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Encyclopedia > March 3, 2003

March 3, 2003

  • Under intense American pressure, Turkey indicates that its Parliament will consider a second vote on whether to allow U.S. troops to use Turkish bases for a military attack on Iraq.
  • A man was arrested at a shopping mall in Guilderland, New York for refusing to remove a t-shirt which bore the slogan "Give Peace A Chance." He was charged with "trespassing 'in that he knowingly enter(ed) or remain(ed) unlawfully upon premises.'" He had purchased the shirt at the mall.
  • In protest of American aggression in the Iraq disarmament crisis, an international protest effort occurred called The Lysistrata Project in which public readings of the ancient Greek play, Lysistrata, were performed.
March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An aerial view of Parliament of India at New Delhi. ... The Mall, an out-of-town shopping centre at Patchway, near Bristol, England. ... Guilderland is a town located in Albany County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 32,688. ... The issue of Iraqs disarmament reached a crisis in 2002-2003, when George W. Bush demanded a complete end to alleged Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have... Aristophanes anti-war comedy Lysistrata, written in 411 BC, has female characters, led by the eponymous Lysistrata, barricading the public funds building and withholding consensual sex from their husbands to secure peace and end the Peloponnesian War. ...


 

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