See alsoAugust 10, 2003 - August 2003 - August 12, 2003 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for August, 2003. ...
2003 California recall: New California voter survey finds nearly two-thirds of the state's voters want a new governor. [2] [3] [4][5]
Herb Brooks, the coach of the 1980US gold medal ice hockey team that beat the Soviet Union in a game that was called The Miracle on Ice, dies in a car accident.[6]
Africanchurch leader, Archbishop Bernard Malango, states that the leaders of 600,000 Anglicans in Malawi, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe informed him they would could cut ties with the United States organization unless the appointment of an openly gay bishop is overturned. The Anglican Church in Kenya also demanded a reversal. [7] [8] [9]
European heat wave: Parisian health authorities charge that fifty people have died in Paris owing to the heat wave, particularly elderly people, and that the government is ignoring the crisis. [10] In Catalonia, five people from one family are killed by a wildfire that encircles their home. Four villages are evacuated in the Algarve. [11]
Doctors in Montreal successfully deliver by Caesarean section a healthy baby who grew in an ectopic pregnancy. Such a pregnancy, which begins outside the womb, is all but invariably fatal to the fetus and is extremely dangerous to the mother. The woman and her doctors were unaware of the ectopic pregnancy until she went into labour. [12]
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