.[41]
September 25, 1903 (Friday)
- An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 strikes Razavi Khorasan Province, Persia, killing 350 people.[42]
- Police Officer John J. Donovan of the Philadelphia Police Department in Pennsylvania is shot and killed by a robbery suspect.[43]
- Born: Mark Rothko, Latvian/US painter, in Dvinsk, as Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (died 1970)[44]
September 26, 1903 (Saturday)
Sherlock Holmes, back from the dead in "The Adventure of the Empty House".
- New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to pass a Wireless Telegraphy Act.[45]
- The Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Empty House" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is published for the first time in Collier's in the United States. This is the story in which Holmes returns after his apparent death in "The Adventure of the Final Problem".[46]
- Deputy Sheriff Edward N. Griffitts of the Loudon County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department is shot and killed in Unitia, Tennessee while attempting to arrest a man for lewdness.[47]
- Chief of Police Alfred Pinkney Jenkins of the Attalla, Alabama Police Department is shot and killed while attempting to arrest two men he discovers shooting at an elderly man in the rear of Fowler's Saloon. One of the suspects, having been convicted of Jenkins' murder, will die in the April 8, 1911 Banner Mine disaster while working with a prison gang.[48]
- Patrolman Dennis C. Fitzgerald of the Chicago Police Department in Illinois is attacked by two men who were creating a disturbance. He will die from his injuries on January 20, 1904.[49]
September 27, 1903 (Sunday)
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Aftermath of the "Wreck of the Old 97".
- "Wreck of the Old 97": En route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, the "Fast Mail", travelling too fast in order to keep to its timetable, becomes derailed at the Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, United States. Eleven people are killed and seven injured.[50]
- Policeman James H. Mullin of the Birmingham Police Department in Alabama is shot and killed after arresting a man for beating a woman.[51]
September 28, 1903 (Monday)
- Born: Tateo Katō, Japanese fighter ace (d. 1942)
September 29, 1903 (Tuesday)
September 30, 1903 (Wednesday)
- New school buildings are opened at Gresham's School, Norfolk, England, by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.[53]
- British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons defeats Irishman Con Coughlin by knockout in the first round of a bout at the Washington Sporting Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Coughlin will die the following day of head injuries sustained in the fight.[9]
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