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2003 in politics
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Years in politics: 2001 -2002 -2003 -2004 -2005 - list of years in politics
Events
January 1
January 1 : Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes office as president of Brazil . His cabinet includes Celso Amorim as foreign minister; Antônio Waldez Góes da Silva becomes Governor of Amapá , Carlos Eduardo de Souza Braga becomes governor of Amazonas , Paulo César Hartung Gomes becomes governor of Espírito Santo , Blairo Borges Maggi becomes governor of Mato Grosso , Simão Robison Oliveira Jatene becomes governor of Pará , Cássio Rodrigues da Cunha Lima becomes governor of Paraíba , Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva becomes governor of Paraná , José Wellington Barroso de Araújo Dias becomes governor of Piauí , Wilma Maria de Faria becomes governor of Rio Grande do Norte , Germano Antônio Rigotto becomes governor of Rio Grande do Sul , Ivo Narciso Cassol becomes governor of Rondônia , and Marcelo de Carvalho Miranda becomes governor of Tocantins .
January 1: Pavel Chernov takes office as prime minister of Karelia .
January 1: Pascal Couchepin takes office as President of the Confederation and Interior Minister of Switzerland ; Ruth Metzler-Arnold becomes vice president; Claude Lässer becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg , Stefan Engler president of the government of Graubünden , Gérald Schaller president of the government of Canton of Jura , Margrit Fischer-Willimann Schultheiss of Luzern , Christian Wanner Landammann of Solothurn , and Jean-Claude Mermoud president of the Council of State of Vaud , and Walter Suter Landammann of Zug .
January 1: Kenneth W. Dam becomes acting treasury secretary of the United States ; Bill Richardson takes office as Governor of New Mexico and Jennifer Granholm as Governor of Michigan .
January 2-January 7
January 8-January 14
January 15-January 31
February
March-June
July-September
October 1-October 7
October 8-October 31
November 1-November 7
November 8-November 30
December
Deaths
January-February
March-August
March 1 : Fidel Sánchez Hernández , former president of El Salvador (1967 -1972 )
March 10 Bernard Dowiyogo president of Nauru .
March 12 Zoran Đinđić prime minister of Serbia
March 30 : Valentin Pavlov , former prime minister of the Soviet Union (1991 )
April 30 : Aureliano Chaves , former Brazilian vice president (1979 -1985 )
May 15 : Constantin Dăscălescu , former prime minister of Romania (1982 -1989 )
June 1 ? Johnny Paul Koroma President of Sierra Leone 1997-1998.
June 10 : Donald Regan , former U.S. treasury secretary (1981 -1985 ) and White House chief of staff (1985 -1987 )
June 25 Lester Maddox segregationist governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971 .
June 26 : Strom Thurmond , longtime U.S. senator
August 16 : Idi Amin , former president of Uganda (1971 -1979 )
August 19 : Carlos Roberto Reina , former president of Honduras (1994 -1998 )
August 20 : Igor Farkhutdinov , Russian politician, governor of Sakhalin (killed in plane crash).
August 23 : Michael Kijana Wamalwa , sitting vice-president of Kenya
September-December
External links
Detailed chronologies at Rulers.org : January , February , March , April , May , June , July , August , September , October , November , December
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