2003
Franco Colapinto, Formula 1 driver
Franco Alejandro Colapinto is an Argentine racing driver who competes in Formula One for Alpine.
Franco Colapinto, Formula 1 driver
The 2000s
Explore 2952 historical events from 2000–2009.
2003
Pablo Barrios, Spanish footballer
Pablo Barrios Rivas is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Spain national team.
Pablo Barrios, Spanish footballer
2003
Anna Cathcart, Canadian actress
Anna Cathcart is a Canadian actress who began her career as a child actress, starring as Agent Olympia in the PBS Kids/TVOKids series Odd Squad (2016–2019) for which she won a Cana…
Anna Cathcart, Canadian actress
2003
Rizki Juniansyah, Indonesian weightlifter
Rizki Juniansyah is an Indonesian weightlifter who currently specializes in the men's 79 kg lightweight class and holds various world records at the youth, junior, and senior IWF c…
Rizki Juniansyah, Indonesian weightlifter
2003
Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them…
On August 19, 2003, Palestinian militant Raed Abdel Hamid Misk, sent by the Hamas cell in Hebron, dressed as a Haredi Jew, boarded a crowded bus with Orthodox Jewish children retur…
Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them…
2003
NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as researc…
NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.
2003
A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in…
The Beechcraft 1900 is an American twin-engine turboprop regional airliner manufactured by Beechcraft. It is also used as a freight aircraft and corporate transport, and by several…
A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in…
2003
Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", for its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous atmosphere that is pr…
Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2003
The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to…
The six-party talks were a series of multilateral discussions between 2003 and 2007, held between six states and hosted in Beijing, aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to the se…
The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to…
2003
Hans Niemann, American chess player
Hans Moke Niemann is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March 1, 2019, and became a FIDE grandmaster on January …
Hans Niemann, American chess player
2003
Marc Pubill, Spanish footballer
Marc Pubill Pagès is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back or centre-back for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Spain national team.
Marc Pubill, Spanish footballer
2003
Jude Bellingham, English footballer
Jude Victor William Bellingham is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the England national team. He is regarded as one of …
Jude Bellingham, English footballer
2003
Storm Reid, American actress
Storm Reid is an American actress. After early roles in the television show A Cross to Bear (2012), the drama film 12 Years a Slave (2013), and the superhero film Sleight (2016), s…
Storm Reid, American actress
2003
In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. An agency of the …
In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved…
2003
Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along…
Sayyid is an honorific title of Hasanid and Husaynid lineage, recognized as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima and Ali's sons Hasan and Husayn…
Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along…
2003
Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
Mahmoud Abbas, also known by the kunya Abu Mazen, is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)…
Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
2003
The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the…
The United Nations (UN) is an international intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations on 26 June 1945 with the articulated miss…
The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the…
2003
Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
The Iraq War, also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States–led coalition, which…
Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2003
Polina Bogusevich, Russian singer
Polina Sergeyevna Bogusevich, also known as Nanamé, is a Russian singer. She represented Russia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Wings", and went on to win…
Polina Bogusevich, Russian singer
2003
Conor Bradley, Northern Irish footballer
Conor Bradley is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Northern Ireland national team.
Conor Bradley, Northern Irish footballer
2003
Junior Caminero, Dominican baseball player
Junior Alberto Caminero Sánchez is a Dominican professional baseball third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2023. In 2025, Ca…
Junior Caminero, Dominican baseball player
2003
Wyatt Oleff, American actor
Wyatt Jess Oleff is an American actor, known for playing Stanley Uris in It and its 2019 sequel, as well as the role of Stanley Barber in I Am Not Okay with This (2020), and a youn…
Wyatt Oleff, American actor
2003
Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
Typhoon Maemi, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pogi, was the most powerful typhoon to strike South Korea since record-keeping began in the country in 1904. The fourteenth named…
Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
2003
Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia…
Kumba Yalá Embaló, also spelled Ialá, was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was president from 17 February 2000 until he was deposed in a bloodless military coup on 14 September 2003…
Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia…