The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

Since 31 December 2003, the system has been closed to new users, at that time, it covered 100 % of the Spanish population, but now some antennas have been given to GSM operators.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

As a direct result of this, a brand new style across all presentation for the channel launched on 8 December 2003 at 09: 00.

In Shanghai, where bicycles were once the dominant mode of transport, bicycle travel on a few city roads was banned temporarily in December 2003.

October 2003: January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December

By December 2001, it was ratified by the ECMA, with ISO standardization following in April 2003.

Another popular early project was Jonathon Fowler's JFDuke3D, which in December 2003 received backing from the original author of Build, programmer Ken Silverman.

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.

* Lords of EverQuest ( PC, December 2003 )

The first building, the Life Sciences Laboratory, was dedicated and opened with 104 employees on the campus in December 2003.

Further to the north, Saint-Barthélemy and the northern French part of Saint Martin once came under the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe but on 7 December 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity, a decision which took effect on 22 February 2007.

On December 7, 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity.

# Here is a version invented by Frank Rubin on December 4, 2003: Give me three English words, commonly spoken, ending in g-r-y.

In December 2003, Maple Leaf Heritage Investments, a Nova Scotia-based company created to acquire shares of Hudson's Bay Company, announced that it was considering making an offer to acquire all or some of the common shares of Hudson's Bay Company.

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

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

All stations commenced digital broadcasting during 2003, and in December 2003, a fifth station, TDT, began broadcasting.

In December 2003, Marvel Entertainment acquired Cover Concepts from Hearst Communications, Inc.

Saddam Hussein, who vanished in April, was captured on December 13, 2003.

In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.

John Michael " Ozzy " Osbourne was born in Aston, Birmingham, England, on 3 December 1948.

In December 2007 in a 4 – 4 draw against Aston Villa, Andriy Shevchenko scored the first penalty kick at the Shed End since Osgood's ashes were buried there.

The Aston University Council discussed the proposal during a meeting on 3 December 2003 and concluded that it should be rejected.

Their nephew Dicky Dorsett ( born 3 December 1919, died 1999 ) played over 250 times for Aston Villa between 1946 and 1952 and also played for Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 1939 FA Cup Final.

Other fine performances included a brace in open play in a 3-0 home win over Aston Villa in the league on 7 December, and two goals ( one a penalty ) as they eliminated Manchester United from the Football League Cup in a 2-1 win at Anfield in late November.

In December 1999, whilst playing for Aston Villa against Sheffield Wednesday, he sustained a life threatening broken neck, as a result of which he permanently has a titanium plate holding three neck vertebrae together.

The Aston Martin DB7 is a grand tourer which was produced by Aston Martin from September 1994 to December 2004.

* Most goals in a top flight game: 7, Ted Drake for Arsenal v. Aston Villa ( away ), 14 December 1935

On 27 December 1920, Old Trafford played host to its largest pre-Second World War attendance for a United league match, as 70, 504 spectators watched the Red Devils lose 3 – 1 to Aston Villa.

Davy Walsh, the club's top-scorer since the war, was sold on to Aston Villa in December 1950 for a £ 25, 000 fee.

To push for more support locally, the club planted the slogan ' Let Arsenal support Islington ' around Highbury during matches against Aston Villa and Juventus in December 2001 and as a backdrop for manager Arsène Wenger's press conference in the lead up to Christmas.

He scored once in the league for Boro, against Aston Villa in December 2004.

As a manager he began inauspiciously and his first season ended in relegation ; despite Mercer buying Derek Pace, who would go on to become a hero at Sheffield United, from Aston Villa for £ 12, 000 on 26 December 1957.

The rest of his time as manager was spent in the Second Division and in December 1958, wanting to move to a bigger club, he resigned and moved to Aston Villa who were bottom of the First Division.

From September 2004 to December 2006 she was Principal of the Engineering Faculty at Imperial College London, after which she joined Aston University as Vice-Chancellor.

On 26 December 2007, in a 4 – 4 home draw against Aston Villa, on 79 minutes, the home side allowed the ourselves to become outmanoeuvred on halfway leaving just the goalkeeper Petr Čech and Carvalho between Villa's striker, Gabriel Agbonlahor, and the goal, Carvalho attempted the block, went in two-footed and was red carded for the foul, in the same night, he issued a public apology for his horror tackle on the forward.

On 31 December 2011, Drogba scored his 150th goal for Chelsea against Aston Villa, putting him level with Peter Osgood and Roy Bentley in terms of the club's top scorers of all time.

Matilda Ann Aston ( 11 December 1873 – 1 November 1947 ), better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher, who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the Advancement of the Blind, with herself as secretary.

Torres became the fastest player in Liverpool history to score 50 league goals after scoring against Aston Villa in December 2009.

His stoppage-time winning goal against Aston Villa on 29 December 2009 made him the fastest Liverpool player ever to score 50 league goals.

The couple have two children, a daughter, Nora, born on 8 July 2009 at the Hospital La Rosaleda, in Santiago de Compostela, and a son, Leo, born on 6 December 2010 at Liverpool Women's Hospital, with Torres missing the fixture against Aston Villa at Anfield.