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

* 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.

About 100 tonnes of dysprosium are produced worldwide each year, with 99 % of that total produced in China Dysprosium prices have climbed nearly twentyfold, from $ 7 per pound in 2003, to $ 130 a pound in late 2010.

In 2003 agriculture employed nearly 80 percent of the population but accounted for only 12. 4 percent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in Eritrea.

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.

For example, in 2003, DeKalb High School ( 1200 students ) nearly defeated Pike High School ( 3000 ) students ).

The city's total area nearly doubled between 2003 and 2005 as a result of five towns — the towns of Kōriyama and Matsumoto, both from Hioki District, the town of Kiire, from Ibusuki District, and the towns of Sakurajima and Yoshida, both from Kagoshima District — merging into Kagoshima on November 1, 2004.

A 2003 report by the Open E-book Forum found that close to a million e-books had been sold in 2002, generating nearly $ 8 million in revenue.

By October 2003, Meteora sold nearly three million copies.

Although Meteora was not nearly as successful as Hybrid Theory, it was the third best selling album in the United States during 2003.

In 2003 China's civil aviation sector carried nearly 2. 2 million tons of freight and 126. 3 trillion passenger / kilometers.

In 2003 these inland waterways carried nearly 1. 6 trillion tons of freight and 6. 3 trillion passenger / kilometers to more than 5, 100 inland ports.

In December 2003, a DVD was created containing nearly 10, 000 items.

In 2003 nearly 60 percent of Paraguayan exports went to Mercosur countries.

After nearly a century of effort by mathematicians, Grigori Perelman presented a proof of the conjecture in three papers made available in 2002 and 2003 on arXiv.

In 2003, a nightclub fire in West Warwick claimed one hundred lives and resulted in nearly twice as many injured, and caught national attention.

The skepdic. com site was launched in 1994 and the book was published in 2003 with nearly 400 entries.

Global issue of high-yield bonds more than doubled in 2003 to nearly $ 146 billion in securities issued from less than $ 63 billion in 2002, although this is still less than the record of $ 150 billion in 1998.

In 2004 the Director of Military Personnel Policy for the US Army acknowledged in a letter to Human Rights Watch that nearly 60 17-year old US soldiers had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004.

STP went on to become one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1990s, selling nearly 40 million records worldwide, including 17. 5 million units in the United States, before their dissolution in 2003.

" In a review of the band's 2003 greatest hits collection Thank You, Allmusic critic Stephen Erlewine wrote that " STP made music that sounded great at the time and even better now ," and that " this music has stood the test of the time ," calling Thank You " nearly perfect.

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE ( 15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003 ) was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years.

He has traveled to nearly 70 countries and in 2003 was elected a Fellow of the Explorers Club.

In 2003, nearly 200 units participated in the parade, including 14 marching bands from across the state of Michigan, local merchants, churches, other organizations and Miss Michigan.

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

By 2003 in the US, an estimated 3. 21 million patients received antipsychotics, worth an estimated $ 2. 82 billion.

In 2003, the country exported $ 89. 8 million of forest products.

Its 2002 / 2003 / 2004 funding includes around $ 10 million for economic development, up to $ 5 million for the development of democratic institutions, about $ 5 million for the return of population affected by war and between 2 and 3 million dollars for the " mitigation of adverse social conditions and trends ".

The church posted an $ 8 million financial loss in fiscal 2003, and in 2004 cut 125 jobs, a quarter of the staff, at the Christian Science Monitor.

In 2003, a Gartner report estimated that more than $ 1 billion had been spent on software that was not being used.

But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).

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.

Exports of forest products in 2003 totalled $ 25. 7 million.

As a result, the government deficit increased to US $ 17 million in 2004 from US $ 7 million in 2003.

* 2002 – 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $ 35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

It reported at least $ 95. 4 million in recruiting costs and at least $ 95. 1 million for training replacements for the 9, 488 troops discharged from 1994 through 2003, while noting that the true figures might be higher.

Following the completion of a one-year stand-by program with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in December 2001, Ecuador successfully negotiated a new $ 205 million stand-by agreement with the IMF in March 2003.

In 2003 GDP was estimated to have grown by 2 percent, a slight improvement over 2002, the last year for which firm figures are available, when GDP expanded by 1. 8 percent in real terms to about US $ 600 million.

According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2003 foreign reserves were just US $ 17. 2 million, sufficient to cover only two weeks of imports.

The balance of payments in 2000 was negative US $ 44. 7 million ; by 2003 it had improved to negative US $ 16. 4 million.

A GDP of $ 4 billion in fiscal year 2003 was recalculated by the IMF to $ 6. 1 billion, after adding proceeds from opium products.