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This article is about the year 1903. For the rifle, see M1903 Springfield.

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1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar.

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January 1 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India.
January 19 – The first west-east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east-west broadcast having been made in 1901).

February 11 – The Oxnard Strike of 1903 becomes the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from members of different races.
February 15 – Morris and Rose Michtom introduce the first teddy bear in America.
February 17 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
February 23 – Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".

March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens.
March 3 – The British admiralty announces plans to build a naval base at Rosyth.
March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign an agreement to build the Constantinople-Baghdad Railway.
March 12 – The University of Puerto Rico is founded.
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 later rejects the treaty.
March 19 – The oldest Turkish football club, Besiktas JK, is founded in Istanbul.

May 4 – The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.
May 18 – The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens.
May 22 – The White Star Liner, SS Ionic, is launched.
May 24 – The Paris-Madrid race begins, during which at least eight people are killed.

June 11 – Serbian King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga are assassinated.
June 12 – The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
June 14 – The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood that kills an estimated 238 people.

July 23: 1903 Ford Model A.

July 1–July 19 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
July 7 – The British take over the Fulani Empire.
July 23 – Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
July 30–August 23 (July 17–August 10, O.S.) – Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London.

September 11 – The first stock car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile.
September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference.
September 15 – Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto-Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil
September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
September 27 – The Wreck of the Old 97 engine at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, which kills 9 people, inspires a ballad and song.
September 29 – Prussia becomes the first locality to require mandatory drivers licenses for operators of motor vehicles.

October – Frank Nelson Cole proves that 2⁶⁷-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying every Sunday for 3 years.
October 1 – The first modern World Series, pitting the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates against Boston of the American League, begins at Pittsburgh's Exposition Park.
October 6 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the UK.
October 13 – Boston wins its first of seven World Series titles, beating Pittsburgh at their home park, Huntington Avenue Grounds.

November 3 – Founding of Argentinian football team, Newell's Old Boys in the city of Rosario.
November 4 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia.
November 13 – The United States recognizes the independence of Panama.
November 17 – The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
November 18 – The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the U.S. exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
November 23 – Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.

December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
December 30 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 600.

The Lincoln-Lee Legion is established to promote the temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence pledges by children.
The first box of Crayola crayons was made and sold for 5 cents. It contained 8 colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black.
Osea Island in Maldon, Essex, England was bought by Mr. Frederick Charrington.