What Happened In June 1903 In History

Historical Events for June, 1903

• 11th » A group of Serbian officers May Coup (Serbia) stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander I of Serbia Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga Obrenović Draga.
• 16th » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• 16th » Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.

Famous Birthdays on June in 1903

• 1st » Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop (d. 1973)
• 1st » Hans Vogt (linguist) known as Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (d. 1986)
• 3rd » Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
• 4th » Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor (d. 1988)
• 6th » Aram Khachaturian, Georgian-Armenian composer and conductor (d. 1978)
• 8th » Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician (d. 1996)
• 8th » Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author (d. 1987)
• 9th » Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (d. 1996)
• 11th » Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
• 12th » Emmett Hardy, American cornet player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (d. 1925)
• 13th » Red Grange, American football player and actor (d. 1991)
• 14th » Alonzo Church, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1995)
• 16th » Helen Traubel, American soprano and actress (d. 1972)
• 17th » Ruth Graves Wakefield, American chef, created the chocolate chip cookie (d. 1977)
• 18th » Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
• 18th » Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
• 19th » Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
• 19th » Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
• 19th » Hans Litten, German lawyer (d. 1938)
• 20th » Samuel Rabin (artist) or Sam Rabin, English wrestler, sculptor, and singer (d. 1991)
• 21st » Hermann Engelhard, German runner (d. 1984)
• 21st » Al Hirschfeld, American painter and illustrator (d. 2003)
• 22nd » John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
• 22nd » Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
• 23rd » Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d. 1992)
• 25th » George Orwell, Indian-American author and critic (d. 1950)
• 25th » Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
• 26th » Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)
• 29th » Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)
• 29th » Paul Newlan, American actor (d. 1973)

Famous Deaths for June 1903

• 11th » Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1837)
• 11th » Alexander I of Serbia (b. 1876)
• 11th » Draga Mašin, Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (b. 1864)
• 19th » Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)

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