What Happened In January 1903 - Historical Events 1903 January

Historical Events for January, 1903

9th » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson or Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
17th » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.

5th » Harold Gatty, Australian navigator (d. 1957)
6th » Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American conductor (d. 1993)
6th » Francis L. Sullivan, English actor (d. 1956)
7th » Ioannis Despotopoulos, Greek architect (d. 1992)
7th » Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
10th » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
10th » Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
10th » Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
11th » Alan Paton, South African author and activist (d. 1988)
12th » Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
15th » Paul A. Dever, American politician, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
16th » William Grover-Williams, English-French race car driver (d. 1945)
17th » Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
22nd » Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
22nd » Robin Milford, English composer (d. 1959)
23rd » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician, Mayor of Bogotá (d. 1948)
27th » John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
27th » Otto P. Weyland, American general (d. 1979)
28th » Aleksander Kamiński, Polish author and educator (d. 1978)