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2003 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.
September 13 – Frank O'Bannon, 47th Governor of Indiana from 1997 to 2003. (b. 1930) September 14 – John Serry Sr., Italian-American musician (b. 1915) September 16 – Sheb Wooley, American actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1921) September 20 – Stanley Farfara, American actor (b. 1949)
January – Toyota launches an all-new Avensis to be built at TMUK. 10 January – Ian Carr, a 27-year-old banned from driving with a total of 89 previous convictions (including causing death by dangerous driving), admits causing the death by dangerous driving of a six-year-old girl in Ashington, Northumberland – a crime which sparks widespread public and media outrage across the United Kingdom.
Winter, and the holidays especially, is a great time for some trivia games with friends and family. We here at Bored Panda want to help you up your game at the brainiac gatherings this holiday ...
The year 2003 was an exciting one for new scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs progress in many scientific fields. Some of the highlights of 2003, which will be further discussed below, include: the anthropologic discovery of 350,000-year-old footprints attesting to the presence of upright-walking humans; SpaceShipOne flight 11P making its first supersonic flight; the ...
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
February 22 – 2003 Canada Winter Games; June 9 – Montreal's Jean-Sébastien Giguère of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy in a losing effort; November 16 – The Edmonton Eskimos win their 12th Grey Cup by defeating the Montreal Alouettes 34 to 22 in the 91st Grey Cup played at Taylor Field in Regina
The 2003 European heat wave makes this Britain's hottest summer for 13 years. [7] 4 September – The Bullring Shopping Centre in Birmingham is officially opened by Sir Albert Bore. 18 September – Brent East by-election: Sarah Teather of the Liberal Democrats becomes MP for Brent East after 29 years of Labour control. [8]