WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1903
Find out what all happened April to November 1903

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

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

The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). (17. November 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)

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

Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices. (5. October 1903)

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

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

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

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)

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

The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone. (18. November 1903)

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

Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. (1. October 1903)

With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia. (3. November 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)

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