The American Missile Defense Agency started a no AMD treaty with Russia, Europe and the USA in July 2003.

For example, a boom in the real estate market started around 2003.

The forces assisting Bozizé in seizing the power in 2003 were not paid what they were promised and started looting, terrorising and killing ordinary citizens.

Croatia became a World Trade Organization ( WTO ) member in 2000 and started the Accession of Croatia to the European Union in 2003.

In 2003, distributions started to include metadata files, called META. yml, indicating the distribution's name, version, dependencies, and other useful information ; however, not all distributions contain metadata.

In early 2003, UCMG started to get into financial problems.

In 2003, several companies started offering a karaoke service on mobile phones, using a Java MIDlet that runs with a text file containing the words and a MIDI file with the music.

Von Trier's use of sexually explicit images in The Idiots ( 1998 ) started a wave of arthouse mainstream films with unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( 1999 ), Baise-Moi ( 2000 ), Intimacy ( 2001 ), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny ( 2003 ) and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs ( 2004 ).

The service started as a test in November 2002 before it was launched in October 2003 and it's one of the most technologically advanced Internet services in the African continent.

In 2003, the Lund Institute of Technology started a program in Nanoengineering.

The Porsche 924 Championship was started in 1992 by Jeff May who was championship coordinator until his death on 10 November 2003.

Since 2003, the exports of natural resources started decreasing in economic importance as the internal market strengthened considerably.

The couple started dating in 2003.

On 3 March 2003 two followers, Mario Galesi and Nadia Desdemona Lioce, started a firefight with a police patrol on a train at Castiglion Fiorentino station, near Arezzo.

The rebound which started in mid 2003 saw growth rate growth rate averaging 3 % ( 2004 and 2005 saw a GDP growth of 2. 5 % and 2. 6 % respectively ; for 2006 and 2007, the rate was 3. 6 %).

The Turkish State Railways started building high-speed rail lines in 2003.

In 2003, South Korean Unification Church members started a political party, " The Party for God, Peace, Unification, and Home.

* The Beep Media Player, a fork of XMMS code that uses GTK + 2, started around 2003

2003 ( MMIII ) was a common year that started on a Wednesday, according to the Gregorian calendar.

In late 2003, he started a new airline, Niki.

A reconciliation process under international auspices started in 2003.

One of these untamed burns severely damaged the second-largest tree in the world, the Washington tree, in September 2003, 45 days after the fire started.

However, the ruins were in 2003 when the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council ( UMSC ) started on reconstruction of a large mosque ( 15, 000-person capacity ) on land that included the fort.

A Military Programation Law ( Lei de Programação Militar ) was launched in 2002 to start the complete modernization of the Armed Forces ; considerable reequipment of the military started in 2003, with Defense Minister Paulo Portas, who managed to acquire new helicopters ( Army and Air Force ), submarines, IFV ( Army and Navy ), frigates and naval patrol boats.

Things started well for the Shock, who had three all-stars in the 2003 All-Star Game ( Swin Cash, Cheryl Ford, and Deanna Nolan ).

Mike Gatting was the captain in 1986 – 87 but his team started badly and attracted some criticism.

Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

* 1944 – Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1, 100 people.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California ( although the rush started in January ).

* 1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

This was started by Roy Noble, who built the guitar played by Clarence White from 1968 to 1972, and was followed by Bill Collings, Marty Lanham, Dana Bourgeois, Randy Lucas, Lynn Dudenbostel and Wayne Henderson, a few of the luthiers building guitars today inspired by vintage Martins, the pre – World War II models in particular.

He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

Bursa Technical University is the second public university of Bursa and it established in 2010, started education in 2011 – 2012 academic year.

Domitian, according to Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. 263 – 339 ), started the persecution referred to in the book.

Bigger changes came to Cairo under Isma ' il Pasha ( r. 1863 – 1879 ), who continued the modernization processes started by his grandfather.

* Stabila-Tip – Cessna started commonly using wingtip fuel tanks, but carefully shaped for aerodynamic effect rather than just tubular-shaped.

In 1997 Cleveland started slow but finished with an 86 – 75 record.

The club started out well, going 35 – 19 through mid-June, but injuries to Sutcliffe and others in the pitching staff contributed to a 13 game losing streak that pushed the Cubs out of contention.

However, the pitching staff — a strong point for the team in 1995 — was beset by injuries: Bill Swift, who went 9 – 3 in 1995, started just three games, and the staff ERA ballooned to 5. 60.

The 2006 season started with some promise ; the Rockies were 44 – 43 in the first half of the season and were in contention in the NL West for much of the season.

With closer Huston Street injured, the Rockies turned to Franklin Morales, but the Giants started the inning with 3 straight hits to pull to within 4 – 1.

The Romans started to use catapults as arms for their wars against Syracuse, Macedon, Sparta and Aetolia ( 3rd – 2nd century BC ).

The most important English chronicles are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, started under the patronage of King Alfred in the 9th century and continued until the 12th century, and the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 – 87 ) by Raphael Holinshed and other writers ; the latter documents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan drama.

1996 for Earnhardt started just as it had done in 1993 – he dominated Speedweeks only to finish second in the Daytona 500 to Dale Jarrett for a second time.

In the tumultuous 2008 season, the Cowboys started off strong, going 3 – 0 for the second straight year, en route to a 4 – 1 start.