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2003

2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also:
  • The International Year of Freshwater
  • The European Disability Year

    Events

    January

  • January 1 -
  • * Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil.
  • * Pascal Couchepin becomes President of the Confederation in Switzerland.
  • January 8 - US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.
  • January 15 - The United States Supreme Court hands down its decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft allowing the extension of copyright terms in the U.S.
  • January 24 - The new United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
  • January 25 -
  • * Central Line train crashes into the tunnel wall at Chancery Lane station in London, injuring 34 people.
  • * An international group of volunteers left London and headed for Baghdad to act as voluntary human shields, hoping to avert a U.S. invasion.
  • January 30 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, and the Czech Republic release a statement, the letter of the eight, demonstrating support for the United States' plans for an invasion of Iraq.

    February

  • February 1 -
  • * The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts onboard.
  • * In Northern Ireland, The Protestant UDA Belfast leader John Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.
  • February 5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq.
  • February 9 - Cricket World Cup begins in South Africa.
  • February 15 - Global protests against war on Iraq - more than six million people protest in over 600 cities worldwide, the largest war protest to take place before the war occurred.
  • February 26 - An American businessman is admitted to the Vietnam France Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. WHO doctor Carlo Urbani reports the unusual highly contagious disease to WHO. Both the businessman and Carlo Urbani die of SARS in March.

    March

  • March 1
  • * Iraq disarmament crisis: The United Arab Emirates calls for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war. The sentiment is later echoed by Bahrain and Kuwait
  • * The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the United States Customs Service, and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security
  • * Boxer Roy Jones Jr beats John Ruiz to become WBA champion
  • * War on Terrorism: Authorities in Pakistan capture Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks along with money man Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.
  • * Ohio celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
  • March 5 - The Supreme Court of the United States by a 5-4 margin upholds California's "three strikes and you're out" law.
  • March 11 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi fighters threaten two U.S. U-2 surveillance planes, flying missions for U.N. weapons inspectors, forcing them to abort their mission and return to base.
  • March 12
  • * Zoran Djindjic assassinated in Belgrade
  • * WHO issues a global alert on SARS.
  • * Iraq disarmament crisis: British prime minister Tony Blair proposes an amendment to the possible 18th U.N. resolution, which would call for Iraq to meet certain benchmarks to prove that it was disarming. The amendment is immediately rejected by France, who promises to veto any new resolution.
  • March 13 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints had been found in Italy
  • March 15 - Hu Jintao becomes president of the People's Republic of China, replacing Jiang Zemin.
  • March 16
  • * Iraq disarmament crisis: The leaders of the United States, Britain, Portugal, and Spain meet at a summit in the Azores Islands. U.S. President Bush calls Monday, March 17th, the "moment of Truth", meaning that the "coalition of the willing" would make its final effort to extract a resolution from the U.N. Security Council that would give Iraq an ultimatum to disarm immediately or to be disarmed by force.

    For more deaths see: Deaths in 2003

    January-March


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