Timeline 2001 July - September
Return to home
2001 Jul 1, US
Vice President Dick Cheney rested at home, a day after having a new
pacemaker implanted in his chest.
(AP, 7/1/06)
2001 Jul 1, In the US lower tax
rates went into effect for some middle and upper-income taxpayers.
(SSFC, 7/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 1, In Michigan a state
law went into effect that allowed virtually any gun owner to carry a
concealed weapon in public.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C6)
2001 Jul 1, The National
Organization for Women announced in Philadelphia that delegates had
chosen Kim A. Gandy to be its new president, succeeding Patricia
Ireland.
(AP, 7/1/02)
2001 Jul 1, US air strikes at
Kakrak, Afghanistan, killed 54 civilians.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A14)
2001 Jul 1, In China Pres.
Jiang Zemin announced that the Communist Party will allow private
businessmen to become members.
(SFC, 7/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 1, In China parts of
the US spy plane were flown out from Hainan Island.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 1, In Colombia the
body of Alma Jaramillo, an advisor to a peace group, was found in
Morales. She had been abducted Jun 29. Rightwing paramilitary
militia were blamed.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 1, Israel hit a Syrian
radar site in Lebanon. In the West Bank Israeli helicopters rocketed
a car with 3 Islamic Jihad members. Israeli infantry killed 2 Hamas
members.
(WSJ, 7/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 1, In Pakistan a bomb
exploded in a crowded movie theater in Karachi and at least one
person was killed.
(SFC, 7/2/01, p.B1)
2001 Jul 1, In Portugal a
nationwide law took effect to decriminalize the personal use and
possession of all drugs.
(Econ, 8/29/09,
p.43)(www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080)
2001 Jul 2, US Vice President
Dick Cheney returned to work two days after receiving a new
pacemaker.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2001 Jul 2, Missouri Gov. Bob
Holden, Democrat, signed legislation to ban the execution of
mentally retarded inmates. This was the 16th state to do so.
(SFC, 7/3/01, p.A4)
2001 Jul 2, In Louisville, Ky.,
the 1st self-contained artificial heart, AbioCor, made by Abiomed
was implanted at Jewish Hospital to Robert L. Tools (59). Tools
lived 151 days with the device and died Nov 30.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A1)(SFC,
8/22/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 2, In Colombia a
firefight erupted between rival gangs at the La Modelo penitentiary
and 10 inmates were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 2, In Indonesia
humanitarian workers found 27 slashed bodies in Aceh. This raised to
50 the number of dead found in the last 3 days.
(SFC, 7/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 2, An Israeli was
killed while shopping near the West Bank and a Palestinian was
killed by Israeli troops. The US scrambled to salvage the
cease-fire.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/3/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 2, Mexican President
Vicente Fox married his spokeswoman and longtime love, Martha
Sahagun, a year to the day after his election victory.
(AP, 7/2/02)
2001 Jul 2, In Sri Lanka jets
were sent against rebel bases near Jaffna.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 2, Zimbabwe deployed
riot police ahead of the start of a general strike.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 3, In Columbus, Ohio,
Brian Dalton (22) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fiction
writing in his journal about sexually abusing and torturing
children.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A4)
2001 Jul 3, General Electric's
$41 billion purchase of Honeywell International was vetoed by the
European Union. It was the first time a merger of two U.S. companies
was stopped solely by European regulators.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2001 Jul 3, The last parts of
the US spy plane in China were flown out.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 3, Mordecai Richler,
Canadian social critic and novelist, died at age 70. His work
included the novel "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (1959).
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.D3)
2001 Jul 3, In Indonesia a
Christian gang killed 18 Muslims, including women and children, on
the island of Sulawesi.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 3, Muhammad
al-Humaimidi, a high-ranking Iraqi diplomat, asked for asylum in
NYC.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 3, In his first
appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands, former
Yugoslav Pres. Milosevic refused to respond to charges and called
the tribunal illegitimate.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/02)
2001 Jul 3, In the Philippines
Abu Sayyaf rebels freed 2 hostages and warned the government to
withdraw from Muslim-majority islands or face more kidnappings.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 3, In the Philippines
53 people were left dead in landslides from Typhoon Utor as the
storm moved toward Taiwan.
(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D3)
2001 Jul 3, In Russia Flight
TD-352, a Tu-154 operated by Vladivostok Avia, crashed in Siberia
near the village of Burdakovka. All 143 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01,
p.A10)(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1421072.stm)
2001 Jul 3-2001 Jul 4, A
Russian roundup operation sent an estimated 26,000 Chechen refugees
fleeing to Ingushetia. Lt. Gen. Vladimir Moltenskoi, acting
commander of Russian forces, later acknowledged that his troops
committed widespread crimes during the operation.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A8)(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 3, In Ukraine TV
director Ihor Alexandrov was beaten to death by unknown assailants
in Slaviansk. In 2000 a European court on Human Rights had cleared
him of charges for violating laws on campaign coverage.
(WSJ, 7/9/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 4, The US
counter-terrorism group run by Richard Clarke sent a memorandum to
Condoleeza Rice, national security advisor, that described a series
of steps that the White House had taken to put the nation on
heightened terrorist alert. It noted that all 56 FBI field offices
were tasked in late June to go to increased surveillance and contact
informants related to known or suspected terrorists.
(SFC, 4/10/04, p.A1)
2001 Jul 4, A Russian airliner
crashed in Siberia, killing all 145 people aboard.
(AP, 7/4/02)
2001 Jul 4, Australia’s interim
cabinet approved East Timor’s demands for 90% of the revenues from
oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 4, In Turkey Mahmut
Gokhan Ozocak (41) became the 27th person to die from a hunger
strike protesting prisoner transfers.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D6)
2001 Jul 5, Pres. Bush
appointed Robert S. Mueller III, a US attorney in SF, as the new
head of the FBI. If confirmed he would become the 9th director.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 5, Condoleeza Rice,
National Security Advisor, and Andrew Card Jr., white House chief of
Staff, asked Richard Clarke, head of counter-terrorism, to alert top
officials of the country's domestic agencies on increased terrorist
threats.
(SSFC, 4/18/04, p.A5)
2001 Jul 5, Kenneth Williams,
an FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, wrote to bureau headquarters that
al Qaeda could be sending terrorists to train as student pilots. He
urged the investigation of Middle Eastern men enrolled in American
flight schools. [see Jul 10]
(SFC, 5/17/02, p.A19)(SFC, 5/22/02, p.A18)
2001 Jul 5, The US spy plane
from China arrived at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia aboard a
Russian Antonov-124 transport plane.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 5, Researchers
reported that cloned mice have profound genetic abnormalities not
apparent at birth.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 5, Ely Callaway
(b.1919), founder of Callaway golfing equipment, died. His Big
Bertha golf club was launched in 1991.
(Econ, 4/12/08,
p.78)(www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2001/07/05/callaway010705.html)
2001 Jul 5, In the Central
African Republic Jean-Pierre Lhomme, a UN security chief, was shot
and killed in Bangui as he aided a fellow worker.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.B1)
2001 Jul 5, In Germany
Hannelore Kohl (68), the wife of Chancellor Kohl, was found dead
from suicide in Oggersheim. She suffered from a rare light allergy.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Jul 5, Iraq accepted a
5-month UN extension for the oil-for-food program.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D6)
2001 Jul 5, In Macedonia the
government and ethnic Albanian rebels signed a cease-fire agreement
under pressure from Western powers. Fighting continued.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 5, Scientists at Delft
Univ. of Tech. in the Netherlands reported the creation of
nanotechnology transistors built from a single molecule.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.B3)
2001 Jul 5, In Russia top
journalists at Echo Moskvy resigned to protest a takeover by the
Gazprom state monopoly.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D4)
2001 Jul 5, In South Korea 8
people died when a helicopter crashed into a power tower. Among the
dead was Kim Jong-jin, head of the Dongkuk Steel Mill.
(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D6)
2001 Jul 5, Flooding from
Typhoon Durian killed 25 people in Vietnam.
(WSJ, 7/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 6, The United States
turned over to Japanese authorities an American serviceman accused
of rape. Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland was convicted of rape
and sentenced to two years and eight months in prison.
(AP, 7/6/06)
2001 Jul 6, Former FBI agent
Robert Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 criminal counts and agreed to
give a full accounting of his spying activities for Moscow.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2001 Jul 6, US Rep. Gary Condit
(D-Ceres, Ca.) admitted to authorities that he had a sexual
relationship with Chandra Levy before she disappeared.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Jul 6, US unemployment
jumped to 4.5% from 4.4% in June.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 6, Stanford
researchers reported evidence for a built-in kink in the universe
known as "charge-parity (CP) violation." This favored the production
of certain forms of matter over anti-matter counterparts.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 6, Eight-year-old
Jessie Arbogast was badly injured in a shark attack off the Florida
coast.
(AP, 7/6/02)
2001 Jul 6, Armenia reported
that almost 25% of the 3.4 million population had left the country.
A census was scheduled for October.
(WSJ, 7/6/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 6, In France a tree
crashed on music spectators at the Chateau Pourtales near Strasbourg
and 10 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.B1)
2001 Jul 6, In Russia Pres.
Putin called for multilateral talks to eliminate 10,000 warheads
over the next 7 years.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 6, In Belgrade Radomar
Markovic, the former Yugoslav secret police chief, was sentenced to
a year in jail with 3 other top security aides for revealing state
secrets.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.B1)
2001 Jul 7, Bolivia’s Pres.
Banzer (75) was reported to be hospitalized in Washington DC with
cancer in his lung and liver.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.B1)(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 7, It was reported
that China had executed 1,781 people over the last 3 months.
(SFC, 7/7/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 7, In Croatia PM Ivica
Racan announced that citizens indicted by the UN War Crimes tribunal
could be extradited to the Hague.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 7, In Bradford,
England, 80 police officers were injured in race riots, later known
as the “Bradford riots.” They began after a rally by the far-right
National Front was banned. Asian and white youths ran amok in the
streets armed with firebombs and baseball bats. The Manningham Labor
Club was firebombed.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A16)(AP, 7/6/02)(Econ, 3/5/11,
p.63)
2001 Jul 7, In Jamaica a police
crackdown began in Kingston following 2 months of fighting between
gangs that killed 37 people. The murder rate for the country had
reached 530 for the half year.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 7, In the Gaza Strip a
Palestinian boy was shot and killed and 2 others injured by Israeli
soldiers. Palestinian militants were said to have been shooting in
the Raffah refugee camp area.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Jul 7, In Puerto Rico
Parmenio Medina (62), a Colombian-born journalist, was gunned down
in his car. He ran a radio program called "La Patada," or "The
Kick," which denounced fraud at a religious radio station. In 2007 a
court convicted Omar Chaves, a businessman, of ordering the murder
of the journalist. Chaves also got a 12-year prison sentence on a
fraud count. His partner, Father Minor de Jesus Calvo, was acquitted
of the killing, but was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 15 years
in jail.
(AP, 12/19/07)
2001 Jul 8, Venus Williams won
her second consecutive Wimbledon title by beating Belgian Justine
Henin.
(AP, 7/8/02)
2001 Jul 8, In West Virginia
Gov. Bob Wise declared a state of emergency due to flooding in 8
counties.
(SFC, 7/9/01, p.A4)
2001 Jul 8, Cable operator
Comcast mounted a $41 billion hostile bid to merge with AT&T
Broadband. Although AT&T spurned that offer, the company's board
ultimately agreed to merge the cable unit with Comcast, subject to
approval by federal regulators.
(AP, 7/8/02)
2001 Jul 8, In Brazil some 100
inmates escaped through a tunnel from Latin America’s largest prison
in Sao Paulo. 35 were soon captured.
(WSJ, 7/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 8, In England race
rioting continued in Bradford with injured police rising to a total
of 120.
(SFC, 7/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 8, In Northern Ireland
some 500 Orangemen marched at Drumcree and dispersed when confronted
by police at Portadown.
(SFC, 7/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 8, Israeli agents in
Hebron abducted Ayoub Sharawi, a member of Hamas. In Gaza
Palestinians and Israelis exchanged gunfire in Rafah.
(SFC, 7/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 8, Israeli wrecking
crews destroyed 14 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem at the edge
of the Shuafat refugee camp.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 8, In the Philippines
police in General Santos City arrested Nadzmie Sabtulah, a
high-ranking member of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremists.
(SFC, 7/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 9, The Bush
administration announced that it opposed a UN draft to restrict the
sale of small arms. The US was the leading exporter of small arms.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 9, Wildcard entrant
Goran Ivanisevic won the men's title at Wimbledon by beating Patrick
Rafter.
(AP, 7/9/02)
2001 Jul 9, In Chile an appeals
court ruled that Gen. Augusto Pinochet could not be tried on human
rights charges because of his deteriorating health and mental
condition, a ruling that effectively brought the 85-year-old former
dictator's legal troubles to an end.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A7)(AP, 7/9/02)
2001 Jul 9, In Jamaica PM
Patterson ordered the army deployed across the island to restore
calm following 3 days of violence that killed at least 28 people.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A7)(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)(SFC,
7/27/01, p.D6)
2001 Jul 9, The UN ranked
Norway as the country with the world’s highest standard of living.
PM Jens Stolenberg credited the nation’s welfare system. Norway was
followed by Australia and Canada. The US ranked 6th.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 10, In Seattle the
American League beat the National League 4:1 in the annual All-Star
game at Safeco Field.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 10, The White House
backed off a plan to let religious groups that receive federal
money, such as the Salvation Army, ignore local laws that ban
discrimination against gays and lesbians.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2001 Jul 10, George Tenet,
director of the CIA, allegedly met with Condoleeza Rice and warned
her of an imminent al-Qaida attack. News of the meeting was only
made public in 2006.
(SFC, 10/2/06, p.A4)
2001 Jul 10, For the second
time in a month, a jury in New York rejected the death penalty for
one of the men convicted in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in
Africa, opting instead for life in prison without parole.
(AP, 7/10/02)
2001 Jul 10, Kenneth Williams,
an FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, issued a memorandum that requested
detailed examination of US flight schools for al Qaeda terrorists.
Mid-level officials rejected the request. [see Jul 5]
(SFC, 5/22/02, p.A18)
2001 Jul 10, In North Carolina
3 Marines were killed in a helicopter crash near Camp Lejeune.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A5)
2001 Jul 10, In England police
confronted white and South Asian gangs in a 3rd night of racial
violence in Bradford.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 10, Protestant
militants withdrew support for the Northern Ireland peace accord.
(WSJ, 7/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 10, Israel destroyed
at least 10 Palestinian structures in Rafah in the Gaza Strip and
ignited a fierce gun battle.
(WSJ, 7/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 10, In Kashmir 25
people were killed as India pressed an offensive against Islamic
insurgents.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 10, In Jedwabne,
Poland, Pres. Kwasniewski apologized for a wartime massacre of Jews.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 10, The South Africa
government ordered the demolition of shacks on the squatter occupied
land in Bredell. 1-2 thousand shacks were expected to be destroyed.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A15)
2001 Jul 10, In Madrid, Spain,
a policeman was killed by a bomb. Basque rebels were blamed.
(WSJ, 7/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 11, The Democratic-led
Senate voted to bar coal mining and oil and gas drilling on pristine
federally protected land in the West, dealing a fresh blow to
President Bush's energy production plans.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2001 Jul 11, In NYC the city
and police union made a tentative agreement to pay $9 million to
settle a suit by Abner Louima over his 1997 police beating.
(WSJ, 7/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 11, A wildfire in
Washington state killed 2 male and 2 female firefighters in the
Chewuch River Valley of the north Cascade Mountains.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 11, A new African
Union was born at the closing of the final summit of the
Organization of African Unity (OAU) for all of Africa’s 53
countries. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) was
set up as the economic development arm of the OAU.
(Econ, 7/25/05, p.37)
2001 Jul 11, An Israeli soldier
shot and killed a Palestinian woman after her taxi evaded a
roadblock. Israeli police in Afula captured a Palestinian would-be
suicide bomber.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 11, In Russia Pres.
Putin signed into law a plan to import spent nuclear fuel for
reprocessing. The imports would be subject to approval by a
commission chaired by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Zhores Alferov.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 12, Abner Louima, the
Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed
to an $8.7 million settlement.
(AP, 7/12/02)
2001 Jul 12, In Virginia a
woman delivered 5 boys and 2 girls by C-section. This was only the
3rd set of septuplets known to have survived birth.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 12, The US space
shuttle Atlantis took off with a crew of 5 to deliver a portal for
spacewalks to the Int’l. Space Station Alpha.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A3)(SFC, 7/14/01, p.C1)
2001 Jul 12, In Bulgaria Simeon
Saxe-Coburgotski (64), the former King Simeon II, was chosen as
Prime Minister. He promised to solve the country's problems in 800
days.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A14)(Econ, 11/1/03, p.46)
2001 Jul 12, In Indonesia
paramilitary officers guarded 2 top police commanders in defiance of
demands by Pres. Wahid that they be arrested.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 12, In Northern
Ireland police fought with rioters following a day of marches by
Protestants.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 12, Israeli tanks
shelled police posts in Nablus after Palestinian gunmen wounded
Israeli motorists. One Palestinian police officer was killed.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 12, In Russia Pres.
Putin signed into law a bill that limited private donations to $100
per year and required political parties to have at least 10,000
members.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A16)
2001 Jul 12, In Somalia
fighting broke out between rival subgroups of the Abgal clan in the
Suq-Fad’ad market of Mogadishu and at least 14 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A11)
2001 Jul 13, Pres. Bush ordered
toughened enforcement of the sanctions against Cuba and promised to
expand support for human rights activists there.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A11)
2001 Jul 13, It was reported
that California was awash with methamphetamines produced by Mexican
drug trafficking cartels. Prices were down to $20 per gram vs. $100
in the rest of the country.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 13, A judge in San
Jose, Calif., sentenced Andrew Burnett, the man who had tossed a
fluffy little dog to its death in a bout of road rage, to the
maximum three years behind bars.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2001 Jul 13, In Missouri a
private plane crashed into a home in Carterville and all 6 people
aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 13, It was reported
that record droughts persisted in Afghanistan northern China, North
Korea, Mongolia and Tajikistan.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.D4)
2001 Jul 13, The IOC awarded
Beijing, China, the honor of hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 13, In Gaza and the
West Bank 2 Islamic Hamas militants were killed. Israeli soldiers
shot and killed one in Tulkarm. Fawaz Badran (27) was killed when
his car exploded.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 14, The US launched a
prototype missile interceptor from the Marshall Islands and
successfully struck a mock warhead launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, 4,800 miles away. This was the 4th such Pentagon test. A
$100 million prototype radar failed to detect the strike.
(SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A3)(SFC, 7/18/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 14, NASA launched an
unmanned solar-powered plane named Helios over Hawaii.
(WSJ, 7/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 14, Katharine Graham
(b.1917), chairman of the executive committee of The Washington
Post, suffered a head injury in a fall in Sun Valley, Idaho. She
died three days later.
(AP, 7/14/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.106)(NW, 12/31/01,
p.106)
2001 Jul 14, In Australia
British backpacker Peter Falconio (28) was murdered and his
girlfriend, Joanne Lees. Murdoch was assaulted while they
backpacking in the Outback. In 2005 Bradley John Murdoch (47), was
convicted and given a mandatory life sentence.
(AP, 12/13/05)
2001 Jul 14, China convicted Li
Shaomin (44), a Chinese-born American business professor, of spying
for Taiwan and ordered his expulsion.
(SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 14, Gen. Pervez
Musharraf of Pakistan arrived in India for talks on Kashmir and
other issues with PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
(SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 14, In Spain gunmen
shot and killed a police officer, Mikel Uribe (44), in Leaburu and a
bomb killed a local politician, Jose Javier Mugica (50), in Leiza.
The ETA was blamed.
(SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A18)
2001 Jul 15, In Bangladesh PM
Sheikh Hasina left office. Pres. Shahabuddin Ahmad appointed Latifur
Rahman to head a caretaker administration. At least 4 people were
killed in street clashes.
(SFC, 7/16/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 15, China's President
Jiang Zemin arrived in Russia to sign a friendship treaty, the first
between the former Communist rivals in more than 50 years.
(SFC, 7/16/01, p.A9)(AP, 7/14/02)
2001 Jul 15, In Colombia FARC
guerrillas kidnapped Alam Jara, former governor of Meta state.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 15, In Israel PM
Sharon and his Cabinet decided to build new towns in the Halutza
Sands region of the Negev Desert. Shimon Peres met with Arafat in
Cairo and a gun battle in Hebron left 20 Palestinians wounded.
(SFC, 7/16/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 15, Mexico’s Pres. Fox
launched his Plan Puebla-Panama aimed at helping the poorer south
and the poor countries of Central America. The program was launched
June 15, but by 2007 only $4.5 billion of a projected $50 billion
had been invested. In 2007 Pres. Calderon re-launched the program.
(Econ, 4/14/07,
p.41)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Puebla_Panama)
2001 Jul 15, Gen. Pervez
Musharraf of Pakistan met with PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and talked on
issues including, Kashmir, trade, terrorism and nuclear safeguards.
They also agreed to continue discussions for a 2nd day.
(SFC, 7/16/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 15, In South Korea
landslides and flooding killed at least 40 people.
(SFC, 7/16/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 16, The IOC in Moscow
elected Jacques Rogge (59), a Belgian surgeon, to succeed Juan
Antonio Samaranch.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 16, In northwest China
an illegal cache of explosives blew up in Mafang and 41 people were
killed.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A7)
2002 Jul 16, In India the
leaders of Pakistan and India failed to reach an accord on their
half-century dispute over Kashmir, ending a landmark three-day
summit on a solemn note. They did agree to meet later in the year in
Pakistan.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A6)(AP, 7/16/02)
2001 Jul 16, In Israel a
Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and 2 Israelis at a bus
stop north of Tel Aviv. The bombing was believed to be an effort to
mar the opening of the Maccabiah, the Jewish Olympics in Jerusalem.
Israel retaliated by shelling Palestinian police posts in 2 West
Bank towns.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A6)(WSJ, 7/17/01, p.A1)
2002 Jul 16, Russia and China
signed their first friendship treaty in more than half a century.
(AP, 7/16/02)
2001 Jul 16, In Serbia
authorities began exhuming bodies from another mass grave near
Belgrade.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 17, John Ashcroft, US
Attorney Gen’l. reported that 184 FBI laptops and nearly 450 guns
were stolen or lost over the last decade.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 17, A USAF F-16
crashed in northeast San Bernadino County, Ca. Maj. Aaron George,
pilot, and Judson Brohmer, photographer, were killed.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.A5)
2001 Jul 17, Katharine Graham,
Pulitzer Prize winner and publisher of the Washington Post, died at
age 84 in Boise, Idaho.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 17, In Argentina Pres.
De la Rua signed a plan to slash the deficit.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.C4)
2001 Jul 17, In Guangxi, China,
the Lajiapo and Longshan mines flooded and 81 miners were killed.
Immediate news was covered up. In Aug 20 company employees and 70
suspected gang members were arrested for the coverup. 11 mine
officials and 4 county political leaders were arrested.
(SFC, 8/7/01, p.A7)(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A7)(SFC,
9/1/01, p.A10)(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 17, An Israeli
helicopter fired missiles at a hut in Bethlehem and 4 Palestinians
were killed. A few hours later Palestinians fired a mortar shell
into a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 17, In Montenegro
Pres. Kostunica appointed Dragisa Pesic as the new Prime Minister.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.C4)
2001 Jul 17, In Moscow Russia
and China agreed to plan a $1.7 billion pipeline for oil from
Siberia to northeastern China.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.C4)
2001 Jul 18, Pres. Bush landed
in England to meet with PM Tony Blair prior to the G-8 summit in
Genoa.
(SFC, 7/19/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 18, The FAA warned of
an overseas threat and urged the "highest" level of caution.
(SFC, 5/17/02, p.A1)
2001 Jul 18, In Baltimore a
60-car CSX freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed and
caught fire in a tunnel near Camden Yards. 54 cars burned and phone
cables were melted. The last burning car was pulled out July 23.
(SFC, 7/19/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 7/20/01, p.A1)(SFC,
7/24/01, p.A4)
2001 Jul 18, Thunderstorms in
southwestern Ohio killed 3 people.
(SFC, 7/19/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 18, In Texas a natural
gas well exploded in Buffalo and 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/19/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 18, Mimi Farina,
folksinger and founder of the Bread and Roses charity, died at age
56. She was the sister of Joan Baez. She and Richard Farina
(d.1966), her 1st husband, wrote the song "Pack Up Your Sorrows."
(SFC, 7/19/01, p.A25)
2001 Jul 18, In Egypt a trial
began for 52 men arrested on charges of obscene behavior and
contempt of religion. The men were arrested May 11 at the Queen Boat
nightclub in Cairo. On Nov 14, 23 men were sentenced up to 5 years
in prison and 29 were acquitted. In 2002 Pres. Mubarak tossed out
the verdicts against all but 2 of the 52 defendants.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.A12)(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A19)(SFC,
5/31/02, p.A13)
2001 Jul 18, In Nigeria a
30-member robbery gang killed up to 22 people in the town of Awkuzu
in Anambra state. They began with the house of Francis Okafor, a
vigilante member.
(SFC, 7/21/01, p.E2)
2001 Jul 18, It was reported
that Osman Durmus, the Health Minister in Turkey, had introduced
regulations for state schools to expel non-virgin girls training as
health workers.
(SFC, 7/19/01, p.A11)
2001 Jul 19, The US joined
major powers in calling for 3rd parties to monitor a cease-fire
between Israel and the Palestinians.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 19, The Roman Catholic
Church declared that Mormon converts must be rebaptized.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 19, The Code Red
computer worm began hitting Internet-connected computers, exploiting
a flaw in Microsoft software. This was among the first network worms
to spread rapidly because it required only a network connection, not
a human opening an attachment.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.D1)(SFC, 9/3/07, p.C3)
2001 Jul 19, Gunther
Gebel-Williams (b.1934), circus animal trainer died in Venice,
Florida.
(AP, 7/16/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.107)
2001 Jul 19, In Argentina
workers staged a nationwide strike due to government spending cuts.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Jul 19, It was reported
that 2 Belarusian defectors alleged that the Lukashenko regime ran a
death squad that had killed as many as 30 foes.
(WSJ, 7/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 19, British
millionaire author Jeffrey Archer (61) was convicted on perjury
charges and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 19, Scientists in Chad
found fossils in the Djurab desert of a human ancestor that they
later dated to 6-7 million years BP. In 2002 they named the group
Sahelanthropus tchadensis (with the nickname Toumaï, "hope of
life" in the Goran language).
(NW, 7/22/02, p.46)
2001 Jul 19, In the West Bank
Jewish extremists, who identified themselves as the Committee for
Road Safety, killed 3 Palestinians including a 3-month-old girl, in
a drive-by shooting near Hebron.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 19, Japanese
prosecutors charged a U.S. airman with rape in an alleged attack on
a woman in Okinawa. Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland was later
convicted and sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
(AP, 7/16/02)
2001 Jul 19, In Nepal PM Girija
Prasad Koirala resigned over pressures from a bribery scandal in his
government.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.D3)
2001 Jul 20, Ira Einhorn,
convicted in absentia of killing his girlfriend, was flown from
France and handed over to Philadelphia police.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2001 Jul 20, Vanessa Leggett, a
fledgling crime writer, was jailed in Texas on contempt charges for
refusing to hand over her research notes on Robert Angleton to a
federal grand jury. Leggett was released Jan 4, 2002.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A17)(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A6)
2001 Jul 20, It was reported
that China planned to buy 38 Russian Su-30 MKK ground attack jets
worth $2 billion.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.D4)
2001 Jul 20, A G-8 economic
summit, planned in Genoa, Italy, expected over 100,000
demonstrators. The summit opened with raging street battles between
police and demonstrators; one protester was fatally shot by
officers. Carlo Giuliani (23) was shot and killed by police while
protesting at the G-8 summit. At least 100 people were injured. In
2008 a court convicted 15 Italian officials of abusing protesters
held in at police garrison following violent demonstrations during
the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A6)(AP, 7/20/02)(SFC, 7/21/01,
p.A1)(AP, 7/15/08)
2001 Jul 20, In Macedonia 2
int’l. monitors and their interpreter were found killed by a land
mine near Tetovo.
(SFC, 7/21/01, p.E1)
2001 Jul 20, In Sri Lanka
thousands of demonstrators were blocked from marching into the
capital to protest the suspension of parliament by Pres.
Kumaratunga. 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.D4)(WSJ, 7/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 20, In the West Bank
an explosion leveled the office of Yasser Arafat in Hebron and Rajai
Abu Rajab, an activist in the Tanzim, was found dead.
(SFC, 7/21/01, p.E1)
2001 Jul 20, The New
Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) was formally adopted at
the 37th session of the (OAU) Assembly of Heads of State and
Government in Lusaka, Zambia.
(Econ, 2/10/07, p.48)(
http://www.nepad.org/2005/files/inbrief.php)
2001 Jul 21, In Genoa, Italy,
site of a Group of Eight meeting, a 2nd day of violent protests
turned the city into a war zone of rolling riots despite pleas for
calm from protest leaders and global summit leaders alike.
(SSFC, 7/22/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/21/02)
2001 Jul 21, Over 140 UN
nations agreed on a voluntary pact to stem small arms into conflict
zones. It required manufacturers to compile records of sales and to
mark weapons to enable their traces. The US managed to keep out some
restrictions.
(SSFC, 7/22/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 7/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 21, In Indonesia an
impeachment session of the People’s Consultative Assembly convened
early and voted that Pres. Wahid defend himself with an
accountability speech.
(SSFC, 7/22/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 21, In Japan 10
people, mostly children, were killed on a crowded pedestrian bridge
as they left a fireworks display in Akashi.
(SSFC, 7/22/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 22, David Duval shot a
4-under 67 to win the British Open title, his first major
championship.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2001 Jul 22, Pres. Bush and
Pres. Putin agreed to link discussions of US plans for a missile
defense system with the prospect of large cuts in their nuclear
arsenals.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 22, President Bush and
other world leaders closed out a summit in Genoa, Italy, with a vow
to wage a united attack on global poverty and disease. They failed,
however, to resolve a sharp dispute over global warming.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2001 Jul 22, In Nepal Sher
Bahadur Deuba was chosen as prime minister.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 22, In South Korea
some 12,000 workers of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
tried to march into Seoul but were blocked by riot police. Pres.
Dae-jung’s corporate restructure programs had caused many layoffs.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 22, In Macedonia
ethnic Albanian rebels attacked government forces in the Tetovo
area.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 23, Pres. Bush met
with Pope John Paul II at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and was urged to
reject the use of human embryos for stem cell research.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/02)
2001 Jul 23, The US Pentagon
shut down public access to its web sites due to a computer worm
called the Code Red worm. It defaced web sites with the words
"Hacked by Chinese."
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A2)
2001 Jul 23, Eudora Welty (92),
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, died in Jackson, Miss. Her work
included the 1941 collection "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories"
and the 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning "The Optimist’s Daughter." In
1998 Ann Waldron authored the biography “Eudora” against the
writer’s wishes. In 2005 Suzanne Marrs authored the biography
“Eudora Welty.”
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A17)(WSJ,
8/5/05, p.W6)
2001 Jul 23, Anarchist groups
in Europe retaliated for the death in Genoa of protester Carlo
Giuliani.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Burundi Pres.
Buyoya survived a coup attempt by Tutsi soldiers and sealed a
power-sharing accord with Hutu politicians. The Arusha accord called
for Buyoya to lead for 18 months followed by a Hutu president for
another 18 months with elections to follow.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 23, In Colombia
retired Gen. Rito Alejo del Rio was arrested on charges of helping
create right-wing paramilitary groups.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 23, In Bonn, Germany,
negotiators from 178 nations, without the US, rescued the 1997 Kyoto
Protocol and accepted rules to cut emissions of waste gases linked
to global warming after marathon talks.
(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)(AP,
7/23/02)
2001 Jul 23, It was reported
that flooding in India’s Orissa state had killed some 83 people and
left over 600,000 stranded.
(WSJ, 7/23/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 23, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid declared a state of emergency. The military refused to carry
out his orders and parliament met to remove him. The parliament
ousted Wahid with a 591 to 0 vote and swore in Megawati Sukarnoputri
as the country’s 5th president.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A1)(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)(SFC,
7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Iran a 19th
woman was reported strangled in Mashad.
(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)
2001 Jul 23, Israeli police
killed a Palestinian who drove a would-be bomber toward Haifa. In
Gaza Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Macedonia
security forces engaged ethnic Albanian rebels in fierce fighting
around Tetovo. Macedonian mobs in Skopje, angered by Western efforts
at mediation, attacked symbolic targets.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 23, Nepal’s new
government declared a unilateral ceasefire and called on Maoist
rebels to talk peace. In a recent skirmish guerrillas killed at
least 17 police officers in Pandusen.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)(SFC,
7/31/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 23, In Pakistan flash
floods killed at least 150 people. In Islamabad 24 inches of rain
broke a 100-year record.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka Tamil
separatists attack an air base, damaged a number of planes and shut
down the Bandaranaike airport, the nation’s only int’l. airport. 7
soldiers and 8 guerrillas were killed. 3 jetliners and 8 warplanes
were blown up in a suicide attack by 13 rebels.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/25/01, p.A1)(SFC,
7/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 24, Larry Silverstein
signed a $3.2 billion, 99-year lease for the NYC World Trade
Center (WTC).
(WSJ, 4/30/04, p.A11)
2001 Jul 24, Victor Arimondi
(b.1942), professional model a fashion photographer, died of AIDS in
SF.
(SFC, 12/12/09, p.E4)(http://tinyurl.com/ybqcums)
2001 Jul 24, A Chinese court
sentenced two U.S. residents to 10 years in prison on charges of
spying for Taiwan. China released Gao Zhan and Qin Guangguang two
days later.
(SFC, 7/25/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/24/02)
2001 Jul 24, In Indonesia
Megawati Sukarnoputri began her presidency while Wahid refused to
leave the presidential palace.
(WSJ, 7/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 24, The Taiwan
Solidarity Union (TSU) was founded by former Pres. Lee Teng-hui. It
actively campaigned for the creation of a de jure Republic of
Taiwan. The party prided itself on being the first to include
"Taiwan" in its name.
(Econ, 7/9/11,
p.42)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Solidarity_Union)
2001 Jul 25, The space shuttle
Atlantis landed in Florida.
(WSJ, 7/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 25, India’s bandit
queen, Phoolan Devi, was killed by masked gunmen in New Delhi. She
had led a revolt against the abuse of low-class women and won a seat
in parliament. Sher Singh Rana later confessed to the killing. 2
accomplices were later arrested.
(WSJ, 7/26/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 25, Israeli troops
killed Salah Darwazeh, a Hamas militant, with antitank rockets as he
drove near Nablus. Informant Ahmed Abu Issah, father of nine, was
paid $50 for information on Darwazeh and was later condemned to
death by a Palestinian court.
(WSJ, 7/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 25, Kim Jong Il of
North Korea rode by rail into Russia for a meeting with Pres. Putin.
(WSJ, 7/26/01, p.A11)
2001 Jul 25-2001 Sep 23, A red
rain fell sporadically in Kerala, India, during this period. A
government study found that the rains had been colored by spores
from a locally prolific aerial algae. In early 2006 the Keralan
colored rains suddenly rose to worldwide attention after media
reports of an extraordinary theory that the colored particles are
extraterrestrial cells, proposed by Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar
of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala)
2001 Jul 26, Hewlett-Packard
announced 6,000 worldwide job cuts and JDS Uniphase announced
another 7,000 cuts.
(SFC, 7/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 26, China granted
parole to two U.S.-based scholars convicted of spying for Taiwan.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2001 Jul 26, The UN War Crimes
tribunal indicted Gen. Ante Gotovina on 8 counts of war crimes
linked to alleged atrocities in 1995. In 2005 Croatia’s failure to
arrest him hindered the country’s entry to the EU.
(SFC, 7/27/01, p.D6)(Econ, 3/12/05, p.52)
2001 Jul 26, In Indonesia the
legislature elected Hamzah Haz as vice president. In Jakarta a
high-court justice was assassinated by gunmen on motorbikes.
(WSJ, 7/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 26, In Indonesia
Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, a Supreme Court Justice, was shot to death
by 4 assassins. Tommy Suharto was later implicated in the murder.
(SFC, 8/7/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 26, An Israeli youth
was killed in a drive-by shooting and 3 bombs went off in the West
Bank with no injuries.
(WSJ, 7/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 27, A judge in West
Palm Beach, Fla., sentenced 14-year-old Nathaniel Brazill to 28
years in prison for fatally shooting teacher Barry Grunow at Lake
Worth Middle School.
(AP, 7/27/02)
2001 Jul 27, Jeanine Sanchez
Harms was last seen alive in Campbell, Ca. In 2004 San Jose
architect Maurice Xavier Nasmeh was arrested for her murder. In 2007
a judge dismissed murder charges against Nasmeh due to lack of
evidence. On Jan 15, 2011, Wayne Sanchez (52), the brother of Harms,
shot and killed Nasmeh at the El Paseo de Saratoga Shopping Center,
and then killed himself. In August, 2011, evidence linked Nasmeh to
the murder of Harms and the case was closed.
(SFC, 12/17/04, p.B1)(SFC, 6/28/07, p.B3)(SFC,
1/17/11, p.A1)(SFC, 8/25/11, p.C6)
2001 Jul 27, It was reported
that the Earth Liberation Front had begun selling a promotional
videotape for $10 called "An Introduction to the Earth Liberation
Front."
(SFC, 7/27/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 28, US Sec. of State
Colin Powell met with China’s Pres. Zemin and reached agreement to
restart a formal dialogue with the US on human rights and weapons
proliferation.
(SSFC, 7/29/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 28, Joan Finney, whose
populist beliefs and gift for connecting with voters helped her
become the first woman governor of Kansas, died at 76.
(AP, 7/28/02)
2001 Jul 28, Samir Ait Mohamed
(32) was detained in Vancouver on immigration charges. On Nov 15 he
was arrested on US charges for plotting to bomb the Los Angeles
airport during millennium festivities. He was held in Canadian
prisons until he was deported to Algeria on January 11, 2006.
(SFC, 11/17/01,
p.A10)(www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/01/13/deported-terrorist060113.html)
2001 Jul 28, An Israeli
helicopter attack in the Gaza Strip destroyed a workshop making
munitions and was followed by armed clashes.
(SSFC, 7/29/01, p.A18)
2001 Jul 28, In Peru Pres.
Toledo was inaugurated as the nation’s 1st president of Indian
descent. He promised a government at the service of its people.
(SSFC, 7/29/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 28, Jamal Beghal (36),
a French-Algerian, was arrested in Dubai, UAR, with a false French
passport while traveling to Europe from Afghanistan. He was
extradited to France in Sep 30. He told police of a plans to bomb
the US Embassy in Paris on orders from Abu Zubaydah, a top bin Laden
lieutenant.
(WSJ, 10/3/01, p.A18)(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A5)
2001 Jul 29, In Ohio a tractor
engine exploded at a county fair and 4 people were killed in Medina.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 29, In France Lance
Armstrong won his 3rd straight Tour de France bicycle race. He
became the first American to win the Tour three times in a row.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/29/02)
2001 Jul 29, In Japan the
governing Liberal Democratic Party of PM Koizumi won 64 of 121
contested seats in the 247-seat upper house.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 29, In Northern
Ireland Gavin Brett (18), a Protestant, was killed while standing
with Catholic friends in Belfast. The Red Hand Defenders took
credit, their 2nd this month.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 29, Edward Gierek, the
Polish communist ruler who pushed for reform during the 1970s but
was forced from power in 1980 over mounting debt and strikes, died
at 88.
(AP, 7/29/02)
2001 Jul 29, In Puerto Rico the
residents of Vieques island voted on stopping the practice bombing
by the US military. Opponents of the navy bombing gathered 68% of
the vote.
(SSFC, 7/29/01, p.A9)(SFC, 7/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 30, Former Pres.
Clinton opened his new office in Harlem.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 30, Intel rolled out
its new Pentium III-M processor based on .13 micron chip technology.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.E3)
2001 Jul 30, In Alaska a
sightseeing plane crashed near Glacier Bay National Park and all 6
people aboard were killed.
(WSJ, 8/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 30, In Argentina the
Senate passed a tough austerity package supported by Pres. de la
Rua.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 30, It was reported
that Bolivia’s Pres. Banzer would step down Aug 6 due to his cancer
diagnosis.
(WSJ, 7/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 30, In Canada
medicinal use of marijuana became legal. The government grew the
drug in an abandoned salt mine in Flin Flon, Manitoba, and sold it
to authorized users at C$5 ($4.40) a gram.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A6)(Reuters, 11/13/06)
2001 Jul 30, In the West Bank 6
Palestinian Fatah activists were killed in an explosion near the
Al-Fara refugee camp. Israeli helicopters soon after rocketed a
weapons storage center in Gaza and at least 7 Palestinian police
officers were wounded.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.A6)(WSJ, 7/30/01, p.A1)(SFC,
7/31/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 30, In Macedonia peace
talks dragged into a 3rd day as rebels controlled part of Tetovo.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 30, In South Africa
Catholic bishops denounced condoms as "immoral and misguided"
weapons against AIDS.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 30, In Taiwan Typhoon
Toraji left some 200 people dead.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A7)(AP, 7/30/06)
2001 Jul 30, Zimbabwean
president Robert Mugabe's ruling party won a special parliamentary
election.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2001 Jul 31, Pres. Bush issued
Executive Order 13221. It instructed government agencies that used
external standby power devices to purchase products that use no more
than one watt in their standby power consuming mode.
(www.ofee.gov/eo/eo.htm)
2001 Jul 31, The US House of
Representatives voted 265-102 to criminalize all human cloning.
(SFC, 8/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 31, The US Treasury
began issuing new 4-week T-bills.
(SFC, 12/10/08,
p.C4)(http://money.cnn.com/2001/08/30/expert/expert/index.htm)
2001 Jul 31, Poul Anderson,
science fiction writer, died at age 74.
(WSJ, 8/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 31, In Colombia 4
rebels and 2 soldiers were killed in fighting in southern and
northwestern areas.
(SFC, 8/1/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 31, In Indonesia at
least 62 people were killed when a mudslide buried the village of
Sambulu. At least 35 people were killed and some 200 missing.
(SFC, 8/1/01, p.A9)(AP, 7/31/02)
2001 Jul 31, In the West Bank
Israeli gunships killed 8 people in Nablus including 2 Hamas
leaders, Jamal Mansour and Jamal Salim, and 2 children.
(SFC, 8/1/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 31, Russian commandos
freed 25 [41] hostages held by 2 hijackers in Mineralniye Vody,
Chechnya.
(SFC, 8/1/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul, WorldCom bought
Intermedia Communications.
(WSJ, 6/27/02, p.A11)
2001 Jul, Marco Tronchetti
Provera, chairman of the Italy’s Pirelli tire company, won control
of Telecom Italia.
(Econ, 9/16/06, p.78)
2001 Jul, Kiribati, a South
Pacific island nation, joined the United Nations. The population was
94,149.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A13)
2001 Jul, The IMU attacked
government troops in southern Uzbekistan and a TV transmitter in
southern Kyrgyzstan.
(AP, 3/30/04)
2001 Aug 1, The US House passed
energy legislation that included opening the Arctic national
Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 1, The Federal Trade
Commission cleared the way for PepsiCo to acquire Quaker Oats for
about $13.4 billion in stock.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2001 Aug 1, Robert Henry
Rimmer, author of the 1960s novel "The Harrad Experiment," died at
age 84.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A17)
2001 Aug 1, Pro Bowl tackle
Korey Stringer died of heat stroke, a day after collapsing at the
Minnesota Vikings' training camp on the hottest day of the year.
(AP, 8/1/02)
2001 Aug 1, In Chechnya 86
refugees attempted a 1000-mile march to Moscow to protest atrocities
but were immediately stopped by force and 12 were arrested.
(SFC, 8/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 1, A boatload of
Cubans capsized off Key West and at least 2 people died. 4 were
missing and 22 were rescued.
(WSJ, 8/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 1, In Indonesia at
least 64 people were killed on Nias island from floods and
landslides. Another 200 were missing.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 8/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 1, In Indonesia Taufik
Abdul Halim, a member of the Malaysian Mujahedeen Group, blew off
his lower right leg at a Jakarta shopping mall when a bomb he
carried exploded prematurely. Halim was linked to Dedi Setiono
(Abbas), who was linked to Hambali (Riduan Isamuddin), operations
leader of Jemaah Islamiah.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A16)(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A14)
2001 Aug 1, In Germany
legislation went into effect offering legal status to same-sex
couples.
(SFC, 8/2/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 1, Israeli troops
killed a Palestinian man in heavy fighting in Hebron.
(WSJ, 8/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 2, Robert S. Mueller
(56), former US attorney in SF, won Senate confirmation to become
the FBI director.
(SFC, 8/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Aug 2, Ron Townson, the
centerpiece singer for the pop group the 5th Dimension, died of
renal failure in Las Vegas. He was 68.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2001 Aug 2, Belize agreed to
conserve 23,000 acres in exchange for the cancellation of a US debt
that included $1.4 million in debt relief and $10 million savings in
interest payments over 26 years.
(SFC, 8/3/01, p.D3)
2001 Aug 2, The UN war crimes
tribunal found Radislav Krstic, former Bosnian Serb general, guilty
for the 1995 genocide of some 8,000 Muslim men in Srebrenica. He was
sentenced to 46 years in prison. A 2004 appeal reduced the sentence
to 35 years.
(SFC, 8/3/01, p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/gm9l9)
2001 Aug 2, Colombia reported a
big victory over rebels at Juan Jose. 60 rebels were killed along
with 13 soldiers.
(SFC, 8/3/01, p.D3)
2001 Aug 2, In Iran Pres.
Khatami was confirmed for a 2nd 4-year term.
(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 2, Palestinian judges
sentenced 4 Palestinian men to death for helping Israel’s army carry
out lethal attacks. 3 Palestinian men, suspected of collaboration,
were recently gunned down in the streets.
(SFC, 8/3/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 2, In the Philippines
Abu Sayyaf extremists seized 36 Filipinos civilians on Basilan
island and beheaded 10 of them.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A6)(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 2, On Vieques, Puerto
Rico, the US Navy used tear gas and foam rubber projectiles to clear
protesters and journalists.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Aug 3, In Chicago an
elevated commuter train rear-ended another and over 140 people were
injured.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Aug 3, Banamex was
acquired by Citigroup in a $12.5 billion deal.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 3, Yasser Arafat’s
news agency called for a halt to armed attacks against Israel.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 3, Kim Jong Il arrived
in Moscow following 9-day train ride from North Korea.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 3, Russia freed John
E. Tobin Jr. (24), a US Fulbright scholar. Tobin had spent 6 months
in jail, half of one-year drug sentence, on a marijuana conviction
that he claimed was set up.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A6)(AP, 8/3/02)
2001 Aug 3, In Thailand the
Constitutional Court acquitted PM Thaksin Shinawatra of corruption
charges.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 4, In Florida an
immigration official turned back Muhammed al-Kahtani (al-Qahtani), a
Saudi who had flown in from London with $2,800 in cash and no return
ticket. He was later captured in Afghanistan and detained at
Guantanamo after officials suspected that he was the intended 20th
hijacker for the Nov 11 attacks. In 2008 the Pentagon dropped
charges against al-Qahtani.
(Econ, 2/16/08, p.39)(AP, 5/13/08)
2001 Aug 4, Steve Fossett
launched his 5th bid to circle the globe in an unpressurized gondola
from Australia. He set a duration record on Aug 16 over Argentina.
He was forced down over Brazil on Aug 17.
(SFC, 8/17/01, p.D1)(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 4, In NYC police
officer Joseph Gray (40) ran over Maria Herrera (24), her son Andy
and her sister (16). A baby boy was delivered by c-section but did
not survive. Gray had been drinking with fellow officers at a strip
club and was later charged with manslaughter for killing the family
while driving drunk on his way to work. 17 cops at the 72nd precinct
were soon disciplined transferred or suspended. Gray was convicted
of manslaughter in 2002 and sentenced to five to 15 years in prison.
Ms. Herrera's husband, Victor, and his mother-in-law, Maria
Peña, later filed lawsuits. The city settled the civil
lawsuit for $1.5 million.
(www.courttv.com/trials/gray_joseph/chronology.html)(AP,
8/5/02)(http://tinyurl.com/5oa8lz)
2001 Aug 4, Thousands of
admirers turned out in London to celebrate the 101st birthday of
Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth in what would be the last such
celebration. The Queen Mother died March 30, 2002.
(AP, 8/4/02)
2001 Aug 4, In India torrential
rains and floods swept over Bihar state and at least 3 people were
killed. Thousands were marooned.
(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 4, The Israeli army
fired missiles at a convoy carrying the Palestinian West Bank leader
Marwan Barghouti.
(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 4, In Macedonia ethnic
Albanian rebels lobbed mortars at police stations near Tetovo.
(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 4, Philippine soldiers
rescued 13 hostages of the 36 seized by Abu Sayyaf rebels on Aug 2.
(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 4, In Moscow Kim Jong
Il and Pres. Putin signed a joint statement declaring that North
Korea’s missile program is not designed to threaten any nation.
(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.A12)(AP, 8/4/02)
2001 Aug 5, The spacecraft
Galileo flew as close as 120 miles above Io’s north pole and
captured wisps of volcanic gas largely composed of sulfur dioxide.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.D3)
2001 Aug 5, In Afghanistan the
Taliban closed a US relief organization office and arrested 24 of
its workers for propagating Christianity. The ruling Taliban jailed
eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, for allegedly
preaching Christianity. The workers were rescued the following
November as the Taliban regime began collapsing during U.S. military
operations.
(SFC, 8/6/01, p.A1)(AP, 8/5/02)
2001 Aug 5, In Brazil a 2-week
police strike in Salvador, Bahia state, was reported to be over.
Threats of strikes remained in other cities due to low wages.
(SSFC, 8/5/01, p.T14)
2001 Aug 5, In Israel a
Palestinian gunman shot into a crowd of soldiers in Tel Aviv and
injured 10 people before he was fatally shot. In 2 other incidents
an Israeli woman was killed in a drive-by shooting and a Palestinian
attempting to plant a bomb in Tulkarm was killed by Israeli troops.
(SFC, 8/6/01, p.A1,A10)
2001 Aug 5, In Macedonia rival
factions agreed to restructure the police force and removed a major
barrier to a peace accord.
(SFC, 8/6/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 6, Former Pres.
Clinton signed an agreement with Knopf to publish his memoirs for an
advance of over $10 million.
(SFC, 8/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 6, US intelligence
told Pres. Bush that al Qaeda might try to hijack American planes.
The document "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" was presented to
Bush while he was on vacation in Crawford, Texas.
(SFC, 5/17/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/9/04, p.A3)(SSFC,
4/11/04, p.A1)
2001 Aug 6, Hurricane Barry hit
the Florida Panhandle along with parts of Alabama and Georgia.
(SFC, 8/6/01, p.A5)
2001 Aug 6, In Bolivia Pres.
Banzer stepped down form office. Vice Pres. Jorge Quiroga (41)
assumed the office.
(SFC, 8/7/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 6, Jorge Amado
(b.1912), author of 32 novels, died at age 88. He was considered
Brazil’s greatest contemporary writer.
(SFC, 8/9/01,
p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Amado)
2001 Aug 6, In India’s Madras
state a fire at the Badshaw asylum in Erwady killed 27 patients,
many of who were chained to their beds.
(SFC, 8/7/01, p.A6)(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 6, In Indonesia 2 men,
Rolan and Noval, were arrested for the murder of justice Syafiuddin
Kartasasmita. They said Tommy Suharto paid them for the murder.
(SFC, 8/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 6, The IRA announced a
method of destroying its arsenal that raised hopes for a peace
accord in Northern Ireland.
(SFC, 8/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 6, In Macedonia peace
talks hit a snag over government demands for a quick rebel
disarmament.
(SFC, 8/7/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 6, General Duong Van
"Big" Minh (86), who was the president of South Vietnam for just a
few days before the country fell to Communist invaders in 1975, died
in Pasadena, Calif.
(AP, 8/6/02)
2001 Aug 7, Three researchers
told a committee at the National Academy of Sciences they were
unswayed by arguments against human cloning and would soon try to
clone human beings.
(AP, 8/7/02)
2001 Aug 7, Larry Adler (87),
harmonica virtuoso, died in London.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A17)(AP, 8/7/02)
2001 Aug 7, In Cambodia the
Constitutional Council approved legislation to establish a special
court to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes against humanity.
(SFC, 8/8/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 7, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana announced that he was suspending talks with the 5,000 ELN
rebels.
(SFC, 8/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 7, Two Israelis were
shot dead on the West Bank. Israel gave its soldiers a freer hand to
fire on Palestinians.
(WSJ, 8/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 7, In Macedonia police
conducted a predawn raid in Skopje and 5 members of the National
Liberation Army were killed.
(SFC, 8/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 7, In Peru a gunfight
between police and leftist rebels in the province of Satipo left 12
rebels and 4 police officers dead.
(SFC, 8/10/01, p.A18)
2001 Aug 7, In the Philippines
the Islamic and National fronts signed a separate unity pact to
bridge their 23-year split. Muslim separatists agreed to a
cease-fire with the government. Only the Abu Sayyaf was left
fighting the government.
(SFC, 8/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 7, In Romania a gas
explosion in the Vulcan coal mine killed at least 14 miners.
(SFC, 8/8/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 7, The Vatican
denounced what it called a "slanderous campaign" against the Roman
Catholic Church over the Holocaust-era pope, Pius XII.
(AP, 8/7/02)
2001 Aug 8, Four American
Senators met with Pres. Jiang Zemin in China and warned him that the
continued sales of sensitive missile technology would trigger an
arms race and boost internal US support for a missile defense
system.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 8, US Federal
authorities announced the arrests of 100 people nationwide in an
Internet child pornography operation, Landslide Productions Inc.,
based in Fort Worth, Tx.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A3)
2001 Aug 8, Maureen Reagan
(b.1941), daughter of former Pres. Ronald Reagan, died of malignant
melanoma. She authored the 1989 autobiography "First Father, First
Daughter."
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A20)(NW, 12/31/01, p.106)
2001 Aug 8, In Argentina
thousands of state workers, students and jobless marched on Buenos
Aires for a 2nd day to protest government plans to cut wages and
pensions.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 8, In Bangladesh a
stampede of textile workers was caused by a false fire alarm and 23
people were crushed to death.
(WSJ, 8/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 8, Jacques Kerchache
(b.1942), French explorer and collector of primitive art, died in
Cancun, Mexico.
(Econ, 4/16/11, p.91)(http://tinyurl.com/3pyax8r)
2001 Aug 8, In Iran Mohammad
Khatami was sworn in as president for a second term. Political
in-fighting with conservatives delayed the ceremony by 3 days.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A9)(AP, 8/8/02)
2001 Aug 8, In Italy police
chief Gianni de Gennaro acknowledged that excessive force had been
used against protesters of the Group 8 summit.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 8, In Lebanon up to
250 people were arrested in protests that demanded Syrian withdrawal
from Lebanon.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 8, In Macedonia
political leaders initialed a peace agreement as rebels ambushed an
army convoy and killed 10 soldiers.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 9, Pres. Bush
announced that he would allow taxpayer dollars to be used for stem
cell research limited to some 5 dozen existing stem cell lines.
(SFC, 8/10/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 9, It was reported
that the US had decided to pay China $34,567 to cover the costs of
the spy plane that was detained on Hainan island. China had asked
for $1 million and rejected the offer.
(SFC, 8/10/01, p.A12)(SFC, 8/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 9, In Colombia an
explosion killed 3 children and injured 35 in the northern town of
San Francisco. Police blamed the ELN.
(SFC, 8/10/01, p.A18)
2001 Aug 9, In the Comoros
islands military troops staged a bloodless coup on the island of
Anjouan due to grievances over promotions and pay.
(SFC, 8/10/01, p.A18)
2001 Aug 9, In Indonesia Pres.
Sukarnoputri named a new Cabinet stacked with specialists instead of
politicians. In Aceh province police and rebels accused each other
of massacring 31 people.
(SFC, 8/10/01, p.A16)(WSJ, 8/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 9, The IRA offered
publicly to put its arsenal of weapons "completely and verifiably
beyond use."
(SFC, 8/10/01, p.A16)
2001 Aug 9, In Jerusalem a
Palestinian suicide bomber, Izzadine Masri, killed himself and 15
others at the Sbarro pizzeria. 90 people were wounded. Hamas claimed
responsibility.
(WSJ, 8/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A14)(AP,
8/9/06)
2001 Aug 9, In Macedonia
government forces battled rebels for control of Tetovo and one
policeman was killed. A peace agreement was scheduled to be formally
signed Aug 13.
(SFC, 8/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 10, Space shuttle
Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral with supplies and a fresh
crew for the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A4)
2001 Aug 10, A tourist
helicopter crashed near the Grand Canyon and 6 people were killed.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, About 20 US and
British jets bombed air-defense installation south of Baghdad in
retaliation for increased anti-aircraft activity. Iraqis claimed 1
civilian was killed and 11 wounded.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, In Argentina
nearly 1 million people gathered to pray to St. Cayetano, patron of
work and bread, for an easing of the economic crises that has left 1
in 3 Argentines in poverty. The government struggled to keep from
defaulting on a $127 billion debt.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, Britain stepped in
to save Northern Ireland's power-sharing government by taking away
its powers for a day, a legal maneuver that removed a deadline to
elect a new leader of the Catholic-Protestant government.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)(AP, 8/10/02)
2001 Aug 10, In Cambodia King
Sihanouk signed war-crimes legislation to try senior Khmer Rouge
leaders.
(WSJ, 8/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 10, Israeli forces
took over 9 buildings in East Jerusalem in retaliation for the
suicide bombing that killed 15 people.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, In Macedonia 2
mines hit military trucks near Skopje and 7 soldiers were killed.
The army retaliated with an assault on Ljuboten.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10-12, In Macedonia
security forces killed 6 ethnic Albanian civilians and burned at
least 22 houses in the village of Ljuboten. Another 3 were killed
from indiscriminate shelling and another died when shot while
fleeing.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.E4)
2001 Aug 11, In his weekly
radio address, President Bush said his decision to restrict but not
forbid federal financing of embryonic stem cell research placed him
at the crossroads between protecting and enhancing human life.
(AP, 8/11/02)
2001 Aug 11, A woman (71) who
lived near downtown Atlanta died of the West Nile virus, the first
reported death from the disease outside the Northeast since the
virus emerged on the East Coast in 1999. Tests done by the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the cause of
death. The virus, which can cause deadly swelling of the brain, has
killed nine people in New York and New Jersey since 1999.
(AP, 8/17/01)(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 11, In northwestern
Angola a train carrying hundreds of refugees and some soldiers hit a
mine and derailed. Refugees were machine-gunned and over 252 were
killed. Unita forces claimed responsibility.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 8/13/01, p.A1)(SFC,
8/14/01, p.A6)(SFC, 8/16/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 11, Britain restored
power-sharing in Northern Ireland after a 1-day suspension in order.
The move allowed a 6-week postponement of whether or not to call new
elections.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 11, In Brunei some
10,000 items belonging to Prince Jefri Bolkiah’s bankrupt
development corporation went on auction.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A18)
2001 Aug 11, In, Bogota,
Colombia 3 members of the Irish Republican Army were arrested after
spending 5 weeks training FARC rebels in explosives and terrorist
tactics.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 11, In northern
Thailand heavy rains triggered flash floods that left at least 86
people dead and 70 missing.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 8/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 12, In Algeria
assailants attacked a convoy of farmers and slashed the throats of
17 people in Oule-d-Bouaza.
(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 12, In Iran flash
floods followed heavy rains and at least 181 people were killed.
Kalaleh in Golestan province was the hardest hit.
(SFC, 8/13/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 8/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 12, In Israel
Palestinian suicide bomber Muhammad Nasser (28) blew himself up at
the Wall Street Café in Kiryat Motzkin near Haifa. 21 other
people were injured. In Hebron a Palestinian girl died in a clash
with Israeli troops.
(SFC, 8/13/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/13/01, p.A1)(AP,
8/12/02)
2001 Aug 12, Macedonia's
interior minister Ljube Boskovski watched from a distance as police
under his control rampaged through Ljuboten, killing seven ethnic
Albanian men and torching and blowing up houses. In 2007 defendants
Boskovski and a top police official faced a possible punishment of
life imprisonment. The policemen who allegedly carried out the
killings were not on trial.
(AP, 4/16/07)
2001 Aug 13, It was reported
that the US state-prison population had declined in 2000 for the 1st
time since 1972.
(WSJ, 8/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 13, Elizabeth Cavanna
Harrison (aka Betsy Allen or Elizabeth Headley), American romance
writer, died in France at age 92. Her over 80 romances included
"Going on Sixteen" (1945), and "Spice Island Mystery" 1970.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.A18)
2001 Aug 13, In southeast
Chechnya rebels seized the village of Benoi-Yurt. Pro-Moscow
administrators were reported killed.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 13, Japanese PM
Junichiro Koizumi tried to ease the anger of Asian neighbors by
visiting a controversial war shrine two days before the actual
anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.A1)(AP, 8/13/02)
2001 Aug 13, In Macedonia a
peace deal was signed by rival leaders of the 2 main ethnic groups
and paved the way for NATO troops to arrive and disarm ethnic
Albanian rebels. Representatives of the EU, USA and NATO helped
Macedonian politicians produce a plan for peace at Lake Ohrid called
the Ohrid agreement.
(http://tinyurl.com/y8j2yh)(AP, 8/13/02)(Econ,
10/21/06, p.62)
2001 Aug 14, US warplanes
attacked an Iraqi air defense system modernized with fiber optics by
Chinese technicians.
(WSJ, 8/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 14, Helios, a
remote-controlled, solar powered NASA plane, reached a record 96,500
feet.
(WSJ, 8/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 14, Some 18,000
firefighters in 8 US Western states battle 315,000 burning acres.
(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 14, Jeffrey K.
Skilling stepped down as CEO of Enron Corp. after 6 months in the
top job.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A8)
2001 Aug 14, In Houston 3
people died from heroin overdoses and joined 15 others who died over
the weekend.
(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A4)
2001 Aug 14, Twenty people
detained in riots at the Group of Eight summit in Italy the previous
month were ordered released by a Genoa court. They included 15
Austrians, three Americans, a Slovak and a Swede.
(AP, 8/14/02)
2001 Aug 14, In India it was
reported that 15 wild elephants had died in Nameri National Park in
Assam state from an unknown disease.
(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 14, Israeli tanks
rolled into Palestinian-controlled Jenin. Bulldozers destroyed a
Palestinian police station and Israeli forces took back with them
some 70 Palestinians, who had been jailed in Jenin for collaboration
with Israel. In Nablus Shadi Affori (19), a Fatah member, was killed
in an explosion at his home.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 14, In Macedonia
Albanian guerrillas agreed to disarm under NATO supervision and the
government agreed to extend amnesty for the fighters.
(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 14, In Northern
Ireland the IRA withdrew a plan to dispose of its weapons.
(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 14, In Peru Pres.
Toledo dismissed military commanders and put in his own men.
(WSJ, 8/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 15, The Air Force gave
the go-ahead to build its new F-22 fighter, but said it would build
fewer planes for more money than it had once planned.
(AP, 8/15/02)
2001 Aug 15, Robert R.
Courtney, a wealthy Kansas City, Mo., pharmacist accused of diluting
chemotherapy drugs surrendered to the FBI. He was later sentenced to
30 years in prison.
(AP, 8/15/06)
2001 Aug 15, A Texas appeals
court halted the execution of Napoleon Beazley just hours before he
was scheduled to die for a murder he had committed as a teenager. He
was executed in May 2002.
(AP, 8/15/02)
2001 Aug 15, Astronomers
announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own.
(AP, 8/15/02)
2001 Aug 15, It was reported
that scientists had found data that suggested that "there is a time
evolution of the laws of physics."
(SFC, 8/15/01, p.A2)
2001 Aug 15, Israeli undercover
troops in Hebron killed Emad Abu Sneiheh (25), an activist in the
Tanzim militia.
(SFC, 8/16/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 15, NATO authorized
400 first wave peacekeepers for Macedonia.
(SFC, 8/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 15, Four Zimbabwean
Daily News journalists were arrested after publishing a report that
police were helping loot white-owned farms.
(WSJ, 8/16/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/19/01, p.A11)
2001 Aug 16, Zacarias Moussaoui
(33), a French citizen of Moroccan descent, was arrested in Eagan,
Minnesota, on immigration charges. He was taking lessons on flying
Boeing jets with no interest in taking off or landing. He was later
suspected as a 5th member of one of the Sep 11 WTC attack teams. In
Nov the FBI reported that Moussaoui wanted to learn how to take off
and land but not to fly. Mueller also said Ramzi Omar of Yemen, aka
Ramsi Binalshibh, may have been the 20th hijacker. The local FBI
contacted the CIA for action on Moussaoui when FBI managers failed
to take action. Agent Coleen Rowley later charged that senior
officials fumbled an opportunity to possibly prevent the Sep 11
terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A7)(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A12)(WSJ,
2/4/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/24/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/25/02, p.A1)(SFC, 6/6/02,
p.A14)
2001 Aug 16, Wild fires in the
10 Western US states covered over 50,000 acres, half in Oregon.
20,000 fighters fought 42 major blazes.
(SFC, 8/17/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 16, Paul
Burrell, trusted butler of Princess Diana for many years, was
charged with the theft of hundreds of royal family items, a charge
he denied. He was tried for theft in 2002 but the trial collapsed
after evidence was given that Queen Elizabeth II had spoken with him
regarding the disputed events. In 2003 he released his book, “A
Royal Duty,” which talks about his time as butler to Diana.
(AP,
8/16/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Burrell)
2001 Aug 16, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana signed legislation giving the military broad new powers to
wage war with less scrutiny from human rights monitors. Gunmen in
Santo Tomas killed 12 people for being members in the ELN.
(SFC, 8/17/01, p.A12)(SSFC, 8/19/01, p.A16)
2001 Aug 16, In Indonesia Pres.
Sukarnoputri, in her 1st state of the nation speech, apologized for
atrocities in rebellious provinces, urged the military to reform
itself and ruled out independence for Aceh and Irian Jaya.
(SFC, 8/17/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 16, A Jamaica
government commission recommended that marijuana, aka ganja, be
legalized for personal use by adults.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.E1)
2001 Aug 16, In Nepal the
government outlawed discrimination against members of the lowest
caste, the Dalits, who would be free to enter any temple or
religious structure.
(SFC, 8/17/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 16, Col. Vidoje
Blagojevic, former commander of Bratunac, pleaded innocent at the
Hague war crimes tribunal for 1995 war crimes in Srebrenica. On
January 17, 2005, Col. Vidoje Blagojevic became the second indictee
to be convicted on Srebrenica Genocide charges and other human
rights violations. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison. On May 9,
2007, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia ruled that Col Blagojevic had not been
complicit in the genocide at Srebrenica because he had not known his
troops intended to commit it. Blagojevic’s sentence was reduced to
15 years.
(SFC, 8/17/01,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre)
2001 Aug 17, US CIA Director
George Tenet briefed Pres. Bush in Texas on day-to-day threats
facing the US.
(SSFC, 3/5/06, p.A18)
2001 Aug 17, Balloonist Steve
Fossett was forced down by bad weather in Brazil after traveling
12,695 miles.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 17, Henrietta
Milstein, founder of the Burlington Coat Factory chain stores, died
at age 72.
(WSJ, 8/20/01, p.B8)
2001 Aug 17, It was reported
that some 11,000 Afghanistan refugees had returned home from
Pakistan.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.E1)
2001 cAug 17, The Brazilian
Congress approved a legal civil code that made women equal to men.
(SSFC, 8/19/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 17, Britain revealed
plans for overhauling Northern Ireland’s police department. Both
Catholic and Protestant groups opposed the changes.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 17, It was reported
that police and private security forces in Honduras had killed at
least 66 children this year.
(SFC, 8/17/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 17, In Macedonia
NATO’s 1st advance troops of Operation Essential Harvest arrived in
Skopje.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 17, In South Korea
Bang Sang-hoon, president and publisher of Chosun Ilbo, was arrested
with 2 other prominent newspaper owners on charges of tax evasion
and embezzlement. Pres. Dae-jun was accused of using tax
investigation to stifle his critics.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A13)
2001 Aug 18, It was reported
that a month-long drought ravaged Central America. Honduras lost 80%
of its basic grains, El Salvador lost 80% of grains in its eastern
provinces, Nicaragua lost 50% and Guatemala lost 80% of its beans in
the eastern provinces. Hundreds of thousands of peasants were
affected.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 18, In Luanda, Angola,
some 10,000 people marched in a government-organized protest against
the Aug 11 train ambush.
(SSFC, 8/19/01, p.A16)
2001 Aug 18, In the Philippines
a pre-dawn fire swept through the Manor Hotel in Quezon City and 75
people, trapped behind security bars, were killed.
(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A10)(AP, 8/18/02)
2001 Aug 18, In Spain a Basque
rebel car bomb exploded outside 2 resort hotels in Salou.
(WSJ, 8/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 19, Davis Toms won the
PGA Championship with a 1-under-par 69.
(AP, 8/19/02)
2001 Aug 19, In Colombia
thousands of soldiers pursued FARC rebels near San Jose del
Guaviare. 20 guerrillas were reported killed including Urias
Cuellar, a high-ranking commander.
(SFC, 8/20/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 19, In the West Bank
Israeli troops killed Mohammed Abu Arrar (14) at Rafah and Muin Abu
Lawi (38) near Nablus. Samir Abu Zaid and his 2 sons were killed
when their house was shelled in Rafah. Palestinians blamed Israeli
missiles, while the Israelis blamed Palestinian mortar rounds.
Israel later said Zaid and his children were killed by a bomb he was
making.
(SFC, 8/20/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 19, In Macedonia
government shelled the rebel-held village of Neprusteno for 4 hours.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 19, In Ukraine a
methane and coal dust explosion killed 55 miners at the Zasiadko
mine in the Donetsk region.
(SFC, 8/20/01, p.A9)(AP, 8/19/02)
2001 Aug 19, Soul singer Betty
Everett died in Beloit, Wis., at age 61.
(AP, 8/19/02)
2001 Aug 19, Donald Woods (67),
former South Africa Daily Dispatch editor and apartheid opponent,
died in Sutton, England.
(SFC, 8/20/01, p.A15)
2001 Aug 20, The US consumer
group Public Citizen petitioned the government to give warning
brochures to users of statins for reducing cholesterol due to some
associated deaths from muscle cell destruction, arhabdomyolysis.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A5)
2001 Aug 20, Four oil companies
(Chevron, Shell, Texaco and Unocal) agreed to clean up MTBE
contamination in California caused by leaking storage tanks. 4
others (ARCO, Exxon, Mobil and Tosco) declined to settle the suit.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A3)
2001 Aug 20, Near Sacramento,
Ca., Nikolay Soltys (27), a Ukrainian immigrant, stabbed to death
his pregnant wife and 4 other relatives including 2 young cousins.
He fled the area with his 3-year-old son. The body of Sergey Soltys
(3) was found the next day in a blood-soaked carton in Placer
County. Soltys was caught in his mother’s backyard near Sacramento
Aug 30. Soltys committed suicide Feb 13, 2002.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A1)(SFC,
8/31/01, p.A1)(SFC, 2/14/02, p.A17)
2001 Aug 20, Fred Hoyle (86),
astro-physicist, died in Bournemouth, England. He was a proponent of
the cosmological theory (1948) which holds that the universe has no
beginning and has always existed in a steady state. He coined the
term "Big Bang" but never accepted that theory for the origin of the
universe His science fiction books included "The Black Cloud" (1957)
and "Ossian’s Ride" (1958).
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.C2)(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.C4)(AP,
8/20/02)
2001 Aug 20, Actress Kim
Stanley (76) died in Santa Fe, N.M.
(AP, 8/20/02)
2001 Aug 20, In China Wu
Liangjie, an arrested Falun Gong member, died after falling from the
window of a police office in Baicheng, Jilin province.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 20, In Congo Pres.
Kabila met with his main rival leaders for the 1st time to establish
a transitional government and end 3 years of war.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 20, European monitors
in Hebron (TIPH) announced they would no longer patrol the city’s
Jewish enclave due to attacks by settlers.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 20, It was reported
that Vojvodina, a northern province of Serbia, was actively seeking
autonomy. The area is home to 2 million people representing 20
ethnic groups.
(SFC, 8/20/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 21, It was reported
that the US had given Russia an unofficial deadline of November to
agree to changes in the anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty or face a
unilateral US withdrawal. The State Dept. denied the ultimatum the
next day.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 21, The CIA placed
Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaf Alhazmi under suspicion as part of the
investigation in the bombing of the destroyer Cole in Yemen. The 2
were among the hijackers who commandeered the jet that hit the
Pentagon on Sep 11.
(SFC, 5/17/02, p.A19)
2001 Aug 21, The US Federal
Reserve announced another .25% lowering of the short-term federal
funds interest rate.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.C1)
2001 Aug 21, Federal
authorities working with McDonald's announced they had broken up a
criminal ring, 8 people nationwide, that allegedly rigged the
popular Monopoly and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" games played by
millions of the fast-food chain's customers over the previous six
years. $13 million had been illegally won by insider Jerome Jacobsen
(58), at Simon Marketing Inc. in LA.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A2)(AP, 8/21/02)
2001 Aug 21, It was reported
that nuclear waste researchers had developed a process,
pyroprocessing, to remove long term radioactive elements from waste
and transmute them to less radioactive elements.
(WSJ, 8/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 21, Robert Tools, the
first person to receive a self-contained artificial heart (Jul 2),
was introduced to the public at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky.,
through a video link from his doctor's office. Tools survived with
the device for 151 days, and died Nov. 30, 2001, of other health
problems.
(AP, 8/21/06)
2001 Aug 21, In Argentina it
was planned to begin the use of the patacon, a negotiable bond, as
legal tender in the Buenos Aires province. The IMF announced plans
to add $8 billion to a $14 billion rescue package.
(WSJ, 8/21/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Aug 21, It was reported
that Chinese authorities had removed Khenpo Jigme Phuntsog (68), a
Tibetan monk, from his Serthar religious academy in the Larung
valley of Sichuan province. The move was seen as an effort to reduce
the 6-7 thousand monks and nuns living in the area.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 21, Yasser Arafat
agreed to truce talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 21, In Macedonia a
14th century monastery, St. Atanasie and the Holy Virgin, in Lesok
was bombed. Each side blamed the other.
(SFC, 8/22/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 21, In Kosovo gunmen
killed 5 Albanians.
(WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 21, It was reported
that rebels in Sierra Leone were still mining diamonds using
conscripts and children. Sales were being made to middlemen who
smuggled the stones out of the country. The UN mandate to enforce a
cease-fire did not include enforcing a mining ban.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 21, Zimbabwe halted
beef exports as foot-and-mouth disease broke out in the latest
series of farm expropriations where militants released quarantined
cattle.
(WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 22, Sen. Jesse Helms
(79) of North Carolina confirmed that he would not seek re-election
next year.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 22, The space shuttle
Discovery returned and brought home 3 crew members, Yuri Usachev,
Susan Helms, and Jim Voss, who had spent nearly 6 months on the
Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 22, The All Species
Foundation announced that Brian Boom would head the 25-year project
for cataloguing every species.
(WSJ, 8/23/01, p.A4)
2001 Aug 22, Brazil moved to
produce a generic version of the anti-AIDS drug nelfinavir under
int’l. patent protection by Roche.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 22, In Chechnya
Russian troops claimed to have wounded rebel commander Shamil
Basayev and killed 35 of his fighters.
(WSJ, 8/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 22, Israeli forces
killed 7 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 22, NATO members gave
formal approval for alliance soldiers to collect weapons from
Albanian guerrillas in Macedonia.
(SFC, 8/23/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 23, Modesto Democratic
Rep. Gary Condit acknowledged on a TV interview with Connie Chung
that he had made mistakes but that he had nothing to do with the
disappearance of Chandra Levy.
(SFC, 8/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 23, Brian Regan (38),
retired US Air Force master sergeant and cryptanalyst, was arrested
by the FBI at Dulles Int’l. Airport on charges of spying. In 2002
Regan was accused of trying to spy for Iraq, Libya and China. On
February 20, 2003, Regan was found guilty of three charges of
attempted espionage including two counts of attempted espionage
related to attempts to sell information to Iraq and China, and one
count of gathering national defense information. He was acquitted of
attempting to provide US secrets to Libya. On March 20, 2003, Regan
was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
(http://cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Regan_1.htm)(SFC, 8/29/01,
p.A6)(WSJ, 2/15/02, p.A1)
2001 Aug 23, Thierry Devaux
(41), a French stuntman, got snagged on the Statue of Liberty arm
while trying to land there using a motor-driven parachute. He was
rescued and arrested.
(SFC, 8/24/01, p.A3)(AP, 8/23/02)
2001 Aug 23, Peter Maas,
novelist and non-fiction writer, died at age 72. His work included
"The Valachi Papers" (1969), "Serpico," "The King of Gypsies," and
"Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano’s Story of Life in the Mafia."
(SFC, 8/24/01, p.D7)
2001 Aug 23, Frank Emilio
Flynn, blind pianist and Latin jazz pioneer, died at age 80 in
Havana.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.C2)
2001 Aug 23, In Brazil
Francisco de Assis Santana (56), a Xukuru Indian leader aka Chico
Quele, was killed in an ambush near Pe de Serra in Penambuco state.
(SFC, 8/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 23, The Chinese
government reported that some 600,000 people have been infected with
AIDS with nearly as many from selling their blood as from sexual
contact.
(SFC, 8/24/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 23, In Colombia a
suspected ELN car bomb killed a woman and wounded over 20 people in
Marinilla. Separately 15-20 suspected ELN members were killed when
explosives in their truck went off in Santander state.
(SFC, 8/24/01, p.D2)
2001 Aug 23, Israeli forces
raided Palestinian neighborhoods in Hebron following the shooting of
2 young Jewish brothers. One Palestinian was reported killed and a
dozen wounded. In Gaza Israeli forces killed Mahmoud Zourab (11), a
Palestinian boy throwing stones.
(SFC, 8/24/01, p.A16)
2001 Aug 23, Japanese novelist
Ryu Murakami was featured in the WSJ and quoted to say: "Who cares
about fitting into the system? Think for yourself."
(WSJ, 8/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 23, NATO soldiers
streamed into Macedonia as part of a mission to help end 6 months of
ethnic hostilities by collecting and destroying rebel weapons.
(AP, 8/23/02)
2001 Aug 23, The Norwegian
government established the Abel Prize in mathematics in honor of the
Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829).
(www.abelprisen.no/en/abelprisen/historie.html)
2001 Aug 24, President Bush
blamed the slumping economy for the shrinking budget surplus, rather
than his tax cut, and said it was up to Congress to restrain
spending.
(AP, 8/24/02)
2001 Aug 24, Tom Green, a
Mormon fundamentalist with five wives and 30 children, was sentenced
by a court in Provo, Utah, to five years in prison in the state's
biggest polygamy case in nearly half a century.
(AP, 8/24/02)
2001 Aug 24,
Bridgestone/Firestone agreed to pay $7.5 million to the family of
Marisa Rodriguez, who was paralyzed in a Ford Explorer crash in
2000. Ford settled before the trial for $6 million.
(SFC, 8/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Aug 24, Pope Shenouda III,
the 117th successor of St. Mark and head of the 12-million member
Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church, was denied access to a site in
Marin, Ca., where a new monastery was planned.
(SFC, 8/25/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 24, Jane Greer, film
actress, died at age 76. Her close to 30 films included "Out of the
Past," a top noir prototype.
(AP, 8/24/02)(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A15)
2001 Aug 24, In Angola gunmen
fired a missile at a passenger bus near Malanje and sprayed it with
gunfire. At least 50 people, including women and children were
killed.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 24, In Macedonia
rebels agreed to hand over some 3,000 weapons. The government had
earlier charged that the rebels had 85,000 weapons.
(SFC, 8/25/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 24, Yugoslavia’s Pres.
Kostunica accused Serbia’s government of failure to tackle rising
crime and corruption.
(SFC, 8/25/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 25, Univ. of Chicago
doctors announced that they a kept a human kidney operating for 24
hours in a machine that simulated a warm human body.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 25, In the Bahamas 9
people were killed when a small plane crashed. Rhythm-and-blues
singer and actress Aaliyah Haughton (Aaliyeh, 22) was among the
dead.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A16)(SFC, 8/27/01, p.A16)(NW,
12/31/01, p.106)
2001 Aug 25, Police in Bogota,
Colombia, reported that they had found $35 million stashed in the
walls of 2 apartments, which had been used as private banks by the
North Valley Cartel.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A16)
2001 Aug 25, In Oslo, Norway,
Crown Prince Haakon (28) married Mette-Marit (28), a single mother
and former waitress.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A16)(AP, 8/25/02)
2001 Aug 25, Palestinian
commandoes killed an Israeli officer and 2 soldiers in a pre-dawn
raid in Bedolah, Gaza Strip. 2 commandoes of the Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade were killed a 1 escaped. Palestinian gunmen north of
Jerusalem killed 3 members of an Israeli family in a car ambush. 2
children were wounded.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 26, The Tokyo Kitasuna
beat Apopka, Fla., 2-1 to win the Little League championship in
South Williamsport, Pa.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2001 Aug 26, President Bush
admitted he was worried about the economy's "paltry" growth and,
without making promises, assured steel company executives and
workers that protecting domestic steel was a national security
priority.
(AP, 8/26/02)
2001 Aug 26, IBM computer
scientists reported that they had constructed a working logic
circuit within a single molecule of carbon fiber known as a carbon
nanotube.
(SSFC, 8/26/01, p.A20)(SFC, 8/27/01, p.D1)
2001 Aug 26, The San Francisco
Board of Supervisors proclaimed the City Lights Bookstore at 261
Columbus Ave. as Landmark No. 228.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_San_Francisco_Designated_Landmarks)(SSFC,
5/31/09, p.B2)
2001 cAug 26, In the French
Alps a hot-air balloon caught fire after apparently hitting a high
voltage wire and 6 people were killed.
(WSJ, 8/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 26, In Iran film
director Tahmineh Milani was arrested on charges of supporting
counterrevolutionary and armed opposition groups. A relative said it
was due to her stand on the clerical oppression of women.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 26, Israeli jets
flattened the Palestinian Gaza City police headquarters in
retaliation for the shooting ambush of a settler family. Other
Palestinian police buildings and checkpoints were bombed.
(SFC, 8/27/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 26, In Macedonia an
explosion at a hotel in Celopek killed 2 Macedonian Slavs.
(SFC, 8/27/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 26, In Taiwan Pres.
Chen Shui-bian endorsed an economic council’s proposals to expand
commercial ties with China.
(SFC, 8/27/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 27, The Bush
administration confirmed that Sec. of State Colin Powell would not
attend the UN conference on racism in Durban, South Africa.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 27, An unmanned US
reconnaissance aircraft, Predator, was reported shot down over
southern Iraq near Basra. In northern Iraq US planes attacked a
missile and Iraq claimed 1 civilian was killed.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A7)(WSJ, 8/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 27, Intel unveiled a
2-GHz Pentium 4 chip.
(SFC, 8/27/01, p.D1)
2001 Aug 27, Michael Dertouzos,
MIT computer scientist, died at age 64. His books included ""The
Unfinished Revolution: Human Centered Computers and What They Can Do
For Us." He also helped drive the creation of the WWW Consortium to
ensure uniformity on the Web.
(SFC, 8/31/01, p.A24)
2001 Aug 27, Australia denied
access to the Tampa, a Norwegian cargo ship carrying some 433
refugees, mostly from Afghanistan, who had been rescued from a
sinking Indonesian ferry.
(SFC, 8/29/01, p.A8)(Econ, 5/7/05, Survey p.13)
2001 Aug 27, In Belarus a
videotape was released that showed 2 men saying they were members of
the Belarus KGB and had shot to death 2 Lukashenko opponents in
Sep., 1999.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 27, Israeli
helicopters fired missiles into the offices of Mustafa Zibri, chief
of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in El Bireh.
Zibri was killed and thousands of Palestinians began protests.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 27, In Indonesia PM
Megawati reached an agreement with the IMF to restart a $5 billion
loan that was halted last Dec.
(WSJ, 8/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 27, In Macedonia NATO
troops began collecting rebel weapons and one British soldier was
killed when a suspected block of concrete was thrown at his vehicle
by Macedonian youths.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A6)(WSJ, 8/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 27, Peru's Congress
voted to lift the constitutional immunity of former President
Alberto Fujimori, so that prosecutors could charge him with crimes
against humanity.
(AP, 8/27/02)
2001 Aug 27, It was reported
that AIDS victims in Thailand were packing stadiums to receive V-1
Immunitor, a locally produced drug advertised as a clinically tested
oral AIDS vaccine. Salang Bunnag sponsored the giveaway directed at
Thailand’s 755,000 AIDS patients.
(SFC, 8/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 28, Gateway, the
nation's No. 4 manufacturer of personal computers, said it was
laying off 4,700 employees, 25% of its global work force, because of
an increasingly bleak market.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2001 Aug 28, Israeli force
occupied parts of Beit Jala in the West Bank.
(SFC, 8/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 29, George Rivas, the
ringleader of the biggest prison breakout in Texas history, was
sentenced to death for killing an Irving, Tx., policeman, Aubrey
Hawkins, while on the run.
(AP, 8/29/02)
2001 Aug 29, In Algiers a bomb
exploded in the Casbah and 34 people were injured.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 29, Australian
commandos seized the Norway cargo ship carrying 438 rescued refugees
after the captain defied orders not to enter Australian waters.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A12)
(AP, 9/1/01)
2001 Aug 29, In Colombia
Yolanda Paternina (50), a government prosecutor, was shot and killed
while returning home in Sincelejo. She had been investigating a
January paramilitary massacre and 2 of her colleagues were missing
since June.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A20)
2001 Aug 29, Japan launched a
domestically developed rocket with hopes of developing its
commercial satellite industry.
(WSJ, 8/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 29, Four Palestinians
and 1 Israeli were killed in ongoing violence.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 29, In Spain a Binter
Mediterraneo CN-235 airplane crash-landed near Malaga’s airport and
at least 3 of 47 people aboard were killed.
(WSJ, 8/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 29, In Sudan the UN
reported that 3,480 child soldiers had been sent back to their
southern homes following 6 months of retraining. 4,000 more children
were expected to transition out of the Sudan People’s Liberation
Army over the next 18 months.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A12)
2001 Aug 30, It was reported
that some 40,000 tax forms were destroyed or concealed at a
Pittsburgh processing center run by Mellon Bank.
(WSJ, 8/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 30, Nikolay Soltys was
captured hiding under a desk in his mother's back yard in Citrus
Heights, Calif., after a ten-day nationwide manhunt for the
Ukrainian immigrant accused of butchering six relatives. Soltys
committed suicide in his jail cell in February. [see Aug 20]
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)(AP, 8/30/02)
2001 Aug 30, In Iowa Leticia
Aguilar (31) was found dead with her 5 children at her home in Sioux
City. A 7th victim, Ronal Fish (58) was also found. Adam Matthew
Moss (24) was arrested the next day and charged in the murders. Moss
pleaded guilty on Sep 25 and was sentenced to 7 consecutive life
terms.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A4)(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C12)
2001 Aug 30, In Sao Paulo,
Brazil, Fernando Dutra Pinto (22) held Silvio Santos, TV tycoon,
hostage for 8 hours and then surrendered to police.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A5)(SFC, 8/31/01, p.D2)
2001 Aug 30, In Iran riots left
2 people dead in Sabzevar after the town failed to win
provincial-capital status.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 30, US warplanes
bombed an Iraqi radar site near Basra’s airport.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 30, In East Timor
elections were held for an 88-member assembly to write a
constitution. Voter turnout was estimated at 93% and the
Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor was expected to
win. Fretilin secured 55 0f 88 seats.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A5)(SFC,
8/31/01, p.A18)(SFC, 9/6/01, p.E4)
2001 Aug 30, Israeli forces
began pulling out of Beit Jala. 3 Palestinians were killed in gun
battles with Israeli troops. One Israeli was killed in a Palestinian
village in a restaurant that he helped a friend establish.
(SFC, 8/30/01, p.A1)(SFC, 8/31/01, p.A14)
2001 Aug 30, In Japan the
Nikkei fell to a 17-year low, 10,938, as the government reported
declines in industrial output and consumer spending.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.A5)
2001 Aug 30, In Macedonia NATO
troops suspended arms collections to await a parliamentary vote on
proceeding forward with the peace accord.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 30, In Mexico on the
Int’l. Day of the Disappeared relatives of some of the 500 people
who disappeared from 1970 to 2000 filed a criminal complaint against
the last 5 presidents.
(SFC, 8/31/01, p.D6)
2001 Aug 30, In South Africa
Govan Mbeki, the father of Pres. Thabo Mbeki, died at age 91. He
authored the book "South Africa: The Peasant’s Revolt" while
imprisoned on Robben Island.
(SFC, 8/31/01, p.A24)
2001 Aug 31, US CIA Director
George Tenet briefed Pres. Bush at the White House on day-to-day
threats facing the US. Tenet did not mention the Aug. 16 arrest of
Zacarias Moussaoui, an Islamic fundamentalist for overstaying a visa
after training on a Boeing 747 flight simulator.
(SSFC, 3/5/06, p.A18)
2001 Aug 31, Little League star
Danny Almonte's perfect game and his Bronx, N.Y., team's third-place
World Series finish were ruled invalid after officials in the
Dominican Republic, where Danny was born, determined he was 14 years
old, not 12.
(AP, 8/31/02)
2001 Aug 31, It was reported
that scientists at Lucent Tech. achieved superconductivity with
carbon-60 (buckyballs) at minus 249 degrees by combining the carbon
molecules with compounds of chloroform and bromoform.
(SFC, 8/31/01, p.B3)
2001 Aug 31, In Montana a
helicopter assigned to the 25,500-acre Fridley fire crashed and 3
crewmen were killed.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.D1)
2001 Aug 31, In Saudi Arabia
Prince Turki al-Faisal resigned as head of the General Intelligence
Directorate and Prince Nawwaf took over.
(WSJ, 10/22/01, p.A18)
2001 Aug 31, Brazil withdrew
its threat to make a generic version of the Nelfinavir AIDS drug
after Roche Pharmaceuticals agreed to produce the drug locally and
cut the price by 40% next year.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A7)
2001 Aug 31, Israeli troops
battled Palestinian gunmen and 19 Palestinians were wounded.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 31, Ministers of New
Zealand and Nauru announced that they would take the Afghanistan
asylum seekers stranded in Australian waters.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 31, In Thailand
officials reported that AIDS accounted for 16% of all deaths in
1998.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 31, The UN World
Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and
Related Intolerance began in Durban, South Africa. Yasser Arafat
accused Israel of "racist practices" against the Palestinian people.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A1)(AP, 8/31/02)
2001 Aug, Alan Brian Bond, one
of the 1st African Americans to become established as a money
manager, was indicted for a 2nd time, this time on charges that he
cherry picked over $50 million in unprofitable trades to client
accounts and profitable ones to his own account. In 1999 he was
indicted and charged with taking $6.9 million in a kickback.
(SFC, 5/17/02, p.C1)
2001 Aug, Gary Padgham (50), an
elk hunter from Bozeman, Montana, died in Monterey, Ca., with
symptoms similar to mad cow disease. Seattle doctors had diagnosed
him with Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD).
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A13)
2001 Aug, In Turkey Erdogan
formed the Justice and Development Party with former Virtue members.
(AP, 11/4/02)
2001 Sep 1, The Los Angeles
Sparks won the WNBA championship, defeating the Charlotte Sting
82-to-54.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2001 Sep 1, The US issued a 34
cent stamp featuring Arabic calligraphy that says "Eid Mubarek," a
greeting used to celebrate the 2 holiest Islamic holidays, Aid
al-Fitr for the end of Ramadan fasting, and Eid al-Adha for the end
of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 1, Anthony Romero (36)
assumed the office of executive director for the ACLU, the 1st
Latino and openly gay man to head the organization.
(SFC, 3/11/02, p.A3)
2001 Sep 1, Scientists gathered
in the French Alps to discuss a medicine called ivermectine given to
livestock to protect them from parasites. Dung from the animals was
toxic and virtually indestructible and threatened the survival of
insects, birds and bats.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 1, In Angola gunmen
ambushed 2 passenger buses 185 miles south of Luanda, sprayed them
with gunfire and ransacked them. 38 people were killed.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 1, In Gaza Col. Tayser
Khattab (52), Palestinian intelligence aide, was killed by a car
bomb. Near Tulkarem a Palestinian woman (22) was killed from a blast
in a taxi.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 1, In Russia Pres.
Putin promised to double salaries for teachers as children began
school on "Knowledge Day." Current pay was about $35 per month.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 1, In Tokyo, Japan, an
early morning explosion in a mah-jongg parlor killed at least 44
people. The Kabukicho district building was crammed with sex clubs
and gambling parlors.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A6)(SFC, 11/16/01, p.E6)
2001 Sep 1, In Durban, South
Africa, a variety of African leaders at the UN World Conference
Against Racism demanded apologies, and in some cases financial
reparations, from Western countries that benefited from slavery and
colonization of African countries for over 3 centuries. Activists at
the conference developed a strategy, later known as “BDS,” that
included boycotts, divestments and sanctions, to push their agenda.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A12)(Econ, 9/15/07, p.74)
2001 Sep 2, The Nevada Burning
Man festival came to a close. Also burned was "The Mausoleum," a
plywood temple built over several weeks and dedicated to the dead.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.B3)
2001 Sep 2, Dr. Christiaan
Barnard (b.1922), South African cardiologist, died in Paphos,
Cyprus. He performed the world’s 1st human heart transplant in 1967,
authored a distinguished text on cardiology, a scandalous
autobiography and 4 minor novels.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A15)(AP, 9/2/02)(NW, 12/31/01,
p.111)
2001 Sep 2, Troy Donahue (65),
a one-time teen movie idol, died in Santa Monica, California.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A15)(AP, 9/2/02)
2001 Sep 2, In Virginia David
Peltier (10) died from a shark attack at Virginia Beach.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 2, In Colombia Ramiro
Carranza, director of the foreign branch of the secret police (DAS),
was abducted near Quetame.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 2, The 2nd annual
European Day of Jewish Culture was set in 23 European countries.
(SSFC, 8/19/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 2, North Korea
announced a desire to reopen stalled peace talks with South Korea.
(SFC, 9/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 2, Namibia confirmed
that it had pulled all its troops from all of Congo except the
capital. Uganda said it had pulled 6 of 10 battalions.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 2, In the Seychelles
voting ended. Pres. France Albert Rene won another 5 year term.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 3, St. Louis Cardinals
pitcher Bud Smith became the 16th rookie in modern history to throw
a no-hitter, shutting down San Diego in a 4-0 win.
(AP, 9/3/02)
2001 Sep 3, Four days into a
world conference against racism, the United States and Israel walked
out of the U.N. meeting in South Africa, accusing Arab nations of
hijacking the summit as a platform to embarrass the Jewish state.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/3/02)
2001 Sep 3, Hewlett-Packard
announced plans to buy Compaq Computer in a $25 billion stock swap.
The bid was expected to eliminate as many as 15,000 jobs.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A1)(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 3, FBI snipers shot
and killed Grover T. Crosslin (47) at his Rainbow Farms campground
in Vandalia, Mich., following a 4-day standoff. Crosslin was burning
buildings on his property, which was the target of civil forfeiture
proceedings. In 2006 Dean Kuipers authored “Burning Rainbow Farm:
How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke.”
(http://cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17211.shtml)(SSFC, 7/23/06,
p.M3)
2001 Sep 3, In North Carolina a
man died from a shark attack off the Outer Banks.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 3, Pauline Kael (82),
film critic, died in Great Barrington, Mass. Her first 1953 movie
review was published in City Lights, a small SF magazine.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A16)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D5)(AP,
9/3/02)
2001 Sep 3, In Chechnya an
explosion tore through the headquarters of the Russian-backed
government during a Cabinet meeting. One woman was killed.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 3, It was reported
that scientists at the Max Planck Inst. for Biochemistry in Germany
had affixed snail neurons to transistor chips and demonstrated
communication.
(SFC, 9/3/01, p.A4)
2001 Sep 3, In France COGEMA, a
state-owned uranium mining and fuel recycling firm led by Anne
Lauvergeon, became Areva following its merger with Framatome, a
maker of nuclear reactors.
(www.freebase.com/view/en/areva)(Econ, 5/9/09,
p.70)
2001 Sep 3, In Jerusalem 4
bombs exploded on the streets and Israelis fired missiles into a
Palestinian security building. Two Palestinians were killed during
fighting in Hebron. In Jerusalem a suicide bomber, dressed as an
Orthodox Jew, blew himself up on the Street of the Prophets.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A8)(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 3, The Mexican
government announced the expropriation of 27 of 60 privately owned
sugar mills from some $110 million. All were on the brink of
bankruptcy.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 3, In Northern Ireland
rioting broke out after Protestants screamed abuse and threw bottles
at Catholic girls walking to Holy Cross Primary School through their
Glenbryn-Ardoyne neighborhood. The 12-week protests ended Nov 24.
(WSJ, 9/4/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 3, In Sierra Leone
Pres. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah shook hands with RUF Gen. Issa Sesay in
Koidu and declared himself convinced that the war was over.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 3, In South Korea the
National Assembly passed a no confidence vote on Unification
Minister Lim Dong Won, the chief architect of the "sunshine policy"
towards North Korea, for being too conciliatory toward the North.
(WSJ, 9/5/01, p.C1)
2001 Sep 4, President Bush
opened the door to a future cut in the capital gains tax, but said
he first wanted to see the effects of the previous spring's income
tax cut.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, Texas Republican
Phil Gramm announced he would leave the U.S. Senate at the end of
his third term, following fellow conservatives Jesse Helms and Strom
Thurmond into retirement.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, The US and Mexico
agreed on small measures to improve food safety, enhance law
enforcement and fight money laundering as Pres. Fox came to visit
with Pres. Bush.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 4, Police shot and
killed Rolland Rohm (28) at the Rainbow Farms campground in
Vandalia, Mich., after he allegedly pointed a weapon at an officer.
The campground had been set up for marijuana advocates. Owner Grover
T. Crosslin was killed by FBI snipers a day earlier.
(SFC, 9/5/01,
p.A5)(http://cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17211.shtml)
2001 Sep 4, In the Bahamas a
fire destroyed Bay Street businesses in Nassau’s Straw Market.
(WSJ, 9/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 5, Mexican President
Vicente Fox arrived at the White House as the first state visitor of
the Bush presidency. Fox told Pres. Bush that he would like a
sweeping immigration settlement by the end of the year.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/5/02)
2001 Sep 5, A SF federal
appeals court ruled that prisoners have a constitutional right to
reproduce. This opened the door for fatherhood via artificial
insemination for those prisoners denied conjugal visits.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 5, Heywood Hale Broun
(83), sports commentator, died in Kingston, N.Y.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2001 Sep 5, In Northern Ireland
Protestant extremists threw a homemade bomb at Catholic girls
walking to school through a gauntlet of riot police. 2 police
officers were wounded. The paramilitary Red Hand Defenders took
responsibility.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 5, In Mexico Maria de
los Angeles Tames, attorney and daughter of a former senator, was
killed. On Mar 5, 2002, Juan Antonio Dominguez, mayor of Atizapan,
was arrested in connection with the slaying of the city council
member, who had planned to reveal evidence of corruption and drug
trafficking. On Apr 10, 2002 Dominguez and his former chief of staff
Daniel Garcia were charged with masterminding the murder.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 4/12/02, p.A1)
2001 Sep 5, In Peru the
attorney general filed homicide charges against former Pres.
Fujimori (who was living in self-exile in Japan), linking him to 2
massacres by the Colina group, paramilitary death squads, in the
early 1990s.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A8)(AP, 9/5/02)
2001 Sep 5, In South Africa a
fire killed at least 19 people at Kruger National Park. 15 of the
dead were women hired to cut grass.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.E5)
2001 Sep 6, In SF Barry Bonds
became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a
season, connecting in the second inning of San Francisco's game
against Arizona.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/6/02)
2001 Sep 6, The NFL referees'
union rejected the league's latest contract offer and replacement
officials worked the opening weekend of the regular season.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2001 Sep 6, Pres. Bush named
John Danforth as a special envoy to broker a peace agreement in
Sudan’s civil war.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 6, In a dramatic
shift, the Bush administration abandoned the Clinton-era effort to
break up Microsoft. The US Justice Dept. and 18 states dropped
efforts to breakup Microsoft Corp.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/6/02)
2001 Sep 6, The US Senate
passed a deadline extension for illegal immigrants to apply for
visas.
(WSJ, 9/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 6, Scott Stoll (38)
and Dennis Snader (36) set off from San Francisco on a bicycle
journey that aimed to cover 24,901.55 miles, equal to the
circumference of the Earth. After 3+ years Stoll completed 25,752
miles across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and
Africa. Stoll ended his adventure on the southern tip of South
Africa on October 24, 2004. The Milwaukee native returned to
Waukesha where he grew up and his parents still live.
(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.F3)(www.theargonauts.com)
2001 Sep 6, Mexican President
Vicente Fox addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress, urging
greater trust between the neighboring countries as the basis for "a
new partnership in North America."
(AP, 9/6/02)
2001 Sep 6, Jack Welch, CEO of
General Electric, turned over the leadership to Jeffrey Immelt.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.B9)
2001 Sep 6, In Afghanistan the
Taliban jailed 35 more people working for a Christian aid
organization.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 6, Britain announced
that it would wrap up its mission in Sierra Leone by the end of the
month.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 6, In Colombia gunmen
killed a congressman who headed a peace commission.
(WSJ, 9/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 6, Ethiopia banned the
Ethiopian Women’s Lawyers Assoc. The group had organized a Feb.
march of some 1,000 women to the office of PM Meles Zenawi and
parliament to protest domestic violence.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 6, In Indonesia gunmen
killed the rector of the biggest university in Aceh province.
(WSJ, 9/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 6, Israel’s PM Sharon
said he was considering a buffer zone to foil terrorists. Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres said he would meet with Yasser Arafat next
week. Israeli gunships killed 2 Palestinian men. In an apparent
reprisal an Israeli soldier was shot dead and an Israeli woman
seriously wounded along the "green line."
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 6, North and South
Korea agreed to resume talks next week.
(SFC, 9/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 6, In Zimbabwe Foreign
Minister Stan Mudenge pledged to abide by a brokered deal to stop
violent takeovers of white-owned farms. The government agreed to
"restore the rule of law to the process of land reform."
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 7, The final "Mister
Rogers’ Neighborhood" TV show aired as Fred Rogers (72) retired.
(SFC, 8/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 7, Venus Williams and
Serena Williams reached the finals of the U.S. Open, becoming the
first sisters to play for a Grand Slam championship in more than 100
years.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2001 Sep 7, The White House
budget chief warned top congressional Republicans the Social
Security surplus was on track to be tapped for other programs,
prompting a hastily called meeting to discuss ways of avoiding that
politically perilous scenario.
(AP, 9/7/02)
2001 Sep 7, The US State Dept.
issued a memo that warned Americans "may be the target of a
terrorist threat."
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A13)
2001 Sep 7, The US jobless rate
for August was reported with a rise of .4%. The DJIA fell 235 to
9,605. The Nasdaq ended at 1,687.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 7, In Miami 13 current
and former police officers were indicted for planting evidence,
coverups and multiple cases of misconduct from the mid 1990s. More
indictments were expected.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 7, Fabio Ochoa, former
leader of the Medellin cartel, was extradited from Colombia to the
US to stand trial for shipping cocaine to the US.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 7, Australia
intercepted a boat with 200 migrants and put them on the same ship
taking 433 Afghans to Papua New Guinea.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Sep 7, In Gaza City Yasser
Arafat was reported to be in discussions with Hamas on a
power-sharing proposal.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 7, In Nigeria violence
between Christians and Muslims erupted in Jos. Pres. Obasanjo called
out the military the next day with dozens dead. Thousands fled the
area and at least 70 people were killed.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 9/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 7, In South Africa the
UN Conference on Racism went into overtime and agreed on a deal. The
conference acknowledged that slavery and the salve trade were crimes
against humanity, expressed an apology and offered a package of
economic assistance to Africa. A deal on the Middle East was not yet
reached.
(SFC, 9/8/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 8, Venus Williams won
her second consecutive U.S. Open title by beating her sister Serena
6-2, 6-4 in the first prime-time women's Grand Slam final.
(AP, 9/8/02)
2001 Sep 8, In San Francisco a
ceremony marked the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace with
Japan.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 8, In Afghanistan 8
foreigners arrested for preaching Christianity appeared in an
Islamic court for the 1st time.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 8, In Colombia police
arrested 4 FARC guerrillas who allegedly planned to kill
presidential candidate Alvaro Uribe.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A17)
2001 Sep 8, In Kanpur, India,
some 6,000 Dalits, converted to Buddhism.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 8, In Indonesia Pres.
Megawati Sukarnoputri visited Banda Aceh and apologized for past
government mistakes. She urged residents to welcome new laws
granting the region its own legal system and a greater share of the
oil income.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 8, Israeli helicopters
fired missiles at offices of the Fatah in Ramallah. Palestinian
police said a 13-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire n Rafah.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 8, In Serbia 26
unidentified bodies were exhumed from a site near Lake Perucac. They
were believed to be bodies of ethnic Albanians from the 1999
crackdown in Kosovo.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 8, In South Africa the
UN World Conference on Racism ended and agreed to condemn the
"barbarism" of the slave trade, proposed an aid package for Africa,
recognized Palestinian rights and Israeli security concerns, opposed
bias against ethnic minorities, refugees, indigenous peoples and
women.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 8, In Zimbabwe
militants seized the Logan Lee farm in Beatrice.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 9, Barry Bonds of the
San Francisco Giants hit three home runs against the Colorado
Rockies to give him 63 for the season, passing Roger Maris'
once-magical mark and moving him closer to Mark McGwire's record.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2001 Sep 9, Leyton Hewitt ran
down Pete Sampras to earn his first Grand Slam title, 7-6 (4), 6-1,
6-1 at the U.S. Open.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2001 Sep 9, The US pulled out
of the World Conference Against Racism objecting to hateful language
in a preliminary declaration.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D5)
2001 Sep 9, In Sacramento
Joseph Ferguson (20), a suspended security guard, killed a 5th
victim in 24 hrs. He shot himself to death the next day following a
police chase and shootout that injured 2.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 9, In Afghanistan
Ahmed Shah Masood (48), the opposition leader (Lion of Panjshir),
was injured and a close aide killed from an explosion triggered by
agents posing as journalists. Massood died shortly after the
explosion.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 9, Najwa bin laden
left her husband, Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan and returned to
her native Syria, taking with her a son and her two youngest
daughters. Eman, Omar's sister, was left behind with her father and
siblings. Omar bin Laden (20) had left the family and Afghanistan
earlier in the year.
(AP, 1/6/10)
2001 Sep 9, In Belarus
presidential elections were held. Pres. Lukashenko won with 75.6% of
the vote. There were widespread allegations of fraud and abuse.
Opposition leader Vladimir Goncharik won 15.4%.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A14)(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B1)(SFC,
9/11/01, p.B3)
2001 Sep 9, It was reported
that some 3,000 people had been executed in China since Pres. Zemin
announced a crackdown in April.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 9, EU foreign
ministers agreed on the need for a new int’l. military force to
provide security in Macedonia after NATO withdrawal.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 9, In Nahariya,
Israel, an Israeli Arab, Muhammad Saker Habashi (55), killed himself
and 3 others in a suicide bombing. At least 71 other people were
wounded. 4 other people were killed in the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 9, In Damak, Nepal, a
Bhutanese leader, R.K. Budhathoki, was attacked and killed with
khukris, the traditional Nepalese curved knives.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 9, In the UAR Mustafa
Ahmed al Hissawi, an associate of Osama bin Laden, retrieved about
$5,000 sent by Marwan al Shehhi, a UAE citizen believed to be the
Sep 11 pilot of US Flight 175.
(WSJ, 11/2/01, p.A13)
2001 Sep 10, The Bush
administration designated the Colombian paramilitary group, the
United Self-Defense Forces (AUC), as a terrorist group.
(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 10, Attorney General
John Ashcroft rejected a proposed $58 million increase in FBI
financing for counter-terrorism programs.
(SFC, 6/1/02, p.A1)
2001 Sep 10, The UN Security
Council ended an arms embargo against Yugoslavia.
(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B3)
2001 Sep 10, Secretary of State
Colin Powell arrived in Lima, Peru, to attend an Organization of
American States foreign ministers meeting.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2001 Sep 10, In Fiji Pres.
Iloilo swore in banker Laisenia Qarase as prime minister.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 10, Iraq said it shot
down a 2nd US spy plane. The US reported an unmanned plane missing.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C3)
2001 Sep 10, Israeli forces and
Palestinians exchanged gunfire in Jenin and Gaza and 3 Palestinians
were killed.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C3)
2001 Sep 10, In Japan the
government reported that a dairy cow had tested positive for mad-cow
disease. It was the 1st instance of the disease in Asian animals.
(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 10, The Nikkei closed
at 10195, the lowest point since Aug 1984.
(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A19)
2001 Sep 10, In Norway
parliamentary elections no party received a majority. The ruling
Labor Party had its worst showing in decades. Labor won 24% of the
vote, its worst showing since 1924 as voters rejected the high-tax
funded social welfare system.
(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A1)(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 10, In Switzerland
nurse Roger Andermatt (32) was reported to have confessed to killing
of 27 elderly and ailing patients over a 6-year period (1995-2001).
In 2005 he was sentenced to life in prison for killing 22 elderly
nursing home residents.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C4)(AP, 1/28/05)
2001 Sep 10, In Turkey a
Marxist militant suicide bomber, Ugur Bulbul, killed himself and 3
others, including an Australian woman and 2 policemen near
Istanbul’s historic Taksim Square. 21 were injured. Bulbul was
released from prison 6 months earlier for membership in the banned
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front, a Marxist group, that
later claimed responsibility.
(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A1)(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B3)(SFC,
9/12/01, p.C4)(AP, 9/10/02)
2001 Sep 11, Two planes left
Boston’s Logan Airport. Both planes were hijacked and flown into the
twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. In the same
morning, another plane left Dulles International Airport in
Virginia. It was hijacked, turned around and flown into the Pentagon
building. A fourth plane from Newark Airport in New Jersey was
hijacked and steered back toward Washington, D.C. It crashed
in rural Pennsylvania after people on board tried to stop the
hijackers. Four groups of terrorists used knives, hijacked 4
airplanes, and were linked to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda
organization. The terrorist attacks threatened to prompt a global
recession. Thousands of people were stranded and air cargo was
paralyzed as the FAA grounded all US flights.
(http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/)
8:45 am EST: American Airlines Flight 11, a
Boeing 767 carrying 92 people, crashed into the North tower of the
World Trade Center in NYC. It was enroute from Boston to LA.
9:03 am EST: United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing
767 carrying 65 people, crashed into the South Tower of the WTC. It
was enroute from Boston to LA.
9:38 am EST: American Airlines Flight 77, a
Boeing 757 carrying 64 people, crashed into the Pentagon in
Arlington, Va. It was enroute from Washington DC to LA.
9:40 am EST The FAA grounded all domestic flights
and ordered all airborne craft to land immediately.
9:43 am EST: American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 carrying 64
people, crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. It was
enroute from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, California
10:00 am EST The South Tower of the WTC
collapsed.
10:10 am United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757
carrying 45 people, crashed southeast of Pittsburgh. The plane had
left Newark for SF but was believed to be directed by hijackers to
Camp David. Passengers appeared to have overcome the hijackers. In
2002 it was reported that Congress was the target.
10:29 am EST The North Tower of the WTC
collapsed.
1:04 pm EST: President George W. Bush puts the U.S. military on
“high alert.”
5:25 pm EST: Building 7 of the WTC complex
collapsed in 6.5 seconds. (www.AE911truth.org)
8:30 pm EST: President George W. Bush, in a televised address, vowed
to find those responsible for the attacks.
In 2005 NYC said it was unable to identify the
remains of 1,161 of the 2,749 people killed in the Sep 11 attacks.
The ultimate death toll would be: 2,797 at the World Trade Center
Towers, 189 killed at the Pentagon and 44 died in Pennsylvania … a
total of 3,030.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A6,10,12)(WSJ, 9/12/01,
p.A1)(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A6)(WSJ, 9/12/01, p.A1,3) (WSJ, 2/24/05, p.A1)
2001 Sep 11, Rick Rescorla,
security chief at Morgan Stanley, evacuated 2,700 MS employees from
the WTC and was killed trying to save others. In 2002 James B.
Stewart authored "Heart of a Soldier," a biography of Rescorla.
(WSJ, 9/11/02, p.D10)
2001 Sep 11, World leaders
expressed outrage at terrorist attacks in NYC and the Pentagon and
pledged solidarity with the US. In the West Bank town of Nablus,
some 3,000 people celebrated the attacks and chanted "God is great."
Later the estimates of the WTC dead dropped to 4,396. In 2004 the
count was reduced to 2,749.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/21/01, p.A2)(USAT, 10/30/03, p.7A)(WSJ, 1/26/04,
p.A1)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1M4eH9Kk7I)
2001 Sep 11, Peter Alderman
(25) was among those murdered by terrorists while attending a
conference at the World Trade Center. His parents later established
the Peter C. Alderman Foundation in his name to alleviate the
suffering of victims of terrorism and mass violence in post-conflict
countries by providing physicians and other indigenous caregivers
with the tools to treat mental anguish using Western medical
therapies combined with local healing traditions.
(www.petercaldermanfoundation.org/about/index.html)
2001 Sep 11, In Afghanistan
explosions resounded north of Kabul near the airport just hours
following terrorist attacks in the US.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Sep 11, Israeli tanks
moved into Jenin and tore down the Palestinian police headquarters.
This prompted fighting that killed 2 Palestinians.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C3)(WSJ, 9/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 11, The UAR emirate of
Ras al Khaimah was drawn into the international fallout as the
birthplace of hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi, who flew United flight 175
into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
(AP, 10/27/10)
2001 Sep 12, Pres. Bush called
Tuesday’s terrorist attacks "acts of war." Stunned rescue workers
continued to search for bodies in the World Trade Center's smoking
rubble a day after a terrorist attack that shut down the financial
capital, badly damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. The US
began building a broad int’l. coalition for a possible military
retaliation against those responsible for the terrorist attacks on
Sep 11. Federal authorities said followers of Osama bin Laden were
responsible for airline hijackings directed at NYC and the Pentagon.
The US air system remained grounded and financial markets closed.
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.A1,16)(AP, 9/12/02)
2001 Sep 12, The FAA gave
airlines a 3-page security directive to guard against further
terrorist attacks. It included a ban on curbside checking and
effectively eliminated the jobs of thousands of skycaps.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 12, In Afghanistan
Mohammad Omar, the Taliban leader, went into hiding. The Taliban
military repositioned weaponry in anticipation of a US strike.
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 12, An Israeli woman
was killed by a Palestinian shooting ambush in the West Bank.
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 12, In Mexico a
twin-engine LET 410 plane crashed in the Yucatan and all 19 people
aboard were killed. The 16 passengers were all Seattle-area tourists
on a Holland America cruise.
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.C3)(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A32)
2001 Sep 12, In Nigeria
fighting resumed in Jos and the death toll estimate was raised to
165. Police moved to quell the violence.
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.C2)
2001 Sep 13, "Urinetown" was
scheduled to open on Broadway. It was written by Greg Kotis and Mark
Hollman and closed Jan 18, 2004 after 965 performances.
(SFC, 7/3/03, p.E1)(SFC, 11/4/03, p.D6)
2001 Sep 13, Pres. Bush asked
Congress for powers to wage war against an unidentified enemy. Bush
prayed with his Cabinet and attended services at Washington National
Cathedral, then flew to New York, where he waded into the ruins of
the World Trade Center and addressed rescue workers over a bullhorn
in a flag-waving show of resolve. Officials announced the Pentagon
would call up as many as 50,000 members of the National Guard and
Reserve.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 13, The US requested
that Pakistan grant air and land space for military actions in
Afghanistan. US Special Forces arrived in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 9/14/01, p.A1)(NW, 8/26/02, p.38)
2001 Sep 13, The data flight
recorder for United Flight 93 was found at the Pennsylvania crash
site. 18 hijackers were identified as ticketed passengers in the Sep
11 terrorist attack.
(WSJ, 9/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 13, A graphic list of
the companies that operated in the NYC WTC was published.
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.D8)
2001 Sep 13, US airports opened
with limited service under heavy security. Private planes were still
grounded.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/1/04, p.A4)
2001 Sep 13, A private Lear jet
with 3 Saudi passengers flew from Tampa, Fla., to Lexington, Ky., as
part of an effort to help prominent Saudis, who feared reprisals
over the Sep 11 attack by al-Qaida in NYC.
(WSJ, 6/1/04, p.A1)
2001 Sep 13, In Utah Amtrak’s
California Zephyr train crashed into a freight train near the Nevada
border. 6 people were injured.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A23)
2001 Sep 13, In Estonia the
death toll from tainted alcohol, consumed in or near the seaside
resort of Parnu, rose to 51. At least 85 more remained hospitalized
and methanol was blamed.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A32)
2001 Sep 13, An Indonesian boat
with 129 people, mostly from Iraq, refused to change course and
landed at Australia’s Ashmore Reef. The UN issued Australia a
warning that it could be breaching its int’l. obligations toward
refugees by mounting a blockade.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A32)
2001 Sep 13, Israeli forces
entered Jenin and Jericho and Palestinian officials reported that 10
people were killed.
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 13, Peru issued an
int’l. arrest warrant for former Pres. Alberto Fujimori on charges
that he shared responsibility for 25 death-squad slayings in the
early years of his rule.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A32)
2001 Sep 14, Pres. Bush
declared a national emergency and summoned as many as 50,000
military reservists. Congress approved nearly $40 billion and gave
Pres. Bush war powers ok. The number of hijackers involved in the
Sep 11 attacks was raised from 18 to 19 and their names were made
public.
(SFC, 9/15/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 14, Passenger lists
were published for the 4 airplanes that were hijacked and crashed by
terrorists on Sep 11.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 14, A Palestinian
attack wounded 2 Israeli policemen.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.A28)
2001 Sep 14-24, Six chartered
flights carrying mostly Saudi nationals departed from the US. [see
Sep 20]
(WSJ, 6/1/04, p.A4)
2001 Sep 15, Pres. Bush stated:
“We are planning a broad and sustained campaign to secure our
country and eradicate the evil or terrorism.” Bush ordered US troops
to get ready for war and braced Americans for a long, difficult
assault against terrorists to avenge the Sept. 11 attacks. US
Congress approved a resolution authorizing Bush to use “all
necessary and appropriated force” against anyone associated with the
9/11 terrorist attacks.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/15/06)(SSFC, 3/16/08,
p.A8)
2001 Sep 15, In Mesa, Arizona,
Balbir Singh Sodhi, an Indian immigrant gas station owner, was shot
to death. A Lebanese clerk was targeted but not injured. Police
later arrested Frank Roque (42) for 2 shootings but not the 1st
murder. Roque was convicted of murder Sep 30, 2003.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.A8)(SFC, 9/29/03, p.A3)
2001 Sep 15, Continental
Airlines said it would immediately furlough 12,000 of 56,000
workers. Total air carrier capacity was expected to shrink 20%.
(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 15, In Texas 4 barges
smashed into the Queen Isabella Causeway between South Padre Island
and the mainland. At least 5 people were killed.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.A28)(SFC, 9/17/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 15, Fred De Cordova
(90), executive producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny
Carson," died in Woodland Hills, Calif.
(AP, 9/15/02)
2001 Sep 15, As many as 300,000
Afghans reportedly had fled Kandahar in fear of US air strikes
against their Taliban rulers who were harboring Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.A8)(AP, 9/15/02)
2001 Sep 15, Iran ordered its
security forces to seal off its 560-mile border with Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 15, Gunfire between
Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza and Jerusalem left 3 Palestinians
dead and 2 Israelis wounded.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.A28)
2001 Sep 15, North and South
Korea began a 4-day series of meetings.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.A28)
2001 Sep 15, Pakistan agreed to
close its border with Afghanistan and pledged full support to combat
int’l. terrorism.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 15, In Zimbabwe 2
ruling party militants were killed during clashes with workers on
the Bibby family farm. John Bibby (70) was arrested the next day as
an accessory to the murders.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 16, President George
W. Bush pledged a crusade against terrorists, saying there was "no
question" Osama bin Laden was the "prime suspect" in the Sept. 11
attack. US officials warned that the new war on terrorism will be a
long, often secret and a "dirty" contest.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/16/02)
2001 Sep 16, Eight
cross-country runners from the University of Wyoming were killed
when their sport utility vehicle collided head-on with a pickup
truck that had swerved into their lane.
(AP, 9/16/02)
2001 Sep 16, Samuel Z. Arkoff
(83), movie producer died in Burbank, Calif.
(AP, 9/16/02)
2001 Sep 16, Israeli forces
invaded Palestinian territory at Ramallah. One Israeli soldier and 1
Palestinian security officer were killed. Many people were wounded.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 16, Pakistan told
Afghanistan to surrender Osama bin Laden within 3 days or face
almost certain military action.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 16, A Russian module
docked with space station Alpha 2 days after its launch from
Kazakstan.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 16, In Sri Lanka Tamil
rebels in about 20 boats attacked a ship with 1,200 Sri Lankan
soldiers and killed at least 11. 12 soldiers were missing and 15
rebels were reported killed.
(SFC, 9/17/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 17, President Bush
said the United States wanted terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden
"dead or alive." President Bush visited a mosque in Washington as he
appealed to Americans to get back to everyday business and not turn
against their Muslim neighbors.
(AP, 9/17/02)
2001 Sep 17, The US Federal
Reserve cut interest rates by .5% to 3%. The discount rate at 2.5%
reached its lowest point level since 1959.
(WSJ, 9/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 17, Six days after
9/11, stock prices nose-dived but stopped short of collapse in an
emotional, flag-waving reopening of Wall Street. The DJIA fell
684.81 to 8,920.70. The Nasdaq fell 115 to 1,579.
(WSJ, 9/18/01, p.A1)(SFC, 9/18/01, p.A1)(AP,
9/17/06)
2001 Sep 17, "The Late Show
with David Letterman" returned to CBS with guests Dan Rather and
Regis Philbin.
(AP, 9/17/02)
2001 Sep 17, In Afghanistan
Islamic clerics demanded proof from the US that Osama bin Laden was
responsible for the Sep 11 terrorist attacks. They also requested
that the Organization of Islamic Conference, a group of over 50
Muslim countries, make a formal demand for bin Laden’s handover.
(SFC, 9/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 17, In Chechnya rebels
shot down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter. 2 generals and 8 colonels were
killed. An attack at Gudermes left 10 Russian soldiers dead. 15
rebels were reported killed.
(SFC, 9/18/01, p.B10)
2001 Sep 17, Macedonia approved
the deployment of a modest NATO security force.
(WSJ, 9/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 17, Pakistan virtually
shut down its 1,560-mile border with Afghanistan. Some 1.2 million
Afghan refugees in the North-West Frontier Province were confined to
dozens of camps in the region.
(SFC, 9/18/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 17, Yasser Arafat
ordered his forces to observe a cease-fire as Israel began to
observe its Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana. In clashes 1 Palestinian
was killed and 15 wounded, while 4 Israelis were wounded.
(SFC, 9/18/01, p.B10)
2001 Sep 17, In South Korea
negotiators for the North and South concluded 2 days of talks and
agreed on an exchange of family visits. The North agreed to soon
begin construction on its side of a railroad to link the 2 sides.
(SFC, 9/18/01, p.B10)
2001 Sep 17, In Taiwan tropical
storm Nari flooded Taipei and other cities. At least 66 people were
killed.
(WSJ, 9/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 18, A week after the
Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush said he hoped to "rally
the world" in the battle against terrorism and predicted that all
"people who love freedom" would join. Pres. Bush won a strong
commitment from French Pres. Jacques Chirac to fight terrorism.
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/18/02)
2001 Sep 18, The US asked
Lebanon and Syria to extradite Palestinian and Lebanese Shiites
suspected of terrorism in the past 20 years.
(WSJ, 9/19/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 18, It was reported
that more than 4 planes may have been targeted by hijackers on Sep
11.
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 18, James Ziegler, US
Immigration commissioner (INS), signed an order extending the time
detainees could be held in terrorist probes.
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 18, Letters postmarked
in Trenton, N.J., and later tested positive for anthrax, were sent
to the New York Post and NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw.
(AP, 9/18/02)
2001 Sep 18, Analysts said the
terrorist attacks will trigger a full-blown recession and that the
economy would rebound in 2002.
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.D9)
2001 Sep 18, The new computer
worm, W32.Nimda, struck the Internet.
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.D1)
2001 Sep 18, The US airline
industry won assurances of billions of dollars in financial help
from the government. Charitable donations to victims of the
terrorist attacks topped $200 million. Boeing estimated that it
would cut as many as 30,000 workers by the end of the year.
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/19/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 18, Boeing announced
plans to lay off up to 30,000 commercial airplane employees by the
end of 2002.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2001 Sep 18, The number of dead
in NYC was estimated at a probable 5,422 due to the Sep 11 terrorist
attack.
(WSJ, 9/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 18, In Eritrea
authorities ordered all independent newspapers closed and arrested 6
former generals and Cabinet ministers in an apparent crackdown on
dissent.
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.B4)
2001 Sep 18, Pres. Yasser
Arafat declared "a cease-fire on all fronts" and Israel responded by
suspending military operations against Palestinian targets and
withdrawing from Palestinian-ruled areas.
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 18, In Serbia a court
reported that 269 bodies had been removed from a mass grave at
Batajnica, 6 miles north of Belgrade. The bodies were suspected to
be ethnic Albanians killed in the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.
(SFC, 9/19/01, p.B4)
2001 Sep 19, Pres. Bush warned
Afghanistan that he would not negotiate to take custody of Osama bin
Laden. The Pentagon began deploying troops, ships and planes to the
Persian Gulf under code name "Operation Infinite Justice." The title
became a working name after Islamic scholars objected that "infinite
justice" is reserved for God.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/20/01, p.A1)(SFC,
9/21/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 19, The parent
companies of American Airlines and United Airlines both announced
plans to lay off 20,000 employees.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2001 Sep 19, Imad Mughniyeh,
Lebanese head of Hezbollah overseas operations, and Dr. Ayman
al-Zawahri, a senior bin Laden aide, were named in a Jane’s Foreign
Report as possible masterminds for the Sep 11 attacks in addition to
Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 19, In Colombia
Guambiano Indians in Cauca state attacked Paez Indians and 7 people
were killed with at least 19 wounded.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Sep 19, In Colombia
Yolanda Ceron, a Catholic nun active in human rights work, was shot
and killed in Tumaco.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Sep 19, An Air France
Concorde flew from Paris on a test flight with 86 employee
volunteers.
(WSJ, 9/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 19, In Indonesia Ayip
Syafrudin, leader of the Laskar Jihad (Holy War Warriors), said he
would declare a jihad against the US if it attacks Muslim countries.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 19, Japan’s PM Koizumi
promised to push legislative changes to permit Japanese troops to
provide logistical support for a US-led war on terrorism.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 20, Pres. Bush
addressed Congress and the nation and promised that "justice will be
done." The NYC death toll was raised to 6,333 missing to include
citizens missing from foreign countries. The total Sep 11 death toll
reached 6,807. On Nov 20 the official count was reduced to just
below 3,900.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A1,3)(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A2)
2001 Sep 20, Pres. Bush named
Gov. Tom Ridge (56) of Pennsylvania to direct the new office of
Homeland Security.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 20, Pictures of most
of the Sep 11 hijackers were published along with some personal
data.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 20, The FBI arrested
Nabil Al-Marabh (34), a suspected bin Laden associate, in the
Chicago area.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 20, A chartered flight
left the US with members of the sprawling bin Laden family. The FBI
interviewed 22 of the 26 people aboard.
(WSJ, 6/1/04, p.A4)
2001 Sep 20, The DJIA fell 382
to 8,386. The Nasdaq fell 56 to 1,470.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 20, In Afghanistan
Muslim clerics issued an edict that suggested Osama bin Laden be
persuaded to leave the country.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A5)
2001 Sep 20, An Israeli woman,
Sarit Amrani (25), was killed in a drive-by shooting by the Al Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades. A Palestinian man was killed in Gaza following a
grenade assault. Another Palestinian police officer was killed,
possibly by militants he was trying to restrain near Hebron. The
violence threatened the recent truce.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D2)
2001 Sep 20, In Macedonia NATO
troops began the 3rd stage of Essential Harvest.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Sep 20, In Russia the
State Duma approved private ownership of urban and industrial land,
about 2% of the country.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Sep 21, US entertainers
hosted a national telethon: "America: A Tribute to Heroes," to raise
money for the victims of the Sep 11 attacks that was carried on more
than 30 networks.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/02)
2001 Sep 21, A US unmanned
reconnaissance plane was downed in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 9/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, The US Congress
passed a $15 billion relief package for the nation’s air carriers.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, The DJIA fell 140
to 8,235, while the Nasdaq fell 47 to 1,423, a 3 year low.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A1,11)
2001 Sep 21, Ana Belen Montes,
an employee of the US Defense Intelligence Agency since 1985, was
charged with spying for Cuba. She pleaded guilty in 2002 and was
sentenced to 25 years in jail.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)(WSJ, 3/20/02, p.A1)(SFC,
10/16/02, p.A9)
2001 Sep 21, A US Taurus
rocket, made by Orbital Sciences, carrying a NASA satellite failed
to launch and probably plunged into the Indian ocean.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 21, Ronald C.
Sheffield, a federal security officer was shot and killed in the
Patrick V. McNamara building in Detroit. The gunman was seriously
wounded.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 21, In Afghanistan the
ruling Taliban rejected Pres. Bush’s ultimatum and to give up Osama
bin Laden. The Taliban also threatened to hang Afghan aid workers if
they communicate with their int’l. counterparts.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A7)(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, Terrorist suspects
were arrested in Britain (4), France (7), Germany (2 warrants), Peru
(3 detained) and Yemen (20 detained). Lofti Raissi, an Algerian
pilot arrested in Britain, was later described as the "lead
instructor" to 4 of the hijackers. Raissi was released Feb 12, 2002,
for lack of evidence.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A3)(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A1)(SFC,
2/13/02, p.A16)
2001 Sep 21, In Estonia Arnold
Ruutel (73), a former Communist leader, was chosen as president by a
special government assembly.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 21, In France a
suspected accidental explosion at a TotalFinaELF chemical fertilizer
plant in Toulouse killed 29 people and injured at least 650.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)(WSJ, 9/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21-Oct 2, In Tehran
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards opened the First Universal Exhibition of
Sacred Culture and Defense with a theme of Islamic revolution and
holy war. It commemorated the 21st anniversary of the war with Iraq.
(WSJ, 9/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, Islamic groups
planned a general strike to protest Pakistan’s support of the
anti-terrorist coalition.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 22, President Bush
consulted at length with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the
United States mustered a military assault on terrorism in the wake
of Sept. 11.
(AP, 9/22/02)
2001 Sep 22, Pres. Bush lifted
sanctions on India and Pakistan.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 22, Pres. Bush signed
the $15 billion aid package for the nation’s airline industry.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 22, Katie Harman, Miss
Oregon, was crowned in Atlantic City, N.J., Miss America for 2002.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A27)(AP, 9/22/02)
2001 Sep 22, Isaac Stern
(b.1920), Ukraine born Jewish immigrant to the US and legendary
violinist, died. In 1960 he saved Carnegie Hall from the wrecking
ball.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A24)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Sep 22, In Afghanistan
there was heavy fighting in the northern provinces of Balkh and
Samangan. 39 Taliban were reported killed along with 2 opposition
fighters.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 22, Pope John Paul II
arrived in Kazakstan with good wishes for Islamic leaders and for
"all people of good will" who seek peace.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A27)
2001 Sep 22, Pakistan confirmed
that it had pulled its senior diplomats out of Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 22, The United Arab
Emirates (UAR) cut relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 23, President George
W. Bush returned the American flag to full staff at Camp David,
symbolically ending a period of national mourning.
(AP, 9/23/02)
2001 Sep 23, Thousands gathered
at New York's Yankee Stadium to offer prayers for the victims of
terrorism; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani pledged that "our skyline will
rise again."
(AP, 9/23/02)
2001 Sep 23, US Sec. of State
Colin Powell vowed the US would give allies evidence detailing Osama
bin Laden’s connection to the Sep 11 attacks.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 23, The NYC missing #
was raised to 6,453 with 252 accounted dead. On Nov 20 the official
count was reduced to just below 3,900. [see Dec 19]
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.A3)(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A2)(SFC,
12/20/01, p.A15)
2001 Sep 23, In Hillsborough
County, Florida, Randolph Standifer (21) was arrested for the rape
and attempted murder of a 9-month-old baby that was kidnapped and
abandoned a day earlier.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 23, NASA reported that
its Deep Space I craft took pictures of the comet Borrelly.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 23, Four coal miners
were killed in an explosion at the Blue Creek Mine Number Five in
Brookwood, Ala. 9 miners who rushed to their aid also died. The mine
is the deepest in North America at 2,140 feet below the surface.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A14)(AP, 9/23/06)
2001 Sep 23, Osama bin Laden
issued a statement that called for Muslim brothers to resist the
"Christian-Jewish crusade led by the big crusader Bush under the
flag of the Cross…"
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 23, In Colombia 2 men
were arrested in connection with a plot to assassinate Pres.
Pastrana in July in the town of Armenia.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C2)
2001 Sep 23, In Congo rebel
leader Adolphe Onusumba acknowledged peace talks with Zimbabwe’s
Pres. Mugabe.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 23, Israel’s PM Sharon
cancelled talks with Yasser Arafat after Palestinians fired 3 mortar
shells in the Gaza Strip, 2 of which hit Jewish settlements and the
3rd fell inside Israel. There were no injuries.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 23, In Macao
pro-Beijing and business candidates won a majority of the 10
directly chosen 27 legislative seats. Pro-democracy candidates won
21% of the total vote, the highest won by any group.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 23, The 6-member
Persian "Gulf Cooperation Council" (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, UAR) met in Jidda and pledged support for an int’l.
coalition against terrorism.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 23, Elections were
held in Poland and the Democratic Left Alliance, composed of former
Communists, won with 41% of the popular vote. Leszek Miller became
the new PM.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B1)(Econ, 2/19/05, p.49)
2001 Sep 24, President Bush
ordered a freeze on the assets of 27 people and organizations with
suspected links to terrorism, including Islamic militant Osama bin
Laden, and urged other nations to do likewise.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1,9)(AP, 9/24/02)
2001 Sep 24, The US rewarded
Jordan for its role in the anti-terrorist coalition with the passage
of a free trade treaty.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 24, The US received
from Russia an essential go-ahead to use 3 former republics as bases
for attacks on Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1,6)
2001 Sep 24, The US agreed to
pay $582 million in overdue dues to the UN.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 24, US crop-dusters
were grounded for a 2nd day amid fears of a terrorist chemical
attacks.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 24, In Maryland 2
college students, sisters, were killed by tornadoes at College Park.
Gov. Parris Glendening toured the area the next day.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C3)
2001 Sep 24, In Afghanistan
Taliban officials said they were dispatching 300,000 fighters to
defend their borders. Analysts estimated Taliban strength at 45,000
fighters with 20,000 in action against the Northern Alliance.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A5)
2001 Sep 24, The Taliban
occupied the offices of the UN World food Program and seized 1,400
metric tons of food.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 24, In Colombia
Consuelo Araujo (62), the wife of the attorney general, was
kidnapped along with 10 others near Valledupar. Araujo was found
shot to death on Sep 30.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A12)(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 24, Kazakstan offered
air and military bases to the US for attacks on Afghanistan.
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan were said to be negotiating use of their
territory by the US.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 24, It was reported
that at least 16 Syrian, Jordanian and Lebanese citizens were
arrested in Paraguay in the wake of the Sep 11 terrorist attacks in
the US.
(SFC, 9/24/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 24, Russia pledged
support for US efforts and arms for anti-Taliban forces in
Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 9/25/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 24, The UN announced
that it is withdrawing its int’l. staff from Somalia after losing
insurance coverage on flights in and out of the country.
(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 25, Former Chicago
Bulls player Michael Jordan, who'd left professional basketball
after winning a half-dozen championship rings, announced he was
returning to the game with the Washington Wizards.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D5)(AP, 9/25/02)
2001 Sep 25, General Motors
announced the 2002 model year would be the last for the Chevrolet
Camaro and Pontiac Firebird.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2001 Sep 25, The US campaign
against terrorism was renamed "Operation Enduring Freedom."
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, The FAA lifted a
ban on crop-dusting flights.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 25, The Red Cross
began distributing $30,000 grants to families of the victims of the
WTC and Pentagon. $200 million was received in donations.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A5)
2001 Sep 25, Irving Bernstein,
UCLA labor historian, died at age 84. His books included "The Lean
Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933" (1960), "The
Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941"
(1970), and "A Caring Society" (1985).
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 25, Naseer Ahmed
Mujahed, Osama bin Laden’s military chief, faxed a statement to news
agencies that said: "Wherever there are Americans and Jews, they
will be targeted."
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 25, A Chinese captain
went down with his freighter in the Taiwan Strait as Typhoon Lekima
lashed the area.
(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, Interpol issued a
bulletin for the arrest of Ayman al-Zawahri (50), an Egyptian
surgeon believed to be Osama bin Laden’s closest al Qaeda associate
in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 25, Nato agreed to
keep troops in Macedonia beyond the Sep 26 expiration of its
mission.
(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, The Malaysia
government accused Nik Adli Nik Abdul Aziz (34), an Islamic school
teacher, for plotting to overthrow the government. His father served
as the chief minister of Kelantan state. Nik Adli allegedly belonged
to the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia militant group.
(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 25, In Russia Pres.
Putin issued a 72-hour ultimatum to Chechen rebels to show up for
peace talks.
(WSJ, 9/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, Saudi Arabia
withdrew diplomatic recognition of the Afghan Taliban government.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/25/02)
2001 Sep 25, Pope John Paul cut
short a speech in Armenia due to symptoms of his Parkinson’s
disease. His visit coincided with celebrations marking the 1,700th
anniversary of Christianity as the state’s religion.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C2)
2001 Sep 26, Pres. Bush met
with US Sikh and Muslim leaders and declared that discrimination
against such groups would not be tolerated.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 26, US authorities
arrested 9 men suspected of fraudulently obtaining licenses to carry
hazardous materials.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 26, In Cincinnati,
Ohio, Stephen Roach, a white police officer, was acquitted of all
charges in the April shooting of Timothy Thomas (19). The acquittal
sparked more unrest.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 26, In Vacaville,
California, FBI agents arrested Bryan Douglas Rosenquist (39) and
Michelle Elaine Serrao (41) for embezzling almost $12 million from
BofA.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A13)
2001 Sep 26, Enron Pres.
Kenneth Lay urged his employees to buy Enron stock. Lay sold shares
from 2000-2001 for a gain of $146 million. Enron filed for
bankruptcy on Dec 2.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A1)
2001 Sep 26, In Afghanistan
protesters turned a Taliban march into an attack on the mothballed
US Embassy in Kabul.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 26, In Algeria
suspected Islamic militants killed 22 people in Larbaa. 12 of the
dead were killed while celebrating a wedding.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D6)
2001 Sep 26, During a visit to
Armenia, Pope John Paul II paid his respects to the vast number of
Armenians who perished under Ottoman rule.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2001 Sep 26, Israel’s Shimon
Peres and Yasser Arafat met for peace talks at the urging of the
United States. They pledged a new drive for peace and agreed to
resume cooperation between their security forces as Palestinian
gunmen and Israeli troops exchanged gunfire. Gaza fighting left a
Palestinian youth dead.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C2)(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A11)(WSJ,
9/27/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/26/02)
2001 Sep 26-27, In Northern
Ireland riots took place on north Belfast’s Crumlin road. 46 police
officers were wounded by gasoline bombs, rocks and fire-crackers.
The Ulster Defense Association (UDA) was blamed.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 26, Russian military
officers met with colleagues from 9 former Soviet republics to
discuss joint action against terrorists.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 26, Spain detained 6
Algerians with alleged links to Osama bin Laden and a group planning
attacks on US targets in Europe.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 26, Sudan began
rounding up extremists that have used the country as an operating
base.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 26, Typhoon Lekima hit
Taiwan causing mudslides and power losses. 2 fishermen drowned and 1
was missing.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A11)
2001 Sep 26, Turkey approved
constitutional reforms that eased restrictions on broadcasting and
publishing in the Kurdish language.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A11)
2001 Sep 27, Pres. Bush
announced enhanced airport security measures that included national
guard soldiers at checkpoints and armed air marshals on planes as a
first step toward federal control of airline security.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/27/02)
2001 Sep 27, US and British
warplanes struck 2 artillery sites in Iraq’s southern no-fly zone.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D6)
2001 Sep 27, Def. Sec. Donald
Rumsfeld displayed the new Medal for the Defense of Freedom to be
awarded to all Defense Dept. civilian employees killed or wounded in
the sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 27, The WTO issued a
blueprint for a new round of talks scheduled for Nov 9 in Qatar. It
called for concessions from the US, EU and Japan in opening markets
for textiles, steel and agriculture.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 27, In Afghanistan the
Taliban said it had delivered an official request for Osama bin
Laden to leave the country.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 27, In India the
central government banned the Student’s Islamic Movement of India
(SIMI). This triggered a day of riots and led to 4 deaths in
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
(WSJ, 10/1/01, p.A21)
2001 Sep 27,
Israeli-Palestinian fighting left 5 Palestinians dead. Israel
demolished some houses in a Gaza camp in response to a Hamas attack.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 27, In Jakarta,
Indonesia, protesters burned US flags outside the US Embassy and
threatened to kill Americans.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 27, In Macedonia
ethnic Albanian rebels declared that they had formally disbanded and
were returning to civilian life.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D4)
2001 Sep 27, In Romania Gellu
Naum, surrealist poet, playwright and translator, died at age 86.
His work included 20 poetry books, of which the 1st was "The
Incendiary Traveler" (1936) and the novel "Zenobia" (1985).
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 27, In Switzerland
Friedrich Leibacher went on a shooting rampage in the local
parliament of Zug, killing 14 people before taking his own life.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D2)(AP, 9/27/02)
2001 Sep 27, In Turkey 2 more
prisoners died from a hunger strike against the new high-security
prisons. This raised the total to 38.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D6)
2001 Sep 28, President George
W. Bush told reporters the United States was in "hot pursuit" of
terrorists behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2001 Sep 28, A Bush
administration official said that small groups of US and British
special forces had entered Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 28, Pres. Bush
authorized $50 million in aid to Pakistan.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 28, The FBI released a
4-page document, handwritten in Arabic, that served as a set of
final instructions for the Sep 11 hijackers. Copies were found in a
rental car, in the suitcase of Mohamed Atta and the wreckage of the
UA plane that crashed in Pa.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A5)
2001 Sep 28, The FAA allowed
airlines to restore curbside checking under new security
regulations.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 28, Dr. Kenneth M.
Berry of Pittsburgh filed a patent application for a system
responsive to bioterrorism attacks. In 2004 the FBI probed him in
relation to investigations on letters containing anthrax.
(SSFC, 8/8/04, p.A9)
2001 Sep 28, The UN Security
Council unanimously adopted a US sponsored resolution to oblige all
189 member states to crack down on the financing, training and
movement of terrorists.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 28, The UN Security
Council lifted sanctions against Sudan after the US abstained from
voting.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Sep 28, In Afghanistan
Taliban leader Mohammed Omar told a 9-member Pakistani delegation
that the Taliban would be willing to fight to the death to protect
Osama bin Laden from US military forces.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 28, In Australia a
leech dropped off Peter Cannon as he and an accomplice tied a woman
(71) to a chair in her remote home in the Tasmanian woods and stole
several hundred dollars in cash. Australian officials extracted
blood from the leech. In 2009 DNA evidence led the police to Cannon,
who admitted to robbing the elderly woman.
(AP, 10/20/09)
2001 Sep 28, In Bangladesh 3
people were killed in Barisal, Sandeep and Pabna. Another 4 were
killed in Chiatagong City as elections approached.
(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A17)
2001 Sep 28, It was reported
that clashed in Burundi between government forces and Hutu rebels
had killed at least 19 civilians and 22 soldiers over the last week.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D6)
2001 Sep 28, In China Wu
Jianmin, a Chinese-born American writer, was released from jail and
expelled. The state media said he had confessed to his crimes of
spying for Taiwan.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 28,
Israeli-Palestinian security officials met to work out details for
ending the bloodshed as fighting left at least 3 Palestinians. 1
Palestinian apparently blew himself up in Hebron while making a
bomb. Another 3 Palestinians were later killed while planting a mine
in Rafah.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 28, In Northern
Ireland Martin O’Hagan (51), a Catholic journalist, was killed in a
driveby shooting in Lurgan. O’Hagan had written exposes of
Protestant extremists and their criminal activities. In 2008 police
charged 3 suspected members of the outlawed Protestant paramilitary
group, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, with the murder.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.B2)(SFC, 11/23/01, p.D2)(AP,
9/25/08)
2001 Sep 29, Pres. Bush in his
weekly radio address condemned the Taliban for sheltering terrorists
and said: "We did not seek this conflict, but we will win it."
(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A4)
2001 Sep 29, Sen. John Kyl, an
Arizona Republican, said a nuclear launch would be the most
appropriate response in the case of a massive biological weapons
attack.
(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A19)
2001 Sep 29, The annual 2-day
meeting of the World Bank and IMF was scheduled to take place in
Washington DC. The meeting was reduced to 2-days due to expected
anti-globalization protests. The meeting was cancelled following the
Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.A3)(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 29, Some 7,000 people
marched for peace in Washington DC while an estimated 7-10 thousand
marched in San Francisco. They marched to mourn terrorist victims,
and to urge the nation to heal poverty and injustice that fuels
global violence instead of focusing on military revenge.
(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 29, In California Abdo
Ali Ahmed, a Yemeni-born father of 8, was shot to death by
assailants at his store in Reedley, Fresno Ct. A carload of
teenagers fled the scene.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 29, In Colorado Joel
and Michael Stovall (24), twin brothers, were caught following an
all-day pursuit. They had been arrested the previous day for
shooting a neighbor’s dog and then shot Deputy Jason Schwartz in the
back of the head several times.
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 29, Nguyen Van Thieu
(b.1923), former President of South Vietnam, died in Boston.
(AP, 9/29/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.107)
2001 Sep 29, In Bangladesh over
500,000 soldiers and police were deployed to control escalating
violence prior to elections.
(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A17)
2001 Sep 29, Tens of thousands
of Palestinians marched in Gaza and the West Bank to support their
uprising against Israel. 3 Palestinians were killed in
confrontations with Israeli troops.
(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.A17)
2001 Sep 29, It was reported
that Swaziland King Mswati III had told the country’s young women to
stop having sex for 5 years to help stop the spread of AIDS. 25% of
the country’s 900,000 people were estimated to be infected.
(SFC, 9/29/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 30, Pres. Bush
authorized $100 million in new relief aid to Afghan refugees.
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 30, ExciteAtHome, a
firm that connected cable companies to the Internet, declared
bankruptcy. A month later some 764,000 AT&T customers found
their Internet access shut down.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 30, Dr. John
Cunningham Lilly, dolphin and counter culture researcher, died at
age 86. His books included "Man and Dolphin" and "The Mind of the
Dolphin."
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 30, Leaders of the
Taliban said they had Osama bin Laden "under our control," but would
release him to the US only if shown proof that he plotted the Sep 11
attacks. Pres. Bush said he would not negotiate.
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 30, Afghanistan’s
Northern Alliance leader Younis Qanooni said he was optimistic about
meeting with King Zahir Shah (86).
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 30, Pashtun chiefs
from both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border met in Quetta to
discuss the crisis brought on by the Sep 11 attacks on the US. The
groups included the Kuchi, Zadran, Ghilzai and Buzdar and were
crucial in the Taliban’s rise to power.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 30, In Chechnya
militants staged raids on army, police and administrative buildings
over the weekend. In Kurchaloi 2 policemen were killed and 14
wounded.
(WSJ, 10/1/01, p.A21)
2001 Sep 30, Israeli troops
killed 3 Palestinians in the West Bank. The Palestinian death toll
reached 18 since the cease-fire pledge last week.
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep, Larry Ellison of
Oracle Corp. advocated a national ID card system and said Oracle
software could be used.
(SFC, 5/20/02, p.A13)
2001 Sep, In Eritrea mass
arrests took place of hundreds of politicians, journalists and
suspected spies.
(AP, 9/19/11)
2001 Sep, El Salvador was among
the nations that signed the Inter-American Democratic Charter that
committed all members to refuse to recognize any government
resulting from a military coup.
(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.A24)
2001 Sep, Irineos I was elected
by a 17-member church synod and coronated as the Patriarch of the
Greek Orthodox Church in the Holy Land.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A17)
2001 Sep Yusuf Qaradawi (75),
an Egyptian Muslim scholar living in Qatar, took part in a
conference in Rome aimed at promoting Muslim-Christian dialogue.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A19)
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