January 1st, 2003

Born on January 1st, 2003

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 8,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 445 days, exactly on August 23rd, 2027, people who were born on January 1st, 2003 will be 9,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 1st?

January 1st, 1995

The World Trade Organization, the international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade, came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

January 1st, 1960

Three men were killed and two wounded in a mass shooting at a public house in Sheffield, England.

January 1st, 2022

Emais Roberts succeeds Temmy Shmull as Governor of Peleliu.

January 1st, 1948

British Railways came into existence when the "Big Four" railway companies were nationalised.

January 1st, 2019

The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, making it the farthest object visited by a spacecraft.

January 1st, 2009

A nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand, killed 66 patrons celebrating the New Year.

January 1st, 2007

Adam Air Flight 574 crashed into the sea off Polewali, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board, when the pilots inadvertently disconnected the autopilot.

January 1st, 1998

Argentinian physicist Juan Maldacena published a landmark paper initiating the study of AdS/CFT correspondence, which links string theory and quantum gravity.

January 1st, 1810

Lachlan Macquarie (pictured) became Governor of New South Wales, eventually playing a major role in the social, economic and architectural development of the colony in Australia.

January 1st, 1965

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, which later helped the country become a republic, was founded.

January 1st, 1957

The revised Thai criminal code came into force, strengthening the law on lèse-majesté in Thailand to include insult and treating it as a crime against national security.

January 1st, 1945

Second World War: The Luftwaffe launched Operation Bodenplatte in an attempt to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries.

January 1st, 1928

Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, Boris Bazhanov, crossed the Iranian border and defected from the Soviet Union.

January 1st, 1915

Russia withdraws from its occupation of northwestern Iran, enabling a subsequent Ottoman invasion and massacres of Assyrians and Armenians.

January 1st, 1914

The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the U.S. state of Florida became the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 1st

Born on January 1st, 2003

23

Fynn-Luca Nicolaus

German handball player

*January 1st, 2003, Stuttgart

23

Tang In Chim

Hong Kong footballer

*January 1st, 2003, Hong Kong

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Born in 2003

22

Tate McRae

Canadian singer

*July 1st, 2003, Calgary

23

Johnny Orlando

Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

*January 24th, 2003, Mississauga

23

Sangiovanni

Italian singer-songwriter

*January 9th, 2003, Vicenza

23

Francesca Barale

Italian cyclist

*April 29th, 2003, Domodossola

23

Treesa Jolly

Indian badminton player

*May 27th, 2003, Cherupuzha, Kannur

23

Pia Maria

Austrian singer-songwriter

*May 21st, 2003, Tyrol

23

Keisya Levronka

Indonesian singer and actress

*February 2nd, 2003, Malang

22

Ana Castela

Brazilian singer

*November 16th, 2003, Amambai

23

Greta Thunberg

Swedish climate protection activist (born 2003)

*January 3rd, 2003, Stockholm

22

Jude Bellingham

English association football player (born 2003)

*June 29th, 2003, Stourbridge

23

Isra Hirsi

American environmental activist (born 2003)

*February 22nd, 2003, Minneapolis

22

Rayan Cherki

French footballer (born 2003)

*August 17th, 2003, Lyon

23

Emjay Anthony

American actor

*June 1st, 2003, Clearwater Beach

22

Jack Dylan Grazer

American actor

*September 3rd, 2003, Los Angeles

22

Wyatt Oleff

American actor

*July 13th, 2003, Chicago

23

Louis Partridge

British actor

*June 3rd, 2003, London Borough of Wandsworth

22

Isaac Del Toro

Mexican cyclist

*November 27th, 2003, Ensenada

23

Jeremy Ray Taylor

American actor

*June 2nd, 2003, Bluff City

23

Alicia Fabbri

Canadian ice dancer

*February 16th, 2003, Laval

23

Eva-Lotta Kiibus

Estonian figure skater

*January 17th, 2003, Tallinn

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 1st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Dissolution of Czechoslovakia-related observances, New Year's Day) which are celebrated on January 1st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on January 1st, 2003
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 2003 is a normal year and no leap year.

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