2003 Calendar
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2003 Historical Event(s)
January 25, 2003
– 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people left London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
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.
March 28, 2003
– In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard’s 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
September 12, 2003
– The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
September 25, 2003
– A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
October 3, 2003
– Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show’s tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.
October 31, 2003
– Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir’s 22 years in power.
December 9, 2003
– A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
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.
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