Portal:Current events/2003 May 26
May 26, 2003 (Monday)
- A Ukrainian YAk-42 plane crashes in northeast Turkey, near the city of Trabzon, killing all aboard. The plane carried 12 crew-members and 62 Spanish soldiers returning from a six-month peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan.[1]
- A draft of the proposed European constitution is unveiled.[2]
- In the city of Munich (Germany), the SPD and Greens, who have a city hall majority, decide in separate meetings to migrate 14,000 city-owned Windows NT PC workstations to the SUSE Linux operating system. In spite of personal meetings with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and substantial rebates offered on a Microsoft solution, Munich now becomes the largest German city to migrate all of its client PCs to Linux. As an office suite, OpenOffice.org will be used.[3]
- Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia.
- ^ "Spain minister to visit crash site". CNN. May 26, 2003. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ "Excerpts: Europe's draft constitution". BBC News. June 21, 2004. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Andreas Wilkens (26 May 2003). "Münchener Rathaus-SPD entscheidet sich für Linux [Update]". heise online. Retrieved 24 October 2015.