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* Andrew Ainslie Common ( 1841 – 1903 ), built his own very large reflecting telescopes and demonstrated that photography could record astronomical features invisible to the human eye.
* 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev ( Bessarabia ) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.
* 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.
In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.
* 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
* Adrian ( costume designer ) ( 1903 – 1959 ), born Adrian Adolph Greenberg, costume designer for over 250 films
* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević
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" Anne Roe's papers are in the American Philosophical Society archives in Philadelphia ; those records ( as noted by Stephen Goranson on the American Dialect Society list 12 / 31 / 2008 ) identify the interviewed physicist as Howard Percy " Bob " Robertson ( 1903 – 1961 ).
The new name was unveiled on December 17, 2003, on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers ' first flight in 1903, the year that Bob Hope was born.
His brothers were Alec, known as " Sandy " by the family, who played for Ayr United and Clyde ; Jimmy ( 1902 – 1972 ), who played for various clubs including Sheffield United and Southend United ; John ( 1903 – 1960 ), who played for Portsmouth and Luton Town ; and Bob ( 1910 – 1982 ), who played for Alloa Athletic and Falkirk.
Along with Bob Emslie and Tim Hurst, he is one of only three umpires who umpired both before 1893, when the pitching distance was only 50 feet, and also after the NL and AL formally recognized one another as major leagues in 1903.
The seven Crosby children are: elder boys, Larry ( 1895 – 1975 ), Everett ( 1896 – 1966 ), Ted ( 1900 – 1973 ), Harry, ( 1903 – 1977, popularly known as Bing Crosby ), two girls, Catherine ( 1905 – 1988 ) and Mary Rose ( 1907 – 1990 ) and Bob.
Choynski also fought six-round draws with two other men who later claimed the heavyweight championship of the world: Bob Fitzsimmons on June 17, 1894, and Marvin Hart on November 16, 1903.
* Bob Hope ( 1903 – 2003 ), British-born American entertainer from Vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, movies and USO concerts
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The John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow | Earl of Hopetoun, the first Governor-General, 1901 – 1903
Other Alexander triumphs included The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, by Pinero ( 1893 ); The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope ( 1896 ); As You Like It ( 1896 ); Much Ado About Nothing ( 1898 ); Paolo and Francesca, by Stephen Phillips ( 1902 ); If I were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy ( 1902 ); Old Heidelberg, by Meyer Forster and Bleichmann ( 1903 ) and His House in Order, by Pinero ( 1906 ), to name only a few of the plays still remembered.
In 1903, du Toit was appointed as a geologist within the Geological Commission of the Cape of Good Hope, and he began to develop an extensive knowledge of the geology of southern Africa by mapping large portions of the Karoo and its dolerite intrusions, publishing numerous papers on the subject.
His other novels include The Phantom Future ( the only novel of his set entirely in England, 1889 ), The Slave of the Lamp ( 1892 ), From One Generation to Another ( 1892 ), The Sowers ( generally considered his best, set in Russia, where it was banned ) ( 1896 ), In Kedar's Tents ( 1897 ), Roden's Corner ( 1898 ), Suspense, Dross ( 1899 ), Slave of the Lamp, With Edged Tools ( a bestseller in 1894 ), Grey Lady, Isle of Unrest ( 1900 ), The Velvet Glove, The Vultures ( 1902 ), Queen ( 1903 ), Barlasch of the Guard ( 1903 ) and " The Last Hope " ( 1904 ).
The post of Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope was awarded the Royal Medal on two occasions ; the first to Thomas Maclear in 1869 for measurement of an arc of the meridian at the Cape of Good Hope and the second to David Gill in 1903 for researches in solar and stellar parallax, and his energetic direction of the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.
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Ray Noble ( 17 December 1903 – 3 April 1978 ) was an English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian, and actor.
Jerome Lester " Jerry " Horwitz ( October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952 ), better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American comedian and vaudevillian.
The poster features the famous cake walk with the character of the acclaimed comedian, Bert Williams, at the top of the cake. Based on the show's New York success, the producers of In Dahomey transferred the entire production to England, on April 28, 1903, with a staging at the Shaftesbury Theatre, followed by a provincial tour around England.
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