Timeline 2001 September-December
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2001 Oct 1,
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, in an impassioned speech to
the United Nations, said there was no room for "neutrality" in the
global fight against terrorism and no need for more studies or vague
directives.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2001 Oct 1, The Supreme Court
suspended former President Clinton from practicing before the high
court.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2001 Oct 1, The US reported
that some $6 million and 50 bank accounts were blocked as suspected
terrorist assets.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 1-2001 Oct 2, The US
gave Nato "clear and compelling" evidence that Osama bin Laden
orchestrated the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A4)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D7)
2001 Oct 1, Zayd Hassan Abd
al-Latif Masud Al Safarini, jailed in Pakistan for 15 years, arrived
in Alaska and was expected to face a 1991 indictment for the 1986
hijacking of a Pan Am jet in which 22 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 1, In Minnesota some
28,000 state workers went on strike over wage disputes.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 1, Conde Nast said it
would its Mademoiselle (b.1935) fashion magazine would be published
for the last time in November.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 1, Calvin C. Hernton,
black scholar, critic and poet, died at age 69. His books included
"Sex and Racism in America," "White Papers for White Americans," and
"The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers."
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E4)
2001 Oct 1, The opposition
Northern Alliance of Afghanistan met in Rome with ex-king Zahir Shah
and agreed to form a broad-based government open to cooperation with
the West.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 1, Elections in
Bangladesh for 299 seats in parliament were held pitting Sheikh
Hasina’s allies against those of longtime foe Khaleda Zia. Zia’s
coalition appeared to be headed for a landslide win. Over 150 people
were killed in the weeks prior to the elections. A coalition led by
the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) came to power.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.C12)(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A1)(Econ,
9/30/06, p.54)
2001 Oct 1, Indonesia’s Supreme
Court threw out its corruption conviction of Hutomo Mandala Putra,
i.e. “Tommy Suharto.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 1, In Srinagar,
capital of Jammu and Kashmir, a Pakistani-based suicide squad struck
at the Legislative Assembly and 38 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A17)(AP,
10/1/06)
2001 Oct 1, In the Philippines
the trial of former Pres. Estrada had a brief start and was
postponed to Oct 17. Estrada showed up against his will, without his
legal team and clad in slippers.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 1, Russia claimed to
have killed Abu Yakub, a top aide to an Arab commander allied with
rebels in Chechnya.
(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 1, In Spain suspected
Basque militants exploded a car bomb in Vitoria that caused much
damage to the city center.
(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 2, NATO
Secretary-General Lord Robertson said the United States had provided
"clear and conclusive" evidence of Osama bin Laden's involvement in
the attacks on New York and Washington.
(AP, 10/2/02)
2001 Oct 2, Acting
Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift unveiled security measures that
included a new security chief at Logan International Airport, where
hijackers boarded the two planes that smashed into the World Trade
Center.
(AP, 10/2/02)
2001 Oct 2, The US Federal
Reserve cut interest rates for a 9th time and reduced the federal
funds rate to 2.5%, its lowest level since 1962. The DJIA rose 113
to 8,950. The Nasdaq rose 11 to 1,492.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A1,D2)
2001 Oct 2, A US Treasury Dept
official reported that over $100 million of suspected terrorist
assets had been frozen in domestic and foreign banks since the Sep
11 attacks.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A4)
2001 Oct 2, India demanded that
Pakistan shut down the Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of the Prophet
Mohammad) militant group responsible for the Oct 1 attack in
Srinagar that killed 40 people. India also asked the US to outlaw
the group and to freeze its assets.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 2, Palestinian gunmen
attacked an Israeli settlement in Gaza and killed a teenage couple.
At least 15 others were wounded. 2 gunmen were killed by Israeli
sharpshooters.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 2, In Russia Defense
Minister Sergei Ivanov signed a weapons framework agreement with
Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani for as much as $300 million.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 2, Farouk al-Sharaa,
Syrian foreign minister, said Syria is determined to help the int’l.
effort to combat terrorism. He added that to achieve that goal,
terrorism’s roots and causes would have to be addressed.
(WSJ, 10/3/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 2, Cash-strapped
Swissair shut down flight operations and stranded thousands of
passengers around the globe.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.D3)
2001 Oct 3, Pres. Bush endorsed
a $60-75 billion stimulus package to pull the US out of recession.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 3, The Senate approved
an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and
Vietnam.
(AP, 10/3/02)
2001 Oct 3, Apple introduced
the iPod, a breakthrough MP3 music player that packs up to 1,000
CD-quality songs into an ultra-portable, 6.5 ounce design that fits
in your pocket, at a cost of $399.
(www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/oct/23ipod.html)(Econ, 10/4/08, p.14)
2001 Oct 3, Near Manchester,
Tennessee, Damir Igric (29), a Croatian passenger on a Greyhound
bus, slit the throat of the bus driver and caused a roll over that
killed 7 people including Igric.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C16)(AP, 10/4/06)
2001 Oct 3, In NYC Nathan
Powell killed and dismembered Jawed Wassel, an Afghan
émigré and filmmaker. Powell claimed anger over the
Sep 11 attacks and pleaded guilty in 2003.
(SFC, 6/5/03, p.A3)
2001 Oct 3, In Chechnya rebels
killed 9 federal troops in a number of clashes that included 4 dead
from land mines. 4 militants were also killed.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C8)
2001 Oct 3, Israeli forces in
Gaza cleared a half mile buffer zone and killed 6 Palestinians when
tank shells ripped their cars.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 3, Pres. Putin said
Russia is ready to reconsider its opposition to Nato expansion if
the alliance assumes a broader political identity in which Moscow
can be involved.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 3, In South Africa ANC
leader Tony Yengeni was charged with corruption, forgery and perjury
linked to the country’s $6 billion arms deal with Europe.
(SFC, 10/4/01, p.C4)
2001 Oct 4, The US pledged $320
m million in aid to Afghanistan refugees.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, Reagan National
Airport re-opened.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A15)
2001 Oct 4, NYC officials
estimated that the Sep 11 disaster would cost as much as $105
billion over the next 2 years. Depending on the number of jobs
permanently shifted out of the city, the September 11th attacks
could cost New York City as much as $83-95 billion dollars, though
the financial loss could never compare to the horrendous loss of
nearly 3,000 lives.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A15)(HNQ, 9/11/02)
2001 Oct 4, In Texas Barry
Bonds hit his 70th home run to tie Mark McGwire's 1998 record in a
10-2 victory over Houston. Rickey Henderson homered to pass Ty Cobb
and become baseball's career leader in runs scored with 2,246 during
San Diego's 6-3 win over Los Angeles.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/4/02)
2001 Oct 4, In Texas Mark
Stroman (b.1969), in the wake of 9/11, went on a shooting spree
targeting people of Middle Eastern descent killing 2 people and
wounding a third. The victims were from South Asia. Stroman was
later convicted and sentenced to death. He was executed on July 20,
2011.
(SFC, 7/21/11,
p.A9)(www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/stromanmark.htm)
2001 Oct 4, Algeria’s Pres.
Bouteflika promised to recognize the Berber language, compensate
victims of police brutality and prosecute police involved in
brutality.
(WSJ, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, The British
government released a 16-page document over the Internet that
presented details on Osama bin Laden’s responsibility for the Sep 11
terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 4, The EU made a joint
announcement with Spain that the Basque ETA would be put on the list
of terrorist organizations whose assets would be frozen by the EU.
(WSJ, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, In Israel PM Sharon
warned the US that it risked appeasing the Arab nations: "Do not try
to appease the Arabs at our expense." A Palestinian posing as an
Israeli soldier killed 3 Israelis in Afula. A Palestinian was killed
during a 2nd day of fighting in Hebron.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.D4)(WSJ, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, Macedonian security
forces, in opposition to external warnings, took control of 3 ethnic
Albanian villages but met with resistance from others.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.D4)
2001 Oct 4, Pakistan announced
that it sees sufficient grounds for an indictment against Osama bin
Laden.
(WSJ, 10/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, In the Philippines
government forces captured 13 members of Abu Sayyaf and killed
another in a southern clash.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.D6)
2001 Oct 4, A chartered Russian
Tupelov-154 airplane crashed in to the Black Sea and 76 people were
killed. The 64 passengers and 12 crew of the Siberian Airlines jet
was bound to Novosibirsk from Tel Aviv. An accidental missile strike
from Ukrainian military forces was suspected but denied by Ukraine
officials. Pres. Putin said terrorists might have been responsible.
Later evidence indicated that flight 1812 was hit by an S-200
missile. Ukraine and Russia acknowledged that an errant missile was
the probable cause on Oct 12. In 2003 Ukraine agreed to pay $200,000
for each Israeli killed.
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)(WSJ,
11/21/03, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, Swissair resumed
flying following a 2-day shut down propped by a $281 million Swiss
government loan. [see Jan 31, 2002]
(SFC, 10/5/01, p.B4)
2001 Oct 5, Barry Bonds of the
SF Giants hit his 71st and 72nd record home runs at Pacific Bell
Park off of pitcher Chan Ho Park of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The
Dodgers won 11-10. This broke the record of 70 held by Mark McGwire.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.F1)
2001 Oct 5, Moses Malone was
inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
(AP, 10/5/02)
2001 Oct 5, Pres. Bush urged
Congress to pass $60 million in tax cuts to revive the economy.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 5, The US received
permission from Uzbekistan to set up a base of operations against
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 5, The US Labor Dept.
reported that 199,000 jobs were lost in September.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 5, In Alaska Daniel
Carson Lewis (37) was arrested for shooting a hole into the oil
pipeline, which cause the leakage of up to 280,000 of gallons. Some
285,600 gallons spewed out for 3 days until the leak was plugged Oct
6. The cleanup cost was $7 million.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 5, Georgia’s Supreme
Court ruled that electrocution is an unconstitutionally cruel and
unusual punishment. 441 Georgia inmates had died in the electric
chair since 1924.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.E1)
2001 Oct 5, Mike Mansfield
(98), former Montana Senator and ambassador to Japan, died in
Washington, D.C.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.E1)(AP, 10/5/02)
2001 Oct 5, George P. Brockway,
former president of W.W. Norton publishing house, died at age 85. He
created the Norton Anthology series in the 1950s.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.E2)
2001 Oct 5, Bob Stevens (63),
photo editor for the Sun tabloid, died of anthrax. Anthrax spores
were later found on his computer keyboard in Lantana. This was the
1st of a series of cases in Florida, New York, New Jersey and
Washington. In 2011 his widow settled a $2.5 million lawsuit against
the US government.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2001_anthrax_attacks)(SFC,
12/30/01, p.D7)(AP, 10/5/02)(SFC, 10/31/11, p.A5)(SFC, 11/30/11,
p.A13)
2001 Oct 5, In Israel PM Sharon
ordered the largest military assault in a year and 5 Palestinians
were killed in Hebron.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 6, Cal Ripken played
his last game in the major leagues as his Baltimore Orioles lost to
the visiting Boston Red Sox 5-1.
(AP, 10/6/02)
2001 Oct 6, Pres. Bush warned
Afghanistan’s rulers that time is running out. The Taliban said it
would release 8 aid workers if the US "stops issuing threats" of
military action.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 6, US and British
intelligence identified Mohammed Atef, a former Egyptian policeman
and close aide to Osama bin Laden, as the key planner of the of the
Sep 11 attacks.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 6, Joseph Allen Stein
(b.1912), architect, died in North Carolina. Much of his work was
done in India where he designed the India International Center in
Delhi.
(www.virginia.edu/soasia/newsletter/Fall01/stein.html)(SFC, 4/7/07,
p.F6)
2001 Oct 6, In Afghanistan the
Northern Alliance was building an airport outside Golbahar to allow
a US-led coalition to funnel in military supplies.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 6, In Saudi Arabia a
bomb exploded in Khobar. 2 people were killed and 4 were injured.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 7, In SF Barry Bonds
hit his 73rd home run in the final game of the season. Two men, Alex
Popov and Patrick Hayashi, fought over the ball and went to court.
In 2002 a judge ruled that the ball be sold and the cash split. In
2003 the ball was auctioned off for $450,000.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.B1)(SFC, 12/19/02, p.A1)(SFC,
6/26/03, p.A1)cy
2001 Oct 7, US and British
forces struck 31 targets in Afghanistan. 40 warplanes, 50 Tomahawk
cruise missiles, B-2 Stealth bombers, B-1 lancers, B-52s, F-14
Tomcats and F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets were used against air
defenses, communication nodes and other large fixed target sites.
Airdrops of food were also made. The Taliban later claimed that 8-20
civilians were killed in the attacks.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 7, A scheduled peace
demonstration in NYC drew some 10,000 people. Anti-war
demonstrations in SF and Chicago drew some 1,000 each.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 7, The annual Emmy
Awards ceremony was called off.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.G1)
2001 Oct 7, Herbert L. Block
(b.1909), Washington Post cartoonist, died at age 91. He authored
"Herblock: A Cartoonist’s Life" in 1993.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A20)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Oct 7, The Al-Jazeera TV
network from Qatar showed video footage of Osama bin Laden praising
Allah for the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.G1)
2001 Oct 7, In Afghanistan the
Northern Alliance moved its front line artillery and infantry units
against the Taliban.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 7, Hurricane Iris
caused a mudslide in the Dominican Republic that killed 3 people.
(WSJ, 10/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 7, In Pakistan Muslim
clerics called for a holy war to counter the attacks in Afghanistan.
Fazlur Rehman, a top fundamentalist politician, was arrested. Most
of the Arab world appeared relatively calm.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A6)
2001 Oct 7, A Palestinian
suicide bomber, Ahmed Daraghmeh (17), killed himself and 1 Israeli
near the settlement of Kibbutz Shluhot.
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.F1)
2001 Oct 8, Tom Ridge was sworn
in to head the new US Office of Homeland Security.
(WSJ, 10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 8, US forces hit
Afghanistan with a 2nd wave of attacks. 40 Taliban commanders along
with 1,200 men switched sides and handed over control of a
provincial road north of Kabul. 4 UN civilian workers were later
confirmed as casualties of the bombing; Abdul Saboor, Safiullah,
Najibullah and Nasir Ahmad worked for a mine clearing agency. The
Taliban ambassador to Pakistan reported 200 civilian casualties.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A3)(WSJ,
10/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 8, NYC celebrated its
57th annual Columbus Day Parade.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 8, Leland Hartwell of
the Seattle Hutchinson Cancer Research Center won the Nobel Prize in
Medicine along with Paul Nurse and Timothy Hunt of London’s Imperial
Cancer Research Fund for their work in the mechanics of cell
division.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B3)
2001 Oct 8, A 2nd case of
anthrax was reported in Ernesto Blanco (73), a co-worker of the man
who died Oct 5 in Florida.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 8, Radio commentator
Rush Limbaugh told listeners he was virtually deaf. Limbaugh later
had an electronic device implanted in his skull that restored much
of his hearing.
(AP, 10/8/02)
2001 Oct 8, In Bogota,
Colombia, Luis Alfredo Colmenares, a Representative from Arauca, was
assassinated by gunmen on a motorcycle.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B4)
2001 Oct 8, In the Abkhazia
region of Georgia a UN helicopter was shot down and 9 people were
killed.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B4)
2001 Oct 8, In Belize 17
Virginians were killed when a dive boat capsized during a hurricane.
(AP, 10/8/02)
2001 Oct 8, In Milan, Italy, a
Scandinavian Airlines SAS jet, Flight 686 to Copenhagen, crashed
into a small Cessna on takeoff and 114 people were killed in both
planes with 4 killed on the ground. The Cessna had moved onto the
wrong runway as the SAS jet took off under foggy conditions.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 8, In Pakistan violent
protests hit the main cities. At least one protester was killed in
Quetta.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A4)
2001 Oct 8, A Palestinian rally
turned violent as police forces attempted to quell some 2,000
students supportive of Osama bin Laden. 2 students were killed.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 8, Most of the Russian
atomic-powered Kursk submarine was raised from the Barents Sea in a
$65 million salvage operation by the Dutch Mammoet-Smit Int’l.
consortium.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D3)
2001 Oct 8, Syria won a seat on
the UN Security Council and was opposed only by Israel.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 9, The Nobel Prize in
Physics was awarded to Eric Cornell, Carl Wiemann and Wolfgang
Ketterlie of the US for their discovery of the Bose-Einstein
condensate, a new state of matter. The condensate, which they
created in 1995, had been predicted by Einstein in 1924.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A17)(SSFC,
8/21/05, p.A3)
2001 Oct 9, The US declared air
supremacy over Afghanistan. In the first daylight raids since the
start of U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan, jets bombed the Taliban
stronghold of Kandahar.
(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/9/02)
2001 Oct 9, Pres. Bush
appointed Richard Clarke as special adviser for cyberspace security.
(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A4)
2001 Oct 9, Letters postmarked
in Trenton, N.J., were sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy;
the letters later tested positive for anthrax.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2001 Oct 9, The 2 anthrax cases
in Florida were reported to probably have been caused by an
intentional release of the deadly bacteria.
(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A4)
2001 Oct 9, Herbert Ross (74),
director and choreographer, died in New York.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2001 Oct 9, Dagmar (Virginia
Ruth Egnor), who parlayed her dumb blonde act into television fame
in the early 1950s, died at age 79 in West Virginia.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2001 Oct 9, Abkhazia accused
Chechen and Georgian fighters of killing 14 villagers and mounting a
helicopter raid.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 9, Hurricane Iris hit
Belize with 140 mph winds. 17 members of a Virginia diving club and
2 local sailors were confirmed dead with 3 missing. Winds nearing
200 mph left 20 people dead.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A17)(SFC,
10/11/01, p.A21)
2001 Oct 9, Roberto Campos
(b.1917), Brazilian politician and diplomat, died. His autobiography
was titled “A lanterna na popa” (2001). It revised his personal
biography as well as the recent economic history of Brazil.
(Econ, 1/30/10,
p.46)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_de_Oliveira_Campos)
2001 Oct 9, Macedonia decreed
amnesty for rebels.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 9, Qatar’s Al-Jazeera
broadcast a taped video of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, an al Qaeda
spokesman, who called on Muslims to attack US interests worldwide.
(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 9, Pakistan cracked
down on continuing violent anti-US protests and 5 people were
killed. Some radical clerics were arrested.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/10/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 9, A Pakistani serial
killer, Javed Iqbal, committed suicide rather than face his
sentence. He was to be chopped up and dissolved in acid for having
abused and killed over 100 children.
(WSJ, 10/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, The Nobel Prize in
Chemistry was awarded to K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research,
William S. Knowles of St. Louis and Ryoji Noyori of Nagoya Univ. for
their work in developing catalysts to produce compounds of specific
handedness.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A21)(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, The Nobel Prize in
Economics was awarded to George Akerlof of UC Berkeley, Michael
Spence of Stanford, and Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia Univ. Akerlof
won in part for his classic paper explaining how, if sellers know
more than buyers, markets may fail.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.D1)(Econ, 3/28/09, p.88)
2001 Oct 10, U.S. jets pounded
the Afghan capital of Kabul.
(AP, 10/10/02)
2001 Oct 10, An unmanned US spy
plane was lost over southern Iraq, the 3rd since Aug 27.
(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, President Bush
unveiled a list of 22 most-wanted terrorists, including Osama bin
Laden and associates. The FBI issued a list of 22 most wanted
terrorists dating back to 1985 with rewards up to $5 million for
tips that prevent attacks or lead to arrests.
(AP, 10/10/02)(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 10. Rep. Nancy Pelosi
of California was elected House Democratic Whip, the No. 2 House
Democratic leader and the highest post ever held by a woman in
Congress.
(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/10/02)
2001 Oct 10, In Florida a 3rd
case of anthrax was identified in a 35-year-old woman who worked in
the same office as Robert Stevens. The strain was reported to match
one from Iowa in the 1950s commonly used by lab researchers.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A4,5)
2001 Oct 10, Tornadoes hit the
US plains and caused heavy damage in Oklahoma and Nebraska.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.C16)
2001 Oct 10, In Alaska a small
plane crashed following takeoff from Dillingham. 10 people were
killed in the Cessna 208 Caravan.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A21)
2001 Oct 10, US warplanes
struck an ammunition dump at the edge of Kandahar and secondary
explosions left some civilian casualties.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 10, In China a state
court sentenced over a dozen key officials in Shenyang for
corruption.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 10, In Colombia AUC
paramilitary massacred 24 men in the village of Buga. The bodies of
6 fishermen were recovered near Cartagena, where they had been
kidnapped earlier in the week. A cab driver, who drove outside news
correspondents, was also slain.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.D2)(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, The EU and leaders
of several African nations agreed on a "Marshall Plan for Africa" to
combat poverty and disease and allow access to markets in the
industrialized world.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 10, The 56-member
Organization of Islamic Conference, called by Iran, issued a
communique that sidestepped US action in Afghanistan: "The
conference rejected the targeting of any Islamic or Arab state under
the pretext of fighting terrorism."
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Oct 10, In Sri Lanka Pres.
Kumaratunga dissolved parliament and set elections for Dec 5 after
defections left her coalition in the minority.
(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, Turkey granted the
government the authority to send troops overseas and to allow
foreign troops to be stationed on its soil.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Oct 11, Vidiadhar S,
Naipaul (b.1932), Trinidad-born English novelist, won the Nobel
Prize in Literature. His books included: "A House for Mr. Biswas,"
"Guerrillas" (1975), "Among the Believers" (1981), and "The Enigma
of Arrival" (1987).
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.C1)(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A1,W17)
2001 Oct 11, In his first
prime-time news conference since taking office, President George W.
Bush offered the Taliban a chance to stop America's punishing
assaults on Afghanistan by turning over suspected terror mastermind
Osama bin Laden.
(AP, 10/11/02)
2001 Oct 11, The FBI warned
that new acts of terrorism could target Americans over the next few
days.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 11, The Bush
administration asked newspapers not to publish full transcripts of
messages from Osama bin Laden due to the possibility of coded
messages.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 11, In NYC Mayor
Giuliani rejected a $10 million donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed
Bin Talal due to an attached press release that said the US should
re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced
stance toward the Palestinian cause.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 11, The Pentagon
confirmed the 1st US death in Operation Freedom. Air Force Sgt.
Evander Earl Andrews was killed in a fork lift accident in Qatar.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A16)(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 11, Tom Wales (49), a
Seattle federal prosecutor, was gunned down in his home office.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 11, Abdul Salam Zaeem,
Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, said US bombing in Afghanistan killed
some 100 noncombatants in the Torghar region near Jalalabad. The
total civilian casualties since Oct 7 was estimated at 170.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 11, In Afghanistan
that Northern Alliance claimed to have taken the central province of
Gur and the provincial capital Chaghcharan. American bombing
reportedly killed as many as 200 civilians in Karam and Jalalabad.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A13)(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A1,9)
2001 Oct 11, In Colombia AUC
paramilitary shot and killed 5 men in the town of Samaniego.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 11, The French highest
appellate court ruled that Pres. Chirac is immune from criminal
prosecution for corruption charges for his years as mayor of Paris,
but only while still in office.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D7)
2001 Oct 11, In Kuwait Luc
Ethier, a Canadian employed at the Ahmad al-Jaber airbase, was shot
and killed in Fahaheel. Ethier’s wife was also shot.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Oct 11, In Macedonia
police found a cache of arms in an area held by ethnic Albanian
rebels.
(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 11, A Palestinian
militant blew himself up while trying to plant a bomb along a West
Bank road used by Israelis.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.D3)
2001 Oct 12, Kofi Annan, Sec.
Gen. of the UN, and the UN itself won the Nobel Peace Prize.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 12, US Attorney
General John Ashcroft urged federal agencies to resist most Freedom
of Information Act requests made by American citizens. The act was
passed in 1974 during the Watergate scandal.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.D4)
2001 Oct 12, NBC announced that
an assistant to anchorman Tom Brokaw had contracted the skin form of
anthrax after opening a "threatening" letter to her boss that
contained a suspicious powder.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/12/02)
2001 Oct 12, Polaroid Corp.
filed for bankruptcy protection.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2001 Oct 12, Taliban leaders
withdrew over $6 million from the Kabul Da Afghanistan Bank.
(SFC, 1/8/02, p.A11)
2001 Oct 12, The British
government officially announced that 3 Protestant paramilitary
forces in Northern Ireland had ended a 7-year cease fire.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 12, China put limits
on air travel to citizens of 19 countries, mainly in the Middle
East.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 12, In Colombia AUC
paramilitary shot and killed 5 men and 2 women in the town of
Piamonte. The army reported that it had discovered14 bodies in a
single grave in the town of Albania.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 12, In Iran
anti-American protests surged on the Afghan border in Zahedan, the
provincial capital of Sistan-Baluchistan.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 12, Iran defeated Iraq
1-0 in a soccer match. Demonstrations erupted after the game against
the Shiite theocracy and continued following successive soccer
matches. At least 2 thousand young people were arrested over the
next 2 weeks.
(WSJ, 10/30/01, p.A22)
2001 Oct 12, Israeli and
Palestinian officials resumed peace talks. Thousands of Palestinians
held marches in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 12, In Nigeria the
mutilated bodies of 19 abducted soldiers were found in Benue state.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C16)
2001 Oct 12, In Pakistan
anti-American violence erupted in Karachi.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 12, In Spain a bombing
caused wide damage in Madrid. Basque separatists were suspected.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 12, The US indicated
it would aid Uzbekistan if it were attacked. Uzbekistan was the
first among Central Asian nations to allow the US to use its
airspace and deploy troops on its territory for the anti-terrorism
war in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks. The United States set
up a military base in southern Uzbekistan, deploying hundreds of
troops there.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A16)(AP, 3/30/04)
2001 Oct 12, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe imposed a price freeze on basic foods following cuts of 5-20%
on basic items.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 13, Anthrax was
confirmed in 3 US states. In Florida 5 more employees tested
positive; in Nevada a letter sent to a Microsoft office tested
positive; and in NYC a letter sent to NBC News tested positive.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 13, The US confirmed
that an errant 2,000-pound bomb hit residential buildings in Kabul
and that 4 people were killed.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 13, In Nebraska a
school bus carrying a high school band in Douglas County overturned
and 3 people were killed.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 13, In London an
estimated 20,000 people marched against the military strikes in
Afghanistan. Other demonstrations took place in Europe.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 13, Ukraine's defense
minister and air defense chief offered to resign, conceding that the
military was involved in the explosion of a Russian airliner over
the Black Sea Oct. 4 that killed 78 people.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2001 Oct 14, President George
W. Bush sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over
Osama bin Laden to a third country, saying, "They must have not
heard. There's no negotiations."
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/14/02)
2001 Oct 14, US warplanes hit
Afghanistan targets around Kabul and knocked out the overseas
telephone exchange. Bombs also hit the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif,
Kandahar, Jalalabad and Herat. Abu Baseer al-Masri, al Qaeda fighter
and Egyptian militant, was killed near Jalalabad.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A8)(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 14, Unions in
Minnesota reached a deal with the state to end a walkout by some
23,000 government workers.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E3)
2001 Oct 14, In Argentina
Elections for Congress were held. Rev. Luis Farinello led the Social
Pole Party with an anti-globalization message. The midterm elections
handed a decisive defeat to Pres. Fernando de la Rua’s coalition.
The Peronist Party led nationwide results.
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.D4)(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E3)
2001 Oct 14, An Israeli sniper
shot and killed Abed Rahman Hamad, a Hamas leader, hours before the
government announced that it would withdraw troops from Hebron and
ease Palestinian travel restrictions.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.E2)
2001 Oct 14, In Nigeria weekend
anti-American protests left 13-200 people dead in Kano.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A5)(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 14, In Pakistan
thousands of Muslims clashed with police in Jacobabad and at least 1
protester was killed.
(SFC, 10/15/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 15, US warplanes
carried out their heaviest bombings in 9 days over Afghanistan. The
Pentagon called in the slow moving AC-130 Spectre gunships to
targets around Kandahar.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, Anthrax in a
letter to a Reno Microsoft office was reported to be from Malaysia.
2 anthrax-tainted letters were reported to have been mailed from
Trenton, New Jersey and 2 postal employees there showed symptoms.
Anthrax spores were in a letter deliver to a Senate office.
Officials announced that a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom
Daschle had tested positive for anthrax, and that the infant son of
an ABC News producer in New York had developed skin anthrax.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A16)(AP,
10/15/02)
2001 Oct 15, In Texas the last
2 of 5 escaped convicts were captured after one shot another and
freed a farm couple that was held hostage.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 15, Bethlehem Steel
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.D1)
2001 Oct 15, Britain’s PM Tony
Blair said his country favors "a viable Palestinian state, as part
of a negotiated and agreed settlement" during a news conference with
visiting Yasser Arafat.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 15, China executed 2
Muslim separatists in Yili, Xinjiang province.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 15, It was reported
that Croatian officials had suspended the use of Baxter Int’l.
filters for kidney dialysis machines after 23 patients died in a
week. A similar incident in Spain killed 10 people but tests seemed
to rule out the filters.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, India shelled
Pakistani posts along their line in Jammu Kashmir for aiding Islamic
militants. One woman was killed and 25 civilians wounded.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 15, In Indonesia riot
police fought protesters outside the Parliament in what had become
daily battles over US bombing in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, In Israel a
hardline nationalist party withdrew from PM Sharon’s coalition
government.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, Japan’s PM Koizumi
visited South Korea and expressed his remorse at Sodaemun
Independence Park for suffering inflicted by Japan’s colonial rule.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 15, It was reported
that Sheik Hamoud bin Uqlaa al-Shuaibi (80), a militant Wahhabi in
Buraydah, Saudi Arabia, called on Muslims to wage jihad on
supporters of the US military action in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Oct 15, Russian troops
claimed to have killed 20 Chechen rebels with a loss of 5 of their
own men.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 15, In South Africa
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, was
indicted for fraudulent loans of more than $100,000.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 15, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe announced the abandonment of market-based economics and a
return to a socialist-style economy.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B6)
2001 Oct 16, A wing of the US
Senate building was closed following confirmation that a letter to
Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., carried anthrax. It was later found that
the anthrax contained the additive bentonite to enhance suspension
in air. 12 Senate offices were closed as hundreds of staffers
underwent anthrax tests.
(SFC, 10/17/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
10/26/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/16/02)
2001 Oct 16, Over 100 aircraft
struck targets in Afghanistan and 2 gunships fired on Taliban and al
Qaeda troops. U.S. bombs struck the Red Cross compound in
Afghanistan, injuring a guard.
(WSJ, 10/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/16/02)
2001 Oct 16, It was reported
that the US strategy in the bombing of Afghanistan was failing
because it contradicted a Pashtun code of honor known as
Pashtunwali. Central to the code is nang, where death is taught to
be preferable to a life without honor. A 2nd tenet called badal,
revenge, taught that only way to redeem honor is to avenge it. A 3rd
tenet called melmastiya, hospitality, was exploited by Osama bin
Laden as a guest in the country.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 16, US Customs at JFK
found $140,763 in the luggage of Basam Nahshal who was bound for
Yemen. A 2nd man Ali Alfatimi claimed the money was his and was
being smuggled to Yemen as part of his travel business.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 16, Robert Durst
failed to appear for a court hearing in the dismemberment death of
Morris Black (71) in Galveston, Texas. Durst was also a suspect in
the Dec, 2000, shooting death of author Susan Berman. In 1982
Kathleen Durst (29) had disappeared after spending a weekend at the
family cottage in South Salem. Robert Durst, her husband, reported
her missing Feb 5. Durst was arrested Nov 30, 2001, in Bethlehem,
Pa., for shoplifting. A Texas jury acquitted Durst of Black's murder
in 2003.
(SFC, 10/13/01, p.A15)(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/12/03, p.A1)
2001 Oct 16, Enron Corp.
reported a 3rd quarter loss of $618 million and reduced shareholder
equity by $1.2 billion to account for transactions involving limited
partnerships.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A18)
2001 Oct 16, Etta Jones (72),
jazz vocalist, died in Manhattan.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A21)
2001 Oct 16, In Israel PM
Sharon said he would accept the creation of a Palestinian state if
Israeli security needs were met.
(WSJ, 10/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 16, It was reported
that flooding in North Korea had killed at least 81 people and
damaged vast amounts of cropland over the last week. This portended
an 8th year of food shortages.
(WSJ, 10/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 17, Peter Carey won
his 2nd Booker Prize for his novel "True History of the Kelly Gang,"
a fictional account of the 19th century Australian outlaw.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.B3)
2001 Oct 17, Pres. Bush
departed on a diplomatic mission to China following a stop in
Sacramento, Ca.
(SFC, 10/17/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 17, Federal officials
reported that the anthrax strains in New York and Florida appeared
to be identical. The House and 6 congressional office buildings were
closed for tests after over 30 Senate staff members tested positive
for exposure to spores.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 17, Researchers at
Lucent’s Bell Labs reported the development of a tiny new transistor
made of a simple cluster of organic molecules.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.D2)(WSJ, 10/18/01, p.B8)
2001 Oct 17, Jay Livingston
(86), film and TV composer, died in LA. He worked with lyricist Ray
Evans and together won 3 Academy Awards for best song, which
included "Que Sera Sera" in 1956.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.D5)
2001 Oct 17, In Afghanistan
Taliban forces seized UN food warehouses in Kabul and Kandahar. Some
100 US land and sea-base planes hit targets that included Kandahar
and Mazar-e-Sharif.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 17, Rehavam Zeevi,
Israeli tourist minister, was shot dead at the Hyatt Regency in East
Jerusalem. The PFLP claimed responsibility and Yasser Arafat
promised to hunt down the perpetrators. Hambi Quran, Basel al-Asmar,
Ahmed Gholmy and Majdi Rimawi were later convicted for the murder.
Ahmed Saadat, head of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, was imprisoned in Jericho. In 2007 Hamdi Quran was
sentenced to 100 years in prison for gunning down the minister as
well as bombing and shooting attacks against Israelis. In 2008
Bassel Asmar was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder,
attempted murder and belonging to a terror organization.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A1)(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A16)(AP,
3/7/06)(AP, 2/6/08)
2001 Oct 17, In the Philippines
gunmen abducted an Italian priest, Giuseppe Pierantoni (45), in
Dimataling, Zamboanga del Sur. He was freed Apr 8, 2002.
(WSJ, 10/18/01, p.A1)(SFC, 4/8/02, p.A7)
2001 Oct 17, Russia announced
military cuts that would eliminate a navy base in Vietnam and a
radar station in Cuba.
(WSJ, 10/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 18, Pres. Bush arrived
in China for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in
Shanghai. The agenda was economic development and trade
liberalization.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 18, CBS News announced
that an employee in Dan Rather's office had tested positive for skin
anthrax.
(AP, 10/18/02)
2001 Oct 18, Two new cases of
anthrax were reported in New Jersey.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 18, The FBI and Postal
Service announced a $1 million reward for information leading to the
arrest of anthrax mailings.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 18, Four disciples of
Osama bin Laden, convicted in the 1998 bombing of US embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania, were sentenced to life in prison and ordered to
pay $33 million in restitution to victims.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A7)(AP, 10/18/02)
2001 Oct 18, In Afghanistan the
city of Kandahar was reported to have collapsed to "pre-Taliban
lawlessness." The first US Special Forces were reported to have
begun operating on the ground in southern Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 18, Atef Abeiyat, a
militia commander in Arafat’s Fatah, was killed with 2 others when
their car exploded near Bethlehem. 3 other Palestinians were killed
by Israeli fire including an 11-year-old school girl.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A1,18)
2001 Oct 18, Germany issued an
int’l. arrest warrant for Zakariya Essabar (24) for links to the
bombing of the WTC.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 18, Japan’s House of
Representatives approved an anti-terrorism bill that defines a
narrow role for its military to support US attacks in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 18, In Northern
Ireland Protestant politicians announced that they were pulling out
of the power-sharing agreement with Catholics to protest the failure
of the IRA to surrender its weapons.
(SFC, 10/19/01, p.D4)
2001 Oct 18, In the Philippines
Pres. Arroyo lifted a moratorium on executions and said she would
use the penalty on kidnappers.
(WSJ, 10/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, Pres. Bush met
with China’s Pres. Zemin on the eve of the Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation meeting.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, US special forces
attacked a Taliban stronghold in Kandahar in the 1st known ground
action involving US troops.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, Two US military
personnel were killed in a helicopter accident in Pakistan.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, The FBI identified
the Trenton, NJ, mailbox from which the anthrax letters were sent to
NYC and Washington. Two more people were reported to be infected
bringing the total to 8.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 19, In Philadelphia
luggage, from a baggage locker that was deposited Sep 29, was found
to contain C-4 plastic explosives.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 19, Enron Corp. froze
the assets in its 401 (k) employee retirement plan and barred
employees from selling company stock trading at $32.20. Employee
stock was unfrozen Nov 19 with shares at $11.69.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A18)
2001 Oct 19, In Afghanistan
some 3,500 refugees arrived near the Pakistani border town of
Chaman, the largest number to date. The number had averaged about
2,000.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A6)
2001 Oct 19, EU leaders pledged
their continued support for the US-led campaign in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 19, A refugee ship,
enroute from Indonesia to Australia, carrying some 353 emigrants
from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine and Algeria, sank off the
island of Java. 44 people survived.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.C1)(AP, 2/3/06)(Econ, 4/25/09,
p.49)
2001 Oct 19, Israeli troops and
tanks invaded Bethlehem and left 6 Palestinians dead. A Palestinian
fighter was killed in Ramallah.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.E1)
2001 Oct 19, Digna Ochoa (38),
a prominent human rights lawyer, was found shot to death in Mexico
City. She was shot once in the left leg and again in the head. In
2003 a prosecutor said her death was a probable suicide.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A22)(AP, 7/19/03)
2001 Oct 20, During a visit to
Shanghai, China, Pres. Bush challenged Asian leaders to help "save
the civilized world" by joining his war against terrorism.
(AP, 10/20/02)
2001 Oct 20, US commandos
struck 2 targets in Afghanistan that included an airfield and a
command complex near Kandahar. Two 500-pound bombs hit a residential
center area northwest of Kabul.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Oct 20, It was reported
that Nat’l. Sec. Advisor, Condoleeza Rice, and Sec. of Defense,
Donald Rumsfeld, had made appearances in the past week on the Al
Jazeera network to repeat that the war on terrorism is not a war on
Islam.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 20, It was reported
that the US was using a 40-year-old EC C-130 plane called "Commando
Solo" to broadcast messages and music over Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 20, Traces of anthrax
were found in a US House of Representatives mail room. This became
the 3rd Capital Hill building infected.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A3)(AP, 10/20/02)
2001 Oct 20, It was reported
that record flooding around Buenos Aires, Argentina, had damaged
some 8.6 million acres of prime farmland. The area was declared a
national disaster and losses were estimated at $300 million.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 20, Israeli tanks and
troops seized control of Kalkilya and Tulkarm and moved into the
heart of Bethlehem. At least 8 Palestinians were killed.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A19)
2001 Oct 20, Pakistan confirmed
that it was holding talks with a senior Taliban commander, Mullah
Jalaluddin Haqqani, on the makeup of a future Afghan government.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.A18)
2001 Oct 20, In Yemen some
30,000 people gathered in Amran to protest US airstrikes in
Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 21, The Arizona
Diamondbacks won the National League championship, defeating the
Atlanta Braves 3-2 in game five.
(AP, 10/21/02)
2001 Oct 21, US warplanes hit
Taliban frontline troops north of Kabul in the fiercest hits to
date. A 1000-pound bomb hit near a senior citizens home in Herat. US
air strikes at Thorai killed 21 civilians.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A12)(SSFC,
7/21/02, p.A14)
2001 Oct 21, Thomas L. Morris
Jr. (55), a DC postal worker diagnosed with the deadly inhalation
form of anthrax, died. Officials began testing thousands of postal
employees.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/24/01, p.A1)(AP,
10/22/06)
2001 Oct 21, A moratorium
against state collection of Internet taxes expired.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 21, A Taliban official
reported that 5 of their men had been executed as spies.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 21, In Berlin,
Germany, the Social Democrats held on to power in municipal
elections, but would have to form a coalition to govern.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 21, Israeli forces
continued to occupy West Bank territory and 3 Palestinians were
killed including Johnny Thaljieh, a 16-year-old Christian.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 21, In Kazakstan a
3-person Russian-French crew blasted off for the Int’l. Space
Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The crew included Claudie
Haignere, who in 1996 became the 1st Frenchwoman in space.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B2)
2001 Oct 21, In Macedonia Pres.
Boris Trajkovski approved a plan to deploy ethnically mixed police
units in areas that had been seized by ethnic Albanian revels.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B2)
2001 Oct 21, In Northern
Ireland Catholic and Protestant groups pelted each other with
homemade grenades in the Limestone Road area of north Belfast.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.B2)
2001 Oct 21, Pacific Rim
leaders ended a 2-day economic summit and condemned the Sep 11
attacks against the US and denounced terrorism in all its forms.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 22, The New York
Yankees routed Seattle 12-3 in game five to win the American League
pennant for the 38th time.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2001 Oct 22, On Capitol Hill,
the House and Senate reopened while their office buildings remained
closed.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2001 Oct 22, The Pentagon flew
restricted attacks over Afghanistan using mostly carrier-based
aircraft. Def. Sec. Donald Rumsfeld denied that US and British
planes bombed a hospital in Herat where the Taliban claimed 100
people were killed. One Pentagon official did say that a US missile
had gone astray near Herat and might have struck a non-military
target.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A1,4)
2001 Oct 22, US AC-130 gunships
descended on a farm at Chowkar-Karez outside Kandahar and killed 19
civilians.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A12)
2001 Oct 22, A second
Washington DC postal worker, Joseph P. Curseen (47), died of
inhalation anthrax.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/24/01, p.A1)(AP,
10/22/02)
2001 Oct 22, It was reported
that 4 key terrorist suspects held in NYC had refused to reveal any
information and law enforcement officials were talking of
sidestepping civil liberties.
(SFC, 10/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 22, Anderson
Accounting learned that the SEC was inquiring into the accounting
records of Enron Corp. Enron disclosed that that the SEC had opened
an inquiry into its limited partnerships.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A12)(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A18)
2001 Oct 22, Indonesia enacted
a bill that granted Irian Jaya sweeping autonomy. It included a name
change to Papua, 80% royalties from logging and fishing and 70%
royalties from mining, oil and gas.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.C3)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 22, Israeli forces
held on to Palestinian territory despite US demands for withdrawal.
3 Palestinians were killed as fighting spilled into Lebanon.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 22, Sinn Fein leader
Gerry Adams urged the Irish Republican Army to begin disarming to
save Northern Ireland's peace process.
(AP, 10/22/02)
2001 Oct 22-24, In eastern
Nigeria soldiers killed up to 200 civilians and caused thousands of
villagers to flee into the bush. The killings were apparently in
revenge for 19 soldiers killed in Benue state. Pres. Obasanjo later
acknowledged ordering the attacks and made a formal apology Jan 1,
2003.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C16)(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D3)(AP,
1/3/03)
2001 Oct 22, Pakistan reached a
agreement with the Taliban to accept the return of thousands of
refugees. The Taliban agreed to set up 2 refugee camps inside
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Oct 22, In Venezuela at
least 11 people, mostly children, were killed during a stampede into
a bullring for a music concert in Valencia.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 22, It was reported
that Yemen had partially shut down its port of Aden after the
breakup of a big anti-US protest. Militants were commandeering boats
to ferry fighters out of the country and to Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 23, President Bush
announced he had authorized money for improved post office security
following the deaths of two postal workers from inhalation anthrax.
(AP, 10/23/02)
2001 Oct 23, Traces of anthrax
were found at an off-site facility that handled mail for the White
House.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 23, A relieved NASA
team celebrated as the 2001 Mars Odyssey slipped into orbit around
the Red Planet, two years after back-to-back failures by Mars
missions. The $297 million Mars Odyssey spacecraft entered into a
stable orbit following a 6-month voyage.
(SFC, 10/23/01, p.A13)(SFC, 10/24/01, p.C4)(AP,
10/23/02)
2001 Oct 23, US bombs in Kabul,
Afghanistan, reportedly killed 22 Harkat ul-Mujahedeen fighters from
Pakistan.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 23, John Ashcroft, US
Attorney Gen’l., said 3 men wanted by German authorities, Said
Bahaji, Ramzi Binalshibh and Zakariya Essabar, were part of a
terrorist cell in Hamburg that included 3 men from the Sep 11 attack
on the WTC.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 23, US military
officers were sent to the Philippines to assess how the US might
help the local war against terrorism.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 23, David B. Duncan of
Anderson Accounting called a meeting to organize the destruction of
Enron-related records. Duncan was fired in 2002.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A12)
2001 Oct 23, The MacArthur
Foundation announced 23 "genius" award winners. Each would receive
$100,000 over the next 5 years.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A15)
2001 Oct 23, African leaders
gathered in Nigeria for the formal launch of the New Africa
Initiative, aimed at reviving ailing their economies.
(WSJ, 10/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 23, Israel rejected a
request by Pres. Bush to withdraw from Palestinian territory as the
violence continued.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.C3)
2001 Oct 23, The Irish
Republican Army (IRA) began to destroy its arsenal of weapons in a
move to save the Northern Ireland peace process.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.C3)(AP, 10/23/02)
2001 Oct 23, In the Philippines
6 suspected Muslim rebels surrendered and 3 were captured.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 24, The US House
passed a $100 billion economic stimulus package.
(AP, 10/24/02)
2001 Oct 24, The US government
arranged to buy 100 million Cipro tablets from Bayer for 95 cents
each. The tablets were for anthrax. US Postmaster General John
Potter told Americans “There are no guaranties that mail is safe.”
He warned people to wash their hands after handling mail.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.D1)(SSFC, 9/10/06, p.E4)
2001 Oct 24, O.J. Simpson was
acquitted in Miami of grabbing another driver's glasses and
scratching the man's face in a road-rage argument that the former
football star insisted was started by the other guy.
(AP, 10/24/02)
2001 Oct 24, In NYC 14-story
scaffolding collapsed in a courtyard behind 215 Park Ave S. and at
least 5 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C16)
2001 Oct 24, A blizzard hit
North Dakota and Minnesota. The 10 inches of snow broke a 1926 Grand
Forks record. The blizzard killed 6 people in the Midwest with 4
dead in North Dakota car crashes.
(WSJ, 10/25/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D8)
2001 Oct 24, In Montgomery,
Texas, Michael James Perry and Jason Burkett fatally shot Sandra
Stotler (50), her son Adam Stotler and Jeremy Richardson (18), with
a shotgun. Perry (28) was executed in 2010.
(http://off2dr.com/modules/extcal/event.php?event=324)
2001 Oct 24, In Afghanistan US
jets attacked frontline Taliban positions for a 4th day. The
Pentagon accused the Taliban regime of planning to poison relief
food supplies and to blame the US for resulting deaths.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A3, A4)
2001 Oct 24, Some 1500
Afghanistan leaders met in Pakistan for a 2-day Assembly for Peace
and National Unity in Afghanistan. Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani, a
religious leader, presided.
(SFC, 10/24/01, p.A12)(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 24, It was reported
that Abdul Haq, a Pashtun opposition leader, had entered southern
Afghanistan with some 100 men to open an ethnic-Pashtun front
against the Taliban.
(WSJ, 10/24/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 24, Britain began
tearing down 4 military installations in Northern Ireland in
response to the IRA’s decision to disarm.
(WSJ, 10/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 24, Chechen leader
Akhmed Zakayev called Putin envoy Viktor Kazantsev to meet in Moscow
for talks.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 24, Israeli forces
stormed into Beit Rama and killed at least 5 more Palestinians. 11
were arrested including 2 who allegedly helped kill an Israeli
Cabinet minister.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A15)
2001 Oct 24, Amid Farik Rizk
was detained in Italy after being found stowed away in a container
ship bound for Canada. Rizk was equipped with electronic gear and
had security passes for airports in Canada, Thailand and Egypt.
(WSJ, 10/26/01, p.A19)
2001 Oct 24, A NATO spokesman
said peacekeepers in Bosnia had disrupted a Bosnian terrorist
network.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A14)
2001 Oct 24, In Pakistan some
4,000 armed men blocked and held the Karakoram Highway, the main
road to China, and demanded that Musharraf step down by Nov 7. Some
10,000 Pashtun tribesmen held the hills over the highway.
(WSJ, 10/30/01, p.A17)(SFC, 10/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 24, In Switzerland 2
trucks collided in the 10.6 mile Gotthard tunnel and at least 10
people were killed. 11 were later confirmed dead with 30 people
missing. The tunnel was expected to stay closed for weeks.
(SFC, 10/25/01, p.A15)(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D2)(SFC,
10/27/01, p.C1)
2001 Oct 25, A day after the
House signed on, the Senate sent President Bush a package of
anti-terror measures giving police sweeping new powers to search
people's homes and business records secretly and to eavesdrop on
telephone and computer conversations.
(AP, 10/25/02)
2001 Oct 25, A State Dept. mail
worker in Virginia was diagnosed with the inhalational form of
anthrax.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 25, American warplanes
dropped cluster bombs for the 1st time on Taliban front lines.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.A18)
2001 Oct 25, Operation Green
Quest was the name given to a Treasury Dept. led task force headed
by the Customs Service to crack down on financial sponsors of
terrorism.
(WSJ, 10/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 25, The Ford Motor Co.
reached a settlement that would cost as much as $2.7 billion to
replace a $4 ignition device prone to cause stalling.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 25, Microsoft
introduced its new Windows XP operating system.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 25, Israel withdrew
from Beit Rama and pledged phased withdrawals if demands for a total
cease-fire were met. Three Palestinians were killed in Bethlehem.
(SFC, 10/26/01, p.D2)
2001 Oct 26, Pres. Bush signed
a sweeping anti-terrorism bill into law. It gave police and
intelligence agencies vast new powers to fight terrorism. The USA
Patriot Act included Section 215 that gave the FBI authority to
obtain library and bookstore records without evidence of wrongdoing.
It allowed the government to detain aliens without public
acknowledgement.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A3,6)(SSFC, 6/23/02,
p.A5)(SSFC, 12/22/02, p.A5)
2001 Oct 26, Anthrax was found
in the offices of 3 lawmakers in the Longworth House Office building
on Capital Hill. The Supreme Court was shut down to test for anthrax
spores.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 26, American Red Cross
President Bernadine Healy announced her resignation.
(AP, 10/26/02)
2001 Oct 26, Lockheed Martin
won a $200 million military contract, the biggest in US
history, for a new fleet of fighter jets for the US and British
forces.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.E1)
2001 Oct 26, In Fort Worth,
Texas, Chante Jawan Mallard (25), a nurse's aide, ran into Gregory
Biggs (37), a homeless man, after a night of partying. Biggs was
left to die in the windshield. In 2003 Mallard was convicted of
murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison.
(SFC, 6/27/03, p.A13)
2001 Oct 26, US warplanes hit
Red Cross warehouses in Kabul a 2nd time by accident. Afghan
officials said 3 children were killed in overnight raids. A human
rights group said that as many as 35 civilians were killed in
Chowkar-Karez, near Kandahar from US air strikes. The Taliban
captured and executed Abdul Haq, a prominent opposition leader, who
was attempting to arrange defections.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 26, In Colombia US
ambassador Anne Patterson said the US would provide
counter-terrorist aid: "Colombia has 10% of the terrorist groups in
the world."
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 26, Israel agreed to
pull back from Bethlehem and Beit Jalla as a test of Palestinian
guarantees of security.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 26, North Korea said
it was no longer interested in dialogue with the US due to Pres.
Bush’s recent description of North Korea as "so suspicious and
secretive."
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 26, In Pakistan some
40,000 marched in Karachi to protest US air strikes. Another 10,000
protested in Quetta.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 27, The Arizona
Diamondbacks defeated the New York Yankees in game one of the World
Series, 9-1.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2001 Oct 27, In Washington, the
search for deadly anthrax widened to thousands of businesses and 30
mail distribution centers.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2001 Oct 27, US warplanes hit
frontline Taliban positions in the heaviest attacks to date. 10
people were reported killed from an errant bomb in the village of
Ghanikhel in Kapisa province.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 27, Brian Robinson
(40) of San Jose became the 1st person to hike the 3 major National
Scenic Trails, 7,400 miles in 22 states, in a calendar year when he
reached the northern terminus of the 2,168 mile Appalachian Trail
atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin. He had already hiked the Pacific Crest
Trail, 2,645 miles, and the Continental Divide Trail, 2,588 miles.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A19)(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.E1)
2001 Oct 27, Over 5000
volunteers headed into Afghanistan from Temergarah, Pakistan, to
help fight a holy war against the US.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A14)
2001 Oct 27, Ruue Lubbers, the
UN refugee chief, said some 150,000 Afghans had crossed into
Pakistan in recent weeks.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 27, Israel called off
a planned withdrawal from Palestinian territory citing a handful of
shooting attacks.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 27, In Kashmir Islamic
rebels fought Indian troops in several areas and at least 21 people
were killed.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 27, Jamil Qasim Saeed
Mohammed (27), a Yemeni microbiology student, was turned over to US
authorities in Pakistan. He was said to be an active al Qaeda member
and was suspected of involvement in the Oct 12, 2000 bombing of the
Cole in Aden.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 28, The Arizona
Diamondbacks gained a 2-0 lead in the World Series, defeating the
New York Yankees 4-0.
(AP, 10/28/02)
2001 Oct 28, The families of
people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack gathered in New York
for a memorial service filled with prayer and song.
(AP, 10/28/02)
2001 Oct 28, The CDC reported a
13th case of anthrax in a New Jersey postal worker. Spores were
found at the mail center in Landover, Md.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 28, United Airlines
replaced embattled chairman and chief executive James Goodwin with
board member John Creighton.
(AP, 10/28/02)
2001 Oct 28, In California
Jeffrey Fontana (24), a rookie police officer, was shot and killed
during an apparent traffic stop in San Jose’s Almaden Valley
neighborhood. DeShawn Lee Campbell (22) was suspected in the murder.
Campbell was caught Nov 7. In 2009 Campbell, a mentally disabled
man, was convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to life in
prison.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A1)(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A13)(SFC,
11/8/01, p.A21)(SFC, 8/8/09, p.C2)
2001 Oct 28, The US expanded
air strikes over Afghanistan and hit targets in Kabul,
Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, Jalalabad, Kandahar and near the Tajik
border. 13 civilians, including 4 children, were reported killed in
Kabul.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 28, Israel pulled out
of Bethlehem and Beit Jala. In Hadera suspected Palestinian gunmen
sprayed gunfire and killed 4 women along a main boulevard before
they were shot dead by police. Drive by shooters killed an Israeli
soldier near the northern West Bank frontier.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 28, In Pakistan gunmen
attacked St. Dominic’s Catholic Church in Bahawalpur and shot to
death at least 16 people. In Quetta a bomb on a bus killed 3
passengers. 13 Islamic militants were arrested in connection with
the shooting.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A1,8)(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 28, In Zamboanga,
Philippines, a bomb exploded at a food court and at least 6 people
were killed. Abu Sayyaf rebels were blamed.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 28, In Somalia PM Ali
Khalif Galaydh lost a no-confidence vote after a tenure of 13
months. Pres. Abdiqasim Salad Hassan prepared to nominate a new PM.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 29, Pres. Bush said
that he has created a task force to recommend sweeping changes on
immigration laws to keep out terrorists and deport those already
here.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 29, US officials
issued a broad warning that another terrorist attack could occur
over the next week.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 29, A hospital worker
in NY and a woman who handled mail in New Jersey were found to have
anthrax. Since Oct 4 a total of 37 people have tested positive for
exposure and 15 have contracted the disease.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Oct 29, In Tours, France,
a masked gunman, later identified as a state railway employee,
killed 4 people. He was arrested and a grudge was suspected.
(WSJ, 10/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 29, Israel said it
would leave Palestinian territory if the cease-fire is maintained.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 29, In Morocco over
150 nations began 12 days of talks aimed at completing the rules of
the Kyoto protocol. The US attended on the sidelines.
(SFC, 10/29/01, p.A9)
2001 Oct 29, In The Hague
former Yugoslav Pres. Slobodan Milosevic was indicted on new charges
for crimes in Croatia in 1991. He refused to enter pleas.
(SFC, 10/30/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 29, In Sri Lanka a
suicide bomber blew himself up after being stopped by police in
Colombo. 2 others were killed and 18 injured.
(WSJ, 10/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 29, In Sri Lanka Tamil
Tiger rebels attacked a fuel ship with explosive-packed boats. 4
rebels died along with 3 people aboard the ship. The M.V. Silk
Pride, carrying 660 tons of fuel, exploded and sank.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C7)
2001 Oct 30, The New York
Yankees won game three of the World Series, 2-1, cutting the Arizona
Diamondbacks' games lead to 2-1.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2001 Oct 30, Ford Motor Co.
chairman William Clay Ford Jr. took over as chief executive after
the ouster of Jacques Nasser.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2001 Oct 30, NASA's 2001 Mars
Odyssey snapped its first picture of Mars, one week after the
spacecraft safely arrived in orbit around the Red Planet.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2001 Oct 30, The Pentagon
reported that a small number of US ground forces were operating in
northern Afghanistan.
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 30, Yasser al-Siri, an
Egyptian activist, was charged in London in connection with the
assassination in Afghanistan of Ahmed Shah Massood, a Northern
Alliance leader. [see Egypt, Nov 25, 1993]
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.A4)(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 30, A 5th day of rain
on Caribbean coast force 25,000 people from their homes in Honduras.
4 people were reported killed. Heavy damage was also reported from
Nicaragua with 12 people missing.
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C2)(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C7)
2001 Oct 30, In Tbilisi,
Georgia, the state security ministry sent 30 agents to the
independent Rustavi 2 TV station, ostensibly for a tax
investigation. The director refused the examination of financial
files and put the standoff on the air which prompted 5-10 thousand
people to gather in protest. Security Minister Vakhtang Kutateladze
was later fired by Pres. Shevardnadze.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Oct 30, In Israel Shimon
Peres reportedly prepared a peace initiative with plans to dismantle
Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the creation of a
Palestinian state.
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C3)
2001 Oct 30, In the Philippines
Marvin Deonzon (27) was arrested following the weekend bomb attack.
Deonzon claimed to be part of the al Qaeda network and warned of
another 40 bombs planted around Zamboanga.
(WSJ, 11/1/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 30, In Russia some 300
young people stormed a Moscow market in a racist rampage that left 2
Caucasus vendors dead.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C7)
2001 Oct 30, Ukraine destroyed
its last nuclear missile silo, fulfilling a pledge to give up the
vast nuclear arsenal it had inherited after the breakup of the
former Soviet Union.
(AP, 10/30/02)
2001 October 31, The New York
Yankees played the Arizona Diamondbacks in game four of the World
Series; the game ended just a few minutes after midnight as Derek
Jeter hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift
the Yankees over the Diamondbacks 4-3 and tie the Series at two
games each.
(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 Oct 31, US bombing in
Afghanistan was reported to be the heaviest in the 4-week campaign.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 31, The US Commerce
Dept. reported a 3rd quarter 0.4% annualized fall in the GDP. The
decline marked an end to 33 straight quarters of economic growth.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 31, The Bush
administration said it would adopt stricter arsenic standard for
drinking water as proposed in the final days of the Clinton
administration.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 31, The Bush
administration said the Saudi government has issued an order to
freeze assets of people and groups suspected of links to terrorism.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 31, Attorney Gen. John
Ashcroft announced plans to block hostile foreigners from entering
the US.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A10)
2001 Oct 31, The US Consulate
in Lahore, Pakistan, received a letter that was later confirmed to
contain anthrax.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A10)
2001 October 31, Former
Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Sara Jane Olson pleaded guilty
to 2 felony accounts in Los Angeles to the attempted murder of
police officers from activities with the Symbionese Liberation Army
in 1975. She was later sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 October 31, Microsoft and
the Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the
historic antitrust case against the software giant.
(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 Oct 31, In Connecticut
Joseph Ganim (42), the mayor of Bridgeport, was charged in a federal
racketeering indictment with soliciting over $425,000 in bribes.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 31, The SEC inquiry
into Enron Corp. became a formal investigation.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A12)
2001 Oct 31, Halloween this
year came with a blue moon, the 2nd full moon of the month.
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C2)
2001 Oct 31, Kathy Nguyen (61),
a NYC hospital worker, died of anthrax. She was the 4th person to
perish in a spreading wave of bioterrorism. The source of infection
remained a mystery.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 October 31, Cold War arms
negotiator Paul C. Warnke died at age 81.
(AP, 10/31/02)
2001 Oct 31, An Israeli
helicopter missile in Hebron killed Jamil Jadallah, a senior Hamas
member. 5 other Palestinians were also killed in West Bank attacks.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A13)
2001 Oct 31, In Pakistan Pres.
Musharraf ordered the arrest of anyone using a mosque loudspeaker
for anything other than the traditional call to prayer. He also
banned the use of mosques to "spread sectarian hatred."
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Oct 31, In Peru Congress
unanimously approved embezzlement charges against former Pres.
Fujimori.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C7)
2001 Oct, The US Treasury
stopped selling 30-year bonds.
(WSJ, 3/15/05, p.C5)
2001 Oct, The FDA approved
tenofovir (Viread), made by Gilead Sciences, to fight HIV. It
blocked a key enzyme in HIV called reverse transcriptase. Gilead
acquired it from Czech chemist Antonin Holy and turned it into a
once-a-day pill.
(SFC, 7/14/04, p.A14)
2001 Oct, Bogdan Dzakovic,
former member of the FAA Red Team, filed a whistle-blower disclosure
with the Office of Special Counsel, an independent US government
agency. The Red Team, which revealed vulnerable area inside
airports, had been grounded shortly after Sep 11.
(SSFC, 7/9/06, p.E1)
2001 Oct, A one-day workshop on
deflecting asteroids was held at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in
Houston. The B612 Foundation formed soon thereafter to promote an
asteroid defense system. B612 is the asteroid home of the Little
Prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's child's story The Little
Prince.
(SFCM, 10/8/06, p.13)(www.b612foundation.org)
2001 Oct, Oybek Jabbarov, his
pregnant wife and infant son were living as refugees near the
Afghan-Uzbek border when he accepted a lift in a car with soldiers
of the National Alliance, an Afghan military faction long at war
with the Taliban. He says the soldiers kidnapped him, falsely
branded him a Taliban fighter, and delivered him to US troops to
collect an easy bounty. He was transferred to Guantanamo in 2002 and
cleared for release in February 2007, but kept in custody until
2009, when he was transferred to Ireland.
(AP, 9/27/09)
2001 Oct, New galleries opened
at the Tate Britain Museum.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A19)
2001 Oct, Britain abolished a
tax on betting turnover. The tax, begun in 1966, was replaced with a
tax on the gross profits of bookmakers. Betting firms, which had
been moving rapidly offshore, began to move back.
(Econ, 9/29/07, p.59)(http://tinyurl.com/39lgqm)
2001 Oct, The European Court of
Human Rights ruled in a case against airport noise that people have
a fundamental right to a good night’s sleep.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct, Sayyid Imam
al-Sharif (b.~1950), aka Dr. Fadl, a co-founder of al-Qaida, was
arrested in Yemen and transferred to Egypt in 2004, where he changed
his radical position and published "Document of Right Guidance for
Jihad Activity in Egypt and the World," also transliterated as
"Rationalizing Jihad in Egypt and the World". In it he proclaimed
“We are prohibited from committing aggression, even if the enemies
of Islam do that.” In 1988 in Peshawar, Pakistan, “The Essential
Guide for Preparation” by Dr. Fadl appeared and became one of the
most important texts in training for jihadis.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Imam_Al-Sharif)
2001 Nov 1, The New York
Yankees took a 3-2 games lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks as they
won game five of the World Series, 3-2, in a contest that ended
after midnight.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2001 Nov 1, President Bush
issued Executive Order 13233 allowing past presidents, beginning
with Ronald Reagan in 1980, to have as much say as incumbent
presidents in keeping some of their White House papers private.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.D4)(AP, 11/1/02)(SFC, 1/21/08,
p.C5)
2001 Nov 1, Pres. Bush extended
sanctions against Sudan for one year.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D5)
2001 Nov 1, US planes made
their heaviest assaults to date in northern Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 1, Anthrax spores were
found in 4 mailrooms in Rockville, Md., a postal facility in Kansas
City, 3 new locations in a Manhattan processing center and a 6th
postal facility in Florida.
(WSJ, 11/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 1, A NY state cell
phone law went into effect. It required motorists to use hand-free
systems for use while driving.
(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 1, United Airlines
reported a record 3rd quarter loss of $1.16 billion.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.B1)
2001 Nov 1, In Colombia Carlos
Arturo Pinto (53), a regional prosecutor, was shot to death in
Cucuta by 2 men on motorcycle. Pinto had replaced Maria del Rosario,
who was shot to death in July.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D5)
2001 Nov 1, In Georgia Pres.
Shevardnadze fired his government as demonstrators took to the
streets and demanded changes.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Nov 1, Israeli helicopter
missiles killed 2 Palestinians in a taxi in the West Bank. Yasser
Asideh was identified as a suicide bomber being driven to a target
by Fahami Abu Eisha.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Nov 1, In Pakistan a
statement attributed to bin Laden accused the government of
supporting a Christian crusade and urged people to defend their
faith.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 1, It was reported
that the tri-border area of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil had a
long-standing presence of Islamic extremist organizations.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, President George W.
Bush, saying the war in Afghanistan was unraveling Osama bin Laden's
terrorist network, chided critics for clamoring for more action, and
said the U.S. military campaign would not pause for the Muslim
holiday of Ramadan.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/2/02)
2001 Nov 2, The US government
reported that the nation's unemployment rate had shot up to 5.4
percent in October and that the US lost 415,000 jobs during the
month of October.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/2/02)
2001 Nov 2, A classified memo
to Congress notified lawmakers that the Bush administration planned
a $400 million arms deal with Egypt that included 53 Harpoon Block
II surface-to-surface satellite guided missiles.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 2, The Bush
administration imposed stringent financial sanctions on Hamas,
Hezbollah and 20 other suspected terrorist groups.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 2, The US Justice
Dept. announced a tentative settlement with Microsoft Corp in an
anti-trust suit.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Nov 2, A US helicopter
crashed due to weather in northern Afghanistan. 4 crew members were
injured and retrieved by another helicopter.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 2, A 17th case of
anthrax was reported in a NY Post employee.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, NYC firefighters
and police engaged in a scuffle as firefighters protested a limit to
the number of firefighters working to retrieve their dead at the WTC
disaster site.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, Estimated of the
WTC dead dropped to 4,396. [see Dec 19]
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, It was reported
that Ibrahim Bah, a Libyan-trained former Senegalese rebel, lived in
Burkina Faso and selected diamond dealers to handle deals in Liberia
between rebels from Sierra Leone and the al Qaeda network.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Nov 2, In El Salvador
gunmen killed 10 people in San Salvador in a suspected drug trade
execution.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C2)
2001 Nov 2, In Kashmir
Indian forces killed at least 25 suspected Islamic militants who
tried to cross over to Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C2)
2001 Nov 2, In Pakistan some
500,000 Muslims gathered In Raiwind, Punjab, for the annual Tablighi
Ijtimah (Congregation of Preaching). Their movement was founded in
1950 in India.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 3, The Arizona
Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees 15-2 to tie up the World
Series at three games apiece.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2001 Nov 3, Arkansas beat
Mississippi 58-56 in seven overtimes in the longest NCAA college
football game in history, one that lasted four hours and 14 minutes.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2001 Nov 3, U.S. Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met with his Russian counterpart in Moscow
to discuss nuclear arsenal cuts, American plans for a missile
defense system, and U.S.-Russian cooperation in the campaign against
terror. The visit was part of a 4-day tour with stops in Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, Pakistan and India.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A10)(AP, 11/3/02)
2001 Nov 3, US planes staged
continuous bombing against Taliban positions in Samangan province
and the Northern Alliance pressed toward Mazar-e-Sharif.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 3, E.H. Gombrich
(b.1909), art historian, died in London. His work included "The
Story of Art." In 2002 his work "The Preference for the Primitive"
was published. In 2005 his 1935 book “A Little History of the
World," originally in German, was published in English.
(WSJ, 11/26/02, p.D8)(AP, 9/16/05)
2001 Nov 3, In the Central
African Republic presidential guard units fought soldiers loyal to
the former army chief of staff a day after government forces tried
to arrest the ousted general.
(WSJ, 11/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 3, In Colombia FARC
fighters besieged the town of Paujil and killed 3 police officers. 8
truck drivers were abducted in Casanare province at a roadblock and
3 technicians in the same region.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 3, The Al-Jazeera TV
network broadcast a videotape from Osama bin Laden. He portrayed
that attacks against Afghanistan as a war against Islam and
denounced Arab leaders who cooperate with the UN for peace
negotiations saying that amounted to a renunciation of Islam.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A5,8)
2001 Nov 3, In Singapore the
ruling party won a large majority in general elections. The People’s
Action Party of PM Goh Chok Tong got 75% of the vote.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 4, NBC's "The West
Wing" took eight honors at the twice-delayed Emmy Awards, including
best dramatic series; HBO's "Sex and the City" won best comedy
series.
(AP, 11/4/02)
2001 Nov 4, In Phoenix the
Arizona Diamondbacks beat the NY Yankees 3-2 in game 7 of the World
Series.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 4, Tesfaye Jifar of
Ethiopia won the NYC Marathon in record time, 2:07:43. Margaret
Okayo of Kenya set a woman’s record of 2:24:21.
(WSJ, 11/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 4, The US reached a
tentative agreement with Tajikistan for military cooperation in
exchange for tens of millions of dollars.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 4, Ian Wallace
attempted to firebomb 2 buildings at Michigan Tech. Univ. in
Marquette, Mi., but his devices failed. In 2009 he was sentenced to
3 years in prison. In 2008 Wallace admitted in his plea agreement to
three other acts, including the destruction of 500 research trees at
a federal lab in Rhinelander, Wis., in 2000. The value of the trees
was estimated at $1 million.
(SFC, 3/24/09, p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/db4zpf)
2001 Nov 4, The US moved more
special operations forces into Afghanistan and continued air strikes
on the Taliban front lines. The Air Force dropped a 15,000 pound
fuel-air explosion bomb called a Daisy Cutter that was last used in
the Vietnam War. Thousands of foreign volunteers were reported
moving to the Taliban front lines.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A1,3)(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 4, It was reported
that both Poland and the Czech Republic would send military forces
to assist the US in Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 11/5/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 4, In Colombia gunmen
abducted a judge and 3 lawyers in Antioquia province. Glen Heggstad
(Heregestard) of California was released Dec 7.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A13)(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A5)(SFC,
12/11/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 4, It was reported
that the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur cited bin Laden as
possibly possessing an arsenal of biochemical weapons. US
intelligence sources were cited that bin Laden purchased
laboratories from the former Yugoslavia, Ebola virus from former
Soviet stockpiles, botulism from the Czech Republic, anthrax from
North Korea and the assistance of chemists and biologists from the
Ukraine.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A25)
2001 Nov 4, Hurricane Michelle
hit Cuba and forced the evacuation of 750,000. At least 5 people
were killed.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 4, In Israel Khatem
Shweili (24), a Palestinian gunman, fired an M-16 at a school bus in
Jerusalem and killed Shoshana Ben-Yisgai (16) and a boy (13-14). The
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 4, In Nicaragua
elections former leader Daniel Ortega (54) faced Enrique Bolanos
(73) of the governing Constitutionalist Liberal Party. Enrique
Bolanos won the elections.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D1)(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 4, In northern Nigeria
Christian-Muslim fighting over the weekend left about 10 dead. It
was sparked by the imposition of Muslim religious law, Shariah.
(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 4, Pakistan arrested
Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of the pro-Taliban Jamaat-e-Islami party,
after he defied a ban on public protests. Ahmed was charged with
sedition the next day.
(SFC, 11/5/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 5, US bombing
continued to hit Taliban front lines and attacks concentrated on
caves and tunnels. About 2 dozen US commandos were reported to be in
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 5, Subash Gurung (27)
of Nepal was arrested at O’Hare Int’l. Airport just before boarding
a plane to Omaha. He passed through checkpoint carrying 7 knives, a
stun gun and a can marked tear gas and was in the US with an expired
student visa.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 5, PG&E Corp., the
parent of bankrupt PG&E, reported a 243% jump in profits during
the 3rd quarter.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Nov 5, Baxter said its
dialysis filters appear to have played a role in the deaths of 53
patients in Texas, Nebraska, and 6 countries in Europe, south
America and Asia.
(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 5, Hurricane Michelle
swept past the Bahamas with 85 mph winds, flooding houses and
cutting power.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2001 Nov 5, Domingo Cavallo,
the economy minister, said Argentina planned to restructure $95
billion of debt to avoid default.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.B11)
2001 Nov 5, Roy Boulting (87),
who with his twin brother, John, produced some of postwar Britain's
most enduring films, died in Eynsham, England.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2001 Nov 5, In the Central
African Republic troops loyal to Gen. Francois Bozize fired mortar
shells at Pres. Patasse’s residence in Bangui and engaged government
soldiers for a 3rd day of fighting.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 5, Israeli tanks
pulled out of Qalqilya and soon after a bomb exploded at the Jewish
settlement of Shaked, 6 miles west of Jenin. The Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 11/6/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 5, Enrique Bolanos
defeated former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua's
presidential election.
(AP, 11/5/02)
2001 Nov 5, In Russian a
military helicopter hit a radio tower near St. Petersburg and at
least 5 crew members were killed.
(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, Season One of the
television series “24” was first broadcast. It featured Jack Bauer
as the protagonist, in which he has trained and worked in various
capacities as a government agent, including U.S. Army Delta Force,
Los Angeles Police Department SWAT, CIA, and finally the Counter
Terrorist Unit (CTU).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bauer#24_Season_1)
2001 Nov 6, Baseball owners
voted 28-2 to eliminate two major league teams by the 2002 season.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, Pres. Bush met with
France’s Pres. Chirac and addressed an anti-terrorism meeting in
Poland via satellite.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, The Federal Reserve
lowered interest rates for the 10th time this year. The half point
drop put the benchmark fed funds rate to 2% and the discount rate to
1.5%, its lowest level in 40 years. The DJIA rose 150 to 9591. The
Nasdaq rose 41 to 1835.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A2)(AP,
11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, Attorney Gen.
Ashcroft directed US DEA agents to go after Oregon doctors in
assisted suicide cases. On Nov 8 a federal judge issued a temp block
of Ashcroft’s order good until Nov 20.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 6, Michael Bloomberg,
self-made billionaire, was elected as the NYC’s 108th mayor. He
spent $69 million on his self-financed campaign. He soon introduced
“311,” a form of centralized customer service for the city.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A1)(Econ,
2/19/05, Survey p.11)
2001 Nov 6, In New Jersey
Democrat Jim McGreevey defeated Republican Bret Schundler in the
race for governor.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 6, In Virginia
Democrat Mark Warner defeated Republican Mark Earley in the race for
governor.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 6, Playwright Anthony
Shaffer, who'd written the thriller "Sleuth," died in London at age
75.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, US bombs killed a
number of civilians in Kabul. The UN later reported that erroneous
bombing killed 30 civilians in Kabul over the 1st 37 days of
bombing.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 6, In Munini, Burundi,
24 civilians were reported dead from fighting between Hutu rebels
and the Tutsi dominated army.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 6, German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder said he would activate 3,900 troops for action in
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 6, In Northern Ireland
David Trimble overcame blocking tactics and was re-elected 1st
minister of the N. Ireland Assembly.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 6, Israeli troops
pulled out of Ramallah. 5 Palestinians were killed along with 1
Israeli soldier in an attack on an Israeli army post and a car bomb
blast.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, Authorities in
Ciudad Juarez found the bodies of 3 young women. 5 more bodies were
found the next day. Mexican authorities later built a somber
memorial of concrete benches, a circular water fountain also made of
concrete and a cement plaque with the names of the eight victims.
The families of three of the women appealed in 2003 for the court,
which is a body of the Organization of American States, to take up
the case. On Nov 7, 2011, Mexico's government publicly apologized
for failing to prevent the killings of the three women and for the
negligence of officials in investigating the crimes.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)(AP, 11/7/11)
2001 Nov 6, Russia clinched a
deal to build a $2.6 billion nuclear-power plant in Kudunkulam,
Tamil Nadu, India. India reiterated its intention of buying a
Russian aircraft carrier, the Admiral Gorshkov, for the cost of
retrofit estimated at $500 million, along with 2 squadrons of
MiG-29C jet fighters.
(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 6, In Madrid, Spain, a
rush hour car bomb blast injured 95 people. The ETA was suspected
and a man and woman were arrested.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 6, In Istanbul,
Turkey, 4 leftist militants, participants in a hunger strike, died
during a police raid. The militants had threatened self-immolation.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 7, The Bush
administration targeted Osama bin Laden's multimillion-dollar
financial networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining
U.S. suspects and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in
40 nations. Federal agents raided 2 money transfer organizations, Al
Barakaat and Al Taqwa that included 10 locations in 4 states.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/7/02)
2001 Nov 7, At the White House,
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, allies in the
war on terrorism, confidently offered back-to-back pledges of
victory, no matter how long it took.
(AP, 11/7/02)
2001 Nov 7,
Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. agreed to pay $41.5 million to head off
lawsuits by states over defective tires.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 7, Small numbers of US
forces prepared to enter southern Afghanistan for special missions.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 7, A special unit of
Afghan and Arab "fidaiyan" fighters, was reported to be ready for
suicide attacks.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 7, British Airways and
Air France resumed Concorde jet flights. Safety changes were made
following the July 25, 2000 crash.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.D1)(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 7, In Colombia FARC
rebels kidnapped Mireya Mejia Araujo, a local peace counselor, and
demanded $217,000 in ransom.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 7, Israeli lawmakers
lifted Parliamentary immunity from Azmi Bishara, a representative of
the Arab party Balad, for statements that allegedly threatened
Israeli security. Israel ended its occupation of Ramallah and
Israeli forces killed 2 Palestinians.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)(WSJ, 11/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 7, Italy pledged an
aircraft carrier and 2,700 troops to help the American campaign in
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 7, Pakistan halted the
news conferences of Afghan ambassador Abdul Salam Zaeef, who used
the event to announce civilian casualties caused by US bombings.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 7, In the Philippines
tropical storm Lingling left at least 68 people dead from floods and
landslides.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 7, In Qatar Abdullah
Mubarak al-Hajiri was killed after he opened fire on US and Qatari
troops guarding the Al Adid air base.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 7, In Spain Judge Jose
Maria Lidon Corbi was shot to death as he drove out of his garage in
Gexto. The ETA was held responsible.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 7, Taiwan ended a
50-year-old ban on direct trade and investment in China.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 8,
In a prime-time address, Pres. Bush called on Americans to defy acts
of terror by strengthening their communities, comforting their
neighbors and remaining vigilant in the face of further threats.
(AP, 11/8/02)
2001 Nov 8, U.S. jets struck
Taliban targets across northern Afghanistan and fierce fighting was
reported around the Taliban-held city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A3)(AP, 11/8/02)
2001 Nov 8, Scientists from
Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs issued a report on "nanotransistors,"
so tiny that 10 million could fit on the head of a pin.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 8, Enron Corp.
disclosed that it had overstated its annual profits by nearly $600
million and had kept over $1 billion off its books since 1997.
(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A12)
2001 Nov 8, The European
Central Bank and the Bank of England lowered interest rates by half
a percent.
(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 8, Israeli border
police stormed a building in Baka al-Sharkiyeh where a suicide
bomber killed himself and wounded 2 commandos.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 8, Pakistan’s Gen.
Pervez Musharraf stopped in Paris and London on his way to meet with
Pres. Bush. He called for an end to military operations before the
month of Ramadan.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 8, In the Philippines
the toll from tropical storm Lingling climbed to at least 350
people. The storm left more than 200 dead and moved to Vietnam.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.A1)(SFC,
11/13/01, p.A14)(AP, 11/8/02)
2001 Nov 8, In South Korea Kim
Dae Jung quit as head of the ruling party.
(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 8, A UN helicopter
crashed into the sea off of Sierra Leone. All 7 aboard were presumed
dead.
(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 9, A federal panel
ordered Amtrak to come up with a liquidation plan.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 9, The US Federal
Election Committee voted 6-0 to recognize the Green Party as a
national committee.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 9, In Afghanistan
Northern Alliance forces under Gen. Rashid Dostum claimed the
capture of Mazar-e-Sharif. Looting and killings were reported.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/14/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 9, Hutu rebels in
Burundi abducted 80 teenage boys and 4 teachers from 3 schools in
Ruyigi. Forced recruitment was believed to be the reason. Hundreds
of youths escaped and at least 3 were left dead.
(WSJ, 11/8/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 9, An Israeli settler
was shot and killed in her car and a Palestinian was shot and killed
as he approached an Israeli army position. In Gaza a 12-year-old
Palestinian boy was wounded and died 3 days later.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A12)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 9, Jordan’s King
Abdullah II said his country would consider sending troops to
Afghanistan to help the anti-terrorism coalition.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 9, In Morocco
negotiators of over 160 countries reached agreement on a climate
control treaty and set mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 9, A Pakistani
newspaper published a Nov 7 interview with Osama bin Laden in which
he claimed to have chemical and nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 9, In Pakistan police
in Dera Ghazi Khan shot and killed 4 protesters during a strike
called by extremist religious parties.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 9, A WTO meeting was
scheduled to start in Qatar. A Sep 27 blueprint called for
concessions from the US, EU and Japan in opening markets for
textiles, steel and agriculture.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 10, Pres. Bush made
his 1st address to the UN. He warned that all nations were
possible targets of terrorism and urged them to join with the United
States in a campaign to prevent more attacks. Bush also met with
Gen. Musharraf of Pakistan and pledged to boost aid there.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/10/02)
2001 Nov 10, Traces of anthrax
were reported in offices of the Hart and Longworth government
buildings in Washington DC.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 10, Ken Kesey
(b.1935), author, died in Eugene, Oregon. His books included "One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" (1962) and "Sometimes a Great Notion"
(1964).
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Nov 10, Percy Ross,
millionaire columnist, died at age 84. His 1983-1999 "Thanks a
Million" newspaper column helped him hand out an estimated $30
million. He was the son of poor immigrants from Latvia and Russia
and made his fortune producing plastic film and trash bags.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A28)
2001 Nov 10, In day 35 of US
attacks in Afghanistan the Northern alliance claimed the capture of
the provincial capitals of Shibarghan, Meimanah, and Aybal. Taliban
forces were surrounded near Taloqan and Kunduz.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 10, Algeria found
itself caught in a fierce 36-hour storm that killed an estimated 886
people.
(AP, 11/10/02)
2001 Nov 10, In Australia
conservative PM Howard faced Labor’s Kim Beazley in elections.
Howard and his conservative government won a 3rd term. Howard’s
Liberal Party won 68 seats of the 150 in the lower house. The
coalition National Party won 12 seats. Labor won 67 and independents
won 3.
(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 10, China officially
joined the WTO after ministers in Qatar approved its membership. The
protocol became effective on Dec 11, 2001.
(SSFC, 11/11/01,
p.A14)(www.china-un.ch/eng/qtzz/wto/t85612.htm)
2001 Nov 10, In Colombia AUC
paramilitary killed 12 villagers in El Choco for collaboration with
the ELN.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 10, In Kashmir Indian
forces battled suspected Islamic militants and 18 people were
killed.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 11, The US costs for
the war in Afghanistan were estimated at $1 billion a month.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 11-2001 Nov 16, In St.
Cloud, Minn., three healthy men died following knee surgeries from
infections of Clostridium sordellii.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 11, In Afghanistan
Northern Alliance forces with help from US warplanes and advisers
captured Taloqan and some 200 Taliban were reported killed. Local
warlords accepted a payment to change allegiance.
(SFC, 11/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A3)(SFC,
11/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 11, Two French radio
reporters and a German magazine journalist were killed when they
came under Taliban fire in Afghanistan.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2001 Nov 11, A 36-hour storm
hit Algeria and 337 people were reported killed. It was the worst
flooding in 20 years. The death toll reached 580.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 11/12/01, p.A1)(SFC,
11/17/01, p.A24)
2001 Nov 11, In Indonesia Theys
Eluay (64), an independence movement leader in Irian Jaya, was found
strangled in his wrecked car and riots erupted. He had spent the
previous evening at dinner with local army commanders. In 2003 7
members of the Indonesia special forces were convicted for
involvement in the murder. Their maximum sentence was 31/2 years.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A12)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A3)(SFC,
4/22/03, A7)
2001 Nov 11, In Mexico Lazaro
Cardena of the leftist PRD won 42% of the votes for governor in
Michoacan state vs. 37% Alfredo Anaya of the PRI.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 11, A Pakistani
newspaper (Ausaf) published the second part of an interview in which
Osama bin Laden was quoted as saying he had nothing to do with the
anthrax attacks in the United States, and declared he would never
allow himself to be captured.
(AP, 11/11/02)
2001 Nov 11, Taiwan officially
joined the WTO after ministers in Qatar approved its membership.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 12, American Airlines
Flight 587, bound for the Dominican Republic, crashed in Belle
Harbor in the Far Rockaway district of Queens just after takeoff
from JFK Airport. All 260 crew and passengers were killed as well as
5 people on the ground. The A300-600 plane appeared to have fallen
apart. The vertical tail section cracked off when composite fittings
failed possibly due to turbulence from a preceding 747. In 2004 a
safety board said the pilot’s “unnecessary and excessive“ use of the
rudder contributed to the crash.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A19)(SFC,
10/27/04, p.A3)(AP, 11/12/05)
2001 Nov 12, Carrie Donovan
(73), the flamboyant fashion editor with the outsized glasses who
had a second career touting T-shirts and cargo pants in Old Navy
commercials, died in New York.
(AP, 11/12/02)
2001 Nov 12, In Afghanistan
Taliban forces abandoned Kabul and Northern Alliance forces moved in
to the capital. The Taliban took with them 8 foreign aid workers.
There were reports of looting and summary executions. 3 European
journalists died in the fighting.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A1,2,15)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 12, Israeli tanks and
troops raided the West Bank village of Tel and killed Muhammed
Reihan (25), a Hamas member. 45 residents were detained.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 12, In Macedonia 3
policemen were killed in fighting following the seizure of hostages
by ethnic Albanians near Tetovo in response to a police raid.
(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 12, Typhoon Lingling
hit Vietnam and 18 people were reported killed.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 12, In Zimbabwe the
government banned 1000 farmers from cultivating their fields and
gave them 3 months to vacate their homes as part of a "fast track"
land redistribution plan.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 13, Pres. Bush issued
an order to try int’l. terrorists by a special military tribunal.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 13, President Bush and
Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the White House, where they
pledged to slash Cold War-era nuclear arsenals by two-thirds but
remained at odds over American plans to develop a missile defense
shield.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/13/02)
2001 Nov 13, Bishop Wilton
Gregory was elected the first black president of the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2001 Nov 13, US warplanes hit
Taliban convoys leaving Kabul. The Al Jazeera office in Kabul was
bombed. Kabul residents rejoiced at the departure of the Taliban.
The Northern Alliance retreated at Kunduz when a suspected surrender
turned into an attack. Some $5.3 million vanished from the Central
Bank Mille in Kabul.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A1,2,3)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 13, Eight foreign aid
workers, two Americans, two Australians and four Germans, held
captive in Afghanistan for three months were freed from a prison by
anti-Taliban fighters.
(AP, 11/13/02)
2001 Nov 13, An anthrax tainted
letter was received by a pediatrician in Santiago. It was postmarked
from Switzerland and marked for return to Florida. It was actually
mailed from NY through a NY-based subsidiary of the Swiss Post
office. The letter was later believed to have been contaminated in a
lab.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A4)(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A9)(WSJ,
11/28/01, p.A4)(WSJ, 11/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 13, Spanish police
arrested 11 people with suspected links to Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 14, Jonathan Franzan
won the national Book Award in fiction for "The Corrections." Andrew
Solomon won the non-fiction award for "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas
of Depression."
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A2)
2001 Nov 14, Pres. Bush
nominated Sean O’Keefe, deputy director of the Office of Management
and Budget, to head NASA.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 14, Pres. Bush
welcomed Pres. Putin to his Prairie Chapel Ranch. They continued
their talks a day after the two leaders agreed at the White House to
reduce their countries' nuclear stockpiles.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A20)(AP, 11/14/02)
2001 Nov 14, Attorney Gen.
Ashcroft unveiled an overhaul of the INS. Law enforcement and
service operations would be split.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 14, The Microsoft
Xbox, a video game player, went on sale for $299.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.D1)
2001 Nov 14, The rout of the
Taliban in Afghanistan accelerated with the Islamic militia losing
control of Jalalabad in the east, once-loyal Pashtun tribesmen
joining in the revolt in the south, and many of their fighters
fleeing into the mountains to evade U.S. airstrikes.
(AP, 11/14/02)
2001 Nov 14, The Northern
Alliance pushed toward Kunduz and Kandahar. 8 Western relief workers
were rescued including 2 Americans. Mohammed Atef, a top al Qaeda
military strategist, was believed killed by a bomb near Kabul. US
air strikes at Gardez killed 23 civilians.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A3)(SSFC,
7/21/02, p.A14)
2001 Nov 14, The UN Security
Council approved a resolution to fill the political vacuum in
Afghanistan and to provide security in areas freed by anti-Taliban
forces.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 14, Britain pledged
5,000 more troops to Afghanistan in addition to 4,500 already in the
war zone.
(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 14, Palestinian police
arrested a top Islamic Jihad militant and sparked an anti-Arafat
protest in Jenin.
(WSJ, 11/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 14, In Doha, Qatar,
142 nations agreed to launch a new round of world trade (WTO) talks
in negotiations that went 24 hours past the scheduled end. The
centerpiece of the round was freer trade in farm goods.
(WSJ, 11/15/01, p.A1)(Econ, 9/20/03, p.11)(Econ,
10/11/08, SR p.30)
2001 Nov 14, In Stavropol,
Russia, 5 men convicted of plotting bomb attacks, were sentenced
9-15 years in prison. All 5 were said to have attended terrorist
camps in Chechnya run by an associate of Osama bin Laden.
(WSJ, 11/15/01, p.A22)
2001 Nov 15, President Bush and
Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to resolve their dispute
over U.S. missile shield plans but pledged to fight terrorism and
deepen U.S.-Russian ties as their summit, which began at the White
House then shifted to Bush's Texas ranch, came to a close.
(AP, 11/15/02)
2001 Nov 15, The US House and
Senate agreed to make airport screeners federal employees within a
year.
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 15, Investigators in
Florida said anthrax was found throughout the 68,000-square-foot
America Media building in Boca Raton, where the 1st case was
identified.
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 15, The Philip Morris
tobacco company announced a name change to Altria Group.
(WSJ, 11/16/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 15, United Airlines
announced that it would put stun guns into the cockpits of each of
its 500 planes.
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 15, Day 40 of the
attack on Afghanistan: Osama bin Laden’s Brigade 055 dispersed into
the mountains of Afghanistan. US planes struck Taliban positions
outside Kunduz, where as many as 20,000 Taliban fighters gathered.
Kandahar went under siege by opposition forces. Jalalabad was
reported to be under Yunis Khalis of the Northern Alliance. Mullah
Omar in a BBC radio interview warned of a larger strategy: the
"destruction of America."
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A1,9)(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 15, Two al-Qaeda
computers were acquired about this time by a Wall Street journalist
in Kabul for $1,100 following US bombing. They were found to contain
over 1,750 text and video files of al Qaeda activities including
weapons programs. One file contained the names of 170 al Qaeda
members.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A10)(WSJ, 1/16/02, p.A1)
2001 Nov 15, Israeli troops
raided a Gaza Strip refugee camp and a West Bank village. One
Palestinian was killed and 14 were wounded.
(SFC, 11/16/01, p.A23)
2001 Nov 15, In Zimbabwe Peace
Corp workers were recalled after the government refused to issue
permits for new volunteers.
(WSJ, 11/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 16, The film "Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" opened to record audiences across
the country.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 16, US Treas. Sec.
Paul O’Neill signed off on a plan for war bonds to be issued as
Series EF with an interest of 4.07%.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 16, An anthrax laced
letter was found in quarantined congressional mail addressed to Sen.
Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.). It was found to contain billions of
spores, enough to kill 100,000 people.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A8)(SFC,
11/26/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 16, A University of
Georgia football fan rushing to catch his flight ran past guards and
through a passenger exit at Hartsfield Atlanta International
Airport, forcing officials to halt flights; the man, Michael
Lasseter, was later sentenced to five weekends or 10 days in jail
and 500 hours of community service.
(AP, 11/16/02)
2001 Nov 16, Texas storms
abated and left 9 people dead.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 16, Tommy Flanagan
(71), jazz pianist, died in NYC.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A24)
2001 Nov 16, In Afghanistan US
air strikes killed 20 civilians at Zani Khel and at least 65 at
Khost. US bombing began at Tora Bora.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A14)(NW, 8/26/02, p.38)
2001 Nov 16, The Taliban was
reported ready to abandon Kandahar. The Northern Alliance took over
Radio Kabul and other key city offices.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A1,3)
2001 Nov 16, This was the 1st
day of the annual month of Ramadan, the Islamic commemoration of
God’s revelation of the Koran.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A2)
2001 Nov 16, In Macedonia the
parliament adopted constitutional changes giving ethnic minority
Albanians more rights.
(SFC, 11/17/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 16, The MDC
headquarters in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, were destroyed by pro-government
militants. They were protesting the recent killing of Cain Nkala,
who helped lead violent occupations of white-owned farms. 6
opposition activists arrested for an alleged role in the murder were
acquitted in 2004.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A20)(SFC, 8/7/04, p.A9)
2001 Nov 17, Lennox Lewis
knocked out Hasim Rahman in the fourth round to get back his WBC and
IBF heavyweight titles.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2001 Nov 17, Two US sailors,
Benjamin Johnson and Vincent Parker, were missing after the oil
tanker Samra sank in the northern Persian Gulf. The ship was
suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A14)(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 17, John M. Dawson,
plasma physics expert, died at age 71. He is considered the father
of computer-simulated plasma models and of plasma-based particle
accelerators.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 17, Former U.S. Sen.
Harrison A. Williams Jr. (81), whose political career was ended by
the Abscam bribery scandal, died in Denville, N.J.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2001 Nov 17, The Taliban
confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden's military chief Mohammed
Atef in an airstrike three days earlier.
(AP, 11/17/02)
2001 Nov 17, In Afghanistan
Burhanuddin Rabbani, the political leader of the Northern Alliance,
returned to Kabul. This complicated efforts for a board-based
government. US warplanes continued to bomb around Kunduz and
Kandahar.
(SSFC, 11/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 17, In Canada finance
ministers of the G-20 nations agreed to freeze terrorist assets and
to implement a UN resolution against terrorist financing.
(SSFC, 11/18/01, p.A8)
2001 Nov 17, Israeli troops
withdrew from Tulkarem in the West Bank.
(SSFC, 11/18/01, p.A22)
2001 Nov 17, Kosovo voted in a
symbolic step toward independence. Ibrahim Rugova claimed victory
the next day and issued a call for quick independence. Ex-rebel
leader Hashim Thaci made a strong showing and a coalition was
expected.
(WSJ, 11/16/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A13)(WSJ,
11/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 17, In the Philippines
communist guerrillas opened fire on soldiers in Cateel town. 18
soldiers and 10 rebels were killed.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 18, In Georgia
thousands demonstrated outside Fort Benning during the annual march
to the post to protest the School of the Americas training for Latin
America soldiers.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 18, Phillips Petroleum
and Conoco Inc. announced they were merging in a $35 billion deal
that created the third-largest U.S. oil and gas company.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A13)(AP, 11/18/02)
2001 Nov 18, The IMF and World
Bank ended their meeting in Ottawa and made a call for increasing
aid to developing countries.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 18, Northern Alliance
leaders agreed to join UN sponsored talks to form a new government.
Haji Qadir formed a new alliance to govern Jalalabad. US planes
continued strikes around Kunduz and Kandahar. US strikes on a
Taliban convoy were later considered as a marking point for the
downfall of the Taliban.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A1,3)(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A6)
2001 Nov 18, In London some
15,000 people of the Stop the War coalition demonstrated against
US-led bombing in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 18, In Bulgaria
Socialist Georgi Parvanov (44) won 53% of the presidential vote
against incumbent Petar Stoyanov. This signaled discontent with the
pace of reforms of PM Simeon Saxcoburggotski.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 18, Russia dropped all
conditions and opened talks with Chechnya.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 18, In Spain 8 men,
Soldiers of Allah, detained last week were reported to be members of
the al Qaeda network and to have played a role in the Sep 11
attacks.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A5)(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 19, Barry Bonds became
the first baseball player to win four Most Valuable Player Awards.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2001 Nov 19, Pres. Bush signed
airport security legislation that required programs for the
inspection of air travel checked baggage within 60 days. "Safety
comes first." It included a requirement for security screeners to be
US citizens within a year.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.A1)(SFC,
1/18/02, p.A16)(SSFC, 12/7/03, p.D6)
2001 Nov 19, The United States
accused Iraq and North Korea of developing germ warfare programs.
(AP, 11/19/02)
2001 Nov 19, Four foreign
journalists and their Afghan guide were killed in an ambush between
Jalalabad and Kabul: Harry Burton of Australia (Reuters), Azizullah
Haidari, Afghan photographer (Reuters), Julio Fuentes of Spain (El
Mundo, Madrid), and Maria Grazia Cutuli of Italy (Corriere della
Sera, Milan). In 2004 Afghan judges sentenced Reza Khan to death for
his role in the ambush. Khan said he was under orders from militia
commander Mohammed Agha.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A3)(SSFC, 11/21/04, p.A10)
2001 Nov 19, It was reported
that 400 Afghan Taliban soldiers were killed while trying to defect
last week. Gen. Dostum led Northern Alliance troops in the area.
Defectors continued to stream out of Kunduz as US war planes
continued to bomb Taliban positions.
(SFC, 11/19/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/1/02, p.A12)
2001 Nov 19, Some Taliban began
secret negotiations for the surrender of Kandahar. They said outside
forces had taken over their movement and named: the int’l. drug
mafia, int’l. terrorists, the puritanical Wahhabi school of Sunni
Islam, and Pakistan intelligence.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 19, In Colombia the
right-wing AUC militia said that it held 6 mayors hostage in
Antioquia state. The mayors were released Nov 20.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 19, Egypt and Syria
confirmed the extradition of Rifai Ahmed Taha, a former aide to
Osama bin Laden, from Syria to Egypt.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 19, In the Philippines
Moro rebels attacked the army near Jolo town. 4 soldiers were killed
along with 51 rebels in a counterattack.
(SFC, 11/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 19, A Russian airliner
crashed 90 miles north of Moscow and all 24 on board were killed.
The Ilyushin-18 was chartered by Israero and was from the Siberian
city of Khatanga.
(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 20, Pres. Bush called
on Americans to support charities of all kinds.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 20, A federal judge
extended a court order blocking an attempt by Attorney General John
Ashcroft to dismantle Oregon's one-of-a-kind law allowing
physician-assisted suicides.
(AP, 11/20/02)
2001 Nov 20, US federal health
officials approved sale of the world's first contraceptive patch,
Ortho-Evra.
(AP, 11/20/02)
2001 Nov 20, The Sep 11 death
toll at the WTC was reduced to just under 3,900.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A2)
2001 Nov 20, Portland police
said they would not cooperate with FBI efforts to interview some
5,000 Middle Eastern men because the questioning violated state
laws.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 20, Jeff Hawkins,
inventor of the Palm computer, was reported to hold that the brain
works by anticipating and completing patterns more than it does
through inputs and outputs of information.
(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.B1)
2001 Nov 20, In Afghanistan the
Northern Alliance gave the Taliban in Kunduz 3 days to give up. The
alliance controlling Afghanistan's capital and much of its
countryside agreed to attend power-sharing talks in Germany the
following week.
(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/20/02)
2001 Nov 20, Abu Qatada (40), a
Muslim cleric living in London, was named in a Spanish indictment as
a pivotal figure in the al Qaeda network in Europe.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 20, Chinese police on
Tiananmen Square detained some 35 foreigners who protested the
crackdown on the Falun Gong. The protesters were all expelled from
the country.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 20, A speedboat,
believed to be carrying 30 smuggled Cubans, capsized in the Florida
Straits and all were believed drowned.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 20, The Liberal
(Venstre) Party under Anders Fogh Rasmussen (1953) won elections in
Denmark. It formed a minority government with the Conservative
People’s Party.
(http://www.andersfogh.dk/807.0.html)
2001 Nov 21, Tiger Woods won
his 4th consecutive PGA Grand Slam with a win at Poipu Bay in
Hawaii.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Nov 21, Florida disbarred
F. Lee Bailey (68) for payment in a 1994 drug case that was supposed
to go to the government.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 21, A series of 100
waves broke over Maverick’s Reef in Half Moon Bay, Ca.
(SFC, 1/31/07, p.A1)
2001 Nov 21, Ottilie W.
Lundgren (94) of Oxford, Conn., died of inhalational anthrax in a
case that baffled investigators.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A10)(AP, 11/21/02)
2001 Nov 21,
Actor-turned-author Gardner McKay died in Honolulu at age 69.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2001 Nov 21, In Afghanistan the
Taliban in Kandahar pledged to continue their fight.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 21, India border
forces in Kashmir killed at least 12 suspected Islamic guerrillas
trying to cross a cease-fire line with Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 21, Nepal's Maoist
rebel leader Prachanda (b.1954), the name means fierce, announced a
withdrawal from a 4-month cease-fire agreement. Attacks on police
stations and government installations quickly followed.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A12)(Econ, 8/23/08,
p.33)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prachanda)
2001 Nov 22, Stanford and UCSF
researchers reported a long list of genes responsible for multiple
schlerosis (MS).
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 22, Mary Kay Ash
(b.1918), founder of the Mary Kay cosmetics firm, died in Dallas. By
2001 her 1963 sales force of 11 had grown to over 750,000 in 37
countries.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A29)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Nov 22, In Afghanistan
Northern Alliance engaged the Taliban in heavy fighting outside
Kunduz. A Kunduz surrender deal was in jeopardy.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 22, Pope John Paul II
issued a papal message via the Internet to Catholics in Australia,
New Zealand and the South Pacific islands that included an apology
for sexual abuse by priests.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 22, In Colombia at
least 47 people were confirmed dead following a mud slide at
condemned gold mine site in Filadelfia.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A17)(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 22, Japan confirmed a
2nd mad cow case and planned to slaughter and incinerate 5,100 cows.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 22, In the Gaza Strip
5 Palestinian boys (6-14) were killed when a bomb exploded beneath
them as a walked to school.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 22, Pakistan ordered
the Taliban to close its embassy in Islamabad.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 22, The Philippine
military bombed rebel positions on Jolo island and hunted for
supporters of Gov. Nur Misuari, who was charged with rebellion. At
least 100 of Misuari’s men were reported killed since the Nov 19
attack.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 22, Talks on
Russia-NATO relations began in Moscow. A plan was proposed that
would give Russia equal status with the 19 permanent members.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 22, The Turkey
Parliament formally recognized men and women as equals effective Jan
1. this updated a 1926 code that designated the husband as head of
the family.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 22, The Zimbabwe
justice minister announced plans to force residents to carry
identity documents at all times.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 23, It was reported
that Hawaii’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s sex offender
registration law, declaring it unconstitutional.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 23, Heavy storms hit
Arkansas and at least 4 people were killed.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 23, Taliban troop
contingents were reported to have dug in at 2 bases near Jalalabad
including an estimated 1,200 at Tora Bora. It was also reported that
Pakistani airplanes were being used to evacuate pro-Taliban
Pakistani fighters in Kunduz.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 23, In Britain PM
Blair endorsed British adoption of the Euro.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 23, In Belgium the UN
war crimes tribunal announced that Slobodan Milosevic, former
Yugoslav president, would stand trial on charges of genocide in the
1992-1995 war in Bosnia. Milosevic died in March 2006 while his
trial was in progress.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A11)(AP, 11/23/06)
2001 Nov 23, In Brazil an oil
pipeline leak near Rio was stopped after some 26,000 gallons spilled
into Guanabara Bay.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 23, In Cambodia PM Hun
Sen shut down the country’s bars, nightclubs, discos and karaoke
parlors. He said they were spawning crime and eroding traditional
values. The action followed a series of shootings at nightspots.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.C13)
2001 Nov 23, A crew dug for
bodies and survivors under mud after a huge landslide swept over
gold miners illegally digging into the side of a mountain in western
Colombia, killing at least 28 people.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2001 Nov 23, The Council of
Europe ratified the Budapest Convention which allowed one country to
give chase, at least electronically, to criminals in another.
(Econ, 4/24/10,
p.60)(http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/html/185.htm)
2001 Nov 23, Israeli helicopter
gunships near Nablus killed Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a senior Hamas
leader.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 23, Japan said it
would send 1,500 troops to help with relief operations in
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 23, In Nepal Maoist
rebels killed 14 soldiers and at least 23 police in a wave of
attacks. Authorities believed that some 80 rebels were killed in the
gun battles.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 23, Spain set terms
for extradition of 8 men charged with complicity in the Sep 11
attacks that included trial by a civilian court. 2 policemen were
killed in Beasain.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 23, Taiwan announced
that it would allow Chinese living abroad to visit as tourists. This
relaxed a 50-year ban intended to keep out spies from the Chinese
mainland.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 23, In Zimbabwe the
Mugabe government accused 6 journalists working for foreign media of
aiding terrorism.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 24, Heavy storms hit
the US and at least 12 people were killed in the lower Mississippi
valley.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A19)
2001 Nov 24, Thousands of
Taliban fighters surrendered at Kunduz. A few turned out to be
suicide bombers, who killed 5-6 Northern Alliance commanders. Afghan
troops captured Salim Ahmen Hamdan in southern Afghanistan in a car
with four other alleged al-Qaida associates who exchanged fire with
the Afghan troops. Three of the other men in the car, including a
son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, were killed. Hamdan, who was sent to
Guantanamo, admitted working as bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A1)(NW, 8/26/02, p.22)(AP,
12/5/07)
2001 Nov 24, In Brazil a fire
at a dance club in Belo Horizonte killed at least 6 people.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Nov 24, British actress
Rachel Gurney (81), who played Lady Marjorie Bellamy on the popular
television series "Upstairs Downstairs," died.
(AP, 11/24/02)
2001 Nov 24, Tens of thousands
of Palestinians marched in the West Bank and Gaza city to protest
the Israeli killing of Mahmoud Abu Hanoud and 2 assistants. A
Palestinian mortar attack killed one Israeli soldier.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 24, In Switzerland a
Swiss Crossair Jumbolino Avro RJ-100 crashed with 33 people on
board. 24 were killed including American pop singer Melanie
Thornton.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)(WSJ, 11/26/01, p.A1)(AP,
11/24/02)
2001 Nov 24, Mathew Hardman
(17) killed widow Mabel Leyshon (90) at her home in the north Wales
town of Llanfairpwll. Prosecutors later said he wanted to be a
vampire. In 2002 Hardman was convicted of fatally stabbing Leyshon,
cutting out her heart and drinking her blood.
(AP, 8/2/02)
2001 Nov 25, US marines landed
near Kandahar marking the 1st major use of US ground troops in
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 25, Scientists at
Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., said they created the
world’s 1st cloned human embryo, which they let grow for just a few
hours. China’s Dr. Lu Guangxiu later claimed that her Xiangya
Medical College team had cloned a human embryo 2 years earlier.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2001 Nov 25, Taliban troops
near Mazar-e-Sharif staged a prison revolt and hundreds were
reported killed. 5 Americans were injured by an American bomb and 1
CIA agent, Johnny Michael Spann (32), was reportedly killed.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A8)(SFC,
11/29/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/10/01, p.31)
2001 Nov 25, Ethiopia sent
troops into the northeastern Somali region of Puntland to help Col.
Abdullahi Yussuf regain power. Yussuf was overthrown Aug 26 after
his 3-year term ended. On Nov 21 Yussuf launched an attack on
Garoweh, the capital of Puntland and said it was to crush Islamic
terrorists.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A10)
2001 Nov 25, In Honduras Pres.
elections Ricardo Maduro (50) led polls over Rafael Pineda of the
governing Liberal Party. Early returns showed Maduro with a 52%
lead.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A12)
2001 Nov 25, Israeli soldiers
shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian youth during a clash in
the West Bank. Israeli forces carried out missile strikes in the
Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 26, President Bush
appealed to Congress to outlaw human cloning after scientists in
Worcester, Mass., reported they had created the first cloned human
embryo.
(AP, 11/26/06)
2001 Nov 26, The US National
Board of Economic Research declared that the US has been in a
recession since March. The recognized arbiter of when recessions
begin and end in the United States, declared that the country had
entered a downturn the previous March.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/26/06)
2001 Nov 26, In Pensacola,
Fla., Terry Lee King was murdered and his house set afire. His 2
sons, Derek (14) and Alex (13) confessed to the murder, but later
said Rick Chavis (40), a local handyman, killed the father and had
gotten the boys to take the blame. Derek and Alex were convicted of
2nd degree murder on Sep 6, 2002. Rick Chavis was acquitted. Derek
was sentenced to 8 years in prison and Alex was sentenced to 7
years.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A3)(AP, 9/7/02)(SFC, 11/15/02,
p.A8)
2001 Nov 26, The Taliban
surrendered the border town of Spinbaldak as US Marines directed air
attacks on a column of enemy vehicles. Fighting continued with
prisoners at Qala Jangi and most were reported killed along with
40-50 Northern Alliance soldiers.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A1,10)
2001 Nov 26, Former French
intelligence chief General Paul Aussaressess testified that the
orders he issued to torture and kill prisoners during the Algerian
independence war were justifiable acts of duty.
(AP, 11/26/02)
2001 Nov 26, French and Belgian
police arrested 14 people suspected of organizing the Sep 9
assassination of Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood. Belgium
released 12 of its suspects the next day.
(WSJ, 11/27/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A1,12)
2001 Nov 26, Nepal went into a
state of emergency as the death toll from recent Maoist rebels
attacks mounted to 76.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 26, A Palestinian
suicide bomber sd’d (self destructed) at an Israeli checkpoint on
the edge of the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Nov 27, In Afghanistan the
Northern Alliance declared the Taliban prisoner uprising at Qala
Jangi crushed after 50 hours.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A11)
2001 Nov 27, Afghan factions
met in Bonn, Germany, and agreed to give former King Mohammad Zahir
Shah a role in a new Afghan government. 4 factions included 11
delegates from the Northern Alliance, 11 from the Rome Group, 3 from
exiles in Cyprus, and 3 from exiles in Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 27, Muslim holy
warriors in Indonesia began a 3 day offensive and seized 5 villages.
At least 5 Christians were killed. Muslim militants drove away
security forces in central Sulawesi and there were at least 8
confirmed deaths.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A6)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.E1)
2001 Nov 27, Two Israelis were
killed in Afula by 2 Palestinian gunmen, who were killed by police.
Another Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli woman near a Jewish
settlement in the Gaza Strip and he was killed by Israeli soldiers.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 27, In Mexico the
Nat’l. Human Rights Commission issued a 3,000 page report that
acknowledged at least 275 leftists disappeared while in government
hands during the 1970s. The names of 74 officials implicated in the
forced disappearances were not made public.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 27, The Philippine
military reported 25 guerrillas killed along with 1 soldier in
Zamboanga. Rebels under Julhambri Missuari, nephew of arrested Gov.
Misuari, later released 89 hostages in exchange for safe passage out
of Zamboanga.
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 27, In South Africa
the predominantly white New National Party (NNP) joined into a
coalition with the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 27, Olaf Stromberg, a
Swedish TV journalist, was killed while sleeping in northern
Afghanistan during a suspected robbery attempt. He was the 8th
journalist slain in the conflict.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A10)(SFC, 11/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 28, Dynegy Corp.
called off its $8.4 billion merger with Enron and Enron stock fell
below $1 in the heaviest single-day trading volume for a NYSE or
Nasdaq stock. Enron Corp. collapsed after Dynegy Inc. backed out of
a deal to take it over.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A18)(AP, 11/28/08)
2001 Nov 28, Officials
recovered the body of CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann from a prison
compound in Mazar-e-Sharif after northern alliance rebels backed by
U.S. airstrikes and special forces quelled an uprising by Taliban
and al-Qaida prisoners.
(AP, 11/28/02)
2001 Nov 28, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman
(35), a top al Qaeda operative and son of the blind sheik linked to
the 1993 WTC bombing, was captured by anti-Taliban forces. The
Taliban said some 600 people including 450 prisoners were killed in
the uprising at Qala Jangi. US bombing continued with intermittent
strikes.
2001 Nov 28, French gendarme
Gerard Larroude received 8 bullet wounds in the head and throat in
an attack by ETA separatists in Pau, but survived the attack. In
2008 Ibon Fernandez de Iradi was found guilty of trying to kill
Larroude and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Antonio Agustin
Figal Arranz, a suspected accomplice, was sentenced to 10 years in
prison.
(www.cityfmradio.com/detalle_noticia.php?id_noticia=8928)
(SFC, 11/29/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/29/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
11/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 28, German authorities
arrested Mounir El Motassadeq (27), on suspicion of funneling money
to the Sep 11 hijackers.
(SFC, 11/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 28, In Indonesia
detectives raided a mansion in Jakarta and arrested Hutomo Mandala
Putra (Tommy Suharto) for plotting the murder of a Supreme Court
Judge.
(SFC, 11/29/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 28, A UN report on
AIDS noted Ukraine as the 1st European nation to report 1% of its
adults infected. Rapid spread was noted across Eastern Europe.
(WSJ, 11/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 28-30, Thousands of
Taliban fighters, who had surrendered at Kunduz were shipped by
container truck to prison camps at Sheberghan. Up to 960 died
enroute, mostly from asphyxiation.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A1)(NW, 8/26/02, p.22)
2001 Nov 29, American warplanes
continued to bomb Taliban positions around Kandahar.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 29, The SEC
investigation of Enron Corp. was expanded to include the Anderson
Accounting firm.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A15)
2001 Nov 29, George Harrison
(b.1943), lead guitarist for the Beatles, died of cancer in LA. His
ashes were scattered in the Ganges Dec 4.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A2)(NW,
12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Nov 29, John Knowles
(b.1926), author of the 1959 novel "A Separate Peace," died in
Florida at age 75.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A27)
2001 Nov 29, Int’l.
representatives of the diamond industry agreed that all shipments of
rough stones must contain certificates of origin.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A7)
2001 Nov 29, A bomb attack in
northern Israel and shootings in the West Bank left 4 Israelis and 3
Palestinians dead.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 29, The U.N. Security
Council unanimously approved a resolution extending for 6 months the
U.N. humanitarian program in Iraq and setting the stage for an
overhaul of U.N. sanctions against Baghdad the following year. The
US and Russia agreed to overhaul the program before the next vote.
(WSJ, 11/30/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/29/02)
2001 Nov 30, US warplanes
continued airstrikes around Kandahar. US Marine and Navy increased
to around 1,200.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A4)
2001 Nov 30, Gary Leon Ridgway
(b.1949) was arrested in connection with 4 of 7 Green River serial
killings in Washington state. Four murders were linked to him
through DNA and three through paint he used at his job. In 2003 he
pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated murder, although the
estimates ran much higher. On December 18, 2003, King County
Superior Court Judge Richard Jones sentenced Ridgway to 48 life
sentences with no possibility of parole and one life sentence, to be
served consecutively.
(AP,
11/30/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway#Victims)
2001 Nov 30, In Georgia, former
DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey and two other men were arrested
and charged with murder in the slaying of Sheriff-elect Derwin
Brown, who had defeated Dorsey in a bitter runoff election. Dorsey
was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison; the two other
men were acquitted of murder in a separate trial.
(AP, 11/30/02)
2001 Nov 30, Enron executives
awarded themselves big bonuses 2 days before the company filed for
bankruptcy (Dec 2). They soon reneged on severance pay promised to
4,500 laid-off employees.
(SFC, 2/6/02, p.A1)
2001 Nov 30, Robert Tools, the
first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained
artificial heart, died in Louisville, Ky., of complications after
severe abdominal bleeding; he had lived with the device for 151
days.
(AP, 11/30/02)
2001 Nov 30, A French court
convicted 19 Islamic militants for their role in channeling arms and
false Ids to insurgents in Algeria.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov, The 2001 US
recession, the 1st since the early 1990s, ended after 8 months
according to a 2003 report by the National Bureau of Standards.
(SFC, 7/18/03, p.B1)
2001 Nov, Juma Namangani,
al-Qaeda member and co-founder of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
(IMU), died following critical injuries from US bombing in Kunduz,
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.F1)
2001 Nov, Ihsan Khan, a
Pakistani cab driver in Washington DC, won 1 $55.2 million jackpot.
His lump sum payout was over $32.4 million. Khan returned to
Pakistan and in 2005 was elected mayor of Batagram, just days before
a major earthquake in the area.
(SFC, 12/9/05, p.A26)
2001 Nov, A treatise by Ayman
al Zawahri was smuggled out of Afghanistan. It was published in Dec
by an Arabic language newspaper in London.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A10)
2001 Nov, China’s 4 largest
producers of Vitamin C formed the Vitamin C Chapter of the China
Chamber of Commerce of Medicines and Health Products.
(WSJ, 2/10/06, p.A16)
2001 Dec 1, In downtown
Jerusalem 2 Palestinian suicide bombers self-destructed and killed
11 others. A car bomb detonated shortly after and another dozen were
injured. Hamas claimed responsibility.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A14)(AP,
12/1/02)
2001 Dec 1, In Afghanistan
Farida Afzali (21) became the 1st woman in 5 years to enroll at
Kabul Univ. Day 56: US bombing continued around Kandahar and over
Tora Bora near Kabul, where 3 villages were hit and a number of
civilians killed and injured. Air strikes at Khan-I-Merjahuddin
killed 48 civilians. Air strikes at Madoo killed 48 civilians.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.A2)(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A14)
2001 Dec 1, In London, England,
the Financial Service Authority (FSA) replaced a plethora of
financial regulators.
(Econ, 9/15/07, SR
p.9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Services_Authority)
2001 Dec 1, In Germany 4 Afghan
factions continued to work on a 20-member "interim authority."
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.A3)
2004 Dec 1, In Indonesia’s
Papua Province Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage were arrested for
raising the Morning Star flag, a symbol of Papuan independence. In
May, 2005, a court sentenced Karma to 15 years in prison and Pakage
to 10 years on charges of treason for having “betrayed” Indonesia.
(www.amnestyusa.org/action/special/karmapakage.html)
2001 Dec 1 A baby girl was born
to Japan's Crown Princess Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito, the
royal couple's first child in eight years of marriage; she was later
named Aiko.
(AP, 12/1/02)
2001 Dec 1, In Russia the Union
of Unity and Fatherland Party united 3 centrist movements: Unity,
Fatherland and All-Russia. Sergei Shoigu, a Putin confidant, was
elected head of 3 co-chairmen.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.A18)
2001 Dec 1, Taiwan held
parliamentary elections. The Nationalist Party lost 42 seats and
their majority in the 225-seat legislature. The Democratic
Progressive Party of Pres. Chen Shui-bian gained 21 seats. The
results forced a new coalition government.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A2)
2001 Dec 2, Nicolas Escude gave
France its ninth Davis Cup, defeating Australian Wayne Arthurs in
the deciding fifth match.
(AP, 12/2/02)
2001 Dec 2, US bombers hit
Taliban defenses around Kandahar. US strikes at Tora Bora reportedly
killed at least 8 civilians.
(SFC, 12/3/01, p.A9)
2001 Dec 2, Enron Corp. under
CEO Kenneth Lay filed for bankruptcy. Employee fury in Nov persuaded
Lay to give up a severance package worth about $60 million. From
1999 to 2001 a group of 29 Enron executives sold 17.3 million shares
and received $1.1 billion. Days earlier Enron paid $55 million in
bonuses to some 500 employees. The Enron top corporate structure was
published in 2002.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A12)(SSFC,
1/20/02, p.A18)(SFC, 2/11/02, p.A12)
2001 Dec 2, An outbreak of
Ebola virus hit Gabon with the 1st death in Ekata, about 5 miles
from the Congo border. Within weeks at least 15 people died. The
virus spread to Congo and movement in the area was restricted.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 2, The weekend’s 3rd
Palestinian suicide bomber, Maher Habashi (21), sd’d in Haifa and 15
bus passengers were killed. Hamas took responsibility. Israel warned
Arafat of his regime’s annihilation. Arafat condemned the attacks
and declared a "state of emergency" in Palestinian territories.
(SFC, 12/3/01, p.1,3,11)(WSJ, 12/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 3, Tom Ridge, dead of
Homeland Security, ordered a state of high alert across the US to at
least the end of Ramadan in 2 weeks.
(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 3, Sec. of State
Powell met in Romania with officials from 55 nations in a conference
on fighting terrorism.
(WSJ, 12/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 3, Gov. Davis of
California met with Pres. Fox and Mexican legislators in Mexico City
to discuss economic solutions on mutual interests.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 3, In New Jersey Judge
Clarkson S. Fisher began jailing striking teachers, who defied his
back-to-work order.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 3, Enron took steps to
bolster its weak financial footing following its historic bankruptcy
filing, arranging $1.5 billion in financing and slashing 4,000 jobs,
or 20 percent of its work force.
(AP, 12/3/02)
2001 Dec 3, Dean Kamen,
inventor, unveiled his battery-powered, 12 mph Segway Human
Transporter in NYC. Kamen had spent $100 million over the last
decade to develop the vehicle. In 2003 Steve Kemper authored "Code
Name Ginger," the story of the Segway's development.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A2)(WSJ, 6/17/03, p.D5)
2001 Dec 3, A test US
anti-missile launched from Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands
successfully hit a dummy warhead from Vandenberg Air Base in
California, 4,800 miles away.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 3, Some 3,000 Taliban
surrendered at Char Dara, 6 miles west of Kunduz. Pashtuns battled
Taliban forces at Kandahar’s airport. The UN evacuated staff at
Mazar-e-Sharif due to Northern Alliance infighting.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A1,15)
2001 Dec 3, In Argentina the
government put a 90-day partial freeze on bank accounts to help stem
a run on banks. Weekly withdrawals were limited to $250.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 3, Israel struck the
West Bank and Gaza Strip and destroyed 3 Palestinian Authority
helicopters. In the wake of bombings that killed 26 Israelis, PM
Ariel Sharon declared war on terror. Arafat was effectively confined
to Ramallah after Israel destroyed his helicopters.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/3/02)(SFC, 11/11/04,
p.A18)
2001 Dec 4, Pres. Bush
announced the seizure of assets and records of the Holy Land
foundation for Relief and Development based in Richardson, Texas,
due to suspected ties with Hamas.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 4, The Bush
administration ordered tons of PCBs removed from the upper Hudson
River. Dredging was expected to cost GE $500 million.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 4, The US Postal
Service reported a $1.7 billion loss for fiscal 2001.
(WSJ, 12/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 4, The Olympic flame
began a 46-state, two-month journey from Atlanta, host city of the
1996 Summer Games, to the opening ceremony of the 2002 Salt Lake
City Winter Games.
(AP, 12/4/02)
2001 Dec 4, A. Alfred Taubman
of Sotheby’s auction house was convicted of conspiracy with his
counterpart at Christie’s in a scheme that netted them some $400
million over the years.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Dec 4, The "Goner"
computer worm was reported spreading worldwide disguised as a screen
saver.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.B1)
2001 Dec 4, Edwin Huffine, US
forensic scientist, launched a new DNA ID software program developed
with a team of Bosnian experts at the Sarajevo-based Int’l.
Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP). The program used kinship
analysis.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 4, In Afghanistan US
bombing continued at Kandahar and Tora Bora. Baglan and Balkh were
noted as a pockets of resistance with up to 3,500 Taliban
militiamen. An interim government was scheduled to take power Dec
22.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A14)
2001 Dec 4, Israeli troops
moved into Palestinian-controlled territory in Ramallah and Nablus
and closed off 7 West Bank cities. Israeli warplanes and helicopters
bombed at least 8 targets in 5 cities and towns including a police
building near Arafat’s headquarters. A police officer and a
15-year-old boy were killed.
(SFC, 12/4/01, p.A12)(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A1,16)
2001 Dec 4, In South Africa
Marike de Klerk (64), former wife of former Pres. F.W. de Klerk, was
found stabbed and strangled in her luxury apartment near Cape Town.
Police arrested Luyanda Mboniswa (21), a security guard, on Dec 5.
The guard confessed Dec 7. In 2003 DNA evidence linked him to the
murder.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A6)(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A6)(SFC,
12/8/01, p.A7)(AP, 4/8/03)
2001 Dec 4, In Sri Lanka the
death toll reached 45, since Oct 21, as elections began for a new
225-seat Parliament. Poll violence killed 10 and an army blockade
kept some 130,000 minority Tamils from casting ballots. The
opposition United National Party won.
(SFC, 12/5/01, p.A7)(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A1)(SFC,
12/8/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 4, The Zimbabwe high
court reversed a previous decision and ruled that seizures of
white-owned farms are legal. Pres. Mugabe had expanded the court and
replaced many of the justices.
(WSJ, 12/5/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 5, The FBI arrested
escaped fugitive Clayton Lee Waagner in St. Louis. Waagner was
suspected of mailing as many as 550 anthrax hoax letters to abortion
clinics. He was also wanted for bank robbery and other offenses. In
2002 Waagner was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A13)(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A1)(SFC,
1/26/02, p.A10)
2001 Dec 5, The National Park
Service web site was shut down by court order to keep hackers from
accessing Indian tribal funds.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A1)
2001 Dec 5, NASA launched space
shuttle Endeavour to deliver a new 3-man crew to the Alpha space
station. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Onufrienko flew to replace Doug
Culbertson as skipper.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A2)
2001 Dec 5, The DJIA gained 129
to finish above 10,000 for the 1st time in 3 months.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Dec 5, Marjorie Dabney
(70) of Bakersfield, Ca., disappeared from the Dallas-Fort Worth
Airport. In 2008 DNA evidence identified her remains, which were
found in a field 15 miles from the airport.
(SFC, 12/8/08, p.A4)
2001 Dec 5, A 2000-pound US
bomb killed 3 American Green Berets near Kandahar along with 18
Afghan fighters. 20 Americans were injured along with 18 Afghan
fighters including newly appointed Afghan leader Hamid Karzai.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A1,15)(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 5, Sir Peter Blake
(53) of New Zealand, 2-time America’s Cup winner, was killed on the
research vessel Seamaster by gunmen at Macapa, Brazil, near the
mouth of the Amazon. 7 men were arrested 2 days later and an 8th was
still sought. The final 2 suspects were arrested Dec 9.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A2)(SFC,
12/10/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 5, Afghan delegates in
Koenigswinter, Germany, signed an agreement for an interim
post-Taliban government to begin Dec 22.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/5/02)
2001 Dec 5, In Jerusalem
another suicide bomber sd’d outside a hotel and 2 people were
injured. Sharon gave Arafat a 12-hour reprieve to arrest those
responsible for the attacks.
(SFC, 12/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 5, Russia agreed to
cut its oil exports by 150,000 barrels a day to satisfy OPEC
demands.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 6, President George W.
Bush dedicated the national Christmas tree to those who died on
Sept. 11 and to GIs who died in the line of duty.
(AP, 12/6/02)
2001 Dec 6, The House of
Representatives, by a one-vote margin, gave President Bush more
power to negotiate global trade deals.
(AP, 12/6/02)
2001 Dec 6, Anthrax tainted
mail turned up at a sorting site outside the Federal building in
Washington DC. It had been received Dec 5.
(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 6, In Indiana Robert
L. Wissman, an employee of the Nu-Wood Decorative Millwork plant on
the edge of Goshen killed manager Greg Oswald, wounded 6 others, and
then killed himself. A love triangle was later aid to be the cause.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A7)
2001 Dec 6, In Afghanistan
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader, vowed to surrender
Kandahar.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 6, An int’l. team of
doctors flew to Congo to investigate the deaths of 17 people with
Ebola-like symptoms in Dekese. Ebola was confirmed in Gabon on Dec
9.
(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 6, Japan went into
recession officially for the 4th time in 10 years as the GDP shrank
0.5%.
(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A14)(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Dec 6, In Nepal the
anti-rebel campaign was reported to have left 250 dead since rebel
attacks began Nov 23.
(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 6, Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat continued a roundup of Hamas militants based on a list
of 36 suspects provided by Israel. His crackdown on Islamic
militants met angry resistance as 1,500 Hamas supporters battled
Palestinian riot police outside the home of the group's leader.
Israeli warplanes bombed a Gaza police station and 15 Palestinians
were wounded.
(SFC, 12/7/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/7/01, p.A1)(AP,
12/6/02)
2001 Dec 7, Americans held
services on the 60th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2001 Dec 7, The US called to
cut off discussions about enforcing a 1972 Biological Weapons
Convention on the final day of a 3-week conference in Geneva. The
conference sought binding measures and disbanded in chaos.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 7, The US Senate voted
65 to 33 in a procedural vote to defeat an effort to block an
automatic pay raise of 3.4% ($4,900) to $150,000.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A14)
2001 Dec 7, In New Jersey
nearly 230 teachers were ordered freed from jail after their union
agreed to end the 9-day strike and go into mediation.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 7, The space shuttle
Endeavour docked with the international space station, delivering a
new three-member crew to relieve a crew in place since August.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2001 Dec 7, The U.S.
unemployment rate jumped to 5.7 percent in November, the highest in
six years.
(AP, 12/7/02)
2001 Dec 7, In Afghanistan
Taliban soldiers fled Kandahar and left the city in chaos. Day 62:
Assaults continued around Tora Bora where up to 2,000 bin Laden
loyalists were positioned at a mountain redoubt. Aryana Airline made
its 1st domestic flight since Oct 7 with a flight from Herat to
Kabul.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A1,14)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.E6)
2001 Dec 7, Statistics Canada
reported a jobless increase to 7.5%, the highest level since
mid-1999.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 7, Israeli helicopters
fired missiles at a Palestinian security compound in Gaza. Arafat
said his forces had arrested 17 of 33 militants wanted by Israel.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 7, Russia and Nato
proclaimed a commitment "to forge a new relationship" following a
meeting in Brussels.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 7, In Sri Lanka Pres.
Kumaratunga called on Ranil Wickremesinghe, head of the United
National Party, to form a government. The UNP promised to pursue
peace talks with Tamil rebels.
(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 8, Nebraska
quarterback Eric Crouch was awarded the Heisman Trophy.
(AP, 12/8/02)
2001 Dec 8, The U.S. Capitol
was reopened to tourists after a two-month security shutdown.
(AP, 12/8/02)
2001 Dec 8, John Walker Lindh,
a Taliban soldier from Marin County, Ca., was held at Camp Rhino
near Kandahar as a battlefield detainee. He was captured a week
earlier following the prison revolt at Mazar-e-Sharif.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 8, In Ireland the
bodies of 8 illegal immigrants, including 3 children, were found in
a shipping container in Wexford. 5 people were still alive.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 8, Israeli police
arrested 3 teenagers for creating and spreading the "Goner" computer
worm.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Dec 8, Malaysian
authorities said they would expand a policy of caning illegal
immigrants to include 1st-time offenders.
(SSFC, 12/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Dec 9, The United States
disclosed the existence of a videotape in which Osama bin Laden said
he was pleasantly surprised by the extent of damage from the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks.
(AP, 12/9/02)
2001 Dec 9, US B-52s continued
strikes over Tora Bora. A Northern Alliance helicopter crashed and
18 people were killed including 2 Pashtun commanders. The last
province under Taliban control, Zabul, was handed over to tribal
leaders.
(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 9, An Amtrak Acela
train killed 3 people on tracks northeast of Philadelphia.
(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 9, The Friendship
Bridge linking Afghanistan and Uzbekistan was opened for aid
transport.
(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 9, In Argentina
Domingo Cavallo announced that he would annul $4 million in business
tax cuts and push for the release of $1.3 billion IMF loans.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 9, An outbreak of the
Ebola virus was confirmed in the Ogoouer Ivindo province of Gabon. 7
deaths were reported.
(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 9, A suicide bomber
injured 9 Israelis in Haifa. Israeli troops killed 4 Palestinian
police officers in their cars. Israeli soldiers also killed a
Palestinian taxi driver trying to enter Jenin, which was sealed off.
30 suspected militants were arrested in Israeli raids.
(SFC, 12/10/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 9, In Uganda a
gasoline truck crash killed 58 people near Iganga. Many of the
victims had tried to gather up fuel when it ignited.
(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 10, President Bush
told reporters a videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida
leader talked happily about the Sept. 11 attacks "just reminded me
of what a murderer he is."
(AP, 12/10/02)
2001 Dec 10, Federal
authorities charged Golden State Transportation, a Los Angeles-based
bus company, with illegally transporting thousands of undocumented
aliens from staging areas near the U.S.-Mexico border. Raids over
the last 2 days had picked up 26 of the 32 indicted.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A7)(AP, 12/10/02)
2001 Dec 10, US air strikes
continued at Tora Bora and Afghan fighters moved in on al Qaeda
defenders in fortified caves.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 10, In Philadelphia a
gunman opened fire outside the Great Valley Shopping Center in East
Whiteland Township and killed 2 people. A 3rd was wounded.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A9)
2001 Dec 10, It was reported
that at least 43 Taliban prisoners had died in shipping containers
during a 2-3 day transit from Kunduz to Shibirghan.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A17)
2001 Dec 10, Israeli
helicopters fired missiles at a car in Hebron. 2 boys aged 3 &
13 were killed and 7 people were wounded.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 10, In Kenya Sheikh
Ahmed Salim Swedan, an al Qaeda operative, was arrested in Mandera
near the Somalia border for involvement in the Aug 7, 1998 US
Embassy bombing.
(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A13)
2001 Dec 10, Secretary-General
Kofi Annan accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of himself and
the United Nations.
(AP, 12/10/06)
2001 Dec 10, In Venezuela a
nation-wide 12-hour work stoppage was planned to protest policies of
Pres. Hugo Chavez. Thousands of businesses closed and millions
stayed home as Pres. Chavez countered as host of the annual air
force show in Caracas.
(WSJ, 12/6/01, p.A12)(SFC, 12/11/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 11, The US Federal
Reserve cut short-term interest rates by .25% to 1.75% in the 11th
cut this year. The Dow rose 33 to 9888. the Nasdaq 9 to 2001.
(WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 11, In the first
criminal indictment stemming from Sept. 11, a US grand jury in
Virginia charged Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan
descent, with conspiring to murder thousands in the suicide
hijackings. Moussaoui pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2005 and was
sentenced to life in prison.
(WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A1)(AP,
12/11/06)
2001 Dec 11, US Federal agents
carried out dozens of raids and seized computers in some 27 cities
and 21 states suspected of pirating software over the Internet. The
"Warez" network of software pirates was targeted.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 11, US bombers
continued to hit sites at Tora Bora, Afghanistan, as a deadline for
al Qaeda surrender passed.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 11, A federal appeals
court struck a Louisiana law that allowed vocal classroom prayer.
The state had passed a 1976 law that required schools to allow a
brief time in "silent meditation." In 1992 the wording was changed
to "silent prayer or meditation." In 1999 the word "silent" was
deleted.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A7)
2001 Dec 11, The chairman of
the militant Jewish Defense League, Irv Rubin, and an associate,
Earl Krugel, were arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Los
Angeles mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman. Rubin
died November 14th, 2002, 10 days after what federal officials
described as a suicide attempt in jail.
(AP, 12/11/02)
2001 Dec 11, The US government
approved Swiss food giant Nestle SA's $10.3 billion purchase of
Ralston Purina.
(AP, 12/11/02)
2001 Dec 11, NASA agreed in
principle to let Russia’s space agency send Mark Shuttleworth, a
South Africa Internet tycoon, to the space station in April for some
$20 million.
(WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 11, Australia reported
that an Australian citizen, David Hicks (26), who had trained with
the al Qaeda, had been captured in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A19)(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 11, China’s entry to
the World Trade Organization (WTO), approved in Qatar on Nov 10,
became effective.
(Econ, 12/10/11,
p.45)(www.china-un.ch/eng/qtzz/wto/t85612.htm)
2001 Dec 11, Israeli helicopter
attacks in the Gaza Khan Younis refugee camp killed 3 people and
wounded 20.
(WSJ, 12/12/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 11, Pakistani
officials said 2 nuclear scientists, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and
Abdul Majid, talked with Osama bin Laden last August in Kabul about
nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
(SFC, 12/12/01, p.A19)
2001 Dec 12, US federal agents
began a crackdown on student visa violations and arrested 10
foreigners in San Diego.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 12, In Los Angeles
police arrested Irving David Rubin (56) head of the Jewish Defense
League, and Earl Leslie Krugel (59), for plotting to blow up a local
mosque. Rubin committed suicide in 2002. In 2005 Krugel was
sentenced to 20 years in prison.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A3)(SFC, 9/23/05, p.A3)
2001 Dec 12, Ali-al-Marri, a
citizen of Qatar, was arrested in Peoria, Ill. He had reportedly
entered the USA legally with his wife and five children on 10
September 2001 to pursue post-graduate studies at Bradley Univ. 18
months later, as he was on the verge of trial for credit card fraud
and other charges, Pres. Bush declared him an enemy combatant and
moved him into military detention. In 2008 the US Supreme Court
agreed to decide whether the president may order that people seized
in the US be held indefinitely and without criminal charges.
(www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21383.htm)(WSJ, 12/6/08,
p.A1)
2001 Dec 12, Gerardo Hernandez,
the leader of a Cuban spy ring, received a life sentence in federal
court in Miami for his role in the infiltration of US military bases
and the deaths of four Cuban-Americans in 1996.
(AP, 12/12/02)
2001 Dec 12, David Criswell,
director of the Univ. of Houston Space Systems Operations, proposed
a "Lunar Solar Power System" to collect solar energy on the moon,
convert it to microwaves, and beam it to Earth for electrical power.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 12, A $200 million US
Air Force B-1 bomber crashed into the India Ocean near Diego Garcia
Island. The 4 crewmen were rescued.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 12, In Afghanistan al
Qaeda fighters at Tora Bora were given a new ultimatum to surrender
and turn over their leaders.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 12, Lt. Gen. Abdullah
Hendropriyono, the Indonesia intelligence chief, said that a network
of al Qaeda training camps were located on Sulawesi Island.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 12, Palestinian
militants detonated bombs beneath an Israeli bus in the West Bank
and gunned down passengers as they fled. 10 people were killed.
Police killed 1 of 3 militants. Yasser Arafat bowed to long-standing
Israeli demands by ordering closed the offices of the militant Hamas
and Islamic Jihad. 2 Hamas suicide bombers sd’d near an Israeli
settlement in the Gaza Strip and injured 4 others.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A1,17)(AP, 12/12/02)
2001 Dec 13, Pres. Bush gave
Russia a formal 6-month advance notice of his decision to withdraw
from the 1972 ABM treaty in order to advance his missile-shield
plans. China and Russia offered muted criticism.
(WSJ, 12/13/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 13, US Congress
approved a $343.3 billion defense bill.
(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 13, The US Defense
Dept. released a videotape of Osama bin Laden talking about the Sep
11 attacks. The tape clearly indicated his advance knowledge of the
suicide attacks. The tape was found weeks ago in Jalalabad.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A7)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
12/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 13, The US military
sent in special operations forces into the Tora Bora area to look
for al Qaeda leaders.
(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 13, Argentine workers
staged a strike, the 8th one against the 2-year-old administration
of Pres. de la Rua. Unemployment was reported to have risen to 18.3%
in October from 16.4% in May.
(WSJ, 12/14/01, p.A11)
2001 Dec 13, In Belgium some
80,000 antiglobalization protesters rallied in Brussels
against an EU summit set to start the next day.
(WSJ, 12/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 13, The Beijing First
Intermediate Court sentenced 6 people to prison for 3 to 12 years
for downloading material from the Internet on the banned Falun Gong
spiritual movement and passing it along.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 13, In India 5 gunmen
and a suicide bomber tried to enter a gate at the parliament
building in New Delhi. 6 policemen and the attackers were killed and
18 wounded. The Kashmiri Lashkar-e-Tayyaba separatist group was held
responsible. The attack left 14 people dead. In 2006 Afzal Guru, a
Kashmiri, was sentenced to death for his involvement in the
conspiracy.
(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/14/01, p.A1)(SFC,
12/15/01, p.A3)(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A14)(Econ, 10/7/06, p.47)
2001 Dec 13, The Israeli
government broke off contact with Yasser Arafat and began hitting
targets in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Israeli forces destroyed
Palestinian TV and radio transmission facilities and divided the
Gaza Strip into 3 parts. In Ramallah Israeli soldiers seized the
home and family of a Palestinian militia commander.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 14, The US vetoed a UN
Security council vote that condemned all "acts of terror" against
Israelis and Palestinians.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 14, American and
British commandos behind a screen of local Afghan fighters contained
the last remnants of al Qaeda forces in the White Mountains of Tora
Bora. American Marines occupied Kandahar airport.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A1,16)
2001 Dec 14, The US shipped a
load of corn to Cuba, the 1st American food shipment there since
1963.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A8)
2001 Dec 14, European leaders
agreed to send 4,000 troops to Afghanistan.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 14, European nations
began distributing a "Eurokit" of euro coins in advance of the Jan 1
day when the euro becomes legal tender.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 14, The German
parliament approved a plan to shut down all nuclear power plants
within 20 years.
(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A8)
2001 Dec 14, W.G. Sebald
(b.1944), German-born British author, died in a car accident. His
books included "The Emigrants" (1996) and "The Rings of Saturn"
(1998). His novel "Austerlitz" (2001) had just recently been awarded
The National Books Critics Award for 2002.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.M4)(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A2)
2001 Dec 14, Israeli troops
raided four Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank, killing
eight Palestinians and arresting dozens of suspected militants.
(AP, 12/14/02)
2001 Dec 15, Evander Holyfield
was denied a fifth heavyweight championship when his third fight
against John Ruiz was called a draw after 12 rounds in Mashantucket,
Conn.
(AP, 12/15/02)
2001 Dec 15, Anthony Zinni, US
envoy to Israel, left after his 20 days in the region failed to
produce a cease-fire.
(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A14)
2001 Dec 15, With a crash and a
large dust cloud, a 50-foot tall section of steel, the last standing
piece of the World Trade Center's facade, was brought down in New
York.
(AP, 12/15/02)
2001 Dec 15, EU leaders
concluded a 2-day Council at Laeken, Belgium. The adoption of the
Laeken Declaration on the Future of Europe, established the European
Convention. A constitutional convention was planned. This process
was supposed to simplify the EU’s legal architecture. The admittance
of 10 new members over the next 2 years was also planned. The EU
declared their nascent joint military force operational.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Councils)(WSJ,
12/17/01, p.A14)(Econ, 10/27/07, p.16)
2001 Dec 15, Israeli forces
swept into Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip and bulldozed houses and
police outposts. 6 Palestinians were killed and 50 injured from
fighting.
(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A14)
2002 Dec 15, The Leaning Tower
of Pisa, Italy, was reopened to the public after a $27 million
realignment that dragged on for over a decade.
(AP, 12/15/02)
2001 Dec 16, Cleveland Browns
fans threw thousands of bottles onto the field after officials
overturned a last-minute call, a decision that helped the
Jacksonville Jaguars win the game 15-10.
(AP, 12/16/02)
2001 Dec 16, The first U.S.
commercial food shipments since 1963 arrived in communist Cuba. The
Mexican freighter N.V. Ikon Mazatlan arrived in Cuba with 26,400
tons of American corn a day after 500 tons of American frozen
chicken parts were received.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A3)(AP, 12/16/02)
2001 Dec 16, It was reported
that all the anthrax spores mailed to Capital Hill were identical to
stocks from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. (USAMRIID), maintained since 1980.
(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A9)
2001 Dec 16, In Afghanistan 25
bin Laden soldiers were captured and 200 were killed in the Tora
Bora region. After 9 weeks of fighting, Afghan militia leaders
claimed control of the last mountain bastion of Osama bin Laden's
al-Qaida fighters. There was no sign of bin Laden.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/16/02)
2001 Dec 16, The Muslim Ramadan
season came to an end.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 16, In China a weekend
bombing killed 5 people.
(WSJ, 12/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 16, In Chile a
congressional election showed the Coalition for Democracy with 47.8%
of the vote vs. 445 for the opposition Alliance for Chile.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 16, In Colombia a
5-day battle over cocaine-producing plantations left up to 44
leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary fighters dead in
Antioquia state.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A7)
2001 Dec 16, In Iran Abdullah
Ramezanzadeh, a Cabinet Secretary, was sentenced to 6 months in jail
for "spreading lies" against the conservative Guardian council.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A7)(WSJ, 12/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 16, In Italy a
state-run home for the disabled burned down near Buccino and 19
patients were killed.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 16, In Madagascar
elections were held but no candidate won a majority.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.C12)
2001 Dec 16, The Mexican
freighter N.V. Ikon Mazatlan arrived in Cuba with 26,400 tons of
American corn a day after 500 tons of American frozen chicken parts
were received.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 16, Yasser Arafat
appealed for a halt of armed activities and suicide bombings. He
accused PM Sharon of waging a "brutal war" against Palestinians.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 16, In Portugal the
Social Democratic Party lost heavily to the Socialists in local
elections. PM Antonio Guterres resigned following the results.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A7)
2001 Dec 17, The Bush
administration announced that the anthrax attacks most likely
originated from a domestic source.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 17, Space shuttle
Endeavour returned to Cape Canaveral following A 12-day mission for
a crew change at the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A4)(WSJ, 12/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 17, US Marines raised
the Stars and Stripes over the long-abandoned American Embassy in
Kabul, inaugurating what U.S. envoy James F. Dobbins promised would
be a long commitment to the rebuilding of war-wrecked Afghanistan.
(AP, 12/17/02)
2001 Dec 17, In Afghanistan US
Delta forces pursued some 300 al Qaeda fighters in the White
Mountains. Mullah Omar was reported to have retreated to the
mountains near Baghran.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A1,14)
2001 Dec 17, In Haiti 33
gunmen, ex-members of the disbanded military, attacked the national
penitentiary, were rebuffed and moved on to the National Palace. At
least 10 people were killed. Opposition buildings were attacked in
response. Pres. Aristide called the attack a failed coup. Opposition
called the attack a staged event to crush dissent. A captured former
soldier later said the attack was a coup attempt and that fellow
conspirators included a former colonel and 2 former police chiefs.
Former Col. Guy Francois was accused of helping plot the attack
and spent two years in prison for his alleged role despite
maintaining his innocence.
(SFC, 12/18/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A4)(WSJ,
12/18/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A3)(AP, 12/17/02)(AP, 9/15/06)
2001 Dec 17, Israel continued
military sweeps as Hamas and the Popular Front rejected Arafat’s
call to end attacks.
(WSJ, 12/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 18, A federal judge in
Philadelphia threw out Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence for the 1981
shooting of a Philadelphia police officer and ordered a new
sentencing hearing for the former Black Panther alternately
portrayed as a vicious cop-killer and a victim of a racist frame-up.
Both sides appealed the ruling.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/17/02)
2001 Dec 18, It was reported
that malaria scientists have engineered mice that produce vaccine in
their milk.
(WSJ, 12/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 18, Hundreds of al
Qaeda and Taliban fighters were reported to have slipped into
Pakistan from Afghanistan.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 18, Canada passed the
Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
(Econ, 10/24/09,
p.42)(www.justice.gc.ca/eng/antiter/index.html)
2001 Dec 18, Cuba reported that
attackers killed a visiting Florida couple, their 8-year-old
grandson and 2 others during a highway robbery in Matanzas province.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A4)(WSJ, 12/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 18, Yasser Arafat
closed 6 Hamas offices in a crackdown on militant groups. Israeli
forces arrested 10 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 18, Eduard Kokoity
(b.1964), former champion of the Soviet Union national wrestling
team, assumed office as president of South Ossetia. He had won 45%
of the votes in the first round of elections on November 18 and 53%
in the 2nd round on December 6.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Kokoity)
2001 Dec 18, Yemeni troops
assaulted tribal forces in the Marib region after local leaders
refused to turn over suspected members of al Qaeda. At least 12
people were killed and 22 wounded.
(SFC, 12/19/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/19/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 19, Comcast Corp.
agreed to buy AT&T Broadband as part of an agreement valued at
$72 billion.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 19, The Sep 11 WTC
death toll was reduced to 3,000. In 2002 a revised tally put the
total dead at 2,795. In 2003 the count was reduced to 2,752.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A1)(WSJ,
9/9/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)(USAT, 10/30/03, p.7A)
2001 Dec 19, The fires that had
burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City
for the previous three months were declared extinguished except for
a few scattered hot spots.
(AP, 12/19/02)
2001 Dec 19-24, Christian
Michael Longo (27) killed his wife and 3 children. The bodies of
Mary Jane Longo and 2-year-old daughter were found in an inlet along
the central Oregon coast a week after the bodies of 2 other Longo
children were found. Longo was arrested in Mexico Jan 13. Longo was
convicted and sentenced to death Apr 16, 2003.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A9)(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A3)(SFC,
4/17/03, p.A10)
2001 Dec 19, In Argentina Pres.
de la Rua declared a state of siege as looters ransacked shops and
markets in Buenos Aires and across the north. Domingo Cavallo,
economy minister, resigned.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A1,3)(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)(WSJ,
12/21/01, p.A9)
2001 Dec 19, Britain advised
the UN that it would lead a security force in Afghanistan and
contribute 1,500 soldiers to a force of 5,000.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Dec 19, In the Comoros
Islands troops killed 5 of 13 gunmen who posed as American agents
hunting al Qaeda fugitives.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 19, Al Qaeda prisoners
in Pakistan revolted and 14 were killed. Another 18 escaped.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 19, In Sri Lanka
rebels declared a one-month truce.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, Pres. Bush marked
the 100-day anniversary of Sep 11 by freezing the assets of 2
Pakistan-based groups suspected of terrorist support.
(WSJ, 12/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, It was reported
that the US economy showed nascent signs of recovery.
(WSJ, 12/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, Bio-Rad Labs and 3
large licensees were reported to have little incentive to sell a
rapid AIDS test domestically because they already dominated the
slower lab-based testing market.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, Microsoft admitted
its new Windows X-P operating system software was vulnerable to
hacking.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2001 Dec 20, It was reported
that researchers had identified red wine pigments (polyphenols) as a
factor in inhibiting the production of a peptide that stimulates
hardening of the arteries.
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 20, Comedian Foster
Brooks, known for his "Lovable Lush" fake drunk act, died in Encino,
Calif., at age 89.
(AP, 12/20/02)
2001 Dec 20, In Afghanistan the
1st int’l. peacekeeping forces arrived from Britain as the U.N.
Security Council authorized a multinational force for Afghanistan. A
grenade attack in Mazar-e-Sharif market wounded some 35-100 people.
US air strikes at Asmani and Pokharai killed about 50 civilians.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A24)(WSJ, 12/21/01, p.A1)(AP,
12/20/02)
2001 Dec 20, Argentine
President Fernando De la Rua resigned, hours after his economy
minister, following two days of anti-government unrest that left 22
people dead and more than 200 injured. The foreign debt stood at
$132 billion.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/20/02)
2001 Dec 20, It was reported
that Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, a defector from Iraq, said he
worked on renovations of secret facilities for biological, chemical
and nuclear weapons in Iraq before fleeing a year ago.
(SFC, 12/20/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 20, Following a 3-day
lull Palestinian police in Gaza clashed with Hamas supporters and
one Palestinian was killed. Another died in a gunfight with Israeli
troops in the West Bank.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 20, Leopold Sedar
Senghor (b.1906), poet and former president of Senegal (1960-1980),
died in France at age 95.
(SFC, 12/21/01, p.A34)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Dec 20, In Zimbabwe 2
opposition officials, Milton Chambati (45) and Titus Neya (50) were
killed west of Harare. Youth leader Trymore Midzi was assaulted the
next day and died Dec 24.
(SFC, 12/25/01, p.A20)
2001 Dec 21, Pres. Bush met
with Pres. Nazarbayev of Kazakstan and signed documents "related to
transportation connections."
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 21, President Bush
signed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001,
which required the African nation to adopt land ownership
protections in order to continue receiving U.S. aid.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A5)(AP, 12/21/02)
2001 Dec 21, US warplanes
attacked a convoy of trucks heading for the Pakistan border and 65
people were reported killed. 12 were killed in the convoy and 15 in
nearby villages. The convoy was said to be heading for Kabul.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A19)(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 21, Pennsylvania Gov.
Mark Schweiker announced an agreement on a state takeover of the
Philadelphia school system. Plans called Edison Schools Inc. to help
run the district.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 21, Pfizer agreed to
settle a suit over the diabetes drug Rezulin after a jury awarded
$43 million to a Texas woman who said it destroyed her liver.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 21, Dick Schaap
(b.1934), Emmy-winning sports broadcaster and author, died in New
York at age 67.
(AP, 12/21/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.111)
2001 Dec 21, In Kabul,
Afghanistan, power was officially transferred from Pres. Rabbani to
Hamid Karzai.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 21, In Argentina Ramon
Puerta, head of the Senate, became president following an
extraordinary session of both houses.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 21, In Bulgaria at
least 7 young people were killed when they rushed the entrance of a
Sofia downtown disco.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 21, India recalled its
top envoy from Pakistan and suspended bus and train service between
the 2 countries.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 21, Six Palestinian
teenagers were killed in skirmishes with the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas called a halt to suicide bombings and mortar attacks.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A12)(AP,
12/21/02)
2001 Dec 22, It was reported
that a new "thermobaric" bomb had been developed by the Pentagon for
use in caves and tunnels. The BLU-118b was capable of destroying a
tunnel’s contents without collapsing the tunnel mouth.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A19)
2001 Dec 22, Passengers and
flight attendants subdued Richard Colvin Reid on AA Flight 63 from
Paris to Miami. He appeared to have explosive materials in his
shoes. The flight was diverted to Boston and the FBI confirmed that
his shoes were packed with explosives. Reid had trained with
lashkar-e-Taiba. French police identified the man as Tariq Raja
(28), a Sri Lankan traveling on a British passport. The sneakers
contained pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) and triacetone
triperoxide (TATP). On Jan 30, 2003 Reid was sentenced to life in
prison. A 2nd plot involved Saajid Badat, who backed out of similar
plan on a different flight. In 2005 a British judge sentenced Badat
(25) to 13 years in prison.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/24/01,
p.A1,6)(SFC, 1/31/03, p.A1)(SFC, 4/23/05, p.A4)(WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A6)
2001 Dec 22, A cloned cat named
CC (Carbon Copy) was born following a year of experimentation by
scientists at Texas A&M scientists. The $3.7 million
research project was funded by John Sperling (81), founder of the
Univ. of Phoenix. Sperling soon formed the Sausalito firm Genetic
Savings to clone pets.
(SFC, 2/15/02, p.A1)(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A1)(SFC,
8/6/04, p.A14)
2001 Dec 22, Hamid Karzai was
sworn in as prime minister of Afghanistan.
(AP, 12/22/02)
2001 Dec 22, A fishing boat
from North Korea, suspected of spying, exchanged fire with Japanese
coast vessels and sank after a 6-hour chase. 15 crewmen were lost. 2
bodies were later recovered. North Korea later denied any links to
the fishing boat and accused Japan of a "smear campaign."
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A15)(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A4)(SFC,
12/27/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 23, Time magazine
named Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as Person of the Year.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A2)
2001 Dec 23, It was reported
that Hazrat Ali, an Afghanistan eastern alliance commander, had
negotiated a deal to release al Qaeda troops in the Tora Bora
region. The new cabinet met in Kabul for the 1st time.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A20)(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A10)
2001 Dec 23, In Argentina
Adolfo Rodriguez Saa, governor of San Luis province, was sworn in as
the new interim president until elections on March 3. He said he
would not devalue the peso. Saa said he would suspend payment on the
foreign debt.
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.A13)(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 23, The Union of
Comoros was saved by a new constitution which gave each island its
own president.
(Econ, 3/22/08,
p.55)(www.worldstatesmen.org/Comoros.html)
2001 Dec 23, India troops moved
closer to the Pakistani border and heavy fire was exchanged. 2
Indian soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 23, In Israel Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres and Ahmen Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian
parliament, drafted a new Middle East peace plan that called for
Israel to recognized a Palestinian state within 8 weeks.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 23, Israel barred
Yasser Arafat from making his annual Christmas Eve visit to
Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
(AP, 12/23/02)
2001 Dec 23, In Nigeria Bola
Ige (71), justice minister and attorney general, was shot and
killed at his home in Ibadan, Osun state. Pres. Obasanjo sent troops
to Ibadan.
(SFC, 12/25/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 23, In the Philippines
police rescued a Canadian hostage, Pierre Belanger (51), held for 2
months by the Pentagon gang in the village of Buena Vista.
(SFC, 12/24/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 23, Sri Lanka's
Premier traveled to India to press for greater involvement in peace
talks with the Tamil rebels.
(WSJ, 12/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 24, Officials said
President Bush had created a formal line of succession at several
key federal agencies in case a Cabinet secretary were to be killed
or incapacitated.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2001 Dec 24, A West Virginia
woman kidnapped 16-month-old Jasmine Anderson from a Chicago bus
station in order to pass the child off as her own; Sheila Matthews
and Jasmine were found by FBI agents three days later in West
Virginia. Matthews was later sentenced to more than 12 years in
prison.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2001 Dec 24, In Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai and Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim named Gen. Rashid
Dostum as deputy defense minister.
(SFC, 12/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 24, In Argentina Pres.
Saa planned a new works program to create a million jobs.
(SFC, 12/25/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 25, From
Mazar-e-Sharif to Kandahar in Afghanistan and the USS Theodore
Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea, American forces celebrated Christmas
with carols, touch football and turkey dinners.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 25, India and Pakistan
armies exchanged artillery fire in the mountains of Kashmir.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 25, Arab gunmen
ambushed Israeli troops along the Jordan border. One Israeli soldier
was killed along with 2 of the gunmen. Israel lifted a blockade
around Jericho.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 25, Burundi Maj. Gen.
Gahiro reported that 515 Hutu rebels and 28 soldiers had been killed
in the Tenga region since Nov 26. He said fighting the area was
liberated but that fighting continued.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A8)
2001 Dec 25, Salman Raduyev, a
Chechen warlord, was sentenced by a Russian court to life in prison
for terrorism and murder.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 25, Grigory Pasko
(39), Russian military journalist, was sentenced to 4 years in
prison plus credit for time served for passing state secrets to
Japan. He had reported on the Russian navy practice of ocean-dumping
old weapons and nuclear waste. In 2002 the Supreme Court struck down
the 1996 military secrecy order used to convict Pasko. In 2002 a
military court upheld the verdict.
(SFC, 12/26/01, p.A5)(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A16)(SFC,
6/26/02, p.A10)
2001 Dec 25, In his traditional
"Urbi et Orbi" message, Pope John Paul II turned his thoughts at
Christmas to children — Palestinian, Israeli, American, Afghan and
African — declaring that humanity's hope depends on helping them.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 26, The Al Jazeera
Arab network broadcast a new video-taped statement from Osama bin
Laden that appeared to have been made in late Nov or early Dec. "Our
terrorism is benign." The al-Qaida leader condemned the United
States as a nation that committed crimes against millions of
Afghans.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A1)(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 26, Argentina planned
a new currency, the argentino, to circulate along with the peso and
dollar.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 26, In Brazil rescue
workers searched for victims of earth slides and flooding that
killed at least 49 people in Rio de Janeiro state.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 26, Actor Sir Nigel
Hawthorne (72) died in Hertfordshire, England.
(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 26, In France some 550
Iraqi Kurds, Afghans, Iranians and other refugees from the Sangatte
Red Cross center near the 33-mile Channel Tunnel attempted to reach
asylum in Britain. All were captured by French police.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A4)(AP, 12/25/02)
2001 Dec 26, India deployed
missile batteries and increased jet fighter patrols along its border
with Pakistan.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 26, Israeli troops
shot dead 1 Palestinian, Walid Saadi (50), in Jenin while in pursuit
of gunmen. Some border restrictions were eased.
(SFC, 12/27/01, p.A4)
2001 Dec 27, Pres. Bush
permanently normalized trade relations with China.
(WSJ, 12/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 27, The US announced
plans to hold Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay
naval base in Cuba.
(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 27, US warplanes
destroyed a compound in eastern Afghanistan believed to used by a
Taliban intelligence chief. Local villagers said as many as 40
civilians were killed. Qari Ahmadullah (40), former Taliban chief of
intelligence, was killed while fleeing US bombardment near Naka
village in Paktia province.
(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A22)(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A1)
2001 Dec 27, In NYC a van
lurched out of control in Herald Square at 34th ST. and 6th Ave. and
killed 6 pedestrians. A 7th died the next day.
(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 27, In El Salvador
forensic scientists found human bones buried under the national
police headquarters. The were believed to belong to people who
disappeared during the 1980s civil war.
(WSJ, 12/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 27, India banned
Pakistan’s national airline from entering its airspace and ordered
Pakistan to withdraw half of its diplomats from New Delhi. Pakistan
followed suite.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A22)(AP, 12/27/02)
2001 Dec 27, In Israel defense
minister Gen. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (65) took over leadership of the
Labor Party. Israeli troops raided Palestinian territory for a 2nd
day and arrested 7 suspected militants.
(SFC, 12/28/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 27, Zambia held
national elections. Early returns showed a virtual tie between Levy
Mwanawasa of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy and
Anderson Mazoka (d.2006) of the United Party for National
Development. Mwanawasa won with 29% of the vote.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A21)(Econ, 7/2/05, p.43)(Econ,
6/17/06, p.56)
2001 Dec 28, A WSJ editorial
pointed out how the IMF systematically impoverished foreigners and
suggested how it might promote growth.
(WSJ, 12/28/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 28, The US consumer
confidence index rose to 93.7% from 84.9% in Nov, the 1st gain in 6
months.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 28, The FDA informed
ImClone Corp. that its application for the cancer drug Erbitux would
not be accepted. The stock had fallen 8.4% the previous day and
sellers included Martha Stewart (3,928 shares), and ImClone insiders
including Sam Waksal and family members.
(WSJ, 6/19/02, p.A8)
2001 Dec 28, Buffalo, NY, dug
out from a 5-day storm that left nearly 7 feet of snow.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 28, In Pennsylvania a
30-50 car crash on snow-slickened I-80 left 5 people dead near
Williamsport. Another 50 cars were involved in 2 pileups that left
at least 2 people dead.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 28, Lawrence Singleton
(74), rapist, died at a Florida prison hospital where he was
awaiting execution for a 1997 murder. Singleton had raped Mary
Vincent (15) in 1978 and chopped off her forearms. He was paroled in
1987.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A1)
2001 Dec 28, Gen. Mohammad
Fahim, Afghanistan’s new defense minister, called for an end to US
bombing. Meanwhile al Qaeda remnants in the Tora Bora region fired
missiles at a joint Afghan-American command base.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A16)
2001 Dec 28, In Argentina
thousands of people flooded banks as the government eased a 5-day
bank holiday. Demonstrations ensued and riot police used rubber
bullets and tear gas to quell violence at the Government House known
as Casa Rosada.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A5)
2001 Dec 28, In Australia bush
fires reached within 12 miles of Sidney. Some 150 home were already
destroyed by over 100 fires across new South Wales. 80% of the Royal
National Park had burned. A number of blazes were due to arson, and
3 teenagers and 2 men had been arrested.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 28, The EU expanded
its list of terrorist organizations to include Irish, Basque, Greek
and Middle Eastern extremist groups.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A11)
2001 Dec 28, Israeli troops
killed a suspected Palestinian bomber in the Gaza Strip. The
blockade of Bethlehem was eased. The body of a Jewish settler,
missing for over a week, was found in a West Bank cave near the
village of Jaba.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 28, Japan’s Nikkei
closed at its lowest year-end mark since 1983: 10,542.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.B1)
2001 Dec 28, Pakistan arrested
some 50 leading members of 2 Islamic militant groups:
Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mahammed.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 29, US airstrikes in
Afghanistan’s Paktia province were later reported to have killed up
to 100 villagers.
(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A6)
2001 Dec 29, Thousands of
Antarctic penguins were reported dead or dying due to giant icebergs
that cut the birds off from their food supply.
(SFC, 12/29/01, p.A2)
2001 Dec 29, In Argentina at
least 12 police officers were injured during protests in Buenos
Aires. The entire cabinet offered to step down.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A12)
2001 Dec 29, A fireworks shop
exploded and caused a fire in downtown Lima that spread over 4
downtown blocks. At least 290 people were killed.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A12)(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)(WSJ,
1/2/02, p.A1)
2001 Dec 29, Philippine troops
raided a camp of Muslim rebels linked to Osama bin Laden and killed
13.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 30, Rev. Jack Brock of
the Christ Community Church and his wife Sharon burned Harry Potter
books in Alamogordo, NM, after calling them "a masterpiece of
satanic deception."
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A2)
2001 Dec 30, Ralph Sutton (79)
stride pianist, died in Aspen, Colo. He was a founding member of the
World’s Greatest Jazz Band (1968-1975).
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A10)
2001 Dec 30, Four Afghan
soldiers were killed near Herat as they stacked boxes of ammunition.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A6)
2001 Dec 30, In Argentina Pres.
Saa resigned after one week in office. Senate leader Ramon Puerta
resigned his post so as not to become interim president again.
Eduardo Camano, Peronist lawmaker, was next in line. Saa returned to
San Luis province and with his brother began producing films with
financing from the San Luis Ministry of Progress.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 2/24/05, p.A1)
2001 Dec 30, Colombia seized
$41 million in counterfeit US currency.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 30, Israeli forces
killed 6 Palestinians in 2 incidents in the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 30, Pakistan arrested
Hafiz Saeed, leader of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (Army of the Pure) as India
moved more troops to the border.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 30, Russian troops
mounted an offensive south of Grozny after 6 Russian soldiers were
killed by rebels.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 30, In South Africa an
open truck carrying families on a pilgrimage to ancestral graves,
overturned on a steep hill and 48 people were killed.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A7)
2001 Dec 31, Notre Dame tapped
Tyrone Willingham to be its football coach, replacing George
O'Leary, who'd resigned because of misstatements about his academic
and athletic achievements on his resume; Willingham became the first
black head coach in any sport for the Irish.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2001 Dec 31, The US designated
6 more entities as suspected terrorist organizations. 5 groups were
active in the UK, the 6th was active in Spain. Lashkar-e-Taiba was
designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A8)(WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A6)
2001 Dec 31, It was reported
that federal pay raises ranged from 4.5 to 5.4% with the largest
increase going to workers in San Francisco.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A3)
2001 Dec 31, The US planned to
deploy elements of the 101st Airborne Division to replace Marines
near Kandahar. US troops moved by helicopter to Helmand province,
the region where Mohammed Omar was suspected to be.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec 31, New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spent his final day in office praising
police, firefighters, and other city employees, and said he had no
regrets about returning to private life. In 2005 Fred and Harry
Siegel authored “Prince of the City,” an account of the Giuliani’s
years as mayor of NYC.
(AP, 12/31/02)(WSJ, 6/23/05, p.D8)
2001 Dec 31, Actress Eileen
Heckart died in Norwalk, Conn., at age 82.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2001 Dec 31, In Caracas,
Venezuela, street vendors began selling pre-recorded CDs of banging
pots to help drown out the long-winded speeches of Pres. Chavez.
Earlier protests included the banging of pots and pans and became
known as "cacerolazes." Approval ratings for Chavez had dropped from
80% to just over 50% in recent months.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A2)
2001 Dec 31, Pakistani high
command planned to pull some 50,000 troops off the Afghan border and
redeploy them along the India border.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A10)
2001 Dec 31, It was reported
that Zimbabwe planned to publish the names of nearly 100,000 black
citizens to be given portions of some 20 million acres of now
farmland owned by whites.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Dec, Pres. Bush began
meeting with Gen. Tommy Franks and his war cabinet to plan a US
attack on Iraq.
(SFC, 4/17/04, p.A1)
2001 Dec, Ayman al-Zawahiri
(b.1951), Egypt-born co-founder of al-Qaida, published his memoir
“Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri)
2001 Dec, In Afghanistan US air
strikes in late Dec. at Niazi Qala killed 52 civilians.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A14)
2001 Dec, Argentina halted
payments on its $88 billion in bonds. In 2005 Paul Blustein authored
“And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out),” an account of 2001 the
debt moratorium.
(WSJ, 1/14/04, p.A1)(Econ, 3/5/05, p.82)
2001 Dec, William Stobie,
former British soldier and police informer, was shot dead in
Belfast. He was the only man charged in connection with the 1989
murder of Patrick Finucane.
(SFC, 4/18/03, p.A3)
2001 Dec, Airbus announced the
development of a huge double-decker jet, the A-380, capable of
carrying up to 1,000 passengers.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D2)
2001 Dec, In Indonesia Muslim
and Christian leaders signed a peace accord in the Sulawesi town of
Malino.
(Econ, 9/11/04, p.40)
2001 Dec, Oscar Wyatt (81),
chairman of Coastal Corp., agreed to a surcharge of about $200,000
to be paid to bank account in Jordan controlled by officials of
Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization. This was in violation of
the UN’s oil-for-food program. Wyatt was arrested in 2005 at his
home in Houston. In 2007 Wyatt was sentenced to over a year in jail
after admitting approval of the surcharge.
(SFC, 10/22/05, p.A3)(WSJ, 11/28/07, p.B10)
2001 Dec, The World Bank
approved $175 million in financing for the construction of a $550
million power project on the Nile River in Uganda by AES Corp. of
Arlington, Va. The African Development Bank was to provide an
additional $55 million. Some $370 million in loans were suspended in
June, 2002, over an alleged 1999 bribe to an Ugandan official.
(WSJ, 7/3/02, p.A4)
2001 Michael Richards, sculptor
and victim in the 9/11 WTC, completed his sculpture "Tar Baby vs.
St. Sebastian." The work was based on a body cast of the artist and
featured his figure pierced with airplanes." It was created as a
tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen of WW II.
(SFC, 12/4/03, p.F3)
2001 David Allen authored
“Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity.”
(www.davidco.com/)
2001 Stephen Ambrose authored
"The Wild Blue," an account of the men who flew B-24 bombers during
WW II.
(WSJ, 8/24/01, p.W8)
2001 Jack Beatty edited
"Colossus," an account of the rise of the corporation and its impact
on America.
(WSJ, 4/11/01, p.A16)
2001 Benson Bobrick authored
"Wide As the Waters," a popular history of the English Bible and
Reformation.
(WSJ, 4/4/01, p.A18)
2001 Jean-Charles Brisard and
Guillaume Dasquie authored “Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil
Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden.” The book contained
false defamatory allegations about Sheikh Khalid Bin Mahfouz and
Sheikh Abdulraahman Bin Mahfouz alleging support for terrorism. In
2006 the authors issued a public apology. The apology also covered
Brisard’s 22002 report entitled “Terrorism Financing.”
(Econ, 11/4/06, p.47)
2001 Stephen Cohen authored
“India: Emerging Power.”
(Econ, 3/8/08, p.94)
2001 Jim Collins authored “Good
to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t.” The
book that became a business management classic. He used a team of 21
business students from the Univ. of Colorado to study 11 companies.
His 1994 book “Built to Last” sold over a million copies.
(USAT, 5/18/04, p.B1)(Econ, 7/24/04, p.76)
2001 William Easterly, a member
of the World Bank, authored "The Elusive Quest for Growth," an
analysis of economic growth.
(WSJ, 7/18/01, p.A16)
2001 Dave Eggers authored the
memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” He used the
proceeds to establish a SF publishing house named “McSweeneys.”
(Econ, 1/8/05, p.75)
2001 Barbara Ehrenreich
authored "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America." It
focused on the difficulties of living on unskilled wages.
(SFC, 8/13/01, p.A17)
2001 Cynthia Eller authored
"The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory."
(WSJ, 4/20/01, p.W17)
2001 Niall Ferguson authored
"The Cash Nexus," in which he argued that political events and
institutions often dominate economic development.
(WSJ, 3/29/01, p.A12)
2001 John O. Fox authored "If
Americans Really Understood the Income Tax."
(WSJ, 4/16/01, p.A16)
2001 James Franklin authored
"The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal.
(WSJ, 7/23/01, p.A13)
2001 Jonathan Franzen authored
his novel “The Corrections.” It spent 29 weeks on the New York Times
bestseller list and won the 2001 National Book Award.
(Econ, 8/28/10, p.72)
2001 Todd Gitlin authored
"Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms
Our Lives."
(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A14)
2001 Bernard Goldberg authored
“Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.”
(WSJ, 1/21/06, p.P11)
2001 Larry Goodson authored
"Afghanistan’s Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics and the
Rise of the Taliban."
(WSJ, 10/15/01, p.A22)
2001 John Steele Gordon
authored "The Business of America," a collection of his columns from
American Heritage Magazine.
(WSJ, 8/14/01, p.A12)
2001 Andrew S. Grove, former
head of Intel, authored "Swimming Across," a biography that covers
his early years and arrival to America.
(WSJ, 11/9/01, p.W8)
2001 The new Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians (NG2) was published in a 29 volume reference
set ($4850). The 1st 1980 edition had 20 volumes.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, DB p.49)
2001 David Halberstam authored
"War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals." It covered
the ethnic violence in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, DB p.60)
2001 Donna Halper, Boston-based
historian and radio consultant, authored “Invisible Stars: A Social
History of Women in American Broadcasting.”
(www.amazon.com/Invisible-Stars-American-Broadcasting-Communication/dp/0765605813)
2001 Paul Halpern authored "The
Pursuit of Destiny." It traced the predictive efforts of science and
other disciplines through history.
(WSJ, 1/10/01, p.A20)
2001 Michael Hardt and Antonio
Negri authored “Empire,” a disquisition on globalization and its
discontents. In 2004 they authored the sequel “Multitude.”
(WSJ, 8/3/04, p.D8)
2001 Jeffrey Hart authored
"Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe." It was an examination of
the Western culture and tradition. "The mind of the West was born
amid tension and contradiction and draws strength from refusing to
be either-or but rather both-and."
(WSJ, 9/25/01, p.A16)
2001 Laura Hillenbrand authored
her best selling book “Seabiscuit,” the story of the champion race
horse (1933-1947).
(Econ, 11/27/10,
p.94)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabiscuit)
2001 Dr. Julie Holland authored
"Ecstasy: The Complete Guide." The drug was being touted as a
potential anti-depressant.
(SFC, 2/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Ricky Jay, magician and
actor, published his "Jay’s Journal of Anomalies," a concentrated
form of his "Jay’s Journal of Anomalies."
(SSFC, 12/2/01, p.M2)
2001 Philip Jenkins authored
"Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way," in which he
examines the motives and methodologies of radical biblical scholars.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A16)
2001 Vernon E. Jordon Jr.,
former Urban League president and NAACP director, authored his
memoir "Vernon Can Read."
(WSJ, 11/21/01, p.A12)
2001 Hal Kane authored "Triumph
of the Mundane: The Unseen Trends That Shape Our Lives and
Environment."
(SSFC, 3/11/01, BR p.5)
2001 David Kessler, former FDA
commissioner, authored "A Question of Intent." He called for the
dismantling of the tobacco industry.
(SSFC, 1/7/01, p.A12)
2001 Nancy F. Koehn authored
"Brand New," a history and biography of property branding. Her
essays covered Josiah Wedgwood, Estee Lauder, Marshall Field, Howard
Shultz, Michael Dell, H.J. Heinz.
(WSJ, 4/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Michael Korda, editor in
chief of Simon & Shuster, authored "Making the List: A Cultural
History of the American Best Seller."
(WSJ, 12/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Tomas Larsson authored
"The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization."
(WSJ, 12/5/01, p.A18)
2001 Mark Lilla authored "The
Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics."
(WSJ, 10/11/01, p.A20)
2001 David Limbaugh authored
"Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno
Justice Department."
(WSJ, 5/22/01, p.A24)
2001 Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian writer, authored “The Feast of the Goat,” a portrayal of
the last days of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic.
(WSJ, 9/1/07, p.P9)
2001 Bjorn Lomborg authored
"The Skeptical Environmentalist" in which he presents data that
shows the environment to be improving.
(WSJ, 10/2/01, p.A17)
2001 Myron Magnet edited
"Modern Sex: Liberation and Its Discontents."
(WSJ, 10/25/01, p.A18)
2001 Ian McEwan, a British
writer, authored his novel “Atonement.” In 2007 it was made into a
film starring James McAvoy and directed by Joe Wright.
(SFC, 12/4/07, p.E1)
2001 Darrin M. McMahon authored
"Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and
the Making of Modernity."
(WSJ, 11/1/01, p.A19)
2001 Ed Michaels, Helen
Handfield-Jones and Beth Axelrod of McKinsey authored “The War for
Talent,” a directive to management to recruit and promote the best
available talent.
(Econ, 10/7/06, Survey p.3)
2001 Walter Russell Mead
authored "Special Providence," a study of why American foreign
policy is so successful. He posits 4 factions responsible for
shaping policy: Hamiltonians: who see the 1st task of the American
government as promoting the health of American enterprise at home
and abroad. Wilsonians: who think that the US has both a moral and a
practical duty to spread its values throughout the world.
Jeffersonians: who argue the US should perfect its own democracy and
not go abroad. Jacksonians: who believe that the US should not seek
out foreign quarrels, but should clobber anyone who messes with it.
(WSJ, 11/29/01, p.A16)
2001 Jacob Needleman,
philosophy prof. at SF State Univ., authored "The American Soul:
Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders."
(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.M2)
2001 Andy Oram edited
"Peer-To-Peer," a collection of articles by 24 specialists on the
computing power of shared computers.
(WSJ, 4/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Marc Prensky authored
“Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants,” in which he argued that
students are no longer the people our educational system was
designed to teach.
(Econ, 3/6/10, TQ p.10)
2001 Sumner Redstone, CEO of
Viacom, co-wrote his memoir with Peter Knobler "A Passion To Win."
(WSJ, 6/8/01, p.W11)
2001 Arundhati Roy authored
"Power Politics." It covered dam development in India and included
the role of Enron Corp. in Maharashtra state projects.
(PP, 2001)
2001 Richard Russo of Camden,
Maine, authored his novel "Empire Falls." He won a Pulitzer prize
for the work in 2002.
(SFC, 6/28/02, p.D18)
2001 Eric Schlosser authored
“Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.”
(SSFC, 8/8/04, p.M2)
2001 Daniel Schorr, newsman,
authored his memoir "Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism."
(WSJ, 5/2/01, p.A30)
2001 David Sinclair authored
"The Pound: A Biography."
(WSJ, 1/15/01, p.A21)
2001 Bradley A. Smith authored
"Unfree Speech," a defense of the First Amendment.
(WSJ, 4/9/01, p.A26)
2001 George Soros, financier,
authored "Open Society," a synthesis of his economic views.
(WSJ, 1/09/01, p.A20)
2001 Thomas Sowell authored
"Basic Economics."
(WSJ, 3/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Ronald H. Spector authored
"At War At Sea," a history of naval warfare in the 20th century.
(WSJ, 5/24/01, p.A20)
2001 Stuart Stevens authored
"The Big Enchilada," an account of the 2000 George W. Bush
presidential campaign.
(WSJ, 8/20/01, p.A13)
2001 Ian Stewart authored
"Flatterland," a tour of the mysteries of advance math and physics.
(WSJ, 5/18/01, p.W13)
2001 Barry Werth authored “The
Scarlet Professor.” It was an account of 1960s scandal involving
Prof. Raymond Joel Dorius (19019-2006) of Smith College in
Massachusetts over magazines in his possession depicting nude males.
(SSFC, 2/19/06, p.B7)
2001 Shakira, Colombian pop
star, made a hit with her “Laundry Service” album, mostly in
English, selling 13 million copies. Her previous 4 albums in Spanish
sold some 12 million copies.
(Econ, 7/23/05, p.62)
2001 Elton John composed his
opera "Aida" with lyrics by Tim Rice.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.E1)
2001 The Zumba dance program, a
type of cardio exercise, was begun in Miami by Colombia-born Alberto
Perez with his sales of dance fitness DVDs.
(SSFC, 2/13/11,
p.E4)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwVdBH4vjLU)
2001 The first commercial
alternate reality game (ARG), called “The Beast,” was produced as
part of a promotional campaign for Steven Spielberg’s film “A.I.:
Artificial Intelligence.”
(Econ, 3/7/09, TQ p.16)
2001 Lawrence Lessig (46),
Stanford professor and cyberlaw expert, founded Creative Commons,
which offered an alternative to standard copyrights through various
gradations of permission for use.
(Econ, 12/8/07, p.31)
2001 Jacqueline Novogratz set
up the Acumen Fund, a “social venture capital” outfit. The fund took
donations from philanthropists and lent or took stakes in private
ventures that somehow served the poor. In 2009 she published her
autobiography “The Blue sweater.”
(Econ, 5/23/09, p.72)
2001 Jan 23, Pres. Bush
proposed his No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education reform program.
It was signed into law on Jan 8, 2002.
(Econ, 6/11/05,
p.28)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act)
2001 US Congress the Ambassador
Fund to provide modest financial support of archeological activities
in countries around the world.
(Arch, 1/05, p.4)
2001 US Attorney Gen. John
Ashcroft proclaimed that the 2nd Amendment refers to individuals
rather than groups aligning himself with gun-rights advocates.
(WSJ, 12/16/03, p.A4)
2001 The National Bureau of
Economic Research said in 2003 that the US recession ended in late
2001.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R10)
2001 The US EPA recommended
that strict regulations on perchlorate. The chemical, a key
component in munitions, had seeped into drinking water supplies. A
strict limit meant that defense contractors would have to clean up
scores of water sources in 35 states.
(WSJ, 12/29/05, p.A1)
2001 The US National Archives
signed a secret agreement with the CIA permitting the spy agency to
withdraw from public access records it considered to have been
improperly declassified. A similar agreement was signed with the Air
Force in 2002. This news was only made public in 2006.
(SFC, 4/18/06, p.A10)
2001 Arkansas passed a Covenant
Marriage Act.
(Econ, 2/12/05, p.31)
2001 The new $214 million
California Public Health Laboratory opened on a 28-acre site in
Richmond, Ca.
(SSFC, 7/31/05, p.A1)
2001 Stanford philosophy
professors John Perry and Ken Taylor made an hour long radio pilot
program, “Philosophy Talk,” on the question: “Would you want to live
forever?” San Francisco producers at KALW agreed to air the program.
(SFC, 2/10/10, p.E3)
2001 Colin Roche (34) and Bobby
Ronsse (34) launched Pacific Writing Instruments from San Mateo, Ca.
Roche conceived of his PenAgain ergonomic pen in 1987 while sitting
in high school detention. In 2006 Wal-Mart put it on trial sale.
(WSJ, 5/30/06, p.B1)
2001 Chris Anderson, Silicon
Valley publisher, sold his Business 2.0 magazine for a reported $68
million.
(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.A4)
2001 Rubbersidewalks Inc. of
Gardena, Ca., began grinding old tires into crumbs, adding chemical
binders, and baking the material into sidewalk sections that weigh
under 11 pounds per square foot, or a quarter of the weight of
concrete.
(AP, 7/27/06)
2001 The Hawaiian Kingdom
Government was founded in Honolulu as a native organization claiming
sovereignty over the Hawaiian Islands.
(SFC, 6/20/08, p.A5)
2001 Dwayne Jackson was
arrested on kidnapping and robbery charges in Nevada. He spent 4
years in prison until his release in 2006. In November, 2010, an
error regarding DNA evidence indicated that the wrong man had been
sent to prison.
(SFC, 7/8/11, p.A6)
2001 Amtrak lost $1.1 billion
in this year.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.A4)
2001 In Portland, Oregon, the
Metropolitan Area Express (MAX), a light rail system, extended
operations from downtown to the airport. This was the first train to
the plane on the west coast.
(WSJ, 12/2/99, p.A1)(Econ, 9/2/06, p.28)
2001 Cargo tycoon Lynn Fritz
sold his Fritz Cos. to United Parcel and banked some $200 million.
He soon joined with Robert Prieto, chairman of engineering giant
Parsons Brinckerhoff, and Uwe Doerken, CEO of DHL, to establish the
Disaster Resource Network, a group of multinationals that donate
time and expertise to combat nature’s worst strikes.
(WSJ, 11/22/05, p.A12)
2001 Ben Kacyra (b.1949),
Iraqi-born founder of SF Bay Area firm Cyra Technologies, sold the
company’s new laser mapping tool to Leica Geosystems of Switzerland.
The device was created to produce digital blueprints of
3-dimensional objects.
(SSFC, 7/22/07, p.C3)
2001 MGA Entertainment
introduced the Bratz line of dolls based on a design by Carter
Bryant, a designer from Mattel. The doll became very popular and
threatened the Barbie franchise of Mattel. In 2008 the 2 companies
faced each other in court. A jury ruled that the Bratz dolls were
conceived while Bryant was employed by Mattel. On August 26 a
federal jury in Riverside, Ca., awarded Mattel $100 million in
damages. On Dec 3 a federal judge banned MGA Entertainment Inc. from
making and selling Bratz dolls after the holiday season. In January,
2009, a federal judge said the company can continue to sell the toy
line through 2009.
(WSJ, 5/23/08, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/18/08, p.B1)(SFC,
8/27/08, p.C3)(SFC, 12/4/08, p.A9)(SFC, 1/8/09, p.C2)
2001 Robert Mondavi backed the
opening of Copia, the $50 million American Center for Wine, Food and
the Arts, in Napa, Ca.
(USAT, 6/17/98, p.2D)(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.G8)
2001 A scheme called Project
Alpha inflated the cash flow of Dynegy Corp. by $300 million. In
2004 Jamie Olis, a mid-level Dynegy finance executive, began a
24-year jail sentence for his role in the scheme.
(Econ, 6/12/04, p.59)
2001 McCall’s Magazine ceased
publication after 125 years and was replaced by Rosie, named after
talk show hostess Rosie O’Donnell.
(WSJ, 4/27/01, p.W17)
2001 Mental Floss magazine was
launched by Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur at North Carolina’s
Duke Univ.
(SSFC, 12/12/04, p.D2)
2001 Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer
co-founded TerraCycle, an environmentally friendly consumer products
firm, at the end of their freshman year at Princeton, NJ. In 2009
Tom Szaky (27) authored “Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is
Redefining Green Business.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraCycle)(WSJ,
3/11/09, p.A13)
2001 Goldman Sachs grouped
Brazil, Russia, India and China together as the 4 biggest emerging
economies under the acronym BRICs.
(Econ, 9/16/06, Survey p.12)
2001 Keyhole released the first
commercial geobrowser. Google bought Keyhole in 2004 and launched
Google Earth in 2005.
(Econ, 9/8/07, TQ p.18)
2001 Martin Tytell (d.2008 at
94), master of typewriter technology, closed his shop in Manhattan
after 65 years in business. During WWII he turned Siamese keyboards
into 17 other Asian languages.
(Econ, 9/20/08, p.106)
2001 Infospace bought
WebCrawler.
(SFC, 2/2/08, p.C1)
2001 The WPP Group bought the
consulting firm of Mark Penn (47) and turned him into a
multimillionaire. He later went on to become the chief strategist
for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
(Econ, 8/25/07, p.34)
2001 The New Orleans Regional
Transit Authority installed plastic railroad ties for the 1st time
on its St. Charles line. Plastic tie manufacturers included Polywood
Inc. and the TieTek unit of North American Technologies Group. Each
mile of track laid with plastic ties was said to save 800 oak trees.
(WSJ, 10/19/04, p.B8)
2001 Bob Palais of the
University of Utah authored a watershed essay titled: "Pi is Wrong!"
He argued that we should be celebrating and symbolizing the value
that is equal to approximately 6.28, the ratio of a circle's
circumference to its radius, and not to the 3.14'ish ratio of its
circumference to its diameter. In 2010 Palais' followers gave the
new constant, 2pi, a name: tau.
(www.livescience.com/14836-pi-wrong-tau.html)
2001 Tom Malzbender, a computer
scientist at HPs laboratory in Palo Alto, Ca., developed a lighting
method that came to be known as polynomial texture mapping (PTM). It
was later found useful in illuminating details on ancient objects.
(Econ, 3/27/10,
p.88)(www.hpl.hp.com/research/ptm/)
2001 The US National Institutes
of Health began its Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) project to
isolate each of the estimated 30,000 human genes along with a full
set of mouse genes.
(SFC, 4/23/01, p.B1)
2001 Researchers identified a
“skimmed milk” gene in a cow. In 2007 a biotech company in New
Zealand announced that it had bred a cow to produce low-fat milk.
(SFC, 6/2/07, p.B6)
2001 The FOXP2 gene was
identified as the 1st gene definitively linked to human language.
(http://tinyurl.com/38gea)
2001 Northfield Laboratories
quietly shut down the trial of a blood substitute called PolyHeme,
begun in 1999, after 10 of 81 patients, who received the fake blood,
suffered a heart attack within 7 days. 2 of the heart attack
patients died.
(WSJ, 2/22/06, p.A1)
2001 A fish epidemic struck
Atlantic salmon farms. The 2-year epizootic killed most of the young
fish in 36 farms. Canadian scientists developed a vaccine, Apex-IHN,
that protected the fish and in July, 2005, Canada licensed the
product for sale.
(WSJ, 9/23/05, p.B1)
2001 In West Virginia DuPont’s
Spelter smelter closed. During more than 90 years of operation, the
smelter produced more than 4 billion pounds of slab zinc and 400
million pounds of zinc dust for use in rustproofing products, paint
pigments and battery anodes. By 1971, a toxic waste pile stood 100
feet tall and covered nearly half of the 112-acre site. Dust often
blew from the site into homes in nearby communities. In 2007 10
plaintiffs won a class-action lawsuit against DuPont over long-term
exposure to toxins from the site.
(AP, 7/30/09)
2001 The FBI tracked 8,322 US
bank robberies this year, up 17% from 2000.
(WSJ, 10/8/02, p.A1)
2001 The average cost of
housing criminals in the US this year was $22,650.
(WSJ, 12/21/05, p.A1)
2001 In South Carolina
Christopher Pittman (12) killed his grandparents with a shotgun and
then torched their rural home. He later blame the anti-depressant
zoloft for his actions. In 2005 he was found guilty and sentenced to
30 years in prison.
(SFC, 2/16/05, p.A4)
2001 Winston Link (86), NYC
photographer, died. He spent the years 1955-1960 photographing the
last steam railroad in America, the Norfolk & Western RR. In
2004 a museum dedicated to his work opened in Roanoke, Va.
(WSJ, 8/5/04, p.D8)
2001 Richard Evans Schultes
(b.1915), considered the father of ethnobotony, died. In 1997 Wade
Davis authored "One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the
Amazon Rain Forest," a biography of Schultes.
(NH, 2/02, p.22)
2001 David Sylvester (b.1924),
art critic, died. In 2003 a posthumous collection of his writings
was published as: "London Recordings."
(Econ, 11/15/03, p.78)
2001 Dare Wright (b.1914),
author, died. He books included “The Lonely Doll.“ In 2004 Jean
Wright authored “The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll.“
(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.M1)
2001 The Generation IV
International Forum (IGF) was established to coordinate the
development of new nuclear reactors. Members included America,
Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, France, Japan, Russia,
South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland and Euratom, the EU’s nuclear
body.
(Econ, 12/12/09, TQ p.15)
2001 In Argentina Doug
Tompkins, founder of Esprit Corp., purchased a 153,000-acre
Patagonian sheep ranch and donated it to the government. Pres.
Nestor Kirchner named it Monte Leon National Park.
(SFCM, 9/10/06, p.12)
2001 Bangladeshi economist
Muhammad Yunus restructured Grameen Bank to emphasize savings and
relying less on joint liability for groups.
(Econ, 10/21/06, p.78)
2001 In Belgium a 3-block
tolerance zone for prostitution was established in Antwerp as a test
case for national legalization of prostitution.
(WSJ, 5/26/05, p.A1)
2001 In Brazil an 840-pound
emerald was discovered in Bahia. It was sold to Americans for
$60,000 and then transferred among a number of people, who moved it
to San Jose, Ca., then to Louisiana, where it was trapped in a
flooded warehouse, and then back to California. In 2009 it came
under police control as courts attempted to unravel ownership of the
mineral, now said to be worth nearly $400 million.
(WSJ, 2/28/09, p.A1)
2001 Britain’s 2001
anti-terrorism act explicitly banned the bribing of foreign
officials by British citizens and companies no matter where the
offense took place.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.83)
2001 The UN said 170,000 people
in Cambodia had HIV. About 2.7% of the adult population was infected
with AIDS.
(Econ, 11/22/03, p.41)
2001 Kay Kimsong, along with
two Americans working for the Cambodian Daily, were sued over two
articles published in early 2001 that said Foreign Minister Hor
Namhong had played an active part in running a Phnom Penh prison
camp during the Khmer Rouge's brutal 1975-79 reign. An appeal by
Kimsong in 2005 was rejected and he was fined $7,500.
(AP, 8/31/05)
2001 Ryan Hreljac (b.1991) of
Ontario, Canada, founded a charity, Ryan’s Well Foundation, to
provide drinking water in developing countries. At the age of six,
began raising money for those affected by the global water crisis,
and has since raised millions for water and sanitation projects in
Africa.
(http://www.ryanswell.ca/)
2001 In the Central African
Republic Martin Ziguele began serving as prime minister and
continued to 2003.
(AFP, 9/25/10)
2001 Central African
Republic’s General Kolingba fled into exile in Uganda following the
failed May 28 attempt to overthrow Patasse. Kolingba was sentenced
to death and stripped of military rank in his absence, but was
amnestied in 2003 after General Francois Bozize seized power from
Patasse.
(AP, 2/8/10)
2001 In China Zhengzhou city in
Henan province unveiled plans for a new city and hired Japanese
architect Kisho Kurokawa to design Zhengdong New District and its
main showcase buildings. Completion was scheduled for 2015 at a cost
of $25 billion.
(Econ, 1/7/06, p.40)
2001 Amnesty Int’l. reported in
2002 that at least 3,048 people were executed in 31 countries in
2001. China accounted for at least 1,781. 90% of the executed were
from China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the US.
(SFC, 4/10/02, p.A12)
2001 Shi Zhengrong, a Chinese
solar engineer, started Suntech to manufacture solar cells. By 2007
the company was the world’s 3rd largest in the field.
(Econ, 6/2/07, SR p.16)
2001 There were some 720,000
passenger vehicles sold this year in China. Sales were expected to
climb to 900,000 units in 2002.
(WSJ, 7/3/02, p.A9)
2001 Some 5,670 Chinese miners
died in accidents in this year.
(SFC, 4/3/03, p.D1)
2001 Colombian courts convicted
Yair Klein, a former lieutenant colonel in the Israeli army, in
absentia for helping train far-right paramilitary groups in the
1980s. The Colombian government made unsuccessful attempts to obtain
his extradition from Israel. Klein was arrested by Russian
authorities in August 2007 as he touched down at a Moscow airport.
He was released to Israel in 2010.
(AP,
11/20/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Klein)
2001 A grape genetically
identical to California’s zinfandel was discovered growing wild in
Croatia.
(SFC, 9/7/05, p.F8)
2001 The Djibouti government
gave the US military free land, free rein and full secrecy for a
forward base to fight al Qaeda and other terrorists.
(SFC, 12/28/02, p.A6)
2001 An EU directive gave
member nations until 2006 to comply with an art sale levy, droit de
suite (right of continuation), allowing artists to claim a sliding
scale royalty on the resale price of their works selling for over
1000 euros.
(WSJ, 1/13/06, p.P14)
2001 The EU began work on the
Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals
(REACH). The final package was expected to come into force in April,
2007.
(Econ, 12/9/06, p.70)
2001 El Salvador adopted the US
dollar as the official currency.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A18)
2001 Manu Herbstein (b.1936), a
South African resident of Ghana, authored “Ama: A Story of the
Atlantic Slave Trade.”
(www.nathanielturner.com/amastoryofatlanticslavetrade.htm)
2001 Oil revenue in Equatorial
Guinea reached $140 million.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A10)
2001 The population
in Equatorial Guinea was about 475,000.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A10)
2001 A UN world population
report showed that Estonia was one of the fastest shrinking nations
on earth, with a fertility rate of 1.3.
(WSJ, 10/20/06, p.A1)
2001 The French firm Alcatel
won a contract from Costa Rica telecoms and electricity firm ICE. In
2004 Pres. Rodriguez was charged with accepting a share of a $2.4
million payment made by Alcatel for the contract.
(Econ, 11/27/04, p.38)
2001 Pernod Ricard SA acquired
the Polish vodka Wyborova, Czech bitters Jan Becher and Seagram’s
Martell cognac and Chivas scotch.
(WSJ, 9/7/05, p.B2)
2001 The crime rate in France
topped the US this year. Over 25,000 cars were burned in French
cities as violence increased primarily due to immigrant gangs from
sub-Saharan Africa, Romania and the former Yugoslavia.
(SSFC, 4/28/02, Par p.9)
2001 Traffic accidents in
France killed over 8,000 people this year. Speed cameras were
installed on roads beginning in 2003 and by 2005 the number of
deaths fell to just above 5,000.
(Econ, 10/21/06, p.61)
2001 In Guatemala Armando Llort
testified in 2011 at an embezzlement trial of Alfonso Portillo that
in 2001 he passed three loads of 30 million quetzales ($3.5 million)
apiece from the bank to the head of Pres. Portillo's security
detail, who took the money away in an armored car.
(AP, 2/24/11)
2001 Lam Sai-wing, Hong Kong
jeweler, opened his doors to a glittering golden bathroom complete
with two 24-carat solid gold toilets. The company earned two places
in the Guinness World Records by constructing the world's "most
expensive bathroom," and "most expensive toilet," made almost
exclusively out of gold.
(http://tinyurl.com/5urw7t)(WSJ, 7/7/08, p.A1)
2001 Gurdharan Das authored
"India Unbound," an examination of why India is so impoverished.
(WSJ, 3/19/00, p.A19)
2001 The Indian film "Lagaan"
(Land Tax) starred Aamir Khan (36), who also produced it. It was set
in 1893 and focused on a cricket match between villagers and
colonial masters over an unjust tax. It was the 1st Indian film to
receive an Oscar nomination on 14 years.
(WSJ, 3/27/02, p.A14)
2001 In India Ramesh Ramanathan
and Swati Ramanathan, founded the Janaagraha Center for Citizenship
and Democracy. It started as a movement to enable citizen
participation in public governance and evolved into a robust
institution for Citizenship and Democracy. In 2010 the center
introduced the website http://ipaidabribe.com.
(www.ipaidabribe.com/node/77)
2001 Arun Shourie was appointed
as India’s minister of disinvestment.
(Econ, 3/13/04, p.68)
2001 In India the children’s
Development Bank was stated by a children’s advocacy group led by
Rita Panicker as a means for street kids in New Delhi in safely save
their money. The idea spread across South Asia and by 2007 some
6,400 boys and girls in India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal had
accounts.
(SSFC, 8/19/07, p.A17)
2001 In India Enron Corp. and
other investors shut down the Dabhol Power project in Maharashtra
state after the state’s electricity authority fell $240 million
behind in payments.
(Econ, 5/1/04, p.66)
2001 A census in India reported
that the Parsi population, also known as Zoroastrians, had declined
to 69,601 from 76,382 a decade earlier. Their numbers worldwide were
less than 200,00 with most in India and Iran.
(WSJ, 2/6/06, p.A1)
2001 India changed the name of
Calcutta to Kolkata.
(SSFC, 10/29/06, p.G2)
2001 Fighting in Aceh,
Indonesia, this year killed 60 government soldiers, 94 GAM fighters
and some 1,006 civilians.
(SFC, 4/20/02, p.A8)
2001 Indonesia outlawed
commercial logging in Aceh.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.A20)
2001 Ansar al-Islam, blamed for
attacks in Iraq and supported by a network of members in Europe, was
founded in late 2001 in Kurdish part of northern Iraq by Mullah
Krekar, who had lived as refugee in Norway since 1991.
(AP, 1/8/05)
2001 Rome declared the ruins of
the Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary to be a cultural heritage.
(SFC, 11/15/02, p.J1)
2001 In Jamaica some 1300
people were killed this year.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A17)
2001 Hiroya Masuda, governor of
Japan’s northern Iwate prefecture, sent out a bold new message:
“Just give up.” It was an effort to improve the local quality of
life.
(WSJ, 6/30/04, p.A1)
2001 Shuji Nakamura sued his
employer, Japan’s Nichia Corp., for a larger share in the profits
from his invention of the blue LED. He had originally received a
20,000 yen bonus. In 2004 a court ordered Nichia to pay him 20
billion yen. A deal in 2005 gave him 840 million yen.
(WSJ, 1/12/05, p.A9)
2001 Vodaphone took control of
J-Phone, Japan’s 3rd largest operator. In 2003 J-Phone was renamed
Vodaphone.
(Econ, 3/11/06, p.56)
2001 Takashi Tokuyama, a
Japanese brewer of sake, patented his inventions of rice extracts
for skin care products. By 2006 sake was being displaced by shochu,
a distilled drink made from barley, rice, or sweet potatoes.
(Econ, 8/5/06, p.55)
2001 Evidence gathered in 2004
by the UN suggested that North Korea supplied Libya with nearly 2
tons of uranium in 2001.
(WSJ, 5/24/04, p.A1)
2001 Liechtenstein was removed
from the money-laundering list of the Paris-based Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2001 In Macao the gambling
franchise of tycoon Stanley Ho was scheduled to expire. Half of the
government revenue was derived from gambling. American firms soon
stepped in to build new facilities.
(SFEC, 5/16/99, p.A24)(Econ, 7/29/06, p.40)
2001 A Malaysia bank
introduced a corporate bond that complied with Islamic prohibitions
on interest. The bonds were benchmarked to interest rates, but
technically based on profit sharing, leasing or trading By
2007 the global Islamic bond market reached an estimated $50 billion
in outstanding securities.
(WSJ, 4/4/07, p.A1)
2001 Tony Fernandez (b.1964),
Malaysian entrepreneur, acquired AirAsia and soon re-launched it as
a low-cost domestic carrier with 2 B737 planes purchased from a
Malaysian conglomerate. Ryanair signed on with a 5% stake. By 2009
the company had 76 planes. By the end of 2004 the low cost airline
planned to have 30 planes.
(Econ, 3/13/04, p.63)(Econ, 2/7/09, p.35)(Econ,
3/21/09, p.72)(http://tinyurl.com/cxf3hz)
2001 In Moldova Vladimir
Voronin, a former baker and member of the Communist Party, was
elected president. He stepped down after serving the maximum two
terms.
(AP, 5/12/09)
2001 Sam Nujoma, president of
Namibia, authored his 476-page autobiography “Where Others
Waivered.” In 2005 it was made into a film.
(Econ, 5/21/05, p.49)
2001 KaZaA, an internet
file-sharing program, was founded in Amsterdam by Niklas Zennstrom
of Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark. In 2004 they launched Skype
software for internet telephony.
(Econ, 7/3/04, p.54)
2001 The leftist Paraguayan
People’s Army (EPP) was founded.
(Econ, 5/15/10, p.42)
2001 In Paraguay Benigna
Leguizamon (17) was allegedly raped by Fernando Lugo, head of
diocese of San Pedro. In 2009 she said Pres. Lugo was the father of
her 6-year-old child and told Magnificat radio in Ciudad del Este
that she was a 17-year-old cleaning woman for the diocese of San
Pedro at the time of the initial rape.
(AP, 6/24/09)
2001 Peru moved to create
autonomous regional governments and to give them more revenues.
Mayor Wenceslao Alderete of Huayre, hoping to attract tourists,
spent $158,000 to create an erotic sculpture park in the central
plaza. In 2006 the town still lacked paved streets and a sewage
system.
(SFC, 11/23/06, p.A33)
2001 In Poland twin brothers
Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski (1949-2010) founded the Law and Justice
Party.
(Econ, 4/17/10, p.96)
2001 Anna Politkovskaya
authored "A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya."
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.M6)
2001 In Russia Tatyana Tolstaya
authored her experimental novel "Kys."
(WSJ, 2/25/02, p.A1)
2001 Reality TV arrived in
Russia in the shape of “Behind the Glass,” created by Grigory
Lubomirov.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.72)
2001 Russia slashed taxes by a
third and simplified its tax code.
(Econ, 2/24/07, p.19)
2001 Russia sold Myanmar 10
MiG-29 fighter aircraft for $130 million.
(WSJ, 1/3/02, p.A6)
2001 Alexander Gorlov, a
Russian civil engineer who worked on the Aswan High Dam, won the
Edison patent for his invention of a turbine that could extract
power from free-flowing currents.
(Econ, 3/8/08, TQ p.12)
2001 Samoa’s population
was about 171,000.
(SFCM, 10/14/01, p.19)
2001 In Singapore Joshua "J.B."
Jeyaretnam (74), head of the Workers’ Party, was declared bankrupt
following a late payment for a $13,535 monthly installment owed in a
libel suit.
(SFC, 1/20/01, p.A11)
2001 In Singapore Jack
Sim founded the World Toilet Organization. In 2007 the World Toilet
Association held its inaugural conference in South Korea.
(SFC, 11/23/07, p.A2)
2001 The new Maria Valeria
Bridge over the Danube reunited Sturovo, Slovakia, with Esztergom,
Hungary. Germans had blown up the old bridge in 1944.
(WSJ, 4/5/05, p.A15)
2001 At Washington’s request
the UN Security Council ordered that the assets of Yassin Qadi, a
Saudi businessman and multimillionaire, be frozen soon after the Sep
11 attacks in NYC. He was alleged to be a financier of Islamic
terrorism with close links to al-Qaida. The EU froze the assets of
Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi businessman, and the Al-Barakaat
International Foundation, a Sweden-based charity suspected of
funding al-Qaida terror groups. In 2008 the EU's highest court
overturned the decision saying the order failed to offer those on a
terror blacklist any legal rights to a judicial review under
European law. Also frozen were the assets of Omar Mohammed Othman,
also known as Abu Qatada, an extremist Muslim preacher from Jordan.
In 2009 an EU court voided the freeze on Othman due to lack of
proper judicial review. Othman has lived in Britain since 1993, has
been arrested several times there under anti-terrorist legislation
and currently faced deportation to Jordan.
(WSJ, 8/29/07, p.A1)(AP, 9/3/08)(AP, 6/11/09)
2001 In Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu
(b.1959) authored “Strategic Depth,” in which he set out a new
policy of engagement in the region. In 2009 he was named Turkey’s
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
(Econ, 10/23/10, SR
p.7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Davuto%C4%9Flu)
2001 Turkey’s police knocked
out the home-grown Hizbullah, an Islamic terrorist group.
(Econ, 7/19/08, p.36)
2001 Turkmenistan’s Pres.
Niyazov published "Rukhnama" (Spiritual Revival, or Book of the
Soul), a book of his historical and philosophical musings. It became
required reading in schools. A 2nd volume was scheduled for 2004.
(SSFC, 8/11/02, p.A14)(Econ, 7/24/04, p.42)
2001 Boris Shikmuradov,
Turkmenistan former deputy prime minister, defected and began
calling for the overthrow of Pres. Niyazov.
(SFC, 8/28/02, p.A12)
2001 Vietnam and the US signed
a bilateral trade agreement.
(Econ, 6/25/05, p.34)
2001 Worldwide deaths from
earthquakes this year totaled 21,436.
(SFC, 1/5/02, p.A4)(WSJ, 1/11/02, p.A1)
2001-2002 The US Navy Engineering Logistics Office
issued at least 10 classified contracts to US aviation companies to
fly terror suspects to countries known to practice torture. The CIA
also played a role in the operations.
(SSFC, 9/25/05, A4)
2001-2002 Argentina’s financial crisis during this
period involved institutional breakdown, a huge monetary
devaluation, destruction of the financial system and a default on
the public debt.
(Econ, 4/5/08, p.20)
2001-2003 The US Lewis Doctrine, formulated by
Prof. Bernard Lewis, called for seeding democracy in failed Mideast
states to defang terrorism.
(WSJ, 2/3/04, p.A12)
2001-2003 Canadian citizens Abdullah Almalki,
Muayyed Nureddin and Ahmad El Maati were labeled as terrorists and
arrested on separate visits to Syria where they were imprisoned and
tortured and then released without charge. In 2008 a federal inquiry
said Canadian officials indirectly contributed to their torture by
wrongly sharing intelligence information with Syria. The men later
sued the Canadian government demanding apologies, compensation and
the removal of their names from any watch lists.
(SFC, 10/22/08, p.A2)
2001-2003 Cuba ran up an oil debt to Venezuela of
some $752 million.
(WSJ, 2/2/04, p.A1)
2001-2004 US Sen. Conrad Burns, a Montana
Republican, received some $150,000 in donations from Jack Abramoff,
his firms and his clients during this period. On May 23, 2001 Burns
voted against a bill favorable to Abramoff’s clients in the Northern
Mariana Islands. The bill would have phased out a non-resident
contract worker program benefiting the Mariana’s garment industry.
(SFC, 12/7/05, p.A6)
2001-2004 An economic crises caused up to 15% of
Uruguay’s population to leave the country in search of work.
(SSFC, 9/19/04, p.D7)
2001-2005 Some 80 million pinõn trees died
in Arizona and New Mexico due to drought.
(WSJ, 7/31/06, p.A1)
2001-2005 Transparency International ranked
Bangladesh at the bottom of its global corruption index.
(Reuters, 11/24/05)
2001-2005 Property prices in South Africa rose by
an average of 20% a year.
(Econ, 5/6/06, p.46)
2001-2005 Ruud Lubbers (b.1939), former Dutch
prime minister (1982-1994), served as the head of the UNHCR.
(Econ, 9/6/08,
p.67)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Lubbers)
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