Portal:Current events/2003 June 11
June 11, 2003 (Wednesday)
- Three 160,000-year-old human skulls unearthed in Ethiopia bridge an important gap in the human fossil record and lend support to the "out of Africa" single origin theory of human evolution.[1]
- Masquerading as an Orthodox Jew, a suicide bomber blows up a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, killing at least sixteen people. An Israeli helicopter attack in the Gaza Strip kills at least seven.[2]
- Same-sex marriage in Canada: The attorney general of Ontario announces that his government will conform to yesterday's court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in that province.
- US baseball: Six Houston Astros pitchers combine to pitch a no-hitter against the New York Yankees. The game sets several records, including the most pitchers to combine for a no-hitter in Major League Baseball history, and a record for the Yankees for the most sequential games without being no-hit.[3]
- ^ "Science and technology news │New Scientist". Newscientist.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Haaretz - Israeli News source". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Official New York Yankees Website | MLB.com". Yankees.mlb.com. 2014-06-30. Retrieved 2015-12-22.