1903 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1903?
- 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.
- 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.
- June 16, 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
- July 20, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
- 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.
- November 3, 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
- 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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