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Events in 2003 and 25-10

Events in US in the birth year of Tegan Marie

• 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 Tegan Marie (25-10) in history

• Day 25-10 year 1400: British poet, philosopher, civil servant, judge, and diplomat Geoffrey Chaucer has passed away in London.
• Day 25-10 year 1415:
  The Battle of Agincourt was typical in England and France's Hundred Years' War.
• Day 25-10 year 1760: King George III of Great Britain is crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland
• Day 25-10 year 1854: The Charge of the Light Brigade took place at Balaklava during the Crimean War.
• Day 25-10 year 1962: John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Day 25-10 year 1971: The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
• Day 25-10 year 1983: The United States invaded the Caribbean nation of Grenada.