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1903 Calendar

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•  January 18, 1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
•  January 29, 1903 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
•  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.
•  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.
•  September 27, 1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
•  November 3, 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
•  December 30, 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

•  February 22, 1903 – Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
•  March 25, 1903 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
•  March 30, 1903 – Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)
•  May 11, 1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (d. 1993)
•  May 24, 1903 – Milo Burcham, American aviator (d. 1944)
•  July 10, 1903 – Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989)
•  July 27, 1903 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
•  October 6, 1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
•  November 20, 1903 – Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
•  December 12, 1903 – Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer (d. 1976)