The December 24, 2003 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 357 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 22 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 24, 2025, 194 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 24, 2026, in 170 days. You have lived for 8,230 days, or about 197,520 hours, or about 11,851,211 minutes, or about 711,072,660 seconds.
Date: 25 December 2003
By Sarah Kershaw
Sarah Kershaw
Ranchers and farmers, only recently rebounding from huge losses in last decade, take news of mad cow disease in stride, even as members of worldwide media descend on Mabton, Wash, where sick cow was discovered; some are concerned about impact of bans by foreign countries as well as American consumers shunning beef; photo (M)
Date: 24 December 2003
By John F. Burns
John Burns
Maj Gen Graeme Lamb of Britain, preparing to hand his command in Iraq to another British general, says Saddam Hussein's capture and other changes have fostered new confidence that American-led occupation force can eventually hand politically stable Iraq back to its people; criticizes Western press for coming to early conclusion that allied undertaking in Iraq would not succeed, and failing to adjust; says he was skeptical himself at first (M)
Date: 24 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry wireless e-mail pagers, rise 51 percent, to $69.61, after company says that profit this quarter and next will exceed analysts' estimates; company says that it added 154,000 subscribers in its third quarter for total of 865,000 and that its revenue more than doubled (S)
Date: 25 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Northwest Airlines sr
Date: 24 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Colonial Bancorp, bank holding company with operations in six Southeastern states, agrees to buy PCB Bancorp for $141 million in stock and cash to expand in Florida (S)
Date: 25 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Invitrogen Corp acquires BioReliance Corp for $430 million to expand its production ability for biotechnology customers (S)
Date: 25 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Medtronic To Start Limi
Date: 25 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Auditor Says Cri
Date: 25 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Moody's Investors Service raises credit outlook for Xerox Corp to stable from negative on expectations of higher sales and profitability and reduced debt (S)/
Date: 24 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Baxter International, world's biggest maker of blood-disease therapies, reduces its 2003 profit forecast a third time (S)