2003 in the United States

2003
in
the United States

Decades:
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  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
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Events from the year 2003 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January

February

February 1: Space Shuttle Columbia is destroyed on re-entry

March

April

April 9: M1A1 Abrams pose for a photo under the "Hands of Victory" in Ceremony Square, Baghdad, Iraq.

May

May 1: President George W. Bush's Mission Accomplished Speech

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

  • December 1 Boeing chairman and CEO Phil Condit resigns unexpectedly. He is replaced by Lewis Platt as non-executive chairman and Harry Stonecipher as president and CEO.
  • December 13 Iraq War: End of Operation Red Dawn resulting in the capture of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit.[2]
  • December 19 After being arrested, Guatemalan Ricardo Alfonso Cerna commits suicide at a police station in San Bernardino County, California by shooting himself in the head with a concealed handgun.
  • December 22 The 6.6 Mw San Simeon earthquake shook the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving two dead and 40 injured, and causing $250–300 million in damage.
  • December 24
    • At the request of the U.S. Embassy in Paris, the French government orders Air France to cancel several flights between France and the U.S. in response to terrorism concerns.
    • A BSE (mad cow disease) outbreak in Washington State is announced. Several countries including Brazil, Australia, and Taiwan ban the import of beef from the United States.
  • December 31 British Airways Flight 223, a Boeing 747-400 flying from London Heathrow to Washington Dulles, is held for security checks after landing in Washington, D.C. due to intelligence suggesting a terrorist threat.[5]

Ongoing

Births

Autumn Pittman was born on December 10, 2003 at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff Nebraska.

Deaths

January

February

The crew of STS-107
Michael P. Anderson, astronaut (b. 1959)
David M. Brown, astronaut and physician (b. 1956)
Kalpana Chawla, India-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer (b. 1961)
Laurel Clark, astronaut and physician (b. 1961)
Rick Husband, commander astronaut (b. 1957)
William McCool, astronaut (b. 1961)
Ilan Ramon, Israeli fighter pilot and astronaut (b. 1954)

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

See also

References

  1. "William Rehnquist Biography". biography.com. A&E Television Networks. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 653–656. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  3. "U.S.: $1 billion taken by Saddam". CNN. May 6, 2003. Archived from the original on 17 March 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  4. El Nasser, Haya.30 million make Hispanics largest minority group, June 19, 2003, USA Today
  5. "Timeline:Flight BA 223". BBC News. February 12, 2004. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
  6. "Anne Gwynne". BFI. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
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