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This article covers breaking news and events in July 2003.

Daily events

Tuesday July 1, 2003

• Berlin / Germany : The Union parties demand before the testimony of the Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) before the " Lies Committee of the Bundestag " the release of files by the Federal Chancellery . The Union objects to election fraud because of false statements by the SPD about the situation of the federal budget .
• Brussels / Belgium : The fees for cross-border transfers within the European Union are falling. Transfers up to an amount of 12,500  euros , which are processed using IBAN and BIC , may not be associated with higher fees than domestic transfers of the same amount.
• Ecuador : On the border with Peru , researchers are discovering the remains of a culture that is over 4,000 years old .
• Hong Kong / China : Several hundred thousand people gather for a demonstration in the Special Administrative Region on the sixth anniversary of the handover of the former British colony to the People's Republic of China. A planned new security law that would restrict civil rights has been criticized , and Hong Kong's economy is also in a downturn.
• Israel : Prime Minister Ariel Sharon adopts the "former terrorists " and Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1994, Yasser Arafat , the support, before traveling to the Gaza Strip to obtain the consent of Israel. Arafat was not granted complete freedom of movement within the Palestinian Territories .
• Rome / Italy : Italy takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from Spain . The Office of the Government of the European Communities receives Silvio Berlusconi , of his unease over too dominant role of Germany notifies the international community.
• United Kingdom : Engineers indicate that without investment, the UK will have energy problems from around 2020 . The technical infrastructure on the island of Great Britain is capable of storing a quantity of natural gas that will soon correspond to consumption within 48 hours. The engineers are calling for new concepts for longer available reserves.

Wednesday July 2, 2003

• Berlin / Germany : Deutsche Bahn is returning to the old Bahncard . The fare reduction for owners should be 50% again.
• Coburg / Germany : A teacher is shot while an eighth grader runs amok . The perpetrator then shoots himself. The teacher is not in mortal danger at the end of the day.
• Prague / Czech Republic : The International Olympic Committee announced that Vancouver in Canada , the 2010 Winter Olympics will host.
• Strasbourg / France : The member of the European Union parliament Martin Schulz ( SPD ) criticizes Italy's head of government Silvio Berlusconi for negative statements from the mouth of his minister Umberto Bossi about African migrants . Berlusconi replied that he would propose Schulz “for the Kapo ” in a film about concentration camps that was currently in progress in Italy.
• Uganda : For the Bundeswehr a mission starts in the conflict in the Republic of Congo . From Uganda, Germany will provide logistical support to troops from member states of the European Union operating in the Republic of the Congo until September 1st .

Thursday July 3, 2003

Cave dwellings formerly used by monks in the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan

• Baghdad / Iraq : For the first time, the gold treasure of Nimrud from the 9th century BC stored in the National Museum is presented to the public . Chr. Presented.
• Liberia : US President George W. Bush's threat against Liberia's President Charles Taylor that he would send elite soldiers to the civil war country prompted Taylor to offer to leave the country by October at the latest. He added that this would not end the fighting.
• Munich / Germany : The French director Marceline Loridan-Ivens is awarded the Bernhard Wicki Film Prize for her autobiographical film Birkenau and Rosenfeld .
• Paris / France : The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization includes the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan and the ancient Assyrian capital Aššur in Iraq on its list of endangered world cultural heritage .

Friday 4th July 2003

• Bremen / Germany : The deputies of citizenship select Henning Scherf ( SPD ) again for mayor of country Bremen . And the town itself Scherf took over this office in 1995 by his party colleague Klaus Wedemeier .
• Paris / France : The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization declares a further 24 cultural and natural sites to be World Heritage , including the Ticino massif of Monte San Giorgio . This means that 754 sites worldwide are particularly worthy of protection.
• Quetta / Pakistan : Armed attackers break into a Shiite mosque and kill at least 32 people and injure 52 others.
• Sulaimaniyya / Iraq : US soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrest several members of the Turkish armed forces in northern Iraq . They are taken away for interrogation with bags over their heads .

Saturday 5th July 2003

• Ankara / Turkey : More than 120 people are injured in the explosion of a gas station in the Turkish capital.
• Kuwait City / Kuwait : The parliamentary elections are taking place.
• London / United Kingdom : The American defending champion Serena Williams wins the women's singles tournament of the Wimbledon Championships in tennis against her sister Venus Williams .
• Moscow / Russia : At least 15 people are killed when a bomb explodes in the entrance area of ​​the Tushino airfield . An open-air concert will take place on the airfield at this time.

Sunday 6th July 2003

• Ajaccio / France : The Corsicans are voting in a referendum against a limited autonomy for the island. 51% reject the proposals drawn up by the conservative government in Paris .
• Bochum , Düsseldorf / Germany : The coalition crisis in North Rhine-Westphalia ends when the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen at special party conferences in Bochum and Düsseldorf confirm a compromise paper that has been negotiated in recent weeks.
• London / United Kingdom : Roger Federer from Switzerland wins the men's singles tournament of the Wimbledon Championships in tennis by beating Mark Philippoussis from Argentina in three sets.
• Mexico City / Mexico : The House of Representatives elections take place.
• Munich / Germany : The Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber ( CSU ) is positive about the plans of the red-green federal government for a tax reform .
• Nouakchott / Mauritania : Sghaïr Ould M'Bareck is appointed Prime Minister of Mauritania.

Monday July 7, 2003

• Singapore / Singapore: The 29-year-old Siamese twin sisters Ladan and Laleh Bijani died of circulatory failure as a result of the high blood loss during the operation on the same day their heads were separated .
• Washington, DC / United States : The White House officially confirms the popular belief that the war against Iraq was also founded on misinformation. Government circles are said to have known about it for months, US President George W. Bush is not to blame.

Tuesday July 8, 2003

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The lawyer and TV presenter Michel Friedman accepted a penalty in the amount of 17,000 euros for possession of cocaine and resigns as vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany down.
• Hamburg / Germany : The Internet - Search engine Google is launching a German-language news portal whose contents are automatically generated from more than 700 news sources. Google would like to offer selective portals of this type in the official languages ​​of almost all countries in the world. It has not yet been decided whether there will also be versions with an Austrian and a Swiss focus.
• Sudan : A Boeing 737 crashes on the Red Sea coast shortly after taking off from Bur Sudan . 116 people on board are killed. A two-year-old child initially survived the accident, but succumbed to his injuries in the afternoon.

Wednesday July 9, 2003

• Baghdad / Iraq : The US military arrests the former Ba'ath Party functionary Misban Chudr Hadi and the former Iraqi Interior Minister Mahmud Dhijab el Ahmed.
• Berlin / Germany : Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) cancels his holiday in Italy due to a statement by the Italian State Secretary for Tourism, Stefano Stefani . Stefani described Germans as "noisy and belching mob, drunk with arrogant self-confidence". Observers see the statements as an attempt to bind the Italian people more closely to Berlusconi through populism .
• Dhaka / Bangladesh : The overloaded MV Nasrin-1 ferry with more than 750 people on board sinks. Only 150 people manage to rescue them.
• Japan : 800,000 computers are authorities on open source - operating system Linux changed.
• Recklinghausen / Germany : The circumstances of the fatal parachute jump of the former German Vice Chancellor Jürgen Möllemann ( FDP ) remain unclear. Whether it was a suicide or an accident remains “completely open”, according to the chief public prosecutor Wolfgang Reinicke. Only external negligence is excluded.

Thursday July 10, 2003

• Brussels / Belgium : High-ranking politicians of the European Union sign the draft text for the constitution of the international community.
• Hong Kong / China : 22 people are killed in a bus accident.
• Moscow / Russia : A secret service employee is killed in a suicide attack in front of a restaurant .
• Wolfsburg / Germany : The car manufacturer Volkswagen AG announces the discontinuation of the production of the VW Beetle . The model is currently being manufactured in Puebla , Mexico and is finding fewer and fewer interested parties.

Friday July 11, 2003

• Berlin / Germany : The members of the Bundesrat approve the treaties for the so-called " eastward expansion " of the European Union .
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Council adopted the the new information and communication technology adapted copyright law . It prohibits u. a. the copying of obviously illegally created or offered media. In addition, the Federal Council approves a law according to which telephone connections to service numbers are given a cost limit of 2 euros per minute and must be disconnected after a maximum of one hour.
• Iraq : The non-profit organization Greenpeace has discovered that the region around the Tuwaitha nuclear facility is radioactive .
• Rome / Italy : State Secretary for Tourism Stefano Stefani resigns. His controversial statements about German tourists ("belching rabble") led to violent criticism.
• United Arab Emirates : Former Iraqi Minister of Information Muhammad as-Sahhaf is leaving his homeland and sees his future in the United Arab Emirates.

Saturday July 12, 2003

• Berlin / Germany : In the 15th year of the techno - raves Love Parade , the number of participants drops to 550,000.
• Maputo / Mozambique : The member states of the African Union are establishing a military reaction force to force a swift end to armed conflicts on the continent, and they also support the idea of ​​an African peace and security council modeled on the United Nations .
• Palma de Mallorca / Spain : The government of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands presents a bill to abolish the environmental tax on the islands. The regional parliament should vote on it in the autumn.
• United States : CIA boss George Tenet accepts responsibility for the dissemination of false information to US President George W. Bush , who before the war in Iraq alleged uranium supplies from the Niger in Iraq as evidence of Iraq's nuclear weapons plans represented and so public opinion about the need for war.
• Wolfsburg / Germany : The city administration wants to refer to Wolfsburg as “Golfsburg” from August 25th to October 10th and with this PR contribution will support the introduction of the new version of the Golf model from the car manufacturer Volkswagen . “A gesture of sympathy for VW,” said the Lord Mayor.

Monday July 14, 2003

• Cuba : opponents of the regime try to hijack a ship. Three kidnappers are shot dead and an 11-year-old is seriously injured by a shot in the head.

Tuesday July 15, 2003

• Kassel / Germany : A 48-year-old is sentenced to two years suspended prison sentence for attempting to sell one of his kidneys over the Internet .
• Lima / Peru : The onset of winter with the lowest temperatures in 40 years (down to −23 ° C ) kills at least 60 people.
• Tel Aviv / Israel : In front of a beach restaurant, a Palestinian stabs an Israeli and injures two others. He claims to be a member of the terrorist organization " al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ", which did not sign the June 29 armistice with Israel.
• Washington, DC / United States : The spread of misinformation about a suspected Iraqi nuclear weapons program is one of the causes leading to the replacement of White House spokesman Ari Fleischer for Scott McClellan today .
• Zermatt / Switzerland : 90 alpinists have to be evacuated on the Matterhorn due to falling rocks . Climbing the mountain is prohibited until further notice.

Wednesday July 16, 2003

• Baghdad / Iraq : Another US soldier dies in a bomb attack. The number of American fatalities since the official end of the invasion on May 1 rises to 33.
• Bordeaux / France : In storms in the French south and west, at least four people are killed and nine others are seriously injured.
• Israel : Northern Irish journalist Seán Ó Muireagáin is arrested. The Israeli authorities accuse him of being a member of the terrorist organization IRA . The arrested denies the allegations. The UK is disgruntled.

Thursday July 17, 2003

• Germany : The Catholic priest Gotthold Hasenhüttl is suspended from duty because he invited Protestants to communion at a mass .
• Hamburg / Germany : The walrus Antje , mascot of the North German Broadcasting Corporation , dies at the age of 27 in the Hagenbeck Zoo .
• Cologne / Germany : The broadcaster VIVA wants to strengthen its presence in Berlin and will host the Popkomm music fair there instead of in Cologne.
• Salzburg / Austria : A 250-kg aircraft bomb from World War II explodes while attempting to defuse it , killing two people.
• Santa Monica / United States : An 86 year old man drives into a street market at high speed. Eight market visitors are killed and another 15 seriously injured.
• São Tomé / São Tomé and Príncipe : One day after the coup against the government, the new rulers announce new elections.
• Seoul / South Korea : Shots are fired at the border between North and South Korea. The South Korean side later reported that there were no injuries, the North Korean side is not known to comment.

Friday July 18, 2003

• United Kingdom : Microbiologist David Kelly found dead. He was an informant for the broadcaster BBC in the affair of the British government's Iraq dossiers .

Saturday 19th July 2003

• London / United Kingdom : According to police, British bioweapons expert David Kelly who was found yesterday committed suicide .

Sunday July 20, 2003

• Berlin / Germany : The solemn vow of recruits of the Bundeswehr goes on in the Mitte district without major incidents. Federal Defense Minister Peter Struck ( SPD ) and his French colleague Michèle Alliot-Marie are present at the celebration of German-French friendship .
• Dortmund / Germany : A 31-year-old man had an accident while bungee jumping from the Florian tower in Westfalenpark . The bungee rope broke for an as yet unexplained cause.
• Sinsheim / Germany : A transport with one of the five Concorde supersonic aircraft , which the airline Air France decommissioned in May , arrives at the technology museum early in the morning from Baden Airport .

Monday July 21, 2003

Juan Carlos I.

• Cowes / United Kingdom : In the regatta for the Admiral's Cup of the Royal Ocean Racing Club , the Australian Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club wins with the ship Wild Oats led by Bob Oatley in front of the Spanish Real Club Nautico de San Genjo with the skipper King Juan Carlos .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Klaus Zwickel is stepping down from the chairmanship of the IG Metall trade union a few weeks before the end of his ten-year term .
• Mallorca / Spain : The power grid collapses in the evening due to overload. Electricity does not flow again until after twelve hours.
• Xinan / China : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 M _W in southwest China kills twelve people and leads to an estimated 200 injuries and around 800 houses destroyed.

Tuesday July 22, 2003

• Costa Blanca / Spain : The explosion of two bombs injures 13 people. The Basque terrorist organization ETA placed the explosive devices in two hotels.
• Mosul / Iraq : Udai and Qusai Hussein are shot in a firefight in a villa . Her father Saddam ruled Iraq until a few weeks ago.
• Paris / France : In the Eiffel Tower , fire breaks out on the top floor after a short circuit. The fire brigade extinguishes the fire within an hour.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : According to the Federal Statistical Office , 576 people died in traffic in May 2003, an average of 18 people per day.

Wednesday July 23, 2003

• São Tomé / São Tomé and Príncipe : Parliament passes an amnesty for the coup plotters who overthrew the president last week. This has since returned.

Thursday July 24, 2003

• Marburg / Germany : A spokesman for the public prosecutor announced that an Internet exchange ring for child and animal porn was opened. When checking 34 people in eleven federal states, the authorities found several hundred thousand incriminating photos and videos.

Friday July 25, 2003

A Palestinian climbs over the border between Israel and the Israel-occupied territories

• Estella-Lizarra / Spain : Two people are slightly injured when a bomb explodes in front of a courthouse. The terrorist organization ETA is the author of the attack.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas arrives on a state visit to the United States. He did not take up his current office until March this year after Israel and the United States identified the head of the agency, Yasser Arafat, as an "obstacle to the peace process in the Middle East ". Abbas demands from Israel a. a. the end of the structural cordon off the West Bank and the elimination of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian Territories .

Saturday July 26, 2003

• Baquba / Iraq : In guerrilla actions against the Allies, three soldiers of the United States Armed Forces die in a grenade attack north of Baghdad and another is killed west of Baghdad. Four US soldiers are injured.
• Miyagi / Japan : A series of severe earthquakes in northern Japan results in billions in damages and several hundred injuries.

Sunday July 27, 2003

• Barcelona / Spain : The 10th FINA World Championships the FINA going to end. The German Hannah Stockbauer wins gold in the 400, 800 and 1500 meters freestyle and the German Thomas Rupprath in a world record time over 50 meters back .
• Manila / Philippines : Soldiers occupy a shopping center and an adjacent hotel, lay out explosives and take hostages; including the Australian ambassador. The attackers demand the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo . You will be overwhelmed with no personal injury.
• Paris / France : The US - road cyclist Lance Armstrong wins with a minute lead over German Jan Ullrich for the fifth time in a row the stage race Tour de France . Jean-Patrick Nazon from France wins the final stage .
• Phnom Penh / Cambodia : Parliamentary elections are held in Cambodia.

Monday July 28, 2003

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The regional court sentenced Magnus Gäfgen , the murderer of the eleven-year-old banker's son Jakob von Metzler, to life imprisonment .
• Hebei / China : An explosion in a fireworks factory in Wangkou city kills 29 people and injures at least 100 others.

Tuesday July 29, 2003

• Frankfurt (Oder) / Germany : The city's clinic registers several cases of the infectious disease legionellosis . The public prosecutor's office is investigating leading hospital employees for negligent homicide.
• Corsica , Var / France : In the Moors massif and on Corsica, forest fires claim five lives. In the Var département, the flames destroyed around 20,000 hectares of forest this month  .

Wednesday July 30, 2003

VW Beetle

• Puebla / Mexico : A pastel-colored VW Beetle is the last product in the Última Edición series to roll off the production line and marks the end of 80 years of production of around 21.5 million copies of the model, which was discontinued in Germany in 1978. A place in the Wolfsburg collection of Volkswagen AG has been reserved for the last of its kind .

Thursday July 31, 2003

• Vatican City : On the occasion of the opening of marriage to homosexuals in Canada's province of Ontario , the Holy See speaks out against the legalization of same-sex marriages and advises lawyers of Catholic faith that such efforts should be answered with resistance. The Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his designated successor, Paul Martin , both Catholics emphasize later in the day once again, that the separation of church and state also applies in this matter.

See also

• Nekrolog July 2003 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in July
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in July

Web links

Romania in July 2003

Commons : July 2003  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Secret files against Schröder. In: The Parliament . July 2, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Mass protest against security law for Hong Kong. In: tsarchive.wordpress.com, material from ARD . July 1, 2003, accessed November 13, 2017 . 
3. ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
4. ^ Plenary debates. In: europa.eu . July 2, 2003, accessed June 21, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Henning Scherf re-elected. In: handelsblatt.com . July 4, 2003. Retrieved September 17, 2017 . 
6. ↑ A perfect match. In: cnn.com . 2004, accessed October 30, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Switzerland's Roger Federer Wins Wimbledon. In: voanews.com . October 26, 2009, accessed October 30, 2019 . 
8. ↑ German-language news on Google. In: golem.de . July 8, 2003, accessed May 17, 2019 . 
9. Jump up ↑ Saddam loyalists. In: bz-berlin.de . July 10, 2003, accessed November 26, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Japanese authorities system based on Linux. In: heise.de . Retrieved November 13, 2017 . 
11. ^ Radiation sickness in Iraq. In: greenpeace.org . Retrieved November 13, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Mallorca abolishes tax. In: n-tv.de . July 12, 2003, accessed December 8, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Kidney offered on the Internet. In: The world . July 15, 2003, accessed September 16, 2016 . 
14. ↑ rorc.org : Australia Wins ( Memento of February 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
15. ^ King of Spain to Skipper in 2003 Admiral's Cup. In: sportcal.com, Sportcal Insight Magazine. May 14, 2003, accessed March 5, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Bush, Abbas Confer At White House. In: rferl.org . July 28, 2003, accessed August 8, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Hannah Stockbauer about her world title and how high the price for it was. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de . July 26, 2013, accessed February 28, 2017 . 
18. ↑ ihlo.org: Fireworks Tragedy Reinforces Case for Change ( Memento from November 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
19. ^ Five dead in forest fires in France. In: nzz.ch . July 30, 2003, accessed February 11, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Old beetle in the last bloom. In: autobild.de . July 11, 2003, accessed September 16, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Vatican calls for resistance to gay marriage. In: stern.de . July 31, 2003, accessed October 5, 2018 .