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2003 Calendar

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•  January 8, 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
•  January 18, 2003 – A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
•  February 1, 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
•  April 23, 2003 – Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.
•  May 12, 2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.
•  July 10, 2003 – A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
•  October 17, 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 56 m and become the World’s tallest highrise.
•  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.
•  December 9, 2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.

•  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