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April 11, 2003Born on Saturday April 12, 2003
- Emma Keizer, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
Died on Saturday April 12, 2003
- Donald "Jim" Marcellus Spartz (87), Longville, Cass County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
- Aleida Tesselaar (86), 's Gravenhage
- Claude CUENEN (50), Liège, 4000, Liège, België
- Adriaan Jan Adriaansen (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- Esther Breuker (83), Fremont, Newaygo County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
- Alida Catharina Abeling (86), Veendam
- Elisabeth Bijl (74)
- Albertus Hendrikus van den Brink (85)
- Aaltje Kers (82)
- Adriaan Lodewijk Leyten (82), Turnhout, België
Born on April 12
- 1992 » Chad le Clos, South African swimmer
- 1993 » Jordan Archer, English-Scottish footballer
- 1993 » Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1994 » Eric Bailly, Ivorian professional footballer
- 1994 » Guido Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
- 1994 » Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress and singer
- 1994 » Oh Sehun, South Korean musician
- 1994 » Saoirse Ronan, American-born Irish actress
- 1995 » Pedro Cachín, Argentine tennis player
- 1996 » Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
Died on April 12
- 1998 » Robert Ford, Canadian poet and diplomat (b. 1915)
- 1999 » Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
- 2001 » Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the smiley (b. 1921)
- 2002 » George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist (b. 1908)
- 2004 » Moran Campbell, Canadian physician and academic, invented the venturi mask (b. 1925)
- 2006 » William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (b. 1924)
- 2007 » Kevin Crease, Australian journalist (b. 1936)
- 2008 » Cecilia Colledge, English-American figure skater and coach (b. 1920)
- 2008 » Jerry Zucker, Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1949)
- 2008 » Patrick Hillery, Irish physician and politician, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923)
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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.
- January 8 » Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
- February 4 » The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.
- April 9 » Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
- June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
- August 27 » Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005km) distant.
- November 12 » Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
Weather April 12, 2003
The temperature on April 12, 2003 was between -3.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (92%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.