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.

* 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.

* 2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking 9 of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.

* 2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99 % of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99. 99 %.

A systematic 2003 review of controlled clinical trials related to the Alexander Technique found two reputable studies suggesting the Alexander Technique is effective in reducing the disability of patients suffering from Parkinson ’ s disease and improving pain behaviour and disability in patients with back pain, and concluded that the evidence supporting the effectiveness of the Alexander Technique is encouraging but not convincing.

Arizona ended the 2003 season with an 84-78 record, in 3rd place in the NL West.

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.

In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.

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.

The American Missile Defense Agency started a no AMD treaty with Russia, Europe and the USA in July 2003.

* In 2003, an Australian coal miner amputated his own arm with a Stanley knife after it became trapped when the front-end loader he was driving overturned three kilometers underground.

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

( 2003 with Robert Fourer and David Gay )

The summer of 2003 set a record with an average temperature of.

* Booknotes interview with Andrew Roberts on Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It, 12 January 2003.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

To counteract this, a new feature introduced with the 2003 relaunch was a ' breaking news sting ': a globe shown briefly onscreen to direct a viewer's attention to the breaking news.

The 2003 relaunch saw a small change to this style with less of a metropolitan feel to the footage.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the spectrum is broad in the EU, with the UK coming closest to the US system ( Reifner et al., 2003 ; Gerhardt, 2009 ; Frade, 2010 ).

An extension that has gained significant popularity since 2003 is Satisfiability modulo theories ( SMT ) that can enrich CNF formulas with linear constraints, arrays, all-different constraints, uninterpreted functions, etc.

One academic study ( Heffernan, 2003 ) found that demutualised societies ' pricing behaviour on deposits and mortgages was more favourable to shareholders than to customers, with the remaining mutual building societies offering consistently better rates.

Until 2003 the Lower Houses were restricted to upper year students but with the double cohort of graduates from Ontario schools many of the rooms were transformed into doubles and now hold first years.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).

He told Colors magazine in 2003 that he periodically breaks his fasting with a cheeseburger and a cola, explaining that when he's surrounded by junk culture and junk food, consuming them adds balance.

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

* 1929 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Bernard Katz, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1911 )

German research in 2003 showed significant benefits in reducing breast cancer risk when large amounts of raw vegetable matter are included in the diet.

* Cragon, Harvey G. From Fish to Colossus: How the German Lorenz Cipher was Broken at Bletchley Park ( Cragon Books, Dallas, 2003 ; ISBN 0-9743045-0-6 ) – A detailed description of the cryptanalysis of Tunny, and some details of Colossus ( contains some minor errors )

The Deutsche Filmakademie was founded in 2003 in Berlin and aims to provide native filmmakers a forum for discussion and a way to promote the reputation of German cinema through publications, presentations, discussions and regular promotion of the subject in the schools.

The only party convention in 2003 was planned for November 2003, but about 20 % of the local organisations forced the federal party to hold a special party convention in Cottbus early to discuss the party position regarding Agenda 2010, a major reform of the German welfare programmes planned by Chancellor Schröder.

The November 2003 convention is also noteworthy because it was the first convention of a German political party ever to use an electronic voting system.

New York, Ungar, 1962, reprinted German Book Center, 2003.

* 1917 – Vera Zorina, German dancer ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician ( b. 1945 )

* 1929 – Wolfgang Peters, German footballer ( d. 2003 )

* 1909 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone ( d. 2003 )

* 1945 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician ( d. 2003 )

In retrospect, mainly positive assessments of his chancellorship prevail, not only with the German public, which voted him the " greatest German of all time " in a 2003 television poll, but even with some of today's left-wing intellectuals, who praise his unconditional commitment to western-style democracy and European integration.

* The 2003 novel Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson depicts Philby selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the alternate Battle of the Bulge where German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel turns on the Nazis and assists the Allies in capturing all of Berlin.

Helene Bertha Amalie " Leni " Riefenstahl (; August 22, 1902 – September 8, 2003 ) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker.

* 1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German politician ( d. 2003 )

Since August 2003, the site has been translated into ten other written languages: Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch and French.

* Hennock, E. P. " Social Policy in the Bismarck Era: A Progress Report ," German History, ( June 2003 ) 21 # 2 pp 229 – 238 online

Peter Stanford, a Catholic journalist and writer, wrote, regarding Fatal Silence: the pope, the resistance and the German occupation of Rome ( written by Robert Katz ; ISBN 0-297-84661-2 ; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 ): " Vatican still refuses to open all its files from the period – which seems to me to be a conclusive admission of guilt – but Katz has winkled various papers out of God's business address on earth to add to the stash of new information he has uncovered in America in the archives of the Office of Strategic Services.

WizKids licensed the RPG rights to FanPro ( who were already publishing for the German version ) until they were acquired by Topps in 2003.

* 1910 – Karl Kling, German race car driver ( d. 2003 )