Editing 1903 (section)

===June===
{{Main|June 1903}}
[[File:AleksandarObrenovic.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[June 11]]: [[Alexander I of Serbia|Alexander I]]]]
* c. June &ndash; [[Osea Island]] off [[Maldon, Essex]], England, is bought by [[Frederick Nicholas Charrington]] to provide an alcohol addiction treatment centre.<ref>{{cite news|title=Osea Island: Mr. F. N. Charrington's Teetotal Paradise|newspaper=The Eastern Post|location=London|date=6 June 1903|page=6}}</ref>
* [[June 11]] ([[May 29]] [[old style and new style dates|O.S.]]) &ndash; King [[Alexander I of Serbia|Alexander Obrenović]] and [[Draga Mašin|Queen Draga]] of Serbia are [[May Coup (Serbia)|assassinated]] in Belgrade by the [[Black Hand (Serbia)|Black Hand (Crna Ruka)]] organization.
* [[June 14]] &ndash; The town of [[Heppner, Oregon]] is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that results in [[Heppner Flood of 1903|a flash flood]] that kills about 238 people.
* [[June 16]] &ndash; The [[Ford Motor Company]] is founded by [[Henry Ford]] with $28,000 in cash from 12 investors.<ref>Steven Watts, ''The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century'' (2006) p. 131</ref> 
* [[June 27]] &ndash; American socialite [[Aida de Acosta]], 19, becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots [[Alberto Santos-Dumont|Santos-Dumont]]'s motorized [[dirigible]], "No. 9", from Paris to [[Château de Bagatelle]] in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/wmntrans2.pdf|title=Women in Transportation – Changing America's History: Reference Materials|publisher=[[United States Department of Transportation]]|page=10|access-date=2012-08-21|date=March 1998|archive-date=September 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904021147/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/wmntrans2.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>