What Happened In October 1903 In History

Historical Events for October, 1903

• 1st » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
• 6th » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

Famous Birthdays on October in 1903

• 1st » Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989)
• 4th » Bona Arsenault, Canadian historian and politician (d. 1993)
• 4th » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (d. 1995)
• 4th » Pierre Garbay, French general (d. 1980)
• 4th » Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general (d. 1946)
• 5th » M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
• 6th » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 8th » Georgy Geshev, Bulgarian chess player (d. 1937)
• 10th » Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (d. 1983)
• 10th » Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
• 10th » Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and educator (d. 2009)
• 16th » Cecile de Brunhoff, French author (d. 2003)
• 17th » Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
• 18th » Lina Radke, German runner (d. 1983)
• 19th » Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
• 22nd » George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 22nd » Curly Howard, American actor and singer (d. 1952)
• 24th » Melvin Purvis, American Federal Bureau of Investigation named FBI agent (d. 1960)
• 25th » Katharine Byron, American politician (d. 1976)
• 25th » Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
• 28th » John Chamberlain (journalist) known as John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic (d. 1995)
• 28th » Evelyn Waugh, English journalist and author (d. 1966)

Famous Deaths for October 1903

• 4th » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 7th » Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 21st » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Makuuchi Yokozuna known as Yokozuna (b. 1829)

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