In 1903, the British sportswriter Henry Chadwick published an article speculating that baseball derived from a British game called rounders, which Chadwick had played as a boy in England.

The 1903 article The Refutation of Idealism is one of the first demonstrations of Moore's commitment to analysis.

* 1903 illustrated article – The Days Work in Kew Gardens

* Jan. 4, 1903: Edison Fries an Elephant to Prove His Point – Wired article about Edison's " macabre form of a series of animal electrocutions using AC.

* 1903 illustrated article The Most Famous Press in the World

This article was taken from the Jewish Encyclopedia ( 1903 ).

For example, the editors at the Dayton Herald, ( in an article of December 18, 1903 ) described the Wright brothers ' first airplane as thus: " The weight, including the body of the aviator, is slightly over 700 pounds ".

He later became involved in a literary debate known as the nature fakers controversy, after John Burroughs published an article in 1903 in the Atlantic Monthly attacking writers of sentimental animal stories.

* 1903 illustrated article

* For an academic article relating to the Tibet Mission read: Carrington, Michael: " Officers Gentlemen and Thieves: The Looting of Monasteries during the 1903 / 4 Younghusband Mission to Tibet ", Modern Asian Studies 37, 1 ( 2003 ), PP 81 – 109.

The Domitii Ahenobarbi-In the same 1903 article, von Domaszewski also proposed that the last family on the South Wall is that of the father of the emperor Nero ( born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ).

In 1903 he published an article in Nature in which he discussed the possibility of using radium to date the Earth and went on to study the radioactive content of the Earth's crust in order to formulate a theory of thermal cycles, and examined the radioactive constutuents of certain rocks as a means of calculating their age.

*' The Colonisation of a Dried River Bed ' - PDF file of Marie Stopes ' 1903 article

Roerich, expressing his feelings for the state of their protection, wrote in his article “ Along the old times ” ( 1903 ): “ Last summer I had an occasion to see many our true antique and little love to it ”.

* 1903 illustrated article with photo of Bonar Law

The first modern scholar to reconstruct the history of the ancient polity of Funan was Paul Pelliot, who in his ground-breaking article " Le Fou-nan " of 1903 drew exclusively on Chinese historical records in order to set forth the sequence of documented events connecting the foundation of Funan in approximately the 1st century C. E.

* 1903 illustrated article with photo of Petty-Fitzmaurice

In 1903 Peano published the article De Latino Sine Flexione to introduce his language, by quoting a series of suggestions by Leibniz about a simplified form of Latin.

Later works by him in this field included: Shakespeare's Sonnets ( 1881 ), Passionate Pilgrim ( 1883 ), Introduction to Shakespeare ( 1893 ), Hamlet ( 1899 ), Romeo and Juliet ( 1900 ), Cymbeline ( 1903 ), and his article ( in the National Review, July 1902 ) on " Shakespeare as a Man of Science ", criticizing T. E.

Claims for Whitehead's best-known reported manned powered flights depend largely on a newspaper article that said he achieved the feat in Connecticut in August 1901, and on an unsigned Scientific American article in September 1903 describing Whitehead making short flights low to the ground in a motorized triplane originally designed as a glider.

The article also reported that in early 1903 Whitehead built a 200 horsepower eight-cylinder engine, intended to power a new aircraft.

A full-page article in the 19 September 1903 Scientific American told of Whitehead making powered flights.

" The engine shown in the September 1903 article was the engine exhibited by Whitehead at the Second Annual Exhibit of the Aero Club of America in December 1906 that was shown in the photo between the Curtiss and Wright engines.

* 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.

* 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player ( d. 1962 )

* 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer ( d. 1990 )

* 1903 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize ( d. 1994 )

* 1903 – Ferenc Keserű, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1968 )

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

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.

* 1903 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician ( d. 2000 )

* 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

* 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.

* 1876 – Alexander I of Serbia ( d. 1903 )

* Adrian ( costume designer ) ( 1903 – 1959 ), born Adrian Adolph Greenberg, costume designer for over 250 films

* Adrian Rollini ( 1903 – 1956 ), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music

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

* 1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist ( d. 1978 )

* 1903 – Lewis Sargent, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1826 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist ( d. 1903 )

* 1903 – Arpad Elo, American chess player, created the Elo rating system ( d. 1992 )

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