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2003

Major Events of 2003

Sports

  • MLB: 2003 World Series
    Florida Marlins win 4-2 against New York Yankees
    - Oct 18...Florida 3 at New York 2
    - Oct 19...Florida 1 at New York 6
    - Oct 21...New York 6 at Florida 1
    - Oct 22...New York 0 at Florida 1
    - Oct 23...New York 4 at Florida 6
    - Oct 25...Florida 2 at New York 0
  • NFL: Super Bowl XXXVII
    Tampa Bay Buccaneers win 48-21 against the Oakland Raiders
    - Super Bowl Box Score:
    Tampa Bay...3 17 14 14-48
    Oakland........3 0 6 12-21
  • Professional Golf
    Men's Majors winners
    - The Masters: Mike Weir... -7, margin of 2 (playoff)
    - US Open: Jim Furyk... -8 to par
    - British Open: Ben Curtis... -1 to par
    - PGA Championship: Shaun Micheel... -4 to par
    Women's Majors winners
    - Kraft Nabisco Championship: Patricia Meunier-Lebouc... 70-68-70-73--281
    - US Women's Open: Hilary Lunke... -1 (PO)
    - McDonald's LPGA Championship: Annika Sörenstam
    - Weetabix Women's British Open: Annika Sörenstam
76th Academy Awards
  • Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Best Director: Peter Jackson
  • Best actor in a leading role: Sean Penn for Mystic River
  • Best actress in a leading role: Charlize Theron for Monster
  • Best actor in a supporting role: Tim Robbins for Mystic River
  • Best actress in a supporting role: Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain
45th Grammy Awards
  • Record of the Year: "Don't Know Why" - Norah Jones
  • Song of the Year: "Don't Know Why" - Norah Jones, writer Jessie Harris
  • Album of Year: "Come Away With Me" - Norah Jones
  • Best New Artist: Norah Jones
Nobel Prizes
in...
  • Peace: Shirin Ebadi (Iran) "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children."
  • Physiology or Medicine: Paul Lauterbur & Sir Peter Mansfield "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"
  • Economic Sciences: Robert F. Engle (USA) & Clive W. J. Granger (UK) "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility or common trends"
  • Chemistry: Peter Agre & Roderick MacKinnon "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"
  • Physics: Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg & Anthony James Leggett "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
  • Literature: John Maxwell Coetzee (South Africa - English)
Pulitzer Prizes
for...
  • Public Service: The Boston Globe
  • National Reporting: Alan Miller & Kevin Sack, Los Angeles Times
  • International Reporting: Kevin Sullivan & Mary Jordan, Washington Post
  • Editorial Writing: Cornelia Grumman, Chicago Tribune
  • Editorial Cartooning: David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • Photography: Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times
  • Commentary: Colbert I. King, Washington Post
  • Criticism: Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
  • Feature Writing: Sonia Nazario, Los Angeles Times
  • Beat Reporting: Diane K. Sugg, Baltimore Sun
  • Explanatory Reporting: Staff, Wall Street Journal
  • Investigative Reporting: Clifford J. Levy, New York Times
  • Breaking News: Staff, Eagle-Tribune (Lawrence, MA)
  • Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
  • Drama: Nilo Cruz, Anna In The Tropics
  • Biography/Autobiography: Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
  • History: Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
  • Poetry: Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel
  • General Nonfiction: Samantha Power, "A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
  • Music: John Adams, On the Transmigration of Souls