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Belgian brewer Interbrew agrees to buy Apatinska, Serbia's largest beer maker, for 326.9 million euros ($368 million) (S)
Article on New Yorkers, robbed by rainy weather of full use of their summer vacation rentals, who are booking post-Labor Day vacations; photo; drawing (M)
Residents of East Fishkill, NY, trailer park face eviction because land has been sold to developer who plans to build homes that will sell for more than $500,000 each; residents own trailers, but rent land on which they sit; are mostly working class people who cannot afford skyrocketing prices in area; map; photos (M)
American International Group agrees to pay $10 million penalty for helping struggling Midwestern cellphone distributor Brightpoint Inc cover up millions in business losses; Securities and Exchange Commission says AIG agreed to provide financial instrument worth $12 million to Brightpoint that had appearance of insurance but was exchange of money that earned AIG fee of about $100,000; transaction enabled Brightpoint to reduce by nearly $12 million initial annual loss of about $29 million in 1998; neigher company admits wrongdoing (M)
Midwood High School, generally thought to be one of New York City's more successful schools, is on list that state's Department of Education says failed to meet federal standards under No Child Left Behind law; several other city school have proven exemplary by state standards, but come up short under new federal law (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 10, 2003, covering September 12, 2003.
Mary J. Blige
Hilary Duff
Various Artists
Alan Jackson
YoungBloodZ
2003Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1932)[†]
John R. Cash was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career. He was known for his deep, calm, bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his backing band, the Tennessee Three, that was characterized by its train-like chugging guitar rhythms, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, and his free prison concerts. Cash wore a trademark all-black stage wardrobe, which earned him the nickname "Man in Black".
2003Arthur Johnson, canoeist (born 1921)[†]
Arthur Leonard Johnson was a Canadian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1950s. He finished eighth in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
2003The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.[†]
The United Nations (UN) is the global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among states, to promote international cooperation, and to serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of states in achieving those goals.
2003Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.[†]
The Iraq War, also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict persisted as an insurgency arose against coalition forces and the newly established Iraqi government. US forces were officially withdrawn in 2011. In 2014, the US became re-engaged in Iraq, leading a new coalition under Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, as the conflict evolved into the ongoing Islamic State insurgency.
2003Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.[†]
Typhoon Maemi or, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Pogi, was the most powerful typhoon to strike South Korea since record-keeping began in the country in 1904. Maemi formed on 4 September 2003, from a disturbance in a monsoon trough in the western Pacific Ocean. It slowly intensified into Tropical Storm Maemi while moving northwestward, becoming a typhoon on September 8. That day, favorable conditions facilitated more rapid strengthening; the storm developed a well-defined eye and reached peak maximum sustained winds of 195 km/h (121 mph). While near peak intensity, Maemi decelerated and began turning to the north-northeast. Soon after, the eyewall passed over the Japanese island of Miyako-jima on September 10 and produced an air pressure reading of 912 mbar (26.9 inHg), the fourth-lowest recorded in the nation. Due to warm waters, Maemi was able to maintain much of its intensity before it made landfall just west of Busan, South Korea, on September 12. The typhoon became extratropical in the Sea of Japan the next day, although its remnants persisted for several days, lashing northern Japan with strong winds.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]