✦ History

Explore August 2, 1998 – July 18, 2003

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Events

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
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
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
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
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
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 Karbala (2003) 2003-03-23 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Nasiriyah 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-29
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

Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 56
President - Turkey
Carlos Menem age 68
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 43
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 53
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 63
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 35
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 52
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 43
President - Montenegro
Milo Đukanović age 36
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 68
President - Romania
Mohammed Omar age 38
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 61
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 33
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 55
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 47
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 47
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 79
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 71
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 53
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 41
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 66
President - Kenya
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 58
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Kufuor age 59
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 48
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 57
President - Slovakia
K. R. Narayanan age 77
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 73
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 75
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 46
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 64
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 50
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 70
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 52
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 53
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 49
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 52
President - Timor-Leste
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 57
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 42
King - Bhutan
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 46
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 60
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 58
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 69
President - Namibia
Abdoulaye Wade age 72
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 80
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 65
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 51
President - Ghana
Tassos Papadopoulos age 64
President - Cyprus
João Bernardo Vieira age 59
President - Guinea-Bissau
Askar Akayev age 53
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 58
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 69
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 50
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 60
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 62
President - Togo
Joseph Estrada age 61
President - Philippines
Alfred Moisiu age 68
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 51
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 65
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 73
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 63
President - Guinea
René Préval age 55
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 57
President - Moldova
Kiro Gligorov age 81
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 58
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 56
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 60
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 72
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 62
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 57
President - Slovenia
Levy Mwanawasa age 49
President - Zambia
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 45
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 67
President - Hungary
Árpád Göncz age 76
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 55
President - Zambia
Alejandro Toledo age 53
President - Peru
Iajuddin Ahmed age 67
President - Bangladesh
Ezer Weizman age 74
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 62
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 48
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 59
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 53
President - Albania
Leonel Fernández age 44
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 77
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Mamadou Tandja age 60
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 74
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 39
President - Comoros
Frank Bainimarama age 44
President - Fiji
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 52
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 42
President - North Macedonia
Petar Stoyanov age 46
President - Bulgaria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 81
President - Djibouti
Anote Tong age 46
President - Kiribati
Emil Constantinescu age 58
President - Romania
Pedro Pires age 64
President - Cape Verde
Rolandas Paksas age 42
President - Lithuania
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 68
President - Pakistan
Vladimír Mečiar age 56
President - Slovakia
Ronald Venetiaan age 62
President - Suriname
Rafael Caldera age 82
President - Venezuela
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 51
President - Guinea-Bissau
Guntis Ulmanis age 58
President - Latvia
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 42
President - Palau
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 51
President - Argentina
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 56
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 64
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 72
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 64
President - Slovakia
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 43
President - Slovakia
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 70
President - Uruguay
Julio María Sanguinetti age 62
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 52
President - Panama
Bharrat Jagdeo age 34
President - Guyana
Didier Ratsiraka age 61
President - Madagascar
Pascal Couchepin age 56
President - Switzerland
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 80
King - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 72
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 61
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 79
President - Cyprus
Josefa Iloilo age 77
President - Fiji
Janet Jagan age 77
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 55
President - Malawi
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 56
President - Nigeria
Milan Milutinović age 55
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 62
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 66
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 58
President - Switzerland
Fradique de Menezes age 56
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 66
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Pierre Buyoya age 48
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 43
President - Colombia
Guido de Marco age 67
President - Malta
Moritz Leuenberger age 51
President - Switzerland
Kumba Ialá age 45
President - Guinea-Bissau
Valentín Paniagua age 61
President - Peru
Liamine Zéroual age 57
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 65
Emir - Bahrain
Abel Pacheco age 64
President - Costa Rica
Khamtai Siphandone age 74
President - Laos
Ludwig Scotty age 50
President - Nauru
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 68
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 68
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 71
President - Lebanon
Enrique Bolaños age 70
President - Nicaragua
Domitien Ndayizeye age 45
President - Burundi
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 54
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 48
President - Colombia
Gustavo Noboa age 60
President - Ecuador
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 56
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 58
President - Moldova
Robert Guéï age 57
President - Ivory Coast
Ricardo Maduro age 52
President - Honduras
Jules Wijdenbosch age 57
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Dragan Čović age 41
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lucio Gutiérrez age 41
President - Ecuador
Kamisese Mara age 78
President - Fiji
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 48
President - Mongolia
Sulejman Tihić age 46
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jorge Quiroga age 38
President - Bolivia
Jamil Mahuad age 49
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 54
President - Ethiopia
Daouda Malam Wanké age 52
President - Niger
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 49
President - Niger
Ong Teng Cheong age 62
President - Singapore
Arnoldo Alemán age 52
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 61
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Edward Natapei age 44
President - Vanuatu
Luis González Macchi age 50
President - Paraguay
Eduardo Camaño age 52
President - Argentina
Armando Calderón Sol age 50
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 65
President - Malta
Momčilo Krajišnik age 53
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 58
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 38
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 48
President - Marshall Islands
Ramón Puerta age 46
President - Argentina
Joseph Urusemal age 46
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Flavio Cotti age 58
President - Switzerland
Hipólito Mejía age 57
President - Dominican Republic
Jacob Nena age 56
President - Federated States of Micronesia
René Harris age 50
President - Nauru
Diosdado Cabello age 35
President - Venezuela
Vlatko Pavletić age 67
President - Croatia
Leo Falcam age 62
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 54
President - Palau
Adolf Ogi age 56
President - Switzerland
Fabián Alarcón age 51
President - Ecuador
Ansumane Mané age 58
President - Guinea-Bissau
Carlos Roberto Flor age 48
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 52
President - Nauru
Kaspar Villiger age 57
President - Switzerland
Teburoro Tito age 44
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 55
President - Marshall Islands
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 57
President - Somalia
Borislav Paravac age 55
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 65
President - Bangladesh
Pedro Carmona age 57
President - Venezuela
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 66
President - Bangladesh
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 62
President - Comoros
John Bani age 57
President - Vanuatu