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Apr 10, Theodosius II, the Younger, Eastern Roman emperor, was born.
(MC, 4/10/02)
428 Apr 10, John Nestorius from
Antioch was consecrated as the new Patriarch of Constantinople by
Emperor Theodosius.
(Usenet, 3/4/97)
879 Apr 10, Louis II, the
Stutterer, King of France (877-79), died and Louis III was crowned
King of France.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1500 Apr 10, France captured
duke Ludovico Sforza ("Il Sforza del Destino") of Milan.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1512 Apr 10, James V, king of
Scotland (1513-42), was born.
(PCh, 1992, p.167)(MC, 4/10/02)
1583 Apr 10, Hugo Grotius of
Holland, father of international law, was born.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1633 Apr 10, Werner Fabricius,
composer, was born.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1640 Apr 10, Agostino Agazzari
(61), Italian composer, died.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1663 Apr 10, Samuel Pepys,
London-based diarist, noted that he had enjoyed a French wine called
Ho Bryan at the Royal Oak Tavern. This same year the Pontacs, a top
wine-making family in Bordeaux, founded a fashionable London
restaurant called Pontack’s Head. Ho Bryan later came to be called
Chateau Haut Brion.
(Econ, 12/19/09, p.131)
1710 Apr 10, Britain’s Queen
Anne gave her assent to an act “for the encouragement of learning.”
It upheld Parliament’s 1709 copyright act, which set a limit of 21
years for books already in print and 14 years for new ones with an
additional 14 years if the author was still alive when the first
term ran out.
(Econ, 4/10/10, p.16)
1739 Apr 10, Dick Turpin was
executed in England for horse stealing.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1755 Apr 10, Samuel Hahnemann,
German physician, was born.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1778 Apr 10, William Hazlitt
(d.1830), essayist, critic, was born in Maidstone, Kent,
England.
(AP,
11/10/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt)
1783 Apr 10, Hortense E. de
Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10), was born.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1790 Apr 10, President George
Washington signed into law the first United States Patent Act. The
Patent Board was made up of the Secretary of State, Secretary of War
and the Attorney General and was responsible for granting patents on
"useful and important" inventions. In the first three years, 47
patents were granted. Until 1888 miniature models of the device to
be patented were required. [see July 31] The US Patent and Trademark
Office’s subject grouping scheme includes a major component called a
class and a minor one called a subclass. A class distinguishes one
technology from another. Subclasses of the USPTO delineate
processes, structural features and functional features of the
technology in that particular class. By 2015 there were 474 classes
and over 160,000 codes.
(HN, 4/10/98)(HNQ, 8/6/99)(AP, 4/10/07)(Econ.,
4/25/15, p.73)
1794 Apr 10, Matthew Calbraith
Perry, the American Navy Commodore who opened Japan, was born.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1806 Apr 10, Leonidas Polk
(d.1864), bishop, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1809 Apr 10, Austria declared
war on France and her forces entered Bavaria.
(HN, 4/10/99)
1813 Apr 10, Joseph-Louis
Lagrange (b.1736), Italian-born mathematician, died in Paris. He is
considered to be the greatest mathematician of the eighteenth
century.
(www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Lagrange/RouseBall/RB_Lagrange.html)
1815 Apr 10, A third of the
13,000 foot Mount Tambora on Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, was blasted
into the air. Some 50,000 islanders were killed and the whole planet
was shrouded in a debris of sulfuric droplets. In 2006 scientist
reported finding traces of Tambora society. Tsunamis and starvation
that followed killed an estimated 60-120 thousand people.
(www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/e3.htm)(AP,
2/28/06)(Econ., 4/11/15, p.21)
1827 Apr 10, Lewis Wallace
(d.1905), soldier, lawyer, diplomat and author (Ben Hur), was born.
“As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to
behave well where they have behaved badly.”
(HN, 4/10/98)(AP, 12/5/00)
1829 Apr 10, William Booth,
founder (Salvation Army), was born.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1835 Apr 10, Charles Darwin
returned to Santiago, Chile.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1836 Apr 10, Helen Jewett, a
prostitute in a Thomas St. bordello in Manhattan, was murdered. Her
boyfriend, Richard P. Robinson (17), a clerk for a local merchant,
was tried for the murder but acquitted. In 1998 Patricia Cline Cohen
published “The Murder of Helen Jewett,” an account of the story.
(WSJ, 8/21/98, p.W6)
1841 Apr 10, The NY Tribune
began publishing under editor Horace Greeley (1811-1872). The
abolitionist newspaper editor founded The New York Tribune with
support from powerful political friends. Under Greeley's direction,
The Tribune took a strong stand against slavery, the South and slave
owners in the years leading up to the Civil War. The Tribune and
Greeley also crusaded against liquor, gambling, prostitution and
capital punishment. One of the founders of the Republican Party,
Greeley was also an eccentric who dabbled in many of the fads of his
day.
(HNPD, 2/3/99)(WSJ, 10/26/00, p.W12)(AP,
7/21/98)(MC, 4/10/02)
1845 Apr 10, Over 1,000
buildings were damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pa.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1847 Apr 10, American newspaper
publisher Joseph Pulitzer (d.1911) was born in Mako, Hungary. "What
is everybody's business is nobody's business -- except the
journalist's."
(CFA, '96, p.44)(AP, 4/10/97)(AP, 8/30/98)
1849 Apr 10, Walter Hunt
(1796-1859), a mechanic, patented the safety pin in NYC. He sold
rights for $400 to pay off a $15 debt. Hunt’s other inventions
included a new stove, paper collar, ice-breaking boat, fountain pen
and nail-making machine. In 2016 the safety pin gained prominence in
Britain as a sign of solidarity with immigrant and minority
populations facing a reported surge in hate crimes after the Brexit
vote. The symbolism of the pin extended to the US following the
election of Donald Trump.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_pin)(SFC,
7/14/99, p.3)(SFC, 4/1/00, p.B4)(AFP, 11/13/16)
1858 Apr 10, London’s Big Ben
bell, weighing over 13 tons, was cast at the Whitechapel Foundry in
East London. It was placed into St. Stephen’s Tower at the Houses of
Parliament.
(SFC, 4/11/08, p.A16)(Econ, 12/24/16, p.122)
1862 Apr 10, Union forces began
the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in Georgia along the Tybee River.
(HN, 4/10/99)
1863 Apr 10, Rebel Gen. Earl
Van Dorn attacked at Franklin, Tenn.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1864 Apr 10, Eugene Francis
Charles D'Albert, German pianist, composer (Golem), was born.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1864 Apr 10, Archduke
Maximilian of Austria was crowned Emperor of Mexico.
(CLTIH, 4/10/96)
1865 Apr 10, At Appomattox
Court, Va, General Robert E. Lee issued Gen Order #9, his last
orders to the Army of Northern Virginia. Seneca Indian Ely Parker
was at his general's side at Appomattox. In 2001 William C. Davis
authored “An Honorable Defeat.”
(HN, 4/10/99)(WSJ, 6/13/01, p.A18)(MC, 4/10/02)
1866 Apr 10, The American
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was
incorporated.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1867 Apr 10, A.E. (George
William Russell), Irish poet and mystic, was born.
(HN, 4/10/01)
1868 Apr 10, 1st performance of
Johannes Brahms' "Ein Deutches Requiem."
(MC, 4/10/02)
1869 Apr 10, The US Congress
increased the number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1877 Apr 10, Federal troops
were withdrawn from Columbia, SC.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1877 Apr 10, The 1st human
cannonball act was performed in London.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1880 Apr 10, Frances Perkins,
Labor secretary, first woman cabinet member in an American
Administration, was born.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1882 Apr 10, Matson founded his
shipping company with service between San Francisco and Hawaii.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1887 Apr 10, President Abraham
Lincoln was re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Il.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1887 Aug 10, A train from
Peoria, Ill., bound for Niagara ran across a burning bridge near
Chatsworth. Only the lead locomotive made it and 82 people were
killed near Chatsworth.
(THC, 12/2/97)
1892 Apr 10, Victor de Sabata,
conductor, composer (Il Macigno), was born in Trieste, Italy.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1895 Apr 10, The San Francisco
Chronicle reported that Blanche Dumont (21), a student living in the
Mission District, had disappeared a week earlier. She had last been
seen with Theodore Durrant (23), a medical student who lived on Fair
Oaks St.
(SFC, 10/18/12, p.D1)
1901 Apr 10, The Journal, a
Hearst newspaper, printed an editorial that declared “If bad
institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, then the
killing must be done.” Hearst ordered the presses stopped but a
number of papers had already hit the streets.
(AH, 10/01, p.24)
1902 Apr 10, South African
Boers accepted British terms of surrender.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1903 Apr 10, Clare Boothe Luce,
U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, was born.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1909 Apr 10, Algernon Charles
Swinburne (b.1837), English poet, died.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1912 Apr 10, The 66,000 ton RMS
Titanic left port from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden
voyage with 2,223 people.
(SFC, 7/5/96, PM, p.16)(SFEC, 12/8/96, BR
p.6)(AP, 4/10/97)
1912 Apr 10, The first wireless
transmission was received on an airplane.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1915 Apr 10, Harry Morgan,
actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet), was born in Detroit, Mich.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1916 Apr 10, The Professional
Golfers' Association of America (PGA of America) was founded by
Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928). In 1943 the PGA inserted a
"Caucasians only" clause into its bylaws. The clause was not dropped
until 1961.
(http://tinyurl.com/yaaoe2en)(SFC, 12/27/18,
p.A9)
1917 Apr 10, Robert B.
Woodward, synthetic chemist, was born.
(HN, 4/10/01)
1917 Apr 10, A munitions
factory explosion at Eddystone, PA., killed 133 workers.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1919 Apr 10, Emiliano Zapata
(b.c1877), a leader of Mexico's indigenous people during the Mexican
Revolution, was assassinated by a government emissary who had come
to his southern stronghold in the state of Morelos for peace
negotiations. His native language was Nahuatl of the Aztecs.
(SFC, 4/13/96, p.A-10)(MC, 4/10/02)
1921 Apr 10, Chuck Connors,
actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa), was born in Brooklyn,
NY. He later auditioned for the Chicago Cubs with Fidel Castro and
played for them for a while.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1922 Apr 10, The Genoa
Conference opened. Representatives of 34 countries gathered to
discuss global economic problems following World War I and aimed to
restore Europe’s economy. America declined to participate. The
conference close on May 19. Among the propositions formulated at the
conference was the proposal that central banks make a partial return
to the Gold Standard.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa_Conference_%281922%29)(Econ,
10/3/15, SR p.6)
1923 Apr 10, Hitler demanded
"hatred and more hatred" in Berlin.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1924 Apr 10, David Halberstam,
New York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964,
was born.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1925 Apr 10, The novel "The
Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by
Scribner's of New York. A film version was made in 1974.
(TMC, 1994, p.1925)(SFEC, 2/16/97, Par. p.18)(AP,
4/9/97)
1929 Apr 10, Max Von Sydow,
actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Seventh Seal, Dreamscape), was born
in Lund, Sweden.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1930 Apr 10, The first
synthetic rubber was produced.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1932 Apr 10, Omar Sharif
(Michael Shalhoub), actor (Dr. Zhivago), was born.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1932 Apr 10, Paul von
Hindenburg was elected the first German president. German president
Paul von Hindenburg was re-elected with 53% of the vote; Adolf
Hitler coming in 2nd with 36%.
(www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/runs.htm)(AP, 4/10/98)
1934 Apr 10, David Halberstam,
New York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964,
was born.
(HN, 4/10/01)
1935 Apr 10, Jorge Mester,
conductor (Louisville Orch 1967-79), was born in Mexico City.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1935 Apr 10, Vaughan Williams'
4th Symphony premiered in London.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1936 Apr 10, John Madden, NFL
coach (Oakland Raiders), sports commentator (CBS, FOX), was born.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1936 Apr 10, A 200" mirror
blank arrived in Pasadena for Mt. Palomar.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1938 Apr 10, NY made syphilis
testing mandatory for a marriage license.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1938 Apr 10, Germany annexed
Austria.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1940 Apr 10, Vidkun Quisling
formed a Norwegian pro-Nazi "national government."
(MC, 4/10/02)
1940 Apr 10, The HMS Hunter, a
British destroyer, went down with 110 men in the fist Battle of
Narvik as the Royal Navy tried to keep German forces from
overrunning a strategic Norwegian port. Germany lost 4 destroyers in
the battle. In 2008 a Norwegian minehunter found the wreck
(AP, 3/9/08)
1941 Apr 10, Paul Theroux,
author (The Great Railway Bazaar), was born.
(HN, 4/10/01)
1941 Apr 10, U.S. troops
occupied Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1942 Apr 10, The 65-mile Bataan
Death March began to a prison camp near Cabanatuan. The prisoners
were forced to march 85 miles in six days with only one meal of rice
during the entire journey. Some 10k-15k soldiers perished on the
march. Bataan is a peninsula of western Luzon in the Philippines. It
was surrendered to the Japanese in this year and retaken by American
forces in 1945. [see Apr 9]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March)(SFEC, 12/15/96,
p.T7)(SFC, 4/25/97, p.A26)
1944 Apr 10, A US B-24
Liberator was shot down over Madang while on a bombing mission to
knockout Japanese anti-aircraft positions in Papua New Guinea. 4
members of the crew exited the plane, were captured and executed. 8
others went down with the plane. In 2014 the remains of two missing
airmen were identified using DNA and other evidence.
(SFC, 8/8/14, p.A7)
1944 Apr 10, Soviet forces
liberated Odessa from Nazis.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1945 Apr 10, US troops landed
on Tsugen Shima, Okinawa.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1945 Apr 10, German Me 262 jet
fighters shot down ten U.S. bombers near Berlin.
(HN, 4/10/99)
1945 Apr 10, In their second
attempt to take the Seelow Heights, near Berlin, the Red Army
launched numerous attacks against the defending Germans. The Soviets
gained one mile at the cost of 3,000 men killed and 368 tanks
destroyed.
(HN, 4/10/01)
1947 Apr 10, Brooklyn Dodgers
president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of
Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals. John Sengstacke, black
publisher of the Chicago Defender, was instrumental in persuading
Mr. Rickey in his decision. Jackie Robinson became the first black
to play major league baseball as he took the field for the Brooklyn
Dodgers. In spite of intense pressure and hostility, Robinson's
athletic abilities earned him the Rookie of the Year Award in 1947.
(AP, 4/10/97)(SFC, 1/12/98, p.A1)(HN, 4/10/01)
1948 Apr 10, Jewish Hagana
repelled an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1952 Apr 10, The MGM movie
musical "Singin' in the Rain," starring Gene Kelly, was first
released.
(AP, 4/10/02)
1953 Apr 10, The first 3-D
horror movie “House of Wax,” produced by Warner Bros. and starring
Vincent Price, premiered in New York City. It was directed by Andre
de Toth (d.2002 at 89).
(AP, 4/9/97)(HN, 4/10/98)(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A28)
1956 Apr 10, In Alabama singer
Nat Cole was attacked on stage at the Birmingham Municipal
Auditorium by a small group of white supremacists. Six local men
were arrested for the attack.
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4113/is_200401/ai_n9350991/)(NYT,
4/11/1956, p.1)
1956 Apr 10, Philips
broadcasted the 1st Dutch color TV programs.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1957 Apr 10, John Osborne’s
play “The Entertainer,” starring Laurence Olivier, opened in London.
(AP, 4/10/07)
1957 Apr 10, Egypt reopened the
Suez Canal to all shipping traffic. The canal had been closed due to
wreckage resulting from the Suez Crisis.
(AP, 4/10/08)
1959 Apr 10, Japan's Crown
Prince Akihito married a commoner, Michiko Shoda.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1960 Apr 10, The US Senate
passed a landmark Civil Rights Bill.
(HN, 4/10/98)
1963 Apr 10, The USS Thresher
nuclear-powered submarine failed to surface 220 miles east of
Boston, Mass. The disaster claimed 129 lives.
(www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/ssn593.htm)
1965 Apr 10, Linda Darnell
(41), actress, died from burns received in a fire.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1966 Apr 10, Evelyn Waugh
(b.1903), British writer, satirist (Brideshead Revisited), died. He
also wrote “The Loved Ones,” a satire on California burial customs
and “Vile Bodies.” His correspondence with Nancy Mitford, novelist
of manners, was edited by Charlotte Mosley and published in 1997. In
2007 Alexander Waugh, grandson of Evelyn Waugh, authored “Fathers
and Sons,” his biography of the Waugh family.
(WSJ, 4/29/97, p.A18)(SFC, 9/11/04, p.E1)(WSJ,
5/26/07, p.P6)
1967 Apr 10, In the 39th
Academy Awards "A Man For All Seasons" won for Best Picture;
Elizabeth Taylor won as Best Actress for “Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?”; and Paul Scofield won as Best Actor for “A Man For All
Seasons.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Academy_Awards)
1968 Apr 10, In the 40th
Academy Awards "In the Heat of the Night" won as best film. Rod
Steiger won as best actor for his role in the film. Katherine
Hepburn won as best actress for her role in “Guess Who’s Coming to
Dinner.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_Academy_Awards)
1968 Apr 10, President Johnson
replaced General Westmoreland with General Creighton Abrams in
Vietnam [see Mar 22].
(HN, 4/10/98)
1968 Apr 10, A ferry boat sank
in harbor of Wellington, NZ, and 51 were killed.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/10/newsid_2924000/2924897.stm)
1969 Apr 10, Harley Jefferson
Earl (1893-1969), American car designer, died. He was a Hollywood
builder of custom cars and became GM’s VP of styling from 1940-1959.
He was the first to introduce tail fins in 1948. His design
philosophy was "You can design a car so that every time you get in
it, it’s a relief--you have a little vacation for a while."
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv.
Supl)(www.motorera.com/corvette/1950/vet56-1.htm)
1971 Apr 10, The American table
tennis team arrived in China.
(HN,
4/10/98)(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/peopleevents/pande07.html)
1972 Apr 10, In the 44th
Academy Awards "French Connection," Gene Hackman and Jane Fonda won.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44th_Academy_Awards)
1972 Apr 10, The United States
and the Soviet Union joined some 70 nations in signing an agreement
banning biological warfare: The Biological and Toxins Weapons
Convention (BWC). A defector in 1990 revealed that the Soviet
biological weapons program was twice the size of the highest US
intelligence estimates. The convention banned the development,
production, and stockpiling of bacteriological and toxic weapons. In
1973 the Soviet Union created Biopreparat, an ultra secret
biological weapons program that involved laboratories at a minimum
of 47 sites across Russia.
(AP, 4/10/97)(WSJ, 7/21/97, p.A22)(SFEC, 8/10/97,
p.A3)(SFC, 8/28/97, p.C2)
1972 Apr 10, A 6.9 earthquake
in the Iranian province of Fars killed over 5,000 people.
(http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/63/6-1/2071)
1974 Apr 10, Golda Meir
announced her resignation as prime minister of Israel. Yitzhak Rabin
replaced Golda Meir.
(AP, 4/10/97)(HN, 4/10/98)
1975 Apr 10, Walker Evans
(b.1903), American photographer, died. In 1999 the biography "Walker
Evans" by James R. Mellow was published.
(WSJ, 7/27/99, p.A21)(SFC, 8/18/01,
p.B3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Evans)
1978 Apr 10, Arkady Shevchenko,
a high-ranking Soviet citizen employed by the United Nations, sought
political asylum in the United States.
(AP, 4/10/03)
1978 Apr 10, A tornado struck
in Orissa, India, and killed about 150 people.
(www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/india.htm)
1979 Apr 10, Nino Rota
(b.1911), Italian composer (Torquemada, Romeo & Juliette), died
from cancer.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Rota)
1979 Apr 10, The US Government
established the Taiwan Relations Act which said: "to make clear that
the US decision to establish diplomatic relations with the People's
Republic of China rests upon the expectation that the future of
Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means."
(WSJ, 1/31/96,
p.A-18)(www.taiwandocuments.org/tra01.htm)
1981 Apr 10, The long-awaited
maiden launch of the space shuttle “Columbia” was scrubbed because
of a computer malfunction.
(AP, 4/10/01)
1981 Apr 10, Imprisoned IRA
hunger striker Bobby Sands was declared the winner of a by-election
to the British Parliament.
(AP, 4/10/07)
1983 Apr 10, King Hussein of
Jordan, officially renounced pursuing any negotiations to implement
the Reagan Plan, and ceased negotiations with PLO.
(http://tinyurl.com/2q6ska)
1984 Apr 10, The US Senate
condemned the January CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors.
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/US-mining-nicaragua-harbors.html)
1984 Apr 10, In San Francisco
Mei “Linda” Leung (9) was kidnapped, raped and killed. Her body was
found hanging over a pipe in the baxement of her apartment building
at 765 O’Farrell St. In 2009 DNA evidence tied Richard Ramirez
(b.1960), known as the “Night Stalker,” to her murder. The evidence
also indicated a possible 2nd attacker.
(SFC, 10/23/09, p.A1)
1986 Apr 10, Benazir Bhutto
(33), daughter of former PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, returned to
Pakistan.
(http://tinyurl.com/onqk2)
1987 Apr 10, President Reagan
and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev delivered speeches on nuclear
arms, with the president challenging the Soviets to join the United
States in working harder for arms reductions, and Gorbachev
proposing talks on short-range weapons.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1988 Apr 10, The hijackers of a
Kuwait Airways jetliner vowed to carry out a "slow, quiet massacre"
of their hostages, one day after one captive was killed aboard the
plane parked in Larnaca, Cyprus.
(AP, 4/10/98)
1989 Apr 10, Federal drug czar
William J. Bennett unveiled details of the Bush administration's
plan for fighting drug abuse and drug-related crime in the nation's
capital.
(AP, 4/10/99)
1989 Apr 10, In Ohio Jeffrey
Lundgren (b.1950), a self-proclaimed prophet, led his cult in
planning and executing murders of the Avery family in order to bring
about a prophecy he interpreted from the Old Testament. Lundgren was
convicted of five counts of murder and executed on October 24, 2006
at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lundgren)
1990 Apr 10, San Francisco’s
Board of Supervisors approved reducing the city’s curfew laws.
Minors under 14 will be banned from public places between midnight
and 5am. The old law included minors under 18 from 11pm to 6am.
(SSFC, 4/5/15, DB p.42)
1990 Apr 10, H.J. Heinz said it
would not sell tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins.
(http://tinyurl.com/kj7mq)
1990 Apr 10, Three European
hostages -- a French woman, a Belgian man and their two-year-old
daughter, who was born in captivity -- were released in Lebanon by
the Abu Nidal Palestinian guerrilla group following an appeal by
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
(AP, 4/10/00)
1990 Apr 10, Teddy Wang
Tei-huei (57), Hong Kong real estate tycoon, was kidnapped for a 2nd
time. Abductors demanded $60 million. His wife Nina Wang paid a $34
million installment, but it was too late. His body was never found.
Wang was declared legally dead in 1999.
(WSJ, 10/20/99, p.A23)(Econ, 7/3/04, p.52)
1991 Apr 10, The US and Britain
imposed a no-fly zone to protect 3 Kurdish provinces in northern
Iraq.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A11)
1991 Apr 10, A day after
Mikhail Gorbachev appealed for a moratorium on all strikes,
demonstrations and rallies, an estimated 200,000 workers in
Byelorussia defied the Soviet president by staging a work stoppage
in the capital, Minsk.
(AP, 4/10/01)
1992 Apr 10, Financier Charles
Keating Jr. was sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for
swindling investors when his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed. The
convictions were later overturned.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1992 Apr 10, Comedian Sam
Kinison (38) was killed in a car crash outside Needles, Calif.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1992 Apr 10, The IRA bombed the
London financial district killing 3 with 91 injured.
(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A11)
1993 Apr 10, Chris Hani, leader
of the South African Communist Party, was killed by Janusz Walus and
Clive Derby-Lewis. The 2 men appealed for amnesty in 1997. Amnesty
was denied and the 2 continued to serve life sentences. On March 10,
2016, Walus won a bid for parole. On August 18, 2017, the top court
blocked the release from jail of Polish immigrant Janusz Walus.
(SFC, 8/12/97, p.A8)(SFC, 4/8/99, p.C3)(AP,
3/10/16)(AFP, 8/18/17)
1994 Apr 10, Two U.S. F-16
fighters bombed Bosnian Serb targets in Gorazde, which was under
heavy attack. This was NATO's first-ever attack on ground positions.
A second air strike took place the following day.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 4/10/99)
1995 Apr 10, Sen. Bob Dole
launched his third bid for the White House in Topeka, Kansas.
(AP, 4/10/00)
1995 Apr 10, The Unabomber sent
a letter to the New York Times claiming responsibility for the
killing of Thomas Mosser.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.5)
1995 Apr 10, NYC enacted the
Smoke Free Air Act which banned smoking in all restaurants that
seated 35 or more.
(http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/10/2/199)
1995 Apr 10, Chen Yun (b.1905),
one of China’s “eight immortals,” died. He helped create
modern China.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Yun)(Econ,
2/6/10, p.79)
1995 Apr 10, In Vietnam San
Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan and Chairman Truong Tan Sang of Ho Chi
Minh People’s Committee signed an Agreement on Friendship
Affiliation.
(SFC, 7/14/15, p.A3)
1996 Apr 10, President Clinton
vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique used to end
pregnancies in their late stages.
(AP, 4/10/97)
1996 Apr 10, It was reported
that Pres. Mohammed Ibrahim Egal was the leader of the Pennsylvania
size region of Somalia called Somaliland. The five year old state
had a flag, army, police and currency, but did not have
international recognition.
(SFC, 4/10/96, A-5)
1996 Apr 10, In Mexico a
protest group of about 500 peasants was fired on by police with one
killed and dozens wounded. They were headed to the annual Septa
commemoration in Tlaltizapan, the site of Zapata’s headquarters.
(SFC, 4/13/96, p.A-10)
1997 Apr 10, A federal judge
struck down as unconstitutional the Line-Item Veto Act, a law that
lets the president strike specific items from bills passed by
Congress. The president said he would appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court later set aside the judge's ruling. The Supreme
Court ultimately struck down the veto as unconstitutional in 1998.
(SFC, 4/11/97, p.A3)(AP, 4/10/02)
1997 Apr 10, Onetime fighter
pilot and former POW Pete Peterson was confirmed by the Senate as
the first postwar U.S. ambassador to Vietnam.
(AP, 4/10/98)
1997 Apr 10, Michael Dorris
(52), writer, committed suicide. His books included “The Broken
Cord” (1989), an account of his life raising adopted son Abel, who
was diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome.
(http://www.hotink.com/72997.html)
1998 Apr 10, The anti-impotence
drug Viagra appeared on the market and became one of the
best-selling new medications of all time.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1998 Apr 10, In Iran an
earthquake in the northeast killed 12 people and left 1,500 homeless
in the Khorasan province.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 10, The Good Friday
Agreement was announced 17 hours after the deadline as negotiators
reached a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries
and bloody attacks. Gerry Adams signed for the IRA. It was to face
referendums in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland on May 22. If
approved there would be June elections to create a local governing
assembly for Northern Ireland.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/10/99)(SSFC, 9/14/03,
p.A1)
1998 Apr 10, The Russian
Parliament rejected Pres. Yeltsin’s nominee, Sergei Kiriyenko, for
prime minister 186 to 143. Yeltsin renominated Kiriyenko and another
vote must take place within a week. In a speech to the Duma
Kiriyenko said that economic growth had stopped.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A6)
1999 Apr 10, The Miami Heat
humiliated the Chicago Bulls, 82-49, holding the Bulls to the lowest
point total since the introduction of the basketball shot clock.
(AP, 4/10/00)
1999 Apr 10, The US announced
that 82 more warplanes were being shipped to join the NATO campaign
in Yugoslavia. It was reported that half Yugoslavia's most modern
planes had been destroyed.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 10, In Iran Gen'l. Ali
Sayyad Shirazi, deputy chief of the joint staff command of the
Iranian armed forces, was gunned down in front of his home in Tehran
by men dressed as city cleaners. The murder was attributed to
terrorists, a euphemism for the opposition Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK).
In 2007 French judicial authorities said they have the authority to
investigate the case because the political wing of the People's
Mujahedeen is based in Auvers-Sur-Oise, north of Paris.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A11)(AP, 9/18/07)
1999 Apr 10, US F-16s struck
southern Iraqi radar and antiaircraft sites after the fighters were
fired upon. Iraq claimed that 2 people were killed and 9 wounded in
the attacks.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A11)(WSJ, 4/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 10, Poland welcomed
the first of several thousand ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A30)
1999 Apr 10, In Russia Prime
Minister Primakov appealed to the lower house of the Duma to drop
impeachment proceedings against Pres. Yeltsin.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A11)
1999 Apr 10, Serbia allowed
some 1,500 refugees from Vragolija to leave Kosovo for Albania. Some
4,000 refugees crossed into Albania.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A14,26)
1999 Apr 10, Bad weather
hampered NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, but the allies
warned Slobodan Milosevic the lull wouldn't last. The Pentagon,
meanwhile, announced that 82 U.S. planes would join the force
conducting airstrikes over Yugoslavia.
(AP, 4/10/00)
1999 Apr 10, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez said he would extend his term from 5 to 10 years. He had
already threatened to dissolve Congress and the Supreme Court.
(SFC, 4/13/99, p.A11)
2000 Apr 10, David M. Kennedy
won a Pulitzer prize for “Freedom From Fear: The American People in
Depression and War, 1929-1945.” Jhumpa Lahiri won the fiction award
for “Interpreter of Maladies.” The Washington Post won three
Pulitzer Prizes, including the public service award for the second
year in a row; The Wall Street Journal took two honors, and The
Associated Press won for investigative reporting on the killing of
civilians by US troops at the start of the Korean War.
(SFC, 4/11/00, p.A2)(AP, 4/10/01)
2000 Apr 10, Actor Larry
Linville, one of the stars of the situation comedy “M*A*S*H,” set
during the Korean War, died in New York at age 60.
(AP, 4/10/01)
2000 Apr 10, EU foreign
ministers toughened sanctions against Burma due to the increased
repression of civil and political rights.
(SFC, 4/11/00, p.D4)
2000 Apr 10, In Gambia police
fired on a student demonstration in Banjul and 12 people were
killed.
(SC, 4/11/00, p.D4)(SFC, 4/12/00, p.A17)
2000 Apr 10, South Korea and
North Korea announced a June date for their first summit since the
Korean peninsula was divided in 1945.
(AP, 4/10/01)
2000 Apr 10, In the Philippines
government troops attacked Camp Bilai, a Muslim rebel camp of the
Moro Islamic Liberation Front. A number of guerrillas were killed.
278 rebels and 18 soldiers had died in clashes over the last month.
(SFC, 4/11/00, p.D4)
2001 Apr 10, Pres. Bush met
with Jordan’s King Abdullah and both agreed that ending violence in
the Middle East was the main goal for the region.
(WSJ, 4/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 10, Republican Jane
Swift took office as the first female governor of Massachusetts,
succeeding Paul Cellucci, who'd resigned to become U.S. ambassador
to Canada.
(AP, 4/10/02)
2001 Apr 10, Rap star Eminem
was placed on two years' probation for carrying a concealed weapon
outside a Michigan nightclub.
(AP, 4/10/02)
2001 Apr 10, The DJIA went up
257 to 10,102. The Nasdaq increased 106 to 1,852.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.B1)
2001 Apr 10, Doctors in San
Diego implanted genetically modified cells in to the brain of a
60-year-old woman with early Alzheimer’s disease in an effort to
slow her mental decline.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.A3)
2001 Apr 10, In Dhaka,
Bangladesh, a general strike for the resignation of prime minister
Sheikh Hasina left 3 people dead after supporters and opponents
clashed with guns and homemade bombs.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C5)
2001 Apr 10, Germany’s PM
Schroeder ended 2 days of talks with Pres. Putin of Russia, but no
agreement was reached on Russian debt.
(WSJ, 4/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 10, Israeli rockets
were fired at a Palestinian police post next to the Khan Yunis
refugee camp. At least 25 Palestinians were wounded.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C2)
2001 Apr 10, Malaysia arrested
at least 4 opposition leaders as the 2 year anniversary approached
of jailed former Deputy Premier Anwar’s conviction.
(WSJ, 4/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 10, In Netherlands the
Senate legalized euthanasia gave doctors immunity from prosecution
for assisting in the deaths of terminally ill patients.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C2)(AP, 4/10/02)
2001 Apr 10, In Singapore
doctors completed a 4-day operation to separate 11-month-old Siamese
twins, Jamuna and Ganga Shrestha of Nepal. The girls had joined
heads.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.C3)
2002 Apr 10, Sec. of State
Colin Powell stopped in Spain to gather EU support in the Middle
East conflict. He again called for an immediate end to Israel’s
military operations.
(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 10, Arthur Anderson
LLP agreed to a government condition that it admit to having
committed a crime by destroying Enron documents last fall.
(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 10, In Ohio a state
appeals court declared a ban on concealed weapons to be
unconstitutional. 5 other states, all in the Midwest, carried
similar laws banning concealed weapons.
(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A7)
2002 Apr 10, In Israel a
suicide bomber sd’d in a bus near Haifa and 8 people were killed
with 20 wounded. Israel announced the withdrawal of forces from 24
small West Bank villages.
(SFC, 4/10/02, p.A1)(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A1)(WSJ,
4/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 10, In Mexico 41 state
and city police from Tijuana and Tecate were arrested in Baja on
charges of corruption and smuggling during a meeting at the state
police academy.
(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A10)(SFC, 4/12/02, p.A9)
2002 Apr 10, Binyam Mohamed
(b.1978), an Ethiopian citizen who had lived in Britain for 7 years,
was arrested in Pakistan. He was held incommunicado in Pakistan,
Morocco and Afghanistan and then was taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2004
for internment.
(Econ, 2/7/09,
p.49)(www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/08/torture-humanrights)
2002 Apr 10, In Russia the FSB,
successor to the KGB, accused the CIA of trying to steal military
secrets. US diplomat Yunju Kensinger and David Patterson were
identified as agents posing as US Embassy officials.
(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A8)(WSJ, 4/11/02, p.A15)
2002 Apr 10, In Sri Lanka rebel
leader Velupillai Prabhakaran made his 1st public appearance in 15
years and pledged his commitment to peace talks along with the goal
of an independent Tamil state. The 18-year civil war had already
left 65,000 dead.
(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 4/11/02, p.A1)
2003 Apr 10, The US House
passed a bill creating a national Amber Alert system and
strengthening child pornography laws.
(AP, 4/10/04)
2003 Apr 10, Eva Narcissus
Boyd, the singer known as "Little Eva," died in Kinston, N.C.
(AP, 4/10/04)
2003 Apr 10, Iraqi television
aired videotaped greetings from President Bush and British Prime
Minister Tony Blair.
(AP, 4/10/04)
2003 Apr 10, In the 23rd day of
Operation Iraqi Freedom US and Kurdish troops seized oil-rich Kirkuk
without a fight and held a second city within their grasp as
opposition forces crumbled in northern Iraq. Looting in Baghdad
prompted orders for US Marines to crack down on thieves. Over 40
suicide vests were found in a Baghdad school. Looting in Kirkuk
stripped the North Oil Co. facilities and pumping of 850,000 barrels
a day ceased.
(AP, 4/10/03)(SFC, 4/11/03, p.A1)(SSFC, 4/13/03,
p.W8)(SSFC, 4/20/03, p.A3)
2003 Apr 10, In Najaf clerics
Haider al-Kadar, a widely hated loyalist of Saddam, and Abdul Majid
al-Khoei, a high-ranking Shiite cleric and son of one of the
religion's most prominent spiritual leaders, were hacked to death at
the shrine of Imam Ali by a crowd during a meeting of
reconciliation. Majid al-Khoei had been give as much as $13 million
by the CIA to cultivate supporters.
(AP, 4/10/03)(SFC, 5/2/03, p.A14)
2003 Apr 10, Aid workers fled a
north Afghan town after factional fighting killed at least 13
people.
(WSJ, 4/11/03, p.A1)
2003 Apr 10, In Colombia the
body of Eudaldo Diaz, mayor of the Sucre state town of El Roble, was
found tortured and killed. Former Sucre Gov. Salvador Arana was
convicted in 2009 of masterminding the murder. He is serving a
40-year prison term. In 2011 fugitive Colombian paramilitary warlord
Rodrigo Mercado was convicted in absentia of kidnapping and killing
Diaz.
(AP, 9/19/11)(http://tinyurl.com/3o3844w)
2003 Apr 10, In Estonia Juhan
Parts, a 36-year-old former auditor, took over as prime minister,
becoming Europe's youngest leader.
(AP, 4/10/03)
2003 Apr 10, An Israeli missile
strike in Gaza City killed Mahmoud Zatme, an Islamic Jihad
commander, and injured 12 bystanders. In Tulkarem Israeli troops
fired on a car carrying members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The
driver was killed and 4 others were injured. 2 gunmen shot 2 Israeli
soldier dead in the Jordan Valley and were themselves killed.
(SFC, 4/11/03, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/11/03, p.A1)
2003 Apr 10, In Dagestan,
Russia, a fire killed 28 deaf children in a boarding school in
Makhachkala. Fires in Russia killed some 50 people a day, i.e.
18,000 a year.
(AP, 4/10/03)(SFC, 4/11/03, p.A3)
2004 Apr 10, Pres. Bush signed
into law a bill that let companies reduce the required contributions
to their defined-benefit pension plans by more than $80 billion over
the next 2 years.
(Econ, 4/17/04, p.73)
2004 Apr 10, The White House
declassified and released a document sent to President Bush before
the Sept. 11 attacks which cited recent intelligence of a possible
al-Qaida plot to strike inside the US.
(AP, 4/10/05)
2004 Apr 10, Several thousand
protesters gathered in SF and called for an end to US military
presence in Iraq.
(SSFC, 4/11/04, p.B3)
2004 Apr 10, San Francisco
Police officer Isaac A. Espinoza (29) was shot dead and his partner
wounded in the Bayview neighborhood. Suspect David Hill (21) was
arrested the next day. Hill used an illegal AK-47 against the
officers that had been given to him by Marvin Jeffrey Jr., a police
informant. In 2007 Hill was found guilty of 2nd degree murder.
(SFC, 4/12/04, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/13/06, p.A1)(SFC,
1/5/07, p.A1)
2004 Apr 10, A coal mine
explosion trapped five miners underground in a northeastern Chinese
city where more than 150 miners have been killed in the past year.
(AP, 4/10/04)
2004 Apr 10, In Colombia a
patrol, searching for rebels of the FARC, gunned down a peasant
family carrying a sick baby to hospital. Three youths, aged 14 to
17, and the six-month-old were among the dead.
(AP, 4/13/04)
2004 Apr 10, Iraqi government
negotiators entered the besieged city of Fallujah as fierce battles
raged elsewhere in central Iraq, including Baghdad. In Baqouba 40
Iraqis were killed. A top Iraqi Red Crescent official and his wife
were killed in an apparent attack on their car in northern Iraq.
(AP, 4/10/04)
2004 Apr 10, A stray bullet
killed an 11-year old Palestinian girl in her kitchen when Israeli
troops fired on her neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip.
(AP, 4/10/04)
2004 Apr 10, In Mexico a gas
explosion leveled two buildings, killed at least six people and
injured more than a dozen others in the border town of Nuevo
Progreso.
(AP, 4/11/04)
2004 Apr 10, In southern Peru
heavy rains triggered mudslides near the famed Inca citadel of Machu
Picchu, killing at least six people. Five others were missing and
feared dead.
(AP, 4/11/04)
2004 Apr 10, In the southern
Philippines more than 50 inmates, including many suspected members
of a Muslim extremist group, used a smuggled pistol to escape from
prison. At least nine were killed by police.
(AP, 4/10/04)
2004 Apr 10, Rania al-Baz, a
popular Saudi TV host, was severely beaten by her husband. She
suffered 13 facial fractures that required 12 operations. She
allowed photos to be broadcast and opened discussions of ongoing
violence against women in Saudi Arabia.
(SFC, 4/20/04, p.A6)
2004 Apr 10, In Siberia an
apparent methane blast ripped through a coal mine, killing at least
44 miners.
(AP, 4/11/04)(AP, 4/12/04)
2004 Apr 10, Some 11% of South
Africans, 5 million people, were reported to be infected with AIDS.
An earlier government report said 100,000 civil servants were HIV
positive.
(Econ, 4/10/04, p.39)
2004 Apr 10, Some 100,000
people in Taiwan protested the disputed presidential election.
(WSJ, 4/12/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 10, Sakip Sabanci
(71), Turkey’s richest man and head of Sabanci Holding, died. He
left his niece Guler Sabanci in charge of his business.
(www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,12700,1193172,00.html)
2004 Apr 10, In Vietnam's
troubled Central Highlands province of Daklak ethnic minority
villagers protested over religion and land issues.
(AP, 4/10/04)
2004 Apr 10, In Sri Lanka the
Liberation Tigers took control of the areas held by the Karuna group
and declared a two-day truce to allow civilians to celebrate the
Buddhist and Hindu New Year.
(AP, 4/11/04)
2005 Apr 10, Tiger Woods won
his fourth Masters with a spectacular finish of birdies and bogeys.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2005 Apr 10, Steve Vaught (39)
left his San Diego, Ca., home on a walking trip to New York in an
effort to loose some of his 400 lbs. By July he was in Arizona and
down to 350 lbs. A year later he was in Ohio with less than 400
miles to NYC. His weight was down to 292. He completed his walk at
178th and Broadway in New York City on May 9, 2006; he had lost
approximately 100 lbs.
(SFC, 7/9/05, p.A2)(www.thefatmanwalking.com)
2005 Apr 10, A blizzard hit
eastern Colorado knocking out power and stranding travelers along
highways and at the Denver airport.
(SFC, 4/11/05, p.A3)
2005 Apr 10, In Indian Kashmir
2 civilians were killed and 20 others wounded when suspected Muslim
rebels hurled a grenade in a crowded area.
(Reuters, 4/10/05)
2005 Apr 10, In Iraq Pres.
Talabani called for extending amnesty to insurgents, but excluded
clemency for al Qaeda and other armed foreign groups.
(SFC, 4/11/05, p.A3)
2005 Apr 10, Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in Texas to meet with President Bush.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2005 Apr 10, Thousands of
Israeli police encircled Jerusalem's Old City to keep Israeli
ultranationalists out of a disputed holy site and prevent protests
by jittery Muslim worshippers.
(AP, 4/10/05)
2005 Apr 10, It was estimated
that Maoist guerrillas controlled two-thirds of Nepal.
(SSFC, 4/10/05, p.C6)
2005 Apr 10, Nepal agreed to
immediately allow UN monitors into the country to help prevent human
rights abuses.
(AFP, 4/11/05)
2005 Apr 10, Colonel General
Anatoly Trofimov, a former head of the FSB branch for Moscow and the
Moscow region, was killed when the gunmen opened fire on his jeep in
a northern residential area of Moscow.
(http://tinyurl.com/4vn9s)
2005 Apr 10, Spanish police
seized a cache of explosives in an operation against the armed
Basque separatist group ETA one week before a Basque regional
election.
(AP, 4/10/05)
2006 Apr 10, Tens of thousands
of immigrants spilled into the streets of Atlanta and other US
cities in a national day of action billed as a "campaign for
immigrants' dignity." Some 200,000 gathered in DC; 10,000 in San
Jose, Ca., and 5000 in SF.
(AP, 4/10/06)(SFC, 4/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 10, Former Enron Chief
Executive Jeffrey Skilling began testifying in his fraud and
conspiracy trial in Houston, declaring himself “absolutely
innocent.”
(AP, 4/10/07)
2006 Apr 10, In northwestern
Afghanistan gunmen killed five medical workers, while two policemen
and a truck driver transporting food for US-led coalition troops
were slain in bombings and shootings in a southern Taliban
stronghold.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, Mark Vaile,
Australia's trade minister, said he did not read a string of
diplomatic cables warning that the country's monopoly wheat exporter
allegedly was paying multimillion-dollar kickbacks to Saddam
Hussein's regime.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, Australian
scientists reported the discovery of an "anti-freeze gene" that
allows Antarctic grass to survive at minus 30°C, saying it could
prevent multi-million-dollar crop losses from frost.
(www.techimo.com/newsapp/index.pl?photo=16314)
2006 Apr 10, In Canada 5 men
were charged in the slayings of 8 people who were found on an
isolated farm in Ontario in what police called an "internal
cleansing" of a motorcycle gang. Most of the victims were either
full or associate members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
(AP, 4/11/06)
2006 Apr 10, It was reported
that China has agreed to open a corridor through its tightly
restricted airspace. This could save airlines $30 million a year in
fuel and trim an average half hour off flight times between China
and Europe.
(WSJ, 4/10/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 10, In China an
explosion in a hospital parking garage killed at least 30 people.
The blast occurred in an underground garage at a hospital for the
staff of the Xuangang Coal and Electricity Co. Ltd. in Shanxi
province's Yuanping county. Local authorities found explosives at
the site.
(AP, 4/11/06)
2006 Apr 10, In northwest China
a truck crashed into a minivan and a passenger bus after its brakes
failed, killing at least 26 people and injuring 24.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, Cuba and Venezuela
signed agreements for a joint venture to revamp an unfinished
Soviet-era refinery in Cuba and supply it with oil from Venezuela.
(WSJ, 4/12/06, p.A7)
2006 Apr 10, Egypt’s Health and
Population Minister Hatem el-Gabali said a 12th case of human bird
flu has been found.
(Reuters, 4/11/06)
2006 Apr 10, The EU barred
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and dozens of his senior
officials from entering any bloc countries to protest his
re-election last month in a vote that international observers said
was rigged.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, EU foreign
ministers endorsed a freeze of aid to the Palestinian government but
said they would seek alternative ways of providing money for
humanitarian projects.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, French President
Jacques Chirac threw out part of a youth labor law that triggered
massive protests and strikes, bowing to intense pressure from
students and unions and dealing a blow to his loyal premier in a bid
to end the crisis.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, Haiti's interim
leader PM Gerard Latortue announced a probe into the finances of all
government agencies amid allegations of corruption by state
officials in the aftermath of a bloody revolt that toppled the
previous government.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, In Indonesia
separatist rebels armed with bows and arrows stormed a military post
in Papua province, sparking a battle that killed two soldiers and
two attackers.
(AP, 4/11/06)
2006 Apr 10, Israel suspended
formal security ties with the Palestinians in a bid to further
isolate the new Hamas government one day after declaring it a
hostile entity.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, A Kenyan military
plane carrying politicians to a peace conference crashed while
attempting to land in northern Kenya, killing a Cabinet minister,
six other politicians and at least seven other people.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, Salman Khan, one
of Bollywood's biggest film stars, was sent to prison for five years
for killing a protected antelope.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, In northern India
a fire swept through tents at a trade fair in a consumer electronics
show in the town of Meerut, killing at least 52 people.
(AP, 4/11/06)
2006 Apr 10, Lebanon arrested 9
Lebanese and Palestinians suspected of plotting the assassination of
Hezbollah’s leader.
(WSJ, 4/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 10, Mexican soldiers
seized 128 suitcases packed with 5.6 metric tons of cocaine worth
more than $100 million from a commercial plane arriving from
Venezuela. Smugglers had purchased the DC-9 plane with laundered
funds transferred through US banks Wachovia Corp. and Bank of
America. In 2010 court papers said a gang under Walid Makled
operated the DC-9 and flew the cocaine from Simon Bolivar
International to Campeche, Mexico. Makled was arrested Aug 19, 2010
in Colombia in the border city of Cucuta. In Nov 2010 Colombia
denied an extradition request for Makled by the US, saying that the
suspect will be sent back to face charges in his home country.
(AP, 4/12/06)(SFC, 6/30/10, p.D1)(AP, 11/17/10)
2006 Apr 10, In Maputo,
Mozambique, African leaders launched a campaign to get every child
in school by 2015, and Britain responded by pledging $15 billion in
education aid to developing countries over the next decade.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10, In Nepal security
forces fired tear gas and beat protesters with batons to break up
democracy rallies as the political crisis deepened.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Apr 10-2006 Apr 12, About
25 people were killed in three days of skirmishes between two
Nigerian tribes over ownership of land in the central state of
Plateau.
(Reuters, 4/13/06)
2006 Apr 10, Hadil Ghaben (8)
was killed when 2 Israeli shells blew huge holes in a concrete block
house in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. The girl's mother
and seven siblings were hurt in the attack.
(AP, 4/11/06)
2007 Apr 10, The US Treasury
Department said authorities in Macau are ready to release frozen
North Korean funds that have impeded disarmament talks.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, Maryland became
the first US state to approve a plan to give its electoral votes for
president to the winner of the national popular vote, instead of the
candidate chosen by state voters. The plan would only go into effect
if states representing a majority of the nation’s 538 electoral
votes decided to make the same change.
(SFC, 4/11/07, p.A3)
2007 Apr 10, Protein Sciences,
a vaccine company, said caterpillars offer a faster, safer medium to
culture flue vaccine than chicken eggs.
(WSJ, 4/11/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 10, Dakota Staton
(b.1930), jazz singer, died in NYC. She was well known for her 1957
album “The Late, Late Show.”
(SFC, 4/21/07, p.B5)
2007 Apr 10, A court in the
Bahamas announced that DNA tests proved Larry Birkhead, the former
boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, is the father of her infant
daughter.
(AP, 4/11/07)
2007 Apr 10, Bolivia opened a
new front in its fight to reduce illegal coca production, sending
US-backed eradication teams into a traditional coca-growing region
in the Andean foothills long avoided by previous governments.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, Diabetes
scientists 15 Type 1 Brazilians did not need insulin shots after
therapy with stem cells from their own blood. It was also reported
that such stem cells helped repair heart damage due to Chagas
disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, carried by
kissing bugs (barbeiros).
(WSJ, 4/11/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 10, China reported a
sharp drop in its politically sensitive trade surplus and angrily
rejected US plans to file a World Trade Organization complaint over
product piracy amid pressure for Beijing to rein in its bulging
trade gap. The US filed two new complaints against China at the WTO
over copyright policy and restrictions on the sale of American
movies, music and books. China missed its deadline for announcing a
total tally of completed tax returns. Officials estimated some 1.6
million filed with 6m-7m required to file.
(AP, 4/10/07)(Econ, 4/14/07, p.49)
2007 Apr 10, In China’s
southeast Guangxi Zhuangzu region thousands of fish were reported
killed this month in a lake near Nanning due to “sharp drops in
temperature.”
(SFC, 4/12/07, p.A3)
2007 Apr 10, Peter Brixtofte
(57), the free-spending Danish mayor of Hilleroed (1986-2002), was
convicted of abusing his office and sentenced to two years in
prison. He had became hugely popular for offering free vacations to
retirees and computers to school children.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, The Ethiopian
government acknowledged detaining 41 suspected international
terrorists from 17 countries and said foreign investigators were
given permission to question them. A statement said 29 of the
suspects have been ordered released by a Military Court and five
already have been freed.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, The European Court
of Human Rights ruled that a British woman left infertile after
being treated for ovarian cancer has no right to frozen embryos
against the wishes of her former fiance, who provided the sperm.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, In Greece cleanup
crews struggled to avert a major oil spill after a sunken cruise
ship leaked dozens of tons of oil off the resort island of Santorini
at the start of the summer tourist season.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, Iraq's prime
minister began a visit to South Korea saying he wants to learn from
the Asian nation's fast rise as an economic power. A woman with
explosives hidden beneath her abaya detonated them in a crowd of
about 200 police recruits in Muqdadiyah, killing at least 16 people.
A battle in two Sunni enclaves left 20 suspected insurgents and 4
Iraqi soldiers dead, and 16 US soldiers wounded. A parked car bomb
exploded at a checkpoint near Baghdad University, killing at least 6
people and wounding 11. A Katyusha rocket hit a basketball court at
a boys school in eastern Baghdad, killing a 6-year-old boy and
wounding 17 others. US troops began building a wall around a Sunni
enclave in Baghdad.
(AP, 4/10/07)(AP, 4/11/07)(AP, 4/21/07)
2007 Apr 10, Israeli
authorities said they had arrested 19 Palestinian militants in March
for planning to set off a huge car bomb in Tel Aviv over the Jewish
holiday of Passover.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, Japan's Cabinet
approved a six-month extension on trade sanctions against North
Korea, which were imposed in the wake of the communist state's
nuclear test last year.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, The African Union
readmitted Mauritania to the pan-African organization from which it
was suspended after a coup in 2005.
(AFP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, Moroccan police
surrounded a building in Casablanca where four terrorism suspects
were holed, causing three to flee and blow themselves up with
explosives. The fourth was shot dead by a police sharpshooter as he
apparently tried to detonate his bomb.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, Officials from
North and South Korea's Red Cross societies resumed talks on
resolving the issue of South Korean prisoners of war and civilian
abductees believed held in the communist country.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, In Panama the
charred and mutilated body of Staten Island businesswoman Toni
Grossi Abrams (57) was found on the outskirts of Panama City. Debra
Ann Ridgley (56) of Pennsylvania, was later arrested as a suspect in
the killing but had not been formally charged. Police searched for
two other suspects identified as Colombian men, one of whom has
previous drug charges against him.
(AP, 4/16/07)
2007 Apr 10, In Serbia 4
paramilitaries seen in a video gunning down Bosnian Muslims near
Srebrenica in 1995 were convicted of war crimes against civilians by
Serbia's War Crimes Court.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, South African
President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Khartoum to join the international
push for UN peacekeepers in Darfur, amid fears of a regional
spillover after clashes between Sudan and Chad. Officials said the
UN, the African Union and the Sudanese government have reached
agreement to beef up the African force in Sudan's violence-wracked
Darfur region with UN troops, police and equipment.
(AP, 4/10/07)
2007 Apr 10, Clashes between
Sri Lankan soldiers and Tamil rebels in the island's north killed
about 30 people. In southern Sri Lanka a passenger bus collided with
a beer delivery truck and burst into flames, killing at least 23
people and injuring 56.
(AP, 4/10/07)(AP, 4/12/07)
2007 Apr 10, In Switzerland
thieves stole jewelry worth about $825,000 from the Baselwood fair,
the world's biggest and most luxurious watch and jewelry fair.
(AP, 4/15/07)
2008 Apr 10, Most families in
the April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech mass shootings agreed to an $11
million state settlement.
(WSJ, 4/11/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 10, In Oakland, Ca.
Larae Brown, the former city controller, filed suit claiming she was
fired last year after informing her superiors and elected officials
of potentially disastrous flaws in the city’s bookkeeping.
(SFC, 4/11/08, p.B1)
2008 Apr 10, In Virginia a jury
convicted Rev. James Bevel (71), a noted civil rights figure, of
incest after concluding he had sex with his teenage daughter 15
years ago. His had daughter testified that Bevel had begun molesting
her at age 6.
(SFC, 4/11/08, p.A4)
2008 Apr 10, The Pacific
Fishery Management Council voted to cancel the chinook salmon
fishing season in an effort to reverse the disappearance of the
fish.
(SFC, 4/11/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 10, American Airlines
cancelled 933 flights to inspect and repair wiring bundles in its
MDF-80 aircraft.
(SFC, 4/11/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 10, Powerful storms
brought hail, heavy rain and possible tornadoes to Arkansas, Texas,
and Oklahoma, causing flooding and power outages for thousands of
customers and at least one death.
(AP, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, American Airlines
canceled more than 900 flights to fix faulty wiring in hundreds of
jets, marking the third straight day of mass groundings as company
executives offered profuse apologies and travel vouchers to calm
angry customers.
(AP, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, In San Francisco
Luis Solari (38) was shot and killed in an apparent incident of road
rage. His 2 young sons survived as his car spun out of control
before stopping on I-280.
(SFC, 4/11/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 10, In Kandahar city,
Afghanistan, a suicide car bomber targeting a US-led coalition
convoy killed 8 civilians and wounded 25 other people, including
three coalition soldiers.
(AP, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, Australia’s PM
Kevin Rudd met China's premier for talks expected to touch on what
Rudd has called significant human rights problems in Tibet. Rudd
said Chinese paramilitary police will not be allowed to run
alongside the Olympic torch in Australia, after their heavy-handed
tactics drew criticism in earlier legs of the relay.
(AP, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, The Bank of
England cut its key interest rate .25% to five%, balancing the risks
of rising near-term inflation and economic slowdown spread by the
credit crisis.
(AP, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, The West's last
remaining feudal system came to an end after the Privy Council
endorsed a vote by locals on the tiny Channel Island of Sark to
change the way they are governed.
(Reuters, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, In China a police
spokesman said authorities have detained 45 East Turkestan
"terrorist" suspects (Uighurs), and foiled plots to carry out
suicide bomb attacks and kidnap athletes to disrupt the Beijing
Olympics.
(Reuters, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, Berlin police
found a body that is probably that of Anna Mikhalchuk (52), a
missing Russian artist, who had been condemned by the Orthodox
Church for an exhibit in her homeland. The death was an apparent
suicide.
(AP, 4/11/08)
2008 Apr 10, Iran reported that
the SenIran Auto plant in Thies, Senegal's second largest city, has
built its first Iran-Khodro Samand sedan. Iran Khodro is the largest
carmaker in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa regions
with annual production of more than one million various vehicles
including cars, trucks and buses.
(Econ, 2/6/10, p.49)
2008 Apr 10, A US airstrike
targeted a building in Baghdad's Sadr City, hours after American
soldiers clashed with Shiite militants in fighting that left 15
people dead. Police said the four killed in the air strike were
civilians, including two brothers who were under 10 years old.
(AP, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, Israel cut off all
fuel supplies to Gaza's 1.4 million residents, one day after
militants killed 2 civilians at a fuel terminal.
(AP, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, Leftist lawmakers
took over both chambers of Mexico's Congress to protest President
Felipe Calderon's energy reform bill, which would make it easier for
the state oil company to seek outside help to develop oil fields.
(AP, 4/11/08)
2008 Apr 10, In Mexico police,
working with FBI agents in the small town of Tacambaro, arrested
Cpl. Cesar Laurean (21). He is charged with first-degree murder in
the December, 2007, death at Camp Lejeune, NC, of Marine Lance Cpl.
Maria Lauterbach, who had accused him of rape.
(AP, 4/11/08)
2008 Apr 10, Nepal gave an
historic vote of support for a peace process that is set to abolish
an unpopular monarchy and reshape the impoverished country. The
final results were not expected for several weeks. Sporadic
violence, including two deaths in the ethnically tense south, was
reported.
(AFP, 4/10/08)
2008 Apr 10, In Pakistan Ahmad
Shah, a Taliban commander also known as Mullah Ismail, was killed in
a shootout with security forces near Peshawar. He was blamed for the
deadliest attack on US troops since they entered Afghanistan in
2001.
(AP, 4/18/08)
2008 Apr 10, In Sri Lanka
government forces attacked Tamil Tiger rebel bunkers along the front
lines in the war-ravaged northern region, triggering gunbattles that
killed 13 rebels and wounded 11 soldiers.
(AP, 4/11/08)
2008 Apr 10, In Thailand 54
illegal migrant workers from Myanmar suffocated in the back of an
unventilated truck, while the rest of the passengers being smuggled
to Thailand pounded on the container and screamed in vain for the
driver's help. 37 of the dead were women and 17 were men. A Thai
court the next day convicted some 64 survivors of illegal entry and
rule to send them back to Myanmar.
(AP, 4/10/08)(Reuters, 4/11/08)
2008 Apr 10, The UN Environment
Program said dumping of waste by ships in the Mediterranean Sea will
become illegal as of May 1, 2009.
(AFP, 4/11/08)
2009 Apr 10, A US immigration
board rejected suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk's
appeal of an extradition order, paving the way for deportation to
Germany to face charges he committed atrocities.
(AFP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, In Arizona Samuel
Valdivia (18), a high school student, was caught with his math
teacher, Tamara Hofmann (48) in her bedroom, and was stabbed to
death by boyfriend Sixto Balbuena (20), who was himself a former
student of hers. Balbuena, a Navy sailor on leave from California,
was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder after police found
him covered in blood and told them about the killing.
(AP, 4/15/09)
2009 Apr 10, Areas of Tennessee
were hit by a savage line of storms that wrecked homes, killed a
mother and her baby and injured dozens of others.
(AP, 4/11/09)
2009 Apr 10, In Michigan a
student fatally shot a female classmate before turning the gun on
himself in an apparent murder-suicide that prompted a lockdown at
Dearborn’s Henry Ford Community College, west of Detroit. The bodies
of Asia McGowan (20) of Ecorse, and Anthony Powell (28) of Detroit,
were discovered inside a classroom.
(AP, 4/11/09)
2009 Apr 10, In southern
Afghanistan Taliban attackers killed six policemen. ISAF security
troops killed 18 insurgents in the northeastern province of Kunar.
(AFP, 4/10/09)(AP, 4/12/09)
2009 Apr 10, In Algeria
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika hailed his landslide re-election for
a third term as a "lesson in democracy," but opposition politicians
and independent media alleged fraud at the polls, and the US
government expressed concern.
(AP, 4/11/09)
2009 Apr 10, In Britain 11
environmental activists from a group called Eastside Climate Action
were arrested after they entered the power station and climbed onto
equipment at the coal-fired Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant outside
Nottingham. In 2011 a trial against 6 of the accused activists broke
down after a police infiltrator prepared to give evidence on their
behalf.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratcliffe-on-Soar_Power_Station)(AFP,
1/10/11)
2009 Apr 10, About 30
protesters tried to force their way into China's elite Peking
University to confront Sun Dongdong, a law professor, who said 99
percent of the people petitioning the government with grievances are
mentally ill and could be institutionalized.
(AP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, A study was
released saying China has 32 million more young men than young
women, a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime, because
parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a
son.
(AP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, Fiji's Pres. Ratu
Josefa Iloilo (88) suspended the constitution of his troubled South
Pacific country and fired the judges who had declared its military
government illegal.
(AP, 4/10/09)(Econ, 4/18/09, p.44)
2009 Apr 10, In France Ekaitz
Sirvent Auzmendi (29), suspected of being a master forger for ETA,
was captured by French and Spanish police as he got off a bullet
train that had arrived from Bordeaux at the French capital's
Montparnasse station.
(AP, 4/11/09)
2009 Apr 10, France's navy
freed a sailboat seized off Somalia last week by pirates, but one of
the hostages was killed. Pirates had seized the sailboat carrying
Florent Lemacon, his wife, 3-year-old son and two friends off the
Somali coast a week ago. Two pirates were killed, and Lemacon died
in an exchange of fire as he tried to duck down the hatch.
(AP, 4/11/09)
2009 Apr 10, About 20,000
demonstrators kept up the pressure on Georgia's president to resign,
with some pelting his residence with cabbages and carrots on a
second day of protests.
(AP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, In Greece a
teenage student (19) armed with two handguns, dozens of bullets and
a knife opened fire in a vocational training college in Athens,
wounding three people before shooting himself in the head. He left a
note accusing his fellow students of picking on him.
(AP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, In western India a
blaze at a fireworks factory killed at least 23 workers and injured
48 others.
(AP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, Iran hanged three
men for their involvement in a bombing inside a packed mosque that
killed 14 people on April 12, 2008.
(AP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, In northern Iraq a
suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into a sandbagged
wall surrounding a police headquarters in Mosul, killing five
American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen in the single deadliest
attack against US forces in more than a year.
(AP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, Japan renewed and
strengthened sanctions against North Korea, but disagreed with the
US over how the UN Security Council should censure Pyongyang for its
rocket launch.
(AP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, In the Netherlands
a man (44) pulled a gun in Rotterdam’s Laurenshof cafe after an
argument and shot a patron inside, then rushed outside where he shot
three more people. Several people chased the gunman when he ran
outside, overpowered and disarmed him, and wrestled him to the
ground until police arrived.
(AP, 4/11/09)
2009 Apr 10, In southwest
Pakistan four people were wounded in a bomb blast, where businesses
closed for a second day to protest against the murder of 3
separatist politicians.
(AFP, 4/10/09)
2009 Apr 10, In Moscow Iraqi PM
Nouri al-Maliki met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and PM
Vladimir Putin. Al-Maliki told Medvedev in the Kremlin that Iraq is
interested in Russian investment, and Putin said at a joint news
conference that talks focused on oil and gas cooperation.
(AP, 4/11/09)
2009 Apr 10, In Somalia
Islamist militants attacked African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu
overnight, sparking heavy exchanges that killed two civilians.
(AFP, 4/10/09)
2010 Apr 10, A US warship
captured six suspected pirates after a battle off the Horn of
Africa, the Navy's third direct encounter with seafaring bandits in
less than two weeks. On Aug 17 a federal judge in Richmond, Va.,
threw out piracy charges against the 6 Somali men, saying the
government had not shown that the men violated US piracy law. On Nov
29 Jama Idle Ibrahim, a Somali citizen, was sentenced to 30 years in
prison for his role in the attack.
(AP, 4/10/10)(SFC, 8/18/10, p.A4)(SFC, 11/30/10,
p.A9)
2010 Apr 10, Dixie Carter
(b.1939), "Designing Women" (1986-1993) star, died. Her Southern
charm and natural beauty had won her a host of television roles. She
appeared in TV soap operas in the 1970s, but did not become a
national star until her recurring roles on "Diff'rent Strokes" and
another series, "Filthy Rich," in the 1980s. She married actor Hal
Holbrook in 1984. The two had met four years earlier while making
the TV movie "The Killing of Randy Webster," and although attracted
to one another, each had suffered two failed marriages and were wary
at first.
(AP, 4/11/10)
2010 Apr 10, Afghan officials
said 2 Italian doctors are among nine people detained in an alleged
plot to kill Helmand's provincial governor. On April 18 Afghan
authorities released three Italian medical workers who had been
detained for a week, clearing them of allegations they were part of
a Taliban plot to kill a provincial governor.
(AP, 4/10/10)(AP, 4/18/10)
2010 Apr 10, Bolivian delegate
Pablo Solon confirmed that the US reduced aid after Bolivia opposed
the adoption of the Copenhagen Accord brokered at the UN climate
summit last December in the Danish capital. The Washington Post
reported on April 9 that the US is cutting $3 million to Bolivia and
$2.5 million to Ecuador from its Global Climate Change initiative.
(AP, 4/10/10)
2010 Apr 10, The border between
Chad and Sudan reopened seven years after the Darfur conflict forced
its closure, in another sign of improved relations between the
former foes.
(AFP, 4/14/10)
2010 Apr 10, French explorer
Jean-Louis Etienne (63) made the first Arctic crossing by balloon,
landing in the tundra of eastern Siberia five days after taking off
in Norway.
(AP, 4/10/10)
2010 Apr 10, Greek police
arrested six people suspected of being members of Revolutionary
Struggle, a terrorist group accused of a rocket strike against the
US Embassy and the shooting of a riot policeman.
(AP, 4/11/10)
2010 Apr 10, In western Iran
assailants blasted open a prison wall with rocket propelled
grenades, allowing 2 convicted murderers to escape from the central
prison in the city of Ilam. 5 people convicted of drug trafficking
were hanged at a prison in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
(Reuters, 4/10/10)(AFP, 4/10/10)
2010 Apr 10, In Iraq five
people including a child were killed in a pair of attacks near the
northern city of Mosul. A second roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi
army patrol south of Mosul went off around noon, killing a soldier
and a child.
(AP, 4/10/10)
2010 Apr 10, Kuwait deported
back to Egypt at least 21 supporters of leading pro-reform Egyptian
activist and former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei, a
day after arresting them. Some 20 more Egyptians were still being
detained in Kuwait.
(AFP, 4/10/10)(AP, 4/11/10)
2010 Apr 10, In Mexico the body
of Enrique Villicana Palomares, a columnist for the daily newspaper
The Voice of Michoacan, was found in Morelia with his throat slit.
He had been reported missing last week after he didn't make it to a
university where he taught writing.
(AP, 4/12/10)
2010 Apr 10, Pakistani
airstrikes killed nearly 100 suspected militants in two northwest
tribal regions, an apparent intensification of efforts by the army
to mop up Taliban fighters fleeing a military operation farther
south. Up to 71 civilians were killed in the strike by Pakistani
jets near the Afghan border. Military officials initially said 42
militants were killed in a gunfight and two air strikes in the Tirah
valley, but tribesmen later said up to 61 civilians were killed. A
security official estimated that 15 civilians died.
(AP, 4/10/10)(AP, 4/13/10)(AP, 4/17/10)
2010 Apr 10, Polish President
Lech Kaczynski (60) and some of the country's highest military and
civilian leaders died when the presidential plane crashed as it came
in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 96. The
26-year-old Tupolev was taking the president, his wife and staff to
events marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre in Katyn forest
of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet secret police. On board
were the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, and heads of
the air and land forces. Also killed were the national bank
president, deputy foreign minister, army chaplain, head of the
National Security Office, deputy parliament speaker, Olympic
Committee head, civil rights commissioner and at least two
presidential aides and three lawmakers.
(AP, 4/10/10)(AP, 4/11/10)
2010 Apr 10, Thai soldiers and
police fought pitched battles with anti-government demonstrators in
streets enveloped in tear gas, but troops later retreated and asked
protesters to do the same. At least 23 people were killed, including
a Japanese journalist, and more than 500 wounded, according to
hospital officials. Hiro Muramoto (43), a Japanese TV cameraman who
worked for Reuters for more than 15 years, was among those killed in
the bloody clash.
(AP, 4/10/10)(AP, 4/11/10)(Econ, 4/17/10, p.16)
2010 Apr 10, In Togo more than
6,000 opposition demonstrators took to the streets in the West
African nation to protest the March presidential election results.
(AP, 4/10/10)
2011 Apr 10, In western
Afghanistan a roadside bomb killed three tribal elders, possibly in
retaliation for their cooperation with the government. A NATO
service member was killed in an attack in the north of the country.
Kareem Daad, a district-level Taliban commander, was captured in an
overnight raid in southern Uruzgan province.
(AP, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, Chinese state
media reported that Intentional poisoning was behind the tainted
milk that killed three children and caused 36 others to become ill
in northwestern Gansu province last week. Police suspected that a
couple poisoned milk from a local farmer, causing three deaths,
because of anger over business disputes. Police soon found that
nitrite was added to milk from Ma Wenxuan's farm near the city of
Pingliang in Gansu province.
(Reuters, 4/10/11)(AP, 4/12/11)
2011 Apr 10, In Egypt more than
1,000 protesters ignored an army order to leave Cairo's main square,
extending into a third day their calls for a quick move to civilian
rule and a deeper purge of corrupt officials.
(AP, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, Police in central
France arrested a man and a woman allegedly linked to the Basque
separatist group ETA following a pair of weekend shooting incidents
against officers that injured at least one.
(AP, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, In the Ivory Coast
UN and French helicopters fired rockets on strongman Laurent
Gbagbo's residence in an assault the UN said was to retaliate for
attacks by his forces on UN headquarters and civilians.
(Reuters, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, In Libya NATO
airstrikes battered Moammar Gadhafi's tanks, helping rebels push
back government troops advancing quickly toward the opposition's
eastern stronghold. After destroying 14 tanks around Misrata early
in the day, warplanes struck more tanks and anti-aircraft guns in
the late afternoon. The African Union said Muammar Gaddafi has
accepted a roadmap for ending the conflict in Libya including an
immediate ceasefire, but an opposition representative said it would
only work if Gaddafi left power.
(AP, 4/10/11)(AP, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, In Pakistan 7
suspected militants were killed in a clash with security forces in
the Sardam area of the Swat Valley. In the Mohmand tribal region a
paramilitary fighter was killed and two other wounded in a clash
with militants during a search operation in Mitti area.
(AP, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, A Palestinian
official said Israel and militant groups in Gaza have agreed to a
truce, as cross-border violence abated.
(Reuters, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, Peru held
presidential elections. Leftist Ollanta Humala won the first round
of the presidential election but he did not win a majority according
to exit polls and will now likely face rightist lawmaker Keiko
Fujimori in a run-off.
(Reuters, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, Sudan said that
remnants of a missile used in a mysterious attack that killed two
people on April 5 proved that Israel carried out the strike.
(Reuters, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, Syrian security
forces and pro-government gunmen killed four protesters in the port
city of Banias after the army sealed off the city as hundreds of
protesters gathered. State TV reported that nine soldiers were
killed in an ambush near the city.
(AP, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, In the UAR Nasser
bin Ghaith, a financial analyst and an economics professor at the
Abu Dhabi branch of Paris' Sorbonne university was detained in
Dubai.
(AP, 4/10/11)
2011 Apr 10, The Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC), a regional bloc of oil-rich Arab nations,
called on Yemen's president to step down as part of a deal with the
protest movement demanding for his ouster after 32 years.
(AP, 4/10/11)(AFP, 4/10/11)
2012 Apr 10, Rick Santorum
suspended his campaign during a press conference in Pennsylvania,
his home state.
(SFC, 4/11/12, p.A1)
2012 Apr 10, Tennessee Gov.
Bill Haslam signed into law a bill requiring the state’s education
system to in part “explore scientific questions.” Some felt it would
allow teachers to introduce creationism and intelligent design into
science classrooms.
(Econ, 4/21/12, p.44)
2012 Apr 10, In Afghanistan
suicide bombers struck two government offices in the south and west,
killing 16 people as militants step up attacks across the country
with the arrival of spring temperatures. In addition 3 local
policemen were killed in Musa Qala district when a suicide bomber on
a motorcycle blew himself up near their vehicle.
(AP, 4/10/12)(AP, 4/11/12)
2012 Apr 10, Britain and Japan
pledged to expand collaboration on defense equipment as PM David
Cameron looked to open Tokyo's potentially lucrative arms market.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, China announced
that Bo Xilai was being suspended from the Communist Party’s
Politburo and Central Committee, and that his wife, Gu Kailai, was a
suspect in the death of Briton Neil Heywood last November.
(SFC, 4/11/12, p.A3)
2012 Apr 10, A Chinese court
sentenced disabled activist Ni Yulan and her husband to jail for
"provoking trouble," a year after the couple were detained during a
widespread crackdown on dissent. Ni and Dong, who have long helped
victims of government-backed land grabs in China, were detained in
April last year.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, China's 3 top
Internet portals pledged to work with the government to banish
online rumors, as jittery authorities cracked down on the web
following widespread rumors of a coup.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, An Egyptian court
suspended a 100-member panel selected by lawmakers from the
Islamist-dominated parliament and tasked with drafting the country's
new constitution. The verdict referred the case to a panel of senior
judges to look into the legality of the panel.
(AP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, In Egypt residents
blocked a motorway on the Libyan border to protest security
restrictions on cross-border traffic and increased tariffs for
lorries. Security forces intervened, leading to clashes that left
two people dead and four injured.
(AFP, 4/11/12)
2012 Apr 10, Europe's human
rights court ruled that Britain can extradite radical Muslim cleric
Mustafa Kamal Mustafa, also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri (53), and
four other suspects to the United States to face terrorism charges.
(AP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, Raymond Aubrac
(b.1914), one of the last major figures of the French Resistance,
died. He got away from the Nazis' grasp in a now-legendary escape
led by his equally renowned wife.
(AP, 4/11/12)
2012 Apr 10, In Indonesia some
120 asylum seekers, mostly Afghans and some Iranians, demanded that
Indonesia provide a vessel to allow them to continue to Australia,
refusing to leave a tanker that rescued them at sea.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, Iran's official
news agency said the country's intelligence department has
dismantled an Israeli-linked assassination and sabotage network.
State media later said 15 people were arrested for an attack planned
on Feb 10.
(AP, 4/10/12)(SFC, 4/19/12, p.A4)
2012 Apr 10, Iraq's fugitive
vice president Tariq al-Hashemi said two more of his bodyguards have
been tortured to death by security forces during a terrorism
investigation last month.
(AP, 4/11/12)
2012 Apr 10, Libyan ex-fighters
furious over a decision to halt a cash rewards scheme opened fire
against the headquarters of the interim government, but no injuries
were reported.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, Malawi's new
President Joyce Banda unveiled a shake-up of top officials charged
with government finances and media, purging loyalists of the late
leader Bingu wa Mutharika.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, Malaysia's
government introduced legislation to stop arrests based on their
political beliefs and indefinite detainments without trial. The
Security Offenses Bill would replace the 52-year-old Internal
Security Act, which was enacted to give the government preventive
powers against national security threats.
(AP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, In Mexico gunmen
killed 8 taxi drivers in two attacks in Guadalupe, a suburb of
Monterrey.
(SFC, 4/11/12, p.A2)
2012 Apr 10, In Papua New
Guinea thousands rallied in Port Moresby to protest at any delays to
elections, seen as crucial as the country rests on the cusp of a
resources boom.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, A Philippines
warship found Chinese fishing boats inside the Scarborough shoal
with an illegal haul of giant clams, coral and live sharks. Two
Chinese civilian patrol boats blocked the mouth of the shoal to stop
the Philippines navy from arresting the fisherman.
(Econ, 4/28/12, p.44)
2012 Apr 10, In Saudi Arabia a
Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh found al-Bajady guilty of
several offenses, including participating in the establishment of a
human rights organization and harming the image of Saudi Arabia in
media articles. He was reportedly tried in secret sentenced to four
years in prison.
(AFP, 4/18/12)
2012 Apr 10, South Africa's
state-owned logistics company Transnet announced plans to create
588,000 jobs in its seven-year, $37.8-billion expansion program. The
scheme included plans to develop railways, sea ports and pipelines
to expand freight transport and ease bottlenecks that hamper mining
exports.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, South Sudanese
troops moved into Heglig, an oil-rich border town claimed by Sudan,
as fighting intensified between the countries over who controls the
area.
(AFP, 4/11/12)
2012 Apr 10, Swaziland King
Mswati III obtained a court order prohibiting a march the next day,
the first of four days of planned demonstrations.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, Syrian troops
shelled and raided opposition strongholds across Syria, activists
said, denying claims by the foreign minister that regime forces have
begun pulling out of some areas in compliance with a UN-brokered
truce. Deadly violence killed 17 people across Syria, including at
least seven civilians.
(AP, 4/10/12)(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, Tunisia said it
will allow demonstrations on a symbolic street in the capital two
days after police brutally clamped down on protesters who defied a
ban on rallies.
(AFP, 4/11/12)
2012 Apr 10, UN children's aid
organization UNICEF led a cross-agency appeal for funds for the
Sahel region (parts of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and
Niger) where 15 million are suffering from malnutrition.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2012 Apr 10, In Yemen Al-Qaeda
militants killed nine government soldiers in an attack on a
makeshift military post on the road between Hadramawt and Marib
province in the country's mostly lawless eastern provinces. Two more
civilians were killed in Lawder.
(AFP, 4/10/12)
2013 Apr 10, President Barack
Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint that strives
to achieve a "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits, raising taxes
on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit programs including
Social Security and Medicare.
(AP, 4/11/13)
2013 Apr 10, Tens of thousands
of immigrants and activists rallied nationwide in a coordinated set
of protests aimed at pressing the US Congress to approve immigration
measures that would grant 11 million immigrants living here
illegally a path toward citizenship.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, California Gov.
Jerry Brown, on a trade mission to Beijing, announced that a Chinese
investor has agreed to help pay for a $1.5 billion development deal
in Oakland to transform 65 acres of industrial waterfront.
(SFC, 4/11/13, p.A1)
2013 Apr 10, A Florida couple,
Joshua Michael Hakken and his wife, Sharyn, accused of kidnapping
their two young sons and fleeing by boat to Cuba were handed over to
the US and imprisoned. The children were returned to their maternal
grandparents, who have official custody. Hakken lost custody of his
sons last year after a drug possession arrest in Louisiana and later
tried to take the children from a foster home at gunpoint.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, In Atlanta,
Georgia, Lauren Brown (55) lured firefighters to his home and held 4
hostage before being killed by a police SWAT team. The financially
strapped man had demanded that his utilities be restored.
(SFC, 4/12/13, p.A5)
2013 Apr 10, In London Mohammed
Rizwan and Bahader Ali admitted engaging in conduct in preparation
of acts of terrorism. Prosecutors said they were part of a gang that
planned to detonate bombs hidden in backpacks. Three of the other
plotters were convicted earlier this year.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, Robert Edwards
(87), a British Nobel prize-winning scientist (2010), died after a
long illness. He was known as the father of in-vitro fertilisation
(IVF) for pioneering the development of "test tube babies."
(Reuters, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, In Chile Barrick
Gold Corp. suspended construction on its Pascua Lama mine after a
Chilean court ruled in favor of indigenous communities that say the
world's highest-altitude gold mine threatens their water supply and
pollutes glaciers.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, A Danish man (31)
was acquitted of molesting two 17-year-old girls after he was found
to suffer from a rare sleep disorder known as "sexsomnia."
(AP, 4/12/13)
2013 Apr 10, French Pres.
Francois Hollande called for the abolition of tax havens in Europe
and elsewhere.
(Econ, 4/13/13, p.55)
2013 Apr 10, Ivory Coast
lawmakers gave President Alassane Ouattara the authority to rule by
decree on social and economic issues for 2013.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, Jordan opened a
second camp for Syrians fleeing the civil war at home. Officials
feared that the number of Syrians could double in the next six
months as the fighting escalates.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, Mali authorities
arrested Baba Ould Cheick, the Mayor of Tarkint, on drug trafficking
charges three years after a plane full of cocaine landed near his
northeastern town.
(AP, 4/11/13)
2013 Apr 10, Mexican lime
picker Alejandro Ayala (41) and several dozen co-workers, escorted
by Federal Police, met with Michoacan state Interior Secretary Jesus
Reyna over extortion protection payments by the Knights Templar
cartel. On the way home his convoy was ambushed, twice. Ayala and 9
others were killed.
(AP, 5/22/13)
2013 Apr 10, In northwestern
Pakistan gunmen shot to death a policeman protecting a team of
female polio workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, South Korea's
foreign minister told lawmakers that the prospect of a North Korean
missile test is "considerably high," as Pyongyang calmly prepared to
mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when
it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of
military power.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, Syrian troops
battled rebels in the outskirts of Damascus and pressed on with a
counteroffensive against opposition fighters in the south to prevent
their advance on the capital. At least 28 rebels and 13 soldiers
were killed in the fighting around Damascus, while 15 opposition
fighters and 28 government troops died in the fighting in Aleppo.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2013 Apr 10, Togolese trade
unions started a three-day protest. The unions are under the
umbrella of the "Togolese Workers Synergy" or " Synergie des
Travailleurs Togolais.
(AP, 4/11/13)
2013 Apr 10, Uruguay lawmakers
voted to legalize same-sex marriage.
(SFC, 4/11/13, p.A4)
2013 Apr 10, Yemen's Pres. Abed
Rabbo Mansour Hadi removed his predecessor's son and nephews from
powerful security posts in the most dramatic step yet in sidelining
old regime figures.
(AP, 4/10/13)
2014 Apr 10, Kathleen Sebelius
(65), US Health and Human Services Secretary, resigned. The next day
Pres. Obama nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell, director of the Office
of Budget and Management, to succeed her.
(SFC, 4/11/14, p.A6)
2014 Apr 10, The US Justice
Dept. said institutional reform, centered on training and tools for
officers, is needed for officers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to curb
patterns of excessive force.
(SFC, 4/11/14, p.A8)
2014 Apr 10, In northern
California 10 people were killed and dozens injured when a FedEx
semitrailer crossed a median and collided with a chartered college
tour bus on I-5 near Orland, Glenn County. On May 22, 2015, the CHP
released a report saying FedEx driver Tim Evans (32) was at fault
for the crash.
(SFC, 4/11/14, p.A9)(SFC, 4/12/14, p.A9)(SFC,
5/23/15, p.A10)
2014 Apr 10, US wildlife
agencies in Michigan and Wisconsin said they have confirmed
diagnoses of white-nose syndrome in tested bats. The fungal disease
has killed millions on North American bats since 2006 and has now
been detected in half of the US.
(SFC, 4/11/14, p.A6)
2014 Apr 10, In Fremont,
Nebraska, a city ordinance took effect requiring renters to purchase
a $5 permit from the city and swear that they have permission to
live in the US legally. In May the US Supreme Court decided not to
review the ordinance adopted in 2010.
(SFC, 5/8/14, p.A8)
2014 Apr 10, In Utah Iron
County workers accompanied by a US Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
staffer set up the first in a series of metal corrals designed to
trap and hold the horses on private land abutting the federal range
until they can be moved to BLM facilities for adoption. Cattle
ranchers blamed the protected wild horses for destroying vegetation
crucial to ranchers who pay to graze their cattle on the land.
(Reuters, 4/12/14)
2014 Apr 10, In Argentina a
nationwide strike shut down air, train and bus traffic, losing
businesses, ports and emptying classrooms.
(SFC, 4/11/14, p.A2)
2014 Apr 10, Richard Hoggart
(95), a distinguished cultural historian and a significant witness
in the 1960 court case that ended British censorship of "Lady
Chatterley's Lover," died.
(AP, 4/11/14)
2014 Apr 10, British author Sue
Townsend (68) died. Her books about awkward teenage diarist Adrian
Mole sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
(AP, 4/11/14)
2014 Apr 10, Jim Flaherty
(b.1949), former Canadian finance minister, died just week after
leaving the cabinet of PM Stephen Harper.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Flaherty)(Econ,
5/3/14, p.30)
2014 Apr 10, China unveiled a
plan to give foreign investors greater access to its stock market by
allowing investors in Shanghai and Hong Kong to trade shares on each
other's exchanges.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, In China 8 school
children died in a bus crash on the island province of Hainan on
their way to a school outing. The driver was later arrested for
allegedly causing the casualties.
(Reuters, 4/10/14)(AP, 4/25/14)
2014 Apr 10, Two groups in
Ethiopia said that they will hold an anti-gay demonstration later
this month, a move that puts Ethiopia in line to become the next
African country to increase the public demonization of gays.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, Europol, the EU
police organization, said law enforcement authorities have arrested
70 people at airports around the world in a meticulously coordinated
crackdown targeting criminals using fake or stolen credit cards to
buy airline tickets.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, A French judicial
source said billionaire industrialist and senator Serge Dassault
(89) has been charged with vote buying in Corbeil-Essonnes, where he
was mayor from 1995 to 2009.
(AFP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, Greek officials
hailed the country's return to the int’l. debt market after four
years as an overwhelming success, with investors snapping up the
5-year bond in a sale that was eight times oversubscribed. A car
bomb attack on a branch of the country's central bank in Athens
damaged several buildings but caused no injury. The anarchist
Revolutionary Struggle group later claimed responsibility.
(AP, 4/10/14)(AP, 4/25/14)
2014 Apr 10, IMF Managing
Director Christine Lagarde said the global economy is finally
turning the corner after a deep recession but the recovery remains
too weak.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, Israel’s Defense
Ministry announced the launch of the Ofek 10, a spy satellite, to
keep tabs on Iran and hostile militant groups in the region.
(SFC, 4/11/14, p.A2)
2014 Apr 10, An Israeli
official said Israel would stop the tax money transfers in
retaliation for the Palestinians pushing to sign up for more
recognition from international agencies and treaties. Israel
collects about $100 million a month in taxes for the Palestinians.
(AP, 4/11/14)
2014 Apr 10, Israeli police
said they have arrested five people suspected of demolishing a
military base on April 8 in the northern extremist West Bank
settlement of Yitzhar.
(AFP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, Kuwait imposed a
news blackout on an investigation into reports of a recording that
implicates unnamed people in an alleged plot to overthrow the Gulf
state's ruling system.
(Reuters, 4/11/14)
2014 Apr 10, Libya's National
Oil Co (NOC) lifted a force majeure on a crude export terminal
recovered from rebel hands, opening the way for renewed exports.
(AFP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, The Dutch
government announced that relatives of three men killed during the
1995 Srebrenica massacre will each receive 20,000 euros ($28,000) in
compensation. Seven months earlier the Dutch Supreme Court ruled
that the Netherlands was liable in the deaths of the three Bosnian
Muslims because Dutch troops serving in a UN peacekeeping force
should not have turned the men over to Bosnian Serb forces.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, Nigeria police
said child bride Wasila Tasi'u (14), forced into marriage last week,
killed the groom, Umaru Sani (35), and three of his friends with a
poisoned meal over the weekend at the wedding party in the village
of Unguwar Yansoro village. On May 20, 2015, prosecutors withdrew
murder charges against the girl.
(AP, 4/10/14)(AFP, 5/20/15)
2014 Apr 10, North Korea
detained an American it identified as Matthew Miller (24) for
alleged improper behavior. The man reportedly entered the country
with a tourist visa, but tore it up and shouted that he wanted to
seek asylum.
(SFC, 4/26/14, p.A2)(AP, 9/14/14)
2014 Apr 10, In northwest
Pakistan gunmen opened fire on a truck carrying gasoline for NATO
forces based in Afghanistan, killing a driver and wounding another.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, Some 450 US and
Romanian troops and technical staff kicked off joint military
exercises in northwestern Romania, flying US F-16 fighter jets
alongside Romanian ones.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, President Vladimir
Putin warned European leaders Russia would cut natural gas supplies
to Ukraine if it did not pay its bills and said this could lead to a
reduction of onward deliveries to Europe.
(Reuters, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, In northeastern
Syria fierce infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups along the
border with Iraq killed at least 24 fighters.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, Taiwan students
ended their unprecedented, 24-day occupation of the Parliament late
today after receiving assurances that a Chinese trade pact they see
as imperiling the island's autonomy would undergo legislative
review.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, Turkey’s
government said a charity at which PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son
sits on the board received more than $100 million of aid over a
four-year period. The government sought parliamentary approval to
boost the powers of the secret service, a move seen by PM Erdogan's
critics as a bid to tighten his grip on the apparatus of state as he
wages a bitter power struggle.
(AFP, 4/10/14)(Reuters, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, In Ukraine
protesters inside the Luhansk security building, a former KGB
headquarters, said they would only lay down their weapons if Kiev
agreed to hold a referendum on the future of the region.
(Reuters, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, The UN Security
Council unanimously approved a nearly 12,000-strong UN peacekeeping
force for Central African Republic.
(AP, 4/10/14)
2014 Apr 10, Pope Francis said
"enough" to human trafficking, denouncing it as a crime against
humanity as police leaders and religious groups from around the
world pledged to work together to combat it.
(Reuters, 4/10/14)
2015 Apr 10, President Barack
Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands at the opening of
the Summit of the Americas in Panama, a symbolically charged gesture
as the pair seek to restore ties between the Cold War foes.
(Reuters, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, US Defense
Secretary Ashton Carter promised that the US would deploy state of
the art weaponry in Asia, including the latest stealth bombers and
cyber warfare units, to counter threats posed by the likes of North
Korea.
(AFP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, Raul Hector Castro
(98), former US ambassador and Arizona governor (1975-1977), died in
San Diego.
(SFC, 4/11/15, p.A6)
2015 Apr 10, In Kansas John
Booker (20) was arrested in an FBI sting while trying to arm what he
thought was a 1,000-pound bomb inside a van near Fort Riley.
(SFC, 4/11/15, p.A5)
2015 Apr 10, General Electric
said it plans to sell off most of its finance arm over the next two
years and buy back up to $50 billion in shares.
(SFC, 4/11/15, p.D1)
2015 Apr 10, In eastern
Afghanistan suicide car bombers struck foreign vehicles near
Jalalabad, killing 4 civilians and wounding 10 others. In Kabul
another suicide bomber drove into a vehicle used by foreigners,
injuring at least three Afghans. A roadside blast killed 12 people
on their way to a wedding in Ghazni province. In Badakhshan province
Taliban fighters killed at least 18 Afghan police and soldiers, 8 of
them beheaded, and left 10 wounded. At least 10 more were missing.
19 militants were killed.
(Reuters, 4/10/15)(SFC, 4/11/15, p.A2)(Reuters,
4/13/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Afghanistan 5
local staff on the “Save the Children” int’l. aid group, who were
abducted 40 days ago in Uruzgan province, were found shot dead. The
government had refused their captors' demands for a prisoner
exchange.
(AP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, An Argentine judge
issued an arrest warrant for Justin Bieber, saying the singer failed
to respond to summons related to allegations he ordered bodyguards
to attack a photographer in 2013.
(AP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Brazil the
federal prosecutors' office in Brasilia confirmed media reports that
a prosecutor was looking at a $900 million price difference and
possible corruption in the $5.4 billion purchase of 36 Gripen
fighter planes from Sweden's Saab AB in 2009.
(Reuters, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, Brazilian police
arrested three former congressmen, broadening their corruption
investigation beyond state-run oil firm Petrobras to state lender
Caixa Economica Federal and the federal health ministry.
(Reuters, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Brazil
firefighters extinguished the fires that for 10 days engulfed six
fuel storage tanks at a liquid bulk storage facility in the port
city of Santos.
(AP, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, Canadian
researchers said China has expanded its Internet censorship efforts
beyond its borders with a new strategy that attacks websites across
the globe. The new strategy, dubbed "Great Cannon," seeks to shut
down websites and services aimed at helping Chinese citizens
circumvent the "Great Firewall".
(AFP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, In the Central
African Republic one person died and a dozen people were wounded
when hundreds of protesters clashed with UN peacekeepers.
Demonstrators in the town of Kaga-Bandoro were angry that the UN
MINUSCA mission had failed to stop raids by ethnic Peuhl
pastoralists.
(Reuters, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, Chad said 71 of
its soldiers have been killed and 416 injured in two-and-a-half
months' fighting Boko Haram.
(AFP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, China’s official
Xinhua news agency reported that the United States has promised
support for China's campaign to hunt corrupt officials fleeing
abroad, after meetings between security officials from the world's
two largest economies.
(Reuters, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, India's PM Modi
announced plans to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France, but said
negotiations on "terms and conditions" of the multibillion euro sale
are ongoing.
(AP, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, In eastern India
an overcrowded bus skidded into a ditch, killing 13 passengers,
including two children, and injuring 43. The bus, which normally
seats 54, had been so crowded with Hindu pilgrims that some were
sitting on the roof.
(AP, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Iraq a car bomb
went off near one of Baghdad's landmark hotels killing at least 3
people. A suicide attacker blew himself up in a restaurant in
Mashahdah, 40 km. north of Baghdad, killing at least 5 people.
(AFP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, Israeli troops
shot dead Ziad Awad (30), a Palestinian man in the West Bank, when
they opened fire to quell protests that erupted in Hebron after the
burial of Jaafar Awad (23), a cousin recently released from Israeli
jail.
(AFP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Japan frantic
rescue efforts saved just 3 dolphins after about 150 mostly
melon-headed whales, or blackfish beached themselves and became
stranded on a northeastern coast in Hokota.
(AP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, Kashmir police
fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of people protesting a
government plan to build townships for hundreds of thousands of
Kashmiri Hindus who fled the Indian portion of Kashmir after the
outbreak of insurgency in 1989.
(AP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, A court in the
Maldives sentenced former defense minister Tholath Ibrahim to 10
years in prison on charges of detaining a senior judge. The
sentencing came nearly a month after former President Mohamed
Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in prison for ordering the arrest
and detention of Judge Abdulla Mohamed.
(AP, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Morocco at
least 33 people were killed, most of them children, when a bus burst
into flames after colliding with a gas tanker at Shbeka town near
Tan-Tan.
(Reuters, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, Pakistan's
parliament voted not to join the Saudi-led military intervention in
Yemen, dashing Riyadh's hopes for powerful support from outside of
the region in its fight to halt the advance of Iranian-allied Houthi
rebels.
(Reuters, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, Talks in Moscow
between the Syrian government and members of the domestic opposition
tolerated by President Bashar al-Assad broke up with no progress
made towards ending the war.
(AFP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, In South Africa
two Ethiopian nationals suffered serious burns when their shop was
set alight by a petrol mob in Umlazi, south of Durban, as violence
against foreign immigrants spread.
(AFP, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Spain an
investigative judge jailed seven of eleven suspected jihadists
arrested on April 8 in a case involving alleged discussions about
targeting a Jewish bookstore in Barcelona. The judge said members of
the "Islamic Brotherhood for Jihad Predication" also discussed
kidnapping a bank branch manager to finance the group.
(AP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Syria
pro-government forces repelled an attack on the Khalkhalah military
airport in Sweida province by Islamic State group affiliated
militants, losing 20 fighters. At least 15 IS jihadists were killed.
The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) "retook at least four
checkpoints and a number of neighborhoods" around the town of Tal
Tamr. 10 members of the Kurdish YPG militia were killed in the
fighting. The US-led coalition fighting conducted air strikes
on IS positions around Tal Tamr.
(AFP, 4/11/15)(Reuters, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, Ukraine's military
and pro-Russian rebels accused each other of intensifying attacks in
separatist eastern territories despite a two-month-old ceasefire.
(Reuters, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Yemen the first
two planeloads of medical aid landed in the Sanaa after weeks of
conflict which have killed 600 people and displaced 100,000 others.
The UN appealed for a pause in fighting to allow in more aid.
(Reuters, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, In Ukraine masked
men smashed communist-era monuments in Kharkiv overnight after the
country's pro-Western parliament voted to purge the nation of Soviet
symbols and its head of state compared today's Russia to Nazi
Germany.
(AFP, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, The UN appealed
for nearly $20 million for victims of Cyclone Pam which tore through
the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu last month, killing 17
people and leaving about 65,000 homeless.
(AP, 4/11/15)
2015 Apr 10, In central Yemen a
car bomb detonated outside a security building used by Houthi
militiamen, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens.
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition battered southern Yemen
overnight in the most intense strikes since the launch of a campaign
against Iran-backed rebels last month.
(Reuters, 4/10/15)(AFP, 4/10/15)
2015 Apr 10, Yemen’s Houthi
rebels killed 3 Saudi border guards in a mortar attack in Saudi
Arabia’s Najran province.
(SSFC, 4/12/15, p.A9)
2015 Apr 10, In Zimbabwe a
magistrate's court in Harare sentenced two former senior executives
of the national carrier Air Zimbabwe to 10 years in jail each for
insurance fraud involving more than $8 million. Former Air Zimbabwe
chief executive officer Peter Chikumba (60) and former company
secretary Grace Pfumbidzai (50) were found guilty of criminal abuse.
(AFP, 4/10/15)
2016 Apr 10, A US official said
Navy officer Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin, who had access to
sensitive US intelligence, faces espionage charges over accusations
he passed state secrets, possibly to China and Taiwan.
(Reuters, 4/11/16)
2016 Apr 10, Rev. Rene Robert
(71) was last seen alive in his St. Augustine, Fl. Apartment. In
April his body was found in the woods of Georgia following the
arrest of Steven Murray, who led police to Robert’s body. Robert had
been trying for months to help Murray.
(SFC, 1/30/17, p.A4)
2016 Apr 10, In Louisiana
Southern Univ. students Lashuntae Benton (19) and Annette January
(19) were shot and killed early today in an exchange of fire outside
a Baton Rouge apartment complex. Suspect Ernest Bernard Felton (22)
was arrested. Another suspect (24 was wounded.
(SFC, 4/11/16, p.A4)
2016 Apr 10, A SpaceX Dragon
cargo ship arrived at the Int’l. Space Station with 7,000 pounds of
freight including a soft-sided compartment built by Bigelow
Aerospace.
(SFC, 4/11/16, p.A4)
2016 Apr 10, In Bangladesh
protesters opposing the construction of a Chinese-backed, coal-fired
power plant in the coastal district of Chittagong agreed to halt
their activities for 15 days, defusing tensions after four
demonstrators were killed last week.
(Reuters, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, British PM David
Cameron took the unusual step of publishing his tax records to try
to end days of questions about his personal wealth raised by the
mention of his late father's offshore fund in the Panama Papers.
(AP, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, Howard Marks (70),
a Wales-born convicted drug smuggler, died of cancer. He was
arrested in 1988 in an operation led by the US Drug Enforcement
Administration and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was released
on parole in 1995. He then reinvented himself as an author after
publishing best-selling autobiography "Mr. Nice" (1996).
(AP, 4/11/16)
2016 Apr 10, Chad held
elections likely to see President Idriss Deby extend his 26-year
rule in a country increasingly on the frontline of the global war on
terror.
(AFP, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, The island nation
of Comoros voted in a tense three-way presidential run-off election
featuring the current VP Mohamed Ali Soilihi and former coup leader
Azali Assoumani, who ruled the country for seven years. Assoumani
took 40.98 percent of the nationwide vote, just ahead of Soilihi,
the ruling party's presidential candidate, who picked up 39.87
percent.
(AFP, 4/10/16)(AFP, 5/12/16)
2016 Apr 10, In France Paris
police made eight arrests after demonstrators protesting the
government's labor reforms went on a rampage across the capital,
attacking a police building, damaging cars and vandalizing bank
offices.
(AP, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, Greece said police
on the Macedonian side of their joint frontier used teargas, rubber
bullets and stun grenades to push back the migrants. Macedonian
authorities would only confirm they used teargas.
(Reuters, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, In southern India
108 people were killed and nearly 400 injured when a massive fire
swept through a Hindu temple during an unauthorized fireworks
display in the Kerala state village of Paravoor. Five employees of a
fireworks manufacturer who was given the contract for running the
show were soon taken into custody. By April 12 the death toll rose
to 112 and seven officials at the Puttingal temple were arrested.
(AP, 4/10/16)(Reuters, 4/11/16)(SFC, 4/13/16,
p.A3)
2016 Apr 10, Israel's cabinet
unanimously approved a plan for reducing greenhouse gases and
increasing energy efficiency to benefit the economy. Government
officials expected the cumulative benefit to Israel's economy would
reach more than 30 billion shekels ($8 billion).
(Reuters, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, In Japan foreign
ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries began a
two-day meeting in Hiroshima.
(AP, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, In Kenya scores of
Shebab fighters stormed a police post near the Somali border early
today, injuring three officers and torching nearby shops as they
fled.
(AFP, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, In Pakistan a
magnitude 6.6 earthquake rattled Islamabad and other cities across
the country. 6 people were killed across northern Pakistan. The
quake's epicenter was in remote northeastern Afghanistan.
(AP, 4/10/16)(Reuters, 4/11/16)
2016 Apr 10, Peru held
elections. Keiko Fujimori held a double-digit lead over her nearest
rival among 10 presidential candidates, but not getting the 50
percent she would need to win outright and avoid a June 5 runoff
between the two top vote-getters. With 64 percent of votes counted,
Fujimori had 39.46 percent support while Kuczynski, a former World
Bank economist, had 23.73 percent and leftist lawmaker Veronika
Mendoza trailed with 17.12 percent.
(AP, 4/10/16)(Reuters, 4/11/16)
2016 Apr 10, Syrian government
forces and rebels clashed across the country's north in the latest
indication that a monthlong cease-fire may be breaking down, as the
Islamic State group seized two villages along the Turkish border
from other insurgents. Clashes around Aleppo killed at least 16
pro-regime fighters and 19 members of Al-Qaeda's affiliate and
allied rebel groups over the last 24-hours.
(AP, 4/10/16)(AFP, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, In Turkey the 13th
annual meeting of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC) opened in Istanbul.
(AFP, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, Ukrainian PM
Arseny Yatseniuk tendered his resignation, effective April 12, in a
televised broadcast and signaled support for parliamentary speaker
and presidential ally Volodymyr Groysman to take over his post.
(Reuters, 4/10/16)
2016 Apr 10, In Yemen sporadic
fighting gripped parts of the country, hours before a UN-brokered
ceasefire aimed at laying the groundwork for upcoming peace talks
was due to take effect.
(AFP, 4/10/16)
2017 Apr 10, The new US
administration of Donald Trump scuppered efforts by the Group of
Seven (G7) industrialized countries in Rome to reach a common stance
on energy when it asked for more time to work out its policies on
climate change.
(Reuters, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, Alabama Gov.
Robert Bentley (74) resigned rather than face impeachment and
pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor campaign violations that arose
during an investigation of his alleged affair with a top aide. Lt.
Gov. Kay Ivey was hastily sworn in as his successor.
(SFC, 4/11/17, p.A12)(Econ, 4/15/17, p.27)
2017 Apr 10, In southern
California a Cedric Anderson (53) fired on his wife, Elaine Smith,
in a San Bernadino classroom killing her and Jonathan Martinez (8),
a child close by, and then himself at North Park School. Another
child was critically injured.
(SFC, 4/11/17, p.A5)(SFC, 4/24/17, p.A4)
2017 Apr 10, Cook County
Associate Circuit Court Judge Raymond Myles (66) was shot to death
outside his home on the South Side of Chicago. A female acquaintance
was also shot but survived. Joshua Smith (32) was soon arrested and
charged with murder for his role in the killing.
(SFC, 4/11/17, p.A4)(SFC, 4/13/17, p.A5)
2017 Apr 10, In South Carolina
Dylann Roof pleaded guilty to state murder charges and was given
nine consecutive life sentences for the June 2015 shooting that left
nine people dead at the black Emanuel AME Church.
(SFC, 4/11/17, p.A5)
2017 Apr 10, An investigation
into sales practices at Wells Fargo released today has blamed the
bank's top management for creating an "aggressive sales culture"
that led to a scandal involving millions of unauthorized accounts
being opened. The bank's board of directors clawed back another $75
million in pay from two former executives, CEO John Stumpf and
community bank executive Carrie Tolstedt.
(AP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, The first-ever
freight train from Britain to China started its 18-day, 12,000-km
(7,500-mile) journey along a modern-day "Silk Road" trade route as
Britain eyes new opportunities after it leaves the European Union.
The first train from China to Britain arrived on January 18, filled
with clothes and other retail goods.
(AP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, China and South
Korea agreed to slap tougher sanctions on North Korea if it carries
out nuclear or long-range missile tests, as a US Navy strike group
headed to the region in a show of force.
(Reuters, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, China's capital
stepped up a campaign against foreign espionage, offering rewards
ranging from $1,500 to $73,000 to citizens who blow the whistle on
suspected spies.
(Reuters, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, Opposition calls
for mass protests against Democratic Republic of Congo President
Joseph Kabila fell flat when only a handful of people showed up,
undermining efforts to oust him after his refusal to quit on expiry
of his mandate last year.
(AP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, Hungary’s Pres.
Janos Ader signed amendments to the country’s higher education law
that could force the Central European Univ., founded by George
Soros, to close or move. A day earlier some 70,000 people rallied to
support CEU.
(SFC, 4/11/17, p.A3)
2017 Apr 10, Israel closed its
Taba border crossing to the Sinai peninsula following warnings by
its anti-terrorism office of an "imminent" militant attack there and
urged its citizens to leave Egypt hours before the start of the
Passover holiday, when Sinai is a popular destination for many
secular Israelis.
(AP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, In Kashmir four
suspected rebels were killed overnight in fighting with the Indian
army, as businesses and schools shut in the disputed region in
response to a separatists' call to protest the killing of eight
civilians by government forces during a weekend by-election.
(AP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, In Kazakhstan NASA
astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russia's Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei
Borisenko touched down after spending 173 days in space.
(AP, 4/9/17)
2016 Apr 10, In Macedonia the
vault manager of NLB Tutunska Banka reported the theft of about 3
million euros ($3.1 million) from its headquarters. The
administrator of the bank surreptitiously removed the money, in
euros and Swiss francs, over five days without being noticed by
security staff. A suspect identified as B.S. was soon arrested, but
the missing cash was not yet recovered.
(AP, 4/11/17)(AP, 4/12/17)
2017 Apr 10, In Mexico a
parking garage under construction collapsed in Mexico City. At least
seven people were killed and 10 other construction workers were
being treated for injuries.
(AP, 4/11/17)
2017 Apr 10, Pakistan's
military sentenced an Indian naval officer to death on charges of
espionage and sabotage. Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was arrested in March
2016, had been convicted by a military tribunal. Jadhav was
kidnapped last year from Iran and his subsequent presence in
Pakistan was never explained credibly.
(AP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, Russian opposition
leader Alexei Navalny walked free after spending 15 days in jail
over a rally he led against alleged massive corruption by PM Dmitry
Medvedev.
(AFP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, In Somalia a
suicide bomber wearing army uniform killed at least nine soldiers at
a camp outside Mogadishu. A government official was killed by a bomb
planted in his car in Mogadishu.
(Reuters, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, In Somalia
regional security forces rescued the Indian cargo dhow Al Kausar.
Pirates who seized it on March 31 escaped with nine crew members as
bargaining chips. Somali forces the next day secured the surrender
of 10 members of the band and enlisted the parents of three others
to persuade them to give up.
(Reuters, 4/11/17)
2017 Apr 10, In South Sudan at
least 16 civilians were killed in the town of Wau, as ethnic
militias went house to house searching for people from other groups.
Witnesses said the militias were aligned with the government's side
in the ethnically-charged civil war. The dead included three men
contracted to work as porters for the World Food Program. The
fighting came to Wau after government soldiers were killed in an
ambush a day earlier south of the town.
(Reuters, 4/9/17)(AP, 4/14/17)(SFC, 6/1/17, p.A4)
2017 Apr 10, Spain's police
arrested 25 suspected members of a Chinese criminal gang and freed
22 Chinese women who had been forced to work as prostitutes for it
in and around Barcelona.
(AP, 4/19/17)
2017 Apr 10, In northern Syria
US-backed Syrian fighters pushed ahead in their offensive against
members of the Islamic State group under the cover of US-led
coalition airstrikes getting closer to Tabqa, a strategic town that
is home to the country's largest dam. 36 IS fighters were reported
killed in the fighting over the last 24 hours.
(AP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, Ukraine's central
bank governor, Valeria Gontareva, resigned, depriving the country of
a tough reformer capable of taking on vested interests at a time
when the economy is just recovering from a steep recession.
(AP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, The UN said
European countries must stop returning asylum seekers to Hungary due
to deteriorating conditions there for new arrivals including
children, and allegations of abuse.
(AFP, 4/9/17)
2017 Apr 10, In Venezuela
thousands of protesters demanding new elections faced off with
security forces who launched tear gas and blocked roadways in
Caracas. Daniel Queliz (20) died after being shot in the neck during
protests in Valencia.
(SFC, 4/11/17, p.A2)(SFC, 4/12/17, p.A2)
2017 Apr 10, Zambian opposition
leader Hakainde Hichilema was detained and questioned by police for
committing "treason" by obstructing the president’s motorcade on
April 8. Hichilema, a wealthy economist known as "HH", was defeated
by President Edgar Lungu in an election last August, which he
described as fraudulent.
(Reuters, 4/11/17)(Econ 6/24/17, p.43)
2018 Apr 10, President Donald
Trump canceled plans to travel to South America later this week,
choosing to stay in the United States to manage the US response to
Syria's apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, President Donald
Trump hosted the ruling emir of Qatar for a White House meeting,
welcoming a leader whose tiny gas-rich nation he once accused of
funding terrorism at a "high level".
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Facebook Chief
Executive Mark Zuckerberg said his company would step up efforts to
block hate messages in Myanmar as he faced questioning by the US
Congress about electoral interference and hate speech on the
platform.
(Reuters, 4/11/18)
2018 Apr 10, In Arizona all six
people aboard a small plane were killed when it crashed after
takeoff on a golf course in Scottsdale.
(SFC, 4/11/18, p.A4)
2018 Apr 10, Oklahoma's two
largest school districts cancelled classes for the seventh
consecutive school day extending the second week of a statewide
teacher walkout.
(SFC, 4/10/18, p.A5)
2018 Apr 10, The Newport Arctic
Scholars Initiative convened in Newport, Rhode Island, with
representatives from the Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway
and the US.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, In Afghanistan the
Taliban attacked two security posts in the central Ghazni province,
killing four policemen.
(AP, 4/11/18)
2018 Apr 10, In northern Brazil
gunmen attacked the Santa Izabel prison in Para state trying to
stage a mass escape of prisoners. 20 people were killed in a
gunbattle with police including 19 prisoners and one guard.
(SFC, 4/12/18, p.A2)
2018 Apr 10, In the Central
African Republic 19 people, including a UN soldier, were killed and
more than 100 wounded in clashes between peacekeepers and militias
in a flashpoint Muslim enclave of Bangui. Two inmates were killed
and a third was injured after the violence erupted in Bangui's
Ngaragba central prison. UN forces helped prevent a prison breakout.
(AFP, 4/11/18)(AP, 4/11/18)(AFP, 4/12/18)
2018 Apr 10, Speaking at a
business conference, China's Pres. Xi Jinping promised changes in
areas that the US has identified as priorities. In addition to
intellectual property protections and auto tariffs, he discussed
opening China's banking industry and increasing its imports.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, The EU's top court
dealt another blow to US ridesharing giant Uber by backing the right
of France and other member states to ban an illegal taxi service
without notifying Brussels regulators.
(AFP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, In western France
activists clashed with riot police for the second consecutive day as
authorities continued evacuating a protest camp in
Notre-Dame-des-Landes erected nearly a decade ago to block
construction of an airport.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, In France air
traffic was severely disrupted as the country's biggest airline Air
France was forced to cancel one in four flights, in the sixth round
of strikes launched by its employees since February.
(AFP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, In Germany tens of
thousands of air passengers were stranded as workers at airlines
Lufthansa staged strikes that crippled traffic.
(AFP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, One of Hungary's
two national opposition dailies said it will shut down due to
financial problems. Magyar Nemzet, owned by Lajos Simicska's media
holdings, once highly profitable, incurred heavy losses after
Simicska fell out with Pres. Orban and his publications were
deprived of government advertising.
(Reuters, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Indonesian
authorities said at least two dozen people have died in the past day
from drinking toxic bootleg liquor, raising the toll to 82 this
month and highlighting how attempts to curb legal alcohol have
tragically backfired. The homemade alcohol had been tainted with
ingredients such as mosquito repellent.
(AP, 4/10/18)(Reuters, 9/19/18)
2018 Apr 10, Iran moved to
enforce a single exchange rate to the dollar, banning all
unregulated trading after the rial hit an all-time low. As of today
the official rate will be 42,000 rials to the dollar.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Italian
authorities said they have arrested 13 suspects in a high-speed
migrant trafficking ring operating between Tunisia and Sicily whose
members espoused radical jihadist views.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, In Japan Masazo
Nonaka was certified as the world's oldest living man, at age 112
years, 259 days. Nonaka received the certificate from Guinness World
Records in a ceremony at his home in Ashoro, on the northern main
island of Hokkaido.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, It was reported
that Mexico's vaquita marina, the world's smalest porpose, has been
virtually wiped out by totoaba fishing, because it gets stuck in the
same kind of net. Totoaba swim bladders sell for up to $20,000 in
China, where it is reputed to rejuvenate the skin and heal a host of
ailments, from arthritis pain to discomfort during pregnancy.
(AFP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Pakistan fired
nearly 200 rockets across the border into Afghanistan's northeastern
Kunar province, killing one person and forcing nearly 300 residents
to flee.
(AP, 4/11/18)
2018 Apr 10, In Pakistan local
performer Samina Sindhu was fatally shot at a party held by a
wealthy landlord to celebrate his son's birth. One of the guests
drunkenly ordered Sindhu, who was pregnant, to dance before shooting
her. The shooter was soon arrested. The singer had to perform due to
poverty and her husband was reportedly under pressure to drop
charges.
(AP, 4/12/18)
2018 Apr 10, Romanian
prosecutors said authorities have detained nine Romanian men and a
Pakistani man suspected of illegally trafficking more than 100
migrants.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Romanian public
health officials said they have destroyed 1,100 kg (2,425 pounds) of
Egyptian potatoes after tests showed they had brown rot disease.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Russia warned that
any US missiles fired at Syria over the deadly assault on a rebel
enclave would be shot down and the launch sites targeted.
(Reuters, 4/11/18)
2018 Apr 10, The ruble plunged
for the second day in a row following fresh US sanctions against
Russia.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Saudi national
company Aramco and French oil giant Total announced that they have
signed an agreement to build a $9 billion petrochemical complex in
Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Swiss food giant
Nestle said wants to make all of its packaging recyclable or
reusable by 2025, becoming the latest food company to vow to reduce
plastic waste.
(Reuters, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Pres. Bashar
al-Assad's government invited international inspectors to send a
team to Syria to investigate an alleged chemical attack in the town
of Douma in a move apparently aimed at averting possible Western
military action over the incident. The Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said a fact-finding mission was
preparing to deploy to Douma where the April 7 suspected attack took
place.
(Reuters, 4/10/18)(SFC, 4/11/18, p.A2)
2018 Apr 10, Thailand police
shot and killed two suspected Muslim insurgents who ambushed a
police unit in the southern province of Pattani, a day after bombs
in a neighboring province injured 12 people.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, Ukraine's
President Petro Poroshenko said sanctions will be imposed on Russian
oligarchs including Oleg Deripaska, following the lead of penalties
ordered by the United States.
(Reuters, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, The United
Nations said Libyan militias, including some affiliated with
authorities, are holding thousands of prisoners in prolonged
arbitrary and unlawful detention that includes torture.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2018 Apr 10, In northern
Vietnam a court sentenced dissident Nguyen Van Tuc (54) to 13 years
in prison after finding him guilty of attempting to overthrow the
government. Van Tuc was convicted of affiliating with an outlawed
group named Brotherhood for Democracy in a half-day trial at the
People's Court in Thai Binh province.
(AP, 4/10/18)
2019 Apr 10, Pres. Donald Trump
signed two executive orders that will accelerate the approval of
energy infrastructure projects, while making it harder for states to
scuttle pipelines and other energy projects based on concerns about
their environmental impact on water quality.
(SFC, 4/11/19)
2019 Apr 10, In the SF Bay Area
federal prosecutors charged Michael Albert Quinn (48), a former
insurance claims investigator at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, with
fraud after he allegedly embezzled more than $7 million from the
health care giant over more than a decade.
(SFC, 4/11/19C1)
2019 Apr 10, Kentucky law
enforcement officials said they are helping to pioneer new crime
fighting technology, the ANDA Rapid DNA system, that will them to
more quickly identify sexual assault offenders and clear those
falsely accused.
(SFC, 4/11/19)
2019 Apr 10, In Louisiana
Holden Matthews (21), the son of a white sheriff's deputy, was
arrested on suspicion of destroying three black churches in and
around Opelousas. He faced federal hate crime charges.
(SFC, 4/12/19, p.A10)(SFC, 6/13/19, p.A6)
2019 Apr 10, Earl Thomas Conley
(b.1941), popular country singer of the 1980s, died in Nashville.
His 24 Top 10 country singles in the 1980s included "Holding Her and
Loving You" and "Don''t Make It Easy for Me".
(SSFC, 4/14/19, p.C10)
2019 Apr 10, Astronomers
unveiled visual evidence of a massive black hole in the Messier 87
galaxy, 55 million light-years from Earth. The black hole was said
to be about 7 billion times more massive thatn the sun.
(SFC, 4/11/19A8)
2019 Apr 10, In Albania
security at the Mother Theresa Airport was under scrutiny after a
Hollywood-style robbery on its runway that left gunman Admir Murataj
dead while his accomplices fled with millions of euros. Armed men
stole cash destined for a bank in Vienna on an Austrian Airlines
flight.
(AFP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, Algeria's army
chief Ahmed Gaid Salah backed Abdelkader Bensalah, the country's
newly appointed interim leader. Salah said the judicial system would
pursue corruption cases and resurrect those that had been dropped.
(AP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, Britain's PM
Theresa May said she was asking EU leaders to delay the Brexit
deadline to June 30 so she could get approval from parliament for
her deal and ensure Britain leaves the European Union in an orderly
way.
(Reuters, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, British PM Theresa
May expressed regret for a massacre by British troops in India in
1919 but stopped short of a full apology. The April 13, 1919
Jallianwala Bagh massacre, in which British troops opened fire on
thousands of unarmed protesters, remains an enduring scar from
British colonial rule in India.
(AFP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, WikiLeaks said its
founder Julian Assange has been the subject of a sophisticated
spying operation in the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he has
been holed up since 2012.
(Reuters, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, In central China a
train carrying aluminum ore derailed in Henan province, killing at
least four people.
(AP, 4/11/19)
2019 Apr 10, Egyptian security
officials said two separate explosive attacks overnight killed four
policemen, a day after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed four
policemen and three civilians.
(AP, 4/11/19)
2019 Apr 10, The European Union
agreed to delay Brexit by up to six months to Oct. 31 while PM
Theresa May seeks an agreement with Labour that she hopes will help
get her three-times rejected exit deal approved by parliament.
(Reuters, 4/11/19)
2019 Apr 10, Iranian
authorities ordered tens of thousands of residents of the
southwestern city of Ahvaz to evacuate immediately as floodwaters
entered the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province.
(AFP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, It was reported
that Iraq has offered the US-led coalition to put hundreds of
accused foreign jihadists on trial in Baghdad in exchange for
millions of dollars. One source said Iraq had proposed a rate of $2
million per suspect per year, calculated based on the estimated
operational costs of a detainee in US-run Guantanamo.
(AP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, Japan partially
lifted an evacuation order in one of the two hometowns of the
tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant for the first time since the
2011 disaster. The action allows people to return to about 40
percent of Okuma.
(AP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, Japan grounded its
F-35A fighter jets, built by US-based Lockheed Martin, following the
crash of a Japanese F-35 in the Pacific Ocean a day earlier.
(Reuters, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, The battle for
Libya's capital intensified as the UN Security Council prepared to
meet to discuss the crisis gripping the North African country, where
armed rivals are locked in a deadly power struggle.
(AFP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, New Zealand's
Parliament passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military style
weapons. The bill needs only the approval of New Zealand's governor
general, a formality, before becoming law on April 12.
(AP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, A Peruvian judge
ordered the 10-day detention of former President Pedro Pablo
Kucyznksi as part of a money laundering probe into his consulting
work for the company at the heart of Latin America's biggest graft
scandal.
(AP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, The Philippine
government imposed a total ban on the deployment of Filipino workers
to Libya because of fighting between rival militias for control of
the North African nation's capital.
(AP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, In Sudan protests
continued for a 5th day as several thousand protesters danced, sang
and chanted slogans calling on President Omar al-Bashir to step
down.
(Reuters, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, In Thailand a fire
broke out at one of Bangkok's biggest mall complexes, killing at
least two people and injuring more than a dozen.
(AP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, Turkey's Supreme
Electoral Council (YSK) ordered that individuals sacked by an
emergency decree during purges after a 2016 failed coup could not
take up their posts despite being elected. Five districts and towns
in the Kurdish-majority southeast were affected.
(AFP, 4/11/19)
2019 Apr 10, Amnesty
International said Ahmed Mansoor, a prominent activist in the United
Arab Emirates, has been on hunger strike for over three weeks to
protest his prison conditions and 10-year conviction. Mansoor was
the recipient of the prestigious Martin Ennals Award for Human
Rights Defenders in 2015.
(AP, 4/10/19)
2019 Apr 10, In Yemen the
Saudi-led coalition carried out air strikes early today against two
Houthi targets in Sanaa. No casualties were reported.
(Reuters, 4/10/19)
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