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2003 Calendar

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•  January 23, 2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
•  February 1, 2003 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  June 1, 2003 – The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
•  August 10, 2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
•  August 19, 2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency’s top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
•  September 12, 2003 – In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
•  November 12, 2003 – Iraq war: in Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
•  November 14, 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
•  November 20, 2003 – After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.

•  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