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2003 Calendar

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•  February 1, 2003 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  April 16, 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
•  August 5, 2003 – A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
•  August 11, 2003 – A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112 °F, leaving about 144 people dead.
•  August 28, 2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London’s underground rail network to a halt.
•  October 31, 2003 – Bethany Hamilton is attacked by a tiger shark and loses her left arm and three liters of blood.
•  November 18, 2003 – In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
•  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.

•  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