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 ).

His son, Lord Downpatrick, converted to Roman Catholicism in 2003 and is the most senior descendant of Sophia to be barred as a result of his own religion.

* In 2003, an Australian coal miner amputated his own arm with a Stanley knife after it became trapped when the front-end loader he was driving overturned three kilometers underground.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

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.

Debuting in 2003, the " Marlin Mermaids " gained national exposure and have influenced other MLB teams to develop their own cheer / dance squads.

In 2003, a second license was granted to RedBrick LLC, who developed their own edition based on the FASA products, while releasing the original FASA books in PDF form.

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

* He has his own clothing line called Made in Detroit which he purchased from its creator, Detroit designer Robert Stanzler, in 2003.

In 1994 and 2003, when the ESRB and PEGI ( respectively ) video game ratings systems were introduced, Nintendo chose to abolish most of these policies in favor of consumers making their own choices about the content of the games they played.

The 2003 Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time article's inclusion of only two female musicians resulted in Venus Zine answering with their own list entitled, " The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time ".

By 2003, the Natural Law Party had so weakened that it endorsed Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, for President, rather than try to achieve ballot status for a candidate of its own, having lost all but 10 ballot lines.

Soviet documents declassified in March 2003 showed that the KGB had conducted their own investigation of the accident, in addition to one government and two military investigations.

However in 2003, a team of American accountants – hired by Arafat's own finance ministry – began examining Arafat's finances ; this team reached a different conclusion.

Hyperinflation has been a major problem from about 2003 to April 2009, when the country suspended its own currency.

The CFFN, in particular, tried to devolve its structure into a system of sub-coven clans ( which governed their own application processes ), a system which ended in 2003 due to fears by the CFFN leadership that the clans were becoming communities in their own right.

In addition to directing many of his own star vehicles, Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as Mystic River ( 2003 ) and Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 ), for which he received Academy Award nominations, and Changeling ( 2008 ).

BSL was recognised as a language in its own right by the UK government on 18 March 2003, but it has no legal protection.

Another spin-off titled Duck Dodgers, which ran from 2003 to 2005, is a half-hour action-comedy-sci-fi series based on Chuck Jones ' original short, and expands upon the universe Duck Dodgers explores, as well as Marvin's own civilization.

Hymes ’ goal, in his own mind, is to understand the artistry and “ the competence … that underlies and informs such narratives ” ( Hymes 2003: vii ).

In 2003, Tom Archer began producing his own brand of sausage out of Bridge Farm.

According to his son's documentary film in 2003 the family couldn't afford pencils but made their own charcoal sticks from burnt twigs so that Louis could earn a little money from drawings and later by playing piano to accompany silent movies.

In July 2003, the Italian prosecutors concluded that the Mafia acted not only in its own interests, but also to ensure that Calvi could not blackmail " politico-institutional figures and of freemasonry, the P2 lodge, and the Institute of Religious Works with whom he had invested substantial sums of money, some of it from Cosa Nostra and Italian public corporations ".

In June 1998, the magazine even launched its own stock index, The Wired Index, since July 2003 called The Wired 40 '.

Hill also formed his own band, The Conrods, which was active between 1999 and 2003 and played cover versions of well known songs from The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and The Kinks.