✦ History

Explore August 2, 1998 – July 18, 2003

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Events

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
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
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 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

Vernon Shaw age 68
President - Dominica
Derog Gioura age 65
President - Nauru
Nataša Mićić age 32
President - Serbia
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 64
President - Comoros
Zlatko Tomčić age 53
President - Croatia
Cassam Uteem age 57
President - Mauritius
Mirko Šarović age 41
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hamada Madi age 33
President - Comoros
Karl Offmann age 57
President - Mauritius
Fernando Pereira age 35
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Gianfranco Terenzi age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Krešimir Zubak age 51
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jean-Marie Léyé age 66
President - Vanuatu
Živko Radišić age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tion Otang born 2000-01-01
President - Kiribati
Fabio Berardi age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Rosa Zafferani age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Beriz Belkić age 51
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dragan Kujović age 50
President - Montenegro
Antonello Bacciocchi age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Loris Francini age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jozo Križanović age 54
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Angidi Chettiar age 70
President - Mauritius
Halid Genjac age 40
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ante Jelavić age 34
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rifat Rastoder age 48
President - Montenegro
Gian Marco Marcucci age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Paolo Bollini age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Arzilli age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enzo Colombini age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Luigi Lonfernini age 59
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ariranga Pillay age 53
President - Mauritius
Eddy Kapend age 38
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fernando de la Rúa age 60
President - Argentina
Pasteur Bizimungu age 48
President - Rwanda
Marino Bollini age 65
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alberto Cecchetti age 54
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 54
Captain Regent - San Marino
Gino Giovagnoli age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Giannoni age 50
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Maria Morganti age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mauro Chiaruzzi age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pier Marino Menicucci age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Berti age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 77
King - Saudi Arabia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 44
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mahathir Mohamad age 73
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 49
Prime Minister - Portugal
Viktor Yanukovych age 48
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Viktor Orbán age 35
Prime Minister - Hungary
Abdullah Gül age 47
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sheikh Hasina age 50
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Viktor Yushchenko age 44
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jens Stoltenberg age 39
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 43
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Hassanal Bolkiah age 52
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 53
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 45
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 82
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 45
Prime Minister - Denmark
Nawaz Sharif age 48
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 59
Prime Minister - Australia
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 78
Prime Minister - Peru
Thaksin Shinawatra age 49
Prime Minister - Thailand
Helen Clark age 48
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hashim Thaçi age 30
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Victor Chernomyrdin age 60
Prime Minister - Russia
José María Aznar age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Meles Zenawi age 43
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 42
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bülent Ecevit age 73
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 69
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Hun Sen age 46
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 53
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 53
Prime Minister - Mali
Guy Verhofstadt age 45
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ilir Meta age 29
Prime Minister - Albania
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 61
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 49
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 35
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Zoran Đinđić age 46
Prime Minister - Serbia
Göran Persson age 49
Prime Minister - Sweden
Matti Vanhanen age 42
Prime Minister - Finland
Evgeny Primakov age 68
Prime Minister - Russia
Tupou VI of Tonga age 39
Prime Minister - Tonga
Algirdas Brazauskas age 65
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 49
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Wim Kok age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Branko Crvenkovski age 35
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Andrius Kubilius age 41
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Hage Geingob age 57
Prime Minister - Namibia
Andris Bērziņš age 53
Prime Minister - Latvia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 53
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 63
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Goh Chok Tong age 57
Prime Minister - Singapore
Girija Prasad Koirala age 74
Prime Minister - Nepal
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 56
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Costas Simitis age 62
Prime Minister - Greece
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 52
Prime Minister - Nepal
Jenny Shipley age 46
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 62
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 55
Prime Minister - Denmark
Mikhail Kasianov age 40
Prime Minister - Russia
Fatos Nano age 45
Prime Minister - Albania
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 43
Prime Minister - Finland
Davíð Oddsson age 50
Prime Minister - Iceland
Anerood Jugnauth age 68
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Evaristo Carvalho age 56
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 64
Prime Minister - Malta
Paavo Lipponen age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 40
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Sergei Stepashin age 46
Prime Minister - Russia
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 53
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Somare age 62
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Mart Laar age 38
Prime Minister - Estonia
Péter Medgyessy age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Mesut Yılmaz age 50
Prime Minister - Turkey
Ahmad Uyahya age 46
Prime Minister - Algeria
Vladimír Špidla age 47
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Adrian Năstase age 48
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 54
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 47
Prime Minister - Armenia
Jigme Thinley age 45
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Sergei Kirienko age 36
Prime Minister - Russia
Ralph Gonsalves age 52
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 54
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Nandó dos Santos age 48
Prime Minister - Angola
Syarhiey Sidorski age 44
Prime Minister - Belarus
Juhan Parts age 31
Prime Minister - Estonia
Sitiveni Rabuka age 49
Prime Minister - Fiji
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 55
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Pakalitha Mosisili age 53
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Radu Vasile age 55
Prime Minister - Romania
Mame Madior Boye age 57
Prime Minister - Senegal
Manasseh Sogavare age 43
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 65
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Vuk Drašković age 51
Deputy Prime Minister - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Viktor Klima age 51
Chancellor - Austria
Keith Mitchell age 51
Prime Minister - Grenada
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 73
Prime Minister - Nepal
Vazgen Sargsyan age 39
Prime Minister - Armenia
Owen Arthur age 48
Prime Minister - Barbados
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 40
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 54
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Denzil Douglas age 45
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Chuan Leekpai age 60
Prime Minister - Thailand
Perry Christie age 54
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mari Alkatiri age 48
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Ivica Račan age 54
Prime Minister - Croatia
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 68
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Driss Jettou age 53
Prime Minister - Morocco
Vasile Tarlev age 34
Prime Minister - Moldova
Moussa Faki age 38
Prime Minister - Chad
Mart Siimann age 51
Prime Minister - Estonia
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 56
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 55
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 70
Prime Minister - Nepal
Bernard Makuza age 35
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Kenny Anthony age 47
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Maria das Neves age 40
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Pandeli Majko age 30
Prime Minister - Albania
Said Musa age 54
Prime Minister - Belize
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 47
Prime Minister - Latvia
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 74
Prime Minister - Morocco
Hubert Ingraham age 51
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Apolo Nsibambi age 57
Prime Minister - Uganda
Ivan Kostov age 48
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
P. J. Patterson age 63
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 60
Prime Minister - Namibia
Mugur Isărescu age 49
Prime Minister - Romania
Andrej Bajuk age 54
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Anton Rop age 37
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Anatolii Kinakh age 44
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Lester Bird age 60
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Salim al-Huss age 68
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Zoran Živković age 37
Prime Minister - Serbia
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 41
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 58
Prime Minister - Nepal
Laisenia Qarase age 57
Prime Minister - Fiji
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 50
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Alfred Sant age 50
Prime Minister - Malta
Pascoal Mocumbi age 57
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Patrick Manning age 51
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Marc Forné Molné age 51
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 58
Prime Minister - Belize
Sangay Ngedup age 45
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Bujar Bukoshi age 51
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Nikolai Tanayev age 52
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Irena Degutienė age 49
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Jacques Sylla age 52
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Ljubčo Georgievski age 32
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Basdeo Panday age 65
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 51
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 52
Prime Minister - Yemen