* 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.

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 2003, nearly $ 3 million was spent to renovate Tolliver Hall into a modern cyber student center.

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.

* 2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500, 000 people living in south east England and brings 60 % of London's underground rail network to a halt.

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When fully implemented, CAIR will reduce SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions in 28 eastern states and the District of Columbia by over 70 percent and NOx emissions by over 60 percent from 2003 levels.

Data from 2003 by the Central Bank stated a penetration rate of microfinance services of almost 60 percent.

In 2003, the CSU was re-elected as the Bavarian government with a majority ( 60. 7 % and 124 of 180 seats in the state parliament ).

Chapter 11 cases dropped by 60 % from 1991 to 2003.

Following large-scale protests in 2003 — 2004, the law was amended, requiring instruction in Latvian within at least 60 % of the curriculum.

There is no official government report on the exact ethnic make-over but a map appeared in the November 2003 issue of the National Geographic magazine showing Tajiks 60 %, Hazaras 10 %, Pashtuns 10 %, Turkmen 10 %, and Uzbeks 10 %.

Occidental students have won 10 Rhodes Scholarships, 13 Truman Scholarships, 55 Watson Fellowships and, since 2003, 60 Fulbright Scholarships.

GDP: purchasing power parity $ 48. 3 million, supplemented by annual payments from France of about $ 60 million ( 2003 estimate )

During 2003, the price rose above $ 30, reached $ 60 by August 11, 2005, and peaked at $ 147. 30 in July 2008.

Despite her popularity and significance, another Tubman biography for adults did not appear for 60 years, until Jean Humez published a close reading of Tubman's life stories in 2003, and Larson and Clinton both published their biographies in 2004.

On February 2, 2007, at the age of 40, Devers edged 2004 Olympic champion Joanna Hayes to win the 60 m hurdles event at the Millrose Games in 7. 86 seconds-the best time in the world that season and just 0. 12 off the record she set in 2003.

Non-government sanctioned re-introduction of Eurasian beaver ( Castor fiber ) in Spain around 2003 has resulted in tell-tale beaver sign documented on a 60 km stretch on the lower course of the Aragon River and the area adjoining the Ebro River in Aragon, Spain.

* 55 Gm — 60, 000-year perigee of Mars ( last achieved on August 27, 2003 )

* Heinrich, P. V., J. Snead, and R. P. McCulloh, 2003, Crowley 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle.

* McCulloh, R. P., P. V. Heinrich, and J. Snead, 2003, Ponchatoula 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle.

* Heinrich, P. V., J. Snead, and R. P. McCulloh, 2003, Crowley 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle.

* Heinrich, P. V., J. Snead, and R. P. McCulloh, 2003, Crowley 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle.

* Heinrich, P. V., J. Snead, and R. P. McCulloh, 2003, Crowley 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle.

On November 6, 2003, Signal Hill returned to Los Angeles County Fire Department protection as Station 60.

In late 2003 and early 2004, the boys ' high school basketball team of the K-12 Watersmeet Township School ( at the time, 9-12 grade enrollment 78 ; it has since absorbed 13 of neighboring Marenisco's 60 K-12 students and 2005-2006 enrollment now stands at 96 ) was featured in a series of commercials on ESPN.