Today in History - July 13
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574 Jul 13,
Pope John III died.
(PTA, 1980, p.122)
1024 Jul 13, Henry II, the
Monk, German King (1002-24), died.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1099 Jul 13, The Crusaders
launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.
(HN, 7/13/99)
1534 Jul 13, Ottoman armies
captured Tabriz in northwestern Persia.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1558 Jul 13, Led by the court
of Egmont, the Spanish army defeated the French at Gravelines,
France.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1568 Jul 13, Alexander Nowell,
the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, perfected a way to bottle beer.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.21)(MC, 7/13/02)
1585 Jul 13, A group of 108
English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke
Island, North Carolina. Roanoke Island near North Carolina became
England's first foothold in the New World. Sir Walter Raleigh sent a
detachment of 108 men to build a fort on the island. The detachment
included two scientists, Thomas Hariot, a surveyor, mathematician,
astronomer and oceanographer, and Joachim Gans, a metallurgist.
(NG, Geographica, Jan, 94)(HN, 7/13/98)
1643 Jul 13, In England, the
Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist
troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1657 Jul 13, Oliver Cromwell
constrained English army leader John Lambert.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1754 Jul 13, At the beginning
of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the
small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the
French, leaving them in control of the Ohio Valley.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1755 Jul 13, Edward Braddock
(60), British general, died following the July 9, 1755 battle at
Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Out of the 1,400 British
soldiers who were in involved in the battle, 900 of them died.
Future President George Washington carried Braddock from the field
and officiated at his burial ceremony. The general was buried in a
road his men had built. The army then marched over the grave to
obliterate any traces of it and continued to eastern Pennsylvania.
After the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the Braddock Road
remained a main road. In 1804, some workmen discovered human remains
in the road near where Braddock was supposed to have been buried.
The remains were re-interred on a small knoll adjacent to the road.
In 1913 the marker was placed there. Braddock was born in
Perthshire, Scotland, about 1695, the son of Major-General Edward
Braddock (died 1725).
(www.nps.gov/fone/braddock.htm)
1772 Jul 13, Capt James Cook
began a 2nd trip on the ship Resolution to South Seas.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1787 Jul 13, Congress, under
the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance,
establishing rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for
admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of
slavery.
(AP, 7/13/97)(HN, 7/13/98)
1789 Jul 13, Parisians rioted
over an increase in price of grain. The mob plundered the armories
and opened the prison gates of St. Lazare. The King at Versailles
refused to withdraw his troops from Paris.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1791 Jul 13, The bones of the
greatest French satirist, philosopher, and writer, Voltaire
(Jean-Marie Arouet) were enshrined in the Pantheon in Paris.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1793 Jul 13, John Clare,
English poet, was born.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1793 Jul 13, Pierre Dupont de
Nemours was ordered arrested in Paris on charges of plotting with
rebels against the French Revolutionary National Assembly.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1793 Jul 13, French
revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his
bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later. In 1970
Marie Cher authored "Charlotte Corday, and Certain Men of the
Revolutionary Torment."
(AP, 7/13/97)(ON, SC, p.8)
1794 Jul 13, Robespierre
boycotted the Committee of Public Safety and the National convention
after being denounced as a dictator.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1798 Jul 13, English poet
William Wordsworth visited the ruins of Tintern Abbey.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1821 Jul 13, Confederate
cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest was born in Tennessee's
Bedford County.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1832 Jul 13, Henry Schoolcraft
discovered the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota. Henry
Rowe Schoolcraft came upon the lake where the Mississippi starts and
intended to call it Veritas Caput, the Latin for "true head." The
name was too long and got shortened at both ends to Itasca.
(SFC, 10/5/96, p.E3)(HN, 7/13/98)
1854 Jul 13, US forces shelled
and burned San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1858 Jul 13, Louis Martin and
Zelie Guerin married in Alencon, France, and for 10 months refrained
from sex in a “Josephite marriage.” Assured by a priest that raising
children was a sacred activity they went on to have 9 children, 5 of
whom joined religious order. Their youngest daughter became famous
as St. Theresa of Liseux, The Little Flower,” canonized in 1925.
(WSJ, 10/17/08, p.W11)
1861 Jul 13, Battle of
Corrick's Ford, VA (Carrick's Ford): Union army took total control
of western Virginia.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1862 Jul 13, Confederate
General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeated a Union army at
Murfreesboro, Tennessee. [see Aug 13]
(HN, 7/13/98)
1863 Jul 13, Rioting against
the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City; about 1,000
people died over three days. Antiabolitionist Irish longshoremen
rampaged against blacks in the deadly Draft Riots in New York City
in response to Pres. Lincoln’s announcement of military
conscription. Mobs lynched a black man and torched the Colored
Orphan Asylum. The 2003 film "Gangs of New York" focused on this
event. In 2006 Barnet Schecter authored “The Devil’s Own Work,” an
account of the riots.
(WSJ, 3/19/96, p.A-12)(AP, 7/13/97)(HN,
7/13/98)(WSJ, 8/2100, p.A14)(WSJ, 1/18/06, p.D13)
1863 Jul 13-15, Battle of
Tupelo, MS (Harrisburg).
(MC, 7/13/02)
1864 Jul 13, Gen Jubal Early
retreated from the outskirts of Washington back to Shenandoah
Valley.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1865 Jul 13, Horace Greeley
advised his readers to "Go west young man."
(MC, 7/13/02)
1866 Jul 13, Great Eastern
began a two week voyage to complete a 12-year effort to lay
telegraph cable across the Atlantic between Britain and the United
States. Massachusetts merchant and financier Cyrus W. Field first
proposed laying a 2,000-mile copper cable along the ocean bottom
from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1854, but the first three attempts
ended in broken cables and failure. Field's persistence finally paid
off in July 1866, when Great Eastern, the largest ship then afloat,
successfully laid the cable along the level, sandy bottom of the
North Atlantic. As messages traveled between Europe and America in
hours rather than weeks, Cyrus Field was showered with honors. Among
the honors was this commemorative print referring to the cable as
the Eighth Wonder of the World.
(HN, 7/13/98)(HNPD, 7/29/98)
1868 Jul 13, Henry Clay Warmoth
(1842-1931) began serving as the 23rd governor of Louisiana and
continued to 1872.
(www.helium.com/items/1728455-the-origins-of-mardi-gras-in-louisiana)
1878 Jul 13, The Treaty of
Berlin amended the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano, which had
ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. The Congress of Berlin
divided the Balkans among European powers. Austria-Hungary and
Britain, alarmed at the possibilities of growing Russian power,
concluded the Treaty of Berlin, reducing the military and political
gains Russia had made with the San Stefano treaty.
(AP, 7/13/97)(HN, 7/13/98)(HNQ, 2/23/01)
1886 Jul 13, Father Edward J.
Flanagan, catholic priest, founder of Boys Town, was born in
Roscommon, Ireland.
(AP, 7/13/07)
1889 Jul 13, Vincent van Gogh
painted "Moonrise." The exact date was determined in 2003 by a
physicist using a computer and moon data from the painting.
(SFC, 7/16/03, p.D2)
1890 Jul 13, John C.
"Pathfinder" Fremont (76), US explorer, governor (Arizona,
California), died. He was buried in obscurity in Sparkill, NY.
Fremont (b.1830) was the 1st Republican presidential candidate in
1856. In 1999 David Roberts authored "A Newer World: Kit Carson,
John C. Freemont and the Claiming of the American West." In 2002 Tom
Chaffin authored “Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of
American Empire.” In 2007 Sally Denton authored “Passion and
Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics
and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America.”
(WUD, 1994, p.567)(SFEC, 2/13/00, BR p.5)(SSFC,
12/22/02, p.M1)(SSFC, 7/1/07, p.M1)
1898 Jul 13, Guglielmo Marconi
patented his radio.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1921 Jul 13, Ernest Gold,
composer, was born.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1921 Jul 13, Charles Scribner
Jr., music publisher (Scribner), was born.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1925 Jul 13, Will Rogers, an
Oklahoma cowboy, who had been standing in for W.C. Fields in the
"Ziegfeld Follies," impressed the critics.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1928 Jul 13, Robert N.C. Nix,
Jr., first African-American chief justice of a state supreme court,
was born.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1930 Jul 13, David Sarnoff
reported in NY Times that "TV would be a theater in every home."
(MC, 7/13/02)
1931 Jul 13, A major German
financial institution, Danabank, failed, leading to the closing of
all banks in Germany until August 5. By the end of the 1931,
approximately six million Germans are out of work.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1933 Jul 13, David Storey,
English novelist (The Sporting Life), was born.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1934 Jul 13, Wole Soyinka,
Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, was born.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1935 Jul 13, Jack Kemp,
football player, vice-presidential candidate for the Republican
party in 1996, was born.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1935 Jul 13, Richard Strauss
resigned as chairman of the Nazi Reichskulturkammer.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1935 Jul 13, In Iran
worshippers at the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashad protested a dress
code that demanded Western-style brimmed hats. A riot broke out as
troops opened fire.
(WSJ, 6/2/07,
p.A12)(www.imamreza.net/eng/imamreza.php?id=4388)
1939 Jul 13, Frank Sinatra
recorded his first song, "From the Bottom of my Heart," with the
Harry James Band.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1939 Jul 13, Howard Long was
hanged at the New Hampshire State Prison for the sex-killing of
10-year-old Mark Neville Jensen of Alton.
(http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/aug97/0184.html)
1940 Jul 13, Patrick Stewart,
actor (Picard-Star Trek Next Generation), was born in England.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1941 Jul 13, Britain and the
Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, providing the means for
Britain to send war materiel to the Soviet Union. As their escorts
turned away, the ships of the doomed Allied convoy PQ-17 followed
orders and began to disperse in the Arctic waters.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1942 Jul 13, Harrison Ford,
actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Frantic), was born in Chicago, Ill.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1942 Jul 13, 5,000 Jews of
Rovno, Polish Ukraine, were executed by Nazis.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1942 Jul 13, SS shot 1,500 Jews
in Josefov, Poland.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1943 Jul 13, Greatest tank
battle in history ended with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk.
Almost 6,000 tanks took part and 2,900 were lost by Germany.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1944 Jul 13, Erno Rubik,
inventor (Rubik's cube), was born in Budapest.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1946 Jul 13, Alfred Stieglitz
(82), US photographer, art dealer (Camera Work), died. He was an art
dealer, curator, publisher, proselytizer for modern art and for
photography as an art. He also married Georgia O’Keeffe and promoted
her art.
(NH, 10/96, p.36)(www.fact-index.com)(Econ,
10/30/04, p.85)
1946 Jul 13, The first Karlovy
Vary Int’l. Film Festival (Mezinárodní
Filmový Festival Karlovy Vary) was held in Czechoslovakia.
Its first two years were non-competitive showcases. The competition
was started in 1948 and with the exceptions of 1953 and 1955 the
festival was held annually until 1958. From 1960 on to 1992 it was
alternating with the Moscow Film Festival, being celebrated annually
again since 1994.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Karlovy_Vary_International_Film_Festival/)
1949 Jul 13, The militantly
anti-communist Pope Pius XII excommunicated communist Catholics
voters in Italy, an action aimed at the Italian Communist Party.
(MC, 7/13/02)(AP, 5/5/06)
1951 Jul 13,
Arnold Schoenberg (b.1874), composer, died. He wrote the book "Style
and Idea" and composed such works as the 21 songs of "Pierrot
Lunaire" based on a poem by Albert Giraud translated into German by
Otto Erich Hartleben, "Moses und Aron" and "Erwartung." In 2002
Allen Shawn authored "Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey."
(LGC-HCS, 1970, p. 562-575)(WSJ, 8/20/96,
p.A8)(WSJ, 1/31/02, p.A16)
1953 Jul 13, The 1st
Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, organized by Tom
Patterson, opened with Alec Guiness in Richard III.
(WSJ, 7/18/02, p.D10)
1954 Jul 13, In Geneva, the
United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on
Indochina, dividing Vietnam into two countries, North and South,
along the 17th parallel.
(HN, 7/13/99)
1954 Jul 13, Frida Kahlo
(b.1907), artist, died in Mexico City. Her final painting was an
incomplete portrait of Joseph Stalin. Hayden Herrera authored her
biography in 1983. Raquel Tibol later authored "Frido Kahlo: An Open
Life."
(SFC, 4/22/01, p.D3)(WSJ, 7/6/01,
p.W11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo)
1955 Jul 13, Ruth Ellis, last
English woman (murderess), was executed by hanging. Ten days before
she had shot her husband, Ellis suffered a miscarriage after
Blakely, the baby's father, punched her in the stomach.
(MC, 7/13/02)(AP, 9/16/03)
1960 Jul 13, Massachusetts Sen.
John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at his
party's convention in Los Angeles.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1967 Jul 13, Race-related
rioting broke out in Newark, N.J.; by the time the violence ended
four days later, 27 people had been killed.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1971 Jul 13, William Tolbert
(1913-1980), vice-president of Lebanon 1951, succeeded William
Tubman as president and continued Tubman’s policies until his own
death in 1980.
(SFC, 4/16/96,
p.A-9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Tolbert,_Jr.)
1971 Jul 13, The Army of
Morocco executed ten leaders accused of leading a revolt.
(HN, 7/13/99)
1971 Jul 13-19, Jordanian
troops proceeded to wipe out Palestinian guerrillas; some 1,500
prisoners were brought to Amman; Iraq and Syria broke off relations
with Jordan.
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)
1972 Jul 13, George McGovern
claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's
convention in Miami Beach, Fla. McGovern defeated Scoop Jackson for
the nomination. McGovern’s campaign was led by Jean Westwood (d.1997
at 73), the first woman to chair a major US political party.
McGovern was nominated as candidate with Sen. Eagleton for
vice-president. Sen. Eagleton later dropped out after it was learned
that he suffered from a serious clinical emotional illness. The
Democratic competition for president included Vice-President Hubert
Humphrey, Sen. Ed Muskie, Gov. Terry Sanford, Sen. Henry Jackson,
Mayor John Lindsay, and Rep. Shirley Chisholm.
(WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A10)(WSJ, 2/26/96, p.A-10)(SFC,
8/23/97, p.A20)(AP, 7/13/07)
1973 Jul 13, In Chile a strike
began that lasted until the September 11 coup. More than a million
workers were on strike demanding that Allende go. American CIA
funding was involved.
(WSJ, 10/30/98,
p.A19)(http://foia.state.gov/reports/churchreport.asp)
1974 July 13, The US Senate
Watergate Committee proposed sweeping reforms to prevent another
Watergate scandal.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1977 Jul 13, A 25-hour power
blackout hit the New York City area and looters rampaged in the city
after lightning struck upstate power lines. Some 9 million people
were affected.
(TMC, 1994, p.1977)(AP, 7/13/97)(SFC, 8/15/03,
p.A7)
1978 Jul 13, Lee Iacocca was
fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
Iacocca later joined Chrysler as its president.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl.)(AP, 7/13/97)
1979 Jul 13, Teradata, a
software company, was incorporated. It had started in a garage in
Brentwood, Calif. The name Teradata was chosen to symbolize the
ability to manage terabytes (trillions of bytes) of data.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teradata)
1979 Jul 13, A 45-hour siege
began at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, as four Palestinian
guerrillas killed two security men and seized 20 hostages.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1981 Jul 13, Simon Gray's
"Quartermaine's Terms," premiered in London.
(www.haroldpinter.org/directing/directing_quartermaine.shtml)
1983 Jul 13, Chrysler under Lee
Iacocca paid off the last of its guaranteed loans totaling $1.2
billion, 7 years ahead of schedule.
(http://tinyurl.com/aabvq)
1985 Jul 13, Live Aid, an
international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and
Sydney, took place to raise money for Ethiopia and Africa's starving
people. It was organized by Bob Geldof of Ireland.
(TMC, 1994, p.1985)(AP 7/13/97)(Econ, 6/4/05,
p.56)
1985 Jul 13, Lt. Cmdr. Michael
Gershon, a Navy Blue Angel pilot, was killed when 2 planes collided
during an air show at Niagara Falls, NY.
(SFC, 10/29/99,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Cochran)
1987 Jul 13, Jury selection
began in Washington for the perjury trial of President Reagan's
former aide and longtime confidant, Michael K. Deaver. Deaver was
later convicted of lying under oath about his lobbying business; he
was fined $100,000 and ordered to perform community service.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1988 Jul 13, Final results of
Mexico's recent presidential election were released, giving the
victory to the candidate of the governing party, Carlos Salinas de
Gortari. Opponents called election "stolen."
(AP, 7/13/98)
1989 Jul 13, Washington, D.C.
attorney Thomas L. Root was rescued after ditching his private plane
in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas; he had suffered a mysterious
gunshot wound.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1989 Jul 13, Cuba executed four
military officers for conspiring to smuggle drugs to the United
States. Antonio de la Guardia, a colonel in the Interior Ministry,
was executed along with army general Arnaldo Ochoa and 2 other
officers in a drug trafficking case. Gen’l. Patricio de la Guardia,
Antonio’s twin, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Patricio was
released in 1997. Patricio had led an int’l. para-military brigade
in Chile during the Allende years that was estimated at 15,000 men.
(SFC, 3/19/97, p.A14)(WSJ, 10/30/98, p.A19)(AP,
7/13/99)
1989 Jul 13, Abdul Rahman
Qassemlu, Kurd leader in Iran, was murdered.
(http://tinyurl.com/ecm98)
1990 Jul 13, Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev closed the Communist Party’s 28th congress by
saying he would welcome Western aid without political strings.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1991 Jul 13, Soviet and
American negotiators meeting in Washington wrangled over a treaty to
reduce long-range nuclear missiles.
(AP, 7/13/01)
1992 Jul 13, Democrats opened
their 41st national convention at New York's Madison Square Garden
with speakers who taunted George H.W. Bush as a failed president
ripe for defeat in November.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1993 Jul 13, The American
League defeated the National League in the All-Star Game, 9-3, in
Baltimore.
(AP, 7/13/98)
1993 Jul 13, Race car driver
Davey Allison died in Birmingham, Ala., of injuries suffered in a
helicopter crash.
(AP, 7/13/98)
1993 Jul 13, A.K. Ramanujan
(b.1929), Indian poet and scholar, died in Chicago. In 1999 his
collected essays were published.
(WSJ, 4/4/09,
p.W8)(www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ramanujan.html)
1994 Jul 13, President Clinton
visited flood-stricken Georgia, where he announced more than $60
million in aid for Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1994 Jul 13, Tonya Harding's
ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced in Portland, Ore., to two
years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. He
ended up serving six months.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1995 Jul 13, President Clinton
denounced a base-closing list for the damage it would do to
California and Texas, but then approved the package while promising
to save jobs in those states.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1995 Jul 13, Just six days
after the space shuttle "Atlantis" returned, the shuttle "Discovery"
blasted off on a nine-day mission.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1995 Jul 13, In Michigan six
union locals, representing some 2,500 workers of the Detroit Free
Press, Detroit News and Detroit newspapers Inc., went on a strike
that lasted 19 months.
(AP,
7/13/00)(www.pww.org/archives96/96-07-13-3.html)
1996 Jul 13, After battering
the Carolinas, the weakened remnants of Hurricane Bertha moved
north, spawning tornadoes and dumping rain from Maryland to
Massachusetts.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1996 Jul 13, Hollywood producer
Pandro S. Berman (1905-1996) died. He produced Top Hat, Morning
Glory, The Blackboard Jungle, Swing Time, The Gay Divorcee, Shall We
Dance, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Gunga Din, Of Human Bondage,
National Velvet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8, Father of the
Bride and Move.
(SFC, 7/14/96, p.C8)
1996 Jul 13, Mt. Merapi volcano
in Java was about to erupt.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 13, Winter storms
raged across South Africa and snowdrifts up to 8-feet high blocked
the main road from Johannesburg to Durban.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 13, Tehran, Iran, was
invaded by thousands of lizards and snakes over the past three
months. Military exercises nearby or rising levels of groundwater
have been cited as possible reasons.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A10)
1996 Jul 13-14, In Uganda more
than 90 Sudanese refugees were killed in a camp 220 miles north of
Kampala. The Lord’s Resistance Army was blamed.
(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.A1)
1997 Jul 13, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright returned to her Jewish roots in the Czech
Republic, finding names of family members killed by the Nazis
inscribed on a Prague synagogue wall. News reports the previous
February revealed that Albright, who'd been raised a Roman Catholic,
had Jewish relatives, many of whom died in the Holocaust.
(AP, 7/13/98)
1997 Jul 13, In Poland floods
threatened the isle of Ostrow Tumski on the Oder River in the heart
of Wroclaw, whose buildings date back to the 13th century. A
100-year flood swept through the Sudety Mountains.
(SFC, 7/14/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 8/2/98, p.T8)
1997 Jul 13, In San Sebastian,
Spain, Miguel Angel Blanco (29), a Basque town councilor and
low-ranking member of the Popular Party of Prime Minister Jose Maria
Aznar, died of head wounds from the ETA, Basque Homeland and
Freedom, a Basque separatist group. Almost 800 people have died
since the ETA began fighting in 1968.
(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.A11)
1998 Jul 13, A jury in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ruled that the Rev. Al Sharpton and two others
had defamed a former prosecutor by accusing him of raping Tawana
Brawley. Steven Pagones won a $345,000 judgment.
(AP,
7/13/08)(www.cnn.com/US/9807/13/brawley.verdict.02/)
1998 Jul 13, Four young cousins
in Gallup, N.M., died after becoming trapped in a car trunk.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1998 Jul 13, In Azerbaijan
Suret Huseinov, a former prime minister, went on trial for treason.
(SFC, 8/13/98, p.A11)
1998 Jul 13, Ten nations joined
the EU in locking out the leaders of Belarus for the eviction of
foreign ambassadors.
(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 13, The IMF announced
a $17.1 billion rescue package for Russia.
(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 13, In Italy Silvio
Berlusconi, former premier, was convicted for the 3rd time since
Dec. This conviction was for illegal party financing in 1991. A
prior conviction was for bribing tax inspectors.
(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A10)
1998 Jul 13, In Japan Prime
Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto resigned after voters rejected his
Liberal Democratic Party.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 13, King Hussein of
Jordan went to the US to receive treatment for cancer.
(SFC, 11/28/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 13, In Chiapas,
Mexico, a technical junior high school in Oventic was inaugurated by
Commandante Ezequiel and Peter Brown of the US. Brown was deported 2
weeks later for violating Mexican laws, i.e. building a school on a
tourist visa.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 13, In Norway
delegates from 21 countries met to draft strategy to keep small arms
out of the hands of terrorists.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A8)
1999 Jul 13, The American
League won the All-Star game for the third straight time, defeating
the National League 4-to-1 at Boston’s Fenway Park.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/13/00)
1999 Jul 13, Angel Maturino
Resendiz, suspected of being the "Railroad Killer," surrendered in
El Paso, Texas. He was subsequently tried, convicted and executed on
July 27, 2006 at Huntsville Prison in Texas. He had been suspected
of killings in 15 cases in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
(AP, 7/13/00)
1999 Jul 13, In Tehran police
fired tear gas at thousands of protesters as street battles spread
across the city for the sixth day. Tens of thousands of security
forces countered the protesters.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/13/00)
1999 Jul 13, In Kashmir Islamic
militants of the United Jihad Council said they would change
positions but not pull out of the disputed region.
(WSJ, 7/14/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 13, In Russia Nikita
Krivchun (20) stabbed Leopold Kaimovsky (52), director of the Jewish
Cultural Center, numerous times in Moscow.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.C10)
2000 Jul 13, Fellow Democrat
Bill Bradley endorsed Vice President Al Gore for president, four
months after conceding their fight for the White House.
(AP, 7/13/01)
2000 Jul 13, It was reported
that the US and Vietnam had completed a trade agreement for
generally unfettered commerce between the two countries.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 13, In China a
mudslide following heavy rains killed at least 119 villagers in
Ziyang county in Shanxi province. The death toll was later raised to
213 with another 23 killed in the Liangshan area of Sichuan
province.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B7)
2000 Jul 13, In Fiji the Great
Council of Chiefs elected Ratu Josefa Iloilo as the new president.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 13, In southern Sudan
rebels reported the killing of at least 92 pro-government fighters
of the Murahilin tribe after 2 days of fighting.
(SFC, 7/14/00, p.D2)
2001 Jul 13, Pres. Bush ordered
toughened enforcement of the sanctions against Cuba and promised to
expand support for human rights activists there.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A11)
2001 Jul 13, It was reported
that California was awash with methamphetamines produced by Mexican
drug trafficking cartels. Prices were down to $20 per gram vs. $100
in the rest of the country.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 13, A judge in San
Jose, Calif., sentenced Andrew Burnett, the man who had tossed a
fluffy little dog to its death in a bout of road rage, to the
maximum three years behind bars.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2001 Jul 13, In Missouri a
private plane crashed into a home in Carterville and all 6 people
aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A3)
2001 Jul 13, It was reported
that record droughts persisted in Afghanistan northern China, North
Korea, Mongolia and Tajikistan.
(SFC, 7/13/01, p.D4)
2001 Jul 13, The IOC awarded
Beijing, China, the honor of hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 13, In Gaza and the
West Bank 2 Islamic Hamas militants were killed. Israeli soldiers
shot and killed one in Tulkarm. Fawaz Badran (27) was killed when
his car exploded.
(SFC, 7/14/01, p.A10)
2002 Jul 13, US governors
opened their summer meeting in Boise, Idaho, with high health care
costs the main topic.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2002 Jul 13, Yousuf Karsh (93),
photographer, died in Boston.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2002 Jul 13, A family of 4 were
found stabbed to death in their home near Whittier, Ca. Jasmine Ruiz
(8) was sexually assaulted before being killed. Alfonso Ignacio
Morales (23) was arrested July 15.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A7)(SFC, 7/16/02, p.A4)
2002 Jul 13, A unanimous UN
Security Council vote to exempt American peacekeepers from
prosecution by the new war crimes tribunal for a year ended a U.S.
threat to halt U.N. peacekeeping but angered many court supporters.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, Dominican
lawmakers voted to reform the country's constitution to allow
presidents to serve two consecutive terms in office.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 13, Outside Jammu,
Kashmir, a grenade and gun attack on a Hindu slum that left 27
people dead, dozens wounded and rekindled fears of war with nuclear
neighbor Pakistan.
(Reuters, 7/14/02)(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 13, It was reported
that Dr. P.V. Rajiv in southern India saved three sick newborn
babies using a cloned version of the anti-impotence drug Viagra. "We
saved the babies by giving sildenafil citrate, also called Viagra,"
he said. Dr. Rajiv first gave the drug orally to a baby suffering
pulmonary hypertension, after consulting international journals
which reported its use to treat adults in a similar condition. Blue
babies have a condition that contracts vessels carrying oxygen-rich
blood to the lungs.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, In southern
Iraq 7 civilians were reported injured in U.S. air raids.
(AP, 7/14/02)
2002 Jul 13, Police in northern
Kenya opened fire on protesters outside a U.N. refugee camp, killing
three people.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, Morocco's
King Mohammed VI publicly celebrated his marriage to a 24-year-old
computer engineer during two days of festivities that showed the
38-year-old king's desire to modernize the monarchy.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2002 Jul 13, In Mansahra,
northern Pakistan, 9 foreigners and three Pakistanis were hurt when
an unidentified assailant hurled a hand grenade at a tourist party.
(Reuters, 7/13/02)(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A20)
2002 Jul 13, President
Alejandro Toledo declared a state of emergency Saturday in southeast
Peru, where snow and freezing weather has killed at least 18 people
in less than two weeks.
(AP, 7/13/02)
2003 Jul 13, Compay Segundo
(95), a once-forgotten Cuban musician who gained worldwide fame with
the "Buena Vista Social Club," died in Havana.
(AP, 7/14/03)
2003 Jul 13, In Iraq a
25-member interim Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) of prominent Iraqis
from diverse political and religious backgrounds was named at an
inaugural meeting, the first national body since the fall of Saddam
Hussein. The council abolished a number of old holidays and
established April 9, the fall of Baghdad and Saddam's regime, as a
new national holiday.
(AP, 7/13/03)(WSJ, 4/19/04, p.A14)
2003 Jul 13, In Kashmir a bus
skidded off a mountain road after hitting another vehicle and fell
into a river, killing at least 16 people and injuring 19.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 13, Kuwait's emir,
Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah (76), appointed his brother as prime
minister, separating the post from the crown prince for the first
time in a move seen as a step toward political reform.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 13, Hashim Salamat
(61), founder of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), died in
the Philippines. In the 1960s he was sent to Egypt where he obtained
an Islamic philosophy degree from Al Azhar college in 1967 and a
masters degree two years later.
(WSJ, 8/25/08,
p.A6)(www.newsflash.org/2003/05/ht/ht003629.htm)
2004 Jul 13, The American
League cruised past the National League 9-4 in the All-Star game.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2004 Jul 13, Ken Jennings (30),
a software engineer from SLC, crossed the $1 million mark in a
30-game winning streak on Jeapardy.
(USAT, 7/4/04, p.1A)
2004 Jul 13, In an Ohio court
De Beers ended a 60-year impasse and agreed to pay a $10 million
fine for the price fixing of industrial diamonds.
(Econ, 7/17/04, p.60)
2004 Jul 13, American troops in
Afghanistan numbered about 17,000 with some 140,000 serving in Iraq.
(WSJ, 7/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 13, Police forces
loyal to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen forced the acting head of
state Chea Sim out of the country in a purge of the ruling party.
(AP, 7/13/04)
2004 Jul 13, Chechnya's acting
president escaped injury in the Chechen capital when an explosion
hit his motorcade, but one person was killed and three were wounded.
A separate clash left 18 soldiers dead.
(AP, 7/13/04)(WSJ, 7/14/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 13, It was reported
that the bid price for a car license plate in Shanghai had surged to
$4,133 in May.
(WSJ, 7/13/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 13, Carlos
Kleiber (b.1930), German conductor, died. He was buried in Slovenia
next to his wife. He was considered as one of the great conductors
of the 20th century.
(www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/obituary/0,12723,1265571,00.html)
2004 Jul 13, A confidant of
Osama bin Laden (Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harby) surrendered
to Saudi diplomats in Iran and was flown to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2004 Jul 13, At least 13
people, eight Maoist guerrillas, two security men and three
civilians, were killed in revolt-racked Nepal during the last
24-hour period.
(AP, 7/13/04)
2004 Jul 13, The Philippines
said it would withdraw its tiny peacekeeping force from Iraq as soon
as it can. The Philippine government made a direct appeal to
insurgents holding a Filipino hostage, pleading with them to show
mercy for the man they threatened to kill if the country did not
agree to pull its troops from Iraq early.
(AP, 7/13/04)
2004 Jul 13, Overflowing rivers
swamped villages in South Asia, leaving millions of residents
stranded in their flooded homes and 272 people dead in the annual
monsoon rains.
(AP, 7/13/04)
2004 Jul 13, The US State Dept.
announced that Uzbekistan had not passed the test for assistance
this year.
(Econ, 7/17/04, p.43)
2005 Jul 13, Bernie Ebbers
(63), former CEO of WorldCom, was sentenced to 25 years in prison
for his role in fraud orchestrating the biggest corporate accounting
fraud in US history.
(WSJ, 7/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 13, In Virginia a
federal judge sentenced Ali Timini (41), a prominent Muslim
spiritual leader, to life in prison for inciting his followers for
violent jihad against the US. Timini was convicted in April.
(SFC, 7/14/05, p.A9)
2005 Jul 13, The National
Hockey league and the players’ union reached an agreement in
principle on a 6-year labor deal ending a lockout that canceled the
last season. It included a team wage limit of $39 million and a 24%
reduction in current salaries.
(WSJ, 7/14/05, p.D1)(Econ, 7/23/05, p.36)
2005 Jul 13, The Pennsylvania
Health Care Cost Containment Council issued a report that said more
than 11,000 people caught some sort of infection in Pennsylvania
hospitals last year and nearly 1,800 died from them.
(Reuters, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, The White Holly, a
retrofitted WW II Navy freighter, embarked from SF Bay on a 7,000
mile roundtrip cruise to study coral reef decay.
(SFC, 7/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 13, A fuel gauge that
mistakenly read full instead of empty forced NASA to call off the
first shuttle launch in 2½ years.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2005 Jul 13, It was reported
that a triple-star system, HD 188753, is located 149 light-years
away in the constellation Cygnus. The primary star is like our Sun,
weighing 1.06 solar masses. The other two stars form a tightly
bound pair, which is separated from the primary by approximately the
Sun-Saturn distance.
(www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050713_triple_sun.html)
2005 Jul 13, In Afghanistan a
suspected Taliban gunmen killed Saleh Mohammed, a senior
pro-government Muslim cleric in Helmand province.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, PM John Howard
said Australia will send 150 elite troops to Afghanistan by
September to fight a growing tide of violence by remnants of the
Taliban and al-Qaida.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, British police
identified 3 of the July 7 bombers as Shahzad Tanweer (22), Mohammed
Sidique Khan (30), and Hasib Hussain (19), the bomber on the N0. 30
bus. The 4th suicide bomber was identified the next day as Lindsey
Germaine (19), a Jamaican-born Briton.
(SFC, 7/30/05, p.A11)
2005 Jul 13, Opposition
movements from across Egypt's political spectrum joined in
opposition to President Hosni Mubarak with calls for a boycott of
September's presidential vote.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, Egypt announced it
was launching a campaign for the return of five of its most precious
artifacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta Stone in London
and the graceful bust of Nefertiti in Berlin.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, Rudy Therassan,
Haiti's former national police commander (2201-2003), was sentenced
to almost 15 years in prison. He was accused of protecting Colombian
cocaine shipments through his destitute homeland. He pleaded guilty
in federal court in April to conspiring to import at least 22 pounds
of cocaine into the US and laundering money.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 13, In India an
Islamic trust claimed ownership of the Taj Mahal and demanded a
slice of tourist revenue from the 17th-century monument to love, but
the government-run group charged with its upkeep vowed to challenge
that claim in court.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, The US military
filed charges against 11 US soldiers for assaulting detainees in
Baghdad. A suicide car bomb exploded next to US troops handing out
candy and toys, killing more than two dozen people, including 18
children and teenagers and an American soldier.
(AP, 7/16/05)(AP, 7/13/06)
2005 Jul 13, Israeli troops
reoccupied the West Bank city of Tulkarem early, killing a
Palestinian policeman in a firefight and arresting five Islamic
Jihad activists after the militant group killed four Israelis in a
suicide bombing.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, In Brescia, Italy,
a judge convicted two North Africans of belonging to an extremist
cell alleged to have planned attacks, including one against Milan's
subway. Moroccan Mohamed Rafik was sentenced to four years and eight
months in prison and Tunisian Kamel Hamraoui to three years and four
months.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, In Kenya in an
apparent revenge attack, men believed to be from the Gabra tribe
killed 10 members of the rival Borana tribe as they were being
driven to a seminar in Marsabit, 250 miles northeast of Nairobi.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 13, In southern
Pakistan 3 trains collided in a deadly chain reaction after a train
driver misread a signal, killing 133 people and injuring hundreds in
the country's worst crash in more than a decade.
(AP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 13, Thousands of
Peruvians protested against a proposed US-trade pact that a UN
investigator warned would put medicines out of reach of millions of
poor people.
(Reuters, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, Pressure grew for
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to quit as her
opponents staged the largest rally against her so far.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2005 Jul 13, Russian President
Vladimir Putin signed a decree stripping the security services of
control over a number of detention centers, satisfying a
long-standing request by Europe's top human rights body.
(AP, 7/13/05)
2006 Jul 13, President Bush met
with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Stralsund, Germany, while on
his way to the G8 summit in Russia.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Former CIA officer
Valerie Plame sued Vice President Dick Cheney, presidential adviser
Karl Rove and other White House officials, saying they orchestrated
a "whispering campaign" to destroy her career.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2006 Jul 13, Tongsun Park (71),
a South Korean businessman accused of being an Iraqi agent and
trying to influence the oil-for-food program, was convicted of
conspiracy in New York federal court. Park, arrested last year, was
the first person tried in the scandal. He will be sentenced in
October and could face more than a dozen years in prison for his
role in the decade-long conspiracy.
(AP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 13, The Massachusetts
Turnpike authority said it found as many as 240 potential defects in
ceiling bolts on Boston’s Big Dig tunnel. Gov. Mitt Romney filed
emergency legislation and called for the resignation of the head of
the Turnpike Authority in the wake of falling concrete slabs that
killed a woman on July 10.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 13, Hazleton, Pa.,
passed Mayor Louis Barletta’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act in an
effort to get rid of undocumented immigrants. In August federal
lawsuits were filed against Hazleton and other local governments for
attempting to regulate immigration. A 1976 US Supreme Court decision
said regulation of immigration is exclusively a federal power. In
2007 a federal judge struck down the Hazleton anti-illegal
immigration law.
(SFC, 8/16/06, p.A5)(SFC, 7/27/07, p.A13)
2006 Jul 13, The Dow Jones fell
166 to 10846 and Nasdaq closed down 36 to 2,054. Crude oil for
August delivery closed at a record $76.70.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.D1)
2006 Jul 13, The Sawtooth
Complex fire in southern California grew to 40,000 acres and
remained out of control. It looked to soon merge with the 2,500-acre
Millard fire.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 13, Red Buttons (87),
comic film and TV star, died at his home in Century City, Ca. His
over 30 films included “Hatari” and “The Poseidon Adventure.”
Buttons was born as Aaron Chwatt in NYC on Feb. 5, 1919.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.B9)
2006 Jul 13, A collaborative
effort to study malaria went public via the Web site Africa@home.
Project leaders planned to use spare computing capacity to study
malaria. By July 19 it reached the stable level of some 5000
computers needed at this stage for MalariaControl.net.
(Econ, 7/15/06,
p.79)(http://africa-at-home.web.cern.ch/africa%2Dat%2Dhome/index.htm)
2006 Jul 13, British and Afghan
forces battled Taliban holdouts after repelling a brazen insurgent
attack on a police headquarters a day earlier. Afghan and US-led
coalition forces killed nine militants after suspected Taliban
fighters attacked two army checkpoints in the latest fighting to
rock southern Afghanistan. More than 30 enemy extremists were killed
in an operation in Uruzgan province.
(AP, 7/13/06)(AP, 7/14/06)(AFP, 7/15/06)
2006 Jul 13, In Belarus
Alexander Kozulin (50), an opposition leader, was convicted of
organizing an unauthorized rally against the disputed election of
Pres. Lukashenko and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in jail.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, In Brazil gangs
torched buses and attacked banks and police stations across Sao
Paulo, deepening crime fears as a wave of rampant violence entered
its third day.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, The NatWest
British bankers David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby were
extradited to the US for a $20 million fraud linked to the collapsed
Enron Corp. Many viewed the March, 2003, US and British extradition
treaty as imbalanced and favoring US interests.
(Econ, 7/15/06, p.12, 56)
2006 Jul 13, The Guardian
newspaper said PM Tony Blair wants China, India, Brazil, Mexico and
South Africa to join the G8 to secure multilateral deals on trade,
climate change and Iran.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Three Canadian
military personnel were killed and four others injured on after
their helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a search and
rescue training exercise off Canada's east coast.
(Reuters, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Canada confirmed
its second case of mad cow disease in as many weeks, and the 7th
since 2003.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, A Chinese reporter
who posted essays on foreign Web sites criticizing the ruling
Communist Party was sentenced to two years in prison on subversion
charges.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, The EU criticized
Israel for using "disproportionate" force in its attacks on Lebanon
following the cross-border raid by Hezbollah guerillas who captured
2 Israeli soldiers.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Indian police
detained about 350 people for questioning in the Bombay train
bombings amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to
the attacks that killed at least 200 people. Officials said they
believe the bombings were the work of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a
Pakistan-based Islamic militant group.
(AP, 7/13/06)(SFC, 7/14/06, p.A17)
2006 Jul 13, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad shrugged off a decision by world powers to refer Iran to
the U.N. Security Council over its atomic program, saying Tehran
would never abandon its "right to exploit peaceful nuclear
technology."
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, British and
Australian forces handed over security duties for a relatively
peaceful southern province to Iraqis in the first such transfer of
an entire province. Gunmen killed the coach of Iraq's national
wrestling team in a botched abduction attempt but a player escaped.
A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol in the northern city of
Mosul, killing five people and wounding five. At least 19 people
were killed in attacks nationwide.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, An Israeli
warplane bombed the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, collapsing part of
the structure and causing widespread damage in the area.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, Israel unleashed a
furious military campaign on Lebanon's main airport, highways,
military bases and other targets, retaliating for scores of
Hezbollah guerrilla rockets that rained down on Israel and reached
as far as Haifa, its third-largest city, for the first time. The
death toll in two days of fighting rose to 57 people. Lebanese
guerrillas fired three rockets at the northern Israeli town of
Safed, wounding seven people. Israel imposed a sea and air blockade
on Lebanon to cut off supply routes to Lebanese militants. Israel
hit hundreds of targets in Lebanon as part of its effort to force
the release of two soldiers captured by Hezbollah guerrillas.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television broadcast pictures of the Iranian
supplied 333mm Raad-1 rocket used in an attack on the Israeli army
base near Safed.
(AP, 7/13/06)(SFC, 7/14/06, p.A14)
2006 Jul 13, In the northern
Philippines a powerful Asian storm strengthen to a typhoon after
killing at least nine people.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, In Thailand a top
court decided to accept a case that accuses PM Thaksin Shinawatra's
ruling party and its main rival of electoral fraud.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2006 Jul 13, The presidents of
Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia formally opened a pipeline designed
to bypass Russia and bring Caspian oil to Europe, a route that
President Bush said would bolster global energy security.
(AP, 7/13/06)
2007 Jul 13, A US jury in
Chicago found Conrad Black guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction
of justice. Black and the others had been accused by US prosecutors
of pilfering $60 million in payments that should have benefited
Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English
language newspaper chain, and its shareholders. Black was sentenced
to a 6 1/2-year sentence and began serving it at a federal prison in
Florida.
(Reuters, 7/13/07)(AP, 7/13/08)
2007 Jul 13, In southern
Afghanistan NATO-led and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban
militants, leaving 10 suspected militants dead.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, A court in Brazil
issued an arrest warrant for self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris
Berezovsky on charges of money-laundering, but he denied any
involvement. The case dates back to 2004, when MSI spent millions of
dollars acquiring new players, which raised the interest of Sao
Paulo state prosecutors. They wanted to know more about the
investment group, its Iranian-born president, Kia Joorabchian, and
the origin of the money he and his unidentified partners injected
into the club. Brazilian prosecutors said they have also issued an
arrest warrant for Joorabchian, a British citizen.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, began hosting the Pan American Games. An estimated 5,500
athletes from 42 countries participated in 38 sports. The games
ended July 29.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Pan_American_Games)
2007 Jul 13, China’s General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine
said on its Web site that frozen poultry products from Tyson Foods
Inc., the world's largest meat processor, were found to be
contaminated with salmonella. AQSIQ said other imports barred
included frozen chicken feet from Sanderson Farms, Inc. tainted with
residue of an anti-parasite drug, as well as frozen pork ribs from
Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. containing a leanness-enhancing feed
additive.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 13, French legislators
approved a measure lowering the cap on tax burdens to 50% of income,
despite resistance from leftists and even within the ruling
conservative coalition.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, A French gendarme
shot a superior officer dead in a Paris suburb before killing his
own twin children and finally turning the gun on himself.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, The International
Atomic Energy Agency said Iran has agreed to answer lingering
questions about its nuclear experiments and will let UN inspectors
return to a plutonium-producing reactor it is building.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, In northern Iran
at least 18 people were killed and 24 others injured in a road
accident when a truck slammed into a bus full passengers.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, US forces battled
Iraqi police and gunmen, killing six policemen, after an American
raid captured an Iraqi police lieutenant accused of leading a cell
of Shiite militiamen. 7 gunmen also died in the fight. A volley of
at least four mortars were fired from the city's dangerous southern
districts at the Green Zone. The mortars hit near the home of a
senior Iraqi military official, killing two Iraqi soldiers. Khalid
W. Hassan (23), an Iraqi journalist for The New York Times, was shot
to death on his way to work. A US soldier was killed by small arms
fire near Rusdi Mulla.
(AP, 7/13/07)(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 13, A powerful typhoon
pounded Japan's southern Okinawa island chain, cutting power to tens
of thousands of households and grounding flights with winds up to
100 mph.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, In north Lebanon
Islamic militants fired back volleys of rockets at the Lebanese army
as troops pounded the remaining suspected hideouts of the Fatah
Islam fighters holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, Roman Robles-Cota
(32), a police chief in the northern Mexican town of Sonoyta pleaded
guilty to charges that he bribed a US Border Patrol agent in 2005 in
an effort to help a smuggling operation.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, The main US
development fund signed a $506.9 million aid agreement with
Mozambique to promote economic growth and reduce poverty.
(Reuters, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, In Nepal
landslides in two mountainous districts killed at least 26 people
and injured 17 more.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, In Pakistan Muslim
protesters burnt effigies of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf
and American icon "Uncle Sam" in mass rallies against this week's
deadly Red Mosque army raid.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, Some 4,000
Palestinians remained stuck on the Egyptian side of the border with
trouble finding food and shelter, shortages they blamed on local
authorities who are indifferent to their plight.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, The Great Canary
Telescope, one of the most powerful in the world, began spying on
the universe, using its 34-foot wide mirror to search for planets
similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary
Islands. The Canary Island observatory said institutes in Mexico and
the US collaborated in the project, involving more than 1,000 people
in nearly 100 companies.
(AP, 7/14/07)
2007 Jul 13, Andrew Natsios,
the US envoy to Sudan, accused the country's government of resuming
bombing civilian positions in its troubled Darfur region, and warned
of a "disturbing" trend of Arab groups resettling in the area.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, UN officials said
they are investigating allegations that Indian peacekeepers in Congo
traded food and even military intelligence with Rwandan Hutu rebels
in return for gold.
(Reuters, 7/13/07)
2007 Jul 13, Authorities in
Zimbabwe announced the arrest of hundreds more retailers and
executives as part of an ongoing price crackdown as it emerged the
head of the central bank had warned against the blitz.
(AP, 7/13/07)
2008 Jul 13, The US Securities
and Exchange Commission said it would immediately conduct
investigations aimed at preventing the intentional spreading of
false information intended to manipulate securities prices. the
Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced steps to brace
slumping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
(Reuters, 7/14/08)(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 13, Terry Childs (43),
a San Francisco computer engineer, was arrested on felony charges
for allegedly plotting to hijack the city’s computer system. Childs,
who continue to draw his $127,735 annual salary, refused to provide
passwords to the network system and was held in lieu of a $5 million
bail. Mayor Newsom met with Childs on July 21, who provided system
code. Cisco engineers had the system back under control by July 22.
On April 27, 2010, Childs was convicted of felony computer
tampering. On April 27, 2010, a Superior Court jury concluded that
his crime cost the city over $200,000, making him eligible for a
maximum state sentence of 5 years. On Aug 6, 2010, Childs was
sentenced to 4 years in prison.
(SFC, 7/16/08, p.B1)(SFC, 7/23/08, p.B1)(SFC,
4/28/10, p.C1)(SFC, 8/7/10, p.C2)
2008 Jul 13, Belgian-based
brewer InBev announced it will buy Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion.
(http://www.kansascity.com/382/story/703682.html)
2008 Jul 13, In southern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to
a police patrol killing 24 people in Uruzgan province. A two-day
battle sparked by an insurgent attack killed at least 40 militants
in Helmand province. A NATO soldier died in a roadside blast in
Helmand province. In Kunar province, fighting erupted when militants
attacked a NATO security force outpost. In eastern Logar province
gunmen kidnapped parliament member Abdul Wali and his driver.
Well-armed militants got inside a remote military outpost in the
village of Wanat in the mountainous northeastern province of Kunar.
9 American soldiers were killed in the deadliest assault on US
forces in Afghanistan in three years. In 2010 the US Army reversed a
decision to punish three officers for command failures that led to
the deadly firefight.
(AP, 7/13/08)(AP, 7/14/08)(AP, 6/23/10)
2008 Jul 13, Algeria’s
government newspaper El Moudjhaid said a consortium of British-based
oil services company Petrofac and Indonesian engineering company
IKPT provisionally won a contract to build an LNG plant in western
Mediterranean port of Arzew.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, Pope Benedict XVI
arrived in Sydney, after a stop in Darwin, for one of the largest
Christian gatherings on Earth, starting a visit set to be marked by
his apology for sexual abuse by priests in Australia.
(AFP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy urged the disparate and conflicted countries around
the Mediterranean Sea to make peace as European rivals did in the
20th century as he launched an unprecedented Union for the
Mediterranean. 43 nations, including Israel and Arab states, pledged
to work for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction at the
close of a summit to launch an unprecedented Union for the
Mediterranean aimed at securing peace across the restive region.
(AP, 7/13/08)(AP, 7/14/08)
2008 Jul 13, Iranian state TV
said the country is exploring a newly discovered oil field believed
to contain more than 1 billion barrels of crude oil.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, In Iraq gunmen
attacked a soccer game near Duluiya killing a police officer and a
Sunni Muslim allied with the US against al-Qaida. A roadside bomb in
Fallujah killed 4 police officers. A bomb hit a truck near Baquba.
The driver and his assistant died of their wounds at a nearby
hospital. Some 70 women graduated in the first Daughters of Iraq, a
group of female security volunteers.
(SFC, 7/14/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 13, Thousands of
Japanese rallied against the permanent basing of the nuclear-powered
USS George Washington aircraft carrier near Tokyo, saying a recent
onboard fire made it unsafe.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, In Indian Kashmir
10 people were hurt when police had to fire shots in the air and use
tear gas to disperse a crowd that was attacking pro-India
politicians.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 13, In Mexico gunmen
opened fire on four cars on a busy street in Guamuchil, killing
eight people. Among the victims were a girl (11), two 17-year-old
boys and two women aged 18 and 19. On July 16 Mexico's government
offered a reward of nearly US$100,000 for information leading to the
capture of the gunmen.
(AP, 7/14/08)(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 13, In Poland
Bronislaw Geremek (76), former foreign minister (1997-2000), died in
a car accident near Lubien. He was an icon in the struggle against
communist rule and a founding member of the Solidarity trade union.
(AFP, 7/13/08)(Econ, 7/26/08, p.98)
2008 Jul 13, In Sierra Leone a
passenger plane loaded with 1,540 pounds of cocaine was found
abandoned at the main airport.
(SFC, 7/14/08, p.A11)
2008 Jul 13, A World Food
Program contractor was gunned down in Somalia, the 5th agency worker
to be killed this year.
(SFC, 7/16/08,
p.A15)(www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-15-somalia_N.htm)
2008 Jul 13, In Sudan thousands
of protesters chanting "Down, Down USA!" rallied in Khartoum after
reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may seek the
arrest of Sudan's president for alleged war crimes. A stampede among
crowds of people attending a military graduation ceremony killed 17
people at the al-Merriekh Stadium in Omdurman, the twin city of
Khartoum. The dead were mostly women and children with 3 dozen
others injured.
(Reuters, 7/13/08)(AP, 7/14/08)
2009 Jul 13, The US Fisheries
Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
issued a ban on krill fishing within 200 miles of the Pacific coast
of California, Oregon and Washington due to concerns that commercial
krill fishing threatened food sources for fish, whales and
seabirds.
(SFC, 7/14/09, p.A4)
2009 Jul 13, In southern
Afghanistan 2 US Marines were killed in a hostile incident. An
insurgent attack in eastern Nuristan province killed a US soldier.
The police chief of Jalrez district in Wardak province was killed
along with 3 officers in a roadside blast.
(AP, 7/14/09)(SFC, 7/14/09, p.A3)
2009 Jul 13, British and
Israeli officials said Britain has revoked several licenses granted
to British companies to sell weapons parts to Israel because of
concerns over their use in Israel's recent war in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, In China police
shot dead two Uighur men and wounded a third on the streets of
Urumqi, where tens of thousands of troops are stationed to restore
calm a week after deadly ethnic riots.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, China's Health
Ministry ordered a hospital to stop using electric shock therapy to
cure youths of Internet addiction, saying there was no scientific
evidence it worked.
(AP, 7/14/09)
2009 Jul 13, In Cuba the body
of Rev. Mariano Arroyo Merino (74) was discovered in his room at the
parish he served in the coastal neighborhood of Regla, situated on
Havana Bay across from the capital. Authorities were still
investigating the death of another Spanish priest, the Rev. Eduardo
de la Fuente Serrano, whose body was found in a remote, sparsely
populated area just outside the capital in mid-February.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, In Germany retired
auto worker John Demjanjuk was formally charged with 27,900 counts
of acting as an accessory to murder, one for every person who died
at Sobibor during the time he is accused of serving as a guard at
the Nazi death camp.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, German automobile
group Daimler said it sold 40 percent of its stake in US electric
car maker Tesla Motors to United Arab Emirate's Aabar Investments
group to boost development of low-emission vehicles.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Munich Re, the
world’s largest reinsurance group, invited 20 large companies to
join it in forming a consortium called Desertec to build a legion of
solar power stations in Africa and Arabia and connect them to
Europe.
(Econ, 7/11/09, p.83)
2009 Jul 13, In Indonesia a
policeman's body was found at the bottom of a ravine near the
Indonesian operations of US mining conglomerate Freeport, raising
the death toll from a series of weekend ambushes in restive Papua
province to three.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Iraqi authorities
imposed vehicle bans in two mostly Christian towns and increased
security around churches in Baghdad after attacks targeting the
Christian minority. An Iraqi soldier was killed when a bomb attached
to his private vehicle exploded at noon in an area of northern
Mosul.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Japan passed a law
that will allow children to receive organ transplants for the first
time, reversing a ban that doomed many young patients or forced them
to seek medical care abroad.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Former Lebanese PM
Amin al-Hafez (83) died. He served a turbulent two-month term in
1973 before he was forced to resign.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Mexican
prosecutors said they found the bound, blindfolded and tortured
bodies of a dozen people on a roadside near La Huacana in the
western state of Michoacan. The 12 bodies were soon identified as
federal agents investigating organized crime.
(AP, 7/14/09)(AP, 7/15/09)(SFC, 7/15/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 13, Mexico and the US
announced that they were working on a protocol for sharing
information in arms trafficking cases.
(AP, 7/14/09)(AP, 8/6/09)
2009 Jul 13, Pakistan began
sending home about two million people displaced two months ago by
the army's assault on Taliban militants in the Swat valley. An
explosion in Punjab province destroyed a house used as a religious
seminary, killing at least nine people, seven of them children, and
leaving many others in critical condition.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, In Russia 5
suspected militants and two law enforcement officers were killed in
separate attacks in the south. The militants were killed in two
separate gunbattles in Chechnya, while Interior Ministry troops in
Dagestan died in an ambush by insurgents.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, South Korea
reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (67) has
life-threatening pancreatic cancer, days after fresh images of him
looking gaunt spurred speculation that his health was worsening
following a reported stroke last year.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, Turkey and four EU
countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary) formally agreed
to route the Nabucco natural gas pipeline across their territories,
pushing ahead with a US- and EU-backed attempt to make Europe less
dependent on Russian gas.
(AP, 7/13/09)(Econ, 7/18/09, p.47)
2009 Jul 13, Uganda said it
would arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he enters the
country, an unusual stance after a summit of African leaders
denounced the international arrest warrant against al-Bashir.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, The UN’s highest
court set travel rules for the Nicaraguan river that borders Costa
Rica, affirming freedom for Costa Rican boats while upholding
Nicaragua's right to regulate traffic.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2009 Jul 13, In Zimbabwe
militants from President Robert Mugabe's party disrupted the start
of a national conference aimed at drawing up a new constitution.
(AP, 7/13/09)
2010 Jul 13, A US federal
appeals court struck down the government’s long-standing prohibition
against indecency on broadcast television and radio ruling that the
policy was unconstitutionally vague.
(SFC, 7/14/10, p.A5)
2010 Jul 13, The US Defense
Department announced that Mohammed Odaini (26), a Guantanamo Bay
prisoner, has been transferred to his homeland of Yemen. Odaini,
also known as Mohammed Hassen, was 17 when he was first captured in
Pakistan at an alleged al-Qaeda safe house in Faisalabad.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, US first-time
adult passport fees rose to $135. Renewal fees rose to $100 from
$75. The cost for an adult passport card rose to $55 from $45 for
adults.
(SFC, 7/10/10, p.D1)
2010 Jul 13, A US law
enforcement official said the FBI's investigation into a Russian spy
ring that operated in the United States has resulted in another
Russian being detained, and he soon will be deported.
(Reuters, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, Oakland, Ca., laid
off 80 police officers after negotiations between city officials and
union leaders failed to agree on job security.
(SFC, 7/14/10, p.A1)
2010 Jul 13, After securing a
new, tight-fitting cap on top of the leaking well in the Gulf of
Mexico, BP prepared to begin tests to see if it will hold and stop
fresh oil from polluting the waters for the first time in nearly
three months.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, George
Steinbrenner (80), who rebuilt the NY Yankees into a sports empire
with a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across
America, died in Tampa, Fl.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, A renegade Afghan
soldier killed 3 British army Gurkha troops in a "suspected
premeditated attack" in Helmand province. The attacker remained at
large. A suicide attacker slammed a car bomb into the gate of the
headquarters of the elite Afghan National Civil Order Police in
Kandahar. Minutes later, insurgents opened fire with machine guns
and rocket-propelled grenades. Three US troops, an Afghan policeman
and five civilians died in the attack. Insurgents manning a
makeshift checkpoint pulled Saleh Mohammad, a member of a local
tribal council in Khas Uruzgan district, out of his vehicle and shot
him dead in the road.
(AFP, 7/13/10)(AP, 7/14/10)(AP, 7/15/10)
2010 Jul 13, Australian police
said they have seized 240 kg (530 pounds) of cocaine worth 84
million dollars ($73 million) which was stashed in paving stones. 4
men including an American, a Mexican and two Australians were
arrested over the haul, Australia's fifth biggest cocaine seizure,
which was discovered in two shipping containers sent to Melbourne
from Mexico.
(AFP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, In western China
landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets, killing 17 people
and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained a fast-rising reservoir
in another part of the country following heavy rains.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, Seven former
political prisoners from Cuba smiled and gave victory signs after
they and their families arrived in Madrid, the first of 52
dissidents the Cuban government has promised to free in a historic
policy shift.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, The Egyptian
government released a Bedouin activist and blogger after three years
of imprisonment as part of an effort to ease tensions in the Sinai
Peninsula. Authorities detained Mosaad Suleiman Abu Fagr (41) in
December 2007 and accused him of inciting Bedouins to protest
against government discrimination.
(AP, 7/14/10)
2010 Jul 13, Divers found
bottles of champagne in a wreck near the Aland Islands between
Finland and Sweden. 5 bottles of dark, foamy beer wee later
recovered while salvaging the champagne. The shipwreck was believed
to be from the early 19th century. In 2011 Finnish scientists said
they hoped to re-brew an old ale after studying the ancient beer
found in the shipwreck.
(http://tinyurl.com/4kawd2n)(AP, 2/8/11)
2010 Jul 13, German government
sources said industrial group Siemens has won a major contract from
Russian Railways to be signed during a visit by Chancellor Angela
Merkel this week. The 2.2-billion-euro (2.8-billion-dollar) sale of
regional trains is the second major coup for Siemens in Russia this
year.
(AFP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, In Iraq 3 people
were killed by a device which blew up in a mock coffin during a
demonstration. In Yusifiyah, 25 km (15 miles) south of Baghdad,
gunmen killed a leader of the Sahwa militia, which has sided with US
forces against Al-Qaeda, and four family members in their home. Two
bombs exploded near a petrol station in Baghdad’s central district
of Muhandicin, killing two and wounding five others. A man was
killed in the western city of Fallujah when a "sticky bomb" attached
to his car blew up.
(AFP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, Iraqi Oil Minister
Hussain al-Shahristani said the cabinet had decided to summon
representatives of the Kurdish regional government to discuss oil
smuggling to Iran and "to put an end to it, as it harms Iraq's
national and economic interests." Reports about the oil smuggling
surfaced just over a week after the US imposed new sanctions barring
the export of refined fuels to Iran.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, Israeli bulldozers
destroyed six buildings, including at least three homes, in
contested east Jerusalem, resuming the demolition of Palestinian
property after a halt aimed at encouraging peace talks.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, An Israeli
military vessel confronted a Libyan aid ship trying to breach
Israel's three-year-old Gaza blockade and ordered it to divert to an
Egyptian port.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, Italian police
launched one of their biggest operations ever against the powerful
'ndrangheta crime syndicate, arresting 300 people including top
bosses and seizing millions worth of property in pre-dawn raids.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, Kazakhstan’s
cabinet approved a crude-oil export tax of $20 per metric ton.
Chevron, based in San Ramon, Ca., owns 50% of Tengiz Chevroil, which
operates the biggest field in Kazakhstan.
(SFC, 7/14/10, p.D2)
2010 Jul 13, In Malaysia a
police raid for stolen vehicles found 42 of them at a warehouse in
Malaysia along with and hundreds of birds and other protected
wildlife. Officers found some 700 birds and caged leopard cats,
albino pygmy monkeys and other animals. They included about 20
protected species.
(AP, 7/14/10)
2010 Jul 13, In Mexico 3 dead
bodies were found hanging from pedestrian bridges in the central
city of Cuernavaca. The bodies were accompanied by threatening notes
signed by a drug gang. The three men escaped from a state prison
last month. Gunmen killed three state police officers in two
ambush-style attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. Another
officer was seriously wounded.
(AP, 7/14/10)
2010 Jul 13, In Muzaffarabad,
Kashmir, PM Raja Farooq Haider Khan, the top official in
Pakistan-held Kashmir, vowed to fight India for control of the
disputed territory in a speech to thousands of people assembled by a
coalition of banned militant groups.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, In Nigeria the
junior finance minister said the country’s corruption-ridden giant
state oil firm NNPC is insolvent with debts of five billion dollars.
(AFP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 13, In eastern Nigeria
Christians and Muslims clashes, left eight people dead and 40
seriously wounded, with six mosques and one church also torched.
(AFP, 7/14/10)
2010 Jul 13, Tanzanian lawyer
Jwani Mwaikusa was shot in Dar es Salaam. He was a defense lawyer
for a UN tribunal that tries suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
Police said his nephew and a neighbor were also killed.
(AP, 7/15/10)
2010 Jul 13, Turkey extradited
a man identified only as Salih S. to Germany to face charges of
supporting a terrorist organization and membership in a terrorist
organization. The German citizen, a member of the radical Islamic
Jihad Union, had trained at a terrorist camp in Pakistan. He was
accused of procuring GPS devices, night vision goggles and other
items for Adem Yilmaz, who was convicted with 3 others earlier this
year of plotting a thwarted attack that a judge said could have
killed large numbers of US soldiers and civilians in Germany.
(AP, 7/14/10)
2010 Jul 13, Zimbabwe's
President Robert Mugabe vowed that the country would go ahead with
diamond sales that were banned earlier this year because of rights
violations at its largest mines. He said his nation will sell its
massive stores of diamonds despite not receiving authorization from
the world's diamond control body.
(AFP, 7/13/10)(AP, 7/13/10)
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