LIFE 1903 (Currently Out of Stock)

Historical Highlights from 1903:

• Henry Ford organizes Ford Motor Company.
• The Wright brothers make their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• The first box of Crayola crayons was made and sold for 5 cents. It contained 8 colors.
• Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
• The first Tour de France bicycle race, Maurice Garin wins.
• 8:05pm on May 16 : Luna Park, Coney Island, New York, opens.
• Morris and Rose Mitchom introduce the first teddy bear in America.
• A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 600.
• The US gets exclusive rights to the Canal Zone in newly independent Panama.