WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO AUGUST 1903
Find out what all happened March to August 1903

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

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

Start of first Tour de France bicycle race. (1. July 1903)

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

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

The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty. (14. March 1903)

Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic. (22. May 1903)

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

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

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

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

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

Battle of Ciudad Bolívar, a victory of federal army of Juan Vicente Gómez over forces of general Nicolás Rolando. (21. July 1903)

Philippine–American War officially is concluded. (4. July 1903)

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

The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world. (19. April 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)

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