May 1903

[May 1], 1903 (Friday)

[May 2], 1903 (Saturday)

• The 29th Kentucky Derby is won by Judge Himes.
• Born: Bing Crosby, US singer and actor, in Tacoma, Washington, under the name Harry Lillis Crosby, Jr. ; Benjamin Spock, US childcare expert, in New Haven, Connecticut

  [May 3], 1903 (Sunday)

• The power system for the Mersey Railway, operating between Birkenhead and Liverpool by tunnel under the River Mersey, UK, is converted from steam to electricity.

  [May 4], 1903 (Monday)

• Born: Princess Anna of Saxony, youngest child of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and his wife Archduchess Luise, in Lindau, Bavaria
• Died: Gotse Delchev, 31, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary leader, killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.

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[May 8], 1903 (Friday)

• Born: Fernandel, French actor, in Marseilles
• Died: Paul Gauguin, 54, French Post-Impressionist artist

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[May 10], 1903 (Sunday)

• the first article identifying what will later be known as Crohn's disease, by Polish surgeon Antoni Leśniowski, is published in the weekly medical newspaper Medycyna.

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[May 13], 1903 (Wednesday)

• In the United States, the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad begins a passenger service to Casper, Wyoming.
• An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 strikes the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, then known as the New Hebrides.
• Died: Apolinario Mabini, 38, Filipino politician and the country's first prime minister

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[May 18], 1903 (Monday)

• Opening of the deep water port at Burgas, Bulgaria.

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[May 22], 1903 (Friday)

• A Cuban–American Treaty of Relations is signed.
• Died: Misao Fujimura, 16, Japanese philosophy student, remembered chiefly for his farewell poem

  [May 23], 1903 (Saturday)

[May 24], 1903 (Sunday)

• The Paris–Madrid race for automobiles starts from the gardens of Versailles. The race became notable for the number of accidents, including at least eight rumoured fatalities. It is cancelled when the competitors reach Bordeaux.

  [May 25], 1903 (Monday)

• Opening of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad in the United States; it is the first railroad in the country to use an electrified third rail.

  [May 26], 1903 (Tuesday)

• Australian passenger-cargo ship SS Oakland founders in stormy weather in the Tasman Sea near Cabbage Tree Island off New South Wales; 11 people lose their lives and the remaining seven are picked up by the steamer SS Bellinger.
• On departure from Antwerp, carrying emigrants to Canada, British passenger-cargo ship Huddersfield collides with Norwegian steamer ''SS Uto;; in the River Scheldt. All 22 passengers are drowned, but the 17 crew survive.
• Died: Marcel Renault, 31, French racing driver and industrialist, of injuries incurred by crashing into a tree while competing in the Paris-Madrid race.

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[May 29], 1903 (Friday)

• Born: Bob Hope, US comedian and actor, in Eltham, Kent, UK, under the name Leslie Townes Hope

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[May 31], 1903 (Sunday)