Major Events
- Mar 13 Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, the British claim supremacy on over 500,000 square miles
- Aug 17 Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America
- Dec 17 The Wright brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
- Dec 29 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari (Central African Republic)
- More 1903 Events
1903 in Sport
- Apr 22 NY Highlanders (Yankees) first MLB game; lose 3-1 before 11,950 vs Washington Senators at American League Park
- Jul 19 1st Tour de France: French rider Maurice Garin wins inaugural event
- Aug 15 New Zealand's All Blacks play their first Rugby Test Match against Australia's Wallabies at the Sydney Cricket Ground; New Zealand win 22-3
- Oct 13 1st Baseball World Series: Boston Americans beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0 in Game 8 at Huntington Avenue for a 5-3 series victory
Did You Know?
Topsy the elephant is electrocuted by her owners at Luna Park, Coney Island and filmed by Edison Manufacturing movie company
Tunku Abdul Rahman
John Dillinger
George Orwell
Amy Johnson
Louis Leakey
Melvin Purvis
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Arthur Godfrey
Claudette Colbert
Mickey Cochrane
Cool Papa Bell
Red Grange
Lou Gehrig
Carl Hubbell
Tony LazzeriMore People Born in 1903
Paul Gauguin
Leo XIII
Calamity Jane
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Camille Pissarro
Tom HornMore 1903 Deaths
Articles About 1903
Topsy the Elephant is Electrocuted
Topsy the elephant is electrocuted to death at Luna Park in New YorkJanuary 4
Theodore Roosevelt, the Cowboy President
President Theodore Roosevelt began a camping trip on this day with naturalist, writer and conservationist John Muir. The trip had a profound effect on RooseveltMay 17
1st Airplane Flight
Seconds into the first ever flight of the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright is flying, Wilbur Wright is running alongside.December 17
Famous Weddings in 1903
- Jan 6 German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (23) weds Serbian physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić (27); divorce in 1919
- Feb 14 Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (27) weds Swiss watch heiress Emma Rauschenbach (19), until her death in 1955
- Apr 28 Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst (40) weds Millicent Veronica Willson (21) in New York City
Arthur Balfour
Nicholas II
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilhelm II