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1903 Calendar

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•  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.
•  February 23, 1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
•  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.
•  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.
•  October 6, 1903 – The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
•  November 3, 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
•  November 18, 1903 – The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
•  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 10, 1903 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
•  January 17, 1903 – Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
•  February 25, 1903 – King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
•  May 4, 1903 – Luther Adler, American stage actor (d. 1984)
•  June 8, 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator from Texas (d. 1996)
•  July 2, 1903 – Alec Douglas-Home, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
•  July 11, 1903 – Rudolf Abel, Soviet intelligence officer (d. 1971)
•  October 24, 1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
•  November 1, 1903 – Max Adrian, Irish actor (d. 1973)
•  November 7, 1903 – Ary Barroso, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1964)