About the day » Monday April 28, 2003Calender converter

• Frans Kersten (82), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Everdinant van Klinken (86), Emmen, Drenthe (NL)
• Annigjen van Weeghel (81), Zwolle
• "Michel" François Albert de France (76), Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, Yvelines, France
• Evert Dinant van Klinken (86), Emmen
• Catharina de Frankrijker (93), Oudewater
• Arnold Arie Schimmel (88), Sacramento, California (USA)
• Dries Johannes Juffer (78), Apeldoorn
• Frederik Claveaux (83), Ammerzoden
• Bernardus Hubertus Cremers (96), Echt

• 1988 » Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
• 1989 » Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1989 » Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer
• 1990 » Niels-Peter Mørck, Danish footballer
• 1992 » Blake Bortles, American football player
• 1992 » DeMarcus Lawrence, American football player
• 1993 » Craig Garvey, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder
• 1995 » Jonathan Benteke, Belgian footballer
• 1995 » Melanie Martinez, American singer

• 1999 » Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1927)
• 1999 » Rory Calhoun, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (b. 1950)
• 2002 » Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1971)
• 2005 » Percy Heath, American bassist (b. 1923)
• 2005 » Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist and author (b. 1959)
• 2006 » Steve Howe, American baseball player (b. 1958)

1. Thomas
2. Daan
3. Lucas
4. Max
5. Ruben
6. Lars
7. Sem
8. Mike
9. Jesse
10. Jan
11. Sam
12. Remco
13. Bram
14. Martijn
15. Niels
16. Tom

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Lisa
4. Maria
5. Anna
6. Lieke
7. Anne
8. Laura
9. Nina
10. Catharina-amalia
11. Femke
12. Julia
13. Iris
14. Sanne
15. Lotte
16. Noa

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
• January 25 » Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
• March 13 » An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
• March 17 » Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• May 1 » Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USSAbraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
• August 29 » Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
• December 23 » PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.

The temperature on April 28, 2003 was between 9.5 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.