Portal:Current events/2003 March 6
March 6, 2003 (Thursday)
- Britain: Abdullah el-Faisal is jailed for nine years for urging Islamists to kill non-believers, Americans, Hindus and Jews.[1]
- Cuban President Fidel Castro is elected unopposed to a sixth term. He has served as the head of Cuba's government for 44 years—longer than any other living head of government.
- New Scientist magazine reports a paper by Robert R. Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski and Nevin N. Weinberg which puts forward the hypothesis that the end of the Universe may possibly occur as a "Big Rip", which will shred the physical structure of the Universe.[2]
- The SCO Group, formerly Caldera, the current owner of the rights to the Unix operating system, sues IBM for $1 billion for "devaluing" Unix, claiming that IBM employees who signed Non-disclosure agreements worked on the Linux operating system.
- The European Central Bank cut its reference rate by 0.25%
- Vivendi reported a corporate loss of 23.3 billion euros, the largest loss ever for a French company.
- Koei's Dynasty Warriors 3 receives Animation Magazine's "Best Overall Game Animation" award.
- Air Algérie Flight 6289, a Boeing 737, crashes after take off from Tamanrasset, Algeria. A total of 96 passengers and 6 crew were killed, while 1 passenger survived.
- ^ "Muslim cleric: 9 years for urging murder". UPI.com. 2003-03-07. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
- ^ Caldwell, Robert R.; Kamionkowski, Marc; Weinberg, Nevin N. (2003-02-25). "Phantom Energy: Dark Energy withCauses a Cosmic Doomsday". Physical Review Letters. 91 (7) 071301. arXiv:astro-ph/0302506. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.071301. PMID 12935004.
