1903

This year has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years,
because the Gregorian calendar hasn't had a leap year for seven years or a
century leap year since 1600.

Events:

   * February 15 - Morris Michtom and his wife Rose 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 opens, becoming
     the first hotel exclusively for women.
   * 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 would later reject the treaty.
   * March 23 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of
     the first successful airplane.
   * March 31 - Richard Pearse reputedly flies a heavier than air machine in
     an uncontrolled powered flight, crash landing on a hedge. (Poorly
     documented.)
   * July 23 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago, Illinois becomes the first
     owner of a Ford Model A.
   * April 29 - 30,000,000 cubic metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta
   * August 4 - Pope Pius X elected
   * December 7 - Orville Wright flies aircraft with a petrol engine in
     first documented successful controlled powered flight.
   * December 30 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 600.

   * Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that chromosomes contain genes.

Births:

   * January 11 - Hans Redlich, composer (+1968)
   * January 16 - William Grover-Williams Grand Prix motor racing driver/war
     hero
   * January 18 - Werner Hinz, actor (+ 1985)
   * January 22 - Fritz Houtermans, physicist (+ 1966)
   * January 23 - Randolph Scott, actor (+ 1987)
   * January 27 - John Carew Eccles, psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in
     Physiology or Medicine 1963, (+ 1997)
   * February 2 - Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, mathematician (+ 1996)
   * February 5 - Eugen Weidmann, murderer (+ 1939)
   * February 6 - Claudio Arrau, pianist (+ 1991)
   * February 11 - Alan Paton, writer (+ 1988)
   * February 11 - Rex Lease, American actor (+1966)
   * February 13 - Georges Simenon, thriller writer (+ 1989)
   * February 16 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (+ 1978)
   * February 21 - Ana•s Nin, writer (+ 1977)
   * February 21 - Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (+ 1976)
   * February 22 - Frank P. Ramsey, mathematician (+ 1930)
   * February 22 - Morley Callaghan (+1990)
   * February 24 - Franz Burda, German publisher (+ 1986)
   * February 27 - Grethe Weiser, actress (+ 1970)
   * February 28 - Vincente Minnelli, director (+ 1986)
   * March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz trumpeter (+ 1931)
   * March 11 - Lawrence Welk, Champagne musicmaker (+ 1992)
   * March 18 - O. E. Plauen, illustrator and cartoonist (+ 1944)
   * April 3 - Peter Huchel, lyricist and author of radio plays (+ 1981)
   * April 6 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball player (+ 1962)
   * April 6 - Doc Edgerton, MIT professor of electrical engineering (+
     1990)
   * April 10 - Clare Boothe Luce, publisher, writer (+ 1987)
   * April 15 - John Williams, actor (+ 1983)
   * April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (+
     1987)
   * May 2 - Benjamin Spock, pediatrician (+ 1998)
   * May 3 - Bing Crosby, singer (+ 1977)
   * May 8 - Fernandel, actor (+ 1971)
   * May 20 - Barbara Hepworth, sculptor (+ 1975)
   * May 21 - Frank Sargeson, writer (+1982)
   * May 29 - Bob Hope, comedian (+ 2003)
   * June 6 - Aram Khachaturian, composer (+ 1978)
   * June 8 - Marguerite Yourcenar, writer (+ 1987)
   * June 12 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (+ 1925)
   * June 19 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (+ 1941)
   * June 21 - Al Hirschfeld, caricaturist (+ 2003)
   * June 25 - George Orwell, author (+ 1950)
   * June 25 - Pierre Brossolette, journalist, French Resistance (+ 1944)
   * July 1 - Amy Johnson, aviator (+ 1941)
   * July 2 - Olav V, King of Norway (+ 1991)
   * July 2 - Alec Douglas-Home, British prime minister (+ 1995)
   * July 13 - Kenneth Clark (+ 1983)
   * July 21 - Roy Neuberger, financier and art collector
   * August 7 - Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (+ 1972)
   * September 7 - Shimaki Kensaku, Japanese author (+ 1945)
   * September 9 - Phyllis Whitney, mystery writer
   * September 11 - Theodor Adorno (+ 1969)
   * September 13 - Claudette Colbert (+ 1996)
   * September 21 - Preston Tucker, designer of the Tucker automobile (+
     1956)
   * September 25 - Mark Rothko, painter (+ 1970)
   * October 4 - John Vincent Atanasoff (+ 1995)
   * October 1 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist (+ 1989)
   * October 28 - Evelyn Waugh, comic, satirical and tragic novelist (+
     1966)
   * November 2 - Edgard Potier, Belgian SOE agent, WW II hero (+ 1944)
   * November 3 - Walker Evans, (+ 1975)
   * November 7 - Konrad Lorenz, zoologist (+ 1989)
   * November 19 - Nancy Carroll, actress (+ 1965)
   * November 27 - Lars Onsager, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (+ 1976)
   * December 12 - Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian (+ 1997)
   * December 12 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (+ 1963)
   * December 24 - Joseph Cornell, sculptor (+ 1972)
   * December 28 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician (+
     1957)

Deaths:

   * January 28 - Robert Planquette, French musical composer (* 1850)
   * January 30 - Giustina Pecori-Su‡rez, third wife of Jerome Bonaparte (*
     1811)
   * February 7 - James Glaisher, meteorologist and aeronaut (* 1809)
   * February 11 - Henryk Szulc, composer (* 1836)
   * February 22 - Hugo Wolf, composer (* 1860)
   * February 26 - Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor (* 1818)
   * March 6 - Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris, French scholar (* 1839)
   * March 13 - George Granville Bradley (* 1821)
   * March 16 - Judge Roy Bean, Old West pioneer
   * March 28 - Emile Baudot, telegraph engineer (* 1845)
   * April 19 - Oliver Mowat, Premier of Ontario (* 1820)
   * April 28 - Willard Gibbs, physical chemist (* 1839)
   * May 9 - Paul Gauguin, Impressionist painter (* 1848)
   * June 19 - Herbert Vaughan, cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster (*
     1832)
   * July 11 - William Ernest Henley, poet, critic, and editor (* 1849)
   * July 17 - James McNeill Whistler, painter (* 1834)
   * July 20 - Pope Leo XIII (* 1810)
   * September 18 - Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher (* 1818)
   * November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar/historian (*
     1817)
   * November 12 - Camille Pissarro, painter (* 1830)
   * December 8 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (* 1820)

Nobel Prizes:

   * Physics - Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
   * Chemistry - Svante August Arrhenius
   * Medicine - Niels Ryberg Finsen
   * Literature - Bj¿rnstjerne Bj¿rnson
   * Peace - William Randal Cremer

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