Today in History - June 5
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c470/469BC Jun 5, Socrates
(d.399BC) was born in Athens. He served as an infantryman during the
Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. A sophist (teacher of
philosophy), he claimed not to know anything for certain and used
the interrogatory method for teaching. He left no written works. He
was a major critic of popular belief in Athens and was the
protagonist of Plato’s dialogues. “Education is the kindling of a
flame, not the filling of a vessel.” [see 469 BCE]
(V.D.-H.K.p.43)(CFA, '96, p.48)(WU, p.1350)(Hem.,
1/97, p.96)(eawc, p.11)
70CE Jun 5, Titus & his
Roman legions breached the middle wall of Jerusalem.
(MC, 6/5/02)
754 Jun 5, Friezen murdered
bishop Boniface [Winfrid], English saint, archbishop of Dokkum, and
over 50 companions.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1099 Jun 5, Knights and their
families on the First Crusade witnessed an eclipse of the moon and
interpreted it as a sign from God that they would recapture
Jerusalem.
(HN, 6/5/99)
1443 Jun 5, Ferdinand,
Portuguese saint, slave to Fez, died.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1568 Jun 5, Ferdinand, the Duke
of Alba, crushed the Calvinist insurrection in Ghent (Belgium).
(HN, 6/5/98)
1595 Jun 5, Henry IV’s army
defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.
(HN, 6/5/98)
1625 Jun 5, Orlando Gibbons
(41), English organist, composer (Silver Swan), died.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1661 Jun 5, Isaac Newton was
admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge.
(http://tinyurl.com/4extmym)
1718 Jun 5, Thomas Chippendale,
English furniture maker was baptized.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1723 Jun 5, Economist Adam
Smith (d.1790) was baptized in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. He was the
author of “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations.” Smith studied at the Univ. of Glasgow, and then went to
Balliol College, Oxford. He then returned to the Univ. of Glasgow as
a Prof. of logic and then of moral philosophy. He promoted Laissez
faire economics and wrote "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of
the Wealth of Nations." His most famous statement is: "It is not
from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that
we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their
self-love." He also wrote the Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759. In
1995 Ian Simpson Ross wrote a biography of Smith titled: The Life of
Adam Smith. Smith also wrote "The Theory of Moral Sentiments." In
1999 Charles L. Griswold wrote "Adam Smith and the Virtues of
Enlightenment.
(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-20) (AP, 6/5/97) (WSJ,
1/11/99, p.R20) (WSJ, 2/09/99, p.A20)(MC, 6/5/02)
1794 Jun 5, Congress passed the
Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from enlisting in the
service of a foreign power.
(AP, 6/5/99)(HN, 6/5/98)
1827 Jun 5, Athens fell to the
Ottomans during Greek War of Independence.
(HN, 6/5/98)(MC, 6/5/02)
1832 Jun 5, In Paris an
insurrection took place during General Lamarque's funeral when
insurgents got as far as the Rue Montorgueil and were then driven
back.
(SFC, 6/30/07,
p.E2)(www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/07/01.htm)
1848 Jun 5, Army officer John
C. Fremont submitted his “Geographical Memoir” to the US Senate
where the SF Bay entrance was called Chrysopylae (Golden Gate). He
had in mind the Chrysoceras (Golden Horn) of Constantinople, and
suggested that the SF Bay would be advantageous for commerce.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.A20)
1851 Jun 5, Harriet Beecher
Stow published the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The
National Era.
(HN, 6/5/99)
1855 Jun 5, The anti-foreign,
anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party held its 1st convention.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1856 Jun 5, U.S. Army
troops in the Four creeks region of California, headed back to
quarters, officially ending the Tule River War. Fighting, however,
continued for a few more years.
(HN, 6/5/00)
1861 Jun 5, Federal marshals
seized arms and gunpowder at Du Pont works in Delaware.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1863 Jun 5, CSS Alabama
captured the Talisman in the Mid-Atlantic.
(HN, 6/5/98)
1863 Jun 5, Battle of
Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run).
(MC, 6/5/02)
1864 Jun 5, Battle of Piedmont,
VA (Augusta City).
(MC, 6/5/02)
1870 Jun 5, A fire in
Constantinople killed some 900 people.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1872 Jun 5, The Republican
National Convention, the first major political party convention to
includes blacks, commenced.
(HN, 6/5/98)
1873 Jun 5, Sultan Bargash
closed the slave market of Zanzibar. Missionaries bought the site
and began building an Anglican cathedral.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.C13)(MC, 6/5/02)
1876 Jun 5, Bananas became
popular in US following the Centennial Exposition in Phila.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1878 Jun 5, Francisco “Pancho”
Villa, Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader, was born. He
defied American General John J. Pershing’s expedition for him.
(HN, 6/5/99)
1880 Jun 5, Wild woman of the
west Myra Maybelle Shirley married Sam Starr even though records
show she was already married to Bruce Younger.
(HN, 6/5/99)
1883 Jun 5, Economist John
Maynard Keynes (d.1946), economist, was born in Cambridge, England.
He developed theories on the causes of prolonged unemployment and
advised wide government expenditures as a counter measure to
deflation and depression.
(V.D.-H.K.p.253)(AP, 6/5/97)(WSJ, 1/11/99,
p.R20)(HN, 6/5/99)
1884 Jun 5, Dame Ivy
Compton-Burnett, British author, was born.
(HN, 6/5/01)
1884 Jun 5, Civil War hero
General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential
nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not
serve if elected."
(AP, 6/5/97)
1898 Jun 5, Federico Garcia
Lorca (d.1936), Spanish poet and dramatist, was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.584)(MT, Spg. ‘99, p.2)(HN, 6/5/01)
1900 Jun 5, Dennis Gabor,
Hungarian-British physicist, inventor of 3D laser photography, was
born. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1971. [see Jan 5]
(HN, 6/5/98)(MC, 1/5/02)
1900 Jun 5, Stephen Crane (28),
author (Red Badge of Courage), died.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1900 Jun 5, In South Africa,
British troops under Lord Roberts seized Pretoria from the Boers.
(HN, 6/5/98)
1912 Jun 5, US marines invaded
Cuba (3rd time).
(MC, 6/5/02)
1915 Jun 5, Alfred Kazin
(d.1998), critic and editor (A Walker in the City), was born.
(HN, 6/5/01)(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.M2)
1915 Jun 5, Henri
Gaudier-Brzeska (23), French sculptor, died on the Western Front. In
1931 H.S. Ede authored “Savage Messiah: Gaudier Brzeska. In 2004
Paul O’Keeffe authored “Gaudier-Brzeska: An Absolute Case of
Genius.”
(Econ, 3/6/04,
p.76)(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9036204/Henri-Gaudier-Brzeska)
1916 Jun 5, Lord Herbert
Horatio Kitchener, British war hero, died when a German mine sank
his battleship in the North Sea. In 2001 John Pollock authored
“Kitchener: Architect of Victory, Artisan of Peace.”
(WSJ, 2/27/00, p.A24)
1917 Jun 5, About 10 million
American men began registering for the draft in World War I.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1919 Jun 5, Richard Scarry,
Children's author and illustrator, was born.
(HN, 6/5/01)
1920 Jun 5, Cornelius Ryan, US
historian, writer (The Longest Day), was born.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1920 Jun 5, The US congress
passed the Merchant Marine Act. It provided incentives and
assistance to the American shipping industry stating that
government-owned vessels should be sold only to American shipping
companies. It also created a federal agency to offer loans to US
shippers. The statute, sponsored by Senator Wesley L. Jones of
Washington, governed the workers compensation rights of sailors and
the use of foreign vessels in domestic trade.
(http://tinyurl.com/236pbjo)(Econ, 6/26/10,
p.18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Act)
1926 Jun 5, David Wagoner, poet
and novelist (The Escape Artist), was born.
(HN, 6/5/01)
1927 Jun 5, Johnny Weissmuller
set his 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1928 Jun 5, Robert Lansing,
actor (12 O'Clock High, Equalizer), was born in SD, Calif.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1932 Jun 5, Christy Brown,
Irish novelist and poet (My Left Foot), was born.
(HN, 6/5/01)
1933 Jun 5, The United States
went off the gold standard.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1934 Jun 5, Bill Moyers,
American broadcast journalist, was born. He served as President
Lyndon B. Johnson’s press secretary. He also made numerous
documentaries for the Public Broadcasting System.
(HN, 6/5/99)
1936 Jun 5, SF Bay Bridge
worker George Zink (40) of 325 Capistrano Ave. plunged to his death
becoming the 22nd man killed on the transbay bridge construction.
(SFC, 6/5/11, p.42)
1937 Jun 5, Henry Ford
initiated a 32 hour work week.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1939 Jun 5, Margaret Drabble,
English novelist (The Millstone, The Realms of Gold), was born.
(HN, 6/5/01)
1940 Jun 5, The Battle of
France began during World War II. Germany attacked French forces
along the Somme line.
(HN, 6/5/99)(AP, 6/5/07)
1943 Jun 5, German occupiers
arrested Louvain University's chancellor.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1944 Jun 5, Dwight D.
Eisenhower wrote a note to be issued in case the D-Day invasion
turned out to be a failure: “Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre
area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold, and I have
withdrawn the troops.” The note was [apparently misdated] dated July
5.
(SFC, 12/31/96, p.A7)
1944 Jun 5, The first B-29
bombing raid struck the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.
(HN, 6/5/98)
1944 Jun 5, Riccardo Zandonai
(61), composer, died.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1947 Jun 5, David Hare, British
playwright and director (A Map of the World, Slag), was born.
(HN, 6/5/01)
1947 Jun 5, Secretary of State
George C. Marshall in a speech at Harvard Univ. called for a
European Recovery Program to be initiated by the European powers and
supported by American aid (Marshall Plan). The program was intended
to assist European nations, including former enemies, to rebuild
their economies. From 1947 to 1952 it helped Western Europe recover
by providing some $13 billion worth of technical and economic aid.
In 2007 Greg Behrman authored “The Most Noble Adventure: The
Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe.”
(SFEC, 5/25/97, p.A10)(AP, 6/5/97)(HN,
6/5/98)(Econ, 9/29/07, p.89)
1949 Jun 5, Ken Follett,
novelist (Eye of the Needle, On The Wings of Eagles), was born.
(HN, 6/5/01)
1956 Jun 5, A three-judge panel
ruled 2-1 in Browder vs. Gayle that segregation on Montgomery’s
buses was unconstitutional. Alabama officials appealed.
(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.12)
1959 Jun 5, In the San
Francisco Bay Area 40 teachers were subpoenaed by the House
Un-American Activities Committee. Hearings were to open on June 17.
The ACLU said it would do everything it can to block the San
Francisco hearings.
(SSFC, 5/31/09, DB p.50)
1963 Jun 5, John Profumo
(1915-2006), British Minister of War, resigned due his relations
with Christine Keeler. [see Mar 22]
(AP, 3/10/06)
1963 Jun 5, A state of siege
was proclaimed in Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini was arrested.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1967 Jun 5, Murderer Richard
Speck (1941-1991) was sentenced to death in electric chair for the
murder of 8 student nurses on July 14, 1966. The Illinois Supreme
Court upheld his conviction and death sentence on November 22, 1968.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck)
1967 Jun 5, The Six Day War
erupted in the Middle East as Israel, convinced an Arab attack was
imminent, raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq
entered the conflict. Jordan lost the West Bank, an area of 2,270
sq. miles. War broke out as Israel reacted to the removal of UN
peace-keeping troops, Arab troop movements and the barring of
Israeli ships in the Gulf of Aqaba.
(AP, 6/5/97)(HN, 6/5/98)(NG, 5/93, p.58)(HNQ,
5/22/00)
1967 Jun 5-1967 Jun 10, Israel
fought the Six-Day War against Syria and captured the Golan Heights,
the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Allegations that
Israeli soldiers killed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners with the
knowledge of national leaders were made by Israeli historians in
1995. Israel occupied Syrian territory. The Gaza Strip and the West
Bank were captured by Israel. Israel annexed the largely Arab East
Jerusalem, which included the Old City, and has since ringed it with
Jewish neighborhoods.
(WSJ, 8/17/95, p.A-1)(WSJ,11/24/95, p.A-1)(WSJ,
5/6/96, p.A-13)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)(SFC, 1/22/98, p.B12)(SFC,
4/24/98, p.A17)
1968 Jun 5, Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded at the Ambassador Hotel in LA
just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential
primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.
(HFA, '96, p.32)(WUD, 1994, p.1687)(AP, 6/5/97)
1972 Jun 5, Yugoslav president
Tito visited the USSR.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1973 Jun 5, Doris A. Davis
becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major
metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, California.
(HN, 6/5/00)
1975 Jun 5, Gov. Jerry Brown of
California announced the new Agricultural Labor Relations Act. It
was a temporary truce in the struggle between the state’s farm
workers (UFW) led by Cesar Chavez and farmers. Chavez officially
ended the table grape, lettuce and wine boycott on Jan 31, 1978.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.22)(SFC, 1/31/03, p.E4)
1975 Jun 5, Britain’s voters
agreed to membership in the European Common Market.
(http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/fref70s.htm)
1975 Jun 5, Egypt reopened the
Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was
closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1976 Jun 5, The Teton Dam in
Idaho burst catastrophically and water blasted through a narrow
canyon and onto Sugar City. It released nearly 300,000 acre feet of
water, then flooded farmland and towns downstream with the eventual
loss of 14 lives, directly or indirectly, and with a cost estimated
to be nearly $1 billion.
(AP,
6/5/00)(www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/sylvester/Teton%20Dam/welcome_dam.html)
1977 Jun 5, The first Apple II
personal computers went on sale.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II)
1981 Jun 5, The US Federal
Centers for Disease Control published the first report of a
mysterious outbreak of a sometimes fatal pneumonia among gay men.
Dr. Michael Gottlieb of UCLA and Dr. Joel Weisman (1943-2009)
reported 5 cases of a rare pneumonia among gay men in LA. The
disease was initially called gay related immune deficiency (GRID).
The syndrome was named Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in
1982. Within 10 years the disease killed 110,000 Americans. People
infected with HIV came to be defined as having AIDS when their
immune system became so weak that they got one of 26 specific
illnesses including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, pneumonia, brain
infections and some other cancers.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B2)(AP, 6/5/02)(SSFC, 6/4/06,
p.A1)(Econ, 6/3/06, p.24)(SFC, 7/24/09, p.D5)
1981 Jun 5, George Harrison's
"Somewhere in England" album was released.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_England)
1983 Jun 5, In the 37th Tony
Awards: “Torch Song Trilogy” won for best play and “Cats” won for
best musical.
(http://tinyurl.com/2wetwl)
1984 Jun 5, Indira Gandhi
ordered an attack on Sikh's holiest site, the Golden Temple.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star)
1986 Jun 5, A federal jury in
Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the
Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus
10 years.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1987 Jun 5, President Reagan,
in Venice for an upcoming economic summit, called for an end to
government agriculture subsidies by the year 2000 in a televised
address carried in Europe by the United States Information Agency.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1988 Jun 5, In the 42nd Tony
Awards Madame Butterfly won for best play and Phantom of the Opera
won for best musical.
(www.wireimage.com/Headlines.asp?navtyp=CAL&ym=198806&nbc1=1)(AP,
6/5/98)
1988 Jun 5, Clarence Pendleton
(57), chairman of the US Civil Rights Commission, died.
(AP, 6/5/98)
1989 Jun 5, Chinese soldiers
slaughtered pro-democracy students at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
In one of the most remembered images of China's crushed
pro-democracy movement, a lone man stood defiantly in front of a
line of tanks in Beijing until friends pulled him out of the way. In
2001 "The Tiananmen Papers," a book based on classified documents
smuggled out of China, was published. Zhang Liang was the pseudonym
of the compiler. In 2009 Philip Cunningham authored “Tiananmen Moon:
Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989.”
(HN, 6/5/99)(AP, 6/5/99)(SFC, 1/6/01, p.A7)(SFCM,
3/18/01, p.4)(Econ, 8/22/09, p.75)
1990 Jun 5, Authorities in
Oakland County, Michigan, moved to prevent Dr. Jack Kevorkian from
continuing to make available a suicide device that Janet Adkins, an
Oregon woman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, had used a day
earlier to take her own life.
(AP, 6/5/00)
1990 Jun 5, In South Africa a
representative from the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in Durban met
with the Commissioner of the SAP (South African Police) to call for
a change in the "cultural weapons" policy.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1991/southafrica1/6.htm)
1990 Jun 5, Vasily V. Kuznetsov
(b.1901), president of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), died in
Moscow.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Kuznetsov)
1991 Jun 5, Lesbian priest
Elizabeth Carl was ordained in Episcopal Church.
(www.integrityusa.org/voice/1991/Fall1991.htm)
1991 Jun 5, The space shuttle
“Columbia” blasted off with seven astronauts on a nine-day mission.
(AP, 6/5/01)
1991 Jun 5, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev delivered his delayed Nobel Peace lecture in
Oslo, Norway, warning that Western failure to heed his call for
economic aid could dash hopes for a peaceful new world order.
(AP, 6/5/01)
1992 Jun 5, The US government
announced the nation's unemployment rate had jumped to 7.5 percent
the month before, the highest level in nearly eight years.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1993 Jun 5, In Texas,
Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison won the U.S. Senate seat vacated by
Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen.
(AP, 6/5/98)
1993 Jun 5, Colonial Affair,
ridden by Julie Krone, won the Belmont Stakes.
(AP, 6/5/98)
1993 Jun 5, Country star Conway
Twitty (born as Harold Lloyd Jenkins) died in Springfield, Mo., at
age 59. He was entombed in Gallatin, Tenn.
(AP, 6/5/98)(SSFC, 12/15/02, Par p.2)
1993 Jun 5, In Somalia,
militiamen loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid killed 24 Pakistani
soldiers.
(AP, 6/5/98)
1994 Jun 5, President Clinton
headed across the English Channel aboard the USS George Washington,
en route to the 50th anniversary commemoration of D-Day in Normandy.
(AP, 6/5/99)
1994 Jun 5, At least 264
Indonesian villagers in East Java were killed by an earthquake.
(AP, 6/5/99)
1994 Jun 5, In central Rwanda
13 Catholic clerics, including three bishops, were murdered at a
church. 3 Catholic bishops, including Kigali Archbishop Vincent
Nsengiyumva, were among the clerics murdered. In 2008 two army
officers pleaded guilty to their role in the murders. In 2008 a
military court in Kigali jailed two Rwandan army captains for 8
years for the killings during the 1994 genocide, but acquitted their
superiors of involvement in the slaughter.
(AFP, 6/18/08)(AFP, 10/24/08)
1995 Jun 5, “Allison,” a
minimal hurricane, buffeted the Gulf Coast with 75 mile-per-hour
winds, swamping streets and spinning off tornadoes but causing no
major damage.
(AP, 6/5/00)
1996 Jun 5, Joseph Waldholtz,
the ex-husband of U.S. Rep. Enid Greene, R-Utah, pleaded guilty to
providing his wife false information for her taxes and to falsifying
spending reports from her congressional campaign.
(AP, 6/5/97)
1996 Jun 5, 2001 A Medicare
report predicted that the federal health system for the elderly
would be bankrupt by the year 2001.
(WSJ, 6/5/96, p.A1)
1996 Jun 5, P. Terzian
reviewed: “Ain’t You Glad You Joined the Republicans,” by John C.
Batchelor. The book is an anecdotal history of the Republican Party.
(WSJ, 6/5/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 5, Anglican Church
leaders chose Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane to succeed Desmond Tutu as
the archbishop for southern Africa.
(SFC, 6/6/96, C3)
1996 Jun 5, The European
Commission decided to ease the ban on British exports over mad cow
disease.
(SFC, 6/6/96, C1)
1996 Jun 5, On World
Environment Day 210,000 hectares on the Masoala Peninsula of
Madagascar were proclaimed a national park, the 6th on the island.
(SFC, 6/23/96, zone 1 p.5)
1997 Jun 5, Harold J.
Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA officer ever caught spying
against his own country, was sentenced to 23 1/2 years in prison for
selling defense secrets to Russia after the Cold War. Officials
later claimed that he and his son continued to make contact with
Russian operatives. In 2009 Nicholson and his son were arraigned on
charges of money laundering and acting as agents of a foreign
government.
(AP, 6/5/98)(WSJ, 1/30/08, p.A3)
1997 Jun 5, The cremated
remains of some 2,000 people were found in a California Discovery
Bay storage facility. They were stored by a flying service that was
supposed to have disposed the remains at sea or over the Sierras for
mortuaries.
(SFC, 6/6/97, p.A23)
1997 Jun 5, Astronomers
reported a miniplanet beyond Pluto that is about 300 miles across,
with a surface area about the size of Texas. Jane Luu with
colleagues discovered the object named 1996TL66. It was considered
an extension of the Kuiper Belt, a body of objects that circle the
sun from beyond Neptune.
(SFC, 6/5/97, p.A16)
1997 Jun 5, The New York Stock
Exchange voted to report stock prices in decimals rather than
fractions.
(SDUT, 6/6/97, p.A1)
1997 Jun 5, Reporter J. Anthony
Lukas (64), winner of 2 Pulitzer prizes, committed suicide.
(SFC, 6/7/97, p.A19)(MC, 6/5/02)
1997 Jun 5, An accord was
signed to protect the 620-mile Caribbean coral reef system by
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
(SFC, 6/6/97, p.E3)
1997 Jun 5, In Algeria
parliamentary elections were scheduled. In a 65% turnout
pro-government forces took the largest share of votes. Two Islamist
parties picked up 1/4th of the parliament seats. Monitors were not
allowed to inspect some 5,000 portable voting booths.
(SFC, 5/16/97, p.A8)(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A16)
1997 Jun 5, China announced
that diplomat Ma Yuzhen would be its top civilian representative in
Hong Kong beginning July 1. Domestic affairs will be run by Hong
Kong residents but foreign affairs will be under the central
government.
(SFC, 6/6/97, p.E2)
1997 Jun 5, In the Republic of
the Congo government troops began an attack on the residence of
former leader Denis Sassou-Nguesso. He was able to flee and rally
his forces for a counterattack.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A12)
1997 Jun 5, In Spain the
parliament approved a labor reform pact to reduce the 22%
unemployment.
(SFC, 6/6/97, p.E2)
1997 Jun 5, In Turkey
parliamentary elections were scheduled. In a 65% turnout
pro-government forces took the largest share of votes. Two Islamist
parties picked up 1/4th of the parliament seats.
(SFC, 5/16/97, p.A8)
1998 Jun 5, Some 3,400 workers
at a GM stamping plant in Flint, Mich., went on strike. The strike
closed five assembly plants and idled workers nationwide for
seven weeks.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A7)(AP, 6/5/99)
1998 Jun 5, Volkswagen AG won
approval to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $703 million. However,
BMW later purchased the Rolls-Royce brand name and logo.
(AP, 6/5/99)(SFC, 6/6/98, p.D1)
1998 Jun 5, Some 70,000 white
bass at the Cheney Reservoir west of Wichita had died over the past
week from unexplained causes. The reservoir in the north fork of the
Ninnescah River was the main drinking water source for Wichita.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A4)
1998 Jun 5, In Texas an
estimated 22,000 trout died in the Guadalupe River after eating dead
fire ants that fell into the river after mating.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A4)
1998 Jun 5, Alfred Kazin
(b.1915), literary critic, died on his birthday. Kazin’s work
included 3 autobiographical volumes: “A Walker in the City,”
“Starting Out in the Thirties,” and “New York Jew.” In 2003
Ted Solotaroff edited "Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal
Writings." In 2007 Richard M. Cook authored “Alfred Kazin: A
Biography.”
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.M2)(WSJ, 1/12/08, p.W9)(SFC,
2/7/08, p.E2)
1998 Jun 5, In Cambodia over
1,000 former Khmer Rouge soldiers were inducted into the Cambodian
army at Anlong Veng. Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok and some loyalists
were still in the jungles along the Thai border.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A11)
1998 Jun 5, In Matamoros,
Mexico, Salvador Gomez, a former policeman and drug cartel leader,
was arrested.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A12)
1999 Jun 5, "Charismatic"
failed in his bid to win racing’s Triple Crown, finishing 3rd, with
fractures in the lower left front leg, behind "Lemon Drop Kid" and
"Vision and Verse" in the Belmont Stakes.
(WSJ, 6/7/99, p.A20)(AP, 6/5/00)
1999 Jun 5, Steffi Graf won her
sixth French Open title, beating top-ranked Martina Hingis 4-6, 7-5,
6-2.
(AP, 6/5/00)
1999 Jun 5, Some 3,000
protestors demonstrated outside the Pentagon against the NATO
bombing in Yugoslavia.
(SFEC, 6/6/99, p.A4)
1999 Jun 5, In Washington DC
Nancy Richards-Akers, a popular romance novelist, was shot and
killed by her husband in front of their 2 children. Jeremy R. Akers
then killed himself.
(SFC, 6/7/99, p.A2)
1999 Jun 5, Jazz and pop singer
Mel Torme died in Los Angeles at age 73.
(AP, 6/5/00)
1999 Jun 5, NATO commanders
spelled out the withdrawal terms to Yugoslav military officers in a
5-hour meeting near the Macedonian border. More talks were
scheduled.
(SFEC, 6/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 5, India rejected
proposed talks with Pakistan for Jun 7 as inconvenient. Indian
Gen'l. Chopra estimated 200 intruders had been killed and said 54
Indian soldiers were killed in the recent Kashmir fighting.
(SFEC, 6/6/99, p.A22)
1999 Jun 5, Pope John Paul the
Second began a 13-day pilgrimage to his native Poland.
(AP, 6/5/00)
2000 Jun 5, Pres. Clinton met
with Pres. Kuchma in Ukraine and Kuchma announced the closure of the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant by Dec 15. Clinton pledged $80 million
to help pay the $750 million cost to stabilize the sarcophagus of
the ruined reactor.
(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A1)
2000 Jun 5, Baltimore Ravens
linebacker Ray Lewis pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count under an
agreement that dropped murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two
men outside a Super Bowl party in Atlanta. Lewis was sentenced to a
year of probation.
(AP, 6/5/01)
2000 Jun 5, Computer rebels
planned to launch a data haven, an independent colony in cyberspace,
based on the island of Sealand, a WW II military fortress 6 miles
off the coast of England.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.A4)
2000 Jun 5, Burkina Faso
Cardinal Paul Zoungrana (82) died.
(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A21)
2000 Jun 5, Eritrea claimed
that an Ethiopian attack near Assab was foiled and that 3,755
Ethiopian troops were “killed, wounded, or taken prisoner.”
(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A10)
2000 Jun 5, In Ethiopia 14
children were trampled to death at the Mega Amphitheater in Addis
Ababa when a crowd pushed to get out of the rain.
(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A16)
2000 Jun 5, Ethiopia accused
Eritrea of rounding up 7,529 Ethiopian citizens and putting them
under armed guard for deportation.
(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A10)
2000 Jun 5, Russia’s Pres.
Putin traveled to Italy and met with Prime Minister Giuliano Amato.
Putin then met with Pope John Paul II.
(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A13)
2000 Jun 5, In Sri Lanka the
government claimed that it had killed some 1,000 rebels in recent
days. The censorship over foreign media was lifted.
(WSJ, 6/6/00, p.A1)
2001 Jun 5, Pres. Bush sent
George Tenet, the CIA director, to help Middle East security talks.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C2)
2001 Jun 5, Defense Sec. Donald
Rumsfeld visited Macedonia as Albanian rebels clashed with
government troops near Tetovo.
(WSJ, 6/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 5, Senate Republicans
spent their last full day in power before turning control over to
Democrats, a change that came about because of a decision by Vermont
Sen. James Jeffords to leave the GOP and become an independent.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.A3)(AP, 6/5/02)
2001 Jun 5, In Afghanistan the
Taliban ordered foreigners to obey strict Muslim laws or face
expulsion.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C2)
2001 Jun 5, It was reported
that the ecstasy drug was a big hit in Chinese night clubs. It had
begun filtering in from Hong Kong in 1998.
(SFC, 6/5/01, p.A12)
2001 Jun 5, In China 13
children were killed in a fire at a kindergarten dormitory in
Nanchang.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C3)
2001 Jun 5, In Romania 10
people were killed In Constanta when workers set off an explosion
while welding the hull of a Maltese oil tanker.
(SFC, 6/6/01, p.C3)
2002 Jun 5, Attorney Gen. John
Ashcroft announced a National Security Entry-Exit Registration
System for certain aliens to be fingerprinted and photographed as
they cross the border. It legally fell under a 1952 law for foreign
visitors.
(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A1,14)(WSJ, 6/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 5, Robert Kelly (R.
Kelly), R&B performer, was indicted in Florida on child
pornography charges.
(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A2)
2002 Jun 5, The SF Guardian
reported that Greg Palast, BBC journalist, had uncovered that the
state of Florida had used an inaccurate list in an effort to purge
felons from the 2000 voter rolls. As it turned out, only a fraction
of the 57,700 people on the list were ex-cons.
(SFG, 6/5/02)
2002 Jun 5, Magic Johnson was
introduced as a member of the 2002 class elected to the Naismith
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
(AP, 6/5/03)
2002 Jun 5, Elizabeth Ann Smart
(14) was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Salt Lake City.
Richard Albert Ricci (48), a suspect and former handyman for the
family, died from a brain tumor on Aug 30. She was found Mar 12,
2003, with kidnapper Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Eileen
Barzee. In 2005 a judge found Mitchell mentally incompetent to stand
trial. In 2009 Barzee (64) pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15
years in prison. She also agreed to testify against her husband. In
2010 a federal jury found Mitchell guilty of kidnapping and forcing
sex on her for 9 months. On May 25, 2011, a federal judge sentenced
Brian David Mitchell to life in prison.
(SFC, 6/7/02, p.A3)(SFC, 3/13/03, p.1)(SFC,
7/27/05, p.A3)(SFC, 11/17/09, p.A7)(SFC, 12/11/10, p.A4)(SFC,
5/26/11, p.A11)
2002 Jun 5, It was reported
that US intelligence believed that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed of Kuwait,
a key bin Laden lieutenant, was the mastermind of the Sep 11
terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 6/5/02, p.A16)
2002 Jun 5, The space shuttle
Endeavour launched from Cape Canaveral carrying 7 new residents for
the int'l. space station.
(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A7)
2002 Jun 5, Dee Dee Ramone
(49), former head of the Ramones punk rock band, died of a heroin
overdose in his Hollywood home. In 2000 Ramone authored “”Lobotomy:
surviving the Ramones.”
(SFC, 6/7/02, p.A2)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.D4)
2002 Jun 5, In Australia PM
John Howard used World Environment Day to reject calls for his
government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
(AP, 6/6/02)
2002 Jun 5, Colombia ratified
the Rome Statute, the treaty that created an Int'l. Criminal Court.
(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A10)
2002 Jun 5, India PM Vajpayee
said his country would consider jointly monitoring the disputed
Kashmir border with Pakistan. Pakistan rejected India's proposal for
joint patrols in Kashmir.
(SFC, 6/5/02, p.A1)(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A8)
2002 Jun 5, In Israel a car
bomb went off next to a bus near Megiddo and at least 17 people were
killed.
(SFC, 6/5/02, p.A1)(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 5, In South Korea Kim
Hong Gul, the youngest son of Pres. Kim Dae Jung, was indicted on
charges of accepting some $3 million in bribes from companies
seeking government contracts and tax evasion.
(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A11)
2002 Jun 5, In Sweden
legislators voted to let same-sex couples adopt children.
(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A10)
2003 Jun 5, Speaking to U.S.
soldiers in Qatar, President Bush argued the U.S.-led invasion of
Iraq was justified and pledged that "we'll reveal the truth" on
Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 6/5/04)
2003 Jun 5, The United States
agreed to pull its ground troops away from the Demilitarized Zone
separating North and South Korea.
(AP, 6/5/04)
2003 Jun 5, In NYC Howell
Raines, NY Times executive editor, resigned along with Gerald M.
Boyd, managing editor, due to their handling of inaccurate stories
by recently released reporter Jason Blair.
(WSJ, 6/6/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 5, Pope John Paul II
began his landmark 100th foreign pilgrimage with a five-day,
five-city tour of Croatia.
(AP, 6/5/03)
2003 Jun 5, In Liberia deputy
ministers Isaac Nuhan Vaye and John Winpoe Yormie were arrested
about the same time that Pres. Taylor announced that a coup plot had
been uncovered. Vaye and Yormie were later reported killed.
(SFC, 7/16/03, p.A12)
2003 Jun 5, A bomber attacked a
bus near a Russian military air base near Chechnya on Thursday,
killing herself and at least 16 others.
(AP, 6/5/03)
2003 Jun 5, Thailand's
Constitutional Court ruled that Thai women will no longer be
required to take their husband's family name when they marry.
(AP, 6/5/03)
2004 Jun 5, Smarty Jones lost
to Birdstone (36-to-1) at the 136th running at Belmont Park.
(SSFC, 6/6/04, C1)
2004 Jun 5, The U.S.S. Jimmy
Carter, the most advanced nuclear submarine in the U.S. Navy, was
christened at a shipyard in Groton, Conn., in the presence of the
former president and his wife, Rosalynn, who cracked a bottle of
champagne against the sail.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2004 Jun 5, Ronald Reagan
(b.1911), 40th US president (1981-1989), died in California after a
long twilight struggle with Alzheimer's disease. In 2005 Paul Lettow
authored “Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.”
It focused on what Reagan said and did. John Ehrman authored “The
Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan,” in which he sees Reagan as
the embodiment of the conservative movement. In 2006 Richard Reeves
authored “President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination.”
(AP, 6/6/04)(SSFC, 3/27/05, p.E3)(Econ, 2/4/06,
p.75)
2004 Jun 5, The European
Investment Bank (EIB) granted a loan of 100 million euros (122
million dollars) to Egypt's state-run natural gas holding company
(EGAS) to finance pipeline construction in Jordan.
(AFP, 6/6/04)
2004 Jun 5, France's first gay
marriage was performed in the southwest city of Bordeaux. On July 27
it was officially declared void by a court but the two homosexual
men involved immediately said they would appeal the ruling.
(AP, 7/27/04)
2004 Jun 5, French engineering
giant Alstom said a consortium it was leading had signed an
88-million-euro ($107 mil) contract for work on three railway lines
in the suburbs of Algiers.
(AP, 6/6/04)
2004 Jun 5, Iranian officials
said police had killed at least 58 drug smugglers and confiscated
more than 50 tons of narcotics in the past two months.
(AP, 6/5/04)
2004 Jun 5, In Iraq a roadside
bomb killed an American soldier and wounded 3 others in the 2nd
fatal attack on U.S. troops in Baghdad in as many days. Iraq's new
leader called for a halt to attacks on foreign troops.
(AP, 6/5/04)
2004 Jun 5, In Iraq 8 people
stormed into a police station south of Baghdad, opened fire and
killed seven officers before planting explosives to destroy the
building.
(AP, 6/6/04)
2004 Jun 5, Japan's legislature
adopted a bill designed to save the country's troubled pension
system following an all-night debate marred by brawls and a walkout
by opposition parties. The bill raised pension fund premiums from
13.58% of pay to 18.3% by 2017.
(AP, 6/5/04)(Econ, 7/16/05, p.36)
2004 Jun 5, In Venezuela tens
of thousands of opposition supporters marched through Caracas to
celebrate a recent announcement by election authorities that
President Hugo Chavez likely will face a recall referendum on his
rule.
(AP, 6/6/04)
2005 Jun 5, One year ago:
"Monty Python's Spamalot" won three Tony Awards, including best
musical; the musical play "The Light in the Piazza" won six prizes,
while "Doubt" was named best drama.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2005 Jun 5, FBI agents in Lodi,
Ca., arrested Hamid Hayat (22) for training at an al Qaeda camp in
Pakistan and his father (47) for lying about his son’s activities.
In 2006 Umer Hayat pleaded guilty to charges of lying to customs
agents to avoid a trial. In 2007 Hamid was sentenced to 24 years in
prison for supporting terrorists by training with them in Pakistan.
(SFC, 6/9/05, p.A1)(SFC, 6/1/06, p.B1)(SFC,
9/11/07, p.D2)
2005 Jun 5, In San Francisco
big city mayors from around the world signed a set of 21 urban
environmental accords, capping a 5-day UN World Environment
conference.
(AP, 6/6/05)(SFC, 6/6/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 5, Texas Gov. Rick
Perry signed anti-abortion and anti-gay legislation at the Calvary
Christian Academy in Fort Worth.
(SFC, 6/6/05, p.A3)
2005 Jun 5, The Chinese
government said 3 days of flooding triggered by torrential rains
killed 204 people in China's south and desert northwest and left 79
missing at the beginning of the country's summer flood season.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2005 Jun 5, Spanish teenager
Rafael Nadal beat unseeded Mariano Puerta of Argentina 6-7 (6), 6-3,
6-1, 7-5 to win the French Open men's singles title.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2005 Jun 5, An accident inside
the Frejus Alpine tunnel between France and Italy killed at least
two people. A truck loaded with tires and another carrying glue
caught fire along with four other vehicles.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2005 Jun 5, In Jordan 14 men
who earlier admitted plotting terrorism and sparking riots that
killed six people in southern Jordan testified that they were
tortured into confessing. The men then pleaded innocent before a
military court.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2005 Jun 5, Five suspected
Islamic militants were killed in an ongoing gunbattle with troops in
Indian Kashmir's Rajouri district.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2005 Jun 5, Kuwait named two
women to public office for the first time, less than a month after
parliament passed a historic law granting women the right to vote
and run for office.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2005 Jun 5, Lebanon held its
2nd of a 4-stage vote. A week earlier anti-Syrian opposition
candidates took most of the capital's 19 parliamentary seats. 53
candidates vied for 23 seats in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah, the
armed group considered a terrorist organization by the US, and its
Amal allies swept voting in southern Lebanon.
(AP, 6/6/05)(WSJ, 6/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 5, In Mauritania
Algerian insurgents attacked an army base overnight in Mgheiti in
the northern desert setting off a gunbattle that left at least 24
people dead.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2005 Jun 5, Swiss voters
approved, by a 55-45% majority, joining the European Union in the
Schengen passport-free travel zone, abolishing checks on the
country's border by 2007. They also granted same-sex couples more
rights.
(AP, 6/6/05)(Econ, 6/11/05, p.48)
2005 Jun 5, Taiwan reported
that it had successfully test-fired a locally developed cruise
missile capable of striking southeastern areas of mainland China.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2005 Jun 5, In southeastern
Turkey Kurdish rebels ambushed a Turkish commando unit overnight,
killing four soldiers and wounding one near Tunceli.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2006 Jun 5, More than 50
National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to work along the
US-Mexico border as part of President Bush's crackdown on illegal
immigration.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2006 Jun 5, Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke warned of concern on core inflation. His
remarks knocked the DJIA down 199 points to 11,048.72.
(SFC, 6/6/06, p.C1)
2006 Jun 5, Activists marked
World Environment Day with the United Nations warning that
desertification was a main obstacle to ending poverty and can
trigger conflicts.
(Reuters, 6/4/06)
2006 Jun 5, Brookfield
Properties Corp. said it will acquire Trizec Properties and its
Canadian arm for $4.8 billion. The deal would create one of North
America’s largest landlords.
(SFC, 6/6/06, p.C3)
2006 Jun 5, Frederick Franck
(b.1909), Netherlands-born artist, died of congestive heart failure
at his home in Warwick, NY. His art and writings reflected his deep
interest in human spirituality. Franck wrote more than 30 books,
including "The Zen of Seeing - Seeing/Drawing as Meditation" (1973),
and "To Be Human Against All Odds" (1991).
(AP, 6/18/06)
2006 Jun 5, In southern
Afghanistan suspected Taliban rebels stormed a highway police
checkpost and killed five policemen, abducted four others and stole
weapons.
(AFP, 6/5/06)
2006 Jun 5, Austria’s Bawag PSK
bank agreed to pay at least $675 million to avoid prosecution and
settle bankruptcy claims for its role in the collapse of Refco Inc,
a US commodities brokerage firm.
(SFC, 6/6/06, p.C6)
2006 Jun 5, In Chile protesters
clashed with police in Santiago as students stepped up demands for
reforms to the country's educational system, saying new government
concessions didn't go far enough.
(AP, 6/6/06)
2006 Jun 5, A top official said
China's pollution problems cost the country more than $200 billion a
year and called for better legal protection for grassroots groups so
they can help clean up the environment.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2006 Jun 5, Czech opposition
leader Mirk Topolanek, whose party narrowly won the weekend's
parliamentary elections, said he would seek a governing coalition.
His Civic Democrats allied with the Christian Democrats and Greens
took 100 seats of the lower house.
(AP, 6/5/06)(Econ, 6/10/06, p.50)
2006 Jun 5, Iceland's PM
Halldor Asgrimsson (58) announced he was stepping down in the wake
of his party's poor performance in recent local elections.
(AP, 6/6/06)
2006 Jun 5, Gunmen in police
uniforms raided bus stations in central Baghdad, seizing at least 50
people, including drivers and passengers preparing to travel outside
Iraq. At least 2 students were shot dead elsewhere in Baghdad.
Mustafa Mohammed Jubouri was jailed for life by a Baghdad court for
the kidnapping and killing in 2004 of aid activist Margaret Hassan,
a British-born Iraqi citizen. At least 26 people died in Iraq,
including 15 in Baghdad alone. In southern Iraq a bomb exploded near
an Italian patrol killing one Italian soldier and wounding four.
(AP, 6/5/06)(AFP, 6/5/06)(AP, 6/6/06)
2006 Jun 5, In Japan investment
manager Yoshiaki Murakami admitted that he had violated insider
trading laws and said he would resign from his fund. He was arrested
later in the day.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2006 Jun 5, Liberia, the first
African country led by a democratically elected woman, began
recruiting women into its new postwar army.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2006 Jun 5, Mexico proposed
creating an environmental reserve (the Rio Bravo del Norte proposal)
about 30 feet wide and 600 miles long on the Texas border, a "green
wall" to protect the Rio Grande from the roads and staging areas
that smugglers use to ferry drugs and migrants across the frontier.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2006 Jun 5, Hamas militants
stormed a Palestinian TV broadcast facility in the southern Gaza
Strip, kicking workers out of the building and destroying equipment
in a shooting rampage. A large explosion ripped through a house in
northern Gaza, killing a member of the Hamas militant group and
wounding two other people, including his 8-year-old son.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2006 Jun 5, Levon
Chakhmakhchyan, a regional lawmaker from Kalmykia, faced expulsion
from Russia's upper house of parliament after federal security
agents allegedly caught him accepting $300,000 in extorted money in
a sting operation.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2006 Jun 5, Serbian lawmakers
proclaimed their republic a sovereign state after Montenegro decided
to split from a union and dissolve the remnants of what was once
Yugoslavia.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2006 Jun 5, An Islamic militia
said it has seized Somalia's capital after weeks of bloody fighting
and 15 years of anarchy in this Horn of Africa nation, raising fears
that the nation could fall under the sway of al-Qaida. Some 350
fighters and civilians had been killed over the past month with at
least 2,000 wounded.
(AP, 6/5/06)(Econ, 6/10/06, p.44)
2006 Jun 5, In South Africa the
Johannesburg stock exchange (JSE) became a listed company on its own
exchange. The JSE was the 17th largest in the world and the largest
in Africa. It listed only 25 foreign companies.
(Econ, 6/10/06, p.72)
2006 Jun 5, Key Syrian
opposition figures urged Syrians to work to oust President Bashar
Assad by using acts of civil disobedience reminiscent to the
upheaval that freed nations behind the Iron Curtain.
(AP, 6/5/06)
2007 Jun 5, US President George
W. Bush sought to soothe Moscow's fury at Washington's plans to
extend its anti-missile shield in Europe, saying in Prague on the
eve of the G8 summit that Russia was "not our enemy."
(AFP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, Lewis "Scooter"
Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, was
sentenced to 30 months in prison for perjury and obstruction, in a
case which also put a glaring spotlight on the flawed US case for
waging war against Iraq. President Bush later commuted the prison
sentence.
(AFP, 6/5/07)(AP, 6/5/08)
2007 Jun 5, Coca-Cola Co. at
the World Wildlife Foundation's annual meeting in Beijing announced
it is funding a $20 million project to conserve seven major rivers
worldwide and also will revamp its bottling practices to reduce
pollution and water use.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, A passenger train
and truck collided at a rail crossing in southern Australia, killing
11 people and injuring up to 50.
(AP, 6/5/07)(AP, 6/6/07)
2007 Jun 5, In Bolivia the
judiciary stage a one-day strike to counter a presidential assault
on its independence.
(Econ, 6/9/07, p.41)
2007 Jun 5, The governor of
Brazil's Amazon state signed into law legislation aimed at curbing
global warming in an area bigger than France and Spain combined.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, China joined Russia
in criticizing a US plan to build a missile defense system in
Europe, saying the system could set off an arms race.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, Tony Mokbel (42), a
top Australian fugitive, was arrested in Greece. The next day he
accused Australia's authorities of saddling him with a bogus murder
charge to secure his extradition. Mokbel had fled overseas in 2006
while on bail for importing cocaine.
(AFP, 6/6/07)
2007 Jun 5, Alert guards gunned
down a black-clad woman at a police recruiting station in Baghdad, a
would-be suicide bomber who then exploded before their eyes. Another
bomber in Amiriyah killed at least 15 people at a gathering of
tribal leaders opposed to al-Qaida in the volatile Anbar province.
Gunmen assassinated a local leader of Muqtada al-Sadr's radical
Shiite Muslim faction south of Baghdad, and to the north insurgents
ambushed an Iraqi army vehicle, killing an undetermined number of
soldiers. Police Maj. Enad Khattab was shot and killed along with
his brother as they drove in central Beiji about 155 miles north of
Baghdad.
(AP, 6/5/07)(AP, 6/6/07)(WSJ, 6/6/07, p.A1)
2007 Jun 5, Kenyan police
overnight killed more than 20 suspected members of Mungiki, an
outlawed religious sect, accused in a string of beheadings and the
deaths of two police officers in the Mathare slum the previous day.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, Pakistani police
said they have filed a preliminary complaint against about 200
journalists for defying a ban on rallies in the capital by
protesting curbs on the media, the latest sign of government
intolerance of coverage of a political crisis.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, Rwanda said it will
withdraw from the Economic Community of Central African States
(CEEAC) because it hampers Kigali's membership in other regional
blocs.
(AFP, 6/6/07)
2007 Jun 5, Serbian authorities
began excavating what appeared to be a mass grave, at an abandoned
quarry on a border zone between Serbia and Kosovo, containing the
bodies of more than 350 Kosovo Albanians. Witnesses reported seeing
four trucks unload bodies in the area of Raska, near the border with
Kosovo in 1999 during a Serbian crackdown. A 3-day search yielded no
human remains.
(AP, 6/5/07)(AP, 6/8/07)
2007 Jun 5, In Spain the Basque
separatist group ETA called off its 15-month-old cease-fire,
formalizing what many saw as the demise of a once-promising peace
process already struck down by a deadly bombing in December.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, Spanish media said
a court has ordered police to capture and search two vessels
belonging to a Florida firm that recently announced it had found a
shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean laden with an estimated $500 million
worth of Colonial-era treasure.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, Abdel Nur, a
Guyanese national and the fourth suspect in an alleged plot to
attack New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, surrendered in Trinidad.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, Zimbabwe's
electricity provider raised tariffs for both domestic and commercial
customers by 50 percent at a time when a major outage has left large
parts of the country without power.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 5, A Vatican engineer
said some Holy See buildings will start using solar energy,
reflecting Pope Benedict XVI's concern about conserving the Earth's
resources.
(AP, 6/6/07)
2008 Jun 5, Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
said he welcomed martyrdom at US hands, as he and four codefendants
faced trial for war crimes without the benefit of lawyers.
(AP, 6/6/08)
2008 Jun 5, Alain Robert (45),
the man known as the French "Spiderman," climbed The New York Times
building to draw attention to global warming, adding to earlier
conquests including the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Hours later a 2nd man ascended the building and was also arrested at
the top.
(Reuters, 6/6/08)(SFC, 6/6/08, p.A4)
2008 Jun 5, Continental
Airlines Inc said it would cut 3,000 jobs, or about 6.5 percent of
its work force, and retire 67 older planes as it scales down in the
face of soaring fuel prices.
(Reuters, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, A provincial
spokesman said NATO forces bombed a location in Paktika province and
killed all 32 Taliban who had gathered there. Afghan police killed
three Taliban militants in Jani Khail district of the same province
and two other militants were wounded. A roadside bomb struck a
civilian vehicle in Waza Khwa district of Paktika, killing a man,
his wife and son (12).
(AFP, 6/6/08)
2008 Jun 5, In Algeria a bomb
attack blamed on Islamist militants killed six Algerian soldiers and
wounded four in Cap Djinet, east of Algiers.
(AFP, 6/6/08)
2008 Jun 5, Australian police
said 70 men have been arrested in a global crackdown on Internet
child pornography and more will be detained.
(AFP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, In China more than
10,000 people were moved to higher ground as water continued to rise
in a brimming lake formed by landslides from the May 12 earthquake
and another strong aftershock rocked the quake-battered region.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, Egyptian
archaeologists unveiled a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that they
believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist almost 200
years ago and never seen again. The pyramid was thought to have been
built by King Menkauhor, an obscure pharaoh who ruled for only eight
years. The style of the pyramid indicates it was from the Fifth
Dynasty, a period that began in 2,465 B.C. and ended in 2,325 B.C.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, The European
Parliament called for the peacekeeping mandate for Russian troops in
the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia to be revised. The chamber
also demanded the EU sends its own border mission into the conflict
zone in Abkhazia.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, The US military
captured two Shiite militia suspects south of Baghdad.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, An Israeli missile
aimed at a group of Palestinian militants struck a house and killed
a girl (6), hours after an Israeli was killed by a Hamas mortar
barrage fired from the area.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, In Italy a 3-day UN
summit aimed at fighting hunger worldwide ended with pledges to
boost food output, calls to cut trade barriers and more research on
biofuels. Just before the meeting Saudi Arabia announced a donation
of $500 million.
(WSJ, 6/6/08, p.A10)(Econ, 6/7/08, p.70)
2008 Jun 5, Malaysia's
government faced street demonstrations and public outrage over its
decision to hike petrol prices 41 percent overnight, in a bid to
curb its massive subsidies bill.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, Amnesty
International said Myanmar's military regime has forced cyclone
survivors to do menial labor in exchange for food and stepped up a
campaign to evict displaced citizens from aid shelters.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, Dutch police
arrested Aqueel Ur Rehman Abbasi, a 26-year-old Pakistani man,
sought in Spain on terrorism charges. He was arrested in his prison
cell in Vught where he was being held by the immigration and
naturalization services.
(AFP, 6/6/08)
2008 Jun 5, Pakistani
authorities arrested three suspected suicide bombers and seized more
than a ton of explosives in a suspected terror plot near Islamabad.
(AP, 6/6/08)
2008 Jun 5, South Korea's
antitrust regulator said it will order Intel Corp. to pay 26 billion
won ($25.4 million) for violating fair trade rules.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, Fighting in
northern Sri Lanka claimed 16 LTTE members and two soldiers.
(AP, 6/6/08)
2008 Jun 5, Sudan said it was
banning US companies from working with international peacekeepers in
Darfur and would not renew a contract held by a unit of US defense
firm Lockheed Martin Corp.
(Reuters, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, Diplomats said
Syria has told a 35-nation meeting that it will limit what UN
nuclear inspectors can see when they go to check on allegations that
Damascus is hiding atomic facilities.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, A Turkish TV
station quoted a senior military commander as saying that Turkey and
Iran have carried out coordinated strikes against Kurdish rebels in
northern Iraq.
(AP, 6/5/08)
2008 Jun 5, Zimbabwe opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai vowed to push on with his bid to topple
Robert Mugabe at a run-off poll as he returned to the campaign trail
a day after being detained by police. The US Embassy said its
diplomats and British colleagues were attacked as they tried to
investigate Zimbabwe’s political violence.
(AP, 6/5/08)(AFP, 6/5/08)
2009 Jun 5, President
Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp in Germany
after prodding the international community to redouble efforts
toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving
a conflict fueled by the Jewish nation's post-Holocaust creation.
(AP, 6/5/09)
2009 Jun 5, Raymond Lee Oyler
(38), a convicted arsonist, was sentenced to death for setting the
October 26, 2006, Southern California Esperanza wildfire that killed
five federal firefighters struggling to defend a rural home from
raging, wind-driven flames.
(AP, 6/6/09)
2009 Jun 5, Neal Wanless (23)
accepted a ceremonial $232.1 million Powerball check in Pierre,
South Dakota. Wanless bought $15 worth of tickets to the May 27
thirty-state drawing at a convenience store in Winner during a trip
to buy livestock feed. He will take home a lump sum of $88.5 million
after taxes are deducted.
(AP, 6/6/09)(SFC, 6/6/09, p.A6)
2009 Jun 5, General Motors
Corp. announced a tentative deal to sell its Saturn brand to former
race car driver and dealership group owner Roger Penske.
(AP, 6/5/09)
2009 Jun 5, In Oregon Korena
Roberts (b.1980) bludgeoned to death Heather Snively (21) of
Maryland and cut her unborn child from her womb. The baby did not
survive. In 2010 Roberts pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and was
sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 10/7/10,
p.A6)(www.kval.com/news/69767317.html)
2009 Jun 5, In San Francisco
Clyde Forsman (b.1915), singer and accordion enthusiast, died. He
was an initial member of San Francisco-based “Those Darn Accordions”
and gained notoriety for his full body tattoos.
(SFC, 6/12/09, p.B6)
2009 Jun 5, Three Afghan
children were killed by a mortar left over from a battle between
police and Taliban. Two roadside bombs exploded an hour apart in
separate areas of the eastern province of Nangarhar, killing six
policemen. Heavy fighting erupted in eastern Khost when militants
attacked a compound where foreign troops were based. At least 15
militants were killed at the site in the Sabari district. A
policeman and a militia soldier contracted to the US military were
also killed. Police killed three Taliban militants in the
neighboring province of Paktia overnight. Afghan and US-led
coalition forces killed two "opposition commanders" in the southern
province of Kandahar. Another four militants were killed in
incidents in Farah province in the south and Paktika in the east.
(AFP, 6/5/09)(AP, 6/6/09)
2009 Jun 5, The
Anglo-Australian firm Rio Tinto cancelled its controversial tie-up
with China's Chinalco in favor of a joint venture with fierce rival
BHP Billiton and a 15.2 billion US dollar rights issue.
(AFP, 6/5/09)
2009 Jun 5, Bosnia’s war crimes
court Zeljko Ivankovic (37), a former member of a Bosnian Serb
special police unit, had taken part in the July 11, 1995, killing of
at least 1,000 Muslim men from Srebrenica and that he would be tried
for genocide.
(SFC, 6/6/09,
p.A2)(www.emportal.rs/en/news/region/81408.html)
2009 Jun 5, British PM Gordon
Brown shook up his Cabinet in hopes of hanging on to his job in the
midst of a scandal over lawmakers' expenses, a string of top-level
resignations and catastrophic results expected in local elections.
Alan Johnson confirmed he has been named home secretary in a
reshuffle carried out by PM Brown.
(AP, 6/5/09)(AFP, 6/5/09)
2009 Jun 5, In southwestern
China at least 26 people were buried when part of a mountain
collapsed in a massive landslide in a remote area of Wulong county
in Chongqing municipality. 74 people were missing, including 47
workers at an iron ore mine, 21 local residents, two telecom company
workers and four passers-by. 27 people died and dozens were hurt
when a packed commuter bus burst into flames and was destroyed
within minutes during the morning rush hour in the southwestern city
of Chengdu. Police later said a 62-year-old unemployed man set the
fire after carrying a bucket of gasoline onto the bus.
(AP, 6/5/09)(AP, 6/6/09)(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jun 5, Authorities in
Guinea-Bissau said they foiled an attempted coup, and security
forces killed two people allegedly involved, including a candidate
in the upcoming presidential ballot. Guinea-Bissau's intelligence
service said the coup plot was masterminded by former Defense
Minister Helder Proenca and that presidential candidate Baciro Dabo
was also involved. Both men died in separate shootings.
(AP, 6/5/09)(SFC, 6/6/09, p.A2)
2009 Jun 5, In Iraq an American
soldier died as the result of a non-combat related incident.
(AP, 6/5/09)
2009 Jun 5, Israeli officials
said they will not heed President Barack Obama's powerful appeal to
halt all settlement activity on lands the Palestinians claim for a
future state, a position that looks sure to cause a policy clash
with its most powerful ally. Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man
during a demonstration against the construction of the West Bank
separation barrier. Yussef Aqil Srour (35) died from a chest wound
that appeared to have been caused by live fire. Witnesses said
troops fired tear gas, rubber bullets and possibly live rounds at
rock-throwing demonstrators in the village of Naalin.
(AP, 6/5/09)
2009 Jun 5, In Mexico a
fast-moving fire killed 49 babies and toddlers at the ABC day care
in the city of Hermosillo, Sonora state, despite desperate attempts
of firefighters, who punched through the walls and fought their way
through flames to rescue babies, toddlers and others trapped inside.
No fire alarm or sprinkler system had gone off, according to
witnesses. One mother said a second door to the day care was bolted
shut and nobody could find the key. In 2011 federal police arrested
Arturo Leyva Lizarraga, a former government official, on homicide
and abuse of authority charges tied to a day care center fire.
(AP, 6/6/09)(AP, 6/7/09)(AP, 6/8/09)(AP,
6/23/09)(AP, 5/10/11)
2009 Jun 5, In Myanmar refugees
began streaming out of the Ler Per Her camp in eastern Karen state
and into Thailand as Myanmar forces shelled near a camp where they
were sheltering.
(AP, 6/7/09)
2009 Jun 5, Indians in Peru's
Amazon, protesting government moves to develop oil, gas and other
resources on their lands, battled police near Bagua in an area
called Curva del Diablo, or "Devil's Curve." Authorities reported
the death of 11 police and 25 protesters. The official death toll
after 2 days of violence was later reported at 33, including 23
police officers. Santiago Manuin (53), Awajun Indian leader, was
among 48 wounded protesters.
(AP, 6/5/09)(Econ, 7/18/09, p.36)(AP, 8/4/09)
2009 Jun 5, In northwest
Pakistan a suicide bomber killed 38 people and wounded 40 attending
prayers at a mosque in the Haya Gai area of Upper Dir, as the
country's leaders urged visiting US envoy Holbrooke for more aid to
stave off Taliban-led militancy. 4 soldiers were killed by a
roadside bomb in South Waziristan.
(AP, 6/5/09)(AP, 6/6/09)
2009 Jun 5, Venezuela's tax
agency ordered an anti-government news network to pay $2.3 million
in back taxes, a day after its president was charged in a separate
investigation and troops raided his home.
(AP, 6/5/09)
2010 Jun 5, President Barack
Obama on his 3rd visit to Louisiana said that he will stand with
Gulf Coast residents "until they are made whole" from the oil spill
catastrophe. The containment cap placed on the gusher near the sea
floor trapped about 441,000 gallons of oil, up from around 250,000
gallons of oil a day earlier. It's not clear how much is still
escaping; an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is
believed to be leaking daily.
(AP, 6/5/10)(AP, 6/6/10)
2010 Jun 5, Mohamed Mahmood
Alessa (20) and Carlos Eduardo Almonte (26) of New Jersey were
arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport before they could board separate
flights to Egypt and then continue on their way to join a jihadist
group in Somalia. Both had bragged about wanting to wage holy war
against the United States both at home and internationally.
(AP, 6/6/10)
2010 Jun 5, In Afghanistan a
bomb exploded outside the provincial governor's office in Kandahar
city, killing one policeman and wounding at least 14 civilians.
Afghan and foreign forces killed 25 Taliban militants in two
separate military operations in central Uruzgan province.
(AP, 6/5/10)(AP, 6/6/10)
2010 Jun 5, A Cairo court
upheld a ruling to strip Egyptian men married to Israeli women of
their citizenship in a case that has highlighted national sentiment
towards Israel.
(AFP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 5, Germany and Russia
declared that the five world powers negotiating with Iran support a
fresh set of international sanctions, and Chancellor Angela Merkel
said they could pass soon.
(AP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 5, Hungary's
government said it aimed to meet this year's budget deficit target,
seeking to draw a line under "exaggerated" talk of a possible
Greek-style debt crisis that unnerved global markets a day earlier.
(Reuters, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 5, Israeli forces
boarded the Rachel Corrie after it ignored orders not to head for
Gaza, but there was no repetition of the bloody violence that
erupted when commandos stormed an aid boat earlier in the week.
(AFP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 5, A senior Kurdish
official in northern Iraq said Iranian troops have crossed the Iraqi
border in pursuit of Iranian Kurdish rebels. Jabar Yawar, a deputy
minister in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, said
that 35 Iranian soldiers remain in the Iraqi village of Perdunaz
after crossing the border on June 3.
(AP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 5, In the Philippines
the military said Al-Qaida-linked militants have fatally shot three
abducted rubber farm workers after their families failed to pay a
ransom. Gunmen led by senior Abu Sayyaf commander Furuji Indama
seized the three men from a passenger minibus on May 27. They
demanded 3 million pesos ($64,000) in ransom from their families.
Muslim militants killed two villagers after fatally shooting three
hostages, apparently to avenge the deaths of comrades in a
government assault in the southern Philippines.
(AP, 6/5/10)(AP, 6/6/10)
2010 Jun 5, Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev called for a global fund to fight ecological
catastrophes like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as he sought to
burnish his credentials as a green leader.
(AP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 5, Rwanda hosted UN
World Environment Day with a ceremony to name 11 endangered baby
mountain gorillas in which Internet users worldwide were for the
first time able to take part.
(AFP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 5, In South Africa
AIDS awareness groups said they are protesting a ban by the world
soccer body FIFA on distributing health related information and
condoms at World Cup stadiums and fan events in South Africa.
(AP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 5, In Venezuela
Gustavo Azocar, a journalist-turned-politician who had planned to
run in September, became the latest in a series of candidates kept
out of the race by Comptroller General Clodosbaldo Russian, an ally
of Pres. Chavez. The government began to take control of an archive
of documents that belonged to independence hero Simon Bolivar.
(AP, 6/5/10)
2010 Jun 5, A Yemeni colonel
and two of his bodyguards were killed in an attack by suspected
Al-Qaeda members near the city of Marib east of the capital.
Suspected al-Qaida operative, Ghalib al-Zayedi, surrendered after
lengthy mediation efforts to Marib's Governor Naji bin Ali
al-Zayedi, who is also his cousin.
(AFP, 6/5/10)(AP, 6/7/10)
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