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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.
2003 — U.S. forces continue fighting an insurgency in Iraq while helping the Iraqis build a new army of their own and develop a democratic form of government; 2003 — In Iraq, deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. special forces. 2004 — The social networking website Facebook is launched. [2]
About $1 billion is taken from Iraq's Central Bank by Saddam Hussein and his family, just hours before the United States begins bombing Iraq. [6] March 19 – The first American bombs drop on Baghdad after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his sons do not comply with U.S. President George W. Bush's 48-hour mandate demanding their exit from Iraq.
August 5: 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing kills 12 people. August 27 – 29: The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia. November 3 – 23: The Rose Revolution occurs in Georgia. November 17: Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Governor of California. The War in Darfur begins.
Graph of conflict deaths from 1990 to 2002. The spike of one-sided violence in 1994 is mostly due to the Rwandan genocide.. This is a list of wars that began between 1990 and 2002.
The Labor Department estimates that a net 1.735 million jobs were shed in 2001, with an additional net 508,000 lost during 2002. 2003 saw a small gain of a mere 105,000 jobs. Unemployment rose from 4.2% in February 2001 to 5.5% in November 2001, but did not peak until June 2003 at 6.3%, after which it declined to 5% by mid-2005.
From top left, clockwise: The World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001; the euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the Iraq War in 2003, and in 2006, Hussein would be executed for crimes against humanity; U.S. troops heading toward an army helicopter in Afghanistan during the war ...
Windows XP 64-bit Edition 2003 [62] MorphOS 1.3 2003–04: Windows Server 2003: eComStation 1.1 2003–05: OpenBSD 3.3: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ES: 2003–06: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Windows Mobile 2003: OpenVMS 8.0 2003–07: 2003–08: Novell NetWare 6.5 MorphOS 1.4 2003–09: HP-UX 11i v2 2003–10: Mac OS X Panther (v10.3) Red Hat ...