1903

Categories: 1903

Years:
1900 1901 1902 - 1903(MCMIII) - 1904 1905 1906

Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1903 by topic:
Arts	Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology	Archaeology - Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science
Countries	Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - South Africa
Other	Births - Deaths - Sport - State leaders - Religious leaders - Video gaming

1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasn't had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. See 1696.

It was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January-June
- 3.2 July-December
4 Nobel Prizes

Events

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1903 Ford Model A

January 1 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India
January 6 - Mileva Maric married Albert Einstein.
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 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
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
August 4 - Pope Pius X elected
September 8 - Massacre of Bulgarians by Turkish troops at Monastir is reported.
September 14 - Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary.
September 15 - Grêmio, a brazilian soccer team is founded.
September 24 - Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeded by Alfred Deakin.
October - Frank Nelson Cole proved that 2^67-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,727 * 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. US President Theodore Roosevelt wanted the United States to build the Panama Canal but were blocked by 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).

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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.

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 psychologist, 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 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, actress (d. 1970)
February 28 - Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)

March

March 6 - Empress Kojun, Empress consort of Japan (d. 2000)
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 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 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 21 - Preston Tucker, American auto designer (d. 1956)
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 - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d. 1976)
October 28 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)

November

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 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
December 12 - A. L. Rowse, English historian (d. 1997)
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 violinst (d. 1992)
Will Mastin, American vaudevillian (d. 1975)

Deaths

January-June

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 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 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 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872)
May 9 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
June 19 - Herbert Vaughan, English Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1832)

July-December

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 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)
November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
December 8 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (b. 1820)

Nobel Prizes

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