The
first Tour de France bicycle race, sponsored by the French newspaper L'Auto in an effort to boost sales,
was launched from the Café au Réveil-Matin in
Paris.[1]
Under the
Cuban–American Treaty of Relations, signed in May 1903, the
United States and
Cuba signed a second lease on
Guantánamo Bay, as a result of which the U.S. would send a payment to the Cuban government each year in return for permission to use the land as a coaling and naval station.[6]
At 7 p.m., a massive explosion destroyed a privately owned explosives magazine at Robb's Jetty, in what is now
North Coogee,
City of Cockburn,
Western Australia, and killed
night watchmanThomas Whelan. Although Whelan himself would initially be suspected of sabotage, head caretaker Robert Carrick would become the prime suspect, but would never be charged due to a lack of evidence.[17]
At the county jail in
Basin, Wyoming, a
lynch mob of about 50 men shot and killed Deputy Sheriff C. E. Pierce of the
Big Horn County, Wyoming Sheriff's Office, who was guarding two murder suspects, Gorman and Walters. The mob then broke down the jail's doors with telephone poles and shot and killed the two prisoners.[20][21]
In the
by-election at Barnard Castle in the UK, brought about by the death of sitting Liberal MP,
Sir Joseph Pease,
Arthur Henderson took the seat for Labour, becoming the first Labour candidate to win against both Liberal and Conservative opposition, and only the fifth Labour MP in the House of Commons.[23]
Officer William Leopold Cotter of the
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was stabbed to death during the escape of 13 prisoners from the
Folsom Penitentiary. Several other prison staff members were seriously wounded, and two members of the state militia would be shot and killed during the manhunt for the prisoners.[29]
Born:Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, President 1974–75, in Kalamata (died 2002)
^"Pornographie mondaine". Le Rappel. 12 July 1903.
^"Charles Kruger Hanged". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 136. 12 February 1904. Page 3, column 3. Retrieved 12 January 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Augendre, Jacques (1996). Le Tour de France: Panorama d'un siècle [The Tour de France: Panorama of a century] (in French). Société du Tour de France. p. 9.
The
first Tour de France bicycle race, sponsored by the French newspaper L'Auto in an effort to boost sales,
was launched from the Café au Réveil-Matin in
Paris.[1]
Under the
Cuban–American Treaty of Relations, signed in May 1903, the
United States and
Cuba signed a second lease on
Guantánamo Bay, as a result of which the U.S. would send a payment to the Cuban government each year in return for permission to use the land as a coaling and naval station.[6]
At 7 p.m., a massive explosion destroyed a privately owned explosives magazine at Robb's Jetty, in what is now
North Coogee,
City of Cockburn,
Western Australia, and killed
night watchmanThomas Whelan. Although Whelan himself would initially be suspected of sabotage, head caretaker Robert Carrick would become the prime suspect, but would never be charged due to a lack of evidence.[17]
At the county jail in
Basin, Wyoming, a
lynch mob of about 50 men shot and killed Deputy Sheriff C. E. Pierce of the
Big Horn County, Wyoming Sheriff's Office, who was guarding two murder suspects, Gorman and Walters. The mob then broke down the jail's doors with telephone poles and shot and killed the two prisoners.[20][21]
In the
by-election at Barnard Castle in the UK, brought about by the death of sitting Liberal MP,
Sir Joseph Pease,
Arthur Henderson took the seat for Labour, becoming the first Labour candidate to win against both Liberal and Conservative opposition, and only the fifth Labour MP in the House of Commons.[23]
Officer William Leopold Cotter of the
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was stabbed to death during the escape of 13 prisoners from the
Folsom Penitentiary. Several other prison staff members were seriously wounded, and two members of the state militia would be shot and killed during the manhunt for the prisoners.[29]
Born:Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, President 1974–75, in Kalamata (died 2002)
^"Pornographie mondaine". Le Rappel. 12 July 1903.
^"Charles Kruger Hanged". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 136. 12 February 1904. Page 3, column 3. Retrieved 12 January 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^Augendre, Jacques (1996). Le Tour de France: Panorama d'un siècle [The Tour de France: Panorama of a century] (in French). Société du Tour de France. p. 9.