* In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500, 000 km / h ( over 300, 000 mph ) for the last 1, 500 years.

He was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 27 February 2003.

Many participants were among those 11 million or more protesters that on the weekend of February 15, 2003, participated in global protests against the imminent Iraq war and were dubbed the " world's second superpower " by an editorial in the New York Times.

Bulletins on BBC One moved into a new set in January 2003 although retained the previous ivory Lambie-Nairn titles until February 2004.

He later played an adult Anthony, whose daughter ( played by his daughter, Liliana Mumy ) has similar powers, in episode " It's Still a Good Life " ( February 2003 ) of the second revival of The Twilight Zone.

The Bronze Star Medal was established by Executive Order 9419, 4 February 1944 ( superseded by Executive Order 11046, 24 August 1962, as amended by Executive Order 13286, 28 February 2003 ).

On March 14, 2002, an agreement was signed to transform the FRY into a loose state union called Serbia and Montenegro ; it took effect on February 4, 2003.

* French forces: troops sent within the framework of Operation Unicorn and under UN mandate ( United Nations Operation in Côte d ' Ivoire ), 3000 men in February 2003 and 4600 in November 2004 ;

* application for membership in the EU in February 2003

October 2003: January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December

In collaboration with the Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain, CND has organised anti-war marches under the slogan " Don't Attack Iraq ", including protests on September 28, 2002 and February 15, 2003.

* Remarks to the United Nations Security Council, February 5, 2003

# Don't Stand Where the Comet is Assumed to Strike Oil — May 26, 2003 to February 29, 2004

Dolly ( 5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003 ) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.

On 14 February 2003, Dolly was euthanised because she had a progressive lung disease and severe arthritis.

A large plume of Saharan Desert dust ( light brownish pixels ) blown across Libya and Egypt northward over the Mediterranean Sea toward the Middle East, on February 2, 2003.

# The Legacy of Ykesha ( February 2003 )

* EverQuest Online Adventures ( PS2, February 2003 )

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

Since 1979, there have been concerted efforts by international bodies to end the practice, including sponsorship by the United Nations of an International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, held each 6 February since 2003.

Further to the north, Saint-Barthélemy and the northern French part of Saint Martin once came under the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe but on 7 December 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity, a decision which took effect on 22 February 2007.

1, 000 Alpini troops were deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF ) in February 2003.

This claim was repeated several times in the run-up to the war, including in then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U. N Security Council on February 5, 2003, which concluded with a long recitation of the information provided by al-Libi.

* Seattle Art Museum, Jacob Lawrence retrospective exhibition, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, February 6 – May 4, 2003.

It ceased operation in October 2001, but its bankrupt assets and contracts were bought by Voicestream Wireless and by February 2002, was operating as T-Mobile Broadband.

* February 14 – Second Boer War – Battle of Paardeberg: 20, 000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.

* February 27 – In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film.

* February 1 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

* February 17 – The British recognize the independence of the Orange Free State ; its official independence is declared 6 days later.

* February 20 – Philip William, Prince of Orange ( b. 1554 )

* February 5 – René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange ( d. 1544 )

Charles made a new peace offer in February, employing a French nobleman in Orange service, Henri Buat, as messenger.

Shortly thereafter, in February 2000, Vodafone acquired Mannesmann for US $ 183 Billion and, decides to divest Orange as the EU regulations wouldn't allow it to hold two mobile licences.

On 13 February 2001, Orange SA is listed in an initial public offering on the Euronext Paris stock exchange at a price per share of 95 Euros, with a secondary listing in London.

An initial decision of the commercial court, on 23 February 2009, finds that that offer was indeed illegal but, on 14 May 2009, a second decision on appeal holds that the Orange Sport offer is not included in the tied-selling ; Orange resumes the marketing of the channel the next day.

Landline offers which were previously sold under the France Telecom brand in France are sold under the Orange brand from February 2012.

Orange County was formed from parts of Knox, Gibson and Washington Counties by an act approved on December 26, 1815 ; it took effect on February 1, 1816.

Portions of the township were taken to create Livingston ( February 8, 1813 ), Fairmount Township ( March 11, 1862, now part of West Orange ), Caldwell borough ( February 10, 1892 ), Verona Township ( February 17, 1892, now known and including what is now Cedar Grove ), North Caldwell ( March 31, 1898 ), Essex Fells ( March 31, 1902 ) and West Caldwell ( February 24, 1904 ).

The new rank of Lieutenant-Admiral-General was created especially for him in February 1673, when the new stadtholder William III of Orange became Admiral-General.

The land which today comprises Milford, Orange and West Haven was " purchased " on February 1, 1639 from Ansantawae, chief of the local Paugussets ( an Algonquian tribe ) by English settlers affiliated with the contemporary New Haven Colony.

Harthern filed papers in Orange County ( California ) Superior Court on February 1, 2010, seeking a divorce, citing " irreconcilable differences ".

West made his London stage debut in February 1989 at the Orange Tree Theatre, playing Michael in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles, of which critic John Thaxter wrote: " He invests the role with a warmth and validity that silences sniggers that could so easily greet a lesser performance of this difficult role, and he lets us share the tumbling emotions of a juvenile torn between romantic first love and filial duty.

* Les Parents terribles: Michael ( February 1989 )-directed by Derek Goldby, ( Orange Tree Theatre )

* February 13 – A 300-pound ( 136 kg ) gravestone from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from an Orange Park, Florida cemetery.

Following the granting of independence to the Transvaal Republic, the British recognized the independence of the Orange River Sovereignty on 17 February 1854 and the country officially became independent as the Orange Free State on 23 February 1854, with the signing of the Orange River Convention.