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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
Pax Brittanica
Dreyfus Affair

 

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.

 

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
Earl E. T. Smith	1903		1991
Michael Eddowes	1903		1992
Pierre Bonvoisin	1903		1982	Banker	Attended the first Bilderberg and three more. Father of Benoît de Bonvoisin
Robert Calkins	1903	US Lebanon Connecticut	July 1992
Charles Foulkes	3 January 1903	Stockton-on-Tees England	12 September 1969	Soldier
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
Gardner Cowles	31 January 1903		8 July 1985	Publisher Media mogul	US media mogul
Alberico Casardi	3 February 1903		1 March 1968	Diplomat
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	Surrey Sanderstead England	14 November 1990	Author Spook Journalist
Robert Strausz-Hupé	25 March 1903	Austria	24 February 2002	Diplomat Deep state functionary
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
Ugo La Malfa	16 May 1903	Italy Sicily Palermo	26 March 1979	Politician
Pasquale Saraceno	14 June 1903		13 May 1991	Economist Deep state operative	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	German politician
John Dillinger	22 June 1903	United States Indianapolis Indiana	22 July 1934	Machinist Clerk
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	Businessperson	German Chief of Department of Foreign Affairs of the Trade Unions. Attended two more Bilderbergs in the 1950s after the first one.
Alec Douglas-Home	2 July 1903	London 28 South Street Mayfair England	9 October 1995	Politician Deep politician	UK Prime Minister. Bilderberg chairman. Member of the Other Club
Kenneth Clark	13 July 1903	London England	21 May 1983	Author Broadcaster Art historian
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
Fahri Korutürk	3 August 1903	Turkey Constantinople	12 October 1987	Diplomat Politician Mariner
Marcello Mathias	15 August 1903		9 June 1999	Author Diplomat Politician	Portuguese diplomat
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 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.
Tekin Ariburun	3 October 1903	Turkey Ishtib	13 October 1993	Soldier Businessperson	Attended the 1959 Bilderberg as Commander of the Turkish Air Force. Briefly acting President of Turkey in 1973.
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

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