What Happened in May 2003

President Bush Declares "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq

On May 1, 2003, Bush became the first sitting President to make an arrested landing in a fixed-wing aircraft on an aircraft carrier when he arrived... Read more

X2 (film) released

X2 (also known as X2: X-Men United, X-Men 2: X-Men United and X-Men 2) is a 2003 superhero film based on the fictional characters the X-Men.... Read more

FDA Approves AstraZeneca's Iressa

IRESSA is indicated as monotherapy for the continued treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer after... Read more

Tim Duncan Wins Second Straight NBA MVP

Tim Duncan has been named NBA's Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive season. Duncan led the San Antonio Spurs to a league best record of... Read more

Anthrax releases We've Come for You All

We've Come for You All is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Anthrax. It was produced by the band and Scrap 60, and includes the... Read more

Down By Law releases Windwardtidesandwaywardsails

Windwardtidesandwaywardsails is the seventh full length album by Down by Law that was released in 2003. This album marked the first time since... Read more

EVE Online Launches

EVE Online is a video game by CCP Games. It is a player-driven persistent-world massively multiplayer online game set in a science fiction space... Read more

Keane releases "Everybody's Changing" single

"Everybody's Changing" is a song performed and composed by English rock band Keane, from their debut album Hopes and Fears, on which it appears as... Read more

June Carter Cash Dies

June Carter Cash died in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 15, 2003, of complications following heart valve replacement surgery, surrounded by her... Read more

The Matrix Reloaded released

The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 film, the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers. It premiered on... Read more

America's Next Top Model Cycle 1 Episode 1

Twenty semi-finalists arrived to casting and were told that only ten would move on to the finals. After the auditions however, Tyra revealed that... Read more

Deftones release their self-titled fourth album

Deftones is the fourth studio album by the American alternative metal band Deftones. It was released on May 20, 2003 through Maverick Records.... Read more

Helloween Releases "Rabbit Don't Come Easy"

Rabbit Don't Come Easy is the eleventh album by the German power metal/heavy metal band Helloween. It is something of a return to the roots for the... Read more

Planetside Launches

PlanetSide is a massively-multiplayer online first-person-shooter computer game published by Sony Online Entertainment and released on May 20,... Read more

"Weird Al" Yankovic releases Poodle Hat

Poodle Hat is the Grammy Award-winning 11th studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It was released on May 20, 2003. The album debuted at #17 on the... Read more

LeBron James Signs Endorsement Deals Worth Over $90 Million

LeBron James hit the jackpot Wednesday night. The USA TODAY basketball player of the year from St. Vincent-St. Mary High (Akron, Ohio) signed a... Read more

Ruben Studdard Wins the Second Season of 'American Idol'

In season two, Seacrest surfaced as the lone host. Brian Dunkleman reportedly hated working on the show and the studio was dissatisfied with his... Read more

My Way Entertainment Releases, "The Juggernaut, Bitch!!"

On May 22, 2003, the parody troupe My Way Entertainment released "The Juggernaut Bitch!!", an overdub of part of the X-Men animated TV series... Read more

Adult Swim Changes Its Bump Format to the Current 'Black Cards'

Originally, all of the bumpers shown in between shows featured footage of senior citizens swimming in public pools, eating, exercising, and doing... Read more

Jeremy Michael Ward

Jeremy Michael Ward (May 5, 1976 – May 25, 2003) was the sound technician and vocal operator for The Mars Volta and for the dub outfit De Facto. He... Read more

Radiohead releases "There There" single

"There There" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, featured on their album Hail to the Thief (2003) and released prior to the... Read more

New Jersey Devils Win 2003 Stanley Cup

The 2003 Stanley Cup Finals featured the Eastern Conference finalist, the second-seeded New Jersey Devils, against the Western Conference finalist,... Read more

Sepultura release Roorback

Roorback is the ninth studio album by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura, released in 2003. It is their first release through SPV Records. The... Read more

Finding Nemo released

Finding Nemo is a 2003 American CGI animated film. It was written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Walt... Read more