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| | | The historic city of Bam, in Iran, is destroyed in a massive earthquake, with more than 40,000 deaths | |
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| 2003 |
| | | The US space shuttle Columbia disintegrates, with seven on board, when re-entering the earth's atmosphere | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Around the world millions of people march in protest against the war planned by the USA and UK against Iraq | |
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| 2003 |
| | | The two remaining regions of the unravelled Yugoslavia unite as a new nation, Serbia and Montenegro | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in the Darfur region of the Sudan, resulting in large numbers of civilian deaths and accusations of government-sponsored genocide | |
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| 2003 |
| | | A deadly new form of pneumonia, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is first reported in Hanoi and soon spreads globally | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Zoran Dindić, the prime minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Hu Jintao succeeds Jiang Zemin as president of the People's Republic of China | |
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| 2003 |
| | | US, British, Australian and Polish forces invade Iraq | |
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| 2003 |
| | | US forces are in control of Baghdad and an excited crowd topples from its plinth a massive statue of Saddam Hussein | |
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