1903

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Year 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. The year 1903 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.

Events of 1903

January-February

January 1 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India.
January 6 - Mileva Maric marries 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 is 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-April

March 1 -Beşiktaş JK is founded in Istanbul, becoming the first gymnastic 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 sign 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 American 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)

April 14 - Aberdeen Football Club is formed.
April 18 - Bury F.C. Win the F.A. cup by beating Derby County 6-0
April 29 - 30,000,000 cubic metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta.

May-June

May 4 - Death of the great Macedonian revolutionary Gotse Delchev in a skirmish with the Turkish police near the village of Banitsa
May 18 - Opening of port of Burgas, Bulgaria.
May 22 - Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
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-August

July 1-19 - First Tour de France – Maurice Garin wins.
July 4 - Completion of the Pacific cable by the Commercial Pacific Cable Company.
July 7 - British take over the Fulani empire.
July 23 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
August 2 - The Ilinden Uprising of the Macedonians in the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
August 4 - Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.
August 10 - The Paris Metro train fire takes place.
August 25 - Judiciary Act 1903 is passed.

September-October

September 8 - Massacre of ethnic Macedonians by Turkish troops at Bitola is reported.
September 11 - The first stock car event is 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.
September 30 - New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
October - Frank Nelson Cole proves that 2⁶⁷-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying every Sunday for three years.
October 1 - The First modern World Series pits the National League's Pittsburgh against Boston of the American League.
October 6 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
October 10 - Foundation of the Women's Social and Political Union.

November-December

November 3
With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia.
In Rosario, Argentina, is founded the club Newell's Old Boys.
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").
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.
Opera tenor Enrico Caruso makes his American debut in New York City with the Metropolitan Opera in Rigoletto.

December 17 - Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
December 30 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 600.

Undated

Lincoln-Lee Legion is established to promote temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence pledges by children.
MLB is established.
Bradford City Football Club is established.
The University of Kentucky Men's Basketball team is founded.
Beşiktaş J.K. is established.

Ongoing

Philippine-American War (1899-1913)

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)
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)
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)
Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (d. 1976)

February 22

Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer and media personality (d. 1990)
Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
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)
William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d. 1990)
John Scarne, American magician and card expert (d. 1985)

March 6 - Empress Kōjun, 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)
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 25 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
March 28 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
March 31 - H. J. Blackham, British humanist and author

April

April 6

Mickey Cochrane, baseball player (d. 1962)
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)
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 6 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (d. 1977)
May 8 - Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971)
May 10 - Hans Jonas, German-born philosopher(d. 1993)
May 11 - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player (d. 1993)
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 1- Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (d. 1973)
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)
Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)

June 19

Lou Gehrig, baseball player (d. 1941)
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

Harwell Hamilton Harris, American architect (d. 1990)
Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)

July 3 - Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (d. 1992)
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 6 - Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (d. 1999)
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 (d. 2008)
Edward Upward, British author

September 11 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher (d. 1969)
September 13 - Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
September 15 - Roy Acuff, American country musician (d. 1992)
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 9 - Walter O'Malley, Americanbaseball executive (d. 1979)
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)
Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d. 1976)
Jerome "Curly Howard" Horwitz, American comedian and actor (d. 1952)

October 25

Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (d. 1995)

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)
November 29 - E. Harold Munn, American temperance movement leader and Prohibition Party candidate for presidency three times (d. 1992)

December

December 5

Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor
Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)

December 4 - Lazar Lagin, Soviet satirical and children's writer (d.1979)
December 12

Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist, one of The Nordstrom Sisters (d. 1976)
Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
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 Hines, American jazz pianist (d. 1983)
John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957)

December 31

Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992)
Will Mastin, American vaudevillian (d. 1975)

Deaths

January - June

January 3 - Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (b. 1837)
January 17 - Quintin Hogg, British philanthropist (b. 1845)
January 28 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
January 28 - Robert Planquette, French musical composer (b. 1850)
February 1 - Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician and physicist (b. 1819)
February 7 - James Glaisher, English meteorologist and aeronaut (b. 1809)
February 14 - Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (b. 1831)
February 22 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
February 26 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
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 19 - Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician (b. 1820)
April 28 - Willard Gibbs, American physical chemist (b. 1839)
May 4 - Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872)
May 9 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
May 29 - Aleksandar Obrenović, Serbian king
June 11 - Nikolai Bugaev, prominent Russian mathematician (b.1837)
June 19 - Herbert Vaughan, English Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1832)

July - December

July 2 - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
July 11 - William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor (b. 1849)
July 13 - Béni Kállay, Austro-Hungarian statesman (b. 1839)
July 17 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter (b. 1834)
July 20 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)
August 1 - Calamity Jane, frontierswoman (b. 1852)
August 5 - Phil May, English artist (b. 1864)
August 17 - Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (b. 1825)
August 22 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
September 18 - Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher (b. 1818)
October 4 - Otto Weininger, Austrian-Jewish author of Sex and Character (b. 1880)
October 20 - Thomas Vincent Welch, first Superintendent of Niagara Falls State Park (b. 1850)
October 28 - Emma Booth, the fourth child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1860)
November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
November 13 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
December 8 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (b. 1820)

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