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.

In December 2003 Aston Martin announced it would return to motor racing in 2005.

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.

On his arrival, with daughter Elizabeth Sherman Hoar, in Charleston, December 1844, local citizens warned Hoar to leave town.

General Joseph P. Hoar ( born December 30, 1934 ) is a retired U. S. Marine Corps officer, former Commander in Chief of United States Central Command.

Hoar was immediately elected and installed as President of Harvard on December 10, 1672 ; a position he held until he resigned on March 15, 1675.

The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

The party's newspaper Proleter ( December 1932 ) stated: " salute the Ustaša movement of the peasants of Lika and Dalmatia and fully support them.

Echo Bridge Entertainment has stated it plans to release the film on both formats by December 4, 2012.

A 4 December 1980 press statement stated that, " We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were ", and was simply signed " Led Zeppelin ".

Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

Although her will stated that she wished to be buried next to her mother, Mary was interred in Westminster Abbey on 14 December in a tomb she would eventually share with Elizabeth.

Whilst on a state visit to Russia in December 2008, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega expressed his desire to travel to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the future, and stated that Nicaragua is in solidarity with the people of the two countries.

" The FBI stated that McVeigh scouted the interior of the building in December 1994 and likely knew of the day-care center before the bombing.

On 25 December 1793 Robespierre stated:

On 17 December 2004, the Colombian government authorized Trinidad's extradition to the United States, but stated that the measure could be revoked if the FARC-EP released all political hostages and military captives in its possession before 30 December.

* President James Monroe first stated the Monroe Doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress on December 2, 1823.

Speaking to the Aldershot and North Hants Conservative Association on 4 February 1983, Powell blamed the United Nations for the Falklands War by the General Assembly resolution of December 1967 that stated " its gratitude for the continuous efforts made by the Government of Argentina to facilitate the process of decolonisation " and further called on Britain and Argentina to negotiate.

In October 2010, HP stated that they would continue to support Tru64 UNIX until 31 December 2012.

Bryan's speeches evolved over time ; in December 1894, in a speech in Congress, he first used a phrase from which would come the conclusion to his most famous address: as originally stated, it was " I will not help to crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

On 17 December 1783, Fox stated in the House of Commons that " If … a change must take place, and a new ministry is to be formed and supported, not by the confidence of this House or the public, but the sole authority of the Crown, I, for one, shall not envy that hon.

She stated at a press conference held on December 9, 2010 in Dublin, a couple of days before shooting began, " I believe in this story and its potential to take everyone on a sensuous, funny, heart-breaking, wildly unexpected ride ".

A Congressional Research Service ( CRS ) Issue Brief quotes policy statements made by President Johnson in a speech delivered on September 10, 1968 and by Secretary of State Rogers in a speech delivered on December 9, 1969 " The United States has stated that boundaries should be negotiated and mutually recognized, “ should not reflect the weight of conquest ,” and that adjustments in the pre-1967 boundaries should be “ insubstantial .”

On 27 December Radio Kabul broadcast Karmal's pre-recorded speech, which stated " Today the torture machine of Amin has been smashed, his accomplices – the primitive executioners, usurpers and murderers of tens of thousand of our fellow countrymen – fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters, children and old people ..." On 1 January Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet Chairman of the Council of Ministers, congratulated Karmal on his " election " as leader, before any Afghan state or party organ had elected him to anything.

According to the Dowd Report itself, " no evidence was discovered that Rose bet against the Reds ", but in a December 2002 interview, investigator Dowd stated that he believed that Rose may have bet against the Reds while managing them.

The Korean independence officially occurred on 1 December 1943, when the United States, China, and Great Britain signed the Cairo Conference, which stated, “ The aforesaid three powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that “ in due course ” Korea shall become free and independent .” In 1945, the United Nations developed plans for trusteeship administration of Korea.

In the Dáil debate on 7 December Cosgrave stated: " I had only one figure in my mind and that was a huge nought.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

A December 21, 2008 Wall St. Journal editorial stated, " The new laws and regulations have neither prevented frauds nor instituted fairness.

In December 2008, Alan J. W. Bell stated in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that the BBC had not yet commissioned a new series and that bosses at the network told him one would not be produced.