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A timeline of events in the news for June, 2003.

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June 30, 2003

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June 23, 2003

  • The U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz and Hamacher v. Bollinger, challenges to the affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan. In Grutter, the Court held that the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy, which considered race as one of a number of "soft" admissions factors on a case-by-case basis, was constitutional. In Gratz, the Court held that the undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy, which was based on a point system and was more rigid than the Law School's, was unconstitutional. [8] (http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/23/scotus.affirmative.action/)
  • In Peekskill, New York, a 10 month old baby girl survives a seven story fall. Her father, Willie Williams, takes her to the hospital, where she was treated for bruises and cuts, but Mr. Williams is later arrested on charges of attempted murder. [9] (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/06/23/baby.tossed.ap/index)

June 22, 2003

  • Real Madrid clinches the Primera división, the top football league in Spain, beating Real Sociedad by two points. The very next day, Real fires its manager, Vicente Del Bosque
  • Hundreds of US troops raid Iraqi homes in the town of Ramadi[?], fired up by the Ride of the Valkyries coming through loudspeakers, in a scene which Reuters reporter Alistair Lyon[?] describes as "a bizarre musical reprise from Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now." Meanwhile a group identifying itself as the Iraqi National Front of Fedayeen announces to increase attacks on US troops if they refuse to leave the occupied country. [10] (http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2966730)

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June 11, 2003

  • Three 160,000 year old human skulls unearthed in Ethiopia bridge an important gap in the human fossil record and lend support to the "out of Africa" single origin theory of human evolution. [19] (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993814)
  • Masquerading as an Orthodox Jew, a suicide bomber blows up a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, killing at least sixteen people. An Israeli helicopter attack in the Gaza Strip kills at least seven. [20] (http://www.haaretz.com)
  • Same-sex marriage in Canada: The attorney general of Ontario announces that his government will conform to yesterday's court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in that province.
  • US Baseball: Six Houston Astros pitchers combine to pitch a no-hitter against the New York Yankees. The game sets several records, including the most pitchers to combine for a no-hitter in Major League Baseball history, and a record for the Yankees for the most sequential games without being no-hit. [21] (http://yankees.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=nyy)

June 10, 2003

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June 8, 2003

  • After several days of violence and confusion in Mauritania, Pro-Israeli President Maaouiya Ould Taya[?] appears to have defeated the uprising against him. [25] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2974006.stm)
  • The Polish referendum on EU enlargement entrance finishes today; 78% of the voters voted to join the EU, with approximately 59% turnout.[26] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2973738.stm)
  • The presence of the monkeypox virus in the United States is confirmed with 4 cases in Wisconsin, sparking the first discovery of the virus in the Western Hemisphere. Dozens of suspected cases have appeared across three Midwest states, where pet enthusiasts came into contact with infected domestic prairie dogs, which caught the disease from the Gambian giant rat.

June 7, 2003

June 6, 2003

  • NASA investigators cracked a reinforced carbon fiber wing by shooting it with a piece of insulation, providing more evidence that falling insulation may have caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. [27] (http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aXLTzVP9S3j0&refer=us)

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