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 ).

In 1996 the Bavarian Government gave buildings at the historic Theresienhöhe site in Munich to the Deutsches Museum resulting in the creation of the new transportation museum, the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum, which opened in 2003 and now houses the road vehicle and train exhibits that were removed from the original Deutsches Museum site.

Erich Hallhuber ( July 14, 1951 – September 17, 2003 ) was a Bavarian actor.

At the start of the 2003 / 2004 season, Jansons began his tenure as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ( BRSO ), for an initial contract of 3 years His commitment with the BRSO is for 10 weeks per season.

* 2003 Bavarian Film Award, Best Screenplay

* 2003 – Bavarian film award for The miracle of Bern

He succeeded Dr Beate Merk, who had been appointed as Bavarian law minister by Edmund Stoiber on 14 October 2003.

* Bayerischer Filmpreis (" Bavarian Film Award ") 2003

At the elections 2003 in Bavaria Titanic surrendered in the name of the Bavarian Social Democrats (" SPD: Wir geben auf "), who always face the superiority of the Christian Social Union.

* 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia ( d. 2003 )

When Gianfranco Fini visited Israel in late November 2003 in the function of Italian Deputy Prime Minister, he labeled the racial laws issued by the fascist regime in 1938 as " infamous ", as also Giorgio Almirante, historic leader of MSI, had done before.

* George W. Bush hosted dignitaries, including the then President of Russia, Vladimir Putin in 2003 and hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, in 2007.

On January 6, 2004, Prime Minister Pierre Charles, who had been suffering from heart problems since 2003, died.

* 1954 – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish politician, Prime Minister ( 2003 – present )

Mitchell went on to win the 2003 elections with a reduced majority of 8 of the 15 seats and served as Prime Minister for a record 13 years until his defeat in 2008.

New Prime Minister Tillman Thomas formed a government after narrowly losing by one seat to Mitchell's NNP in the November 2003 election.

During Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's two successive governments 1995 – 2003, several large state companies were privatized fully or partially.

In 2006, General Sir Michael Rose revived the call for the impeachment of Tony Blair, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for leading the country into the invasion of Iraq in 2003 under allegedly false justification.

On 11 October 2003, the Prime Minister Koizumi dissolved the lower house after he was re-elected as the president of the LDP.

* 1981 – Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister ; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader.

Loku Bandara, Minister of Buddha Sasana ( 2003 )

On 27 November 2003, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner announced that his government was considering rules under which coffeeshops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents in order to satisfy both European neighbors ' concerns about the influx of drugs from the Netherlands, as well as those of Netherlands border town residents unhappy with the influx of " drug tourists " from elsewhere in Europe.

* 2003 – Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.

Scappaticci denies that this is the case and, in 2003, failed in a legal bid to force the then NIO Minister, Jane Kennedy, to state he was not an informer.

He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005.

United States president George W. Bush fulfilled his lifetime ambition of visiting a ' genuine British pub ' during his November 2003 state visit to the UK when he had lunch and a pint of non-alcoholic lager with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in Sedgefield, County Durham.

In September 2003, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet proposed splitting Japan Post into four separate companies: A bank, an insurance company, a postal service company, and a fourth company to handle the post offices as retail storefronts of the other three.

São Tomé and Príncipe's army is a tiny force with almost no resources at its disposal and would be wholly ineffective operating unilaterally ; infantry equipment is considered simple to operate and maintain but may require refurbishment or replacement after 25 years in tropical climates ; poor pay, working conditions, and alleged nepotism in the promotion of officers have been problems in the past, as reflected in the 1995 and 2003 coups ; these issues are being addressed with foreign assistance aimed at improving the army and its focus on realistic security concerns ; command is exercised from the president, through the Minister of Defense, to the Chief of the Armed Forces staff ( 2005 )

On 6 July 2003, in response to a proposal to send 300 police and 2, 000 troops from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to Guadalcanal, warlord Harold Keke announced a ceasefire by faxing a signed copy of the announcement to the Solomons Prime Minister, Allan Kemakeza.

In March 2003, a coalition of countries led by the U. S. and U. K. invaded Iraq to depose Saddam, after U. S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair accused him of possessing weapons of mass destruction and having ties to al-Qaeda.

* Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq ( 1979 – 1991 and 1994 – 2003 )

In May 2003 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated the MOSE project ( Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico ), an experimental model for evaluating the performance of hollow floatable gates ; the idea is to fix a series of 78 hollow pontoons to the sea bed across the three entrances to the lagoon.

In 2003, Arafat ceded his post as Prime Minister to Mahmoud Abbas amid pressures by the US.

* Desmond, Marilynn, Pamela Sheingorn, Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea ( Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2003 ).

The Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, ( Scribner, 2003 )

* Blanning, T. C. W. The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660 – 1789 ( 2003 )

The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture ( 2003 ) excerpt and text search

* Hendrix, John, History and Culture in Italy, University Press of America, 2003.

* McNeill, John R. " Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History ," History and Theory, 42 ( 2003 ), pp. 5 – 43.

* Technology and Culture Volume 44, Number 1, January 2003 ( PDF ) Dalley, Stephanie.

( 2003 ), Battle: A History of Combat and Culture.

" Beauty Worlds: The Culture of Beauty ( 2003 ): n. pag.

In 2003 PBS aired " Culture of Hate-Who Are We?

In December 2003 the Choir performed “ African Portraits ” with the Baltimore Symphony at the Gala Concert for the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture.

In his 2003 book A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, political scientist Michael Barkun notes that a vast popular audience has been introduced by the film to the notion that the U. S. government is controlled by a secret team in black helicopters — a view once confined to the radical right.

" Great Shadow in the Sky: The Airplane in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the Development of African American Visions of Aviation, 1921-1926 ," in The Airplane in American Culture, ed Dominick Pisano ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2003 ), 105-146

* Scholarly review of a 2003 book, Kulte und Kultur der Dekapolis ( Cults and Culture of the Decapolis ).

Crowley, David and Heyer, Paul ( ed ) ( 2003 ) ' Chapter 17: The optical telegraph ' Communication in History: Technology, Culture and Society ( Fourth Edition ) Allyn and Bacon, Boston pp. 123 – 125

More than two dozen independent theatrical and musical productions have been based on Einstein's Dreams, including a production at Chicago's National Pastime Theater in 2000, produced and directed by Patrizia Acerra and Dawn Arnold ; a production at Paradise Theater in New York in 2001, produced and directed by Paul Stancato and Brian Rhinehart ; a production at the Culture Project Theater in New York in 2003, directed by Rebecca Holderness ; a production at the People's Branch Theater in Nashville in 2003, adapted by Brian Niece and David Alford, directed by David Alford ; a musical production at the Martin Segal Theater of CUNY in New York in 2003, produced by Brian Schwartz with music and lyrics by Joshua Rosenblum and Joanne Lessner ; a production by the Underground Railway Theater in Boston in 2006 ; and a production by the University of Memphis in 2006, under the direction of Gloria Baxter ; a musical composition titled " In This World " by Paul Hoffman in 2000 and performed by the Silverwood Trio on their own CD ; and a musical composition titled " When Einstein Dreams " by Nando Michelin in 2003 and performed by the Nando Michelin Group on a Double Times Record CD.

* Benson, C. D. Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture ( Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003 ).

From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2003, he chose Gil as Brazil's new Minister of Culture, only the second black person to serve in the country's cabinet.

The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud ( Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 ), 102-121.

A more detailed explanation of the hoax is featured in a study of conspiracy theory subculture and literature, Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America ( 2003 ), wherein Michael Barkun devotes a few pages to Alternative 3.