January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of death September 11, 1903
The temperature on September 11, 1903 was between 6.3 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). Source: KNMI
February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
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