July 21, 2003 (Monday)
- npr.org's All Things Considered program aired a humorous article on the Wiki phenomenon, and on Wikipedia.org.
- Jong-Wook Lee becomes the new Director-General of the World Health Organization.
- SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit: SCO Group announces that it intends to sell binary-only licences to use the free Linux operating system which will remove the threat of litigation from licence-holders. Linux advocates react by stating that SCO has no basis for this action, and that doing this may cause SCO to forfeit their rights under the GNU GPL to use or distribute Linux or Linux-derived code in any form. SCO press release CNet story
- In Puerto Rico, 25 people are seriously injured after a roof collapse in a Vega Alta, Puerto Rico mall.[1] (in Spanish)
- ^ "El Vocero de Puerto Rico". Archived from the original on 22 February 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2015.