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Gregorian calendar | 2003 MMIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2756 |
Armenian calendar | 1452 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6753 |
Bahá'í calendar | 159–160 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1924–1925 |
Bengali calendar | 1410 |
Berber calendar | 2953 |
British Regnal year | 51 Eliz. 2 – 52 Eliz. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2547 |
Burmese calendar | 1365 |
Byzantine calendar | 7511–7512 |
Chinese calendar | 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4699 or 4639 — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4700 or 4640 |
Coptic calendar | 1719–1720 |
Discordian calendar | 3169 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1995–1996 |
Hebrew calendar | 5763–5764 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2059–2060 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1924–1925 |
- Kali Yuga | 5103–5104 |
Holocene calendar | 12003 |
Igbo calendar | 1003–1004 |
Iranian calendar | 1381–1382 |
Islamic calendar | 1423–1424 |
Japanese calendar | Heisei 15 (平成15年) |
Javanese calendar | 1935–1936 |
Juche calendar | 92 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4336 |
Minguo calendar | ROC 92 民國92年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 535 |
Thai solar calendar | 2546 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 2129 or 1748 or 976 — to — 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 2130 or 1749 or 977 |
Unix time | 1041379200 – 1072915199 |
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2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the , the 3rd year of the , and the 4th year of the decade.
2003 was designated the International Year of the Fresh water.[1]
In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
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Events[]
January[]
- January 5 – Tel Aviv central bus station: Two Palestinian suicide bombers attack a neighborhood in Tel Aviv, killing at least 23 people and injuring 103.[2]
- January 8 – Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashed into a hangar upon takeoff in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 passengers and crew.[3]
- January 10 – North Korea announces its withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.[4]
- January 22
- The last signal from NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft is received, some 12.2 billion kilometers (7.6 billion mi) from Earth.[5]
- January 29 – Riots break out in Phnom Penh, Cambodia targeting Thai nationals after false reports that a Thai actress made comments about a temple. Thailand severs diplomatic relations with Cambodia in response.[6]
- January 30 – Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage, becoming the second country in the world to do so.[7]
February[]
- February 1 – At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts on board.[8]
- February 4 – The leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia reconstitute the country into a loose state-union between Montenegro and Serbia, marking an end to the 85 year old Yugoslav state.[9]
- February 15 – Millions of people worldwide take part in massive anti-war protests before the United States and its allies invade Iraq.[10]
- February 20 – The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island kills 100 people and injures 230.
- February 26 – The War in Darfur begins after rebel groups rise up against the Sudanese government.[11]
- February 27 – Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavšić is sentenced by the U.N. ICTY to 11 years in prison for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War.[12]
March[]
- March 8 – Malta approves joining the European Union in a referendum.[13]
- March 12
- March 20 – The Iraq War begins with the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces.[16]
- March 23 – Slovenia approves joining the European Union and NATO in a referendum.[17]
April[]
- April 9 – Iraq War: U.S. forces seize control of Baghdad, ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.[16]
- April 12 – Hungary approves joining the European Union in a referendum.[18]
- April 14 – The Human Genome Project is completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.[19]
- April 29 – The United States announces the withdrawal of troops stationed in Saudi Arabia, and the redeployment of some at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.[20]
May[]
- May 1 – U.S President George W. Bush gives a speech announcing the end of major combat operations in the Iraq War.[21]
- May 11
- May 12 – In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, over 30 people are killed in multiple bombings at a housing compound, mostly foreign expatriates.[24]
- May 17 – Slovakia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.[25]
- May 19 – Insurgency in Aceh: The Indonesian military begins a massive military operation in Aceh against Free Aceh Movement separatists.[26]
- May 21 – A 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The shock generated a destructive tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and left over a thousand people dead and 7,000 more injured.[27]
- May 23 – Dewey, the first deer cloned by scientists at Texas A&M University, is born.[28]
- May 28 – Prometea, the first horse cloned by Italian scientists, is born.[29]
June[]
- June 8 – Poland approves joining the European Union in a referendum.[30]
- June 14 – The Czech Republic approves joining the European Union in a referendum.[31]
- June 26 – The Supreme Court of the United States, in a landmark ruling, strikes down sodomy laws and rules them to be unconstitutional, effectively legalizing homosexual sodomy nationwide.[32]
- June 30 – Warring parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sign a peace accord, bringing an end to the Second Congo War, which left millions dead.[33]
July[]
- July 1 – 500,000 people in Hong Kong march to protest Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, which controversially redefines treason.[34]
- July 5 – Severe acute respiratory syndrome is declared to be contained by the World Health Organization.[35]
- July 6 – The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris, that will arrive at these stars in 2036, 2040, May 2044, September 2044 and 2049 respectively.[citation needed]
- July 8 – Sudan Airways Flight 139, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a 2-year-old child.[36]
- July 18 – The Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European Constitution.[37]
- July 22 – Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of Saddam Hussein, are killed by the U.S. military in a shootout at a house in Mosul.[38]
- July 24 – The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, led by Australia, begins after ethnic violence engulfs the island country.[39]
August[]
- August 11
- August 25 – The Spitzer Space Telescope is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.[42]
- August 27
- Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in over 60,000 years.[43]
- The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
September[]
- September 3 – The Hubble Space Telescope starts the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, making 800 exposures, until January 16, 2004.[44]
- September 4 – Europe's busiest shopping centre, the Bull Ring in Birmingham, is officially opened.[45]
- September 14 – Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.[46]
- September 15 – ELN rebels kidnap eight foreign tourists at Ciudad Perdida, Colombia, being freed 100 days later following negotiations with the Colombian government.[47]
- September 20 – Latvia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.[48]
- September 27 – SMART-1, a European Space Agency satellite and Europe's first mission to the moon, is launched.[49]
October[]
- October 5 – Israeli warplanes strike alleged Islamic jihad bases inside Syrian territory, the first Israeli attack on the country since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.[50]
- October 15 – China launches Shenzhou 5, their first manned spaceflight.[51]
- October 24 – The Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic travel to a close.[52]
November[]
- November 12 – A suicide bombing at an Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, kills 17 Italian military police officers and nine Iraqi civilians.[53]
- November 18 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declares in a landmark ruling that only opposite-sex couples having the right to marry is unconstitutional, paving the way for Massachusetts to become the first U.S. State to legalize same-sex marriage.[54]
- November 23 – Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze resigns after widespread protests engulf the country following a disputed parliamentary election.[55]
December[]
- December 13 – Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in the small town of Ad-Dawr by the U.S. Army.[56]
- December 19 – Libya agrees to eliminate all of its materials, equipment, and programs aimed at producing weapons of mass destruction.[57]
- December 23 – The World Tourism Organization becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.[58]
- December 26 – A 6.6 magnitude earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing tens of thousands of people.[59]
Births[]
- January 6 – MattyBRaps, American rapper
- August 18 – Max Charles, American child actor
- August 20 – Prince Gabriel of Belgium
- August 28 – Quvenzhané Wallis, American child actress
- November 8 – Lady Louise Windsor, daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex
- December 7 – Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Maxima
Deaths[]
Main article: Deaths in 2003
January[]
- January 11 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
- January 12
- January 17 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
- January 23 – Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
- January 24 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
- January 26
- January 27 – Henryk Jabłoński, 5th President of the Polish People's Republic (b. 1909)
February[]
- February 1
- Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut (b. 1959)
- David M. Brown, American astronaut (b. 1956)
- Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (b. 1962)
- Laurel Clark, American astronaut (b. 1961)
- Rick Husband, American astronaut (b. 1957)
- William McCool, American astronaut (b. 1961)
- Ilan Ramon, Israeli fighter pilot and astronaut (b. 1954)
- February 2 – Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
- February 10 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- February 20 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (b. 1907)
- February 27
- February 28 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, 45th President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
March[]
- March 2 – Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
- March 9 – Bernard Dowiyogo, 2nd President of Nauru (b. 1946)
- March 12
- March 22 – Milton George Henschel, American Jehovah's Witnesses leader (b. 1920)
- March 26 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American politician (b. 1927)
- March 29 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956)
- March 30 – Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
April[]
- April 1 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor (b. 1956)
- April 2 – Edwin Starr, American soul singer (b. 1942)
- April 9 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter (b. 1908)
- April 17 – Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (b. 1930)
- April 20
- Bernard Katz, German-British biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
- April 21 – Nina Simone, American singer (b. 1933)
May[]
- May 11 – Noel Redding, English musician (b. 1946)
- May 12 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
- May 14
- May 15
- May 24 – Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
- May 27 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
- May 28
- Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
- Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
June[]
- June 10
- June 12 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
- June 15
- June 21 – Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
- June 22 – Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian novelist (b. 1924)
- June 26
- Denis Thatcher, British businessman, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
- Strom Thurmond, American politician (b. 1902)
- Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975)
- June 29 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
- June 30 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor (b. 1924)
July[]
- July 1
- July 4 – Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
- July 6 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
- July 12 – Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
- July 13 – Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1907)
- July 15 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
- July 16
- July 17 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
- July 22
- Uday Hussein, Iraqi paramilitary leader, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
- Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
- July 25 – John Schlesinger, English film director (b. 1926)
- July 27 – Bob Hope, English-American comedian and actor (b. 1903)
- July 30 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
August[]
- August 1 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
- August 4 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- August 9 – Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor (b. 1946)
- August 11 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
- August 14 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
- August 16 – Idi Amin, 3rd President of Uganda (b. c. 1923–28)
- August 19
- August 29 – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (b. 1919)
- August 30 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
September[]
- September 7 – Warren Zevon, American singer (b. 1947)
- September 8 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
- September 9 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1908)
- September 11
- September 12 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1932)
- September 24 – Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary critic (b. 1935)
- September 25 – Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- September 26
- September 27 – Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
- September 28
- September 30 – Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American attorney and businessman (b. 1944)
October[]
- October 2 – Otto Günsche, German adjutant of Adolf Hitler (b. 1917)
- October 3 – William Steig, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
- October 5
- October 10 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
- October 13 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- October 16
- October 19
- October 20 – Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
- October 21 – Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
- October 23 – Soong Mei-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
- October 24 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1925)
- October 27 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
- October 29
November[]
- November 6
- November 9 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
- November 10 – Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
- November 12 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
- November 18 – Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
- November 20 – David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
- November 24 – Warren Spahn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
- November 30 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1905)
December[]
- December 3 – David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
- December 6
- December 8 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
- December 11 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
- December 12 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
- December 14 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
- December 19 – Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
- December 27 – Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934)
- December 30 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1963)
Nobel Prize winners[]
- Chemistry – Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
- Economics – Robert F. Engle, Clive W. J. Granger
- Literature – John Maxwell Coetzee
- Peace – Shirin Ebadi
- Physics – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, Anthony James Leggett
- Physiology or Medicine – Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield
In fiction[]
Main article: Works of fiction set in 2003
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- ↑ "Operation Helpem Fren: Rebuilding the Nation of Solomon Islands". Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
- ↑ Agencies (August 11, 2003). "Liberian president Taylor steps down". the Guardian. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ Press, Associated (August 11, 2003). "Nato takes control of Afghanistan peace mission". the Guardian. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Spitzer Space Telescope". www.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Mars Opposition in August 2003 - Windows to the Universe". www.windows2universe.org. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ "The Hubble Space Telescope "Ultra Deep Field" View". hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Historian says Bullring lacks heart". BBC. September 4, 2003. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Euroopa Liidu Infokeskus | Estonia's Accession to the EU |". elik.nlib.ee. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
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- ↑ Crean, Ellen (October 5, 2003). "Israel Strikes Base Inside Syria". CBS News. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Shenzhou-5 launch: long-cherished dream realized". People. October 15, 2003. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ Lawless, Jill (October 24, 2003). "Final Concorde Flight Lands at Heathrow". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
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External links[]
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- 2003 Year in Review – comprehensive listing of 2003 reviews and lists
- 2003 Year-End Google Zeitgeist – Google's Yearly List of Major Events and Top Searches for 2003