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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 14, 1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
•  June 16, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
•  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.
•  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 14, 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

•  February 8, 1903 – Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
•  March 16, 1903 – Mike Mansfield, American politician, and diplomat (d. 2001)
•  March 24, 1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
•  March 25, 1903 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
•  June 16, 1903 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
•  June 18, 1903 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
•  June 21, 1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
•  July 21, 1903 – Roy Neuberger, American financier (d. 2010)
•  November 15, 1903 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1974)
•  December 7, 1903 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)