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Events on the year of 1903 in history

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02 Jan 1903 President Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
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04 Jan 1903 Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. Thomas Edison's movie company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of the execution.
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05 Jan 1903 SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
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06 Jan 1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
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07 Jan 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier" (BG)
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09 Jan 1903 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to New York
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09 Jan 1903 Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 and move it to NYC (Yankees)
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09 Jan 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established
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09 Jan 1903 Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
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12 Jan 1903 Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam
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12 Jan 1903 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown PA, killing 170
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17 Jan 1903 El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
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18 Jan 1903 United States President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.[citation needed]
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19 Jan 1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
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19 Jan 1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
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21 Jan 1903 "Wizard of Oz, " premieres in New York City
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21 Jan 1903 "Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City NY
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21 Jan 1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
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21 Jan 1903 International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City NY
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29 Jan 1903 Dutch railroad workers strike
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03 Feb 1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
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04 Feb 1903 Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 and 1 tie
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11 Feb 1903 Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
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11 Feb 1903 Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
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14 Feb 1903 US Department of Commerce & Labor forms
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14 Feb 1903 The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
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14 Feb 1903 US Dept of Commerce & Labor established
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15 Feb 1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
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16 Feb 1903 -59
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18 Feb 1903 Kuyper government launches anti strike laws
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20 Feb 1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
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21 Feb 1903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC
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22 Feb 1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
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23 Feb 1903 Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
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23 Feb 1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
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24 Feb 1903 US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
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28 Feb 1903 Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
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02 Mar 1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City
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02 Mar 1903 In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women].
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03 Mar 1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
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05 Mar 1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn
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10 Mar 1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games
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10 Mar 1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
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10 Mar 1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montr
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12 Mar 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of American League
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14 Mar 1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
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14 Mar 1903 The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
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14 Mar 1903 The Hay–Herrán 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.
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14 Mar 1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games
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14 Mar 1903 WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin
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15 Mar 1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa
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22 Mar 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
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22 Mar 1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
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23 Mar 1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
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26 Mar 1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
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31 Mar 1903 Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
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31 Mar 1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)
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06 Apr 1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
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14 Apr 1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (New York NY)
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19 Apr 1903 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
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20 Apr 1903 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Massachusetts in 2:41:29.8
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20 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders play their 1st game, with Jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth & Washington Nationals
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22 Apr 1903 American Power Boat Association forms
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22 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
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23 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Washington Senators 7-2
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26 Apr 1903 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
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27 Apr 1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Philadelphia Athletics win 6-0
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27 Apr 1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
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29 Apr 1903 A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada.
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29 Apr 1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
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30 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St. & Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Washingston Senators, 6-2
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02 May 1903 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09
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06 May 1903 Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers
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14 May 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Fransisco
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16 May 1903 George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
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16 May 1903 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Fransisco (George Wymann)
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17 May 1903 Cleveland Indians beat the New York Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
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22 May 1903 Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
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23 May 1903 1st automobile trip across US from San Fransisco to New York, ended April 1
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23 May 1903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
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26 May 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" (BG)
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26 May 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 3 Gables" (BG)
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27 May 1903 37th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75
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27 May 1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
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29 May 1903 In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
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30 May 1903 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
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02 Jun 1903 Netherlands Korfball League forms
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02 Jun 1903 Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
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11 Jun 1903 A group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
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12 Jun 1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
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16 Jun 1903 Pepsi Cola company forms
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16 Jun 1903 The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
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16 Jun 1903 Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
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16 Jun 1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
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16 Jun 1903 Ford Motors incorporates
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18 Jun 1903 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives New York 3-mo later
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21 Jun 1903 Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
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23 Jun 1903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #512 Taurinensis
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24 Jun 1903 Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
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25 Jun 1903 Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3
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25 Jun 1903 Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
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27 Jun 1903 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
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29 Jun 1903 British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo
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01 Jul 1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
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01 Jul 1903 Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
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02 Jul 1903 AL / NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
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02 Jul 1903 Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 Son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs
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04 Jul 1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President TR sends message
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04 Jul 1903 Philippine–American War officially is concluded.
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04 Jul 1903 Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first English woman to compete in a 'motor race'.
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06 Jul 1903 George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco
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09 Jul 1903 Future Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia for three years.
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19 Jul 1903 Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
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20 Jul 1903 The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
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20 Jul 1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
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23 Jul 1903 Ford Motor Co sells 1st Model A car
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23 Jul 1903 The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
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25 Jul 1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
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01 Aug 1903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
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02 Aug 1903 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
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02 Aug 1903 Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
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03 Aug 1903 Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
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04 Aug 1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
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08 Aug 1903 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1)
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14 Aug 1903 James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavywgt boxing title
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16 Aug 1903 Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
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17 Aug 1903 Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia University and begins Pulitzer Prizes
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19 Aug 1903 Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
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23 Aug 1903 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
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26 Aug 1903 Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
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27 Aug 1903 23rd US Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
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29 Aug 1903 The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
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31 Aug 1903 Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of the month
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06 Sep 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" (BG)
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07 Sep 1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in New York
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09 Sep 1903 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
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11 Sep 1903 The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
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14 Sep 1903 New York Giant Red Ames no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game
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15 Sep 1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
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17 Sep 1903 Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3
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18 Sep 1903 Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chic Cubs, 10-0
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19 Sep 1903 King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo
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21 Sep 1903 1st cowboy film "Kit Carson, " premieres in US
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22 Sep 1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone
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24 Sep 1903 Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia Premier
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24 Sep 1903 Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
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27 Sep 1903 Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
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30 Sep 1903 The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
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01 Oct 1903 1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox)
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01 Oct 1903 Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
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05 Oct 1903 Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
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06 Oct 1903 The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
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09 Oct 1903 11" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hours (NYC)
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12 Oct 1903 Lyric Theater opens at 213 W 42nd St, New York City
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13 Oct 1903 Pirates beats Pilgrims (Red Sox) 5 games to 3 in 1st World Series
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16 Oct 1903 Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
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20 Oct 1903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada
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24 Oct 1903 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
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24 Oct 1903 George Sutton becomes billiard champ
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25 Oct 1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
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26 Oct 1903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay
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02 Nov 1903 Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St, New York City
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02 Nov 1903 New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St, New York City
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03 Nov 1903 Colombia grants Panama independence
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03 Nov 1903 With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
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06 Nov 1903 USA recognizea independence of Panama
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18 Nov 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
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19 Nov 1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate
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23 Nov 1903 Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
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24 Nov 1903 Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter
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27 Nov 1903 Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
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27 Nov 1903 The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
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01 Dec 1903 "The Great Train Robbery, " the 1st Western film, released
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03 Dec 1903 Panglima Polim surrenders to Captain Colijn at Atjeh
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06 Dec 1903 Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
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09 Dec 1903 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
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10 Dec 1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
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11 Dec 1903 British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
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12 Dec 1903 Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
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13 Dec 1903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (New Jersey)
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13 Dec 1903 Wright Brothers make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
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14 Dec 1903 The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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14 Dec 1903 Reg Foster completes 287 England vs Australia on Test Cricket debut
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16 Dec 1903 Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to the guests.
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16 Dec 1903 Majestic Theater, New York NY, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
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17 Dec 1903 The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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17 Dec 1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
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19 Dec 1903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
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27 Dec 1903 "Sweet Adaline, " a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
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28 Dec 1903 Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1903 Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die
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29 Dec 1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari
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30 Dec 1903 A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
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30 Dec 1903 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago IL
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30 Dec 1903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans LA
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