1903 q1January02 - Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.
05 - San Francisco-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use.
06 - Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam.
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09 - Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase American League Baltimore franchise for $18,000 and move it to New York City Yankees.
09 - Wind Cave National Park, SD established.
12 - Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170.
12 - Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam.
19 - New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced.
19 - 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US and England.
21 - Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam.
28 - Jean Robert Planquette, composer, dies at 54.
29 - Dutch railroad workers strike.
February03 - Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa.
14 - US Dept of Commerce and Labor forms.
15 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom.
21 - Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC.
23 - Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA.
24 - US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
26 - Richard J Gatling, US inventor Gatling Gun, dies at 84.
28 - Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000.
March02 - Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC.
03 - North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses.
05 - Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn.
10 - Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine.
14 - WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass," premieres in Dublin.
14 - 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL.
22 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought.
23 - Wright brothers obtain airplane patent.
26 - American Hotel opens in Amsterdam.
31 - Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (NZ).
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