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List of events
Events from the year 1903 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ]
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors [ edit ]
Governor of Alabama : William D. Jelks (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : Jeff Davis (Democratic )Governor of California : Henry Gage (Republican ) (until January 6), George Pardee (Republican ) (starting January 6)Governor of Colorado : James Bradley Orman (Democratic ) (until January 13), James Hamilton Peabody (Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Connecticut : George P. McLean (Republican ) (until January 7), Abiram Chamberlain (Republican ) (starting January 7)Governor of Delaware : John Hunn (Republican )Governor of Florida : William Sherman Jennings (Democratic )Governor of Georgia : Joseph M. Terrell (Democratic )Governor of Idaho : Frank W. Hunt (Democratic ) (until January 5), John T. Morrison (Republican ) (starting January 5)Governor of Illinois : Richard Yates, Jr. (Republican )Governor of Indiana : Winfield T. Durbin (Republican )Governor of Iowa : Albert B. Cummins (Republican )Governor of Kansas : William E. Stanley (Republican ) (until January 12), Willis J. Bailey (Republican ) (starting January 12)Governor of Kentucky : J. C. W. Beckham (Democratic )Governor of Louisiana : William Wright Heard (Democratic )Governor of Maine : John Fremont Hill (Republican )Governor of Maryland : John Walter Smith (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : Winthrop Murray Crane (Republican ) (until January 8), John L. Bates (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Michigan : Aaron T. Bliss (Republican )Governor of Minnesota : Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : Andrew H. Longino (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democratic )Governor of Montana : Joseph Toole (Democratic )Governor of Nebraska : Ezra P. Savage (Republican ) (until January 8), John H. Mickey (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Nevada : Reinhold Sadler (Silver ) (until January 5), John Sparks (Silver ) (starting January 5)Governor of New Hampshire : Chester B. Jordan (Republican ) (until January 1), Nahum J. Bachelder (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of New Jersey : Franklin Murphy (Republican )Governor of New York : Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. (Republican )Governor of North Carolina : Charles Brantley Aycock (Democratic )Governor of North Dakota : Frank White (Republican )Governor of Ohio : George K. Nash (Republican )Governor of Oregon : T. T. Geer (Republican ) (until January 15), George Chamberlain (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Governor of Pennsylvania : William A. Stone (Republican ) (until January 20), Samuel W. Pennypacker (Republican ) (starting January 20)Governor of Rhode Island : Charles D. Kimball (Republican ) (until January 3), Lucius F. C. Garvin (Democratic ) (starting January 3)Governor of South Carolina : Miles Benjamin McSweeney (Democratic ) (until January 20), Duncan Clinch Heyward (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Governor of South Dakota : Charles N. Herreid (Republican )Governor of Tennessee : Benton McMillin (Democratic ) (until January 19), James B. Frazier (Democratic ) (starting January 19)Governor of Texas : Joseph D. Sayers (Democratic ) (until January 20), S. W. T. Lanham (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Governor of Utah : Heber Manning Wells (Republican )Governor of Vermont : John G. McCullough (Republican )Governor of Virginia : Andrew Jackson Montague (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Henry McBride (Republican )Governor of West Virginia : Albert B. White (Republican )Governor of Wisconsin : Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (Republican )Governor of Wyoming : DeForest Richards (Republican ) (until April 28), Fenimore Chatterton (Republican ) (starting April 28)
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : vacant (until month and day unknown), Russell M. Cunningham (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of California : Jacob H. Neff (Republican ) (until January 6), Alden Anderson (Republican ) (starting January 6)Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : David C. Coates (Democratic ) (until January 13), Warren A. Haggott (Republican ) (starting January 13)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Edwin O. Keeler (Republican ) (until January 7), Henry Roberts (Republican ) (starting January 7)Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Philip L. Cannon (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Thomas F. Terrell (Democratic ) (until January 5), James M. Stevens (Republican ) (starting January 5)Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : William Northcott (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Newton W. Gilbert (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : John Herriott (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Harry E. Richter (Republican ) (until January 12), David J. Hanna (Republican ) (starting January 12)Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : vacant (until month and day unknown), William P. Thorne (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Albert Estopinal (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : John L. Bates (Republican ) (until January 8), Curtis Guild, Jr. (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Orrin W. Robinson (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Alexander Maitland (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Lyndon A. Smith (Republican ) (until January 5), Ray W. Jones (Republican ) (starting January 5)Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : James T. Harrison (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : John Adams Lee (Democratic ) (until April 25), Thomas Lewis Rubey (Democratic ) (starting April 25)Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Frank G. Higgins (political party unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : vacant (until January 8), Edmund G. McGilton (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : James R. Judge (political party unknown) (until January 5), Lemuel Allen (political party unknown) (starting January 5)Lieutenant Governor of New York : Frank W. Higgins (Republican ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Wilfred D. Turner (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : David Bartlett (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Harry L. Gordon (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : John P. S. Gobin (Republican ) (until January 20), William M. Brown (Republican ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : George L. Shepley (Republican ) (until January 3), Adelard Archambault (Democratic ) (starting January 3)Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : James H. Tillman (Democratic ) (until January 20), John Sloan (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : George W. Snow (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Newton H. White (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), E. T. Seay (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : James Browning (Democratic ) (until January 20), George D. Neal (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Zed S. Stanton (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Joseph Edward Willard (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : vacantLieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : vacant (until January 5), James O. Davidson (Republican ) (starting January 5)
January–March [ edit ] 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 December 1901).
January 21 – Section of Militia Affairs within the Adjutant General 's office.
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 14
February 15 – Morris and Rose Mitchom introduce the first teddy bear in America.
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 14 – The Hay–Herrán 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 30 – Queensboro Bridge opens. April–June [ edit ] July–September [ edit ] October–December [ edit ] December 17: Wright Flyer October – Frank Nelson Cole proves that 267 -1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying for every Sunday over three years.
October 1 – The first modern World Series pits the National League 's Pittsburgh against Boston of the American League .
November 2
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 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 19 – Williamsburg Bridge opens.
December 30 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 600. Undated [ edit ] 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 is made and sold for 5 cents. It contains 8 colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black.
Coca-Cola removes cocaine as a key ingredient from their formula; up to this time, it has contained approximately nine milligrams of cocaine per glass.Ongoing [ edit ] January 1 – Dwight Taylor , screenwriter and author (died 1986 )
January 27 – Otto P. Weyland , general (died 1979 )
March 7 – J. Allen Frear, Jr. , United States Senator from Delaware from 1949 till 1961. (died 1993 )
April 19 – Eliot Ness , American Prohibition agent (died 1957 )
May 3 – Bing Crosby , early crooner, singer of the hit, "White Christmas". (died 1977)
June 22 – John Dillinger , gangster in the Depression-era United States (died 1934 )
August 7 – Joseph H. Bottum , United States Senator from South Dakota from 1962 till 1963. (died 1984 )
October 6 – Brien McMahon , United States Senator from Connecticut from 1945 till 1952. (died 1952 ) January 4
January 28 – John B. Allen , U.S. Senator from Washington from 1889 to 1893 (born 1845 )
February 11 – Rachel Crane Mather , educator (born 1823 )
February 26 – Richard Jordan Gatling , inventor (born 1818 )
March 11 – Lou Graham , wealthy business woman and madame from Germany (born 1857 in Germany)
March 16 – Roy Bean , justice of the peace (born 1825 )[3]
March 20 – Charles Godfrey Leland , humorist, folklorist and poet (born 1824 )
March 29 – Gustavus Franklin Swift , businessman (born 1839 )
April 22 – Alexander Ramsey , 2nd Governor of Minnesota from 1860 to 1863 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1863 to 1875 (born 1815 )
April 28 – Josiah Willard Gibbs , physical chemist (born 1839 )
April 29 – Stuart Robson , stage actor and comedian (born 1836 )
May 29 – Bruce Price , architect (born 1845 )
July 2 – Ed Delahanty , baseball player (born 1867 )
July 3 – Harriet Lane , acting First Lady of the United States during James Buchanan 's presidency (born 1830 )
July 27 – Frederick J. Kimball , civil engineer (born 1844 )
August 1 – Calamity Jane , frontierswoman (born 1852 )
August 28 – Frederick Law Olmsted , landscape architect, journalist, social critic and public administrator (born 1822 )
September 23 – Charles B. Farwell , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1887 to 1891 (born 1823 )
September 28 – Edward Merritt Hughes , naval officer (b. 1850 )
October 6 – Wilson S. Bissell , politician, United States Postmaster General (born 1847 )
October 20 – Thomas Vincent Welch , politician (born 1850 )
November 3 – Eliza Hendricks , Second Lady of the United States as wife of Thomas A. Hendricks (born 1823 )
November 20 – Tom Horn , gunfighter and outlaw (born 1860 )
December 13 – Alexander McDonald , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1871 (born 1832 )
December 23 – Middleton P. Barrow , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1882 to 1883 (born 1839 ) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
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