Post by snacky on Dec 4, 2014 3:13:35 GMT
Last summer I did a post with a timeline for 1902 to show all the events that MM could cover this season. With all the talk about Christmas, I realize that the season crosses into 1903! D'oh! 
I still think it was a major fumble that MM didn't work with that famous Manhattan train wreck since it involved the change-over from steam to electricity, a big debate about the safety of mass transportation, the sensationalism of disaster and gruesome death in the Yellow Press and a major Trial by Media, and even an opportunity for William to get involved in the trial of a train engineer where the cards of Sentiment were stacked against the cold hard facts of Science. Writer dudes - how could you not squeeze every last historical drop out of this!!!
Welllll, anyway. For the good of our future speculation, here is a starter 1903 Timeline from Wikipedia. Feel free to add interesting dates from other comments in the sources.
January
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
February 11 – The Oxnard Strike of 1903 becomes the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from members of different races.
February 15 – Morris and Rose Michtom introduce the first teddy bear in the United States.
February 17 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
February 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" under the terms of the Cuban–American Treaty.
March
March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens.
March 3 – The British Admiralty announces plans to build a naval base at Rosyth.
March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign an agreement to build the Constantinople–Baghdad Railway.
March 12 – The University of Puerto Rico is founded.
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.
April
April 29 – A 30-million-m3 landslide kills 70-90 in Frank, Alberta.
May
May 4 – The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.
May 18 – The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens.
May 22 – The White Star Liner, SS Ionic, is launched.
May 24 – The Paris–Madrid race begins, during which at least eight people are killed.
June
June 11 – Serbian King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga are assassinated.
June 14 – The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood that kills an estimated 238 people.
June 27 – 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, “No. 9”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.
July
July 1–July 19 – First Tour de France bicycle race, won by Maurice Garin.
July 7 – The British take over the Fulani Empire.
July 23 – Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
July 29 – Explosion of a United States Cartridge Company magazine destroys 70 homes killing 22 residents of Tewksbury, Massachusetts.
July 30–August 23 (July 17–August 10, O.S.) – Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London.
August
August 2 – The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, organized by the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, breaks out in the Ottoman provinces of Macedonia and Adrianople.
August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.
August 10 – Paris Métro train fire takes place.
August 25 – The Judiciary Act is passed in the Australian parliament.
September
September 11 – The first stock car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile.
September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference.
September 15 – Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil
September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
September 27 – The Wreck of the Old 97 Fast Mail train at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia kills 11 people and inspires a ballad.
September 29 – Prussia becomes the first locality to require mandatory driver's licenses for operators of motor vehicles.
October
October – Frank Nelson Cole proves that 267-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying every Sunday for 3 years.
October 6 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the UK.
November
November 3 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from 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.
December
December 16 – Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay opens its doors to guests.
December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
December 30 – Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago kills 600.
Date unknown
The Lincoln–Lee Legion is established to promote the American temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence pledges by children.
The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for 5 cents. It contains 8 colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black.
Osea Island in Maldon, Essex, England is bought by Mr. Frederick Charrington.
This timeline is light on history of science. One thing that immediately came up is that Rutherford (at McGill University) named "Gamma" radiation in 1903. Part of the revolution in physics is actually taking place in Canada.
The race to explore the North and South poles is going on.
A woman won the nobel prize in physics! (Marie Curie).
One timeline gives 1903 as a date for the invention of the electrocardiogram (EKG) machine - though Wikipedia gives 1901, so I'm confused on that point.
Meanwhile the invention of forensics was credited back to 1902 Scotland Yard:
Scotland Yard scored 12 of the most important "firsts" in criminal detection, including the first "wanted" picture, the first use of a line-up, and the first convictions based on fingerprints (in 1902) and on ballistic evidence. Every forensic police division owes a huge debt to the pioneers at Scotland Yard.
Found this entry about the history of Sociology interesting:
1903 British Civil Service Typists' Association formed. All typists were (apparently) women. It merged with the Federation of Women Clerks in 1916 to form the Federation of Women Civil Servants.
1903 An Association to Promote the Higher Education of Working Men founded by Albert Mansbridge and his wife. Renamed the Workers Educational Association in 1905.
1903 to 1907, Edvard Alexander Westermarck, first Lecturer in Sociology at London School of Economics.
May 1903 George Griffith Sidelights on Convict Life
20.11.1903 Sociological Society formed at the London School of Economics. The original society had an international membership. America
The society sought to bring together, for debate, all with a scientific approach to society and social issues. Major issues in its early years included selective breeding, town planning and welfare. Based at the London School of Economics until 1920.
See Francis Galton at the Sociological Society.
Sociological Papers by F. Galton, E. Westermarck, P. Geddes, E. Durkheim, H.H. Mann and V.V. Branford published by Macmillan (London) for the Sociological Society.
I still think it was a major fumble that MM didn't work with that famous Manhattan train wreck since it involved the change-over from steam to electricity, a big debate about the safety of mass transportation, the sensationalism of disaster and gruesome death in the Yellow Press and a major Trial by Media, and even an opportunity for William to get involved in the trial of a train engineer where the cards of Sentiment were stacked against the cold hard facts of Science. Writer dudes - how could you not squeeze every last historical drop out of this!!!
Welllll, anyway. For the good of our future speculation, here is a starter 1903 Timeline from Wikipedia. Feel free to add interesting dates from other comments in the sources.
January
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
February 11 – The Oxnard Strike of 1903 becomes the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from members of different races.
February 15 – Morris and Rose Michtom introduce the first teddy bear in the United States.
February 17 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
February 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" under the terms of the Cuban–American Treaty.
March
March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens.
March 3 – The British Admiralty announces plans to build a naval base at Rosyth.
March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign an agreement to build the Constantinople–Baghdad Railway.
March 12 – The University of Puerto Rico is founded.
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.
April
April 29 – A 30-million-m3 landslide kills 70-90 in Frank, Alberta.
May
May 4 – The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.
May 18 – The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens.
May 22 – The White Star Liner, SS Ionic, is launched.
May 24 – The Paris–Madrid race begins, during which at least eight people are killed.
June
June 11 – Serbian King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga are assassinated.
June 14 – The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood that kills an estimated 238 people.
June 27 – 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, “No. 9”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.
July
July 1–July 19 – First Tour de France bicycle race, won by Maurice Garin.
July 7 – The British take over the Fulani Empire.
July 23 – Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
July 29 – Explosion of a United States Cartridge Company magazine destroys 70 homes killing 22 residents of Tewksbury, Massachusetts.
July 30–August 23 (July 17–August 10, O.S.) – Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London.
August
August 2 – The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, organized by the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, breaks out in the Ottoman provinces of Macedonia and Adrianople.
August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.
August 10 – Paris Métro train fire takes place.
August 25 – The Judiciary Act is passed in the Australian parliament.
September
September 11 – The first stock car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile.
September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference.
September 15 – Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil
September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
September 27 – The Wreck of the Old 97 Fast Mail train at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia kills 11 people and inspires a ballad.
September 29 – Prussia becomes the first locality to require mandatory driver's licenses for operators of motor vehicles.
October
October – Frank Nelson Cole proves that 267-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying every Sunday for 3 years.
October 6 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the UK.
November
November 3 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from 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.
December
December 16 – Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay opens its doors to guests.
December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
December 30 – Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago kills 600.
Date unknown
The Lincoln–Lee Legion is established to promote the American temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence pledges by children.
The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for 5 cents. It contains 8 colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black.
Osea Island in Maldon, Essex, England is bought by Mr. Frederick Charrington.
This timeline is light on history of science. One thing that immediately came up is that Rutherford (at McGill University) named "Gamma" radiation in 1903. Part of the revolution in physics is actually taking place in Canada.
The race to explore the North and South poles is going on.
A woman won the nobel prize in physics! (Marie Curie).
One timeline gives 1903 as a date for the invention of the electrocardiogram (EKG) machine - though Wikipedia gives 1901, so I'm confused on that point.
Meanwhile the invention of forensics was credited back to 1902 Scotland Yard:
Scotland Yard scored 12 of the most important "firsts" in criminal detection, including the first "wanted" picture, the first use of a line-up, and the first convictions based on fingerprints (in 1902) and on ballistic evidence. Every forensic police division owes a huge debt to the pioneers at Scotland Yard.
Found this entry about the history of Sociology interesting:
1903 British Civil Service Typists' Association formed. All typists were (apparently) women. It merged with the Federation of Women Clerks in 1916 to form the Federation of Women Civil Servants.
1903 An Association to Promote the Higher Education of Working Men founded by Albert Mansbridge and his wife. Renamed the Workers Educational Association in 1905.
1903 to 1907, Edvard Alexander Westermarck, first Lecturer in Sociology at London School of Economics.
May 1903 George Griffith Sidelights on Convict Life
20.11.1903 Sociological Society formed at the London School of Economics. The original society had an international membership. America
The society sought to bring together, for debate, all with a scientific approach to society and social issues. Major issues in its early years included selective breeding, town planning and welfare. Based at the London School of Economics until 1920.
See Francis Galton at the Sociological Society.
Sociological Papers by F. Galton, E. Westermarck, P. Geddes, E. Durkheim, H.H. Mann and V.V. Branford published by Macmillan (London) for the Sociological Society.
