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1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. It 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.

    1903
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        Nobel prizes

Events

January 1 - Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India

January 6 - Mileva Maric married 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 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 1 -Beşiktaş JK is founded in Istanbul, becoming the first sports 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 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

June 12 - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.

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 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-Preobrazhenie Uprising of the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire breaks out

August 4 - Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 255th pope.

August 10 - The Paris Metro train fire takes place.

August 25 - Judiciary Act 1903 passed

September 8 - Massacre of Bulgarians by Turkish troops at Monastir is reported.

September 11 - The first stock car event was 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.

October - Frank Nelson Cole proved that 2^67-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721

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.

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).

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 kills 600.

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Lincoln-Lee Legion established to promote temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence pledgeds by children.

MLB is established

bradford city football club is established

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)

February 8 - 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)

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 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)

February 22 - 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)

March 4 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d. 1990)

March 4 - John Scarne, American magician and card expert (d. 1985)

March 6 - Empress Kojun, 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)

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 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)

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 19 - Ruth Ella Moore, first black female to earn a Ph.D. in Bacteriology (d. 1994)

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 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 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 9 - Edward Upward, British Author

September 11 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher (d. 1969)

September 13 - Claudette Colbert, French actress (d. 1996)

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)

October 22 - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d. 1976)

October 22 - Jerome "Curly Howard" Horwitz, American comedian and actor (d. 1952)

October 25 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)

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)

December

December 5 - Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor

December 5 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)

December 12 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist, one of The Nordstrom Sisters (d. 1976)

December 12 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)

December 12 - 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 "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist (d. 1983)

December 28 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957)

December 31 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992)

Will Mastin, American vaudevillian (d. 1975)

Month/Day unknown

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

January

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

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

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

April 19 - Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician (b. 1820)

April 28 - Willard Gibbs, American physical chemist (b. 1839)

May

May 4 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872)

May 9 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)

May 29 - Aleksandar Obrenović, Serbian king

June

June 19 - Herbert Vaughan, English Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1832)

July

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

August 5 - Phil May, English artist (b. 1864)

August 22 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)

September

September 18 - Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher (b. 1818)

October

October 20 - Thomas Vincent Welch, New York State Assemblyman and first Superintendent of the Niagara Falls State Park (b. 1850)

October 28 - Emma Booth, the fourth child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1860)

November

November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)

December

December 8 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (b. 1820)

Nobel prizes

Physics - Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie

Chemistry - Svante August Arrhenius

Medicine - Niels Ryberg Finsen

Literature - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Peace - William Randal Cremer

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