TV actress Emma Rayne Lyle

Events in 2003 and 26-8

Events in US in the birth year of Emma Rayne Lyle

• 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 Emma Rayne Lyle (26-8) in history

• Day 26-8 year 1847: Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
• Day 26-8 year 1920: The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote went into effect.
• Day 26-8 year 1939: The first televised major league baseball game was televised: a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.
• Day 26-8 year 1974: Aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died.
• Day 26-8 year 1978: John Paul I became Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He died one month later.