On 2 April 1903, Bernardo Reyes, governor of Nuevo León, violently crushed a political demonstration, an example of the increasingly authoritarian policies of president Porfirio Díaz.

Harold Eugene " Doc " Edgerton ( April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990 ) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

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In 1903, Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel completed Germany's first fully functional submarine, Forelle which was sold to Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in April 1904.

* April 8 – Dorothy Sebastian, American actress ( b. 1903 )

* April 26 – Elinor Fair, American actress ( b. 1903 )

* April 15 – Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi ( b. 1903 )

* April 5 – Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer ( b. 1903 )

* April 7 – Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player ( b. 1903 )

* April 10 – Evelyn Waugh, English author ( b. 1903 )

* April 25 – George Coulouris, English actor ( b. 1903 )

* April 26 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect ( d. 1903 )

* April 27 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher ( d. 1903 )

* Frank Slide, Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada, on 29 April 1903

Josiah Willard Gibbs ( February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903 ) was an American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

| DATE OF DEATH = April 28, 1903

Today, Ernani is an infrequently performed work, although it appeared on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera as early as 1903 and has been given eighty-eight performances up to the March / April stagings in 2008.

The Kishinev pogrom took place in the capital of Bessarabia on April 6, 1903 after local newspapers published articles inciting the public to act against Jews ; 47 or 49 Jews were killed, 92 severely wounded and 700 houses destroyed.

Frederick Law Olmsted ( April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903 ) was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer.

A large anti-Semitic riot took place in the town on 6 – 7 April 1903, which would later be known as the Kishinev pogrom.

The postal service of for the protectorates of British East Africa and Uganda was called East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, and operated from April 1, 1903 to July 22, 1920.

So it was that, on 25 April 1903, the radial and external cutaneous nerves of Henry Head's arm were severed and sutured.

Carlos Prío Socarrás ( July 14, 1903 – April 5, 1977 ) was the President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held.

Petrarch's will ( dated April 4, 1370 ) leaves 50 florins to Boccaccio " to buy a warm winter dressing gown "; various legacies ( a horse, a silver cup, a lute, a Madonna ) to his brother and his friends ; his house in Vaucluse to its caretaker ; for his soul, and for the poor ; and the bulk of his estate to his son-in-law, Francescuolo da Brossano, who is to give half of it to " the person to whom, as he knows, I wish it to go "; presumably his daughter, Francesca, Brossano's wife.

According to his own account, recorded in his autobiography Mein Leben, Wagner conceived Parsifal on Good Friday morning, April 1857, in the Asyl ( German: " Asylum "), the small cottage on Otto Wesendonck's estate in the Zürich suburb of Enge, which Wesendonck-a wealthy silk merchant and generous patron of the arts-had placed at Wagner ’ s disposal, through the good offices of his wife Mathilde Wesendonck.

James Wilson Rouse ( April 26, 1914-April 9, 1996 ), founder of The Rouse Company, was a pioneering American real estate developer, urban planner, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist.

A report from April 1994 which appeared in The Independent on Sunday branded the estate a no-go area.

On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced a buy-out plan led by Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell worth $ 8. 2 billion, associated with a stock buyback at $ 34 per share, and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

In April 2000 producer Andrew Mark Sewell announced that he had bought the rights to Blake's 7 from the estate of Terry Nation, and was planning to produce a TV movie set 20 years after the finale of the original series.

In April 1945, Strauss was apprehended by American soldiers at his Garmisch estate.

* Adie v Fennilitteau ( 1 Cox, 24 ) by the Lords Commissioners Lord Loughborough, Ashhurst, and Hotham, in April 1783, a trustee laid out trust money in South Sea annuities ; they afterwards fell in their price, and though it was in the same fund in which the greatest part of the testator's personal estate was at his death invested, their Lordships held it to be an improper investment ; and that the trustee should abide the loss.

Garth R. Peterson, one of Morgan Stanley ’ s highest-ranking real estate executives in China pleaded guilty on April 25 to violating U. S. federal anticorruption laws.

Real estate boomed in 2003 – 2008 with some of the highest prices in the nation, by fall 2007 surpassing Sofia ( this still holds true in April 2009 ).

His first extended stay with Alfred was at the royal estate at Leonaford, probably from about April through December of 886.

Because in Illinois at that time it was illegal for railroads or their officials to establish new towns, much of the land was then transferred to two McLean County real estate developers Jesse W. Fell ( 10 November 1808 – 22 February 1887 ) and Charles W. Holder ( 29 September 1819-30 April 1900 ).

The company incorporated in April 1890 with $ 800, 000 in stock, and purchased the Lenoir estate — which then consisted of — for $ 300 per acre.

The town site was surveyed April 21, 1900 by Ashland B. Smith of the Lincoln Land Company of Nebraska, and in June the land was sold to its residents for one dollar by the president of the real estate extension of the CB & Q.

By the law of April 4, 1601, he granted them the privilege of unrestricted sale of their real estate as well as free departure from the country for themselves, their families, and their property.

The surviving map of that 1741 survey, a plat, by County Surveyor Robert Brooke, revealed the estate had been grossly mis-measured in April 1669, and it contained only about 4, 200 acres ( 17 km² ), not the conveyed in the 1674 land grant.

When he died on April 2, 1888, Clemson left a cash endowment of $ 80, 000 and the 814 acre Calhoun estate called Fort Hill to a board of lifetime trustees for the establishment of the proposed agricultural college.

With no prior announcement on April 30, 2008, Cannon married Mariah Carey at her private estate on Windermere Island in The Bahamas after just six weeks of dating.

Construction of the residential estate began on 13 August 1977, ended on 26 April 1982 and officially opened on 10 July 1982.

In April 1941, his mother died intestate and left an estate of $ 1, 507.

Regeneration work started on the estate in April 2009 with the construction of 135 new properties.

In April 1975 a 3-door estate car version was added to the range: Allegros were now coming off the production line with the same conventional steering wheel as the Morris Marina, although the company waited till early June 1975 to announce, rather quietly, the demise of the Allegro's quartic steering wheel, presumably to give time for older cars to emerge from the sales and distribution network.

Nevertheless he lost the chancellorship and suffered banishment to his estate at Goretovo ( April 1759 ), where he remained till the accession of Catherine II ( 28 June 1762 ).

On April 19, 2011, Bosley's estate and four of his Happy Days co-stars, Erin Moran, Don Most, Marion Ross and Anson Williams, filed a $ 10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS, which owns the show, claiming they had not been paid for merchandising revenues owed under their contracts.