Portal:Current events/2003 April 12
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- Looting and lawlessness plague Baghdad. Hospitals looted, humanitarian aid hindered by unsafe conditions.,,[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10374-2003Apr11.html ]{{dead link|date=September 2015}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/92987.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050206134402/http://www.iht.com/articles/92987.html |archive-date=2005-02-06 |url-status=dead }}[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10795-2003Apr11.html ]{{dead link|date=September 2015}}
- Prince Laurent of Belgium marries British-born 'commoner' Claire Coombs at the St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral in Brussels.{{Cite web |url=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=%2Fafp%2F20030412%2Fen_afp%2Fbelgium_royals_people_030412150644 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041101175127/http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=%2Fafp%2F20030412%2Fen_afp%2Fbelgium_royals_people_030412150644 |archive-date=2004-11-01 |url-status=dead }}
- Poet Linda Gregerson receives the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection Waterborne. The award is presented annually by the Claremont Graduate University for a "mid-career poet". Joanie Mackowski receives the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
- Canadian scientists announce that they have sequenced the genome of the virus which is thought to cause Severe acute respiratory syndrome. The sequence is published on their website: http://www.bcgsc.ca/bioinfo/SARS/. (News item:{{Cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s831165.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040220120126/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s831165.htm |archive-date=2004-02-20 |url-status=dead }})
- 14th annual Thunder Over Louisville is held in Louisville, Kentucky.
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