2003_in_Italy
2003 in Italy
List of events
Events in Italy in 2003:
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- January 31: Miss Universo Italia 2003
- February 12: The newspaper Europa is founded.
- February 17: Abu Omar is abducted by the CIA and SISMI.
- June 16: Lega Nord Leader Umberto Bossi While being Reforms minister says in an controversial interview the Navy should fire live rounds on boats holding illegal immigrants, stating: "After the second or third warning, bang… we fire the cannon."[1][2][3]
- June 17: Wind Jet starts operating.
- July 31: Sky Italia is founded by Rupert Murdoch.
- September 28: 2003 Italy blackout
- Serie A 2002–03
- Serie B 2002–03
- 2003 Coppa Italia Final
- 2002 Supercoppa Italiana
- 2003 UEFA Champions League Final
- 2003 Italian Grand Prix
- 2003 San Marino Grand Prix
- 2003 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
- 2003 Italy rugby union tour
- 2003 Women's Hockey Champions Challenge
- 2003 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
- 2003 European Curling Championships
- FIVB World Grand Prix 2003
- 2003 Giro d'Italia
- 2003 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships
- 2003 Milan–San Remo
- 2003 World Rowing Championships
- 2003 ISSF World Cup
- 2003 Winter Universiade
- 2003 World Interuniversity Games
Main article: Italian films of 2003
- 4 March - Fedora Barbieri, operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1920)
- 7 July – Mario Pedini, politician (born 1918)
- 28 October– Sally Baldwin, social sciences professor (born 1940 in Scotland)[4]
- Bradshaw, Jonathan (31 October 2003). "Obituary: Sally Baldwin". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 November 2020.