Stage Actress Paige Brady

Events in 2003 and 3-8

Events in US in the birth year of Paige Brady

• Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts (Feb. 1).
• Bush signs ten-year, $350-billion tax cut package, the third-largest tax cut in U.S. history (May 28).
• In one of the most important rulings on the issue of affirmative action in twenty-five years-the Supreme Court decisively upholds the right of affirmative action in higher education (June 23).
• Investigation into the loss of space shuttle Columbia cites egregious organizational problems at NASA (Aug. 25).
• Congressional Budget Office predicts federal deficit of $480 billion in 2004 and $5.8 trillion by 2013 (Aug. 26).
• California governor Gray Davis ousted in recall vote; actor Arnold Schwarzenegger elected in his place (Oct. 7).
• President Bush signs $87.5 billion emergency package for post-war Iraq reconstruction; this supplements $79 billion approved in April. (Nov. 5).
• John A. Muhammad, convicted in the 2002 Washington, DC, area shootings, receives death sentence (Nov. 24).
• President Bush eliminates steel tariffs after WTO says U.S. violated trade laws (Dec. 4).

Birthday Paige Brady (3-8) in history

• Day 3-8 year 1492: Explorer Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain.
• Day 3-8 year 1914: Germany declared war on France.
• Day 3-8 year 1923: Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, following the death of Warren G. Harding.
• Day 3-8 year 1949: The National Basketball Association was formed.
• Day 3-8 year 1958: The nuclear-powered submarmine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
• Day 3-8 year 1981: U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike.
• Day 3-8 year 1987: A 22-cent stamp honoring author William Faulkner was issued. Its first-day cancellation was held in Oxford, Miss., where Faulkner had served as postmaster from 1921 until his resignation in 1924 following accusations of negligence.