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 High School Richfield, Minnesota - USA Class of 2003 |
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High School Richfield, Minnesota - USA Class of 2003 |
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The Year 2003:
- Bush presents his case for war in Iraq in his second State of the Union Address.
- Shoe bomber Richard Reid sentenced to life in prison for trying, in December 2001, to blow up a plane with explosives hidden in his shoes..
- Discovery of four-winged Microraptor gui in China helps to explain evolution of birds and flight.
- U.S. secretary of state Powell tells Security Council that Saddam Hussein is an imminent threat to world security, has continuously deceived UN weapons inspectors, has links to al-Qaeda, and possesses mobile biological weapons factories..
- Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up as it reenters Earth's atmosphere on its way to Kennedy Space Center, killing all seven crew members.
- Pyrotechnics display set off during concert by band Great White ignites an inferno that quickly engulfs entire building at West Warwick, Rhode Island.
- Federal appeals court in San Francisco upholds ruling that recitation in public schools of the words “under God” in Pledge of Allegiance violates the separation of church and state.
- Record Producer Phil Spector arrested and charged in the shooting death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson.
- Mystery virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), emerges as a “worldwide health threat.”
- U.S. launches Operation Iraqi Freedom with a predawn air strike that targets Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi leaders in Baghdad.
- Utah teen Elizabeth Smart found in Sandy, Utah, with her alleged kidnappers, 9 months after being abducted.
- Virginia passes law to end the sending or receiving of unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) to or from the state.
- Eric Rudolph, accused in the attack at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and suspected of attacking abortion clinics and a gay nightclub, apprehended in North Carolina after spending five years on the lam.
- Federal Trade Commission creates Do-Not-Call registry.
- Martha Stewart indicted, charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and securities fraud from Dec. 2001 sale of shares in ImClone Systems.
- Federal Reserve cuts short-term interest rates by a quarter of a point, bringing rates to lowest level since 1958.
- Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who was rescued by U.S. troops from a Nasiriya, Iraq hospital in April, enjoys a hero's welcome in West Virginia.
- Doug Williams, assembly-line employee at Meridian, Mississippi Lockheed Martin plant, opens fire on co-workers then kills himself.
- Bill Janklow, Republican representative from South Dakota, runs a stop sign and hits a motorcycle, killing its driver, Minnesotan Randolph Scott.
- Program, called the Blaster worm, wreaks havoc with about 500,000 computers running recent versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Minnesota teenager, Jeffrey Lee Parson, arrested for allegedly creating a variant of the Blaster virus.
- Several weeks of temperatures rising above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Europe cause more than 11,000 deaths in France alone.
- Swedish Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, dies from stab wounds she received while shopping in a Stockholm department store.
- California governor Gray Davis ousted in recall vote. Austrian-born actor Arnold Schwarzenegger overwhelmingly elected.
- California wildfires destroy more than 500,000 acres and more than 1,000 homes, killing at least 17 people.
- Three Concorde jets touch down for the last time at London's Heathrow Airport, marking an end to the world's only commercial supersonic flights.
- Thousands celebrate with Pope John Paul II in Rome, marking his 25 years as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Accused sniper John Muhammad is found guilty of the 2002 Washington, DC, area shootings and later receives the death sentence.
- Second sniper Lee Malvo found guilty of shooting an FBI analyst in the October 2002 shooting spree and is sentenced to life in prison.
- Gary Ridgway pleads guilty in a Seattle court to strangling 48 women in the 1980s.
- Massive earthquake, measuring 6.6 on the standard magnitude scale, destroys much of Bam, a city in southeastern Iran. As many as 30,000 people die.
- David Brinkley, Charles Bronson, Herb Brooks, Art Carney, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Buddy Ebsen, J. Paul Getty, Buddy Hackett, Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Elia Kazan, Lester Maddox, Herbie Mann, Donald O'Connor, Gregory Peck, George Plimpton, John Ritter, Fred Rogers, John Schlesinger, Bill Shoemaker, Robert Stack, Edwin Starr, Strom Thurmond, Leon Uris, Barry White, and Warren Zevon die.
- Fifth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, flies off the shelves.
- 2016 graduates enter kindergarten.
- 2021/2022 graduates are born.
- More 2003 events
Greetings RHS Class of 2003! |
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