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This article covers the latest news and events in September of 2003.

Daily events

Monday September 1, 2003

Tuesday September 2, 2003

Wednesday September 3, 2003

Thursday September 4, 2003

Friday 5th September 2003

  • Atlantic : Hurricane Fabian rages on the Bermuda Islands until late at night. 4 people are missing, they are presumably dead. The storm causes great damage, half of the islanders are without electricity. With wind speeds of up to 213 km / h, 'Fabian' is the strongest tropical cyclone in decades. On Sunday he weakens and moves towards Newfoundland.
  • Haifa / Israel : The researchers Eli Biham the Technion (Technical University of Israel) has a vulnerability in the encryption of GSM - mobile phones discovered. This makes it possible to listen to them.

Saturday 6th September 2003

Mahmoud Abbas

Sunday September 7, 2003

Monday September 8, 2003

Tuesday September 9, 2003

Wednesday September 10, 2003

Thursday September 11, 2003

Friday September 12, 2003

  • Germany : In a collision between a car and a train, the two occupants of the car are killed on Saturday night in Saxony-Anhalt . The driver of the car had ignored the closed half-barrier.
  • South Korea : The tropical cyclone Maemi devastated the south of the country on Saturday night. 33 people are killed, another 14 are initially still missing.

Saturday September 13, 2003

Sunday September 14, 2003

Monday September 15, 2003

  • Berlin / Germany : Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily speaks of a growing danger from right-wing extremism following the uncovered attack plans against a Munich Jewish center.
  • Ingushetia / Russia : A car bomb that explodes in front of the Ingushetian headquarters of the Russian secret service FSB kills 3 people and injures over 20.

Tuesday September 16, 2003

Wednesday September 17, 2003

Thursday September 18, 2003

Friday September 19, 2003

Saturday 20th September 2003

  • Iraq : Shiite politician Akila al-Hashimi is seriously injured in an attack . She is a member of the US- appointed Iraqi Board of Directors. 3 US soldiers die in further attacks.
  • Latvia : In a referendum, 67% of the voters vote in favor of the country joining the European Union . At the same time, the head of government Einars Repše was withdrawn from trust by one of the coalition parties.
  • Maldives : Riots erupt in the Maldives after a prisoner is killed in a prison revolt. Relatives blame the death on the police. Government buildings and 2 police stations are set on fire.
  • Paris / France : The Middle Rhine Valley is declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .
  • Tel Aviv / Israel : 10,000 Israelis demonstrate in the Israeli city ​​of Tel Aviv for the withdrawal of the army from the Palestinian territories . The Ariel Sharon government has been criticized for its intransigence. The politics of strength prevent a peace solution.

Sunday September 21, 2003

Monday September 22, 2003

  • Baghdad / Iraq : A car bomb explodes in front of the UN headquarters in Baghdad. The assassin and a police officer are killed, 11 people are injured.

Tuesday September 23, 2003

  • Denmark , Sweden : In Denmark and the south of Sweden, the power goes out for several hours.
  • Germany : The battery manufacturer Ansmann AG is fined because it has agreed minimum prices with Ebay dealers.
  • Iraq : The by the US used Iraqi Governing Council bans Arab TV stations Al Jazeera and al-Arabiya , the official record for the next 2 weeks. The broadcasters reportedly report too negatively about the US occupation and are a communication platform for the disempowered regime.
  • The US has approved the controversial Israeli barriers along the West Bank border. The wall is supposed to protect against Palestinian suicide bombers . Part of the West Bank is included in order to protect illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory. The land required for the construction is expropriated.

Wednesday September 24, 2003

  • Bern / Switzerland : According to researchers from the Geographical Institute of the University of Bern, last summer ( 2003 ) was the warmest in 500 years. Likewise, the decade from 1994 to 2003 was the warmest decade.
  • Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court decides in the so-called headscarf dispute that wearing a headscarf in class is not prohibited by law.
  • Palestinian Territories : Israeli soldiers kill four Palestinians on Thursday night . Israeli troops enter a refugee camp in Gaza and shoot two men. Another two people die in an exchange of fire in Hebron in the West Bank , and 6 Israelis are injured. During the course of the day, a 15-year-old Palestinian was shot dead in heavy fighting near the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip . At least 14 other people are injured.
  • Sweden : The previous suspect in the murder case Anna Lindh is surprisingly released. The suspicion against him has been dispelled, the police said. Instead, a new suspect is arrested.

Thursday September 25, 2003

  • Baghdad / Iraq : The Iraqi politician Akila al-Hashimi dies of her serious injuries. She was assassinated on September 20th .
  • Baquba / Iraq : In Baquba north of Baghdad , a grenade kills seven Iraqis and injures 13 others. A security guard had already been killed in an attack on a hotel.
  • Israel : 27 fighter pilots of the Israeli army, led by Brigadier General Jiftach Spector, declare that they have refused so-called "targeted killings". They also refuse to do this in the future. Some 140 Palestinian militants and over 100 civilians have been killed in "targeted killings" in recent years .
  • Nigeria : A Nigerian appeals court overturns decision to stone Amina Lawal , who had a child out of wedlock, to death under Sharia law .
  • Paris / France : The French government presents official figures on the victims of the heat wave: 14,802 people have died as a result of the heat this summer. Most recently, around 6,000 people died as a result of a warm summer in 1976.

Friday September 26, 2003

  • Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag passes the GKV Modernization Act (GMG) drafted by almost all parties with the votes of the SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and CDU . The FDP parliamentary group as well as the two PDS members voted against the bill.
  • Hokkaidō / Japan : The northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō is shaken by two severe earthquakes in quick succession in the early morning. The earthquakes have a magnitude of 8 and 7 on the Richter scale. About 400 people are injured. More than 40,000 people are evacuated before an impending tsunami ; however, the wave only reaches a height of about 2 meters.
  • Magdeburg / Germany : The world's largest child pornography ring, in which Germany was the starting point, is blown up. A total of 26,500 people in 166 countries were suspected in the so-called "Operation Marcy". After the operation was over, the leading State Criminal Police Office of Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg identified over 800 German suspects, seven of whom were currently sexual abusers. In many other countries, thousands of consumers were identified and convicted.
  • Negohot / Palestinian Territories : Palestinian Islamic Jihadist attackers storm an apartment in the Jewish settlement on Israeli New Year's Day and kill a seven-month-old baby and a 27-year-old man, the child's parents are wounded. The perpetrators are then shot by Israeli security forces.

Saturday September 27, 2003

Sunday September 28, 2003

Paul Tergat at the finish

Monday September 29, 2003

  • Iran : During the investigation of the Iranian nuclear program , UN inspectors find traces of highly enriched uranium suitable for nuclear weapons on the premises of the Kalaye Electric Company near Tehran . The EU warns Iran of economic consequences if it does not cooperate with the international community. Britain is calling on Iran to make it clear that it does not seek nuclear weapons.
  • Roissy-en-France / France : The airline Air France announces that there are no more obstacles in the way of its merger with the Dutch airline KLM .

Tuesday September 30, 2003

See also

Web links

Italy in September 2003
Commons : September 2003  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov, White House : President Bush Outlines Six Point Plan for the Economy ( Memento from October 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. And the golden lion goes to ... In: dw.com . September 7, 2003, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  4. EU outlaws Hamas' political arm. In: spiegel.de . September 11, 2003, accessed September 21, 2016 .
  5. “The ozone layer will remain vulnerable for the next decade”. In: unric.org . September 15, 2003, accessed November 19, 2018 .
  6. 24-year-old killed colleague with samurai sword. In: pz-news.de . November 26, 2008, accessed September 26, 2016 .
  7. Emmy Loves 'Raymond', 'Wing'. In: cbsnews.com . September 2003, accessed on October 12, 2018 .
  8. ^ State elections: Free State of Bavaria. In: Wahlen-in-deutschland.de, Valentin Schröder. Retrieved February 2, 2017 .
  9. Smart-1. In: esa.int . Retrieved October 12, 2018 .
  10. Ten world records in retrospect. In: haben.de, Deutsche Leichtathletik Marketing GmbH . September 15, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  11. ^ Guinea-Bissau. In: state.gov . Retrieved on April 27, 2019 (English): "On September 28, 2003 businessman Henrique Rosa was sworn in"
  12. Results of the state elections since 1945. In: derstandard.at . June 23, 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
  13. ^ At 73, Marathoner Runs as if He's Stopped the Clock. In: nytimes.com . February 12, 2005, accessed June 29, 2017 .
  14. ^ Pourquoi Air France veut KLM. In: leparisien.fr . September 30, 2003, accessed October 8, 2019 (French).
  15. Russian Ratification Of The Kyoto Protocol. In: scoop.co.nz. December 9, 2003, accessed November 21, 2018 .