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The following events occurred in June 1903:

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June 1, 1903 (Monday)

  • Born:Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian bishop (d. 1973)

    • June 6, 1903 (Saturday)

  • Born:Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)

    • June 8, 1903 (Monday)

  • Born:Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author (d. 1987)

    • June 9, 1903 (Tuesday)

  • Died:Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish poet (b. 1834)

    • June 10, 1903 (Wednesday)

  • Born:Theo Lingen, German actor (d. 1978)

    • June 11, 1903 (Thursday)

  • Serbian King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga are assassinated.
  • Died:Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)

    • June 12, 1903 (Friday)

  • Born:Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)

    • June 14, 1903 (Sunday)

  • The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood that kills an estimated 238 people.

    • June 15, 1903 (Monday)

  • Born:Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (d. 1945)

    • June 16, 1903 (Tuesday)

    Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford

    June 18, 1903 (Thursday)

  • Born:
  • Jeanette MacDonald, American singer and actress (d. 1965)
  • Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)

    • June 19, 1903 (Friday)

  • Born:
  • Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
  • Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
  • Died:Herbert Vaughan, English Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1832)

    • June 20, 1903 (Saturday)

  • Born:Eddie Laughton, British-born American film actor (d. 1952)

    • June 21, 1903 (Sunday)

  • Born:Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)

    • June 22, 1903 (Monday)

  • Born:
  • John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
  • Jiro Horikoshi, Japanese aircraft designer (d. 1982)
  • Ben Pollack, American jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1971)
  • Ben Robertson, American novelist, journalist, and war correspondent (d. 1943)

    • June 25, 1903 (Thursday)

  • Born:
  • Pierre Brossolette, French journalist and resistance fighter (d. 1944)
  • George Orwell, English author (d. 1950)

    • June 27, 1903 (Saturday)

  • 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, “No. 9”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.

    • June 29, 1903 (Monday)

  • Born:Alan Blumlein, British electronics engineer (d. 1942)

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