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 18, 1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
- 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.
- 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 2, 1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
- 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.
- March 31, 1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
- April 29, 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
- June 16, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- July 23, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 30, 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
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