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1903 was the year of the first transatlantic radio broadcast between the US and England. The teddy bear was introduced. The US took possession of Guantanamo Bay. Maurice Garin won the first Tour de France. Pope Pius X was crowned. Panama gained recognition for its independence from Colombia. The Wright Brothers made their first successful flight and the Curies won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Benjamin Spock, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Lou Gehrig, John Dillinger, Goerge Orwell, and Walker Evans were born in 1903. Paul Gauguin, James McNeill Whistler, and Pope Leo XIII died that year. | |||
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Revision as of 12:41, 4 April 2007
1903 was the 32nd year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.
Events
- Giuseppi Moretti began designing the statue of Vulcan
- Kelly Ingram entered the U. S. Navy
- March 31: Laura E. Burton graduated from the Louisville Medical College of the University of Kentucky
- April 1: Sterling Foster became pastor of South Highland Presbyterian Church
- September 1: The first official observation was taken at the Weather Forecast Office Birmingham
- November 10: Mary Anderson received a patent for windshield wipers.
Sports
- Alabama defeated Auburn 18-6 in the 1903 Iron Bowl
Buildings
Births
- April 25: John Wilson, baseball player
- April 26: Dorothy Sebastian, actress
Deaths
- William E. B. Davis, gynecologist
Context
1903 was the year of the first transatlantic radio broadcast between the US and England. The teddy bear was introduced. The US took possession of Guantanamo Bay. Maurice Garin won the first Tour de France. Pope Pius X was crowned. Panama gained recognition for its independence from Colombia. The Wright Brothers made their first successful flight and the Curies won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Benjamin Spock, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Lou Gehrig, John Dillinger, Goerge Orwell, and Walker Evans were born in 1903. Paul Gauguin, James McNeill Whistler, and Pope Leo XIII died that year.
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