1903

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1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). It also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar has not had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. See 1696.

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Events

1903 Ford Model A.

January 1 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India
January 6 - Mileva Maric married Albert Einstein.
January 19 - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and England.
February 11 - The Oxnard Strike of 1903 represents the first time in U.S. history that a labor union was formed from members of different races.
February 15 - Morris Michtom and his wife Rose introduce the first teddy bear in America.
February 23 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity"
March 1 -Beşiktaş JK is founded in Istanbul, becoming the first sports club in the Ottoman Empire.
March 2 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
March 3 – British admiralty announces plans to build naval base at Rosyth
March 5 – Turkey and Germany signs an agreement to build the Constantinople-Baghdad Railway
March 14 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
March 22 - the US side of the Niagara Falls runs short of water
March 31 - Possible first powered heavier-than-air flight, Richard Pearse, New Zealand (some date it to 1902)
May 18 - Opening of Port of Burgas, Bulgaria.
June 10-11 – Assassination of Serbian King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga
June 12 - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
July 1-19 - First Tour de France – Maurice Garin wins
July 7 - British take over the Fulani empire
July 23 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago, Illinois becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
April 29 - 30,000,000 cubic metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta
August 2 - The Ilinden Uprising of the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire breaks out

Pope Pius X is elected as the new pope.

August 4 - Pope Pius X is elected Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
August 10 - The Paris Metro train fire takes place.
August 25 - Judiciary Act 1903 passed
September 8 - Massacre of Bulgarians by Turkish troops at Monastir is reported.
September 11 - The first stock car event was held at the Milwaukee Mile.
September 14 - Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary.
September 15 - Grêmio, a Brazilian football team is founded.
September 24 - Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
October - Frank Nelson Cole proved that 2^67-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying every Sunday for 3 years.
October 6 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
October 10 - Foundation of the Women's Social and Political Union
November 3 - With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia.
November 6 - USA recognizes independence of Panama
November 17 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). (NOTE: Later the Bolsheviks became the majority party).

The first flight by the Wright brothers.

November 18 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
November 23 - Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
December 17 - Orville Wright flies aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in first documented successful controlled powered heavier-than-air flight.
December 30 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600.

Unknown dates

Lincoln-Lee Legion established to promote temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence pledgeds by children.

Births

January

January 6 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
January 7 - Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
January 11 - Hans Redlich, Austrian composer (d. 1968)
January 16 - William Grover-Williams, French race car driver and war hero (d. 1945)
January 22 - Fritz Houtermans, physicist (d. 1966)
January 27 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)

February

February 2 - Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician (d. 1996)
February 6 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
February 8 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
February 8 - Tunku Abdul Rahman, first Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
February 10 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
February 11 - Rex Lease, American actor (d. 1966)
February 11 - Alan Paton, South African writer (d. 1988)
February 13 - Georges Simenon, French writer (d. 1989)
February 16 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978)
February 21 - Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
February 21 - Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (d. 1976)
February 22 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer and media personality (d. 1990)
February 22 - Frank P. Ramsey, English mathematician (d. 1930)
February 26 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
February 27 - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
February 28 - Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)

March

March 4 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (d. 1973)
March 4 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d. 1990)
March 4 - John Scarne, American magician and card expert (d. 1985)
March 6 - Empress Kojun, Empress consort of Japan (d. 2000)
March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz musician (d. 1931)
March 11 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (d. 1989)
March 11 - Lawrence Welk, American television musician (d. 1992)
March 14 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
March 20 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
March 24 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
March 28 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)

April

April 6 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball player (d. 1962)
April 6 - Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineering (d. 1990)
April 10 - Clare Boothe Luce, American publisher and writer (d. 1987)
April 12 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
April 15 - John Williams, English-born actor (d. 1983)
April 17 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
April 17 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (d. 1975)
April 19 - Eliot Ness, American treasury agent (d. 1957)
April 24 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1936)
April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
April 28 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)

May

May 2 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician (d. 1998)
May 3 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
May 4 - Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
May 8 - Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971)
May 11 - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player (d. 1993)
May 19 - Ruth Ella Moore, first black female to earn a Ph.D. in Bacteriology (d. 1994)
May 20 - Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
May 21 - Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
May 29 - Bob Hope, English-born comedian (d. 2003)

June

June 6 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
June 8 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author (d. 1987)
June 12 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
June 16 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
June 18 - Jeanette MacDonald, American singer, actress (d. 1965)
June 18 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
June 19 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (d. 1941)
June 19 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
June 21 - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
June 22 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
June 25 - Pierre Brossolette, French journalist and resistance fighter (d. 1944)
June 25 - George Orwell, English author (d. 1950)
June 29 - Alan Blumlein, British electronics engineer (d. 1942)

July

July 1 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (d. 1941)
July 2 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
July 2 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
July 4 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 2005)
July 6 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1982)
July 10 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
July 13 - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983)
July 21 - Roy Neuberger, American financier and art collector

August

August 3 - Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (d. 2000)
August 7 - Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (d. 1972)
August 18 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
August 23 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)

September

September 7 - Shimaki Kensaku, Japanese author (d. 1945)
September 9 - Phyllis Whitney, American mystery writer
September 11 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher (d. 1969)
September 13 - Claudette Colbert, French actress (d. 1996)
September 17 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
September 21 - Preston Tucker, American auto designer (d. 1956)
September 25 - Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Muslim Leader (d. 1979)
September 25 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)

October

October 1 - Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (d. 1989)
October 4 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer engineer (d. 1995)
October 5 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
October 6 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
October 16 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
October 18 - Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
October 22 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
October 22 - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d. 1976)
October 22 - Jerome "Curly Howard" Horwitz, American comedian and actor, Three Stooges member (d. 1952)
October 25 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
October 28 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)

November

November 1 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (d. 1973)
November 2 - Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (d. 1944)
November 3 - Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
November 6 - Carl Rakosi, German-born poet (d. 2004)
November 7 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
November 19 - Nancy Carroll, American actress (d. 1965)
November 27 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)

December

December 5 - Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor
December 5 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
December 12 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist, one of The Nordstrom Sisters (d. 1976)
December 12 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
December 12 - A. L. Rowse, English historian (d. 1997)
December 19 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1996)
December 22 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
December 24 - Joseph Cornell, American sculptor (d. 1972)
December 26 - Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
December 28 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist (d. 1983)
December 28 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957)
December 31 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992)
Will Mastin, American vaudevillian (d. 1975)

Month/Day unknown

E. Harold Munn, American temperance movement leader and Prohibition Party candidate for presidency three times (d. 1992)

Deaths

January

January 3 - Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (b. 1837)
January 28 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
January 28 - Robert Planquette, French musical composer (b. 1850)

February

February 1 - Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician and physicist (b. 1819)
February 7 - James Glaisher, English meteorologist and aeronaut (b. 1809)
February 22 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
February 26 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)

March

March 4 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
March 6 - Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris, French scholar (b. 1839)
March 13 - George Granville Bradley, English vicar and scholar (b. 1821)
March 16 - Judge Roy Bean, American pioneer
March 28 - Emile Baudot, French telegraph engineer (b. 1845)

April

April 19 - Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician (b. 1820)
April 28 - Willard Gibbs, American physical chemist (b. 1839)

May

May 4 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872)
May 9 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
May 29 - Aleksandar Obrenović, Serbian king

June

June 19 - Herbert Vaughan, English Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1832)

July

July 11 - William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor (b. 1849)
July 17 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter (b. 1834)
July 20 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)

August

August 5 - Phil May, English Artist (b. 1864)
August 22 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)

September

September 18 - Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher (b. 1818)

October

October 20 - Thomas Vincent Welch, New York State Assemblyman and first Superintendent of the Niagara Falls State Park (b. 1850)
October 28 - Emma Booth, the fourth child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1860)

November

November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)

December

December 8 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (b. 1820)

Nobel prizes

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