WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1903
Find out what all happened February to September 1903

A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada. (29. April 1903)

The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world. (11. September 1903)

Future Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia for three years. (9. July 1903)

Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". (23. February 1903)

Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway. (16. June 1903)

The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched. (29. August 1903)

The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood. (30. September 1903)

Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'. (4. July 1903)

The Ford Motor Company is incorporated. (16. June 1903)

The Ford Motor Company sells its first car. (23. July 1903)

The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor). (14. February 1903)

The Ford Motor Company ships its first car. (20. July 1903)

Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft. (31. March 1903)

Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga. (11. June 1903)

Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town. (3. August 1903)

In the May coup d'état, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization. (29. May 1903)

German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers. (18. August 1903)

The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt. (14. March 1903)

Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place. (2. August 1903)

In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women. (2. March 1903)