1903 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1903?
- 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 11, 1903 – Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
- March 2, 1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
- April 6, 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
- 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.
- June 16, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- July 23, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- August 3, 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
- 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.
- September 27, 1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
- September 30, 1903 – The new Gresham’s School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
- October 1, 1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
- October 5, 1903 – Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
- October 6, 1903 – The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
- November 17, 1903 – The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for “majority”) and Mensheviks (Russian for “minority”).
- November 18, 1903 – The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
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