He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003.

* STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company producing electronics until 2003

In 2003, the An Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages was published by Starostin, Dybo, and Mudrak.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

Kocharyan's re-election as president in 2003 was followed by widespread allegations of ballot-rigging.

"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.

A software-compatible clone of the Apple I ( Replica 1 ), produced using modern components, was released in 2003 at a price of around $ 200.

A record cold temperature of 450 ± 80 pK in a Bose – Einstein condensate ( BEC ) of sodium atoms was achieved in 2003 by researchers at MIT.

* In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500, 000 km / h ( over 300, 000 mph ) for the last 1, 500 years.

In 2003 the medal was awarded to Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

Seeing Calgary and Edmonton are part of a single economic region as the TD study did in 2003 was novel.

The necessity to promote a healthier ecosystem for the people through the rehabilitation and regreening of the environment was stressed in Proclamation No. 643 that amended Proclamation No. 396 of June 2, 2003.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.

In 2003, author Graham Phillips hypothetically concluded that the Ark was taken to Mount Sinai in the Valley of Edom by the Maccabees.

He was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 27 February 2003.

Also introduced in 2003 was the DB9 coupé, which replaced the ten-year-old DB7.

In 2003, a method was developed for predicting subcellular location of apoptosis proteins

Known as Larzac 2003, the gathering was held over three days in August and attracted an estimated 300. 000 people to a series of concerts and political forums.

The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).

Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and with the release of the latter the domain controller role was renamed Active Directory Domain Services.

In 2003, an LTR retrotransposon from the genome of the human blood fluke " Schistosoma mansoni " was named " Boudicca.

* In the book Dark Symphony ( 2003 ) by Christine Feehan, Byron gives Antonietta a black borzoi named " Celt ".

In 2003, Channel 4 awarded Teletext Ltd a ten year contract to run the channel's ancillary teletext service, named Teletext on 4.

In Canada, a variety of conservative governments have been progressive conservative, with Canada's major conservative movement being officially named the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1942 to 2003.

In 2003, Robb Report named Chicago the country's " most exceptional dining destination.

* Dontrelle Willis ( 2003 – 2007 ) — The " D-Train " was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and showcased his remarkable ( for a pitcher ) hitting ability by going 3-for-3 with a triple while scoring a run during Game 4 of the 2003 National League Division Series, which the Marlins won 7 – 6 over the San Francisco Giants to advance to the NL Championship Series.

In 2003, on the island of Flores, fossils of a new small hominid dated between 74, 000 and 13, 000 years old and named " Flores Man " ( Homo floresiensis ) were discovered much to the surprise of the scientific community.

Mac an Tàilleir ( 2003 ) lists the more recent Gaelic names of Ì, Ì Chaluim Chille and Eilean Idhe noting that the first named is " generally lengthened to avoid confusion " to the second, which means " Calum's ( i. e. in latinised form " Columba's ") Iona " or " island of Calum's monastery ".

In 2003, Towson University named Chalker their Liberal Arts Alumni of the Year.

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium.

In 2003, a number of current and former Oakland players such as Bill Romanowski, Tyrone Wheatley, Barrett Robbins, Chris Cooper and Dana Stubblefield were named as clients of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative ( BALCO ).

In May 2003, a number of newspapers named Freddie Scappaticci as the alleged identity of the British Force Research Unit's most senior informer within the IRA, code-named Stakeknife, who is thought to have been head of the IRA's internal security force, charged with rooting out and executing informers.

* In 2003 Reason named him a " Hero of Freedom "

The university completed the James H. Clark Center for interdisciplinary research in engineering and medicine in 2003, named for benefactor, co-founder of Netscape, Silicon Graphics and WebMD, and former professor of electrical engineering James H. Clark.

At the time this accreditation was gained, all business programs at the college were brought together in 2003 to form St. John Fisher College ’ s first professional school, which was named the Bittner School of Business.

In the 2003 and 2004 seasons, a hawk named Faith would fly around the stadium just before the team came out of the tunnel.

In 2003, Dean was named Woman of the year by the Zonta Club of Berkeley / North Bay.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, opened in 2003, was named in his honor.

* April 28 – The two remaining constituent republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro – form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro ), bringing to an end the official union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 ( with the exception of the period during World War II ).

) Yale's J. W. Gibbs Laboratory and its J. Willard Gibbs Assistant Professorship in Mathematics are also named in his honor, and the university has hosted two symposia dedicated to Gibbs's life and work, one in 1989 and another on the centenary of his death, in 2003.

2003 – Quest officially entered the Microsoft SQL Server market, and IDC named Quest # 1 in distributed database management software.