April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Day of death March 7, 1903
The temperature on March 7, 1903 was between 1.7 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). Source: KNMI
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.
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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