[Pipersmommy]

I would give her the day you got her, if you deside to go for the year of her actual birth.
I went back & read about Gwen. I see one of the previous owners in 6/10/05 said, she just got Gwen & she was 2 years old. So she was born some time in 2003. What happened in 2003
January 2003

Wednesday 01:
Lu?s In?cio Lula da Silva becomes president of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Wednesday 08:
US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.

Thursday 16:
Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.

Tuesday 21:
The terms of Kevin Mitnick's parole allow him to use a computer again.

Sunday 26:
Super Bowl XXXVII: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Oakland Raiders, 48-21, earning the Buccaneers their first Vince Lombardi Trophy.

February 2003

Saturday 01:
Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts onboard.

Wednesday 05:
U.S. plan to invade Iraq: Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council on Iraq.

Saturday 15:
Global protests against war on Iraq occur in over 600 cities worldwide. Estimates from 10,000,000-15,000,000 make this the largest day of protest in history.

Thursday 20:
In Rhode Island, in the USA, The Station nightclub fire kills about 100 and injures over 200.


Thursday 27:
Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.

March 2003


Saturday 01:
Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.


Wednesday 05:
Nature withdraws several papers as a result of the Jan Hendrik Sch?n scandal.


Wednesday 12:
Zoran ?in?i?, Prime Minister of Serbia, assassinated in Belgrade.


Monday 17:
British Cabinet Minister, Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for war with Iraq.



Sunday 30:
Under cover of darkness, Mayor Richard M. Daley destroys Meigs Field, a general aviation airport in downtown Chicago, Illinois, without giving the required notice to the FAA.


April 2003


Friday 04:
Sammy Sosa becomes the 18th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Monday 07:
US troops capture Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later



Wednesday 09:
2003 invasion of Iraq: The Ba'ath regime headed by Saddam Hussein in Iraq is deposed.


Sunday 13:
Mike Weir becomes first Canadian and first leftie to win the Masters Tournament


Wednesday 16:
Makobo Modjadji is crowned the new Rain Queen of Balobedu.


May 2003

Thursday 01:
War in Iraq: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the end of major combat operations in Iraq.

Saturday 03:
Funny Cide becomes the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.

Friday 16:
In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.


Saturday 17:
Mozilla Firefox. Browser renamed from Phoenix to Firebird.

Monday 26:
Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year

June 2003


Sunday 01:
The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 metres.


Wednesday 04:
U.S. lifestyle guru Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation. Stewart also resigns as chairperson and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Living.



Tuesday 10:
The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.



Saturday 21:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.



Thursday 26:
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.


July 2003


Saturday 05:
Taiwan is the last territory to be removed from the WHO's list of SARS affected areas.



Sunday 06:
The Corsicans rejected a referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for.



Monday 21:
The last Volkswagen old-style Beetle rolls off the assembly line at Puebla, Mexico.



Tuesday 22:
Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.



Wednesday 23:
Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army.


August 2003


Tuesday 05:
A car bom explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.



Sunday 10:
The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK, 38.1?C, occurs in Kent and and Greater London. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.



Tuesday 19:
A car-bomb attack on UN headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employers.



Sunday 24:
US Spacecraft Voyager 2 is 71 astronomical units distant from Earth and escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.3 AU per year (ca. 15 km/s). It will be approximately 40,000 years before Voyager 2 approaches another planetary system.



Monday 25:
Fifty-two are killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.

September 2003


Monday 08:
Brianna LaHara, a 12-year-old U.S. schoolgirl, is sued by the RIAA for downloading music illegally.



Thursday 11:
Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being fatally wounded on September 10.



Sunday 14:
Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.



Monday 22:
David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.



Friday 26:
Nupedia, an earlier form of Wikipedia, was shut down. --->

October 2003


Tuesday 07:
California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.



Wednesday 15:
Ilham Aliyev becomes President of Azerbaijan succeeding his father Heydar Aliyev.



Thursday 16:
iTunes released for Windows XP and Windows 2000.



Friday 17:
The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 106-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.



Friday 24:
Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.


November 2003


Wednesday 12:
Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.



Tuesday 18:
The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI(ML).



Saturday 22:
2003 - England defeat Australia to win England's first rugby union world cup.



Sunday 23:
Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.



Wednesday 26:
Last flight of the Concorde.

December 2003


Sunday 07:
The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.



Friday 12:
Paul Martin, Jr. is sworn-in as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada



Saturday 13:
The most-attended basketball game in history, between Michigan State University and the University of Kentucky at Ford Field.



Wednesday 24:
The Spanish police thwarts an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 PM inside Madrid's busy Chamart?n Station.



Friday 26:
Major earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, with up to 43,300 killed, and 90,000 homeless; the citadel of Arg-? Bam destroyed