Today in History - February 9
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1263 Feb 9, A
Lithuania army under Treniota defeated the Livonian Knights of the
Cross.
(LHC, 2/9/03)
1267 Feb 9, Synod of Breslau
ordered Jews of Silesia to wear special caps.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1404 Feb 9, Constantine XI
Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, was born.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1540 Feb 9, The 1st recorded
race met in England at Roodee Fields, Chester.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1555 Feb 9, John Hooper, the
deprived Bishop of Gloucester, was burned for heresy.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1567 Feb 9, Henry Stuart, earl
of Darnley, Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of
Scots, was murdered in his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the
house blew up. In 2003 Alison Weir authored "Mary, Queen of the
Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley."
(HN, 2/9/99)(MC, 2/9/02)(WSJ, 5/1/03, D10)
1571 Feb 9, Algonquin Indians
attacked the Jesuit mission on the Virginia peninsula killing Fr.
Juan Bautista de Segura and 4 other remaining priests.
(AH, 2/06, p.15)
1578 Feb 9, Giambattista
Andreini, Italian playwright, actor (L'adamo), was born.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1602 Feb 9, Franciscus van de
Enden, Flemish Jesuit, free thinker, tutor of Spinoza, was born.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1617 Feb 9, Hans Christoph
Haiden (44), composer, died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1640 Feb 9, Murad IV (27),
sultan of Turkey (1623-40), died in Baghdad. Ibrahim (1640-1648)
succeeded Murad IV in the Ottoman House of Osman.
(Ot, 1993, xvii)(MC, 2/9/02)
1674 Feb 9, English reconquered
NY from Netherlands.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1741 Feb 9, Henri-Joseph Rigel,
composer, was born.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1744 Feb 9, Battle at Toulon:
French-Spanish faced the English fleet of Adm. Matthews.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1765 Feb 9, Elisabetta de
Gambarini (33), composer, died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1773 Feb 9, William Henry
Harrison, the 9th president of the United States (March 4- April 4,
1841), was born in Charles City County, Va.
(HN, 2/9/97)(AP, 2/9/99)(MC, 2/9/02)
1775 Feb 9, English Parliament
declared the Mass. colony was in rebellion.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1780 Feb 9, Walenty Karol
Kratzer, composer, was born.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1797 Feb 9, John Quincy Adams’
(Sr.) emerged victorious from America's first contested presidential
election.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1799 Feb 9, The USS
Constellation captured the French frigate Insurgente off the coast
of Wisconsin.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1807 Feb 9, French Sanhedrin
was convened by Napoleon.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1812 Feb 9, Franz Anton
Hoffmeister (57), composer, died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1814 Feb 9, Samuel Jones
Tilden, philanthropist, was born.
(HN, 2/9/97)(MC, 2/9/02)
1819 Feb 9, Lydia E. Pinkham,
patent-medicine maker and entrepreneur, was born.
(HN, 2/9/01)
1822 Feb 9, The American Indian
Society organized.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1824 Feb 9, Anna Katharina
Emmerick (b.1774), a sickly, virtually illiterate German nun, died.
Her gory visions of Jesus' last hours of suffering before his
crucifixion drew pilgrims to her bedside in the years before her
death. In 2004 she was beatified by Pope John Paul VI.
(AP, 10/3/04)(www.vatican.va/news_services)
1825 Feb 9, The House of
Representatives elected John Quincy Adams Jr. 6th U.S. president
(1825-1829) after no candidate received a majority of electoral
votes.
(A&IP, ESM, p.96b, photo)(AHD, 1971,
p.14)(HN, 2/9/97)(AP, 2/9/99)
1834 Feb 9, Franz Xaver Witt,
composer, was born.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1846 Feb 9, Wilhelm Maybach,
German engineer, was born. He designed the first Mercedes
automobile.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1861 Feb 9, The Confederate
Provisional Congress, meeting in Alabama, declared all laws under
the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate
states. The Congress elected Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as
president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president. Jefferson Davis'
Mexican War exploits led him to the Confederate White House. In 2001
William C. Davis authored "The Union That Shaped the Confederacy:
Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens."
(HN, 2/9/97)(AP, 2/9/99)(WSJ, 6/13/01, p.A18)(AH,
2/06, p.15)
1861 Feb 9, Tennessee voted
against secession.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1863 Feb 9, A fire extinguisher
was patented by Alanson Crane.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1863 Feb 9, Henri Dunant
(1828-1910) addressed the Geneva Society for Public Welfare and
asked the members to form a volunteer society to aid wounded
soldiers. The Intl. Committee of Red Cross (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
was formed in Geneva, Switz. The red cross design based on the Swiss
flag with the colors reversed.
(ON, 4/08, p.11)(www.redcross.org)(SFC, 6/20/06,
p.A4)
1864 Feb 9, After a courtship
that began at a party on Thanksgiving Day 1862, Brevet General
George Armstrong Custer and Miss Elizabeth Bacon, both of Monroe,
Michigan, married. Until Custer died at the Battle of the Little
Bighorn a dozen years later, Libbie followed him to postings
throughout the West whenever possible. Libbie never remarried, even
though she outlived her husband by 50 years, preferring to keep his
memory alive by lecturing and writing books about their life
together on the Plains. Elizabeth Custer lived comfortably in New
York City until her death on April 8, 1933, at the age of 91.
(HNPD, 2/9/99)
1864 Feb 9, 109 Union prisoners
escaped through a tunnel from the Confederate Libby Prison in
Richmond, Va., including Lt. James M. Wells of Michigan. In 1904
Wells published an account of the escape in the Jan. issue of
McClure’s Magazine.
(ON, 3/01, p.7)
1865 Feb 9, Wilson Bentley
(d.1931) was born on a farm near Jericho, Vermont. His interest in
snow flakes led him to make the 1st photographs of snow crystals on
Jan 15, 1885.
(ON, 11/04, p.4)
1865 Feb 9, Mrs. [Beatrice]
Patrick Campbell, actress (Pygmalion), was born in England.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1870 Feb 9, The U.S. Army
established the US National Weather Service. Congress under
continued petition from Smithsonian secretary Joseph Henry and
colleagues, passed a military appropriation enabling the US Army
Signal Service to make standardized weather observations.
(AP, 2/9/99)(ON, 2/06, p.7)
1871 Feb 9, Howard T. Ricketts,
pathologist, was born.
(HN, 2/9/01)
1874 Feb 9, Amy Lowell
(d.1925), poet, critic, was born. “Youth condemns; maturity
condones.”
(AP, 11/25/00)(HN, 2/9/01)
1874 Feb 9, Jules Michelet
(75), French historian (History of France), died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1880 Feb 9, James Stephens
(d.1950), Irish poet and novelist, was born. His work included “The
Charwoman's Daughter” and “The Crock of Gold.” "Originality does not
consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying
exactly what you think yourself."
(AP, 5/21/99)(HN, 2/9/01)
1881 Feb 9, Feodor M.
Dostoevsky (59), Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1885 Feb 9, Alban Maria
Johannes Berg, composer, was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1885 Feb 9, The 1st Japanese
arrived in Hawaii.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1886 Feb 9, President Cleveland
declared a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese
violence.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1886 Feb 9, Modest Mussorgsky’s
(1839-1881) opera “Khovanschchina,” arranged by Rimsky-Korsakov,
premiered in St. Petersburg. The Gregorian date is Feb 21.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khovanshchina)
1891 Feb 9, Ronald Colman, 1947
Academy Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities), was born in England.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1893 Feb 9, Giuseppe Verdi’s
last opera, “Falstaff,” was first performed in Milan, Italy.
(AP, 2/9/01)
1893 Feb 9, Suez Canal builder
De Lesseps and others were sentenced to prison for fraud.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1895 Feb 9, Volleyball was
invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts. A game called “mintonette”
was created by William George Morgan, physical director at the YMCA
in Holyoke, Mass., to accommodate players who thought basketball was
too strenuous. The objective was to hit a basketball over a rope. It
was the predecessor to volleyball.
(SFC,11/15/97, p.C4)(HNQ, 11/26/99)(MC, 2/9/02)
1902 Feb 9, Doctor Doyen of
Paris, performed a successful operation on Siamese twins from the
Barnum and Bailey Circus.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1904 Feb 9, Japanese troops
landed near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1906 Feb 9, Poet Paul Laurence
Dunbar (33), son of former slaves, died of TB in his hometown of
Dayton, Ohio.
(AH, 2/06, p.15)
1906 Feb 9, Natal proclaimed a
state of siege in Zulu uprising.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1909 Feb 9, Dean Rusk, was
born. He was Secretary of State (1961-1969) under presidents John F.
Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
(HN, 2/9/99)(MC, 2/9/02)
1909 Feb 9, The 1st US federal
legislation prohibiting narcotics was directed at opium.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1909 Feb 9, France agreed to
recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for
political supremacy.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1913 Feb 9, Leo van der Kar,
masseur, businessman, founder (Sports funds), was born.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1913 Feb 9-18, The 10 Day
Tragedy of Mexico City when 3,000 died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1914 Feb 9, Gypsy Rose Lee,
stripper, was born in Seattle Wash.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1914 Feb 9, Bill "Rhymes with
Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner, was born.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1916 Feb 9, Conscription began
in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.
(HN, 2/9/99)
1918 Feb 9, Army chaplain
school organized at Ft. Monroe, Va.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1921 Feb 9, James Huneker
(b.1857), American musical writer and critic, died.
(WSJ, 2/11/06,
p.P10)(www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9326842)
1922 Feb 9, The U.S. Congress
established the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1923 Feb 9, Brendan Behan,
Irish playwright and poet, was born in Dublin, Ireland. His work
included “The Hostage” and “The Quare Fellow.”
(HN, 2/9/01)(MC, 2/9/02)
1923 Feb 9, Norman E. Shumway,
pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon, was born in Mich.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1923 Feb 9, Soviet Aeroflot
airlines formed.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1926 Feb 9, Teaching theory of
evolution was forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia, schools.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1928 Feb 9, Frank Frazetta,
American fantasy and science fiction artist, was born in Brooklyn.
He became noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers,
paintings, posters, record-album covers, and other media. In 2003, a
feature film documenting the life and career of Frazetta was
released, entitled: “Frank Frazetta: Painting With Fire.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Frazetta)
1933 Feb 9, The Oxford Union,
Oxford University's debating society, endorsed, 275-153, a motion
stating "that this House will in no circumstances fight for its King
and Country," a pacifist stand widely denounced by Britons. [see Feb
9, 1983]
(AP, 2/9/00)
1941 Feb 9, British troops
conquered El Agheila.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1941 Feb 9, Nazi collaborators
destroyed the pro-Jewish cafe Alcazar Amsterdam. Alcazar had refused
to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1942 Feb 9, The U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military
strategy during World War II.
(AP, 2/9/99)
1942 Feb 9, FDR reimposed
daylight saving time (DST) in the US calling it "war time" with
clocks turned one hour forward. It was repealed after the war. [see
1966]
(AP, 2/9/99)(WSJ, 3/31/05, p.D8)
1942 Feb 9, The former French
cruise ship Normandie, launched in 1935, burned in New York Harbor
during its conversion to an Allied trip transport ship. It was once
regarded as most elegant ocean liner ever built. In 1947 it was cut
up for scrap. In 2007 John Maxtone-Graham authored “Normandie.”
(AP, 2/10/97)(WSJ, 12/8/07, p.W13)
1942 Feb 9, Chiang Kai-shek met
with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India. Detachment
101 harried the Japanese in Burma and provided close support for
regular Allied forces.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1942 Feb 9, Japanese troops
landed near Makassar, South Celebes.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1943 Feb 9, FDR ordered a
minimal 48 hour work week in war industry.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1943 Feb 9, The World War II
battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied
victory over Japanese forces.
(AP, 2/9/08)
1943 Feb 9, The Russians took
back Kursk 15 months after it fell to the Nazis.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1944 Feb 9, Alice Walker,
Pulitzer prize winning author, was born. Her books include "The
Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Color Purple."
(HN, 2/9/99)
1944 Feb 9, U-734 and U-238
sank off Ireland.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1945 Feb 9, [Maria] Mia Farrow,
actress (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo, was born in LA.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1945 Feb 9, The German
submarine U-864 with a crew of 73 sank about 2 1/2 miles off Fedje,
Norway. It was on a desperate mission to supply Japan with advanced
weapons technology and carried a poisonous cargo of 70 tons of
mercury. Leakage of the mercury posed a severe threat in 2006 and
plans were made to encase the wreck. In 2007 Norway’s government
said it would be buried in special sand to protect the coastline.
(AP, 12/20/06)(AP, 2/13/07)
1946 Feb 9, Stalin announced
the new five-year plan for the USSR, calling for production boosts
of 50 percent.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1947 Feb 9, Bank robber Willie
Sutton escaped jail in Philadelphia.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1950 Feb 9, In a speech at the
Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, W. Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy,
R-Wis., charged the State Department was riddled with Communists and
that he had a list of them. He asserted that Sec. of State Dean
Acheson knew this and refused to do anything about it. McCarthy said
there were 205 communists working in the US State Dept.
(AP, 2/9/99)(WSJ, 12/6/99, p.A32)(WSJ, 2/9/00,
p.A26)(WSJ, 5/12/98, p.A20)
1951 Feb 9, St. Louis Browns
signed baseball pitcher Satchel Paige (45).
(MC, 2/9/02)
1951 Feb 9, Actress Greta Garbo
got U.S. citizenship.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1953 Feb 9, "Adventures of
Superman" TV series premiered in syndication.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1953 Feb 9, General Walter
Bedell Smith, USA, ended term as 4th director of CIA. Allen W.
Dulles, became acting director of CIA and served to 1961.
(MC, 2/9/02)(SFC, 5/29/97, p.A4)
1953 Feb 9, The French
destroyed six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of
Vietnam.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1955 Feb 9, US federations of
trade unions agreed to merge into the AFL-CIO: The American
Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
(AH, 2/05, p.17)(SFC, 2/4/05, p.F9)
1955 Feb 9, In South Africa
some 2,000 policemen, armed with handguns, rifles and clubs known as
knobkierries, forcefully moved the black families of Sophiatown to
Meadowlands, Soweto.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophiatown)
1960 Feb 9, The Hollywood, Ca.,
Walk of Fame began with an installation of its first pink terrazzo
star for, actress Joanne Woodward, at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. The first
eight stars were dedicated in September 1958 and placed in the
sidewalk on the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland
Ave.
(SSFC, 2/7/10,
p.D4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame)
1960 Feb 9, The Angelo Petri,
the world’s largest wine tanker, foundered outside the San Francisco
Golden Gate. It carried a capacity load of 2,383,000 gallons of wine
and vegetable oil. In 1946 the vessel had broken in two near
Honolulu.
(SSFC, 2/7/10, DB
p.42)(www.navsource.org/archives/11/0103.htm)
1960 Feb 9, Ernst von Dohnanyi
(82), US composer, died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1961 Feb 9, Grigory Levenfish
(70), Int’l. chess grandmaster from Russia, died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1962 Feb 9, An agreement was
signed to make Jamaica an independent nation within the British
Commonwealth later in the year.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1963 Feb 9, 1st flight of
Boeing 727 jet.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1964 Feb 9, The Beatles made
their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan
Show."
(AP, 2/9/99)
1964 Feb 9, The U.S. embassy in
Moscow was stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1964 Feb 9, In Britain Maria
Callas sang in a live production of Pucini's Tosca produced at
Covent Garden by Franco Zeffirelli. It was later made available on
video.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, DB p.58)
1966 Feb 9, Sophie Tucker (79),
Russian-US singer, actress (My Yiddish Mama), died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1969 Feb 9, The Boeing 747, the
world's largest airplane, made its 1st commercial flight. The Juan
T. Trippe, named after the founder of Pan Am, was sold in 2000 to a
South Korea couple, who transformed it into an aviation themed
restaurant. The venture failed in 2005 and the plane was demolished
in late 2010.
(www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/pf/pf_milestones.html)(SFC,
12/13/10, p.A2)
1969 Feb 9, Gabby Hayes
(b.1885), American film and TV actor, died. He played the sidekick
to Hopalong Cassidy and later Roy Rogers Westerns.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_%27Gabby%27_Hayes)
1971 Feb 9, Satchel Paige
became the 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF.
(www.biographybase.com/biography/Paige_Satchel.html)
1971 Feb 9, The "Apollo 14"
spacecraft returned to Earth after man's third landing on the moon.
(AP, 2/9/99)
1971 Feb 9, In San Fernando,
Ca., a 6.5 earthquake killed 65 people.
(SFEC, 10/17/99, p.A3)
1974 Feb 9, US female Figure
Skating championship was won by Dorothy Hamill.
(http://espn.go.com/abcsports/wwos/milestones/1970s.html)
1978 Feb 9, Kimberly Leach (12)
was killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City, Fla.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Leach)
1978 Feb 9, Canada announced it
was expelling 13 Soviet diplomats who it said had tried to recruit a
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer.
(HN, 2/9/97)(www.cnn.com/almanac/9802/09/)
1978 Feb 9, In Tanzania cholera
broke out and killed 300 people.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1979 Feb 9, Allen Tate
(b.1899), poet and exponent of the New Criticism, died in Nashville.
(WSJ, 8/2/08, p.W9)(http://tinyurl.com/5g27ry)
1981 Feb 9, Bill Haley
(b.1925), vocalist (Rock Around Clock), died of heart attack. Haley
was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1987.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haley)
1982 Feb 9, On approach to
Haneda Airport a Japan Airlines DC-8 plunged into Tokyo Bay killing
24 people. 141 survived the crash caused when the captain pushed the
nose down prematurely and engaged in a struggle with the co-pilot.
(WSJ, 3/10/98,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350)
1983 Feb 9, In a dramatic
reversal from 50 years earlier, the Oxford Union Society at Oxford
University rejected, 416 to 187, a motion "that this House would not
fight for Queen and Country." [see Feb 9, 1933]
(AP, 2/9/00)
1984 Feb 9, Soviet leader Yuri
V. Andropov (69) died, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid
Brezhnev. He was succeeded by Konstantin U. Chernenko. US Pres.
Ronald Reagan said he wouldn’t go to any memorial for Andropov: “I
don’t want to honor that prick.”
(AP, 2/9/99)(Econ, 2/4/06, p.75)
1985 Feb 9, Madonna's album
"Like a Virgin," released in 1984, reached #1.
(http://tinyurl.com/2vfje9)
1985 Feb 9, Seoul admitted
using force against opposition leader Kim Dae Jung.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1986 Feb 9, Halley's Comet
reached 30th perihelion, its closest approach to Sun. 5 spacecraft
from the USSR, Japan, and the European Community visited Comet
Halley in early 1986.
(http://tinyurl.com/nmhkd)(www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/halley.html)
1986 Feb 9, The tomb of
Tutankhamen's treasurer, Maya, was found in Egypt.
(http://tinyurl.com/mfsn7)
1987 Feb 9, Robert McFarlane
(1919-2006), former US national security adviser, attempted suicide.
(www.tarpley.net/bush18.htm)
1989 Feb 9, President Bush, in
his first major speech to Congress, proposed a $1.16 trillion
"common sense" budget for fiscal 1990.
(AP, 2/9/99)
1990 Feb 9, John Gotti
(1940-2002) was acquitted of charges that he commissioned the
Westies gang to shoot a union official in Manhattan’s Hell’s
Kitchen. This earned him the nickname “The Teflon Don.”
(SFC, 6/11/02, p.A2)
1990 Feb 9, Perrier Group of
America Inc. announced it was voluntarily recalling its inventory of
mineral water in the United States after tests showed the presence
of benzene in a small number of bottles.
(AP, 2/9/00)
1990 Feb 9, The Galileo
satellite, launched Oct. 18, 1989, made its closest approach to
Venus.
(www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/90/release_1990_0124.html)
1991 Feb 9, Defense Secretary
Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin L. Powell met with
military commanders in Saudi Arabia to evaluate a possible ground
assault against Iraqi forces.
(AP, 2/9/01)
1991 Feb 9, In a national poll
3 quarters of Lithuanian citizens called for independence from the
Soviet Union in a non-binding plebiscite.
(AP, 2/9/01)(LHC, 2/9/03)
1992 Feb 9, Magic Johnson
returned to professional basketball by playing in the NBA All-Star
game. Johnson was named most valuable player as his side, the
Western Conference, defeated the Eastern Conference 153-to-113.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1992 Feb 9, The government of
Algeria declared a state of emergency to quell spreading Muslim
fundamentalist unrest.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1992 Feb 9, An Air Senegal
flight chartered by Club Med crashed and 30 people were killed. In
2000 a French court convicted Club Med founder Gilbert Trigano and
his son, Serge, for involuntary manslaughter.
(SFC, 7/7/00,
p.D6)(http://aviation-safety.net/database/country/country.php?id=6V)
1993 Feb 9, NBC News announced
it had settled a defamation lawsuit brought by General Motors over
the network's "inappropriate demonstration" of a fiery pickup truck
crash on its "Dateline NBC" program.
(AP, 2/9/03)
1993 Feb 9, Saburo Okita
(b.1914), Japanese economist and former foreign minister (1979-80),
died. He to a large part introduced the “flying geese” pattern of
economic development to the Western political and business
audiences. Kaname Akamatsu, Japanese economist, had developed the
multi-tier hierarchical 'flying geese' model in the 1930s to
describe how industrialization spreads from developed countries to
the developing countries.
(www.risklatte.com/Articles_new/BraveEconomist/Brave_10.php)(Econ,
11/13/10, p.50)
1994 Feb 9, PLO leader Yasser
Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres initialed an
agreement on security measures that had been blocking a peace
accord.
(AP, 2/9/99)
1994 Feb 9, NATO delivered an
ultimatum to Bosnian Serbs to remove heavy guns encircling Sarajevo,
or face air strikes. Hours before the ultimatum was issued, the
Bosnian Serbs agreed to withdraw their artillery and mortars from
around Sarajevo.
(AP,
2/9/99)(www.fas.org/man/gao/nsiad-95-148.htm)
1994 Feb 9, Nelson Mandela
became the first black president of South Africa.
(HN, 2/9/99)
1994 Feb 9, Jarmila Novotna
(86), Czech-US soprano (Madame Butterfly), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0637229/)
1995 Feb 9, A preview of
"Heiress" opened at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances.
(http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?id=4287)
1995 Feb 9, Former US Sen. J.
William Fulbright (b.1905) died in Washington, DC.
(http://exchanges.state.gov/education/fulbright/fulbbio.htm)
1995 Feb 9, David Wayne
(b.1914), [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), died.
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915536/)
1996 Feb 9, Pres. Clinton
signed the new telecommunications bill into law. It included a
subsidy program, “E-Rate,” to provide schools with a connection to
the Internet. Phone companies in 1998 began charging their
long-distance customers a surcharge to cover the subsidies. It also
included a ban on Internet smut that was upheld by the Supreme Court
in 1999.
(WSJ, 1/2/97, p.R2)(WSJ, 4/20/99, A1)
1996 Feb 9, In Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, a former member of the city’s beach detail shot and killed
five former co-workers before killing himself.
(AP, 2/9/01)
1996 Feb 9, A collision of
rush-hour commuter trains in Secaucus, New Jersey, claimed the lives
of both engineers and a passenger.
(AP, 2/9/01)
1996 Feb 9, Leo Jenkins was
executed under a new Texas law that allowed the family of his
victims to witness his execution. A film was made of the execution
for HBO titled: “A Kill for a Kill.”
(WSJ, 1/6/97, p.A10)
1996 Feb 9, The Irish
Republican Army ended its cease-fire with a massive blast that
killed two people in London's East End and injured nearly a 100
people. The bomb was a 500 pound device hidden in a rebuilt truck.
(WSJ, 2/12/96, p.A-1)(WSJ, 2/14/96, p.A-10)(AP,
2/9/01)
1996 Feb 9, Adolf Galland (83),
German general (Luftwaffe Ace), died.
(http://tinyurl.com/9wm96)
1997 Feb 9, Fox cartoon series
"Simpsons" aired its 167th episode, the longest running animated
series in cartoon history.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1997 Feb 9, The East beat the
West in the NBA All-Star game, 132-to-120.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1997 Feb 9, Best Products
closed the last of its stores, a victim of the diminishing allure of
the catalog showroom concept of retailing.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1997 Feb 9, In Newton, Mass.,
an 8-month old baby died while under the care of a 19-year-old
British nanny. Louisa Woodward, pleaded innocent, but was tried and
convicted on 2nd-degree murder charges in Oct.
(SFC,10/31/97,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Woodward)
1997 Feb 9, In Ecuador an
agreement was reached to have Rosalia Arteaga serve as interim
president until the passing of a constitutional amendment to elect a
successor.
(SFC, 2/10/97, p.A8)
1998 Feb 9, Pres. Clinton
declared 27 counties in California a federal disaster area.
Estimated storm damage reached over $275 million.
(SFC, 2/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 9, The Pentagon
announced that some 3,000 ground troops from Fort Hood, Texas, were
to be sent to the Persian Gulf region over the next 10 days. The
move was to discourage “creative thinking” on the part of Saddam
Hussein of Iraq.
(SFC, 2/10/98, p.A1)(AP, 2/9/99)
1998 Feb 9, From Georgia it was
reported that Steuart and Jane Dewar were attempting to set up a
Gorilla Haven for retired gorillas in the area of Morgantown on part
of 275 acres they owned in Fannin County. There was substantial
neighbor opposition.
(SFC, 2/9/98, p.A11)
1998 Feb 9, At the Nagano
Games, German Georg Hackl won the men's luge for the third
consecutive Olympics.
(AP, 2/9/99)
1998 Feb 9, In Columbia rebels
blew up the nation’s main oil pipeline spilling 15,000 gallons and
forcing a suspension of pumping. It was the 7th attack on a pipeline
this year.
(WSJ, 2/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 9, In Tbilisi,
Georgia, armed attackers ambushed Pres. Shevardnadze (70). One
attacker and one bodyguard were killed.
(SFC, 2/10/98, p.A12)
1998 Feb 9, In Indonesia a
curfew was imposed on the town of Ende after 2 days of riots burned
21 stores owned by the ethnic Chinese, who dominate most of the
businesses.
(SFC, 2/10/98, p.A12)(WSJ, 2/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 9, In Northern Ireland
a Protestant drug dealer, Brendan Campbell (33), and a Protestant
militant, Bobby Dougan (38), were slain in separate incidents.
Police blamed the IRA and a dissident gang.
(SFC, 2/11/98, p.B3)
1998 Feb 9, South Korean unions
voted down a pact to make it easier for businesses to lay off
workers. The unions also called for a nationwide strike this week.
The strike was called off.
(WSJ, 2/10/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/13/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 9, In Mexico it was
reported that flash floods in Tijuana killed at least 13 people.
(WSJ, 2/9/98, p.A1)
1999 Feb 9, The Senate began
closed-door deliberations in President Clinton's impeachment trial,
even though members from both parties acknowledged that the
two-thirds margin for conviction could not be attained.
(AP, 2/9/00)
1999 Feb 9, It was reported
that USA Networks would merge its cable-television AT Home Shopping
Network with the Lycos Internet portal.
(WSJ, 1/3/00, p.R12)
1999 Feb 9, In Cambodia some
1,700 guerrillas of the Khmer Rouge were inducted into the Cambodian
military.
(SFC, 2/10/99, p.A10)
1999 Feb 9, An Ethiopian plane
bombed an Eritrean village and at least 5 civilians were killed.
Eritrea reported that a large number of Ethiopian forces were killed
near Tsorena, but Ethiopia denied the Eritrean version of the
fighting.
(SFC, 2/10/99, p.C2)
1999 Feb 9, In Europe heavy
snows caused avalanches that killed at least 5 people. Ten people
were killed in the French Alps.
(WSJ, 2/10/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 9, In Iran the head of
the intelligence ministry, Qorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, resigned
along with 3 deputies due to last year's killings of dissident
writers and politicians.
(SFC, 2/10/99, p.A10)
2000 Feb 9, In Renton, Wa.,
some 17,000 Boeing engineers and technical workers began a 40-day
strike, one of the biggest white-collar strikes in US history.
(SFC, 2/10/00, p.A9)(AP, 2/9/01)
2000 Feb 9, Hackers stepped up
their “denial of service” attacks on popular Internet sites, zeroing
in on such targets as eTrade and ZDNet, inconveniencing millions of
Web users and unnerving Wall Street.
(AP, 2/9/01)
2000 Feb 9, In Britain the
House of Commons passed a bill to suspend home-rule in Northern
Ireland.
(WSJ, 2/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Feb 9, In Indonesia
clashes between troops and rebels in Aceh province left 15 people
dead.
(SFC, 2/11/00, p.D2)
2000 Feb 9, Israeli jets struck
targets in southern Lebanon for the 11th day and Foreign Minister
David Levy threatened that it would set Lebanon on fire if militants
retaliated with rockets.
(SFC, 2/10/00, p.A10)
2000 Feb 9, In Nigeria it was
reported that 17 people were killed when a young man, who was not
allowed to participate, lit a match at a site where people were
siphoning off fuel from a pipeline in Ogwe.
(SFC, 2/10/00, p.C4)
2000 Feb 9, In Turkey Kurdish
rebels of the PKK announced that they had given up their war and
would press their cause "within the framework of peace and
democracy."
(SFC, 2/10/00, p.A12)
2001 Feb 9, The US nuclear
submarine Greeneville struck the Japanese fishing boat, Ehime Maru,
near Oahu with 35 people on board including 13 students. The boat
sank in 5 minutes and 9 men and boys were killed. The sub was
practicing a rapid ascent and had 15 civilian guests onboard. It was
later revealed that civilian visitors sat at 2 of the subs 3 main
controls when it surfaced. Capt. Scott Waddle, the sub skipper, was
relieved of duty pending investigation. Sonar contact with the
fishing vessel had been established over an hour before the
accident. Capt. Waddle was later reprimanded and submitted his
resignation.
(SFC, 2/10/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 2/11/01, p.A3)(SFC,
2/13/01, p.A3)(SFC, 2/14/01, p.A2)(SFC, 2/15/01, p.A3)(SFC, 2/21/01,
p.A2)(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 4/24/01, p.A1)(AP, 2/9/08)
2001 Feb 9, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana and FARC commander Marulanda agreed to resume peace
negotiations.
(SFC, 2/10/01, p.A10)
2001 Feb 9, In Israel Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon asked Ehud Barak to serve as defense minister.
A Palestinian shepherd was killed by an Israeli bullet.
(SFC, 2/10/01, p.A10)(SSFC, 2/11/01, p.C5)
2001 Feb 9, In Mexico Pres. Fox
inaugurated a $50 million aid plan for Chiapas. Yucatan’s PRI Gov.
Victor Cervera refused to accept a state electoral commission.
(SFC, 2/10/01, p.A10)(WSJ, 2/12/00, p.A18)
2002 Feb 9, At the Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City, Jochem Uytdehaage of the Netherlands won
the gold medal in the men's 5,000-meter speedskating race in world
record time of 6:14.66.
(AP, 2/9/03)
2002 Feb 9, Oakland's Rich
Gannon led the AFC to a 38-30 victory over the NFC in the Pro Bowl.
(AP, 2/9/03)
2002 Feb 9, The US and Pakistan
signed an agreement to enhance defense cooperation.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A19)
2002 Feb 9, The Afghan
government released 320 captured Taliban fighters and gave each
soldier the equivalent of $15 as a gesture of reconciliation.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A18)
2002 Feb 9, In Algeria security
forces killed Antar Zouabri, head of the Armed Islamic Group, and 2
other insurgents in Boufarik.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 9, Britain's Princess
Margaret (71), the high-spirited and unconventional sister of Queen
Elizabeth II, died in London.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A12)(AP, 2/9/03)
2002 Feb 9, East Timor approved
a draft for a new constitution. Full independence was scheduled for
May 20.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 9, In Honduras police
broke up a drug-smuggling, kidnapping and bank robbery ring in
Lempira. It was an arm of cartels based in Tijuana.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A14)
2002 Feb 9, In South Africa
Bulelani Vukwana (29), shot and killed his girlfriend and 9 others
before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London.
(SFC, 2/11/02, p.A8)
2003 Feb 9, The West beat the
East 155-145 in the first double overtime game in NBA All-Star
history.
2003 Feb 9, President Bush told
congressional Republicans at a policy conference that Iraq had
fooled the world for more than a decade about its banned weapons and
the United Nations was now facing "a moment of truth" in disarming
Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 2/9/04)
2003 Feb 9, The U.S. Navy ended
its last planned bombing exercises on Puerto Rico's Vieques Island.
(AP, 2/9/04)
2003 Feb 9, In China Xinhua’s
first SARS report was issued for leaders’ eyes only. By this time
there were already some 300 cases and 5 deaths dating back to
November 2002.
(Econ, 6/19/10, p.43)
2003 Feb 9, In China state
media reported that scientists had discovered a massive underground
lake, some 35 billion cubic feet, in the arid northwest beneath the
Taklimakan desert.
(AP, 2/9/03)
2003 Feb 9, The leaders of
Germany and Russia renewed their calls for a peaceful resolution in
Iraq, restating their opposition to any U.S.-led war to disarm and
oust Saddam Hussein.
(AP, 2/9/04)
2003 Feb 9, Iran reported the
discovery of uranium reserves and planned production facilities for
peaceful use of nuclear energy.
(SFC, 2/10/03, p.A8)
2003 Feb 9, Montenegro's 2nd
attempt in 2 months to elect a president failed.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2003 Feb 9, Three Palestinians
were killed when their explosives-laden car blew up outside an
Israeli army post after crashing into a cement block barrier. In
secret talks last week Israel offered the Palestinians a gradual
cease-fire.
(AP, 2/9/03)(SSFC, 2/9/03, p.A22)
2003 Feb 9, Swiss voters
approved measures to further extend their direct democracy.
(AP, 2/10/03)
2004 Feb 9, President Bush and
Democratic front-runner John Kerry sparred over the president's
economic leadership, while Kerry's rivals sought to slow his brisk
pace.
(AP, 2/9/05)
2004 Feb 9, Tower Records Inc.
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after the music and
entertainment chain has so far proven unable to cope with
competition from large retailers, digital downloading and file
copying.
(Reuters, 2/9/04)
2004 Feb 9, Rebel attacks and
land mines in Chechnya killed at least 9 Russian servicemen and
local pro-Moscow police over the last 24 hours.
(SFC, 2/10/04, p.A6)
2004 Feb 9, An Egyptian enraged
at the events in the Middle East stabbed 2 foreign tourists in
Cairo’s historic Ghawriya district.
(WSJ, 10/11/04, p.A17)
2004 Feb 9, In Haiti government
police retook 2 of nearly a dozen towns seized by rebels as the
death toll in the violent uprising rose to at least 40.
(SFC, 2/9/04, p.A5)(AP, 2/9/05)
2004 Feb 9, Culturecom Holdings
Ltd. of Hong Kong unveiled a DVD player and word-processing device
built with chips developed by Chinese computer scientist Chu
Bong-foo. Chu found a way to put Asia characters in position to
command binary code.
(WSJ, 2/9/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 9, Japan passed a law
making it easier to impose economic sanctions on impoverished North
Korea, prompting the communist country to demand that Tokyo be
barred from future multilateral talks on its nuclear program.
(AP, 2/9/04)
2004 Feb 9, In Malaysia
anti-corruption officers arrested the former head of scandal-plagued
steel company Perwaja.
(AP, 2/9/04)
2004 Feb 9, Saloum Cohen (82),
high priest of the tiny Samaritan community and a Palestinian
lawmaker, died. Cohen had been the spiritual head of the 660-strong
Samaritans since 2001.
(AP, 2/9/04)
2004 Feb 9, The UN adopted
Resolution 1559. It called for free elections in Lebanon and the
withdrawal of all foreign forces and the disbanding of all militias.
(www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sc8181.doc.htm)
2004 Feb 9, Venezuela devalued
its currency by 17 percent against the U.S. dollar, a surprise
decision that could fuel inflation but help the government meet
financing needs.
(AP, 2/9/04)
2005 Feb 9, Ceremonies were
scheduled for a first-day-of-issue stamp commemorating Pres. Ronald
Reagan (1911-2004).
(SFC, 10/7/04, p.B3)
2005 Feb 9, Carly Fiorina's
nearly six-year reign at Hewlett-Packard Co. ended as the company's
board forced her out as chief executive. Patricia Dunn took over as
chairman. In 2006 Fiorina authored “Tough Choices,” a memoir of her
tenure at H-P.
(AP, 2/9/05)(Econ, 2/12/05, p.59)(WSJ, 10/6/06,
p.B2)
2005 Feb 9, Wal-Mart said it
planned to close its store in Jonquiere, Quebec, where workers were
seeking to become the 1st ever to win a union contract with
Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart began operations in Canada in 1994 and currently
operated 254 stores there. Doors were shut May 6.
(WSJ, 2/10/05, p.A2)(SFC, 4/15/05, p.A12)
2005 Feb 9, Ethnic Chinese
communities across Asia celebrated the start of the lunar year 4703,
the Year of the Rooster, with visits to crowded temples and family
banquets.
(AP, 2/9/05)(SFC, 2/9/05, p.A1)
2005 Feb 9, The French National
Assembly approved a reform of the controversial 35-hour working
week. The Socialist measure had been introduced to cut unemployment
but is now blamed by the right for doing exactly the reverse.
(AFP, 2/9/05)
2005 Feb 9, Gunmen killed an
Iraqi journalist working for a U.S.-funded television station and
his son as they left their home in the southern city of Basra.
Gunmen also killed 3 members of a Kurdish political party and a
Housing Ministry official. The US military announced the deaths of 4
US soldiers.
(AP, 2/9/05)(SFC, 2/10/05, p.A9)
2005 Feb 9, In Kashmir
suspected Muslim rebels shot dead a popular municipal councilor
outside a mosque. Separately Indian troops killed 4 militants in a
gunbattle inside a mountain cave.
(AP, 2/9/05)
2005 Feb 9, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas said Israel will lift travel restrictions on
Palestinians in parts of the West Bank and abandon several major
checkpoints as part of its withdrawal from five towns in the coming
weeks.
(AP, 2/9/05)
2005 Feb 9, An explosion ripped
through a mine in a coal-rich region of Siberia, killing at least 18
workers and leaving eight missing.
(AP, 2/9/05)
2005 Feb 9, In Somalia BBC
journalist Kate Peyton was shot to death outside a Mogadishu hotel
where she had interviewed some members of the interim parliament.
(SFC, 2/19/05, p.A14)
2005 Feb 9, In Spain a car bomb
exploded in a business park on the outskirts of Madrid just after
the morning rush hour, injuring 43 people. Government officials
blamed the Basque separatist group ETA.
(AP, 2/9/05)
2005 Feb 9, Sudanese Aviation
Minister Ali Tamim Fartak said European aviation consortium Airbus
Industrie has cancelled the 45-million dollar debt owed to it by
Sudan Airways.
(AFP, 2/9/05)
2005 Feb 9, Faure Gnassingbe,
Togo's new president, addressed the nation for the first time since
succeeding his father. He offered talks with the exiled opposition
and promised general elections as soon as possible.
(AP, 2/9/05)
2005 Feb 9, Helicopters rescued
stranded Venezuelans after flood waters struck the mountainous
central coast, triggering landslides, destroying homes and washing
out roads. Officials said at least 13 people were killed and
thousands of others were forced from their homes.
(AP, 2/9/05)
2006 Feb 9, President Bush
outlined details of an alleged plot to hijack an airliner and fly it
into a skyscraper in Los Angeles. The next day security officials
and terrorism experts in Southeast Asia said Malaysian engineer
Zaini Zakaria (38) was among three men al-Qaida was preparing to
take part in an attack on Los Angeles. Zaini has been detained
without trial under the Internal Security Act in Malaysia since he
surrendered in December 2002.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 9, The US Treasury
Dept. sold $14 billion of 30-year bonds at 5.52%. The last 30-year
auction was on Aug. 15, 2001.
(SFC, 2/10/06, p.D3)
2006 Feb 9, Neil Entwistle
(27), a British man, whose wife and daughter were found shot dead in
their Massachusetts home, was arrested in Britain and charged with
murder.
(AFP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, American
International Group, Inc. (AIG), agreed to pay $1.64 billion to
resolve allegations that it used deceptive accounting practices to
mislead investors and regulatory agencies.
(SFC, 2/10/06, p.D3)
2006 Feb 9, Sir Freddie Laker
(83), pioneer of low-cost airline travel, died in Florida.
(WSJ, 2/11/06, p.A1)(Econ, 2/18/06, p.82)
2006 Feb 9, An Australian
inquiry into alleged kickbacks paid to Iraq under the UN
oil-for-food program claimed its first scalp with the resignation of
Andrew Lindberg, the chief executive of wheat exporter AWB.
(AFP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, In Afghanistan
hundreds of Shiite Muslims and Sunnis clashed in Herat during an
important Shiite festival, exchanging fire, hurling grenades and
burning mosques. At least five people were killed and 51 injured.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, Australian senators
voted to remove an effective ban on abortion drug RU-486.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, Tesco, Britain's
biggest retailer and the world's third-biggest retailer, said it is
preparing to take on number-one Wal-Mart on its own turf after
unveiling plans to set up shop in the US next year.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, Rene Preval took a
strong lead in Haiti's presidential election, with most of the first
votes counted going to the former president who is seen as a
champion of the poor.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 9, In central
Indonesia an Islamic teacher named Sahal, suspected of involvement
in a Southeast Asian terrorist network, was arrested in the town of
Poso.
(AP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 9, A roadside bomb
blast killed two US Marines near the western Anbar province city of
Fallujah.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 9, Kidnapped American
journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video aired on a private
Kuwaiti TV channel, appealing for her supporters to do whatever it
takes to win her release and saying "there is a very short time."
She was freed on March 30, 2006.
(AP, 2/9/06)(AP, 2/9/07)
2006 Feb 9, Premier Silvio
Berlusconi's government easily won a confidence vote in the Chamber
of Deputies on a bill that included financing the country's military
in Iraq.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, An Italian judge
dismissed an atheist's petition that a small-town priest should
stand trial for asserting that Jesus Christ existed. Luigi Cascioli,
a 72-year-old retired agronomist, had accused the Rev. Enrico Righi
of violating two laws with the assertion, which he called a
deceptive fable propagated by the Roman Catholic Church.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 9, Japanese officials
said 45 cows at a farm in northern Japan were suspected of having
mad cow disease and will be destroyed.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, Moroccan state
media reported that the US has handed over three suspected Islamic
militants held at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
(Reuters, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, In Nepal thousands
of opposition protesters flooded the streets of Kathmandu, as early
results showed pro-government candidates sweeping local elections
that were marred by rebel attacks, the shooting of protesters and
low turnout.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, Some 58 containers
were swept from the P&O Nedlloyd ship Mondriaan, which got
caught in a storm about 9 miles off the coast of the island of
Terschelling, in the North Sea. The next day thousands of tennis
shoes, aluminum briefcases and children's toys washed onto the beach
of a Dutch island, drawing crowds of treasure-hunting residents.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 9, Health authorities
imposed a quarantine on poultry farms across northern Nigeria. 2
more states reported cases of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.
(AP, 2/9/06)(SFC, 2/10/06, p.A8)
2006 Feb 9, North Korea has
requested 150,000 tons of fertilizer from South Korea, months after
it demanded that the UN World Food Program halt emergency food
shipments.
(AP, 2/10/06)
2006 Feb 9, In Pakistan’s
Northwest Frontier province a suspected suicide bombing and gunfire
killed at least 29 minority Shiite Muslims and gunmen killed at
least four more people in an attack on a bus in Hangu.
(AP, 2/9/06)(SFC, 2/10/06, p.A3)
2006 Feb 9, Palestinian
prosecutors froze bank accounts and seized assets of dozens of
suspects in a widening corruption probe of senior government
officials believed to have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars in
public funds.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, Two masked gunmen
shot out the tires of a diplomatic vehicle and kidnapped Egypt's
military attache to the Palestinian Authority, in a brazen daylight
abduction just outside the heavily guarded Egyptian mission in Gaza
City.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, Russian President
Vladimir Putin invited leaders of Hamas to Moscow, saying his
country does not see the Palestinian group as a terrorist
organization.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, Spanish police in
Madrid arrested Ricardo Taddei (63), a former Argentine police
officer, wanted in connection with kidnappings and torture during
his country's "dirty war" against leftist dissidents.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, In Turkey a bomb
attack wounded at least 17 people at an Internet cafe in Istanbul. A
hardline Kurdish militant group claimed responsibility.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2006 Feb 9, Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez unleashed more criticism toward President Bush
and accused the US and Britain of planning to invade Iran.
(AP, 2/9/06)
2007 Feb 9, US Defense
Secretary Robert Gates told reporters in Munich, Germany, that
serial numbers and other markings on bombs suggested that Iranians
were linked to deadly explosives used by Iraqi militants.
(AP, 2/9/08)
2007 Feb 9, Fred Everts (36),
the former roommate of Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller (one of the
nation's most prolific child molesters), was sentenced in San Jose,
Ca., to at least 800 years in prison for sexually abusing three
boys.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 9, Fortress Investment
Group LLC, became the 1st private equity group to go public. Shares
were issued on the NYSE at $18.50 and closed at $31.
(WSJ, 2/10/07, p.A1)
2007 Feb 9, It was reported
that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have
overcome a major obstacle in harnessing the full power and speed of
the light waves for Internet fiber-optic networks.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, Taliban militants
ambushed a truck full of Afghan police in southern Afghanistan,
killing four officers and injuring three. A separate gunfight left
11 Taliban fighters dead.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 9, Bolivia’s Pres. Evo
Morales declared the Vinto tin smelter to be nationalized. Glencore,
the Swiss based owner, demanded compensation saying the seizure
violated a 1991 bilateral agreement between Bolivia and Switzerland.
(Econ, 2/17/07, p.40)
2007 Feb 9, In London airline
tycoon Richard Branson announced a $25 million prize for the first
person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of
the atmosphere in the battle to beat global warming.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, British government
scientists said the avian flu strain that hit the farm in Suffolk
owned by poultry giant Bernard Matthews appeared to be identical to
that found in Hungary, where Matthews owns local company Saga Foods.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, British bus and
train operator FirstGroup PLC said it agreed to buy US-based bus
company Laidlaw International Inc. in a 1.9 billion pound ($2.7
billion) deal.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, Ian Richardson
(b.1934), Scottish-born film and TV actor, died in London. He played
the evil Francis Urquhart in 3 TV miniseries “House of Cards”
(1990), “To Play the King” (1993) and “The final Cut” (1995).
(SSFC, 2/11/07, p.B7)
2007 Feb 9, In Cambodia the
American navy's USS Gary docked at Sihanoukville, becoming the first
US military craft to visit the former communist country in more than
30 years.
(AFP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, China’s state Food
and Drug Administration vowed to probe up to 170,000 medicines
produced by manufacturers, which allegedly bribed its sacked head
Zheng Xiaoyu for production licenses. The top drug safety official
was being investigated for bribery after a number of deaths and
scandals were linked to shoddy medicines.
(AFP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, In China envoys to
international talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program
struggled to find a compromise as differences emerged over a Chinese
proposal on how to begin the disarmament process.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, A French appeals
court ruled that Pierre Pinoncelli (78), who attacked Marcel
Duchamp's famed porcelain urinal (fountain) with a hammer last year,
does not have to pay $260,000 in damages. Pinoncelli urinated on
"Fountain" during a 1993 exhibition in Nimes in southern France, and
cut off his own finger as an expression of solidarity with
Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, held hostage by
leftist guerrillas in Colombia since 2002.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, In France
Alcatel-Lucent SA said it plans to cut another 3,500 jobs after it
swung to a loss in the fourth quarter, the first for which the
telecom equipment maker reported combined earnings.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, In Guinea President
Lansana Conte named Eugene Camara, a recently appointed cabinet
member, as prime minister. The move was apparently aimed at
appeasing union leaders who led a crippling two-week strike. Under
an agreement signed by the two sides, the new PM cannot have
previously served in the government.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, Hundreds of UN
peacekeepers raided Haiti's largest and most violent slum, seizing a
portion of it in a six-hour gunbattle that left a gang member dead
and two soldiers wounded.
(AP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 9, The UN atomic
monitor suspended nearly half the technical aid it provides to Iran,
a symbolically significant punishment for nuclear defiance that only
North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq had faced in the past.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, Gunmen dressed in
Iraqi army uniforms swept into a village south of Baghdad,
kidnapping 13 civilians and killing at least 11 of them. A British
soldier was killed and three others were hurt in a roadside bomb
attack in southern Iraq. 3 US soldiers died in an explosion in
volatile Diyala province northeast of Baghdad.
(AP, 2/9/07)(AFP, 2/9/07)(AP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 9, Israeli police
stormed the grounds of Islam's third-holiest shrine, firing stun
grenades and tear gas to disperse thousands of Muslim worshippers
who hurled stones, bottles and trash in an eruption of outrage over
Israeli renovation nearby.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, Nichiro Corp., a
Japanese food company, recalled nearly 5 million cans of tuna after
a customer found part of a box cutter blade in a can. The small
piece of blade was found in a can of tuna produced in Vietnam in
February 2006 and imported to Japan by a third company for sale by
Nichiro.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, An official said
flooding in central Mozambique threatened some 285,000 people.
(AFP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, Gazans rejoiced in
the streets to celebrate a Hamas-Fatah power-sharing deal they hope
will avert civil war, but Palestinian officials preached patience,
saying implementing the agreement would be a challenge.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, The Kremlin said
oil tycoon and Chelsea soccer club owner Abramovich will stay on as
governor of the Chukotka region in northeastern Russia. Abramovich
had submitted his resignation in December.
(www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/4542629.html)
2007 Feb 9, In Vietnam the US
ambassador said the US government will give Vietnam $400,000 toward
cleaning up a former US military base contaminated by Agent Orange,
its biggest step yet toward resolving one of the most contentious
legacies of the Vietnam War.
(AP, 2/9/07)
2007 Feb 9, The United Nations
agreed to a Serbian request to delay final talks on the fate of
breakaway Kosovo province by a week to give Belgrade time to appoint
delegates.
(Reuters, 2/9/07)
2008 Feb 9, Sen. Barack Obama
swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington
state, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate
lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential
nomination. Obama also won almost 90% in the Virgin Islands. McCain
narrowly won Washington while Huckabee took Kansas along with a
narrow win in Louisiana.
(AP, 2/10/08)(SSFC, 2/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Feb 9, In San Mateo
County, Ca., police found John Alfred Dennis Jr. (59), an Oakland
historian and respected college teacher, slain in a vehicle at
Montara State Beach. Troy Tyrone Thomas (43), the driver of the
vehicle, was arrested. Dennis had mentored Thomas for some years. On
July 7 Thomas pleaded guilty and faced life in prison.
(SFC, 2/11/08, p.D1)(SFC, 2/12/08, p.B1)(SFC,
7/10/08, p.B2)
2008 Feb 9, Michigan’s
unemployment rate topped the nation at 7.6%.
(Econ, 2/9/08, p.31)
2008 Feb 9, A massive fire in
London's famed Camden market caused extensive damage to the market
and area buildings.
(AP, 2/10/08)
2008 Feb 9, Egypt's highest
civil court ruled that 12 Coptic Christians who had converted to
Islam could return to their old faith, ending a yearlong legal
battle over the predominantly Muslim state's tolerance for
conversion.
(AP, 2/9/08)
2008 Feb 9, The French
government suspended the use of genetically modified corn crops in
France while it awaits EU approval for a full ban.
(AP, 2/9/08)
2008 Feb 9, In Haiti a man
blamed for kidnappings in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville
was pummeled with rocks and killed by neighbors in the seaside Cite
Soleil slum. The next day UN and Haitian police rescued a suspected
kidnapper (27) from a mob in downtown Port-au-Prince.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Feb 9, In India Baba Amte
(93), founder of a leper center in Warora (1951), died at the center
in western Maharashtra state.
(SFC, 2/22/08, p.B9)(Econ, 3/1/08, p.93)
2008 Feb 9, A stampede at an
Indonesian punk rock concert left 10 people dead and dozens more
injured, most of them teenagers.
(AP, 2/10/08)
2008 Feb 9, Iraqi police killed
Abu Omar al-Dori, a local al-Qaida in Iraq leader, in his home in
Samarra. 12 decomposed bodies were discovered in a mass grave near
Baqouba. Iraqi police arrested 31 Shiite activists in early morning
raids south of Baghdad.
(AP, 2/9/08)
2008 Feb 9, An 8-year-old boy
lost his leg in a rocket attack on Sderot, one of the 11 rockets
fired at southern Israel. Four Israeli airstrikes after the attack
killed a Gaza gunman and targeted weapons-making operations of the
Islamic militant Hamas group.
(AP, 2/10/08)
2008 Feb 9, In Japan the
world's leading economies pledged to work together to secure
stability in volatile markets but brushed off the idea of a single
uniform remedy for the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations.
(AP, 2/9/08)
2008 Feb 9, Raila Odinga,
Kenya's opposition leader, demanded that Pres. Kibaki resign, a
sharp turnaround from his conciliatory tone during talks with the
government earlier this week.
(AP, 2/9/08)
2008 Feb 9, In northwestern
Pakistan a suicide bomber struck at an election rally in Peshawar,
killing 27 people and wounding more than 25.
(AP, 2/9/08)(AP, 2/10/08)
2008 Feb 9, Sudan and the
African Union-UN peacekeeping mission for Darfur signed an agreement
determining how the joint force will operate, capping weeks of
drawn-out negotiations.
(AP, 2/10/08)
2008 Feb 9, Turkey’s parliament
voted to amend the constitution to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic
head scarves at Turkey's universities, despite fierce opposition
from the secular establishment.
(AP, 2/9/08)
2009 Feb 9, US Federal judges
tentatively ordered California to release tens of thousands of
inmates, up to a third of all prisoners, in the next three years to
stop dangerous overcrowding.
(Reuters, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 9, Baseball player
Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs with
the Texas Rangers from 2001 to 2003.
(WSJ, 2/10/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 9, In Argentina the
ultraconservative Society of St. Pius X said British Bishop Richard
Williamson, whose denials of the Holocaust led to Vatican demands he
recant, has been removed as the head of an Argentine seminary. On
Feb 19 the bishop was ordered to leave Argentina within 10 days.
(AP, 2/9/09)(AP, 2/20/09)
2009 Feb 9, In Argentina at
least 12 people were missing and over 1000 evacuated after a
mudslide swept away a railroad bridge and homes in the northern
border town of Tartagal.
(SFC, 2/10/09, p.A2)
2009 Feb 9, In Australia police
declared incinerated towns crime scenes, and PM Rudd spoke of "mass
murder" after investigators said arsonists may have set some of the
country's worst wildfires in history. The official death toll from
the wildfires was later downgraded to 173 from a previous count of
210.
(AP, 2/9/09)(AP, 2/10/09)(AP, 3/30/09)
2009 Feb 9, In Montreal,
Canada, researchers said that an Indevus Pharmaceuticals gel
formulated to protect women from the virus that causes AIDS appeared
to protect about a third of them from infection, the first time a
so-called microbicide has been shown to work.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 9, In Beijing, China,
the tower of a nearly completed skyscraper was destroyed by a fire
believed to have ignited by a fireworks display marking the end of
the Lunar New Year celebrations. It was part of the new headquarters
for China Central Television (CCTV). In 2010 a Beijing court
sentenced 20 people to up to seven years in prison over the deadly
fire at CCTV's iconic headquarters.
(SFC, 2/10/09, p.A6)(AP, 5/10/10)
2009 Feb 9, In Cuba Orlando
"Cachaito" Lopez (b.1933), considered the "heartbeat" of Cuba's
legendary Buena Vista Social Club for his internationally acclaimed
bass playing, died of complications from prostate surgery.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 9, The French
government said it would give $8.4 million in low interest loans to
Renault SA and PSA Peugeot-Citroen in exchange for pledges that the
car makers won’t close any factories of lay off workers in France
for the duration of the funding.
(WSJ, 2/10/09, p.B2)
2009 Feb 9, A senior Iraqi
security official said that four prisoners have been transferred
from the US military detention center in Guantanamo Bay to Iraqi
custody. A suicide bomber detonated his car near a US Army patrol in
Mosul killing 4 soldiers and their Iraqi translator.
(AP, 2/9/09)(SFC, 2/10/09, p.A3)
2009 Feb 9, In northern Italy
Eluana Englaro (38) died at her clinic as the Italian Senate
discussed legislation clarifying the right to die. Englaro had been
in a vegetative state since a 1992 car accident and died after her
family cut off her food and water.
(AP, 2/10/09)
2009 Feb 9, Nissan said it is
slashing 20,000 jobs, or 8.5 percent of its global work force, to
cope with what Japan's third-largest automaker expects will be its
first annual loss in nine years.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 9, Scientists in Japan
reported that they have identified an enzyme which appears to
suppress breast cancer and they hope the finding will spur new
therapies to control the second most common cancer in the world.
(Reuters, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 9, In Madagascar
defense minister Cecile Manorohanta said she has resigned because
civilians were killed when security forces fired on anti-government
protesters over the weekend.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 9, A Palestinian
fighter died in a clash with Israeli troops and Israeli aircraft
attacked two targets in Gaza as mediators tried to broker a
long-term cease-fire a day before Israel holds national elections.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 9, In the Philippines
Abu Sayyaf militants holding three Red Cross workers tried to break
a military cordon that has boxed them in for days, setting off a
clash that wounded five marines and sparked concerns over the
hostages' safety.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 9, South Korean
prosecutors cleared police of any wrongdoing over a commando raid
last month that left six people dead in a clash with displaced
tenants in central Seoul.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 9, Spain's interior
minister blamed the armed Basque separatist group ETA for an
explosion in the east of Madrid, which police said caused extensive
damage but no casualties.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 9, In Sri Lanka a
woman with a bomb strapped to her body hid in a crowd of civilians
at a refugee camp in Vishvamadu, blowing herself up and killing 29
people as security forces frisked people fleeing the northern war
zone.
(AP, 2/9/09)(SFC, 2/10/09, p.A6)(Econ, 2/14/09,
p.52)
2009 Feb 9, In Switzerland
Paula Oliviera (26), a lawyer from Brazil, claimed she was attacked
by three skinheads, one with a Nazi symbol tattooed on the back of
his head, outside a Zurich train station. On Feb 13 investigators
said was not pregnant and probably cut wounds into herself.
(AP, 2/13/09)
2010 Feb 9, US Federal
government offices were closed for a second straight day and utility
workers struggled to restore power knocked out by a weekend
blizzard.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, California
lawmakers called for federal and state investigations into Anthem
Blue Cross regarding new rates hikes of as much as 39% for thousands
of policyholders statewide. On Feb 13 Anthem announced that it would
delay the increase for two months to allow state regulators to
conduct a review. On April 29 WellPoint, the parent of Anthem Blue
Cross, said it was withdrawing the proposed rate increase and
planned to file new rates.
(SFC, 2/10/10, p.A1)(SSFC, 2/14/10, p.A1)(SFC,
4/30/10, p.C1)
2010 Feb 9, Phil Harris (53),
the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were
captured on the television show "Deadliest Catch", died in Anchorage
following a massive stroke on Jan 29.
(AP, 2/10/10)
2010 Feb 9, Walter Fredrick
Morrison (90), the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, died at
his home in Monroe, Utah. Morrison began manufacturing his flying
discs in 1948. He sold the production and manufacturing rights to
his "Pluto Platter" in 1957. The plastic flying disc was later
renamed the "Frisbee," with sales surpassing 200 million discs.
(AP, 2/11/10)
2010 Feb 9, In Afghanistan US
Army soldiers launched a preliminary operation in support of a
planned US-Afghan attack on Marjah, the largest Taliban-controlled
town in the south. Two NATO service members were killed in separate
attacks, including an American who died in a bombing in the south. A
French soldier was killed during a gunfight after insurgents
attacked an Afghan army convoy being escorted by French troops in
the eastern Kapisa province.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, In Afghanistan
massive avalanches roared down a northern mountain pass. The death
toll soon reached 171 and it was unclear how many more bodies might
be buried in the snow. Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak said
3,000 people had been trapped in vehicles along the mountain pass at
3,400 meters (11,000) feet.
(AP, 2/9/10)(Reuters, 2/10/10)(AP, 2/11/10)
2010 Feb 9, Chile’s
President-elect Sebastian Pinera named a Cabinet of technocrats to
run his government, calling more on political independents than
members of the Chilean conservative parties that made him their
standard-bearer.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, A Chinese court
sentenced activist Tan Zuoren (56), who investigated the deaths of
thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008
earthquake, to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state
power. In 2010 the Sichuan provincial high court upheld the
ruling.
(AP, 2/9/10)(AP, 6/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, China said its
first national pollution census has mapped nearly 6 million sources
of industrial, residential and agricultural waste. The 2-year survey
results gave the government one year to shape the next 5-year
environmental protection plan.
(SFC, 2/10/10, p.A4)
2010 Feb 9, In Germany GM's
Opel unit asked European governments for billions of euros (dollars)
in aid even as it formally presented a restructuring plan that will
result in some 8,300 job cuts in Europe.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, In Guatemala Manuel
Pop Sun and Reyes Collin Gualip, two former sergeants who belonged
to a military squad specializing in counterinsurgency, were arrested
for their roles in the 1982 massacre of more than 200 people in the
village of Dos Erres in the country's northern Peten region. They
were among 17 soldiers in the army's elite Kaibil unit blamed for
the bloodshed.
(AP, 2/12/10)
2010 Feb 9, India halted the
release of the world's first genetically modified eggplant, saying
further study needed to be done to guarantee consumer safety before
it could be cultivated in the country.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, Indonesian police
said 8 people have died after drinking liquor laced with methanol on
the country's main island of Java. The victims had bought the drink
from the same stall on Feb 5.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, Iran began
enriching uranium to a higher level over the vociferous objections
of the US and its allies who fear the process could eventually be
used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, Toyota officials
went to Japan's Transport Ministry to formally notify officials the
company is recalling the 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid. The
automaker is also recalling two other hybrid models in Japan, the
Lexus HS250h sedan, sold in the US and Japan, and the Sai, which is
sold only in Japan. The total recall amounted to 437,000 Prius and
other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, Honda Motor Co.
added 378,000 US vehicles and 41,000 in Canada to its 15-month-old
global recall for faulty air bags in the latest quality problem to
hit a Japanese automaker. The next day 17,000 cars in Japan were
added to the list.
(AP, 2/10/10)
2010 Feb 9, Authorities in
Malaysia caned three Muslim women for having extramarital sex,
making them the first women in the country to receive such
punishment under Islamic law. Each woman reportedly received between
four and six strokes of a rattan cane.
(AP, 2/17/10)
2010 Feb 9, Nigeria's
Parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to take over
for ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua, whose absence has stoked
unrest.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, In Pakistan a
suicide car-bomber killed 18 people in the Khyber region on the
Afghan border. A military helicopter gunship crashed in another part
of Khyber, where security forces are fighting militants, killing the
two crew. Militants later opened fire on an army rescue party,
killing a senior officer and wounding two men.
(Reuters, 2/10/10)(AFP, 2/11/10)
2010 Feb 9, The UN said in an
international appeal that aid groups in Pakistan need nearly $538
million over the next six months to help hundreds of thousands of
people displaced by army clashes against the Taliban.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, Philippine
prosecutors filed charges against Andal Ampatuan senior, the head of
a powerful clan, and 195 others in the biggest and deadliest murder
case since the country's WW II war crimes trials.
(AP, 2/9/10)(Econ, 2/20/10, p.40)
2010 Feb 9, In South Africa a
fire raged through the Hope in Christ Home orphanage at Newcastle in
the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. The blaze killed Sarah
Holland, the director and founder of the Hope of Christ Home in
KwaZulu-Natal province, along with two adults and eight children
between the ages of 4 and 15. Holland died a hero, rescuing nine
children as their rural home burned.
(AFP, 2/9/10)(AP, 2/10/10)
2010 Feb 9, Sri Lanka's
president dissolved the parliament, setting the stage for new
elections a day after authorities arrested the leader of the
opposition, a move analysts said was meant to prevent him from
contesting the vote. The opposition called for countrywide protests
after its defeated presidential candidate was arrested for allegedly
plotting to overthrow the government while serving as army
commander.
(AP, 2/9/10)
2010 Feb 9, In Sudan militias
raided a Darfur refugee camp, shooting dead two people and injuring
at least 10. The raid followed the murder of a militia member's
relative who appeared to be searching the camps in Kass, South
Darfur for the suspect.
(AP, 2/10/10)
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