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Canadian forest products companies Domtar Inc and Tembec Inc combine their lumber operations in Ontario and Quebec in equally owned joint venture (S)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co applies to issue $957.6 milion worth of American depository receipts; plans to convert 450 million Taiwan common shares into ADR's (S)
Alessandra Stanley TV Weekend column reviews HBO series Sex and the City, which is about to start its sixth and final season; photos (M)
American intelligence analysts now believe that Saddam Hussein is more likely alive than dead, view reinforced in recent weeks by intercepted communications among some of his fugitive supporters; new hunt for Hussein is being led by Task Force 20, secret military organization that includes members of Army's highly specialized Delta Force and Navy's elite counterterrorism squads, with support from Central Intelligence Agency; prevailing belief is that Hussein is still in Iraq; arrest of Abid Hamid Mahmoud al-Tikriti, Hussein's closest confidant, has raised some hope of obtaining more conclusive information; but Mahmoud's success in eluding capture for nearly two months in country occupied by nearly 150,000 troops underscores reality that Iraq still offers many hiding places; chronology of developments since March 20 in trying to determine Hussein's fate; photos (M)
New Yorkers are finding indoor activities to keep them busy in light of unusual number of rainy days; it has rained 27 of last 50 days in New York, double typical amount for time of year; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 18, 2003, covering June 20, 2003.
Metallica
Jewel
50 Cent
Evanescence
Soundtrack
2003Hans Niemann, American chess player[†]
Hans Moke Niemann is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March 1, 2019, and became a FIDE grandmaster on January 22, 2021. In July 2021, he won the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia. He achieved a peak global ranking of No. 16 in September 2024.
2003The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.[†]
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is the host of Wikipedia, the eighth most visited website in the world. It also hosts fourteen related open collaboration projects, and supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software which underpins them all. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales, as a non-profit way to fund Wikipedia and other wiki projects which had previously been hosted by Bomis, Wales' for-profit company.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]