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2003
Calendar year
2003 by topic:
Arts
Animation (Anime )-Architecture - Comics - Film - Home video - Literature (Poetry ) - Music (Classical , Country , Hip hop , Jazz , Latin , Metal , Rock , UK , US ) - Radio - Photo - Television (UK , Scotland , US ) - Video games
Politics and government
Elections - International leaders - Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders - Territorial governors
Science and technology
Archaeology - Biotechnology - Computing - Palaeontology - Quantum computing and communication - Space/Astronomy - Spaceflight
Environment
Birding/Ornithology
Climate change
Transportation
Aviation - Rail transport
Sports
American football - Association football - Athletics (sport) - Badminton - Baseball - Basketball - Chess - Combat sports - Cricket - Cycling - Golf - Ice hockey - Rugby union - Swimming - Tennis - Volleyball
By place
Afghanistan - Albania - Algeria - Andorra - Angola - Antarctica - Argentina - Armenia - Australia - Austria - Azerbaijan - Bangladesh - The Bahamas - Bahrain - Barbados - Belarus - Belgium - Benin - Bhutan - Bolivia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Botswana - Brazil - Bulgaria - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cambodia - Cameroon - Canada - Cape Verde - Central African Republic - Chad - Chile - China - Colombia - Costa Rica - Comoros - Croatia - Cuba - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Ecuador - Egypt - El Salvador - Eritrea - Estonia - Ethiopia - European Union - Eswatini - Fiji - Finland - France - Gabon - Georgia - Germany - Ghana - Greece - Guatemala - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Guyana - Haiti - Honduras - Hong Kong - Hungary - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Iran - Iraq - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Ivory Coast - Japan - Jordan - Kazakhstan - Kenya - Kiribati - Kosovo - Kuwait - Kyrgyzstan - Laos - Latvia - Lebanon - Lesotho - Liberia - Libya - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Macau - Madagascar - Marshall Islands - Malawi - Malaysia - Mali - Malta - Mauritania - Mexico - Micronesia - Moldova - Mongolia - Montenegro - Morocco - Mozambique - Myanmar - Nauru - Namibia - Nepal - Netherlands - New Zealand - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - North Korea - North Macedonia - Norway - Oman - Pakistan - Palau - Palestine - Panama - Papua New Guinea - Paraguay - Peru - Philippines - Poland - Portugal - Qatar - Romania - Russia - Rwanda - Samoa - Saudi Arabia - Senegal - Serbia - Seychelles - Singapore - Slovakia - Slovenia - Somalia - South Africa - Solomon Islands - South Korea - South Sudan - Spain - Sri Lanka - Sudan - Sweden - Switzerland - Syria - Taiwan - Tajikistan - Tanzania - Thailand - Togo - Tonga - Tunisia - Turkey - Turkmenistan - Tuvalu - Uganda - Ukraine - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom - United States - Uruguay - Uzbekistan - Vanuatu - Venezuela - Vietnam - Yemen - Zambia - Zimbabwe
Other topics
Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works - Introductions Works entering the public domain
2003 (MMIII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar , the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium , the 3rd year of the 21st century , and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.
Calendar year
2003 was designated the International Year of the Fresh Water .[1]
Events
January
February
March
April
May
May 11
May 12 - In Riyadh , Saudi Arabia, over 30 people are killed in multiple bombings at a housing compound , mostly foreign expatriates.[21]
May 17 - Slovakia approves joining the European Union in a referendum .[22]
May 23 - Dewey , the first deer cloned by scientists at Texas A&M University , is born.[23]
May 24 - The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 takes place in Riga , Latvia , and is won by Turkish entrant Sertab Erener with the song "Every Way That I Can ".
May 26 - Rwanda adopts a new constitution, which among other things, changes the country's official name from "Rwandese Republic" to "Republic of Rwanda".
May 28 - Prometea , the world's first cloned horse , is born.[24] June
July
July 2 – The International Olympic Committee awards Vancouver the right to host the 2010 Winter Olympics .
July 5 – Severe acute respiratory syndrome is declared to be contained by the World Health Organization.[28]
July 6 – The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri , HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris , that will arrive at these stars in 2036 , 2040 , May 2044 , September 2044 and 2049 respectively.[29]
July 6 – Dennis Schmitt discovers the island of 83-42 , a candidate for being the northernmost point of land.
July 14 – Robert Novak identifies Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent, initiating a scandal known as the Plame affair .[30]
July 18 – The Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European Constitution.[31]
July 24 – The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands , led by Australia , begins after ethnic violence engulfs the island country.[32] August
September
September 4 – Europe's busiest shopping centre,[ ] the Bull Ring in Birmingham , is officially opened.[40]
September 14 – Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum .[41]
September 15 – ELN rebels kidnap eight foreign tourists at Ciudad Perdida , Colombia , being freed 100 days later following negotiations with the Colombian government.[42]
September 20 – Latvia approves joining the European Union in a referendum .[43]
September 24 – The Hubble Space Telescope starts the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field , making 800 exposures, until January 16, 2004.[44]
September 27 – SMART-1 , an unmanned ESA spaceprobe and ESA's first mission to the moon, is launched from Kourou , French Guiana .[45]
September 29 – Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Halifax . Causing over $265 million (2003 CAD )October
November
December
Births
January–June
January 3 – Greta Thunberg , Swedish climate activist
January 4 – Jaeden Martell , American actor
January 6 – MattyBRaps , American remixer
January 23 – Apollinariia Panfilova , Russian pair skater
January 24 – Johnny Orlando , Canadian singer and actor
February 15 – Naseem Shah , Pakistani cricketer[60]
February 20 – Olivia Rodrigo , American actress and singer[61]
March 6 – Millicent Simmonds , American actress
March 7 – Polina Kostiukovich , Russian pair skater
April 3 – Elsie Fisher , American actress
April 4 – Harvey Elliott , English footballer
April 11 – Aksel Rykkvin , Norwegian singer
April 21 – Xavi Simons , Dutch footballer
April 30 – Misha Smirnov , Russian singer
May 1 – Lizzy Greene , American actress
May 8 – Joaquín Bondoni , Mexican actor
May 19 – JoJo Siwa , American dancer, singer and actress
May 29 – Priska Madelyn Nugroho , Indonesian tennis player
June 16 – Anna Cathcart , Canadian actress
June 11 – Breanna Yde , American actress
June 21 – Adhisty Zara , Indonesian singer, performer and actress[importance? ]
June 27 – Tomokazu Harimoto , Japanese table tennis playerJuly–December
July 1
July 4 – Polina Bogusevich , Russian singer
July 13 – Wyatt Oleff , American actor
August 18 – Max Charles , American actor
August 19 – Steele Stebbins , American actor
August 20 – Prince Gabriel of Belgium [62]
August 24 – Alena Kostornaia , Russian figure skater
August 28 – Quvenzhané Wallis , American actress
September 3 – Jack Dylan Grazer , American actor
September 18 – Aidan Gallagher , American actor
October 8 – Ángela Aguilar , Mexican-American singer
October 24 – Hudson Yang , American actor
November 8 – Lady Louise Windsor , British royalty[63]
November 17 – Luce Douady , French climber (d. 2020 )
December 1 – Robert Irwin , Australian television personality
December 7 – Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange , heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the NetherlandsDeaths
January
February
March
April
May
May 1 - Miss Elizabeth , American professional wrestling valet (b. 1960 )
May 2 - Mohammed Dib , Algerian author (b. 1920 )
May 3 - Suzy Parker , American model and actress (b. 1932 )
May 5 - Walter Sisulu , South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1912 )
May 11 - Noel Redding , English musician (b. 1945 )
May 12 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , French international civil servant (b. 1933 )
May 14
May 15
May 23 - Jean Yanne , French film actor and director (b. 1933 )
May 24 - Rachel Kempson , English actress (b. 1910 )
May 27 - Luciano Berio , Italian composer (b. 1925 )
May 28
May 29 - Trevor Ford , Welsh professional footballer (b. 1923 )June
June 2 - Dick Cusack , American actor, filmmaker and humorist (b. 1925 )
June 5 - Jürgen Möllemann , German politician (b. 1945 )
June 7 - Trevor Goddard , English actor (b. 1962 )
June 10 - Bernard Williams , English philosopher (b. 1929 )
June 12 - Gregory Peck , American actor (b. 1916 )
June 15
June 18 - Larry Doby , American baseball player and manager (b. 1923 )
June 21
June 22 - Vasil Byka? , Belarusian novelist (b. 1924 )
June 26
June 29 - Katharine Hepburn , American actress (b. 1907 )
June 30 - Buddy Hackett , American actor and comedian (b. 1924 )July
August
August 1
August 3 - Joseph Saidu Momoh , 2nd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1937 )
August 4 - Frederick Chapman Robbins , American Nobel pediatrician and virologist (b. 1916 )
August 7 - Rajko ?i?i? , Yugoslavian professional basketball player (b. 1955 )
August 8 - Martha Chase , American geneticist (b. 1927 )
August 9
August 11
August 13 - Lothar Emmerich , German footballer (b. 1941 )
August 14 - Helmut Rahn , German footballer (b. 1929 )
August 16 - Idi Amin , 3rd President of Uganda (b. c. 1923 -28 )
August 19
August 21 - Wesley Willis , American musician (b. 1963 )
August 29 - Vladimír Va?í?ek , Czech painter (b. 1919 )
August 30 - Charles Bronson , American actor (b. 1921 )September
September 1 - Ramón Serrano Suñer , Spanish politician (b. 1901 )
September 2 - Ptolemy Reid , 2nd Prime Minister of Guyana (b. 1912 )
September 7 - Warren Zevon , American singer (b. 1947 )
September 8
September 9 - Edward Teller , Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1908 )
September 11
September 12 - Johnny Cash , American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1932 )
September 16 - Sheb Wooley , American actor and singer (b. 1921 )
September 19 - Slim Dusty , Australian country singer (b. 1927 )
September 20 - Gordon Mitchell , American actor and bodybuilder (b. 1923 )
September 22 - Gordon Jump , American actor (b. 1932 )
September 24 - Derek Prince , English biblical scholar and author (b. 1915 )
September 25
September 26
September 27 - Donald O'Connor , American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1925 )
September 28
September 30 - Robert Kardashian , American attorney and businessman (b. 1944 )October
November
December
Nobel Prizes
New English words and terms
anti-cultural
baby bump
Big Rip
binge-watch
botnet
darmstadtium
electronic cigarette
flash mob
iraimbilanja
manscaping
MERS
muffin top netroots
SARS
severe acute respiratory syndrome
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