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2003 Historical Event(s)
February 1, 2003
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
March 13, 2003
– Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
June 20, 2003
– The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
June 26, 2003
– The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
July 13, 2003
– French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Ingrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
October 21, 2003
– Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
November 15, 2003
– The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
December 7, 2003
– The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
December 16, 2003
– President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 into law. The law establishes the United States’ first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission to enforce its provisions.
December 25, 2003
– The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
Who Were Born On 2003?
April 16, 2003
– Alina Foley, American actress
June 24, 2003
– Marcus Fiesel, American murder victim (d. 2006)
October 1, 2003
– Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, New Zealander quadruple amputee
October 16, 2003
– Princess Kritika of Nepal, daughter of Crown Prince Paras
November 8, 2003
– Lady Louise Windsor, British royal
December 7, 2003
– Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands