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•  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 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.
•  June 11, 1903 – Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
•  June 16, 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
•  July 4, 1903 – Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
•  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 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 18, 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
•  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.

•  January 15, 1903 – Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
•  January 20, 1903 – Jennifer Ishikawa, Japanese singer (d. 1985)
•  February 12, 1903 – Chick Hafey, baseball player (d. 1973)
•  May 3, 1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
•  May 29, 1903 – Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)
•  June 6, 1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
•  July 4, 1903 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist and teacher (d. 1986)
•  August 28, 1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
•  October 22, 1903 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952)
•  November 1, 1903 – Max Adrian, Irish actor (d. 1973)