January 2003 - January 2003 2002: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for January, 2003. See also: Preparations for 2003 invasion of Iraq for events leading up to the 2003 Iraq War Afghanistan timeline January 2003 January 31, 2003 January 30, 2003 Would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid is sentenced to life in prison for trying to down American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. Reid had previously pleaded guilty. [1] January 29, 2003 A false rumor that Thai actress Suvanant Kongying had.
June 2003 - June 2003 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for June, 2003. See also: Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 Same-sex marriage in Canada SARS: Timeline Monkeypox Afghanistan timeline June 2003 "Road map" for peace Israeli-Palestinian conflict EU enlargement War in Iraq: Timeline North Korea crisis US v. EU on GM food June 30, 2003 In Irvine, California, a 30 year old man identified as Joseph Hunter Parker kills two supermarket employees with a sword, before being shot to death himself by the police. His victims are identified as John G. Nutting, 60, and Judith Fleming, 55. The event occurred at an.
July 2003 - July 2003 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for July, 2003. See also: Afghanistan timeline July 2003 Dodgy Dossier Columbia investigation EU enlargement Hong Kong Basic Law Monkeypox North Korea crisis Occupation of Iraq: Timeline Road map for peace Same-sex marriage SARS: Timeline SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit US v. EU on GM food War on Terrorism July 31, 2003 The Israeli parliament passed a law preventing Palestinians married to Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship or residency rights. The law is thought necessary to maintain the Jewish character of the state of Israel, today inhabited by 20% Arabs.[1] It is reported.
Kaspar Villiger - he has held the following departments: Federal Department of Defence; Federal Military Department (1989 - 1995) Federal Department of Finance (1996 - 2003) He has been president of the Confederation twice in 1995 and 2002. In September 2003, he resigned for December 31, 2003. Predecessor: Elisabeth Kopp Successor: Hans-Rudolf Merz.
Karmen Stavec - Karmen Stavec Karmen Stavec (born December 21, 1973) is a Slovene musician and pop singer. Karmen was born in West Berlin, those days West Germany to Slovene parents. After graduation she came to Domžale, Slovenia, where she joined the dance duo "4 Fun". She also began to study Germanic studies at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. In 1998 she started her own solo career. She has participated three times in Slovene national selection, called "EMA" for the Eurovision song contest in EMA 2001, EMA 2002 and EMA 2003. In 2002 at the EMA she took the 2nd place after the transvestite trio "Sestre" ("The Sisters"), although she got the highest number of points from a Televoting. Finally in 2003 she won, and she represented Slovenia at the Eurovision.
Karl Rove - Karl Rove Karl Rove (born December 25, 1950 in Denver, Colorado) is currently U.S. President George W. Bush's chief political strategist. After dropping out of the University of Utah in 1971, Karl Rove began his political career as the Executive Director of the College Republican National Committee. He held this position until 1972 when he became the National Chairman of the College Republicans (1973-1974). As chairman, Rove had access to many powerful politicians and government officials during the Watergate scandal, including then CIA director George H. W. Bush. For the next few years, he worked in various Republican Circles and assisted George H. W. Bush's 1980 presidential campaign. At the time, Rove's greatest claim to fame was that he had introduced Lee Atwater to George H. W. Bush. In 1981, Rove.
Kawagoe - a city located in Saitama, Japan. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 333,621 and the density of 3,056.26 persons per km². The total area is 109.16 km². The city was founded on December 1, 1922. External Links Official website in Japanese.
Kathleen Blanco - Blanco Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (born December 15, 1942 in Iberia Parish, Louisiana) is an American politician. On November 15, 2003, she was elected Governor of Louisiana, defeating Republican opponent Bobby Jindal in a run-off election and becoming the first woman to gain that office. Kathleen Blanco is a conservative member of the Democratic Party. She was formerly Louisiana's lieutenant governor, having served two terms in that office, starting 1996. She graduated from University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1964. On 11 January of 2004 she took the oath of office in both English and French, succeeding Murphy J. Foster as Governor of Louisiana..
Kai Budde - has reached the same level of fame and accomplishment that Michael Jordan, Pelé, and Garry Kasparov have attained in their respective sports. As of December 2003, he has won five individual Pro Tour titles (no other player has won more than two), and two Team Pro Tour titles (alongside fellow Germans Marco Blume and Dirk Baberowski). Budde also won the 1999 Magic World Championships in Tokyo. His cash winnings in six years of premier Magic: The Gathering tournaments are well over $300,000. He has also been awarded three Player of the Year titles, 1999, 2001 and 2002. In addition to Budde's cash winnings, he also won the 2001 Magic Invitational tournament in Cape Town, and as his prize was given the rare opportunity to design an actual card (the end result.
KDM Sælen (S323) - Norwegian Navy) and served for 25 years as KNM Uthaug before being purchased by Denmark in 1990. Her international call sign is OUCJ. On 4 December 1990, Sælen sank while being towed from Copenhagen to Aarhus. On 17 December, she was raised by the German floating crane Roland and taken to Aarhus for repair. On 10 August 1993, diving approval was issued and the boat was recommissioned. Sælen served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq from May 2002 until June 2003. To speed her return to her homeport of Frederikshavn after 385 days of deployment in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, she was transported on board the heavy-lift ship Grietje. "Sælen" means "seal" in English..
Ken Livingstone - of the GLC, with moderate Labourite Andrew McIntosh (later Lord McIntosh) as leader. The day after the election, Livingstone challenged McIntosh for the leadership, defeating him by 30 votes to 20. The GLC immediately set about reducing the exorbitantly high bus and London Underground fares, subsidised by an increase in real estate taxes; this was dubbed the "Fares Fair" policy. Although the measure was generally popular and led to an increase in the use of public transportation, it was challenged by the Conservative-controlled council of Bromley (which covers a part of London which has no London Underground stations) and struck down by the Law Lords in December of 1981. Despite his defeat in the fares battle, Livingstone would remain a thorn in the Conservatives' side, openly antagonising the Thatcher government by.
Ken Loach - usually credited as Ken Loach) is a British film director. In December 2003, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Birmingham. Filmography Z Cars (1962) TV Series Diary of a Young Man (1964) (TV) 3 Clear Sundays (1965) (TV) Up the Junction (1965) (TV) The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965) (TV) Coming Out Party (1965) (TV) Cathy Come Home (1966) (TV) (as Kenneth Loach) In Two Minds (1967) (TV) Poor Cow (1967) The Golden Vision (1968) (TV) The Big Flame (1969) (TV) Kes (1969) (as Kenneth Loach) The Rank and the File (1971) (TV; part of the Play for Today series) The Save the Children Fund Film (1971) Family Life (1971) After a Lifetime (1971) (TV) A Misfortune (1973) (TV) Days of Hope (1975) (TV mini series) The.
Kenneth Branagh - Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is a versatile British actor and film director. He was born in Belfast and when he was nine his family left Northern Ireland to live in England. Branagh received a honorary doctorate in Literature from Queen's University, Belfast in 1990. He also has been nominated for three Academy Awards. Branagh has worked on both stage and screen. He is probably best known for his popular film adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare, including a 1993 version of Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet in 1996. He starred several times with his then-wife, Emma Thompson, whom he married in 1989 and divorced in 1996. He has starred in a number of other successful films unrelated to Shakespeare. He married again in 2003, to.
Kerry Nettle - Kerry Michelle Nettle (born 27 December 1973) is an Australian Senator. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and educated at the University of New South Wales, where she obtained a degree in environmental science and was active in student politics. She worked as office coordinator for The Greens (NSW) and then as a youth worker. She joined the Australian Greens in 1998 and was elected to the Australian Senate for New South Wales in November 2001, joining Senator Bob Brown. Nettle is a social radical as well as an environmentalist. She believes in Government ownership of essential services, which include banking, airlines, telecommunications, health and education and other areas privatised in the last two decades in Australia. She argues that private ownership of these assets is "social theft." She.
Kew Bridge - John Wolfe-Barry and opened in 1903. Notes from small centenary display at Richmond Museum October 2003 Museum has an engraving by John Barnard Architect of the design for the first Kew Bridge, dedicated to the Prince of Wales and the Princess Dowager of Wales and dated 1759. He describes it as the “Bridge over the River of Thames from Kew in the County of Surry to the opposite shore in the County of Middlesex”. The Prince of Wales took a lease on Kew House from 1731 and rebuilt the house using William Kent’s designs. His widow, Augusta, started the botanic gardens and created many of the garden buildings. She died in 1771 and her son, now George II moved in. Kew became the regular summer residence of the royal family. The.
Kevin Rudd - this position while he unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Griffith at the 1996 federal election. In 1998 he contested the seat again, successfully. After the 2001 elections Rudd was elected to the Opposition front bench and was appointed shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. In this position he strongly criticised the Liberal government of John Howard over their support for the United States in the 2003 Iraq war, while maintaining Labor's position of support for the Australian-American alliance. Rudd's policy experience and parliamentary performances during the Iraq war made him one of the best-known members of the Labor front bench. When Opposition Leader Simon Crean was challenged by his predecessor Kim Beazley in June, Rudd did not commit himself to either candidate, though it was believed that he voted for Beazley..
Keiko (orca) - Keiko (orca) Keiko (circa 1976 - December 12, 2003) was an orca which performed in the first of three Free Willy movies. He had been captured near Iceland in 1979 and sold to an Icelandic aquarium. Three years later, he was sold to Marineland in Ontario, where he first started performing for the public and developing skin lesions indicative of poor health. He was then sold to Reino Aventura, an amusement park in Mexico City, in 1985. The publicity from his role in Free Willy led to an effort by Warner Brothers Studio and schoolchildren around the world to find him a better home. Donations from the studio and Craig McCaw led to the establishment of the Free Willy Keiko Foundation in February 1995. With donations from the foundation, the Oregon.
Kevin Brown - pitch a complete game in Game Six, defeating the Atlanta Braves and helping the Marlins reach the World Series, which they eventually won over the Cleveland Indians. Following the disassembly of the Marlins' championship team, Brown was traded to the San Diego Padres where he posted an 18-7 record with a career-high 257 strikeouts and a 2.38 ERA, helping to lead them to a World Series, which they lost to the New York Yankees. Following the 1998 season, Kevin Brown again became a free agent and signed a lucrative contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers for seven years and $105 million USD, becoming the first $100 million man in baseball. His first season in Los Angeles, he posted an 18-9 record with 221 strikeouts and a 3.00 ERA. But, his performance.
Kevin Millwood - Millwood Kevin Austin Millwood (born December 24, 1974), commonly known as Kevin Millwood, is a baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies. Millwood made his debut as a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves on July 14, 1997. He had is best year in 1999, winning eighteen games and losing seven. He formed a part of the Atlanta Braves' star pitching rotation, which also consisted of Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, which was regarded by many as the best in the National League. In 2002, after having another eighteen-win season, the Braves traded Millwood to the Phillies for the catcher Johnny Estrada, probably in order to cut their payroll in the midst of economic difficulties. In 2003, Millwood fared reasonably with the Phillies, winning fourteen games. In that year, he also pitched a.
Kecksburg UFO incident - Kecksburg UFO incident of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania occurred on December 9, 1965. It is reported that a flaming object fell out of the sky that night, and crashed in the woods. The object, reported to be the shape of an acorn and as large as a VW Beetle, was said to be carried away, presumably by the military. Theories as to what the Kecksburg object (if there was one- reports vary) range from it being an alien craft to the nosecone of a Soviet probe, Kosmos 96 that was destined for Venus. There has been a recent push for NASA to release pertinent documents on the subject. Some 40 pages of these documents were released on November 1, 2003, but are unrevealing. Similarities have been drawn between Kecksburg and the Roswell UFO.
