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unusual facts about September 2003


Our Lady's Catholic College

Formerly Our Lady's Catholic High School, its name changed after being awarded Specialist Sports College status in September 2003.



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Adnan al-Ghoul

On 26 September 2003, he reportedly attended a meeting with Mohammed Deif, Ismail Haniya, one of Hamas' political leaders, and the organisation's spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yasin, when Israeli forces bombed the house where they gathered.

African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is a tertiary education and research institute in Muizenberg, South Africa, established in September 2003.

Arturo Ardao

Arturo Ardao (Minas, Lavalleja Department, 27 September 1912 - Montevideo, 22 September 2003) was a Uruguayan philosopher and historian of ideas.

Arvo Györköny

Barry Schwabsky, “Arvo Györköny,” Art Forum, U.S.A., September 2003.

Ben Maltz Gallery

Since September 2003, the Ben Maltz Gallery has been directed by Meg Linton.

Bowleys Quarters, Maryland

In September 2003, Bowleys Quarters was substantially damaged by Hurricane Isabel and the resulting flood.

Capital punishment in Singapore

Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told the BBC in September 2003 that he believed there were "in the region of about 70 to 80" hangings in 2003.

Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma

On 28 September 2003 at Arbonne in France, Carlos Hugo re-asserted his Carlist claim.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Cheryl was one of six featured composers in Tete a Tete's opera project Family Matters (based on Beaumarchais’ third Figaro play The Guilty Mother) with a libretto by Olivier-Award winner Amanda Holden: workshops took place in Battersea Arts Centre in September 2003, with the final opera being staged throughout February 2004 at the Bridewell Theatre, followed by twelve performances around the country.

Choteau, Montana

Letterman has talked about the ranch on his late-night show and showed photos of a black bear invading the place in September 2003.

Derek Prince

Peter Derek Vaughan Prince (14 August 1915, Bangalore – 24 September 2003, Jerusalem) was an international Bible teacher whose daily radio programme Derek Prince Legacy Radio (presently hosted by author Stephen Mansfield) broadcasts to half the population of the world in various languages.

Erika Eiffel

September 2003, Erika's case was brought to light by John Ferrugia of Denver 7 News after US Congress established the Fowler Commission to investigate the growing number of sexual assault cases at the US Air Force Academy.

Foreign relations of Iraq

Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Hoshyar Zebari was first appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Iraqi Governing Council in Baghdad on 3 September 2003.

Gino Lettieri

He was in Bonn until September 2003 when he joined then Fußball-Bayernliga side SpVgg Bayreuth.

Henri Cogan

Henri Cogan (born 13 September 1924 in Paris; † 23 September 2003 in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French actor and stuntman.

HM Prison Risley

In September 2003, an inspection report from Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons criticised Risley Prison for its policy of mixing sex offenders with other inmates.

Hobart Huson

In September 2003 Huson started an eight-year term in Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop in Bastrop County, Texas for drug related charges related to his business.

Institut de Droit International

Since the election of Professor Joe Verhoeven as Secretary General in September 2003, the institute is headquartered in Grez-Doiceau, Belgium, with offices also at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Justified World Tour

In September 2003, McDonald's announced Timberlake as a new spokesmen for their "I'm Lovin' It" campaign.

Kenneth Walter

Kenneth Alexander Walter (5 November 1939 in Johannesburg, Transvaal – 13 September 2003 in Sandton, Johannesburg) was a South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1961.

Kettle Valley Railway

From August to September 2003, lightning sparked the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park.

Kim Joo-Sung

In September 2003 he attended a sports management masters course at De Montfort University, Leicester until February 2004 when his studies took him to Switzerland.

Luciana Morales Mendoza

In September 2003 she was the champion of the Zonal Tournament 2.4 in São Paulo with 9 points in 10 games, qualifying to the Women World Chess Championship that was held in 2004 in Elista.

Malice Green

In March 2003 this conviction was overturned by the Michigan Court of Appeals, but in September 2003, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld that conviction.

Maribel Liliana Delgado

In September, 2003 and 2004, Delgado participated in ABC Television reality dating show The Bachelor.

Marie-Louise Bévis

Her personal best times are 11.89 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in September 2003 in Saint-Florentin; 23.95 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Lisbon; and 52.06 seconds in the 400 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Nogent-sur-Marne.

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix is a ten track companion release to the critically acclaimed television documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues shown on PBS in September 2003.

Mimi Miyagi

Nearly bankrupted by her divorce, in September 2003, "Mimi" came out of retirement, and appeared in the adult film Happy Ending (not to be confused with Happy Endings later released by Lions Gate Entertainment).

Nicola Ventola

Ventola has a son, Kelian (b. 22 September 2003), with Brazilian model Kartika Luyet.

Public Radio Exchange

The PRX site and services launched in September 2003 after a two-year planning, research, and development phase supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ford Foundation.

Radio FG

In September 2003 Radio FG became known as FG DJ Radio and broadened its spectrum of music to include R'n'B and Raï music.

Raymond Ramcharitar

Ramcharitar's play Paradiso was one of three winners of the Warehouse Theatre's 2002 International Playwriting Festival, and he was invited to the BBC in September 2003, on a radio drama fellowship.

Richard Liversidge

Richard Liversidge, naturalist, ornithologist and museum director, was born on 17 September 1926 in Blantyre, Nyasaland (now Malawi), and died on 15 September 2003 in Kimberley, South Africa.

Rinjani Scops Owl

In September 2003 George Sangster and Jolanda Luksenburg saw, and recorded vocalisations of, scops owls on Lombok.

Seminis

In September 2003, Savia took Seminis off the public markets for approximately $650 million via an investment of approximately $222 million from Fox Paine & Company and additional cash and stock from Savia and related entities.

Sexual abuse scandal in Catholic archdiocese of Milwaukee

Following public testimony by victims before a combined session of the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly Judiciary Committee, a report on the sexual abuse of minors by clergy in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee was published in September 2003.

Song Du-yul

Song finally returned to South Korea in September 2003 for the first time in 37 years at the invitation of the Korea Democracy Foundation; his itinerary was to include a meeting with then-President Roh Moo-hyun.

Sultan Ismail Petra Bridge

The bridge was officially opened on 15 September 2003 by the Sultan of Kelantan, Sultan Ismail Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Yahya Petra.

Team Dignitas

It was founded on 9 September 2003 as a fusion of the Battlefield 1942 clans Legion Condor and Sweden Kompanix.

The Doug Gottlieb Show

Since joining ESPN Radio in September 2003, Gottlieb had co-hosted GameNight along with personalities such as Chuck Wilson, Jeff Rickard, John Seibel and Freddie Coleman.

The Fashion

The Fashion's debut album Rock Rock Kiss Kiss Combo was released in Denmark in September 2003 and gained extensive airplay across Danish radio, receiving MTV's Fresh Pick of the Week and positive reviews from Rolling Stone's David Fricke.

TNK-BP

On 1 September 2003, BP and a group of Russian businessmen, represented by the AAR (Alfa-Access-Renova) announced the creation of a strategic partnership to jointly hold their oil assets in Russia and Ukraine and creation of TNK-ВР.

Tricia Penrose

She is married to TV presenter Mark Simpkin, with two sons, Jake (born 10 September 2003), and Freddy Jay (born 8 August 2008).

University of Hertfordshire

The £120-million de Havilland campus opened in September 2003 and is situated within 15 minutes walk of College Lane, and is built on a former BAe site.

Valle Verde, Quintana Roo

The village was the scene of a dispute in September 2003 between two groups one composed of activists from Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) wishing give away food to promote genetically modified crops and the other activists who were members of Friends of the Earth to discourage them.

Yahaya Abubakar

Kusodu was appointed the 13th Etsu Nupe on 11 September 2003, traditional leader of the Nupe people who live in Niger, Kogi, Kwara and Benue states, in succession to Alhaji Umar Sanda Ndayako.