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* [[January 11]] – Illinois Governor [[George Ryan]] commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the [[Jon Burge]] scandal.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/11/illinois.death.row/|title='Blanket commutation' empties Illinois death row|last=Flock|first=Jeff|date=January 13, 2003|work=CNN|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208044123/http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/11/illinois.death.row/|archive-date=February 8, 2008|dead-url=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1216795,00.html|title=Chicago's Toughest Cop Goes Down|last=Ferkenhoff|first=Eric|date=2006-07-19|work=Time|access-date=2018-01-12|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] – Illinois Governor [[George Ryan]] commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the [[Jon Burge]] scandal.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/11/illinois.death.row/|title='Blanket commutation' empties Illinois death row|last=Flock|first=Jeff|date=January 13, 2003|work=CNN|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208044123/http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/11/illinois.death.row/|archive-date=February 8, 2008|dead-url=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1216795,00.html|title=Chicago's Toughest Cop Goes Down|last=Ferkenhoff|first=Eric|date=2006-07-19|work=Time|access-date=2018-01-12|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – The last signal from NASA's [[Pioneer 10]] spacecraft is received, some 7.6 billion miles from [[Earth]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2003/03_25HQ.html|title=Pioneer 10 Spacecraft Sends Last Signal|last=Mewhinney|first=Michael|date=February 25, 2003|website=NASA|publisher=|access-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – The last signal from NASA's [[Pioneer 10]] spacecraft is received, some 7.6 billion miles from [[Earth]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2003/03_25HQ.html|title=Pioneer 10 Spacecraft Sends Last Signal|last=Mewhinney|first=Michael|date=February 25, 2003|website=NASA|publisher=|access-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] - [[''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'']] debut on [[ABC]].
* [[January 27]] - ''[[Jimmy Kimmel Live!]]'' debut on [[ABC]].
* [[January 30]] – [[Belgium]] [[Same-sex marriage in Belgium|legally recognizes same-sex marriage]], becoming the second country in the world to do so.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2003/01/31/Belgium-legalizes-gay-marriage/UPI-46741044012415/|title=Belgium legalizes gay marriage|last=Harding|first=Gareth|date=January 31, 2003|website=UPI|publisher=|access-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] – [[Belgium]] [[Same-sex marriage in Belgium|legally recognizes same-sex marriage]], becoming the second country in the world to do so.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2003/01/31/Belgium-legalizes-gay-marriage/UPI-46741044012415/|title=Belgium legalizes gay marriage|last=Harding|first=Gareth|date=January 31, 2003|website=UPI|publisher=|access-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref>



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2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.

2003 was designated the:

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Births

Polina Bogusevich
Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

Deaths

January

Leopoldo Galtieri
Maurice Gibb

February

Wolfgang Larrazábal

March

Zoran Đinđić
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Michael Jeter

April

Cecil Howard Green
Nina Simone

May

Miss Elizabeth
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

June

Gregory Peck
Denis Thatcher
Katharine Hepburn

July

Barry White
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Bob Hope

August

Idi Amin
Charles Bronson

September

John Ritter
Johnny Cash
Robert Palmer
Elia Kazan

October

Bertram Brockhouse
Alija Izetbegović

November

Crash Holly
Eduardo Palomo
Penny Singleton

December

Heydar Aliyev

Nobel Prizes

See also

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