In 1903 there was a substantial increase in the number of women film several minutes long unclear, as a result of the great popularity of Georges Méliès ’ le Voyage dans la lune ( A Trip to the Moon ), which came out in early 1902, though such films were still a very minor part of production.

As part of the so-called Banana Wars all around the Caribbean, Honduras saw the insertion of American troops in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924 and 1925.

* 1903 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.

He became captain of HMS Drake, part of the Cruiser Squadron, in August 1903.

In 1903, a short-lived Kruševo Republic was proclaimed in the south-western part of present-day Republic of Macedonia by the rebels of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.

* 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.

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

With the Militia Act of 1903, part of the militia was federalized and renamed the National Guard and organized as a Reserve force for the Army ; this is the official founding of the National Guard.

In 1902 British forces entered the territory, proclaiming British overrule and jurisdiction in 1903, initially as part of the Transvaal.

" When he was asked about his ancestry, he would always reply " Alsace-Lorraine, Germany ," from where his forebears had emigrated to Russia ( and which, at the time of Welk's birth in 1903, had become part of the German Empire ).

The German part of the Wadden Sea was the setting for the 1903 Erskine Childers novel The Riddle of the Sands.

In 1903 a small portion of the southeast part of Dale county was joined to the newly-formed Houston County.

Many of these were executed at the early part of the twentieth century ; and include the Rose Boudoir at the International Exhibition at Turin in 1903, the designs for House for an Art Lover in 1900, and the Willow Tea Rooms in 1902.

Under Worrall's guidance in the latter part of the 1902 season, Carlton's on-field performances improved, and in 1903 he led Carlton the finals for the first time.

During 1901 – 1903, The Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway, which later became part of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway was the first to build a track in the county.

* Municipal Borough of Hornsey for the local government unit of which Muswell Hill was part from 1903 – 1965

Another line, part of the New York Central Railroad, was built through the area in 1903 ; locally, it ran northeast from Danville into Warren County, then turned north through the small towns of Sloan and Stewart and continued north into Benton County.

Originally part of Henry County, Dothan became the county seat of the newly formed Houston County on May 9, 1903.

A branch of the Henry County Courthouse was located here from 1889 until Columbia became part of Houston County in 1903.

The railway became part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1903.

* Forward was the name of a rural post office in the eastern part of Riverside Township at at the junction of Forward Road and Meyering Road and operated from October 10, 1903 until January 15, 1908.

One of the town's oldest buildings is the Martinustoren ( St. Martin's Tower ), dating from around 1500 and the only remaining part of a church demolished in 1903.

Most of the other buildings are Victorian or later and include: St. Alban Quad ( or " Stubbins "), designed by Basil Champneys, built on the site of the medieval St. Alban Hall ( elements of the older façade are incorporated into the part that faces onto Merton Street ); the Grove building, built in 1864 by William Butterfield but " chastened " in the 1930s ; the buildings beyond the Fellows ' Garden called " Rose Lane "; several buildings north of Merton Street, including a real tennis court, and the Old Warden's Lodgings ( designed by Champneys in 1903 ); and a new quadrangle in Holywell Street, some distance away from the college.

The Swineford name is still used by the Swineford National Bank, which was founded in Swineford in 1903 and is listed as a part of the Fulton Financial Family in 2009.

In 1903, she donated a parcel of real estate she owned to the church, under the instruction that it be made into a home for " aged and indigent colored people.

Gibbs was a careful investor and financial manager, and at his death in 1903 his estate was valued at $ 100, 000.

In 1903, the Shorb estate was purchased by Henry E. Huntington ( 1850 – 1927 ), and in 1913 the three primary ranchos of Wilson, Patton, and Huntington, together with the subdivided areas from those and smaller ranchos, such as Stoneman, White, and Rose, were incorporated as the city of San Marino.

In April 1903, the ex-Conklin estate and historic Conklin family cemetery was sold to Bishop Charles Edward McDonnell of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, who resumed the bottling of spring water from the Colonial Spring.

Between 1898 and 1903, Lind grew immensely to a population of about 600 and saw the opening of many more stores, restaurants, a bank, real estate offices and a newspaper, The Lind Leader.

The estate was purchased in 1903 by the millionaire Solly Joel, well known in horse racing circles, who had a racecourse on the estate, the racecourse was demolished during the first world war and the grandstand was re-erected at Newbury Racecourse.

* Solomon Joel ( 1865 – 1931 ; businessman owner of Maiden Erlegh estate from 1903 )

As a local politician, Burns is particularly noted for his role in the creation of Battersea's Latchmere Estate, the first municipal housing estate built using a council's own direct labour force, officially opened in 1903.

It was added to George Lauder Carnegie's " Plum Orchard " estate on Cumberland Island, Georgia, in the winter of 1903 / 04, and is now owned by the National Park Service.

In 1903 Kents Cavern, then part of Lord Haldon's estate, was sold to Francis Powe, a carpenter who originally used the caves as a workshop while making beach huts for the Torquay sea front.

* Seth Ward ( businessman ) ( 1820 – 1903 ), parlayed an Oregon Trail supply business into large Kansas City real estate holdings including the Country Club Plaza and for whom Ward Parkway is named

Subsequently, when General Red Jackson died in March, 1903, his portion of the Belle Meade estate was left to his son, William Harding Jackson ( I ) who, in turn, died just 4 months later in July, 1903 ; leaving the estate to Selene Elliston, the Catholic Church and his son, William Harding " Bill " Jackson ( II ), ( then age 2 ) -- all of which was to be administered by James B. Richardson, Executor.

After his father's business collapsed in 1903, Tan started his own business and built an empire from rubber plantations and manufacturing, sawmills, canneries, real estate, import and export brokerage, ocean transport to rice trading.

The Leigh family continued to own Luton Hoo until 1903, when on the death of John Leigh's daughter-in-law, who had late in life married Christian de Falbe, the Danish ambassador to England, the estate was sold to the diamond magnate, Sir Julius Wernher.

The Adairs disposed of most of their Ballymena estate to the occupying tenants in 1904, under the provisions of the Irish Land Act of 1903.

He never missed a party attended by Miss Eva Bowlby, whom he had met in March 1903 when his ship had put in at Knoydart, her father's Scottish estate.

On Frederick's death in 1903, the property was sold to a consortium of real estate developers who had plans to demolish the house and subdivide the land.

The estate was purchased in the late 19th century by St. Louis banker George H. Walker, with a mansion being built in 1903.

In 1903, Boston businessman Arioch Wentworth left the bulk of his estate, estimated at $ 7 million, for the purpose of founding an industrial school within the city.

In the first decade of the 20th century, Col. Snowden and his sons John and Robert built two subdivisions on the estate, Annesdale Park ( 1903 ), claimed to be the first in the South, and Snowden Homestead ( 1910 ).