Examples of pianos of new designs include The S. L. ED by Karl Lagerfeld created to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Steinway company in 2003, and the 125th anniversary grand piano by Count Albrecht von Goertz designed to celebrate the 125th anniversary in 2005 of the foundation of the Steinway factory in Hamburg.

After the Canadian pianist Louis Lortie was removed from the Steinway Artist roster in 2003, he complained in a newspaper article that Steinway is trying to establish a monopoly on the concert world by becoming " the Microsoft of pianos ".

Conn were bought by Steinway Musical Instruments in 2000 and in January 2003 were merged with other Steinway properties into a subsidiary called Conn-Selmer.

In 2000, UMI was purchased by Steinway Musical Instruments, and in January 2003 the UMI assets were merged with The Selmer Company to create Conn-Selmer, a subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments.

In 2003 Steinway merged The Selmer Company with newly-acquired United Musical Instruments ( makers of Artley, Armstrong, Benge, C. G.

In the year 2003, the canton of Aargau celebrated its 200th anniversary.

Riefenstahl celebrated her 101st birthday on August 22, 2003 and married Horst Kettner.

Director Quentin Tarantino has admitted that the celebrated animation-action sequence in his 2003 film Kill Bill was inspired from the use of 2D animated sequences in from actor Kamal Hassan's Tamil film Aalavandhan

However, their impact is often celebrated at special events, such as the 50th anniversary commemorating the death of Hank Williams in 2003, which featured performances from Hank Williams Jr. and his grandson, Hank Williams III.

In 2003, he also purchased nude photographs of Private Jessica Lynch, who was captured by Iraqi forces, rescued from an Iraqi hospital by US troops and celebrated as a hero by the media.

It celebrated its centennial in 2003.

Henderson celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2003.

The city celebrated its Bicentennial in 2003.

The police and fire departments celebrated a joint 75th Anniversary in 2003.

It celebrated its 100th anniversary on September 28, 2003.

He is considered one of the most significant writers in Sorbian, a Slavic language, and his 150th birthday was celebrated by his followers in Europe in 2003.

The 25th anniversary of Animal Houses release was celebrated by the citizens with a toga party on August 30, 2003, on Main Street.

In 2003, the Vertigo imprint celebrated " Ten years on the edge " by branding their books cover-dated April 2003 to February 2004 ( i. e. released between February and December 2003 )-Vertigo's Tenth Anniversary-with the legend Vertigo X.

The ferry to Rørvig celebrated its 75th anniversary of service on May 16, 2003.

* Pope John Paul II celebrated his Silver Jubilee in 2003.

To this day, Colet's achievement is celebrated by St Paul's School, St Paul's Girls ' School and Colet Court on John Colet Day at St Paul's Cathedral ( having begun in 2003 ).

In 2003, Buer celebrated its thousandth anniversary of first documentary mention, and FC Schalke 04 celebrated on 4 May 2004 its hundredth anniversary.

Diwali was first celebrated in the White House in 2003 and was given official status by the United States Congress in 2007.

The university has developed its reputation and grown from approximately 4, 000 full-time students in 1964 to over 20, 000 students in 2003, when it celebrated the 100th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the original Royal College building.

The United Nations community celebrated Prince Sadruddin's life at a memorial ceremony held in his honour at its headquarters in New York on 2003.

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

* 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

In 2003, it changed its name to reflect its wider focus in statewide preservation issues.

The club was reformed three years later and then worked its way through the non-league divisions to reach the Nationwide Conference in 2003.

As its member, Bulgaria sent a total of 485 soldiers to Iraq ( 2003 – 2008 ) as a participant in the Iraq War, and currently maintains a 608-strong force in Afghanistan as part of ISAF.

On 1 January 2007, the municipality lost its short-lived ( 2003 until 2006 ) county privileges and became part of Region Hovedstaden ( i. e. the Copenhagen Capital Region ).

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

In 2003, Mitchell set up a web site on which he posted most all of the publications of Victor T. Houteff, Ben and Lois Roden, and his own new studies, including a detailed presentation of what he calls The Warfare of Vernon Howell ( a. k. a. David Koresh ) and others against the Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, in which he gives a detailed and documented overview of the controversy regarding the church and its adversaries.

Chile unilaterally lowered its across-the-board import tariff for all countries with which it does not have a trade agreement to 6 % in 2003.

By 2003, the Booby colonies on Clipperton boasted 25, 000 Brown Boobies and 112, 000 Masked Boobies, making the atoll the world's second-largest Brown Booby colony, and its largest Masked Booby colony.

In April 2011, Limehouse Library having closed in 2003, the Attlee statue was unveiled in its new home at Queen Mary University of London.

Charles most notably presented the cult TV hit Robot Wars on BBC2 ( 1998 – 2003 ) and Channel 5 ( 2003 – 2004 ), from series 2 until its conclusion at series 7, which included two Extreme series and numerous ' specials '.

The company's effort to regain its footing is the subject of Tom Barbash's 2003 book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9 / 11: A Story of Loss and Renewal.

In 2003 he performed in Bob Balaban-directed Off-Broadway dramatic stage play The Exonerated in New York during its 18 – 23 March, week run.

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

On August 19, 2003, the U. S. SEC charged Deutsche Bank with failing to disclose a material conflict of interest in its voting of client proxies for the merger and imposed a civil penalty of $ 750, 000.

In recent years, Djibouti has seen significant improvement in macroeconomic stability, with its annual gross domestic product improving at an average of over 3 percent since 2003.

In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.

Reality ( 2003 ) followed, and its accompanying world tour, the A Reality Tour, with an estimated attendance of 722, 000, grossed more than any other in 2004.

In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors.

An 88-megawatt electricity plant funded by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Abu Dhabi was completed just south of Massawa in 2003, its completion delayed nearly three years by the war with Ethiopia.