Important Historical Events of the year 1903, Year 1903 in History

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List of 1903 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1903

What happened in the year 1903?

Date	Event
January 4, 1903	Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
January 9, 1903	Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the 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.
February 11, 1903	Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
February 14, 1903	The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
February 23, 1903	Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
March 2, 1903	In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
March 14, 1903	Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
April 19, 1903	The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
April 26, 1903	Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
April 29, 1903	A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
May 26, 1903	Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, is founded.
May 29, 1903	In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
June 11, 1903	A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga.
June 16, 1903	The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
June 16, 1903	Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
June 19, 1903	Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
July 1, 1903	Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
July 4, 1903	The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
July 19, 1903	Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
July 20, 1903	The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
July 23, 1903	The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
August 2, 1903	The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
August 3, 1903	Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
August 8, 1903	Black Saturday occurs, killing 12 in a stadium collapse in Philadelphia.
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 Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
September 11, 1903	The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
September 27, 1903	"Wreck of the Old 97": an American rail disaster, in which 11 people are killed; it later becomes the subject of a popular ballad.
October 1, 1903	Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
October 6, 1903	The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
October 10, 1903	The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
October 13, 1903	The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
October 31, 1903	The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
November 3, 1903	With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
November 17, 1903	The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
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.
December 15, 1903	Italian American food cart vendor Italo Marchiony receives a U.S. patent for inventing a machine that makes ice cream cones.
December 17, 1903	The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
December 30, 1903	A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.