The February 21, 2003 was a Friday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 51 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 23 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, February 21, 2026, 118 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, February 21, 2027, in 246 days. You have lived for 8,519 days, or about 204,458 hours, or about 12,267,514 minutes, or about 736,050,840 seconds.
Date: 22 February 2003
By Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher and longtime associate Sandy Koufax severs ties with Dodger organization because of gossip story printed in New York Post that alleged he is homosexual; News Corporation owns both New York Post and Dodgers; New York Post issues apology for suggestion; photos (M)
Date: 21 February 2003
By Emma Daly
Emma Daly
Spanish police order Basque-language newspaper to shut down and arrest 10 members of its staff, including its editor, accusing them of helping violent separatist group ETA in its campaign for independent Basque country; accusations are strongly denied by paper's deputy editor, who was not arrested; actions are part of new government crackdown on ETA and its supporters (M)
Date: 22 February 2003
By David W. Chen
David Chen
Jeffrey Derderian, who owns Station nightclub in West Warwick, RI, with his brother, Michael, is also reporter for WPRI-TV in Providence, and he was having concert by band Great White videotaped for report about nightclub safety when fire broke out and killed 96 people; report was prompted by fatal stampede at club in Chicago; Derderians say they had no idea that concert would include use of pyrotechnic sparkers; Great White's management company says its longstanding policy is to use pyrotechnics only if clubs give permission (M)
Date: 22 February 2003
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism will undergo sweeping changes over next decade, at prompting of Columbia president Lee C Bollinger, who wants to address commonly-held belief that journalists do not need academic training; appoints committee made up of journalists and faculty to debate school's strength and weakness; photo (M)
Date: 22 February 2003
By Stephen Labaton
Stephen Labaton
FCC decision not to order thorough deregulation of local telephone business that was sought by its chairman, Michael Powell, raises question of whether he has political influence to push through deregulation of media industry; photos of Powell and commission member Kevin J Martin (M)
Date: 21 February 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Universal Health Services says Philadelphia office of Securities and Exchange Commission has begun informal inquiry into departure of company's chief financial officer Kirk Gorman, who was fired last week after he told auditors KPMG that he did not have expertise to verify details of company's financial records; KPMG took matter to Univeral Health's board because auditors were concerned Gorman could not sign off on results as required by Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which Congress passed last year after string of corporate scandals (S)
Date: 21 February 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Biogen, which won Food and Drug Administration approval for psoriasis medicine Amevive last month, fails to obtain European clearance for drug; European regulators ask for more studies of drug (S)
Date: 21 February 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney dismisses lawsuit accusing Blockbuster Inc of trying to drive independent retailers out of business by negotiating exclusive contracts with movie studios (S)
Date: 22 February 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
KeySpan, leading seller of natural gas in Northeast, will sell part of its majority stake in Houston Exploration to pay off debt (S)
Date: 21 February 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sports Authority agrees to merge with rival Gart Sports in transaction valued at $182.6 million (S)