1903
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 - 1903 - 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
See also: This year has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasn't had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. See 1696.
Events:
- 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 2 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
- 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 23 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of the first successful airplane.
- March 31 - Richard Pearse reputedly flies a heavier than air machine in an uncontrolled powered flight, crash landing on a hedge. (Poorly documented.)
- April 29 - 30,000,000 cubic metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta[?]
- December 7 - Orville Wright flies aircraft with a petrol engine in first documented successful controlled powered flight.
- December 30 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater[?] in Chicago kills 600.
- Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that chromosomes contain genes
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1903 in film
- 1903 in literature
- 1903 in music
- February 11 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
- 1903 in sports
Births:
- January 27 - John Carew Eccles, psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963, (+ 1997)
- January 11 - Hans Redlich[?], composer
- January 18 - Werner Hinz[?], actor (+ 1985)
- January 23 - Randolph Scott, actor (+ 1987)
- February 6 - Claudio Arrau, pianist (+ 1991)
- February 11 - Alan Paton, writer
- February 11 - Rex Lease[?], American actor
- February 12 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (+ 1989)
- February 13 - Georges Simenon, thriller writer (+ 1989)
- February 16 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (+ 1978)
- February 21 - Anaïs Nin, writer (+ 1977)
- February 22 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey, mathematician
- February 24 - Franz Burda[?], German publisher (+ 1986)
- February 27 - Grethe Weiser[?], actress (+ 1970)
- February 28 - Vincente Minnelli[?], director (+ 1986)
- March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz trumpeter (+ 1931)
- March 10 - Clare Booth Luce[?], publisher, writer (+ 1987)
- March 11 - Lawrence Welk, Champagne musicmaker (+ 1992)
- March 18 - O. E. Plauen[?], illustrator and cartoonist (+ 1944)
- April 3 - Peter Huchel[?], lyricist and author of radio plays (+ 1981)
- April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (+ 1987)
- May 3 - Bing Crosby - singer
- May 8 - Fernandel, actor
- May 20 - Barbara Hepworth, sculptor (+ 1975)
- May 29 - Bob Hope, comedian
- June 6 - Aram Khachaturian, composer [[+ 1978)
- June 19 - Lou Gehrig, (baseball player)
- July 1 - Amy Johnson, aviator (+ 1941)
- July 2 - Olav V, (King of Norway)
- September 13, Claudette Colbert
- October 1 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- November 7 - Konrad Lorenz
- December 28 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician
Deaths:
- February 11 - Henryk Szulc[?], composer
- February 22 - Hugo Wolf, composer
- February 26 - Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor
- March 16 - Judge Roy Bean[?], jurist, Old West pioneer
- Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian
The poor condemned English,
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Investing lank-lean cheeks and war-worn coats,
So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold
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For forth he goes and visits all his host,
And calls them brothers, friends, and countrymen.
How dread an army hath enrounded him;
Unto the weary and all-watched night,
With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;
Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks.
His liberal eye doth give to every one,
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And so our scene must to the battle fly,
With four or five most vile and ragged foils,
The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see,
Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;
Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!
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And preachers to us all, admonishing
Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
A good soft pillow for that good white head
Not so, my liege; this lodging likes me better,
'Tis good for men to love their present pains
And when the mind is quick'ned, out of doubt,
Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,
Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,
Do my good morrow to them, and anon
We shall, my.
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