1903

Top #1 songs in the USA

• Sousa's Band - Jack Tar March

Events

• 01 Jan Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India.
• 02 Jan President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Michigan, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.
• 04 Jan Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.
• 06 Jan Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam.
• 07 Jan Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Blanched Soldier (BG)
• 09 Jan 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to New York
• 12 Jan Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170
• 17 Jan El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
• 18 Jan President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
• 19 Jan New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced.
• 21 Jan International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City, New York.
• 29 Jan Dutch railroad workers strike.
• 04 Feb Stanley Cup: MontrTal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, two games to one and one tie.
• 11 Feb Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
• 14 Feb The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
• 16 Feb -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Pokegama Dam Minnesota (state record).
• 17 Feb El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
• 18 Feb Kuyper government launches anti strike laws.
• 20 Feb Nick Young remains as National League president as AG Spalding ends challenge.
• 21 Feb Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC.
• 22 Feb Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water.
• 23 Feb Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA.
• 24 Feb US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
• 28 Feb Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000.
• 02 Mar Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City, New York.
• 03 Mar North Carolina becomes first state requiring registration of nurses.
• 05 Mar Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn.
• 10 Mar Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine.
• 12 Mar New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
• 14 Mar Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in two games.
• 15 Mar Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa.
• 19 Mar The oldest Turkish football club, Besiktas JK, is founded in Istanbul.
• 22 Mar Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought.
• 23 Mar Wright brothers obtain airplane patent.
• 26 Mar American Hotel opens in Amsterdam.
• 31 Mar Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
• 06 Apr General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws).
• 07 Apr Fredrikstad Football Club (FFK) is founded in Norway.
• 14 Apr Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (New York City, New York).
• 20 Apr 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Massachusetts in 2:41:29.8.
• 22 Apr New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
• 23 Apr New York Highlanders (New York Yankees) win their first game beating Washington Senators 7-2.
• 29 Apr Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta).
• 30 Apr New York Highlanders (New York Yankees) first home game, (Hilltop Park-168th Steet and Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Washington Senators, 6-2.
• 02 May 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09.
• 04 May The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.
• 06 May Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers.
• 14 May President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco.
• 15 May US Treasury Department purchases 250,000 ounces of silver for the San Francisco Mint.
• 16 May George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
• 17 May Cleveland Indians beat the New York Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
• 18 May The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens.
• 22 May Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
• 24 May The Paris-Madrid race begins, during which at least eight people are killed.
• 26 May Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of 3 Gables (BG)
• 27 May 37th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75.
• 29 May May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• 30 May 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8.
• 02 Jun Netherlands Korfball League forms
• 11 Jun Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenovic and his wife queen Draga.
• 12 Jun Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city.
• 14 Jun The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood that kills an estimated 238 people.
• 16 Jun Pepsi Cola company forms
• 21 Jun Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Mazarine Stone takes place (BG)
• 24 Jun Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
• 25 Jun 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
• 27 Jun 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
• 29 Jun British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo
• 01 Jul 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
• 02 Jul AL / NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
• 04 Jul Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President Theodore Roosevelt sends message.
• 06 Jul George Wyman arrives in New York City by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco.
• 07 Jul The British take over the Fulani Empire.
• 20 Jul Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X.
• 23 Jul Ford Motor Co sells 1st Model A car
• 25 Jul Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
• 30 Jul August 23 (July 17ampndashAugust 10, O.S.) ampndash Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London.
• 02 Aug Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey.
• 04 Aug Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
• 08 Aug 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1)
• 10 Aug Paris Metro train fire takes place.
• 14 Aug James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavywgt boxing title
• 16 Aug Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, New York Yankees win 12-8.
• 17 Aug Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia University and begins Pulitzer Prizes
• 18 Aug German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
• 23 Aug 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
• 25 Aug Judiciary Act passed.
• 26 Aug Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
• 27 Aug 23rd US Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
• 29 Aug The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
• 31 Aug Joe McGinnity wins his third doubleheader of the month.
• 06 Sep Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Creeping Man (BG)
• 07 Sep Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in New York.
• 09 Sep 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
• 11 Sep The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
• 14 Sep New York Giants Red Ames no-hits Saint Louis, 5-0 in a five inning game.
• 15 Sep Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers criminals
• 17 Sep Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3
• 19 Sep King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo
• 21 Sep 1st cowboy film Kit Carson, premieres in US
• 22 Sep Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone.
• 24 Sep Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia Premier
• 27 Sep Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
• 29 Sep Prussia becomes the first locality to require mandatory drivers licenses for operators of motor vehicles.
• 30 Sep The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
• 01 Oct Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
• 05 Oct Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
• 09 Oct 11 (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hours (NYC)
• 10 Oct The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the UK.
• 12 Oct Lyric Theater opens at 213 W 42nd St, New York City
• 13 Oct Boston wins its first of seven World Series titles, beating Pittsburgh at their home park, Huntington Avenue Grounds.
• 16 Oct Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
• 20 Oct US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska and Canada.
• 24 Oct George Sutton becomes billiard champ.
• 26 Oct Yerba Buena is first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay.
• 02 Nov Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St, New York City
• 03 Nov Colombia grants Panama independence.
• 04 Nov With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia.
• 06 Nov USA recognizea independence of Panama
• 13 Nov The United States recognizes the independence of Panama.
• 17 Nov The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for ''majority'') and Mensheviks (Russian for ''minority'').
• 18 Nov The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
• 19 Nov Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate.
• 23 Nov Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, New York) in "Rigoletto".
• 24 Nov Clyde Coleman of New York City patents automobile electric starter.
• 03 Dec Panglima Polim surrenders to Captain Colijn at Atjeh.
• 06 Dec Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders.
• 09 Dec Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage.
• 10 Dec Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre / Marie Curie
• 11 Dec British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet.
• 12 Dec Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo.
• 13 Dec Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (New Jersey).
• 14 Dec The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• 16 Dec Majestic Theater, New York City, New York, becomes first in US to employ women ushers.
• 17 Dec At 10:35 AM, the first sustained, controlled, powered aircraft flight is made by Orville Wright in 12hp Flyer I at Kill Devil Hills, Kittyhawk, North Carolina. The flight lasts 12 seconds.
• 19 Dec Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
• 28 Dec Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die.
• 29 Dec French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari.
• 30 Dec American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans Louisiana.