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1903 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2026. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1903 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1903

• January 29, 1903 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
• June 16, 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
• August 2, 1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: An unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
• August 18, 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
• August 29, 1903 – The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five sclass- Borodinos, is launched.
• September 30, 1903 – The new Gresham’s School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
• October 6, 1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
• November 18, 1903 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
• December 17, 1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• December 30, 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

Who Were Born On 1903?

• January 15, 1903 – Paul A. Dever, American lieutenant and politician, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
• February 16, 1903 – André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (d. 1960)
• April 2, 1903 – Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1987)
• May 14, 1903 – Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
• June 4, 1903 – Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor (d. 1988)
• June 22, 1903 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
• July 11, 1903 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (d. 1971)
• August 1, 1903 – Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1995)
• August 28, 1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
• September 17, 1903 – Frank O'Connor, Irish author and poet (d. 1966)