What Happened In August 1903 - Historical Events 1903 August

Historical Events for August, 1903

2nd » Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Empire e.g Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
3rd » Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization e.g Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Empire known as Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
18th » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
29th » The ship Russian battleship Slava 2, the last of the five sclass- Borodino battleships, is launched.

1st » Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1995)
3rd » Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician, 1st List of Presidents of Tunisia known as President of the Republic of Tunisia (d. 2000)
7th » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972)
8th » Dayton Lummis, American actor (d. 1988)
10th » Ward Moore, American author (d. 1978)
18th » Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
19th » James Gould Cozzens, American author (d. 1978)
19th » Lewis Sargent, American actor (d. 1970)
21st » Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1984)
22nd » Jerry Iger, American cartoonist, co-founded Eisner & Iger (d. 1990)
23rd » William Primrose, Scottish viola player and educator (d. 1982)
24th » Karl Hanke, Polish-German politician (d. 1945)
25th » Arpad Elo, Hungarian-American chess player, created the Elo rating system (d. 1992)
26th » Caroline Pafford Miller, American author (d. 1992)
27th » Ferenc Keserű, Hungarian water polo player (d. 1968)
28th » Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
31st » Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television host (d. 1983)
31st » Vladimir Jankélévitch, French musicologist and philosopher (d. 1985)

1st » Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
2nd » Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver (b. 1847)
2nd » Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian and microbiologist (b. 1850)
11th » Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
17th » Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (b. 1825)
22nd » Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
28th » Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (b. 1822)