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•  January 29, 1903 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
•  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.
•  May 22, 1903 – Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
•  June 11, 1903 – Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
•  July 20, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships 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.
•  August 29, 1903 – The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
•  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.
•  December 17, 1903 – The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

•  January 27, 1903 – John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
•  June 8, 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator from Texas (d. 1996)
•  July 3, 1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
•  October 18, 1903 – Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
•  November 2, 1903 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
•  November 7, 1903 – Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
•  November 20, 1903 – Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
•  December 13, 1903 – Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist (d. 1993)
•  December 22, 1903 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)
•  December 26, 1903 – Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)