Portal:Current events/2003 April 12
April 12, 2003 (Saturday)
- Looting and lawlessness plague Baghdad. Hospitals looted, humanitarian aid hindered by unsafe conditions.,,[1][2][3]
- Prince Laurent of Belgium marries British-born 'commoner' Claire Coombs at the St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral in Brussels.[4]
- Poet Linda Gregerson receives the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection Waterborne. The award is presented annually by the Claremont Graduate University for a "mid-career poet". Joanie Mackowski receives the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
- Canadian scientists announce that they have sequenced the genome of the virus which is thought to cause Severe acute respiratory syndrome. The sequence is published on their website: http://www.bcgsc.ca/bioinfo/SARS/. (News item:[5])
- 14th annual Thunder Over Louisville is held in Louisville, Kentucky.
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