Portal:Current events/2003 July 20
< Portal:Current events
July 20, 2003 (Sunday)
- 16 people are injured after two bombs explode outside tax offices in Nice, France.[1]
- Richard Sambrook, the Director of BBC News reveals that Dr. David Kelly was the source of claims that Downing Street had "sexed up" the September Dossier. (see also: Dodgy Dossier)
- Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is in a coma at a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Uganda has refused permission for him to return.
- British Open (golf): Rookie Ben Curtis, ranked 396th in the world, becomes the first golfer to win a major golf tournament in the first attempt in more than 90 years.
- 14 people – a US family of 12 who had chartered the plane and the South African crew of 2 – die when a light plane crashes into Mount Kenya after taking off from Nairobi for Buffalo Springs National Reserve in northern Kenya.[2]
- ^ "BBC NEWS - Europe - Corsican lead in Nice blasts". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-03-19. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
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