1903 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1903?
- January 4, 1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.
- January 9, 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
- January 29, 1903 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 14, 1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
- February 23, 1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
- March 14, 1903 – 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.
- April 29, 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
- May 22, 1903 – Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
- May 29, 1903 – May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
- July 4, 1903 – Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
- July 20, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
- August 2, 1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
- August 18, 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
- August 29, 1903 – The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
- September 11, 1903 – The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
- October 6, 1903 – The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
- November 3, 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
- December 14, 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- December 17, 1903 – The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- December 30, 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
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