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2003
thoseThe USA and allied states pull against the Iraq under the rule of the dictator of Saddam Hussein into the war	after the handbill scandal come Jürgen Möllemann during a parachute jump around the life
the infection SARS become for the first time in November in the Chinese provinceGuangdong observes
yearly dedications
initiatives
initiative science in the dialogue of the BMBF:	„Year of chemistry “
UNESCO:	„Year of the fresh water “
culture capital of the yearly:	Graz
???:	„Year of the Bible “
nature and protection of species
medicinal plant of the yearly:	Artichoke
Tree of the yearly:	Schwarzerle
biotope of the yearly:	Garden
flower of the yearly:	Kornrade
fish of the yearly:	Barbe
river landscape of the yearly:	The Ilz
vegetable of the yearly:	Potato
domestic animal of the yearly:	House and Hofhund (pointed and Pin
welfare plant of the yearly:	Mistel
insect of the yearly:	Field cricket
landscape of the yearly:	Old Flanders
Orchidee of the yearly:	Fly-rise up-pepper
mushroom of the yearly:	The parrot Green Saftling
butterfly of the yearly:	Forest devil
spider of the yearly:	Large trembling spider
Staude of the yearly:	Salbei
of strewing fruit places of the yearly:	Dattelzwetschge
animal of the yearly:	Wolf
bird of the yearly (Germany):	Mauersegler
bird of the yearly (Switzerland): Bulgy diaper snail	thistle finch
soft animal of the yearly:	Bulgy diaper snail
of key words
word of the yearly (Germany):	Old Europe
Unwort of the yearly (Germany):	Author people
set of the yearly (Germany):	„Germany looks for the superstar. “
Stock exchange now word of the yearly:	Best price
word of the yearly (Austria):	Hacklerregelung
Unwort of the yearly (Austria)	possession-condition-true
set of the yearly (Austria)	„childreninstead of parties. “
Word of the yearly (Liechtenstein)	sovereignty
Unwort of the yearly (Liechtenstein)	theological special refuse
set of the yearly (Liechtenstein)	„Liechtenstein is returned home again to Vienna, nearly. “
Word of the yearly (Switzerland)	concordance
Unwort of the yearly (Switzerland)	illusory invalid
set of the yearly (Switzerland)	“selects Blocher,he earned this punishment. To”

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January

1. January: Pascal couch pin becomes Federal President of Switzerland
1. January: Angola and Germany belonged to the UN security council at 1 as not-constant members for two
years. January: Luiz Inácio Lula Silva becomes a president of Brazil there
15. January: Ecuador. Lucio Gutiérrez Borbúa becomes a president
19. January: Cuba. Third step-by-step selections for national assembly
22. January: Parliamentary election in the Netherlands

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February

1. February: Germany takes over the presidency for one monthin the Security Council
2. February: Elections of the federal parliament in Lower Saxony and Hessen with clear in each case victories of the CDU
2. February: Constitutional amendment in Kirgisistan
4. February: Via vote of parliament renaming of Yugoslavia took place in Serbia and Montenegro
5. February: Armenia steps the World Trade Organization with
9. February: President Vladimir Putin, Russia, and Federal President Johannes Rau, Germany, opened the GermanRussian culture days in Berlin
10. February: Germany and the Netherlands transferred to Afghanistan the guidance of the ISAF (Safety support echelon)
11. February: Bolivia. Rebellion of the police: as consequence of it it came to mass unrests with several dead ones and hundreds of hurting
21. February: Croatia placed the request for membership in the European Union in Athens, Greece ,
26. February: Rolandas Paksas as president of Lithuania swears in
27. February: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Tadschikistan
28. February: Czech republic. Václav Klaus becomes a president

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March

Austria has after the national council choice 2002 large problemsto find a new government.ÖVP and FPÖ decide to a new edition in the previous year of the black-blue coalition 1
failed. March: Trade agreement between the European Union and Lebanon
11. March: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan becomes an Prime Minister in Turkey
16. March: Parliamentary elections in El Salvador
16. March: Parliamentary elections in Finland
17. March: Constitutional amendment in France. Main point: Decentralization of France
20. March: Beginning of the third Gulf War: The government of Germany and widens parts of the German populationplaced themselves together with France in the Iraq conflict against the war politics of the USA and Great Britain. On the part of the USA it received for it harsche criticism, in addition, support from Russia and China
23. March: Constitutional amendment in Chechnya
23. March: 90% of the population of Slovenia were for European Union - an entry
24. March: US president George W. Bush quits only four minutes to the American people in one is enough for speech the beginning of the war against the Iraq at
24. March: In Hamburga demonstration “youth consisting of 20.000 pupils is by force struck down against the war “by the police
26. March: Signing NATO - of entry minutes in Brussels by of Estonia Foreign Minister Kristiina Ojuland

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April

3. April: Serbiaand Montenegro becomes member in the Council of Europe
4. April: Several hundred humans were killed with a massacre in Ituri , democratic Republic of the Congo,
9. April: Invasion of the troops in Bagdad , Iraq 9, led from
the USA. April: Culture agreement between Germany and Lebanon
10. April: Estonia. Juhan parts becomes an Prime Minister
14. April: Militätputsch in Guinea-Bissau
16. April: Estonia and Malta sign the treaty of accession in Athens, Greece, to the European Union
17. April: Finland. Anneli Jäätteenmäki becomes government boss (for 63 days)
19. April: Nigeria. President Olusegun Obasanjo in the office confirms
21. April: The coalition transition administration for the Iraq is created
27. April: Third democratic elections in Yemen
27. April: General elections in Paraguay
29. April: Common explanation in Brussels, Belgium, from Germany, France, Luxembourg and Belgium to the European safety and defense policy
30. April: Burundi. Domitien Ndayizeye becomes a president
30. April: The inhabitants of the Gulf State Qatar are correct the first condition since the independence from Great Britain (1971) to

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May

1. May: Summit in Athens, Greece, between Japan and the European Union
1. May: US president George W. Bush explains the substantial part of the fighting in the Iraq for terminates
2. May: Albania and the USA sign a Nichtauslieferungsabkommen of American citizens to the international criminal court into the Hague
25. May: Argentina. Dr. Néstor Kirchner became a president
25. May: Armenia. Choice for national assembly
26. May: Rwanda. 93% agreement for new condition
28. May: Germany makes region tents available for from the earthquake in Algeria the concerning

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June

1. June: The rate of exchange of the Taka, national currency in Bangladesh, to the USD is released
1. June: In Germany the new law regulating the closing time of shops comes into force
4. June: Surya Bahadur Thapa becomes a prime minister of Nepal
5. June: Signing of the culture agreement between Kazakhstan and Germany
5. June: Dieter existing building becomes an Prime Minister of the Free State Thuringia
8. June: Putschversuch in Mauritania fails
to 8. June: 77% that Poland are correct for the entry inthe European Union
10. June: Germany. Hans Martin Bury is appointed the assigned one for French-German co-operation
12. June: Swearing-in of the Rumpfkabinets in in Nepal
17. June: Parliamentary elections in Jordanian one
24. June: Finland. Matti Vanhanen becomes Prime Minister
24. June: The USA freeze the fortunes of the 55 persons on the list of the usually-looked for former Iraqi regime members
25. June: Award French-German journalist price (DFJP)

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July

4. July: Common one Explanation over the completion of the war in Côte d'Ivoire
5. July: Parliamentary elections in Kuwait
6. July: Sghaïr Ould M'Bareck becomes a head of the government in Mauritania
6. July: Delegate choice in Mexico
10. July: Delivery European Union - of the questionnaire at Croatia
15. July: Kuwait. For the first time separation of the office of the Crown Prince and the head of the government
16. July: Putsch in São Tomé and Príncipe by dissatisfied soldiers during itself president Fradique de Menezes abroad finds.
23. July: The Putschin São Tomé and Príncipe ends peacefully. The soldiers involved withdraw themselves into their barracks and are amnestied - president Fradique de Menezes returns from the exile to Nigeria and takes over again affairs of state
27. July: Parliamentary electionsin Kambodscha

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August

6. August: Côte d'Ivoire. The amnesty law comes into force
8. August: René Harris becomes a president, head of the government and minister of foreign affairs in a person in Nauru
11. August: Liberia. President Charles Taylorgoes into the exile to Nigeria
15. August: Dr. Nicanor Duarte Frutos becomes a president in Paraguay
18. August: A bilateral consolidation agreement over the debts of Angola opposite the Federal Republic of Germany signs
19. August: Iraq. On UN- Headquarters in Bagdad is committed a heavy notice, with which 22 persons die, among them the special envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello
27. August: The Maoistic guidance quits the armistice in Nepal
27. August: Cabinet reorganization in Senegal
30. August: The prime minister Khin Nyunt of Myanmar announces „the Myanmar Roadmap ton of Democracy “

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to September

5. September: Attendance of the queen Margrethe II. in Germany
5. September: The German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visits Prague/Tschechien
9. September: German Federal President Johannes Rau the People's Republic of China a state visit starting from
9. September: Hunter judgement of the European Court of Justice: The EuGH states that on-call service of physicians in Germany not as rest period, but fullyas a work time to rate is. This judgement became by to 13. September 2005 final TVöD with effect to the 1. October 2005 for employees of the Federal Republic of Germany and with effect to the 1. January 2006 for the employees of the German municipalitiesconverted. For the employees of the German Lands of the Federal Republic there is still no tariff-legal conversion, the EuGH - judgement becomes however by the work time law the 1. January 2007 converted
10. September: Mijailo Mijailovic stings Foreign Minister in Stockholm department stores of Sweden Anna Lindh down
11. September: Cuba. Spanish Kulturinstitut is closed by the Cuban government
14. September: Estonia. Popular vote over the planned European Union - entry
14. September: Renewed Militärputsch in Guinea-Bissau
22. September: Henrique PereiraPink one becomes a president of Guinea-Bissau
23. September: Election of the federal parliament in Bavaria
24. September: Lithuania. The cabinet decides the sales of the portions of the Russian Gazprom
28. September: Italy. It comes to a wide power failure, thatthe white night prematurely terminates

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October

4. October: Oman. First elections, with those all persons over 21, also women, entitled to vote are
5. October: Presidency elections in Chechnya
12. October: Local elections in Albania with easyVoice gains for the opposition
13. October: The ministers of foreign affairs Joschka Fischer (Germany) Dominique de Villepin (France) and Lydie Polfer (Luxembourg) open institute for jetty RH Werner in Luxembourg
14. October: Gyude Bryant becomes state and head of the provincial governmentthe interim government in Liberia
15. October: Azerbaijan. Ilham Äliyev is selected to the president
17. October: The German Foreign Office supports woman projects in Kandahar/Afghanistan, with 1 million Euro
17. October: Bolivia. President andHead of the government became Carlo Mesa
17. October: Bolivia. President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada steps back
17. October: Germany and Czechoslovakia meet agreements over social security
17. October: In Austria the zero comma seven campaign is started
18. October: Romaniaa new condition at 19
takes. October: Parliamentary elections in Switzerland
24. October: Bundestag resolution: Germany strengthened its commitment in Afghanistan and arranges 2003 two branch offices of the message Kabul in Kundus and Herat in the autumn
25. October: Faisal aluminium-Fayez becomes a prime minister in Jordanian one
27. October: Safety conference in Mexico
28. October: Second local elections in Mozambique
29. October: The German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visits Bratislava, Slowakei
30. October: A bilateral investment protection and - promotion-getif Angola became in Luanda , signs
30. October: First attendance of the German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Croatia

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November

2. November: Georgien. Third parliamentary elections. Electoral fraud and election fraud overshadow these elections
5. November: Attendancethe litauischen president Rolandas Paksas in Germany
12. November: The German Foreign Office supports winter help in need in Afghanistan with 1,2 millions Euro
23. November: Georgien. Resignation Eduard Shevardnadze
23. November: Parliamentary elections in Croatia
28. November: ThatGerman Federal Ministers of Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer academic year at the Europe Kolleg in Brügge /Belgium [

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to December

1. December: The German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder already visits the People's Republic of China for the fifth time
4. December: Agreement between Monaco and the European commission over legal matters
7. December: Elections to the Duma in Russia
8. December: Simbabwe steps from the Commonwealth from
9. December: That Hamburg senate from CDU, FDP and the party of right-national offensive fails aftersomething over two years. New elections are proclaimed
10. December: Switzerland: after 44 years the magic formula was blown up. Thus the SVP received a second seat and Christoph Blocher to the Upper House of Parliament was selected
to 10. December: Agreement between Russia and Germany over travel easements
12. December: Canada. Paul Martin becomes a prime minister
12. December: New government in San Marino
13. December: Iraq: Saddam Hussein was TIC-guessed/advised arrested in
15. December: International forum about Myanmar in Bangkok/Thailand
20. December: In the agreement of Moroni, Comoros, are fixed free and democratic elections
to 23. December: Dr. Ivo Sanader becomes a head of the government in Croatia

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list of the heads of state 2003

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terrorist attacks and wars

5. August: An autobomb explodes before the J.W. Marriot hotel in Jakarta and kills 12 humans

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disasters

8. January: Charlotte, North Carolina, the USA. A machine of the US-Airwayshad an accident on the starting and runway as the left door during the start drops and into the engine arrived. The airplane races into a hangar and catches fires. All 21 humans on board died
8. January: Diyarbakır, Turkey. Coming from Istanbul a traffic machine fell with the approach flight . 75 humans died, 5 could be saved
9. January: Cerro Coloque, Peru. Crash Fokker of a F-28. All 46 humans on board died
17. January: Spain. Crash Fokker 50, coming from Málaga, to missing the runway. 19 humans died, 9 could be saved
21. January: An earthquake in the west of Mexico demanded 29 human lives
1. February: In the conclusion of the 16-tägigen research stay STS-107and glows the Columbia breaks 15 minutes before the landing on Cape Canaveral. All 7 crew members, five men and two women, come us life
18. February: An obviously spirit-ill man puts a fire in the underground in Daegu (South Korea), with which at least 198 humans die.
22. February: An earthquake of the strength 5.5 after the judge scale along the Rhine between Basel and Freiburg with Epizentrum with Strasbourg shook the Rhine region and arranged small damagein the Elsass at
24. February: Earthquake of the strength 6.3 in the province Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, 261 dead ones
6. March: Tamanrasset, Algeria. A Boeing 737 of the air Algerie misses the runway and falls. Everything103 humans on board died
1. May: An earthquake of the strength 6.4 in the east of Turkey. 177 dead ones
21. May: Earthquake of the strength 6.8 in Algeria, 2,266 dead ones
27. May: An earthquake of the strength 5,8in Algeria. 9 dead ones
7. July: Haven the Sudan, the Sudan. Crash Boeing 737 the Sudan Airways briefly after the start, about 5 km after the starting and runway. 116 persons died, a child are allegedlysurvived
21. July: An earthquake of the strength 6.0 in the province Yunnan, People's Republic of China. 16 dead ones
22. August: A heavy explosion destroys a VLS-3 rocket of the Brazilian space authority on the launching pad in the Alcântara airbasein the north of Brazil. 21 humans die

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economics

1. January: the European Union forbids the misleading designations „light “and „mildly “for cigarettes
4. April: The Popmusiksender megaradio which can be received country widely in the medium-wave band places its because of insolvencyOperated
the German course takes back after turnover losses parts of the new price system and introduces „the Bahncard 50 “, with which one can acquire 50% reduced tickets without course connection
June: A vierwöchiger strike that Industrial union metal in East Germany for the introduction of the 35-Stunden-Woche does not remain unsuccessfully
the Birresborner Phönix mineral water settled in Birresborn because of contaminated sources on 11-November is closed
the planned satellite-based Autobahnmautsystem can because of technical problems the enterprise according to plan take up; its introductionat the end of of December 2003 on the third quarter 2004 shifted
Taobao, the largest commercial platform of Asia goes to on-line.

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education, science and technology

1. January: The Universities of meals and Duisburg fuse to the University of Duisburg meal
1. January:The Universitäskliniken Kiel and Luebeck fuses to the university clinic Schleswig-Holstein
5. January: The Saturn - transit by the cancer fog makes that for Roentgen possible of the gas covering of the moon titanium
1. February: The space shuttle Columbia breaks with the approach flight in approximately 60 kmHeight
of 28. May: The first cloned horse with the name Prometea comes to the world
31. May: Circular solar eclipse in Scotland, Iceland and parts of Greenland. In Germany a partial solar eclipse is to be seen direct with sunrise
24. June: A Concorde flies for the last time from New York to Paris
30. July: The last VOLKSWAGEN beetle rolls in the Volkswagenwerk in Pueblo (Mexico) of the volume
August: The measured temperature highest in Germanybecomes with 40,8 °C in Perl - Nenning in the Saarland to 8. August measured, must be corrected however later again downward for 40,3 °C. In Switzerland one determines for the first time temperature levels of over 40 °C: at the 11. August measuresMeteoSchweiz in Grono (grey federations) 41.5 °C. 2003 enter as a hottest year in Germany since 1540 history. Additional deaths because of the summer heat enter as heat-dead public consciousness. Numbers for France, Italy and Germany gointo the thousands
of 15. October: China starts a first manned spaceship with the Taikonauten Yang Liwei
24. October: Last flight of the Concorde from New York to London
23. November: Total solar eclipse (Indian ocean, Antarctic)
18. December: Linux Kernel version 2.6 publishes
25. December: Landing attempt of the European robot Beagle 2; whether the surface Mars was reached, is unknown. The space probe Mars express steps heat wave a 2003 first into
an orbit around
Mars takes place the WorldSummit on the information Society

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society

culture capital of Europe is 2003 the steirische state capital Graz
in China breaks at the New Year's Day 1. February the year of the sheep /der goat (character Yang) on (see Chinese Astrologie)
13. February: Establishment dG'Entertainments
7. May: For the first time in the history of the Vatikan a woman was appointed to the point of a papal academy. Letizia Pani Ermini became of Johannes Paul II. appointed the president of the academy for archaeology
28. May to 1. June: The first Ökumeni church conference found in Berlin instead of
31. May: Opened in presence of European heads of the government a replication with end of war of the missing person of amber room in the Katharinenpalast with sank Petersburg after 20 years of toilsome reconstruction
12. July: In Berlin the last Loveparade found instead of
5. December: Johannes Heesters became 100 years
cinema: To X-Men 2, matrix Reloaded, Good Bye Lenin, The Hulk, My bend Fat Greek Wedding, Catch ME IfYou CAN, Solaris, The ring, Chicago, course OF New York, Daredevil, 28 Days Later, which do not present jungle book 2, curse of the Karibik, the master of the rings: The return of the king
with the Grammy Awards 2003 goes to beginner Norah Jones with five Grammys as a large winner out
Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the order OF the Phoenix
Hillary Clinton: Lived history
Michael of moorlands: Stupid White Men

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sport

8. March: Vladimir Klitschko lost a Boxkampf against Corrie of Sanders in the Preussag arena, Hanover, Germany, by technical K.o
12. April: German preselection for the olympia application is selected 2012 in Munich, Leipzig
21. June: Vitali Klitschkolost a Boxkampf against Lennox Lewis in the Staples center, Los Angeles, California, the USA, by technical K.o
12. July: 27. July: Hannah stick farmer got with the 10. Swimming world championships in Barcelona three gold medals
23. August: 31. August: 9. Leichtathletik - world championships in Paris
30. August: Vladimir Klitschko won a Boxkampf against Fabio Eduardo Moli in Olympia-resounds in Munich, Germany, by K.o
27./28. September: 30. Berlin Marathon
12. October:the German women won the soccer world championship
12. October: Michael Schumacher became the sixth time formula 1 - world champion
6. November: Wok world championships in winter mountain
6. December: Vitali Klitschko won a Boxkampf against Kirk Johnson in the Madison Square guards, New York, the USA, by technical K.o
20. December: Vladimir Klitschko won a Boxkampf against Danell Nicholson in Baltic Sea-resounds in Kiel, Germany, by technical K.o
21. December: January Ullrich became a sportsman of the yearly, Hannah stick farmer Sportlerin of the yearly and the national soccer team of the Mrs. Mannschaft of the yearly
Bavaria Munich became 18. Times German football master
Germany became with the hand ball - WM in Portugal vice-world champion
100-Jahr-Feier of the route de France, it won to fifthTimes Lance Armstrong
US tennis star Andy Roddick wins the final of the USopen against Juan Carlo Ferrero and thus its 1.Grand Slam title

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born

23. April: Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium, daughter by princess Astrid of Belgium and Ore duke prince Lorenz von Austria Este
29. April: Maud Angelica Behn, daughter by princess Märtha Louise of Norway and air Behn
8. May: Crown Prince Mulai Hassan, Sohn von König Mohammed VI. and princess Lalla Salma
15. May: Ana Maria Morales, daughter by princess Alexia of Greece and Carlo Morales
27. May: Moritz Emmanuel Maria, Sohn by prince Constantin of Liechtenstein and Marie von Kalnoky
20. August: Prince Gabriel Baudouin Charles Marie, sonof Crown Prince Philipp of Belgium and princess Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz
24. August: Alexandre, illegitimate son of prince Albert of Monaco and its former friend of NIC oils Coste.
8. November: Louise Alice Elizabeth Sophie Mountbatten Windsor Mountbatten Windsor, daughter ofPrince Prince Edward, Earl OF Wessex and Sophie Helen Rhys Jones
7. December: Princess Catharina Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria (the Netherlands of the Netherlands, daughter by prince Willem Alexander of the Netherlands and princess Máxima, 2. the Netherlands succession to the throne
28. December: Princess VittoriaCristina Adelaide Chiara Maria, Tochter of prince Emanuele Filiberto Umberto Reza Rene Maria and princess Clotilde di Piemonte e Venezia