Today in History - July 9
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118 Jul 9,
Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city.
(HN, 7/9/98)
455 Jul 9, Avitus, the Roman
military commander in Gaul, became Emperor of the West.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1401 Jul 9, Timur Lenk, Mongol
monarch, destroyed Baghdad.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1536 Jul 9, French navigator
Jacques Cartier returned to Saint-Malo from Canada.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1540 Jul 9, England's King
Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of
Cleves, annulled.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1553 Jul 9, Maurice of Saxony
was mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating
Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1572 Jul 9, In Gorinchem,
Netherlands, 19 Catholics were executed during the Dutch war for
independence. They became known as “The Martyrs of Gorkum.”
(SFC, 3/5/11,
p.E2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Gorkum)
1595 Jul 9, Johannes Kepler
inscribed a geometric solid construction of universe.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1737 Jul 9, Gian Gastone
b.1671), the last Medici to rule Tuscany, died. With his death
Florence ended its era as an independent state. Tuscany fell to
Francis of Lorraine (later Holy Roman Emperor Francis I), husband of
Maria Theresa of Austria, in exchange for Lorraine, which went to
Stanislaus I of Poland.
(http://tinyurl.com/mylnlb)(SFEC,11/30/97,
p.T3)(AM, 7/05, p.39)
1747 Jul 9, Giovanni Battista
Bononcini (76), Italian opera-composer, died.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1755 Jul 9, General Edward
Braddock was mortally wounded when French and Indian troops ambushed
his force of British regulars and colonial militia, which was on its
way to attack France's Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh). Gen. Braddock's
troops were decimated at Fort Duquesne, where he refused to accept
George Washington's advice on frontier style fighting. British
Gen'l. Braddock gave his bloody sash to George Washington at Fort
Necessity just before he died on Jul 13.
(A & IP, ESM, p.11)(HN, 7/9/98)(WSJ, 1/5/98,
p.A20)
1764 Jul 9, Ann Radcliffe,
novelist who wrote Gothic romances set in Italy, was born.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1766 Jul 9, J. Schopenhauer,
writer, was born.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1776 Jul 9, The Declaration of
Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in
New York.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1776 Jul 9, New York was the
13th colony to ratify the Declaration of Independence.
(SFC, 7/7/96, T1)
1789 Jul 9, In Versailles, the
French National Assembly declared itself the Constituent Assembly
and began to prepare a French constitution.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1790 Jul 9, The Swedish navy
captured one third of the Russian fleet at the naval battle of
Svensksund in the Baltic Sea.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1795 Jul 9, James Swan paid off
the $2,024,899 US national debt.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1797 Jul 9, Edmund Burke
(b.1729), Irish- born British statesman, parliament leader, died.
His writing included “Reflections on the Revolution in France,”
1790.
(WUD, 1994
p.198)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke)
1802 Jul 9, Thomas Davenport,
invented 1st commercial electric motor, was born.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1808 Jul 9, A leather-splitting
machine was patented by Samuel Parker of Billerica, MA.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1815 Jul 9, The 1st US natural
gas well was discovered.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1815 Jul 9, King Louis XVIII
left Ghent for France.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1816 Jul 9, Argentina declared
independence from Spain.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1819 Jul 9, Elias Howe
(d.1867), inventor of the sewing machine, was born in Spencer, Mass.
Howe, a machinist, developed his sewing machine in 1843-45 and
patented it in 1846. Although Howe's machine sewed only short,
straight lines, tailors and seamstresses saw it as a threat to their
jobs. Unable to market his machine in America, Howe took it to
Britain where he sold the rights to an English manufacturer in 1847.
Upon his return to the United States, Howe discovered that his
patent had been infringed upon by other sewing machine
manufacturers, such as Isaac Singer. After a lengthy court battle,
Howe's patent was upheld and royalties from sewing machine sales
made him a wealthy man.
(WUD, 1994, p.689)(HN, 7/9/99)(MC, 7/9/02)
1846 Jul 9, Captain J.B.
Montgomery raised the American flag over San Francisco. Montgomery
claimed Yerba Buena (SF) for the US.
(SFEC, 3/1/98,
p.W36)(www.bearflagmuseum.org/History.html)
1850 Jul 9, Zachary Taylor
(b.1784), the 12th president of the United States, died of cholera
at the age of 65 after serving only 16 months. He was succeeded by
Millard Fillmore. Taylor was a Southerner, a slaveholder and the
hero of the Mexican War in 1848 when he was nominated by the Whig
Party as a candidate for president of the United States. He was an
inoffensive candidate in the anxious years leading up to the Civil
War because he had never taken a position on a political issue or
even cast a vote in his life. During his 16 months as president,
Congress addressed the explosive issue of slavery's expansion to the
west with the Compromise of 1850, but Taylor himself never had the
opportunity to act on this issue.
(WUD,1994,p.1679)(SFC, 9/26/96, p.E10)(AP,
7/9/97)(HN, 7/9/98)(HN, 7/11/99)
1850 Jul 9, Bb, Bahi prophet,
was executed in Tabriz, Iran.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1856 Jul 9, Nikola Tesla,
electrical engineer, inventor (Tesla Coil), was born in Croatia.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1858 Jul 9, Franz Boas,
anthropologist, was born.
(HN, 7/9/01)
1861 Jul 9, Confederate cavalry
led by John Morgan captured Tompkinsville, Kentucky. "The Yankees
will never take me a prisoner again," vowed Confederate General John
Hunt Morgan.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1862 Jul 9, Gen. John Hunt
Morgan captured Tompkinsville, Ky.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1864 Jul 9, An informal force
of Union troops was defeated by Jubal Early at Monocacy, Maryland.
Gen’l. Lew Wallace was able to detain Confederate Lt. Gen’l. Jubal
from an early advance on Washington. Federal casualties numbered
1959 vs. 400 Confederate.
(HT, 3/97, p.66)(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/9/98)(MC,
7/9/02)
1878 Jul 9, H.V. Kaltenborn,
newscaster (Who Said That?), was born in Milwaukee, Wisc.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1878 Jul 9, An improved corncob
pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe in Washington, Mo.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1879 Jul 9, Ottorino Respighi,
composer (Pines of Rome), was born in Bologna, Italy.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1883 Jul 9, Adrien Louis Victor
Boieldieu (67), composer, died.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1887 Jul 9, Samuel Eliot
Morison (d.1976), American biographer and historian (Admiral of the
Ocean Sea), was born. "If the American Revolution had produced
nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been
worthwhile."
(AP, 7/4/97)(HN, 7/9/01)(MC, 7/9/02)
1892 Jul 9, A stray 500-pound
shell from the Sandy Hook, New Jersey, testing range sank the
schooner Henry R. Tilton.
(AM, 7/04, p.35)
1893 Jul 9, Daniel Hale
Williams (1858-1931), an African-American surgeon, performed
successful heart surgery on a teenager in Chicago.
(WSJ, 11/17/07, p.W11)(http://tinyurl.com/37gnkk)
1894 Jul 9, Dorothy Thompson,
journalist, writer and radio commentator, was born.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1900 Jul 9, Queen Victoria
signed The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, uniting 6
separate colonies under a federal government, effective Jan 1, 1901.
(HN,
7/9/98)(www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/as__indx.html)
1908 Jul 9, Minor White,
abstract photographer, was born.
(HN, 7/9/01)
1916 Jul 9, Edward Heath
(d.2005), later PM of England (1970-1974, was born in Kent county.
(SFC, 7/18/05, p.B6)
1916 Jul 9, The 1st cargo
submarine to cross Atlantic arrived in US from Germany.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1917 Jul 9, British warship
"Vanguard" exploded at Scapa Flow killing 804.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1918 Jul 9, The US
Distinguished Service Cross was established by an Act of Congress.
(AP, 7/9/08)
1918 Jul 9, 101 people were
killed as an inbound local train collided with an outbound express
in Nashville, Tenn.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1926 Jul 9, Mathilde Krim,
geneticist, founder of the AIDS foundation, was born.
(HN, 7/9/01)
1926 Jul 9, Chiang Kai-shek was
appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1932 Jul 9, The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closed at 41.63, down 91% from its level exactly
3 years earlier. Trading volume for the day was 235,000 shares.
(WSJ, 10/11/08, p.W1)
1932 Jul 9, John Paul Getty II,
US-British oil magnate, billionaire (Getty Oil), was born.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1933 Jul 9, Oliver Sachs,
neurologist, was born. In 2001 he authored "Uncle Tungsten: Memories
of a Chemical Boyhood," a memoir of his years from 1943-1947.
(SFC, 7/14/96, Z1 p.3)(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.W13)
1934 Jul 9, SS-Reichs Fuhrer
Heinrich Himmler assumed command of German Concentration Camps.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1936 Jul 9, June Jordan, poet
and author, was born.
(HN, 7/9/98)
1936 Jul 9, David Joel Zinman,
composer, conductor (Balt Symphony-1983), was born in NYC.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1937 Jul 9, David Hockney,
painter, was born in Bradford, England. He moved to LA in 1978.
(HN, 7/9/01)(SFC, 8/18/01, p.B3)
1938 Jul 9, Brian Dennehy,
actor (Check is in the Mail, F/X, Cocoon, Death of a Salesman), was
born in Ct.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1938 Jul 9, Supreme Court
Justice Benjamin Cardozo died in Port Chester, NY, at age 68.
(AP, 7/9/08)
1940 Jul 9, German Evangelist
Church protested against euthanasia programs.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1942 Jul 9, Anne Frank (13),
her family and 4 other Jews went into hiding in the attic above her
father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
(HN, 7/9/01)(MC, 7/9/02)
1943 Jul 9, American and
British forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily. The 'man who
never was' pulled off one of the greatest deceptions in military
history--after his death. In April Britain’s Operation Mincemeat had
landed the dead body of an itinerant Welsh laborer, Glyndwr Michael,
disguised as a Major Martin, on the shore of Spain near Huelva.
False papers on the body led the Germans to believe the allies would
attack Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily. The idea had been
originally devised in 1939 as one of 51 submitted by Lt. Commander
Ian Fleming. Operation Mincemeat was kept secret until 1953, the
same year that “Casino Royale,” Fleming’s first James Bond novel was
published.
(ON, 10/10, p.5)
1944 Jul 9, American forces
secured Saipan as the last Japanese defenses fell during WW II.
(AP, 7/9/00)
1944 Jul 9, Raoul Wallenberg, a
Swedish National Guardsman, arrived in Budapest to head the local
office of the US-sponsored War Refugee Board. He had been recruited
in June by a US Embassy official in Stockholm and sent to
Nazi-controlled Budapest under Swedish diplomatic cover. He used US
funds to bribe Nazi officials and saved over 20,000 Hungarian Jews
from Nazi death camps.
(SFC, 5/5/96, p.A-7)(MT, Spg. ‘99, p.18)(WSJ,
2/28/09, p.A7)
1945 Jul 9, Dean R[ay] Koontz,
US author (Star Quest, Beastchild), was born.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1945 Jul 9, A 3rd big Tillamook
fire occurred near the Salmonberry River, and was joined two days
later by a second blaze on the Wilson River, started by a discarded
cigarette. This fire burned 180,000 acres before it was put out. The
cause of the blaze on the Salmonberry River was mysterious, and many
believed it had been set by an incendiary balloon launched by the
Japanese, and brought to Oregon by the jet stream.
(http://www.fact-index.com/t/ti/tillamook_burn.html)
1947 Jul 9, The engagement of
Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was
announced.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1947 Jul 9, Spain voted for
Franco.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1948 Jul 9, Satchel Paige (42)
debuted in majors pitching 2 scoreless inning for Cleveland.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1951 Jul 9, President Truman
asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United
States and Germany.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1953 Jul 9, The 1st helicopter
passenger service began in NYC.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1955 Jul 9, Jimmy Smits, actor
(Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, NYPD Blue), was born in
Brooklyn.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1956 Jul 9, Tom Hanks, actor
(Bossom Buddies, Forrest Gump, Phila), was born in Concord, Calif.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1956 Jul 9, Fred (d.1983) and
Pat Cody (d.2010 at 87) opened Cody’s bookstore in Berkeley, Ca. In
1977 they sold the operation to Andy Ross. In 2005 Ross planned to
open a store in Union Square, SF. In 2006 Ross sold the company to a
Japanese firm. Cody’s closed its last store in Berkeley on June 20,
2008.
(SFC, 1/7/05, p.C1)(SFC, 6/23/08, p.A7)(SFC,
6/23/08, p.A7)(SFC, 10/6/10, p.C5)
1955 Jul 9, Scientists in
London issued a manifesto declaring that researchers must take
responsibility for their creations, such as the atomic bomb.
Bertrand Russel, British pacifist philosopher, drafted the
manifesto, which served as the philosophical origin for the 1997
Pugwash Conference (Nova Scotia) against nuclear arms. It was signed
by ten other scientists that included as Joseph Rotblat (1995 Nobel
Peace Prize), Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling and Frederic
Joliot-Curie.
(WSJ, 10/16/95, p. A-15)
1960 Jul 9, Roger Woodward (7)
and his sister, Deanne Woodward (17), were rescued from the Niagara
River after being tossed from family friend James Honeycutt's
12-foot aluminum boat. New Jersey tourists John Hayes and John
Quattrochi pulled Deanne Woodward to shore just before the brink.
Honeycutt was swept with Roger Woodward over the Horseshoe Falls and
died. Roger survived the 162-foot plunge.
(AP, 7/16/10)
1960 Jul 9, Khrushchev
threatened to use rockets to protect Cuba from the US.
(PC, 1992, p.973)
1965 Jul 9, Adelaide Hiebel
(b.1879), American artist, died. Many of her paintings were used for
advertising and calendar prints.
(http://tinyurl.com/lqooq3)(www.askart.com/askart/h/adelaide_hiebel/adelaide_hiebel.aspx)
1969 Jul 9, Howard Luck Gossage
(b.1917), American ad man, died of leukemia. He wrote the essays:
Understanding Marshall McLuhan, Our Fictitious Freedom of the Press,
How to Look at a Magazine and How to Look at a Billboard. In 1995
"The Book of Gossage," ed. by Bruce Bendinger, was published by The
Copy Workshop.
(www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/fall_01/adv382j/mgautam/PAPER2/luck.html)(Wired,
Dec. '95, p.192)
1971 Jul 9, The United States
turned over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to
South Vietnamese units. In 1998 Jerry Lembcke authored "The Spitting
Image: Myth, Memory and Legacy of Vietnam.
(HN, 7/9/98)(SFEC, 10/11/98, BR p.7)
1971 Jul 9, Henry Kissinger
secretly visited China and met with Premier Zhou Enlai.
(www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB66/)
1972 Jul 9, The body Kwame
Nkrumah (1909-1972), former head of Ghana (1952-1966), was returned
to Nkroful, Ghana, for burial.
(http://tinyurl.com/5e95hx)
1974 Jul 9, Earl Warren
(83), former California governor and US Chief Justice (1953-68) died
in Washington D.C. In 1997 Ed Cray authored the Warren biography
"Chief Justice." In 2006 Jim Newton authored “Justice for All: Earl
Warren and the Nation He Made.”
(AP, 7/9/99)(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A18)(SSFC, 12/3/06,
p.M3)
1975 Jul 9, California’s
Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that reduced the penalty for
possession of marijuana to a $100 fine. The bill was sponsored by
Sen. George R. Moscone and written with the help of attorney Leo
Paoli (d.1997 at 65).
(SFC, 12/27/99,
p.A10)(www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/moscone/chap3.htm)
1976 Jul 9, Uganda asked UN to
condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1976-7/1976-07-09-NBC-18.html)
1978 Jul 9, Nearly 100,000
demonstrators marched on Wash DC for ERA.
(www.now.org/issues/economic/cea/history.html)
1978 Jul 9, American Nazi Party
held a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago.
(www.skokiehistory.info/chrono/nazis.html)
1980 Jul 9, In Brazil at least
3 and as many as 7 died in a stampede to see the Pope at a stadium
in Fortaleza.
(http://tinyurl.com/36kdnt)
1980 Jul 9, Pieter Menten (81),
Dutch war criminal and art collector, was sentenced to 10 years in
prison.
(http://tinyurl.com/369gbh)(http://tinyurl.com/3xjlqp)
1982 Jul 9, A Pan Am Boeing 727
crashed in Kenner, La., killing all 145 people aboard and eight
people on the ground.
(AP, 7/9/07)
1984 Jul 9, A fire destroyed
the roof in the south transept of the 12th century York Minster.
Around £2.5 million was spent on repairs. Restoration work was
completed in 1988, and included new roof bosses to designs which had
won a competition organized by BBC Television's Blue Peter program.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Minster)(http://tinyurl.com/353gfq)
1986 Jul 9, The Attorney
General's Commission on Pornography released the final draft of its
2,000-page report, which linked hard-core porn to sex crimes.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1987 Jul 9, In his third day of
testimony on Capitol Hill, Lt. Col. Oliver North said he had
shredded evidence as part of a planned cover-up of his role in the
Iran-Contra affair.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1988 Jul 9, Teamsters President
Jackie Presser died in Lakewood, Ohio, at age 61.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1988 Jul 9, Dog trainer Barbara
Woodhouse died in Buckinghamshire, England, at age 78.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1989 Jul 9, West German tennis
players Steffi Graf and Boris Becker won the women's and men's
singles titles at Wimbledon.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1989 Jul 9, President Bush
began a visit to Poland.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1989 Jul 9, Two bombs explode
in Mecca, killing one pilgrim, wounding 16. Saudi authorities blame
Iranian-inspired terrorists and later beheaded 16 Kuwaiti Shiite
Muslims for bombings. Iran denied involvement.
(AP, 2/1/04)
1991 Jul 9, The American League
defeated the National League, 4-to-2, in the All-Star Game in
Toronto.
(AP, 7/8/01)
1991 Jul 9, Former CIA officer
Alan D. Fiers pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges in the
Iran-Contra affair.
(AP, 7/8/01)
1991 Jul 9, The International
Olympic Committee readmitted South Africa.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9, Poet Adrienne Rich
rejected the US government National Medal for the Arts award due to
radical disparities of wealth and power in America.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.A10)
1992 Jul 9, Democrat Bill
Clinton tapped Tennessee Sen. Al Gore to be his running mate.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9 The space shuttle
Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending a
two-week mission.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1992 Jul 9 Eric Sevareid (79),
CBS news commentator, died in Washington.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1993 Jul 9, Leaders of Bosnia's
Muslim-led government rejected a plan to divide the country into
three ethnically separate republics.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1993 Jul 9, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin met with Group of Seven leaders as they concluded
their three-day summit in Tokyo.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1994 Jul 9, Members of the
Group of Seven (G-7) nations concluded their economic summit in
Naples, Italy.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1994 Jul 9, Planned talks
between North Korea and South Korea were put on hold following the
death of North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1995 Jul 9, Pete Sampras won
the men’s singles title at Wimbledon by defeating Boris Becker, 6-7
(7-5), 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.
(AP, 7/9/00)
1995 Jul 9, The Dutch in Bosnia
again asked for air support but it was refused.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)
1995 Jul 9, French commandos
boarded the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior Two in the South
Pacific.
(AP, 7/9/00)
1996 Jul 9, The National League
won the All-Star game, defeating the American League 6-0 in
Philadelphia.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1996 Jul 9, Former Colorado
Gov. Richard Lamm began a drive for the presidential nomination of
Ross Perot's fledgling Reform Party.
(AP, 7/9/97)
1996 Jul 9, Attorney Melvin M.
Belli (b.7/29/07), King of Torts, died at 88 in San Francisco. He
authored the 5-volume work "Modern Trials," a classic on the
demonstrative method of presenting evidence.
(SFC, 7/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 9, "The Iranians:
Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation" by Sandra Mackey was
reviewed and panned by Abbas Milani, author of "Tales of Two Cities:
A Persian Memoir."
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.B4)
1996 Jul 9, In Chechnya the
pre-election truce was shattered and the war has resumed.
(WSJ, 7/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 9, The Bosnian
federation approved the merger of the Muslim and Croat armies.
This clears the way for the US to begin training and shipping arms
to Bosnian troops.
(WSJ, 7/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 9, Mexico City’s
police chief announced that every top official in his department was
replaced with military officers. The move was made to break up
corruption and abuse in the old "brotherhood."
(SFC, 7/10/96, p.A7)
1996 Jul 9, Turkey announced a
50% raise for its 1.5 million civil servants.
(SFC, 7/10/96, p.A8)
1996 Jul 9-1996 Jul 10, In
Rwanda the Tutsi dominated army carried out an operation against
Hutu insurgents in Karago and Giciye villages and 62 people were
killed. The area was the home of the late Hutu president Juvenal
Habyarimana.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A12)
1997 Jul 9, Boxer Mike Tyson
was banned from the ring and fined $3 million for biting opponent
Evander Holyfield's ears.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1997 Jul 9, In Hawaii medical,
insurance and pension benefits began to be allowed to any 2 adults
who could not legally marry under a law enacted to ward off
homosexual marriages.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 9, Louise Woodward
failed to respond to a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of
Matthew Eappen, the baby she was convicted of killing, and this
allowed a federal court to automatically rule against her.
(www.courttv.com/trials/woodward/070998.html)
1997 Jul 9, Leaders of 16 NATO
nations met with 25 other countries in an unprecedented security
summit in Madrid, Spain.
(AP, 7/9/98)
1997 Jul 9, In Algeria
Adbelkader Hachani, Muslim fundamentalist leader, was freed hours
after a court sentenced him to 5 years in prison. He had been held
without trial since 1991 when the military voided a vote that his
group was set to win.
(WSJ, 7/10/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 9, In Cambodia some 30
opposition officials were arrested in Pray Veng Province, 13 in
Battambang, and 20 in Kompong Speu. Prince Ranariddh was in
consultation with the United Nations for support.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.E3)
1997 Jul 9, Cypriot Pres.
Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash were
scheduled to meet in a 4-day session in New York to resolve their
disputes.
(SFC, 6/12/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 9, In India half of
the Asian elephant population of 60,000 lived in an area of just
168,000 sq. miles.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A7)
1997 Jul 9, In Kenya armed
police shut down the Univ. of Nairobi and clubbed students who
demanded free and fair elections.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.C2)
1997 Jul 9, From Thailand it
was reported that elephants were dying around pineapple orchards,
possibly from chemical poisoning. Only some 500 elephants remained
in the country.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A7)
1997 Jul 9, In Venezuela a 6.7
earthquake hit the northeast coastal region and killed at least 59
people including 27 students trapped inside a collapsed school
building.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.E3)(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A11)
1998 Jul 9, Congress sent
President Clinton an election-year bill overhauling the Internal
Revenue Service; Clinton said he would sign it.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1998 Jul 9, Former high school
sweethearts Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson were sentenced in
Wilmington, Del., to prison for killing their newborn son at a
motel. Grossberg received 2 1/2 years; Peterson, who cooperated with
prosecutors, got two years. Grossberg ended up serving nearly two
years; Peterson, 1 1/2 years.
(AP, 7/9/08)
1998 Jul 9, In Algeria a bomb
exploded in a flea market in Algiers and killed 10 people and
wounded 21.
(SFC, 7/10/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 9, A 5.8 earthquake
hit the Azores Islands and killed 10 people and injured about a 100.
Some 1000 were left homeless.
(SFC, 7/10/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 9, Nigeria’s junta
commuted the death sentence of Gen’l. Oladipyo Diya and five other
men convicted of plotting to overthrow Abacha. The rioting continued
and the death toll was raised to 60. Northern Hausa Muslims were
fighting Yorubas.
(SFC, 7/10/98, p.A14)(WSJ, 7/10/98, p.A1)(SFC,
7/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 9, An explosion in
Istanbul left 7 people dead and many injured at a spice bazaar.
Pinar Selek was arrested by police two days after the explosion.
Four expert reports said the explosion was caused by a gas leak and
there was no evidence of a bomb. Selek was tortured and spent 2.5
years in prison, but was later acquitted when a Court for Serious
Crimes in Istanbul determined there was no evidence linking her to
the blast. In a separate trial, however, the court found her guilty
under Article 169, which covers the aiding and abetting of a crime
ring, on charges of carrying explosive material used to make a bomb
and keeping a bomb in her workshop. The court later dropped the
charge because of the length of the trial. In 2011 Selek (40) was
acquitted for a 3rd time.
(www.pinarselek.com/public/page_item.aspx?id=520)(AP, 2/9/11)
1999 Jul 9, In LA a jury
ordered GM to pay $4.9 billion to 6 people burned when their 1979
Chevrolet Malibu fuel tank exploded Dec 24, 1993 following a rear
end collision. In Aug a judge reduced the award to $1.2 billion. A
judge later reduced the punitive damages to $1.09 billion, while
letting stand $107 million in compensatory damages; GM continued to
appeal.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A3)(AP,
7/9/00)
1999 Jul 9, In China the number
of AIDS cases was reported to have climbed past 400,000. A
government report in 2000 said 20,711 people had tested positive for
AIDS with 397 having died. Health officials estimated 500,000
HIV-positive Chinese.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.C1)(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.D2)
1999 Jul 9, In Iran police and
vigilantes attacked a student rally protesting a ban of the daily
Salam in Tehran.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A10)
1999 cJul 9, In Jamaica Vivian
Blake, alleged leader of the Shower Posse, was extradited to Miami.
His gang was blamed for 1,400 murders in several US states during
the 1980s.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.C10)
1999 Jul 9, In Kosovo NATO
peacekeepers identified a site in Ljubenic containing the remains of
as many as 350 victims.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A10)
2000 Jul 9, Top-seeded Pete
Sampras won his seventh Wimbledon title as he defeated Patrick
Rafter, 6-7 (10), 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2.
(WSJ, 7/11/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/01)
2000 Jul 9, In Afghanistan Mary
MacMakin was arrested for violating the Taliban ban on employing
women. She led the ngo: "Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Support
for Afghanistan," (PARSA). MacMakin was released 3 days later
ordered to leave the country with accusations of spying and trying
to convert Muslims to Christianity.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A8)(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 9, In Fiji rebels
signed a deal to return their captives in exchange for an end to the
country’s multiracial democracy.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 9, Voters in Haiti
cast ballots for 44 seats of the 83-member Chamber of Deputies. Most
voters ignored the balloting and int’l. observers called the
elections "fundamentally flawed."
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A9)(WSJ, 7/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 9, In Northern Ireland
some 2000 Orange Order marchers held a peaceful march at Drumcree.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 9, In the Philippines
government troops captured the headquarters of the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front at Camp Abubakar in Maguindanao province.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 9, In Russia a bomb
attack at a food market in Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia left 5
people dead. Another bomb in a department store at the port of
Rostov-on-Don on the Black Sea left 2 people dead.
(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A9)
2000 Jul 9, The 13the Int’l.
AIDS Conference convened in Durban, South Africa. Pres. Thabo Mbeki
opened the conference and insisted that poverty was a greater enemy
than the AIDS virus. Hundreds of delegates walked out.
(SFC, 7/7/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/10/00, p.A1)(AP,
7/8/01)
2000 Jul 9, In Zimbabwe 12
people died in a soccer stampede set off when police fired tear gas
at bottle-throwing fans during a World Cup qualifier between
Zimbabwe and South Africa in Harare. South Africa’s 2-0 victory over
Zimbabwe was ruled official.
(WSJ, 7/10/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/8/01)
2001 Jul 9, The Bush
administration announced that it opposed a UN draft to restrict the
sale of small arms. The US was the leading exporter of small arms.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 9, Wildcard entrant
Goran Ivanisevic won the men's title at Wimbledon by beating Patrick
Rafter.
(AP, 7/9/02)
2001 Jul 9, In Chile an appeals
court ruled that Gen. Augusto Pinochet could not be tried on human
rights charges because of his deteriorating health and mental
condition, a ruling that effectively brought the 85-year-old former
dictator's legal troubles to an end.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A7)(AP, 7/9/02)
2001 Jul 9, In Jamaica PM
Patterson ordered the army deployed across the island to restore
calm following 3 days of violence that killed at least 28 people.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A7)(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)(SFC,
7/27/01, p.D6)
2001 Jul 9, The UN ranked
Norway as the country with the world’s highest standard of living.
PM Jens Stolenberg credited the nation’s welfare system. Norway was
followed by Australia and Canada. The US ranked 6th.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A8)
2002 Jul 9, To the boos of
disappointed fans, the All-Star game in Milwaukee finished in a 7-7
tie after 11 innings when both teams ran out of pitchers.
(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, Speaking in New
York, President Bush called for doubled prison terms and aggressive
policing to combat fraud and corruption in corporate America.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A1)(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, The US Senate
approved a nuclear waste burial site at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada
desert. The Senate voted to entomb thousands of tons of radioactive
waste inside Yucca Mountain, rejecting the state's fervent protests.
Gov. Kenny Guinn vowed to continue fighting the plan.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A3)(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, The Women's Health
Initiative announced that estrogen-progestin pills, taken by
millions of women as a hormone replacement therapy, do more harm
than good.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 9, WWF Int'l. released
its 4th Living Planet Report and said humans are using 20% more
natural resources each year than can be regenerated.
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 9, Rod Steiger (77),
actor, died. His films included "On the Waterfront" and "In the Heat
of the Night."
(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 9, African leaders in
Durban, SA, launched the African Union, an ambitious new body
intended to pull the beleaguered continent out of poverty and
conflict.
(AP, 7/9/03)
2002 Jul 9, Thousands of
unemployed Argentines, university students and labor activists
marched on the presidential palace to protest the government's
failure to end the country's deep economic crisis.
(AP, 7/9/02)
2002 Jul 9, A Palestinian
gunman opened fire on Israeli police officers just outside the
walled Old City of Jerusalem, wounding one, and a passer-by was
killed in the ensuing gunbattle.
(AP, 7/9/02)
2002 Jul 9, Philippine
officials said they had arrested a Filipino Muslim suspected of
helping to procure more than a ton of explosives for al Qaeda-linked
Islamic radicals accused of plotting to bomb U.S. targets in
Singapore. A U.S-trained Philippine soldier and an undetermined
number of Muslim rebels were killed in fierce fighting on southern
Jolo island.
(Reuters, 7/9/02)
2002 Jul 9, NATO troops
arrested Radovan Stankovic (33), a former member of an elite Serb
paramilitary unit, for allegedly running a house where women and
girls were raped during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
(AP, 7/9/02)(SFC, 7/10/02, p.A8)
2003 Jul 9, Pres. Bush met with
South African President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria for discussions on
AIDS, the war on terror, trade issues and to seek common ground in
their attempts to deal with the political and economic crisis in
neighboring Zimbabwe. Pleading for patience, President Bush,
continuing his Africa tour, said the United States would "have to
remain tough" in Iraq despite attacks on U.S. soldiers. Bush said he
was "absolutely confident" in his actions despite the discovery that
one claim he'd made about Saddam Hussein's weapons pursuits was
based on false information.
(AP, 7/9/03)(SFC, 7/10/03, p.A3)(AP, 7/9/04)(AP,
7/9/08)
2003 Jul 9, Karl Rove, senior
advisor to Pres. Bush, spoke with syndicated columnist Robert Novak
about diplomat Joseph Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame. About this
same time Rove also spoke with Matthew Cooper, Time’s White House
correspondent, and mentioned Wilson and Plame. In 2006 Novak
acknowledged that 3 administration sources, including Rove and CIA
spokesman Bill Harlow, had provided him information.
(SFC, 7/16/05, p.A4)(SFC, 12/12/05, p.A3)(SFC,
7/12/06, p.A3)
2003 Jul 9, US Defense Sec.
Rumsfeld increased the estimate of military costs in Iraq to $3.9
billion a month.
(SFC, 7/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 9, The US cleared $20
million in direct aid to the Palestinians.
(WSJ, 7/10/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 9, Research was
released that said PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers), commonly
used in flame retardants, posed a health hazard.
(SFC, 7/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 9, Winston Graham
(93), author of the hugely popular Poldark novels, died in Sussex,
England. His other novels included "Marnie" (1961).
(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 9, Canada became the
1st country in the world to start selling marijuana to several
hundred seriously ill people but said the pot project could be
halted at any time.
(Reuters, 7/9/03)
2003 Jul 9, Haiti paid $32
million in arrears to the Inter-American Development Bank, nearly
wiping out its foreign reserves in its effort to resume frozen
international loans.
(AP, 7/10/03)
2003 Jul 9, It was reported
that occupation authorities had eliminated all import taxes in Iraq
and accelerated the closure of hundreds of local factories unable to
compete with foreign goods. At the same time hundreds of millions of
dollars was pumped in as cash payments to government workers. 2 U.S.
soldiers were killed and a third wounded in separate attacks on
their convoys near Mahmudiyah and Tikrit.
(SFC, 7/9/03, p.A1)(AP, 7/10/03)
2003 Jul 9, In northwestern
Somalia 3 days of fighting among hundreds of gunmen from rival
clan-based factions killed more than 40 people and wounded 90.
(AP, 7/10/03)
2004 Jul 9, A US Senate
committee report said that flawed prewar intelligence fueled the
Bush administration position that Saddam Hussein’s regime posed a
serious threat to the US.
(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 9, An appeals court
rejected Nevada’s claim against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste
repository, but ordered leak plans beyond 10,000 years.
(WSJ, 7/12/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 9, Cpl. Wassef Ali
Hassoun (24) arrived in Germany from Lebanon, where he had turned up
at the US Embassy in Beirut a day earlier. He had been missing since
June 20 from his base near the troubled Iraqi city of Fallujah. The
Pentagon announced that Hassoun would be charged with desertion,
larceny and wrongful disposition of military property in connection
with his service-issued M9 pistol that disappeared with him and
never turned up. On January 4, 2005, he was again labeled a deserter
after failing to return to his base at Camp Lejeune in North
Carolina from authorized leave. He was reportedly in Lebanon.
(AP, 7/10/04)(SFC, 7/9/04,
p.A1)(www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/05/hassoun.case/index.html)
2004 Jul 9, Geraldine Williams
(67) of Lowell, Mass., accepted a lump sum payment of $168 million
for her July 3 win in the $294 million lotto.
(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A2)
2004 Jul 9, Isabel Sanford
(86), actress, died Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2004 Jul 9, A U.N.-backed body
barred the Republic of Congo from the legitimate world diamond
trade, accusing it of blatantly sending millions of dollars in
smuggled gems onto the global market.
(AP, 7/10/04)
2004 Jul 9, In Egypt President
Hosni Mubarak's cabinet resigned and the longtime leader appointed
technocrat Ahmed Nazief (Nazif), a relative outsider, to replace
Atef Obeid as prime minister, further consolidating his power at a
time of growing calls for political, social and economic change.
Half of the 26 regional governors were also replaced.
(AP, 7/9/04)(Econ, 7/17/04, p.47)
2004 Jul 9, In Baghdad, Iraq, 2
mortar shells targeting a hotel housing foreigners in the capital
hit a house instead, killing a child and wounding three others.
(AP, 7/9/04)
2004 Jul 9, The Int’l. Court of
Justice ruled that Israel’s separation barrier in the occupied West
Bank violates freedom of movement and should be demolished.
(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 9, Paul Klebnikov
(41), the American editor of Forbes Magazine's Russian edition and
author of a book about tycoon Boris Berezovsky, was shot to death.
Klebnikov was also the author of “Conversation with a Barbarian,”
about organized crime in Russia’s continuing war in Chechnya. In
Nov. Muslim Ibragimov, aka Kazbek Dukuzov, was arrested in Belarus.
He was later extradited to Moscow in 2005 and accused of involvement
in the slaying. Russian prosecutors later determined that
Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, a former separatist Chechen official who was
the subject of a book by U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov, ordered the
murder.
(AP, 7/9/04)(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A8)(WSJ, 2/24/05,
p.A13)(AP, 6/16/05)
2004 Jul 9, In Peru 2 passenger
buses collided head-on on a coastal highway, killing at least 36
people and injuring two dozen.
(AP, 7/9/04)
2005 Jul 9, Pres. Bush signed
the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005, supported by business
interests, which made it easier for companies to send out junk
faxes.
(SFC, 7/13/05, p.C1)
2005 Jul 9, Minnesota Gov. Jim
Pawlenty signed a temporary spending plan and lawmakers agreed on
the outline of a 2-year budget.
(SSFC, 7/10/05, p.A3)
2006 Jul 9, A panda cub, later
named Tai Shan, was born at the National Zoo in Washington.
(AP, 7/9/06)
2005 Jul 9, It was reported the
world’s 439 nuclear reactors produce about 16% of the world’s
electricity. US reactors numbered 103 plants with capacity
utilization at over 90%.
(Econ, 7/25/05, p.59)
2005 Jul 9, Hurricane Dennis
left at least 32 people dead in the Caribbean and moved toward
Pensacola, Florida.
(SSFC, 7/10/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 9, The US military
released another batch of 76 Afghan prisoners as part of ongoing
efforts to promote national reconciliation. A purported Taliban
spokesman said that the group has beheaded a missing American
commando, but he offered no proof. The body of the commando was
found the next day.
(AP, 7/9/06)
2005 Jul 9, Suspected Taliban
gunmen ambushed an Afghani government border patrol in the desert
near the frontier with Pakistan, killing 10 soldiers and beheading
their bodies.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 9, The leader of
Brazil's governing Workers Party stepped down, the third ally of
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to resign this week amid charges
of buying votes in Congress.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 9, In Congo DRC
Rwandan rebels burned 39 people alive, mostly women and children,
when they torched the village of Mtulumamba in eastern Congo in what
some locals said was punishment for supporting UN peacekeepers.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 9, It was reported
that a recent Internet announcement said that Ibrahim Youssef
al-Shammari would serve as official spokesman for the Islamic Army
of Iraq and the Army of the Mujahideen, 2 groups thought to be
linked to the former Baath Party.
(Econ, 7/25/05, p.39)
2005 Jul 9, Khamis Farhan
Khalaf Abd al-Fahdawi (known as Abu Seba), a senior lieutenant of
al-Qaida in Iraq, was arrested following operations in the Ramadi.
He was a key suspect in the kidnap-slaying of an Egyptian envoy and
attacks on senior diplomats from Pakistan and Bahrain.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 9, North Korea said it
will rejoin six-nation nuclear arms talks on July 25.
(AP, 7/9/05)
2005 Jul 9, The 110-ton barge
left Magadan, Russia, on a two-day journey to Okhotsk, sent out a
distress signal during severe weather, then lost communication. 6 of
10 sailors were rescued 3 days later.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 9, In Sudan John
Garang, the former rebel leader who spent 21 years fighting
Khartoum's government, was sworn in as first vice president. Garang
and Pres. Omar el-Bashir signed into being Sudan's new constitution.
(AP, 7/9/05)(AP, 7/10/05)
2005 Jul 9, In southeastern
Turkey a land mine believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels
killed 3 soldiers. Two other land mines injured seven people in
separate explosions.
(AP, 7/10/05)
2006 Jul 9, Freescale
Semiconductor, a former division of Motorola, announced the
commercial availability of a chip called Magnetoresistive
random-access memory (MRAM), which is fast to read and write and can
keep data without power. In September the Blackstone Group offered
$17.6 billion for Freescale.
(SFC, 7/10/06, p.A3)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.73)
2006 Jul 9, In Washington DC
Alan Senitt (27), a British volunteer for the potential presidential
campaign of former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner, was killed in the
Georgetown neighborhood by robbers who slashed his throat and tried
to rape his female companion. Within three hours of the attack,
police arrested and charged two men, and two other suspects
surrendered a few hours later. On May 21, 2007, Christopher Piper
and Jeffery Rice pleaded guilty to robbing and killing Alan, and
committing other robberies in the city. They were sentenced August
24, 2007, to 37 and 52 years respectively in prison.
(AP,
7/10/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Senitt)
2006 Jul 9, In Missouri 5
youths (10-17) including 4 siblings drowned in the Meramtec River
during a church outing at Castlewood State Park. One had become
caught in an undertow and the others jumped in to help.
(SFC, 7/11/06, p.A3)
2006 Jul 9, In southern
Afghanistan a Canadian coalition officer died of wounds suffered in
fighting near an opium-rich insurgent stronghold. At least 15
militants were killed. A coalition patrol found the bodies of 10
militants killed in an airstrike in Panjwayi.
(AP, 7/9/06)(SFC, 7/10/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 9, Roger Federer ended
a five-match losing streak to Rafael Nadal, winning 6-0, 7-6 (5),
6-7 (2), 6-3 to earn his fourth straight Wimbledon title.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2006 Jul 9, India test-fired
its nuclear-capable Agni III missile for the first time. The missile
plunged into the Bay of Bengal short of its target. 14 more people
were reported to have died in rain-related incidents in northern
India, taking the nationwide death toll since the beginning of the
monsoon season in May to 286. Supporters of Shiv Sena, a Hindu
fundamentalist party, went on a rampage in Mumbai protesting the
defacing of a statue of Meenatai, the wife of the movement’s
founder, Balasaheb Thackeray.
(AFP, 7/9/06)(AP, 7/10/06)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.39)
2006 Jul 9, Masked Shiite
gunmen stopped cars in western Baghdad and grabbed people off the
streets, singling out the Sunni Arabs among them and killing at
least 42. Gunmen killed an Iraqi intelligence officer in the Shiite
city of Karbala, one of several deadly shootings targeting security
forces. Iraqi troops launched a pre-dawn raid on Kadhimiya, a mainly
Shi'ite district next to Shula, killing nine militants and capturing
seven.
(Reuters, 7/9/06)(AP, 7/9/06)
2006 Jul 9, Top officials said
Israel will push forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip until
Palestinian militants release a captured Israeli soldier and halt
their rocket attacks.
(AP, 7/9/06)
2006 Jul 9, Italy beat France
5-3 in a shootout following a 1-1 tie in the World Cup final.
Zinedine Zidane, captain of the French team, was sent off for
head-butting an Italian player.
(SFC, 7/10/06, p.A1)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.49)
2006 Jul 9, A Russian Airbus
310 passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked Siberian runway and
plowed through a concrete barrier, bursting into flames. At least
125 of 203 people on board were killed.
(AP, 7/9/06)(AP, 7/9/07)
2006 Jul 9, In Somalia 20
people were killed in bloody fighting as Islamic fighters fought
supporters of Abdi Awale Qaybdiid, who refused to disarm.
(AP, 7/10/06)
2007 Jul 9, President Bush
directed former aides to defy congressional subpoenas, claiming
executive privilege in resisting Congress' investigation into the
firings of US attorneys.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2007 Jul 9, Alaska’s former
state Rep. Tom Anderson was convicted of taking thousands of dollars
from a corrections company consultant in exchange for his help in
the Legislature.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 9, US Sen. David
Vitter, R-La., acknowledged that he was on the list of phone records
just released by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged “D.C. Madam.”
(SFC, 7/11/07, p.A6)
2007 Jul 9, The NAACP meeting
in Detroit held a public burial for the N-word (nigger) racial slur.
In 1944 the NAACP held a symbolic funeral in Detroit for Jim Crow.
(SFC, 7/10/07, p.A3)
2007 Jul 9, Northwest
Biotherapeutics, a US-based biotech company, said it had won
approval for commercial use of the world's first vaccine against
brain cancer in Switzerland.
(AFP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Researchers said a
pill developed by Pfizer to help people stop-smoking appears to also
help curb heavy drinking by targeting a pleasure center in the
brain. The drug called varenicline, began selling in the US last
August under the brand name Chantix.
(SFC, 7/10/07, p.A2)
2007 Jul 9, Novartis said the
first skin patch to treat the dementia that can plague Alzheimer's
patients has gained federal approval. The drug in the patch, called
Exelon or rivastigmine, is the same as that now available in capsule
form but provides a regular and continuous dose throughout the day.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Charles Lane
(b.1905), film actor, died in Santa Monica. He appeared in well over
250 roles on film and TV. His final screen appearance was in the
1995 TV movie “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.”
(SFC, 7/11/07, p.A2)
2007 Jul 9, Afghan troops and
the US-led coalition conducting a nighttime raid killed a Taliban
leader but also two children caught in the crossfire. An exchange of
small arms fire at an army base in Herat killed four Afghan
soldiers.
(AP, 7/9/07)(Reuters, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, A London jury
convicted four Muslim militants of plotting to bomb London's public
transport system.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2007 Jul 9, Buenos Aires
experienced its first major snowfall since June, 1918.
(WSJ, 1/10/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 9, Canada announced
plans to increase its Arctic military presence in an effort to
assert sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, a potentially
oil-rich region the United States claims is international territory.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, The UN-backed Okapi
radio station said that Floribert Chui Bin Kositi, a former
Congolese rebel leader, was beaten to death in Congo’s restive
eastern Kivu region. He held a senior position in a state-run body
monitoring food imports and recently ordered a large consignment of
rice to be destroyed on the grounds that it was unfit for human
consumption.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 9, The EU's top
justice official said EU citizens will be protected by the US
Privacy Act under an anti-terror deal with Washington on the sharing
of trans-Atlantic air passenger data.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 9, In India’s
Chattisgarh state an hours-long battle between police and Maoist
rebels armed with machine guns and mortars ended with the deaths of
25 rebels and 24 police. The Maoist insurgency is now spread across
13 of India's 28 states and the rebels are believed to have
10,000-15,000 fighters in an increasingly well-armed force.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 9, In Indonesia
prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit against former dictator Suharto
(1921-2008), toppled in 1998, seeking $1.54 billion in damages and
funds allegedly stolen from the state during his 32 years in power.
He allegedly forced state banks and others to contribute millions to
the Supersemar Foundation, much of which was siphoned off to
companies run by members of his family and cronies.
(AP, 7/9/07)(Econ, 7/14/07, p.48)
2007 Jul 9, Attacks in Baghdad
killed 13 people as prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on
Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend
of violence that claimed more than 220 lives. A roadside bomb
exploded near an Iraqi military bus north of Baghdad, killing 9
Iraqi soldiers and injuring 21. British warplanes struck the
southern town of al-Majar al-Kabir near the Iranian border, killing
three militants suspected of smuggling weapons into Iraq.
(AP, 7/9/07)(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 9, An appeals court
freed Moldova's former defense minister, overturning his conviction
for abusing his position in the 1997 sale of 21 fighter planes to
the United States.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, In Nigeria gunmen
attacked two southern oil installations, kidnapping two senior
Nigerian employees of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and two foreigners.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Pakistan’s
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf gave clerics more time to persuade
defiant militants to lay down their arms and surrender a mosque they
have defended against thousands of government troops.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Poland’s PM
Jaroslaw Kaczynski fired his deputy, Andrzej Lepper, over corruption
allegations, throwing the future of Poland's conservative governing
coalition into doubt and raising the possibility of early elections.
Kaczynski also fired Sports Minister Tomasz Lipiec, of his own Law
and Justice party.
(AP, 7/9/07)
2007 Jul 9, Zimbabwe police
said more than 1,300 shop owners and business managers have been
arrested as part of a crackdown on firms accused of flouting
government-imposed price controls. Thousands of students were
evicted from Zimbabwe's main university campus after they protested
at the weekend against a decision to deny them food for not paying
their fees.
(AFP, 7/9/07)
2008 Jul 9, A grand jury in
Anchorage indicted Sen. John Cowdery, an Alaska legislator, on
bribery and conspiracy counts in a federal investigation of
corruption that already has led to convictions against three former
state lawmakers. Federal prosecutors allege that Cowdery conspired
with executives of oil field services company VECO Corp. to bribe
another unnamed state senator for votes to support oil and gas
legislation.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 9, The California
state Board of Education voted to make algebra mandatory in the
eighth grade beginning in 2011, in order to bring the state into
compliance with the federal No Child Left Behind program.
(SFC, 7/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 9, Michigan Gov.
Jennifer Granholm signed legislation approving a compact by 8 states
surrounding the Great Lakes. Michigan was last of the 8 states to
approve the agreement, which outlaws diversions of Great lakes water
from natural drainage basins with rare exceptions.
(WSJ, 7/10/08, p.A2)
2008 Jul 9, In western
Pennsylvania the bodies of 22-year-old Ashley Guarino, her
2-year-old daughter Dreux and 11-month-old son Orlando Jr. were
found by relatives. Orlando Maurice Guarino (38) was arrested the
next day and charged with the murders of his wife and children.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 9, US electronic games
publisher Activision under Bobby Kotick closed its merger with the
gaming arm of Vivendi, a French media conglomerate, in a deal valued
at $18.8 billion.
(Econ, 8/15/09,
p.60)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard)
2008 Jul 9, It was announced
that the Abu Dhabi Investment Council had purchased a 90% stake in
NYC’s Chrysler Building for $800 million.
(WSJ, 7/10/08, p.C3)
2008 Jul 9, In northwestern
Afghanistan a group of villagers used a machine gun, sticks and
stones to kill two Taliban militants and chase 10 others away.
NATO-led forces in central Logar province killed a Taliban militant
involved with suicide bombing networks. 9 British soldiers were
injured in Helmand province when an Apache helicopter opened fire
after mistaking them for the enemy.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 9, China convicted and
then executed two ethnic Uighur men and imprisoned another 15 for
alleged terrorist links in the western region of Xinjiang.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 9, German
investigators carried out raids on 600 homes in Austria, Switzerland
and Germany seeking chemicals used to produce an illicit date-rape
drug.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Grenada Tillman
Thomas, former political detainee, was sworn in as the new prime
minister.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, Iran test-fired
nine long- and medium-range missiles during war games that officials
said aimed to show the country can retaliate against any US and
Israeli attack.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Iraq a suicide
bomber killed 8 civilians in an attack on a military convoy in
Mosul. A bomb in Fallujah killed four police officers and one
civilian. A bomb killed a US soldier in Samarra. In total bombs and
bullets killed 20 Iraqis.
(AP, 7/9/08)(SFC, 7/10/08, p.A7)
2008 Jul 9, In Ingushetia
police said three officers have been killed and four kidnapped in
separate attacks.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, An Israel-Hamas
truce has boiled down to a simple trade-off: For a day of calm,
Israel adds five truckloads of cows and 200 tons of cement to the
barest basics it ships to Gaza, but rocket fire from the territory
reseals the border for a day.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Italy police in
Naples arrested 44 suspected mobsters in a crackdown on drug
trafficking. The latest raids led to the confiscation of apartments,
cars, motorcycles, farmland and companies worth nearly $480 million.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Japan G8 leaders
reiterated their commitment for doubling aid to Africa by 2010 and
instituted new accountability procedures to ensure that wealthy
countries fulfill their promises of aid there. They also agreed to
combat global warming but developing nations declined o endorse
emissions targets.
(SFC, 7/10/08, p.A7)(WSJ, 7/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 9, In northern Lebanon
heavy fighting erupted between government supporters and Hezbollah's
allies, killing at least 4 people and shattering a truce that lasted
just two weeks.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, Tribal elders and
Pakistani authorities struck a deal aimed at bringing peace to a
militant-infested northwest region where a paramilitary offensive
has tried to flush out insurgents. Police captured Rafiuddin, an
aide to top commander Baitullah Mehsud, along with four associates
they traveled in a vehicle through the town of Hangu in the South
Waziristan region.
(AP, 7/9/08)(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Peru tens of
thousands of union workers took to the streets across the country to
protest rising food and fuel prices they blame on the free market
policies of President Alan Garcia.
(AP, 7/9/08)
2008 Jul 9, A Spanish patrol
boat rescued 33 people and recovered one body from the boat off the
coast of southern Almeria province. 15 African migrants, most of
them small children, died of hunger, thirst or exposure as they
drifted across the Mediterranean on the small, overcrowded boat.
(AP, 7/10/08)
2008 Jul 9, In Istanbul,
Turkey, men armed with pistols and shotguns attacked a police guard
post outside the US consulate, sparking a gunbattle that left 3
attackers and 3 officers dead.
(AP, 7/9/08)(Reuters, 7/9/08)
2009 Jul 9, In Florida Byrd and
Melanie Billings were killed at their sprawling home near Pensacola.
The wealthy Florida couple had 4 children and adopted 12 others with
developmental disabilities and other problems. Three men were soon
arrested in connection with the slayings. In 2010 a jury found
Patrick Gonzalez Jr. guilty of 2 counts of 1st degree murder and one
count of robber. He had led a group of men dressed as ninjas in the
attack.
(AP, 7/13/09)(SFC, 7/14/09, p.A5)(SFC, 10/29/10,
p.A6)
2009 Jul 9, An Afghan
government spokesman said President Hamid Karzai has pardoned five
heroin smugglers, at least one of them a relative of a man who heads
Karzai's campaign for re-election next month. A truck rigged with
explosives blew up near Kabul killing 25 people including 13 primary
school students. Militants attacked a district headquarters in the
southern province of Zabul, sparking a clash in which 15 Taliban
were killed. 30 insurgents planting bombs in a road in Zabul were
killed in an Afghan military ambush. Overnight clashes with troops
killed 27 suspected militants in Helmand.
(Reuters, 7/9/09)(AFP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, An African Union
panel said former UN chief Kofi Annan handed the International
Criminal Court the names of key suspects in Kenya's post-poll
violence which he helped end last year.
(AFP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, The US deported
Luis Arce Gomez (71), a key figure in Bolivia's last military
dictatorship, back home to serve a 30-year prison sentence for
crimes including genocide and political assassinations. Gomez, known
as "the minister of cocaine," took part in the July 1980 coup led by
then-Gen. Luis Garcia Meza and backed by drug traffickers.
(AP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, In China a 6.0
earthquake rocked Yunnan province, killing one person and destroying
thousands of houses. More than 400,000 people left their homes
following the tremor that left at least one person dead.
(AP, 7/10/09)
2009 Jul 9, Egypt’s Interior
Ministry said authorities have arrested 25 militants with links to
al-Qaida on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil pipelines and ships
in the Suez Canal.
(AP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, In Iran hundreds of
young men and women chanted "death to the dictator" and fled
baton-wielding police in Tehran as opposition activists sought to
revive street protests despite authorities' vows to "smash" any new
marches.
(AP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, In Iraq 2 suicide
bombings in Tal Afar, in Nineveh province, killed 38 people and
wounded 66. Tal Afar is mainly home to minority Turkmen of the
Shiite Muslim faith. In Baghdad, 8 people were killed and 30 wounded
by two bombs in a market in Sadr City, a poor, Shiite Muslim area.
10 more people were killed by bombs elsewhere in Baghdad. US forces
released five Iranian officials detained in January 2007 in northern
Iraq on suspicion of aiding local Shiite militants. An Iranian
television report identified the men as Mohsen Bagheri, Mahmoud
Farhadi, Majid Ghaemi, Majid Dagheri and Abbas Jami. A car driver
was killed in a head-on collision with a US Army Stryker vehicle,
the lead vehicle of a US-Iraqi convoy in western Diyala province.
(Reuters, 7/9/09)(AP, 7/9/09)(AP, 7/10/09)(AP,
7/11/09)
2009 Jul 9, In Italy the G8
opened their summit to include the G5, which made their fifth
straight appearance at the annual summit, albeit as guests, to
discuss climate change, development aid, global economic growth and
international trade.
(AP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, Mexican police
found four mutilated bodies in plastic bags on the side of a highway
in La Huacana, Michoacan state.
(AP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, In Nigeria Henry
Okah, a key militant in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta detained
since September 2007, accepted President Umaru Yar'Adua recent offer
of unconditional amnesty. Armed robbers killed six police officers
as they fled after a raid on a commercial bank at Idi-Iroko, a
Nigerian border town with Benin.
(AFP, 7/10/09)
2009 Jul 9, Pakistan’s
government announced a plan to allow some 2 million people who fled
the offensive to return home next week, saying the region was now
secure and essential services restored. A landmine killed five
paramilitary soldiers and wounded four others in the
insurgency-plagued province of Baluchistan. Dozens of militants
overran a police post and killed four officers in the northwest city
of Khar.
(AFP, 7/9/09)(AP, 7/10/09)
2009 Jul 9-2009 Aug 2, Saudi
Arabian authorities arrested 44 suspected militants who sought to
recruit youths and finance their "deviant activities" through
charitable donations.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Jul 9, In South Africa
World Cup organizers said a strike by construction workers entered
its second day as negotiators meet to try and resolve the standoff.
(AP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, South Korean Web
sites were attacked again after a wave of Web site outages in the US
and South Korea that several officials suspect North Korea was
behind.
(AP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, The Swedish
government said it will expel Sylvere Ahorugeze (53) within three
weeks, fulfilling a request from authorities in Rwanda and marking
the first time an EU nation has sent back a suspect to face charges
in the 1994 genocide.
(AP, 7/10/09)
2009 Jul 9, The UN passed a
resolution extending the lifetime of the International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda to next year. The latest extension is the second
for the Tanzania-based court which had originally been scheduled
wind up its lower court cases by December 2008, but had its life
extended to December 2009.
(AFP, 7/9/09)
2009 Jul 9, In Venezuela’s top
telecommunications official said President Hugo Chavez's government
is imposing new regulations on cable television while revoking the
licenses of more than 200 radio stations.
(AP, 7/9/09)
2010 Jul 9, The US and Russia
orchestrated the largest spy swap since the Cold War, exchanging 10
spies arrested in the US for four convicted in Russia in a tightly
choreographed diplomatic dance at Vienna's airport.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, US regulators shut
down 2 banks in Maryland, bringing to 88 the number of failed US
banks this year.
(SFC, 7/10/10, p.D3)
2010 Jul 9, US Presbyterian
leaders strongly backed a proposal that included a call to end US
aid to Israel unless the country stops settlement expansions in
disputed Palestinian territories.
(AP, 7/10/10)
2010 Jul 9, Google said China
has renewed its license to operate a website, preserving the search
giant's toehold in the most populous Internet market after it gave
up an attempt to skirt Beijing's Web censorship.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, In California scuba
divers began killing invasive Asian clams in Lake Tahoe. Long rubber
mats were laid over half an acre in a test effort starve the clams
of oxygen.
(SFC, 7/10/10, p.C2)
2010 Jul 9, Aid agency Oxfam
warned that the food crisis gripping the Sahel region of Africa was
reaching disastrous levels and called on governments and the
international community to act now. The crisis stretched across the
region taking in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger and northern
Nigeria.
(AFP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, In Afghanistan an
explosion ripped into a convoy of NATO and Afghan forces in eastern
Nangarhar province, killing one civilian and wounding nine others.
Australian Pvt. Nathan Bewes was killed just before midnight by a
homemade bomb, the 6th Australian soldier to die in Afghanistan in
just over a month..
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, Chinese state media
said authorities have seized 76 tons of milk powder tainted with
melamine, the same chemical responsible for the deaths of six babies
two years ago.
(AFP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, In Iraq a suicide
bomber drove an explosives-laden car into an Iraqi army check point
in western Baghdad, killing six people and injuring 20.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, Italy's Fiat, which
controls Chrysler Group LCC, said it will proceed with a euro700
million ($886 million) investment to move production of its new
Panda compact from Poland to a plant near Naples despite an
unresolved dispute with an Italian union.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, In Indian-ruled
Kashmir thousands of residents defied a strict curfew prompting
police to fire rubber bullets and lob tear gas as fresh rebel
attacks injured two policemen. Government forces arrested dozens of
suspected separatists in an attempt to stem civil unrest.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, Libyan organizers
said a charity headed by Saif Al-Islam Kadhafi, the second son of
Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi, is sending an aid boat from Greece to
Gaza to break the Israeli "siege." Organizers of the initiative had
earlier said the 25-year-old ship, owned by Piraeus-based ACA
Shipping Corporation, was called Hope. The ship set sail from Greece
on July 10 and headed for Egypt.
(AFP, 7/9/10)(AFP, 7/10/10)
2010 Jul 9, Prosecutors at the
Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague cited Ratko Mladic's
diaries, seized in a raid on his wife's Belgrade home in February,
in a motion to reopen the trial of former Bosnian Croat political
leader Jadranko Prlic and five other political and military Croat
officials that ended two months ago.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, In Pakistan a pair
of suicide bombers struck outside a government office in the Mohmand
tribal region, killing 102 people and wounding 168 near the
Yakaghund village office of Rasool Khan.
(AP, 7/9/10)(AP, 7/10/10)
2010 Jul 9, In Puerto Rico
hundreds of US drug agents and local police swept through public
housing projects at dawn on the island's west coast in what
officials described as the largest operation of its kind in the
American territory.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, Slovakia’s Pres.
Ovan Gasparovic appointed a new center-right government led by Iveta
Radicova, the country’s first female prime minister.
(SFC, 7/10/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 9, South Korean
prosecutors raided the office of PM Chung Un-chan over allegations
that its ethics officials illegally investigated a businessman two
years ago over the posting of an Internet video critical of the
president.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 9, South Sudan's army
killed seven militia fighters in a raid on their camps. Youths led
an SPLA division to two hideouts used by a militia loyal to Akol's
SPLM- DC (Democratic Change) party in Upper Nile.
(Reuters, 7/11/10)
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