December 2003

Sunday 07:

The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Friday 12:

Paul Martin, Jr. is sworn-in as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada

Saturday 13:

The most-attended basketball game in history, between Michigan State University and the University of Kentucky at Ford Field.

Sunday 14:

Celebration of the reopening of the Fenice Theater in Venice, Italy.

Tuesday 16:

Deborah Jin induces the formation of a fermionic condensate among fermionic atoms.

Wednesday 17:

', the third and final film in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, opens in theaters.

Wednesday 24:

The Spanish police thwarts an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 PM inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.

Friday 26:

Major earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, with up to 43,300 killed, and 90,000 homeless; the citadel of Arg-é Bam destroyed.