March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
Day of death May 8, 1903
The temperature on May 8, 1903 was between 3.2 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). Source: KNMI
July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Pieter Waardenburg, "Genealogy Waardenburg", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogie-waardenburg/I1732.php : accessed June 6, 2024), "Marten Waardenburg (1902-1903)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.