✦ History

Explore August 2, 1998 – July 18, 2003

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Events

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998-05-06 - 2000-06-18
Guinea-Bissau Civil War 1998-06-07 - 1999-05-10
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20
Introduction of the euro 1999-01-01
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 1999-03-24 - 1999-06-10
Battle of Košare 1999-04-09 - 1999-06-10
Columbine High School massacre 1999-04-20
Kargil War 1999-05-03 - 1999-07-26
Battle of Tololing 1999-05-22 - 1999-06-13
Battle of Tiger Hill 1999-07-03 - 1999-07-08
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
East Timorese independence referendum 1999-08-30
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
War on terror 2001-09-11
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
2002 Bali bombings 2002-10-12
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 2003-02-01
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
Battle of Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
Battle of Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Nasiriyah 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-29
Battle of Karbala (2003) 2003-03-23 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Najaf (2003) 2003-03-24 - 2003-04-04
Operation Northern Delay 2003-03-26 - 2003-03-26
Battle of Baghdad (2003) 2003-04-03 - 2003-04-12

People

Vladimir Putin age 45
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 52
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 72
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 51
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 72
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 61
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 67
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 59
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 65
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 32
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 52
President - Brazil
Hosni Mubarak age 70
President - Egypt
Kim Jong-il age 57
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Akihito age 64
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 55
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 54
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 72
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 67
President - Syria
Albert II of Belgium age 64
King - Belgium
Johannes Rau age 67
President - Germany
Roman Herzog age 64
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 56
President - Mexico
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 67
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 47
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 75
President - Republic of China
Ernesto Zedillo age 46
President - Mexico
Trần Đức Lương age 61
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 52
President - Guatemala
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 66
President - Syria
Alfonso Portillo age 46
President - Guatemala
Kofi Annan age 60
Secretary-General - United Nations
Benjamin Netanyahu age 48
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 45
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 68
Chancellor - Germany
Gerhard Schröder age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Romano Prodi age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 59
Director-General - World Health Organization
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 73
Prime Minister - India
Junichiro Koizumi age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 55
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ehud Barak age 56
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 78
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 61
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 56
President - International Olympic Committee
Massimo D'Alema age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 69
Premier - People's Republic of China
Yoshirō Mori age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Jerzy Buzek age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 46
Taoiseach - Ireland
Javier Solana age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Bounnhang Vorachit age 61
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 50
Prime Minister - France
Keizō Obuchi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 61
President - European Commission
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 52
Secretary General - NATO
Leszek Miller age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Phan Văn Khải age 64
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Kamal Ganzouri age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
James Wolfensohn age 64
President - World Bank
Atef Ebeid age 66
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hong Song-nam age 68
Premier - North Korea
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 70
Prime Minister - Laos
Chang Chun-hsiung age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Shyi-kun age 50
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 57
Prime Minister - Syria
Vincent Siew age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Tang Fei age 66
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 63
Prime Minister - Syria
William Rehnquist age 73
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 50
Vice President - United States
Dick Cheney age 57
Vice President - United States
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 56
Vice President - Iraq
Lien Chan age 61
Vice President - Republic of China
Zeng Qinghong age 59
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Wesley Clark age 53
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
James L. Jones age 54
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Richard Myers age 56
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Hugh Shelton age 56
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Joseph Ralston age 54
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Gordon Brown age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 66
Secretary of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 61
Secretary of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 56
Attorney General - United States
Janet Reno age 60
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 47
Attorney General - United States
Larry Summers age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Cohen age 57
Secretary of Defense - United States
David Blunkett age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 59
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Eric Shinseki age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Rubin age 59
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Dennis Reimer age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George Tenet age 45
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Robert Mueller age 54
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 48
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 56
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 49
President - Sinn Féin
Clarence Thomas age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 37
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Stephen Breyer age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 78
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Iain Duncan Smith age 44
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Gus Macdonald age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Larry Thompson age 52
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 59
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Theodore Olson age 57
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Barbara Underwood age 53
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
James Comey age 37
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 55
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 50
Senate - United States
John McCain age 61
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 54
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 51
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 73
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 51
Senate - United States
David Cameron age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 39
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andy Burnham age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 82
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Clarke age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mitt Romney age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike Huckabee age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Rick Perry age 48
Governor of Texas - United States
Mark Warner age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Pataki age 53
Governor of New York - United States
George Voinovich age 62
Governor of Ohio - United States
Sonny Perdue age 51
Governor of Georgia - United States
Gray Davis age 55
Governor of California - United States
Jim Gilmore age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Zell Miller age 66
Governor of Georgia - United States
Pete Wilson age 64
Governor of California - United States
Christine Todd Whitman age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Phil Bredesen age 54
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Bob Ehrlich age 40
Governor of Maryland - United States
Paul Cellucci age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim McGreevey age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Nancy Hollister age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Jane Swift age 33
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Bob Taft age 56
Governor of Ohio - United States
Don Sundquist age 62
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Roy Barnes age 50
Governor of Georgia - United States
Donald DiFrancesco age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Parris Glendening age 56
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank O'Bannon age 68
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Farmer Jr. age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John O. Bennett age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Barber Conable age 75
New York State Senate - United States
Nelson Mandela age 80
President - South Africa
John Paul II age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 44
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 43
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 61
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 70
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 74
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 60
King - Spain
Pervez Musharraf age 55
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 58
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 36
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 58
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 61
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 61
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 56
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 34
King - Morocco
Martti Ahtisaari age 61
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 52
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 66
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 60
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 70
President - Georgia
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 51
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 54
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 60
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 40
President - Rwanda