December 22, 2003
- After getting FCC approval on December 19, News Corporation Ltd. completed a US$7. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation 6 billion cash and stock deal to buy control of Hughes Electronics and its DirecTV satellite television division from General Motors. The DIRECTV Group Inc ( is an American Direct broadcast satellite Television company formerly known as Hughes Electronics. DirecTV (trademarked as "DIREC' TV' " is a Direct broadcast satellite (DBS service based in El Segundo California, USA, that was founded General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. [1]
- The People's Republic of China plans to peg its currency, the yuan, to a basket of ten currencies instead of only the U.S. dollar, according to its state press. Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of Goods and/or services It is one form of Money, where money is The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been [2]
- Parmalat is likely to declare "controlled administration" as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said the government would intervene and "above all save the industrial part of the company and jobs". Parmalat SpA ( is a Multinational Italian Dairy and food corporation In Italy, the Prime Minister of Italy (officially the President of the Council of Ministers, Italian Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri) is the country's (born 29 September 1936 is an Italian politician, Entrepreneur, Real estate and Insurance Tycoon, Bank and Media proprietor The politics of Italy take place in a framework of a parliamentary, democratic Republic, and of a Multi-party system. [3]
- Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher is assaulted by Palestinians during prayer at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a governmental cabinet minister who helps form the Foreign policy of a sovereign nation Ahmed Maher (احمد ماهر) (born September 14, 1935) was the Foreign minister of Egypt from 2001 until 2004 Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn Prayer is the act of attempting to communicate with a Deity or spirit Al-Aqsa Mosque ( Arabic:المسجد الاقصى /æl'mæsdʒɪd æl'ɑqsˁɑ/ {{Audio|ArAqsaMosque Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the Mr. Maher was taken to an Israeli hospital for observation as a result of the incident after being treated at the scene by the Magen David Adom. The Magen David Adom (מגן דוד אדום abbr MDA or Mada) is Israel 's national emergency medical, disaster, Ambulance After several hours care in the hospital, he was escorted to his airplane by an Israeli cardiologist and paramedic. [4] [5]
- A list of people who have declined a British honour was leaked to The Sunday Times. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The list includes David Bowie, David Hockney, Aldous Huxley, Nigella Lawson, and Harold Pinter. David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. David Hockney, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937 is an English Artist, based in Los Angeles California, United States Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 &ndash 22 November 1963 was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960 is an English food writer, Journalist and broadcaster [6], [7], [8]
- The Gulf Cooperation Council announces that they will revise school textbooks and remove from them material describing followers of other religions as infidels and enemies of Islam. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf ( CCASG; مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council Infidel (literally "one without faith" is an English word meaning "one who doubts or rejects central tenets of a Religion or For other meanings including people named 'Islam' see Islam (disambiguation. [9]
- SCO v. IBM:
- SCO claims in a press release to be sending DMCA notification letters alleging copyright infringement [10][11]
- Linus Torvalds says, in a post to the Linux kernel mailing list, ". SCO v IBM is a civil Lawsuit in the United States District Court of Utah. The SCO Group Inc ( TSG, informally SCO;) is a software company formerly called Caldera Systems and Caldera International. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA is a United States Copyright Law which implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Linus Benedict Torvalds ( ˈtuːrvalds born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer Linux is an operating system kernel used by a family of Unix-like Operating systems These are popularly termed Linux operating systems and A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients . . I think we can totally _demolish_ the SCO claim that these 65 files were somehow "copied". They clearly are not. " [12]
- Novell has also registered their claim to the copyright of original UNIX source code, effectively challenging SCO's registration of the same code [13] [14]
- An earthquake strikes near San Simeon, California, at 19:15 UTC (11:15 PST). Novell Inc ( is a global Software Corporation based in the United States specializing in enterprise operating systems such as SUSE Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth 's crust that creates Seismic waves Earthquakes are recorded with a Seismometer San Simeon ( ZIP Code: 93452 Area code 805) is an unincorporated settlement on the Pacific coast of San Luis Obispo County California. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The quake registers a 6. 5 magnitude on the Richter magnitude scale, and causes two deaths from the collapse of a building in the town of Paso Robles. The Richter magnitude scale, or more correctly local magnitude M L scale assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released Paso Robles (full name El Paso de Robles) is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. [15],[16]
- The Philippines declares a calamity in a southern province after floods killed up to 209 people. The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP [17]
- Drive-By Truckers' bassist, Earl Hicks, leaves the band and is replaced by Shonna Tucker. Drive-By Truckers are a Rock band based in Athens Georgia, though three out of five members (Mike Cooley Patterson Hood and Shonna Tucker originally hail
- Brett Favre played one of the most memorable games of his career, leading the Green Bay Packers to a win over the Oakland Raiders, 41-7, the day after the death of his father, Irvin. Brett Lorenzo Favre (ˈfɑrv (born October 10 1969 is an American football Quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay Wisconsin. The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland California.
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