1903

Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

Erskine Childers, Riddle of the Sands

Pogroms in Russia.

Panamanian independence from Colombia; treaty with U.S. to build Panama Canal.

Curies discover properties of radium.

December 17: Wright Brothers achieve flight in Kitty Hawk, South Carolina.[1]

  1. ↑See Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century (HarperCollins, 2001), pp. 14-20.

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