What Happened In February 1903 In History

Historical Events for February, 1903

• 14th » The United States Department of Commerce called United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the United States Department of Labor named Department of Labor).
• 23rd » Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay Naval Base e.g Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".

Famous Birthdays on February in 1903

• 3rd » Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish pilot and politician (d. 1973)
• 3rd » Joe Stripp, American baseball player (d. 1989)
• 4th » Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (d. 2014)
• 5th » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975)
• 6th » Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (d. 1991)
• 8th » Greta Keller, Austrian-American singer and actress (d. 1977)
• 8th » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (d. 1942)
• 10th » Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
• 10th » Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
• 11th » Hans Redlich, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1968)
• 12th » Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
• 12th » Chick Hafey, American baseball player (d. 1973)
• 13th » Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian aircraft designer, founded the Beriev named Beriev Aircraft Company (d. 1979)
• 13th » Georges Simenon, Belgian author (d. 1989)
• 14th » Stuart Erwin, American actor (d. 1967)
• 14th » Bernhard Leene, Dutch cyclist (d. 1988)
• 16th » Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist and actor (d. 1978)
• 16th » André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (d. 1960)
• 16th » Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian priest and sociologist (d. 2000)
• 17th » Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian author (d. 1951)
• 18th » Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian politician (d. 1983)
• 19th » Louis Slobodkin, American author and illustrator (d. 1975)
• 21st » Scrapper Blackwell, American singer and guitarist (d. 1962)
• 21st » Fairfax M. Cone, American businessman (d. 1977)
• 21st » Anaïs Nin, French-American author (d. 1977)
• 21st » Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (d. 1976)
• 22nd » Morley Callaghan, Canadian author and playwright (d. 1990)
• 22nd » Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian colonel (d. 1969)
• 22nd » Robert Weede, American opera singer (d. 1972)
• 24th » Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (d. 1967)
• 25th » King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
• 26th » Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 26th » Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (d. 1944)
• 27th » Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (d. 2005)
• 27th » Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
• 27th » Reginald Gardiner, English-American actor (d. 1980)
• 27th » Gustave Wuyts, Belgian tug of war competitor and shot putter (d. 1979)
• 28th » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter (d. 1986)

Famous Deaths for February 1903

• 1st » George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819)
• 22nd » Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
• 26th » Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)

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