Portal:Current events/2003 April 11
April 11, 2003 (Friday)
- The northern Iraqi city of Mosul falls to coalition forces as the Iraqi army's fifth Corps offers a letter of surrender. The only remaining major city left to fall is Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, where some expect the remaining regime loyalists to make their final stand.[1]
- Europe's largest civil engineering project, and the world's largest single metro expansion project, is officially opened in Madrid. MetroSur, a 40-kilometre loop of the Madrid Metro in the southern suburbs of the city, took under three years to complete.
- Cuba executes three men charged with terrorism for hijacking a passenger ferry on April 2. Another four men receive life sentences.[2]
- In response to Baseball Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey's April 8 decision to cancel a 15th anniversary celebration of "Bull Durham, sportswriter Roger Kahn cancels a planned appearance at the baseball museum.[3]
- Tom Hurndall, a British photojournalist is shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in Rafah, Gaza Strip.
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