✦ History

Explore November 1, 2002 – May 1, 2004

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Events

Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
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 Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
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
Launch of Facebook 2004-02-04
2004 Madrid train bombings 2004-03-11
First Battle of Fallujah 2004-04-04 - 2004-05-01
2004 enlargement of the European Union 2004-05-01

People

Askar Akayev age 58
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 63
President - Botswana
Charles Taylor age 54
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 64
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 66
President - Togo
Alfred Moisiu age 72
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 56
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 69
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 77
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 67
President - Guinea
Vladimir Voronin age 61
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 63
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 61
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 64
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 76
President - Greece
Milan Kučan age 61
President - Slovenia
Levy Mwanawasa age 54
President - Zambia
Nino Burjanadze age 38
President - Georgia
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 49
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 71
President - Hungary
Alejandro Toledo age 57
President - Peru
Iajuddin Ahmed age 71
President - Bangladesh
Émile Lahoud age 66
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 52
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 64
President - Tanzania
Mamadou Tandja age 64
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 78
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 43
President - Comoros
Boris Trajkovski age 46
President - North Macedonia
Carlos Mesa age 49
President - Bolivia
Anote Tong age 50
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 72
President - Mauritius
Pedro Pires age 68
President - Cape Verde
Rolandas Paksas age 46
President - Lithuania
Eddie Fenech Adami age 68
President - Malta
Ronald Venetiaan age 66
President - Suriname
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 46
President - Palau
Nicanor Duarte age 46
President - Paraguay
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 76
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 68
President - Slovakia
James Michel age 58
President - Seychelles
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 75
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 56
President - Panama
Nicholas Liverpool age 68
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 38
President - Guyana
Pascal Couchepin age 60
President - Switzerland
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 84
King - Tonga
Ange-Félix Patassé age 65
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 83
President - Cyprus
Josefa Iloilo age 81
President - Fiji
Bakili Muluzi age 59
President - Malawi
Milan Milutinović age 59
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 67
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 70
President - Sierra Leone
Fradique de Menezes age 60
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 70
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Pierre Buyoya age 52
President - Burundi
Guido de Marco age 71
President - Malta
Kumba Ialá age 49
President - Guinea-Bissau
Abel Pacheco age 68
President - Costa Rica
Khamtai Siphandone age 78
President - Laos
Artūras Paulauskas age 49
President - Lithuania
Ludwig Scotty age 54
President - Nauru
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 72
President - Bolivia
Boniface Alexandre age 66
President - Haiti
Enrique Bolaños age 74
President - Nicaragua
Domitien Ndayizeye age 49
President - Burundi
Gustavo Noboa age 65
President - Ecuador
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 60
President - Mauritania
Ricardo Maduro age 56
President - Honduras
A. N. R. Robinson age 75
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Dragan Čović age 46
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lucio Gutiérrez age 45
President - Ecuador
Henrique Rosa age 56
President - Guinea-Bissau
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 52
President - Mongolia
Joseph Deiss age 56
President - Switzerland
Sulejman Tihić age 50
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gyude Bryant age 53
President - Liberia
Luis González Macchi age 54
President - Paraguay
Francisco Flores age 43
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 52
President - Marshall Islands
Joseph Urusemal age 50
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Moses Blah age 55
President - Liberia
Hipólito Mejía age 61
President - Dominican Republic
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 55
President - Guinea-Bissau
René Harris age 55
President - Nauru
Leo Falcam age 66
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Bernard Dowiyogo age 56
President - Nauru
Kaspar Villiger age 61
President - Switzerland
Teburoro Tito age 49
President - Kiribati
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 61
President - Somalia
Borislav Paravac age 59
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Valeria Ciavatta age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
John Bani age 61
President - Vanuatu
Vernon Shaw age 72
President - Dominica
Derog Gioura age 70
President - Nauru
Nataša Mićić age 37
President - Serbia
Marino Riccardi age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Predrag Marković age 46
President - Serbia
Mirko Šarović age 46
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Karl Offmann age 61
President - Mauritius
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 49
President - North Macedonia
Fernando Pereira age 39
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Tion Otang age 2
President - Kiribati
Dragan Maršićanin age 52
President - Serbia
Vojislav Mihailović age 51
President - Serbia
Roger Abiut age 30
President - Vanuatu
Dragan Kujović age 54
President - Montenegro
Raouf Bundhun age 65
President - Mauritius
Rifat Rastoder age 52
President - Montenegro
Paolo Bollini age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Lonfernini age 26
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alfred Maseng age 53
President - Vanuatu
Giovanni Giannoni age 54
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Maria Morganti age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mauro Chiaruzzi age 50
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pier Marino Menicucci age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 81
King - Saudi Arabia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 48
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mahathir Mohamad age 77
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Viktor Yanukovych age 52
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Abdullah Gül age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Jean-Claude Juncker age 47
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 45
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 42
Prime Minister - Spain
Hassanal Bolkiah age 56
Prime Minister - Brunei
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
John Howard age 63
Prime Minister - Australia
Thaksin Shinawatra age 53
Prime Minister - Thailand
Helen Clark age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
José María Aznar age 49
Prime Minister - Spain
Macky Sall age 40
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Meles Zenawi age 47
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 46
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Bülent Ecevit age 77
Prime Minister - Turkey
Jalal Talabani age 69
Prime Minister - Iraq
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 73
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Hun Sen age 50
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 58
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Paul Martin age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Jean Chrétien age 68
Prime Minister - Canada
Guy Verhofstadt age 49
Prime Minister - Belgium
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 65
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Zoran Đinđić age 50
Prime Minister - Serbia
Ivo Sanader age 49
Prime Minister - Croatia
Göran Persson age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Matti Vanhanen age 47
Prime Minister - Finland
Tupou VI of Tonga age 43
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 62
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Vojislav Koštunica age 58
Prime Minister - Serbia
Algirdas Brazauskas age 70
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 53
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Branko Crvenkovski age 40
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Mikhhail Fradkov age 52
Prime Minister - Russia
Masoud Barzani age 56
Prime Minister - Iraq
Andris Bērziņš age 57
Prime Minister - Latvia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 57
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 67
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 44
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Goh Chok Tong age 61
Prime Minister - Singapore
Kostas Karamanlis age 46
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 61
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Costas Simitis age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 55
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 66
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Mikhail Kasianov age 44
Prime Minister - Russia
Fatos Nano age 50
Prime Minister - Albania
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 47
Prime Minister - Finland
Davíð Oddsson age 54
Prime Minister - Iceland
Roosevelt Skerrit age 30
Prime Minister - Dominica
Paavo Lipponen age 61
Prime Minister - Finland
Lawrence Gonzi age 49
Prime Minister - Malta
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 44
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Zurab Zhvania age 38
Prime Minister - Georgia
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 57
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Somare age 66
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Péter Medgyessy age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 47
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Ahmad Uyahya age 50
Prime Minister - Algeria
Vladimír Špidla age 51
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Adrian Năstase age 52
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 58
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 51
Prime Minister - Armenia
Jigme Thinley age 50
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ralph Gonsalves age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 58
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Nandó dos Santos age 52
Prime Minister - Angola
Baldwin Spencer age 54
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Syarhiey Sidorski age 48
Prime Minister - Belarus
Juhan Parts age 36
Prime Minister - Estonia
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 59
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Ayad Allawi age 58
Prime Minister - Iraq
Pakalitha Mosisili age 57
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Mame Madior Boye age 61
Prime Minister - Senegal
Keith Mitchell age 56
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 55
Prime Minister - Iraq
Owen Arthur age 53
Prime Minister - Barbados
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 44
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 58
Prime Minister - Pakistan