2003 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2003?
- January 10, 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois’ death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
- February 1, 2003 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 18, 2003 – Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
- March 1, 2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
- March 12, 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- March 18, 2003 – In the House of Commons, British MPs vote in favour of military intervention in Iraq by 412 votes to 149.
- May 12, 2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.
- June 22, 2003 – The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska
- July 6, 2003 – The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to 5 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.
- July 13, 2003 – French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Ingrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
- August 10, 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – 38.5 °C in Kent. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F.
- August 14, 2003 – Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
- August 22, 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
- September 22, 2003 – David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
- September 27, 2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.
- October 21, 2003 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
- 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.
- December 23, 2003 – PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
- December 29, 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
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