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1903 Calendar

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•  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).
•  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.
•  April 29, 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
•  June 16, 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
•  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 18, 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
•  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.

•  January 27, 1903 – Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (d. 1979)
•  February 11, 1903 – Hans Redlich, Austrian composer (d. 1968)
•  February 22, 1903 – Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
•  April 6, 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
•  April 25, 1903 – Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
•  June 21, 1903 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
•  July 2, 1903 – Alec Douglas-Home, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
•  November 3, 1903 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
•  December 4, 1903 – Anna van der Vegt, Dutch gymnast (d. 1983)
•  December 26, 1903 – Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)