Today in History - July 11
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1174 Jul 11,
Amalric I, king of Jerusalem, died.
(ON, 6/07, p.5)
1216 Jul 11, Hendrik of
Constantinople, emperor of Constantinople (1206-16), died.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1244 Jul 11, The Khwarezmian
Turks attacked Jerusalem. By August 23 they completely razed it and
left it in ruins useless to both Christians and Muslims.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jerusalem_(Middle_Ages))
1274 Jul 11, Robert the Bruce,
King of Scotland (1306-1329), was born in Turnberry, Scotland.
(HN, 7/11/01)(MC, 7/11/02)
1302 Jul 11, An army of French
knights, led by the Count of Artois, was routed by Flemish pikemen.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1346 Jul 11, Charles IV of
Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany. [see Jun 11]
(HN, 7/11/98)
1533 Jul 11, Henry VIII, who
divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was
excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/11/98)
1578 Jul 11, England granted
Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and colonize US.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1593 Jul 11, Giuseppe
Arcimboldo (b.1527), Italian painter, died. Arcimboldo painted
representations of objects, such as fruits and vegetables, on the
canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects
formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject. He painted a
portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II composed entirely of
vegetables.
(WUD, 1994, p.78)(WSJ, 7/10/97,
p.A13)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo)
1644 Jul 11, A Florentine
scientist described the invention of barometer.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1708 Jul 11, The French were
defeated at Oudenarde, Malplaquet, in the Netherlands by the Duke of
Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1742 Jul 11, Benjamin Franklin
invented his Franklin stove.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1742 Jul 11, A papal decree was
issued condemning the disciplining actions of the Jesuits in China.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1754 Jul 11, Thomas Bowdler,
the famous prude who bowdlerized Shakespeare, was born.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1766 Jul 11, Elisabeth Farnese
(73), princess of Parma, queen of Spain, died.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1767 Jul 11, John Quincy Adams,
the sixth president of the United States (1825-1829), was born in
Braintree, Mass.
(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/11/98)(PGA, 12/9/98)
1774 Jul 11, Jews of Algiers
escaped an attack of the Spanish Army. Jun 11 was also cited for
this event.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1786 Jul 11, Morocco agreed to
stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of
$10,000.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1798 Jul 11, The US Marine
Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act. US Pres.
John Adams signed legislation that established the US Marine Band,
composed of 32 drummers and fifers. Continental marines had existed
during the Revolutionary War, but had since been discontinued.
(SFC, 5/20/96, p.A-3)(HNQ, 8/1/99)(AP, 7/11/08)
1799 Jul 11, An Anglo-Turkish
armada bombarded Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops in Alexandria Egypt.
The attack was ineffective.
(HN, 7/11/00)
1804 Jul 11, Vice President
Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton (47), former first
Treasury Secretary, in a pistol duel near Weehawken, N.J. A warrant
for Burr’s arrest was soon issued in New Jersey and New York, where
Hamilton died. In 1999 Richard Brookhiser wrote "Alexander Hamilton:
American." In 2001 Joanne B. Freeman edited his writings and
published: Alexander Hamilton: Writings."
(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/11/98)(WSJ, 2/25/99,
p.A16)(WSJ, 12/3/01, p.A17)(ON, 12/08, p6)
1816 Jul 11, Gas Light Co. of
Baltimore was founded.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1836 Jul 11, Pres. Jackson,
alarmed by the growing influx of state bank notes being used to pay
for public land purchases, issued the Specie Circular shortly before
leaving office. This order commanded the Treasury to no longer
accept paper notes as payment for such sales. This led to the
financial panic of 1837.
(www.u-s-history.com/pages/h967.html)(Panic, p.6)
1838 Jul 11, John Wanamaker
(d.1922), US merchant who founded a chain of stores in Philadelphia,
was born.
(HN, 7/11/98)(ON, 12/05, p.6)
1862 Jul 11, President Abraham
Lincoln appointed General Henry Halleck as general in chief of the
Federal army.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1863 Jul 11, The Battle of Fort
Wager began as Union forces assaulted the Confederate battery on
Morris Island at the southern approach to Charleston Harbor.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_the_Battery_Wagner)
1864 Jul 11, Confederate
General Jubal Early's army arrived in Silver Spring, Maryland, on
the outskirts of Washington, D.C., and began to probe the Union
line. Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early began an invasion
of Washington, D.C., turning back the next day.
(HT, 3/97, p.66)(AP, 7/11/97)(HN, 7/11/98)
1864 Jul 11, Battle of Laurel
Hill, WV.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1864 Jul 11, Battle of
Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad).
(MC, 7/11/02)
1870 Jul 11, 1st-stone Amstel
Brewery opened in Amsterdam.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1877 Jul 11, Los Angeles
recorded a temperature of 112 degrees, but it was not recorded as an
all-time-high because official recording only began 20 days later.
(SFC, 6/11/09, p.D8)
1888 Jul 11, Bartomeo Vanzetti,
executed with Nicola Sacco for several murders during a robbery, the
trial created an international storm of protest, was born.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1899 Jul 11, E. B. White (Elwyn
Brooks White, d.1985), writer, author of "Charlotte's Web" and "The
Elements of Style," was born.
(HN, 7/11/98)(PGA, 12/9/98)(MC, 7/11/02)
1909 Jul 11, Simon Newcomb,
celestial mechanics authority, died.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1914 Jul 11, Babe Ruth debuted
in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. He earned $2,900 in
his rookie season.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1916 Jul 11, Dan Patch
(b.1896), a record-breaking, Indiana-born, harness race horse, died
and was buried in Minnesota. He was the first harness race horse to
break the 2-minute mile. In 2008 Charles Leersen authored “Crazy
Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, The Most Famous Horse in
America.” Here Leersen details the pharmacopoeia used in racing at
the turn of the century.
(WSJ, 5/17/08, p.W9)
1917 Jul 11, The Allied assault
on Flanders, Belgium, began and lasted to Nov 10, for a total gain
of four miles and the occupation of Passchendaele. 9 major battles
took place during this period in the Allied attempt to capture
Passchendaele. In preparation for the attack the Allies fired some
4.2 million shells. In 2006 military teams around Flanders still
retrieved 2-3 dozen shells per day.
(AM, 7/04, p.9)(WSJ, 5/24/06, p.A1)
1918 Jul 11, Enrico Caruso
joined the war effort and recorded "Over There", the patriotic song
written by George M. Cohan.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1920 Jul 11, Yul Brynner, actor
(The King and I, The Ten Commandments) , was born.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1921 Jul 11, Mongolia gained
independence from China (National Day). The holiday of Naadam, which
originated in the time of Ghenghis Khan, was later fixed to July
11-13 to the anniversary of the Revolution.
(SSFC, 3/27/05, p.F5)
1924 Jul 11, After 103 roll
calls the Democrats bypassed New York governor Alfred E. Smith and
William G. McAdoo of California and nominated John W. Davis of West
Virginia and Charles Bryan, brother of William Jennings, to run
against Calvin Coolidge. The Democrats won just 29% of the popular
vote in a 3-way race with Coolidge and Senator Robert "Fighting Bob"
LaFolette of Wisconsin who led the Progressive Party.
(Hem., 8/96, p.87)
1927 Jul 11, Theodore H.
Maiman, physicist, was born.
(HN, 7/11/01)
1931 Jul 11, Tab Hunter, actor,
was born in NYC, the son of Charles Kelm and Gertrude Gelien. In
2005 he authored “Tab Hunter Confidential,” co-written with Eddie
Muller.
(www.filmbug.com/db/279434)(SFC, 11/7/05, p.C3)
1934 Jul 11, President
Roosevelt became the first chief executive to travel through the
Panama Canal while in office.
(AP, 7/11/97)
1936 Jul 11, Triborough Bridge
linking Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens opened.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1937 Jul 11, George Gershwin
(b.1898 as Jacob Gershowitz), composer, died of a brain tumor at age
38 in Beverly Hills, Ca. His work included "Cuban Overture."
He wrote his first hit, "Swanee," in 1918 for the Broadway show,
"Sinbad," starring Al Jolson. George Gershwin wrote the scores for
such Broadway shows as "Funny Face," "Porgy and Bess" and "Of Thee I
Sing" (his first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize [1932]). Gershwin
played the piano at the premiere of his widely acclaimed "Rhapsody
in Blue" in 1924, accompanied by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra.
Gershwin’s song hits included "The Man I Love," "’S Wonderful,"
"Summertime" and "Love Is Here to Stay." The lyrics for many of his
songs were written by his brother Ira. He was born September 26,
1898 in Brooklyn, NYC, NY. to Russian Jewish immigrants.
(SFC, 12/4/96, p.E1)(WSJ, 9/24/97, p.A20)(SFEC,
8/16/98, DB p.38)(www.gershwin.com/)
1939 Jul 11, Yanks hosted the
7th All Star Game. McCarthy started 6 Yanks, AL won 3-1.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1941 Jul 11, The 2nd great
roundup of Jews of Amsterdam took place.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1941 Jul 11, Vichy-French
planes bombed Tel Aviv and killed 20 Jews.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1942 Jul 11, In the longest
bombing raid of World War II, 1,750 British Lancaster bombers
attacked the Polish port of Danzig. The Polish submarine Orzel
escaped from internment and went on to fight the Germans against
long odds.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1943 Jul 11, Heinrich Himmler
ordered the liquidation of Polish ghettos.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1945 Jul 11, Napalm was first
used.
(HFA, '96, p.34)
1951 Jul 11, Bonnie Pointer,
singer, was born.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1952 Jul 11, The Republican
National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D.
Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.
Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin (1900-1974), the governor of Maryland
(1951-1959), gave the nominating speech.
(AP, 7/11/97)(Econ, 10/10/09,
p.23)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_McKeldin)
1953 Jul 11, Leon Spinks, world
heavyweight boxing champ (1978) , was born.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1953 Jul 11, "Amos 'n Andy," TV
Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1955 Jul 11, The new US Air
Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.
(AP, 7/11/97)(PGA, 12/9/98)
1958 Jul 11, Monument Valley,
straddling the Arizona-Utah border, became the 1st Navajo Tribal
Park.
(SSFC, 10/6/02, p.C15)
1960 Jul 11, Katanga province,
with the support of Belgian business interests and troops, broke
away from the new Congolese government of Patrice Lumumba, declaring
independence under Moise Tshombe leader of the local CONAKAT party.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis)
1961 Jul 11, China and North
Korea signed the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual
Assistance. This committed China to defend North Korea if attacked.
(www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/yzs/gjlb/2701/default.htm)(Econ,
10/14/06, p.25)
1962 Jul 11, The Telstar I
satellite carried the first transatlantic TV transmission. It picked
up broadcast signals from France and bounced them down to an antenna
in Maine, delivering the first live television picture from Europe
to America.
(PGA,
12/9/98)(www.lucent.com/minds/telstar/fit.html)
1962 Jul 11, Cosmonaut Micolaev
set longevity space flight record -- 4 days.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1964 Jul 11, Queen Elizabeth
ordered Beatles to her birthday party and they attended.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1966 Jul 11, Debbie Dunning
(actress: Home Improvement), was born.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1966 Jul 11, "I Am A Rock" by
Simon & Garfunkel peaked at #3.
(MC, 7/11/02)
1969 Jul 11, David Bowie
(b.1947), British musician, released his single “Space Oddity,"
supposedly in conjunction with the July 20 Apollo 11 moon landing.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity)
1971 Jul 11, Chile’s Congress
passed an amendment, submitted by President Allende, to nationalize
all mines. On July 16 Chile by law nationalized the US-owned copper
mines based on a calculation of the companies' "excess profits" from
1955 to 1970. It was determined that Chile owed American companies
Anaconda and Kennecott Copper nothing for the mines.
{Chile, M&A, USA}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_nationalization_of_copper)
1972 Jul 11, American forces
broke the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1974 Jul 11, John W. Dean
testified before the US House Judiciary Committee in the impeachment
inquiry of Pres. Nixon.
(www.watergate.info/judiciary/BKIITOW.PDF)
1975 Jul 11, Archaeologists
unearthed an army of 8,000 life-size clay figures created more than
2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi (Shihuangdi). [see
210BC]
(HN, 7/11/01)
1977 Jul 11, The Medal of
Freedom was awarded posthumously to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
in a White House ceremony.
(AP, 7/11/97)
1977 Jul 11, The CRAY 1-A was
delivered to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
This was Cray Research's first official customer, paying US$8.86
million ($7.9 million plus $1 million for the disks).
(www.cisl.ucar.edu/computers/gallery/cray/cray1.jsp)
1977 Jul 11, In Argentina
Bishop Carlos Horacio Ponce de Leon (b.1914) died in a car accident
while driving with Victor Oscar Martinez to deliver evidence of
junta crimes to the Vatican’s representative. The evidence
disappeared.
(SFC, 4/21/11,
p.A2)(http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Horacio_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n)
1978 Jul 11, Christa Tybus of
London set a 24 hrs hula-hoop record.
(www.recordholders.org/en/list/hulahoop.html)
1978 Jul 11, In Spain 216
people were killed at a camping site when a tanker truck overfilled
with propylene gas exploded on a coastal highway south of Tarragona.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(AP, 7/11/97)
1979 Jul 11, The abandoned
78-ton US space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth,
burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian
Ocean and Western Australia. Solar storms were blamed for Skylab’s
premature fall back.
(AP, 7/11/97)(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A6)(SFC, 3/7/06,
p.A5)
1980 Jul 11, American hostage
Richard I. Queen, freed by Iran after eight months of captivity
because of poor health, left Tehran for Switzerland.
(PGA, 12/9/98)(AP, 7/11/01)
1982 Jul 11, The Italian soccer
team won its first World Cup in 44 years.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_FIFA_World_Cup)
1985 Jul 11, Houston Astro's
Nolan Ryan became the first pitcher to strike out 4000 batters as he
fanned Danny Heep of the New York Mets.
(www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/hallfame/ryan.htm)
1986 Jul 11, President Ronald
Reagan placed the Contras, who were fighting the government of
Nicaragua, under CIA jurisdiction.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1986 Jul 11, Mary Beth
Whitehead christened her surrogate Baby M(b.3/27/86), Sara.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_M)
1987 Jul 11, Australian Prime
Minister Bob Hawke won a third consecutive term, becoming the first
Labor Party leader in the country's history to be elected to three
straight terms in office.
(AP, 7/11/97)
1988 Jul 11, Nine people were
killed when three Abu Nidal terrorists attacked hundreds of tourists
aboard a Greek cruise ship, the City of Poros, which was steaming
toward a marina in suburban Athens.
(AP, 7/11/98)(www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ano.htm)
1989 Jul 11, The American
League won the 60th All-Star Game, defeating the National League 5-3
in Anaheim, Calif.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1989 Jul 11, Laurence Olivier
(b.1907), British actor, director and producer, died in West Sussex,
UK. In 1991 Donald Spoto authored the biography “Laurence Olivier.”
In 2005 Terry Coleman authored the biography “Olivier.”
(AP, 7/11/99)(SSFC, 11/13/05, p.M6)(Econ,
10/15/05, p.92)
1990 Jul 11, Leaders of the
so-called "Group of Seven" nations concluded their summit in Houston
by encouraging Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to enact
reforms in return for Western aid.
(AP, 7/11/00)
1991 Jul 11, A solar eclipse
cast a blanket of darkness stretching nine-thousand miles from
Hawaii to South America, lasting nearly seven minutes in some
places.
(AP, 7/11/01)
1991 Jul 11, A Nigerian
Airlines jet carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi
Arabia, int'l airport, killing all 261 people on board. The plane
was a Canadian-chartered DC-8.
(AP, 7/11/97)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1992 Jul 11, Undeclared
presidential hopeful Ross Perot, addressing the NAACP convention in
Nashville, Tenn., startled and offended his listeners by referring
to the predominantly black audience as "you people."
(AP, 7/11/97)
1992 Jul 11, In Bosnia it was
later alleged on Dutch TV that Dutch troops deliberately drove an
armored vehicle into a Muslim blockade on this day and killed as
many as 30 people.
(SFC, 8/21/98, p.A14)
1993 Jul 11, President Clinton
wrapped up his visit to South Korea with a visit to the
Demilitarized Zone separating South and North Korea; he then flew to
Hawaii, where he placed a wreath at the site of the sunken
battleship USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
(AP, 7/11/98)
1993 Jul 11, In Des Moines,
Iowa, severe flooding shut down a water system serving 250,000
residents.
(AP, 7/11/98)
1994 Jul 11, President Clinton,
on his first official visit to Germany, urged his hosts to take on a
stronger leadership role in global affairs.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 11, Shawn Eckardt was
sentenced in Portland, Ore., to 18 months in prison for his role in
the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 11, Gary Kildall (52),
pioneer software writer, died in Monterey, Ca.
(www.maxframe.com/kildallr.htm)
1994 Jul 11, Haiti's
army-backed regime ordered the expulsion of international human
rights observers.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1995 Jul 11, Full diplomatic
relations were established between the United States and Vietnam
following an order by Pres. Clinton.
(SFEM, 6/9/96, p.9)(HN, 7/11/98)(SSFC, 8/24/03,
p.I6)
1995 Jul 11, Srebrenica, a UN
declared "safe area," fell to the Bosnian Serbs. 7,000 Muslim men
supposedly escaped but were never heard from again. Drazen Erdemovic
(24) later admitted that he participated in killing 70 men at
Srebrenica. Victims were shot in the back in groups of 10 by himself
and fellow soldiers in the Bosnian Serb Army’s 10th Sabotage
Detachment. He was told that he would be killed if he refused to
follow orders. In 1998 the book "The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar"
was published with photographs by Gilles Peress and text by Eric
Stover.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A12)(SFC, 7/7/96, A10) (SFC,
6/1/96, p.A10)(SFEC, 12/20/98, BR p.6)
1995 Jul 11, Videotape showed
Gen. Ratco Mladic entering Srebrenica.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A8)
1995 Jul 11-1995 Jul 16,
In the Srebrenica Massacre buses arrived to take women and children
to Muslim territory, while the Serbs began separating out all men
from age 12 to 77 for "interrogation for suspected war crimes". It
is estimated that 23,000 women and children were deported in the
next 30 hours while hundreds of men were held in trucks and
warehouses. On 13 July killings of unarmed Muslims took place in one
such warehouse in the nearby village of Kravica. By July 16 Early
reports of massacres emerged as the first survivors of the long
march from Srebrenica began to arrive in Muslim-held territory.
Between July 11 and July 16 more than 7,000 unarmed Muslim men are
thought to have been killed by Serbian forces.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/675945.stm)
1996 Jul 11, A report stated
that Malaria infects 300 million people each year and kills 1.5 to
2.7 million. A drug, artemether, derived from a Chinese herb was
appearing to be as effective as quinine.
(SFC, 7/11/96, p.C1)
1996 Jul 11, An Air Force F-16
jet trying to make an emergency landing slammed into a house in
Pensacola, Fla., setting the home on fire, killing a 4-year-old boy
and badly burning his mother. The pilot ejected safely.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/11/97)
1996 Jul 11, The Argentine
minister of justice, Rodolfo Barra, resigned his post due to his
past association as a teen-ager in the 60s with the anti-Semitic
group, Tacuara.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A14)
1996 Jul 11, Two bombs ripped
apart buses in Moscow and injured at least 23 people. A Chechen link
was suspected but not proven.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A11)
1997 Jul 11, President Clinton
was cheered by tens of thousands of people in Bucharest, Romania,
where he raised hopes for NATO membership.
(AP, 7/11/98)
1997 Jul 11, Uwatec Corp. was
sold to Johnson Worldwide Assoc. (later Johnson Outdoors Inc.) for
$33.5 million. A defect in the Aladin Air X Nitrox, an underwater
diving computer, was not disclosed. Injuries and lawsuits followed
and the product was pulled Feb 5, 2003.
(SSFC, 5/25/03, p.A18)
1997 Jul 11, A Cuban An-24
passenger plane with 44 people plunged into the sea after take-off
from Santiago de Cuba onroute to Havana.
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 11, In India a riot
broke out in Bombay after a garland of shoes - a grave insult - was
draped over a bust of Babasaheb Ambedkar, a political leader from
Hinduism’s lowest caste. Police killed ten people including two
children on their way to school.
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.C1)
1997 Jul 11, In Thailand a
kitchen fire went out of control at the 450-room Royal Jomtien Hotel
in Pattaya and killed 91 people with 64 injured.
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.A10)(WSJ, 7/11/97, p.A12)(AP,
7/11/07)
1998 Jul 11, Air Force Lt.
Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest
near his Missouri home after the positive identification of his
remains, which had been enshrined at the Tomb of the Unknowns in
Arlington, Va.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1998 Jul 11, From Australia it
was reported that dingoes from Mount Archer National park near the
central Queensland coast were stalking neighborhoods for food.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 11, Police in
Cartagena, Colombia, seized 7 metric tons of cocaine in cargo
containers bound for Europe.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 11, Some 600,000
people gathered in Berlin for the annual Love Parade, billed as the
largest celebration of techno music.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 11, In Guinea-Bissau
Radio Bombolon mixed music and junta rhetoric and featured the Iva
and Ichy local hit duo.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 11, In Iran Mayor
Karbaschi gave a 4-hour defense statement at the close of his trial
in Tehran. He was accused of misappropriating public funds.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A17)
1998 Jul 11, It was reported
that fires in southern Italy and Sicily burned 2,500 acres of forest
and grassland.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 11, It was reported
that tens of thousands of rotting fish were left when a section of
the Llobregat River was drained too fast to fill a repaired
canal.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A8)
1999 Jul 11, A US Air Force
cargo jet, braving Antarctic winter, swept down over the
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center to drop off emergency
medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a physician at the center
who had discovered a lump in her breast.
(AP, 7/11/00)
1999 Jul 11, In London 2
Egyptian associates of Osama bin Laden were arrested. The
fingerprints of Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous (42) and Adel
Abdel-Meguid Abdel-Bary (39) were found on statements taking
responsibility for the attacks against US embassies in Africa last
August.
(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A8)
1999 Jul 11, In Colombia the
leftists offensive continued. An army statement said 202 guerrillas,
19 policemen, 4 soldiers and 9 civilians had been killed. Rebel
sources said 68 security force members were killed and 32 rebels.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 11, In Congo rebels
dismissed the peace agreement signed by 6 countries involved in the
war and said the war would continue and get worse.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 11, In India and
Pakistan top commanders agreed to the withdrawal of Islamic
militants from Kashmir along with a complete cease fire.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 11, In Gaza Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with Yasser Arafat and both promised
to work for peace.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 11, In Iran some
10,000 students demonstrated in Tehran with protests in other major
cities. Two security chiefs responsible for the raid on a student
dormitory, that prompted the demonstrations, were fired.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A8)
1999 Jul 11, In Turkey a bomb
exploded in Van and 16 people were injured.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A9)
2000 Jul 11, In Cincinnati the
African Methodist Episcopal Church, the nation’s oldest black
church, elected Rev. Vashti Murphy McKenzie as its 1st female bishop
in its 213-year history.
(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A3)(AP, 7/11/01)
2000 Jul 11, The American
League defeated the National League 6-to-3 in the All-Star Game.
(AP, 7/11/01)
2000 Jul 11, A Middle East
summit hosted by President Clinton opened at Camp David between
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat.
(AP, 7/11/01)(SFC, 7/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 11, In NYC a
brownstone apartment building collapsed in Brooklyn and at least 3
people were killed.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A7)
2000 Jul 11, Robert Runcie, the
former archbishop of Canterbury, died in Hertfordshire, England, at
age 78.
(AP, 7/11/01)
2000 Jul 11, In China it was
reported that 6 members of a Uighur separatist group were executed.
(WSJ, 7/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 11, In Kashmir Muslim
militants killed 3 Buddhist monks at a vehicle check at Rangdum and
escaped with Harfurth Rolf, a German tourist. Rolf’s body was found
Aug 3 on a glacier in the Kishtwar mountain range.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 11, In Russia Prime
Minister Kasyanov warned business barons that the immunity they
enjoyed under the Yeltsin government was over. Lukoil was charged
with tax evasion and the offices of Gazprom and media-Most were
raided in a fraud case. Also the head of RAO Norilsk Nickel was told
to pay $140 million extra for his controlling stake.
(WSJ, 7/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 11, In Uganda rival
clans of the Karamojong tribe clashed and 63 cattle herders were
killed.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.D2)
2001 Jul 11, The Democratic-led
Senate voted to bar coal mining and oil and gas drilling on pristine
federally protected land in the West, dealing a fresh blow to
President Bush's energy production plans.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2001 Jul 11, In NYC the city
and police union made a tentative agreement to pay $9 million to
settle a suit by Abner Louima over his 1997 police beating.
(WSJ, 7/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 11, A wildfire in
Washington state killed 2 male and 2 female firefighters in the
Chewuch River Valley of the north Cascade Mountains.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 11, A new African
Union was born at the closing of the final summit of the
Organization of African Unity (OAU) for all of Africa’s 53
countries. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) was
set up as the economic development arm of the OAU.
(Econ, 7/25/05, p.37)
2001 Jul 11, An Israeli soldier
shot and killed a Palestinian woman after her taxi evaded a
roadblock. Israeli police in Afula captured a Palestinian would-be
suicide bomber.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 11, In Russia Pres.
Putin signed into law a plan to import spent nuclear fuel for
reprocessing. The imports would be subject to approval by a
commission chaired by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Zhores Alferov.
(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A14)
2002 Jul 11, Lawmakers balked
at moving the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management
Agency into a new Homeland Security Department despite pleas from
senior Cabinet officials to stick to President Bush's blueprint.
Both agencies did end up being included in the new department.
(AP, 7/11/03)
2002 Jul 11, US scientists
financed by the Pentagon announced that they had synthesized a virus
from scratch for the 1st time. They built a polio virus relying only
on genetic sequence information publicly available.
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 11, Bernardas
Brazdzionis (95), Lithuanian émigré poet, died in Los
Angeles.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A27)
2002 Jul 11, Former Argentina
junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri was arrested for the torture and
execution of leftists during the military dictatorship (1976-1983).
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 11, Lawmakers in
Ontario passed back-to-work legislation to end a two-week strike by
Toronto garbage collectors that covered the country's biggest city
in mounds of rotting waste.
(Reuters, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, In Colombia
authorities confirmed that the mayors of 28 cities and towns
resigned this week after leftist rebels threatened to kill mayors if
they didn't step down.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Typhoon Chata'an
left 5 dead in Japan and moved north.
(Reuters, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, President Kim
Dae-jung picked South Korea's first female prime minister and
replaced six other ministers in a reshuffle seen as a bid to boost
the government's image before December presidential polls.
(Reuters, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Three members of
the Lebanese army intelligence service were killed while trying to
make arrests near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, the
Lebanese army said.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Moroccan soldiers
planted a national flag on Perejil Island (parsley in Spanish), 200
yards off the coast near Ceuta. Spain had claimed control since the
17th century. Moroccans called the 0.58-square mile rocky outcrop
Leila (night in Arabic). Spanish troops swiftly dislodged the
Moroccans without a shot being fired. Under a diplomatic resolution,
both sides agreed to leave it as a no man's land.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A20)(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A10)(AP,
11/3/07)
2002 Jul 11, Peru's prime
minister and finance minister said they resigned Thursday as part of
a Cabinet shake-up designed to stem the plummeting popularity of
President Alejandro Toledo's year-old government.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Solomon Islands
police reported that 10 men who went in search of a rebel warlord to
capture him for a bounty payment had all been killed.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, Turkey's foreign
minister resigned, dealing a harsh blow to Prime Minister Bulent
Ecevit, who was struggling to stay in power despite ill health and
mass resignations from his party.
(AP, 7/11/02)
2002 Jul 11, In Venezuela an
estimated 600,000 people marched demanding that Pres. Chavez abandon
the presidency.
(AP, 7/12/02)(SFC, 7/12/02, p.A9)
2003 Jul 11, Pres. Bush met
with Pres. Yoweri Museveni in Uganda. Bush and his wife Laura
praised Uganda's aggressive prevention and treatment programs to
combat HIV.
(SFC, 7/11/03, p.A8)(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 11, CIA Director
George Tenet took blame for Pres. Bush's State of the Union
discredited claim that uranium from Africa had been shipped to Iraq.
(SFC, 7/18/03, p.A14)
2003 Jul 11, Thousands marked
the anniversary of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia,
burying 282 newly identified victims.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2003 Jul 11, The Canadian
government gave Air Canada the right to operate scheduled passenger
flights to Cuba.
(Reuters, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 11, In China a
mudslide left 50 people missing in Sichuan province.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 11, India and Pakistan
resumed bus service, a transportation link that was disrupted 18
months earlier due to threats of war.
(AP, 7/11/03)
2003 Jul 11, In Iran Zahra
Kazemi (54), a Montreal-based journalist, died of brain hemorrhage
from inflicted blows. [see Jun 23] Iran later admitted that she was
murdered while under police custody. In 2004 a closed trial was held
for a secret agent charged with the murder. Mohammad Reza Aghdam
Ahmadi pleaded innocent on July 17 and the trial was abruptly ended
the next day. The Tehran court acquitted Ahmadi.
(AP, 7/13/03)(SFC, 7/17/03, p.A7)(WSJ, 7/31/03,
p.A1)(SFC, 7/19/04, p.A8)(AP, 7/25/04)
2003 Jul 11, Spain, a leading
U.S. ally during the war to oust Saddam Hussein, agreed to send
1,300 soldiers to Iraq.
(AP, 7/12/03)
2003 Jul 11, In western Sudan
about 30 rebels and an undisclosed number of government troops were
killed during fighting near the border with Chad.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 11, The World Trade
Organization ruled that heavy duties on steel imports imposed by the
United States violated global trade rules.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, Joe Gold (82),
founder of Gold’s Gyms fitness chain, died in LA.
(WSJ, 7/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 11, Laurance
Rockefeller (94), conservationist, philanthropist and venture
capitalist died in his sleep in NY. He had a lifelong affinity for
the rustic and left a legacy of parks from Wyoming to Vermont that
were expanded on land he donated.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2004 Jul 11, It was reported
that Jonathan Keith Idema, former US special operations soldier, was
recently arrested along with Brent Bennet and Edward Caraballo for
running a vigilante anti-terrorism campaign in Kabul. They had posed
as government officials and imprisoned innocent Afghan men.
Caraballo was released April 30, 2006, after serving 21 months of a
2-year sentence. Idema and Bennet continued to serve their 5 and 3
year sentences.
(SSFC, 7/11/04, p.A10)(SFC, 5/1/06, p.A8)
2004 Jul 11, A bomb exploded on
a bustling street of Herat, Afghanistan, killing five people, and
injuring 29.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, A truck crashed
into a house packed with guests at a wedding reception in Indonesia,
killing 17 and injuring 13.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, Insurgents
ambushed 2 US military patrols north of Baghdad and killed 3 US
soldiers and an Iraqi civilian.
(AP, 7/11/04)(SSFC, 7/11/04, p.A8)
2004 Jul 11, Gunmen killed the
head of a regional office of one Iraq's largest Shiite parties in a
drive-by shooting south of the capital.
(AP, 7/12/04)
2004 Jul 11, Suspected Muslim
guerrillas sliced off the nose, ears and tongue of Mariam Begum, a
14-year-old girl in Indian Kashmir, believing her to be an informer
for the Indian army. Elsewhere in Kashmir, 16 Muslim rebels and four
soldiers were killed in separate gun battles over the weekend.
(Reuters, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, In Japan’s
upper-house elections PM Junichiro Koizumi and his Liberal
Democratic Party LDP won 49 seats, one seat less than the opposition
DPJ. Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling bloc held
on to a majority.
(Econ, 7/17/04, p.41)(AP, 7/11/05)
2004 Jul 11-14, Security forces
raided five villages in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, leaving
15 people dead and homes ransacked and burned.
(AP, 7/15/04)
2004 Jul 11, Palestinian
militants set off explosives hidden in shrubs at a Tel Aviv bus
stop, killing a female soldier and seriously wounding at least five
people.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, Boris Tadic (46)
leader of the Serbian opposition Democratic Party, took office
vowing to bring stability to the Balkan republic and push it closer
to the EU and NATO.
(AP, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 11, The 15th Int’l.
AIDS conference began in Bangkok, Thailand. UN chief Kofi Annan
challenging world leaders to do more to combat the raging global
epidemic.
(SFC, 7/13/04, p.A1)(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, Frances Langford
(b.1913), singer and entertainer, died. The 1935 song “I’m in the
Mood for Love” by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh was her signature
piece.
(SFC, 7/12/05, p.B5)
2005 Jul 11, In Afghanistan 4
suspected terrorists escaped from the main US base, the first time
anyone has broken out of the heavily guarded detention facility.
Omar al-Farouq was one of the four suspected Arab terrorists to
escape from the detention facility at Bagram. Born in Kuwait to
Iraqi parents, he was considered one of Osama bin Laden's top
lieutenants in Southeast Asia until Indonesian authorities captured
him in 2002 and turned him over to the US. On Nov 2 Indonesian
anti-terrorism official, Maj. Gen. Ansyaad Mbai, sharply criticized
the US government for failing to inform him that al-Farouq was no
longer behind bars.
(AP, 7/11/05)(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Jul 11-2005 Jul 12,
Fighting between rebels and Afghan and American forces in Zabul
province left 17 insurgents dead.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 11, Joao Batista Ramos
da Silva, a Brazilian congressman and an ordained minister of the
evangelical Christian Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, was
detained with 6 other people as they tried to board a private jet
with seven suitcases stuffed with cash. Ramos said the $2.6 million
in Brazilian reals was from tithes collected during religious
services
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, It was reported
kidnappers in Brazil were targeting the mothers of top soccer
players with 5 mothers kidnapped in the last 7 months.
(SFC, 7/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 11, British
investigators found the images of 4 young men carrying backpacks in
King's Cross station at about 8:30 a.m., 20 minutes before the Jul 7
subway explosions.
(AP, 7/13/05)(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 11, The Deh Cho First
Nations of the Northwest Territories agreed to a deal with the
Canadian government to get meaningful participation in the
environmental assessment and regulatory review of the $5.7 billion
Mackenzie Valley Pipeline for gas project.
(WSJ, 7/12/05, p.A15)
2005 Jul 11, In China an
explosion in the Shenlong Coal Mine in the far west Xinjiang region
killed at least 76 miners. 7 were still reported missing.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 11, In Iraq US troops
killed 10 more insurgents in the northern city of Tel Afar. 6
civilians were reported killed in the Tal Afar fighting. Insurgents
stormed an Iraqi army checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing 12
people, including 9 soldiers.
(AP, 7/11/05)(Reuters, 7/11/05)(SFC, 7/12/05,
p.A3)
2005 Jul 11, Deputy PM Shimon
Peres said Israel is asking the US for $2.2 billion in additional
aid to help fund its upcoming withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and
parts of the West Bank.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, A judge ordered
the arrest and isolation of 3 senior officers of the Banco di
Credito Cooperativo Sofige Gela, a small bank on Sicily’s southern
coast. The had been under investigation for aiding and abetting the
Mafia.
(Econ, 7/16/05, p.72)
2005 Jul 11, Hugo Alberto
Wallace (36), a divorced entrepreneur, was kidnapped as he left a
movie theater in Mexico City. In 2007 Brenda Quevedo was arrested in
Louisville, Kentucky, after Maria Isabel Miranda, the mother of
Wallace, received a tip and tracked her down. Frustrated with
investigators' lack of progress in her son's 2005 kidnapping,
Miranda launched her own investigation, tracking down five suspects.
In 2009 Quevedo was extradited to Mexico.
(www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/world/americas/04kidnapping.html)(AP,
9/26/09)
2005 Jul 11, The Dutch market
research firm, VNU, announced its acquisition of IMS Health, the
leading supplier of research to pharmaceutical firms, for $7
billion.
(Econ, 7/16/05, p.60)
2005 Jul 11, A boat rescuing
flood-hit Pakistani villagers hit a power cable and 14 people,
including eight children, were electrocuted.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, Russian
prosecutors said they have opened a criminal investigation into
former PM Mikhail Kasyanov (Misha 2%), a potential presidential
candidate, for abuse of office.
(AP, 7/11/05)(Econ, 7/16/05, p.48)
2005 Jul 11, Russian news media
reported that Rosoboronexport, Russia’s main arms exporter, has
signed a $300 million deal to sell jet fighter engines to China.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, In Russia at least
20 people were killed after arsonists set fire to a store in the
northern city of Ukhta.
(Reuters, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, A SA government
report said more than 6.5 million of South Africa's 47 million
people could be infected with HIV.
(AP, 7/12/05)
2005 Jul 11, Kurdish guerrillas
kidnapped a Turkish soldier after stopping dozens of cars at a
makeshift roadblock in the southeast.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, Thailand reported
the discovery of 10 new cases of bird flu just as it was about to
declare the country free of the disease.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2005 Jul 11, In Trinidad a bomb
exploded in a trash bin in downtown Port-of-Spain on Monday,
injuring 14 people.
(AP, 7/11/05)
2006 Jul 11, The American
League edged the National League 3-2 in the All-Star Game in
Pittsburgh.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2006 Jul 11, The Bush
administration pledged that detainees at Guantanamo will be accorded
basic human rights protections under the Geneva Conventions.
(SFC, 7/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 11, In Chicago, a Blue
Line train derailed and started a fire during the evening rush hour,
filling a subway tunnel with smoke and forcing dozens of
soot-covered commuters to evacuate.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2006 Jul 11, It was reported
that Nielsen Media Research will begin formal ratings for TV
commercial breaks.
(WSJ, 7/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 11, Kathy Augustine
(50), Nevada state controller, died suddenly. Her husband, Chaz
Higgs, said it was a heart attack and chalked it up to the stress of
an uphill election battle for state treasurer. But just days after
her death, Higgs tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists. On
Sep 29 Police arrested Higgs in Hampton, Va., after toxicology tests
found a drug in his wife’s system that would have paralyzed her.
Higgs was convicted on June 29, 2007, of killing Augustine by
injecting her with succinylcholine, a paralyzing drug. He was
sentenced to life with a possibility of parole after serving 20
years.
(AP, 7/21/06)(SFC, 9/30/06,
p.A3)(www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6762551)
2006 Jul 11, Barnard Hughes
(b.1915), film and theater actor, died in New York.
(AP,
7/11/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard_Hughes)
2006 Jul 11, Coalition and
Afghan forces hunting a Taliban commander killed an estimated 30
extremists in a raid on a hide-out in southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In northern
Bangladesh a train plowed through a bus at an unmanned railway
crossing, killing at least 33 people and injuring about 15 others.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, The Bank of Canada
held its key overnight interest rate steady, as expected, and gave
no sign it was considering further hikes.
(Reuters, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Central American
presidents agreed on a plan to ease border controls and install a
common customs system on the way to negotiating an eventual
free-trade agreement with the EU. The agreement signed by Panama,
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Belize
would allow residents to cross borders without passports or visas.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, EU finance
ministers made Slovenia the 13th member of the euro zone. This gave
Slovenia 5 months to print and mint euro notes to replace the tolar
on January 1.
(WSJ, 7/12/06, p.A10)
2006 Jul 11, A survey,
sponsored by the German development agency GTZ, reported that breast
ironing, the use of hard or heated objects or other substances to
try to stunt breast growth in girls, is widespread in Cameroon. The
age-old practice was said to be traditional in West and Central
Africa, including Chad, Togo, Benin, Guinea-Conakry, just to name a
few.
(Reuters, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, China's president
issued an unusual public appeal to a visiting North Korean official
to avoid aggravating tensions with its missile test program, as the
US and Japan urged Beijing to press its ally Pyongyang for
concessions.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Andres Pastrana,
Colombia's ambassador to the United States, resigned in anger over
President Alvaro Uribe's selection of Ernesto Samper, a disgraced
former Colombian leader (1994-1998) as ambassador to France.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 11, Police in
Kinshasa, Congo, fired tear gas to break up stone-throwing
demonstrators who were alleging electoral irregularities ahead of
the country's first presidential vote in four decades.
(AP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 11, In India 8
explosions hit Mumbai's commuter rail network during the evening
rush hour, killing over 200 people and wounding over 500. Police
said Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible.
(Econ, 7/29/06, p.39)(AP, 7/11/07)(WSJ, 12/8/08,
p.A6)
2006 Jul 11, Indonesia passed a
law granting tsunami-ravaged Aceh province greater autonomy and
paving the way for elections, cementing the terms of a landmark 2005
peace accord with separatist rebels. The law allowed local political
parties and for the Acehnese to keep 70% of the revenues from their
oil and gas reserves.
(AP, 7/11/06)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.42)
2006 Jul 11, Sunni Arab
representatives said they will end their boycott of Iraq's
parliament following promises that a kidnapped colleague will be
released and a call for reconciliation by a radical Shiite cleric.
Gunmen in Baghdad intercepted a minivan carrying a coffin to the
Shiite city of Najaf, killing all 10 people on board. Another five
people were killed in a double bombing at a restaurant near the
Green Zone. Bombings and shootings killed at least 50 people
Baghdad. An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video purporting to
show the mutilated bodies of two US soldiers, claiming it killed
them in revenge for the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by
American troops from the same unit. The Mujahedeen Shura Council had
previously claimed responsibility for killing the two soldiers, who
were seized in a June 16 attack near the town of Youssifiyah. The
bodies were found on June 20. Gunmen kidnapped Wissam Jabr al-Awadi,
an Iraqi diplomat who specializes in relations with Iran, as he was
driving near his home in Baghdad.
(AP, 7/11/06)(SFC, 7/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 11, Israeli leaders
ordered new incursions into the Gaza Strip after the Hamas leader
said he would not free an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian
militants.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In Italy Piaggio
& C. SpA, the maker of the iconic Vespa scooter, defied weak
market conditions that have derailed other planned public offerings
recently to see its shares surge above the IPO price in their debut
in Milan.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In Kashmir a
series of grenade attacks killed eight people and wounded more than
two dozen in the Srinagar.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, An officials said
Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry has decided to expel two US diplomats
for "inappropriate" contacts with nongovernment organizations.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, State Department
official Paula Dobriansky held talks with Libyan PM Baghdadi Mahmudi
and announced that the US has lifted sanctions on Libyan air
transport.
(AFP, 7/12/06)
2006 Jul 11, In Mexico a man
was shot to death in front of Acapulco's City Hall and a naval
officer was abducted, the latest violence in this resort city hit by
a wave of drug-related crime. The 2 men slain were later identified
as military officers responsible for the mayor's security.
(AP, 7/11/06)(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 11, With the release
of hundreds of prisoners, wrestling matches and hordes of warriors
on horseback, Mongolia began a once-in-800-year party in honor of
its famed emperor Genghis Khan.
(AFP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Nepal's Maoists
revealed for the first time how many soldiers they have, 36,000, in
published remarks.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In northwestern
Pakistan torrential rains triggered flooding that washed away homes
in a village, killing 13 people and injuring about 300.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, President Mahmoud
Abbas' office said it had received $50 million from the Arab League,
the most international aid Palestinians have gotten since the
Islamic militant group Hamas won legislative elections.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Hundreds of
fighters who were battling Somalia's Islamic militia in Mogadishu
surrendered after a surge of violence that killed more than 70
people and wounded 150.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, In South Korea
more than 10,000 workers and activists rallied in the 2nd day of
demonstrations aimed at blocking a free-trade agreement under
discussion with the US.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Four Tamil Tiger
rebels were killed when Sri Lanka's navy retaliated against an
attacking rebel boat in the sea off Northern Jaffna peninsula.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, Ukraine's newly
created pro-Russian governing coalition proposed Viktor Yanukovych,
a bitter rival of President Viktor Yushchenko, as the next prime
minister, an appointment that would mark a humiliating defeat for
the president.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 11, The tiny nation of
Vanuatu, one of the "happy isles of Oceania," has topped a new
index, the UK-based New Economics Foundation (NEF), that measures
quality of life against environmental impact, with industrial
countries, perhaps unsurprisingly, faring badly.
(Reuters, 7/11/06)
2007 Jul 11, Lady Bird Johnson
(b.1912), widow of former US Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969),
died in Austin, Texas.
(SFC, 7/12/07, p.A2)(Econ, 7/21/07, p.85)
2007 Jul 11, In San Francisco
Joseph Konopka, a neighborhood activist, died at his home on Ashbury
St. in the midst of erotic asphyxiation. Terry Frazier was soon
arrested and charged with murder, robbery and burglary. In 2010
Frazier pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges.
(SSFC, 3/21/10, p.C2)
2007 Jul 11, In Algeria a
suicide bomber blew up a refrigerated truck loaded with explosives
at a military encampment outside Algiers, killing 10 soldiers and
wounding 35.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Manol Velev, a
Bulgarian businessman, was shot and left in a coma. Velev was
married to Bulgaria’s sports minister and had paid for the 2006
re-election campaign of Pres. Georgi Parvanov. Velev was released
from the hospital on December 6, 2007 and faced extensive
rehabilitation.
(http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2007-12-06&article=9058)(Econ,
8/11/07, p.42)
2007 Jul 11, In Canada "Honest
Ed" Mirvish (92), a colorful Toronto character who restored
theaters, produced musicals, and ran a brash and cavernous discount
store, died.
(Reuters, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, China's food and
drug agency announced stricter rules for approving new drugs. The
government also ordered small, loosely regulated food producers to
clean up their act.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Nick Young,
British editor of the newsletter China Development Brief, said
officials had ordered the shut down of the newsletter for violating
a 1983 law on gathering statistics. Young had founded the
publication in 1995.
(SFC, 7/12/07, p.A11)
2007 Jul 11, Three firefighters
died while battling a blaze in a forest on the Greek island of
Crete.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 11, A passenger ship
carrying 70 people disappeared off eastern Indonesia after reporting
engine failure in stormy seas. The bodies of two children were found
drifting in nearby waters along with several survivors.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Jordan's military
court convicted and sentenced two militants to prison with hard
labor for plotting to attack Americans living in the kingdom.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Kurdish leaders
spoke out against a key oil law, raising further doubts over efforts
to pass one of the political benchmarks sought by the United States.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Libya's Supreme
Court upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a
Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children
with the AIDS virus. But the verdict may not be the final word in
the case.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, In western Mexico
Honda, Hershey's and other multinational companies temporarily shut
down their factories after rebels attacked a key natural gas
pipeline.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 11, Nigeria's
anti-corruption agency arrested two former governors who had refused
to present themselves for questioning.
(AP, 7/12/07)
2007 Jul 11, Pakistani
commandos cleared the warren-like Red Mosque complex of all its
die-hard defenders, following an assault that ended a bloody
eight-day siege and left more than 80 dead, including a pro-Taliban
cleric.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Hamas boycotted
the opening of the Palestinian parliament's new term, effectively
allowing President Mahmoud Abbas to keep his moderate emergency
Cabinet in power.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Rwanda’s state-run
radio said the Senate has approved the abolition of the death
penalty, a key step demanded by the international community to
transfer genocide suspects to Rwandan courts.
(AFP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Serbia rejected a
new US-backed UN draft resolution on Kosovo, saying it would only
lead to the province's independence.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, In southern
Thailand suspected separatists over the last 24 hours shot dead 4
people including a government official, as the Thai premier began a
two-day visit to the region.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2007 Jul 11, Turkey's
ambassador to Washington said that US weapons have been turning up
in the hands of Kurdish guerrillas staging attacks in Turkey.
(AP, 7/11/07)
2008 Jul 11, US banking
regulators seized IndyMac Bancorp Inc., Pasadena-based mortgage
lender, after withdrawals by panicked depositors led to the
second-largest banking failure in US history. Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac said that their finances were sufficiently sound to withstand
the housing crisis as government officials scrambled to restore
confidence in the country's two largest mortgage finance companies.
(Reuters, 7/12/08)(SFC, 7/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 11, Gregg Bergersen
(51), a former US Defense Department analyst, was sentenced in
Virginia to 57 months in prison for passing classified information
about Taiwan to a Chinese government agent.
(Reuters, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, Apple introduced
its next generation iPhone in 22 countries. Unprecedented demand
caused initial service problems.
(SFC, 7/12/08, p.C1)
2008 Jul 11, Oil prices touched
$147 a barrel before beginning a decline.
(Econ, 8/9/08, p.70)
2008 Jul 11, Dr. Michael
DeBakey (b.1908), the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon, died. He
pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented
a host of devices to help heart patients. He was among the first to
link lung cancer to smoking in a medical journal article in 1939.
(AP, 7/12/08)(SSFC, 7/13/08, p.B6)
2008 Jul 11, In San Francisco
Armando Estrada (30) of Rodeo, Ca., was shot and killed at 20th and
Mission streets. In 2009 Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez and Guillermo
Herrera, alleged members of the MS-13 street gang, were charged with
the murder.
(SFC, 10/23/09,
p.A12)(www.sfgov.org/site/police_index.asp?id=91505)
2008 Jul 11, In Australia the
official program for the Catholic church's World Youth Day began,
but was partly overshadowed by the launch of an investigation into
sexual abuse allegations against a disgraced priest. Thousands of
pilgrims converged on Sydney as it braced for the weekend arrival of
Pope Benedict.
(AFP, 7/11/08)(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Brazilian
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised to support East Timor
during talks in Dili with Timorese leaders including President Jose
Ramos-Horta.
(AFP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, In Cambodia Khim
Sam Bo (47), a journalist working for a pro-opposition newspaper,
was killed along with his son (19) in a drive-by shooting in Phnom
Phen. A gunman on a motorcycle shot five times at the victims as
they were leaving a sports stadium on a motorcycle.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, Officials said the
bodies of four Africans have been found in a small boat packed with
migrants trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands. It was the third
such tragedy in a week.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, President Raul
Castro warned Cubans to prepare for a "realistic" brand of communism
that is economically viable and does away with excessive state
subsidies designed to promote equality on the island.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, The Czech
Republic’s Industry and Trade Ministry announced that Russia has
reduced its oil shipments to the country without providing an
explanation. The cutback was announced three days after the nation
signed a military agreement with Washington that the Kremlin
strongly opposes. Russia later said the supplies dropped because 2
Russian firms had decided to refine more crude at home.
(AP, 7/11/08)(WSJ, 7/15/08, p.A9)
2008 Jul 11, Ethiopia's Ogadeni
rebels accused the regime in Addis Ababa of deliberately blocking
international aid to their war-wracked and drought-stricken region.
(AFP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, In Iraq the US
military detained nine people suspected of involvement in the
al-Qaida in Iraq group in raids in Baghdad and the cities of Beiji
and Mosul.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Israeli police
revealed stinging new allegations against PM Ehud Olmert, accusing
him of pocketing tens of thousands of dollars by deceiving multiple
sources into paying for the same trips abroad. Israeli troops killed
a Palestinian gunman who opened fire in the early morning on an
Israeli civilian driving in the West Bank.
(AP, 7/11/08)(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, International
donors pledged more than half of the euro1.5 billion ($2.36 billion)
in aid requested by Kosovo to build up its infrastructure and
democratic institutions.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Lebanon's PM Fuad
Saniora announced a new national unity Cabinet in which Hezbollah
and its allies have veto power over government decisions.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, A fishing boat,
carrying eight Taiwanese, one Chinese and six crew members from
Madagascar, sank after reporting engine problems.
(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 11, In the Netherlands
health authorities announced a Dutch woman, infected during a
holiday to Uganda by the contagious Marburg virus, had died
overnight. The Marburg virus is similar to Ebola and causes heavy
bleeding. About 100 people who may have had contact with the woman
were under surveillance.
(AFP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, A senior military
official said the Nigerian navy has arrested 15 Filipinos after
intercepting a vessel carrying a significant quantity of stolen
crude oil off the coast of the Niger Delta. Gunboats intercepted the
MV Lina Panama in the waters off Brass, home to a major oil export
terminal in the southern state of Bayelsa. One security source said
the vessel was thought to be carrying tens of thousands of tons of
stolen oil.
(Reuters, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, A North Korean
soldier fatally shot a South Korean woman tourist (53) at a mountain
resort in the communist North, prompting the South to suspend the
high-profile tour program. Park Wang-ja had strayed a
half-mile into a fenced off military area and was shot twice from
behind.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, In Serbia a bus
carrying Polish tourists overturned north of Belgrade, killing six
people and injuring nearly 40.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Somali troops shot
and killed 7 civilians in southern Mogadishu after accusing them of
being part of an Islamic insurgency.
(SFC, 7/11/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 11, In southern Sri
Lanka suspected rebel gunmen ambushed a crowded passenger bus as it
traveled down a small rural road. The attack killed a boy and three
women and wounded 25 others. Clashes broke out in the Mannar,
Vavuniya and Welioya regions surrounding the rebel stronghold killed
17 rebels.
(AP, 7/12/08)
2008 Jul 11, Thai prosecutors
filed new corruption charges against ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra
for alleged abuse of authority to benefit his family business.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, A Turkish news
agency reported that army troops clashed with Kurdish rebels in the
southeast and that 10 of the rebels were killed.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, The UN
commemorated World Population Day.
(www.unfpa.org/wpd/)
2008 Jul 11, Venezuela's Hugo
Chavez and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe mended relations after months of
sniping that threatened trade and unleashed a diplomatic crisis.
(AP, 7/11/08)
2008 Jul 11, Zimbabwe’s
opposition Movement for Democratic Change said a total of 113 MDC
supporters have now been killed in politically-related violence.
Zimbabwe's ruling party and opposition held a second day of talks in
South Africa. A UN Security Council bid to pass sanctions against
Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was vetoed by Russia and China.
(AP, 7/11/08)(AFP, 7/11/08)(AFP, 7/12/08)
2009 Jul 11, In Afghanistan
bomb blasts killed 2 US Marines in Helmand province. At least six
police officers were killed by roadside bombs, two in southern
Helmand province and at least four south of Kabul in Logar province.
In a gunbattle in eastern Paktia province between insurgents and
Afghan police, two militants and one police officer were killed.
(AP, 7/12/09)(SFC, 7/13/09, p.A3)
2009 Jul 11, It was reported
that Brazilian police were investigating some 660 “secret acts”
passed by the Senate since 1995 which have awarded jobs and pay
raises members of staff.
(Econ, 7/11/09, p.39)
2009 Jul 11, In Brazil the body
of Arturo Gatti (37), former Canadian boxing champion, was found in
a hotel room at the northeastern Porto de Galinhas resort. He was
apparently strangled with the strap of a purse, which was found at
the scene with blood stains. His wife, Amanda Rodrigues (23), was
soon taken into custody after contradictions in her interrogation. A
police inquiry later concluded that he committed suicide using the
strap of a rucksack on a staircase in the early hours of the
morning.
(AP, 7/12/09)(Reuters, 7/31/09)
2009 Jul 11, In Ghana US Pres.
Obama met with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills. Obama praised and
scolded the continent of his ancestors, asserting forces of tyranny
and corruption must yield if Africa is to achieve its promise.
(AP, 7/11/09)
2009 Jul 11, A ferry capsized
off Haiti's southern coast, killing at least five people.
Authorities said it wasn't clear how many people were on board, but
as many as two dozen could be missing.
(AP, 7/11/09)
2009 Jul 11, In India 2 boats
capsized in the Wainganga River in western Bhandara district leaving
26 women drowned.
(SFC, 7/13/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 11, In Indonesia an
Australian working for the Indonesian subsidiary of US-based mining
giant Freeport McMoRan was shot dead by unknown attackers in Papua.
(AFP, 7/11/09)
2009 Jul 11, In Iraq a car bomb
has exploded in Gugjeli a Shiite village in northern Iraq, killing
at least four people. Another 6 people died in bombings in Baghdad.
(AP, 7/11/09)(SSFC, 7/12/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 11, In Israel 2
religious Jews were stabbed and another was beaten in a fight with
secular Jews in Jerusalem.
(AP, 7/11/09)
2009 Jul 11, In Mexico gunmen
boldly attacked federal forces across the western state of Michoacan
following the capture of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, an alleged member of
La Familia drug cartel. In Zitacuaro, a mountain town famous for its
Monarch butterfly nesting grounds, 3 federal agents were killed, and
two soldiers were fatally shot in the town of Zamora. Two federal
agents were killed and three others were wounded along a highway
between Morelia and the port City of Lazaro Cardenas when dozens of
gunmen ambushed their patrol cars.
(AP, 7/12/09)
2009 Jul 11, In central
Pakistan police killed one suspected militant and seized a truckload
of automatic weapons and explosives after a five-hour shootout at a
religious school in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab province. A clash with
militants in South Waziristan killed a soldier. Gunmen killed 5
police officers and a forestry official responding to reports of a
dead body in Mansehra.
(AP, 7/11/09)(AP, 7/12/09)(SFC, 7/13/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 11, Peru’s President
Alan Garcia shuffled his Cabinet following months of protests,
replacing seven of 16 ministers and naming a new chief, the third
person to hold the post in nine months.
(AP, 7/12/09)
2009 Jul 11, In Somalia a
foreign fighter and Nor Daqli, head of security for the capital,
were among 16 people killed in fighting between UN-backed government
forces and Islamist insurgents in the north of Mogadishu.
(AP, 7/11/09)
2010 Jul 11, Avid
Radiopharmaceuticals presented a study that demonstrated a new brain
scan to detect the brain plaques in patients with Alzheimer’s
disease.
(SFC, 7/13/10, p.A7)
2010 Jul 11, A total solar
eclipse drew an 11,000-km (6,800-mile) arc over the Pacific,
plunging remote territories into darkness.
(AP, 7/12/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Afghanistan a
US service member died following an insurgent attack.
(AP, 7/11/10)
2010 Jul 11, In China new rules
went into effect requiring officials in government and state
companies to report personal details from assets to the whereabouts
of spouses and children. The new regulations were similar to rules
released in April governing senior Communist Party officials, but
have been expanded to include everyone from midlevel officials and
up. Nonparty members and those working for state-owned business
would now also be required to submit their details.
(AP, 7/12/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Colombia 10
soldiers were killed after entering a minefield in the northeastern
province of Arauca. Pres. Uribe said 12 rebels, part of the security
cordon for rebel leader Alfonso Cano, were killed in the
southwestern mountains.
(AP, 7/12/10)
2010 Jul 11, Iran said it has
produced around 20 kg of 20% enriched uranium, in defiance of the
world powers who want Tehran to suspend the controversial nuclear
work.
(AP, 7/11/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Iran a judicial
official said that the controversial death sentence by stoning for
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman convicted of adultery,
will not be implemented for now. She was first convicted in May 2006
of having an "illicit relationship" with two men following the death
of her husband, for which a court in Tabriz, in northwestern Iran,
sentenced her to 99 lashes. Later that year she was also convicted
of adultery, despite having retracted a confession which she claims
was made under duress.
(AP, 7/11/10)
2010 Jul 11, An Iraqi judge
said a court has ordered the arrest of 39 members of members of the
People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI), an exiled Iranian
opposition group, accusing them of crimes against humanity in
helping Saddam Hussein to crush a revolt almost two decades ago.
(AP, 7/11/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Japan the
center-left government of new PM Naoto Kan lost its majority in
parliament's upper house in elections, spelling the threat of
legislative paralysis.
(AFP, 7/11/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Kashmir a rigid
curfew was lifted from most of the country, but shops and businesses
remained shut after separatists called for a strike to protest
Indian rule in the Himalayan region.
(AP, 7/11/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Nigeria gunmen
kidnapped 4 journalists traveling through the country's oil-rich
southern delta. The kidnappers made a ransom demand of $1.67
million. The journalists were freed on July 18 with no ransom paid.
(AP, 7/12/10)(AFP, 7/18/10)
2010 Jul 11, In South Africa
President Jacob Zuma convened leaders from Burkina Faso, Kenya,
Togo, Mozambique, the Netherlands and neighboring Zimbabwe at an
education summit, before inviting them to join him at the World Cup
final. The summit was the culmination of 1GOAL, a campaign supported
by football's governing body FIFA to use the attention the World Cup
commands to publicize the need to get more children into school.
(AP, 7/11/10)
2010 Jul 11, In South Africa
Spain beat Holland for soccer’s World Cup.
(AP, 7/12/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Sudan
peacekeepers said a total of 221 people died in tribal fighting and
other violence in Sudan's Darfur in June, as the region's two main
rebel groups continued to shun peace talks.
(Reuters, 7/11/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Uganda twin
bombings in Kampala hit crowds watching the World Cup final killing
76 people. One of the targets was an Ethiopian restaurant, a nation
despised by Somali al-Shabab militants. On July 30 three were
charged with terrorism and murder. By Aug 17 had officials charged
32 people in connection with the bombings. One suspect, Haruna
Luyima, was supposed to set off a bomb at the dance club but changed
his mind at the last minute. Luyima told a news conference in August
that he did so because he didn't want to kill innocent people.
Police later found his discarded mobile phone, a huge lead that
helped unravel the plot.
(AP, 7/12/10)(AP, 7/30/10)(SFC, 8/18/10,
p.A2)(AP, 10/8/10)
2010 Jul 11, Yemen’s Interior
Ministry said in a statement that police in Hadramut had arrested 10
militants suspected of being al-Qaida members.
(AP, 7/11/10)
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