Portal:Current events/2008 March 27
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Current events of
March 27
,
2008
(
2008-03-27
)
(Thursday)
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2008 Mahdi Army revolt
:
Iraqi
authorities impose a
curfew
until Sunday in a bid to stop clashes with
Shiite
militants.
(AFP via France 24)
Geert Wilders
releases his controversial anti-
Islam
film,
Fitna
.
(BBC News)
Puerto Rican
Governor
Aníbal Salvador Acevedo Vilá
and twelve others are charged with
electoral fraud
.
(Reuters)
Germany
scraps plans to build the
Transrapid
high-speed
monorail
link between the
Bavarian
capital
Munich
and its
airport
because of a massive overrun in costs.
(Deutsche Welle)
Airbus
parent
EADS
wins a
£
13 billion contract for airtankers from the
United Kingdom
.
(
The International Herald Tribune
)
(Wikinews)
The oldest known recording of a human
voice
, created with a
phonautograph
by
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
on
April 9
,
1860
is replayed by American researchers.
(
The New York Times
)
A gunman opens fire at Doctors Hospital in
Columbus
,
Georgia
,
United States
, killing two people and critically wounding one other who later died of his injuries before being shot and wounded by police.
(WTVM)
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