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The following events occurred in December 1903:

December 17, 1903: An American triumph
December 30, 1903: An American tragedy

December 1, 1903 (Tuesday)

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December 2, 1903 (Wednesday)

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December 3, 1903 (Thursday)

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December 4, 1903 (Friday)

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December 5, 1903 (Saturday)

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Sherlock Holmes confronts the criminal in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"

December 6, 1903 (Sunday)

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December 7, 1903 (Monday)

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December 8, 1903 (Tuesday)

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  • The New York Times reported that there was no truth to the story that Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria had murdered an actress.[80] However, later rumors suggested that the story was in fact true.[81] Archduchess Elisabeth Marie would give birth to a son on March 22, 1904.[82]
1903: Unsuccessful test flight of Langley Aerodrome

December 9, 1903 (Wednesday)

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December 10, 1903 (Thursday)

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December 11, 1903 (Friday)

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December 12, 1903 (Saturday)

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December 13, 1903 (Sunday)

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December 14, 1903 (Monday)

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  • Police discovered the body of 19-year-old domestic servant Mary Ann Worsman in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Bingley, England, the day after a man found her clothing, partially covered by cocoanut matting, near Swine Bridge. The case was believed to be a murder but would never be solved.[147]
  • In North Carolina, the Wright brothers made their first attempt at a powered flight with the Wright Flyer. Wilbur Wright won a coin toss to determine who would make the first flight, but the aircraft stalled and landed after climbing a few feet, sustaining slight damage.[124]
  • Born: Walter Rangeley, British Olympic sprinter; in Salford, Greater Manchester, England (d. 1982)[148]

December 15, 1903 (Tuesday)

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December 16, 1903 (Wednesday)

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December 17, 1903 (Thursday)

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Reverse of 2001 North Carolina quarter
  • Orville Wright flew an aircraft with a gasoline engine, the Wright Flyer, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the first documented and successful powered and controlled heavier-than-air flight, which lasted 12 seconds and covered a distance of 120 feet (37 m). The Wright brothers made three more flights, with Wilbur and Orville taking turns; the fourth flight, piloted by Wilbur, lasted 59 seconds and covered a distance of 852 feet (260 m). Before they could make a fifth flight, the aircraft was overturned by a gust of wind, destroying it.[124]
  • Born:

December 18, 1903 (Friday)

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December 19, 1903 (Saturday)

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Film clip of Williamsburg Bridge opening procession

December 20, 1903 (Sunday)

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December 21, 1903 (Monday)

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December 22, 1903 (Tuesday)

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December 23, 1903 (Wednesday)

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December 24, 1903 (Thursday)

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Scene design for Act I, Scene 1 in Parsifal (1903 Metropolitan Opera production)
Scene design for Act I Transformation Scene in Parsifal (1903 Metropolitan Opera production)

December 25, 1903 (Friday)

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December 26, 1903 (Saturday)

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  • Two days after the shooting of C. P. "Pig" Melton, a prominent white citizen of Pine Apple, Alabama, over a game of craps, an African American man, Arthur Stewart, was arrested on Christmas Day as an accessory to the crime. At about 4 a.m. on December 26, a lynch mob broke into the Pine Apple jail, knocked Stewart unconscious, poured kerosene on him and burned him alive. They then apparently set fire to the jail to destroy evidence, but the fire spread and destroyed 11 other buildings, causing $35,000 in damage. At a mass meeting on the evening of December 26, the citizens of Pine Apple requested a special term of court to try the members of the lynch mob.[245][246]
Sherlock Holmes demonstrates his boxing skills in "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist"
Aftermath of the East Paris train wreck

December 27, 1903 (Sunday)

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December 28, 1903 (Monday)

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December 29, 1903 (Tuesday)

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December 30, 1903 (Wednesday)

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  • In Troy, New York, a fire partially destroyed the Troy club, killing club residents Moses T. Clough and William Shaw and club guest Benjamin W. Kinney of Boston, Massachusetts.[292]
  • A fire at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, killed 602 people, the greatest death toll of any theater fire in the history of the United States. Most of the victims were women and children attending a matinee performance of the musical Mr. Blue Beard, starring Eddie Foy Sr.[293][294][295][296][297] According to fire survivor Frank Slosson, "The screams of the children for their mothers and mothers for their children I shall carry in my memory to my dying day."[295]
  • Due to the death of actor Jerome Sykes the previous day, the production of The Billionaires in which he was starring at the Illinois Theatre was canceled. Two victims of the Iroquois fire were members of the Billionaires cast who attended the Mr. Blue Beard performance: Harry Hudson (stage name of Clarence Burr Scott), 21, and Arthur Caville, 24. Will J. Davis, the manager of both the Iroquois and Illinois Theatres, was at Sykes' funeral when he received a telephone call informing him of the Iroquois fire.[298]
  • An executive session of leaders of the ongoing liveryman's strike in Chicago determined to permit burial of the dead from the Iroquois fire without obstruction.[299]
  • The body of famed American journalist Margaret Frances Sullivan, who had died on December 28, was taken to Detroit, Michigan, for burial. The news of the Iroquois fire overshadowed that of Sullivan's death, denying her the published tributes she might otherwise have received.[286]
  • Born: Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter; in Brodowski, São Paulo, Brazil (d. 1962, lead poisoning from paints)[300]
  • Died:

December 31, 1903 (Thursday)

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Panorama of the Iroquois Theatre the day after the fire

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