First Time Events [1]
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Edwin S. Porter, of the Edison Corporation, produces the first Western movie, The Great Train Robbery in 1903. (Actor Justin D. Barnes firing at the audience. [2])
- Odeon and Wonderland show the first movie in Charlotte on March 18, 1907 at The Academy of Music.
- The Wright brothers make aviation history [3] in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 12, 1903.
- Marie Curie [4] becomes the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Science in 1903
- In 1903, Alexander Winton [5] set the 1st land speed record in car racing. Set at Daytona Beach, his speed was 68.18 mph.
- Theodore Roosevelt [6] becomes the first United States President to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
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