* 1919 – Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer ( d. 2003 )

In 2003, Meijer stopped resisting his extradition to the Netherlands, and was transferred to a Dutch prison to serve the last part of his term.

* 1923 – Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete ( d. 2003 )

Buma / Stemra lost its appeal before the Dutch Supreme Court in December 2003.

* 1923 – Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist ( d. 2003 )

The Dutch have thus played an important role in European political and monetary integration ; indeed, until the year 2003, Dutchman Wim Duisenberg headed the European Central Bank.

On 27 November 2003, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner announced that his government was considering rules under which coffeeshops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents in order to satisfy both European neighbors ' concerns about the influx of drugs from the Netherlands, as well as those of Netherlands border town residents unhappy with the influx of " drug tourists " from elsewhere in Europe.

Since August 2003, the site has been translated into ten other written languages: Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch and French.

In 2003, Suriname joined the Nederlandse Taalunie ( Dutch Language union ).

** Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer ( d. 2003 )

* March 25 – Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist ( d. 2003 )

* January 8 – Piet Dankert, Dutch politician ( d. 2003 )

In 2003 the Flemish company Studio 100 created a musical called Three Little Pigs ( Dutch: De 3 Biggetjes ), which follows the three daughters of the pig with the house of stone with new original songs, introducing a completely new story loosely based on the original story.

In the Dutch general election of 2003 the VVD gained four seats, making a total of twenty-eight.

Since the 2003 Dutch General Election, the PvdA has been the second largest political party in the Netherlands.

In 1994, the Dutch government agreed with the operator of Borssele nuclear power plant, the countries ' only operational nuclear power plant, that it would be closed down by 2003.

As of 2003, only twenty of Yarmouth's original 739 elms had survived Dutch elm disease.

* " 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.

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

Hendrika " Rie " Wilhelmina Mastenbroek ( 26 February 1919 – 6 November 2003 ) was a Dutch swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.

* Reformed Dutch Church of Wyckoff-580 Wyckoff Avenue ( added 2003 )

Other translations appeared later ( e. g. in November 2003 in Dutch and German ).

On January 4, 2003, Boisselier announced the birth of another cloned baby to a Dutch lesbian couple and stated that there would be four other cloned babies delivered by February 2003.

Data from 2003 by the Central Bank stated a penetration rate of microfinance services of almost 60 percent.

Image: Hong Kong Central Plaza. jpeg | Central Plaza, 20 April 2003

image: central-plaza2. jpg | Triangular shaped floor plan of Central Plaza, 20 April 2003

image: central-plaza3. jpg | Vertical shot of Central Plaza, 20 April 2003

* I'm with Busey ( Comedy Central, 2003 ) ( as himself )

The Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau released a video game in 2003 entitled Special Force and a sequel in 2007 in which players are rewarded with points and weapons for killing Israelis.

The 2003 season saw a temporary end to the losing, when manager Tony Peña, in his first full season with the club, guided the team to its first winning record ( 83 – 79 ) since 1994 and finished in third place in the AL Central.

* 1930 – David Dacko, Central African Republician politician ( d. 2003 )

On March 26, 2003, the Central Bank of Suriname ( CBvS ) adjusted the exchange rate of the U. S. dollar.

* New York Central Live ( 2003 )

The Central Taiwan Science Park ( CTSP ) was established more recently in 2003.

In 2003, the two countries also held a military exercise, the first such war-game by Indian troops in Central Asia.

They suggest there was a leadership void at U. S. Central Command because his two deputies, Michael Delong and John Abizaid, were at odds with each other until Abizaid succeeded Franks in the middle of the summer of 2003.

* Central African Republic Bush War ( 2004 – 2007 ) – began with the rebellion by the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity ( UFDR ) rebels, after the current president of the Central African Republic, François Bozizé, seized power in a 2003 coup.

** David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic ( d. 2003 )

Since 2003, when President François Bozizé came to power, thousands of citizens of the Central African Republic have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the escalating conflict between armed rebels and government troops.

Controversy surrounded the network in 2002 and 2003 over obscenities, expressed respectively by Cher and Nicole Richie, aired live on the network's broadcasts of the Billboard Music Awards on its affiliates in the Eastern and Central Time Zones despite the use of five-second audio delays ; the indecent material was edited out on broadcasts in the Mountain Time Zone and westward.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) reports that China was the top market for mules in 2003, closely followed by Mexico and many Central and South American nations.

A 2003 paper entitled " The Earliest North American Record of Auk ( Aves: Alcidae ) From the Late Eocene of Central Georgia " by Robert M. Chandler and Dennis Parmley of Georgia College and State University reports a Late Eocene, wing-propelled diving, auk from the Priabonain Stage of the Late Eocene.

In 2003 the Regional Transit District Act was enacted, which authorized the creation of Regional Transit Districts ( RTD's ) in the state of New Mexico ; In September, 2004, the North Central Regional RTD was the first RTD to be certified by the New Mexico Transportation Commission.

The team was a member of the Central Baseball League from 1998 to 2003.

In January 2003, the Waterloo & City was closed for over three weeks for safety checks after a major derailment on the Central line, which required all 1992 tube stock trains to be modified.