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List of events that occurred in January 1903
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 :
Born:
Kane Tanaka , oldest living person in the world from 22 July 2018 to 19 April 2022.
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The Norwegian ship Remittant was 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 7, 1903 (Wednesday)
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(February 2019 )
The Irish cargo ship SS Palmas was last sighted whilst on a voyage from
Liverpool , England, to
Boston, Massachusetts , United States. The vessel was never seen again and was presumed to have sunk in the
Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 39 crew.
[10]
Born:
Alan Paton , South African author and anti-apartheid activist, in Pietermaritzburg (died 1988)
January 13, 1903 (Tuesday)
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(December 2015 )
The
Hotel National, Moscow , designed by Alexander Ivanov and financed by The Varvarinskoe Joint-Stock Company of Householders,
[12] opened to customers.
January 15, 1903 (Thursday)
January 17, 1903 (Saturday)
January 18, 1903 (Sunday)
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(December 2015 )
January 22, 1903 (Thursday)
January 24, 1903 (Saturday)
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January 25, 1903 (Sunday)
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(December 2015 )
January 26, 1903 (Monday)
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(December 2015 )
Born:
John Eccles , Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in Melbourne (died 1997)
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Esmond Train Wreck : Fourteen people lost their lives when the Crescent City Express, bound for
Benson, Arizona , United States, collided head-on with the Pacific Coast Express, bound for
Tucson, Arizona . The accident was caused by a communication failure.
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(February 2023 )
January 30, 1903 (Friday)
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(December 2015 )
An inaugural concert was held at the newly-opened
Palais des Fêtes (then called "Sängerhaus") in Strasbourg - then in Germany, now in France.
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References
^ L. A. Knight, "The Royal Titles Act and India", The Historical Journal , Cambridge University Press, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1968), pp. 488–489.
^ К. Ціолковскій, Изслѣдованіе мировыхъ пространствъ реактивными приборами, 1903 (available online
here
Archived 2011-08-15 at the
Wayback Machine in a
RARed PDF)
^ Jozuka, Emiko; Kolirin, Lianne (April 25, 2022).
"World's oldest person, Kane Tanaka, dies in Japan aged 119" . Asia.
Cable News Network . Retrieved April 25, 2022 .
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"CONEY ELEPHANT KILLED Topsy Overcome with Cyanide of Potassium and Electricity. She Was Adam Forepaugh's "Original Baby Elephant" Twenty-eight Years Ago—Her Keeper, "Whitey," Would Not See Her Die" .
The New York Times . Vol. LII, no. 16, 536. 5 January 1903. Page 1, column 3. Retrieved 8 March 2023 – via
Fultonhistory.com .
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"Electrocuting an Elephant (1903)" . Progressive Silent Film List. Silent Era . Retrieved 8 March 2023 .
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"MINE MANAGER KILLS THREE.; Attacked by Twelve Men in Company's Office, but Broke Away" .
The New York Times . 8 January 1903. p. 1. Retrieved 8 March 2023 .
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"KILLS THREE STRIKERS WHO ATTACKED HIM" .
San Francisco Call . Vol. 93, no. 39. 8 January 1903. Page 1, column 2. Retrieved 8 March 2023 – via
California Digital Newspaper Collection .
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"AMID CHEERS OF THRONG, PARDEE TAKES THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT Booming Guns and Flaring Trumpets Lend Military Pomp, While Burst of Sunshine Gives Good Omen" . San Francisco Call . Vol. 93, no. 39. 8 January 1903. Page 1, columns 1-7; page 3, columns 3-5. Retrieved 8 March 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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"Alan Napier - Broadway Cast & Staff" .
Internet Broadway Database .
The Broadway League . Retrieved 8 March 2023 .
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"Palmas" . The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017 .
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"TRANSUE, Andrew Jackson 1903 – 1995" .
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 13 September 2023 .
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"Historic hotels | Unique hotels | Luxury accommodation – Moscow" . National.ru. 1995-05-09. Retrieved 2013-09-02 .
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a
b Helsley, Alexia Jones (17 August 2016).
"Tillman, James Hammond" . South Carolina Encyclopedia .
University of South Carolina , Institute for Southern Studies. Retrieved 10 October 2021 .
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"Casualties: US Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Killed and Injured in Selected Accidents and Other Incidents Not Directly the Result of Enemy Action" .
Naval History and Heritage Command . 3 November 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2022 .
^ Variety Staff (3 January 1993).
"Peter Brocco" . People News.
Variety . Archived from
the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2023 .
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"WWII Casualty Lists find two motor racing aces executed by the Nazis" . Featured Articles.
TheGenealogist . Genealogy Supplies (Jersey) Limited. 8 February 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2021 .
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"Boris Blacher: Biography" .
Boosey & Hawkes . Retrieved 8 March 2023 .
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"PLATT IS RENOMINATED, ONE VOTE AGAINST HIM; ...Devery Protest Against an Utterance of Mr. Stanchfield in Democratic Caucus" (PDF) . The New York Times . January 20, 1903.
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"Reid, Robert" . Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851 .
Parliament of Victoria . Archived from
the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2022 .
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"Resultados de la búsqueda: abril 1948 brla muerte del caudillo" . Archived from
the original on 29 June 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2017 .
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"Sir John Eccles – Facts" .
NobelPrize.org . Nobel Prize Outreach AB. 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023 .
^ "22 Dead; 45 Injured: The Estimated Casualties of the Southern Pacific Catastrophe Yesterday".
Arizona Daily Star . January 29, 1903.
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Grove, George , ed. (1900).
"Planquette, Robert" .
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians . London:
Macmillan and Company .
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Base Mérimée :
Palais des Fêtes de Strasbourg , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) (in French)