Today in History - July 16
Return to home
276 Jul 16,
Marcus Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), was murdered.
(MC, 7/16/02)
390 Jul 16, Brennus and Gauls
defeated the Romans at Allia.
(MC, 7/16/02)
622 Jul 16, Islamic Era began.
Mahomet began his flight from Mecca to Medina (Hegira).
(MC, 7/16/02)
1099 Jul 16, Crusaders herded
the Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue and set it afire.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1212 Jul 16, Battle of Las
Navas de Tolosa marked the end of Muslim power in Spain.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1429 Jul 16, Joan of Arc led
French army in the Battle of Orleans. [see May 9]
(MC, 7/16/02)
1439 Jul 16, Kissing was banned
in England in order to stop germs from spreading.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1519 Jul 16, There was a public
debate between Martin Luther and theologian John Eck.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1548 Jul 16, La Paz, Bolivia,
was founded.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1557 Jul 16, Anne of
Cleves (41), queen of England and 4th wife of Henry VIII, died.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1723 Jul 16, Sir Joshua
Reynolds, British portrait painter and first president of the royal
Academy of Arts, was born.
(HN, 7/16/98)
1728 Jul 16, Henri Moreau,
composer, was born.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1764 Jul 16, Ivan VI (23),
Emperor of Russia (1740-41), was murdered.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1765 Jul 16, Prime Minister of
England Lord Greenville resigned and was replaced by Lord
Rockingham.
(HN, 7/16/98)
1769 Jul 16, Father Junipero
Serra founded Mission San Diego de Alcala, the 1st mission in Calif.
The Franciscan friars soon planted cuttings of olive trees.
California’s first olive press was established in Ventura County in
1871.
(http://missions.bgmm.com/sdiego.htm)(SSFC,
8/27/06, p.F2)
1774 Jul 16, Russia and the
Ottoman Empire signed the treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji, ending their
six-year war.
(HN, 7/16/98)
1775 Jul 16, John Adams
graduated from Harvard.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1779 Jul 16, American troops
under General Anthony Wayne, aka Mad Anthony Wayne, captured Stony
Point, NY, with a loss to the British of more than 600 killed or
captured.
(HN, 7/16/98)(http://hhr.highlands.com/stpt.htm)
1782 Jul 16, Mozart's opera
"Das Entfuehrung aus dem Serail" premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1790 Jul 16, The District of
Columbia was established as the seat of the United States
government.
(AP, 7/16/97)
1791 Jul 16, Louis XVI was
suspended from office until he agreed to ratify the constitution.
(HN, 7/16/98)
1796 Jul 16,
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (d.1875), French painter, was born. His
work included "Madame Corot" (1833-1835) and "Interrupted Reading"
(1870-1873). He led the way toward new forms of perspective and
composition that was later mined by impressionism and photography.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.E5)(WSJ, 10/25/96, p.A15)(WSJ,
3/25/97, p.A16)(MC, 7/16/02)
1798 Jul 16, The Marine
Hospital Service was established in the Department of the Treasury
under provisions of an act (1 Stat. 605) authorizing marine
hospitals for the care of American merchant seamen. In 1902 it was
redesignated the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service by an act
of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 712),
(www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/090.html)
1801 Jul 16, Pope Pius VII and
1st consul Napoleon signed a concord.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1809 Jul 16, A well-prepared
revolutionary insurrection burst out in La Paz, Bolivia.
(http://flagspot.net/flags/bo-l.html)
1821 Jul 16, Mary Baker Eddy
(d.1910), founder of the Christian Science movement (1879), was
born.
(HN, 7/16/98)(WSJ, 9/26/03, p.W17)
1825 Jul 16, Alexander Gordon
Laing (32), British Army Major, set off on camel from Tripoli in an
attempt to become the 1st European to cross the Sahara Desert and
reach the fabled city of Timbuktu (Mali).
(SSFC, 1/1/06, p.M2)(ON, 11/06, p.5)
1827 Jul 16, Josiah Spode,
potter, died.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1858 Jul 16, Eugene Ysaye,
violinist, conductor, composer (Pierill Houou), was born in Belgium.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1862 Jul 16, Ida Bell Wells,
first president of the American Negro League, was born.
(HN, 7/16/98)
1862 Jul 16, David G. Farragut
became the first rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
(AP, 7/16/97)
1862 Jul 16, Two Union soldiers
and their servant ransacked a house and raped a slave in
Sperryville, Virginia.
(HN, 7/16/99)
1867 Jul 16, D.R. Averill
patented a ready-mixed paint.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1867 Jul 16, Joseph Monier
patented reinforced concrete.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1872 Jul 16, Roald Amundsen
(d.1928), Norwegian explorer, discoverer of the South Pole, was
born.
(Ind, 4/27/02, 5A)(MC, 7/16/02)
1875 Jul 16, The new French
constitution is finalized.
(HN, 7/16/98)
1882 Jul 16, Mary Todd Lincoln,
the widow of Abraham Lincoln, died of a stroke.
(HN, 7/16/98)
1887 Jul 16, "Shoeless" Joe
Jackson, black sox player (Say it ain’t so, Joe), was born.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1894 Jul 16, Many negro miners
in Alabama were killed by striking white miners.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1896 Jul 16, Trygve Lie, first
secretary-general of the United Nations (1946-52), was born in
Norway.
(HN, 7/16/98)(MC, 7/16/02)
1896 Jul 16, William Hamilton
Gibson, illustrator, author, novelist, died.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1907 Jul 16, Orville
Redenbacher (d.1995), agronomist and popcorn entrepreneur, was born
in Brazil, Indiana. "Do one thing and do it better than anyone."
(AH, 10/01, p.36)(AP, 7/16/07)
1907 Jul 16, Barbara Stanwyck
(d.1990), Oscar winning actress, was born in New York as Ruby
Stevens.
(HN, 7/16/98)(AP, 7/16/07)
1907 Jul 16, The SF
supervisors, under pressure from graft prosecutors, named Edward
Robeson Taylor (67), a doctor and lawyer, as mayor. He quickly
replaced 16 of 18 supervisors, forced the police chief to quit and
replaced many city officials with honest and competent men.
(SFC, 11/6/07, p.B5)
1911 Jul 16, Ginger Rogers
(d.1995), actress and dancer, was born as Virginia Katherine McMath.
(HN, 7/16/01)(MC, 7/16/02)
1912 Jul 16, A Naval torpedo,
launched from an airplane, was patented by B.A. Fiske.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1914 Jul 16, A Socialist
conference in Brussels was attended by Kautsky, Trotsky & Rosa
Luxemburg.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1915 Jul 16, Barnard Hughes,
actor (Tron, Where's Poppa, Best Friends), was born in Bedford
Hills, NY.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1917 Jul 16, Ludwig Philipp
Scharwenka (70), German composer (Album Polonaise), died.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1920 Jul 16, Gen. Amos Fries
was appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1926 Jul 16, National
Geographic took the 1st natural-color undersea photos.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1927 Jul 16, Augusto Sandino
began a 5-year war against the US occupation of Nicaragua.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1928 Jul 16, Anita Brookner,
writer (Hotel du Lac), was born.
(HN, 7/16/01)
1929 Jul 16, Col. Charles
Lindbergh was severely angered when he realized a sound-camera man
had recorded a private conversation using a concealed microphone.
The “voice that has never been filmed” left San Francisco’s Mills
Field airport on the cameraman’s reel.
(SFC, 7/16/04, p.F4)
1934 Jul 16, The nation’s 1st
general strike was called in San Francisco in response to violence
and disregard of worker’s rights in the waterfront strike. Some
140,000 workers walked off their jobs. It collapsed after 4 days.
Seven men were killed and thousands were injured. The general strike
ended after 4 days and went into arbitration. In the fall
arbitrators gave the union a hiring hall, a 6-hour day and a small
wage increase. [see May 9, Jul 5]
(SFEC, 12/15/96, BR p.5)(SFEC, 5/2/99, Z1
p.4)(SFC, 9/27/02, p.D11)(PCh, 1992, p.826)
1935 Jul 16, The first parking
meters were installed, in Oklahoma City. Carlton Magee's automatic
meter, the "Park-O-Meter" was installed by the Dual Parking Meter
Company in Oklahoma City. The parking meters were divided by 20-foot
spaces painted on the pavement and accepted nickels.
(AP, 7/16/97)(HNQ, 8/4/02)
1936 Jul 16, 1st x-ray photo of
arterial circulation was made in Rochester, NY.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1940 Jul 16, Adolf Hitler
ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England,
Operation Sea Lion.
(HN, 7/16/98)
1941 Jul 16, Dag Solstad,
Norwegian novelist and playwright, was born.
(HN, 7/16/01)
1942 Jul 16, The first
large-scale roundups of Jews began under protests by only a
half-dozen Catholic church leaders. French police arrested 8,000
Jews over 2 days in Paris in the Velodrome d’Hiver round-up.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A22)(MC, 7/16/02)(Econ,
7/24/04, p.49)
1942 Jul 16, Jews were
transported from Holland to an extermination camp.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1944 Jul 16, Soviet troops
occupy Vilna, Lithuania, in their drive towards Germany.
(HN, 7/16/98)
1945 Jul 16, The first US test
explosion of the atomic bomb was made at Alamogordo Air Base, south
of Albuquerque, New Mexico, equal to some twenty thousand tons of
TNT. The bomb was called the Gadget and the experiment was called
Trinity from a poem by John Donne (Batter my heart, three-person’d
God), and it was conducted in a part of the desert called Jornada
del Muerto, (Dead Man’s Trail), and measured the equivalent of
18,600 (21,000) tons of TNT. It was the culmination of 28 months of
intense scientific research conducted under the leadership of
physicist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer under the code name Manhattan
Project. The successful atomic test was witnessed by only one
journalist, William L. Laurence of the New York Times, who described
seeing the blinding explosion: "One felt as though he had been
privileged to...be present at the moment of the Creation when the
Lord said: Let There be Light." Oppenheimer’s own thoughts from the
Hindu Bhagavad-Gita were very different: "I am become death, the
shatterer of worlds." The event is described in Richard Thode’s "The
Making of the Atomic Bomb." In 2005 Diane Preston authored
“Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima.”
(NOHY, 3/1990, p.212-213)(HNPD, 7/16/98)(SFC,
12/31/98, p.D4)(SFEC, 12/19/99, Par p.15)(SSFC, 7/10/05, p.E3)
1945 Jul 16, The US cruiser
Indianapolis left SF with an atom bomb to be assembled at Tinian
Island in the western Pacific.
(SSFC, 7/31/05, p.B1)
1946 Jul 16, US court martial
in Dachau condemned 46 SS to hang for the Malmedy massacre of
disarmed GIs.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1947 Jul 16, Raoul Wallenberg,
Swedish diplomat jailed by the Soviets who believed that he was an
American spy, reportedly died at the Lubyanka prison in Moscow of an
alleged heart attack. He had saved more than 20,000 Hungarian Jews
from Nazi death camps. A 2001 Swedish report failed to confirm his
death. In 2010 Russian Security Services archives said a man
identified as Prisoner No. 7, who was interrogated 6 days after the
diplomat’s reported execution on July 17, was likely Wallenberg.
(SFC, 5/5/96, p.A-7)(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A12)(SFC,
1/13/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 2/28/09, p.A7)(SFC, 4/2/10, p.A4)
1948 Jul 16, Ruben Blades,
songwriter and actor, was born.
(HN, 7/16/01)
1948 Jul 16, Pinchas Zukerman,
violinist and conductor, was born in Tel Aviv Israel.
(HN, 7/16/01)(MC, 7/16/02)
1950 Jul 16, Brazil, host for
soccer’s World Cup, lost the final game to Uruguay 2-1.
(Econ, 11/3/07,
p.43)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_FIFA_World_Cup)
1951 Jul 16, "The Catcher in
the Rye," a coming-of-age novel by J.D. Salinger (1919-2010), was
first published. Holden Caulfield, the main character, became
recognized as the quintessential American teenager.
(SFC, 1/17/97, p.D7)(AP, 7/16/98)(WSJ, 12/15/07,
p.W10)(SFC, 1/29/10, p.A1)
1952 Jul 16, Stewart Copeland,
drummer (Police: Fall Out, Every Breath You Take, LP: The Equalizer
& Other Cliffhangers), was born.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1953 Jul 16, Joseph Hilaire
Pierre Belloc (82), author (Path to Rome), died.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1957 Jul 16, Marine Maj. John
Glenn set a transcontinental speed record when he flew a jet from
California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds.
(AP, 7/16/97)
1958 Jul 16, Michael Flatley,
Irish choreographer (Lord of Dance), was born in Chicago, Ill.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1958 Jul 16, The
science-fiction film "The Fly" opened in San Francisco.
(AP, 7/16/08)
1960 Jul 16, Albrecht von
Kesselring (74), German field marshal (Italy), died.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1960 Jul 16, The 1st UN troops
reached Congo to replace Belgian troops.
(www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/Missions/onucB.htm)
1964 Jul 16, In accepting the
Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M.
Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and
that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
(AP, 7/16/97)
1965 Jul 16, Mount Blanc Road
tunnel between France & Italy opened.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1966 Jul 16, "Half a Sixpence"
closed at Broadhurst Theater in NYC after 512 performances.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1967 Jul 16, A prison brawl
ignited barracks, killing 37 in Jay, Florida.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1969 Jul 16, Apollo XI set out
from Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy), Florida, with Neil Armstrong,
Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins on the first manned mission to the
surface of the moon.
(V.D.-H.K.p.182, 341)(AP, 7/16/97)
1969 Jul 16, Vu Ngoc Nha
(d.2002), top aide to presidents Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Van Thieu,
was arrested in Saigon. The CIA uncovered him as the head of a
Communist espionage ring. He and 2 others were convicted of
treason and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A20)
1973 Jul 16, In testimony
before the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign
Activities (the Ervin Committee), former presidential assistant
Alexander Butterfield disclosed to lawyer Donald Sanders (d.1999 at
69) that President Richard Nixon had tape recorded all of his
conversations in the White House and Executive Office Building.
Butterfield's revelations led to Nixon's assertion of executive
privilege and his refusal to release the tapes to the Ervin
Committee on July 17 or to special prosecutor Archibald Cox on July
23. Judge John Sirica ordered Nixon to turn over the tapes on August
29, an order subsequently upheld by U.S. Court of Appeals on October
12. When a Nixon "compromise" of release of written summaries of the
tapes was turned down by Cox, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot
L. Richardson and deputy attorney general William Ruckelshaus to
fire Cox. Both refused and resigned. Solicitor General Robert Bork
complied with Nixon's order on Saturday, October 20, resulting in
the so-called "Saturday Night Massacre."
(AP, 7/16/97)(HNQ, 10/15/98)(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A26)
1976 Jul 16, In the "Spaggiari
Affair," a heist masterminded by Albert Spaggiari (1932-1989), a
gang tunneled into the vault of a branch of Societe Generale in Nice
during a public holiday, spent two days and two nights there and
made off with about 24 million euros (21 million pounds) worth of
cash and valuables. The heist spawned several books and movies.
(AP,
4/4/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spaggiari)
1979 Jul 16, Saddam Hussein
succeeded Premier al-Bakr and became president of Iraq and chairman
of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). He established a
multilayered security system with 3-5 secret police units. He later
put his son Qusai in charge of his 10,000 member Special Guards.
(AP, 7/16/97)(SFC, 2/21/98, p.A10)(SFC, 2/24/98,
p.A9)
1980 Jul 16, Ronald Reagan won
the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in
Detroit.
(AP, 7/16/97)(SFEM,11/2/97, p.12)
1980 Jul 16, Juan Antonio
Samaranch (b.1920) of Spain was elected president of the Int’l.
Olympic Committee (IOC). His reign lasted 21 years.
(www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/ioc/presidents/samaranch_uk.asp)
1981 Jul 16, Singer Harry
Chapin (38) was killed when his car was struck by a tractor-trailer
on New York’s Long Island Expressway.
(AP, 7/16/01)
1982 Jul 16, George Shultz
(b.1920) was sworn in as the US Sec. of State under Ronald Reagan.
He served until Jan 20, 1989.
(SFEM,11/2/97,
p.8)(www.state.gov/secretary/former/40807.htm)
1982 Jul 16, In NYC the Rev.
Sun Myung Moon, Korean founder of the Unification Church, was
sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud.
(www.cedmagic.com/home/ced-digest/ced-digest-vol-07/ced-digest0728.html)
1987 Jul 16, Former White House
political director Lyn Nofziger was charged with violating federal
ethics laws in a six-count indictment. His convictions on three
counts of illegally lobbying White House officials were overturned
by a federal appeals court.
(AP, 7/16/97)
1988 Jul 16, The Rev. Jesse
Jackson arrived in Atlanta for the Democratic national convention,
telling cheering supporters he was seeking "shared responsibility"
with nominee-apparent Michael Dukakis.
(AP, 7/16/98)
1989 Jul 16, Leaders of the
seven major industrial democracies called at their economic summit
in Paris for "decisive action" against global pollution.
(AP, 7/16/99)
1989 Jul 16, Conductor Herbert
von Karajan (b.1908) died near Salzburg, Austria.
(AP, 7/16/99)
1990 Jul 16, NYC's Empire State
Building caught fire, but there were no fatalities.
(www.nycfiremuseum.org/inner/history/5alarm.htm)
1990 Jul 16, A 7.7 earthquake
in Philippines killed some 5,000 people.
(www.drj.com/drworld/content/w1_116.htm)
1990 Jul 16, Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced
that Moscow had agreed to drop its objection to a united Germany’s
membership in NATO.
(AP, 7/16/00)
1990 Jul 16, The Ukraine
Parliament approved a declaration of State Sovereignty. The people's
deputies vote 339-5 to proclaim July 16 a national holiday.
(www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2001/340119.shtml)
1991 Jul 16, Leaders of the
Group of Seven nations holding their economic summit in London
issued a communiqué calling for a "new spirit of cooperation"
in the international community.
(AP, 7/16/01)
1991 Jul 16, Robert Motherwell
(b.1915), US painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Motherwell)
1991 Jul 16, Frank Rizzo (70),
(Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), died of a heart attack.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rizzo)
1992 Jul 16, Bill Clinton
delivered his acceptance speech a day after winning the Democratic
presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.
To the dismay and anger of supporters, Ross Perot announced he would
not run for president. He later changed his mind.
(AP, 7/16/97)
1993 Jul 16, The surging
Mississippi River charged through a levee at West Quincy, Mo.,
closing the Bayview Bridge, the only bridge across the river to
Illinois for more than 200 miles.
(AP, 7/16/98)
1994 Jul 16, "Sisters
Rosensweig" closed at Barrymore Theater in NYC after 556
performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0449)
1994 Jul 16, The 3 tenors,
Placid Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras, performed in
Los Angeles, Ca.
(www.kviestore.org/vhthte19lan.html)
1994 Jul 16, The first of 21
pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter. The comet was
initially discovered by astronomer Eugene Shoemaker (d.1997 at 69).
(HFA, '96, p.34)(SFC, 7/19/97, p.A21)(AP,
7/16/99)
1995 Jul 16, William Barloon
and David Daliberti, the two Americans who were imprisoned in Iraq
for crossing the border from Kuwait four months earlier, were
released.
(AP, 7/16/00)
1995 Jul 16, Amazon.com went
live on the Internet. The 1st book sold on the site was “Fluid
Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental
Mechanisms of Thought.”
(SFC, 7/5/05, p.E2)
1995 Jul 16, Stephen Spender
(b.1909), English poet and critic, died. In 2004 John Sutherland
authored “Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography.”
(HN, 2/28/01)(Econ, 6/19/04, p.81)
1995 Jul 16, Early reports of
massacres in Bosnia emerged as the first survivors of the long march
from Srebrenica began to arrive in Muslim-held territory. Following
negotiations between the UN and the Bosnian Serbs, the Dutch were at
last permitted to leave Srebrenica, leaving behind weapons, food and
medical supplies.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/675945.stm)
1996 Jul 16, President Clinton
told the National Governors Association he was granting states new
powers to deny benefits to recipients who refuse to move from
welfare to work.
(AP, 7/16/97)
1996 Jul 16, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin met a day late with Vice President Al Gore, easing
some of the concerns about his fragile health.
(AP, 7/16/97)
1996 Jul 16, US states were
adopting laws that would allow drug users and their families to sue
drug dealers.
(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.B1)
1996 Jul 16, Handwriting
analysis tagged Newsweek columnist and CBS commentator Joe Klein as
the anonymous author of Primary Colors, a satire of the 1992 Clinton
campaign.
(WSJ, 7/17/96, p.A2)
1996 Jul 16, Pres. Clinton
waived for 6 months sanctions on Cuba that would have allowed US
courts to sue foreign companies for the use of property confiscated
by the Castro regime.
(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 16, An ambush in
Algeria killed the former head of a militant Muslim group.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 16, Hong Kong
authorities arrested a US immigration agent on charges of smuggling
illegal immigrants through Central America. Jerry Wolf Stuchiner, a
19 year veteran, was found with forged Honduran passports at Hong
Kong’s Kai Tak Airport.
(SFC, 7/17/96, A7)
1996 Jul 16, Ukrainian Prime
Minister Pavlo Lazarenko escaped an assassination attempt. He
proceeded to the Donbass coalfields where 200,000 miners were on
strike.
(WSJ, 7/17/96, p.A1)
1997 Jul 16, Hundreds of FBI
agents, some handing out photos in gay bars and hotels, blanketed
south Florida in the continuing hunt for alleged
prostitute-turned-serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan, who was
suspected of killing designer Gianni Versace.
(AP, 7/16/98)
1997 Jul 16, Jerold Mackenzie
was awarded $26.6M for being fired from Miller Brewing in 1993 for
sexual harassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co-worker.
Higher courts later threw the entire award out. In 2003 Mackenzie
accepted an out-of-court settlement for $625,000.
(MC,
7/16/02)(http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jun03/146469.asp)
1997 Jul 16, In Recife, Brazil,
the 18,000 man police force went on strike. The crime and murder
rate immediately surged and some 3,000 soldiers were called to try
to maintain order.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 16, In Cambodia Hun
Sen named a new co-premier, Ung Huot, the foreign minister and a
member of Ranariddh’s Funcinpec Party. Exiled legislators said was
the appointment was illegal.
(SFC, 7/17/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 7/17/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 16, In Cuba Vladimiro
Roca, Martha Beatriz Roque, Felix Bonne, and Rene Gomez Manzano were
detained for issuing a document "La Patria es de Todos," criticizing
the political system. They were scheduled for a trial on charges of
sedition in 1999. The Prosecution recommended a 6 year sentence for
Roca and 5 year sentences for the others after the 4 rejected a
government offer to go into exile. Roca was sentenced to 5 years,
Manzano and Bonne to 4 years, and Roque to 3 ½ years.
(USAT, 10/9/98, p.13A)(SFC, 2/27/99, p.A17)(SFC,
3/3/99, p.A10)(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A8)
1997 Jul 16, In Mexico Benjamin
Flores Gonzalez (29), a newspaper editor of La Prensa, was gunned
down in San Luis Colorado across the border from Yuma, Ariz.
(SFC, 7/17/97, p.A9)
1998 Jul 16, The U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia refused to block Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr from calling President Clinton's Secret
Service protectors before a grand jury.
(AP, 7/16/99)
1998 Jul 16, In Stockton, Ca.,
a jury awarded $30 million in damages to 2 brothers for enduring
years sexual abuse from Rev. Oliver O’Grady.
(SFC, 7/17/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 16, The US FDA
approved the use of thalidomide as a treatment for leprosy.
(SFC, 7/17/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 16, In Gudermes,
Chechnya, fighting broke out and over 50 people were reported killed
in a battle between Chechen security forces and Muslim Wahabist
paramilitary, a conservative arm of Sunni Islam.
(SFC, 7/17/98, p.A16)
1998 Jul 16, China’s leaders
announced a war on smuggling and the formation of a new
anti-smuggling police force.
(SFC, 7/17/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 16, The Russian
parliament agreed to a 5% sales tax.
(SFC, 7/17/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 16, In Turkey some
2000 soldiers were flown into northern Iraq to hunt Kurdish rebels
who fled there after killing 22 Turkish troops in a raid.
(SFC, 7/17/98, p.A16)
1999 Jul 16, Stanley Kubrick’s
final film, "Eyes Wide Shut" starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman,
made its debut.
(AP, 7/16/00)
1999 Jul 16, US Representative
Michael Forbes of New York announced his switch from the Republican
to the Democratic Party.
(SFC, 7/20/99, p.A5)
1999 Jul 16, Scientists
announced plans to develop "chemically assembled electronic
nanocomputers" (CAENs).
(SFC, 7/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 16, John F. Kennedy
Jr. (38), his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister, Lauren
Bessette, were killed when the Piper Saratoga, which he piloted
crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
(SFEC, 7/18/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/16/07)
1999 Jul 16, In Wiener
Neustadt, Austria, the 3-day Woodstock '99 "One World" experienced
music festival was projected to have an audience of 250,000.
(SFC, 1/29/99, p.D9)
1999 Jul 16, In Burundi peace
talks ended in a deadlock.
(SFC, 7/17/99, p.A14)
1999 Jul 16, In Mexico a judge
cut the 50 year prison sentence of Raul Salinas in half and a Swiss
court overturned the seizure of his stashed fortune, though the
money remained frozen pending further investigation.
(SFC, 7/17/99, p.A11)
1999 Jul 16, A NATO memorandum
warned soldiers and workers of a "possible toxic threat" from the
use depleted uranium ordnance used by the US during the air campaign
across Yugoslavia. The "hazard awareness" document was not released
and was not made public until 2001.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A9)(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A14)
1999 Jul 16, A Russian supply
ship for Mir was launched from Baikomur in Kazakhstan. It proceeded
to successfully dock with Mir.
(WSJ, 7/19/99, p.A1)
2000 Jul 16, Families and
friends of the victims of the TWA Flight 800 explosion broke ground
for a new memorial on the Long Island shore not far from where the
plane went down in 1996, killing all 230 people on board.
(WSJ, 7/18/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/16/01)
2000 Jul 16, An oil leak in
Brazil’s Parana state began near the Getulio Vargas Refinery in
Araucaria and dumped over 1 million gallons of crude into a
tributary of the Iguacu River. Petrobras was later fined $94 million
for the country’s worst spill in 25 years.
(SFC, 7/18/00, p.A12)(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A13)
2000 Jul 16, In Indonesia a 2nd
day of fighting left 20 people dead after Indonesian troops joined
Muslim militants against Christian gangs in the Maluku Islands.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 16, In Nigeria another
pipeline blast killed over 100 people between the villages of Ifie
and Ijala. The line was punctured to steal fuel.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)(WSJ, 7/17/00, p.A1)(WSJ,
7/18/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 16, In Pakistan a bomb
exploded on a train leaving Hyderabad and 10 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A13)
2001 Jul 16, The IOC in Moscow
elected Jacques Rogge (59), a Belgian surgeon, to succeed Juan
Antonio Samaranch.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 16, In northwest China
an illegal cache of explosives blew up in Mafang and 41 people were
killed.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A7)
2001 Jul 16, In India the
leaders of Pakistan and India failed to reach an accord on their
half-century dispute over Kashmir, ending a landmark three-day
summit on a solemn note. They did agree to meet later in the year in
Pakistan.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A6)(AP, 7/16/02)
2001 Jul 16, In Israel a
Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and 2 Israelis at a bus
stop north of Tel Aviv. The bombing was believed to be an effort to
mar the opening of the Maccabiah, the Jewish Olympics in Jerusalem.
Israel retaliated by shelling Palestinian police posts in 2 West
Bank towns.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A6)(WSJ, 7/17/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 16, In Serbia
authorities began exhuming bodies from another mass grave near
Belgrade.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A7)
2002 Jul 16, The body of
Samantha Runnion (5), who had been kidnapped a day earlier from her
home in Stanton, Calif., was found in a heavily forested area about
50 miles away.
(AP,
7/16/03)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Runnion)
2002 Jul 16, Belgian banks
signed agreements to pay some $54 million to the country's Jewish
community for property lost during the Nazi occupation.
(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A9)
2002 Jul 16, In Chechnya
separatist fighters attacked Russian army convoys and checkpoints
and 6 people were killed.
(WSJ, 7/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 16, In Ecuador Julia
Butterfly Hill was arrested with 7 other demonstrators in Quito for
protesting a proposed oil pipeline from the Amazon Basin to the port
of Esmeraldas that would run through the Mindo-Nambillo Reserve.
Hill was deported July 18.
(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A12)(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 16, In Ecuador rains
caused a landslide that buried 11 vehicles including a bus with 40
people.
(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A15)
2002 Jul 18, Greek police
reported the capture of Alexandros Giotopoulos (58), the alleged
head of the November 17 terror group. Police also reported
confessions from other members to bombings and assassinations.
(SFC, 7/19/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 16, In
India-controlled Kashmir a grenade wounded at least 13 people in
Anantnag.
(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A7)
2002 Jul 16, The Irish
Republican Army issued an unprecedented apology for hundreds of
civilian deaths over 30 years.
(AP, 7/16/03)
2002 Jul 16, In the West Bank
Palestinian gunmen ambushed a bus at the Emmanuel settlement left 8
Israelis dead.
(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 16, Russia and China
signed their first friendship treaty in more than half a century.
(AP, 7/16/02)
2003 Jul 16, The Environmental
Protection Agency announced it was starting big-money, long-term
cleanups at 10 Superfund toxic waste sites and putting ten other
sites aside for later.
(AP, 7/16/04)
2003 Jul 16, New research
indicated that frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps
prevent prostate cancer later in life.
(AP, 7/16/03)
2003 Jul 16, In Santa Monica,
Ca., 10 people were killed and over 70 injured when a car driven by
George Russell Weller (87) plowed through a crowded street market in
an apparent accident. In 2006 a jury convicted Weller on 10 counts
of felony manslaughter. He was sentenced to 5 years probation due to
his failing health. Weller was also ordered to pay about $107,100 in
fines and restitution.
(SFC, 7/18/03, p.A1)(SFC, 11/21/06, p.A3)(AP,
7/16/08)
2003 Jul 16, Celia Cruz
(b.1925), Cuban-born Latin music singer, died in Fort Lee, NJ. In
2004 Eduardo Marceles authored “Azucar! The biography of Celia
Cruz.” An autobiography based on recorded material was also
published as “Celia: My Life,” by Celia Cruz and Christina
Reymundo.”
(SFC, 7/17/03, p.A21)(SSFC, 8/15/04, p.M6)
2003 Jul 16, Carol Shields
(68), the Pulitzer-prize winning author who wrote "The Stone
Diaries" (1995) and more than 20 other books, died at her home in
Victoria, British Columbia.
(AP, 7/17/03)(SFC, 7/18/03, p.A29)
2003 Jul 16, Salvatore Mancuso,
head of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, said the largest
paramilitary group agreed to lay down weapons because of the
government's success in retaking control of wide swaths of land from
leftist rebels.
(AP, 7/18/03)
2003 Jul 16, In northern India
more than 100 people were feared dead in flash floods caused by a
heavy rain in a remote hill area of Himachal Pradesh state.
(AP, 7/16/03)
2003 Jul 16, In Sao Tome, an
island nation off West Africa, Pres. Fradique de Menezes was ousted
in a coup led by army Maj. Fernando Pereira. The revolt changed
control of the impoverished country's new oil wealth.
(AP, 7/16/03)
2004 Jul 16, Domestic icon
Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five
months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for lying
about a stock sale. On March 4, 2005, Stewart was released from
Alderson Federal Prison Camp, aka “Camp Cupcake,” in West Virginia.
She was then placed under home confinement and required to wear an
ankle bracelet for an additional 5 months.
(AP,
7/16/05)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Stewart#Stock_trading_case_and_conviction)
2004 Jul 16, PNC Financial,
based in Pennsylvania, agreed to by Riggs National of Washington DC
for $779 million. Riggs was fined $25 million in May for violating
money laundering regulations.
(Econ, 7/24/04, p.69)
2004 Jul 16, George Busbee 76,
former Georgia Gov., died in Savannah.
(AP, 7/16/05)
2004 Jul 16, New Zealand's
prime minister and media heaped vitriol on Israel over the case of
two Israelis imprisoned for passport fraud, saying there's "no
doubt" the pair are spies.
(AP, 7/17/04)
2004 Jul 16, A Saudi transport
company said it had pulled out of Iraq to save the life of an
Egyptian truck driver taken hostage by kidnappers who demanded the
firm leave the country.
(Reuters, 7/16/04)
2004 Jul 16, In Thailand the
15th Int’l. AIDS Conference ended in Bangkok.
(SFC, 7/17/04, p.A14)
2005 Jul 16, J.K. Rawling’s
latest book, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the 6th of
the series, went on sale.
(SSFC, 7/17/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 16, In Australia Sir
Ronald Wilson (82), a former World War II fighter pilot who became a
respected Australian judge and headed a national inquiry into the
"stolen generations" of Aboriginal children, died.
(AP, 7/17/05)
2005 Jul 16, The death toll
from the July 7 bombings in London rose to 55 as a badly wounded
young architect succumbed 9 days after being rescued. British PM
Tony Blair warned that an "evil ideology" of Islamic extremism was
bent on spreading terror through the West.
(SSFC, 7/17/05, p.A17)(AP, 7/16/06)
2005 Jul 16, A small plane from
Costa Rica, piloted by the son of a former owner of the San Jose
Sharks hockey team, crashed off the Pacific Coast, killing six
people.
(AP, 7/17/05)
2005 Jul 16, A Russian-made
plane that disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff in
Equatorial Guinea crashed with 55 people aboard.
(AP, 7/17/05)
2005 Jul 16, In Finland
Indonesia's government and Aceh rebels reached a tentative peace
deal to end a 29-year insurgency in the tsunami-devastated province.
They agreed to sign a peace accord on Aug 15 in exchange for more
autonomy.
(AP, 7/17/05)(WSJ, 7/18/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 16, Security forces in
India's portion of Kashmir killed at least 17 suspected Islamic
militants, including 13 rebels who had entered the region from
Pakistan.
(AP, 7/17/05)
2005 Jul 16, Iran said it had
arrested 200 people and deported another 800, all of whom were said
to be linked to al-Qaida.
(SSFC, 7/17/05, p.A3)
2005 Jul 16, In Baghdad a
suicide car bomber attacked police commandos in the southern
district of Dura, killing one commando and three civilians, two of
them children. A 2nd Baghdad suicide bomber blew up a car in an
attack targeting a passing US military convoy. One civilian was
killed. A 3rd bomber blew himself up in a police station in Mosul,
killing 4 policemen and wounding 18 more. A 4th bomber blew himself
up in the Jabala area, when Iraqi police tried to arrest him. The
explosion wounded two policemen and four civilians. 3 British
soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in a rare attack in the
relatively stable southern part of the country.
(AFP, 7/16/05)
2005 Jul 16, In Iraq a suicide
bomber blew up a fuel truck near a crowded vegetable market outside
a Shiite mosque in Musayyib killing 98 people. A suspected
mastermind of the attack was captured later during a raid by Iraqi
forces in which two of his associates were killed.
(Reuters, 7/17/05)(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 16, US forces in Iraq
began setting up a base 3 miles from the Rawah, a crossroads town
and smuggling route near the Syrian border.
(SSFC, 7/31/05, p.A20)
2005 Jul 16, Israeli troops
raided towns across the West Bank, arresting 26 suspected
Palestinian militants. Israeli aircraft launched a series of
airstrikes in Gaza City and the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.
(AP, 7/16/05)
2005 Jul 16, Hurricane Emily
skirted Jamaica with winds spiking at 155 mph.
(SSFC, 7/17/05, p.A3)
2005 Jul 16, In Lagos a court
convicted Amaka Anajemba, a Nigerian woman, of helping defraud a
Brazilian bank of $242 million in the country's biggest
international fraud case. She was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison
and ordered to give up $25.5 million in cash and assets. Banco
Noroeste of Sao Paolo, Brazil, was reportedly fleeced of some $242
million over seven years until 2001.
(AP, 7/17/05)
2005 Jul 16, Pakistani security
officials said 3 of the 4 London suicide bombers recently visited
Pakistan. Investigators probed whether they met with Al-Qaeda-linked
militant groups.
(AP, 7/16/05)
2005 Jul 16, Pakistani soldiers
fought militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan
border. 18 people, mostly women and children, died in the clash.
(AP, 7/17/05)
2005 Jul 16, A Russian air
force helicopter carrying border guards crashed in mountainous
southern Chechnya, killing eight people.
(AP, 7/17/05)
2005 Jul 16, In Turkey a bomb
blast destroyed a minibus near Kusadasi, a popular Aegean Sea beach,
killing 5 people, including at least 2 foreigners. Initial reports
implicating a female suicide bomber were soon changed to a remote
controlled or timer bomb as the cause.
(Reuters, 7/16/05)(AP, 7/17/05)
2006 Jul 16, President Bush and
other Group of Eight world leaders meeting in St. Petersburg,
Russia, urged Israel to show "utmost restraint" and blamed Hezbollah
and Hamas for escalating violence in the Middle East. G8 leaders
adopted statements on the summit's three priority areas of energy
security, education and the fight against infectious diseases.
(AP, 7/16/06)(AP, 7/16/07)
2006 Jul 16, US federal
officials arrested David Carruthers in Texas, the British boss of
BetonSports, as he changed planes enroute from London to Costa Rica.
He was charged the next day, along with 10 others, with conspiracy
and fraud related to online gambling.
(Econ, 7/22/06, p.61)
2006 Jul 16, Robert Brooks
(b.1937), chairman of Hooters of America, died in South Carolina. He
made a fortune selling chicken wings served by scantily clad
waitresses.
(www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/16/obit.hooters.ap/index.html)(Econ,
7/29/06, p.78)
2006 Jul 16, In Afghanistan
Amir Gul Hassanyar was arrested in northern Kunduz province. He
allegedly carried out numerous roadside bombings and trafficked in
weapons and drugs.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 16, A British soldier
was killed and 3 others wounded in two different attacks near Iraq's
main southern city of Basra. 17 people were killed in rebel violence
across Iraq. Six of 29 people seized at an Iraqi Olympic Committee
meeting were released in Baghdad.
(AFP, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 16, Seven Canadians
from the same Montreal family, including four young children, were
killed in Lebanon when Israeli aircraft bombed a house in the south
of the country.
(AP, 7/17/06)
2006 Jul 16, Hundreds of
exhausted evacuees flew into Cyprus as Western countries moved their
citizens from the Middle East amid continued Israeli bombardment of
Lebanon.
(AP, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 16, A small German
tourist plane crashed on takeoff from the Italian island of Elba,
killing four people aboard and seriously injuring one.
(AP, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 16, Iran said that
Western incentives to halt its nuclear program were an "acceptable
basis" for talks, and it is ready for detailed negotiations.
(AP, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 16, A suicide bomber
detonated explosives inside a cafe packed with Shiites in Tuz
Khormato, a mostly Turkomen city 130 miles north of Baghdad. 26
people were killed and 22 injured. In the south, a British soldier
was killed and another wounded during a raid against a "terrorist
suspect" in Basra.
(AP, 7/17/06)
2006 Jul 16,
Lebanese guerrillas fired a relentless barrage of rockets into the
northern Israeli city of Haifa, killing eight people at a railway
depot and wounding seven in a dramatic escalation of a five-day-old
conflict that has shattered hopes for Mideast peace. Israeli
airstrikes reduced entire apartment buildings to rubble and knocked
out electricity in swaths of Beirut.
(AP, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 16, In Mexico City
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador led hundreds of thousands of marchers
demanding a full recount of in the disputed election.
(SFC, 7/17/06, p.A3)
2006 Jul 16, North Korea
rejected a UN Security Council resolution sanctioning the communist
nation for recent missile tests and warned the measure was a prelude
to a renewed Korean War.
(AP, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 16, Turkish PM Recep
Tayyip Erdogan signaled that his government was planning a tough
response to mounting violence by Kurdish rebels after 13 members of
the security forces were killed in the southeast over the past week.
(AFP, 7/16/06)
2006 Jul 16, Ugandan
negotiators at talks to end one of Africa's longest wars demanded on
that Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels disarm and hand over all
their weapons in order to receive amnesty.
(Reuters, 7/16/06)
2007 Jul 16, Pres. Bush said he
would call Israel, the Palestinians and others in the region to a
peace conference and urged Arabs to send Cabinet-level officials to
a Fall meeting to be led by Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.
(SFC, 7/17/07, p.A7)(AP, 7/16/08)
2007 Jul 17, The US freed 16
Saudis from Guantanamo and flew them home, where they were taken
into custody for investigation of possible links to terrorism.
(WSJ, 1/17/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 16, A man carrying a
gun and declaring "I am the emperor" was shot and killed by security
outside the offices of Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2007 Jul 16, Dikembe Mutombo
(41), NBA basketball star, said he wants to score for his native
Democratic Republic of Congo by financing a new hospital and
training young hoops players. Mutombo invested $15 million (11
million euros) in the construction of the hospital, more than half
the total cost.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, Rupert Murdoch’s
News Corp. reached a tentative agreement to buy Dow Jones & Co.,
publisher of the Wall Street Journal, for $5 billion.
(SFC, 7/17/07, p.A3)
2007 Jul 16, IHOP Corp.
announced that it had sealed a deal to buy Applebee’s for about $2.1
billion. This would make IHOP the nation’s largest sit-down
restaurant chain with 3,250 locations and sales of nearly $7
billion.
(WSJ, 1/17/07, p.A2)
2007 Jul 16, An Amtrak train
hit a car at a Florida crossing killing 4 occupants.
(WSJ, 1/17/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 16, Mark Sneed (50),
president of Phillips Foods, died of a heart attack at his home in
Riva, Md. He drove the company’s expansion to Asian suppliers for
crab.
(WSJ, 1/21/07, p.A4)
2007 Jul 16, Afghanistan's
government fired Abdul Sattar Murad, the governor of Kapisa
province, days after he said Afghans are distancing themselves from
Pres. Hamid Karzai and that a "vacuum of authority" is allowing the
Taliban, al-Qaida and other groups to gain power. In southern
Kandahar province suspected Taliban militants ambushed two police
officers riding a bike in Zhari district, killing both.
(AP, 7/17/07)(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 16, Argentina’s
President Nestor Kirchner's economy minister resigned after a
prosecutor ordered her to testify about $64,000 in cash that was
found in a bag in her office bathroom. Kirchner accepted Felisa
Miceli's resignation and appointed economist and Industry Secretary
Gustavo Peirano as her replacement.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, Bangladesh police
arrested former PM Sheikh Hasina on extortion charges, and she was
ordered jailed pending trial.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, Britain ordered
the expulsion of four Russian diplomats because of Moscow's refusal
to extradite the lead suspect in the fatal poisoning of a former KGB
officer in London.
(AP, 7/17/07)
2007 Jul 16, The High Court in
London upheld a ban on a teenager from wearing a so-called "purity
ring" at school to signal her refusal of sex before marriage.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, The Canadian
government agreed to disburse C$1.4 billion ($1.3 billion) in aid
over 20 years to Quebec's 15,000 Cree to improve health, security
and other services for the native Indians.
(Reuters, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, Orascom
Construction Industries S.A.E. of Cairo said it is investing $115
million to acquire a 50% stake in a North Korean cement plant.
(WSJ, 1/16/07, p.A6)
2007 Jul 16, In Ethiopia a
court sentenced 35 opposition politicians and activists to life in
prison and denied them the right to vote or run for public office
for inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government.
They had protested the alleged rigging of ’05 elections. Those
facing life imprisonment include the leader of the Coalition for
Unity and Democracy, Hailu Shawel; Berhanu Nega, who was elected
mayor of Addis Ababa; former Harvard scholar Mesfin Woldemariam; and
former UN special envoy and former Norfolk (Va.) State University
professor, Yacob Hailemariam.
(AP, 7/16/07)(WSJ, 1/17/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 16, A group
representing thousands of children of Holocaust survivors filed a
class-action lawsuit against the German government, demanding that
Germany pay for their psychiatric care.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, Haitian radio
reported that US Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested Guy
Philippe (39), a former rebel leader and presidential candidate with
alleged ties to drug traffickers.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, Reliance
Communications, India's second largest telecom company, said it paid
300 million dollars to buy US-based telecom firm Yipes Holdings to
expand data services.
(AFP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, A court in Iran
sentenced Adnan Hassanpour (27), a journalist for the closed
Kurdish-Persian weekly, to death on charges of endangering national
security and propaganda against the state. Abdolvahed “Hiva” Botimar
(29) was also sentenced to death by a revolutionary tribunal in
Marivan.
(http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15054)
2007 Jul 16, In Iraq twin
suicide car bombings exploded within 20 minutes of each other in
Kirkuk, killing at least 85 people and wounding around 150 in
attacks targeting a Kurdish political office and ripping through the
Haseer outdoor market. A string of attacks in Baghdad killed at
least 14 people. An American soldier died from wounds received the
day before by a bombing in Ninevah province. American soldiers
killed about a dozen insurgents during a three-hour gunfight in
Fadhil. A US Marine died in a non-combat related incident in Anbar
province.
(AP, 7/16/07)(AP, 7/17/07)(WSJ, 1/17/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 16, A 6.8 earthquake
struck northwestern Japan, destroying hundreds of homes, buckling
seaside bridges and causing a fire at one of the world's most
powerful nuclear power plants. 11 people were killed and hundreds
were injured. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant suffered a
slew of problems, including spilled waste drums, leaked radioactive
water, fires and burst pipes.
(AFP, 7/16/07)(WSJ, 1/17/07, p.A1)(Econ, 7/21/07,
p.41)(AP, 7/16/08)
2007 Jul 16, In northern
Lebanon fierce fighting erupted at a besieged Palestinian refugee
camp as army troops pounded the remaining hideouts of
al-Qaida-inspired militants holed up inside with artillery and tank
fire. 4 soldiers were killed in fighting. Troops captured two
militants while pursuing the fighters in the camp's old
neighborhoods.
(AP, 7/16/07)(AP, 7/17/07)
2007 Jul 16, Health officials
in Malawi prepared to launch a massive HIV testing program to
identify tens of thousands of people unknowingly infected with the
virus.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, In Mexico police
fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of leftist protesters from
reaching the venue of an international folk festival in Oaxaca, in
the worst outbreak of violence in the troubled Mexican city since
November.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, Pakistan held
crisis talks with tribal elders to save a peace deal with
pro-Taliban militants, amid fears of fresh violence after 3 weekend
suicide attacks left more than 70 dead.
(AFP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, Scotland’s
University of Edinburgh confirmed that it had withdrawn an honorary
doctorate awarded to Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe in 1984,
because of concern over his human rights record.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, Public schools
reopened in South Africa after seven weeks following a month-long
strike by teachers and winter holidays.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2007 Jul 16, In Venezuela RCTV
resumed broadcasting on cable and satellite TV channels. The station
had been pushed off public access on May 28.
(Econ, 7/21/07,
p.38)(www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22903)
2007 Jul 16, Zimbabwean Roman
Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube was named in an adultery case. State
radio reported that a woman, identified as Rosemary Sibanda,
"admitted the affair" to the state broadcasting company. The radio
report said the woman's husband, Onesimus Sibanda, was demanding
$160,000 in damages.
(AP, 7/16/07)
2008 Jul 16, The United States
signed a pair of agreements to boost trade and investment ties with
countries in southern and eastern Africa. These included the Trade,
Investment and Development Cooperation Agreement with the Southern
Africa Customs Union (SACU), which includes Botswana, Lesotho,
Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland; and the Trade Investment and
Framework Agreement (TIFA) with the East African Community, which
includes Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
(Reuters, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 16, The US Postal
Service released a series of stamps honoring black cinema.
(SFC, 7/16/08, p.E3)
2008 Jul 16, California state
educators said 24% of the state’s high school students had dropped
out of school during the 2006-2007 school year.
(SFC, 7/17/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 16, Jo Stafford
(b.1917), pop star singer during the 1940s and 1950s, died in Los
Angeles. Her songs included “You Belong To Me,” a big hit in 1952.
(SFC, 7/19/08, p.B5)
2008 Jul 16, The governor of
Kandahar said eight militants were killed during an operation in the
southern province's Khakrez district in the past two days. A
regional Taliban commander, Mullah Mahmoud, who controlled about 250
fighters, was among those killed. Several militants were killed in
the Nahr Surkh district of Helmand. Coalition and Afghan security
forces uncovered and destroyed a large weapons cache in northern
Jawzjan province.
(AP, 7/16/08)(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 16, Thousands of
British local government employees began a two-day strike over pay.
Unions expected more than half a million workers in England, Wales
and Northern Ireland to join the walkout that began after midnight.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, Anglican bishops
from around the world gathered in Canterbury for the Lambeth
Conference, with the 10-yearly meeting set to be dominated by deep
splits over the roles of women and homosexuals.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, Cambodia assembled
its troops near the Thai border in the second day of alleged
incursions by Thai soldiers amid tensions over disputed border land
near a historic temple.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, The government of
China’s Gansu province told the Ministry of Health about an unusual
surge of kidney stones among infants who had all drunk the same
brand of milk.
(Econ, 9/20/08, p.57)
2008 Jul 16, In Egypt a truck
ploughed into traffic at a closed level crossing, pushing a bus,
truck and several cars into the path of a passenger train. Four
people died from their injuries overnight bringing the total number
of dead to 41.
(AFP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 16, In France the
first stone was laid at the Louvre's new Arts of Islam gallery, the
first major modern architectural addition to the museum since its
famed glass pyramid was built in the 1980s.
(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 16, In eastern India
at least 20 special commando police officers were killed when their
vehicle struck a land mine planted by communist rebels in Orissa
state.
(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 16, Coalition forces
handed the Iraqi government control of a province south of Baghdad,
reflecting security improvements across the country. US and Polish
forces operated in the mostly Shiite province of Qadisiyah, the
tenth of 18 provinces to revert to Iraqi authority. A car bomb
killed at least 7 children and 11 other people in the northern city
of Tal Afar. 90 people also were injured in the blast at a popular
outdoor market. A car bomb killed two civilians in Mosul.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, Hezbollah handed
over two black coffins with the bodies of two Israeli soldiers and
Israel freed 5 Lebanese militants, including Samir Kantar, who
killed a 4-year-old girl and her father in 1979.
(AP, 7/16/08)(WSJ, 7/17/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 16, An Italian
parliamentary panel gave initial approval to a plan to fingerprint
everyone in the country, a move that could defuse criticism over a
mandatory program to fingerprint Gypsies.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, Malaysian police
arrested opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on suspicion that he
sodomized a male aide, pre-empting his voluntary appearance at the
police headquarters to answer the allegation. He was interrogated
for more than eight hours and made to sleep on a "cold cement" floor
in a holding cell before being released the next day.
(AP, 7/16/08)(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 16, Mexico's navy
seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific
coast and arrested its four-man crew.
(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 16, In Nigeria about
30 armed men in speedboats attacked a navy vessel that was guarding
key oil facilities in southern Rivers state. Three militants, a
naval serviceman and a civilian were killed. MEND said it was not
involved.
(Reuters, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 16, In southwestern
Pakistan a roadside bomb wounded seven security personnel and two
passers-by. In the northwest a military operation began to expel
insurgents from Zargari. 10 militants were killed and five troops
wounded.
(AP, 7/16/08)(AP, 7/18/08)
2008 Jul 16, The Philippine
government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front reached a deal to
create an ancestral homeland for 3 million Muslims.
(WSJ, 7/17/08, p.A8)
2008 Jul 16, Gold production
was severely disrupted in parts of South Africa as thousands of
mineworkers downed tools to protest rising living costs.
(AFP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, In South Korea
former Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee saw the suspension of his prison
sentence in a tax-evasion conviction, a move that confirmed South
Koreans' view that tycoons are immune from jail.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, In Spain King
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia kicked off an interfaith conference in
Madrid, an effort to bring Muslims, Christians and Jews closer
together amid a world that often puts the three faiths at odds.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, Sri Lankan
soldiers captured a key naval base used by the Tamil Tiger rebels in
the northern part of the country. Fighting in the north killed 24
rebels and 3 soldiers.
(AP, 7/16/08)(AP, 7/17/08)
2008 Jul 16, In Sudan a
peacekeeper with the United Nations-African Union was shot and
killed in Darfur. The peacekeeper, believed to be a Nigerian company
commander, died while on patrol near a peacekeeping camp.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, Turkey’s military
said 11 Kurdish rebels were killed in an ongoing operation in
Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq.
(AP, 7/16/08)
2008 Jul 16, Zimbabwe’s central
bank's governor said the annual rate of inflation, already the
highest in the world, has hit a new record level of 2.2 million
percent.
(AFP, 7/16/08)
2009 Jul 16, Michelle Cawthra,
a former Colorado Dept. of Revenue supervisor, said love for her
ex-boyfriend Hysear Randell led her to steal $11 million in
unclaimed tax refunds from the state over a 2-year period. Randell
was on trial in Denver for theft, forgery, computer crimes and
racketeering.
(SFC, 7/17/09, p.A6)
2009 Jul 16, In Phoenix,
Arizona, 4 boys, all Liberian refugees (9-14) lured a Liberian girl
(8) to a storage shed and raped her. Charges against one of the
boys, aged 8, were dropped on Dec 16 after a judge ruled the boy was
not competent to stand trial.
(SFC, 8/10/09, p.A4)(SFC, 12/17/09, p.A12)
2009 Jul 16, In Chicago Willis
Tower was introduced to Chicago by Mayor Richard M. Daley and others
during a public Sears Tower renaming ceremony hosted by Willis Group
Holdings. The London-based insurance brokerage secured the naming
rights as part an agreement to lease 140,000 square feet of space,
and has said it plans to bring hundreds of jobs to the city.
(AP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, CIT Group Inc.
shares tumbled 75% as its inability to get emergency government
funding raised expectations that the commercial lender will file for
bankruptcy protection.
(AP, 7/16/09)(SFC, 7/17/09, p.C1)
2009 Jul 16, In California the
UC Board of Regents cut $813 million from US budgets and approved
pay raises, dividends and other benefits for over two dozen
executives.
(http://tinyurl.com/n3hcj3)(SFC, 8/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Jul 16, Jeffrey Locker
(52), a debt-ridden motivational speaker, was found strangled and
stabbed in his car in East Harlem, hours after he was seen buying
condoms. In 2011 jurors found Kenneth Minor guilty of helping Locker
commit suicide.
(SFC, 3/4/11, p.A10)
2009 Jul 16, In southeastern
Afghanistan local Taliban commanders threatened to kill a captured
American soldier unless the US military stops operations in Ghazni
province's Giro district and Paktika province's Khoshamand district.
The British soldier was killed during a foot patrol near Gereshk in
southern Helmand province.
(AP, 7/16/09)(AP, 7/17/09)
2009 Jul 16, Australia and
China traded warnings over Rio Tinto employees detained for spying,
as the United States urged Beijing to ensure transparency and fair
treatment for staff of foreign companies.
(Reuters, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, The Chadian rebel
Union of Forces of Resistance (UFR) claimed the Chadian air force
attacked two villages in the southeastern Chadian region of Tissi.
Rebels claimed some 50 had been killed some 100 wounded. Sudan
accused Chad of launching air raids on its western region of Darfur.
(AFP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, Colombian
authorities extradited to the United States Gerardo Aguilar (50),
alias "Cesar," a FARC rebel "jailer" captured in last year's July 2
rescue of three US military contractors and ex-presidential
candidate Ingrid Betancourt. He faced drug-trafficking charges,
kidnapping and other charges on an indictment in Washington, D.C.
federal court.
(AP, 7/17/09)
2009 Jul 16, In Egypt 8 Serb
tourists and 3 Egyptians were killed when a truck on the wrong side
of the road hit their coach head-on along Egypt's Red Sea coast.
(AP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, In Marseilles,
France, a worker was killed immediately when the roof of a stage
being built for a Madonna concert fell apart on top of several
workers. Madonna canceled her scheduled July 19 performance. A
2nd worker died the next day.
(AP, 7/17/09)
2009 Jul 16, Iceland’s Althingi
(parliament) voted 33 to 28 to apply to join the EU.
(Econ, 7/25/09, p.50)
2009 Jul 16, The leaders of
India and Pakistan, following rare talks in Egypt, vowed to
cooperate in the fight against terror in the wake of the devastating
Mumbai attacks.
(AFP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, In India Rita
Bahuguna Joshi, a leading politician of India's ruling Congress
party, was arrested and her house set on fire by activists after she
suggested that a rival leader be raped so she can better understand
the plight of rape victims.
(AP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, Iran announced
that Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, the head of its nuclear agency, has
resigned, a move that may have been connected to the country's
postelection turmoil. Aghazadeh told the semiofficial ISNA news
agency that he submitted his resignation from Iran's Atomic Energy
Organization 20 days ago and also resigned from his other post as
one of Pres. Ahmadinejad's vice presidents.
(AP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, In Iraq 18 people
were injured in an explosion that targeted a minibus transporting
Shiite pilgrims to a holy shrine in Najaf. 3 US soldiers were killed
in a rocket attack on a base outside of Basra. On July 18 an
Iranian-backed militiaman confessed to the rocket attack near the
Basra airport.
(AP, 7/16/09)(AP, 7/17/09)(AP, 7/18/09)
2009 Jul 16, In Israel
Ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police using horses and water
cannon in Jerusalem in the third day of rioting over the arrest of a
mentally ill Hasidic woman who authorities say was starving her
child.
(AP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, Mexico’s Interior
Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont said the government was pouring 1,500
federal police officers, 2,500 soldiers and 1,500 navy personnel
into Michoacan state, the home base for the violent La Familia
cartel led by Servando "La Tuta" Gomez.
(AP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, In northwestern
Pakistan gunmen killed UN employee Zill-e-Usman (59) and a guard
during a failed kidnap attempt at a refugee camp near Peshawar, a
blow to humanitarian efforts to help civilians displaced by army
offensives against the Taliban.
(AP, 7/16/09)(SFC, 7/17/09, p.A2)
2009 Jul 16, In Taiwan’s
southern city of Kaohsiung, more than 3,000 athletes and staff from
105 countries and territories marched into the World Games Stadium,
a new, eye-catching structure designed by renowned Japanese
architect Toyo Ito. China’s 100-strong delegation boycotted the
opening ceremony of the World Games in Taiwan, underscoring the
limits of the historic breakthrough in relations between Taipei and
Beijing.
(AP, 7/16/09)
2009 Jul 16, In Tajikistan 5
militants were killed in a gunfight at a remote military checkpoint
near the border with Afghanistan. Law enforcement agencies later
issued a joint statement claiming the perpetrators of the attack
were suspected terrorists with Russian citizenship. Authorities said
that earlier this month Mirzo Ziyoyev, a rebel commander in
Tajikistan's 1990s civil war, who later became a government
minister, was killed by members of a militant group he had allegedly
joined recently. The government said Azizov was a member of the
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, or IMU, an al-Qaida-linked militant
group that has operated in ex-Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan.
(AP, 7/20/09)
2009 Jul 16, The UN Security
Council banned travel and froze assets of 10 North Korean
individuals and businesses linked to the country’s nuclear and
ballistic missile programs.
(SFC, 7/17/09, p.A2)
2010 Jul 16, Kendall Myers
(73), a retired US intelligence analyst and great grandson of
Alexander Graham Bell, was sentenced to life in prison for spying
for Cuba. His wife was sentenced to 5½ years.
(SFC, 7/17/10, p.A5)
2010 Jul 16, In the US 94
people, including several doctors and nurses, were charged in scams
totaling $251 million. Authorities indicted 33 suspects in the Miami
area, accused of charging Medicare for about $140 million in various
scams. Busts were carried out this week in Miami, New York City,
Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge, La., Federal authorities, while
touting the operation, cautioned the cases represent only a fraction
of the estimated $60 billion to $90 billion in Medicare fraud
absorbed by taxpayers each year.
(AP, 7/16/10)
2010 Jul 16, James Gammon
(b.1940), TV and film actor, died in Orange County, Ca. His films
included “Major League” (1989) and its 1994 sequel. His TV roles
included the father on “Nash Bridges” (1996-2001).
(SFC, 7/20/10, p.A4)
2010 Jul 16, In Afghanistan 2
NATO soldiers including one British and one American died in
Taliban-style bomb attacks.
(AP, 7/17/10)
2010 Jul 16, In Brazil an
11-year-old boy in a school classroom was killed by a stray bullet
from a shootout between police and suspected drug gang members in
Rio de Janeiro.
(AP, 7/16/10)
2010 Jul 16, Canada’s Defense
Minister Peter MacKay said Canada will buy 65 new fighter jets from
Lockheed Martin Corp for C$9 billion ($8.6 billion), one of the
biggest arms deals in the nation's history.
(Reuters, 7/16/10)
2010 Jul 16, A typhoon that
left a trail of destruction and deaths in the Philippines hit
southern China as emergency workers prepared for torrential rains
and lashing winds, flights and ferries were canceled and tens of
thousands of residents were evacuated.
(AP, 7/16/10)
2010 Jul 16, In Guyana the
publisher of Kaieteur News vowed to fight a libel lawsuit filed by
President Bharrat Jagdeo for a column that accused the president of
racism and of hiring people to disrupt an academic conference. A
June 28 column accused Jagdeo and his party, which is dominated by
people of East Indian descent, of hiring "goons" to noisily disrupt
a conference two days earlier.
(AP, 7/17/10)
2010 Jul 16, In Indian Kashmir
hundreds of anti-India protesters clashed with police and
paramilitary soldiers despite a rigid curfew being reimposed in most
of Kashmir following weeks of unrest that has killed 15 people.
(AP, 7/16/10)
2010 Jul 16, In Mexico 5
factory workers were gunned down when armed men burst into a party
at a house in Ciudad Juarez. In other municipalities of Chihuahua,
which shares a long border with Texas, there were four killings.
(AP, 7/17/10)
2010 Jul 16, In Mexico Roberto
Cabrera (38), with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt, was
stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City's international
airport after arriving from Peru. Authorities found 18 tiny
endangered monkeys in a girdle he was wearing. Two of the monkeys
were dead.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 16, In Pakistan a
powerful bomb blast ripped through a busy market in the Khyber
tribal region, an area along the Afghan border, killing 10 people
including children.
(AP, 7/16/10)(AP, 7/17/10)
2010 Jul 16, The Sudanese army
said it inflicted a series of defeats on Darfur's most powerful
rebel group, killing and capturing hundreds in a series of clashes
over the past few days. General Al-Tayeb al-Musbah Osman told the
state news agency that the army killed at least 300 members of the
rebel Justice and Equality Movement and captured another 86. The
army said 75 of its troops were also killed.
(AP, 7/17/10)
2010 Jul 16, Turkey unveiled
its first drone airplane, a surveillance craft able to fly for
24-hour stretches over the rugged mountains where Kurdish rebels are
waging a deadly insurgency.
(AP, 7/16/10)
Go to
http://www.timelinesdb.com
Go to July 17