Being born under the Chinese Zodiac Sign Sheep people have elegance and great talent in the arts. At first glance the Sheep zodiacs seem to be better off than other signs. But if you take into consideration that Sheep are shy, pessimistic and having a hard time figuring life out. Timid by nature usually Sheep are very religious people. Introvert mostly they can be clumsy doing speeches. Having great passion towards their beliefs and passions. Sheep are very good at what they do professionally, that is also why they have no worries about material things. Wise yet gentle Sheep are compassionate people.
Astrology character and traits of Sheep sign: Elegant, artistic, gentle, compassionate, honest, creative, genuine, dependent on material comforts and pessimistic.
2003 Zodiac Sign Goat Compatibility
Chinese Zodiac Signs are based upon a twelve year lunar cycle. Your zodiac animal sign is determined by your birthday year. If you were born in 2003 then your astrological sign is Goat. There are twelve animal signs. Each animal has it's own attributes and personality traits the Chinese believe comprise the nature of each particular animal.
Best matches for Zodiac Sign Goat are: Horse, Rabbit, Pig, Dragon
Bad matches for Zodiac Sign Goat are: Ox
Historical Events for the Year 2003
8th January Star Sign » Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
8th January » US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
16th January Star Sign » The Space Shuttle Columbia or Space Shuttle 'Columbia' takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. 'Columbia' disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
21st January Star Sign » A 7.6 magnitude 2003 Colima earthquake known as earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
24th January Star Sign » The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
25th January Star Sign » 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to Human shield action to Iraq serve as human shields, intending to prevent the United States U.S.-led coalition of the willing coalition troops from bombing certain locati
27th January Star Sign » The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
31st January Star Sign » The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
4th February Star Sign » The Bengali Hindus declares the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
4th February » The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
10th February Star Sign » France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
15th February Star Sign » February 15, 2003 anti-war protest known as Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
19th February Star Sign » An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft 2003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash called crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
20th February Star Sign » During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island called West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display The Station nightclub fire e.g sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
1st March Star Sign » Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
1st March » The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
5th March Star Sign » In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
12th March Star Sign » Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is Assassination of Zoran Đinđić named assassinated in Belgrade.
13th March Star Sign » Human evolution: The journal Nature (journal) e.g Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human had been found in Italy.
16th March Star Sign » Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
17th March Star Sign » Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the Cabinet of the United Kingdom called British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
20th March Star Sign » 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
23rd March Star Sign » Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the 2003 invasion of Iraq named invasion of Iraq.
24th March Star Sign » 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.
9th April Star Sign » 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces; Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces.
14th April Star Sign » The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
14th April » U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian people called Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS e.g Achille Lauro in 1985.
16th April Star Sign » The Treaty of Accession 2003 named Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
1st May Star Sign » 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished speech Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 6 (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in
12th May Star Sign » The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.
16th May Star Sign » In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the 2003 Casablanca bombings or Casablanca terrorist attacks.
21st May Star Sign » An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
22nd May Star Sign » In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
28th May Star Sign » Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
30th May Star Sign » Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
5th June Star Sign » A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
20th June Star Sign » The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
26th June Star Sign » The Supreme Court of the United States e.g U.S. Supreme Court rules in 'Lawrence v. Texas' that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
1st July Star Sign » Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 e.g anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
6th July Star Sign » The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a Message to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence METI message (Cosmic Call Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Cassiopeia (constellation) Hip 4872, Orion (constellation) HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ur
7th July Star Sign » NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover – B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
13th July Star Sign » French Directorate-General for External Security DGSE personnel abort Opération 14 juillet an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to
15th July Star Sign » Time Warner e.g AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day
10th August Star Sign » The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – convert 38.5 °C °F in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over Convert 100 °F °C.
10th August » Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
11th August Star Sign » NATO takes over command of the International Security Assistance Force known as peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
11th August » Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
14th August Star Sign » A Northeast blackout of 2003 or widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
19th August Star Sign » A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
22nd August Star Sign » Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
25th August Star Sign » The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib people Dogrib First Nations and the Canada Canadian federal government in Behchoko, Northwest Territories Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
27th August Star Sign » Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing convert called 34646418 e.g mi distant.
27th August » 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 as a result of the North Korea and weapons of mass destruction called North Korean nucle
29th August Star Sign » Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassination e.g assassinated in a terrorism or terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
30th August Star Sign » While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.
10th September Star Sign » Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
12th September Star Sign » The United Nations lifts International sanctions known as sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
12th September » Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
20th September Star Sign » 2003 Maldives civil unrest known as Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
25th September Star Sign » A Richter magnitude scale or magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
4th October Star Sign » Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
7th October Star Sign » A historic California gubernatorial recall election e.g recall election takes place in the U.S. State of California in which the sitting Governor Gray Davis, a Democrat, is overwhelmingly voted out of office. Actor, bodybuilder and Republican candidate Ar
9th October Star Sign » Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
14th October Star Sign » Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman incident called Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins.
15th October » The Staten Island Ferry boat 'Andrew J. Barberi' 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash e.g runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
18th October Star Sign » Bolivian Gas War: List of presidents of Bolivia or President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
19th October Star Sign » Mother Teresa is Beatification or beatified by Pope John Paul II.
26th October Star Sign » The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes convert 250,000 acre km2, and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
5th November Star Sign » Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
12th November Star Sign » Iraq war: In Nasiriya, 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.
12th November » Shanghai Transrapid sets a new Land speed record for rail vehicles world speed record (convert 501 km/h mph) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
14th November Star Sign » Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
15th November Star Sign » The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
18th November Star Sign » In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
20th November Star Sign » After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank (Turkey) known as HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
22nd November Star Sign » 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
23rd November Star Sign » Rose Revolution: Georgia (country) named Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
7th December Star Sign » The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
9th December Star Sign » A Red Square Bombing e.g blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
13th December Star Sign » Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn Former President of Iraq or Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
14th December Star Sign » President of Pakistan or Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
17th December Star Sign » The Soham murders e.g Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, England, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
17th December » SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes SpaceShipOne flight 11P e.g its first powered and first supersonic flight.
23rd December Star Sign » PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
25th December Star Sign » The ill-fated 'Beagle 2' probe, released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
26th December Star Sign » A 2003 Bam earthquake called magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, Iran or Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
29th December Star Sign » The last known speaker of Akkala Sami language named Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.