Today in History - July 22
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1298 Jul 22, King Edward I
combined bowmen and cavalry to defeat William Wallace's Scots at
Falkirk.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1306 Jul 22, King Phillip the
Fair ordered the expulsion of Jews from France. They returned to
Montpellier in 1319, having been recalled by King Sancho, who
protected them in 1320 against the fury of the Pastoureaux.
(www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/expulsionfromfrance.shtml)
1376 Jul 22, The rats were
piped out of Hamelin, Germany.
(HFA, '96, p.34)
1387 Jul 22, French Ackerman
(c57), Ghent rebel, leader of Reisers, was murdered.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1456 Jul 22, At the Battle at
Nandorfehervar (Belgrade), the Hungarian army under prince Janos
Hunyadi beat sultan Murad II. The siege of Belgrade had fallen into
stalemate when a spontaneous fight broke out between a rabble of
Crusaders, led by the Benedictine monk John of Capistrano, and the
city's Ottoman besiegers. The melee soon escalated into a major
battle, during which the Hungarian commander, Janos Hunyadi, led a
sudden assault that overran the Turkish camp, ultimately compelling
the wounded Sultan Mehmet II to lift the siege and retreat.
(MC, 7/22/02)(PC, 1992, p.150)(HNPD, 7/23/98)
1497 Jul 22, Francesco
Botticini (c52), Italian painter, died.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1515 Jul 22, Emperor
Maximillian and Vladislav of Bohemia forged an alliance between the
Habsburg [Austria] and Jagiello [Polish-Lithuanian] dynasties in
Vienna.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1587 Jul 22, A second English
colony of 114-150 people under John White, financed by Sir Walter
Raleigh, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The
colony included 17 women and 9 children. Croatoan Indians informed
them that Roanoke Indians had killed the men from the previous
expedition. A three-year draught, the worst in 800 years, peaked
during this time.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A3)(SFEM, 11/15/98,
p.23)(ON, 10/01, p.1)
1620 Jul 22, The Pilgrims set
out from Holland destined for the New World. The Speedwell sailed to
England from the Netherlands with members of the English Separatist
congregation that had been living in Leiden, Holland. Joining the
larger Mayflower at Southampton, the two ships set sail together in
August, but the Speedwell soon proved unseaworthy and was abandoned
at Plymouth, England. The entire company then crowded aboard the
Mayflower, setting sail for North America on September 16, 1620.
(HNQ, 3/4/00)(MC, 7/22/02)
1648 Jul 22, Some 10,000 Jews
of Polannoe were murdered in a massacre led by Cossack Bogdan
Chmielnicki (55).
(PC, 1992, p.241)(MC, 7/22/02)
1652 Jul 22, Prince Conde's
rebels narrowly defeated Chief Minister Mazarin's loyalist forces at
St. Martin, near Paris.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1789 Jul 22, Thomas Jefferson
became the first head of the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1795 Jul 22, Spain signed the
Peace of Basel, a treaty with France ending the War of the Pyrenees.
The treaty ceded Santo Domingo to France.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Basel)
1796 Jul 22, Cleveland, Ohio,
was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland. Moses Cleaveland came to where
the city of Cleveland now sits and surveyed the land. After three
months he returned to Connecticut. The city bears his name.
(SFC, 6/2/96, T10)(AP, 7/22/97)
1798 Jul 22, Napoleon captured
Cairo, Egypt.
(PC, 1992, p.354)
1812 Jul 22, English troops
under the Duke of Wellington defeated the French at the Battle of
Salamanca in Spain.
(AP, 7/22/97)(HN, 7/22/98)
1814 Jul 22, Five Indian tribes
in Ohio made peace with the United States and declared war on
Britain.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1822 Jul 22, Gregor Johann
Mendel (d.1884), Austrian botanist who developed the theory of
heredity, was born.
(HN, 7/22/98)(NH, 6/01, p.30)
1826 Jul 22, Giuseppe Piazzi
(80), monk, mathematician (found 1st asteroid, 1801), died.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1832 Jul 22, Napoleon FKJ
Bonaparte (21), [l'Aiglon], king of Rome, died.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1844 Jul 22, William Archibald
Spooner, Anglican clergyman whose slips of the tongue caused words
and syllables to be transposed and gave rise to the term
"spoonerisms," was born in London.
(AP, 7/22/02)
1849 Jul 22, Emma Lazarus,
American poet, was born of Sephardic Jewish parents in NYC. Her
poem, "The New Colossus," is inscribed on the base of the Statue of
Liberty.
(HN, 7/22/98)(SFEC, 4/30/00, BR p.2)
1864 Jul 22, The Battle of
Atlanta reached its peak when Confederate General John Bell Hood
launched an all-out attack on Union General William T. Sherman's
Army. Union General James McPherson was killed repulsing a
Confederate attack. The Federal officer who sent his men naked
against the enemy was Colonel James P. Brownlow of the 1st (Union)
Tennessee Cavalry. Casualties numbered 8449 conf, 3641 US.
(HN, 7/22/98)(MC, 7/22/02)
1881 Jul 22, Margery Williams
Bianco, author (The Velveteen Rabbit), was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1881 Jul 22, The first volume
of "The War of the Rebellion," a compilation of the Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Armies, was published.
(HN, 7/22/99)
1882 Jul 22,
Edward Hopper (d.1967), American artist (Nighthawks), was born in
Nyack, N.Y.
(www.fact-index.com)
1887 Jul 22, Gustav Hertz,
German physicist, was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1888 Jul 22, Selman Abraham
Waksman, biochemist, was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1890 Jul 22, Rose Kennedy,
mother of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert and Edward
Kennedy, was born.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1892 Jul 22, Arthur
Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor, Nazi war criminal, was born.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1893 Jul 22, Karl Menninger,
psychiatrist and founder of the Menninger Foundation for studies
mental health problems, was born.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1893 Jul 22, Katherine Lee
Bates (1819-1910), Wellesley professor, wrote the words to the song
"America the Beautiful," while atop Pike’s Peak during a trip to
Colorado. It appeared in print on July 4, 1895. In 1904 Clarence
Barbour adapted it to the melody of Samuel Ward’s “Materna” (1890).
Bates’ final version was completed in 1911.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.W13)(SSFC, 10/21/01, Par
p.8)(AH, 10/04, p.26)
1894 Jul 22, The first major
automobile race with prizes and a promoter was organized as a
reliability trial by Le Petit Journal of Paris. It took place on the
78-mile route between Paris and Rouen, France [see Aug 30, 1867].
(http://wapedia.mobi/en/Auto_racing)(Econ,
4/22/06, p.65)(http://tinyurl.com/ycbvsah)
1898 Jul 22, Stephen Vincent
Benet, poet and short-story writer, author of John Brown's Body, was
born.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1898 Jul 22,
Alexander Calder (d.1976), American artist. He is considered the
inventor of the mobile as a sculpture. In 1998 Marla Prather,
Alexander Rower and Arnauld Pierre published the Calder
retrospective: "Alexander Calder."
(SFEM,11/30/97, p.10)(HN, 7/22/02)
1905 Jul 22, Boris Alexandrov,
conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble), was born.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1908 Jul 22,
Amy Vanderbilt (d.1974), American journalist, etiquette expert was
born in New York City. "One face to the world, another at home makes
for misery."
(AP, 5/12/97)(AP, 7/22/08)
1913 Jul 22, Licia Albanese,
operatic soprano (NY Met Opera), was born in Bari, Italy.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1916 Jul 22, In San Francisco
some 50,000 people marched in a Preparedness Day parade sponsored by
business leaders and opposed by labor. A bomb went off on Market St.
at Steuart during the parade. 10 people were killed including Arthur
Nelson. The bomb was set by a professed anarchist. Labor leader Tom
Mooney was convicted but it turned out that the evidence was
fabricated. In 1930 Gov. Clement Young denied a pardon for Mooney.
He was pardoned in 1939 by Democratic Governor Culbert Olson.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W5)(SFC, 9/22/01,
p.A3)(OAH, 2/05, p.A10)(SFC, 7/8/05, p.F6)(SSFC, 4/27/08, DB
p.58)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mooney)
1917 Jul 22, British bombed
German lines at Ypres with 4,250,000 grenades.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1918 Jul 22, Florine
Stettheimer painted "Heat," wherein she captured the relations
between mothers and daughters with deft satire. The date is on the
birthday cake in the painting.
(WSJ, 7/18/95, p.A-12)
1923 Jul 22, Robert Dole, U.S.
Senator from Kansas (1969-95), was born. In 1996 he was a Republican
candidate for president of the United States.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1932 Jul 22, Megan Terry,
playwright (Calm Down Mother, Goona Goona), was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1932
Jul 22, Florenz Ziegfeld (b.1869), US theatre producer (Ziegfeld
Follies), died. In 2008 Ethan Mordden authored “Ziegfeld: The Man
Who Invented Show Business.”
(http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=5539)(WSJ, 11/14/08, p.W10)
1933 Jul 22, American aviator
Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world as he
returned to New York's Floyd Bennett Field after traveling for 7
days, 18 and 3/4 hours.
(AP, 7/22/08)
1934 Jul 22, John Dillinger
(b.1903) was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s
Biograph Theater. FBI agent Murray Faulkner, brother of William
Faulkner, helped in the killing. In 1924 Dillinger was sent to the
Indiana State Reformatory for holding up a grocer, and was later
transferred to the Michigan City, Indiana, State Prison, where he
hatched a plan for a mass breakout with a group of other infamous
convicts. When Dillinger was paroled in 1933, he robbed several
banks to provide money for his friends’ escape. He was caught in
Ohio, but by then his friends had escaped and they helped him break
out. Dillinger’s supposed death remains mysterious. Anna Sage, the
"Lady in Red," had agreed to deliver Dillinger to the FBI if they
would stop deportation proceedings against her. The setup went as
planned, and the FBI shot the man with Anna Sage. Dillinger was
famous for the size of his penis, which was "reportedly" severed and
shown at exclusive viewings.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)(HNPD,
7/22/98)(HN, 7/22/99)
1936 Jul 22, Tom Robbins,
novelist (Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues),
was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1937 Jul 22, The Senate
rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the
Supreme Court.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1937 Jul 22, Irish premier
Eamon de Valera won elections. Valera served as prime minister of
Ireland until 1948. he served again from 1951-1954, and again from
1957-1959.
(MC, 7/22/02)(ON, 9/04, p.7)
1938 Jul 22, The Third Reich
issued special identity cards for Jewish Germans.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1941 Jul 22, George Clinton,
American musician and the principal architect of P-Funk was born in
North Carolina. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and
Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s.
(www.last.fm/music/George+Clinton)
1942 Jul 22, Gasoline rationing
involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1942 Jul 22, The Americans
approved Operation Torch, the British alternative to an invasion of
Europe. The design of Operation Torch was to secure all of North
Africa for the Allies. In 2002 Rick Atkinson authored "An Army At
Dawn," an account of Operation Torch.
(HN, 2/26/98)(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.D6)
1942
Jul 22, Nazi’s began their transport of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto
to the death at Treblinka.
(www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/TreblinkaEng.html)
1943 Jul 22, The American
Seventh Army forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo,
Sicily. Gen Patton moved his troops across Sicily through August.
(TMC,1994,p.1943)(WSJ,12/8/95,p.A-14)(AP,
7/22/07)
1946 Jul 22, Paul Schrader,
screenwriter and film director (Taxi Driver), was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1946 Jul 22, Jewish extremists,
that included Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, blew up a wing of
the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed British
administrative offices. 90-92 people were killed and included
Britons (28), Arabs and Jews. The admitted terrorists were members
of a Zionist organization called Lehi (Lohamei Herut Israel),
earlier known as the Stern Gang.
(SFC, 10/18/96, C8)(AP, 7/22/97)(SSFC, 10/28/01,
p.C5)
1953 Jul 22, The Theodore Hamm
Brewing Co. of St. Paul, Minn., purchased the Rainier Brewing Co. at
1550 Bryant St., SF, for $1,809,937. The trade name had already been
sold to Sick Brewery Enterprises of Seattle.
(SFC, 7/18/03, p.E5)
1957 Jul 22, Walter "Fred"
Morrison applied for a patent for a "flying toy" which became known
as the Frisbee.
(AP, 7/22/07)
1957 Jul 22, In El Segundo,
Ca., 2 police officers were shot and killed after pulling over a car
for running a red light. Gerald Mason (68) was arrested in 2003
following fingerprint ID from a new FBI database.
(SFC, 1/30/03, p.A5)
1960 Jul 22, Cuba nationalized
all US owned sugar factories.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1964 Jul 22, David Spade, an
American actor, comedian and television personality, was born in
Birmingham, Michigan. He first became famous in the 1990s as a cast
member on Saturday Night Live, and from 1997 until 2003 starred as
Dennis Finch on Just Shoot Me!.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spade)
1966 Jul 22, B-52 bombers hit
the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam for the first
time.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1967 Jul 22, Carl Sandburg
(89), historian and poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), died in
North Carolina.
(AP, 7/22/07)
1969 Jul 22, Dictator
Francisco Franco appointed Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon as
official successor to the position of Head of State.
(www.archontology.org/nations/spain/spain_1936s/franco.php)
1971 Jul 22, Salvador Allende
and Alejandro Lanusse, Presidents of Chile and Argentina, signed an
Arbitration Agreement formally submitting the dispute concerning the
territorial and maritime boundaries between them and the title to
the islands Picton, Nueva and Lennox near the extreme end of the
American continent to binding arbitration under auspices of Queen
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Channel_Arbitration)(SFC,
8/27/96, p.A17)
1972 Jul 22, Eddy Merckx
(b.1945)), Belgian professional cyclist, won his 4th consecutive
Tour de France.
(WSJ, 10/22/04,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Tour_de_France)
1974 Jul 22, Wayne L. Morse
(b.1900), US Senator from Oregon (1945-1969), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Morse)
1975 Jul 22, The House of
Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American
citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
(AP, 7/22/97)(HN, 7/22/98)
1977 Jul 22, In China Deng
Xiaoping was named vice-premier.
(SFC, 2/20/96, p.A4)
1980 Jul 22, In Maryland David
Theodore Belfield, a convert to Islam (Daoud Salahuddin), murdered
Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former Iranian official and critic of the
government of Ayatollah Khomeini. Belfield escaped to Canada and
then to Iran. In 2001 Belfield appeared in the movie "Kandahar" made
in Afghanistan as an actor named Hassan Tantai.
(SFC, 1/4/02,
p.D1)(http://iona.ghandchi.com/Tabatabai.htm)
1981 Jul 22, Turkish extremist
Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting
Pope John Paul the Second. Agca was pardoned by Italy in June, 2000,
and sent to Turkey, where he was scheduled to serve time for a
killing that took place before the attack on the pope.
(AP, 7/22/00)
1983 Jul 22, Samantha Smith and
her parents returned home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a
whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union.
(AP, 7/22/03)
1983 Jul 22, Polish government
ended 19 months of martial law. Some 100 government opponents lost
their lives in the 1½ year crackdown.
(SFC,11/22/97,
p.C2)(www.videofact.com/english/martial_law.htm)
1986 Jul 22, The US House of
Representatives impeached Judge Harry E. Claiborne. He was later
convicted by the Senate of tax evasion and bringing disrepute on the
federal courts. He was only the fifth person in US history to be
removed from office through impeachment by the US Congress, and the
first since Halsted Ritter in 1936. Claiborne was sentenced to two
years in prison in October, 1986, and was in prison from May 1986 to
October 1987. Claiborne was allowed to begin practicing law again in
Nevada in 1987, and shot himself to death in Las Vegas, Nevada, on
January 19, 2004, apparently due to his health battles with cancer
and Alzheimer’s disease.
(AP,
7/22/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_E._Claiborne)
1987 Jul 22, The United States
began its policy of escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers up and down
the Persian Gulf to protect them from possible attack by Iran.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1988 Jul 22, Iran and Iraq said
they would send their foreign ministers to New York to meet with
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, after Iran said it
would accept a U.N. cease-fire resolution.
(AP, 7/22/98)
1989 Jul 22, Nearly 200,000
Palestinian children returned to classrooms in the West Bank after
the Israeli army lifted an order that had kept their schools closed
during the Palestinian uprising.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1990 Jul 22, American Greg
Lemond won his third Tour de France title.
(AP, 7/22/00)
1990 Jul 22, Voters in Mongolia
began casting ballots in their Communist-ruled nation’s first
multiparty election ever.
(AP, 7/22/00)
1991 Jul 22, President Bush
returned from a nine-day trip that included the Group of Seven
summit in London.
(AP, 7/22/01)
1991 Jul 22, Police in
Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey L. Dahmer. He was murdered
while in prison in 1994.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFC, 5/29/96, A4)
1991 Jul 22, Desiree
Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been
raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room 3 days
earlier. Tyson was later convicted of rape and served three years in
prison.
(AP,
7/22/97)(http://boxing.about.com/od/records/a/tyson_timeline_2.htm)
1992 Jul 22, Wayne McLaren
(51), model (Marlboro Man), died of lung cancer.
(www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marlboro.htm)
1992 Jul 22, Colombian drug
lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. He
was slain by security forces in December 1993.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1993 Jul 22, Japanese Prime
Minister Kiichi Miyazawa agreed to resign, following big election
losses by the scandal-plagued Liberal Democrats.
(AP, 7/22/98)
1994 Jul 22, O.J. Simpson
pleaded innocent to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her
friend, Ronald Goldman.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1995 Jul 22, Susan Smith was
convicted by a jury in Union, South Carolina, of first-degree murder
for drowning her two sons. She was later sentenced to life in
prison.
(AP, 7/22/00)
1995 Jul 22, In San Luis
Obispo, 15-year-old Elyse Pahler was murdered by 3 teenagers of the
death metal band called Hatred patterned after the group "Slayer."
Her body was not found for 8 months until revealed by Joseph
Fiorella (16), who received a 26 year to life sentence in 1997 as
part of a plea bargain. Royce Casey (18) and Jacob Delashmutt still
faced trial as adults. Death metal was a sub-genre of heavy metal
that featured explicit lyrics dealing with murder, torture and
occult practices.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A15)
1996 Jul 22, Friends and
families gathered on a Long Island, N.Y., beach for a tearful
memorial service dedicated to the 230 victims of the crash of TWA
Flight 800.
(AP, 7/22/97)
1996 Jul 22, In Pakistan a bomb
killed 9 at Lahore Int’l. airport in the Punjab province. It was the
13 bombing in the Punjab this year.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A1)
1997 Jul 22, In Michigan some
2,800 UAW workers went on strike at a GM plant in Warren.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A3)
1997 Jul 22, Algerian troops
killed 140 of 180 radical Islamist guerrillas in the Attatba area of
Blida province in an offensive that began 10 days ago.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A9)
1997 Jul 22, In Austria a
campaign was started to rename all public places named after poet
Ottokar Kernstock, the man who wrote the words of the "Swastika
Song," the election theme of Adolph Hitler’s Nazis.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 22, In Britain the
labor party proposed a somewhat independent assembly for Wales.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 22, From Columbia it
was reported that 30,000 violent deaths per year occurred and marked
the country as the world’s most violent.
(SFC, 7/22/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 22, In Egypt six
police officers were killed in an ambush by militants near Minya.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A13)
1997 Jul 22, More than 2,000
people gathered in Milan, Italy, for a memorial Mass for slain
fashion designer Gianni Versace; the mourners included Princess
Diana and singer-songwriter Elton John.
(AP, 7/22/98)
1997 Jul 22, In Liberia results
from the election showed Charles Taylor in the lead with about 75 of
the vote.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A8)
1997 Jul 22, In South Africa 5
killings in Magoda, Kwa Zulu / Natal Province, were suspected of
being caused an unknown "third force," a presumed right-wing group
dedicated to fomenting black-on-black violence.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A7)
1998 Jul 22, President Clinton,
with Republican lawmakers at his side, signed a bill designed to
mold the Internal Revenue Service into a friendlier, fairer tax
collector.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1998 Jul 22, The Senate Armed
Services Committee rejected, on a 9-9 vote, Daryl Jones' bid to
become Air Force secretary.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1998 Jul 22, In Bangladesh the
death toll from flooding reached 103 and left some 10 million people
stranded.
(SFC, 7/22/98, p.A12)
1998 Jul 22, In China Pres.
Jiang ordered the military to close down its many businesses.
(WSJ, 7/23/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 22, Iran conducted a
successful Shahab 3 missile test with a medium-range of 800 miles.
(SFC, 7/23/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 11/1/98, p.A23)
1999 Jul 22, Family members
watched mournfully from the deck of a Navy destroyer as the ashes of
John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren
Bessette, were cast into the sea off Martha’s Vineyard, consigned to
the depths where they died.
(SFC, 7/22/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/22/00)
1999 Jul 22, Joie Ruth
Armstrong (26), naturalist for the Yosemite Institute, was found
murdered and beheaded in Yosemite National Park. Cary Stayner (38),
a motel maintenance man, was sought in relation to the murder.
Staynor was arrested July 24 and admitted to the February murders of
Carole Sund, Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso. In 2000 Stayner pleaded
guilty to federal murder charges. As of 2008 he was still on death
row at San Quentin, Ca.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A1)(USAT, 7/26/99,
p.1A)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Stayner)
1999 Jul 22, In Waverly, Iowa,
the Cedar River crested at 21 feet and flooded 65 city blocks
forcing some 1500 people out of their homes.
(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 22, In Maryland some
300,000 menhaden fish turned up dead at the mouth of the Pocomoke
River in the Chesapeake Bay. Depleted oxygen in the water due to
drought conditions was suspected. Nearly one million fish died in
the tributaries of the Pocomoke.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A8)(SFC, 7/31/99, p.A14)
1999 Jul 22, The WTO agreed to
a job-sharing deal with New Zealand Premier Mike Moore serving as
director-general for 3 years followed by Supachai Panitchpakdi of
Thailand.
(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A12)
1999 Jul 22, In Minsk, Belarus,
police broke up a march by some 5,000 people against Pres.
Lukashenko.
(WSJ, 7/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 22, In China the
government announced a ban on the Falun Gong spiritual movement.
(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 22, In Iran The
Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry moved against 3 newspapers for
printing a secret letter from the Revolutionary Guards warning that
their patience with "insults against the system" was running out.
(SFC, 7/22/99, p.A13)
2000 Jul 22, G-8 talks ended in
Okinawa and leaders pledged to do more to provide schooling, health
care and food to the poorest nations. Pres. Clinton said the US
would send $300 million in surplus farm crops to provide school
lunches in the developing world. Clinton, in Japan for a Group of
Eight summit, addressed US troops on Okinawa, where he said they
"need to be good neighbors" with the island’s residents.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A12)(AP,
7/22/01)
2000 Jul 22, Mack Metcalf (42)
of Kentucky and his wife Virginia Metcalf Merida (46) won $34.1
million in the Powerball Lottery. They planned to split their
winnings 60/40. Mack, former forklift driver for Johnson Controls,
died in 2003 at age 45. Virginia, who had worked as a corrugator for
Indy Honeycomb, was found dead in 2005.
(www.lotterybuddy.com/winner00.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/d9fez)
2000 Jul 22, Christopher
McCulloch (13) and Blaine Talmo Jr. (14) were bludgeoned to death on
a school playground in La Crescenta, Ca. Michael Demirdjian (15) was
later convicted and sentenced to 2 consecutive 25-years-to-life
terms for murder by torture.
(SFC, 10/25/06, p.B12)
2000 Jul 22, In Beijing some
100 people were rounded up in a scattered protest marking the first
anniversary of the banning of Falun Gong.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.B16)
2000 Jul 22, In Burundi
uniformed men killed 53 men, women and children in the village of
Butaganzwa, when they refused to go to a government regroupment
camp.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A10)
2000 Jul 22, In South Korea
torrential rains in Seoul and Kyonggi caused floods and landslides
and killed 9 people with 4 missing.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A16)
2000 Jul 22, Mexican women
staged a one-day strike, more symbolic than massive, over housework.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.B16)
2000 Jul 22, In the Philippines
Muslim rebels ambushed a truck carrying workers for Maranao Planters
and killed 13 people, including 3 women and a 2-year-old boy. 14
were wounded.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A16)
2001 Jul 22, David Duval shot a
4-under 67 to win the British Open title, his first major
championship.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2001 Jul 22, Pres. Bush and
Pres. Putin agreed to link discussions of US plans for a missile
defense system with the prospect of large cuts in their nuclear
arsenals.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 22, President Bush and
other world leaders closed out a summit in Genoa, Italy, with a vow
to wage a united attack on global poverty and disease. They failed,
however, to resolve a sharp dispute over global warming.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2001 Jul 22, In Nepal Sher
Bahadur Deuba was chosen as prime minister.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 22, In South Korea
some 12,000 workers of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
tried to march into Seoul but were blocked by riot police. Pres.
Dae-jung’s corporate restructure programs had caused many layoffs.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 22, In Macedonia
ethnic Albanian rebels attacked government forces in the Tetovo
area.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A8)
2002 Jul 22, The Bush
administration said it would not contribute to a UN program that it
contends provides aid to the Chinese government to coerce women in
getting abortions. $34 million was withheld under the 1985
Kemp-Kasten law.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A3)
2002 Jul 22, Gov. Davis signed
a bill for California air regulators to enact measures by 2009 to
cut vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases believed to contribute to
global warming.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 22, North Dakota's
Gov. John Hoeven was headed to Cuba to promote trade of peas, wheat
and other foods to the communist island from his state. It was only
the 2nd visit to Cuba by a sitting American governor in some 40
years.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 22, Factory worker
Alejandro Avila was charged with murder and kidnapping in the
abduction and slaying of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion of Stanton,
Calif.
(AP, 7/22/03)
2002 Jul 22, The DJIA fell
almost 234 points to 7,785. Nasdaq fell 3% to 1,283.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 22, At least 12 people
have been killed in clashes between rival Afghan factions fighting
for control of the Sheen Dend district in the western province of
Herat.
(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Bosnia forensic
experts discovered a mass grave in the northeast that may contain up
to 100 bodies of Muslims killed at the end of the country's 1992-95
war.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Brazil
assailants tortured and killed Bartolemeu Morais da Silva (44), a
prominent activist who had been organizing land occupations by the
poor in a southern Amazon state.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22, Congolese and
Rwandan leaders said that they've reached an agreement to end a
four-year war in Congo, a fight that has defied resolution as it
drew in eight African countries and claimed more than two million
lives.
(AP, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Northern
Ireland Gerald Lawlor (19), a Catholic man, was shot to death after
a night of gun attacks left two others wounded in north Belfast. The
Ulster Defense Assoc. claimed responsibility. UDA attackers selected
Lawlor because he was walking through a predominantly Catholic area
and wearing the green-and-white shirt of Glasgow Celtic, a Scottish
soccer club supported exclusively by Catholics in Northern Ireland.
(AP, 7/22/02)(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A6)(AP, 7/26/02)
2002 Jul 22, In Indian Kashmir
4 suspected separatist rebels were killed in a shootout with troops
while a policeman and a civilian were wounded in separate blasts.
(Reuters, 7/22/02)
2002 Jul 22, Israeli troops
killed 2 Islamic Jihad members in a clash near the Gush Katif
settlement.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 22, Morocco and Spain,
prodded by the US, agreed to leave Perejil Island empty and free of
symbols of sovereignty and planned for future talks on the issue.
(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 22, Ahmed bin Salman
bin Abdulaziz (43), the genial Saudi prince who dominated racing the
last two years with Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem and 2001 horse
of the year Point Given, died.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 22-24, Flooding in
southeastern Venezuela killed 5 people and left as many as 50,000
homeless in Apure state.
(AP, 7/23/02)(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A12)
2003 Jul 22, Months after her
prisoner-of-war ordeal, Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch returned home
to a hero's welcome in Elizabeth, W.Va.
(AP, 7/22/04)
2003 Jul 22, Saddam Hussein's
sons Odai and Qusai were killed in a fiery battle at a Mosul
mansion. Sheik Nawaf al-Zaydan Muhhamad informed US troops of their
presence in his home and became $30 million richer.
(AP, 7/23/03)(AP, 7/24/03)
2003 Jul 22, Italy's state TV
chief said she will resign as soon as Premier Silvio Berlusconi's
governing coalition passes a law opponents say will grant the
business mogul even greater control over Italian media.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2003 Jul 22, In Paris an
electrical fire broke out near the top of the Eiffel Tower, forcing
thousands of alarmed visitors to evacuate.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2003 Jul 22, In Indian-held
Kashmir 3 suspected Islamic guerrillas attacked an army camp,
killing at least 8 soldiers and wounding more than a dozen others
before being slain.
(AP, 7/22/03)
2004 Jul 22, The September 11
commission issued a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp
the gravity of terrorist threats before the devastating attacks of
9/11, but stopping short of blaming President Bush and former
President Clinton.
(SFC, 7/23/04, p.A1)(AP, 7/22/05)
2004 Jul 22, The Army Inspector
General's office released a report on abuses by U.S. troops in Iraq
and Afghanistan which found 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuse
and 39 deaths.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2004 Jul 22, The U.S. House of
Representatives gave final approval to a new free trade agreement
with Morocco.
(Reuters, 7/22/04)
2004 Jul 22, Adolph Coors and
Molson confirmed that they planned to merge their family-controlled
breweries.
(SFC, 7/23/04, p.C2)
2004 Jul 22, The USS John F.
Kennedy aircraft carrier collided with a dhow in the Arabian Gulf
while running night flights in support of U.S. operations in Iraq.
The crew of the small boat was missing.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 22, Illinois Jacquet
(81), jazz luminary known for his big sound on the tenor sax, died
in NYC.
(WSJ, 7/26/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 22, The Cuban
government released political prisoner Martha Beatriz Roque from a
hospital where she was serving a 20-year sentence. She is the
seventh and best-known person let out of jail in three months.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 22, French crooner
Sacha Distel (71), whose seductive good looks won him legions of
female fans around the world, died.
(AP, 7/22/04)
2004 Jul 22, A court in
Dusseldorf, Germany, acquitted all 6 defendants in the 6-month
Mannesmann trial. They were accused of committing a breach of trust
relating to bonuses paid to CEO Klaus Esser and other executives
following the 2000 sale of Mannesmann to Vodafone.
(Econ, 7/24/04, p.60)y
2004 Jul 22, It was reported
that over 200 doctors had been kidnapped in Iraq since the end of
the war and that an estimated 10-30 kidnappings take place every
day, mostly in Baghdad.
(WSJ, 7/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 22, In a Gaza City 2
Palestinians were killed when their car exploded. The Israeli attack
was aimed at a man involved in the slaying of six Israeli soldiers
on May 11.
(AP, 7/23/04)(SFC, 7/24/04, p.A14)
2004 Jul 22, In northwestern
Turkey a new high-speed passenger train derailed killing 37 people
and injuring 81 others.
(AP, 7/23/04)(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, In Irving, Texas,
Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers,
said it plans to cut about 6,000 jobs and sell or close up to 20
manufacturing plants.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Researchers
estimated that deaths of North Atlantic right whales may be
underreported by as much as 83 percent annually. At least eight
whales have died in the last 16 months, and only 350 of the animals
are believed to exist.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 22, George Wallace
(88), stage and screen actor, died in Los Angeles. He played
Commando Cody in the 1952 film serial “Radar Men from the Moon.”
(SFC, 7/28/05, p.B7)
2005 Jul 22, In London a man,
who appeared to be South Asian, was slain by officers at the
Stockwell subway station. Police said the man was challenged and
refused to obey instructions. The next day police identified the man
as Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, and said he was
not related the bombings and expressed regret for his death. Menezes
was shot in the head 7 times. In 2009 the Metropolitan police agreed
to a compensation deal with the family of de Menezes.
(AP, 7/22/05)(AP, 7/23/05)(Econ, 7/22/06,
p.18)(AFP, 11/23/09)
2005 Jul 22, In Germany a pilot
died when his ultralight plane crashed near the German parliament.
He was questioned over the disappearance of his wife and expressed
"suicidal intentions" before the flight.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 22, Insurgents
targeted two Iraqi police patrols in Baghdad, leaving at least five
people dead.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, The Italian
government approved a package of anti-terrorism measures that allow
authorities to take DNA samples from suspects and jail those who
provide explosives training.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Japan's Parliament
approved legislation authorizing the defense chief to shoot down
missiles without permission from the prime minister or Cabinet,
boosting a missile defense system Japan is working on with the
United States.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, In Kashmir
separatist militants fighting Indian rule in the country's only
Muslim-majority state said they would not allow minority Hindus who
fled the region after the revolt broke out 16 years ago to return.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, In Lebanon a bomb
exploded on a narrow street crowded with bars and restaurants,
wounding 12 people just hours after US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice visited the area.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 22, Mexican
authorities raided a kidnapping ring that filmed its victims being
held inside a cage and beaten. An abducted businessman was freed and
five people were arrested. The gang operated in Mexico City and
outlying areas in Puebla and Mexico State.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 22, Former Myanmar PM
Khin Nyunt received a 44-year suspended sentence after being
convicted on eight charges including bribery and corruption.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, North Korea
offered to abandon its nuclear weapons if the two sides in the
Korean War sign a peace agreement to replace the 1953 cease-fire
that halted hostilities but did not resolve the conflict.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, In Pakistan more
than 2,000 supporters of a coalition of radical Muslim groups
rallied in Islamabad to condemn a crackdown on Islamic militants
that has netted more than 200 suspects.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Assailants killed
five tribal elders who had helped Pakistan's army hunt for
al-Qaida-linked militants in a remote, lawless region near the
Afghan border.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Truck drivers in
Puerto Rico ended a three-day strike that paralyzed gasoline
deliveries.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, Spain banned
lighting fires in open spaces nationwide until November. This was
Spain’s worst drought since 1947. Spaniards will no longer allowed
to smoke as they take a Sunday stroll in the woods, under new
government rules aimed at curbing the risk of fires such as a recent
one in which 11 firefighters died in Guadalajara.
(Reuters, 7/25/05)(Econ, 7/23/05, p.47)
2005 Jul 22, Taiwan will allow
computer maker Lenovo Ltd. to become the first mainland Chinese
company to establish a subsidiary on the island in a significant
step forward in commercial ties between the two rivals.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 22, At a meeting of
Andean presidents Pres. Chavez proposed Petroandina, under which
oil-producing countries would cooperate on pipelines and refining.
(Econ, 7/30/05, p.33)
2005 Jul 22, Seniat,
Venezuela’s tax authority, presented Harvest Natural Resources with
an $85 million retroactive income tax bill. Royal Dutch Shell
received a bill a week earlier and was seeking talks on its bill.
(WSJ, 7/25/05, p.A13)
2006 Jul 22, President Bush in
Texas conferred with PM Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey about how to help
the Lebanese people caught up in the conflict between Israel and
Hizbollah.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, Some 3,000 people
gathered at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas for the annual
Lifestyles conference, a five-day, $700-per-couple event that offers
a mix of seminars, socializing and sex.
(Reuters, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, Former Spokane,
Wa., Mayor James E. West (55), ousted by a sex scandal in 2005, died
of complications from recent cancer surgery.
(SSFC, 7/23/06, p.B6)
2006 Jul 22, Tamika Mack Norton
(31), the wife of Quincy Norton Sr. (32), was stabbed to death at
her home in Daly City, Ca. Norton was arrested a month later and
charged with her murder. In 2008 he was convicted of murder after
his sons testified against him, but the conviction was overturned on
the grounds that his defense attorney was incompetent. In 2009 a new
trial date was set. In 2010 Norton was again convicted of 1st degree
murder and faced 26 years to life in prison.
(SFC, 4/22/08, p.B2)(SFC, 5/16/08, p.B5)(SFC,
9/23/09, p.D2)(SFC, 10/8/10, p.C5)
2006 Jul 22, In Afghanistan
coalition forces killed 13 Taliban over the last 48 hours in the
district of Garmser in Helmand province. 2 suicide blasts struck in
Kandahar. A suicide car bomb ripped into a Canadian patrol and
killed two soldiers and wounded eight others. Ten Afghans were
wounded. About an hour later an attacker blew himself up among a
crowd of people who had assembled about 100 meters (yards) from the
site of the first explosion. Four Afghan passers-by were killed.
(AP, 7/22/06)(AFP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 22, In Preston,
England, Shezan Umarji (20), a bank worker and business student, was
stabbed in the brawl between around 50 white and South Asian youths.
Days later 3 men, one aged 17 and two aged 19, were "jointly charged
with murder and violent disorder."
(AFP, 7/25/06)
2006 Jul 22, A magnitude-5.1
earthquake hit southwestern China, killing at least 19 people.
(AFP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, East Timor's newly
installed PM Jose Ramos-Horta offered a weapons amnesty to prevent a
repeat of communal clashes which left 21 dead two months ago.
(AFP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, Ethiopian troops
sent to bolster Somalia's weak government against a powerful Islamic
militia moved into a second Somali town and seized a strategic
airport.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, In Haiti a new
rash of kidnappings has raised fears that well-armed, politically
aligned street gangs are seeking to destabilize the new government,
threatening UN-led efforts to restore security 2 1/2 years after a
crippling revolt. At least 30 people have been kidnapped so far in
July, about the same number for all of June.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 22, Iraq's parliament
speaker Mahmud Mashhadani bitterly criticized US forces in Iraq,
accusing them of "butchery" and demanded that they pull out of the
country. 7 Shiite workers were gunned down in a religiously mixed
area of west Baghdad, and explosions in the heart of the capital
shattered a one-day calm after a ban on private vehicles expired. 3
people were killed and 5 injured in a bombing and shooting in the
market in Baqouba. At least 6 more people died in attacks elsewhere
across Iraq. US and Iraqi troops battled Mahdi fighters in Musayyib,
40 miles south of Baghdad in a three-hour gunbattle that killed 15
extremists and one Iraqi soldier. 2 US soldiers were killed in
Baghdad, one from a roadside bomb, the other from small arms fire.
(AP, 7/22/06)(AP, 7/23/06)(SSFC, 7/23/06, p.A8)
2006 Jul 22, Israeli tanks and
hundreds of troops moved in and out of Lebanon, taking over Maroun
al-Ras village, entering a UN observation post and engaging
Hezbollah militants by land, sea and air. Israeli warplanes blasted
communications and television transmission towers in central and
northern Lebanese mountains. Over 130 rockets struck northern
Israeli, hitting Karmiel, Kiriyat Shemona, Nahariya and smaller
communities such as Bet Hilel, Mayan Baruch and Mashov Am. Five
Israelis were wounded. The Lebanese health ministry reported 362
deaths in Lebanon so far in the onslaught. 34 Israelis also have
been killed.
(AP, 7/22/06)(SSFC, 7/23/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 22, Japan's death toll
from floods and mudslides triggered by this week's torrential rain
rose to 19 as an evacuation warning was issued in the country's
southwest. Heavy rains caused mudslides and flooding killed four
people in southern Japan. About 100,000 people were urged to flee
their homes.
(AFP, 7/22/06)(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 22, Police said
Mudassir, a top Kashmiri militant commander blamed for dozens of
attacks and tourist killings, has been arrested in the Indian
portion of Kashmir. He was believed to be the chief planner of
Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group linked to
"25 incidents of grenade attacks and other violent incidents.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2007 Jul 22, Cinematographer
Laszlo Kovacs died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 74.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2007 Jul 22, Afghan villagers
found the body of a German aid worker kidnapped in southern
Afghanistan, while a delegation of South Korean officials arrived
hours before a purported evening deadline set for 23 Korean
hostages. A large group of Taliban had attacked a convoy in Helmand
province, and the resulting battle in the Sangin district left more
than 30 militants dead and many wounded. In Zabul province Afghan
police forces reported killing 14 "enemies" during a 12-hour battle,
including a Taliban commander identified as Mohammad Hassan.
(AP, 7/22/07)(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 22, Parliamentary and
municipal elections were held across Cameroon, with longtime
President Paul Biya's ruling party widely expected to dominate as it
has for decades.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, China’s state
media said record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides
and mud flows had killed 152 people and forced the evacuation of
hundreds of thousands.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Egyptian police
shot and killed a Sudanese woman (28) and seriously wounded four
others on the Sinai Peninsula as they tried to sneak into Israel.
They were among 27 Darfur refugees caught by border guards in the
desert after paying 700 dollars (500 euros) to a Bedouin smuggler.
(AP, 7/22/07)(AFP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 22, A bus carrying
Polish pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a
steep mountain road, crashed into a river bed and burst into flames,
killing 26 people.
(AFP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Indian police
killed Shiv Kumar (Dadua), one of the country's most notorious
bandits. He had ruled the ravines and forests of central India
through a mixture of fear and love for three decades, with many
hailing him as a modern-day Robin Hood.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Army Maj. Gen.
Benjamin Mixon, the commander of US forces in northern Iraq, said he
has proposed reducing his troop levels and shifting next year to
missions focused less on direct combat. A senior officer working
with the Interior Ministry was shot to death as he was driving his
car in northeastern Baghdad. An Iraqi interpreter working for
Americans in Kut, was killed by gunmen. A suicide bomber attacked a
checkpoint in a village north of Baghdad killing at least 3 people.
A bomb on a motorcycle in central Baghdad killed 2 people and
wounded 15. US troops in eastern Iraq detained two suspected weapons
smugglers who may be linked to Iran's elite Quds force. In Iraq a
roadside bomb killed another US soldier.
(AP, 7/22/07)(AP, 7/23/07)(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A16)
2007 Jul 22, Israeli troops
operating in the northern Gaza Strip shot and killed two Hamas
gunmen. An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian militants in the
northern Gaza Strip after they fired rockets at a nearby Israeli
town.
(AP, 7/22/07)(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 22, In northern
Lebanon 3 Lebanese soldiers were killed in sporadic fighting with
al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian
refugee camp.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 22, Niger's PM Seyni
Oumarou and military chiefs met neighboring Algeria's President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika to discuss cross-border cooperation against
Tuareg-led rebels in Niger's desert north.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Islamic militants
detonated bombs close to military convoys and attacked government
positions in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal region, sparking
gunfights that left 19 insurgents dead. A 45-member delegation of
tribal elders was in North Waziristan on a government-backed mission
to try to salvage the peace accord.
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, The death toll
from Romania's heat wave rose to 15 after 6 more people died as
temperatures hovered around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
(AP, 7/22/07)
2007 Jul 22, Turks voted for a
new Parliament in a contest viewed as pivotal in determining the
balance between Islam and secularism in this nation of more than 70
million. The Islamic-rooted ruling party won parliamentary elections
by a wide margin. The Justice and Development (AK) party won 47% of
the vote. AK secured 341 of 550 seats in the parliament. Deniz
Baykal’s pro-secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) won 21%.
Sebahat Tuncel (32) walked out of jail after she was elected to
parliament along with 18 fellow members of the pro-Kurdish
Democratic Society Party.
(AP, 7/23/07)(Econ, 7/28/07, p.51)(Econ, 8/4/07,
p.45)(Econ, 5/3/08, p.60)
2008 Jul 22, North
Carolina-based Wachovia Corp., the 4th largest US bank, lost $8.86
billion in the 2nd quarter, and said it was slashing its dividend
and cutting 6,350 jobs after losses tied to mortgages soared.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, California
reported 63,061 foreclosures during the 2nd 3 months of this year.
(SFC, 7/23/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 22, California Gov.
Schwarzenegger signed SB685 giving state pet owners the right to set
up a legally enforceable trust to care for their animals. The bill
was sponsored by Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo).
(SFC, 7/26/08, p.C1)(http://tinyurl.com/5uppps)
2008 Jul 22, Dolly was upgraded
to hurricane status as it headed toward the US-Mexican border.
(WSJ, 7/23/08, p.A1)
2008 Jul 22, Estelle Getty
(b.1923), the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden
Girls," died. The diminutive stage and TV actress had spent 40 years
struggling for success before landing the role of a lifetime in
1985.
(AP, 7/22/08)(SFC, 7/23/08, p.A8)
2008 Jul 22, US-led coalition
and Afghan troops for a 2nd day clashed with and called in
airstrikes on Taliban militants in western Afghanistan, killing and
wounding more than 25 insurgents. In Kabul a suicide bomber on foot
detonated himself next to the walls of the city's historic Babur
Gardens, a popular public park, wounding three civilians. In central
Wardak province, US-led coalition forces killed "several militants"
while hunting for a Taliban leader said to have been behind an
attack that killed three American troops and their interpreter last
month. Militants attacked a British patrol in Kajaki district of
Helmand province. The soldier was initially wounded and later died.
A civilian vehicle struck a mine in Khost province, killing four
people and wounding three. The dead included a 2-year-old and a
woman. In southern Helmand province, Afghan troops killed five
insurgents in a clash. A policeman and two Afghan soldiers were
wounded in the encounter. Gunmen killed the spokesman for the
governor of Paktika province, Ghamai Khan Mohammadyar, and wounded
his wife, his brother and his mother.
(AP, 7/22/08)(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 22, Cambodia asked the
UN Security Council and its Southeast Asian neighbors to intervene
in resolving a military standoff over disputed border territory
around an ancient temple, stepping up its rhetoric against Thailand.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, Sheik Hassan Dahir
Aweys took over the Islamist opposition Alliance for the
Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS), which operates in exile in Eritrea.
(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 22, India’s BJP
opposition was defeated in a confidence vote and charged the ruling
Congress Party-led coalition of offering bribes in exchange for
abstentions in the vote.
(WSJ, 7/23/08, p.A8)
2008 Jul 22, Iraqi PM Nouri
al-Maliki met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks aimed
at strengthening economic ties between the two countries.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, In Mexico a
measure took effect eliminating jail times for illegal immigrants
caught in Mexico.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, Nepal's Maoists
said they would not form the Himalayan nation's first post-royal
government after the defeat of their candidate for president,
setting off a new political crisis.
(AFP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, Palestinian rammed
a construction truck into three cars and a bus near the Jerusalem
hotel where Barack Obama is supposed to stay, injuring four people
before an Israeli civilian shot and killed the attacker.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, Spanish police
dismantled the most active cell of the armed Basque separatist group
ETA with the detention of nine suspected members of the group. Among
those captured was Arkaitz Goikoetxea, the leader of the "Vizcaya"
cell which Spanish authorities suspect was behind most of the
attacks carried out by ETA since it called off a ceasefire in June
2007.
(AFP, 7/22/08)
2008 Jul 22, The Tamil Tiger
rebels announced they would observe a unilateral 10-day cease-fire
as a goodwill gesture during a regional summit to be held later this
month. An airstrike deep inside the rebels' de facto state killed 22
members of the Black Tigers, the group's suicide force.
(AP, 7/22/08)
2009 Jul 22, In Lynn,
Massachusetts, 6 boys, aged 7-15, used bricks to severely beat
Damien Merida (30), a Guatemalan immigrant, as he slept near
railroad tracks.
(http://tinyurl.com/l6cuf3)(SFC, 9/17/09, p.A7)
2009 Jul 22, Millions of Asians
turned their eyes skyward as dawn suddenly turned to darkness across
the continent in the longest total solar eclipse this century will
see.
(AP, 7/22/09)
2009 Jul 22, Officials said
Afghanistan was repositioning forces to the south after complaints
too few are involved in major US and British offensives against the
Taliban. A convoy belonging to a minor presidential candidate,
former Taliban commander Mullah Salam Rocketi, was ambushed as he
returned to Kabul after campaigning in northern Baghlan and one of
his campaign officials was killed.
(Reuters, 7/22/09)
2009 Jul 22, The Algerian
government issued a decree effective as of August shifting the dates
of the weekend to Friday and Saturday in a move viewed as a boost
the North African nation's faltering economy. Algeria had observed
its weekends on Thursdays and Fridays since 1976 as do a few other
countries including Iran and Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 7/22/09)
2009 Jul 22, In Iraq gunmen in
four cars opened fire on a convoy of buses carrying Iranian pilgrims
through Iraq, killing five of them near the village of Kebasi. Some
35 others were wounded.
(AP, 7/22/09)
2009 Jul 22, Israel’s education
minister said the Israeli government will remove references to what
Palestinians call the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation from
textbooks for Arab schoolchildren. The reference to "al-naqba," the
Arabic word catastrophe as Palestinians call their defeat and exile
in the war over Israel's 1948 creation, was controversially inserted
by a dovish education minister for the first time in 2007.
(AP, 7/22/09)
2009 Jul 22, Italian
authorities seized some euro200 million ($284 million) in assets and
businesses owned by the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate, including the
Cafe de Paris of "La Dolce Vita" movie fame. 12 other restaurants,
apartments and luxury cars were also impounded in the operation.
(AP, 7/22/09)
2009 Jul 22, Pakistan urged the
US to share intelligence from spy flights and arm its soldiers
against militants accused by Washington of plotting attacks from the
Afghan border.
(AP, 7/22/09)
2009 Jul 22, Amnesty
International reported that Saudi Arabia is holding more than 3,000
people in secret detention and has used torture to extract
confessions in its anti-terrorism crackdown since the Sept. 11, 2001
terror attacks.
(AP, 7/22/09)
2009 Jul 22, Somali Islamist
insurgents clashed with government forces and African Union
peacekeepers, killing 3 government, 3 insurgent fighters. The
renewed fighting between the radical Shebab militia and AU-backed
government forces killed at least 15 civilians in Mogadishu.
(AP, 7/23/09)(AFP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 22, South Africa
reported that wave of protests have erupted in townships across the
country over shoddy housing and public services, adding to pressure
on President Jacob Zuma to deliver on promises to fight poverty.
(AFP, 7/22/09)
2009 Jul 22, An international
arbitration panel awarded the Sudanese government control over
almost all major oil reserves in a disputed region of Sudan that
erupted into violence last year between state forces and former
southern rebels.
(AP, 7/22/09)
2010 Jul 22, Pres. Obama signed
into law a restoration of benefits for people who have been out of
work for 6 months or more.
(SFC, 7/23/10, p.A7)
2010 Jul 22, The US said it was
dropping a ban on ties with Indonesia's special forces, imposed over
human rights abuses in the 1990s, a move that may eventually allow
combat training of the once-notorious unit.
(Reuters, 7/22/10)
2010 Jul 22, The US Treasury
Department added two companies owned by daughters of drug lord
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada to the list of sanctioned companies under
the Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. The US Embassy in Mexico City
said the two women, Maria Teresa Zambada Niebla and Midiam Patricia
Zambada Niebla, served as "front persons" for their father's illicit
transactions. The companies named to the list are Arte y Diseno de
Culiacan SA de CV and Autotransportes JYM SA de CV.
(AP, 7/22/10)
2010 Jul 22, The US Treasury
Department sanctioned three insurgent leaders, including Nasiruddin
Haqqani, an emissary for the Haqqani Network (Afghanistan-Pakistan)
and brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani who leads the group with his
father, Jalaluddin.
(AP, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 22, In California a
Greyhound bus crashed just outside downtown Fresno killing 6 people
with 9 injured. It had struck an overturned SUV. 3 of the dead were
women in the SUV. The driver (18) of the SUV was later found to have
a .11% blood alcohol level.
(SFC, 7/23/10, p.C3)(SFC, 8/4/10, p.C4)
2010 Jul 22, In southern
Afghanistan a helicopter crashed killing two US service members. The
Taliban claimed it shot down the craft, but NATO said it was still
investigating. Several Taliban figures, including a former spokesman
for the insurgents, were captured in raids by coalition and Afghan
forces across the country. In Uruzgan province the Taliban shot and
killed the head of the Khas Uruzgan district development council and
his assistant as they were leaving a house.
(AP, 7/22/10)(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 22, Burundi was
labeled as the most corrupt country in East Africa in a survey by
Transparency International. Rwanda was found to be the least corrupt
among the five countries in the region.
(AP, 7/22/10)
2010 Jul 22, In China Guangxi
police uncovered a kidnapping ring during a three-month
investigation and arrested seven people in coastal Fujian province.
One of the suspects confessed to police the group had operated since
1989, kidnapping women and children from cities in Guangxi to sell
in Fujian.
(AP, 8/5/10)
2010 Jul 22, Egyptian security
officials said smugglers who sneak consumer goods, cash and weapons
into the blockaded Gaza Strip have cut hundreds of holes in an
underground steel wall Egypt is building along the border to try to
stop them.
(AP, 7/22/10)
2010 Jul 22, France and
Mauritania carried out a military operation against al Qaeda's North
African wing, believed to be holding Michel Germaneau, a 78-year-old
French hostage in the desert Sahel region.
(Reuters, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 22, India unveiled the
prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which
it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 22, In Iraq 2 Ugandans
and a Peruvian who worked as security contractors for the US
government were killed during a rocket attack on the Green Zone. In
Mosul a bombing and a series of drive-by shootings killed an Iraqi
army brigadier general, a Sunni cleric, two policeman, a soldier and
two civilians.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 22, Israeli troops
shot and killed a Palestinian man entering a Jewish settlement in
the West Bank, drawing a Palestinian accusation that soldiers are
too quick to open fire.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 22, In Italy police
carried out six arrests and charged that members of the Camorra
mafia won contracts to rebuild the quake-hit city of L'Aquila with
the help of four bank employees.
(AFP, 7/22/10)
2010 Jul 22, Mexican soldiers
fought gunbattles overnight with gangs who forced citizens from
their cars and used the vehicles to block streets in Nuevo Laredo
across the border from Texas. Witnesses reported that several gunmen
were killed. 8 suspected drug gang gunmen died in a battle with
Mexican soldiers in the remote mountains of northern Chihuahua
state. Authorities began uncovering the remains of at least 51
people in a series of pits and scattered on the ground at a
suspected drug-gang dumping site near Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state.
(AP, 7/22/10)(AP, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 22, In the northern
Philippines an American man, Albert Mitchell, and four others were
found shot dead at his rented home.
(AFP, 7/22/10)
2010 Jul 22, The UN Security
Council pressed for effective actions to combat the growing threat
of drug trafficking and organized crime in the west African nation
of Guinea-Bissau.
(AFP, 7/22/10)
2010 Jul 22, The UN's highest
court said that Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in
2008 did not break international law.
(AP, 7/22/10)
2010 Jul 22, Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez broke diplomatic relations with neighboring
Colombia, accusing the close US ally of fabricating reports that
Colombian rebels find safe haven inside Venezuela.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 22, In southern Yemen
Al-Qaida militants killed five soldiers in an ambush. Rebels in the
north fought with army units and government-allied tribes killing at
least 20 people in the latest series of clashes there.
(AP, 7/22/10)
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