1903

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1903 was the 32nd year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

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1908 was the first year of the 20th century. Queen Victoria died and the Commonwealth of Australia was founded. Oil was discovered near Beaumont, Texas. William McKinley began his second term as President in January and was assassinated in September. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt took office. He caused a backlash by inviting Booker T. Washington to the White House. The first Nobel Prize was awarded. The first trans-Atlantic radio signal was received. Picasso entered his "blue period". Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Louis Armstrong, Ed Sullivan, and Walt Disney were born. Giuseppi Verdi and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died.