Timeline August 1903

Events in August 1903 4

• 1822 – 1903 Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) Died 28 August 1903, aged 81 Frederick Law Olmsted was an American landscape architect widely regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture. He co-designed New York's Central Park and numerous other public parks and grounds across the United States. He died in Belmont, Massachusetts, on 28 August 1903.
• 1903 Bolsheviks and Mensheviks split Over a definition of membership At the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, held in Brussels until the Belgian police move it to London, the party divides over what a party member is. Lenin wants a small body of disciplined professional revolutionaries. Martov wants anyone who supports the programme and helps. Lenin wins a vote on the editorial board and claims the name Bolshevik, meaning majority, which he keeps for the next fifteen years regardless of whether he has one.
• 1903 US Championships 1903 Men: Laurie Doherty · Women: Elisabeth Moore Doherty — first non-American men's champion.
• 1903 Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising Macedonian and Thracian revolutionaries rise against Ottoman rule Beginning on 2 August 1903, the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization led a coordinated uprising against Ottoman authority in Macedonia and Thrace. Rebels briefly held the town of Kruu0161evo and declared a short-lived republic before Ottoman forces crushed the revolt within weeks. The uprising is commemorated as a foundational event in Macedonian national history.