1903 Calendar
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1903 Historical Event(s)
January 9, 1903
– Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
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.
March 31, 1903
– Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
June 16, 1903
– The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
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.
September 30, 1903
– The new Gresham’s School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
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.
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.
Who Were Born On 1903?
February 6, 1903
– Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
March 24, 1903
– Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d. 1990)
March 25, 1903
– Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
April 2, 1903
– Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
June 3, 1903
– Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
July 16, 1903
– Mary Philbin, American stage and film actress (d. 1993)
August 3, 1903
– Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (d. 2000)
October 4, 1903
– Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer and senior Nazi (d. 1946)
November 1, 1903
– Edward Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
December 5, 1903
– Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor (d. 2011)