What happened onFebruary 20, 2003Thursday Week 8

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The World in 2003 the year songs cost 99 cents

Ten countries signed the papers to join the European Union, adding about 75 million people to it. That is more people than live in France.

Life back then

Wi-Fi was new enough that coffee shops put a sign in the window. People burned photos and songs onto CDs to pass them around, and phones with cameras were just arriving. A small program built in Estonia called Skype let strangers talk across the world for free. Finding Nemo filled theaters, and paying 99 cents for one song suddenly felt smarter than buying a whole CD.

The year in 8 events

• 🕯️Feb 1 The space shuttle Columbia breaks apart during landing. All seven astronauts die.
• 😷Mar 12 The WHO sends a rare global alert about SARS, a new illness spreading from southern China and Hong Kong.
• 🪖Mar 20 The invasion of Iraq begins. Baghdad falls three weeks later and Saddam Hussein's government collapses.
• 🎵Apr 28 Apple opens the iTunes Music Store. Buying music one song at a time takes off.
• 🚗Jul 30 The last original VW Beetle is built in Puebla, Mexico. About 21.5 million were made over 65 years.
• 🔌Aug 14 A power failure blacks out much of the northeastern US and Canada. About 50 million people lose electricity, some for days.
• 🚀Oct 15 Yang Liwei becomes the first astronaut launched by China.
• ✈️Oct 24 The Concorde flies for the last time. Supersonic travel ends.

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