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 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.
- February 23, 1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
- March 31, 1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
- 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 29, 1903 – May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
- July 20, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
- 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 18, 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
Who Were Born On 1903?
- January 5, 1903 – Harold Gatty, Australian aviator (d. 1957)
- January 7, 1903 – Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
- February 12, 1903 – Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
- March 25, 1903 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
- June 12, 1903 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
- August 10, 1903 – Ward Moore, American novelist (d. 1978)
- September 13, 1903 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
- September 21, 1903 – Preston Tucker, American automobile designer (d. 1956)
- October 19, 1903 – Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
- December 19, 1903 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)