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December 1, 2003 (2003-12-01 ) (Monday)
Occupation of Iraq :
The firefight in which more than 50
Iraqis are reported killed is now thought to have been an attempted
currency heist.
[1]
One
GI is killed Monday in fighting west of
Baghdad .
[2]
World AIDS Day :
The
UN 's
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda hands down a life sentence to Juvenal Kajelijeli, a former mayor of Mukingo,
Nyanza District , for his role in the
1994
genocide in which more than 500,000
Rwandans were killed.
[7]
King Harald V of Norway is announced to be suffering from
cancer of the bladder ; he will be operated on next Monday,
December 8 . During the King's illness and two to three month convalescence,
Crown Prince Haakon will be acting
regent .
[8]
President
Chen Shui-bian says that the hundreds of missiles the
People's Republic of China has aimed at
Taiwan justifies holding a referendum on
independence . The referendum bill recently passed by the
Legislative Yuan only allows votes on sovereignty if
the country is attacked by a foreign power.
[9]
Boeing
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
Phil Condit resigns, a week after the
aviation giant fires its
Chief Financial Officer in an
ethics
scandal . The move comes as the company faces scrutiny by the
Defense Department for a government plan to acquire
Boeing 767 planes for use as
refueling tankers and answers questions about the ousters of two executives for ethical misconduct during the period it was being negotiated. Former
McDonnell Douglas CEO
Harry Stonecipher will succeed Condit as CEO, while former
Hewlett-Packard chairman and CEO
Lewis Platt takes over as chairman.
[10]
In
Flandreau, South Dakota ,
jury selection begins in the
manslaughter
trial of former
South Dakota Governor and current
US Congressman
Bill Janklow .
[11]
The
cross country cycling organization "
LOCO " was founded in
Shreveport /
Bossier City .
The
Xbox Music Mixer was released.