What Happened In April 1903 In History

Historical Events for April, 1903

• 19th » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
• 29th » A 30 million cubic-metre Frank Slide e.g landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta named Frank, North-West Territories, Canada.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1903

• 2nd » Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
• 6th » Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (d. 1962)
• 6th » Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer and academic (d. 1990)
• 7th » M. Balasundaram, Ceylon Tamil politician (d. 1965)
• 7th » Edwin T. Layton, American admiral (d. 1984)
• 9th » Ward Bond, American actor (d. 1960)
• 10th » Clare Boothe Luce, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (d. 1987)
• 10th » Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (d. 1970)
• 12th » Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 14th » Henry Corbin, French philosopher and educator (d. 1978)
• 17th » Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator (d. 1978)
• 17th » Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator (d. 1976)
• 17th » Morgan Taylor, American hurdler (d. 1975)
• 19th » Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
• 21st » Issy Bonn, English actor and singer (d. 1977)
• 21st » Luis Saslavsky, Argentine film director (d. 1995)
• 23rd » Guy Simonds, Canadian general (d. 1974)
• 24th » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician, founded the Falange (d. 1936)
• 25th » Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1987)
• 27th » Horace Stoneham, American businessman (d. 1990)

Famous Deaths for April 1903

• 11th » Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (b. 1878)
• 29th » Paul du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist (b. 1835)
• 30th » Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and activist (b. 1831)

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