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Significant Events of 2003

This quiz tests your knowledge of significant events that occurred in 2003. From music victories to political happenings, challenge yourself to remember key moments from that year.

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1 May 24 – Sertab Erener wins the ________ for Turkey with the song Every Way That I Can, in Riga, Latvia.

2 ________ – Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (b.

3 ________ – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year history.

4 ________ – The date predicted by Pana-Wave Laboratory, a Japanese cult, on which a close encounter with an unknown planet would result in the extinction of most of humankind.

5 ________ – Parliamentary elections are held in Russia.

6 ________ – Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b.

7 ________ – Robert Palmer, English singer (b.

8 Physics – Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ________

9 ________ – The new Government in Exile of the pre-World War II Republic of Estonia, headed by Ahti Mänd, assumes office.

10 January 26 – ________, English historian (b.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the TV Land Awards have been awarded annually since 2003 by the TV Land network to reward classic television.
  • the Darjeeling Ropeway was stopped on 19 October 2003 after four tourists were killed in an accident.
  • the Challenge Yves du Manoir, a French Rugby union competition which ran from 1931 to 2003, was created by Racing Club de France with the support of CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde and AS Montferrandaise.
  • the Russian singer Alla Bayanova, who celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage performance back in 2003, recently collaborated with Marc Almond on several duets.
  • the appearance of a dog named Cheeka in a Hutch ad campaign doubled sales of pugs in India in 2003.
  • there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games, the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003.
  • the retired United States Air Force lieutenant general Nicholas Kehoe became the President and CEO of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in 2003 after 34 years of military service.
  • the award-winning Chinese film Cell Phone, with its box office profit of over ¥50 million, was the highest-grossing film made in China in 2003.
  • the charity organization Child's Play raised over $250,000 in 2003 in the form of cash and toy donations from the readers of popular web comic Penny Arcade.
  • the Canadian Armed Forces mobilized more than 2,200 soldiers within days to help fight over 800 separate forest fires during Operation PEREGRINE in the summer of 2003.
  • James McClinton was the first African American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, appointed by the city council in December 2003, but that the electorate of the city passed a referendum the following year to strip the office of political power.
  • Dimba was the top goalscorer of the 2003 Brazilian football championship.
  • mountaineer Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to summit K2, brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003.
  • Ron DeGregorio was elected in 2003 as the fourth president of USA Hockey since 1937.
  • Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003.
  • in 2003 Erin Crocker became the first woman to qualify for the Knoxville Nationals sprint car race.
  • as the result of a deal before the 2000 general election, Paul Bérenger became the first non-Hindu Prime Minister of Mauritius in 2003.
  • Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989, and the two leagues merged in 2003.
  • advertisements featuring the character Michael Power doubled Guinness sales in Africa between 1999 and 2003.
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