Portal:Current events/2003 October 23
October 23, 2003 (Thursday)
- Luis A. Ferré, the third Democratically Elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at age 99.
- Canada: Dalton McGuinty is sworn in as the 24th premier of Ontario.[1]
- Occupation of Iraq: There is every sign that the international conference in Madrid at which pledges to re-build Iraq are hoped for will disappoint and e.g. Paul Bremer seeks to lower expectations.[2][3]
- United States Supreme Court: Before a conservative legal organization, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ridicules the recent Supreme Court decision overturning anti-sodomy laws in Texas, saying that the Court had "held to be a constitutional right what had been a criminal offense at the time of the founding and for nearly 200 years thereafter." According to news reports, Scalia adopted a mocking tone to read from the court's ruling.[4]
- Kuwait AL Arabi football club beat Qadsia in the Kuwait derby 2–0.
- ^ [1] Archived March 23, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "BBC NEWS - Europe - Fears over Iraq aid shortfall". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Home - Arab News". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 12, 2005. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
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