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What Happened In March 2003 In History

Historical Events for March, 2003

  • 1st » Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
  • 1st » The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
  • 5th » In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
  • 12th » Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is Assassination of Zoran Đinđić named assassinated in Belgrade.
  • 13th » Human evolution: The journal Nature (journal) e.g Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human had been found in Italy.
  • 16th » Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
  • 17th » Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the Cabinet of the United Kingdom called British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
  • 20th » 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
  • 23rd » Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the 2003 invasion of Iraq named invasion of Iraq.
  • 24th » The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.

Famous Birthdays on March in 2003

  • 12th » Andrea Brillantes, Filipino actress

Famous Deaths for March 2003

  • 2nd » Hank Ballard, American singer-songwriter (The Midnighters) (b. 1927)
  • 2nd » Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (b. 1931)
  • 3rd » Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)
  • 3rd » Luis Marden, American photographer (b. 1913)
  • 3rd » Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1904)
  • 3rd » Peter Smithson, English architect (b. 1923)
  • 4th » Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian politician (b. 1926)
  • 4th » Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter, and director (b. 1931)
  • 8th » Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
  • 8th » Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
  • 9th » Stan Brakhage, American director (b. 1933)
  • 9th » Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, 2nd President of Nauru (b. 1946)
  • 10th » Barry Sheene, English motorcycle racer (b. 1950)
  • 11th » Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
  • 11th » Ivar Hansen, Danish politician (b. 1938)
  • 12th » Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
  • 12th » Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914)
  • 12th » Andrei Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist (b. 1973)
  • 12th » Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
  • 14th » Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (b. 1945)
  • 14th » Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (b. 1928)
  • 15th » Thora Hird, English actress (b. 1911)
  • 16th » Rachel Corrie, American activist (b. 1979)
  • 16th » Ronald Ferguson, English captain, polo player, and manager (b. 1931)
  • 17th » Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (b. 1902)
  • 18th » Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
  • 18th » Adam Osborne, Thai-English businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939)
  • 19th » Émile Genest, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
  • 19th » Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (b. 1926)
  • 20th » Sailor Art Thomas, American bodybuilder and wrestler (b. 1924)
  • 21st » Shivani, Indian author (b. 1923)
  • 21st » Umar Wirahadikusumah, Indonesian politician, 4th Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
  • 22nd » Terry Lloyd, English journalist (b. 1952)
  • 23rd » Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-English journalist (b. 1926)
  • 24th » Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)
  • 26th » Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1927)
  • 27th » Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
  • 27th » Ricardo Munguía (aid worker) called Ricardo Munguía, Swiss-Salvadoran aid worker (b. 1960)
  • 27th » Paul Zindel, American author and playwright (b. 1936)
  • 28th » Rusty Draper, American singer (b. 1923)
  • 29th » Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956)
  • 30th » Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
  • 30th » Valentin Pavlov, Russian politician, 11th Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
  • 31st » Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian geometer (b. 1907)
  • 31st » Anne Gwynne, American actress (b. 1918)
  • 31st » Tommy Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Sir Henry and his Butlers) (b. 1949)

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