1903 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1903?
- January 17, 1903 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
- January 29, 1903 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 2, 1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
- March 31, 1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
- 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 11, 1903 – Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
- June 16, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- July 4, 1903 – Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
- July 20, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships 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.
- August 29, 1903 – The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
- 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.
- 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 3, 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
- 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.
- December 14, 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- December 17, 1903 – The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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