1903

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(thing) by General Wesc (2.2 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:39:45

The British complete their conquest of Northern Nigeria
The Alaskan frontier is settled.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London is published.
The Manhattan Opera House is build.
The Wright Brothers fly the first powered airplane in Kitty Hawk, NC. (Not!)
Henry Ford founds the Ford Motor Company.
J.P. Morgan founds the International Mercantile Marine Company.
The first Tour de France took place.

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(thing) by Gamaliel (4.4 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Jul 14 2000 at 6:44:29

1. The Wright Brothers take to the skies above Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
2. Teddy Roosevelt ensures that Panama successfully secedes from Colombia, paving the way for the Panama Canal.
3. Emmeline Pankhurst forms the Women's Social and Political Union, Britian's notorious suffragist organization.
4. At the Edison studios, Edwin Porter films the first true motion picture, the twelve minute story The Great Train Robbery.
5. Painter Paul Gauguin dies in Polynesia.
6. Marie and Pierre Curie win the Nobel Prize in physics for their work with radioactivity.
7. Czech composer Leos Janácek completes the opera Jenufa.
8. Automotive milestones: Britain raises the speed limit to 20 mph, the first gas powered taxi operates in London, the first transcontinental road trip - San Francisco to NYC, and Henry Ford begins his success in the car business.
9. Jack London's The Call of the Wild.
10. An anti-Semetic pogrom claims the lives of 45 Jews in Kishinev, Russia.
11. The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party is split between the Mensheviks and Lenin's Bolsheviks.
12. Henry James' The Ambassadors.

- Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th century

(idea) by The Chronographer (2.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Tue May 10 2005 at 6:19:01

What this country needs is a short victorious war to stem the tide of revolution.

Russian Minister of the Interior Vyacheslav von Plehve to Minister of War Alexei Kuropatkin, 1903.

In the year 1903...

W.E.B. DuBois publishes The Soul of Black Folks.
Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild.
The Boston Pilgrims defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates five games to three in the first baseball World Series.
Maurice Garin wins the first-ever Tour de France.

These people were born in 1903:

Legendary American cornetist Bix Beiderbecke.
Hall of Fame baseball catcher Mickey Cochrane.

These people died in 1903:

French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin.

1902 - 1903 - 1904

20th century

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1904	1902	To a Portrait of Whistler in the Brooklyn Art Museum	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Ford Model A	David George Ritchie	Tempest Anderson	Rabbit Proof Fence
Anau	20th century	Richard Pearce	Civilian Marksmanship Program
Aberdeen Football Club	Guantanamo Bay	1956	Clara Zetkin
March 23, 2006	Jenufa	Igor Sikorsky	George Orwell
Baseball History	1793	Vyacheslav Zudov	1901

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