Portal:Current events/2003 June 5
June 5, 2003 (Thursday)
- German politician Jürgen Möllemann dies while parachuting.
- Computer virus Bugbear.b spreads worldwide on computer systems running Microsoft Windows by infecting email attachments.[1]
- The United States agrees to dismantle its bases and withdraw American forces from positions they have occupied near the DMZ, which separates North and South Korea, for decades.
- Pope John Paul II marks his 100th foreign voyage in a trip to Croatia, where the pontiff is expected to meet with Serbian Orthodox Christians as a sign of goodwill between the centuries-long feuding sister churches.[2]
- For the first time in more than two months, no new deaths were reported yesterday from SARS, the latest indication that the epidemic is subsiding, the World Health Organization said.[3]
- A United Nations war crimes tribunal charges President Charles Taylor of Liberia with war crimes for masterminding atrocities in the Sierra Leone civil war.
- Metallica's St. Anger album released.
- ^ Robert Vamosi. "Bugbear.b is on the prowl". CNET. Archived from the original on 2005-03-30. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
- ^ "Pope Arrives in Croatia for Landmark 100th Foreign Trip". Fox News. 2003-06-05. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
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