The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
Tag Archives: 2003
1 February 2003
Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
17 November 2003
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began
18 February 2003
Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
13 December 2003
Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
19 October 2003
Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
12 May 2003
The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people.
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9 April 2003
Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
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12 March 2003
The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
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23 January 2003
A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
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