What Happened In April 2003 In History

Historical Events for April, 2003

• 9th » 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 » The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
• 14th » 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 » The Treaty of Accession 2003 named Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.

Famous Birthdays on April in 2003

• 16th » Alina Foley, American actress

Famous Deaths for April 2003

• 1st » Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1956)
• 2nd » Edwin Starr, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 3rd » Michael Kelly (editor) e.g Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)
• 4th » Anthony Caruso (actor) e.g Anthony Caruso, American actor (b. 1916)
• 4th » Adalberto Martínez, Mexican actor (b. 1916)
• 6th » David Bloom, American journalist (b. 1963)
• 6th » Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (b. 1912)
• 6th » Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer, educator, and activist (b. 1927)
• 7th » Cecile de Brunhoff, French author (b. 1903)
• 7th » David Greene (director) or David Greene, English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 9th » Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
• 9th » Earl Bramblett, American murderer (b. 1942)
• 10th » Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
• 11th » Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, founded Texas Instruments (b. 1900)
• 12th » Sydney Lassick, American actor (b. 1922)
• 14th » Jyrki Otila, Finnish politician (b. 1941)
• 15th » Reg Bundy, English actor and dancer (b. 1941)
• 15th » Erin Fleming, Canadian-American actress (b. 1941)
• 16th » Graham Jarvis, Canadian-American actor (b. 1930)
• 16th » Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticulturalist and author (b. 1909)
• 17th » Robert Atkins (nutritionist) called Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (b. 1930)
• 17th » H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• 17th » John Paul Getty, Jr., American-English philanthropist (b. 1932)
• 17th » Earl King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 17th » Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian conjoined twins (b. 1950)
• 17th » Yiannis Latsis, Greek businessman (b. 1910)
• 18th » Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist (b. 1923)
• 19th » Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph (b. 1928)
• 20th » Ruth Hale (playwright and actress) known as Ruth Hale, American actress and playwright (b. 1908)
• 20th » Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
• 20th » Bernard Katz, German biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 21st » Nina Simone, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and activist (b. 1933)
• 22nd » Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
• 22nd » James H. Critchfield, American CIA officer (b. 1917)
• 22nd » Martha Griffiths, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 58th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (b. 1912)
• 22nd » Mike Larrabee, American runner (b. 1933)
• 23rd » Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b. 1910)
• 25th » Samson Kitur, Kenyan runner (b. 1966)
• 26th » Rosemary Brown (politician) called Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 26th » Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (b. 1984)
• 26th » Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904)
• 26th » Peter Stone, American screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 30th » Mark Berger (economist) known as Mark Berger, American economist and educator (b. 1955)
• 30th » Possum Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)

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