Armenia joined the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in January 2003.

Furthermore, Dominik Hasek decided to come out of retirement and joined the Wings for the 2003 – 04 season.

In September 2003, China joined the Galileo project.

In 2003, 8 out of 17 members at the Lions Club in Worcester, England resigned when a woman joined the club.

More recently, following the passage of a constitutional amendment allowing the stationing of the PNGDF on foreign soil, 80 personnel joined the Australia-led Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands ( RAMSI ) in July 2003.

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

The fact that he had only recently left his position as IDF Chief of Staff prevented him from participating in the 2003 election ( by which time Mofaz had joined Sharon's Likud ).

In 2003, on notification by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, about 500 Christians, Muslims, Jews and other international and interfaith tourists joined the Unification Church Middle East Peace Initiative " to such a degree that the Old Gates were opened by the Israeli police near the Wailing Wall, and by the Muslim leadership at Al Aqsa, without incident ", as the official UN-report says.

In March 2003, the XFree86 organization expelled Keith Packard, who had joined XFree86 after the end of the original MIT X Consortium, with considerable ill feeling.

In 2003, Estonia joined the NATO defense alliance.

YMCK was formed in May 2003 when Midori joined Yokemura and Nakamura.

In 2003 Arianespace joined with Boeing Launch Services and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to create the Launch Services Alliance.

Potsdam is divided into seven historic city districts and nine new Ortsteile ( villages ), which joined the city in 2003.

In 2003, Keiji Kawamori, Arata Hanyuda, and Michio Okamiya also joined the band.

Mulroney joined the Conservative Party of Canada following its creation in 2003 by the merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance.

In 2003, he joined the University of Southern California ( USC ) Annenberg School for Communication, as a Professor of Communication and the first Wallis Annenberg-endowed Chair of Communication and Technology.

After 2003, they joined the Frontier League for one year in 2004 and disbanded after that when the Springfield Cardinals came to town.

The Administrator for Federal Emergency Management reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security. In March 2003, FEMA joined 22 other federal agencies, programs and offices in becoming the Department of Homeland Security.

Marshall returned to a studio role in 2005, having joined the touring line-up in 2003 / 4.

The Big South Conference began sponsoring football in 2002, with Charleston Southern University, Gardner – Webb University, and Liberty University fielding teams ; Coastal Carolina University and Virginia Military Institute joined the conference as football-playing members in 2003.

After the STP break-up Weiland joined them in 2003.

Maple Shade became a branch in April, 2001 while Riverton, the newest branch, joined in December 2003.

In 2003 two women from Iran, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who were joined at the head but had separate brains ( craniopagus ) were surgically separated in Singapore, despite surgeons ' warnings that the operation could be fatal to one or both.

In 2003 Martika joined forces with her husband, musician Michael Mozart, to form the band Oppera.

In May 2003, facing a declining population, Marquette joined at least ten other Kansas cities, including Ellsworth, Kanopolis, Holyrood and Wilson, who offer free land to attract residents.

* 2003 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director ( b. 1986 )

The Spurs won four Larry O ' Brien Trophies in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007, all with Duncan and Popovich.

* Tim Duncan – 2002, 2003

* Tim Duncan – 1999, 2003, 2005

* Tim Duncan – 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007

* Tim Duncan – 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008

In a 2003 episode of the NBC television series American Dreams, Duncan Sheik portrays Darin and performs " Beyond the Sea " on American Bandstand.

After choosing not to fight for the leadership after Duncan Smith departed in 2003, in the interests of party unity, he returned to fight the 2005 election.

* Duncan Ferguson 2003 ( now Organist & Master of the Music St Mary's, Edinburgh )

* Chryssa Kouveliotou, Robert C. Duncan, and Christopher Thompson, " Magnetars ," Scientific American, Feb. 2003, pp. 34 – 41 ( PDF )

The road led from Quanassee west to present-day Murphy, North Carolina, then over the Unicoi Range at Unicoi Gap and down to the Cherokee town of Great Tellico ( today Tellico Plains, Tennessee ) ( Duncan 2003: 245 ).

The valley between Charleston and Cleveland, Tennessee was filled for with internment camps in which thousands of Cherokee from various towns waited during the summer of 1838 for the start of the main trek west ( Duncan 2003: 261 ).

In 2003, the Conservative Party passed a Vote of No Confidence in Duncan Smith, as many considered him unable to return the party to government.

On 21 February 2003, The Independent newspaper published a story saying that a number of MPs were attempting to start the process of petitioning for a vote of no confidence in Duncan Smith, as many Conservative MPs considered him to be unelectable.

In 2003, Duncan Smith's decision to compromise on repeal of Section 28 was described as " illogical " and " messy " by other Conservative MPs.

On 6 November 2003, Iain Duncan Smith released his novel The Devil's Tune.

In November 2003, following the Conservative Party's Vote of No Confidence in its leader Iain Duncan Smith, he was elected unopposed to the position of Conservative Party leader.

After Duncan Smith was removed from the leadership, Howard was elected unopposed as leader of the party in November 2003.

Their son Iain Duncan Smith is now a British politician, and was leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to November 2003.

On 1 May 2003 he resigned his position on the front bench saying that Duncan Smith was a " handicap " to the Conservatives.

In November 2003 the challenge came and Michael Howard replaced Duncan Smith after a vote of no confidence.

In 2005, Duncan extended his data set to include up to 2003 in " The Olduvai Theory Energy, Population, and Industrial Civilization ".

Duncan ( middle ) and the Spurs at the White House after winning the 2003 NBA Finals

Following this successful Spurs campaign, Robinson and Duncan were named Sports Illustrateds 2003 " Sportsmen of the Year ".

* Duncan Clark ( athlete ) ( 1915 – 2003 ), Scottish hammer thrower