Pictorial representation of various important events that happened in 1903 -- one in each month.
<ul><li>January: the election to the US Senate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Smoot" class="extiw" title="en:Reed Smoot">Reed Smoot</a></li>
<li>February: the creation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Commerce" class="extiw" title="en:United States Department of Commerce">Department of Commerce and Labor</a></li>
<li>March: Arbitrators in the Pennsylvania anthracite miners' strike find in favor of the miners.</li>
<li>April: in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Securities_Co._v._United_States" class="extiw" title="en:Northern Securities Co. v. United States">Northern Securities Co. v. United States</a></i>, the United States Supreme Court rules that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Securities_Company" class="extiw" title="en:Northern Securities Company">Northern Securities Company</a> is an illegal monopoly.</li>
<li>May: Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_W._Pennypacker" class="extiw" title="en:Samuel W. Pennypacker">Samuel W. Pennypacker</a> of Pennsylvania imposes limits on freedom of the press.</li>
<li>June: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Serbia" class="extiw" title="en:Alexander I of Serbia">King Alexander</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draga_Ma%C5%A1in" class="extiw" title="en:Draga Mašin">Queen Draga</a> of Serbia (or "Servia") are assassinated in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Coup_(Serbia)" class="extiw" title="en:May Coup (Serbia)">May Coup</a>.</li>
<li>July: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIII" class="extiw" title="en:Pope Leo XIII">Pope Leo XIII</a> dies.</li>
<li>August: General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_A._Miles" class="extiw" title="en:Nelson A. Miles">Nelson A. Miles</a> is forced to retire due to his age.</li>
<li>September: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain" class="extiw" title="en:Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a> resigns from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="en:Cabinet of the United Kingdom">Cabinet of the United Kingdom</a>.</li>
<li>October: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_boundary_dispute" class="extiw" title="en:Alaska boundary dispute">Alaska boundary dispute</a> is resolved.</li>
<li>November: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" class="extiw" title="en:Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> recognizes the independent government of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama" class="extiw" title="en:Panama">Panama</a>.</li>
<li>December: Christmas.</li></ul>
From <i>Tacoma Times</i>, Vol. 1, No. 8, Tuesday, December 29, 1903, page 3.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Bob_Satterfield_(cartoonist)" class="extiw" title="w:en:Bob Satterfield (cartoonist)"><span title="American cartoonist (1875-1958)">Bob Satterfield</span></a>
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1903-12-29
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