September 2003

Monday 08:

Brianna LaHara, a 12-year-old U.S. schoolgirl, is sued by the RIAA for downloading music illegally.

Wednesday 10:

Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.

Thursday 11:

Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being fatally wounded on September 10.

Friday 12:

The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Saturday 13:

2003 - Rabbi Pete Tobais leads his first Barmitzvah Ceremony in Elstree (TLSE).

Sunday 14:

Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.

Thursday 18:

The UK's Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, receives Royal Assent.

Saturday 20:

2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.

Sunday 21:

Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

Monday 22:

David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

Thursday 25:

A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.

Friday 26:

Nupedia, an earlier form of Wikipedia, was shut down. --->

Saturday 27:

The Uniterran Church was founded in Victor, NY

Monday 29:

Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.