United States troops shoot dead two former Iraq i soldiers who were protesting that they had not been paid since their country was occupied.
Following an international outrcy, the Romania n government retracts an official statement that no Holocaust occurred on its territory during the Second World War .
Linus Torvalds announces that he will take a leave of absence from his job at Transmeta to work full-time at OSDL on the Linux kernel.
government announces that it will not appeal the Ontario appeals court ruling that permitted Same-sex Marriage . Instead, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien indicates that his government will introduce legislation to change the definition of marriage but protect the rights of churches to decide which marriages they will solemnize.
