TV actor Colin Critchley

Events in 2003 and 30-10

Events in US in the birth year of Colin Critchley

• 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 Colin Critchley (30-10) in history

• Day 30-10 year 1534: King Henry VIII became head of the church in England after the British Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy.
• Day 30-10 year 1938: Radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles, caused nationwide panic among listeners.
• Day 30-10 year 1944: Martha Graham's ballet Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland, premiered.
• Day 30-10 year 1953: Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize for originating the Marshall Plan.
• Day 30-10 year 1974: Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire ("rumble in the jungle") to regain his world heavyweight title.