Portal:Current events/August 2003/Sidebar

Deaths

August 1, 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962) August 4, 2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916) August 9, 2003 – Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor (cancer)(b. 1946) August 11, 2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923) August 11, 2003 – Herb Brooks, coach of the 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey team (b. 1937) August 14, 2003 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929) August 16, 2003 – Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator August 19, 2003 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948) August 19, 2003 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926) August 23, 2003 – Bobby Bonds, baseball player and manager (b. 1946) August 29, 2003 – Vladimir Vasicek, Czech painter (b. 1919) August 30, 2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)

Ongoing events
Dodgy Dossier Columbia disaster investigation EU enlargement Hong Kong Basic Law Hutton Inquiry North Korea crisis Road map for peace Same-sex marriage in Canada SARS: Timeline SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit Northeast blackout of 2003

Ongoing armed conflicts
Timeline of the War in Afghanistan (August 2003) Liberian crisis Occupation of Iraq: Timeline U.S. v. EU on GM food War on Terror

Elections
California recall

Ongoing trials