One of S. F. Edge's leading drivers, Miss Dorothy Levitt, was refused entry despite having been the ' first English-woman to compete in a motor race ' in 1903, and holding the ' Ladies World Land Speed Record '.

Edge's Napier motor yacht 1903

* 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.

The Norwegian author Hans Jæger's trilogy The Erotic Confessions of the Bohemians ( 1893 – 1903 ) is written in a Norwegian form of eye dialect.

The photograph, Figure 1 of the completed frieze, shows how, having been separated from his fellows in useless isolation for eighty years, he has now been given a hand, and by juxtaposition ( and the permission of the Committee ), given a new job, to represent the witnesses of the first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.

In 1903 he emigrated to Montreal, Canada, but soon relocated to Chicago, Illinois to work for Hull Laboratory.

* 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

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

In yet another coup d ' état, he suspended ( March 1903 ) the constitution for half an hour, time enough to publish the decrees by which the old senators and councillors of state were dismissed and replaced by new ones.

Carnegie contributed $ 1, 500, 000 in 1903 for the erection of the Peace Palace at The Hague ; and he donated $ 150, 000 for a Pan-American Palace in Washington as a home for the International Bureau of American Republics.

The two men enjoyed a mutual respect for one another and maintained correspondence until Spencer ’ s death in 1903.

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

* Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary ( May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903 ), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok.

The Arrhenius definition of acid – base reactions is a development of the hydrogen theory of acids, devised by Svante Arrhenius, which was used to provide a modern definition of acids and bases that followed from his work with Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald in establishing the presence of ions in aqueous solution in 1884, and led to Arrhenius receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 for " recognition of the extraordinary services ... rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation ".

The new Scottish Proprium sanctioned for the Roman Catholic province of St Andrews in 1903 contains many of the old Aberdeen collects and antiphons.

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

The Wright brothers made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and were distinguished by their ability to control their flights for substantial periods ( more so than the ability to produce lift from an airfoil, which was known ).

Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

Cutter completed and published an introduction and schedules for the first six classifications of his new system ( Expansive Classification: Part I: The First Six Classifications ), but his work on the seventh was interrupted by his death in 1903.

The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.

The crystal detector was developed into a practical device for wireless telegraphy by Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, who invented a silicon crystal detector in 1903 and received a patent for it on November 20, 1906.

* 1903: Two first diesel-powered ships were launched, both for river and canal operations: Petite-Pierre in France, powered by Dyckhoff-built diesels, and Vandal tanker in Russia, powered by Swedish-built diesels with an electrical transmission.

He got his first job in 1903 as a publicity manager for the Citizens ' Union.

She surpassed his expectations by winning her class in the 1903 Southport Speed Trial, and proved such a good driver that she was taken on by De Dion for a major publicity stunt.

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

The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when an American woman named Elizabeth ( Lizzie ) J. Magie Phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of Henry George ( it was intended to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies ).

The creek to the east of the bridge was filled in with material from the quarries at Cattedown and Oreston during the late 1890s and the ground created became a municipal park, Victoria Park, which was officially opened in 1903.

The Militia Act of 1903 divided what had been the militia into what it termed the " organized " militia, created from portions of the former state guards to become state National Guard units, and the " unorganized " militia consisting of all males from ages 17 to 45, with the exception of certain officials and others, which is codified in.

In 1903, the U. S. Congress created the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice ( NBPRP ), an advisory board to the Secretary of the Army, with a nearly identical charter to the NRA.

* Lloydminster, Canada, on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border, was formed as a single entity in 1903, when both future provinces were part of the Northwest Territories, but was divided into two separate entities in 1905 because the border between the newly created provinces bisected the community.

The National Guard was established as a reserve component with the Militia Act of 1903 under Title 10 and Title 32 of the U. S. Code The National Defense Act of 1947 created the Air Force as a separate branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and concurrently created the Air National Guard as one of its reserve components, mirroring the Army's component structure.

L ' Auto in turn created the Tour de France race in 1903.

The department was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903.

Brooklyn Bridge is based on the true story of the family that created the teddy bear in Brooklyn in 1903.

Bowman County was created by the 1883 Dakota Territory legislature but eliminated in 1903 due to a lack of settlement.

It was created in 1903 from Chaves and Guadalupe counties and named for President Theodore Roosevelt.

The American Power Boat Association ( APBA ) is a New York non-profit, membership owned corporation that was created in 1903 by an act of the New York legislature as a racing association for powerboats.

Portions of the township were taken to form Brick Township in the newly created Ocean County ( February 15, 1850 ), Wall Township ( March 7, 1851 ) and Farmingdale, ( April 8, 1903 ).

The San Angelo City Park system was created in 1903.

In March 1903, the Seabrook Company of Houston created a layout of the proposed Seabrook Town site.

In 1903, Congress transferred the Bureau of Immigration to the newly created ( now-defunct ) Department of Commerce and Labor, and on June 10, 1933 the agency was established as the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Midtgulen sub-parish was created in 1903 and Bremangerpollen in 1908.

The first group of Korean laborers came to Hawaii in January 1903 to fill in gaps created by problems with Chinese and Japanese laborers.

To counter what he perceived to be the evils of imperialism, in 1903 he created the Ligue nationaliste canadienne to instill a pan-Canadian nationalist spirit in the Francophone population.

The town of Mexicali was officially created on 14 March 1903 when Manuel Vizcarra was named as the town's first authority and assistant judge ( juez auxiliar ).

* Adolphe Clément-Bayard, an entrepreneur who created the Clément-Bayard auto-mobile company in honour of the knight in 1903, and then added Bayard to his family name in 1908.

The boundary of the North-Western Territory in this region, and likewise the Stickeen Territories created from it, south of and northwards from the Stikine, had been set as " ten marine leagues " from the sea, but this remained undefined until the Alaska Boundary Settlement of 1903.

Its border spanned two of Panama's provinces and was created on November 18, 1903, with the signing of the Hay – Bunau-Varilla Treaty.