Editing 1903 (section)

===September===
{{Main|September 1903}}
* [[September]] &ndash; [[Texas State University]] in [[San Marcos, Texas]] opens as Southwest Texas Normal School.
* [[September 11]] &ndash; The first stock-car event is held at the [[Milwaukee Mile]].
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Joseph Chamberlain]] resigns as British [[Secretary of State for the Colonies|Colonial Secretary]] in order to campaign publicly for [[Imperial Preference]].
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense]] is founded in [[Porto Alegre]], [[First Brazilian Republic|Brazil]].
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Edmund Barton]] steps down as [[Prime Minister of Australia]] and is succeeded by [[Alfred Deakin]].
* [[September 27]] &ndash; The [[Wreck of the Old 97]] [[Fast Mail (Southern Railway train)|Fast Mail]] train at Stillhouse Trestle, near [[Danville, Virginia]], kills 11 people and inspires a ballad.<ref name="AlfredPScott">{{cite web | url = http://www.rosegill.com/Old97/Old97.pdf | title = Wreck of the Old 97: The Origins of a Modern Traditional Ballad | last = Scott | first = Alfred P. | year = 1965 | access-date = 2011-11-25 | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106030340/http://www.rosegill.com/Old97/Old97.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Prussia]] becomes the second jurisdiction to require mandatory [[driver's license]]s for operators of motor vehicles, after New York State in 1901.