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October 23, 2003 (2003-10-23) (Thursday)
  • Luis A. Ferré, the third Democratically Elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at age 99.
  • Canada: Dalton McGuinty is sworn in as the 24th premier of Ontario.[1]
  • Occupation of Iraq: There is every sign that the international conference in Madrid at which pledges to re-build Iraq are hoped for will disappoint and e.g. Paul Bremer seeks to lower expectations.[2][3]
  • United States Supreme Court: Before a conservative legal organization, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ridicules the recent Supreme Court decision overturning anti-sodomy laws in Texas, saying that the Court had "held to be a constitutional right what had been a criminal offense at the time of the founding and for nearly 200 years thereafter." According to news reports, Scalia adopted a mocking tone to read from the court's ruling.[4]
  • Kuwait AL Arabi football club beat Qadsia in the Kuwait derby 2–0.
  1. ↑ Archived March 23, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "BBC NEWS - Europe - Fears over Iraq aid shortfall". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Home - Arab News". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 12, 2005. Retrieved July 29, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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