Today in History - July 19
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64CE Jul 19, The Circus Maximus
in Rome caught fire.
(MC, 7/19/02)
711 Jul 19, The Muslim troops
crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and defeated the Visigoth king
Rodrigo at the battle of Guadalete. Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad
occupied Northern Spain. The Umayyads with the help of the Berbers
in North Africa moved across the Strait of Gibraltar and began the
conquest of Spain and Portugal. The word Gibraltar comes from the
term Jabal-al-Tarik, which means the hill of Tarik. Gebel-al-Tarik
means "Rock of Tarik."
(ATC, p.79)(SFEC, 9/29/96, Z1
p.2)(www.sispain.org/english/history/visigoth.html)
1510 Jul 19, In Berlin 38
Jews were burned at the stake.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1525 Jul 19, The Catholic
princes of Germany formed the Dessau League to fight against the
Reformation.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.13)(HN, 7/19/98)
1545 Jul 19, A French fleet
entered The Solent, the channel between the Isle of Wight and
Hampshire, England, and French troops landed on the Isle of Wight.
King Henry VIII of England watched his flagship, Mary Rose, capsize
in Portsmouth harbor as it left to battle the French. 73 people died
including Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose. The Mary
Rose was raised in 1982.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.17)(HN,
7/19/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose)
1553 Jul 19, 15-year-old Lady
Jane Grey, daughter of John Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland, was
deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days.
Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed Queen.
(WSJ, 9/12/96, p.A14)(AP, 7/19/97)
1631 Jul 19, Cesare Cremonini
(b.1550), Italian philosopher and lecturer at Padua Univ., died. His
skepticism influenced the culture of the late Renaissance. In 2007
Edward Muir authored “The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance.”
(WSJ, 5/5/07, p.P10)
1788 Jul 19, Prices plunged on
the Paris stock market.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1814 Jul 19, Samuel Colt,
inventor of the first practical revolver, was born.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1821 Jul 19, The coronation of
George IV of England was held. His wife, Caroline, was refused
admittance. She died Aug 7.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom)
1834 Jul 19, Hilaire Germain
Edgar Degas (d.1917), French impressionist painter, was born. His
mother was a Creole and he journeyed to New Orleans in the 1870s.
His work included "The Millinery Shop," "Combing the Hair," "Nude
Fixing Her Hair," "Two Dancers" (c1890-1898), "Frieze of Dancers"
(1893-1898), "Self Portrait" (c1863-1865 & c1895-1900) and "Blue
Dancers" (1895). He also collected art and by the time of his death
had amassed more than 500 paintings and 5,000 prints. The collection
was auctioned off in Paris from Mar 1918 to Jul 1919. His time in
New Orleans is covered in the 1997 book "Degas in New Orleans:
Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington
Cable" by Christopher Benfey.
(WUD, 1994, p.380)(WSJ, 10/2/96, p.B5)(SFC,
10/22/96,p.E8)(WSJ,10/21/97,p.A20)(SFEC, 1/4/98, BR p.9)(HN,
7/19/98)
1848 Jul 19, The first women’s
rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York. Organized by
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the two-day convention
discussed such topics as voting, property rights and divorce. It
launched the women’s suffrage movement. The convention issued a
"Declaration of Sentiments" based on the Declaration of
Independence. "The ideal newspaper woman has the keen zest for life
of a child, the cool courage of a man and the subtlety of a woman."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton made her first public speech at the Woman's
Rights Convention. After Cady Stanton was denied participation in an
anti-slavery convention and was told that women were
"constitutionally unfit for public and business meetings," she and
four other women, including abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott,
planned a convention to challenge that notion. They drafted a
"Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," 11 resolutions calling
for equal rights for women, including the right to vote. After
lengthy debate, the document was amended and signed by 68 women and
32 men of the approximately 300 attendees, setting the American
women's rights movement in motion. Susan B. Anthony joined the
movement in 1852.
(HNPD, 7/19/98)(SFEC, 7/20/97, Par p.8)(SFEM,
6/28/98, p.30)(SFC, 7/6/98, p.D8)
1849 Jul 19, F.A. Alphonse
Aulard, French historian, was born.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1860 Jul 19, Lizzie Borden,
teacher, famous 1892 murder suspect, was born.
(HN, 7/19/01)
1862 Jul 19, Nathan Bedford
Forrest made his 1st raid.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1862 Jul 19, Horace Parnell
Tuttle, an assistant at Harvard College Observatory, spotted a comet
in the constellation of Camelopardalis. Following his announcement
Lewis Swift of Marathon, NY, said he had seen the comet three days
earlier. The comet came to be called the 109P Swift-Tuttle. In the
1970s British astronomer Brian Marsden (1937-2010) suggested that
the comet had already been observed in 1737 and that it would return
in 1992, which it did.
(Econ, 12/4/10, p.111)
1864 Jul 18-20, Battle of
Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot).
(MC, 7/19/02)
1865 Jul 19, Charles Horance
Mayo (d.1939), American surgeon and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
Foundation for Medical Education and Research, was born. "I have
never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from
doubt."
(HN, 7/19/98)(AP, 12/11/00)
1867 Jul 19, The US enacted
reconstruction.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1870 Jul 19, The
Franco-Prussian War began. Napoleon declared war on Bismarck.
Emperor Napoleon III of France declared war on Germany under Otto
von Bismarck. Napoleon was defeated in three months and abdicated.
(WSJ, 3/14/95, p.A-16)(V.D.-H.K.p.260)(AP,
7/19/07)
1893 Jul 19, Vladimir
Mayakovsky, Russian poet, was born.
(HN, 7/19/01)
1896 Jul 19, A.J. Cronin,
Scottish novelist (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom), was born.
(HN, 7/19/01)
1905 Jul 19, Boyd Neel,
conductor (Story of an Orch), was born in Blackheath, Kent
England.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1916 Jul 19, In the WWI Battle
at Fromelles, France, German machine guns and artillery left over
5,500 Australians and over 1,500 British killed, wounded or missing
in less than 24 hours.
(SFC, 7/20/10, p.A2)
1918 Jul 19, German armies
retreated across the Marne River in France.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1919 Jul 19, Raymonde de
Larouche (1882-1919), Franch actress and aviatrix, died in an plane
crash at Le Crotoy airport in France.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymonde_de_Laroche)
1922 Jul 19, George McGovern,
1972 Democratic candidate for president of the United States, South
Dakota senator, was born.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1927 Jul 19, Jan Myrdal,
Swedish writer, journalist (Albania Defiant), was born.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1938 Jul 19, Richard Jordan,
actor (Dune, Old Boyfriends, Gettysburg), was born in NYC.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1940 Jul 19, Hitler ordered
Great Britain to surrender.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1941 Jul 19, British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in
Europe. The BBC World Service began regular broadcasting
throughout Europe with the opening four notes of Beethoven's
Fifth Symphony, which in Morse Code spell V for "Victory."
(AP, 7/19/97)(MC, 7/19/02)
1942 Jul 19, German U-boats
were withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to
effective American anti-submarine countermeasures.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1943 Jul 19, More than 150 B-17
and 112 B-24 Allied bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
(AP, 7/19/97)(HN, 7/19/98)
1943 Jul 19, American planes
sank the German U-513 submarine off the coast of southern Brazil. In
2011 researchers from the Vale do Itajai University found the
submarine off the coast of Santa Catarina state.
(AP, 7/15/11)
1944 Jul 19, The Democratic
National Convention convened in Chicago with the renomination of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt considered a foregone certainty.
(AP, 7/19/08)
1944 Jul 19, Some 1,200 8th Air
Force bombers bombed targets in SW Germany. Some 500 15th Air Force
Liberators (Flying Fortresses) bombed the Munich vicinity.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1944 Jul 19, Count Claus von
Stauffenberg visited a RC church in Berlin-Dahlem.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1944 Jul 19, Carl Bock, Danish
Gestapo agent, was liquidated.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1944 Jul 19, Swedish diplomat
Raoul Wallenberg 1st met SS ober Sturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1947 Jul 19, Bernie Leadon (The
Eagles: Take It Easy, Best of My Love, One of these nights), was
born.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1947 Jul 19, Brian Harold May
(Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Another One Bites the
Dust), was born.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1947 Jul 19, Gerard Schwarz,
trumpeter, conductor (LA Chamber Orch), was born in Weehawken, NJ.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1951 Jul 19, In Omaha, Neb., a
trenching machine sliced through the main transcontinental telephone
cable and disrupted coast-to-coast communication.
(SFC, 7/13/01, WBb p.6)
1956 Jul 19-20, The US and
Britain announced the withdrawal of their aid offers to Egypt for
the construction of the Aswan high dam.
(EWH, 1968, p.1249)
1965 Jul 19, Syngman Rhee (90),
president of South-Korea (1948-60), died.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1966 Jul 19, Gov. James Rhodes
declared a state of emergency in Cleveland due to a race riot.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Jul 19, The 1st air
conditioned NYC subway car was R-38 on the F line.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Jul 19, Race riots took
place in Durham, NC.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1969 Jul 19, Apollo 11 and its
astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins,
went into orbit around the moon. The Apollo 11 lunar lander engine
was built by TRW.
(AP, 7/19/99)(F, 10/7/96, p.71)
1971 Jul 19, In Sudan a coup
was aborted and Pres. Nimeiri was restored to power by loyal troops.
He denounced the Communist Party and executed the rebel leaders 4
days later.
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)
1974 Jul 19, The House
Judiciary Committee recommended that President Richard Nixon should
stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges
against him.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1975 Jul 19, The Apollo and
Soyuz space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days
separated.
(AP, 7/19/97)(HN, 7/19/98)
1979 Jul 19, Two supertankers
collided off Tobago and spilled 260,000 tons of oil. It was the
worst oil spill to date with 88 million gallons spewed.
(WSJ, 1/11/99,
p.R49)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills)
1979 Jul 19, The Nicaraguan
capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after
President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1980 Jul 19, The Moscow Summer
Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the
games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1981 Jul 19, Louis Cheslock
(b.1898), composer and author, died in Baltimore.
(http://musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100001960)
1983 Jul 19, In Honduras Reyes
Mata, a Cuban-trained doctor and guerrilla leader, led a unit of 96
Nicaraguan-trained rebels and Rev. James F. Carney into the Olancho.
They were routed by the Honduran army. American CIA records,
disclosed in 1998, reported that Mata was tortured and executed by
the Honduran army.
(SFC, 11/5/98,
p.C4)(www.fas.org/sgp/congress/hr051198/valladares.html)
1984 Jul 19, U.S. Rep.
Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for
vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco. Pasqua
Coffee sold 16,000 cups of premium coffee from a pushcart at the
Moscone Center.
(AP, 7/19/97)(SFEM, 8/1/99, p.8)
1985 Jul 19, Christa McAuliffe
of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride
aboard the space shuttle. McAuliffe and six other crew members died
(1/28/96) when the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff.
(SFC, 12/18/96, p.A3)(TMC, 1994, p.1986)(AP,
7/19/97)
1986 Jul 19, Caroline Kennedy,
daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg
in Centerville, Massachusetts.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1988 Jul 19, Jesse Jackson
brought his 1988 presidential campaign to an emotionally charged
close at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, telling
party faithful to unite because "the only time we win is when we
come together."
(HN, 7/19/98)
1989 Jul 19, 111 people were
killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an
emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
(AP, 7/19/08)
1989 Jul 17, Isidore Feinstein
Stone (b.1907), author (I.F. Stone's Weekly), died in Boston.
(http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1989/07/tribute.html)
1990 Jul 19, President Bush
joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard
M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace
in Yorba Linda, California.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1990 Jul 19, Baseball’s
all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five
months in prison for tax evasion.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1991 Jul 19, President Bush
toured the Souda Bay US naval base during a visit to Greece.
(AP, 7/19/01)
1991 Jul 19, Boxer Mike Tyson
had sex with Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant. On
September 9, 1991, an Indiana Grand Jury voted to indict Tyson on
three counts, including one for the rape of Washington. Tyson
was convicted on February 10, 1992 and was imprisoned.
(www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/tysonrec.htm)
1991 Jul 19, The South African
government acknowledged that it had been giving money to the Inkatha
Freedom Party, the main rival of the African National Congress.
(AP, 7/19/01)
1992 Jul 19, US Secretary of
State James A. Baker III opened a fresh round of Mideast diplomacy,
meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
other officials.
(AP, 7/19/97)
1992 Jul 19, Paolo Borsellino,
Italian anti-mafia judge, was murdered by mafia.
(http://paolo-borsellino.biography.ms/)
1993 Jul 19, President Clinton
fired FBI Director William Sessions, citing "serious questions"
about Sessions' conduct and leadership.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1993 Jul 19, President Clinton
announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the
military, but only if they refrained from all homosexual activity,
under a compromise dubbed "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue."
(HN, 7/19/98)(AP, 7/19/08)
1993 Jul 19, Szymon Goldberg
(84), Polish-born violinist, conductor, died in Japan. He became a
US citizen in 1953 and two years later founded the Netherlands
Chamber Orchestra.
(http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200152693/default.html)
1994 Jul 19, A bomb ripped
apart a Panama commuter plane, killing 21, including 12 Jews, a day
after a car bomb destroyed a Jewish community center in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, killing 95 people.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1994 Jul 19, Funeral services
were held for North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung, who had died July 8
at age 82.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1995 Jul 19, Las Vegas
Review-Journal columnist, John L. Smith, authored a book due out
Aug, 1999, titled: "Running Scared: The Dangerous Life and
Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn."
(RNR, 7/19/95, p. 10)
1995 Jul 19, President Clinton
firmly rejected calls for dismantling affirmative action programs.
(AP, 7/19/05)
1995 Jul 19, A pair of House
subcommittees held a joint hearing on the federal government’s raid
on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1995 Jul 19, The Dow Jones
industrial average ended at 4628.87, down 57.41, after plunging more
than 130 points earlier in the session.
(AP, 7/19/00)
1996 Jul 19, The 26th
summer Olympics opening ceremonies began in Atlanta, Georgia. The
photo finish was computerized and in color for track and field
events. Beach volleyball was inaugurated as an Olympic sport.
(WSJ, 7/19/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/19/97)(SFC, 8/23/04,
p.C3)(NG, 8/04, Geographica)
1996 Jul 19, A Food and Drug
Administration advisory committee recommended, with some conditions,
that the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 be approved.
(AP, 7/19/97)
1996 Jul 19, Bosnian Serb
official Radovan Karadzic yielded to international pressure to give
up all political power after negotiations led by US envoy Richard
Holbrooke.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A8)(AP, 7/19/97)
1996 Jul 19, In China the
Yangtze River threatened to burst its banks. Workers used 500 tons
of rice in sacks to fill gaps in the banks. Millions were left
homeless and 716 were reported dead.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A8)
1996 Jul 19, In Sri Lanka Tamil
rebels sank an navy gunboat with 40 members. The Tigers claim to
have killed 500 government soldiers at the Mullaitivu camp.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A8)
1997 Jul 19, Eleven armored
carriers from NATO gathered in a show of force near the home of
ousted Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Bosnia's No. 1 war crimes
suspect.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1997 Jul 19, In Bosnia the Serb
Democratic Party expelled Pres. Biljana Plavsic after she threatened
to arrest Karadzic and his allies for rampant corruption.
(SFC, 7/21/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 19, In Cambodia Hun
Sen rejected a peace plan proposed by the 7-nation ASEAN group.
(SFEC, 7/20/97, p.A19)
1997 Jul 19, In Indonesia a
court sentenced 16 people to jail terms of 2-7 months for the May
rioting that left 123 dead on Borneo.
(WSJ, 7/21/97, p.A1)
1997 Jul 19, The Irish
Republican Army declared a new cease-fire and opened the way for
supporters to join peace talks with Northern Ireland's pro-British
Protestants.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1998 Jul 19, Workers for Saturn
Corp., a division of GM in Tennessee, authorized union leaders to
call their first-ever strike.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 19, Seeking to break a
16-month deadlock, Israel and the Palestinians held their first
high-level talks in months.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1998 Jul 19, Seeking to break a
16-month deadlock, Israel and the Palestinians held their first
high-level talks in months. Jalal Rumaneh (30), a member of Hamas,
attempted to explode a car bomb made of 160 gallons of flammable
liquid and nails in Jerusalem. The Fiat van ignited but failed to
explode.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A9)(AP, 7/19/08)
1998 Jul 19, In North Belfast
Andrew Kearney (33) was shot in the ankle and behind each knee in
retaliation for a bar fight with an IRA man. He bled to death in a
lift before help arrived.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A14)
1998 Jul 19, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin decreed economic reforms that were rejected by his
parliament in order to obtain IMF funds to stabilize the ruble.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A9)
1998 Jul 19, In Kosovo,
Yugoslavia, Albanian separatists claimed to have take the town of
Orahovac with 20,000 residents. Serbs forces denied the claim.
Hundreds of Serb police battled secessionist guerrillas for control
of the central Kosovo town of Orahovac.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A10)(AP, 7/19/99)
1999 Jul 19, Federal officials
said radar data showed the plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Junior
dropped 11,000 feet in just 14 seconds. Senator Edward Kennedy
released a statement saying, "We are filled with unspeakable grief
and sadness by the loss of John and Carolyn and of Lauren Bessette."
(AP, 7/19/00)
1999 Jul 19, Carleton "Carly"
Fiorina (44) was named the new president and CEO of Hewlett Packard
Co. She was brought over from Lucent Tech. and became the 3rd woman
running a Fortune 500 company. In 2003 George Anders authored
"Perfect Enough," a look at HP and Fiorina’s efforts. In 2003 Peter
Burrows authored "Backfire," a look at Fiorina’s past work.
(SFC, 7/20/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 2/7/03, p.W12)
1999 Jul 19, In Nanaimo, BC,
public hearings began on the expropriation of a 140-square-mile area
of Nanoose Bay by the Canadian federal government from the province.
The area was used by the US for torpedo testing.
(SFC, 7/22/99, p.C2)
1999 Jul 19, China began
arresting 70 members of the Fulan Gong in raids in at least 15
cities.
(SFC, 7/21/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 19, In Iran the secret
police alleged that student leader Manouchehr Mohammadi had
confessed to serving US-based "spies and Zionists."
(SFC, 7/20/99, p.A12)
1999 Jul 19, Off the Nicaragua
coast a lobster boat with 72 people sank. 64 were rescued and 18
were missing. All 18 were later recovered. A plane with 16 people
was presumed crashed in the Nicaragua jungle.
(SFC, 7/21/99, p.C2)(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A12)
2000 Jul 19, President Clinton
shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat and his own experts during peace talks at Camp
David after delaying his departure for an economic summit in Japan.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.A1)(AP,
7/19/01)
2000 Jul 19, The US announced a
plan to offer sub-Saharan African nations $1 billion in loans
through the Export-Import Bank to finance the purchase of American
AIDS drugs and medical services.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 19, In Belgium the
World Diamond Congress approved measures to track diamonds and
penalties for dealers who break rules and buy or sell "blood
diamonds," those sold to support civil wars.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 19, In Chechnya 7
Russian servicemen were killed in 4 Russian-controlled areas.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.B10)
2000 Jul 19, In Tilaran, Costa
Rica, a nursing-home fire killed 17 elderly people.
(WSJ, 7/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 19, In Okinawa over
25,000 demonstrators formed a chain around a US Air Base to protest
American presence ahead of the G-8 meeting.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.A8)
2000 Jul 19, In North Korea
Russia’s Pres. Putin met with Kim Jong Il. Kim promised to abandon
his missile program if other states provide technology for "peaceful
space research.’ Kim later said this was just a joke.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A13)(WSJ, 8/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 19, In Russia the Duma
passed legislation that gave Pres. Putin the right to fire
provincial governors and took away the governor’s automatic immunity
and membership in the Federation Council.
(SFC, 7/20/00, p.A16)
2001 Jul 19, The US joined
major powers in calling for 3rd parties to monitor a cease-fire
between Israel and the Palestinians.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 19, The Roman Catholic
Church declared that Mormon converts must be rebaptized.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 19, The Code Red
computer worm began hitting Internet-connected computers, exploiting
a flaw in Microsoft software. This was among the first network worms
to spread rapidly because it required only a network connection, not
a human opening an attachment.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.D1)(SFC, 9/3/07, p.C3)
2001 Jul 19, Gunther
Gebel-Williams (b.1934), circus animal trainer died in Venice,
Florida.
(AP, 7/16/02)(NW, 12/31/01, p.107)
2001 Jul 19, In Argentina
workers staged a nationwide strike due to government spending cuts.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A17)
2001 Jul 19, It was reported
that 2 Belarussian defectors alleged that the Lukashenko regime ran
a death squad that had killed as many as 30 foes.
(WSJ, 7/19/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 19, British
millionaire author Jeffrey Archer (61) was convicted on perjury
charges and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 19, Scientists in Chad
found fossils in the Djurab desert of a human ancestor that they
later dated to 6-7 million years BP. In 2002 they named the group
Sahelanthropus tchadensis (with the nickname Toumaï, "hope of
life" in the Goran language).
(NW, 7/22/02, p.46)
2001 Jul 19, In the West Bank
Jewish extremists, who identified themselves as the Committee for
Road Safety, killed 3 Palestinians including a 3-month-old girl, in
a drive-by shooting near Hebron.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.A14)
2001 Jul 19, Japanese
prosecutors charged a U.S. airman with rape in an alleged attack on
a woman in Okinawa. Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland was later
convicted and sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
(AP, 7/16/02)
2001 Jul 19, In Nepal PM Girija
Prasad Koirala resigned over pressures from a bribery scandal in his
government.
(SFC, 7/20/01, p.D3)
2002 Jul 19, The Dow Jones
industrials dipped below their post-terrorist attack lows in a
390-point sell-off.
(AP, 7/19/03)
2002 Jul 19, Alejandro Avila
was arrested in connection with the slaying of 5-year-old Samantha
Runnion of Stanton, Calif.
(AP, 7/19/03)
2002 Jul 19, ConAgra Beef Co.
began recalling 19 million pounds of beef, manufactured in Greeley,
Colo., over the last 3 months, due to possible E. coli
contamination.
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 19, US and British
warplanes destroyed a military communications facility in southern
Iraq. Iraq said the strike killed 5 people including a couple and
their children.
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A11)
2002 Jul 19, Alexander I.
Ginzburg (65), Russian-born poet, died in Paris. In 1959 he created
the 1st samizdat (self-published journal) of the post-Stalin period.
He was flown to the US in 1979 as part of an exchange for Soviet
spies.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A27)
2002 Jul 19, Alan Lomax (87),
musicologist and son of folklorist John A. Lomax, died in Safety
Harbor, Fla. His books included the book "The Land Where the Blues
Began." In 2010 John Szwed authored “Alan Lomax: The Man Who
Recorded the World.”
(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A20)(SSFC, 1/23/11, p.G5)
2002 Jul 19, In Australia
Evdokia Petrov (88), former Soviet Union spy, died in Melbourne. She
lived under the name Maria Anna Allyson. Her husband Vladimir Petrov
(1991) was the third secretary at the Soviet embassy in Australia
and also covertly served as a KGB spy. They defected in 1954.
(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 19, Britain's
government said it would pay $7 million in compensation to more than
220 Kenyans who say they are victims of unexploded ammunition left
behind by British troops.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In Britain
authorities reported that family doctor Harold Shipman, Britain's
worst serial killer, murdered 215 of his patients in 23 years as a
trusted small-town practitioner. [see Jun, 1998]
(AP, 7/19/02)(SFC, 7/20/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 19, In Bolivia a
crowded bus plunged into a ravine in an Andean road near La Paz,
killing 19 and injuring 15.
(AP, 7/19/02)
2002 Jul 19, In central China a
downpour of giant hailstones, some the size of eggs, killed 15
people and left hospitals overflowing with head-wound victims.
(Reuters, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In eastern
Guatemala a passenger bus slammed head-on into a semi truck, killing
16 people.
(AP, 7/19/02)
2002 Jul 19, Tens of thousands
of Iranians took to the streets of the capital condemning President
Bush for criticizing their government with calls of "Death to
America" and "Death to Bush."
(AP, 7/19/02)
2002 Jul 19, Israel introduced
collective punishment on the family of Ali Ajouri, following
his role in the July 17 suicide bombing.
(AP, 8/8/02)
2002 Jul 19, Italy took steps
to return the prized Axum obelisk to Ethiopia. The 1,700-year-old
monument was hauled off by Italian forces after their 1937 invasion
of the African country.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In Abiteye,
Nigeria, unarmed women occupying at least four ChevronTexaco
facilities took two hostages in a bid to meet with oil executives.
(AP, 7/20/02)
2002 Jul 19, In Saudi
Arabia a passenger bus collided head on with a truck and caught fire
outside the holy city of Mecca, killing 26 people and injuring 24
others.
(AP, 7/21/02)
2003 Jul 19, In Spinboldak,
Afghanistan, US forces, backed by helicopter gunships, killed up to
24 suspected Taliban insurgents after their convoy came under
attack.
(AP, 7/21/03)
2003 Jul 19, The first Human
Tongue Transplant took place in Vienna, Austria. Tongue transplants
had been performed for years on animals, but this was the first
attempt at transplanting a human tongue. It was carried out at
Memorial University Hospital in Vienna, Austria during a 14-hour
operation by Dr. Rolf Ewers and eight surgeons. It was performed on
an unidentified 42-year-old patient who was suffering from a
malignant tumor affecting his tongue and jaw. Doctors believed he
would ultimately be able to talk, have feeling and limited movement,
but probably won’t regain the sensation of taste.
(http://tinyurl.com/5ehhps)(http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3964)
2003 Jul 19, In southern China
a bus plunged more than 300 feet off a cliff, killing 23 people.
(AP, 7/21/03)
2003 Jul 19, In Jakarta,
Indonesia, Budiarto Angsono, president of the PT Asaba computer
firm, along with his bodyguard, were murdered. Police said it was
likely the work of hitmen. Hiring a hitman to kill was said to cost
about $2,300.
(AP, 7/26/03)
2003 Jul 19, In Kenya a
twin-engine plane carrying 12 American tourists and two South
African crew members en route to a game reserve crashed into Mount
Kenya, apparently killing everyone on board.
(AP, 7/20/03)
2004 Jul 19, A 3-day meeting of
the US National Governors Association ended in Seattle.
(SFC, 7/19/04, p.A7)
2004 Jul 19, Lori Hacking (27)
of Salt Lake City, Utah, went missing. Her husband Mark (28) said
she failed to return from a jog. She was reportedly five weeks
pregnant. Police found her husband Mark Hacking running naked around
a motel not far from his home the next day. He was put into a
psychiatric hospital after police found him. Police arrested Hacking
on Aug 2 and filed 1st degree murder charges on Aug 9. In 2005 Mark
Hacking pleaded guilty to her murder. On June 6, 2005, Mark Hacking
was sentenced 6 years to life in prison, the maximum the judge could
give under Utah law. Under Utah's system of indeterminate criminal
sentences.
(SFC, 8/2/04, p.A3)(SFC, 8/3/04, p.A2)(SFC,
8/10/04, p.A4)(SFC, 4/16/05, p.A5)
2004 Jul 19, An Egyptian truck
driver held hostage for two weeks by insurgents in Iraq was freed
and taken to the Egyptian Embassy.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, Indian Foreign
Minister Natwar Singh said he would push for progress in talks to
promote better ties with Pakistan when he meets Pakistani leaders
this week.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, Iraq announced the
appointment of 43 new ambassadors in its first move to re-engage
with the world.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, A suicide bomber
in a fuel truck blew it up at a police station in southwest Baghdad,
killing nine people and wounding about 60.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, An Israeli
aircraft struck a Palestinian militant safe house at a beach camp
near Gaza City, wounding three fighters.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, Zenko Suzuki,
former prime minister of Japan (1980-1982), died.
(SFC, 7/21/04, p.B7)
2004 Jul 19, Kashmir militants
attacked a Congress party rally in Duru and killed 5 people.
(WSJ, 7/20/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 19, The car of a
Hezbollah militia official exploded as he was leaving his home in
southern Beirut, killing him in an attack the Islamic militant group
said was a "brazen crime" by Israel that would be avenged.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, The Philippines
said that it has completed the withdrawal of its peacekeeping
contingent from Iraq.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, President Vladimir
Putin dismissed the military's chief of general staff and other top
military and law enforcement officials after a devastating assault
by militants in southern Russia last month.
(AP, 7/19/04)
2004 Jul 19, In eastern Ukraine
a coal mine methane gas explosion killed at least 34 miners near
Donetsk.
(AP, 7/20/05)
2005 Jul 19, President Bush
announced his choice of federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts
Jr. (50) to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Roberts ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who
died in September 2005.
(AP, 7/20/05)(SFC, 7/20/05, p.A1)(AP, 7/19/06)
2005 Jul 19, In Phoenix, Az., a
blistering 4-day heat wave was blamed for the deaths of 12 people.
10 were homeless; the other two were elderly women.
(AP, 7/20/05)
2005 Jul 19, Computer and
printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said it will cut 14,500 jobs and
overhaul its retirement program in a restructuring plan designed to
save $1.9 billion annually.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, Miroslav Bralo
(37), former Bosnian Croat special forces soldier, pleaded guilty to
war crimes at the Yugoslav tribunal in the Hague. Bralo was a member
of an infamous unit, known as "the Jokers," responsible for attacks
on Bosnian Muslim villages in the Lasva Valley of central Bosnia and
Herzegovina in 1993.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, British firm
SABMiller announced a $7.8 billion purchase of Grupo Empresarial
Bavaria, South America’s 2nd largest brewer.
(Econ, 7/23/05, p.61)
2005 Jul 19, Insurgents set off
a bomb near a police minibus in breakaway Chechnya after luring the
security forces into a trap, killing 14 people, including two
children, and wounding more than 20 others.
(AP, 7/20/05)
2005 Jul 19, Egypt said that
Magdy el-Nashar, the detained chemist wanted by Britain for
questioning about the London bombings, had no links to the July 7
attacks or to al-Qaida.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, In Guatemala a
judge issued an arrest warrant for former President Alfonso Portillo
(2000-2004) in connection with the alleged misuse of millions of
dollars during his tenure. Portillo, who fled to Mexico, is accused
of authorizing the transfer of $16 million from the finance
department to the defense department, where investigators allege
much of it was converted to cash and pocketed by officials close to
Portillo.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, Iran publicly
executed two teenagers accusing them of raping a 13-year-old boy and
having gay sex, according to Iran's ISNA news agency. Before Mahmoud
Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were executed in Edalat ("Justice") Square
in Mashhad, they were held in prison for 14 months and lashed 228
times.
(AP, 7/22/05)(http://tinyurl.com/q7qyt)
2005 Jul 19, One of the Sunni
Arabs appointed to a committee to draft Iraq's constitution was
assassinated in a drive-by shooting. Mijbil Issa was gunned down,
along with two bodyguards, in the Karradah area of Baghdad. Gunmen
opened fire on a minibus carrying Iraqi workers to a U.S. airbase in
central Iraq, killing 13.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, Israeli police
encircled thousands of Gaza withdrawal opponents, confining them to
a fenced-in farming village to prevent them from marching to the
nearby Gaza Strip. Israeli and Palestinian leaders announced a fresh
truce.
(AP, 7/19/05)(Econ, 7/23/05, p.41)
2005 Jul 19, Fouad Siniora
succeeded Najib Mikati as PM of Lebanon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouad_Siniora)
2005 Jul 19, In Mexico City
soccer coach Ruben Omar Romano was kidnapped following a practice
session with his team Cruz Azul.
(SFC, 7/21/05, p.A6)
2005 Jul 19, In Nepal police
broke up a demonstration in the capital by hundreds of students
protesting the king's seizure of absolute power.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, In Niger some 3.6
million people were in need of food, among them 800,000 malnourished
children. About 150,000 could die unless food arrives quickly in the
impoverished West African nation of 13 million.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, In Senegal
ministers, entrepreneurs and trade experts from 35 African countries
and the US began to plot ways to give African goods a better shot at
US markets and find means to boost non-oil exports from the poorest
continent. Senegal was one of 37 African countries eligible to
participate in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), signed
in 2000 by US president Bill Clinton that gives African exports
duty-free status on the US market.
(AFP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, In his first
decrees as Sudan's No. 2 leader, former rebel chief John Garang
dissolved his guerrilla movement and dismissed all government
officials in 10 southern states.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2005 Jul 19, A top Turkish
general said the US had given direct orders for the capture of rebel
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leaders in Iraq.
(AP, 7/19/05)
2006 Jul 19, President Bush
used his first veto to underscore his politically risky stand
against federal funding for the embryonic stem cell research that
most Americans support.
(Reuters, 7/20/06)
2006 Jul 19, Chicago
prosecutors reported that local police tortured scores of black
suspects from the 1970s to the 1980s to extract confessions, but
that the cases were too old or too weak to prosecute.
(SFC, 7/20/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 19, The Dow Jones rose
212.19 to 11,011 and Nasdaq closed up 37.49 to 2,080 following
remarks by Ben Bernanke that inflation seems to be under control.
(SFC, 7/19/06, p.C1)
2006 Jul 19, Alain Rappaport
premiered the web site www.medstory.com, a consumer search product
for information on health and medicine.
(SFC, 7/19/06, p.C1)
2006 Jul 19, Jack Warden
(b.1920), an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor, died in
NYC. He played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that
spanned five decades and included almost 100 feature films.
(AP, 7/22/06)(SFC, 7/22/06, p.B6)
2006 Jul 19, In southern
Afghanistan coalition forces retook Garmser and killed 2 Taliban.
(SFC, 7/20/06, p.A13)
2006 Jul 19, Britain faced the
hottest day ever recorded in July as a heat wave swept much of
Europe. Temperatures hit 96.6 degrees south of London.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, In Canada
teamsters railway workers said they initiated a strike against
Canadian National Railway in an effort to resolve a long-standing
contract dispute.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, Doku Umarov, the
leader of the Chechen rebels, dismissed a Russian amnesty offer,
saying attacks outside his home region would be his rebels' answer
to Moscow.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, It was reported
that factories and cities in China dump some 40-60 billion tons of
waste-water and sewage into lakes and rivers each year.
(WSJ, 7/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 19, Director Gerard
Oury (87), a cultural icon of France whose decades-old comedies
remain hits today, died at his Riviera home. His top hits include
the 1973 movie "Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob" (The Mad Adventures of
Rabbi Jacob).
(AP, 7/20/06)
2006 Jul 19, In Iraq gunmen
kidnapped 20 employees of a government agency that cares for Sunni
mosques and shrines nationwide, and the organization suspended its
work until further notice. At least 49 people were killed in a
string of bombings and shootings, mostly in Baghdad. Sixteen other
bodies were found in widely separate parts of the country, apparent
victims of sectarian death squads. An explosion in a cafe killed 5
people in Kirkuk. In Basra assailants slit the throats of a mother
and her 3 children and killed the mother’s sister. The family had
fled there to escape threats that they had cooperated with
Americans.
(AP, 7/19/06)(SFC, 7/20/06, p.A3)
2006 Jul 19, A government
report said Ireland's population has surged this year to a modern
high of more than 4.2 million people largely because of immigrants
from the newest EU nations.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, Israeli troops
clashed with Hezbollah guerrillas on the Lebanese side of the
border, while warplanes flattened buildings and killed at least 56
people overnight as fighting entered its second week with the US
signaling it will not push Israel toward a fast cease-fire.
Lebanon's PM Fuad Saniora called for a cease-fire and said that 300
people have been killed, 1,000 have been wounded and a half-million
displaced in Israel's eight-day-old onslaught on Lebanon. Hezbollah
rockets slammed into the Arab-Israeli town of Nazareth killing two
young brothers as they played outside and wounding 18 other people.
(AP, 7/19/06)(Reuters, 7/19/06)(SFC, 7/20/06,
p.A10)
2006 Jul 19, Israeli forces
killed six Palestinians after tanks moved into a refugee camp in
central Gaza under cover of machine gun fire.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, In Nigeria a
4-story apartment building collapsed overnight in Lagos. Red Cross
officials confirmed that at least 24 people were killed.
(AFP, 7/20/06)
2006 Jul 19, Pakistani police
mounted more raids to catch suspected Taliban fighters living in
Baluchistan province. Police said more than 200 Afghans have been
arrested in the last 3 days.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, South Korea's
president condemned North Korea for potentially sparking an arms
race with its recent missile launches, while the North said it was
ending reunions between relatives separated by the Korean Peninsula
divide. An aid group in North Korea said floods and landslides have
left more than 100 people dead or missing.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, Sweden launched a
fresh effort to salvage Sri Lanka's troubled truce as ceasefire
monitors reported at least 900 people killed in a surge of ethnic
violence since December.
(AP, 7/19/06)
2006 Jul 19, Taiwan’s largest
air carrier launched the 1st direct cargo flight between the island
and China since 1949.
(WSJ, 7/20/06, p.A6)
2007 Jul 19, A federal judge
dismissed a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame,
who was demanding money from Bush administration officials she
blamed for leaking her agency identity.
(AP, 7/19/08)
2007 Jul 19, The prices of lead
and tin hit historic peaks in London, supported by tight global
supplies and fierce demand for both base metals.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Taliban gunmen
abducted 23 members of a South Korean church group in southern
Afghanistan. The next day a purported spokesman for the Islamic
militia said it will question them about their activities in
Afghanistan before deciding their fate. Two hostages were fatally
shot; the rest were later freed. In northern Afghanistan a suicide
bomber blew himself up outside a police station, killing one
civilian and wounding 25 other people. In Helmand's Marja district,
Taliban militants ambushed police, leaving six officers dead and two
others wounded. 2 separate bombings in southern Afghanistan left
five civilians dead, while a Taliban ambush killed six police
officers. A car bomb targeting a US-led coalition convoy in Helmand
province's Sangin district killed two civilians and wounded two
coalition troops. A mine exploded under a civilian car in Kandahar
province's Zhari district, killing three civilians.
(AP, 7/19/07)(AP, 7/20/07)(AP, 7/19/08)
2007 Jul 19, The
Armenian-controlled breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh held a
presidential election amid a rumbling dispute with Azerbaijan over
the mountainous enclave's unrecognized independence.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Up to 50 migrants
were missing in rough seas south of the Canary Islands after their
boat capsized.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, In southern
Hungary a tourist bus collided with a truck. The truck driver and
six bus passengers were killed, and 16 others were injured.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Lawmakers voted in
an election widely expected to give India its first female
president. Pratibha Patil (72), governor of the northwestern state
of Rajasthan, was said to have been selected for her unswerving
devotion to Sonia Gandhi, leader of the Congress party, and Gandhi's
powerful family, which has historically controlled the party.
Pratibha Patil was elected as the country's first female president
in a vote seen as a victory for the hundreds of millions of Indian
women who contend with widespread discrimination. An Indian
anti-terror court sentenced three more men to death for their
involvement in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai in 1993 which
killed 257 people.
(AP, 7/19/07)(AFP, 7/19/07)(AP, 7/21/07)
2007 Jul 19, Sunni lawmakers
ended their five-week boycott of parliament, raising hopes the
factious assembly can make progress on benchmark legislation
demanded by Washington. The bodies of two men with bullets in their
heads were found dumped near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad. A Kurdish
political party member was ambushed and killed in eastern Mosul.
Gunmen firing from a speeding car killed a bodyguard of a Sunni
parliament member in Mosul. Assailants blew up two bridges in
Haditha overnight. The US said two American soldiers have been
charged with killing an Iraqi on June 23 near Kirkuk. Insurgents
killed three British troops and two American soldiers in separate
attacks in southern and central Iraq.
(AP, 7/19/07)(AP, 7/20/07)
2007 Jul 19, In Pakistan 30
elders from several tribal regions in the northwest traveled to
North Waziristan in the latest government-backed effort to persuade
militants to reverse their decision to end a peace deal. 3 suicide
bombings killed at least 51 people. A suicide bomber hit a convoy of
Chinese workers passing though the main bazaar in Hub, killing 29
Pakistani bystanders and police, and prompting Musharraf to call for
national unity against extremists. A suicide attacker detonated a
bomb at a mosque in an army cantonment in the northwestern town of
Kohat, killing at least 15 people. A suicide car bomber detonated
his explosives when guards prevented him from entering the parade
ground of a police academy in another northwestern town, Hangu. Six
bystanders and one policeman died.
(AP, 7/19/07)(AP, 7/20/07)
2007 Jul 19, About 2,000 people
protested at the border terminal between Egypt and the Gaza Strip,
demanding the crossing be opened to allow thousands of Palestinians
trapped in Egypt to return.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Peru's public
school teachers ended a 15-day strike against a new law requiring
them to take competency tests after government officials agreed to
talks on their demand for better training.
(AP, 7/20/07)
2007 Jul 19, Rev. Giancarlo
Bossi (57), an Italian priest held hostage for over a month in the
southern Philippines, was released.
(AP, 7/20/07)
2007 Jul 19, Russia announced
the tit-for-tat expulsion of four British diplomats, a visa ban on
British officials and the suspension of bilateral counter-terrorism
cooperation amid a mounting diplomatic row. US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice called on Russia to honor Britain's request to
extradite the chief suspect over the murder of former agent
Alexander Litvinenko.
(AFP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, A 30-minute
gunbattle rocked Mogadishu in the hours before a long-awaited Somali
peace conference was set to begin. At least two people were killed.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, Sudan’s head of
civil defense said more than 50 people have been killed and 20
injured in the worst floods in living memory which have partially or
completely destroyed 18,000 homes.
(Reuters, 7/19/07)
2007 Jul 19, A UN-backed court
sentenced three former rebel leaders to prison, the first
punishments handed down by the war crimes tribunal since it was set
up five years ago after Sierra Leone's decade-long conflict ended.
Alex Tamba Brima (35) and Santigie Borbor Kanu (42) were each given
50-year jail terms, while Brima Bazzy Kamara (39) received 45 years.
(AP, 7/19/07)
2008 Jul 19, Democratic
presidential contender Barack Obama started a campaign-season tour
of combat zones and foreign capitals, visiting with US forces in
Kuwait and then Afghanistan — the scene of a war he says deserves
more attention and more troops. Afghan troops clashed with Taliban
insurgents in Zabul province attacking a supply convoy for NATO
troops, killing nine militants. Roadside bombs in Kandahar province
killed a NATO soldier in a separate convoy and four policemen. In
Helmand province militants attacked a police checkpoint and in the
ensuing gunfight three Taliban fighters were killed. NATO forces
accidentally killed at least four civilians in eastern Paktika
province.
(AP, 7/19/08)(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, The Arab League
criticized the International Criminal Court's prosecutor for seeking
the arrest of Sudan's president on genocide charges, saying
diplomacy should be given a priority to solve the conflict in
Darfur.
(Reuters, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Sidney,
Australia, Pope Benedict apologized directly for the first time for
sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy, but victims groups said
they wanted action and not words.
(Reuters, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, Brazilian actress
and comedian Dercy Goncalves (101), known for her vulgar wit and
scandalous behavior, died in Rio de Janeiro.
(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Bogota the
presidents of Brazil and Colombia vowed to boost trade and
investment between their nations ahead of crucial world trade talks
next week.
(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, Czech police said
a 21-year-old British man, wanted for child sex and pornography
offences in Britain, has been detained in a Prague suburb where he
had been in hiding for two years.
(AFP, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Germany more
than 1.5 million revelers danced through the streets of Dortmund at
the annual Love Parade techno music festival.
(AP, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Geneva a
decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks
fizzled, with Iran stonewalling Washington and 5 other world powers
on their call to freeze uranium enrichment.
(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, Iraq's largest
Sunni Arab political bloc ended a nearly yearlong boycott of the
Shiite-led government in another step toward healing the sectarian
rifts that once brought almost daily bloodshed. In Baghdad British
PM Gordon Brown said plans are being made to scale back troops, but
refused to consider an "artificial timetable" for withdrawing
Britain's remaining 4,000 soldiers.
(AP, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Kashmir at
least 10 Indian soldiers were killed and 14 others injured when
their bus was hit by an improvised explosive device in the disputed
Himalayan region.
(AFP, 7/19/08)(SSFC, 7/20/08, p.A2)
2008 Jul 19, In Lebanon the
Jund al-Sham group, which follows the extremist ideology of
al-Qaida, clashed with members of the mainstream Palestinian Fatah
movement. Two other Palestinian militants were killed in the clash.
(AP, 7/20/08)
2008 Jul 19, While visiting
Buenos Aires Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said his country is
ready to conduct talks with the US about hosting elements of a
missile defense system.
(UPI, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Nepal lawmakers
failed to elect the country's first president and end weeks of
political deadlock. No candidate won the 298 votes necessary. A bus
veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river in central Nepal
killing 14 passengers and leaving many missing.
(AFP, 7/19/08)(AP, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Pakistan
paramilitary forces stumbled on 2 training camps near Dera Bugti in
Baluchistan province. 6 troops and an unknown number of ethnic
Baluch insurgents died in fighting that began when militants fired
on patrolling security forces.
(WSJ, 7/22/08, p.A12)
2008 Jul 19, Mullah Rahim, the
most senior Taliban leader in Afghanistan's Helmand province, gave
himself up to Pakistani officials.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Sri Lanka
soldiers killed 11 rebels in Vavuniya while five rebels died in the
nearby Mannar district. A soldier was killed by a sniper's bullet in
Mannar.
(AP, 7/20/08)
2009 Jul 19,
Frank McCourt (78), former NYC teacher and Irish-born author, died
of cancer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir “Angela’s Ashes”
(1996).
(SFC, 7/20/09, p.C5)
2009 Jul 19, Warren Titus (94),
founder of the Royal Viking and Seabourn cruise ship lines, died at
a hospice in Marin County, Ca. He helped father the modern cruise
concept as president of Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Co.,
which later morphed into Princess Cruises. He left P.&O. to
start the Royal Viking Line in 1972. After the SF-based Royal Viking
went out of business in 1987, he was called by Atle Brynestad, a
Norwegian millionaire, to start Seabourn Cruise Lines.
(SFC, 7/31/09, p.D5)
2009 Jul 19,
In southern Afghanistan a Russian-owned civilian Mi-8 helicopter
crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff from the
Kandahar NATO base, killing 16 civilians in the latest in a string
of deadly aircraft crashes in the country. Gunmen killed a candidate
for provincial council in Kunduz province as he was traveling to a
campaign event. The US military denounced the release of a video
showing a soldier captured in Afghanistan, describing the images as
Taliban propaganda that violated international law. 3 civilians were
killed when German troops opened fire on their pickup truck. In
Farah province, a van full of civilians hit a roadside bomb, killing
11 people on board, including a child and his mother. A British
soldier was killed by an explosion while on a foot patrol in the
Sangin region of Helmand province.
(AP, 7/19/09)(Reuters, 7/19/09)(AP, 7/20/09)
2009 Jul 19, An amateur
astronomer in Australia detected a new scar on Jupiter that covered
some 73 million square miles, an larger area than the Pacific ocean.
(SFC, 7/22/09, p.A1)
2009 Jul 19, In
Kazakhstan more than 5,000 ethnic Uighurs rallied
in Almaty to protest China's use of deadly force to quash Uighur
protests this month.
(AP, 7/19/09)
2009 Jul 19,
In Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (b.1956), former head of the
junta that toppled the country’s first freely elected leader, won
the presidency in a vote his opponents decried as a fraudulent
"electoral coup." The final result gave Aziz 52.47% of the vote,
enabling him to avoid a runoff. The Constitutional Court declared
the result official on July 23, just hours after the head of the
election commission resigned over doubts about the ballot.
(AP, 7/19/09)(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 19, In Pakistan
at least 26 people died in heavy overnight rains in Karachi.
(AP, 7/19/09)
2009 Jul 19, Palestinian
authorities allowed Al-Jazeera to resume operations in the West
Bank, four days after banning the Arab satellite station over the
airing of a claim linking President Mahmoud Abbas to the death of
his legendary predecessor, Yasser Arafat.
(AP, 7/19/09)
2009 Jul 19,
Philippine officials said hundreds of marines and army troops have
been deployed to two islands in the southern Philippines for a new
offensive aimed at eradicating al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militants
by the end of this year.
(AP, 7/19/09)
2009 Jul 19,
Sudan said it was committed to peace with neighboring Chad after
accusing it of bombing its western Darfur region last week, but also
warned it would not be held back if threatened.
(AFP, 7/19/09)
2009 Jul 19,
In Thailand’s Yala province a 48-year-old rubber plantation owner
was shot dead in a drive-by shooting as he returned home by
motorcycle. In another attack a gold shopkeeper was killed after
suspect insurgents fired assault rifles into his shop in Narathiwat
province before fleeing on a motorcycle.
(AP, 7/20/09)
2009 Jul 19, In Turkey patrons
of a usually smoke-filled hookah bar stepped outside to light up as
a ban on indoor public smoking extended to bars, restaurants and
coffeehouses.
(AP, 7/19/09)
2010 Jul 19, The US federal
government allowed BP to keep the cap shut tight on its busted Gulf
of Mexico oil well for another day despite a seep in the sea floor
after the company promised to watch closely for signs of new leaks
underground, settling for the moment a rift between BP and the
government.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, The Wall Street
Journal reported that Tehran has used a small Iranian-owned bank in
Germany to circumvent sanctions slapped on firms blacklisted for
involvement in the Islamic republic's missile programs.
(AFP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, Despite being
rebuffed twice by the US Supreme Court, five states (Michigan,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania) filed suit with a lower
court demanding tougher federal and municipal action to prevent
Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes and decimating their
fishing industry.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, Scientists
reported that a vaginal gel containing Gilead Science Inc.’s AIDS
drug Viread cut HIV infections by as much as 54% in a trial in South
Africa. The gel was developed by Conrad, a Virginia-based nonprofit
organization.
(SFC, 7/20/10, p.D2)
2010 Jul 19, San Francisco
welcomed Barcelona, Spain, as its newest sister city.
(SFC, 7/20/10, p.D1)
2010 Jul 19, American companies
TPG and Carlyle Group edged out KKK in a takeover battle for
Healthscope, an Australian hospital chain with a bid of $1.7
billion.
(Econ, 7/24/10, p.64)
2010 Jul 19, Physicist Gerson
Goldhaber (b.1924) died at his home in Berkeley, Ca. He contributed
to the 1955 discovery of the antiproton and to the discovery of the
“charm” quark, later known as the J/psi particle (1974).
(SFC, 7/22/10,
p.C4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J/%CF%88_meson)
2010 Jul 19, In Tennessee
Lorenzen Wright, a 13-year former NBA player, went missing. His body
was found on July 28 in a wooded area of southeast Memphis.
(AFP, 7/29/10)
2010 Jul 19, Six Afghan
policemen and two US troops were killed by roadside bombs in
southern Afghanistan. Afghan and coalition forces killed five
insurgents and detained five more near Tatang in Nangarhar.
(AP, 7/19/10)(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 19, David Warren
(b.1925), an Australian scientist who invented the "black box"
flight data recorder, died. He designed and constructed a black box
prototype in 1956, but it took several years before officials
understood just how valuable the device could be and began
installing them in commercial airlines worldwide. In 2002, Warren
was awarded the Order of Australia, among the nation's highest
civilian honors, for his work.
(AP, 7/20/10)
2010 Jul 19, In England Boeing
Co. and Airbus announced new orders worth almost $13 billion at the
start of the Farnborough International Airshow, raising hopes that
the aviation industry is on the way back up after a dire two-year
slump.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, The army in the
Central African Republic claimed control of the northern town of
Birao, following an attack by rebels on its military base there. At
least 3 people were killed.
(AFP, 7/19/10)(AFP, 7/20/10)
2010 Jul 19, China's Cabinet,
the State Council, issued an order that said the black-market trade
in food waste and used oil posed "serious potential food safety
risks." It vowed to crack down on refined restaurant waste finding
its way back to dinner tables through illegal channels.
(AP, 7/20/10)
2010 Jul 19, In China
landslides triggered by flooding killed at least 37 people with 97
missing in the central province of Shaanxi. In nearby Sichuan
province, a weekend of torrential rains left 23 dead and forced
nearly 600,000 to evacuate their homes.
(AP, 7/19/10)(AP, 7/20/10)
2010 Jul 19, One of China's
biggest ports, Dalian, shut down after an pipeline explosion
triggered a major offshore oil spill, forcing a refinery to cut
processing and importers to divert cargoes elsewhere. The government
later said 1,500 tons of oil were spilled. Others later estimated as
much as 60-90 thousand tons.
(Reuters, 7/19/10)(SFC, 7/31/10, p.A4)
2010 Jul 19, Egypt signed a
significant agreement with BP to develop 2 offshore gas fields in
the largest deal for the beleaguered oil giant since its drilling
rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
(AFP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, Germany’s domestic
intelligence service started a program for Islamic radicals who want
to quit extremism.
(SFC, 7/20/10, p.A2)
2010 Jul 19, A Greek journalist
was gunned down outside his home in Athens, in an attack police say
is linked to a domestic terrorist group (Sect of Revolutionaries).
Sokratis Giolias (37) died after being shot more than 15 times
before dawn in the neighborhood of Ilioupoli.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, In eastern India a
powerful crash between two express trains at a station killed 63
people and injured scores more in West Bengal state.
(AP, 7/19/10)(AP, 7/20/10)
2010 Jul 19, In Iraq a British
national was killed in a car bomb attack on a convoy in the northern
city of Mosul. A car bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baqouba,
killing six people.
(AFP, 7/19/10)(AP, 7/22/10)
2010 Jul 19, Israeli forces
demolished a cluster of tents and shacks belonging to Palestinians
in the northern West Bank.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, In Pakistan gunmen
killed two Pakistani Christian brothers accused of blasphemy against
Islam as they left a court in Faisalabad. The men were chained
together when the attack took place.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, The upper house of
Russia's parliament passed a bill (121-1) granting expanded powers
to the country's main security agency, a move that critics say
echoes the era of the Soviet KGB. The bill would allow the Federal
Security Service to issue warnings to people suspected of preparing
to commit crimes against Russia's security.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, In Russia the
Khamovniki District Court in Moscow said in a statement it has
convicted Tariel Oniani (58) on extortion and abduction charges. The
native of Georgia had been convicted seven times and is wanted in
Spain since 2005 on money laundering charges.
(AP, 7/20/10)
2010 Jul 18, In Slovenia a
cyber mastermind, suspected of creating a malicious software code
that infected 12 million computers worldwide and orchestrating other
huge cyber scams, was arrested and questioned. His arrest came about
five months after Spanish police broke up the massive cyber scam,
arresting three of the alleged ringleaders who operated the Mariposa
botnet, which stole credit cards and online banking credentials. On
July 28 the FBI later said that a 23-year old Slovene known as
Iserdo was picked up in Maribor, after lengthy investigation by
Slovenian police, FBI and Spanish authorities. The FBI also
identified, for the first time, the three individuals arrested in
connection with the case in Spain: Florencio Carro Ruiz, known as
"Netkairo;" Jonathan Pazos Rivera, known as "Jonyloleante;" and Juan
Jose Bellido Rios, known as "Ostiator.
(AP, 7/28/10)
2010 Jul 19, In Somalia at
least 12 people, including two government soldiers, were killed in
two days of battle between Islamist militants and government forces
backed by African Union peacekeepers. Government forces launched a
counterattack to recapture a government office they lost to
al-Shabab a day earlier.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, In Suriname former
dictator Desi Bouterse was elected president by parliament,
following weeks of jostling by opponents who sought to stop a
convicted drug trafficker and ex-strongman accused of killing
political opponents from returning to power. The next day Bouterse
said through a spokesman that he will not interfere in his ongoing
trial for the massacre of political opponents during his military
regime.
(AP, 7/19/10)(AP, 7/21/10)
2010 Jul 19, A Turkish court
indicted 196 people, including four retired military commanders, of
conspiring in 2003 to overthrow the Islamic-oriented government in
an alleged plot that highlights tension between Turkey's pious
leadership and its secular opponents.
(AP, 7/19/10)
2010 Jul 19, In Uganda the
African Union summit opened in Kampala amid heightened security
following twin bomb attacks a week earlier.
(AP, 7/19/10)
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