Month January 2003 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 2003

• Day of Week 8th » Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
• 8th » US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
• Day of Week 16th » The Space Shuttle Columbia or Space Shuttle 'Columbia' takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. 'Columbia' disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
• Day of Week 21st » A 7.6 magnitude 2003 Colima earthquake known as earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
• Day of Week 23rd » Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
• Day of Week 24th » The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
• Day of Week 25th » 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to Human shield action to Iraq serve as human shields, intending to prevent the United States U.S.-led coalition of the willing coalition troops from bombing certain locati
• Day of Week 27th » The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
• Day of Week 31st » The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.

Famous Deaths for January 2003

• 1st » Joe Foss, American pilot, politician, and broadcaster, 20th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1915)
• 1st » Dumitru Tinu, Romanian journalist (b. 1940)
• 1st » Royce D. Applegate, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 3rd » Sid Gillman, American football player and coach (b. 1911)
• 4th » Hanno Drechsler, German politician, List of mayors of Marburg known as Mayor of Marburg (b. 1931)
• 4th » Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
• 4th » Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-English violinist (b. 1923)
• 4th » Sabine Ulibarrí, American poet and critic (b. 1919)
• 5th » Doreen Carwithen, English composer (b. 1922)
• 5th » Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (b. 1918)
• 5th » Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician (b. 1920)
• 5th » Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
• 6th » Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949)
• 8th » Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 9th » Will McDonough, American journalist (b. 1935)
• 12th » Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
• 12th » Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 12th » Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (b. 1926)
• 12th » Maurice Gibb, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
• 12th » Alan Nunn May, English physicist and spy (b. 1911)
• 13th » Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
• 14th » Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
• 15th » Doris Fisher (singer) known as Doris Fisher, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
• 16th » Richard Wainwright (politician) named Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
• 17th » Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
• 17th » Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (b. 1936)
• 18th » Ed Farhat, American wrestler (b. 1924)
• 18th » Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (b. 1907)
• 19th » Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974)
• 19th » Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician (b. 1916)
• 20th » Al Hirschfeld, American illustrator (b. 1903)
• 20th » Craig Kelly (snowboarder) e.g Craig Kelly, American snowboarder (b. 1966)
• 20th » Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)
• 20th » Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
• 20th » David Battley, English comic actor (b. 1935)
• 21st » Paul Haines (poet) named Paul Haines, American-Canadian poet (b. 1933)
• 21st » Paul Kuusberg, Estonian author (b. 1916)
• 22nd » Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (b. 1921)
• 23rd » Nell Carter, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 24th » Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (b. 1921)
• 25th » Sheldon Reynolds (producer) named Sheldon Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 25th » Samuel Weems, American lawyer and author (b. 1936)
• 26th » Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (b. 1942)
• 26th » Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (b. 1917)
• 26th » George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (b. 1931)
• 27th » Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (b. 1915)
• 27th » Henryk Jabłoński, Polish politician, President of Poland (b. 1909)
• 28th » Mieke Pullen, Dutch runner (b. 1957)
• 29th » Frank Moss (politician) e.g Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)

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