Timeline Friday 12 September 2003

Events on Friday 12 September 2003 3

• 1932 – 2003 Johnny Cash American singer-songwriter, "The Man in Black" Johnny Cash (1932-2003) was an American singer-songwriter whose stark baritone, songs of faith, hardship and redemption, and lifelong identification with prisoners and the poor made him one of the most influential artists in American music. The only artist inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, Songwriters, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame, he sold over 90 million records across a career spanning five decades.
• 2003 Johnny Cash dies in Nashville 12 September 2003, aged 71 Johnny Cash died on 12 September 2003 at the age of 71, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, from complications of diabetes that led to respiratory failure — just four months after June's death, a span widely seen as evidence of the depth of their bond.
• 2003 Steam launched Valve launches its digital game platform Valve launched Steam, at first as a way to deliver updates to its own games. It grew into the dominant digital storefront for personal computer games and reshaped how the industry sold and distributed software.