2003

• 3 Doors Down – “When I’m Gone”
• 50 Cent – “In da Club”
• Avril Lavigne – “I’m With You”
• Beyonce ft Jay-Z – “Crazy in Love”
• Black Eyed Peas – “Where Is the Love?”
• Christina Aguilera – “Beautiful”
• Coldplay – “Clocks”
• Dixie Chicks – “Landslide”
• Evanescence ft Paul McCoy – “Bring Me To Life”
• Jennifer Lopez – “Jenny from the Block”
• Justin Timberlake – “Cry Me a River”
• Justin Timberlake – “Rock Your Body”
• Kelly Clarkson – “Miss Independent”
• Kid Rock ft Sheryl Crow – “Picture”
• Matchbox Twenty – “Unwell”
• Norah Jones – “Don’t Know Why”
• Outkast – “Hey Ya!”
• Sean Paul – “Get Busy”
• Uncle Kracker – “Drift Away”

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Finding Nemo
• The Matrix Reloaded
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Bruce Almighty
• The Last Samurai
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• The Matrix Revolutions
• X2
• Bad Boys II

• The Berenstain Bears
• That's So Raven
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• American Chopper
• The O.C.
• Lilo and Stitch
• NCIS
• Two and a Half Men
• One Tree Hill
• Dragonball GT

• Dragonball Z
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
• Touched by an Angel
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Twilight Zone
• Dawson's Creek
• Futurama
• Just Shoot Me!
• Pokemon

• Season: Pearl Islands
• 2 tribes of 8 new players
• Winner: Sandra Diaz-Twine
• Runner-up: Lillian Morris

• Season: The Amazon
• 2 tribes of 8 new players divided by gender
• Winner: Jenna Morasca
• Runner-up: Matthew Von Ertfelda

• Ryan Seacrest became only host
• Ruben Studdard became the winner, by a small margin
• Clay Aiken came in 2nd 
• Josh Gracin came in 4th, enjoyed success as country singer

• MattyB - rapper
• Thomas Barbusca - actor, "Middle School: The Worst Years of my Life", "The Mick"
• Sophia Grace Brownlee - became an internet sensation while singing alongside her cousin Rosie
• Danielle Bregoli - went viral after her appearance on Dr Phil when she directed the words "cash me outside" at the audience, sparking an outburst of memes using her image
• Brynn Rumfallo - dancer, on child dance crew; on 8th season of America's Got Talent; joined cast of "Dance Moms" season 6
• Jack Grazer - movie actor, in Stephen King's movie "It"
• Jaeden Lieberher - movie actor, in Stephen King's movie "It"
• Brooke Butler - singer, known for duets on musical.ly with other stars like Logan Paul
• Sierra Haschak - dancer, featured with her 3 sisters in MattyBRaps cover video of Kanye West's "Clique"
• Wyatt Oleff - movie actor, played Young Quill in "Guardians of the Galaxy; also in "It"
• Gavin Butler - YouTube star - oldest child of Shaytards vlogging family, also known as Sontard
• Lincoln Melcher - TV actor, in "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"
• Kyla Kennedy - actress, in "The Walking Dead", TV series "Speechless"
• Emily Carey - actress, in "Wonder Woman"
• Quvenzhané Wallis - actress, nomiated for Oscar in "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; also in "12 Years a Slave"
• Olivia Rodrigo - actress, in "American Girl" TV series, also "Bizaardvark"

• Fred Rogers - TV personality, "Mr Rogers' Neighborhood" (1968-2001)
• Johnny Cash - American country music icon, one of best-selling music artists of all time, songs "Walk the Line" & "Folsom Prison Blues"
• Robert Kardashian - lawyer, wife kris Jenner, famous children
• Katherine Hepburn - legendary actress (1930s-80s)
• Maurice Gibb - British singer-songwriter, part of the Bee Gees

• Justin Timerlake goes solo from 'NSYNC
• tennis player Roger Federer first grand slam title
• highly infectious disease SARS spreads from China killing nearly 9,000 people worldwide
• Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor of California
• White tiger attacks Roy Horn of the duo "Siegfried & Roy" in Las Vegas during their show
• 3 years after its launch MySpace became the most popular social network in the world

• baby bump
• binge-watch
• clapback
• electronic cigarette
• flash mob
• muffin top
• Skype
• unfriend

United States plans for an invasion of Iraq due to an imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction. They start with their shock and awe campaign with a massive air strikes on military targets in Baghdad before the invasion of Iraq by Land Forces. Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.

Oct 7: Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Governor of California. In taking office, Schwarzenegger, who moved to the United States at age 20 from his native Austria, became the first foreign-born governor of California since the Irish-born John Downey in 1862. 

The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts onboard. During the launch a piece of foam insulation broke off from the external tank and struck the left wing of the orbiter. When Columbia re-entered the atmosphere of Earth, hot atmospheric gases destroy the internal wing structure, which caused the spacecraft to become unstable and break apart.

In May an Alberta cow is found to have been infected with BSE; the United States, Japan, and a number of other nations halt all imports of Canadian beef. In December, Canada's Department of Agriculture places a partial ban on imported beef from United States due to a single case of mad cow disease in Washington

Justin Timberlake went solo professionally and personally. He left 'NSYNC to put out a solo album "Justified", and he broke up with girlfriend Britney Spears.

In men's tennis, the greatest player of all time, Roger Federer, won his first grand slam title in Wimbledon defeating Mark Philippoussis in straight sets. It was just the beginning of his now renowned career with 17 grand slam wins.

Bethany Hamilton, a 13 year old professional surfer, while on a regular morning surf, had her left arm completely bitten off by a shark. She lost 60% of her blood and had to undergo an emergency surgery. In an act of sheer courage, Bethany returned to her board just three weeks after the incident. She continues to compete professional until this date even winning the first place in many competitions. The movie "Soul Surfer" is about her life.