* 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.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.

These archaeologists suggested that defensibility was never a major concern in the siting of a broch, and argued that they may have been the " stately homes " of their time, objects of prestige and very visible demonstrations of superiority for important families ( Armit 2003 ).

The Gallup Organization reported that " In 2003, 42 % of U. S. adults said they were born-again or evangelical ; the 2004 percentage is 41 %.

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.

Many films enjoy cult status because they may be seen as ridiculously awful, for example Plan 9 from Outer Space ( 1958 ) or The Room ( 2003 ).

The helmets are silver, and in 2003, they changed the helmet color slightly to a more metallic shade.

* 8th November 2003 ( The ' of ' and ' the ' may be included in speech ; they are omitted in all but the most formal writing.

The intention was that these facilities would provide extra revenue to support the football side of the business, but they were less successful than hoped and before the Abramovich takeover in 2003 the debt taken on to finance them was a major burden on the club.

The band claims on their website that they still pay close attention to an anti-corporate ideology, despite performing on September 5, 2003 at a festival in Turkey that was sponsored by Coca-Cola, noting that they have since pulled out of a show in Los Angeles when they found that it was being sponsored by Coors.

The club remained competitive, however they could progress no further than the second week of the finals each year for the years of 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Having lost their academic home in May 2003, they increasingly cross genres and print write-ups of all books and media received, as well as of events that feature creative works that imaginatively challenge gender such as intentional communities, performance events, and film festivals.

The Marlins have the distinction of winning a World Series championship every year they qualified for the postseason, doing so in 1997 and 2003 — both times as the National League wild card team.

Torborg's successor, 72-year-old Jack McKeon, improbably led them to the National League's wild card berth in the playoffs ; they defeated the New York Yankees four games to two in the 2003 World Series.

In plotlines mirroring the negative reaction of non-commercial artists to the commercialization of the art form by companies like IBM ( and, later, Sony itself ) the Rakugaki Ōkoku series ( 2003 – 2005 ) for Sony's PlayStation 2 revolves around an anonymous hero and his magically imbued-with-life graffiti creations as they struggle against an evil king who only allows art to be produced which can benefit him.

In 2003, after his ashes were rediscovered in the United States, they were buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery in Berlin.

The Colts won their first two playoff games against the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens to return to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since the 2003 game, and they would face the same opponent in the New England Patriots.

In essence, Puerto Rican rap became the voice of Puerto Rican youth like dancehall and rap music are methods of expression for their Jamaican and lower-class U. S. youth counterparts as they made it in France too since 2003 " 1492 Army ".

On March 7, 2003, the war tribunal Special Court for Sierra Leone ( SCSL ) decided to summon Charles Taylor and charge him with war crimes and crimes against humanity, but they kept this decision and this charge secret until June that year.

* An official from China stated in September 2003 that production has ceased there, since they have an ample stockpile.

Formally, these failed when they were rejected by the Church of England's General Synod in 1972 ; conversations and co-operation continued, however, leading in 2003 to the signing of a covenant between the two churches.

Michael and his younger brother Ralf Schumacher are the only brothers to win races in Formula One, and they were the first brothers to finish 1st and 2nd in the same race, in Montreal in 2001, and there again ( in switched order ) in 2003.

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

In 2003, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli released The Salieri Album, a CD with 13 arias from Salieri's operas, most of which had never been recorded before.

C # Builder was released in 2003 as a native C # development tool, competing with Visual Studio. NET.

Neagle went 19 – 23 in three years with the Rockies ; he was injured in 2003 and never pitched in the majors again before the Rockies released him after the 2004 season.

A 2003 compilation album, Classic Masters, was released only in the US, while 2005 saw the release of the album She Will Have Her Way, a collection of cover versions of Crowded House, Split Enz, Tim Finn and Finn Brothers songs by Australasian female artists.

In 2003, The Protomen released their debut album Act 1 ( The Protomen ) which borrows from the story of the Megaman franchise to create a dystopian rock opera.

In 2003 several new models were released, including an improved version of the HP 12c, the " HP 12c platinum edition " which added more memory, more built-in functions, and the addition of the algebraic mode of data entry.

Dungeons & Dragons version 3. 5 was released in June 2003, with a 4th edition in June 2008.

The source code to the Duke Nukem 3D v1. 5 executable, which uses the Build engine, was released as free software under the GPL on April 1, 2003.

A Reality Tour, a double album of live material from the 2003 concert tour, was released in January 2010.

The band released a full length album in September 2003 entitled " Money Money 2020 " and then a live DVD, " Disease is Punishment ".

On April 2002 The Commission released its decision ( with a clarification in 2003 ).

It was licensed to RedBrick LLC in 2003, who released the Classic Edition in 2005 and the game's Third Edition in 2009 ( the latter through Mongoose Publishing's Flaming Cobra imprint ).

MGM's special edition of the 1981 film was not released until 2003 because the original negative had disappeared.

SOE released a Mac OS X version of EverQuest in 2003, incorporating all expansions through Planes of Power.

A sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, was released in 2002, and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, which contained material that was planned for but not included in the sequel, was released in 2003.

Although there was a national census taken in Haiti in 2003, much of that data has not been released to the public.

December 2005, Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 R2, which is actually Windows Server 2003 with SP1 ( Service Pack 1 ) plus an add-on package.

On 25 April 2005, Microsoft released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003, x64 Editions in Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter SKUs.

Windows Server 2003 R2, an update of Windows Server 2003, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005.

Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition was not released for Itanium.

In July 2003, Connick released his first instrumental album in fifteen years, Other Hours Connick on Piano Volume 1.