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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 4, 2003 – The Bengali Hindus declare the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
• May 3, 2003 – New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
• June 2, 2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
• July 6, 2003 – The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
• July 14, 2003 – In an effort to discredit U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame is a CIA “operative”.
• August 10, 2003 – The Okinawa Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
• September 14, 2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
• October 9, 2003 – Mission: Space opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
• November 12, 2003 – Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.

Who Were Born On 2003?

• February 17, 2003 – Federica Falzon, Maltese singer
• March 12, 2003 – Andrea Brillantes, Filipino actress
• August 16, 2003 – Harvey Bautista, Filipino actor
• August 18, 2003 – Max Charles, American 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