Today in History - July 2
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311 Jul 2,
St. Miltiades began his reign as Catholic Pope.
(SC, 7/2/02)
419 Jul 2, Valentinian
III, Roman emperor (425-55), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1298 Jul 2, An army under
Albert of Austria defeated and killed Adolf of Nassua near Worms,
Germany.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1489 Jul 2, Thomas Cranmer,
first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533-1556), was born.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1566 Jul 2, French astrologer,
physician and prophet Nostradamus died in Salon.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1625 Jul 2, The Spanish army
took Breda, Spain, after nearly a year of siege.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1644 Jul 2, Lord Cromwell
crushed the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor near York,
England. Cromwell came from minor gentry in Huntingdon and had
served in Parliament before the wars, during which he commanded the
Ironsides, a cavalry regiment famous for its discipline and
tenacity. Although he had had no previous military experience, he
showed amazing courage and tactical brilliance, particularly at the
Battle of Marston Moor.
(HN, 7/2/98)(HNQ, 8/8/00)
1644 Jul 2, William Gascoigne
(24), introduced telescopic sights, was killed.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1714 Jul 2, Christoph Willibald
Ritter von Gluck, composer, was born in Erasbach, Germany.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1747 Jul 2, Marshall Saxe led
the French forces to victory over an Anglo-Dutch force under the
Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Lauffeld.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1775 Jul 2, George Washington
arrived in Boston and took over as commander-in-chief of the new
Continental Army.
(HT, 3/97, p.33)
1776 July 2, The Continental
Congress passed Lee's resolution that "these united Colonies are,
and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States," and then
spent two days over the wording of Jefferson's document.
(Civil., Jul-Aug., '95, p.61)(AP, 7/2/97)(HN,
7/2/98)
1777 Jul 2, Vermont became the
1st American colony to abolish slavery. [see Mar 1, 1780]
(SC, 7/2/02)
1778 Jul 2, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau (b.1712), Swiss-born writer and philosopher, died in
France. He was considered part of the French Enlightenment
along with Voltaire and Diderot. In 2005 Leo Damrosch authored
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius.”
(www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rous.htm)(WSJ, 6/7/00,
p.A24)
1787 Jul 2, The Marquis de Sade
shouted from Bastille that prisoners were being slaughtered.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1798 Jul 2, John Fitch,
American inventor, clockmaker, died.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1807 Jul 2, In the wake of the
Chesapeake incident, in which the crew of a British frigate boarded
an American ship and forcibly removed four suspected deserters,
President Thomas Jefferson ordered all British ships to vacate U.S.
territorial waters.
(AP, 7/2/07)
1808 Jul 2, Simon Fraser
completed his trip down Fraser River, BC. He landed at Musqueam.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1821 Jul 2, Charles Tupper, 6th
Canadian PM (1896), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1822 Jul 2, Denmark Vesey
[Vessey] (b.1767) was executed in Charleston, South Carolina, for
planning a massive slave revolt.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1839 Jul 2, African slaves, led
by Joseph Cinque, killed Ramon Ferrer, and took possession of his
ship, La Amistad. Cinque ordered the navigator to take them back to
Africa but after 63 days at sea the ship was intercepted by
Lieutenant Gedney, of the United States brig Washington, half a mile
from the shore of Long Island.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Scinque.htm)
1843 Jul 2, Samuel Hahnemann
(b.1755), German physician and founder of homeopathy, died in Paris.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann)
1849 Jul 2, The leaders of the
Republic of Rome surrendered to French and Austrian forces.
Garibaldi, his wife and some 4,700 men left Rome with the intent to
fight a guerrilla war against Austria.
(ON, 10/06, p.5)
1850 Jul 2, Prussia agreed to
pull out of Schleswig and Holstein, Germany.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1850 Jul 2, Sir Robert Peel
(b.1788), former British prime minister (1834-35 and 1841-46), died.
He founded the Conservative Party and the London Police Force whose
officers were called "bobbies." In 2007 Douglas Hurd authored
“Robert Peel: A Biography.”
(HN, 2/5/99)(Econ, 6/30/07, p.93)
1858 Jul 2, Czar Alexander II
freed the serfs working on imperial lands.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1862 Jul 2, Lincoln signed an
act granting land for state agricultural colleges. [see Jul 1]
(SC, 7/2/02)
1863 Jul 2, Mrs. Lincoln was
thrown from her carriage and spent weeks recovering at the Anderson
Cottage, Washington DC. The seat assembly may have been sabotaged.
(SFC, 5/20/02, p.F10)
1863 Jul 2, The Union left
flank held at Little Round Top during 2nd day of the Battle of
Gettysburg. Union Gen. Daniel Sickles was severely wounded and had
his leg amputated. In 2002 Thomas Keneally authored "American
Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles."
(WSJ, 3/29/02, p.W10)(SFC, 4/17/02, p.D1)(AH,
2/05, p.49)
1864 Jul 2, Statuary Hall in US
Capitol was established.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1864 Jul 2, Gen. Early and
Confederate forces reached Winchester.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1865 Jul 2, Lili Braun,
feminist, socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen), was born in
Prussia.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1867 Jul 2, The 1st US elevated
railroad began service in NYC.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1872 Jul 2, Jacob W. Davis of
Reno, Nevada, sent Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco a sample
of his work pants and a business proposal for Strauss to apply for a
patent in exchange for a half share in the patent. Davis soon sold
his half share to Strauss and moved to San Francisco to supervise
the manufacture of the work pants.
(ON, 4/05, p.11)
1874 Jul 2, Colonel Custer
departed from Fort Abraham Lincoln with some 1,000 soldiers and 70
Indian scouts on a 1200 mile expedition to chart the Black Hills of
eastern Wyoming western South Dakota, land which belonged to the
Sioux. The expedition returned on August 30.
(AH, 6/03, p.37)
1876 Jul 2, Montenegro declared
war on Turkey.
(PC, 1992, p.537)
1877 Jul 2, Herman Hesse
(d.1962), German philosopher poet and author, was born in
Switzerland. His work included "Steppenwolf" and he won the Nobel
Prize in literature in 1946.
(HN, 7/2/99)(WUD, 1994, p.666)(SC, 7/2/02)
1880 Jul 2, In San Francisco
St. Ignatius College opened for classes at its new campus at Van
Ness and Hayes.
(GenIV, Winter 04/05)
1881 Jul 2, Less than four
months after his inauguration, James Garfield, the 20th President of
the US, was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, who wished to be
appointed consul to France, at the Washington railroad station.
Garfield lived out the summer with a fractured spine and seemed to
be gaining strength until he caught a chill and died on September
19. Guiteau was apprehended at the time of the shooting and, in
spite of an insanity defense, was convicted of murder. Chester Alan
Arthur became the 21st President. Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.
(A&IP, ESM, p.96b, photo,110)(HN,
7/2/98)(HNPD, 9/19/98)(AP, 7/2/07)
1885 Jul 2, Canada's North-West
Insurrection ended with the surrender of Big Bear.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1890 Jul 2, Congress passed the
Sherman Antitrust Act. It put some teeth into earlier antitrust law.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.D2)(AP, 7/2/97)
1894 Jul 2, Andre Kertesz,
photographer, was born.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1894 Jul 2, The US Government
obtained an injunction against striking Pullman Workers.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1900 Jul 2, Tyrone Guthrie,
English theater director, was born.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1900 Jul 2, Count Ferdinand
Adolf Heinrich August von Zeppelin (1838-1917) made the 1st
successful flight of his lighter-than-air ship LZ-1 in
Friedrichshafen, Germany. The 400 foot craft stayed aloft 17 minutes
before it crashed.
(AHM, 1/97)(WSJ, 2/120/00, p.A1)(ON, 3/03, p.11)
1902 Jul 2, John J. McGraw
became manager of NY Giants and stayed for 30 years.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1903 Jul 2, Lord Alex
Douglas-Home, British PM (1963-64), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1903 Jul 2, Olav V, King of
Norway (1957), was born in England.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1905 Jul 2, Jean-Rene Lacoste,
tennis champ, alligator shirt designer, was born in France.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1906 Jul 2, Hans Bethe,
physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker, was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1908 Jul 2,
Thurgood Marshall (d.1993), first African-American US Supreme Court
Justice, was born in Baltimore. He served on the US Supreme Court
from 1967-1991. As a civil rights lawyer in the 1950s he maintained
a confidential relationship with the FBI.
(SFC, 12/3/96, p.A3)(HN, 7/2/98)(AP, 7/2/08)
1914 Jul 2, Frederick Fennell,
conductor (Time & the Winds), was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1916 Jul 2, Barry Gray, radio
talk show host, was born.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1916 Jul 2, Ken Curtis Lamar,
actor (Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke), was born in Colorado.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1917 Jul 2, Race riots erupted
in East St. Louis, Illinois. The official death toll was put at 48,
but as many as 200 were believed killed. In 1964 Elliott M. Rudwick
authored Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917.” In 2008 Harper
Barnes authored “Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked
the Civil Rights Movement.”
(SFC, 7/18/08,
p.E3)(www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=54020510)
1917 Jul 2, An Arab army led by
Feisal Hussein and Bedouin chief Auda Abu Taiya fought Turkish
forces at Aqaba killing 300 and capturing 160 Turkish soldiers.
(ON, 10/05, p.8)
1918 Jul 2, Robert Sarnoff was
born. He later became president of the National Broadcasting Company
(NBC) and converted the network to the first all-color television
station.
(HN, 7/2/99)
1919 Jul 2, Johnny Bradford,
actor (Ransom Sherman Show), was born in Long Branch, NJ.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1921 Jul 2, J. Andrew White
announced the Dempsey-Carpentier fight in Jersey City and was
thereby credited with being the first professional radio announcer.
Dempsey defeated Georges Carpentier of France in the 1st million
dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.E4)(SFC, 10/14/99, p.C5)(SC,
7/2/02)
1922 Jul 2, Dan Rowan, comedian
(Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), was born in Beggs, Okla.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1924 Jul 2, The 1st day of
transcontinental airmail service brought news to SF mailed from New
York after 34 hours and 45 minutes.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W7)
1925 Jul 2, Patrice Lumumba,
revolutionary, was born in Congo.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1925 Jul 2, Marvin Rainwater,
country singer (Ozark Jubilee), was born in Wichita, Ks.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1926 Jul 2, Medgar Evers,
American civil rights leader in Mississippi, was born. He was
murdered in front of his house by Byron DeLa Beckwith.
(HN, 7/2/99)
1926 Jul 2, Lee Allen
Pittsburg, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr. Lee), was born in Kansas.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1926 Jul 2, The U.S. Army Air
Corps was created by Congress. The Distinguish Flying Cross was
authorized.
(AP, 7/2/97)(HN, 7/2/98)(SC, 7/2/02)
1926 Jul 2, Emile Coue (b.1857
as Émile Coué de Châtaigneraie ), French
psychologist and pharmacist, died. He introduced a method of
psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic
autosuggestion. Working as an apothecary at Troyes from 1882 to
1910, Coué discovered what later came to be known as the
placebo effect. He became known for reassuring his clients by
praising each remedy's efficiency and leaving a small positive
notice with each given medication.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Cou%C3%A9)
1927 Jul 2, Brock Peters,
actor, singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1928 Jul 2, Pavel Kohout, Czech
author (Poor Murderer), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1930 Jul 2, Carlos Menem,
president of Argentina (1989-1999), was born. He had Muslim ancestry
and ties to the Syrian-Lebanese community.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A20)(SFC, 7/22/02, p.A6)
1931 Jul 2, Robert Ito, actor
(Sam-Quincy ME), was born in Vancouver, BC.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1932 Jul 2, Sammy Turner,
vocalist (Lavender Blue), was born in Paterson, NJ.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1932 Jul 2, New York Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt won the nomination for president on the 4th
ballot at the Democratic convention in Chicago.
(ON, 12/07, p.3)
1935 Jul 2, Gilbert Kalish,
pianist, professor (SUNY Stony Brook), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1935 Jul 2, C. Jackson
discovered asteroid #1357, Khama.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1935 Jul 2, SF Bay Bridge
riveter Michael E. Markey (31) fell 290 feet to his death at Yerba
Buena Island. Fellow bridge workers quit for the day in accordance
with custom.
(SSFC, 6/27/10, DB p.46)
1937 Jul 2, Polly Holliday,
actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo), was born in Jasper, Ala.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1937 Jul 2, Richard Petty, auto
race driver (Daytona 500-1979,81), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1937 Jul 2, Amelia Earhart and
navigator Fred Noonan left Lae in Papua, New Guinea and disappeared
over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first
round-the-world flight at the equator. The two had set out in
Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed Electra, taking off from Oakland,
Calif., for Miami on May 21. They flew across the Atlantic from
Brazil to Africa, then reached Calcutta on June 17, having made 15
stops thus far. They failed to arrive at their scheduled stop at
Howland Island. Radio operators received messages from Earhart
saying that they had to be close and were circling, searching for
land, but radio contact was lost and the two were never heard from
again. Noonan was alcoholic and had been on a binge the night
before. Radioman Leo Bellarts was the last person to communicate
with Earhart. Errors from the US Coast Guard cutter Itasca were
later identified as contributing to the disappearance.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.A8) (SFC, 5/20/97, p.A12) (AP,
7/2/97) (SFEC, 7/6/97, p.B10) (HNPD, 7/2/99)(SFC, 7/1/00, p.A1,11)
1937 Jul 2, C. Jackson
discovered asteroids #1429, Pemba, & #1456, Saldanha.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1939 Jul 2, John Sununu, US
Secretary of State (1989-91), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1940 Jul 2, Georgi Ivan Ivanov,
1st Bulgarian space traveler (Soyuz 33), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1940 Jul 2, The Lake Washington
Floating bridge in Seattle was dedicated.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1942 Jul 2, Allied convoys
QP-13 and PQ-17 passed each other while the German battleships
Tirpitz and Hipper prepared to attack PQ-17 in the North Atlantic.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1943 Jul 2, The U.S. Army Air
Corps 99th Fighter Squadron, the first of the all-black Tuskegee
Airmen to see combat, had been based in Africa for four months when
they were assigned to escort 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers on a routine
mission over Sicilian targets. Lieutenant Charles B. Hall of Brazil,
Indiana became the first Tuskegee Airman to score a confirmed kill
when he shot down a German fighter plane.
(HNPD, 7/5/98)
1946 Jul 2, Ron Silver, actor
(Gary-Rhoda, Dear Detective, Baker's Dozen), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1946 Jul 2, Anthony Overton
(81), publisher, cosmetics manufacturer, banker, died.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1947 Jul 2, An object crashed
near Roswell, N.M. The Army Air Force later insisted it was a
weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it
might have been an alien spacecraft.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1949 Jul 2, "Red Barber's
Clubhouse" sports show premiered on CBS (later NBC) TV.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1949 Jul 2, Premier Georgi
Dimitrov (b.1882), the founding leader of Bulgarian communism, died
in Moscow while undergoing medical treatment. His remains were
placed in a marble mausoleum in Sophia. He was succeeded by Vassil
Kolarov. Dimitrov’s remains were buried in 1990. In 2003 Ivo Banac
edited "The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov."
(EWH, 1968, p.1194)(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A12)(WSJ,
6/6/03, p.W9)(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A5)
1952 Jul 2, Linda M. Godwin,
PhD, astronaut (STS 37), was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1954 Jul 2, Wendy Schaal,
actress (It's a Living, Julie-Fantasy Is), was born in Chicago, Ill.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1955 Jul 2, "The Lawrence Welk
Show" premiered on ABC television.
(AP, 7/2/98)
1956 Jul 2, Jeffrey Cooper,
guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1956 Jul 2, Jerry Hall, model,
Mrs. Mick Jagger, was born in Mesquite, Tx.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1956 Jul 2, Julie Montgomery,
actress (Samantha-1, Life to Live, Kindred), was born in KC, Mo.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1956 Jul 2, Former truck driver
Elvis Presley recorded "Hound Dog" by Lieber and Stoller and "Don't
Be Cruel." Presley, began Rock-n-Roll with his song "Don’t Be
Cruel," written by Otis Blackwell (d.2002 at 70).
(SC, 7/2/02)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(SFC, 5/10/02,
p.A31)
1956 Jul 2, Turkey rejected a
British plan for the eventual self-determination of Cyprus.
(EWH, 1968, p.1250)
1957 Jul 2, Mike Anger, rocker
(The Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1957 Jul 2, The Seawolf, the
1st submarine powered by liquid metal cooled reactor, was completed.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1957 Jul 2, Grayback, the 1st
submarine designed to fire guided missiles, was launched.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1959 Jul 2, Wendy B. Lawrence,
USN Lt Commander, astronaut, was born in Jacksonville, Fla.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1961 Jul 2, Jimmy McNichol,
actor (Fitzpatricks, California Fever), was born in LA, Calif.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1961 Jul 2, Novelist E.
Hemingway shot himself in the head at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
Boozing and physical trauma led to depression, electroshock therapy
and suicide. In 1964 his novel "A Moveable Feast was published. In
1974 Jose Luis Castillo-Puche published “Hemingway
in Spain.” His novel “True at First Light” was based on his 1953
safari in Africa and was to be published Jul 21 1999, the centennial
of his birth. His book “The Garden of Eden” and “Islands in the
Stream” were also published after his death. His novel "Dangerous
Summer" was based on the rivalry between two matadors, Antonio
Ordonez (d.1998) and Luis Miguel Dominguin. In 1976 his son
Gregory (d.2001) authored “Papa: A Personal Memoir.”
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A11)(TMC, 1994, p.1961)(AP,
7/2/97)(SFC, 8/5/98, p.E3)(SFC, 8/25/98, p.A2)(SFC, 12/21/98,
p.B5)(WSJ, 6/18/99, p.W13)(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A18)
1963 Jul 2, President John F.
Kennedy met Pope Paul the Sixth at the Vatican, the first meeting
between a Roman Catholic US chief executive and the head of the
Catholic Church.
(AP, 7/2/00)
1964 Jul 2, Dave Parsons rocker
(Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1964 Jul 2, Celia Black
recorded Beatle's "Its For You" with McCartney on piano.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1964 Jul 2, President Johnson
signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress. It
guaranteed voting rights and equal access to public accommodations
and education.
(AP, 7/2/97)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1964 Jul 2, Glenn "Fireball"
Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, died in crash.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1967 Jul 2, The U.S. Marine
Corps launched Operation Buffalo in response to the North Vietnamese
Army's efforts to seize the Marine base at Con Thien.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1969 Jul 2, Barbra Streisand
(b.1942) opened for a 4-week engagement at the Las Vegas
International Hotel.
(www.barbrafile.com/6169.htm)
1970 Jul 2, Jessie Street
(b.1889), Australian civil rights activist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Street)
1973 Jul 2, George Macready
(b.1899), American film and TV actor, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Macready)
1973 Jul 2, Swede Savage
(b.1946), American race car driver, died 33 days after suffering
injuries at the Indianapolis 500.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede_Savage)
1976 Jul 2, The US Supreme
Court ruled to allow states to resume capital punishment. The
Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or
unusual.
(SFC, 1/9/97, p.A4)(AP, 7/2/97)
1976 Jul 2, North and South
Vietnam were officially reunified.
(HN,
7/2/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War)
1978 Jul 2, The Arab League
imposed a boycott on South Yemen.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1979 Jul 2, The US Supreme
Court in Jones v Wolf said a court could look into a church property
dispute but only if it studied the relevant documents in a
neutral and non-religious spirit.
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=443&invol=595)(Econ,
1/8/11, p.60)
1980 Jul 2, President Jimmy
Carter reinstated draft registration for males 18 years of age.
(HN, 7/2/98)
1980 Jul 2, Grateful Dead's Bob
Weir (b.1947) & Mickey Hart (b.1943) were arrested in San Diego
for suspicion of inciting a riot following their interference in a
drug related arrest.
(www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0702.htm)
1981 Jul 2, The Continental
Airlines Arena, part of the Meadowlands Sports complex in East
Rutherford, NJ, opened with a concert by Bruce Springsteen.
(www.continentalairlinesarena.com/COArenaFacts.asp?navID=7)
1981 Jul 2, L.E. Gonzalez
discovered asteroid #3495, Colchagua, from the astronomical station
of Cerro El Roble in Chile.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroids_(3001-4000))
1982 Jul 2, Larry Walters
(1949-1993), a Los Angeles truck driver, flew 16,000 feet into the
air with 42 helium balloons attached to a lawn chair. Walters
surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he
had just passed a guy in a lawn chair with a gun. The weapon was to
shoot balloons and descend. Walters paid a $1,500 penalty for
violating air traffic rules. Eleven years later, he committed
suicide at age 44.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters)(SFC,
7/3/02, p.A17)(AP, 7/10/07)
1982 Jul 2, A bomb
exploded in the hands of Prof. Diogenes Angelakos (d.1997 at 77) in
Berkeley. It was later attributed to the Unabomber Theodore
Kaczynski.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.4)
1982 Jul 2, DeFord Bailey
(b.1899), harmonica wizard and star of the Grand Ole Opry, died. He
was the first black musician to join the Opry’s regular cast.
(AH, 10/07,
p.74)(www.pbs.org/deford/timeline/index.html)
1982 Jul 2, Soyuz T-6 returned
to Earth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-6)
1985 Jul 2, The European Space
Agency launched the Giotto space probe for a close-up of Halley’s
Comet. It made its closest approach to the comet on March 13, 1986.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)(http://tinyurl.com/2hnfnw)
1986 Jul 2, The US Supreme
Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1987 Jul 2, 18 illegal
immigrants were found dead inside a locked boxcar near Sierra
Blanca, Texas, in what authorities called a botched smuggling
attempt; a 19th man survived.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1987 Jul 2, Michael Bennett
(b.1943), Chorus Line director, died of AIDS in Tucson, Az.
(www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=7716)
1987 Jul 2, Karl Linnas,
accused Nazi, died of heart failure in Russia.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1988 Jul 2, 19-year-old Steffi
Graf defeated eight-time Wimbledon winner Martina Navratilova to
capture her first Wimbledon crown.
(AP, 7/2/98)
1989 Jul 2, In West Berlin,
Germany, the Love Parade festival was begun to celebrate techno
music. About 150 people cavorted down Ku’damm to the blare of techno
music from a single Volkswagen bus. It was started by the Berlin
underground at the initiative of Matthias Roeingh (also known as "Dr
Motte") and his then girlfriend Danielle de Picciotto.
(SFC, 8/18/97,
p.E4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Parade)
1989 Jul 2, In Greece PM
Tzannis Tzannetakis (1927-2010) began leading a coalition government
for that included his conservative New Democracy party and the Greek
Communist Party.
(AP,
4/2/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzannis_Tzannetakis)
1989 Jul 2, Andrei Gromyko
(79), former Soviet Foreign Minister died in Moscow.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1989 Jul 2, Jean Painleve
(b.1902), French film maker, died. His science and nature films
inspired the Surrealists.
(WSJ, 6/19/00, p.A44)(http://tinyurl.com/z8n2m)
1990 Jul 2, Some 1402 Muslim
pilgrims were killed in a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel
leading to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It was worst hajj tragedy of
modern times.
(AP, 7/2/00)(AP, 2/1/04)
1990 Jul 2, The Soviet Union’s
28th Communist Party congress opened with an address by President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who conceded mistakes while defending
perestroika.
(AP, 7/2/00)
1991 Jul 2, Actress Lee Remick
(55) died in Los Angeles of cancer.
(AP, 7/2/01)(SC, 7/2/02)
1991 Jul 2, A European
Community-brokered truce between Yugoslavia and the breakaway
republic of Slovenia was shattered as the federal army battled
Slovene militias.
(AP, 7/2/01)
1991 Jul 2, The first national
conference of the ANC, since the organization was banned in 1960,
began in Durban, South Africa. Oliver Tambo, whose health was
suffering, handed over the presidency of the ANC to Nelson Mandela
and assumed the largely honorary post of national chairperson.
Walter Sisulu was elected deputy president.
(www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/tambo.html)(http://tinyurl.com/z63lx)
1992 Jul 2, President Bush
vetoed the so-called "motor-voter" registration bill; President
Clinton later signed a revised version into law.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1992 Jul 2, The US Labor
Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate the previous
month had risen to an eight-year high of 7.8 percent, compared to
7.5 percent in May.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1993 Jul 2, The White House
acknowledged that it had erred in firing seven travel office
employees and urging the FBI to investigate them.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1993 Jul 2, Sheik Omar
Abdel-Rahman, some of whose followers were accused in the bombing of
the World Trade Center, surrendered to immigration officials in New
York City.
(AP, 7/2/98)
1994 Jul 2, Conchita Martinez
won the women's title at Wimbledon, defeating Martina Navratilova
6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1994 Jul 2, A USAir DC-9 Flight
1016 crashed in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas International
Airport in North Carolina, killing 37 of the 57 people aboard.
(WSJ, 1/4/96, p.A-8)(AP, 7/2/97)
1994 Jul 2, Colombian soccer
player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin, ten days after
accidentally scoring a goal against his own team in World Cup
competition.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1995 Jul 2, In Denver,
representatives of 34 countries ended an economic summit by
endorsing an open-market zone throughout the Western
Hemisphere—excluding Cuba.
(AP, 7/2/00)(www.sice.oas.org/tunit/SGspeech.asp)
1996 Jul 2, Electricity and
phone service was knocked out for millions of customers from Canada
to the Southwest after power lines throughout the West failed on a
record-hot day.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1996 Jul 2, US federal
officials announced the arrest of 12 members of a militia unit,
called Viper Militia, that had planned to bomb government offices in
the Phoenix area. On Dec 19 two members pleaded guilty to explosives
and weapons charges. On Dec 27 three more members pleaded guilty.
(WSJ, 7/2/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/20/96, p.A1)(SFC,
12/28/96, p.A7)
1996 Jul 2, Seven years after
they shot their parents to death in the family's Beverly Hills
mansion, Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison
without parole.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1996 Jul 2, Actor Harry Morgan
(81) was charged with a misdemeanor spousal battery against his
70-year-old wife. He had played Colonel Potter in "M*A*S*H."
(SFC, 7/11/96, p.D4)
1996 Jul 2, Israeli planes
rocketed a Palestinian guerrilla base in Lebanon. The base belonged
to the Palestinian National Liberation Organization, a pro-Syrian
group under Col. Abu Musa, that split from the Fatah movement of
Yasser Arafat in the 1980s.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.C3)
1997 Jul 2, The US began a
round of underground nuclear weapons-related tests in Nevada.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A9)
1997 Jul 2, A federal judge in
New York ruled that the military policy, “don’t ask, don’t tell,” is
unconstitutional and only serves to cater to the biases of many
heterosexuals.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 2, A Montana court
voided a 24-year-old ban on homosexual sex, concluding that the
government has no business meddling in the sexual activity of
consenting adults.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 2, Two Union Pacific
trains collided 5 miles north of Rossville, Kan., when an engineer
overshot a siding a struck an oncoming train 6 cars behind the
locomotive; the engineer died in the wreck.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 2, Severe thunder
storms tore through Michigan’s lower peninsula and killed at least 7
people.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 2, Actor James Stewart
(b.1908), died in Beverly Hills, Ca., at age 89.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A1)(AP, 7/2/98)
1997 Jul 2, US Aid to Honduras
had dropped this year to $28 million from a high of $229 million in
1985. The country had the highest AIDS rate in Central America.
(WSJ, 7/2/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 2, In Japan the
Panamanian registered Diamond Grace oil tanker ran aground in Tokyo
Bay and spilled nearly 2 million gallons of oil. The amount spilled
was revised to 390,000 gallons.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.A9)(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 2, A Canadian
commission established to review the actions of peace-keeping troops
in Somalia between 1992-93 concluded that the troops were unprepared
and victimized by commanders who ignored problems that escalated to
torture and the killing of a Somali teenager.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.C2)
1997 Jul 2, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin fired justice minister Valentin Kovalyov due to the sex
scandal of Jun 22.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.C3)
1998 Jul 2, Apologizing to
viewers and Vietnam veterans for "serious faults" in its reporting,
Cable News Network retracted a story alleging U.S. commandos had
used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the war.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1998 Jul 2, The US Treasury
Dept. allowed direct charter flights between Florida and Cuba to
resume.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A4)
1998 Jul 2, Algeria agreed to
allow a UN team to investigate the killings and promised free access
to all sources of information.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A16)
1998 Jul 2, Barbados, Trinidad
and Tobago, Guyana and Jamaica reported plans to establish the
Caribbean Court of Justice in 1999 and planned to change their
constitutions to free themselves of the British Privy Council. The
effort was pushed to establish the death penalty.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 2, With Guyana in
turmoil Pres. Jagan met with former pres. Hoyte in St. Lucia to make
a deal that provided the opposition more say.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 2, In Hungary a
gangland car bomb killed 4 and injured 25 people in Budapest. It was
directed at Jozsef Tamas Boros, a restaurateur who was cooperating
with a police investigation. A turf war between Russian, Ukrainian,
Romania, Turkish and Arab gangs had led to 140 bombings since 1991.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 2, The World Bank
approved $1 billion loan to Indonesia as part of its $4.5
contribution to the $41 billion rescue package.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 2, Japan announced
that a string of bridge banks would be set up to run failed banks as
bad loans are sold and lending is continued.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 2, In Nigeria UN Sec.
Gen’l. Kofi Annan announced that at least 250 political prisoners
would soon be released including Moshood Abiola.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 2, In Northern Ireland
10 Roman Catholic churches were set on fire by arsonists.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 2, In Shawan,
Pakistan, Haji Mohammad Alam Channa, the world’s tallest man at 7
feet 7 and 1/4 inches, died at age 42 from kidney disease.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.C2)
1998 Jul 2, In Russia the
government ordered Gazprom to pay 4.2 billion rubles in unpaid taxes
and to start regular tax payments. Gazprom is 40% owned by the
government and threats were made to seize the company. As part of
the deal the government agreed to pay billions of rubles for oil and
gas used by government agencies. The deal was estimated to be a
wash.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.D3)
1998 Jul 2, In Uzbekistan the
state genetics' institute at Tashkent was reported to be working on
a fungus to kill opium poppies. Pleospora papaveracea was a nuisance
fungus that had been under development by Soviets in the 1980s.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A14)
1999 Jul 2, In Skokie,
Illinois, north of Chicago, a driveby gunman, Benjamin Nathaniel
Smith (21), killed Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern Univ.
basketball coach. Smith wounded 6 Orthodox Jews Chicago and fired on
an Asian-American couple in Northbrook over three-day shooting
rampage and then committed suicide.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A1)(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A1)(AP,
7/2/00)
1999 Jul 2, Mario Puzo (78),
author of "The Godfather," died on Long Island. His last book,
"Omerta," was scheduled for publication in 2000.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A21)
1999 Jul 2, A 3-day UN
conference on population closed after 170 nations agreed on sex
education, access to abortion and parental rights.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.C1)
1999 Jul 2, Congo: Government
and rebel officials said they had reached an accord to end the
11-month war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rebel forces
were to be merged with the government army.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 2, Two boats off the
Pacific coast of Mexico overturned and over 40 suspected illegal
immigrants from Central America were killed.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A17)
1999 Jul 2, In Northern Ireland
Britain's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern issued a
take-or-leave-it plan for a new local government to begin in 2 weeks
before the IRA gives up any of its guns with disarmament to begin
later.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 2, The Pakistani army
reported that 58 Kashmiri civilians had been killed and 158 wounded
over the last 2 month by Indian shelling.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 2, In Rwanda a court
sentenced 9 people to death and 16 others to life in prison on
charges related to genocide in 1994.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 2, In Serbia 5,000
people demonstrated against Pres. Milosevic in Novi Sad.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A9)
2000 Jul 2, In Chechnya rebels
staged 5 suicide attacks against Russian forces. One bomb killed 31
elite OMON police troops as they slept in their barracks at Argun.
(SFC, 7/4/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 2, France beat Italy
2-to-1 in the European Championship soccer final in Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
(AP, 7/2/01)
2000 Jul 2, In Indonesia 10
people were rescued from water close to Karakelong Island after 4
days at sea following the sinking of the Cahaya Bahari.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 2, In Mexico Vincente
Fox (58) and his national Action Party (PAN) claimed victory over
the ruling PRI. This ended the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s
71-year reign. In 2004 Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon authored
"Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy."
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/3/00, p.A8)(AP,
7/2/01)(SSFC, 3/14/04, p.M1)
2000 Jul 2, In Mongolia the
People’s Revolutionary Party won 72 seats of the 76-member
legislature.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 2, In Northern Ireland
police block the marchers of the Orange Order at Portadown.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.A12)
2001 Jul 2, US Vice President
Dick Cheney returned to work two days after receiving a new
pacemaker.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2001 Jul 2, Missouri Gov. Bob
Holden, Democrat, signed legislation to ban the execution of
mentally retarded inmates. This was the 16th state to do so.
(SFC, 7/3/01, p.A4)
2001 Jul 2, In Louisville, Ky.,
the 1st self-contained artificial heart, AbioCor, made by Abiomed
was implanted at Jewish Hospital to Robert L. Tools (59). Tools
lived 151 days with the device and died Nov 30.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A1)(SFC,
8/22/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 2, In Colombia a
firefight erupted between rival gangs at the La Modelo penitentiary
and 10 inmates were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 2, In Indonesia
humanitarian workers found 27 slashed bodies in Aceh. This raised to
50 the number of dead found in the last 3 days.
(SFC, 7/3/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 2, An Israeli was
killed while shopping near the West Bank and a Palestinian was
killed by Israeli troops. The US scrambled to salvage the
cease-fire.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/3/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 2, Mexican President
Vicente Fox married his spokeswoman and longtime love, Martha
Sahagun, a year to the day after his election victory.
(AP, 7/2/02)
2001 Jul 2, In Sri Lanka jets
were sent against rebel bases near Jaffna.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 2, Zimbabwe deployed
riot police ahead of the start of a general strike.
(WSJ, 7/3/01, p.A1)
2002 Jul 2, A trial court in
Florida ruled that the state's capital sentencing statute in
constitutional.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 2, The Hayman fire in
Colorado was declared under control. It had burned 137,760 acres
over 24 days.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 2, Steve Fossett
became the 1st person to fly a balloon solo around the world. On his
6th attempt he completed the journey in 13 days, 12 hours, 16
minutes and 13 seconds. He departed from Australia Jun 19 and
covered an estimated 19,428 miles.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 2, Ray Brown (b.1926),
jazz bassist, died in Indianapolis.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A21)(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.D6)
2002 Jul 2, In Chile the
highest court halted prosecution of dictator Augusto Pinochet ruling
that he was mentally unfit to stand trial for dozens of political
killings by the notorious "Caravan of Death."
(AP, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, East Timor
President Xanana Gusmao and his Indonesian counterpart Megawati
Sukarnoputri opened a new chapter in ties between the world's newest
nation and its former foe, establishing formal diplomatic links and
pledging to work together.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, Malaysia said it
had not reached any new agreements with Singapore on the sale of
water to the island state and other issues after two days of talks.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, Philippine Vice
President Teofisto Guingona resigned as foreign minister, settling
but perhaps not ending a public row with President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo over U.S. military exercises in the south of the country.
(Reuters, 7/2/02)
2002 Jul 2, A former South
African policeman killed four people and wounded nine during a
shooting rampage in a small town in the Northern Cape province.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2003 Jul 2, The US was reported
to be sending nearly 250,000 metric tons of wheat to Ethiopia to
help ease the country's hunger crisis.
(AP, 7/2/03)
2003 Jul 2, The film "Ken
Parks" by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman received an illegal public
screening in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. The film was
about the dysfunctional lives of skateboarders in the suburbs of
Visalia, Ca., and was banned due to its explicit sex and violence.
(SFC, 7/7/03, p.D2)
2003 Jul 2, Vancouver, Canada,
was awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics.
(AP, 7/2/04)
2003 Jul 2, In southern India a
train engine and two coaches fell off a bridge and landed on a fish
market and parked taxis, killing at least 18.
(AP, 7/2/03)
2003 Jul 2, A group of 650
Kenyan women won the right to sue the British Ministry of Defense
for rapes by British soldiers that took place over a 26 year period
beginning in 1977.
(SFC, 7/3/03, p.A14)
2003 Jul 2, Palestinian police
moved into the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the second area handed
over by Israel under a U.S.-backed Mideast peace plan.
(AP, 7/2/03)
2003 Jul 2, Russian authorities
detained Platon Lebedev, a close partner of Russia's richest man,
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, on suspicion of defrauding the state of $283
million in the 1994 privatization of the Apatit fertilizer company.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 2, The WHO said
Toronto was no longer SARS infected, leaving Taiwan as the only
place in the world where the disease was not yet fully under
control.
(AP, 7/2/03)
2004 Jul 2, In Kansas City,
Kansas, Elijah Brown (21), an employee at the ConAgra Foods
meat-packing plant, went on a shooting rampage that left 5 dead
including himself. A 6th person died overnight.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, China began
censoring telephone text messages to “block the dissemination of
illicit news and information.”
(SFC, 7/3/04, p.A2)
2004 Jul 2, Shanghai police
raided the apartment of Randolph Hobson Guthrie III in a joint
US-Chinese operation against pirated DVDs. They seized 210,000
pirated DVD copies.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A1)
2004 Jul 2, The Dutch
government backed plans for "seals of quality" for well-run brothels
and standard contracts for prostitutes, as well as more support for
those who want to leave the world's oldest profession.
(Reuters, 7/2/04)
2004 Jul 2, Reva Electric Car,
an Indian company that has launched the country's first electric
car, has received 500 orders from Britain and plans to build
environment-friendly mini-buses and small taxis. Its cheapest
version costs 250,000 rupees (US$ 5,500). The company has sold more
than 600 cars in India.
(AP, 7/2/04)
2004 Jul 2, In India’s Bihar
state gunmen killed 10 people in the latest outburst of caste
violence.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, Scientists from the
United States, Britain and Kenya reported that a skull fragment of a
small adult with some characteristics of Homo erectus was about
900,000 years old. It was found in 2003 in Olorgesalie, 100 miles
southeast of the capital, Nairobi, Kenya.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, A Norwegian strike
began targeting the oil exploration sector. It incidentally affected
two mobile production units, the Petrojarl I, which ceased
operations in early September, and the Petrojarl Varg.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Jul 2, In Panama a
US-registered small jet crashed into an airport hangar during
takeoff and burst into flames, killing seven people.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, Yukos, Russia's
largest oil producer with an output of 1.7 million barrels per day,
warned that it may have to shut down as a result of the legal
onslaught.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 2, In eastern Turkey a
car bomb exploded near a governor's convoy, killing 6 people,
including a 12-year-old boy, and injuring 23 others.
(AFP, 7/2/04)(SFC, 7/3/04, p.A10)
2004 Jul 2, In an eastern
Turkey a 5.0 earthquake leveled stone and mud houses, killing 18
people and injuring 27.
(AP, 7/2/04)(SFC, 7/3/04, p.A3)
2005 Jul 2, Venus Williams beat
top-ranked Lindsay Davenport at Wimbledon 4-6, 7-6 (4), 9-7 for her
fifth major title and her first in nearly four years.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2005 Jul 2, Shasta Groene, an
8-year-old girl kidnapped six weeks earlier, was rescued at a
Denny’s restaurant in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Joseph Edward Duncan
III, a registered sex offender, was arrested and accused of
kidnapping Shasta as well as killing members of Shasta's family.
[see May 16, July 4] The remains of Shasta’s brother, Dylan Groene
(9), were found 2 days later in western Montana.
(AP, 7/2/06)(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A18)(AP, 8/28/08)
2005 Jul 2, Ernest Lehman (89)
Hollywood screenwriter, died. His work included the 1959 screenplay
for Alfred Hitchcock’s film "North by Northwest."
(SFC, 7/6/05, p.B7)
2005 Jul 2, In Afghanistan a
roadside bomb in Paktika province killed 4 policemen traveling in a
convoy. Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan said 25 rebels and six Afghan
soldiers were killed in a raid on a mountainous Taliban hideout in
central Uruzgan province. US and Afghan forces killed 3 rebels after
coming under attack twice near the southern city of Kandahar.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, A case of polio in
Angola was reported by the UN’s WHO.
(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A2)
2005 Jul 2, Australia and New
Zealand agreed on tough new measures to pressure Zimbabwe's
President Robert Mugabe to respect human rights, including a sports
ban and action against him in the International Criminal Court.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, Two trains collided
Saturday in Austria's Salzburg province, killing two people.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 2, A Dhaka-based
rights group said Bangladeshi police and security forces had killed
a record 236 people in the first six months of 2005.
(AFP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, Live 8, the biggest
and most ambitious series of rock concerts ever staged, swung into
full action with a concert in London, the centerpiece of a 10
worldwide concerts aimed at pressuring the industrialized world to
end African poverty.
(AP, 7/2/05)(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 2, A gas explosion at
an illegal coal mine in central China killed 19 workers.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 2, An Egyptian
judicial report was released that alleged the government forged
turnout figures and forced state employees to fabricate results in a
May referendum to allow first-ever multiparty presidential
elections.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 2, Ihab al-Sherif, an
Egyptian envoy, was kidnapped in Baghdad, weeks after arriving in
the country. He was expected to become Iraq's first Arab ambassador
since Iraq's new government took office. Al-Qaida later announced it
had killed him.
(AP, 7/3/05)(AP, 7/2/06)
2005 Jul 2, Estonia reigned
supreme once again in the wife-carrying world championship, as Margo
Uusorg sprinted home to win the Baltic country's eighth straight
title.
(Reuters, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, The Tour de France
got under way as Lance Armstrong started his quest for a seventh
straight title before retiring from cycling.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, A French woman in
Lyon defied a threat of excommunication by the Roman Catholic Church
and held a ceremony proclaiming herself a priest.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 2, Indian police
detained close to 600 protesters as they demonstrated against moves
to start the dredging of a controversial sea channel through the
island chain between India and Sri Lanka.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, In the southern
Indian state of Tamil Nadu at least 20 people were killed and 15
others injured in a blaze at a fireworks factory.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, Raging monsoons
continued to submerge vast swaths of Indian countryside and forced
the evacuation of half a million people.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, A suicide bomber
strapped with explosives killed 20 people waiting outside a police
recruiting center in Baghdad. 2 more struck in Hillah, a Shiite city
south of the capital, in attacks that killed another 5 people.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, In Scotland tens of
thousands of protesters clad in white streamed through the cobbled
streets of Edinburgh, demanding that the leaders of the world's
richest nations act to better the lives of the poorest.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 2, In eastern Turkey a
bomb explosion killed six people and injured eight others on a
passenger train. The second train was bombed as it rushed to help
the first.
(AFP, 7/2/05)(AP, 7/3/05)
2006 Jul 2, US researchers
reported that astemizol, an allergy drug pulled off the market in
1999, could work to treat malaria. It was marketed under the brand
name Hismanal by Janssen Pharmaceutica, a unit of Johnson &
Johnson, and can kill the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that causes
malaria.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Jan Murray (born as
Murray Janofsky in 1916), comedian and film and TV actor, died in
Beverly Hills. He hosted the TV game show “Treasure Hunt”
(1956-1959).
(SFC, 7/3/06, p.A2)
2006 Jul 2, In Afghanistan up
to 30 extremists, firing guns and mortars, attacked a coalition
patrol that had just found a weapons cache in Sangin. About 20
militants were killed. Afghan police killed seven insurgents that
attacked a police checkpoint in Nawzad district in southern Helmand
province.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 2, Africa's leaders
meeting in Gambia agreed to send troops to Somalia to support
regional efforts at calming the chaotic east African state.
(Reuters, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, In Bangladesh 2
people were killed and nearly 200 injured in clashes as opposition
parties enforced a countrywide transport shutdown.
(Reuters, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Bolivians voted for
a national assembly that will rewrite the constitution. They voted
"yes" or "no" on a ballot question on whether to offer the country's
nine states greater autonomy in political and financial affairs.
President Morales' supporters failed to win control of an assembly
that will rewrite Bolivia's constitution, leaving him no choice but
to compromise over his ambitious plans to empower the indigenous
majority and boost state control over the economy. Morales allies
won 132 seats in the 255-person body. Voters in four of Bolivia's
nine states overwhelmingly chose greater political and economic
autonomy for their states.
(AP, 6/29/06)(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 2, EADS's French
co-chief executive Noel Forgeard and Airbus's German head Gustav
Humbert tendered their resignations over delays to deliveries of the
A380 superjumbo that has wiped billions of euros (dollars) off
EADS's share price. Louis Gallois became the new EADS co-CEO;
Christian Strieff was named the new president and CEO of Airbus.
(AFP, 7/2/06)(WSJ, 7/3/06, p.A2)
2006 Jul 2, Pirates in the
Strait of Malacca off Indonesia's coast boarded two UN-chartered
ships carrying construction material for the reconstruction of the
tsunami-hit Aceh. They stole and damaged equipment on the first ship
and robbed the crew of cash and personal belongings on the other.
(AP, 7/4/06)
2006 Jul 2, Israeli aircraft
sent missiles tearing through the office of Palestinian PM Ismail
Haniyeh in an unmistakable message to his ruling Hamas group to free
an Israeli soldier.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Iraq’s largest
Sunni Arab bloc in parliament said it was suspending its
participation in the legislature until a kidnapped colleague was
released, dealing a blow to efforts to involve the disaffected
minority in the political process. A roadside bomb in Baghdad killed
Col. Muthanna Faeq Abdul-Razzaq, the assistant commander of the
Iraqi army's 7th Division, and wounded his driver. 2 policemen were
killed and six were wounded in a shootout between gunmen and Iraqi
police. A bomb struck a house in Baqouba, killing two people and
wounding four. Clashes between insurgents and Iraqi police southwest
of Kirkuk left one policeman and two insurgents dead.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Liechtenstein
remained on the list of uncooperative tax havens because, unlike 33
other jurisdictions, it had not made a commitment to the OECD to
improve transparency and to establish effective exchange of
information for tax purposes with OECD countries. The population
stood at some 34,600.
(AP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Mexico held
presidential elections. Felipe Calderon (43) calling himself “the
candidate of jobs,” faced Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador: “For
everyone’s good, the poor first.” Lopez Villanueva, head of the
Francisco Villa Popular Front, arranged to have 10,000 members as
poll watchers for Lopez Obrador. A tight race delayed the results to
July 5. The per capita GDP was $10,000. Oil production was 3.35
million barrels per day. On July 6 Calderon was named the winner by
234,000 votes. The final outcome rested with the electoral court,
Trife, and its decision was due by September 6.
(Econ, 6/10/06, p.36)(WSJ, 6/28/06, p.A1)(Econ,
7/15/06, p.35)(AP, 7/7/07)
2006 Jul 2, In Nicaragua Herty
Lewites (b.1939), former mayor of Managua (2000-2004) and recent
presidential candidate, died of a heart attack. He broke with the
leftist Sandinista party to run against its leader Daniel Ortega.
(http://tinyurl.com/omz5w)(AP, 7/3/06)(Econ,
11/4/06, p.45)
2006 Jul 2, A Peruvian rescue
team found the bodies of 3 American mountaineers killed during an
icy climb high in the Andes. They located Kristen Yoder (21), her
brother Dustin Yoder (23) and Brennan Larson (24) in a 100-foot-deep
crevasse on the Artesonraju peak.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 2, Senegal's President
Abdoulaye Wade said his country would try Chad's former leader
Hissene Habre, wanted by Belgium for trial on charges of war crimes
and crimes against humanity.
(AFP, 7/2/06)
2006 Jul 2, Sri Lanka’s Tamil
Tigers, claiming they have just trained 6,000 civilians in armed
combat, accused the UN of exaggerating the number of child
fighters in the rebels' ranks. Police said Sampath Lakmal, a
freelance Sri Lankan journalist, has been gunned down near the
capital Colombo.
(AFP, 7/2/06)(AP, 7/2/06)
2007 Jul 2, US President George
W. Bush commuted a 30 month jail term imposed on a former top White
House aide Lewis 'Scooter' Libby for lying to federal investigators,
sparking outrage from opposition Democrats.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, Russia’s Pres.
Putin, while visiting Pres. Bush in Maine, proposed an alternative
missile shield system to be jointly developed by the NATO-Russia
Council.
(SFC, 7/3/07, p.A3)
2007 Jul 2, Arizona Gov. Janet
Napolitano signed a bill imposing stiff penalties on employers who
hire illegal immigrants.
(Econ, 7/7/07,
p.35)(www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0702sanctions02-ON.html)
2007 Jul 2, Michael Woodbury
(31), released May 4 from the Maine State Prison after serving five
years for robbery and theft, killed three men during a botched
robbery in Conway, NH. In August he pleaded guilty and was given a
mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.
(AP, 8/17/07)
2007 Jul 2, Beverly Sills (b.
1929), American opera star, died in Manhattan.
(SFC, 7/3/07, p.B5)
2007 Jul 2, In southern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb destroyed a police vehicle on patrol,
killing all 7 policemen on board. A doctor at Kandahar's main
hospital said NATO forces killed one man and wounded 3. Taliban
militants ambushed a police patrol in the Mizan district, killing
one policeman. A 30-minute gun battle ensued, leaving 3 suspected
Taliban dead.
(AP, 7/2/07)(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, Police in Australia
arrested a 27-year-old Indian doctor over the foiled terror attacks
in London and Glasgow, and were interviewing a second doctor in the
case.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, Australia's second
largest retailer Coles said it had agreed to a 22 billion dollar
(18.7 billion US) buyout offer from conglomerate Wesfarmers, the
largest corporate deal in Australian history.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Researchers said
the first test-tube baby created from an egg matured in the
laboratory and then frozen has been born in Canada, in a
breakthrough offering hope to women with cancer and others unsuited
to normal IVF treatment.
(Reuters, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Brahim Deby (27),
the son of Chad's president, was found dead with a head wound in the
basement of his apartment building in a Paris suburb. Authorities
treated the case as a murder investigation.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Thomas Mooney (45),
a senior American diplomat who disappeared four days ago with his
car, was found dead on Cyprus in a rural area outside the capital.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, The European high
speed train operators Deutsche Bahn, SNCF, SNCB, NS Hispeed,
ÖBB, SBB and Eurostar UK and the high speed subsidiaries
Thalys, Lyria and Alleo today announced the actual formation of
Railteam. Its aim is to offer travelers seamless high-speed train
travel across international borders in Western Europe.
(www.railteam.eu/en/press-corner.php)
2007 Jul 2, Egyptian security
sources said Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer who was
convicted in 2002 of spying for Israel, has died in jail of a
possible heart attack while serving a 15-year sentence.
(Reuters, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Count Gottfried von
Bismarck (44), whose life of privileged excess as a descendant of
Germany's "Iron Chancellor" was clouded by two deaths at his
decadent parties, was found dead at his $10 million apartment in
London's Chelsea district.
(AP, 7/4/07)
2007 Jul 2, In Ghana African
Union leaders gathered behind closed doors for a debate on how to
beef up its continental system of government with Libya's Moamer
Kadhafi leading a push to create a confederation of states.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, About 1,500
residents of a remote Guatemalan village rioted over the purported
kidnappings of two children, burning down a police station and
holding their mayor and another man hostage.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Iran’s President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated an English-language satellite
television channel to counter what he claims is the West's influence
in covering news.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, A US military
Kiowa attack helicopter was shot down by insurgents south of
Baghdad.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, Nigerian university
lecturers called off a more than three-month strike to press for
improved working conditions.
(AFP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, President Gen.
Pervez Musharraf's attempt to remove Pakistan's chief justice
received a setback when a Supreme Court judge rejected government
evidence and ordered a sweep of courts and judges' homes for spying
devices.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, The UN and other
agencies offered aid and helicopters to Pakistan after floods
unleashed by a cyclone and days of torrential rain devastated 1.5
million people leaving over 600 people dead.
(AFP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Hamas arrested the
spokesman of a shadowy group holding British reporter Alan Johnston,
a move that could give it a bargaining chip to secure the Briton's
release.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, Somali gunmen shot
dead a senior government official in Mogadishu. A teenager died when
munitions left behind by African Union peacekeepers exploded.
(Reuters, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 2, A South Korean
court sentenced tycoon Kim Seung Youn to 18 months in prison over a
beating attack earlier this year against bar workers involved in a
scuffle with his son. The sentence was shelved on Sep 11, due his
deteriorating health.
(AP, 7/2/07)(SFC, 9/12/07, p.C5)
2007 Jul 2, In Yemen a suicide
bomber plowed his car into people visiting a temple linked to the
ancient Queen of Sheba, killing seven Spaniards and two Yemenis. A
wounded Spanish woman died July 14. The suicide bomber was later
identified as Abdu Mohammed Saad Ahmed (21), a Yemeni citizen.
(AP, 7/3/07)(AP, 7/15/07)(AP, 8/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reissued a report on the Western
Sahara that eliminated controversial recommendations on the future
of the disputed region.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2008 Jul 2, The US lifted a
moratorium on applications to build solar power plants on public
lands in 6 Western states.
(WSJ, 7/3/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 2, In Vermont the body
of a missing girl (12), whose uncle (Michael Jacques) allegedly
planned to force her into a sex ring the day she disappeared, was
found in Randolph, not far from his house.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In California Hans
Florine (44) and Yuji Hirayama (39) broke a World Record for the
fastest climb up the Nose of El Capitan (2:43:33) in Yosemite
National Park. On Oct 12 they broke the record again with a time of
2:37:5. On Nov 6, 2010, climbers Dean Potter and Sean Leary broke
the record with a time of 2:36:45.
(SFC, 7/3/08, p.A1)(SFC, 10/13/08, p.A1)(SFC,
11/15/10, p.A1)
2008 Jul 2, In central
Afghanistan a roadside blast killed five Afghan soldiers in Logar
province. Gunfire brought down a US UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in
the same province, but no US personnel were hurt. In the northwest
Afghan and international troops killed 25 Taliban after militants
ambushed an Afghan patrol in Muqur district.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 2, President Alexander
Lukashenko said he acceded to Western and opposition demands for
greater democracy ahead of elections.
(WSJ, 7/3/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 2, The British
government said police have arrested more than 500 suspects in a
crackdown on human trafficking in the sex trade. Police made 528
arrests in the operation, codenamed Pentameter 2, after raiding 822
premises, of which 157 were massage parlors and 582 houses and
flats. The operation began in October and involved 55 police forces.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Colombian spies
tricked leftist rebels into handing over presidential candidate
Ingrid Betancourt (kidnapped in 2002), three US military contractors
(captured in 2003), and 10 other hostages in a helicopter rescue so
successful that not a single shot was fired. In 2009 Keith Stansell,
Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves authored "Out of Captivity," a
memoir of their 5 ½ year captivity by Colombia's leftist
rebels.
(AP, 7/2/08)(AP, 2/26/09)
2008 Jul 2, Deutsche Bank
acquired the Dutch corporate banking arm of ABN AMRO from Fortis, a
Benelux bank, for $1.1 billion in cash.
(Econ, 7/12/08, p.83)
2008 Jul 2, In India an
estimated four million truckers went on strike to press for uniform
diesel prices and to protest against an increase in taxes.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Iraqi security
forces arrested two locally prominent supporters of radical Shiite
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as part of their crackdown against Shiite
militias in the southern city of Amarah. Police said Abdul-Jabar
Wahid Humaidi, head of the provincial council in Maysan, where
Amarah is the capital, and Fadhil Niama, head of the council's
security committee, were suspected of supporting Shiite militias. A
string of mortar shells hit the residential area of al-Amil in
western Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding eight others. In
eastern Diyala province, US-allied Sunnis killed two al-Qaida
terrorists south of Baqouba.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In Israel Hussam
Dwayat (30), a Palestinian man from Arab east Jerusalem plowed, an
enormous construction vehicle into cars, buses and pedestrians on a
busy street, killing at least 3 people and wounding at least 45
before he was shot dead by security officers. Palestinian witnesses
said an angry crowd in the Gaza Strip has stormed a border crossing
with Egypt throwing rocks at Egyptian troops.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi pledged to end the garbage crisis in Naples and
the surrounding area by the end of July.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Japan and Middle
Eastern leaders agreed on a project to bring thousands of badly
needed jobs to the West Bank, voicing hope it would lay the
groundwork for a Palestinian state.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In Kashmir the
Indian army said 11 Muslim rebels and an Indian soldier have been
killed in two days of fierce fighting in a district bordering the
Pakistani part of the disputed state.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, Stanley Ho, casino
entrepreneur in Macao, agreed to sell a 25% stake from some $500
million in his SJM Holdings, which owned 19 or Macao’s 29 casinos.
(Econ, 7/5/08, p.75)
2008 Jul 2, In Mexico 4
decapitated bodies were found on a street in Culiacan, blocks away
from their severed heads. Four gunmen were killed hours later, after
opening fire on federal police patrolling Culiacan, a center for the
powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Under attack, police shot back at the
home where the gunmen were holed up, killing the four assailants and
capturing two others.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 2, The Moroccan news
agency said 35 alleged recruiters for Al-Qaeda operations in Algeria
and Iraq were arrested by police in Morocco, where they were also
accused of planning attacks. The suspects allegedly belong to a
Salafist group, Salafiya Jihadiya.
(AFP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 2, The Nigerian
government charged two former aviation ministers with misusing a
$165-million fund set up to improve air safety after three airplane
accidents.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In South Korea tens
of thousands of auto workers went on strike to oppose the
government's lifting of a ban on US beef imports.
(AP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 2, In Sri Lanka a
series of battles between government forces and Tamil Tiger fighters
on the front lines of the civil war killed 26 rebels. The fighting
took place throughout the day, killing two rebels in the Vavuniya
area, 12 in Mannar and 12 in Welioya. Rebel spokesman Rasiah
Ilanthirayan disputed those figures, saying three of his fighters
and 11 soldiers were killed in the fighting.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 2, Zimbabwe opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai rejected an African Union decision to keep
South Africa's president alone in charge of efforts to resolve
Zimbabwe's political crisis. The European Commission insisted that
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai should be named at the
head of any new government. South African President Thabo Mbeki
rejected the EU position.
(AP, 7/2/08)(AFP, 7/2/08)
2009 Jul 2, The US Labor dept.
reported that employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in
June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5
percent, suggesting that the economy's road to recovery will be
bumpy.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, In NYC federal
marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million
Manhattan penthouse and forced his wife to move out and leave her
possessions behind, including a fur coat she had asked to take with
her.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 2, California State
Controller John Chiang began to issuing IOUs to pay taxpayer refunds
and vendors. On July 9 the SEC classified the IOUs as municipal
securities subject to regulation to prevent their being traded by
entrepreneurs in an open secondary market.
(SFC, 7/10/09, p.A1, 12)
2009 Jul 2, In South Carolina 2
victims were found in their family's small furniture and appliance
shop near downtown Gaffney around closing time. Stephen Tyler (45)
was killed. His daughter, Abby Tyler (15) died from her wounds on
July 4. A day earlier and about seven miles away, family
members found the bodies of Hazel Linder (83) and her 50-year-old
daughter, Gena Linder Parker, bound and shot in Linder's home. The
killing spree began June 27, about 10 miles from Tyler Home Center,
where peach farmer Kline Cash (63) was found shot in his living
room.
(AP, 7/4/09)(SSFC, 7/5/09, p.A11)
2009 Jul 2, Thousands of US
Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into
Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan in Operation
Khanjar (Strike of the Sword), the first major operation under
President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country. A
parallel British operation, Panchai Palang (Panther’s Claw), fought
the Taliban for control of the Nad Ali district. The Taliban
responded with their own Operation Foladi (Iron Net).
(AP, 7/2/09)(AP, 7/6/09)(Econ, 7/11/09, p.40)
2009 Jul 2, A British RAF
Tornado fighter aircraft crashed in a remote area of Scotland.
(AFP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, Canada said it has
forgiven C$2.3 million in debt owed by Haiti as part of a plan that
aims to relieve the world's poorest countries of C$1.3 billion in
debt.
(Reuters, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, Pina Bausch
(b.1940), influential German choreographer and dancer, died. She was
the artistic director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, founded in 1973.
(SFC, 7/4/09, p.B3)
2009 Jul 2, A top Indian court
issued a landmark ruling that decriminalized gay sex between
consenting adults by declaring a colonial-era ban on homosexuality
unconstitutional. The decision applied only to the territory of the
capital, New Delhi.
(AFP, 7/2/09)(SFC, 7/3/09, p.A5)
2009 Jul 2, In Iraq bombings
killed at least three people in the Baghdad area in the first
significant violence since Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for
securing cities after the withdrawal of US combat troops from urban
areas earlier this week.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, Manabu Kurita
caught a 22-pound, 4-ounce largemouth bass on Lake Biwa, Japan's
largest lake. On Jan 8, 2010, the Florida-based International Game
Fish Association credited him with tying the 77-year-old world
record for catching the biggest largemouth bass.
(AP, 1/9/10)
2009 Jul 2, Amnesty
International accused Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes
in the most comprehensive report on the recent Gaza war. Both sides
rejected the findings.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, Liberia's truth and
reconciliation commission recommended that ex-President Charles
Taylor and seven other former warlords be prosecuted for crimes
against humanity for their alleged roles in the West African
country's civil war.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, African heads of
state meeting in Libya discussed a drastic new decision against the
International Criminal Court that would in practice give Sudan's
president impunity from prosecution for war crimes by the ICC, a
draft document at the AU summit showed. Leaders also struggled to
overcome divisions on a proposed "African government", as Libyan
leader Moamer Kadhafi pressed for a powerful new continental
authority.
(AP, 7/2/09)(AFP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, In Nepal landslides
triggered by monsoon rains swept through three villages in the
mountainous west, burying homes and killing at least nine people.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, North Korea
test-fired four short-range missiles, further stoking tension in the
region that was already high due to Pyongyang's nuclear test and
threats to boost its nuclear arsenal in response to UN sanctions.
(Reuters, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, In Rawalpindi,
Pakistan, a suicide bomber targeted employees of a nuclear facility
left 29 people wounded. Near Peshawar, the main city in the
northwest, a roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded five
more. Maulvi Nazir, a powerful militant chieftain in the frontier
region of South Waziristan, declared a cease-fire against security
forces.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, In Peru two buses
crashed head-on on a mountain road near Lake Titicaca, killing at
least 23 people and injuring 50 more.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, South Africa urged
its public service doctors to halt wildcat strikes and accept a
revised wage offer after low salaries and abysmal working conditions
led them to abandon patients.
(AFP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, Spain's
intelligence chief, Alberto Saiz, resigned amid allegations he used
government money to go on hunting and fishing trips and had staffers
remodel his house.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, The BBC reported
that Syria’s Pres. Assad has issued a presidential decree ordering
honor killers to face at least 2 years in prison.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8130639.stm)
2009 Jul 2, The UN nuclear
agency's governing board (IAEA) chose Yukiya Amano, a veteran
Japanese diplomat as its new head. The term of the present head,
Mohamed ElBaradei, ends in November.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 2, In Vietnam an
official said for every 100 girls born to Vietnamese families, there
are 112 boys born, a disparity in the sex ratio that has been
rapidly increasing in recent years. The rising imbalance was blamed
on a cultural preference for boys who can continue the bloodline and
the belief that boys can better care for parents as they age.
(AP, 7/2/09)
2010
Jul 2, An appeals court in Washington put government prosecutors on
notice that they must show evidence that an Algerian detainee held
at Guantanamo Bay for more than eight years is actually "part of" al
Qaida, or set him free. The decision reversed what had been a rare
victory for the government since the Supreme Court ruled that
Guantanamo detainees had the right to contest their incarceration in
US courts. Of the 50 cases that have been decided by district
courts, the government has prevailed in only 14.
(McClatchy, 7/2/10)
2010 Jul 2, The US Border
Patrol in Washington State warned hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail
they could face arrest, jail and a $5,000 fine if they cross the
US-Canadian border improperly. The 2,650-mile trail stretches north
from Mexico, crosses the US border in the Pasayten Wilderness and
continues for about nine miles to Manning Provincial Park in British
Columbia.
(AP, 7/2/10)
2010 Jul 2, In California a
state appellate court sided with the Schwarzenegger administration
in its attempt to temporarily impose the $7.25 per hour federal
minimum wage on tens of thousands of state workers.
(AP, 7/2/10)(SFC, 7/2/10, p.C1)
2010 Jul 2, More than 180,000
people packed into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum over two days
for a rave party. A suspected overdose led to the death of a girl
(15). Scores of injuries resulted when people tried to force their
way closer to the event's five stages.
(AP, 7/2/10)
2010 Jul 2, The Chicago City
Council approved what city officials said is the strictest handgun
ordnance in the US.
(SFC, 7/3/10, p.A4)
2010 Jul 2, In northern
Afghanistan Taliban suicide attackers stormed a four-story house
used by an American AID organization in Kunduz, killing four people
before dying in a fierce, 6-hour gunbattle with Afghan security
forces.
(AP, 7/2/10)(SFC, 7/3/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 2, Dame Beryl
Bainbridge, English novelist, died. Her 18 novels included “Injury
Time,” for which she won the Whitbread Prize in 1977.
(Econ, 7/17/10, p.90)
2010 Jul 2, It was reported
that grenade attacks in Burundi have killed 8 people and wounded
almost 50 over the last month.
(WSJ, 7/2/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 2, In eastern Congo a
fuel tanker overturned and burst into flames, sparking a massive
fire that killed at least 230 villagers and wounded more than 200 —
some of whom had rushed to siphon leaking liquid from the vehicle
illegally. (AP, 7/3/10)(SSFC, 7/4/10, p.A5)(SFC, 7/5/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 2, In junta-ruled
Guinea electoral officials announced that a runoff vote would be
needed to determine who wins the mineral-rich West African nation's
first free election since independence.
(AP, 7/2/10)
2010 Jul 2, In India leading
Naxalite Cherkuri Rajkumar, aka Azad, was killed security forces in
Andhra Pradesh state.
(Econ, 7/24/10, p.44)
2010 Jul 2, Jakarta's annual
month-long flora and fauna expo opened. It included sales of the
world's most threatened ploughshare tortoise and the critically
endangered radiated tortoises, both from Madagascar. While the
government has passed legislation banning such illegal trade,
dealers continue to blatantly sell endangered species without fear
of arrest or prosecution.
(AP, 7/3o/10)
2010 Jul 2, Kenyans expressed
outrage after members of parliament this week recommended giving
themselves a $175,000 annual pay package as farmworkers averaged $40
per month.
(SFC, 7/2/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 2, In Kosovo an
explosion tore through a Serb protest in Mitrovica fatally injuring
one man and leaving 11 others with shrapnel wounds.
(SFC, 7/2/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 2, Mexican authorities
said they have arrested Jesus Ernesto Chavez (41), a drug-cartel
enforcer. Chavez said Lesley Enriquez, a woman who worked in the
Mexican border's biggest US consulate, had helped a rival gang
obtain American visas, and for that he ordered her killed. Employee
Lesley Enriquez (35) and two other people connected to the US
consulate in the city of Ciudad Juarez were killed March 13 in
attacks that raised concerns that Americans were being caught up in
drug-related border violence.
(AP, 7/2/10)(SFC, 7/3/10, p.A3)
2010 Jul 2, A Panamanian court
dropped money laundering charges against former Nicaraguan President
Arnoldo Aleman. The court argued the charges against Aleman were
similar to charges he has faced in Nicaragua.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010
Jul 2, An unmanned Russian space capsule carrying supplies to the
International Space Station failed in a docking attempt. The
Progress space capsule was carrying more than two tons of food,
water and other supplies for the orbiting laboratory. NASA said the
failure was due to an antenna problem. Space station commander
Alexander Skvortsov reported the Progress was "rotating
uncontrollably" as it neared the space station. The capsule docked
successfully with the ISS on July 4.
(AP, 7/2/10)(SFC, 7/5/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 2, In South Africa
Jackie Selebi, former state police commissioner, was found guilty of
corruption.
(SFC, 7/2/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 2, The Geneva-based
World Food Program declared its work in Niger an "emergency
operation" after a survey found a sharp rise in malnutrition rates
among young children. WFP spokeswoman Emilia Casella said 16.7
percent of children under 5 years old suffer from acute malnutrition
in the African country.
(AP, 7/2/10)
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