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1903
 
    
Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands, a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain       
1903
 
    
King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia are murdered in their palace by army officers       
1903
 
    
In a paper to a congress in Madrid, on the 'psychology and psychopathology of animals', Ivan Pavlov announces his discovery of the conditioned reflex       
1903
 
    
Henry James publishes The Ambassadors, the second of his three last novels written in rapid succession       
1903
 
     
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy identify the phenomenon of radioactive half-life        
1903
 
    
Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi       
1903
 
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Roger Casement, British consul in the Congo Free State, discovers appalling abuses by Belgian companies       
1903
 
     
Edwin S. Porter directs The Great Train Robbery, providing a big commercial success for Thomas Edison's film company        
1903
 
   
Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X      
1903
 
    
British philosopher G.E. Moore publishes Principia Ethica, an attempt to apply logic to ethics