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( 1900s: )     1903
The Wright Flyer,a heavier than air craft first flew in 1903.

Events

• January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
• January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been made in 1901).
• February 13 – Venezuelan crisis: After agreeing to arbitration in Washington, Britain, Germany and Italy reach a settlement with Venezuela, resulting in the Washington Protocols. The naval blockade that began in 1902 will end.
• February 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
• March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign an agreement to build the Constantinople–Baghdad Railway.
• March 14 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate later rejects the treaty.
• June 11 (May 29 O.S.) – Serbian King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga are assassinated in Belgrade, by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• June 16 – The Ford Motor Company is founded by Henry Ford with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors. The first president is not Ford, but local banker John S. Gray, who is chosen to assuage investors' fears that Ford would leave the new company the way he had left its predecessor.
• July 7 – The British take over the Fulani Empire.
• July 30–August 23 – The Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party is held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London.
• August 2 – The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, organized by the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, breaks out in the Ottoman provinces of Macedonia and Adrianople.
• September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference.
• November 3 – Separation of Panama from Colombia: With the 'encouragement' of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent of Colombia.
• November 13 – The United States recognizes the independence of Panama.
• November 17 – The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
• November 18 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the U.S. exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
• November 23 – Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Dreyfus Affair	November 1894	1906

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
The Bolsheviks		Politics	The majority faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
Mensheviks			One of the three dominant factions in the Russian socialist movement before 1917, tending to be more liberal.
Hubert Burda Media
Western Michigan University		Public	Public university in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Ford Motor Company			American multinational automobile manufacturer

 

New Website

Event	Image	URL	Description
South China Morning Post		https://www.scmp.com/	Newspaper based in Hong Kong

 

==A Quotation== 

A Death

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil	3 February 1830	22 August 1903	Hatfield UK	Politician	Three time UK Prime Minister

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Frank Mitchell	1903		1978	Propagandist	UK propagandist, headed the news division of the British Information Services in New York 1947-1952
Earl E. T. Smith	1903		1991
Michael Eddowes	1903		1992
Pierre Bonvoisin	1903		1982	Banker Belgian nobility	Attended the first Bilderberg and three more. Société Générale de Belgique. Councilor to King Baudouin. Father of Benoît de Bonvoisin
Robert Calkins	1903	US Lebanon Connecticut	July 1992
Charles Foulkes	3 January 1903	United Kingdom Stockton-on-Tees	12 September 1969	Soldier	Canadian soldier who attended the 1961 Bilderberg
André Voisin	7 January 1903	France Dieppe	21 December 1964	Chemist Farmer	French chemist who attended the first Bilderberg and two others. Died suddenly of a heart attack in Cuba
Alan Paton	11 January 1903	Natal Pietermaritzburg	12 April 1988	Author Activist
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán	23 January 1903		9 April 1948	Politician	Colombian presidential candidate assassinated by the CIA in 1948
Gardner Cowles	31 January 1903	US Iowa Algona	8 July 1985	Media mogul Media executive	US media mogul involved with a number of CIA-front organizations. Attended the 1954 Bilderberg Conference.
Alberico Casardi	3 February 1903	Siena	1 March 1968	Diplomat	Italian diplomat. Unlike many NATO Deputy Secretary Generals, he is not suspected to have been a Bilderberg member.
Nathan Witt	11 February 1903	New York United States	16 February 1982	Spook Lawyer
Christopher Steel	12 February 1903		17 September 1973
Huntington D. Sheldon	14 February 1903	Connecticut Greenwich	19 May 1987	Spook Banker Pilot	As Director of the Office of Current Intelligence, Sheldon briefed three Presidents with the became the President's Daily Brief
Orde Wingate	26 February 1903		24 March 1944	Soldier Special forces
Clare Boothe Luce	10 March 1903	New York United States	9 October 1987	Author Politician
Malcolm Muggeridge	24 March 1903	United Kingdom Surrey Sanderstead	14 November 1990	Author Spook Journalist
Robert Strausz-Hupé	25 March 1903	Austria	24 February 2002	Diplomat Deep state functionary	Austrian-born U.S. diplomat and geopolitical theorist
Jan Tinbergen	12 April 1903	Netherlands The Hague	9 June 1994	Academic Economist	Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969
Hans Jonas	10 May 1903	Germany Kingdom of Prussia Mönchengladbach	5 February 1993	Philosopher	German-born American Jewish philosopher
Ugo La Malfa	16 May 1903	Italy Sicily Palermo	26 March 1979	Politician	Italian politician
Ralph Yarborough	8 June 1903	US Texas Chandler Henderson County		Politician Lawyer
Pasquale Saraceno	14 June 1903		13 May 1991	Economist Deep state operative	Italian Christian Democrat economist. Very unusual Bilderberg Steering committee member in that he only attended a single Bilderberg.
Felix von Eckardt	18 June 1903	Germany Berlin	11 May 1979	Journalist Politician Deep state operative	Important aide to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
John Dillinger	22 June 1903	United States Indianapolis Indiana	22 July 1934	Criminal	Dillinger destroyed thousands of mortgage records during his bank robberies. J. Edgar Hoover used Dillinger and his gang as his campaign platform to evolve the BOI into the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Paul Martin Sr	23 June 1903		14 September 1992	Diplomat Politician	Bilderberg, as was his son
George Orwell	25 June 1903	India Motihari Bengal Presidency	21 January 1950	Author Journalist
Ludwig Rosenberg	29 June 1903	Charlottenburg	23 October 1977	Union organizer	German-Jewish trade unionist. Worked in the International Department of the British Foreign Office during World War 2 during exile. Attended two more Bilderbergs in the 1950s after the first one. Leader of the German Trade Union Confederation 1962-1969.
Alec Douglas-Home	2 July 1903	London United Kingdom 28 South Street Mayfair	9 October 1995	Politician Deep politician	UK Prime Minister. Bilderberg chairman. Member of the Other Club
Kenneth Clark	13 July 1903	London United Kingdom	21 May 1983	Author Broadcaster Art historian	British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster.
Carlos Prio	14 July 1903	Cuba Bahia Honda	5 April 1977	Politician HSCA/Premature deaths	Ex-Cuban president "suicided" before testifying before the House Select Committee on Assassinations
Estes Kefauver	26 July 1903	Tennessee Madisonville	10 August 1963	Politician	US Senator who partially exposed organized crime - was at the same time blackmailed by the Chicago mob.
Fahri Korutürk	3 August 1903	Turkey Istanbul	12 October 1987	Diplomat Politician Mariner	Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician who was president of Turkey 1973-1980. Presided over the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
Marcello Mathias	15 August 1903	Portugal Lisbon	9 June 1999	Author Diplomat Politician	Estado Novo Portuguese diplomat who attended Bilderberg/1962 and Bilderberg/1963.
Harold Goulding	21 August 1903	West Hartlepool	4 August 1945	Spook Mariner	Master mariner, spook and commander of the Special Boat Unit Headquarters who carried out "very secret work". Interest centers on the final month of the war, when Goulding was purportedly posted to Cardiff. Died of meningitis in an Edinburgh hospital 3 months later after another unexpected posting to Scotland.
Auguste Cool	28 August 1903	Belgium Sint-Niklaas	7 January 1983	Leader of the Labour Party Deep state operative	Belgian anti-communist labour leader and suspected deep state operative.
William Walton Butterworth	7 September 1903		31 March 1975	Diplomat	American diplomat to China, and to Canada during the 1963 regime change.
Bernice Eddy	30 September 1903		24 May 1989	Virologist
Tekin Ariburun	3 October 1903	Turkey Ishtib	13 October 1993	Soldier Businessperson	Attended the 1959 Bilderberg as Commander of the Turkish Air Force. Retired in 1960 because he was against the military coup. Briefly acting President of Turkey in 1973.
Ferenc Nagy	8 October 1903	Austria-Hungary Bisse	12 June 1979	Politician	Prime Minister of Hungary 1946-1947
Charles P. Cabell	11 October 1903	Dallas Texas	25 May 1971	Spook
Etienne de la Vallee Poussin	23 November 1903	Belgium Brussels	4 October 1996	Politician	Belgian politician who attended the first Bilderberg and three more in the 1950s
Livingston T. Merchant	23 November 1903		15 May 1976	Diplomat Deep state operative	Twice US Ambassador to Canada
Chet Holifield	3 December 1903		6 February 1995	Politician Businessperson	Double Bilderberger US politician. Strong proponent of all matters nuclear
James Russell Wiggins	4 December 1903	Minnesota Luverne	19 November 2000	Diplomat Editor
Sherman Kent	6 December 1903		11 March 1986	Spook Academic

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