See alsoAugust 9, 2003 - August 2003 - August 11, 2003 See also August 8, 2003 - August 2003 - August 10, 2003 A historic heat wave continues to afflict Europe and is expected to continue for another week. ... 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for August, 2003. ... See also August 10, 2003 - August 2003 - August 12, 2003 Liberian president Charles Taylor resigns. ...
100,000 attend a rally in the French countryside to condemn next month's round of trade liberalisation talks being held under auspices of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Cancún in Mexico. [1]
British police in London are given 'shoot-on-sight' orders to deal with possible suicide bombers by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens as expectations rise of an Al-Qaeda attack on the British capital. [2]
War on Terrorism: The Sunday Times reports that Al-Qaedaterrorists have infiltrated Iraq from surrounding Arab countries and have aligned themselves with former intelligence agents of Saddam Hussein to fight the Coalition forces. Their attacks have killed Coalition soldiers and Iraqi police officers, among others. [3]
Pope John Paul II urges Catholics to pray for rain in Europe as the heat wave continues. The heatwave in Britain reaches 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) at Heathrow, for the first time in history. [4] Warnings of avalanches are issued in the Alps, as mountain glaciers melt.
Liberian President and convicted war criminalCharles Taylor, who is to step down tomorrow, has appealed to rebels to 'submit to the democratic process'. He also accuses the United States of funding the rebels who have besieged the capital, Monrovia for a week. [5]
The Russianspace program has the been the first to send a man, a dog, a woman, and a tourist into space. And it may be the first to marry a couple in space. Yuri Malenchenko (41), aboard the international space station, and his bride, Yekaterina Dmitriyeva (26) in Texas, are making preparations for what seems to be the first cosmic wedding. [6] [7] [8] [9]
16-year-old Israeli killed and five other injured in Hezbollah shelling on the northern Israeli town of Shlomi. Israeli planes attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in response to the shelling. Some sources claim Hezbollah's attack was a response to Israel's car bomb assassination of Hezbollah member Ali Hussein Saleh in Beirut on August 3 which also seriously injured 2 passers-by. [11]
While Retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his successor, Archbishop Njongonkulu Winston Ndungane, fails to see what "all the fuss" is over the ordination of a gay bishop, other African Anglicans suggest that their churches may sever relations with the American dioceses which supported the election of a gay priest as bishop if what they called the "path of deviation" is not changed. [12] [13]
August10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar.
The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.
Because of this, August10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
In August 1999, Williams hired Darlene Taylor to serve as Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and as his liaison to the council.
Her role and effectiveness was undermined by her lack of knowledge of District issues (her nickname among councilmembers and staffers was "Fluff"), and during her tenure all of the OIA senior staff, who did have the council contacts and institutional memory, quit or transferred out of the office.
Taylor quit in August 2001, after she was publicly embroiled in the nonprofit fundraising scandals in the mayor's office.
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