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This article covers breaking news and events in January 2003.
Daily events
Wednesday January 1, 2003
- Athens / Greece : Greece takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Denmark . The Office of the Government of the EC receives Konstantinos Simitis .
- Bern / Switzerland : The FDP politician Pascal Couchepin becomes the new Federal President . In the New Year's address he emphasized the “common values and economic interests” between Switzerland and the member states of the European Union .
- Brasília / Brazil : The 37th President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes office. He ran for the Labor Party and swore at his inauguration to dedicate himself to the fight against poverty, hunger and corruption. Guests at the ceremony include Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez , Cuban President Fidel Castro, and United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick .
- Brussels / Belgium : The misleading terms “light” and “mild” may no longer be used on packaging for tobacco products and in their advertising in the European Union .
- New York / United States : Angola , Chile , Germany , Pakistan and Spain are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .
Thursday January 2, 2003
- Aquitaine / France : The oil pollution in the Atlantic caused by the oil tanker Prestige reaches the French coast. The ship sank off the Galician coast in November 2002 with 77,000 tons of crude oil on board .
- Berlin / Germany : The can deposit system is introduced. The feared chaos in retail is not happening.
- Germany , France , United Kingdom : Flood alarms apply to large parts of Western Europe . In Germany z. B. the capacity of many tributaries of the Main exhausted.
- Ivory Coast : An advance party from the West African Economic Community's peace mission arrives in the north of the country to secure a ceasefire between government troops and rebel militias. The total strength of the force is said to be over 1,200 men. At her side are 2,500 soldiers from the French armed forces . The French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin travels to Ivory Coast to mediate between the conflicting parties.
Friday January 3, 2003
- Berlin / Germany : Deutsche Bahn is threatening the Pro Bahn association with a claim for damage to its reputation.
- Germany , France : Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and President Jacques Chirac discuss a common line in Iraq policy. Both reject an invasion .
- Germany : The German Ethics Council is in favor of a general clone from -Verbot.
Sunday January 5, 2003
- Chicago / United States : A fully loaded machine, the airline Lufthansa stops because of a bomb threat their flight to Mexico City and ends up in Chicago.
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : A mentally confused 31-year-old man kidnapped a motor glider from the well-secured US military base in Babenhausen and circled over the Frankfurt banking district for about two hours.
- Tel Aviv / Israel : 22 people are killed and around 100 are injured in two suicide bombings .
- Würzburg / Germany : In Würzburg and other municipalities, the Main bursts its banks after several heavy rain events in recent weeks .
Monday January 6, 2003
- Bischofshofen / Austria : Janne Ahonen from Finland wins the 51st Four Hills Tournament ahead of Sven Hannawald from Germany .
- Cambridge / United States : Astronomers discover an extrasolar planet using the transit method for the first time . The object is named OGLE-TR-56b.
- Kassel / Germany : A 15-year-old shoots his 21-year-old sister with a gun that he claims to have found while going for a walk. The shot hit the woman by mistake.
Tuesday January 7, 2003
- Berlin / Germany : Interior Senator Ehrhart Körting ( SPD ) announces Berlin's withdrawal from the collective agreement for workers and employees in the public service .
- London / United Kingdom : During a raid , an anti-terrorist unit of the British police finds the toxic substance ricin , which may have been extracted for the manufacture of biological weapons .
Wednesday January 8, 2003
- Charlotte / United States : An aircraft of type Beech 1900 the airline Air Midwest suffered shortly after the start of the US Airways Express flight 5481 a stall , roams a hangar and catches fire. All 21 people on board are killed.
- Diyarbakır / Turkey : 75 out of 80 aircraft passengers die in an emergency landing attempt at the airport .
Thursday January 9, 2003
- New York / United States : The head of the inspectors of the United Nations in Iraq , Hans Blix , and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei report to the Security Council of the United Nations report on the progress of the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, where it small Identify progress in cooperation with Saddam Hussein's government . Both complain about the lack of a completely open collaboration.
Friday January 10, 2003
- Berlin / Germany : The move of the billionaire Friedrich Christian Flick's art collection with around 2,500 works of modern and contemporary art to the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin is sealed with a loan agreement.
- Canberra / Australia : The country wants to send troops to the Persian Gulf . Meanwhile, the United States is sending 62,000 men there in order to create a credible threat in parallel with the negotiations between the United Nations and Iraq .
- Germany : The negotiating partners reach a collective agreement for the public service .
- Djibouti / Djibouti : The parliamentary elections are taking place.
- Pyongyang / North Korea : The country terminates the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty .
Saturday January 11, 2003
- Chemnitz / Germany : The fictional character Benjamin Blümchen wins the honorary crown of folk music .
- Iran : A 19-year-old is sentenced to death by hanging on three counts for proven alcohol consumption .
- Pyongyang / North Korea : The country threatens to restart nuclear weapon development and ends its moratorium on missile tests .
Sunday January 12, 2003
- New York / United States : Steve Case is stepping down after 18 years as head of the media company AOL .
- Sderot / Israel : Eleven people die in the north of the country and in the occupied territories in rocket attacks committed by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas .
- Springfield / United States : The governor of Illinois George Ryan pardoned shortly before his departure from office all 157 death row prisoners of the state.
Monday January 13, 2003
- Hamburg / Germany : For the first time since 1975, the circulation of the Bild-Zeitung fell below the four million mark.
- New York / United States : The weapons inspection under the leadership of the United Nations is to continue until the end of the year.
Tuesday January 14, 2003
- Berlin / Germany : Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer ( Greens ) meets with the President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kotscharjan .
- Dresden / Germany : With the SLUB one of the most modern German libraries is inaugurated. It has an area of around 30,000 m² .
- Georgia : New evidence emerges for the existence of a secret ricin laboratory run by the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda .
Wednesday January 15, 2003
- Prague / Czech Republic : The House of Representatives begins with the election of the new President .
- Quito / Ecuador : Lucio Gutiérrez takes office as the new President .
Thursday January 16, 2003
- Cape Canaveral / United States : The space shuttle Columbia takes off from the Kennedy Space Center for the STS-107 mission . Ilan Ramon , the first space traveler from Israel, is also on board . Approximately 80 seconds after take-off, a piece of foam lining the outer tank damaged the heat shield on the front of the left wing. The NASA -Staff post the incident as not hazardous mission.
- Prague / Czech Republic : The election of the President is postponed after three ballots with no result.
Friday January 17, 2003
Saturday January 18, 2003
- Australia : During the most devastating bushfires since 1983 , four people die and 259 are admitted to hospitals, thousands of hectares of land are destroyed as well as 520 homes, and the historically significant Mount Stromlo observatory burns down.
- Worldwide: Mass protests against an impending war in Iraq are forming. a. in Gothenburg , Istanbul , Cairo , Cologne , Montreal , Moscow , Paris and Tokyo .
Sunday January 19, 2003
- Berlin / Germany : Several German politicians are committed to the idea of merging different German countries , e.g. B. Bremen and Lower Saxony or Saxony and Thuringia or Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland .
- Iraq : The weapons inspectors of the United Nations find documents related to the development of nuclear weapons could be.
Monday January 20, 2003
- London / United Kingdom : Police seize firearms and tear gas during a raid on Finsbury Park mosque in the north of the city . Seven people are temporarily arrested.
- Mainz / Germany : Kurt Beck ( SPD ) speaks out in favor of the unification of Rhineland-Palatinate with Saarland .
- New York / United States : The German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer ( Greens ) pleads in the Security Council of the United Nations that no troops of the international community invade Iraq . He generally advises against an invasion .
Tuesday January 21, 2003
- Colima / Mexico : An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 M W in the province of Colima claims 29 lives, the tremors reach as far as Mexico City .
- Wiesbaden / Germany : For the Society for German Language , “ Ich-AG ” is the “ bad word of the year ”.
- Brussels / Belgium : With qualified majority finance ministers decide to Member States of the European Union (EU) the initiation of proceedings for excessive deficit against Germany because the debt of the Confederation in 2002 at 3.8% of gross domestic product (GDP). The convergence criteria of the Maastricht Treaty specify an upper limit for new borrowing of 3% of GDP for participants in the European Economic and Monetary Union .
Wednesday January 22, 2003
- The Hague / Netherlands : In the parliamentary elections , as in the last election, the Christian Democratic Appeal party received most of the 150 seats. For the Partij van de Arbeid, now the second strongest force, the number of MPs doubles to 42.
- Versailles / France : A joint ceremony by the French and German parliaments in the Palace of Versailles commemorates the signing of the Elysée Treaty on January 22, 1963.
Thursday January 23, 2003
- Sydney / Australia : A 350-strong Australian troop formation breaks out for Iraq, accompanied by violent protests .
Friday January 24, 2003
- Germany : The German Ethics Council is in favor of the limited admission of preimplantation genetic diagnosis from the human genetic material are examined for flaws.
- Marcoussis / France : In view of the civil war in Ivory Coast , the President of the Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo of the Popular Ivorian People's Front (FPI) signs an agreement that stipulates new elections and the binding end of his term in office. Until then, the Republicans' Association and the Democratic Party will be involved in government in the West African country , as will the war party known as the "Patriotic Movement".
- Nuremberg / Germany : A suspected member of the terrorist organization ETA active in Spain is arrested.
- Washington, DC / United States : The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operations. Its first director is Tom Ridge . The decision in favor of the ministry was made in view of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 .
Saturday 25th January 2003
- Ivory Coast : After a four-month power struggle, the conflicting parties agree on a peace agreement in the civil war, but the unrest continues.
Sunday January 26, 2003
- Davos / Switzerland : US Foreign Ministers of State Colin Powell accused the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in a speech to the World Economic Forum before the weapons inspectors of the United Nations continues to lie.
- San Diego / United States : Super Bowl 37 in American football between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders ends 48:21.
Monday January 27, 2003
- New York / United States : The head of the weapons inspectors of the UN Hans Blix delivers the Security Council of the United Nations its inspection report on the disarmament of Iraq .
Tuesday January 28, 2003
- Berlin / Germany : The federal government agrees to introduce higher penalties into sexual criminal law.
- Berlin / Germany : Mexico's President Vicente Fox arrives for a state visit.
- Jerusalem / Israel : In the parliamentary elections , the conservative Likud bloc with its chairman Ariel Sharon won the most votes, followed by the workers' party and, behind them, the Shinui party. The ultra-orthodox Shas party recorded significant losses.
Wednesday January 29, 2003
- Cambodia : There are riots against the Thai minority in the country after a Thai actress declared that the Angkor Wat temple complex actually belongs to Thailand.
- Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush declares in his State of the Union address that an attack on Iraq could be carried out without the support of the United Nations (UN) and that his country would give evidence to the UN Security Council for an illegal Iraqi weapons program.
Thursday January 30, 2003
- Berlin / Germany : Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana arrives for a state visit.
- United States : "Shoe bomber" Richard Reid is sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting a bomb attack on a transatlantic flight.
Friday January 31, 2003
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- Dusseldorf / Germany : The E.ON Holding agrees with the competition on the terms on which such an acquisition of long-distance and natural gas trading firm Ruhrgas AG agree by E.ON, and thus closes the Ruhrgas acquisition after more than 17 months successfully .
- New York / United States : The New York Times newspaper publishes the assessment by the chief of weapons inspectors at the United Nations, Hans Blix , that there are no convincing signs of links between Iraq and the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda . With this, Blix takes a position opposite to the US government .
- Paris / France : The country encourages its citizens staying in Ivory Coast to leave the country in the face of ongoing riots.
- Tirana / Albania : Albania and the European Union start negotiations on a Stabilization and Association Agreement.
- Ulm / Germany : After heavy snowfall, vehicles in Baden-Württemberg are stuck on the Autobahn 8 between Ulm and Merklingen for up to 18 hours .
See also
- Nekrolog January 2003 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January
Web links
Commons : January 2003 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 .
- ^ 2003 - New Years address by Federal President Pascal Couchepin. In: admin.ch . January 1, 2003, accessed December 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Brazilians usher in peaceful revolution. In: theguardian.com . January 1, 2003, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ^ Countries Elected Members of the Security Council. In: un.org . Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Flood in January 2003. (No longer available online.) In: hnd-stat.bayern.de . Archived from the original on December 10, 2017 ; accessed December 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Four Hills Tournament. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Accessed December 31, 2016 .
- ^ Farthest Known Planet Opens the Door For Finding New Earths. In: cfa.harvard.edu . January 6, 2003, accessed December 10, 2017 .
- ^ History of the SLUB Dresden. In: slub-dresden.de . Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
- ↑ International flight no. 234: STS-107. In: spacefacts.de, Joachim Becker. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Germany is no longer an EU deficit sinner. In: faz.net . June 5, 2007, accessed May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ A game of lying poker. In: monde-diplomatique.de . January 16, 2004, accessed May 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Super Bowl XXXVII Box Score. In: nfl.com . January 27, 2003, accessed February 9, 2017 .
- ↑ The struggle of Eon to take over the Ruhrgas. In: faz.net . January 29, 2003, accessed September 18, 2018 .
- ↑ 18 hours in a traffic jam. In: n-tv.de . January 31, 2003, accessed September 20, 2018 .
