Youtube star Gavin Butler

Events in 2003 and 3-12

Events in US in the birth year of Gavin Butler

• 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 Gavin Butler (3-12) in history

• Day 3-12 year 1818: Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
• Day 3-12 year 1833: Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.
• Day 3-12 year 1910: Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
• Day 3-12 year 1919: French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
• Day 3-12 year 1967: Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant.
• Day 3-12 year 1984: A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.