Today in History - January 30
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1164 Jan 30,
Henry II held a council at the Clarendon hunting lodge and presented
a document called the Constitutions of Clarendon. In sixteen
constitutions he sought less clerical independence and a weaker
connection with Rome. Thomas Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury,
refused to sign.
(ON, 8/20/11,
p.2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket)
1384 Jan 30, Vytautas handed
over Samogitia to the Knights of the Cross and promised to serve as
a vassal to the order following receipt of Trakai.
(LHC, 1/30/03)
1607 Jan 30, A sudden flood
around the Bristol Channel in southwest Britain killed at least
2,000 people. It was the worst natural disaster ever recorded in
Britain.
(Econ, 5/5/07, p.101)
1647 Jan 30, King Charles I was
handed over to the English parliament.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1649 Jan 30, King Charles I of
England, who ruled from 1625-1649, was beheaded for treason at
Banqueting House, Whitehall, by the hangman Richard Brandon. He lost
his capital trial by one vote, 68-67. "For the people, and I truly
desire their liberty and freedom as much as anybody whomsoever, but
I must tell you that their liberty and their freedom consists in
having of government those laws by which their life and their goods
may be most their own. It is not for having a share in government,
sirs; that is nothing pertaining to them. A subject and a sovereign
are clean different things." Charles I was canonized by the church
of England 13 years later. Parliament became the supreme power under
the rule of Oliver Cromwell, who ruled over Parliament as Lord
Protector of the New Commonwealth from 1649-1658. He argued against
his soldiers having a voice in government because they owned no
property. He stated in so many words that government "has always
been, and should always continue to be, of property, by property,
and for property."
(SFEC, 8/11/96, p.T7)(V.D.-H.K.p.218)(WSJ,
5/6/97, p.A20)(HN, 1/30/99)(SFEC, 7/2/00, Z1 p.2)(WSJ, 2/7/03,
p.W13)
1649 Jan 30, Jester Muckle John
lost his job when King Charles 1 was beheaded.
(Reuters, 8/7/04)
1667 Jan 30, Lithuania, Poland
and Russia signed a 13.5 year treaty at Andrusov, near Smolensk.
Russia received Smolensk and Kiev.
(LHC, 1/30/03)
1717 Jan 30, Surrounded by the
Russian army the Lithuanian-Polish parliament reduced its army by
half and acknowledged Russian protection.
(LHC, 1/30/03)
1798 Jan 30, A brawl broke out
in the House of Representatives in Philadelphia. Matthew Lyon of
Vermont spat in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut, who
responded by attacking him with a hickory walking stick. Lyon was
re-elected congressman while serving a jail sentence for violating
the Sedition Acts of 1798.
(AP, 1/30/98)(SFC, 4/27/00, p.A5)(WSJ, 10/29/04,
p.W10)
1800 Jan 30, US population was
reported at 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%).
(MC, 1/30/02)
1815 Jan 30, The burned Library
of Congress was reestablished with Jefferson's 6,500 volumes.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1820 Jan 30, Edward Bransfield
discovered Antarctica and claimed it for the UK.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1844 Jan 30, Richard Theodore
Greener became the first African American to graduate from Harvard
University.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1847 Jan 30, The California
Star, founded by Sam Brannon, published the official name change of
Yerba Buena to San Francisco on this day. Mayor Washington Bartlett
had the town council approve the change. [see Jan 3]
(SFC, 1/30/97, p.A15)(SFC, 1/25/02, p.G6)
1862 Jan 30, The USS Monitor, a
Union ironclad ship designed by John Ericsson, was launched into the
East River at Greenpoint, Long Island, under Captain John L. Worden.
It was the first warship equipped with a revolving turret. On March
6 it left NY Harbor and headed for Virginia to face the Confederate
ironclad.
(HN, 1/30/99)(AH, 12/02, p.8)(ON, 10/08, p.1)
1882 Jan 30, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945), was born
in Hyde Park, N.Y. He led the country out of the Great Depression
and through most of World War II.
(AP, 1/30/98)(HN, 1/30/99)(MC, 1/30/02)
1883 Jan 30, James Ritty and
John Birch received a U.S. patent for the first cash register.
(AP, 1/30/07)
1885 Jan 30, John Henry Towers,
naval and aviation hero, was born.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1894 Jan 30, Boris III
(d.1943), czar of Bulgaria (1918-43), was born.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A10)(MC, 1/30/02)
1894 Jan 30, Pneumatic hammer
was patented by Charles King of Detroit. [see May 19, 1892]
(MC, 1/30/02)
1900 Jan 30, John P. Parker
(b.1827), Ohio-based inventor and conductor on the Underground
Railway, died. His autobiography “His Promised Land: The
Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the
Underground Railway” was recounted in a series of interviews and
later edited by Stuart Seely Sprague and published in 1996.
(ON, 12/11,
p.5)(www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2466&nm=John-P-Parker)
1901 Jan 30, Women
Prohibitionists smashed 12 saloons in Kansas.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1912 Jan 30, Barbara Tuchman,
U.S. historian best remembered for her book "The Guns of August,"
was born.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1912 Jan 30, The British House
of Lords opposed the House of Commons by rejecting home rule for
Ireland.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1916 Jan 30, Sir Clements
Markham (b.1830), English explorer and geographer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clements_Markham)
1922 Jan 30, Dick Martin,
actor, comedian (Laugh-In), was born in Detroit, Mich.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1925 Jan 30, Turkish government
threw out Constantine VI, the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1927 Jan 30, Olof Palme, PM of
Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86), was born in Stockholm.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1931 Jan 30, Gene Hackman,
actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman), was born in Calif.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1931 Jan 30, The United States
awarded civil government to the Virgin Islands.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1933 Jan 30, The first episode
of the “Lone Ranger” radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in
Detroit. The show was created by George Washington Trendle and Fran
Striker. The show ran for 21 years on ABC radio.
(AP, 1/30/98)(SFC, 12/29/99, p.A11)(MC, 1/30/02)
1933 Jan 30, German President
Paul von Hindenburg made Adolf Hitler chancellor. After World War I,
Germany fell into disarray and looked for a leader to strengthen it
again. Hitler had emerged after joining the Nazi Party in 1919 and
taking it over in 1921. In 1932 Hitler ran against von Hindenburg
and lost--but not by a wide margin. The Nazis won 230 seats in the
German parliament and continued to gain influence, stifling
democracy and communism by force and by making laws against them.
After Hindenburg's death in 1934, Hitler proclaimed himself Der
Führer of the Third Reich and continued as Germany's leader
through World War II. Gen. Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord tried to
block the appointment of Hitler as chancellor but was overruled by
Pres. Hindenburg.
(AP, 1/30/98)(HN, 1/30/99)(HNPD, 1/31/99)(SFC,
2/5/00, p.A19)
1936 Jan 30, Governor Harold
Hoffman ordered a new inquiry into the Lindbergh kidnapping.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1939 Jan 30, Felix Frankfurter
(1882-1965), Harvard law professor, was sworn in as the 80th US
Supreme Court Justice (1939-62). He retired in 1962. "There is no
inevitability in history except as men make it."
(AP, 2/27/98)(HNQ,
3/16/99)(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/78/)
1941 Jan 30, Dick Cheney was
born in Lincoln, Neb. He served as chief of staff for Pres. Ford
from 1975-1977. He was a US Rep. From 1979-1989 and served as the
Sec. of Defense for pres. George H.W. Bush from 1989-1993. From 1995
to 2000 he served as the CEO of Halliburton Corp. and in 2000 was
chosen by Gov. George W. Bush as a running mate.
(WSJ, 7/26/00, p.A28)
1943 Jan 30, Fieldmarshal
Friedrich von Paulus surrendered himself and his staff to Red Army
troops in Stalingrad.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1944 Jan 30-1944 Feb 2, At
Cisterna, Italy, some 250-300 US Rangers died as part of the battle
of Anzio. 8 rangers escaped and hundreds were captured.
(AP,
3/20/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cisterna)
1945 Jan 30, US Army Rangers
and Filipino guerrillas executed a flawless rescue of 486 POWs from
Camp Cabanatuan north of Manila. In 2001 Hampton Sides authored
“Ghost Soldiers,” an account of the rescue.
(WSJ, 5/24/01, p.A20)(SSFC, 6/17/01, DB p.70)(AH,
2/05, p.16)
1945 Jan 30, The Allies
launched a drive on the Siegfried line in Germany.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1945 Jan 30, Nazi SS guards
shot down an estimated 4,000 Jewish prisoners on the Baltic coast at
Palmnicken, Kaliningrad. The town was later renamed by the Russians
to Yantarny. Some 7,000 prisoners had been marched 25 miles from
Koenigsberg to a vacant lock factory at Palmnicken where they were
mowed down with machine guns. The prisoners had been vacated from a
network of 30 camps that made up Poland's Stutthoff concentration
camp. 90% of the Jews were women from Lithuania and Hungary.
(SFC, 1/31/00, p.C1)
1945 Jan 30,
The German liner "Wilhelm Gustloff" sank in the Baltic Sea between
the Bay of Danzig and the Danish island of Bornholm. An estimated
7000-8000 people, civilian refugees from East Prussia and wounded
German soldiers, drowned in the icy waters. Three torpedoes fired
from a Russian submarine had scored direct hits on the ship. The
result was the largest and most horrible naval disaster of all time.
(NW, 3/18/02,
p.11)(www.cybercreek.com/cybercity/WWIIps/gu)
1946 Jan 30, The 1st issue of
Franklin Roosevelt dime.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1948 Jan 30, Orville Wright
(b.1871), US aviation pioneer, died. In 1953 McGraw Hill published 2
volumes edited by Marvin W. McFarland: "The Papers of Wilbur and
Orville Wright."
(WUD, 1994, p.1647)(ON, SC, p.4)(MC, 1/30/02)
1948 Jan 30, Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi (78) was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a fellow
Hindu while walking to a prayer meeting in New Delhi a few minutes
after five o'clock in the evening. Godse felt that in trying to
achieve reconciliation between Hindus and Muslims, Gandhi had
betrayed the Hindu cause. Born into a family of merchants, Gandhi
studied law in England, where he was inspired by Henry David
Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" and developed his own philosophy of
peaceful resistance. After residing and practicing law in South
Africa for 20 years, Gandhi returned to India to campaign for home
rule and reconciliation of all classes and religious groups.
Convinced that India would never be free as part of the British
Empire, he demanded independence as payment for helping Britain win
World War II. Indian independence was achieved in 1947, but riots
broke out between Hindus and Muslims seeking the partition of the
country into India and Pakistan. Mahatma ("Great Soul") Gandhi was
on a hunger strike demanding an end to the violence when he was
murdered. The book “Gandhi the Man” by Eknath Easwaran was published
in 1972.
(AHD, 1971, p.542)(HFA, '96, p.40)(SFC, 1/31/97,
p.A13)(SFC,12/24/97, p.C6) (HNPD, 1/309)
1948 The seven sins according
to Mahatma Gandhi were: 1) wealth without work. 2) Pleasure without
conscience. 3) Knowledge without character. 4) Commerce without
morality. 5) Science without humanity. 6) Worship without sacrifice.
7) Politics without principal.
(SFEC, 1/23/00, Z1 p.2)
1949 Jan 30, In India, 100,000
people prayed at the site of Gandhi's assassination on the first
anniversary of his death.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1951 Jan 30, Ferdinand Porsche
(b.1875), German car inventor (Porsche), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche)
1953 Jan 30, President Dwight
Eisenhower announced that he would pull the Seventh Fleet out of
Formosa to permit the Nationalists to attack Communist China.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1956 Jan 30, Elvis Presley
recorded his version of "Blue Suede Shoes."
(MC, 1/30/02)
1958 Jan 30, The play "Sunrise
at Campobello," by Dore Schary about Franklin D. Roosevelt's
struggle against polio, opened on Broadway with Ralph Bellamy as
FDR.
(AP, 1/30/08)
1961 Jan 30, Dorothy Thompson
(b.1893), American journalist and radio broadcaster, died in Lisbon,
Portugal. In 1939 she was recognized by Time magazine as the second
most influential women in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. In 2011
Susan Hertog authored “Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy
Thompson, New Women in Search of Love and War.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson)(Econ, 12/31/11,
p.69)
1962 Jan 30, Two members of the
"Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person
pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit.
(AP, 1/30/98)
1964 Jan 30, The United States
launched Ranger 6 from Cape Canaveral. It was an unmanned spacecraft
carrying six television cameras that was to crash-land on the moon.
(AP, 1/30/98)(HN, 1/30/99)
1965 Jan 30, The state funeral
of Winston Churchill took place.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1968 Jan 30, The Viet Cong and
North Vietnamese Communist forces launched a surprise offensive on
the lunar New Year Tet holiday truce that became known as the Tet
Offensive. They struck in a coordinated attack on 36 of South
Vietnam’s 44 provincial capitals, and 70 other towns in the country.
Although the Communists were beaten back, the offensive was seen as
a major setback for the US and its allies.
(www.ashbrook.org/publicat/dialogue/hayward-tet.html)(SFC, 2/3/00,
p.A25)(AP, 1/30/08)
1969 Jan 29, Allan Welsh Dulles
(b.1893), US diplomat, director (CIA 1953-61), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles)
1972 Jan 30, In Londonderry
(Derry), Northern Ireland, British troops fired on a civil rights
march in the Bloody Sunday massacre. 13-14 people were killed by
soldiers of the First Parachute Regiment, six of whom were only 17.
The British embassy in Dublin was burned down. One man who was
photographed being arrested and taken into a British army Saracen
was later found shot dead. The march, which was called to protest
internment, was "illegal" according to British government
authorities. Internment without trial was introduced by the British
government on August 9, 1971. The British government-appointed
Widgery Tribunal found soldiers were not guilty of killing the 13
marchers. The 1997 book “Eyewitness Bloody Sunday” by Don Mullan
included 113 accounts by participants and bystanders. In 1998 an
independent commission said that the identities of the soldiers
would not be protected. In 2001 Martin McGuinness admitted that he
was 2nd in command of the IRA at the time of the massacre. The
Saville Inquiry heard its last oral testimony in 2004. A report in
2010, 12 years in the making, blamed British soldiers for the
killings.
(SFEC, 12/22/96, Z1p.7)(SFC, 1/30/97,
p.A18)(SFEM, 1/18/98, p.11)(SFC, 12/18/98, p.D4)(SFC, 5/1/01,
p.A8)(Econ, 2/14/04, p.51)(SFC, 6/16/10, p.A2)
1973 Jan 30, A jury found
Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts.
(www.watergate.info/chronology/1973.shtml)
1976 Jan 30, The play
"Streamers” by David Rabe (b.1940) premiered at the Long Wharf
Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB
p.37)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamers)
1976 Jan 30, George Bush became
the 11th director of the CIA replacing William E. Colby. Bush
revived the reputation of the organization and left it Jan 20, 1977.
(SFEC, 1/16/00, Par
p.2)(http://tinyurl.com/2mm8r9)
1976 Jan 30, The U.S. Supreme
Court banned spending limits in campaigns, equating funds with
freedom of speech.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1979 Jan 30, The civilian
government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, who'd been living in exile in France, to return.
(AP, 1/30/98)
1980 Jan 30, The first-ever
Chinese Olympic team arrived in New York for the Winter Games.
(HN, 1/30/99)
1980 Jan 30, Professor Longhair
(61), legendary New Orleans Blues musician, died. He was born as
Henry Roeland Byrd in 1918.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Longhair)
1981 Jan 30, An estimated two
million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the
freed American hostages from Iran.
(AP, 1/30/02)
1988 Jan 30, Israeli troops
fired on hundreds of demonstrators in the West Bank while protests
also rocked the Gaza Strip, shattering three weeks of relative quiet
in the occupied territories.
(AP, 1/30/98)
1989 Jan 30, Former criminal
defense lawyer Joel Steinberg was convicted in NYC of first-degree
manslaughter in the 1987 death of his illegally adopted 6-year-old
daughter, Lisa. On March 24 he was sentenced from 8 1/3 to 25 years
in prison.
(AP,
1/30/99)(www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/family/lisa_steinberg/12.html)
1989 Jan 30, Ilene Misheloff
(13) disappeared in Dublin, Ca., while walking home from school.
(SFC, 1/29/99, p.A18)(SFC, 1/29/09, p.A1)
1990 Jan 30, A federal judge
ordered former President Reagan to provide excerpts of his personal
diaries to John M. Poindexter for the former national security
adviser's Iran-Contra trial. The judge later reversed himself,
deciding the material was not essential.
(AP, 1/30/00)
1981 Jan 30, an estimated two
million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the
freed American hostages from Iran.
(AP, 1/30/01)
1991 Jan 30, The first major
ground battle of the Gulf War was fought at the frontier port of
Khafji in Saudi Arabia; eleven US Marines were killed, seven of them
by “friendly fire.”
(AP, 1/30/01)
1992 Jan 30, President George
H.W. Bush and other world leaders gathered for an unprecedented U.N.
Security Council summit to coordinate policy on peacekeeping,
disarmament and quelling aggression.
(AP, 1/30/02)
1992 Jan 30, The space shuttle
Discovery landed in California, ending an eight-day mission.
(AP, 1/30/02)
1992 Jan 30, Irish Prime
Minister Charles Haughey announced his resignation. The 8-year rule
by PM Haughey ended. Later allegations arose that he had accepted
cash from Dunnes Stores while in office. There were also allegations
that Dunnes had given members of Parliament more than $5 million
over 10 years.
(SFC, 4/23/97, p.A5)(AP, 1/30/02)
1993 Jan 30, Los Angeles
inaugurated its Metro Red Line, the city's first modern subway.
(AP, 1/30/98)
1993 Jan 30, A car bombing in
Bogota, Colombia, killed at least 20 people.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_bomb)
1993 Jan 30, On the 60th
anniversary of Hitler's swearing-in as chancellor of Germany, more
than 300,000 Germans carried candles to denounce the Nazi era.
(AP, 1/30/98)
1994 Jan 30, The Dallas Cowboys
repeated as NFL champions as they defeated the Buffalo Bills, 30-13,
in the Super Bowl. It was the fourth straight Super Bowl loss for
the Bills.
(AP, 1/30/99)
1994 Jan 30, Pierre Boulle
(b.1912), French writer (Executioner), died.
{Writer, France}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulle)
1995 Jan 30, The Smithsonian
Institution abandoned plans for a major exhibit on the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima, yielding to critics who charged the exhibit
would have portrayed America as the aggressor and Japan as the
victim in World War II.
(AP, 1/30/00)
1995 Jan 30, At least 42 people
were killed and nearly 300 wounded when a car bomb blamed on Muslim
insurgents exploded in downtown Algiers.
(AP, 1/30/00)
1996 Jan 30, In an election
billed as an early barometer for the national political season, Ron
Wyden won a close race to become Oregon’s first Democratic US
senator in 30 years, replacing Bob Packwood.
(AP, 1/30/01)
1996 Jan 30, The FDA licensed
indinavir, viracept, Abbott Lab’s ritonavir (trade name Norvir) and
saquinavir based on short term clinical data between 1995-1997. The
new protease-blocking drugs were effective in combating AIDS
especially when used in combination with current medicines. The
drugs were later found to cause metabolism problems related to fats.
(WSJ, 1/30/96, p.A-16)(SFC, 2/5/98, p.A7)(WSJ,
1/3/06, p.A10)
1996 Jan 30, Iran tested a
Chinese missile designed to attack ships by flying under their radar
and could be fired from boats with a range of miles.
(WSJ, 1/30/96, p.A-12)
1997 Jan 30, The US Marine
Corps opened an investigation of two videotaped hazing incidents in
1991 and 1993 known as "blood pinings" in which elite paratroopers
had golden jump pins beaten into their chests. The 1993 incident led
to a recommended discharge for a sergeant.
(AP, 1/30/98)
1997 Jan 30, The GPS (Global
Positioning System) satellites detected unusual crustal movements of
the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.
(SFC, 2/17/97, p.A4)
1997 Jan 30, In Columbia police
seized 8 tons of cocaine and shut down a large cocaine processing
plant in the state of Guaviare.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A15)
1997 Jan 30, In Guatemala more
than 1,000 military police seized their own headquarters and
demanded at least $7,000 severance pay each when the 4,000 member
military police is dissolved later in the year.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A12)
1997 Jan 30, In Jamaica it was
reported that NAFTA has had devastating effects on the economy.
Garment exports were down 7% and 7,000 jobs were lost.
(SFC, 1/30/97, p.A10)
1997 Jan 30, In southern
Lebanon a roadside bomb killed 3 Israeli soldiers.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A15)
1998 Jan 30, In Washington the
creation of The National First Ladies’ Library was announced at the
Renwick Gallery. Physical materials would be located in Canton,
Ohio, in the childhood home of Ida Saxton McKinley, the 20th first
lady.
(SFC, 2/5/98, p.A8)
1998 Jan 30, An aviation pact
was reached between Washington and Tokyo, enabling American
travelers to fly to Japan and other Asian points from several more
U.S. cities.
(AP, 1/30/99)
1998 Jan 30, In Sarasota,
Florida, a 14-year-old girl was found staggering along a road. She
had been raped and stabbed nearly 30 times and beaten badly four
days earlier. She hid in the woods in fear of her assailant, Scott
Christopher Malsky (22), who was arrested in Delaware the next day.
(SFC, 2/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Jan 30, In Columbia
paramilitary gunmen descended on the city of Puerto Asis and
proceeded to kill 48 civilians thought to be guerrilla sympathizers.
Mayor Nestor Hernandez warned army commanders at a local garrison
but received no assistance.
(SFC, 2/14/98, p.A8)
1998 Jan 30, From Hong Kong it
was reported that real estate prices were diving down. Prices were
reported down 25% since August.
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Jan 30, From India it was
reported that over the past 2 months over 50 cotton farmers in
Andhra Pradesh state had committed suicide due to farming losses
caused by cluster caterpillars.
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.A13)
1998 Jan 30, It was reported
that Iraq had executed 10 people for stealing the huge bearded head
of a large winged-bull dating from 700 BC.
(SFC, 1/31/98, p.A9)
1998 Jan 30, In Lebanon the
army clashed with supporters of Sheik Sob Tufaili in Baalbek and at
least 50 people were killed. Tufaili had been expelled a week
earlier from the Muslim fundamentalist Hezbollah.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.A21)
1998 Jan 30, In Spain Alberto
Jimenz Becerril, a Popular Party Councilman, and his wife, Asuncion
Garcia Ortiz, were assassinated in Seville.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.A12)
1998 Jan 30, In the Sudan the
city of Wau fell to rebels who pretended to defect and then attacked
from inside.
(SFC, 1/31/98, p.A9)
1999 Jan 30, Huntz Hall (78),
comedian and actor, died in North Hollywood, Ca. He was in 120 films
of which 87 were with the "Dead End Kids," "East Side Kids," and the
"Bowery Boys."
(SFC, 2/2/99,
p.A19)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0355653/)
1999 Jan 30, The UN Security
Council agreed to establish panels to assess Iraqi disarmament and
adherence to other UN resolutions.
(SFEC, 1/31/99, p.A17)
1999 Jan 30, NATO authorized
its secretary general to launch military action in Yugoslavia if the
warring parties failed to negotiate an agreement for autonomy in
Kosovo.
(AP, 1/30/00)
2000 Jan 30, In Atlanta the St.
Louis Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans 23-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV.
(SFC, 1/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 30, Elian Gonzalez’s
grandmothers returned home to a hero’s welcome in Cuba, vowing to
continue the struggle to wrest the six-year-old shipwreck survivor
from relatives in Miami.
(AP, 1/30/01)
2000 Jan 30, A Kenyan Airbus
310 crashed into the sea after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Kenya Airways Flight 431 carried 179 people. 10 survivors were
pulled from the water.
(SFC, 1/31/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 30, In Lebanon Col.
Akl Hashem, 2nd in command of the Israeli-backed South
Lebanese Army, was killed in a Hezbollah bomb at his home attack in
Dibel village.
(SFC, 1/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 30, In Romania a dam
at the Baia Mare gold mine overflowed and caused cyanide to pout
into the Lapus River and then into the Somes River. It flowed into
Hungary and within weeks into the Tisa (Tisza) River in Yugoslavia.
(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A9)(SFC, 2/18/00, p.A1)
2001 Jan 30, Republicans pushed
John Ashcroft's attorney general nomination to the Senate floor by a
narrow 10-8 Judiciary Committee vote; all but one Democrat voted
against him.
(AP, 1/30/02)
2001 Jan 30, Chrysler announced
production cuts of 15% and work force cuts to 20% in the biggest US
auto industry retrenchment in nearly a decade.
(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.R12)
2001 Jan 30, In France
thousands of teachers, hospital workers and police marched to demand
pay increases. Some 17,000 marched in Paris.
(SFC, 1/31/01, p.A12)
2001 Jan 30, In the Netherlands
a Scottish court convicted Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan
intelligence officer, of murder in the 1998 bombing of Pan Am Flight
103. A 2nd Libyan, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted.
(SFC, 1/31/01, p.A11)(SFC, 2/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Jan 30, In Turkey Mehmet
Fevzi Sihanlioglu (55), member of parliament, was beaten by fellow
lawmakers in the Grand National Assembly and died of a heart attack.
The attack followed a debate on whether time for speeches should be
extended.
(SFC, 2/14/01, p.D18)
2002 Jan 30, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld said the United States would watch closely to see
what Iraq, Iran and North Korea did next, a day after President Bush
singled them out as part of a dangerous "axis of evil."
(AP, 1/30/03)
2002 Jan 30, Congressional
investigators and the GAO planned to sue the White House to obtain a
list of executives who met with the Cheney task force that developed
Bush’s energy policy in 2001. Enron officials were on the list.
(WSJ, 1/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 30, The US Federal
Reserve finished a 2-day meeting and did not change short-term
interest rates. The DJIA rose 144 to 9,762. Nasdaq rose 20 to 1,913.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 30, The 3.5-ton
satellite Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUNE), launched in 1992,
broke up in Earth’s atmosphere over Egypt. It had surveyed the
entire Milky Way and beyond and transmitted date until Jan 31 2001.
(SFC, 1/30/02,
p.A2)(www.cbc.ca/health/story/2002/01/31/satellite020131.html)
2002 Jan 30, Inge Morath (78),
Austrian-born photographer and wife of Arthur Miller, died in NYC.
(SFC, 2/4/02, p.B5)
2002 Jan 30, Interim Afghan
leader Hamid Karzai visited the World Trade Center site and placed a
wreath of yellow roses by a memorial wall as he surveyed the ruins
of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
(AP, 1/30/03)
2002 Jan 30, In Afghanistan war
lords Padsha Khan Zadran and Saifullah led fighting for the control
of Paktia province.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A6)
2002 Jan 30, In Chile it was
reported that the remains of some 10 victims of the Pinochet regime
had been found at Fuerte Arteaga, an army base north of Santiago.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A9)
2002 Jan 30, In Ireland the
Roman Catholic Church agreed to pay $110 million in cash and
property to Irish children sexually abused by priests, nuns and
other church officials in past decades. There were as many as 7,000
potential claimants for payouts ranging from $43k to 260k.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A9)(SFC, 2/1/02, p.A16)
2002 Jan 30, In Italy Samuele
Lorenzi (3), was found bludgeoned to death in the family's Alpine
home. His mother Anna Maria Franzoni, who denied the murder, was
convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. In 2007 a Turin
appeals court upheld the conviction but reduced her sentence to 16
years.
(AP, 4/27/07)
2002 Jan 30, A Palestinian
suicide bomber, Murad Abu Asal (23), killed himself and wounded 2
Israeli Shin Bet officers near Taibe.
(SFC, 1/31/02, p.A8)
2003 Jan 30, President Bush put
allies on notice that diplomacy would give way to a decision on war
with Iraq in "weeks, not months." Wary world leaders and
congressional critics urged patience and demanded proof of Iraq's
transgressions.
(AP, 1/30/04)
2003 Jan 30, Spencer Abraham,
US Energy Secretary, said the US would rejoin the $5 billion int'l.
project to build an experimental fusion reactor. The US had left the
project in 1998.
(SFC, 1/31/03, p.A6)
2003 Jan 30, John Snow won
confirmation as US Treasury secretary.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R8)
2003 Jan 30, Richard Reid, the
British citizen and al-Qaida follower who'd tried to blow up a
trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes, was
sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston.
(AP, 1/30/04)
2003 Jan 30, In Afghanistan 4
American soldiers were killed when special operations UH-60 Black
Hawk helicopter went down seven miles east of the Bagram Air Base
while on a training mission.
(AP, 1/31/03)(SFC, 1/31/03, p.A11)
2003 Jan 30, Belgium officially
recognized gay marriages.
(SFC, 1/31/03, p.A9)
2003 Jan 30, Brazil's President
Lula da Silva launched his anti-hunger program with a move to
provide $14 a month to 1.5 million families, most from the country's
poverty-stricken northeast.
(AP, 1/30/03)
2003 Jan 30, An Israeli
undercover unit shot dead two Palestinian militants in Tulkarem,
including a militia leader. Army bulldozers demolished a Palestinian
vegetable market and closed Palestinian police and TV stations in
Hebron.
(AP, 1/30/03)
2003 Jan 30, Italian police
arrested 28 Pakistanis during a routine sweep for illegal
immigrants. The arrested possessed explosives, hundreds of forged
documents and maps of the Naples area with "sensitive" targets
circled.
(AP, 1/31/03)
2003 Jan 30, Sweden said it
will contribute $5.9 million to help Afghanistan repay debts to the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
(AP, 1/30/03)
2003 Jan 30, Thailand sealed
its border with Cambodia, recalled its ambassador and sent military
planes to evacuate hundreds of terrified Thais after rioters looted
and torched its embassy in the Cambodian capital.
(AP, 1/30/03)
2004 Jan 30, NASA’s Mars rover
Opportunity spied hints of a mineral that typically forms in water,
a finding that could mean Mars was once wetter and more hospitable
to life.
(AP, 1/30/05)
2004 Jan 30, The Chinese
government said audits aimed at ferreting out corruption in China
uncovered $8 billion in misused or embezzled funds and widespread
irregularities that produced "serious losses" of state assets.
(AP, 1/30/04)
2004 Jan 30, In remote
southwestern Ethiopia tribal fighting, sparked by a raid on a gold
mine, began. Over the following week nearly 200 people were killed
and some 10,000 others were forced to flee their homes.
(AP, 2/11/04)
2004 Jan 30, Alain Juppe,
former French PM (1995-1997), was found guilty in a party financing
scandal and declared ineligible for public office for 10 years.
(AP, 1/30/04)
2004 Jan 30, Iliad, a French
broadband firm founded by Xavier Niel, made a successful IPO. Niel
was briefly jailed a few months after its IPO, when it was
discovered that one of his sex shops was a front for prostituion.
Niel was fully exonerated, but was fined for receiving money from
the shop.
(www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-4228042_ITM)
(Econ, 9/12/09, p.74)
2004 Jan 30, Iran's hard-line
Guardian Council reinstated a third of the candidates it had
disqualified from next month's legislative elections.
(AP, 1/30/04)
2004 Jan 30, In Japan a judge
ruled that Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue light-emitting diode
(LED), should share in the profits of his former employers. He was
awarded $190 million in a case against Nichia Corp.
(Econ, 2/7/04, p.60)
2004 Jan 30, A 25-30 seat
passenger plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Lagos, Nigeria.
(AP, 1/30/04)
2004 Jan 30, In Peru VP Raul
Diez Canseco resigned amid allegations that he gave a tax break to
his girlfriend's father, a scandal that had forced him to step down
as trade minister two months earlier.
(AP, 1/31/04)
2004 Jan 30, It was reported
that Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange had filed their 1st suit
against the US companies that produced the toxic defoliant used by
American forces during the Vietnam War.
(AP, 2/4/04)
2005 Jan 30, In Georgia more
than 300,000 customers had no electricity as crews worked to repair
power lines snapped by an ice storm.
(AP, 1/30/05)
2005 Jan 30, SBC Communications
agreed to acquire AT&T in a $16 billion transaction.
(WSJ, 1/31/05, p.A1)
2005 Jan 30, Researchers at the
University of Wisconsin in Madison reported that they've whipped up
a new recipe that could someday treat spinal cord injuries or
provide a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as
Lou Gehrig's disease.
(AP, 1/31/05)
2005 Jan 30, In much of
Bangladesh traffic ground to a halt and shops closed as a nationwide
strike, protesting a deadly grenade attack on the main opposition
party, entered a 2nd day.
(AFP, 1/30/05)
2005 Jan 30, In Colombia a
126-member unit of the United Self-Defense Forces (AUC) disbanded in
Ciudad Bolivar, 155 miles northeast of Bogota, bringing to at least
4,700 the number of fighters who have demobilized in the past two
years.
(AP, 1/30/05)
2005 Jan 30, Iraqis voted to
elect 275 members of a transitional national assembly, which will
write a constitution; 111 members of the Kurdish legislature; and
local councils in Iraq’s 18 provinces. Insurgents struck polling
stations with a string of suicide bombings and mortar volleys,
killing at least 44 people, including 9 attackers. 5 people were
killed and 17 injured when a suicide attacker blew himself up aboard
a minibus bound for a polling station in central Iraq. 260 attacks
left 34 people dead. Security problems in Mosul kept some 15,000
from polls.
(AP, 1/30/05)(SFC, 2/1/05, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/8/05,
p.A1)
2005 Jan 30, A British C-130
military transport plane crashed north of Baghdad in Iraq killing 10
troops. An Iraqi insurgent group claimed responsibility for shooting
down the plane in an Internet statement.
(AP, 1/31/05)
2005 Jan 30, More than 100,000
demonstrators gathered in Jerusalem to protest PM Ariel Sharon's
plan to evacuate all 21 Jewish settlements from Gaza and four from
the West Bank, demanding it be put to a national referendum.
(AP, 1/30/05)
2005 Jan 30, Israeli troops
killed a 65-year-old man who entered an unauthorized area near an
army post.
(AP, 1/31/05)
2005 Jan 30, Kuwaiti security
forces stormed a building in a residential part of the capital and
exchanged gunfire with suspected terrorists, killing one suspect in
a battle that also left a security officer and a bystander dead.
(AP, 1/30/05)
2005 Jan 30, In Northern
Ireland’s Catholic enclave of Short Strand Robert McCartney (33), a
Catholic forklift driver, was stabbed to death outside a pub crowded
with Provisional IRA men. On June 3 Terence Davison (49), a reputed
IRA veteran, was charged in the murder. In 2008 Davison was
acquitted.
(Econ, 2/26/05, p.55)(SFC, 6/4/05, p.A3)(SSFC,
6/5/05, p.A3)(AP, 1/30/08)(AFP, 6/27/08)
2005 Jan 30, OPEC warned that
oil prices, already hovering near $50 a barrel, would remain high
through the spring, even as the cartel decided to keep its
production ceiling at 27 million barrels a day.
(AP, 1/30/05)
2005 Jan 30, In Karachi,
Pakistan, gunmen riding three motorcycles opened fire outside a
Sunni Muslim mosque, killing a Sunni cleric who once belonged to an
outlawed group suspected of committing sectarian violence and his
bodyguard.
(AP, 1/30/05)
2005 Jan 30, UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan, at a summit of the 53-member African Union in
Abuja, Nigeria, urged pan-African cooperation to resolve conflicts.
(AFP, 1/30/05)
2005 Jan 30, The World Economic
Forum ended 5 days of talks in Davos, Switz. Chinese Vice Premier
Huang Ju said Chinese per capita income will triple during the next
15 years and there was no reason for the world to fear his country's
emergence as a global giant. During the forum Nicholas Negroponte,
founder of the MIT Media Lab, proposed providing personal laptops
for under $100 to school children in the poorest parts of the world.
(AP, 1/30/05)(Econ, 10/1/05, p.62)
2006 Jan 30, Pres. Bush
nominated Edward Lazear, Stanford Univ. prof. of economics, as his
chief economics adviser, replacing Ben Bernanke, the new
chairman-select of the Federal Reserve.
(SFC, 1/31/06, p.E1)
2006 Jan 30, The Smithsonian
Institute selected a space on the National Mall near the Washington
Monument as the site of Its National Museum of African American
History and Culture.
(SFC, 1/31/06, p.A2)
2006 Jan 30, Exxon Mobil posted
record profits for any US company: $10.71 billion for the fourth
quarter of 2005 and $36.13 billion for the year.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2006 Jan 30, In Goleta, Ca.,
Jennifer San Marco, a female ex-postal worker, opened fire at a mail
processing plant, killing 5 people before committing suicide. A
former neighbor was found slain the next day and a critically
wounded worker died Feb 1.
(AP, 1/31/06)(SFC, 2/2/06, p.A4)
2006 Jan 30, Playwright Wendy
Wasserstein (55) died. She celebrated women confronting feminism,
careers, love and motherhood in such works as "The Heidi Chronicles"
and "The Sisters Rosensweig." She was the first woman to win both a
Tony and Pulitzer prize. In 2011 Julie Salamon authored “Wendy and
the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein.”
(AP, 1/30/06)(Econ, 8/13/11, p.78)
2006 Jan 30, Australian Gas
Light Company (AGL) announced that it would build the country's
largest wind farm as part of efforts to meet its legal obligation to
invest in renewable energy. The 95 megawatt facility would cost 236
million dollars (177 million US dollars) and use 45 wind turbines
over an area of 14 square kilometers (5.6 square miles) near the
town of Hallett in South Australia.
(AFP, 1/30/06)
2006 Jan 30, The University of
Vienna announced that it plans to build a new Holocaust research
center in honor of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
(AP, 1/30/06)
2006 Jan 30, Music retailers
said the Rock band Arctic Monkeys have smashed the British record
for the fastest-selling debut album of all time.
(AFP, 1/30/06)
2006 Jan 30, Chile’s
President-elect Michelle Bachelet unveiled a Cabinet that fulfilled
her campaign promise to give half the jobs to women and kept a
balance among the four parties in her center-left coalition.
(AP, 1/31/06)
2006 Jan 30, Feng Xiliang (86),
a US-trained journalist, died in Beijing. In 1978 he helped to
launch the China Daily, the communist government's main
English-language newspaper.
(AP, 2/2/06)
2006 Jan 30, The controversy
over Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad escalated as gunmen
seized an EU office in Gaza and Muslims appealed for a trade boycott
of Danish products. Denmark called for its citizens in the Middle
East to exercise vigilance. A roadside bomb targeted a joint
Danish-Iraqi military patrol near the southern city of Basra.
(AP, 1/30/06)
2006 Jan 30, Iran’s Interior
Ministry said 7 Iranian soldiers kidnapped last month by Jundallah,
(God's Brigade), have been freed. No word was given on the fate of 2
other kidnapped soldiers.
(AP, 1/31/06)
2006 Jan 30, European Union
foreign ministers called on Hamas to recognize the state of Israel,
renounce violence and disarm. “It is the view of the Quartet (UN,
EU, American and Russia) that all members of a future Palestinian
government must be committed to nonviolence, recognition of Israel,
and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations, including the
Roadmap. We urge both parties to respect their existing agreements,
including on movement and access."
(AP, 1/30/06)(http://tinyurl.com/fut5w)
2006 Jan 30, Iraqi and UN
health officials said a 15-year-old girl who died this month was a
victim of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, the first
confirmed case of the disease in the Middle East.
(AP, 1/30/06)
2006 Jan 30, In Iraq US
soldiers backed by warplanes killed two militants in Ramadi, while
at least one Iraqi policeman died and dozens were wounded in a
suicide car bomb attack on their base south of Baghdad.
(AP, 1/30/06)
2006 Jan 30, In Nigeria 4
foreign oil workers were released after being held hostage for more
than two weeks by a militia demanding that residents in southern
Nigeria benefit more from its energy wealth.
(AP, 1/30/06)
2006 Jan 30, In Adana, Turkey,
a bomb exploded at a Turkish-American friendship association in a
southern city that hosts a US air base, wounding five Turks.
(AP, 1/30/06)
2007 Jan 30, The Windows Vista
computer operating system from Microsoft went on sale in the
consumer retail market.
(SFC, 1/30/07, p.C1)
2007 Jan 30, The draft of a new
global climate report said rising temperatures will leave millions
more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water shortages in
China and Australia, as well as parts of Europe and the United
States.
(Reuters, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, In Florida 2
people shot and killed a sheriff's wife and a deputy before officers
killed the suspects at the sheriff's home in Jackson County.
(AP, 1/31/07)
2007 Jan 30, A propane tank
explosion leveled the Little General Store in Ghent, W.Va., killing
four people.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2007 Jan 30, Jeanne Kane, a
member of the 1960s singing group the Kane Triplets, was shot and
killed by her ex-husband John Galtieri, a retired NYC police
officer. In 2009 Galtieri was sentenced to 32 years to life in
prison.
(http://tinyurl.com/lhbevm)(SFC, 5/28/09, p.A5)
2007 Jan 30, Gordon S. Macklin
(79), a founder of the Nasdaq stock exchange (1971) and a board
member for Worldcom during its notorious accounting fraud, died of
unknown causes.
(http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070131/obit_macklin.html?.v=1)(WSJ, 2/3/07,
p.A8)
2007 Jan 30, Sidney Sheldon
(89), American writer, died. He won awards in three careers,
Broadway theater, movies and television, then at age 50 turned to
writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a
hostile world of ruthless men.
(AP, 1/31/07)
2007 Jan 30, Britain shut down
Northern Ireland's legislature and planned a new election to
determine the fate of power-sharing, the central goal of the peace
accord.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, Manchester was
chosen as the site for Britain's first Las Vegas-style supercasino.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, China’s Pres. Hu
Jintao set out on an eight-nation tour of Africa. Foreign ministry
spokeswoman Jiang Yu said: “On the arms exports to Africa, China
takes a cautious and responsible attitude.”
(AP, 1/30/07)(AFP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, Colombia’s Supreme
Court opened preliminary investigations into four more politicians
for alleged ties to illegal right-wing militias after it was
revealed they signed a 2001 letter of understanding with the
paramilitary groups.
(AP, 1/31/07)
2007 Jan 30, Supporters of
Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa armed with sticks and
stones fought their way into the Congress building, demanding
lawmakers call a referendum on whether the country's constitution
should be rewritten.
(AP, 1/31/07)
2007 Jan 30, The African Union
summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ended with a proposed peacekeeping
force for Somalia still lacking firm commitments for thousands of
troops.
(Reuters, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, Thousands of
German workers took part in protests against a government plan to
raise the retirement age to 67.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, The United Nations
said it will send 350 more peacekeepers to Haiti in the latest
effort to flush out armed gangs from the capital's slums.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, In Hong Kong Cheng
Siwei, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National
People's Congress, told the Financial Times in an interview: "There
is a bubble going on. Investors should be concerned about the
risks." He said 70% of the domestically traded companies were
worthless and should be delisted.
(Econ, 2/10/07, p.81)(http://tinyurl.com/2ubmjk)
2007 Jan 30, Reliance
Industries opened 9 shops in and around Delhi. They were among the
first supermarkets to appear in India.
(Econ, 2/3/07, p.64)
2007 Jan 30, Assailants struck
Shiite worshippers in three Iraqi cities, killing at least 39 people
in bombings and ambushes during the climax of ceremonies marking
Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shiite calendar. Mortar shells
slammed into predominantly Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad hours
later, killing at least five people and wounding 20. Bloodshed
killed at least 58 people despite heightened security surrounding
Ashoura ceremonies. A morgue official in the city of Kut said his
facility received six more bodies from previously unreported
Ashoura-related violence. Two US soldiers and one Marine died of
wounds sustained due to enemy action in Anbar province.
(AP, 1/30/07)(AP, 1/31/07)
2007 Jan 30, Another outbreak
of bird flu was suspected in southern Japan after 23 chickens were
found dead at a farm.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, The first
all-female UN peacekeeping unit, made up of 103 women from India,
arrived in Liberia to help the West African nation recover from 14
years of on-and-off civil war.
(Reuters, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, Jamal Khalifa, a
Saudi citizen married to a sister of Osama bin Laden, was killed
when gunmen broke into his house in village in Madagascar in an
apparent robbery.
(AP, 1/31/07)
2007 Jan 30, Nigeria's Vice
President Atiku Abubakar accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of
buying arms to suppress unrest in the oil-rich Niger delta rather
than pacifying the region with development.
(AFP, 1/31/07)
2007 Jan 30, Pakistan's PM
Musharraf appealed to the European Union to help repatriate some 3
million Afghan refugees, a move he said would help clear his country
of militants blamed for attacks in border regions. A rocket or a
grenade exploded at a Shiite procession, sparking violence in Hangu
in which two Sunni Muslims were fatally shot and 13 other people
were wounded, many of them policemen.
(AP, 1/30/07)(AP, 1/31/07)
2007 Jan 30, Palestinian PM
Ismail Haniyeh appealed to all Palestinians to prevent a resurgence
in the internal violence that killed 36 people in recent days as a
tenuous cease-fire took hold in the Gaza Strip. Gunmen killed a
Hamas militant, but the cease-fire seemed to hold.
(AP, 1/30/07)(WSJ, 1/31/07, p.A1)
2007 Jan 30, The Saudi foreign
minister said Saudi Arabia and Iran are working together to try to
calm the crises in Iraq and Lebanon.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, Somalia's
president agreed to a national reconciliation conference to try to
end 16 years of anarchy in the war-ravaged country.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, Researchers said
South Africa's AIDS epidemic, often regarded by health workers as a
disease of the poor, is in fact spreading quickly among the
country's richest and best educated people.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, In Sweden former
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Darfur human rights activist
Mossaad Mohamed Ali won the Olof Palme Prize for their work to
protect human rights.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, Borys Tarasyuk,
Ukraine's pro-Western foreign minister, resigned saying a monthlong
struggle between him and the government dominated by a
Russia-leaning party risked damaging the country's international
reputation.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2007 Jan 30, Venezuela said it
plans to obtain air defense missiles to guard strategic sites such
as oil refineries and major bridges against any air strike.
(AP, 1/30/07)
2008 Jan 30, The US Federal
Reserve cut its federal funds rate by half a point to 3%, and left
the door open to further cuts. The 1.25 point cut in 8 days was the
largest since it began disclosing rate moves two decades ago.
(SFC, 1/31/08, p.C1)(WSJ, 1/31/08, p.A1)
2008 Jan 30, Democrat John
Edwards exited the presidential race, ending a scrappy underdog bid
in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while
grappling with family hardship that roused voters' sympathies.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, Following his
third place finish in Florida, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani
dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Sen. John McCain.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, In Philadelphia
Nurse Lee Cruceta (35) admitted he cut body parts from 244 corpses
and helped forge paperwork so the parts, some of them diseased,
could be used in unsuspecting patients. Cruceta has also pleaded
guilty to related charges in New York and negotiated pleas to serve
concurrent sentences of 6 1/2 to 20 years.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, Using DNA, the
blueprint of life, US researchers said they have made a
three-dimensional structure from particles of gold in a development
that could lead to a host of custom-designed materials.
(Reuters, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, It was reported
that bats were dying off by the thousands as they hibernated in
caves and mines around New York and Vermont, sending researchers
scrambling to find the cause of mysterious condition dubbed "white
nose syndrome." Up to 11,000 bats were found dead last winter and
many more were showing signs of illness this winter.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, Fr. Marcial Maciel
Degollado (b.1920), Mexican Roman Catholic priest who founded the
Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi movement (1941), died in
Texas.
(www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/world/americas/01maciel.html)
2008 Jan 30, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber in a vehicle tried to attack a NATO convoy in
Kandahar province's Zhari district, but instead hit a private car
wounding 4 civilians.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, The Bangladesh
government said an unidentified person has donated $130 million to
help rebuild hundreds of schools and storm shelters destroyed by a
cyclone along Bangladesh's southwest coast.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, In Brazil heavily
armed police cracking down on crime ahead of Rio's famed carnival
celebrations engaged in shootouts with criminals in two slums,
killing at least seven suspects.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, China’s government
deploy nearly 500,000 army troops to assist areas troubled by winter
storms. 15 sailors drowned and another was missing after two ships
collided on China's Yangtze river.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, Wilber Varela, one
of Colombia's most-wanted drug lords, was found slain in Merida,
Venezuela. Varela's war with his rival within the Norte del Valle
cartel, Diego Montoya, plagued the city of Cali and much of
southwestern Colombia, killing more than 1,000 people in several
years.
(AP, 2/1/08)
2008 Jan 30, Thousands of
striking taxi drivers drove at a snail's pace around France as part
of a protest against government plans to open up their business to
greater competition.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, Police in India
said they broke up an illegal organ transplant ring spanning five
Indian states and involving at least four doctors, several
hospitals, two dozen nurses and paramedics and a car outfitted as a
laboratory (see Feb 7).
(AP, 1/30/08)(WSJ, 1/31/08, p.A1)
2008 Jan 30, The final Winograd
Commission report was announced in Binyanei HaUma in Jerusalem. It
had been commissioned to inquire into Israel’s 2006 war in Lebanon.
(Econ, 2/2/08,
p.56)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Commission)
2008 Jan 30, Ao Man-long,
Macau's highest-level official ever convicted of corruption, was
sentenced to 27 years in prison for taking contract kickbacks in the
construction boom that's turning the Chinese gambling enclave into a
Las Vegas-style vacation destination.
(AP, 1/31/08)
2008 Jan 30, Mozambique’s
interior ministry said police intercepted a lorry carrying 39
youngsters as they were about to be smuggled across the border into
Zimbabwe by suspected child traffickers. Rights groups warned late
last year that trafficking of Mozambican children across to
neighboring countries, mostly South Africa, has risen tenfold in the
last two years.
(AFP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, In southern Nepal
34 people were wounded in a bomb attack at a political rally.
(AFP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, In Pakistan 3
suspected militants allegedly planning suicide attacks died when a
bomb detonated early in Miran Shah.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, In the southern
Philippines a homemade bomb ripped through a fish processing plant,
killing three and injuring 27 workers.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, President Vladimir
Putin and his likely successor called for sweeping environmental
improvements, saying cleaning up Soviet-era pollution and reducing
industrial waste are crucial for Russia's economy and public health.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, Imprisoned Russian
oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky launched a hunger strike to protest
authorities' refusal to give his jailed ex-lawyer AIDS medication.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, South African
police raided a downtown Johannesburg church late at night where
hundreds of Zimbabweans had taken refuge, hauling people in pajamas
to a police station in scenes reminiscent of apartheid-era raids.
(AP, 1/31/08)
2008 Jan 30, Auto giant Ford
announced a multi-million dollar investment in South Africa,
brushing aside fears about an electricity crisis which has alarmed
other international investors.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, In Sri Lanka
troops overran at least 25 bunkers and killed 10 guerrillas.
(AP, 2/1/08)
2008 Jan 30, Subprime-related
problems at UBS AG mounted as the Swiss bank unveiled $4 billion in
new write-downs in a surprise statement and sank deep into the red
for the year, depressing its shares.
(AP, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, Tunisia hosted the
25th session of the meeting of Arab Ministers of the Interior.
Security chiefs agreed to toughen rules on material that might
promote terrorism.
(Econ, 2/9/08,
p.53)(http://allafrica.com/stories/200801220589.html)
2008 Jan 30, The United
Nation's disaster relief agency announced that a meningitis outbreak
that has claimed some 52 lives in Burkina Faso by mid-month has
spread to three other west African countries. A spike in the number
of meningitis cases has also been reported in Mali, Niger and
Nigeria since the end of 2007.
(AFP, 1/31/08)
2008 Jan 30, The UN Security
Council renewed the mandate of the struggling UN peace force on the
Eritrea-Ethiopia border for six months despite a request from
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for just one month.
(Reuters, 1/30/08)
2008 Jan 30, Vietnam’s central
bank raised official interest rates up 1.5% to fight inflation which
had reached 14.1%, the highest since 1995.
(Econ, 2/2/08, p.46)
2009 Jan 30, President Barack
Obama signed a series of executive orders that he said should "level
the playing field" for labor unions in struggles with management.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, The Republican
Party chose former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele as the first
black national chairman in its history.
(AP, 1/31/09)
2009 Jan 30, US Senator Claire
McCaskill (D., Mo.) introduced legislation that would limit the
salary, bonuses and stock options of executives of financial
companies getting federal bailout aid to no more than what the US
president earns: $400,000 a year, excluding benefits.
(WSJ, 1/31/09, p.B1)
2009 Jan 30, Exxon Mobil Corp.
reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record
for a US company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33
percent from a year ago. Chevron reported a record $23.93 billion
annual profit.
(AP, 1/30/09)(SFC, 1/31/09, p.C1)
2009 Jan 30, Scientists
reported that serotonin, a brain chemical that affects people’s
moods, can also transform dessert locusts into swarms that ravage
the countryside. Serotonin, a messenger molecule, carries signals
between nerve cells.
(SFC, 1/30/09, p.A9)(Econ, 2/28/09, p.85)
2009 Jan 30, A trip to the
Grand Canyon turned deadly when a bus carrying Chinese tourists
overturned on an Arizona highway near the Hoover Dam, killing seven
people and injuring 10 others, several critically.
(AP, 1/31/09)
2009 Jan 30, In West Virginia a
small plane crashed in snowy weather killing all six on board.
(SSFC, 2/1/09, p.A8)
2009 Jan 30, In Algeria at
least 27 people were wounded and several buildings torched during
clashes among Muslim worshippers outside a mosque in Ghardaia.
(AFP, 1/31/09)
2009 Jan 30, Melbourne,
Australia's second-largest city, struggled to cope with a
once-in-a-century heatwave as temperatures hit 109 degrees. The heat
wave has claimed dozens of lives and sparked wildfires that have
razed up to 20 homes.
(AFP, 1/31/09)(WSJ, 1/31/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 30, Bahrain’s riot
police in Manama used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse
protesters angry with perceived government discrimination against
the Shiite majority.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, At least two
million worshippers gathered north of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka
for the Bishwa Ijtema, or World Muslim Congregation, a three-day
event billed as the largest annual Islamic event after the hajj. It
was first held in the 1960s and was launched by Tablig Jamaat, a
non-political group that urges people to follow Islam in their daily
lives.
(AFP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, In Brazil
officials in Rio Grande do Sul state said 10 victims had drowned in
the city of Pelotas, and that floods had driven thousands from their
homes.
(AP, 1/31/09)
2009 Jan 30, In Britain wildcat
strikes against foreign workers spread through oil refineries and
other energy facilities, fuelled by fears of rising job cuts due to
the global slowdown.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, Ethiopia said that
4.9 million of its people will need emergency food aid in the first
six months of 2009 due to drought and appealed for $390 million from
donors to pay for it.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, In Libreville,
Gabon, leaders of the six Central African states (Cameroon, Chad,
Gabon, CAR, Congo, Equatorial Guinea), began meeting to discuss
closer economic ties, including the creation of a new regional
airline. The Economic and Monetary Union of Central Africa, known as
CEMAC, planned discussions on such issues as monetary reform and the
free movement of citizens.
(AFP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, Hans Beck (79),
creator of the colorful plastic Playmobil toy figures that sold by
the millions around the world, died in Germany. Beck had created and
developed the 3-inch (7.5-centimeter) tall line of figures for the
company in 1971. they were dubbed Playmobil and brought to market in
1974.
(AP, 2/4/09)
2009 Jan 30, Georgia's PM
Grigol Mgaloblishvili (35) resigned, citing health reasons after
just three months on the job as President Mikhail Saakashvili's
second-in-command.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, Guatemala's
government filed 3,350 criminal complaints accusing former soldiers,
paramilitaries and others of human rights violations against more
than 5,000 civilians during the country's 1960-1996 civil war.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, Indian officials
said tigers have killed at least three children and four adults in
northern Uttar Pradesh in recent weeks, forcing frightened villagers
to stay indoors while forest rangers search for the wild cats.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, Indonesia said it
will repatriate 174 "economic migrants" who fled Myanmar claiming
persecution, as new accounts emerged of their harrowing sea journey
and alleged abuse by the Thai navy. The 174 Rohingya and 19
Bangladeshis being kept at an Indonesian naval base landed in Weh
Island off northern Sumatra on January 7.
(AFP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, An Israeli rights
group said it to use a database detailing the complicity of Israel's
government in widespread illegal construction in West Bank
settlements to help Palestinians file lawsuits over their lost land.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, Kuwait’s National
Assembly passed a law banning women from working between 8 pm and 7
am except in hospitals. Legislation also limited the workweek to 48
hours and required accommodation for expatriate workers. New
penalties for begging carried a 6-month sentence and a fine of 500
Kuwaiti dinars followed by deportation.
(SSFC, 2/1/09, p.A4)
2009 Jan 30, Nigerian militants
called off a cease-fire after clashing with government forces.
(WSJ, 1/31/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 30, North Korea
announced that it is scrapping agreements with South Korea on easing
military tensions, accusing Seoul of pushing relations to the brink
of war.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, A roadside bomb
hit a Pakistani army convoy near a Taliban stronghold in the Swat
valley, killing three soldiers and wounding another six.
(AP, 1/31/09)
2009 Jan 30, In Gaza City some
5,000 people rallied as Hamas lawmaker Khalil al-Hayeh emerged from
hiding and declared victory in the 23-day Israeli offensive in Gaza.
(SFC, 1/31/09, p.A5)
2009 Jan 30, Russia moved to
rebuild ties with Cold War ally Cuba, granting it loans and signing
deals on energy and industrial cooperation.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, South African
President Kgalema Motlanthe signed legislation that disbands the
country's elite anti-crime investigating unit, known as the
Scorpions. The unit will now be part of the standard police forces.
(AP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, Sri Lanka rejected
growing international calls for a ceasefire amid fears for the
safety of 250,000 civilians trapped as the military pushed for
victory against Tamil rebels.
(AFP, 1/30/09)
2009 Jan 30, Turkmenistan's
authoritarian President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov ordered members
of his government to go back to school or lose their jobs. He said
that officials are under qualified to implement the necessary
reforms in the energy-rich Central Asian nation.
(AP, 1/31/09)
2009 Jan 30, In Venezuela an
armed group vandalized Caracas' oldest synagogue, shattering
religious objects and spray-painting walls in what Jewish leaders
called the worst attack ever on their community. On March 26
prosecutors filed charges against eight police officers and three
other people, accusing them of involvement in the attack.
(AP, 2/1/09)(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Jan 30, Zimbabwe's
opposition decided to join a government with President Robert Mugabe
next month, ending a paralyzing political deadlock that has worsened
the desperate economic and humanitarian crisis. WHO reported that
the death toll in Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak had reached 3,161, out
of 60,401 recorded cases.
(Reuters, 1/30/09)(AP, 1/30/09)
2010 Jan 30, In Las Vegas
Caressa Cameron (22) of Virginia became the nation's newest Miss
America, emerging from a field of 53 contestants picked for their
beauty, compassion and interview savvy. Cameron, the first black
Miss America since Ericka Dunlap in 2005, said she wants to get a
master's degree and eventually become a news anchor.
(AP, 1/31/10)
2010 Jan 30, In NYC a fire
housing Guatemalan immigrants killed at least 5 people in Brooklyn.
Arson was suspected.
(SSFC, 1/31/10, p.A16)
2010 Jan 30, A joint US-Afghan
force clashed with Afghan troops manning a snow-covered outpost and
called in an airstrike, killing four Afghan soldiers. Both sides
called the clash a case of mistaken identity.
(AP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, China suspended
military exchanges with the United States and threatened sanctions
against American defense companies, just hours after Washington
announced $6.4 billion in planned arms sales to Taiwan.
(AP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, The European Union
said Italy is to stop fishing for bluefin tuna, the lucrative but
over-exploited species beloved of Japanese sushi fans, for 12
months.
(AP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, In Haiti about 20
armed men blockaded a street and attacked UN a convoy carrying food
from the airport. Ten American Baptists were detained for
trying to take 33 children across the border into the Dominican
Republic without documentation.
(AP, 2/2/10)(AP, 2/5/10)
2010 Jan 30, Ashes of Indian
independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, kept for decades by a family
friend after his assassination, were scattered off South Africa's
coast.
(AFP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, Thousands of
Iranians gathered at dusk against a snowy mountain backdrop to light
giant bonfires in an ancient mid-winter festival. Sadeh was the
national festival of ancient Persia when Zoroastrianism was the
dominant religion, before the conquest of Islam in the 7th century.
(AP, 1/31/10)
2010 Jan 30, In Iraq a suicide
bomber detonated an explosives belt at a restaurant popular with
security forces in Samarra, a city that was once a flash point for
sectarian slaughter, killing at least two people.
(AP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, In Italy hundreds
of judges walked out of nationwide ceremonies held to mark the start
of the judicial year in protest at "destructive legislation"
introduced by PM Silvio Berlusconi.
(AFP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, In Japan thousands
of protesters from across Japan marched in central Tokyo to protest
the US military presence on Okinawa, while a Cabinet minister said
she would fight to move a Marine base Washington considers crucial
out of the country.
(AP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, In the Marshall
Islands the government considered invoking special powers of
quarantine as an outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis has been
declared a public health emergency.
(AP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, In Mexico armed
men stormed a party, killing 15 high school and college students in
Ciudad Juarez in what witnesses thought was an attack prompted by
false information. Ten people were found dead at the scene and six
died at hospitals. An official later said gunmen were directed to
the neighborhood by a resident who said members of a rival gang were
planning a party.
(AP, 2/2/10)(AP, 2/4/10)
2010 Jan 30, Nigeria's main
rebel group called off a truce in the oil-rich Niger Delta,
threatening an "all-out onslaught" and adding to the country’s
political and economic woes. A leak was observed on the Anglo-Dutch
Trans-Ramos pipeline. The leak was stopped and an investigation
confirmed the leak was due to a sabotage. Anglo-Dutch oil group
Shell shut down some oil production following the sabotage.
(AFP, 1/30/10)(AFP, 2/1/10)
2010 Jan 30, In Pakistan a
suicide bomber killed 16 people at a police checkpoint in the
northwest Bajur tribal area. 3 suspected US missiles hit a compound
and a bunker in the Mohammad Khel area of North Waziristan. 2
missiles hit the compound being used by the militants, killing 7 of
them. The third killed two more insurgents in a bunker.
(AP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, Russian PM
Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying that Libya has signed an arms
deal with Russia worth 1.3 billion euros ($1.8 billion).
(Reuters, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, Russia opened its
first new casino, under a plan to limit legalized gambling to 4
comparatively remote areas, since it closed all casinos a half year
earlier. Along with the opening in Azov city, the new law limits
legalized gambling to the Kaliningrad enclave on the Baltic Sea, the
Altai region of Siberia, and the Primorski region of the Far East.
(SSFC, 1/31/10, p.A6)
2010 Jan 30, In Sri Lanka
police shut down the offices of an opposition newspaper, as
international rights groups accused the authorities of a vendetta
against critical media. The chief editor was arrested. A court
lifted a ban on the paper on Feb 1. On Feb 16 the chief editor of
the pro-opposition Lanka newspaper, Chandana Sirimalwatte, was
ordered to be released from police custody because there was no
evidence against him.
(AFP, 1/30/10)(AFP, 2/16/10)
2010 Jan 30, In Davos,
Switzerland, government regulators from the US and Europe laid out
their financial reform plans before a skeptical banking industry,
asking financiers for input but adamant that change was coming with
or without their support.
(AP, 1/30/10)
2010 Jan 30, In Yemen militant
Saleh al-Shaoush was arrested as he prepared to carry out a suicide
bombing in the southeastern port of Mukalla. He had been stopped on
his motorbike and found to be wearing an explosives belt and
carrying two bombs. His trial began in October.
(AFP, 10/9/10)
2011 Jan 30, John Barry (77),
English-born composer, died in NY. He wrote the music for a dozen
James Bond films and many other films. He won 2 Oscars in 1966 for
best song and best score for the film “Born Free.”
(SFC, 2/1/11, p.C4)
2011 Jan 30, Ernest Borgnine
(94), known for roles in such films as "From Here to Eternity" and
"Marty," received a lifetime achievement award from the Screen
Actors Guild and reminded his cohorts that "there are millions of
those in the world who would love to be in our shoes."
(Reuters, 1/31/11)
2011 Jan 30, In southern
California over 2 dozen protesters were arrested for protesting
against Charles and David Koch, brothers who have used millions from
their energy conglomerate to finance conservative causes. 11
busloads of protesters converged on a political retreat run by the
Kansas billionaires at a resort in Rancho Mirage.
(SFC, 1/31/11, p.A4)
2011 Jan 30, Albanian police
said they detained three people suspected of conspiring to murder a
top opposition leader at Jan 28 anti-government protest, as the
opposition said it would not back down from its campaign against the
ruling party for alleged corruption.
(AP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, Egyptian fighter
jets swooped low over Cairo in what appeared to be an attempt by the
military to show its control of a city beset by looting, armed
robbery and anti-government protests. Gangs of armed men attacked at
least four jails before dawn, helping to free hundreds of Muslim
militants and thousands of other inmates. The official death toll
from five days of growing crisis stood at 74, with thousands
injured. Al-Jazeera said that Egyptian authorities ordered the
closure of its Cairo news hub.
(AP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, Equatorial
Guinea’s Pres. Teodoro Obiang assumed the African Union chairmanship
at the organization’s annual summit, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
(http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00012576.html)
2011 Jan 30, In eastern Germany
a head-on collision between a cargo train and a passenger train
killed 10 people and injured 23 others. Authorities said they
believe the death toll in one of the country's worst train accidents
ever could still rise.
(AP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, In India at least
5,000 people marched through central New Delhi to show their anger
over recent scandals that hit PM Manmohan Singh's government. This
was the anniversary of the death of independence leader Mohandas K.
Gandhi, who was known for his scrupulous honesty.
(AP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, Iranian courts
sentenced two people to death for running porn sites.
(AFP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, Israeli officials
agreed to allow Egypt to move several hundred troops into the Sinai
peninsula for the first time since the countries reached peace three
decades ago.
(AP, 1/31/11)
2011 Jan 30, Israel sentenced a
prominent Arab-Israeli human rights activist to nine years in jail
after pleading guilty to spying for Lebanon's Hezbollah. Ameer
Makhoul was convicted last October of espionage and aggravated
espionage on the basis of a plea bargain in which the prosecution
dropped a charge of assisting the enemy in time of war.
(AFP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, Israel signed an
agreement with the European Space Agency for cooperation on space
technology and exploration of the solar system.
(AFP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, In Mexico the
state of Guerrero, populated by 3.3 million people, held elections.
Voters gave the leftist Party of Democratic Revolution, or PRD,
victory over the powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI,
in one of six state elections ahead of next year's presidential
race.
(AP, 1/30/11)(Reuters, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, In Mexico six
bodies were found outside the city of Monterrey. They were burned so
badly that investigators couldn't determine the cause of death or
the victims' gender.
(AP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, The Myanmar
opposition group led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi launched its
first official website: http://www.nldburma.org/.
(AP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, In northern
Nigeria gunmen attacked a police checkpoint, killing a policeman and
leading police to shoot dead two Boko Haram gunmen in Maiduguri.
Police said they have arrested 19 people over the slaying of the
region's dominant gubernatorial candidate.
(AP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, Oman said it has
dismantled an Emirati spy ring that was targeting the government and
the military in the Gulf sultanate. An official the cell was
uncovered five months ago, before it was watched and dismantled by
Omani security services.
(AFP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, An unmanned
Russian cargo spacecraft docked at the Int’l. Space Station
delivering 2.6 tons of supplies to the US-Russian-Italian crew.
(SFC, 1/31/11, p.A2)
2011 Jan 30, In north Sudan
students clashed with police as youths heeded calls to take to the
streets for a day of nationwide anti-government protests, despite a
heavy security presence on the ground. Mohammed Abdulrahman, a
student beaten by police during the demonstrations in Khartoum, died
of his wounds in Omdurman hospital.
(AFP, 1/30/11)(AFP, 1/31/11)
2011 Jan 30, Sudan’s government
welcomed the preliminary results of the southern Sudan referendum
but said there was a "huge amount" to do before it becomes an
independent nation. Southern Sudan's referendum commission said
close to 99 percent of south Sudanese chose to secede from the north
in the landmark January 9-15 referendum.
(AFP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, Thousands of
Tunisians turned out to welcome Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi
(69) after more than 20 years in exile, as he eyed a political
future for his Ennahda movement after the fall of the government.
Ghannouchi was persecuted in Tunisia ever since founding his
Islamist movement in 1981.
(AFP, 1/30/11)
2011 Jan 30, In Venezuela a
fire set off a series of explosions at a military arms depot in the
city of Maracay, killing one person and leading authorities to
evacuate around 10,000 people from the area.
(AP, 1/30/11)
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