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1903 (''' MCMIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (see link for calendar). It also had the latest occurring Solstice s and Equinox es for 400 years, because the Gregorian Calendar has not had a Leap Year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600 . See 1696 .
Events
- January 1 - Edward VII Of The United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India
- January 6 - Mileva Maric married Albert Einstein .
- January 19 - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and England.
- February 11 - The Oxnard Strike Of 1903 represents the first time in U.S. history that a labor union was formed from members of different races.
- February 15 - Morris Michtom and his wife Rose introduce the first Teddy Bear in America.
- February 23 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity"
- March 1 -Beşiktaş JK is founded in Istanbul , becoming the first sports club in the Ottoman Empire .
- March 2 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first Hotel exclusively for Women .
- March 3 – British Admiralty announces plans to build naval base at Rosyth
- March 5 – Turkey and Germany signs an agreement to build the Constantinople-Baghdad Railway
- March 14 - 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 22 - the US side of the Niagara Falls runs short of water
- March 31 - Possible first powered heavier-than-air flight, Richard Pearse , New Zealand (some date it to 1902)
- May 18 - Opening of Port of Burgas , Bulgaria .
- June 10 - 11 – Assassination of Serbia n King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga
- June 12 - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University Of Michigan School Of Music .
- July 1 - 19 - First Tour De France – Maurice Garin wins
- July 7 - British take over the Fulani empire
- July 23 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago, Illinois becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A .
- April 29 - 30,000,000 cubic metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta
- August 2 - The Ilinden Uprising of the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire breaks out
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Births
January
February
- February 2 - Bartel Leendert Van Der Waerden , Dutch mathematician (d. 1996 )
- February 6 - Claudio Arrau , Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991 )
- February 8 - Greta Keller , Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977 )
- February 8 - Tunku Abdul Rahman , first Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990 )
- February 10 - Matthias Sindelar , Austrian footballer (d. 1939 )
- February 11 - Rex Lease , American actor (d. 1966 )
- February 11 - Alan Paton , South African writer (d. 1988 )
- February 13 - Georges Simenon , French writer (d. 1989 )
- February 16 - Edgar Bergen , American ventriloquist (d. 1978 )
- February 21 - Anaïs Nin , French writer (d. 1977 )
- February 21 - Raymond Queneau , French poet and novelist (d. 1976 )
- February 22 - Morley Callaghan , Canadian writer and media personality (d. 1990 )
- February 22 - Frank P. Ramsey , English mathematician (d. 1930 )
- February 26 - Giulio Natta , Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
- February 27 - Grethe Weiser , actress (d. 1970 )
- February 28 - Vincente Minnelli , American director (d. 1986 )
March
- March 4 - Luis Carrero Blanco , Spanish statesman (d. 1973 )
- March 4 - Dorothy Mackaill , British-born American actress (d. 1990 )
- March 4 - John Scarne , American magician and card expert (d. 1985 )
- March 6 - Empress Kojun , Empress consort of Japan (d. 2000 )
- March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke , American jazz musician (d. 1931 )
- March 11 - Ronald Syme , New Zealand-born classicist and historian (d. 1989 )
- March 11 - Lawrence Welk , American television musician (d. 1992 )
- March 14 - Mustafa Barzani , Kurdish politician (d. 1979 )
- March 20 - Edgar Buchanan , American actor (d. 1979 )
- March 24 - Adolf Butenandt , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- March 28 - Rudolf Serkin , Austrian pianist (d. 1991 )
April
- April 6 - Mickey Cochrane , baseball player (d. 1962 )
- April 6 - Doc Edgerton , American electrical engineering (d. 1990 )
- April 10 - Clare Boothe Luce , American publisher and writer (d. 1987 )
- April 12 - Jan Tinbergen , Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994 )
- April 15 - John Williams , English-born actor (d. 1983 )
- April 17 - Gregor Piatigorsky , Russian cellist (d. 1976 )
- April 17 - Morgan Taylor , American athlete (d. 1975 )
- April 19 - Eliot Ness , American treasury agent (d. 1957 )
- April 24 - José Antonio Primo De Rivera , Spanish politician (d. 1936 )
- April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov , Russian mathematician (d. 1987 )
- April 28 - Johan Borgen , Norwegian author (d. 1979 )
May
June
- June 6 - Aram Khachaturian , Armenian composer (d. 1978 )
- June 8 - Marguerite Yourcenar , Belgian-French author (d. 1987 )
- June 12 - Emmett Hardy , American musician (d. 1925 )
- June 16 - Helen Traubel , American soprano (d. 1972 )
- June 18 - Jeanette MacDonald , American singer, actress (d. 1965 )
- June 18 - Raymond Radiguet , French author (d. 1923 )
- June 19 - Lou Gehrig , baseball player (d. 1941 )
- June 19 - Wally Hammond , English cricketer (d. 1965 )
- June 21 - Al Hirschfeld , American caricaturist (d. 2003 )
- June 22 - John Dillinger , American bank robber (d. 1934 )
- June 25 - Pierre Brossolette , French journalist and resistance fighter (d. 1944 )
- June 25 - George Orwell , English author (d. 1950 )
- June 29 - Alan Blumlein , British electronics engineer (d. 1942 )
July
August
September
October
- October 1 - Vladimir Horowitz , Russian pianist (d. 1989 )
- October 4 - John Vincent Atanasoff , American computer engineer (d. 1995 )
- October 5 - M. King Hubbert , American geophysicist (d. 1989 )
- October 6 - Ernest Walton , Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- October 16 - Cecile De Brunhoff , French storyteller (d. 2003 )
- October 18 - Lina Radke , German athlete (d. 1983 )
- October 22 - George Wells Beadle , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1989 )
- October 22 - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev , Bulgarian painter (d. 1976 )
- October 22 - Jerome "Curly Howard" Horwitz , American comedian and actor, Three Stooges member (d. 1952 )
- October 25 - Katharine Byron , U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976 )
- October 28 - Evelyn Waugh , English writer (d. 1966 )
November
December
- December 5 - Johannes Heesters , Dutch singer and actor
- December 5 - Cecil Frank Powell , British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969 )
- December 12 - Dagmar Nordstrom , American composer, pianist, one of The Nordstrom Sisters (d. 1976 )
- December 12 - Yasujiro Ozu , Japanese film director (d. 1963 )
- December 12 - A. L. Rowse , English historian (d. 1997 )
- December 19 - George Davis Snell , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1996 )
- December 22 - Haldan Keffer Hartline , American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983 )
- December 24 - Joseph Cornell , American sculptor (d. 1972 )
- December 26 - Elisha Cook Jr. , American actor (d. 1995 )
- December 28 - Earl "Fatha" Hines , American jazz pianist (d. 1983 )
- December 28 - John Von Neumann , Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957 )
- December 31 - Nathan Milstein , Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992 )
- Will Mastin , American vaudevillian (d. 1975 )
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Deaths
January
June
September
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