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.
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 7 - June 7 June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries 1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France 1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence 1776 - American invaders skirmish with British at Trois Rivières, Quebec. 1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. 1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower.
June 11 - June 11 June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy falls to the Achaeans 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon 1534 - Jacques Cartier and crew celebrate the first recorded Catholic mass in North America 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef 1788 - Russian explorer Gerrasim Izmailov reaches Alaska 1901 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands 1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin, Italy 1963 - The University of Alabama is desegregated 1977 -.
June 26 - June 26 June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 684 - Benedict II becomes Pope. 1483 - Richard III becomes king of England. 1819 - The bicycle is patented. 1923 - First race of the 24 hours of Le Mans 1924 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic. 1945 - The charter of the United Nations is signed. 1948 - The Western allies start an air lift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin. 1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner". 1964 - The Beatles release the.
June 10 - June 10 June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1610 - The first Dutch colonists settle on Manhattan Island 1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged as a witch 1801 - The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States 1829 - First boat race between Oxford and Cambridge 1846 - Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico. 1854 - The first class graduates from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland 1857 - Canadian Assembly passes bill adopting decimal currency 1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in.
June 12 - June 12 June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1099 - Crusade leaders visit the Mount of Olives, where they meet a hermit who urges them to assault Jerusalem 1381 - Peasants' Revolt, England - rebels arrive at Blackheath 1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy. 1758.
June 18 - June 18 June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1812 - The beginning of the War of 1812 -- The United States Congress declares war against United Kingdom 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second time 1858 - Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory. 1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to.
June 13 - June 13 June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1373 - England and Portugal sign a treaty of alliance which has never been broken 1774 - Rhode Island is the first colony to outlaw the importation of slaves 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England 1966 - The United States Supreme.
June 19 - June 19 June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1306 - Forces of Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels at the Battle of Methven 1846 - First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey. 1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas are finally informed of their freedom. June 19th is unofficially celebrated as Juneteenth in the United States. 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor. 1912 - establishment of the 8-hour work day in the United States. 1934 - establishment of the Federal.
June 20 - June 20 June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter. 1756 - English garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath 1819 - The US vessel Savannah arrives at Liverpool. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail. 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne. 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial.
June 5 - June 5 June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1741 - Vitus Bering departs Kamchatka to explore Alaska. 1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning) 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers demonstrate publicly their montgolfière (hot air balloon) 1817 - First Great Lakes steamer launched. 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba 1833 - Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage 1837 - Houston, Texas is granted a city charter. 1849 - Signing of the Danish constitution 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont.
June 23 - June 23 June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1713 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada. 1858 - Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. 1887 - Banff National Park, Canada's first, created. 1894 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. 1985 - An Air India Boeing 747 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland killing 329 1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Genesis in North America. Births 1763 - Josephine de.
June 29 - June 29 June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island) 1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. 1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island. 1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire. 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation. 1922 - France grants 100 hectares at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt.
June 3 - June 3 June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1098 - Crusaders take Antioch, Turkey 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac Quebec Canada. 1620 - Building of oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec Canada. 1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands 1658 - The Pope appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France. 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California 1800 - President John Adams takes up residence in.
June 2 - June 2 June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks. They depart with countless valuables, spoils of the Temple in Jerusalem brought to Rome by Titus, and the Empress Eudoxia and her daughters Eudocia and Placidia. 575 - Benedict I becomes Pope 657 - St. Eugene I becomes Pope 1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. 1800 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland 1865 - With the surrender of the forces of General Edmund Kirby Smith.
June 1 - June 1 June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The government of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed 1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property 1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the United States. 1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state in the United States 1812 - War of 1812: President James Madison asks the United States Congress to declare war on the United.
June 16 - June 16 June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir 1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River 1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French fortress of Louisburg during the War of the Austrian Succession. 1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of.
June 15 - June 15 June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse 923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed, King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy 1094 - Valencia falls to El Cid 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta 1616 - Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children in Canada, at Tadoussac, Quebec 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat Serbs and Bosnians 1590 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin.
June Carter Cash - June Carter Cash June Carter Cash (née Valerie June Carter) (June 23, 1929 - May 15, 2003), middle daughter of Ezra (Eck) Carter and Maybelle Carter (Mother Maybelle), was a singer, songwriter, a member of the first country music recording stars, the Carter Family, and married to legendary singer Johnny Cash. She was born in Maces Springs, Virginia and played guitar, banjo, and autoharp. With the Carter Family In the winter of 1938-1939 the Carter Family travelled to Texas where they had a twice-daily program on border radio station XERA (later XERF) in Villa Acuña (now Ciudad Acuña), Mexico, across the border from Del Rio, Texas. Then in school, June did not accompany them. Beginning with the 1939/1940 season, June joined the Carters, this time in.
