WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1903
Find out what all happened January to September 1903

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

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

Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France. (19. July 1903)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.[citation needed ] (18. January 1903)

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

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

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

Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign. (4. January 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)

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

Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name. (27. September 1903)

Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. (9. January 1903)