Gus Weyhing, the last major league baseball pitcher who refused to wear a baseball glove while on the mound, pitched his final game.
He was pitching for the Cincinnati Reds. they lost to the Cubs, 9 to 1.
It was his first, and last, game for the Reds.
Weyhing has an odd connection with Lou Gehrig in that his second wife, Mamie, was Lou's cousin.
509 American school teachers, 368 men and 141 women, arrived in Manila as teachers for the Philippines which included, in keeping with the American view of its mission, Americanization.
France and the Ottoman Empire severed diplomatic relations over the French ambassador's accusation that the Ottoman Sultan had broken his promise to settle disputed French claims.The French cruiser Cussard was dispatched to get Ambassador J.A.E. Constans.
President McKinley issued a proclamation inviting "all the Nations of the Earth" to participate in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, scheduled to be held in St. Louis starting May 1, 1903.
Forlorn hopes.
Representatives from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom met in Copenhagen and founded the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU).
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