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1903
 
    
The first World Series is played between nine leading baseball teams from the National League and the American League       
1903
 
    
Britain's first national motor show is organized at the Crystal Palace, moving two years later to Olympia       
1903
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston        
1903
 
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The USA is granted exclusive control in perpetuity of a ten-mile corridor across Panama, suitable for a canal      
1903
 
    
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera       
1903
 
     
Work begins on England's first garden city, at Letchworth, based on the theories of Ebenezer Howard        
1903
 
     
Orville Wright travels 40 yards in the first successful powered flight, at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina        
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1903
 
    
The annual Prix Goncourt is established in France, in accordance with the will of Edmond de Goncourt       
1903
 
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Radnor House and grounds are opened to the public. See in Google maps   
1904
 
    
Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet in a historic encounter in Manchester and launch their first car, the Rolls-Royde 10 hp, later in this same year.