Timeline 2001 April-June
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2001 Apr 1,
The Pritzker Prize for Architecture was awarded to Jacques Herzog
and Pierre de Mueron of Basel, Switzerland.
(SFC, 4/2/01, p.D1)
2001 Apr 1, Notre Dame won its
first national championship in women's basketball, defeating Purdue,
66-64.
(AP, 4/1/02)
2001 Apr 1, A US Navy EP-3
surveillance plane with 24 aboard collided with a Chinese fighter
jet over the South China Sea and was forced to land on China's
Hainan island. The fighter jet crashed. Chinese pilot Wang Wei
parachuted out of his F-8 jet but had not been found. Zhao Yu, a 2nd
pilot, later blamed the US plane banked and hit Wei’s plane. None of
the 24 crew members was hurt, but they were held prisoner by the
Chinese for a tense 11 days.
(SFC, 4/2/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/2/01, p.A1)(SFC,
4/4/01, p.A13)(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A13)(AP, 4/1/02)
2001 Apr 1, In Columbia weekend
fighting between leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups
left at least 35 people dead.
(WSJ, 4/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 1, In Kenya a bus
rammed a vehicle on a bridge and both plunged into the Sabaki River.
At least 35 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/14/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 1, In Serbia Former
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption
charges after a 26-hour armed standoff with the police at his
Belgrade villa.
(SSFC, 4/1/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/1/02)
2001 cApr 1, In Sri Lanka
bombings at a concert set off a stampede that left 11 dead and 150
injured at Kurunegala.
(WSJ, 4/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 2, Duke won its third
national men's basketball championship (NCAA) with an 82-to-72
victory over Arizona for the.
(WSJ, 4/4/01, p.A18)(AP, 4/2/02)
2001 Apr 2, Pres. Bush demanded
that the Chinese release the US Navy crew and spy plane that had
made an emergency landing on China’s Hainan Island after colliding
with a Chinese fighter.
(SFC, 4/3/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/3/01, p.A1)(AP,
4/2/02)
2001 Apr 2, Pres. Bush met with
Egypt’s Pres. Mubarak and both pledged to continue searching for an
end to Middle East violence.
(WSJ, 4/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 2, Vincent Cianci Jr.
(59), mayor of Providence, RI, was indicted by a federal grand jury
on racketeering charges. Cianci was convicted on a single count of
racketeering conspiracy in Jun, 2002, and sentenced to 5 years and 4
months in jail on Sep 6. In 2003 Mike Stanton authored "The Prince
of Providence," a biography of Cianci.
(SFC, 4/3/01, p.A2)(SFC, 6/25/02, p.A4)(SFC,
9/7/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 8/5/03, p.D5)
2001 Apr 2, The town of Edgar
Springs, Mo., was named the population center of the US. It marked
the point where the US would balance if its 281 million population
were equally distributed. The actual center was 3 miles east of
town.
(SFC, 4/3/01, p.A2)
2001 Apr 2, Scientists reported
new evidence for "dark energy" and believed that it was causing the
universe to expand faster with time.
(SFC, 4/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 2, An Israeli
helicopter rocketed a truck and killed an Islamic Jihad militant. In
Bethlehem a sniper killed an Israeli soldier.
(WSJ, 4/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 2, In Japan the new
freedom of information law went into effect 2 years after it was
approved by Parliament.
(SSFC, 4/15/01, p.D4)
2001 Apr 2, In Nepal a Maoist
insurgency killed at least 38 people.
(SFC, 4/3/01, p.A9)
2001 Apr 3, President Bush
warned China it risked damaging relations with the United States
unless it quickly released the American crew of a damaged Navy spy
plane. The plane had made an emergency landing in China after
colliding with a Chinese fighter.
(AP, 4/3/02)
2001 Apr 3, The DJIA fell 292
to 9,485. The Nasdaq fell almost 110 to 1,673.
(SFC, 4/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 3, US agents seized
over 7 tons of marijuana from a tractor-trailer at the Tijuana
border. It was believed to be the largest seizure along the
US-Mexican border and was valued at $12.1 million.
(SFC, 4/5/01, p.A4)
2001 Apr 3, A US fishing boat,
the Arctic Rose out of Seattle, sank in the Bering Sea and all 15
aboard were feared dead.
(WSJ, 4/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 3, Israel fired
rockets at 4 Gaza Strip targets after a 10-year-old boy was injured
in a mortar assault on a Jewish settlement.
(SFC, 4/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 3, In Russia Pres.
Putin in his state-of-the-nation address promised a government-wide
shakeup to reverse capital flight and sustain new economic growth.
(SFC, 4/4/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 4/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 3, In Russia the NTV
leadership was ousted by Gazprom, a large stake holder. Protesting
journalists barred access to the Ostankino studios.
(WSJ, 4/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 3, Sri Lanka agreed to
open peace talks with Tamil rebels following diplomatic initiative
by Norway.
(WSJ, 4/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 4, Hideo Nomo became
the fourth pitcher in major league history to throw a no-hitter in
both leagues with Boston's 3-to-0 victory over Baltimore. Nomo, who
threw a no-hitter for Los Angeles in 1996, joined Cy Young, Jim
Bunning and Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers with no-hitters in both
leagues.
(AP, 4/4/02)
2001 Apr 4, US diplomats met
with 24 US crew members held by the Chinese military on Hainan
island. Colin Powell issued a statement of regret over the loss of
the Chinese pilot involved in the incident. Powell also sent a
letter to China’s chief foreign policy official outlining ways of
settlement.
(SFC, 4/4/01, p.A1)(SFC, 4/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 4, The US Pentagon
reportedly destroyed its last canister of napalm, a jellied gasoline
used extensively during the Vietnam war. It was developed in 1942 by
Harvard and Army chemists who combined naphthene and palmitate. It
was made by Dow Chemical from 1965-1969.
(SFC, 4/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 4, Myriad Genetics
announced a plan, with partners Oracle and Hitachi, to map out how
human proteins interact.
(WSJ, 4/5/01, p.B1)
2001 Apr 4, Chinese President
Jiang Zemin demanded the United States apologize for the collision
between a U.S. Navy spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet; the Bush
administration offered a chorus of regrets, but no apology.
(AP, 4/4/02)
2001 Apr 4, In Israel an
armored personnel carrier accidentally overturned in the West Bank
and 5 soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 4/5/01, p.A11)
2001 Apr 4, In Sudan Col.
Ibrahim Shamsul-Din, deputy defense minister, and 13 other high
ranking military officers were killed as their Antonov plane crashed
on takeoff in Adaril.
(SFC, 4/5/01, p.A11)
2001 Apr 5, Wang Zhizhi of
China, 7 feet and 1 inch tall, made his NBA debut for the Dallas
Mavericks. Wang Zhizhi became the first Chinese player to play in
the NBA when he took the court for Dallas against Atlanta. He scored
six points and grabbed three rebounds as the Mavericks beat the
Hawks 108-to-94.
(SSFC, 4/15/01, p.A17)(AP, 4/5/02)
2001 Apr 5, The United States
and China intensified negotiations for the release of an American
spy plane's crew; President Bush, in a conciliatory gesture,
expressed regret over the plane's Apr 1 in-flight collision with a
Chinese fighter that triggered the tense standoff.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/5/02)
2001 Apr 5, The DJIA rose 402
to 9,918, its 2nd largest point gain ever. The Nasdaq rose 146 to
1,785, its 3rd biggest % increase.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.A1)
2001 April 5, Michelle Curran
(16) was reported missing in Las Vegas. She was kidnapped as she
hitchhiked, sexually abused for three weeks, and then shot in the
head. In 2006 Michael Thorton (50) and Janeen Snyder (26) were both
found guilty of murder, rape with a foreign object, and burglary.
The pair were sentenced to death.
(http://tinyurl.com/fww93)(SFC, 9/9/06, p.B2)
2001 cApr 5, Presidents Robert
Kocharian of Armenia and Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan met in Key
West, Fla., for negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh. A new $2.7 billion
oil pipeline from Baku to Ceyhan, Turkey, was expected to pass just
north of the area. Halliburton Co., was a finalist in engineering
bids for the line and Vice President Chaney was the former chief
executive of Halliburton. National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice
formerly served on the Board of Directors for Chevron, a player in
the pipeline bid.
(SFC, 4/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 5, Dutch driver Perry
Wacker was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 14 years in
prison in the deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants who suffocated in his
truck in Dover, England.
(AP, 4/5/02)
2001 Apr 5, Iyad Hardan, head
of Sarai al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, was killed
in the explosion of a booby trapped pay phone in the West Bank.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.A16)
2001 Apr 5, In Mexico Brig.
Gen. Ricardo Martinez was arrested with aides Capt. Pedro Maya and
Lt. Javier Quevedo on drug trafficking charges.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Apr 5, In the Philippines
former Pres. Estrada was indicted for allegedly pocketing $82
million in kickbacks and payoffs over his 2 ½ years in
office.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.D6)
2001 Apr 6, US officials
announced some progress toward the release of 24 military personnel
in China and hoped to establish a joint US-China commission to
examine the April 1 collision of a US spy plane and Chinese jet.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.1)
2001 Apr 6, Algerian national
Ahmed Ressam, accused of bringing explosives into the United States
just days before the millennium celebrations, was convicted twice in
the same day — first in France for belonging to a group supporting
Islamic militants, then in Los Angeles on terror charges.
(AP, 4/6/02)
2001 Apr 6, US unemployment was
reported to be 4.3%, the highest since July, 1999.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.D1)
2001 Apr 6, In California
PG&E filed for bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt in an offshoot
of the California energy crisis. Just before filing the utility
awarded bonuses and raises to 6,000 senior managers and other
employees. SF Judge Dennis Montali was assigned the case.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A1,3)(AP, 4/6/02)
2001 Apr 6, Bosnian Croats
stoned NATO peacekeepers after police and troops seized the
Hercegovacka Banka and its 10 branches. The bank was believed to be
used by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) to promote a separate
Croatian ministate.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 6, In Japan Parliament
approved its 1st law to protect victims of domestic violence.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A11)
2001 Apr 6, In Pakistan the
Supreme Court set aside the conviction of Benazir Bhutto and her
imprisoned husband Asif Ali Zardari and ordered a retrial.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 7, In Cincinnati
Timothy Thomas (19), an unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor
warrants, was fatally shot by a white police officer. The shooting
led to city-wide riots. Officer Stephen Roach was later charged with
negligent homicide and obstructing official business.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.A10)(SFC, 5/8/01, p.A3)(AP,
4/7/02)
2001 Apr 7, The $297 million
Mars Odyssey was launched on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey
to the Red Planet and was expected to arrive near Mars Oct 24. A
2-year orbit to map the planet’s chemistry and minerals was planned.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A2)(SSFC, 4/8/01, p.A13)(AP,
4/7/02)
2001 Apr 7, Actress Beatrice
Straight died in Los Angeles at age 86.
(AP, 4/7/02)
2001 Apr 7, China rejected US
statements of regret and continued to demand an apology for the
April 1 collision between a US spy plane and Chinese jet.
(SSFC, 4/8/01, p.C1)
2001 Apr 7, In Iran 40-42
people were arrested including members of the opposition Freedom
Movement. The Revolutionary Court said some were linked to the
Iraq-based Mujahedeen Khalq.
(SFC, 4/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 7, The weeklong Jewish
Passover began at sundown.
(SSFC, 4/8/01, p.C3)
2001 Apr 7, In the Philippines
Manila went dark for 14 hours when a transmission line overloaded
and cut power to 35 million people.
(WSJ, 4/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 7, In Vietnam a
Russian-made M-17 helicopter carrying a team searching for American
MIAs crashed and all aboard were reported killed. Rescuers recovered
the bodies of 9 Vietnamese and 7 Americans the next day.
(SSFC, 4/8/01, p.C2)(SFC, 4/9/01, p.A7)
2001 Apr 8, Eldrick Tiger Woods
won the Masters golf tournament, his 4th straight major championship
in a span of 294 days.
(SFC, 4/9/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/8/02)
2001 Apr 8, Sec. of State Colin
Powell expressed sorrow for the Chinese pilot lost on Apr 1, but the
Chinese continued to demand that the US apologize reiterated a
demand that the US stop all military surveillance off the Chinese
coast. US officials said Pres. Bush was sending a letter to the wife
of a missing Chinese fighter pilot as a humanitarian gesture. The
pilot's plane had collided with a US spy plane, forcing the spy
plane to make an emergency landing in China.
(SFC, 4/9/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/8/02)
2001 Apr 8, It was reported
that foot-and-mouth disease was endemic in Asia and that 3,282 cases
were confirmed in Hong Kong over the past year.
(SSFC, 4/7/01, p.C3)
2001 Apr 8, In Nepal Maoist
rebels killed 28 policemen over the weekend. The government said it
was ready to begin talks, but the top opposition party wanted the
premier to quit.
(WSJ, 4/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 8, In Peru Alejandro
Toledo (55) led the presidential elections with 36% of the vote. A
runoff was planned with Alan Garcia who received 25.7%.
(SFC, 4/9/01, p.A7)
2001 Apr 9, President George W.
Bush sent Congress details of his $1.96 trillion budget for fiscal
2002, in which he targeted scores of federal programs to make room
for his 10-year, $1.6 trillion tax cut.
(AP, 4/9/02)
2001 Apr 9, The WSJ noted that
his was the 10th time since WW II that the S&P 500 dropped by
20% or more. 9 of the previous occasions showed an average gain of
18% a year later. In 1973, however, stocks fell an additional 35%.
(WSJ, 4/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 9, The Nasdaq 4,880
stocks completed pricings to dollars and cents instead of fractions.
(WSJ, 4/9/01, p.C9)
2001 Apr 9, American Airlines
completed the acquisition of bankrupt Trans World Airlines (TWA) and
became the world’s largest air carrier.
(SFC, 4/10/01, p.C4)(AP, 4/9/02)
2001 Apr 9, Willie Stargell
(b.1940), baseball Hall-of-Famer (1987) died in Wilmington, N.C., at
age 61.
(AP, 4/9/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Apr 9, In Burundi
villagers were caught in crossfire fighting between the army and
Hutu rebels. 11-30 people were killed and thousands were forced to
flee their homes.
(SFC, 4/12/01, p.C2)
2001 Apr 9, In Kosovo a British
helicopter crashed near the Macedonia border and 2 people were
killed with 5 injured.
(SFC, 4/10/01, p.A11)
2001 Apr 9, In Pakistan
hundreds of thousands of radical Muslims, followers of the Deoband
Dar-ul-Uloom brand of Islam, gathered for a rally in Peshawar.
(SFC, 4/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 9, In Zimbabwe riot
police clashed with university students and one was killed with 30
injured. The students protested "sugar daddies" who pursued
impoverished female students.
(WSJ, 4/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 10, Pres. Bush met
with Jordan’s King Abdullah and both agreed that ending violence in
the Middle East was the main goal for the region.
(WSJ, 4/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 10, Republican Jane
Swift took office as the first female governor of Massachusetts,
succeeding Paul Cellucci, who'd resigned to become U.S. ambassador
to Canada.
(AP, 4/10/02)
2001 Apr 10, Rap star Eminem
was placed on two years' probation for carrying a concealed weapon
outside a Michigan nightclub.
(AP, 4/10/02)
2001 Apr 10, The DJIA went up
257 to 10,102. The Nasdaq increased 106 to 1,852.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.B1)
2001 Apr 10, Doctors in San
Diego implanted genetically modified cells in to the brain of a
60-year-old woman with early Alzheimer’s disease in an effort to
slow her mental decline.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 10, In Dhaka,
Bangladesh, a general strike for the resignation of prime minister
Sheikh Hasina left 3 people dead after supporters and opponents
clashed with guns and homemade bombs.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C5)
2001 Apr 10, Germany’s PM
Schroeder ended 2 days of talks with Pres. Putin of Russia, but no
agreement was reached on Russian debt.
(WSJ, 4/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 10, Israeli rockets
were fired at a Palestinian police post next to the Khan Yunis
refugee camp. At least 25 Palestinians were wounded.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C2)
2001 Apr 10, Malaysia arrested
at least 4 opposition leaders as the 2 year anniversary approached
of jailed former Deputy Premier Anwar’s conviction.
(WSJ, 4/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 10, In Netherlands the
Senate legalized euthanasia gave doctors immunity from prosecution
for assisting in the deaths of terminally ill patients.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C2)(AP, 4/10/02)
2001 Apr 10, In Singapore
doctors completed a 4-day operation to separate 11-month-old Siamese
twins, Jamuna and Ganga Shrestha of Nepal. The girls had joined
heads.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C3)
2001 Apr 11, Ending a tense
11-day standoff, China released the 24 US spy plane crew members
detained since April 1. US text was released with the words
"sincerely regret" and translated to "chengzhi yihan." In China the
text was translated to "shenbiao qianyi" meaning "deeply sorry."
Beijing kept the spy plane pending an investigation and more talks.
(SFC, 4/12/01, p.A1,14)(WSJ, 4/12/01, p.A1)(AP,
4/11/02)
2001 Apr 11, In northern India
8 Islamic separatists and 2 government soldiers were killed in gun
battles in Jammu and Kashmir.
(SFC, 4/12/01, p.C2)
2001 Apr 11, Israel sent tanks
and bulldozers into the Khan Yunis refugee camp and demolished over
2 dozen homes. 2 Palestinians were killed and 25 injured in ground
fighting.
(SFC, 4/12/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 4/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 11, In South Africa 43
people were killed in a stampede at a soccer game in Ellis Park
Stadium in Johannesburg. Over 150 were injured.
(SFC, 4/12/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 11, In Turkey as many
an 130,000 protesters in several cities fought with police and
called for the resignation of PM Ecevit due to the economic crises.
(SFC, 4/12/01, p.C2)
2001 Apr 12, The 24 crew
members of a US spy plane arrived in Hawaii after being held for 11
days in China. Pres. Bush blamed the Chinese for the midair
collision of the US spy plane and a Chinese jet and rebuffed demands
to end reconnaissance flights off the coast of China. In 2006 it was
revealed that Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to the US,
negotiated the release of the crew on behalf of Pres. Bush.
(SFC, 4/13/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/12/06)(WSJ, 10/11/06,
p.D10)
2001 Apr 12, Maryland banned
farming of genetically modified fish in waters linked to other
bodies.
(WSJ, 4/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 12, In Cincinnati
Mayor Charles Luken declared a state of emergency and imposed a
citywide curfew and other measures to prevent a 4th night of riots
following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by police. This
was the worst outbreak of racial violence in the city since the
aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
(SFC, 4/13/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/11/02)
2001 Apr 12, It was reported
that anti-seizure drugs caused higher than normal birth defects
among children born to epileptic mothers.
(SFC, 4/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 12, Tornadoes killed
at least 4 people in Iowa, Missouri and Oklahoma.
(WSJ, 4/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 12, Harvey Ball
(b.1921), creator of the yellow “smiley face” (1963), died.
(NW, 12/31/01, p.107)
2001 Apr 12, In Chad a trailer
truck carrying some 100 passengers went off the Chagoua Bridge and
plunged into the Chari River near the capital of N’Djamena. Most
were missing and feared dead.
(SFC, 4/14/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 12, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid abandoned attempts to negotiate with separatist rebels in Aceh
and ordered his troops to resume fighting.
(SFC, 4/13/01, p.A15)
2001 Apr 12, In the Philippines
government troops raided the Abu Sayyaf rebel camp on Jolo Island
and freed Jeffrey Schilling. Some of the rebels were killed and
others wounded.
(SFC, 4/13/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/11/02)
2001 Apr 13, With the crew of a
U.S. spy plane safely back in the United States, American officials
gave their detailed version of what happened when the plane collided
with a Chinese fighter on April 1; the United States said its plane
was struck by the jet. China maintained that the U.S. plane rammed
the fighter.
(AP, 4/13/02)
2001 Apr 13, It was reported
that new evidence from ocean surveys supported the idea of global
warming due to "greenhouse gases."
(SFC, 4/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 13, In China a 5.9
earthquake hit Yunnan province and at least 7 people were killed.
42,000 homes were destroyed in the Shidian area.
(SFC, 4/21/01, p.A24)
2001 Apr 13, In France up to
15,000 people were evacuated from the region of Vimy due to fears of
explosions from a World War I bomb storage site.
(SFC, 4/14/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 14, The 21 men and 3
women crew of the US spy plane who were held in China for 11 days
landed at their home base, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in
Washington, where they were greeted by thousands of friends, family
members and other well-wishers.
(SSFC, 4/15/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/14/02)
2001 Apr 14, It was reported
that 8 cases of childhood leukemia were recorded in 2000 in the area
of Fallon, Nevada. 12 children were diagnosed with leukemia since
1997 and high levels of arsenic in the drinking water was suspected.
Jet fuel at a nearby air base and a nuclear detonation in 1963, and
pesticides were also cited as possible causes. In 2002 a 16th case
was reported.
(SFC, 4/14/01, p.A6)(SFC, 7/29/02, p.A4)
2001 Apr 14, As many as 250
suspected child slaves were returned to Benin after being stranded
for weeks on a ship with limited supplies.
(SSFC, 4/15/01, p.D1)
2001 Apr 14, In Russia Gazprom
security forces seized the NTV headquarters in Moscow. Scores of
correspondents quit en masse.
(SSFC, 4/15/01, p.D1)
2001 Apr 15, Joey Ramone, punk
rock icon, died of cancer in NYC at age 49. The Ramones punk rock
group released their 1st album "Ramones" in 1976. Joey Ramone’s
"Don’t Worry About Me" album was released in 2002. Ramone was born
in 1951 as Jeffrey Hyman.
(AP, 4/15/02)(SFC, 4/17/01, p.C2)(WSJ, 2/22/02,
p.W7)(NW, 12/31/01, p.111)
2001 cApr 15, Australia
indicated that it would not ratify the Kyoto treaty to reduce
carbon-dioxide emissions and said the treaty is probably defunct now
that the US has repudiated it.
(WSJ, 4/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 15, Benin authorities
sought Staneslas Abatan and 2 collaborators believed to be
responsible for the child slave ship off the coast of the Gulf of
Guinea. It was reported that human cargo had been shipped from Benin
to Gabon on the ship MV Etireno over the past 5 years. The Etireno
was later reported to have been confused with another ship, which
was missing. The slave ship was later held to be a false alarm. 30
of the children on the ferry remained unclaimed after 3 days at
dock.
(SFC, 4/16/01, p.A8)(SFC, 4/17/01, p.A10)(SFC,
4/18/01, p.A13)(SFC, 4/21/01, p.A16)
2001 Apr 15, In Brazil a prison
takeover in Cuiaba ended when inmates killed 6 leaders of the
rebellion after they took visitors hostage.
(WSJ, 4/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 15, In China police
opened fire on villagers who opposed high local taxes and fees in
Yuntang. 2 were killed and at least 18 wounded.
(SFC, 4/20/01, p.A16)
2001 cApr 15, In Colombia 32
peasant bodies were pulled from a fresh shallow grave and a
right-wing death squad was accused of the killing.
(WSJ, 4/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 15, Rebels in Congo
backed by Rwanda blocked the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Goma
and demanded that the UN first condemn atrocities by Congo.
(WSJ, 4/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 15, U.N. investigators
arrested Bosnian Serb army officer Dragan Obrenovic in connection
with the Serbian Army's slaughter of as many as 7,000 Muslim men and
boys. Obrenovic later pleaded guilty to five war crimes charges and
testified against his one-time superior officers; he was sentenced
to 17 years in prison.
(AP, 4/15/06)
2001 Apr 16, The Oregonian of
Portland won two Pulitzer Prizes, including public service for its
examination of widespread abuses by the Immigration and
Naturalization Service. In breaking news reporting, The Miami Herald
won for its coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents who took
custody of Elian Gonzalez; the story also produced the breaking news
photography award for Alan Diaz of The Associated Press. Michael
Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier and Clay"; David Auburn won for his play "Proof."
(SFC, 4/17/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/17/01, p.A1)(AP,
4/16/02)
2001 Apr 16, Lee Bong-ju of
South Korea won the 105th Boston Marathon in 2:09:43. Catherine
Ndereba of Kenya won the women's race in 2:23:53 for the second
consecutive year.
(WSJ, 4/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/16/02)
2001 Apr 16, In Afghanistan
Mullah Mohammed Rabbani, the 2nd most powerful man of the Taliban
militia, died of cancer.
(SFC, 4/17/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 16, In Colombia a
leftist rebel group seized some 100 contract employees of a US oil
firm. All the workers were later released.
(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A13)(WSJ, 4/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 16, Iran and Saudi
Arabia signed a pact to fight terrorism and drug trafficking.
(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A13)
2001 Apr 16, Israeli warplanes
struck deep in Lebanon and attacked a Syrian radar site. 3 Syrians
were killed. In the evening Israeli helicopters hit Palestinian
positions in Gaza in retaliation for a mortar attack on an Israeli
town. Bulldozers were sent to tear up farmland near Beit Hanoun, the
suspected source of the mortar fire.
(SFC, 4/16/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 4/16/01, p.A1)(SFC,
4/17/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 16, In Russia Gazprom
closed down Sevodnya, the independent daily newspaper of Vladimir
Gusinsky, as well as his weekly magazine.
(SFC, 4/17/01, p.a10)
2001 Apr 17, San Francisco
Giants slugger Barry Bonds became the 17th major leaguer ever to
reach 500 career home runs.
(AP, 4/17/02)
2001 Apr 17, US envoys arrived
in China to resolved issues of the US spy plane collision with a
Chinese jet.
(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 17, In Mississippi
voters decided to keep the Confederate emblem on the state flag by a
margin of 65 to 35%.
(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 17, Internet access
(www.ellisislandrecords.org) to Ellis Island records became
available.
(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 17, In Belgium a jury
was selected for the trial of 4 Rwandans charged with the 1994
massacre of Tutsis.
(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 17, In Brazil a group
of 20, who claimed to be armed with syringes of the AIDS virus,
kidnapped 4 armored car workers and their families. The Proforte
armored car company handed over $2.5 million the next day.
(SFC, 4/19/01, p.A11)
2001 Apr 17, In Chechnya a
herdsman, Khozh-Akmed Alsultanov (44) was killed with his 3 children
in Nazran, an area surrounded by Russian forces.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 17, Israeli tanks,
bulldozers and ground troops seized Palestinian territory but
withdrew under US pressure after 18 hours.
(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 17, It was reported
that the most recent harvest in North Korea was the worst since the
famine of 1997 and that only two-thirds of the food it needs was
produced. Dr. Vollertsen, a German physician who worked there for 18
months (1999-2000) wrote in an editorial: "Peasants, slaves to the
regime, lead lives of utter destitution… North Korea suffers from
society-wide fear and depression because of the cruel system… The
people can’t help themselves, they are brainwashed, and too afraid
to overthrow their rulers."
(WSJ, 4/17/01, p.A14,20)
2001 Apr 17, In Vietnam Sec.
Gen. Le Kha Phieu was removed from office by the 150-member Central
Committee due to disenchantment with his conservative style. Nong
Duc Manh of the ethnic Tay minority was expected to succeed.
(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 18, US negotiators
said China agreed to discuss the return of the US spy plane
following a day of unproductive talks. Beijing and Washington staked
out opposing positions on who was to blame for the incident.
(SFC, 4/19/01, p.A10)(AP, 4/18/02)
2001 Apr 18, The US Federal
Reserve lowered short term interest rates by a half point to 4.5%.
The DJIA rose 399 to 10,615. Nasdaq rose 156 to 2079.
(SFC, 4/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 18, Border fighting
between Bangladesh and India left 16 Indian and 2 Bangladeshi
soldiers dead.
(WSJ, 4/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 18, The Burundi army
put down a coup attempt by junior officers opposed to Pres. Buyoya’s
negotiations with Hutu rebels.
(SFC, 4/19/01, p.A11)
2001 Apr 18, India launched a
rocket carrying a communications satellite.
(SFC, 4/19/01, p.A11)
2001 Apr 18, Iran launched 56
Scud missiles against an Iraq-based opposition group. At least 3
People’s Mujahideen camps were hit.
(WSJ, 4/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 18, Israel raided
southern Gaza and leveled a Palestinian police station in response
to mortar attacks.
(SFC, 4/19/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 18, In Nigeria a
mosque collapsed amid a downpour in a Lagos shantytown and at least
12 children were killed.
(WSJ, 4/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 19, The musical "The
Producers" opened on Broadway.
(AP, 4/19/02)
2001 Apr 19, US and Chinese
negotiators failed to reach any agreement over the US spy plane. The
Chinese showed video images from flights last year and the US
presented a written proposal for the return of the plane.
(SFC, 4/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Apr 19, Pharmaceutical
giants dropped a lawsuit against a South African law that could
provide cheaper, generic AIDS drugs to millions of Africans, ending
an international battle over patent rights and profit.
(AP, 4/19/02)
2001 Apr 19, The space shuttle
Endeavour went into orbit with 7 astronauts on an 11-day mission to
install a billion-dollar robot arm on the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 4/20/01, p.A6)
2001 Apr 19, Former New
Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thomson died at his home in Orford at age 89.
(AP, 4/19/02)
2001 Apr 19, Thousands of
protesters gathered in Quebec City to oppose the Summit of the
Americas and plans for a hemispheric free trade zone.
(SFC, 4/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Apr 19, A US cargo ship
departed from Jacksonville, Fla., for Cuba, the 1st scheduled ship
in 40 years. 2 days later the ship failed to dock in Cuba.
(SFC, 4/20/01, p.A13)(WSJ, 4/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 19, Israel removed
road blocks to Palestinian travel in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 4/20/01, p.A15)
2001 Apr 19, In Mexico there
was an execution style slaying of 8 peasants of the Fray Bartolome
Alliance in the Chiapas village of Canalucum. [see Jun 25]
(SFC, 6/26/01, p.C2)
2001 Apr 19, In Kosovo NATO
troops broke up Serb roadblocks set up to protest UN tax collections
on goods from elsewhere in Yugoslavia.
(WSJ, 4/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 20, President Bush
attended his first international summit as leaders of the Western
Hemisphere's 34 democracies met in Quebec to advance plans to create
the world's largest free-trade zone; police in riot gear clashed
with protesters. Protestors pushed to interrupt the Summit of the
Americas and held that the free trade efforts put corporate
interests ahead of workers, human rights and the environment.
(SFC, 4/21/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/20/02)
2001 Apr 20, Two therapists
were convicted in Golden, Colo., of reckless child abuse in a young
girl's suffocation death during a "rebirthing" therapy session.
Connell Watkins and Julie Ponder were later sentenced to 16 years in
prison.
(AP, 4/20/02)
2001 Apr 20, Yasser Arafat
proposed that he and Ariel Sharon simultaneously call for an end
Israeli-Palestinian violence.
(SFC, 4/21/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 20, In Peru an air
force jet shot down a Cessna 185 carrying US missionaries. Veronica
Bowers (35) and her infant daughter, Charity, were killed when the
plane crash landed in the Amazon River. The plane was identified by
a US surveillance plane and was believed to be trafficking in
narcotics.
(SFC, 4/21/01, p.A12)(SFC, 4/22/01, p.D1)(AP,
4/20/02)
2001 Apr 20-21, The 13th annual
National Youth Service Day called on youths and adult volunteers to
help make their schools and communities better.
(SSFC, 4/15/01, Par p.4)
2001 Apr 21, The Los Angeles
Xtreme beat the San Francisco Demons 38-to-6 in the first and last
XFL championship game.
(AP, 4/21/02)
2001 Apr 21, In Hoisington,
Kansas, a tornado killed 1 person and injured 28.
(SFC, 4/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 21, Claude Clark
(b.1915), African American painter and printmaker, died in Oakland,
Ca., following a long illness. He was a nationally renowned artist
and teacher. Clark wrote the first curriculum for African and
African American art, shortly after he began a 13-year stint at
Merritt College in Oakland.
(SFC, 2/4/08,
p.D1)(www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79520788.html)
2001 Apr 21, Western hemisphere
leaders meeting in Quebec ratified a plan barring undemocratic
nations from a massive free trade zone they hoped would expand
prosperity across their 34 nations. For a second day, protesters
clashed with nightstick-wielding police who fired water cannons and
rubber bullets.
(AP, 4/21/02)
2001 Apr 21, Luiz Fernando da
Costa (33), a Brazilian drug lord, was arrested in Colombia after
his plane was forced down by the Colombian air force. He was accused
of selling arms to FARC in exchange for cocaine.
(SFC, 4/23/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 22, The Goldman
Environmental Prize was awarded. Jane Akre and Steve Wilson,
American TV journalist, won for reports on modified bovine growth
hormone. Eugene Rutagarama of Rwanda won for efforts to protect the
mountain gorillas. Myrsini Malakou and Giorgos Catsadorakis, Greek
biologists, won for their efforts to save the Prespa wetlands.
Yosepha Alomang, spokeswoman for the Amungme tribe of Irian Jaya,
won for her opposition to mining dumps by Freeport McMoran. Oscar
Olivera, grassroots leader in Bolivia, won for his efforts against
water privatization. Bruno Van Peteghem, an Air France crew member,
won for resisting mining activities on New Caledonia.
(SFC, 4/23/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 22, Two spacewalking
astronauts, including Canadian Chris Hadfield, installed a massive
Canadian-built robot arm on the international space station.
(AP, 4/22/02)
2001 Apr 22, In Quebec City,
Canada, 34 Western leaders affirmed the creation of a free trade
zone by 2005. They agreed that only democratic nations could join
and to penalize any country that strayed from the path of democracy.
(SFC, 4/23/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/22/02)
2001 Apr 22, Ahmed Khalil
Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, an Iraqi diplomat, was expelled from the Czech
Republic. He was later reported to have met with Mohamed Atta and
planned an attack on Radio Free Europe. Five others were
expelled in March 2003.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A5)(AP, 11/30/09)
2001 Apr 22, In Israel a
suicide bomber killed himself and an Israeli physician at a bus stop
in Kfar Sava. 40-50 others were wounded.
(SFC, 4/23/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 4/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 22, In Montenegro
parliamentary elections pro-independence advocates won 42% of the
seats vs. 40.6% for the opposition.
(SFC, 4/22/01, p.D1)(SFC, 4/23/01, p.A8)(SFC,
4/24/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 22, In a boxing match
in South Africa, Hasim Rahman stopped Lennox Lewis in the fifth
round to capture the WBC and IBF heavyweight titles in one of the
biggest upsets in boxing history.
(AP, 4/22/02)
2001 Apr 22, In Turkey
pro-Chechen gunmen seized at least 30 hostages at the Istanbul
Swissotel luxury hotel.
(SFC, 4/23/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 22, Nong Duc Manh
(60), rumored to be the illegitimate son of Ho Chi Minh, was elected
Vietnamese general secretary.
(WSJ, 4/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 23, Pres. Bush decided
to sell Taiwan older ships and planes, but not the advanced Aegis
radar system.
(SFC, 4/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 23, USS Greeneville
Cmdr. Scott Waddle was given a letter of reprimand as punishment for
the submarine collision that killed nine people aboard a Japanese
fishing vessel off Hawaii.
(AP, 4/23/02)
2001 Apr 23, A US robot spy
plane completed the 1st unmanned trans-Pacific flight from
California to Australia.
(SFC, 4/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 23, In San Jose, Ca.,
Cathline Repunte (36), a school bus driver, shot and killed a
co-worker at a Laidlaw bus yard and wounded 3 others before she was
stopped by a fellow driver.
(SFC, 4/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 23, In Gaza a
12-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed during the funeral
of a Palestinian police officer. 11 others were wounded. Near Tel
Aviv a 3rd bomb blast in 2 days injured 4 people.
(SFC, 4/24/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 23, In Sri Lanka Tamil
Tiger rebels decided to end their unilateral cease-fire.
(SFC, 4/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 23, In Turkey 13
pro-Chechen rebels released 120 hostages and were arrested.
(SFC, 4/24/01, p.A9)
2001 Apr 24, Pres. Bush said
that the annual process of selling arms to Taiwan, a US policy since
1982, would end. China condemned the recent $5 billion arms sale.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Apr 24, The US Supreme
Court ruled 5-4 to give police officers authority to handcuff,
arrest and jail people for minor offenses including traffic
offenses.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A11)(AP, 4/24/02)
2001 Apr 24, The US Institute
of Medicine issued a 206-page report on the differences in health
and disease due to sex in humans.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 24, California’s
credit rating was downgraded by S&P for the 1st time since the
recession of 1994.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 24, The Rev. Leon
Sullivan, a pioneering civil rights crusader credited with helping
end South Africa's system of apartheid, died in Scottsdale, Ariz.,
at age 78.
(AP, 4/24/02)
2001 Apr 24, Bosnian Serbs
blocked a takeover of their part of Serajevo after an int’l. judge
gave it to the Muslim-Croat federation.
(WSJ, 4/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 24, Israel promised to
ease restrictions on Palestinian towns in exchange for Palestinian
efforts to prevent violence. Fighting left 2 Palestinians dead.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 4/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 24, In Japan reformer
Junichiro Koizumi (59) won elections to head the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party (LDP). This set him up to become prime minister.
(SFC, 4/24/01, p.A9)(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A8)(AP,
4/24/02)
2001 Apr 24, A New Zealand air
force plane rescued four ailing Americans at an Antarctic research
station.
(AP, 4/24/02)
2001 Apr 24, In the Philippines
former Pres. Joseph Estrada was ordered to be arrested on charges of
plunder.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 24, The Yugoslav army
was reported to have charged 183 soldiers with crimes committed
during the war in Kosovo.
(SFC, 4/25/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 25, In unusually blunt
terms, President Bush warned China that an attack on Taiwan could
provoke a U.S. military response.
(AP, 4/25/02)
2001 Apr 25, US federal
regulators voted for a "mitigation" plan and ordered limited price
controls to tame wholesale electricity prices in California.
(SFC, 4/26/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/25/02)
2001 Apr 25, A rescue plane
flew out of the South Pole with ailing American doctor Ronald S.
Shemenski in the most daring airlift ever from the pole.
(AP, 4/25/02)
2001 Apr 25, In Gaza an
explosion killed 4 Palestinian police.
(SFC, 4/26/01, p.A14)
2001 Apr 25, Ousted Philippine
President Joseph Estrada became the country's first leader to be
arrested for alleged corruption in office. Estrada was jailed on 8
charges.
(SFC, 4/26/01, p.A12)(AP, 4/25/02)
2001 Apr 25, In Sri Lanka
soldiers attacked rebel positions and 32 were killed with 180
wounded. Rebels lost 75 fighters with 300 wounded.
(SFC, 4/26/01, p.A14)
2001 Apr 26, A US federal judge
ruled that military exercises could resume on Vieques Island. Puerto
Ricans mobilized for mass demonstrations.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.A2)
2001 Apr 26, A group led by
Larry Silverstein, a NYC developer, and Westfield America Inc.,
signed a 99-year lease on the 11-million square-foot WTC complex
from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.B1)
2001 Apr 26, Kofi Annan
addressed an AIDS summit in Nigeria and called for an increase of
funding against AIDS to at least $7 billion.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.D2)
2001 Apr 26, It was reported
that a meningitis outbreak had killed at least 3,500 people in
Africa and that vaccine had been shipped to Ethiopia and Burkina
Faso.
(SFC, 4/26/01, p.A14)
2001 Apr 26, In Chechnya rebel
fighting killed at least 17 Russian soldiers and wounded 28.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.D4)
2001 Apr 26, In northeastern
Congo 6 Red Cross workers were killed 30 miles north of Bunia.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 26, Six hijackers
seized an Ethiopian plane with 50 passengers and diverted it to
Sudan where they surrendered. They wanted to draw attention to
economic conditions in Ethiopia and recent student protests for
greater academic freedom during which 41 people were killed in Addis
Ababa.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.D4)
2001 Apr 26, In Japan Junichiro
Koizumi named a Cabinet that included 5 women, an economics prof.
and 2 outsiders. Koizumi was elected as prime minister of Japan in a
vote by the lower house of Japan's parliament.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.D2)(AP, 4/26/02)
2001 Apr 26, Nigeria announced
an agreement with Cipla, an Indian drug maker, for drugs to treat
10,000 people with AIDS at $350 per patient per year.
(SFC, 4/26/01, p.A13)
2001 Apr 26, Sri Lanka soldiers
pushed rebels back near Eluthumadduval. 87 soldiers were killed with
382 wounded. The army said 110 rebels were killed with 300 wounded.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.D4)
2001 Apr 26, In Ukraine the
parliament voted 263-59 to dismiss reform-oriented Prime Minister
Viktor Yuschenko, plunging the nation into political chaos. A large
crowd of his supporters called for the impeachment of Pres. Kuchma.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.D2)(AP, 4/26/02)
2001 Apr 27, The US GDP was
reported at 2% growth due to buying by American consumers. The DJIA
rose 117 to 10,810. The Nasdaq rose 40 to 2,075.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 27, It was reported
that IBM scientists had assembled transistors using carbon
nanotubules. The structures were first discovered in 1991 by Sumio
Iijima of NEC Fundamental Research Labs in Tsukuba, Japan.
(SFC, 4/27/01, p.B1,4)
2001 Apr 27, The US National
Arbor Day Foundation announced that the oak tree was nominated as
the national tree in its sponsored vote.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A9)
2001 Apr 27, Four students from
Newton, Mass., were killed near Sussex, New Brunswick, when their
bus crashed while enroute to a music festival in Halifax. At least
37 others were injured.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 27, In Nigeria 53
African states signed a joint declaration to boost health spending
to 15% to fight AIDS.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 27, In Puerto Rico the
US Navy resumed bombing exercises on Vieques Island where 14
protesters were arrested.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A3)(AP, 4/27/02)
2001 Apr 27, In Russia John
Edward Tobin (24), a US Fullbright scholar, was convicted of
possession and distribution of marijuana and sentenced to three
years and one month in prison. Police had acknowledged making up
evidence. The prosecutor said she was ashamed to handle the case.
Tobin, who maintained his innocence, was paroled and released last
August.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A10)(AP, 4/27/02)
2001 Apr 28, It was reported
that the CIA had released some 10,000 pages of documents on 20 Nazis
that included Hitler, Eichmann, Mengele, Barbie, Mueller, Waldheim
and Hoettl.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 28, It was reported
that researchers at the Univ. of Pennsylvania had used gene therapy
to reverse a form of congenital blindness in dogs.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 28, A young girl’s
decapitated body was found near an intersection in Kansas City, Mo.
In 2005 “Precious Doe” was identified as Erica Michelle Marie Green.
Her mother and stepfather were charged with murder. In 2009 a park
was dedicated in her honor.
(SFC, 5/6/05, p.A7)(SSFC, 4/26/09, p.A7)
2001 Apr 28, In Argentina a
plane crash killed 10 people near Roque Perez.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 28, Shimon Peres,
Israel’s foreign minister, traveled to Cairo to discuss objections
to the Jordanian-Egyptian Middle East peace initiative.
(SFC, 4/28/01, p.A12)
2001 Apr 28, In Gaza mortar
shells hit a Jewish settlement and 5 teenagers were injured.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A16)
2001 Apr 28, In Macedonia 8
government soldiers and police were killed by rebels near the Kosovo
border.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 28, In Mexico the
Congress approved broad constitutional reforms granting autonomy and
other rights to millions of indigenous people.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A16)
2001 Apr 28, A Russian Soyuz
rocket lifted off for the Int’l. Space Station with two cosmonauts
and California businessman Dennis Tito (60), who paid some $20
million, for the experience. Tito was the founder of the Wilshire
Associates investment firm.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A15)(AP, 4/28/02)
2001 Apr 28, In Senegal
legislative elections were held and a soldier and 4 others were
killed in the Casamance region.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 29, NASA scientists
reported that they had contacted the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched
in 1972, after 8 months of no communication.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A7)
2001 Apr 29, The International
Monetary Fund endorsed a program to establish better procedures to
prevent a repeat of the 1997-98 Asian currency crisis that plunged
two-fifths of the world into recession.
(AP, 4/29/02)
2001 Apr 29, China offered to
allow US officials to inspect the US Navy spy plane on Hainan
Island.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 cApr 29, Sri Lanka
appealed for peace talks following bloody battles and retreats in
the north.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 cApr 29, In Uganda Pres.
Museveni withdrew from a peace pact in anger over a UN report on
plundering.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 30, US Immigration
offices were converged on by illegal immigrants on the last day for
applying for residency status without leaving the country.
(SFC, 5/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 30, The SF Board of
Supervisors passed a measure 9-2 to allow city employees medical
benefits for a sex change.
(SFC, 5/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 30, Chandra Levy (24),
an intern from Modesto, Ca., was last seen at a health club
near her apartment in Washington, DC. On July 5 the aunt of Chandra
Levy reported that her niece told her of a relationship with US Rep.
Gary Condit before she disappeared. Levy’s remains were found May
22, 2002, in Rock Creek Park, Washington DC. In 2009 Ingmar
Guandique (27), a Salvadoran immigrant already serving a 10-year
sentence for attacking 2 women in the same park, was charged in her
murder. In 2010 Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz authored “Finding
Chandra: The True Washington Murder Mystery.” In Nov 22, 2010, a
jury found Guandique guilty of 2 counts of 1st degree murder. On Feb
11, 2011, Guandique was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.A3)(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A1)(AP,
4/30/02)(SFC, 5/23/02, p.A1)(SFC, 4/23/09, p.A4)(SSFC, 5/9/10,
p.F1)(SFC, 11/23/10, p.A12)(SFC, 2/12/11, p.A6)
2001 Apr 30, The Soyuz-32,
carrying California businessman, multimillionaire Dennis Tito and 2
Russian astronauts, Talgat Musabayev and Yuri Baturin, docked with
the Int’l. Space Station. The Soyuz landed in the Kazak steppe on
May 6.
(SFC, 5/1/01, p.B3)(SSFC, 5/6/01, p.A15)(AP,
4/30/02)
2001 Apr 30, In Colombia Carlos
Alberto Trespalacios (33), information director for the Medellin
sports institute, was slain in the El Poblado district.
(SFC, 5/2/01, p.A9)
2001 Apr 30, It was reported
that Germany’s Chancellor Schroeder had proposed a draft for turning
the EU Executive Commission into a European government and giving
the EU Parliament full power over the 15-nation budget.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 30, In Indonesia 363
of 500 legislators censured Pres. Wahid for a 2nd time this year.
(SFC, 5/1/01, p.A8)
2001 Apr 30, In Mexico
Zapatista rebels broke off contact with the government due to the
watered down Indian rights legislation.
(SFC, 5/1/01, p.A9)
2001 Apr 30, Five Palestinians
were killed in bomb blasts in Gaza and the West Bank.
(SFC, 5/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 30, In the Philippines
the army went on alert after Cardinal Sin urged people into the
streets to defend democracy and Pres. Arroyo from defenders of
former Pres. Estrada. Some 20,000 followers of Estrada tried to
storm the presidential palace and at least 4 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A8)(SFC, 5/1/01, p.A8)(WSJ,
5/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 30, In Zambia the
ruling party nominated Pres. Chiluba for re-election following a
vote to amend the constitution.
(WSJ, 5/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr, Pres. Bush nominated
Thomas White, VP of Enron and former general, to serve as Army
Secretary. White resigned Apr 25, 2003.
(SFC, 4/26/03, A3)
2001 Apr, Mr. Behrooz Sarshar,
in his position as FBI interpreter/translator, attended a meeting
between a long-term, reliable FBI asset and two additional FBI
agents from the Washington Field Office. That FBI asset told the two
FBI agents that his sources in Afghanistan had information of an
al-Qaeda plot to attack America in a suicide mission involving
planes.
(http://impudicus.wordpress.com/)
2001 Apr, In SF the 36-story
Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, designed by Handel Architects,
opened at 757 Market near Fourth St. It included 277-room hotel with
rooms starting at $299 per night, and 142 condominiums at over 2 mil
per unit. In 2005 the hotel was put up for sale.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.C1)(SFC, 2/23/02, p.A18)(SFC,
9/30/05, p.C1)
2001 Apr, Part of the new $121
million extension of the Milwaukee Art Museum, designed by Spanish
architect Santiago Calatrava, opened. The rest of the Quadracci
Pavilion was set to open in September.
(WSJ, 2/14/00, p.B12)(SSFC, 4/3/05, p.E11)
2001 Apr, Viliumas Malinauskas,
a Lithuania millionaire, founded Grutas Park (aka Stalin’s World), a
theme park near Vilnius dotted with relics of Lithuania's communist
past.
(www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=13008)(SSFC, 5/7/06,
p.G6)
2001 May 1, Pres. Bush
committed the US to a missile defense shield. He also presented his
case for withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
with Russia.
(SFC, 5/2/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/2/01, p.A1)(AP,
5/1/02)
2001 May 1, FBI Director Louis
Freeh, appointed in 1993, announced his retirement. He served until
June and then joined MBNA as a senior vice-president managing its
legal and personnel affairs.
(AP, 5/1/02)(WSJ, 6/14/02, p.A4)
2001 May 1, Thomas Blanton Jr.
became the second ex-Ku Klux Klansman to be convicted in the 1963
bombing of a church in Birmingham, Ala., that claimed the lives of
four black girls.
(AP, 5/1/02)
2001 May 1, The space shuttle
Endeavour landed at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mohave Desert
following the installation of the billion-dollar robot arm on the
Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 5/2/01, p.A4)
2001 May 1, May Day protests
rallies took place around the world as people demonstrated against
global trade and for workers’ rights.
(WSJ, 5/2/01, p.A1)
2001 May 1, In Seattle Hindus
filed a suit against McDonald’s for nondisclosure of beef flavoring
in French fries.
(SSFC, 5/20/01, p.A9)
2001 May 1, In the West Bank
Assaf Hershovitz (31), a Jewish settler, was killed when his van was
hit by 27 bullets outside Ramallah.
(SFC, 5/2/01, p.A8)
2001 May 1, In Japan Kim Jong
Nam (29), the son of Kim Jong Il of North Korea, was detained with
his son as they attempted to visit Tokyo’s Disneyland.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.A14)
2001 May 1, In Macedonia Slavs
rioted in Bitola and trashed Albanian shops following the funerals
of soldiers killed in a rebel ambush. US Sec. of State Powell met
with Macedonia’s Pres. Trajkovski.
(SFC, 5/2/01, p.A8)
2001 May 1, In the Philippines
Pres. Arroyo declared a "state of rebellion" and ordered the arrest
of 2 senators and several military officials loyal to former Pres.
Estrada. Some 40,000 protesters marched on Malacanang Palace and 3
people were killed.
(SFC, 5/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/3/01, p.B1)
2001 May 2, President Bush and
Republican congressional leaders clinched a budget deal embracing
most of the president's tax and spending goals.
(AP, 5/2/02)
2001 May 2, It was reported
that a large embezzlement case in Brazil threatened to unravel the
ruling coalition. Some $2 billion had disappeared from the Amazon
Development Bureau (Sudam). Fakery of land deals (grilagem) was
estimated to involve some 100 million acres of the Amazon Basin.
(SFC, 5/2/01, p.A8)(SFC, 5/3/01, p.B5)
2001 May 2, In China US
technical experts examined the US spy plane on Hainan Island.
(WSJ, 5/3/01, p.A1)
2001 May 2, Foreign Minister
Tang Jiaxuan returned to China from Russia with a draft accord for
relations with Russia.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.D2)
2001 May 2, In China a
landslide in Wulong County buried a 9-story building where 76 of 95
residents were home. 65 bodies were recovered. At least 79 people
were killed.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.D2)(AP, 5/2/02)
2001 May 2, Germany inaugurated
its new Chancellery in Berlin designed by Axel Schultes. There were
concerns that the building was too grandiose.
(SFC, 5/3/01, p.B2)(AP, 5/2/02)
2001 May 2, Israeli bulldozers
demolished 20 houses in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza and killed
one teenager during the predawn operation.
(SFC, 5/3/01, p.B1)
2001 May 2, In North Korea Kim
Jong Il agreed to hold talks with visiting EU officials about his
missile program and tensions with South Korea. Kim Jong Il announced
that North Korea would launch no ballistic missiles until 2003.
(WSJ, 5/3/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/4/01, p.A14)
2001 May 2, In Zambia the
ruling party ousted Vice Pres. Christon Tembo, 8 Cabinet members and
11 0ther senior officials who opposed Pres. Chiluba’s bid for a 3rd
term.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.D3)
2001 May 3, An estimated 36.4
million people tuned in to watch Tennessee nurse Tina Wesson win as
the winner of "Survivor 2," following a 42 day stint in the
"Survivor: The Australian Outback" on CBS.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.C1)(AP, 5/3/02)
2001 May 3, Pres. Bush met with
Pres. Fox of Mexico and discussed temporary visas for Mexican
workers and plans for long-range energy development.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.D3)
2001 May 3, US federal agents
broke up a smuggling ring that brought hundreds of Ukrainians into
the US through Mexico.
(WSJ, 5/4/01, p.A1)
2001 May 3, The United States
lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time
since the commission was formed in 1947.
(AP, 5/3/02)
2001 May 3, In Algiers
thousands of protesters demonstrated against what they called a
government crackdown on ethnic Berbers.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.A14)
2001 May 3, In Macedonia troops
backed by helicopter gunships began a fresh offensive against ethnic
Albanian rebels after 2 soldiers were killed and one kidnapped in an
ambush.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.A13)
2001 May 3, In Serbia Slobodan
Milosevic was issued an arrest warrant from the UN war crimes
tribunal in his jail cell.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.D3)
2001 May 3, It was reported
that 20 people in Turkey had starved themselves to death in the past
5 weeks in protest of the prison system. Some 200-400 inmates still
engaged in the "death fast."
(SFC, 5/3/01, p.B2)
2001 May 4, US experts,
following 3 days of inspections, said the US spy plane on China’s
Hainan Island could be repaired and flown home.
(SFC, 5/5/01, p.D1)
2001 May 4, Sen. George
Mitchell, head of the US-led mission on Israeli-Palestinian
fighting, issued a report and said Israel should freeze settlement
constructions.
(SFC, 5/5/01, p.D1)
2001 May 4, The US unemployment
rate went up .2% to 4.5%, its highest level in 2 ½ years. The
DJIA rose 154 to 10,951. The Nasdaq rose 45 to 2,191.
(SFC, 5/5/01, p.A1)
2001 May 4, The Writers Guild
of America agreed to a new contract with the major movie studios and
television networks.
(SFC, 5/5/01, p.A1)
2001 May 4, It was reported
that the hydroxyl radical, a critical air-cleaning molecule, was
decreasing.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.D4)
2001 May 4, Bonny Lee Bakley
(44), the wife of actor Robert Blake (67), died from a bullet wound
to the head as she sat in a car near a restaurant in Los Angeles.
Blake and his bodyguard, Earle Caldwell, were arrested April 18,
2002, in connection with Bakley's death. Blake, accused of the
killing, was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial but was found liable
by a civil jury and ordered to pay damages.
(BS, 5/12/01, p.3A)(SFC, 4/23/02, p.A3)(SFC,
3/17/05, p.A1)(AP, 5/4/07)
2001 May 4, In Afghanistan a
bomb killed at least 8 people at a Sunni Muslim mosque in Herat.
Hundreds of people soon set fire to Shiite mosques and marched on
the Iranian Consulate.
(SFC, 5/5/01, p.D1)
2001 May 4, In Goma, Congo, a
ferry flipped at a dock on Lake Kivu and at least 19 people died.
(SFC, 5/5/01, p.D1)
2001 May 4, In Oaxaca, Mexico,
Fidel Bautista Guerrero (33), a Mixtec Indian, was shot to death in
Putla. He had organized Indian farmers to conserve forests. The
killers were pursued to the ranch of timber baron Efrain Cruz Bruno
and 8 men with AK 47s and other rifles were arrested.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A10)
2001 May 4, Pope John Paul II
visited Athens and apologized for Roman Catholic sins of "action or
omission" against Orthodox Christians. A day earlier some 1,000
Orthodox conservatives took to the streets to denounce his visit.
(SFC, 5/4/01, p.D3)(AP, 5/4/02)
2001 May 4, The UN Security
Council imposed sanctions against Liberia for failing to sever ties
with rebels in Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 5/5/01, p.D2)
2001 May 5, "Monarchos" won the
Kentucky Derby.
(AP, 5/5/02)
2001 May 5, Boozoo Chavis (70),
Zydeco accordionist, died in Lake Charles, La. He recorded one of
the 1st Zydeco hits "Paper In My Shoe in 1954."
(SFC, 5/7/01, p.C5)
2001 May 5, Cliff Hillegass
(83), the creator of Cliffs Notes, died.
(SSFC, 5/6/01, p.A27)
2001 May 5, In Angola Unita
rebels attacked Caxito, a town near Luanda, and 79 people were
killed. Some 30,000 people fled the area following the attack.
(WSJ, 5/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/8/01, p.C3)(SFC,
5/11/01, p.D8)
2001 May 5, In Guatemala
Barbara Ann Ford (62), a member of the Sisters of Charity of New
York, was shot and killed in an apparent robbery.
(SFC, 5/7/01, p.C4)
2001 ` May 5, In the West Bank
Ahmed Khalil Assad (37), a Palestinian militant, was shot to death
in front of his 2-year-old niece, who was injured. In Jericho
Israeli soldiers rocketed a Palestinian police base and 17 people
were injured.
(SSFC, 5/6/01, p.A14)
2001 May 5, In Syria Pres.
Bashar Assad greeted Pope John Paul II with a speech against Israel.
Assad asked him to take the Arabs' side in their dispute with
Israel, referring to what Assad described as Jewish persecution of
Jesus Christ.
(SSFC, 5/6/01, p.A14)(AP, 5/5/02)
2001 May 6, An anonymous donor
pledged $100 million to Johns Hopkins Univ. to develop a vaccine and
new drugs for malaria.
(WSJ, 5/7/01, p.A1)
2001 May 6, American
businessman Dennis Tito ended the world's first paid space vacation
as he returned to Earth aboard a Russian capsule.
(AP, 5/6/02)
2001 May 6, In Sari, Iran, the
Mottaqi stadium grandstand collapsed and killed several people with
hundreds injured.
(WSJ, 5/7/01, p.A1)
2001 May 6, Macedonian forces
lobbed shells into villages seized by ethnic Albanian rebels.
(SFC, 5/7/01, p.C1)
2001 May 6, In the Philippines
Pres. Arroyo lifted the "state of rebellion" order.
(SFC, 5/7/01, p.C1)
2001 May 6, In Spain Manuel
Gimenez Abad (52), a politician of the ruling Popular Party, was
shot to death in Zaragoza.
(SFC, 5/7/01, p.C3)
2001 May 6, In Syria Pope John
Paul II prayed in the Great Umayyad Mosque, the 1st time a pontiff
ever visited and prayed in a Muslim house of worship. He called for
brotherhood between Christians and Muslims.
(SFC, 5/7/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/6/02)
2001 May 7, California
electricity grid operators ordered statewide rolling power
blackouts.
(AP, 5/7/02)
2001 May 7, In Alaska 4
Anchorage school children were stabbed by Jason Pritchard (33).
Pritchard was shot with rubber bullets and taken into custody.
(WSJ, 5/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/8/01, p.A2)
2001 May 7, "Great Train
Robber" Ronnie Biggs, who had eluded capture for decades following
his prison escape in 1965, returned to Britain, where he was
arrested and jailed to complete the 28 remaining years of his
sentence.
(AP, 5/7/02)
2001 May 7, In Chechnya a 2-day
fight around Argun left at least 15 Russian soldiers dead.
(SFC, 5/9/01, p.C5)
2001 May 7, In Colombia leftist
FARC guerrillas used dynamite to free 61 prisoners in Caloto.
(SFC, 5/9/01, p.C5)
2001 May 7, A report by the
Int’l. Rescue Committee estimated the death toll in Congo’s 33-month
war at 2 ½ million people, mostly due to disease and
malnutrition.
(SFC, 5/5/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/10/01, p.A1)
2001 May 7, It was reported
that Shaaban Abdel Rehim, an Egyptian singer, had a big hit with his
song "I Hate Israel."
(SFC, 5/7/01, p.C1)
2001 May 7, Israeli tank fire
killed Iman Hijo, a Palestinian 4-month-old baby in Khan Yunis. A
Palestinian police officer in the West Bank was also killed.
(WSJ, 5/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/8/01, p.C5)
2001 May 7, In Macedonia Prime
Minister Georgievski said parties agreed to form a coalition
government to include all main ethnic Albanian and Slav parties.
(WSJ, 5/8/01, p.A1)
2001 May 8, China rejected a US
plan to repair EP-3 the spy plane and fly it away. China protested
the resumption of U.S. surveillance flights off its coast and said
it would refuse to let the United States fly out a crippled Navy spy
plane.
(WSJ, 5/9/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/8/02)
2001 May 8-9, In El Salvador
some 100 small earthquakes hit the country over a 24-hour period.
(SFC, 5/10/01, p.C5)
2001 May 8, In Hong Kong AOL
Time Warner sponsored a business conference attended by Pres. Jiang
Zemin of China and Bill Clinton. Followers of Falun Gong were barred
from entering Hong Kong.
(SFC, 5/9/01, p.A16)
2001 May 8, In Malta Pope John
Paul II was welcomed on the final stop of his 6-day pilgrimage to
retrace the steps of the Apostle Paul.
(WSJ, 5/9/01, p.A1)
2001 May 8, In New Zealand
Prime Minister Clark announced that the air force would be stripped
of combat jets along with sharp cuts to the navy.
(WSJ, 5/9/01, p.A1)
2001 May 8, In South Africa 12
miners were killed in a gold mine explosion.
(WSJ, 5/9/01, p.A1)
2001 May 9, Pres. Bush told
Pres. Kostunica of Yugoslavia that aid would depend on cooperation
with the Balkan war crimes tribunal.
(SFC, 5/10/01, p.A16)
2001 May 9, It was reported
that El Paso Merchant Energy had crimped space in its desert
pipeline and forced California power buyers to pay some $3.8 billion
in excess over the past year.
(SFC, 5/9/01, p.A7)
2001 May 9, China sought U.S.
understanding for its refusal to allow a damaged U.S. Navy spy plane
to fly home, saying public sentiment would be outraged if the
aircraft flew again over Chinese territory.
(AP, 5/9/02)
2001 May 9, In Split, Croatia,
a soccer brawl left 130 people injured including 30 police.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.D4)
2001 May 9, In Ghana a stampede
at a soccer match in Accra killed 126 people. Police had use of tear
gas to quell fans which caused panic and the stampede.
(WSJ, 5/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/10/01, p.A16)(AP,
5/9/02)
2001 May 9, In Kashmir Islamic
guerrillas, members of the Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba group,
set off explosives in a paramilitary camp in Magam and killed
themselves and 6 civilians.
(SFC, 5/10/01, p.C5)
2001 May 9, In the West Bank 2
Israeli teenagers, Koby Mandell (13) and Yossi Ishran (14), were
stoned to death and found in a cave.
(WSJ, 5/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/10/01, p.A16)
2001 May 9, Macedonian forces
intensified assaults on suspected ethnic Albanian positions.
(WSJ, 5/10/01, p.A1)
2001 May 9, In Papua New Guinea
the Bougainville Provincial Peace Consultative committee adopted a
peace plan and opposing factions agreed to lay down their weapons.
The agreement entailed the PNG government’s accepting greater
autonomy for Bougainville and a referendum on independence to be
held between 2015-2020.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.D8)(Econ, 2/9/08, p.48)
2001 May 9, In southern Sudan a
Red Cross plane was shot and its co-pilot, Dane Ole Friis Eriksen,
was killed. The plane managed to land in Kenya.
(SFC, 5/10/01, p.C5)
2001 May 10, The U.S. House of
Representatives voted to withhold some back U.N. dues until the
United States was reinstated on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
(AP, 5/10/02)
2001 May 10, The US Senate gave
final approval to the budget for fiscal 2002.
(WSJ, 5/11/01, p.A1)
2001 May 10, The Justice
Department handed over thousands of documents it said should have
been provided to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's attorneys;
because of the blunder, McVeigh's execution, set for May 16, was
postponed.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/10/02)
2001 May 10, The US FDA cleared
Gleevec, a cancer drug made by Novartis. The drug disrupted enzymes
that make white blood cells proliferate.
(WSJ, 5/11/01, p.A3)(SFC, 5/11/01, p.A3)
2001 May 10, NBC and the World
Wrestling Federation cancelled the XFL.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.A1)
2001 May 10, Boeing chose
Chicago as the site for its new headquarters, replacing Seattle.
(WSJ, 5/11/01, p.A3)(AP, 5/10/02)
2001 May 10, In Hong Kong at
the Fortune Global Forum Bill Clinton urged that China be admitted
to the WTO.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.D8)
2001 May 10, In India millions
voted in legislative elections in 5 states (Assam, West Bengal,
Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry) and clashes left 16 people dead.
Opposition parties won landslide victories in the 5 state
legislatures.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.D8)(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A12)
2001 May 10, In Jakarta,
Indonesia, 2 people died in the bombing of a student dormitory. The
dorm housed students from Aceh province.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.D4)
2001 May 10, In Kashmir
suspected Islamic guerrillas beheaded 8 Hindu villagers after
abducting them near Sajan.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.D8)
2001 May 10, Israel retaliated
for a roadside bomb that that killed 2 Romanian workers. Rockets
were fired at Palestinian police headquarters and Fatah offices in
Gaza.
(WSJ, 5/11/01, p.A1)
2001 May 10, Macedonian and
Serb leaders agreed to work together to fight ethnic Albanian
guerrillas.
(WSJ, 5/11/01, p.A1)
2001 May 11, Attorney General
John Ashcroft delayed Timothy McVeigh’s execution from May 16 to
June 11 due to documents that the FBI had failed to turn over to the
defense.
(BS, 5/12/01, p.1A)(AP, 5/11/02)
2001 May 11, An FDA advisory
panel ruled that the allergy medications, Claritin, Allegra and
Zyrtec, are safe enough for sale without prescriptions.
(BS, 5/12/01, p.A1)
2001 May 11, Texas Gov. Rick
Perry signed the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act.
(SFC, 5/12/01, p.A3)
2001 May 11, A jury in
Pittsburgh sentenced Richard Baumhammers to death for killing five
people in a racially motivated shooting rampage.
(AP, 5/11/02)
2001 May 11, Douglas Adams
(b.1952), English author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,"
died in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was buried at London’s Highgate
Cemetery.
(AP, 5/11/02)(AP, 9/29/09)
2001 May 11, In Colombia an
army offensive against FARC began in 7 states. After 3 days of
fighting 41 rebels and 3 soldiers were dead.
(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A12)
2001 May 11, Denise Quinones
August of Puerto Rico won the Miss Universe contest held in Bayamon,
Puerto Rico.
(SFC, 5/12/01, p.A2)(AP, 5/11/02)
2001 May 11, In Cairo, Egypt,
authorities arrested 52 males aboard a riverboat restaurant for
homosexual activities. [see Sep 18]
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.B4)
2001 May 11, In Gaza Israeli
bulldozers flattened a police station and 5 homes. Tanks fired at
the Jabaliya refugee camp. Surface to air missiles hit downtown Gaza
City.
(BS, 5/12/01, p.9A)(SFC, 5/11/01, p.A16)
2001 May 11, It was reported
that a new Salvadoran government report documented brutal conditions
in its maquiladora factories. The report was suppressed but one copy
made it to the National Labor Committee.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.A16)
2001 May 12, Perry Como
(b.1913), singer, died at age 88 in Jupiter, Fla. His Perry Como
Show ran on TV for 15 years (1948-1963).
(SSFC, 5/13/01, p.A27)(NW, 12/31/01, p.110)
2001 May 12, In the West Bank
Moutasem Sabaa (26), a Palestinian militant, and Ala’a Jaloudi, a
Palestinian policeman, were killed in an Israeli helicopter attack.
3 members of the Tanzim militia escaped.
(SSFC, 5/13/01, p.A13)
2001 May 12, In Somalia Aidid
forces gained control of the seaport at Mogadishu in fighting with
the Suleiman clan militia. 40 people were left dead including 21
civilians.
(SSFC, 5/13/01, p.A13)
2001 May 13, Jason Miller (62),
actor-playwright died in Scranton, Pa.
(AP, 5/13/02)
2001 May 13, Israeli
helicopters rocketed Palestinian police compounds in the Gaza Strip.
Navy ships fired shells at the Palestinian navy office in the
Nusseiraqt refugee camp.
(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A9)
2001 May 13, In India author
R.K. Narayan died at age 94. His work included 34 novels and
hundreds of short stories.
(SFC, 5/14/01, p.B2)
2001 May 13, In Italy Silvio
Berlusconi’s House of Freedoms coalition led the left-of-center
Olive Tree coalition in parliamentary elections. Berlusconi opposed
a federal Europe and stood as a proponent of free trade and low
taxes.
(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A9)
2001 May 13, The center-right
won Italy's parliamentary elections, setting the stage for the
return to power of media magnate Silvio Berlusconi.
(AP, 5/13/02)
2001 May 13, Pakistan refused
to give refugee status to tens of thousands of Afghans living in the
northwest part of the country. An estimated 50,000 Afghans were on
the move inside Afghanistan.
(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A12)
2001 May 13, In Spain Basque
Nationalists won the regional elections.
(WSJ, 5/11/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A9)
2001 May 14, The Supreme Court
ruled 8-to-0 that there is no exception in federal law for people to
use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other
illnesses.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/14/02)
2001 May 14, Promising to be a
"determined adversary" toward gun violence, President Bush announced
plans to mobilize federal and local prosecutors who would focus
exclusively on gun-related crimes.
(AP, 5/14/02)
2001 May 14, The FBI found in
Baltimore another batch of undisclosed records on Timothy McVeigh.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A1)
2001 May 14, Tom Green (52), a
bigamist with 5 wives and 29 children, went on trial in SLC for
bigamy. Green was convicted May 18 of 4 counts of bigamy and one
count of failure to pay child support. Green was sentenced to 5
years in prison and ordered to pay $78,000 to the state for
fraudulent welfare checks. In 2002 Green was convicted of child rape
for impregnating one wife at age 13. Green was released from prison
in 2007.
(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A3)(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A7)(SFC,
8/25/01, p.A3)(SFC, 6/25/02, p.A2)(SFC, 8/8/07, p.A5)
2001 May 14, The European
Commission announced that it would establish diplomatic ties with
North Korea.
(WSJ, 5/15/01, p.A1)
2001 May 14, It was reported
that bookstores in Indonesia had pulled leftist titles under
vigilante pressures.
(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A10)
2001 May 14, Israeli forces
gunned down 5 Palestinian police officers (18-29) at a checkpoint in
Beitunia, a suburb of Ramallah. Israel later admitted that the men
killed were mistaken for members of Force 17.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A9)(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A10)
2001 May 14, Panama agreed to
suspend a 66% increase in bus fares for 7 months following protests
and riots in which over 100 people were injured.
(WSJ, 5/15/01, p.A1)
2001 May 14, In the Philippines
midterm elections were held for half the Senate and the entire House
of Representatives and 17,600 municipal and provincial posts.
(SFC, 5/14/01, p.A9)
2001 May 15, The US Federal
Reserve lowered the short term federal funds interest rate .5% to
4%.
(SFC, 5/16/01, p.A1)
2001 May 15, The US government
issued new guidelines for managing high cholesterol.
(SFC, 5/16/01, p.A1)
2001 May 15, In California
regulators adopted the highest rate increase in the state’s history.
The residential consumer burden was raised by over $100 million.
(SFC, 5/16/01, p.A1)
2001 May 15, A runaway freight
train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a
railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a
stop.
(AP, 5/15/02)
2001 May 15, In Colombia
paramilitary forces kidnapped some 207 workers as they returned home
in the state of Casanare.
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A10)
2001 May 15, The IMF approved
$8 billion in loans to Turkey.
(WSJ, 5/16/01, p.A1)
2001 May 15, In India gunmen
killed 3 Catholic priests at Ngarian in Manipur state.
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.C4)
2001 May 15, On Israel’s 53rd
birthday Israeli troops shot and killed at least 4 Palestinians and
over 200 were wounded. An Israeli woman was also killed in the West
Bank.
(SFC, 5/16/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 5/16/01, p.A1)
2001 May 15, A celebratory mood
took hold of Japan after the palace formally announced that Crown
Princess Masako was pregnant.
(AP, 5/15/02)
2001 May 15, Macedonia’s new
unity government ordered a halt to attacks on ethnic Albanian rebels
but warned them to clear out of northern villages within 2 days or
face full-scale assaults.
(SFC, 5/16/01, p.A10)
2001 May 15, Tens of thousands
of Palestinians packed town squares in the West Bank town of
Ramallah as they marked what they called the day of "catastrophe" in
1948, when they were uprooted and the state of Israel created.
(AP, 5/15/02)
2001 May 15, In the Philippines
gunmen killed a policeman and stole ballot boxes as voting
continued. Arroyo’s party held a flimsy lead.
(WSJ, 5/16/01, p.A1)
2001 May 15, Fidel Castro
arrived in Syria from Qatar for a 2-day visit.
(SFC, 5/16/01, p.D14)
2001 May 15, Yugoslav forces
forced ethnic Albanian rebels from the village of Oraovica in the
Kosovo-Macedonia buffer zone. 14 rebels were reported killed.
(SFC, 5/16/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 5/17/01, p.A1)
2001 May 16, The US State Dept.
decided to designate the Real IRA as a terrorist organization and
banned fund raising by the group and its supporting organizations.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.D4)
2001 May 16, Former FBI agent
Robert Hanssen was indicted on charges of spying for Moscow. Hanssen
later pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and was sentenced to
life in prison without parole.
(AP, 5/16/02)
2001 May 16, Nathaniel Brazill,
a 14-year-old boy who shot his English teacher to death on the last
day of the school year, was convicted of second-degree murder in
West Palm Beach, Fla. Brazill was later sentenced to 28 years in
prison.
(AP, 5/16/02)
2001 May 16, Timothy McVeigh
was scheduled for execution by injection and the event was set to
show on closed-circuit TV at an Oklahoma City site restricted to 200
people. The execution was postponed to June 11.
(WSJ, 4/13/01, p.A1)
2001 May 16, The DJIA rose 342
to 11,215. The Nasdaq rose 80 to 2,166.
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.B1)
2001 May 16, In Colombia Ronald
de Jesus Arrollave, a La Terraza leader, was dragged from his
Medellin home and shot to death by 15 hooded gunmen. FARC rebels
kidnapped Lothar Hintze, a German businessman, at a tourist complex
that he was building in Prado. He was released April 5, 2006.
(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A12)(AP, 4/6/06)
2001 May 16, In Sierra Leone
rebels and pro-government militias agreed to end hostilities and
begin disarmament.
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A12)
2001 May 16, In Turkey a Casa
CN-235 military transport plane crashed and killed 34 people, mostly
special-forces soldiers returning from a Kurdish region.
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A12)
2001 May 17, The US pledged $43
million in aid to Afghanistan.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.A14)
2001 May 17, President Bush
unveiled his energy plan, bracing Americans for a summer of
blackouts, layoffs, business closings and skyrocketing fuel costs
and warning of "a darker future" without his aggressive plans to
drill for more oil and gas and rejuvenate nuclear power.
(AP, 5/17/02)
2001 May 17, California energy
regulators uncovered evidence that some electrical power companies
repeatedly shut down generating plants for unnecessary maintenance.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.A1)
2001 May 17, Prof. Li Shaomin
(45), a Chinese born US citizen, was charged by China with spying
for Taiwan.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.A14)
2001 May 17, In Argentina a
Fokker F27 air force plane crashed on takeoff in Mendoza and all 5
officers aboard were killed.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.D4)
2001 May 17, In Colombia the
United Self-Defense Forces (AUC) freed 201 recently abducted
farmworkers. In Medellin a car bomb killed 7 people and injured 138.
The criminal band "La Terraza" was blamed.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.A14)(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A8)
2001 May 17, In Greece a
nationwide mass strike took place and some 10,000 demonstrated in
Athens to protest a pension overhaul.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.D4)
2001 May 17, In Iran a
Russian-built Yak-40 plane crashed in Khorasan province and at least
29 people were killed. The dead included Rahman Dadman, the
transport minister, and 7 members of parliament.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 5/18/01, p.A1)
2001 May 17, In Kazakstan a
fire in a 26-story hotel in Almaty killed 4 people.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.D4)
2001 May 17, In Kyrgyzstan a
bus fell into a mountain ravine and 19 people were killed.
(SFC, 5/18/01, p.D4)
2001 May 17, It was reported
that the Mexican government would provide survival kits to citizens
planning to cross into the US illegally.
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A1)
2001 May 18, Brazil ordered
consumers and businesses to cut energy use by 20% due to shortages
created by drought. Rationing was to start June 1.
(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A8)
2001 May 18, In France Loik Le
Floch-Prigent, former head of Elf Aquitane SA (1989-1994), told
newspapers that millions of dollars were paid in secret commissions
to African governments, Spain and Germany, with the approval of 5
presidents.
(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A8)
2001 May 18, In Hong Kong
officials ordered the slaughter of some 1.2 million chickens and
other poultry to halt a deadly flu virus.
(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A12)
2001 May 18, In Israel a
suicide bomber killed 7 others and wounded over 100 women and
children at a shopping mall in Netanya. Israeli F-16 jets retaliated
and killed at 10 Palestinian security personnel in 3 Palestinian
cities. Near the Neve Tzuf Jewish settlement Yair Nebentzal (22) was
killed by sniper fire.
(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)(AP,
5/18/06)
2001 May 18, The captain and
crew of a cargo ship from Bosaso forced overboard some 150
passengers after the vessel developed engine trouble. At least 86
people drowned. Somalia police arrested the captain on June 21.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A16)
2001 May 19, "Point Given" won
the Preakness as Derby winner "Monarchos" finished out of the money.
(AP, 5/19/02)
2001 May 19, The Arab League
called on Arab governments to sever political contacts with Israel
until the Jewish state ended military action against Palestinians.
(AP, 5/19/02)
2001 May 19, It was reported
that China’s "Strike Hard" anti-crime campaign had resulted in at
least 801 executions in the last 3 weeks of April.
(SFC, 5/19/01, p.A8)
2001 May 19, In Croatian local
elections nationalists won 14 of 21 counties.
(WSJ, 5/22/01, p.A1)
2001 May 19, In Somalia luggage
in a bus exploded near Halgan and 26 passengers were killed.
Gunpowder in a suitcase was placed near the engine.
(SSFC, 5/20/01, p.A16)
2001 May 19, In Yemen an
explosion in the weapons market of al-Suwaida killed at least 14
people and injured 15.
(SSFC, 5/20/01, p.A16)
2001 May 20, President Bush, in
an address to graduating Notre Dame students, urged a new generation
of American voters to "revive the spirit of citizenship" and carry
on the work of two Democratic presidents: Lyndon Johnson's war on
poverty and welfare reforms under Bill Clinton.
(http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/05/20/bush.speech.text/)
2001 May 20, The Italian film
"The Son's Room" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
(AP, 5/20/02)
2001 May 20, In China 20 miners
were feared dead in a gypsum mine in the Guangxi region and another
38-39 were trapped in a coal mine in Sichuan. The miners in Sichuan
were working a prison-run mine.
(SFC, 5/21/01, p.A10)(SFC, 5/22/01, p.A11)
2001 May 20, In China 14 people
were executed in 2 cities for robbery and murder.
(SFC, 5/21/01, p.A10)
2001 May 20, In Iran a power
failure by Tavanir, the state-owned utility, left almost the whole
country without electricity for several hours.
(SFC, 5/21/01, p.A10)
2001 May 20, In Iran a woman
was stoned to death after her conviction for acting in pornographic
films was upheld by the Supreme Court.
(SFC, 5/22/01, p.A11)
2001 May 20, In Macedonia
government troops shelled ethnic Albanian positions in response to
machine gun and sniper fire.
(SFC, 5/22/01, p.A11)
2001 May 20, In Mongolia the
3rd presidential elections were scheduled. Pres. Bagabandi was
re-elected with 58% of the vote.
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.C4)(SFC, 5/22/01, p.A11)
2001 May 21, The Supreme Court
ruled, six-to-three, that a radio host cannot be sued for airing a
phone conversation taped illegally by a third party.
(AP, 5/21/02)
2001 May 21, The Mitchell
Report on Mideast violence called on Palestinians to jail terrorists
and Israel to freeze settlement activity.
(AP, 5/21/02)
2001 May 21, Ford Motor and
Bridgestone/Firestone announced the termination of their century old
business relationship.
(WSJ, 5/23/01, p.A1)
2001 May 21, Joerg C. Tiller of
MIT said a new polymer, called hexyl-PVP, could be used as a surface
coating and was able to kill common disease-causing organisms.
(SFC, 5/22/01, p.A6)
2001 May 21, The body of
Quetzalcoatl Alba (15) was found in a storage room in the carport
area of the Park Plaza Drive apartment complex in Daly City, Ca.
Murder suspect Carlos Maldonado was arrested in Miami in 2007.
Maldonado attempted to escape police on arrival at the SF Airport.
He jumped a railing plunging 25 feet to the arrival area of the
airport, suffering serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
Police still sought Erick Morales in the case.
(SFC, 10/24/07, p.B4)
2001 May 21, In Seattle, Wa.,
members of the Earth Liberation Front torched the Univ. of
Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture causing about $6 million
in damage. An Oregon tree farm owned by Jefferson Poplar Farms was
also burned. 4 people were later convicted of taking part in the
firebombing. One later committed suicide in prison. In 2011 Briana
Waters (35) pleaded guilty to arson and related charges in the
firebombing.
(SFC, 9/16/10,
p.C5)(http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=3180)(SFC, 6/17/11,
p.C3)
2001 May 21, In Chile Pres.
Ricardo Lagos made a state-of-the-nation address and raised the
government’s job creation pledge to 150,000 to help offset rising
unemployment.
(WSJ, 5/25/01, p.A8)
2001 May 21, In Iquique, Chile,
26 prisoners, mostly first time offenders, died after rioting
inmates set fires in their cells. Authorities later said the fire
was started by accident.
(WSJ, 5/22/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/23/01, p.A1)
2001 May 21, In Cairo Saad
Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian American human rights campaigner, was
sentenced to 7 years in prison of charges of tarnishing Egypt’s
image, accepting foreign money and embezzling funds. His conviction
was overturned Dec 3, 2002.
(SFC, 5/22/01, p.A10)(SFC, 12/4/02, p.A19)
2001 May 21, Amid escalating
Middle East violence, an international commission submitted a report
calling for end to violence, but it was never implemented.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2001 May 21, Cardinals from
around the world gathered at the Vatican for a three-day meeting to
ponder the challenges facing the Roman Catholic Church and who might
lead it after Pope John Paul II.
(AP, 5/21/02)
2001 May 22, Ford Motor Co.
said it planned to spend more than $2 billion to replace up to 13
million Firestone tires on its vehicles because of safety concerns.
(AP, 5/22/02)
2001 May 22, It was reported
that researchers had identified a gene linked to Crohn’s disease, an
inflammatory bowel disorder.
(WSJ, 5/22/01, p.A1)
2001 May 22, The Taliban of
Afghanistan decreed an edict that would require non-Muslims to wear
distinguishing clothing.
(WSJ, 5/22/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/23/01, p.A1)
2001 May 22, Ethnic Albanian
rebels in southern Serbia began laying aside their weapons for
collection by NATO.
(SFC, 5/23/01, p.A12)
2001 May 22, In the Philippines
2 workers were killed at the Pearl Farms resort on Samal Island
during an attack by suspected Muslim rebels. Guards repulsed the
attack.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.C3)
2001 May 22, In Sweden
delegates from 127 countries formally adopted a global treaty
banning 12 toxic chemicals called persistent organic pollutants
(POPS).
(SFC, 5/23/01, p.C4)
2001 May 23, The US Senate
passed an 11-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut bill.
(AP, 5/23/02)
2001 May 23, Pres. Bush banned
the import of rough diamonds from Liberia in an effort to deprive
rebels in Sierra Leone of a source of funds.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.C3)
2001 May 23, Pres. Bush met
with the Dalai Lama as China condemned the Taiwan president’s visit
to NYC.
(WSJ, 5/24/01, p.A1)
2001 May 23, US Sec. of State
Colin Powell began his 4-nation African tour in Mali and met with
Pres. Alfa Omar Konare.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.C2)
2001 May 23, In Arizona 12
illegal Mexican immigrants were found dead due to dehydration. 2
more were found dead the next day. In 2002 Jesus Lopez-Ramos, one of
3 smugglers, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. In 2004 Luis
Alberto Urrea authored "The Devil's Highway: A True Story," about
the ill-fated crossing.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.A3)(SFC, 5/25/01, p.A3)(SFC,
2/23/02, p.A5)(SSFC, 4/11/04, p.M2)
2001 May 23, An Israeli
contractor was killed in an ambush in the West Bank. 38 Palestinians
including 15 children were wounded in a firefight at the Rafah
refugee camp in Gaza.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.A14)
2001 May 23, India called off a
6-month cease-fire in Kashmir and at the same time invited
Pakistan’s military leader to visit and discuss how to bring peace
to the region.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.C2)
2001 May 23, The UN reported
that in Sierra Leone some 2,300 fighters turned in their weapons in
the 1st 6 days of a new disarmament deal.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.C3)
2001 May 23, The Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) opened for
signature in Stockholm, Sweden. The convention entered into force on
May 17th, 2004 with ratification by an initial 128 parties and 151
signatories.
(http://tinyurl.com/5exstm)(SSFC, 7/6/08, p.A2)
2001 May 24, US Sec. of State
Colin Powell traveled to South Africa as part of his 4-nation
African tour to promote the fight against AIDS.
(WSJ, 5/25/01, p.A11)
2001 May 24, Senator James
Jeffords of Vermont (67) announced that he would quit the Republican
Party and declare himself an independent. This gave the Democrats
control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 The switch
would become official upon the completion of the tax-cut bill.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/25/01, p.A1)(AP,
5/24/02)
2001 May 24, It was reported
that St. Jude Medical had designed a new aortic connector to make
operations easier in bypass surgery.
(WSJ, 5/24/01, p.A1)
2001 May 24, In Angola De Beers
suspended investment and prospecting for diamonds due to lack of
clarity over its legal rights. Rebel groups controlled many of the
diamond mines.
(SFC, 5/25/01, p.D6)
2001 May 24, The Israeli Air
Force shot down a small plane off the coast and killed a Lebanese
student pilot (43). Israel sent tanks into the Gaza Strip and 2
people were killed.
(SFC, 5/25/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 5/25/01, p.A1)
2001 May 24, In Jerusalem a
Jewish wedding hall collapsed and 23 people were killed in a
horrifying scene captured on videotape.
(SFC, 5/25/01, p.A14)(AP, 5/24/02)
2001 May 24, In Macedonia
Albanians said that government fire killed 7 civilians.
(WSJ, 5/25/01, p.A1)
2001 May 24, In Nepal Erik
Weihenmayer (32) of Golden, Colorado, became the 1st blind person to
reach the top of Mt. Everest. Sherman Bull of New Canaan, Conn.,
became the oldest person to reach the peak. 94 climbers reached the
summit over 4 days.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 5/27/01, p.A14)
2001 May 24, Pakistan’s foreign
minister, Maj. Gen. Rashid Qureshi, accused India of state terrorism
in Kashmir and said his nation would accept an invitation from India
for talks.
(SFC, 5/25/01, p.A16)
2001 May 24, In the Philippines
Muslim rebels kidnapped 40 people traveling from Basilan to Babuan
Island.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A10)
2001 May 24, In Spain Santiago
Oleaga Elejabarrieta (54), financial director of the El Diario Vasco
daily newspaper, was shot and killed. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 5/25/01, p.D6)
2001 May 24, In Sudan the
government planned to halt air strikes against rebels in the south
May 25 in an effort to reach a cease-fire.
(SFC, 5/25/01, p.D6)
2001 May 25, A federal appeals
court lifted an injunction on publication of "The Wind Done Gone,"
Alice Randall's satirical retelling of "Gone With The Wind" from a
black viewpoint.
(AP, 5/25/02)
2001 May 25, US Sec. of State
Colin Powell spoke to students at the Univ. of Witwatersrand and
called on Pres. Mugabe of Zimbabwe to submit to free elections next
year.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.B12)
2001 May 25, It was reported
that the US economy grew a revised 1.3% from Jan. to March. The DJIA
dropped 117 to 11,005. Nasdaq dropped 31 to 2,251.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.E1)
2001 May 25, PG&E filed for
permission to award $17.5 million in additional payouts to the
management team that guided the company to bankruptcy.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A1)
2001 May 25, In Colombia 2
bombs exploded in front of Bogota’s National Univ. and 4 people were
killed.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A9)
2001 May 25, In Georgia some
400 National Guard mutinied over improved living conditions at a
base 25 miles northeast of Tbilisi.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A10)
2001 May 25, In Macedonia
government troops began a ground assault against rebels and some
3,000 civilians fled the area.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.B12)
2001 May 25, Three Palestinian
suicide bombers attacked in Hadera and Gaza but only killed
themselves.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A8)
2001 May 25, In Serbia police
linked former Pres. Slobodan Milosevic to a 1999 coverup of Kosovo
atrocities that included the dumping of bodies in the Danube.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A8)
2001 May 25, In Sierra Leone
the Revolutionary United Front surrendered 581 boys and 10 girls
(6-11) to the UN.
(SFC, 5/26/01, p.A10)
2001 May 26, Republicans and
moderate Democrats drove a sweeping $1.35 trillion, 10-year tax cut
through Congress, handing President Bush a political triumph. Some
100 million refund checks were due to be mailed out by Oct 1.
(SSFC, 5/27/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/26/02)
2001 May 26, Sec. of State
Colin Powell met with Pres. Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and urged to
step aside for the 2002 elections.
(SSFC, 5/27/01, p.A12)
2001 May 26, In England riots
broke out in Oldham between whites and residents of East Indian
origin.
(SFC, 5/28/01, p.B12)
2001 May 27, Indy rookie Helio
Castroneves led teammate and fellow Brazilian Gil de Ferran in a 1-2
Roger Penske finish, giving the renowned owner a triumphant return
to the Indianapolis 500.
(AP, 5/27/02)
2001 May 27, Archbishop
Emmanuel Milingo married Maria Sung in a mass ceremony conducted by
Rev. Sun Myung Moon in NYC. In Aug Milingo was reported to have
recommitted his life to the Catholic Church. Marie Sung went on a
hunger strike. Sung later resigned herself to Milingo’s return to
the Church.
(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A6)(SFC, 8/31/01, p.D5)
2001 May 27, Sec. of State
Colin Powell stopped in Uganda and urged the government of Sudan to
halt bombing in southern towns and to stop interfering with the
delivery of emergency assistance to victims of drought and war.
(SFC, 5/28/01, p.B12)
2001 May 27, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid threatened to declare a state of emergency if impeachment
proceedings begin.
(SFC, 5/28/01, p.B12)
2001 May 27, In Mexican
gubernatorial elections in Yucatan Patricio Patron of the National
Action Party led Orlando Paredes of the PRI.
(SFC, 5/28/01, p.B12)
2001 May 27, In Nepal a 3-day
strike was called by the opposition parties who demanded that Prime
Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resign for his role in a bribery case
involving the lease of a commercial jet for state-run Royal Nepal
Airlines.
(SFC, 5/28/01, p.B12)
2001 May 27, Gunmen abducted 21
people from the Dos Palmas Island Resort in Palawan province.
Guillermo Sobero from Corona, Ca., was one of the 3 abducted
Americans. The Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility. Sobero was later
beheaded. Missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham were among the
kidnapped. A $300,000 ransom for the Burnhams was paid in 2002, but
the rebels then asked for $200,000 more. [see Jun 7, 2002]
(SSFC, 5/27/01, p.A12)(SFC, 5/29/01, p.A8)(SFC,
10/25/01, p.C2)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A6)(SFC, 4/27/02, p.A11)
2001 May 28, President Bush
honored America's veterans with the Memorial Day signing of
legislation to construct a World War II monument on the National
Mall.
(SFC, 5/29/01, p.A3)(AP, 5/28/02)
2001 May 28, The US and China
tentatively agreed that the US spy plane on Hainan Island would be
dismantled and possibly flown home aboard a giant Antonov-124
transport.
(WSJ, 5/29/01, p.A1)
2001 May 28, U.S. Rep. Joseph
Moakley, D-Mass., died at age 74.
(AP, 5/28/02)
2001 May 28, In the Central
African Republic at least 12 people were killed in a failed coup
attempt against Pres. Ange-Felix Patasse. 80 people in 2002 went on
trial for the attempted coup.
(SFC, 5/29/01, p.A12)(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A10)
2001 May 28, In Colombia FARC
guerrillas killed at least 24 residents of villages near Tierralta
over the last 2 days.
(SFC, 6/1/01, p.D3)
2001 May 28, In Cyprus the
AKEL, a communist party, won parliamentary elections in the Greek
Cypriot portion of the island.
(SFC, 5/29/01, p.A12)
2001 May 28, In Indonesia the
attorney general cleared Pres. Wahid of involvement in 2 corruption
cases that led to his censure.
(SFC, 5/29/01, p.A10)
2001 May 28, Israel and the
Palestinians agreed to resume talks on security cooperation.
(SFC, 5/29/01, p.A12)
2001 May 29, Pres. Bush met
with Gov. Davis in Los Angeles. Bush ruled out federal price
controls and Davis said he would sue to impose controls.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/29/02)
2001 May 29, The Supreme Court
ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in
tournaments.
(AP, 5/29/02)
2001 May 29, Four followers of
Osama bin Laden were convicted in New York of a global conspiracy to
murder Americans, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies
in Africa that killed 224 people.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/29/02)
2001 May 29, Intel unveiled its
new 64-bit processor, the Itanium, previously known under the code
name Merced. A 2nd generation of the chip, code-named McKinley, was
planned for 2002. The project was a joint venture with HP.
(WSJ, 5/29/01, p.A1)(Econ, 2/28/04, p.63)
2001 May 29, The US National
Marine Fisheries Service declared the California coast white abalone
an endangered species.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A3)
2001 May 29, In Israel and the
West Bank 3 Palestinians and 3 Israelis were killed.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 5/30/01, p.A1)
2001 May 29, In Macedonia key
leaders agreed to set aside a dispute over a joint declaration
signed by ethnic Albanian politicians and a guerrilla leader that
did not require an immediate stop to fighting.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A10)
2001 May 29, In Mexico City
Jesus Ignacio Carrola Gutierrez, a former director of the judicial
police, was found slain execution-style with his 2 brothers. Carrola
had resigned in 1997 under pressure of alleged links to drug
traffickers and human rights abuses by police under his command.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A12)
2001 May 29, Pakistan accepted
India’s offer for peace talks on Kashmir.
(WSJ, 5/30/01, p.A1)
2001 May 29, The Ukraine
Parliament confirmed Anatoly Kinakh as prime minister.
(SFC, 5/30/01, p.A12)
2001 May 30, Moses Malone and
college coaches Mike Krzyzewski and John Chaney entered the
Basketball Hall of Fame.
(AP, 5/30/02)
2001 May 30, Pres. Bush spoke
from Sequoia National Park and renewed his campaign promise to spend
$4.9 billion to restore the nation’s national parks and to protect
"these works of God" and other natural treasures from mankind.
(SFC, 5/31/01, p.A1)(AP, 5/30/02)
2001 May 30, In France Roland
Dumas, a former foreign minister, was sentenced to 6 months in jail
for corruption. Alfred Sirven, 2nd in command at Elf, was sentenced
to 4 years in jail along with a fine. Loik Le Floch-Prigent, former
Elf president was sentenced to 3 ½ years in jail; along with
a fine. Christine Deviers-Joncour was sentenced to 3 years in jail
with half suspended.
(SFC, 5/31/01, p.A12)
2001 May 30 In Germany
lawmakers gave the final approval for $4.5 billion in payments to
the last uncompensated Nazi victims of slave labor.
(SFC, 5/31/01, p.A12)
2001 May 30, In Indonesia the
parliament voted to begin impeachment proceedings against Pres.
Wahid. Lawmakers called on a special assembly to end his 19-month
tenure.
(SFC, 5/31/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 5/31/01, p.A1)
2001 May 30, Libya flew troops
and weapons to the Central African Republic to help Pres. Patasse to
put down a coup attempt.
(WSJ, 5/31/01, p.A1)
2001 May 30, In Russia Pres.
Putin ousted the head Gazprom and installed an ally to head the
natural gas monopoly.
(WSJ, 5/31/01, p.A1)
2001 May 31, Veteran FBI agent
Robert Hanssen pleaded innocent to charges of spying for Moscow. He
later changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to life in
prison.
(AP, 5/31/02)
2001 May 31, Timothy McVeigh
decided to seek a postponement of his execution "to promote
integrity in the criminal justice system."
(SFC, 6/1/01, p.A1)
2001 May 31, Microsoft released
its new Office XP for Windows software.
(SFC, 5/31/01, p.C1)
2001 May 31, Arlene Francis,
actress and TV personality, died in San Francisco at age 93.
(AP, 5/31/02)
2001 May 31, In Afghanistan the
Taliban barred female foreign-aid workers from driving. The virtue
ministry said the activity is harmful for society.
(WSJ, 6/1/01, p.A1)
2001 May 31, In Cuba a group of
journalists led by Raul Rivero formed an independent association,
the 1st under Castro’s rule.
(SFC, 6/1/01, p.D3)
2001 May 31, In Israel a Jewish
settler was killed in the West Bank and Palestinian (17) was killed
during a clash in Ramallah. Since Sept. 483 Palestinians have died
and 88 Israelis including 24 settlers.
(SFC, 6/1/01, p.D6)
2001 May 31, Faisal Husseini
(60), a moderate Palestinian leader, died in Kuwait of a heart
attack. He was a member of the PLO’s executive committee and head of
the Fatah on the West Bank.
(SFC, 6/1/01, p.D5)(AP, 5/31/02)
2001 May, Arthur Anderson &
Co. agreed to pay $110 million to settle shareholder suits arising
from an accounting scandal at Sunbeam.
(WSJ, 6/7/02, p.A6)
2001 May, Apple Corp. announced
plans to open 25 retail stores.
(SFC, 1/24/04, p.A12)
2001 May, Louis A Bloomfield, a
Univ. of Virginia physics professor, acting on tip from student;
used computer program to find 60 term papers out of 1,800 papers
that were nearly identical; findings raise questions about whether
Internet has increased cheating. 48 students were dismissed or had
their degrees revoked in the cheating scandal.
(http://tinyurl.com/yacr6w)(WSJ, 1/21/06, p.P8)
2001 Jun 1, The Bush
administration removed curbs on the sale of $800 million in goods to
Iraq. A UN oil-for-food exchange was extended for 1 month rather
than the normal 6 months. Iraq responded by saying it wouldn’t
resume oil exports.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 1, Logging trucks were
set on fire to protest logging on the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon.
4 activists including Michael Scarpitti were charged. In 2004
Scarpitti was arrested in Vancouver, BC, while trying to shoplift
some bolt cutters. In 2005 Canada ordered that Scarpitti, aka Tre
Arrow, be extradited to the US to face firebombing charges. In 2007
Suzanne Savoie was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months for her role in
this and one another arson fire. In 2008 Scarpitti was extradited to
the US to face ecoterrorism charges.
(SFC, 2/16/04, p.A7)(SFC, 7/8/05, p.A3)(SFC,
6/1/07, p.A3)(SSFC, 3/2/08, p.A2)
2001 Jun 1, Hank Ketcham
(b.1920), the creator of the "Dennis the Menace" cartoon, died in
Pebble Beach at age 81.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Jun 1, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid fired the security minister, attorney general, national police
chief and 2 other Cabinet ministers in an attempt to thwart efforts
to remove him from office.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 1, In Israel a
Palestinian suicide bomber killed 21 young people at a Tel Aviv
disco. At least 80 people were injured in the Hamas attack.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Jun 1, In Nepal Crown
Prince Dipendra (29) killed at least 8 members of the royal family
before shooting himself. King Birendra, Queen Aiswarya, Princess
Shruti, Prince Nirajan, 3 of the King’s sisters and a brother-in-law
were all shot to death. Dipendra was put on life support and Prince
Gyanendra (54), the king’s younger brother, was appointed as
assistant to the crown. There was an apparent dispute over his
upcoming marriage.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 1, In South Africa
Nkosi Johnson (12), a victim of AIDS, died. In 2000 he had spoken to
int’l. delegates and implored South Africa to provide HIV-positive
pregnant women with anti-retroviral drugs to block transmission of
the virus to children at birth.
(SFC, 1/12/01, p.A18)(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 2, Imogene Coca
(b.1908), co-star with Sid Caesar of the 1950s "Your Show of Shows"
TV program, died at age 92 in Westport, Conn.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A29)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Jun 2, In the West Bank
Yasser Arafat announced that he would make every effort to bring
about an unconditional cease-fire.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 2, In Colombia the
government and FARC guerrillas agreed to swap sick prisoners
followed later by a swap of healthy prisoners.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A16)
2001 Jun 2, Nepal's Crown
Prince Dipendra, on life support after killing at least eight
members of the royal family, including his parents, before turning
the gun on himself, was named king by Nepal's State Council.
(AP, 6/2/02)
2001 Jun 2, In the Philippines
government forces engaged Muslim separatists at Lamitan on Basilan
Island. At least 12 soldiers were killed in 2 days of fighting. New
hostages were reported taken. It was later reported that army
officers accepted bribes to allow Abu Sayyaf rebels to escape.
(SFC, 6/2/01, p.A8)(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A16)(SFC,
8/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 3, The 2001 Tony
winners included the play "Proof" and a lifetime achievement award
to musical director Paul Gemignani. Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The
Producers" won a record 12 Tony Awards.
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.E3)(AP, 6/3/02)
2001 Jun 3, It was reported
that the newest teen dance was called "freaking" and involved the
partners, male behind female, thrusting to a hip-hop beat as in "Get
Ur Freak On."
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A23)
2001 Jun 3, Anthony Quinn
(b.1915), film actor, died in Boston at age 86. His films included
"Zorba the Greek" (1964) and "Viva Zapata" (1952).
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.111)
2001 Jun 3, In California pilot
Daniel Katz (24) disappeared while flying over San Bernardino
National Forest. This spurred one of the most extensive and
high-tech searches in the area's history. In 2008 the wreckage of
his rented plane was found on a steep mountainside north of Rancho
Cucamonga near Lytle Creek.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2001 Jun 3, In Bangladesh 10
people were killed in a church bombing in Baniarchar. Police later
detained 7 suspects.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 3, It was reported the
Burundi was poised for war due to conflicts between the Hutu
majority and Tutsi minority.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A16)
2001 Jun 3, In Indonesia over
100 police generals rejected Pres. Wahid’s decision to fire police
chief Suroyo Bimantoro.
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 3, In Peru Alejandro
Toledo won the presidency over ex-president Alan Garcia.
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/3/02)
2001 Jun 3, It was reported
that Singapore may consider reviewing the 1992 ban on chewing gum to
allow nicotine gum for smokers.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A16)
2001 Jun 4, Pres. Bush spoke in
the Florida Everglades and underlined his request for $58 million in
the 2002 budget for Everglades restoration.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A3)
2001 Jun 4, It was reported
that US Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld had virtually cut off all
Pentagon contacts with the Chinese armed forces in displeasure over
the spy plane incident. Rumsfeld announced that he had given limited
permission to resume military-to-military contacts with China due to
the progress in the resolution of the spy plane incident.
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.A10)(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 4, Nevada lawmakers
approved a bill to legalize Internet gambling and passed a medical
marijuana measure.
(WSJ, 6/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 4, Hewlett-Packard
agreed to pay $400 million to Pitney Bowes to settle a 6-year-old
patent dispute over printer technology.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.C1)
2001 Jun 4, In India government
troops battled Islamic rebels on 3 fronts and 23 people were killed.
4 civilians died when a grenade missed a paramilitary bunker and
exploded at a crowded bus station.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 4, As Israeli soldiers
and Palestinians exchanged fire in Rafah, Hamas said that it would
join the cease-fire.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 4, In Nepal King
Dipendra died 3 days after allegedly shooting the royal family and
himself. Prince Gyanendra was named king.
(SFC, 6/4/01, p.A8)(AP, 6/4/02)
2001 Jun 4, In Russia most of
the production of vodka stopped due to the lack of government
stamps, which were ordered to fight bootlegging and boost taxes.
(WSJ, 6/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 4, In Sri Lanka
anti-terrorist commandos killed 14 Tamil Tiger rebels trying to
infiltrate the Ampara district.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 4, In Zimbabwe
Chenjerai Hunzvi (Hitler Hunzvi), a leader of the war veterans, died
at age 51. He had led the violent occupations of white-owned farms.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 5, Pres. Bush sent
George Tenet, the CIA director, to help Middle East security talks.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C2)
2001 Jun 5, Defense Sec. Donald
Rumsfeld visited Macedonia as Albanian rebels clashed with
government troops near Tetovo.
(WSJ, 6/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 5, Senate Republicans
spent their last full day in power before turning control over to
Democrats, a change that came about because of a decision by Vermont
Sen. James Jeffords to leave the GOP and become an independent.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.A3)(AP, 6/5/02)
2001 Jun 5, In Afghanistan the
Taliban ordered foreigners to obey strict Muslim laws or face
expulsion.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C2)
2001 Jun 5, It was reported
that the ecstasy drug was a big hit in Chinese night clubs. It had
begun filtering in from Hong Kong in 1998.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 5, In China 13
children were killed in a fire at a kindergarten dormitory in
Nanchang.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C3)
2001 Jun 5, In Romania 10
people were killed in Constanta when workers set off an explosion
while welding the hull of a Maltese oil tanker.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C3)
2001 Jun 6, Pres. Bush
announced plans to restart negotiations with North Korea on issues
ranging from missile production to border soldier deployment.
(SFC, 6/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 6, Democrats formally
assumed control of the U.S. Senate; the unprecedented shift in power
came about after the decision of Vermont Republican James Jeffords
to become an independent.
(AP, 6/6/02)
2001 Jun 6, A jury in Los
Angeles awarded more than $3 billion to lifelong smoker Richard
Boeken, deciding that tobacco giant Philip Morris was responsible
for his incurable lung cancer. The jury award was reduced by a
Superior Court judge to $100 million, then cut to $50 million by an
appeals court; the U.S. Supreme Court refused in March 2006 to
consider tossing out the award altogether; Boeken died in 2002.
(SFC, 6/7/01, p.A3)(AP, 6/6/06)
2001 Jun 6, A report by the
National Academy of Sciences concluded that industrial greenhouse
gases would likely raise temperatures 2.5-10.4 degrees Fahrenheit
before the end of the century.
(SFC, 6/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 6, Pfizer announced
that it would distribute Diflucan, a treatment for cryptococcal
meningitis, for free to AIDS patients in 50 of the world’s least
developed countries.
(SFC, 6/7/01, p.C2)
2001 Jun 6, In the Central
African Republic fighting continued in Bangui and some 50,000
civilians had fled to the forests. Food was scarce and disease
outbreaks were feared.
(SFC, 6/7/01, p.C2)
2001 Jun 6, In Macedonia the
government threatened to declare a state of war after 5 soldiers
were killed in an attack by ethnic Albanian rebels.
(SFC, 6/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 6, In Russia lawmakers
approved a plan for storing nuclear waste in Siberia to earn an
estimated $20 billion over 10 years.
(SFC, 6/7/01, p.C2)
2001 Jun 6, In Rwanda
government troops attacked Hutu militiamen crossing into the country
from Congo and 150 were killed.
(SFC, 6/8/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 7, Pres. Bush signed a
$1.3 trillion tax cut bill. It included rising exemptions on estate
taxes until 2010 at which point they would return.
(SFC, 6/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Jun 7, The US and China
agreed on a final plan for the removal of the US spy plane from
Hainan Island.
(SFC, 6/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Jun 7, A three-judge panel
of the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh's request for an execution delay.
(AP, 6/7/02)
2001 Jun 7, A federal judge
refused to stop plans for a World War II Memorial on the National
Mall in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 6/7/02)
2001 Jun 7, In Argentina former
Pres. Carlos Menem was arrested for leading a conspiracy to sell
$100 million worth of weapons to Croatia and Ecuador while in office
in 1991 and 1995. He was indicted July 4.
(SFC, 6/8/01, p.A16)(WSJ, 6/8/01, p.A13)(SFC,
7/5/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 7, In Bolivia former
president Victor Paz Estensorro, founder of the National
Revolutionary Movement, died at age 93.
(SFC, 6/8/01, p.D5)
2001 Jun 7, Britain held
elections. PM Tony Blair’s labor Party won the elections and a 2nd
term with 44% of the popular vote. Labor had promised to achieve
full employment in every region.
(SFC, 6/8/01, p.A16)(Econ, 3/10/07, p.52)
2001 Jun 7, China published new
rules on genetic engineering. The government took broad oversight
over the industry and required clear labeling on genetically altered
foods.
(WSJ, 6/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Jun 7, Mamoru Takuma (37)
stabbed at least 29 people at the Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka,
Japan, and killed 8 children. He was executed in 2004.
(SFC, 6/8/01, p.A16)(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A6)(Econ,
9/18/04, p.50)
2001 Jun 7, In Macedonia ethnic
Albanian rebels declared a cease-fire as the president prepared a
peace proposal to avert a declaration of war.
(WSJ, 6/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 8, Five Cuban men were
convicted in the US for operating as unregistered foreign agents.
Gerardo Hernandez (36) was sentenced to life in prison on Dec 12 for
conspiracy in the deaths of 4 aviators shot down by Cuba in 1996.
Antonio Guerrero (43), convicted for spying while working a Navy
base in Florida, was sentenced to life in prison on Dec 27. In 2009
Guerrero’s sentence was reduced to 20 years. Rene Gonzalez was
released in 2011.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A4)(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A5)(SFC,
10/14/09, p.A4)(AP, 10/15/11)
2001 Jun 8, British Prime
Minister Tony Blair and his Labor Party swept to a second term,
winning re-election by a crushing margin.
(AP, 6/8/02)
2001 Jun 8, In Guatemala 3
soldiers and a priest were found guilty of the 1998 murder of Bishop
Juan Jose Gerardi. The officers were sentenced to 30 years in prison
and Rev. Orantes was sentenced to 20 years. An appeals court in 2002
granted a new trial.
(SFC, 6/9/01, p.A8)(AP, 10/8/02)
2001 Jun 8, In Iran Pres.
Khatami was elected to a 2nd term with nearly 77% of the vote.
(SFC, 6/9/01, p.A8)(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 8, Irish voters
rejected the EU’s Nice treaty to pave the way for 12 new members.
The Irish reportedly feared immigrants in search of jobs and
participation in an EU Rapid Reaction Force.
(SFC, 6/9/01, p.A9)(Econ, 3/17/07, SR p.10)
2001 Jun 8, A knife-wielding
man killed eight children at a Japanese elementary school.
(AP, 6/8/02)
2001 Jun 8, In Macedonia rebels
seized Aracinovo, 5 miles from Skopje, without firing a shot.
(SFC, 6/13/01, p.D2)
2001 Jun 9, The Colorado
Avalanche won the Stanley Cup by defeating the defending champion
New Jersey Devils 3-1 in game seven.
(AP, 6/9/02)
2001 Jun 9, Point Given won the
Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/9/02)
2001 Jun 9, China and the
United States announced an agreement on farm subsidies and other
remaining issues blocking Beijing's bid to join the World Trade
Organization (WTO).
(AP, 6/9/02)
2001 Jun 9, Israeli tank shells
killed 3 Palestinian women, Nessra Malaha (65), Salimia Malaha (46)
and Hikmet Malaha (17), in the Gaza Strip.
(SSFC, 6/10/01, p.A15)
2001 Jun 10, The Supreme Court,
without comment, turned down a request to allow the videotaping of
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution, scheduled for the
following day.
(AP, 6/10/02)
2001 Jun 10, Tropical storm
Allison hung over Texas and Louisiana and killed at least 16 people.
Pres. Bush declared 28 counties disaster areas due to flooding.
(SSFC, 6/10/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 10, In Italy Silvio
Berlusconi (64), known as Il Cavaliere, became premier for a 2nd
time and formed his Cabinet. He promised a 100-day revolution to
transform the economy.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A8)(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A15)
2001 Jun 10, In Macedonia
ethnic Albanian rebel leader Commander Hoxha threatened to take the
insurgency into the cities unless government stopped fighting in the
north.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 10, In Spain thousands
marched in Madrid to protest an upcoming visit by Pres. Bush.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 11, It was reported
that Intel researchers had developed tiny silicon transistors that
would allow production of chips with 1 billion transistors by 2007.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.D1)
2001 Jun 11, Timothy McVeigh
(33) was executed by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terra
Haute, Ind., for the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. For his
final statement he issue a hand-written copy of "Invictus," a poem
written in 1875 by William Ernest Henley, whose last 2 lines read "I
am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 11, The Colombia AUC
named a new 9-man command council to lead its fight against rebel
guerrillas.
(SFC, 6/12/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 11, In northern
Colombia, thousands turned out to protest a US-backed program to
aerially eradicate coca crops. They wanted the government to
manually eradicate the plant used to make cocaine instead of
spraying the countryside.
(AP, 6/11/03)
2001 Jun 11, In Germany
Chancellor Schroeder and leading energy companies signed an
agreement to shut down the country’s 19 nuclear power plants.
Average operation was limited to 32 years and the last would close
around 2021.
(SFC, 6/12/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 11, In Macedonia
ethnic Albanian rebels and the government announced cease-fires.
(SFC, 6/12/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 11, In Slovakia 17
Indian would-be immigrants were believed to have drowned while
trying to cross the Morava River from Slovakia to the Czech
Republic.
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.C3)
2001 Jun 12, Pres. Bush on his
1st major overseas trip met with Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in
Madrid and pushed for his missile defense shield.
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A10)(SFC, 6/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 12, A federal court in
NYC sentenced Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali, a Saudi Arabian
follower of Osama bin Laden, to life in prison without parole for
his role in the deadly 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya.
(SFC, 6/13/01, p.A3)(AP, 6/12/02)
2001 Jun 12, Gov. Jebb Bush
signed into law a bill banning the execution of mentally retarded
killers. Florida became the 15th state to do so.
(SFC, 6/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 12, In Florida
Tropical Storm Allison killed another 4 people. 5 were killed in the
Panhandle a week earlier.
(SFC, 6/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 12, Amos Perlmutter,
US political scientist and author, died at age 69. His 15 books
included "The Life and Times of Menachim Begin" (1987) and "The
Military and Politics in Modern Times" (1977).
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A27)
2001 Jun 12, It was reported
that Berlin suffered from a $30 million debt. The left-right
coalition under mayor Eberhard Diepgen recently collapsed.
(SFC, 6/12/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 12, In Ecuador a
mudslide killed 36 stranded motorists in the Andes. The deaths
raised to 41 the total dead from recent heavy storms.
(SFC, 6/13/01, p.D4)
2001 Jun 12, Israel and the
Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire following 6 days of mediation by
US CIA director George Tenet.
(SFC, 6/13/01, p.D2)
2001 Jun 12, Macedonia broke
ties with Taiwan and restored relations with China.
(WSJ, 6/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 12, In Macedonia
gunmen shot dead Naser Hani (42), an intermediary between militants
and government parties.
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.C3)
2001 Jun 12, In central Nigeria
clashes erupted between the Azare and Tiv communities.
(SFC, 6/30/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 12, In the Philippines
Muslim rebels on Basilan Island claimed to have beheaded Guillermo
Sobero of Corona, Ca., one of the hostages kidnapped May 27.
(SFC, 6/12/01, p.A8)(SFC, 6/13/01, p.D4)
2001 Jun 13, Pres. Bush
met behind closed doors with NATO leaders in Brussels, Belgium, and
pitched his missile shield plan with mixed response.
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/13/02)
2001 Jun 13, The US House voted
(422-2) to forbid foreign oil companies doing business in Sudan from
selling securities in the US.
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.C3)
2001 Jun 13, Kraft Foods went
public in the NY Stock Exchange.
(WSJ, 4/16/03, p.C1)
2001 Jun 13, SF police shot and
killed Idriss Stelley (23) at the Sony Metreon complex. Stelley was
suffering a mental breakdown and had cut an officer with a knife.
Officers fired over 20 shots and wounded one of their men.
(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A16)(SFC, 12/5/06, p.A1)
2001 Jun 13, Israel eased
travel restrictions into the West Bank and Gaza as the armistice
went into effect. Under the agreement Israel had 48 hours to pull
tanks and troops back and Palestinians were due to start arresting
militants planning attacks.
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 13, In Zimbabwe the
government increase gas prices by over 70% and labor unions
threatened to shut down the economy.
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.C3)
2001 Jun 14, Pres. Bush clashed
with EU leaders in Sweden over his global warming policy, unwavering
in his opposition to a global warming treaty. The EU leaders said
they would move to implement the Kyoto treaty without the US.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/14/02)
2001 Jun 14, Pres. Bush ordered
a stop to the Navy bombing exercises on Puerto Rico’s Vieques
Island. Cleanup was estimated to cost hundreds of millions and take
decades. Bombing practice was set to stop by May, 2003.
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.A3)(SFC, 6/15/01, p.D3)(WSJ,
6/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 14, It was reported
that FERC planned to impose round-the-clock price restrictions on
wholesale electricity sold to California.
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 14, In Chicago Paul
Frederick Runge (31) was charged with the murders of 6 women and an
11-year-old girl between 1995-1997.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.D2)
2001 Jun 14, In Algeria
hundreds of thousands of people protested in Algiers over economic
and political issues and 2 journalists were killed in clashes with
riot police.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 14, A forum in China
inducted Uzbekistan as the 6th member of a regional group (the
Shanghai Five) that included China, Russia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan
and Tajikistan. The 5-year-old group hoped to counterbalance US
influence and fight Islamic separatism.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.D6)(WSJ, 6/14/01, p.C11)
2001 Jun 14, Riot police in
Northern Ireland protected Catholic children going to school in
North Belfast.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Jun 14, In Israel Lt. Col.
Yehuda Edri (45) was killed by a Palestinian man, who was then
killed by Edri’s bodyguard. Another Palestinian man was killed in a
driveby shooting in the West Bank and Jewish settlers were suspect.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 14, Macedonia asked
for NATO troops the help disarm ethnic Albanian rebels. NATO Sec.
Gen. Lord Robertson ruled out military
intervention.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.D6)
2001 Jun 14, A tanker capsized
in a sea lane between Malaysia and Singapore. The MT Endah Lestari
with 660 tons of phenol rolled as it was towed. Unknown amounts of
phenol and a large amount of diesel oil was spilled.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.D6)
2001 Jun 14, In Nepal a panel
of inquiry reported that Prince Dipendra was tipsy from whiskey and
high on hashish when he killed his family members Jun 1.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 14, In Panama it was
reported that 5 patients died from radiation therapy when incorrect
data was punched into a computer program.
(WSJ, 6/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 14, In the Philippines
Francis Ganzon, a Muslim cleric, and Kimberly Jao (13) were released
by Abu Sayyaf rebels on Basilan Island. Mohaimin Sahi, a Muslim
cleric negotiator taken captive a few days earlier, was also
released.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A13)
2001 Jun 15, The Los Angeles
Lakers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 108-96 in game five to win
their second straight NBA championship.
(AP, 6/14/02)
2001 Jun 15, Pres. Bush spoke
in Poland and strongly backed the expansion of NATO into Eastern
Europe. On the eve of his first meeting with Vladimir Putin,
President Bush, chastised Russia for suspected nuclear commerce and
encouraged the former Cold War rival to help "erase the false lines
that have divided Europe."
(SFC, 6/16/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/14/02)
2001 Jun 15, The US cancelled
$16 million of Tanzania’s debt and committed to canceling the
remaining $10 million by the end of the year.
(SFC, 6/16/01, p.A7)
2001 Jun 15, It was reported
that the Bush administration had decided to restore some military
ties with Indonesia. The Clinton administration had cut some ties
during the 1999 upheavals in East Timor.
(SFC, 6/16/01, p.A6)
2001 Jun 15, US Catholic
Bishops voted 209-7 to stop the performance of sterilizations in
Catholic hospitals. The new policy applied to 620 US Catholic health
care facilities and included non Catholic facilities acquired in
mergers.
(SFC, 6/16/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A21)
2001 Feb 15, In Cicero, Ind.,
the town president, Betty Loren-Maltese, and 9 others were charged
with stealing $10 million in taxpayer money and spending it on a
horse farm and golf course.
(SFC, 6/16/01, p.A5)
2001 Jun 15, The UN voted to
keep peacekeepers in Congo for another year.
(SFC, 6/16/01, p.A7)
2001 Jun 15, In Macedonia
rebels declared a unilateral cease-fire as politicians began talks
to resolve the crises.
(SFC, 6/16/01, p.A7)
2001 Jun 15, In Russia the
State Duma passed land reform legislation (251-22) that permitted
the sale and purchase of private property, but not farmland.
(SFC, 6/16/01, p.A6)
2001 Jun 15, In Sweden some
12,000 demonstrators in Goteborg demonstrated and set up flaming
barricades to protest globalization. Police cordons had kept them
away from Pres. Bush and EU leaders.
(SFC, 6/16/01, p.A6)
2001 Jun 15, In Tajikistan
gunmen kidnapped 15 people from an aid organization in Darvaz. 4
were released a day later.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 15, In Uganda
villagers in northeast Aru, accused of being witches, began to get
hacked to death. Some 200 people were killed over the next 3 weeks.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 16, President Bush and
Russian President Vladimir Putin, face to face for the first time,
pledged during a meeting in Slovenia to deepen their nations' bonds
and to explore the possibility of compromise on U.S. missile defense
plans. Putin warned Bush against NATO expansion and "unilateral
action" on missile defense, but they promoted their new friendship
and planned economic cooperation.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/16/02)
2001 Jun 16, In Afghanistan
most UN bread production for some 282,000 poor in Kabul ceased due
to disagreements on who should compile the list of people eligible
for the bread.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.D6)(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A20)
2001 Jun 16, In Narayanganj,
Bangladesh, a bomb exploded at a political rally of PM Hasina’s
governing Awami League Party. At least 22 people were killed.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A20)(WSJ, 6/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 16, In Colombia the
government and FARC rebels swapped dozens of prisoners.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A20)
2001 Jun 16, In Germany Berlin
lawmakers elected Klaus Wowereit as their first openly gay mayor.
(AP, 6/16/02)
2001 Jun 16, It was reported
that the Montenegro weekly Nacional had accused Pres. Djukanovic of
amassing $65 million from cigarette smuggling over the last decade
and had ordered contract killings of associates.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A16)
2001 Jun 16, In Goteborg,
Sweden, 15 EU leaders ended a 3-day summit and agreed to a firm
timetable to admit new members by 2004.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 17, Texas Governor
Rick Perry vetoed a bill to ban the execution of mentally retarded
death row inmates, saying the state already had numerous safeguards
in place to protect them.
(AP, 6/17/02)
2001 Jun 17, It was reported in
the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economic that legalized abortion
from 3 decades ago accounted for up to half of last decade’s
national crime decline.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.D1)
2001 Jun 17, In NYC a 5-alarm
fire at a hardware store in Queens killed 3 firefighters and injured
dozens of others.
(SFC, 6/18/01, p.A3)
2001 Jun 17, Tropical Strom
Allison moved into southeastern Pennsylvania and killed 4 people.
This raised the toll from Allison to at least 43.
(SFC, 6/18/01, p.A7)
2001 Jun 17, In Afghanistan the
Taliban agreed to let the World Food Program select local women to
survey the food needs of vulnerable households.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 17, In Bulgaria voters
in parliamentary elections supported the national Movement of Czar
Simeon II (64), who was eligible to become prime minister. PM Ivan
Kostov conceded.
(SFC, 6/18/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 17, In Egypt the Cairo
weekly Al Nabaa published a sex scandal along with pictures at the
Coptic Christian Muhariq monastery in Assiut between former monk
Adel Saadallah Gabriel and an unidentified woman. Publisher Mamdouh
Mahran was charged with disturbing the peace. Al-Nabaa was banned
from publishing on July 5 and Mahran faced charges of sedition.
(SFC, 6/30/01, p.A8)(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D4)
2001 Jun 17, Israeli soldiers
shot and killed Ali Abu Shaweesh (5) when they
fired on Palestinian demonstrators near Jewish settlements in Gaza.
(SFC, 6/18/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 18, A judge in Golden,
Colo., sentenced two therapists to 16 years in prison each in the
death of a 10-year-old girl who had suffocated while wrapped in
blankets during a "rebirthing" session. Connell Watkins and Julie
Ponder were convicted of reckless child abuse in the death of
Candace Newmaker.
(AP, 6/18/02)
2001 Jun 18, US federal
regulators imposed a price ceiling on Western wholesale electricity
prices effective June 19 to the end of summer.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 18, The US Navy
dropped dummy bombs on Vieques island. A number of protesters were
arrested for trespassing.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A3)
2001 Jun 18, In India
protesters burned down the legislature in northeastern Manipur
state. Police shot and killed 11 protesters, who opposed a truce
between the federal government and a separatist group. It was the
3rd day of a general strike.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A9)(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.T9)
2001 Jun 18, In Indonesia
police fired warning shots at students in Jakarta protesting a 30%
increase in fuel prices.
(WSJ, 6/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 18, Russian
authorities reported that 19 servicemen were detained on suspicion
of killing civilians in Chechnya. 7-8 civilians were recently killed
near Pobedenskoye.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 18, In Yemen 15
suspected terrorists were arrested. US FBI investigators had pulled
out on June 17 under a security threat.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 19, The Gates
foundation announced a $100 million donation to the Global AIDS and
Health Fund.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.B1)
2001 Jun 19, A jury in San
Jose, Calif., convicted Andrew Burnett of tossing a little dog to
its death on a busy highway in a bout of road rage. He was sentenced
to three years in prison for the death of Leo, a fluffy white bichon
frise.
(AP, 6/19/02)
2001 Jun 19, It was reported
that scientists at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory had found that
neutrinos ejected from the sun shifted form.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A2)
2001 Jun 19, Juan Raul Garza
(44), Texas drug kingpin, was executed by injection in Terra Haute,
Ind. He was strapped to the same padded gurney on which Oklahoma
City bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed 8 days earlier. He was the
2nd federal inmate to die since 1963.
(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)(AP,
6/19/02)
2001 Jun 19, A tornado struck
in Siren, Wisconsin, and 3 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A5)
2001 Jun 19, Algeria banned
protests in the capital following 2 months of unrest that had left
at least 55 dead.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 19, Argentina adopted
a dual exchange rate.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 19, Iraq claimed that
23 civilians were killed when Western planes bombed a soccer field
during a match in the northern town of Tall Afar. US and Britain
denied responsibility and blamed a malfunctioning Iraqi
anti-aircraft missile.
(WSJ, 6/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/21/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 19, Israel reached an
agreement with Lockheed to purchase 50 F-15 fighters for $2 billion.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A6)
2001 Jun 19, It was reported
that Papuan intellectuals had come up with a "special autonomy" plan
Irian Jaya.
(SFC, 6/19/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 19, Syria completed a
pullout of its forces from Beirut.
(WSJ, 6/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 20, Andrea Yates (36)
of Houston, Texas, drowned her 5 children, ages 6 months to 7 years,
at her home near the Johnson Space Center. Yates had been under
medication for post-partum depression. In 2002 a jury found Yates
guilty of capital murder and sentenced her to life in prison. Her
conviction was overturned in 2005 by an appeals court which ruled a
prosecution expert witness gave false testimony at her trial. In
2006 a jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity.
(SFC, 6/21/01, p.A6)(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A1)(SFC,
3/16/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/6/05)(SFC, 7/27/06, p.A3)
2001 Jun 20, Brazil’s Central
Bank raised the key interest rate 1.5% to 18.25%.
(WSJ, 6/22/01, pA11)
2001 Jun 20, In Belfast,
Northern Ireland, police battled sectarian mobs in the worst rioting
since 1998.
(WSJ, 6/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 20, In Pakistan Gen'l.
Pervez Musharraf dismissed the president and named himself to the
post. He also dissolved the national Assembly and 4 provisional
assemblies.
(WSJ, 6/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/21/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 20, In Peru American
Lori Berenson (31) was convicted by a civilian court of
collaborating with rebels and sentenced to 20 years in prison. She
already had served 5 years. The conviction was upheld Feb 18, 2002.
(WSJ, 6/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/21/01, p.A10)(SFC,
2/19/02, p.A7)
2001 Jun 21, A federal grand
jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the
1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19
American servicemen.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2001 Jun 21, The first total
solar eclipse of the new millennium swept across southern Africa.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2001 Jun 21, Carroll O’Connor
(b.1924), actor known for his role as Archie Bunker in the TV series
"All in the Family," died at age 76.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.110)
2001 Jun 21, John Lee Hooker
(b.1917), blues musician, died at age 83. His tunes included "Boom,
Boom," and "Boogie Chillen."
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Jun 21, In China jailed
Falun Gong members attempted a group suicide in a northeast labor
camp. 10-14 reportedly died by hanging.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 21, In Northern
Ireland police and British soldiers battled Catholic and Protestant
rioters in Belfast for a 2nd day and 3rd night. 39 police officers
were injured.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 6/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 21, In Japan PM
Koizumi outlined an aggressive economic reform program that promised
to shrink the government and create new economic incentives. Banks
were given 2-3 years to solve their bad-loan problems.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 6/22/01, p.A11)
2001 Jun 21, In the Philippines
3 severed heads were found in the area where Muslim extremists
claimed to have killed Guillermo Sobero of Riverside, Ca.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A15)
2001 Jun 22, The US and Mexico
unveiled a new border safety pact with measures to prevent migrants
from crossing at deadly transit points and planned to equip US
agents with nonlethal weapons.
(SFC, 6/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 22, US forces in the
Middle East were put on high alert following intelligence reports on
possible terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 6/23/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 22, Striking Comair
pilots ratified a new contract, ending a three-month strike.
(AP, 6/22/02)
2001 Jun 22, Former Duke Energy
workers testified that production was ramped up and down at one San
Diego plant to drive up electricity costs.
(SFC, 6/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 22, The British
government announced that Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, two
teen-agers who were 10 years old when they kidnapped and killed a
toddler (1993), had been granted parole.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2001 Jun 22, In Belfast,
Northern Ireland, riots continued after Britain ordered more troops
into the area in anticipation of weeks of confrontations.
(SFC, 6/23/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 22, In Israel settlers
blocked West Bank roads and scuffled with soldiers in a 3rd day of
right-wing violence. A Palestinian suicide bombing killed 2 Israeli
soldiers.
(SFC, 6/23/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 22, In Macedonia
government troops ended an 11-day cease-fire and attacked ethnic
Albanian rebels with tanks and helicopter gunships.
(SFC, 6/23/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 22, The Philippine
government signed a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front.
(SFC, 6/23/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 22, Turkey's top court
banned the Virtue Party for violating secular laws.
(AP, 11/4/02)
2001 Jun 23, Yvonne Dionne
(67), one of 3 remaining Dionne quintuplets, died in Canada.
(AP, 6/23/02)
2001 Jun 23, In Colombia the
army reported that recent clashes with rebels left 30 soldiers and
26 guerrillas dead. Separately 5 inmates were killed during a FARC
arranged prison escape at the La Picota prison in Bogota.
(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A20)(SFC, 6/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 23, In Northern
Ireland David Trimble was re-elected as leader of the Ulster
Unionist party and said he would quit the government next week if
the IRA does not begin disarming by July 1.
(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A13)
2001 Jun 23, In southern Peru a
7.9 offshore earthquake killed at least 100 people. 12,500 people
lost their homes.
(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A16)(SFC, 6/25/01, p.A8)(AP,
6/23/02)
2001 Jun 23, Pope John Paul II
began his 5-day visit to Ukraine, where the Greek Catholic Church
had 5 million followers who observed Byzantine rites but were loyal
to Rome. He hoped to mend a rift with the Eastern Orthodoxy.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A14)
2001 Jun 23, Vladimiro
Montesinos, Peru’s former spy chief, was arrested in Caracas,
Venezuela. Pres. Chavez pledged to return him to Peru.
(SFC, 6/25/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/25/01, p.A16)
2001 Jun 23, In Yugoslavia the
Cabinet adopted a decree that committed itself to sending former
Pres. Milosevic to the UN Tribunal in The Hague.
(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 24, Karrie Webb won
the LPGA Championship by two strokes to become the youngest woman to
complete the Grand Slam.
(AP, 6/24/06)
2001 Jun 24, Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in the United States for talks with
President George W. Bush.
(AP, 6/24/02)
2001 Jun 24, Albania
parliamentary elections were marred by violent incidents. The ruling
Socialists claimed victory. The Socialists won 41.5 percent and 73
seats, while the Democrats had 36.8 percent and 46 seats.
(WSJ, 6/25/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/05)
2001 Jun 24, In the West Bank
town of Nablus Osama Jawabri (29), a Palestinian activist, was
killed by a bomb planted in a public phone.
(SFC, 6/25/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 24, In Legazpi,
Philippines, the Mayon volcano erupted and at least 7,000 villagers
fled their homes.
(SFC, 6/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 25, In NYC the UN
General Assembly convened for a special 3-day session on AIDS.
(SSFC, 6/24/01, p.A12)(SFC, 6/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 25, In Chechnya Russia
claimed to have killed Arbi Barayev, a top Chechen rebel commander,
in a week-long offensive near Grozny. At least 17 rebels were
killed. Movladi Udagov, a Chechen leader, said 150 federal soldiers
were killed along with 60 civilians from a massive Russian
bombardment.
(WSJ, 6/25/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Jun 25, In China Typhoon
Chebi killed 73 people in Fujian province and left 83 missing.
Damage was estimated at $425 million.
(WSJ, 6/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/27/01, p.D3)
2001 Jun 25, In southern Iraq a
US Navy fighter jet attacked an anti-aircraft site in response to
artillery fire.
(SFC, 6/26/01, p.C2)
2001 Jun 25, In Skopje,
Macedonia, rioting erupted after US troops escorted rebels away from
the capital.
(WSJ, 6/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 25, In Mexico some 300
police officers arrested 13 members of the leftist House of the
People. They were suspected to be connected to the Apr 19 slaying of
8 peasants of the Fray Bartolome Alliance.
(SFC, 6/26/01, p.C2)
2001 Jun 25, Vladimiro
Montesinos, the former Peruvian spy chief, was flown from Venezuela
to Lima.
(SFC, 6/26/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 25, The June 23 Peru
earthquake was revised to 8.1 magnitude with the death toll at 102.
(WSJ, 6/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/27/01, p.D3)
2001 Jun 25, In Ukraine Pope
John Paul II planned to visit Babi Yar where some 200,000 Jews and
other Nazi victims are buried. Pope John Paul II visited Babi Yar,
the site of a Nazi massacre of at least 100,000 Jews. [see 1941]
(SFC, 6/25/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 6/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 25, Jun 25, Yugoslavia
asked a court to let Milosevic be extradited to the Hague for was UN
war crimes trial.
(WSJ, 6/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 26, Pres. Bush met
with Israel’s PM Ariel Sharon who resisted pressure to move faster
on a US backed cease-fire accord. Sharon insisted on a complete halt
to Palestinian hostilities.
(WSJ, 6/27/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/27/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 26, Pres. Bush met
with South Africa Pres. Thabo Mbeki and defended Mbeki’s efforts to
combat AIDS.
(SFC, 6/27/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 26, George Trofimoff
(74), a retired US Army Reserve officer, was convicted in Tampa for
spying for Moscow for 22 years while serving as a civilian
interrogator of refugees and defectors in Germany. He was sentenced
to life in prison on Sep 27. Trofimoff, who maintains his innocence,
was sentenced to life in prison.
(WS, 6/27/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)(AP,
6/26/02)
2001 Jun 26, In Chechnya
Russian troops claimed to have killed at least 30 rebels near the
Georgian border.
(WSJ, 6/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 26, In China 7 members
of a North Korean family took refuge in the Beijing office of the UN
High Commissioner for Refugees and claimed fear of deportation.
(SFC, 6/27/01, p.D3)
2001 Jun 26, In Haiti a bus
crash near St. Louis du Sud left 41 people dead.
(SFC, 6/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 26, In Papua, New
Guinea, police killed at least 3 students protesting government
austerity measures. Another 13 were wounded and rioting ensued.
(WSJ, 6/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 26, In Uganda poll
violence left at least 7 people dead.
(WSJ, 6/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 27, The Federal
Reserve cut interest rates by one-quarter percent. to 3.75%.
(SFC, 6/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 27, Chico O’Farrill,
Afro-Cuban jazz trumpeter, died at age 79 in NY.
(WSJ, 7/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 6/30/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 27, Jack Lemmon
(b.1925), film actor, died in Los Angeles. His work included the
film "The Odd Couple," in which he played Felix Unger. Tony Randall
played Felix Unger in the TV series.
(WSJ, 6/29/01, p. A1)(UFB, 4/22/02)(AP,
6/27/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.111)
2001 Jun 27, Kofi Annan was
nominated for a 2nd 5-year term as UN Sec.-Gen.
(WSJ, 6/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 27, The United Nations
concluded a three-day special session on HIV/AIDS after adopting a
16-page Declaration of Commitment which set tough targets for
reducing infection rates and called for protecting the rights of
infected people. It also included a 5-year plan to boost spending in
low and middle income nations to $7-10 billion.
(SFC, 6/28/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/27/02)
2001 Jun 27, It was reported
that Wang Guoqi, a Chinese doctor seeking political asylum, had
presented a written statement to US authorities that he had taken
part in harvesting body parts from executed prisoners in China.
China meanwhile observed UN anti-drug day by executing dozens of
people for drug crimes. China denied the accusations.
(SFC, 6/27/01, p.A10)(SFC, 6/29/01, p.D4)
2001 Jun 28, A unanimous
federal appeals court reversed the court-ordered breakup of
Microsoft, but ruled that the software giant had violated antitrust
laws, and appointed another judge to determine a new punishment.
(SFC, 6/29/01, p.A1)(AP, 6/28/02)
2001 Jun 28, NY Gov. George
Pataki signed legislation that banned the use of handheld cell
phones by drivers, effective Nov 1. Emergencies were exempted.
(SFC, 6/29/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 28, Mortimer Adler,
philosopher and author, died in San Mateo, Ca., at age 98. His work
included "How to Read a Book" (1940) and "Great Books of the Western
World" (1945), "How to Think About God" (1980) and "The Four
Dimensions of Philosophy."
(SFC, 6/30/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 28, In Colombia rebels
freed 242 prisoners in a boost to peace talks.
(WSJ, 6/29/01, p. A1)
2001 Jun 28, Serbia sent former
Pres. Milosevic to the Hague for a war-crimes trial, the 1st for an
ex-head of state.
(WSJ, 6/29/01, p. A1)(SFC, 6/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 28, In Spain a parcel
bomb in Madrid injured Gen. Justo Oreja Pedraza (63), a defense
minister, along with 15 others. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 6/29/01, p.D4)
2001 Jun 29, Vice President
Dick Cheney, experiencing heart problems for the 3rd time since the
November election, announced he was going back to the hospital. He
expected doctors to implant a pacemaker to even out a rapid
heartbeat.
(AP, 6/29/02)
2001 Jun 29, The National
Japanese American Memorial opened in Washington DC. It was privately
funded by 20,000 Japanese Americans.
(SFC, 6/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 29, In China a new
$2.4 billion 700-mile railway project was begun to connect Lhasa,
Tibet, to the Chinese interior.
(SSFC, 7/1/01, p.A18)
2001 Jun 29, A Hezbollah attack
injured 2 Israelis in a disputed border area.
(WSJ, 7/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 29, In Indonesia
security forces killed 20 separatist rebels during a gun battle in
Aceh.
(SFC, 6/30/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 29, In Okinawa a woman
claimed that she was raped by an American. US Air Force sergeant
Timothy B. Woodland was later charged. Sgt. Woodland was handed over
to Japanese authorities on July 6. Woodland was convicted Mar 27 and
was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
(WSJ, 7/2/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)(SFC,
7/3/01, p.A7)(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A1)
2001 Jun 29, Kofi Annan swore
himself in for a 2nd 5-year term as UN Sec.-Gen.
(SFC, 6/30/01, p.A10)(AP, 6/29/02)
2001 Jun 29, Zimbabwe published
a new list of 2,030 white farm properties to be nationalized and
handed over to landless blacks.
(SFC, 6/30/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun 30, Pres. Bush met
with Japan’s PM Koizumi at Camp David and endorsed his plan for
economic reform. They agreed on alternative ways to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions since Bush rejected the Kyoto global
warming treaty.
(WSJ, 7/2/01, p.A8)(SSFC, 7/1/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 30, Doctors implanted
a dual-purpose pacemaker in Vice President Dick Cheney's chest.
(AP, 6/30/02)
2001 Jun 30, NASA launched its
16-foot, 1,800-pound Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) to
orbit the Sun and to scan the universe for the faint afterglow of
Creation by measuring variations in radiation temperature of up to
20 millionths of a degree. In 2003 it allowed scientists to
calculate the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years.
(WSJ, 6/28/01, p.A16)(AP, 6/30/02)(SFC, 2/12/03,
p.A4)
2001 Jun 30, Chet Atkins (77),
a guitarist who helped create the Nashville sound, died in
Nashville, Tenn.
(WSJ, 7/2/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 7/1/01, p.A25)
2001 Jun 30, Joe Henderson
(64), tenor saxophonist, died in SF. His work included 27 albums and
CDs.
(SSFC, 7/1/01, p.A20)
2001 Jun 30, In Northern
Ireland David Trimble, Ulster Unionist leader, resigned as the 1st
minister of the joint Catholic-Protestant government.
(SSFC, 7/1/01, p.A13)
2001 Jun 30, It was reported
that some 50,000 people had been driven from their homes in central
Nigeria during 2 weeks of ethnic violence in which as many as 200
people died in Nassarawa state.
(SFC, 6/30/01, p.A10)
2001 Jun, NBC launched its
"Fear Factor" reality show.
(WSJ, 4/29/04, p.A1)
2001 Jun, Dennis Kozlowski,
head of Tyco Intl., held an extravagant $2 million weeklong,
birthday party for his wife in Sardinia. Kozlowski was later
indicted for wasting Tyco assets. [see Sep 12, 2002]
(WSJ, 10/29/03, p.A1)
2001 Jun, The US indicted 5
Philippine Abu Sayyaf leaders including Hamsiraji Sali and Khadaffy
Janjalany for the May 27 kidnapping of 3 Americans.
(SFC, 4/9/04, p.A3)
2001 Jun, Brazil signed a trade
agreement with Guyana.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.36)
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