2003 in the United States
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Events from the year
2003
in the
United States
.
Contents
1
Political incumbents
2
Events
3
Deaths
4
References
Political
incumbents
President
-
George W. Bush
Vice President
-
Dick Cheney
Senate Majority Leader
-
Tom Daschle
Secretary of State
-
Colin Powell
Secretary of Defense
-
Donald Rumsfeld
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
-
Dennis Hastert
Events
January -
Sky marshals
introduced on US airlines in an attempt to prevent hijackings.
[1]
February 1
-
STS-107
:
Space Shuttle
Columbia
disintegrates over
Texas
upon re-entry, killing all 7
astronauts
onboard.
[1]
March 20
- The US-led
Iraq War
begins.
[1]
April 3
–
April 12
- Iraq War: US forces defeat the
Iraqi Army
and the
Iraqi Republican Guard
in the
Battle of Baghdad
.
April 13
Iraq War:
Saddam Hussein
's hometown of
Tikrit
falls to US forces.
President
George W. Bush
accuses
Syria
of possessing chemical weapons.
[1]
April 29
-
Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
confirms that US troops will be withdrawn from
Saudi Arabia
where they have been stationed since the 1991
Gulf War
.
[1]
May 1
- President Bush declares an end to the Iraq War, but attacks on coalition troops continue.
[1]
May 28
- President Bush authorizes $350 billion worth of tax cuts over 10 years.
[1]
June 26
- A senior
Department of State
chemical and biological weapons expert testifies to the
House of Representatives
Intelligence Committee
that he was pressured to modify intelligence reports about Iraq.
[1]
September 7
- President Bush announces a request for $87 billion from
Congress
for military operations in
Afganistan
and
Iraq
.
[1]
September 17
- President Bush concedes there is no evidence linking Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein
to the
September 11, 2001 attacks
.
[1]
November 20
- Iraq War: End of
Operation Iron Hammer
, an attempt to end the Iraq insurgency.
[1]
December 13
- Iraq War: End of
Operation Red Dawn
resulting in the capture of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit.
[1]
Deaths
January 3
-
Sid Gillman
, football coach (born
1911
)
January 11
-
Richard Simmons
, actor (born
1913
)
January 12
-
Dean Amadon
, ornithologist (born
1912
)
January 15
-
Doris Fisher
, singer-songwriter (born
1915
)
January 17
-
Richard Crenna
, actor (born
1926
)
January 20
-
Al Hirschfeld
, cartoonist (born
1903
)
January 23
-
Nell Carter
, singer and actress (born
1948
)
January 29
-
Frank Moss
, politician (born
1911
)
February 1
- crew of the
Space Shuttle Columbia
on mission
STS-107
:
Michael P. Anderson
, astronaut (born
1959
)
David M. Brown
, astronaut (born
1956
)
Kalpana Chawla
, astronaut (born
1961
)
Laurel Clark
, astronaut (born
1961
)
Rick Husband
, astronaut (born
1957
)
William McCool
, astronaut (born
1961
)
February 2
-
Lou Harrison
, composer (born
1917
)
February 10
Edgar de Evia
, photographer (born
1910
)
Ron Ziegler
, president
Richard Nixon
's White House Press Secretary (born
1939
)
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig
, professional wrestler (born
1959
)
February 16
-
Eleanor "Sis" Daley
, wife of Chicago mayor
Richard J. Daley
(born
1907
)
February 19
-
Johnny PayCheck
, singer (born
1938
)
February 20
-
Orville Freeman
, politician (born
1918
)
February 27
-
Fred Rogers
, children's television host (born
1928
)
March 2
-
Hank Ballard
, musician (born
1927
)
March 12
-
Lynne Thigpen
, actress (born
1948
)
March 22
-
Milton G. Henschel
,
Jehovah's Witnesses
leader (born
1920
)
March 26
-
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
, politician (born
1926
)
April 17
Robert Atkins
, nutritionist (born
1930
)
Paul Getty
, American-born philanthropist (born
1932
)
Earl King
, musician (born
1934
)
April 20
-
Ruth Hale
, playwright and actress (born
1908
)
April 21
-
Nina Simone
, singer (born
1933
)
April 26
-
Peter Stone
, writer (born
1930
)
May 1
-
Elizabeth Hulette
, wrestling manager and valet (born
1960
)
May 3
-
Suzy Parker
, actress (born
1932
)
May 9
-
Russell B. Long
, politician (born
1918
)
May 14
-
Robert Stack
, actor (born
1919
)
May 15
-
June Carter Cash
, singer (born
1929
)
May 26
-
Kathleen Winsor
, writer (born
1919
)
May 28
-
Martha Scott
, actress (born
1912
)
June 2
Burke Marshall
, lawyer and politician (born
1922
)
"Classy" Freddy Blassie
, professional wrestler and manager (born
1918
)
June 6
-
Ken Grimwood
, writer (born
1944
)
June 10
-
Donald Regan
, Treasury Secretary (born
1918
)
June 11
-
David Brinkley
, television reporter (born
1920
)
June 12
-
Gregory Peck
, actor (born
1916
)
June 14
-
Jimmy Knepper
, musician (born
1927
)
June 18
-
Larry Doby
, baseball player (born
1923
)
June 21
-
Leon Uris
, writer (born
1924
)
June 23
-
Maynard Jackson
, mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (born
1938
)
June 25
-
Lester Maddox
, politician (born
1915
)
June 26
-
Strom Thurmond
, politician (born
1902
)
June 29
-
Katharine Hepburn
, actress (born
1907
)
June 30
-
Buddy Hackett
, comedian and actor (born
1924
)
July 1
-
Herbie Mann
, jazz flutist (born
1930
)
July 4
-
Barry White
, singer (born
1944
)
July 7
-
Buddy Ebsen
, actor (born
1908
)
July 12
-
Benny Carter
, musician (born
1907
)
July 15
-
Tex Schramm
, football team president and general manager (born
1920
)
July 16
-
Carol Shields
, American-born writer (born
1935
)
July 17
-
Rosalyn Tureck
, pianist and harpsichordist (born
1914
)
July 30
-
Sam Phillips
, record producer (born
1923
)
August 4
-
Frederick Chapman Robbins
, pediatrician and virologist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (born
1916
)
August 9
-
Gregory Hines
, dancer and actor (born
1946
)
August 23
-
Bobby Bonds
, baseball player (born
1946
)
August 28
-
Brian Douglas Wells
, criminal (born
1956
)
August 30
-
Charles Bronson
, actor (born
1921
)
September 1
-
John Gould
, humorist, essayist, and columnist (born
1908
)
September 6
-
Harry Goz
, actor (born
1932
)
September 7
-
Warren Zevon
, singer (born
1947
)
September 9
-
Larry Hovis
, actor (born
1936
)
September 11
-
John Ritter
, actor (born
1948
)
September 12
-
Johnny Cash
, singer and guitarist (born
1932
)
September 13
-
Frank O'Bannon
, politician (born
1930
)
September 14
-
John Serry, Sr.
, musician (born
1915
)
September 17
-
Sheb Wooley
, actor and singer (born
1921
)
September 22
-
Gordon Jump
, actor (born
1932
)
September 25
-
George Plimpton
, writer and actor (born
1927
)
September 27
-
Donald O'Connor
, actor, singer, and dancer (born
1925
)
September 28
-
Althea Gibson
, tennis player (born
1927
)
October 3
William Steig
, cartoonist (born
1907
)
Timothy Treadwell
, Environmentalist
October 5
-
Neil Postman
, educator, media theorist, and cultural critic (born
1931
)
October 7
-
Ellen Cannon Reed
, witch and author (born
1943
)
October 10
-
Eugene Istomin
, pianist (born
1925
)
October 12
-
Willie Shoemaker
, jockey (born
1931
)
October 20
-
Jack Elam
, actor (born
1918
)
October 21
Fred Berry
, actor (born
1951
)
Elliott Smith
, musician (born
1969
)
October 22
-
Tony Renna
, race car driver (born
1976
)
October 25
-
Robert Strassburg
, composer (born
1915
)
October 29
-
Hal Clement
, writer (born
1922
)
October 31
-
Richard Neustadt
, political historian (born
1919
)
November 3
-
Spider Jorgensen
, baseball player and coach (born
1919
)
November 5
Bobby Hatfield
, singer (
The Righteous Brothers
) (born
1940
)
Dorothy Fay
, actress (born
1915
)
November 9
-
Art Carney
, actor (born
1918
)
November 10
-
Irv Kupcinet
, columnist and television personality (murdered) (born
1912
)
November 12
Jonathan Brandis
, actor (suicide) (born
1976
)
Penny Singleton
, actress (born
1908
)
November 13
-
Kellie Waymire
, actress (born
1967
)
November 14
-
Gene Anthony Ray
, actor (born
1962
)
November 15
-
Dorothy Loudon
, actress (born
1933
)
November 18
-
Michael Kamen
, composer (born
1948
)
November 20
-
Jim Siedow
, actor (born
1920
)
November 26
-
Soulja Slim
, rapper (born
1977
)
November 30
-
Gertrude Ederle
, swimmer (born
1906
)
December 4
-
Iggy Katona
, race car driver (born
1916
)
December 7
Carl F. H. Henry
, theologian and publisher (born
1913
)
Azie Taylor Morton
, U.S. Treasurer (born
1936
)
December 9
-
Paul Simon
, U.S. Senator from Illinois (born
1928
)
December 13
-
William Roth
, U.S. Senator from Delaware (born
1921
)
December 14
-
Jeanne Crain
, actress (born
1925
)
December 15
-
George Fisher
, political cartoonist (born
1923
)
December 16
-
Gary Stewart
, singer (suicide) (born
1945
)
December 17
-
Otto Graham
, football player (born
1921
)
December 19
-
Hope Lange
, actress (born
1941
)
December 22
-
Dave Dudley
, singer (born
1928
)
December 29
-
Earl Hindman
, actor (born
1942
)
December 30
-
John Gregory Dunne
, writer (born
1932
)
References
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Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 653–656.
ISBN 0-304-35730-8
.