Portal:Current events/2003 June 22
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June 22, 2003 (Sunday)
- Real Madrid clinches the Primera división, the top football league in Spain, beating Real Sociedad by two points. The very next day, Real Madrid 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.[1]
- The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska.
- ^ Miles, Tom (2009-02-09). "Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News | Reuters.com". Asia.reuters.com. Archived from the original on 2005-03-10. Retrieved 2015-12-22.