About the day » Thursday March 20, 2003Calender converter
March 19, 2003Died on Thursday March 20, 2003
- Catharina Cornelia Rombouts (74), Zundert
- Catharina Bragitta Wittebrood (96), Egmond aan de Hoef
- Alice Buntinx (geboren als Dawans) (91), Sint-Truiden, België
- Adrianus Voorneveld (77), Amsterdam
- Albert van Ravenswaaij (82), Veenendaal
- Clementine Angelica Boele (94), `s-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Arno Huberto Portier (74), Concord, Contra Costa County, Californië, Verenigde Staten
- Cornelis Johannes van den Brink (45)
- Arnold Santjer (80), Burnsville, Florida
- Carl Lee Newman (80), Kennett, Dunklin, Missouri, United States
Born on March 20
- 1987 » Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer
- 1989 » Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi Cricketer
- 1989 » Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director
- 1990 » Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
- 1990 » Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
- 1991 » Ethan Lowe, Australian rugby league player
- 1991 » Mattia Destro, Italian footballer
- 1991 » Michał Kucharczyk, Polish footballer
- 1993 » Sloane Stephens, American tennis player
- 1995 » Jack Bird, Australian rugby league player
Died on March 20
- 1997 » V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer, essayist, and critic (b. 1900)
- 1999 » Patrick Heron, British painter (b. 1920)
- 2000 » Gene Eugene, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1961)
- 2001 » Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1949)
- 2004 » Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
- 2004 » Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917)
- 2005 » Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- 2007 » Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
- 2007 » Raynald Fréchette, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1933)
- 2007 » Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
Names that were popular for boys in 2003
- Jan
- Johannes
- Pieter
- Thomas
- Lucas
- Willem
- Cornelis
- Hendrik
- Daan
- Ruben
- David
- Jesse
- Maria
- Lars
- Jacob
- Max
Names that were popular for girls in 2003
- Maria
- Anna
- Emma
- Johanna
- Elisabeth
- Anne
- Louise
- Marie
- Victoria
- Carmen
- Lisa
- Laura
- Isa
- Sophie
- Beatrix
- Elizabeth
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2003
- 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 24 » The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
- May 16 » In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
- August 14 » Project Thread, an operation launched by CSIS and other Canadian law enforcement agencies, saw the arrest and incarceration of 24 innocent Muslim men, most of them young Pakistani students.
- 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.
- August 27 » The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
- October 15 » China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
The weather on Thursday March 20, 2003
The temperature on March 20, 2003 was between -0.4 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI