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2003 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2025. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

2003 Calendar

Historical Events Of 2003

• February 1, 2003 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• February 10, 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
• March 1, 2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
• March 20, 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.
• July 15, 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
• August 11, 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
• August 29, 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
• September 20, 2003 – Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
• October 31, 2003 – Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir’s 22 years in power.
• December 9, 2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.

Who Were Born On 2003?

• February 17, 2003 – Federica Falzon, Maltese singer
• March 12, 2003 – Andrea Brillantes, Filipino actress
• May 8, 2003 – Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco
• August 16, 2003 – Harvey Bautista, Filipino actor
• August 24, 2003 – Alexandre Coste, French son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• August 28, 2003 – Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress and singer
• October 16, 2003 – Princess Kritika of Nepal
• November 8, 2003 – Lady Louise Windsor, English daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
• November 24, 2003 – Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, New Zealand meningococcal disease survivor
• December 1, 2003 – Jackson Nicoll, American child actor