August 2003

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August 1, 2003 - Suicide bomber rams truck filled with explosives into a military hospital near Chechnya, killing 50 people, including Russian troops wounded in Chechnya.
August 2, 2003 - The United Nations authorizes an international peacekeeping force for Liberia.
August 10, 2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.5°C (101.3°F) at Brogdale near Faversham in Kent ^*. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
August 10, 2003 - Luke Parsons was 16.
August 11, 2003 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
August 11, 2003 - Jemaah Islamiah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
August 14, 2003 - Widespread power outage affects northeast United States and Canada.
August 14, 2003 - 6.4 Richter scale earthquake near the Greek Ionian island of Lefkada - 24 injured
August 22, 2003 - 21 killed at the Brazilian rocket complex in Alcântara due to a premature ignition of a solid rocket booster.
August 25, 2003 - 52 killed in two bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
August 27, 2003 - Perihelion of Mars
August 30, 2003 - Top fashion designer Stella McCartney, third daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney marries publisher Alasdhair Willis in a private Roman Catholic chapel at Mount Stuart House, the stately home of the Marquess of Bute.

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