Today in History - April 10
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401 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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401 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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