Sometimes you wonder where the year went to. In reflecting back on 2003 there were major events that I have forgotten. The one that I was reminded of yesterday was the space shuttle Columbia catastrophe, February 1, 2003.

Any other major news stories that might have been forgotten?

The Blackout of 2003. Over 50 million people were without power. Power was out in 8 US states and parts of Canada. My state was one of them! What a nightmare!

2003 Northeastern Power Outage

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Any other major news stories that might have been forgotten?

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Well, we certainly haven't forgotten it here in California yet, but we did have our historic recall election...

A startling number of well-known people died in 2003, including the last of the famous Sung sisters, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Entertainers Bob Hope, Gregory Peck, Johnny Cash, and Audrey Hepburn, H-bomb inventor Dr. Edward Teller, former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, and others.

Alan Moore

Martha Stewart's indictment.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/07/08/
conjoined.twins/index.html

The death of the Iranian ladies who were joined at the head since birth.

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Originally posted by NCcichlid:
Sometimes you wonder where the year went to. In reflecting back on 2003 there were major events that I have forgotten. The one that I was reminded of yesterday was the space shuttle Columbia catastrophe, February 1, 2003.

Any other major news stories that might have been forgotten?

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So people have mentioned some. I'm sure there were others, but ... I've forgotten them. :-)

Alan Moore

Like every year, we did lose more celebrities like the following :

Johnny Cash
Buddy Ebsen
Barry White
Gregory Peck
Charles Bronson
David Brinkley
Art Carney
Maurice Gibb
Buddy Hackett
Bob Hope
Katharine Hepburn
Warren Zevon
and all of the rest mentioned here:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jenoff/obit.htm

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Elizabeth Smart found alive on March 13, 2003

Didn't we invade Iraq?

Frankvan, did you forget?

Lacy Peterson's murder...well I guess that was actually in 2002, but her body was found, and the search for the murderer was in 2003

9 Demobrats enter the race for the White House, none of which are Hillary.

Hope these aren't forgotten

And let's not forget that event that happened on an aircraft carrier May 1st - victory was declared.

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Originally posted by aminator2002:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,82432,00.html

And let's not forget that event that happened on an aircraft carrier May 1st - victory was declared.

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Well, Bush apparently reconsidered. His orignal statement was that "Military operations had ended." but this was later revised so if you visit the whitehouse website now you'll see that "Major military operations had ended."

Alan Moore

Canada has had its disasters for 2003:

Sars
Mad Cow
Forest fires
The eastern black out - that Clare mentioned

EBknowsBUBBA - I had great expectations for that story... but, I cried instead.