- August 11, 2003
"See also"
August 10, 2003 -August 2003 -August 12, 2003 ----
*Liberia n president Charles Taylor resigns. He is replaced by vice-presidentMoses Blah . [http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030811.wliber0811_4/BNStory/International/]
*2003 California recall : New California voter survey finds nearly two-thirds of the state's voters want a new governor. [http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=970A64E0-F191-40C8-95A27AEC3AA681C1] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/11/MN296167.DTL] [http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/11/recall.strategies/] [http://slate.msn.com/id/2086857/]
*Herb Brooks , the coach of the1980 US gold medalice hockey team that beat the Soviet Union in a game that was calledThe Miracle on Ice , dies in a car accident. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=565&ncid=755&e=1&u=/ap/20030811/ap_on_sp_ho_ne/hko_obit_brooks]
*Africa n church leader,Archbishop Bernard Malango , states that the leaders of 600,000Anglican s inMalawi ,Botswana ,Zambia andZimbabwe informed him they would could cut ties with theUnited States organization unless the appointment of an openlygay bishop is overturned. The Anglican Church inKenya also demanded a reversal. [http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/anglicans.bishop.reut/] [http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/mohler/?adate=8/11/2003#1214074] [http://www.eastandard.net/headlines/news11082003006.htm]
*Europe anheat wave :Paris ian 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. [http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030810.wheat0811/BNStory/International/] InCatalonia , five people from one family are killed by a wildfire that encircles their home. Four villages are evacuated in theAlgarve . [http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/11/euroweather030811]
*Doctors inMontreal successfully deliver byCaesarean section a healthy baby who grew in anectopic pregnancy . Such a pregnancy, which begins outside theuterus , 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. [http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/11/c_section030811]
*Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death of British scientistDr. David Kelly begins inLondon . [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3141737.stm]
*The Spirit of Butts Farm becomes the first radio-controlled model aeroplane to cross the Atlantic.
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