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Events on the year of 2003 in history

Events
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08 Jan 2003 Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
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08 Jan 2003 Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
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11 Jan 2003 Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
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16 Jan 2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
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18 Jan 2003 A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
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21 Jan 2003 A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
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23 Jan 2003 Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
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24 Jan 2003 The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
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27 Jan 2003 The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
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30 Jan 2003 The Kingdom of Belgium officially recognizes same-sex marriages.
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31 Jan 2003 The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
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01 Feb 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
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04 Feb 2003 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
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04 Feb 2003 The Bengali Hindus declare the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
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10 Feb 2003 France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
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15 Feb 2003 Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
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17 Feb 2003 The London congestion charge is introduced.
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18 Feb 2003 Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
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19 Feb 2003 An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
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20 Feb 2003 During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
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01 Mar 2003 The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
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01 Mar 2003 Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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05 Mar 2003 In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
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12 Mar 2003 Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
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13 Mar 2003 Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human had been found in Italy.
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16 Mar 2003 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
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17 Mar 2003 Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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20 Mar 2003 Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
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23 Mar 2003 Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
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24 Mar 2003 The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
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28 Mar 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.
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07 Apr 2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
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09 Apr 2003 Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces; Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces.
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14 Apr 2003 U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
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14 Apr 2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
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16 Apr 2003 The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
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01 May 2003 Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
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03 May 2003 New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
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12 May 2003 The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people.
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16 May 2003 In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
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21 May 2003 An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
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22 May 2003 In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
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28 May 2003 Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
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30 May 2003 Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
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01 Jun 2003 The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
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02 Jun 2003 Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
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05 Jun 2003 A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
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10 Jun 2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
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10 Jun 2003 Wicked opens on Broadway, proceeding to win 40 awards just for the Broadway production.
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20 Jun 2003 The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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26 Jun 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
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01 Jul 2003 Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
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06 Jul 2003 The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2049 respectively.
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07 Jul 2003 NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover – B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
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13 Jul 2003 French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
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14 Jul 2003 In an effort to discredit U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame is a CIA "operative".
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15 Jul 2003 AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day
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22 Jul 2003 Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
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30 Jul 2003 In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
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10 Aug 2003 The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).
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10 Aug 2003 Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
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11 Aug 2003 NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
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11 Aug 2003 Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
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14 Aug 2003 A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
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28 Aug 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.
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29 Aug 2003 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
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30 Aug 2003 While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.
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10 Sep 2003 Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
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12 Sep 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.
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12 Sep 2003 Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
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14 Sep 2003 In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
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20 Sep 2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
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21 Sep 2003 Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
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25 Sep 2003 A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
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27 Sep 2003 Smart 1 satellite is launched.
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04 Oct 2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
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07 Oct 2003 The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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09 Oct 2003 Mission: Space opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
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12 Oct 2003 Michael Schumacher wins his sixth Formula One Drivers' championship at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix to beat the 48 year old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio
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14 Oct 2003 Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins.
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15 Oct 2003 China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
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15 Oct 2003 The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
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17 Oct 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 metres (184 ft) and become the world's tallest highrise.
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18 Oct 2003 Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
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19 Oct 2003 Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
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24 Oct 2003 Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
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26 Oct 2003 The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
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31 Oct 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.
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05 Nov 2003 Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
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26 Nov 2003 Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
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07 Dec 2003 The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
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09 Dec 2003 A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
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13 Dec 2003 Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
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14 Dec 2003 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
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17 Dec 2003 The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, England, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
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17 Dec 2003 SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
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23 Dec 2003 PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
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24 Dec 2003 The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
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25 Dec 2003 The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
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26 Dec 2003 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
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29 Dec 2003 The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
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