10th » The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – convert 38.5 °C °F in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over Convert 100 °F °C.
10th » Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
11th » NATO takes over command of the International Security Assistance Force known as peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
11th » Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
14th » A Northeast blackout of 2003 or widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
19th » A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
22nd » 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.
25th » The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib people Dogrib First Nations and the Canada Canadian federal government in Behchoko, Northwest Territories Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
27th » Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing convert called 34646418 e.g mi distant.
27th » The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korea and weapons of mass destruction called North Korean nucle
29th » Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassination e.g assassinated in a terrorism or terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
30th » 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.
Famous Birthdays on August in 2003
24th » Alexandre Coste, French son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
28th » Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress and singer
Famous Deaths for August 2003
1st » Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
1st » Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2nd » Don Estelle, English actor and singer (b. 1933)
2nd » Mike Levey, American television host (b. 1948)
2nd » Peter Safar, Austrian-American physician and academic (b. 1924)
3rd » Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)
4th » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
6th » Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (b. 1915)
7th » K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
7th » Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (b. 1929)