September 1903

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The following events occurred in September 1903:

September 1, 1903 (Tuesday)[]

September 2, 1903 (Wednesday)[]

September 3, 1903 (Thursday)[]

September 4, 1903 (Friday)[]

  • Born: Princess Anna of Saxony, seventh and youngest child of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and his wife Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (died 1976)[3]

September 5, 1903 (Saturday)[]

September 6, 1903 (Sunday)[]

September 7, 1903 (Monday)[]

  • Arthur Rowley, playing for Burslem Port Vale against Bolton Wanderers, becomes the first player in British football history to score from a direct free kick.[6]
  • The Federation of American Motorcyclists is founded in New York City.[7]
  • Constable William Bolton of the Pulaski County, Kentucky Constable's Office is shot and killed when he and another constable attempt to serve a warrant on two brothers in . The brothers shoot and wound Bolton, who shoots and kills both of them; a relative of the brothers then shoots and kills Bolton and escapes.[8]

September 8, 1903 (Tuesday)[]

  • Boxer Joe Riley (also known as Oliver Knight) collapses after a six-round fight with Griff Jones in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He will die at St. Agnes Hospital on September 10.[9]
  • Born: Jane Arbor, British author (d. 1994)

September 9, 1903 (Wednesday)[]

  • 18-year-old Special Agent Andrew Creason of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Police Department is assaulted at the railroad's coal and material yard in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Creason is struck on the head with a blunt object, causing multiple fractures to his skull. He will remain unconscious at the company hospital until his death on September 19. No suspects will ever be identified in Creason's murder.[10]
  • Texas State University opens in San Marcos, Texas, United States, with Thomas G. Harris as its principal and around 300 students.[11]
  • Born: Phyllis A. Whitney, American mystery writer, in Yokohama, Japan (died 2008)[12]

September 10, 1903 (Thursday)[]

September 11, 1903 (Friday)[]

  • An Atlantic hurricane strikes Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, resulting in 14 deaths and extensive damage.[14]
  • The Milwaukee Mile racetrack in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States, then a dirt track, holds its first motor race.[citation needed]
  • Born: Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher and sociologist, in Frankfurt am Main, as Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund (died 1969)[15]

September 12, 1903 (Saturday)[]

September 13, 1903 (Sunday)[]

  • Vladimir Lenin writes to Alexander Potresov, apologising for his irascible behaviour but refusing to accept that his recent decisions might be wrong.[18]
  • Sheriff George F. Wharton and Deputy Sheriff Frank W. Brugh of the Jackson County, Texas Sheriff's Office are shot and killed by a prison escapee from Montana whom they have just arrested. Wharton shoots and kills the suspect.[19][20]
  • Born: Claudette Colbert, American actress, in Saint-Mandé, France, as Émilie Claudette Chauchoin (died 1996)[21]
  • Died: Carl Schuch, 56, Austrian painter (degenerative disease)[22]

September 14, 1903 (Monday)[]

September 15, 1903 (Tuesday)[]

September 16, 1903 (Wednesday)[]

  • The 1903 New Jersey hurricane makes landfall near Atlantic City, United States, with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h). It is the only hurricane ever known to have hit the state of New Jersey.[27]
  • Born: Rabbi Yosef Greenwald to his father Rabbi Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald in Brezovica (Hungary).[28]

September 17, 1903 (Thursday)[]

September 18, 1903 (Friday)[]

September 19, 1903 (Saturday)[]

  • A weekly newspaper, the Gaelic American, is launched in New York, United States, by John Devoy.[30]

September 20, 1903 (Sunday)[]

September 21, 1903 (Monday)[]

September 22, 1903 (Tuesday)[]

September 23, 1903 (Wednesday)[]

  • Marshal Gustive H. Schwake of the North Vernon, Indiana Police Department is shot and killed by domestic abuse suspect William Wilkerson, who then takes his own life.[38][39]

September 24, 1903 (Thursday)[]

September 25, 1903 (Friday)[]

September 26, 1903 (Saturday)[]

Sherlock Holmes, back from the dead in "The Adventure of the Empty House".
  • New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to pass a Wireless Telegraphy Act.[45]
  • The Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Empty House" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is published for the first time in Collier's in the United States. This is the story in which Holmes returns after his apparent death in "The Adventure of the Final Problem".[46]
  • Deputy Sheriff Edward N. Griffitts of the Loudon County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department is shot and killed in Unitia, Tennessee while attempting to arrest a man for lewdness.[47]
  • Chief of Police Alfred Pinkney Jenkins of the Attalla, Alabama Police Department is shot and killed while attempting to arrest two men he discovers shooting at an elderly man in the rear of Fowler's Saloon. One of the suspects, having been convicted of Jenkins' murder, will die in the April 8, 1911 Banner Mine disaster while working with a prison gang.[48]
  • Patrolman Dennis C. Fitzgerald of the Chicago Police Department in Illinois is attacked by two men who were creating a disturbance. He will die from his injuries on January 20, 1904.[49]

September 27, 1903 (Sunday)[]

Aftermath of the "Wreck of the Old 97".

September 28, 1903 (Monday)[]

September 29, 1903 (Tuesday)[]

  • Prussia, part of the German Empire, introduces compulsory driver licensing for motor vehicles.[54]

September 30, 1903 (Wednesday)[]

  • New school buildings are opened at Gresham's School, Norfolk, England, by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.[55]
  • British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons defeats Irishman Con Coughlin by knockout in the first round of a bout at the Washington Sporting Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Coughlin will die the following day of head injuries sustained in the fight.[9]

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