Portal:Current events/2003 October 28
October 28, 2003 (Tuesday)
- The United States Federal Reserve leaves its key interest rate unchanged at today's meeting, saying that rates will be kept low for a considerable period.[1]
- Halloween solar storms, 2003. The sun emits another coronal mass ejection directly toward the Earth, the third largest solar flare on record. The effects are projected to affect Earth on the 29th.[2][3]
- Wildfires are largest in California history; 1,500 homes are destroyed, 16 people killed and 600,000 acres (2,400 km2) burned. Evacuations are ordered from parts of cities in Los Angeles and San Diego counties.[4] The conflagration also spreads across the border into the Mexican state of Baja California, where two deaths are reported.
- The UK Conservative Party's 1922 Committee announces that leader Iain Duncan Smith will face an immediate vote of confidence in his leadership on the following day, after at least 25 backbenchers formally request it.[5]
- The campaign for Japan general election, 2003 starts, lasting until a voting date, Nov 9.[6]
- ^ "BBC NEWS - Business - US rates kept on hold". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "CNN.com - Sun erupts in biggest storm in years - Oct. 29, 2003". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "CNN.com - California wildfires burn through 600,000 acres - Oct. 29, 2003". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "BBC NEWS - UK - Politics - Duncan Smith faces leadership vote". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ The Japan Times - News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and More