47 events found for 2003
French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political…
AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
Iraq War: Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing…
In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
Three years after the death of the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from…
A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in…
Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
One-year-old Zachary Turner is murdered in Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial…
A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21…
Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them…
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court…
NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.
A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in…
Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to…
In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved…
Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along…