About the day » Monday November 24, 2003Calender converter

• Edna Viola Sterling (88)
• Carroll Newell [WkWk] (84), Stafford County, Kansas
• Bokke Ottema (94), Balk
• Cornelia Johanna (Cor) van Strien (91), Raamsdonkveer
• Borgert Oosterveld (93), Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
• Bernardus Soppe (77), Schiedam
• de Jongh (57), Ermelo (Gelderland, NLD)
• Anne-Marie MONTENS D'OOSTERWIJCK (70), Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Brussels Brussels Belgium
• Berthilla Catharina Bruël (87)
• Antonetta Wilhelmina Kemper (81)

• 1986 » Mohamed Massaquoi, American football player
• 1986 » Pedro León, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » Michael Oldfield, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Sarah Hyland, American actress
• 1990 » Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter
• 1992 » Sergei Kulbach, Ukrainian figure skater
• 1993 » Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Joe Pigott, English footballer
• 1994 » Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer

• 2002 » John Rawls, American philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1921)
• 2003 » Warren Spahn, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
• 2004 » Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2004 » James Wong, Chinese actor and songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2004 » Joseph Hansen, American author and poet (b. 1923)
• 2005 » Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2006 » George W. S. Trow, American author, playwright, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2006 » Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
• 2006 » Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist and ethologist (b. 1938)
• 2007 » Casey Calvert, American guitarist (b. 1981)

• 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.
• 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 28 » Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
• July 15 » AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
• August 18 » One-year-old Zachary Turner is murdered in Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case was documented in the film Dear Zachary and led to reform of Canada's bail laws.
• September 25 » The 8.3 M_w  Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
• October 4 » The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.

The temperature on November 24, 2003 was between 5.7 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 15.1 mm of rain during 11.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.