* Neil Postman, ( 1931 – 2003 ) author, media theorist and cultural critic,

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

* 1907 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor ( d. 2003 )

* 1924 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60, 000 years, passing distant.

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

* 1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist ( d. 2003 )

* 1944 – Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist ( d. 2003 )

* 1955 – Rusty Magee, American composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1969 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Heatmiser ( d. 2003 )

* 1972 – Yetunde Price, American murder victim ( d. 2003 )

* 1941 – Erin Fleming, Canadian actress ( d. 2003 )

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ( Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 ), pp. 67 – 89

* 1930 – Vali Myers, Australian painter ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer ( b. 1956 )

"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.

* 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia ( d. 2003 )

* 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( b. 1954 )

" Everyday Life and the Challenge to History in Postwar France: Braudel, Lefebvre, Certeau ," Diacritics, Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 23 – 40 in Project Muse

* 1925 – Felice Bryant, American songwriter ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player ( d. 2003 )

* 1907 – Benny Carter, American musician, composer, and bandleader ( d. 2003 )

* 1925 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( d. 2003 )

* On October 15, 2003, at 15: 21, the Andrew J. Barberi ( in another accident ) collided with a pier ( see 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash ) on the eastern end of the St. George ferry terminal, killing eleven people, seriously injuring many others, and tearing a huge slash through the lowest of the three passenger decks.

On October 15, 2003, at 3: 21 p. m., the Staten Island Ferry vessel Andrew J. Barberi crashed full-speed into a concrete pier at the St. George ferry terminal.

* October 15, 2003 – The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing ten people and injuring 43 others.

These style uniforms were used from 2000-2007 with some minor changes to the sleeve patch in 2003 when the Staten Island Yankees logo patch was removed and the New York Yankees logo patch added.

Also in 2003, Staten Island replaced their batting practice jersey which originally features the Yankees script logo across the chest with one that featured the Interlocking SI logo.

# REDIRECT 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash

A small public alternative high school, named Concord High School, is located in the neighborhood, which is also home to a large medical arts complex ( on Ralph Place ) that had sprung up around the former Doctor's Hospital of Staten Island, which closed in 2003.

South of Victory Boulevard, the altitude gradually increases, and the south end of the neighborhood is situated on a high plateau ( sometimes referred to as Manor Heights ) where can be found Susan Wagner High School ; opened in 1968, the school is named for the wife of former New York City mayor Robert Wagner, and was built to meet the increased demand for classroom space caused by the population growth that accompanied the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge a few years earlier — growth that has seen Staten Island's population skyrocket from 212, 020 in 1957 to 459, 737 by 2003.

Produced by James Nicoloro, the PBS documentaries are a series of " Walk Through " documentaries about various communities around New York City, which include A Walk Down 42nd Street ( August 1998 ), A Walk Up Broadway ( March 1999 ), A Walk Through Harlem ( December 1999 ), A Walk Around Brooklyn with David Hartman and Historian Barry Lewis ( 2000 ), A Walk Through Greenwich Village ( 2001 ), A Walk Through Central Park ( 2001 ), A Walk Through Newark ( 2002 ), A Walk Through Hoboken ( 2003 ), A Walk Through Queens ( 2004 ), A Walk Through the Bronx ( 2005 ), and A Walk Around Staten Island ( 2007 ).

In 2003, Peter Gotti was convicted of extortion and money laundering activities centered on the Brooklyn and Staten Island waterfronts, and for the attempted extortion of film actor Steven Seagal.

He covered such stories as the Port Mobil Explosion in February 2003, the 2003 North America blackout, and the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash

A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, Island Press, Revised Edition, 2003, ISBN 1-55963-437-5

* 2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.

Coleman also made video game appearances in The Curse of Monkey Island ( 1997 ) and Postal 2 ( 2003 ).

Western shore of Jarvis Island with day beacon at the site of Millersville in October 2003

All of the chemical weapons that were once stored on Johnston Island have been incinerated, and that process was completed in 2000 and JACADS demolished by 2003.

Recent PLAN incidents include the 2001 Hainan Island incident, a major submarine accident in 2003, and naval incidents involving the U. S. MSC-operated ocean surveillance ships and during 2009.

In 2003 it was suggested that the plane went down northwest of Bear Island.

In 2003, the Nevis Island Administration again proposed secession and initiated formal constitutional procedures to hold a referendum on the issue, which was held in early 2004.

DiCaprio continued his run with Scorsese in the 2010 psychological thriller film Shutter Island ( 2010 ), based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane.

The sub-national GDP of the North Island was estimated at US $ 102. 863 billion in 2003, 79 % of New Zealand's national GDP.

This visit, followed by a second meeting in November 2001, a meeting in New York in September 2003, and President Bouteflika's participation at the June 2004 G8 Sea Island Summit, is indicative of the growing relationship between the United States and Algeria.

* " Elmo ", Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, a large elm that " once defined the Thayer Street entrance to Brown ’ s new Watson Institute for International Studies ," contracted Dutch Elm disease and was torn down in December 2003, according to a campus news release.

Marco Island was added as a principal city and the name changed to its present form in 2003.

A Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team was also named after him, the Rocket de Montréal, playing out of the Maurice Richard Arena ( in 2003 this team moved to Prince Edward Island becoming the P. E. I.

In 1967 the Mushuau Innu were settled in Utshimassits ( Davis Inlet ) on Iluikoyak Island located off the coast of Labrador Peninsula, inhibited the ability of the Mushuau Innu to continue their traditional caribou hunt on the mainland, therefore they were relocated in the winter of 2002 / 2003 to their new main settlement Natuashish ( speak: ‘ Nat-wah-sheesh ’), about 295 km north of Happy Valley-Goose Bay and 80 km southeast of Nain, Natuashish located on the mainland is only 15 km west of Utshimassits, ethnically they are Naskapi, speaking the Eastern Dialect ( Mushuau Innu or Davis Inlet variety ) of Iyuw Imuun and writing in Eastern Cree syllabics, but split off and headed to Eastern Labrador, very few ( if any ) are able to write in syllabics any more, the majority of the tribe is Catholic, which use the Montagnais Bible ( which does not use syllabics ) and therefore use the Latin alphabet, Reservation: Natuashish # 2, ca.

The 2003 novel Shutter Island features two of its main characters as U. S. Marshals.

Art Carney, Academy Award-winning actor, Co-star of the successful TV Series " The Honeymooners " with Jackie Gleason, lived with his family in Westbrook on the shore of Long Island Sound for many years prior to his death in 2003.

In 2003, the Pacific Forum negotiated the intervention of RAMSI or Operation Helpem Fren involving Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific Island Nations.

The first team he played for was the Long Island Lizards until 2003.

Robert Morris University purchased the Island Sports Center in 2003.

On 1 May 2003, President George W. Bush flew in the co-pilot seat of a Sea Control Squadron THIRTY-FIVE ( VS-35 ) S-3B Viking from Naval Air Station North Island, California to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast, where Bush delivered his " Mission Accomplished " speech.

In 2003, Mayor Michael Bloomberg took an interest in revitalizing Coney Island as a possible site for the 2012 Olympics.

He has also worked with director Thomas Vinterberg on the 2003 film It's All About Love and provided orchestration for David Gilmour's 2006 album On An Island.