Portal:Current events/2003 September 5
September 5, 2003 (Friday)
- Hong Kong's leader Tung Chee-hwa announces that he will indefinitely postpone plans for an extremely unpopular security bill which sparked massive public protests and would have granted the government broad powers to prosecute vaguely defined threats to national security.[1]
- Palestinian Authority: Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas tells the Palestinian parliament to either support him or fire him, a move seen as making public for the first time his quarrel with Yasser Arafat.[2] VOA characterizes Mr. Abbas' ultimatum as the latest twist in a power struggle between him and Arafat, who is the President of the Palestinian Authority.[3]
- David Blaine begins a new stunt. He will stay in a small transparent capsule suspended 30 feet above the ground near Tower Bridge on London's River Thames without food for 44 days.[4]
- A train goes off the rails at a roller coaster at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, killing one.[5]
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Abbas feud with Arafat triggers job ultimatum". The Washington Times. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ "BBC NEWS - Entertainment - Blaine begins starvation stunt". Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "CNN.com - Disneyland probes roller coaster accident - Sep. 7, 2003". Retrieved 17 October 2015.