The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry.

* Dimebag Darrell – lead guitar on " King Size " and " Riding Shotgun " from Stomp 442 ( 1995 ); " Inside Out " and " Born Again Idiot " from Volume 8: The Threat Is Real ( 1998 ); and " Strap It On " and " Cadillac Rock Box " from We've Come for You All ( 2003 )

*" A Star Is Born Again ", a 2003 episode of The Simpsons

* Mack Vickery, Nashville songwriter, singer, musician, and Alabama Music Hall of Fame Inductee 2003. Born in Town Creek, Alabama June 8, 1938.

Ex-Neighbours star, Delta Goodrem releases debut album Innocent Eyes which became a monster smash hit of 2003 and included the releases of the new singles Born to Try & Lost Without You.

* " Born Again " ( Starsailor song ), 2003

In 1987, Born to Run was ranked # 8 by Rolling Stone in its " 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years " and in 2003, in its " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time " ranked Born to Run at number 18.

In December 2003, the single " Born Too Slow ", with vocals from John Garcia and guitar by Wes Borland was released.

Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi ( Born at Castiglione di Sicilia-Provincia di Catania, Sicily on 14 January 1914 – Died at his native town on 3 July 2003 ) of the Roman Catholic Church was a senior papal diplomat and former Personal Secretary to Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini ( later Pope Paul VI ).

The list also includes Josiah Hornblower ( 1975 ), a distant cousin of the Vanderbilt and Whitney family who was featured in the 2003 documentary Born Rich.

The first English translation, by Michael Wex ( author of Born to Kvetch ) was published in 2003.

Born and raised in Temperance Vale, New Brunswick, Corey now lives with her husband and two daughters, in a small coastal village in Maine, a site she used as a model for the setting for her latest novel, The Skating Pond ( 2003 ).

Born in Barcelona, he was ordained as a priest in 1974, became Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona ( and Titular Bishop of Nona ) in 1993, Coadjutor Bishop of Urgell in 2001 and in 2003 succeeded as Bishop of Urgell.

* The Punisher: Born ( limited series, 2003 )

Patrick Miller ( Born January 15, 1980 ) was a Private First Class during the 2003 invasion of Iraq with the US Army's 507th Maintenance Company, serving as a mechanic, becoming a POW.

Born in Wrexham, he attended Grove Park Grammar School ( became the Groves High School then closed in 2003 although a part became Rhosnesni High School ) on Penymaes Avenue in Wrexham.

Born in Sheffield, he is a lifelong supporter of Sheffield United, with whom he had his longest managerial spell at eight years, taking them to the League and FA Cup semi finals in 2003.

* 2003 – Get Born

Born at Overmere, De Gucht was elected to the Federal Parliament in the general elections on 18 May 2003.

She recorded the single " Born to be Wild " in 2002, and in summer of 2003 she had a major hit with " Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime ", a duet with German pop star Nena.

Born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, Wolfenden was a product of the Oldham Athletic youth system, having been with the club since the age of 9, Wolfenden made his first team appearance as a late substitute during a 1 – 0 defeat to Swindon Town in the then Second Division on 15 November 2003, making him the second youngest player to ever play for the Latics at the age of 16 years and 115 days.

In October 2003, Russo became a Born Again Christian.

* 2003 – Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.

In Canada, a variety of conservative governments have been progressive conservative, with Canada's major conservative movement being officially named the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1942 to 2003.

From 1942, the party was known as the Progressive Conservatives, until 2003, when the national party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

* 2003 – The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

In 2003, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) rejected a Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association ( CCTA ) application to bring Fox News to Canada because Fox News U. S. and Global Television were planning to create Fox News Canada ( a combination of U. S. and Canadian news ).

Canada, 2003: Follows the growing movement across Africa to stop FGM.

Since 2003, Canada has also been working with Gabon in the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region, which Canada co-chairs, in support of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

Norway ( ratified the convention in 1996 ), Russia ( ratified in 1997 ), Canada ( ratified in 2003 ) and Denmark ( ratified in 2004 ) have all launched projects to base claims that certain areas of Arctic continental shelves should be subject to their sole sovereign exploitation.

A Patriotic Politics for Canada, Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7735-2596-3, which applies that philosophy to the Canadian case.

Until 2003, primarily black-tailed prairie dogs were collected from the wild for the exotic pet trade in Canada, the United States, Japan, and Europe.

It opened on 28 January 2003, and became current on 1 March 2006 ; as of 30 November 2011, 20 States have signed and ratified the Protocol, and 15 others have signed, but not yet ratified it ( including Canada and South Africa ).

Tour in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 25, 2003.

While Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark rebuffed the notion, the talks moved ahead and eventually in December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to rejoin into a new party called the Conservative Party of Canada.

* Paul Martin replaces Jean Chrétien as Prime Minister of Canada in 2003 by becoming the new leader of the Liberal Party.

* In May 2003, after a cow with BSE was discovered in Alberta, Canada, the American border was closed to live Canadian cattle, but was reopened in early 2005.

For 2003, the revamped Neon appeared in Canada as the Dodge SX 2. 0.

Youth criminal laws in Canada underwent major changes resulting in the Youth Criminal Justice Act ( YCJA ) which went into effect on 1 April 2003.

In 2003 a new show named after her aired on children's television channels such as Treehouse in Canada and Noggin in the U. S. from April 7, 2003 through April 1, 2007.

Since the combination of Equine Canada ( EC ) and United States Dressage Federation ( USDF ) tests in 2003, the small size arena is no longer utilized in rated shows in North America.