2003 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2003?
- January 5, 2003 – Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot.
- February 1, 2003 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 13, 2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
- March 18, 2003 – FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company’s top executives.
- April 7, 2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later.
- April 14, 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.
- July 14, 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”.
- August 14, 2003 – Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
- August 27, 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34646418 mi distant.
- October 3, 2003 – Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show’s tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.
- October 15, 2003 – China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
- October 19, 2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
- October 31, 2003 – Bethany Hamilton is attacked by a tiger shark and loses her left arm and three liters of blood.
- 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.
- December 9, 2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
- December 13, 2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
- December 26, 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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