Today in History - August 3
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1347 Aug 3,
Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrendered to
Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1492 Aug 3, Christopher
Columbus, set sail from the port of Palos de la Frontera, in
southern Spain and headed for Cipangu, i.e. Japan. The voyage
took him to the present-day Americas. His squadron consisted of
three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. The 2nd
ship was owned by Cristóbal Quintero, and was named Pinta.
The 3rd ship was owned by Juan Niño, and was named the Santa
Clara, but became known by its nickname, the Nina.
(http://tinyurl.com/774v3)(SFEC, 8/8/99, Z1
p.8)(ON, 8/09, p.2)
1546 Aug 3, French printer
Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, was hanged
and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1553 Aug 3, Mary Tudor, the new
Queen of England, entered London.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1596 Aug 3, David Fabricius
discovered light variation of Mira (1st variable star).
(SC, 8/3/02)
1610 Aug 3, Henry Hudson of
England discovered a great bay on the east coast of Canada and named
it for himself.
(HN, 8/3/98)(HNQ, 7/23/00)
1667 Aug 3, Francesco Borromini
(b.1599), Italian Baroque architect and sculptor, died. He designed
the San Ivo della Sapienza church in Rome. In 2005 Jake Morrissey
authored “The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini and the
Rivalry that Transformed Rome.”
(Econ, 7/25/05,
p.71)(www.bookrags.com/biography-francesco-borromini/
)
1678 Aug 3, Robert LaSalle
built the 1st ship in America, Griffon.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1692 Aug 3, French forces under
Marshal Luxembourg defeated the English at the Battle of Steenkerke
in the Netherlands.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1753 Aug 3, Charles Earl
Stanhope, radical politician, scientist, was born in England.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1804 Aug 3, US Commodore Edward
Prebble’s squadron bombarded Tripoli inflicting heavy damages on the
city.
(ON, 2/03, p.4)
1805 Aug 3, Mohammed Ali became
the new ruler of Egypt.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1807 Aug 3, Former Vice
President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in
Richmond, Va., charged with treason. He was acquitted less than a
month later.
(AP, 8/3/07)
1811 Aug 3, Elisha Graves Otis
(d.1861), inventor (safe elevator), was born. The Vermont native,
was a master mechanic working at a bedstead factory in Yonkers,
N.Y., when he built a hoisting machine with two sets of metal teeth
at the car’s sides. If the lifting rope broke, the teeth would lock
into place, preventing the car from falling. Otis ever realized the
potential of his invention. His sons built the Otis Elevator
Company, enabling the skylines of cities throughout the world to be
transformed with skyscrapers.
(www.famousamericans.net/elishagravesotis/)(ON,
5/05, p.12)
1851 Aug 3, Lady Isabella
Caroline Somerset, temperance leader, was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1852 Aug 3, In the 1st
intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1860 Aug 3, The American Canoe
Association was founded at Lake George, NY.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1863 Aug 3, Horatio Seymour
(1810-1886), two-time governor of NY (1853-54 and 1863-64), asked
Pres. Lincoln to suspend the draft in NY.
(SC,
8/3/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Seymour)
1863 Aug 3, Saratoga Racetrack
opened in NY.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1864 Aug 3, Federal gunboats
attacked but did not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay,
Alabama. [see Aug 4]
(HN, 8/3/98)
1867 Aug 3, Stanley Baldwin,
British Prime Minister (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37), was born.
(HN, 8/3/98)(SC, 8/3/02)
1871 Aug 3, Vernon Louis
Parrington, critic, educator, author (Pulitzer 1928), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1872 Aug 3, Haakon VII, King of
Norway, was born in Charlottenlund, Denmark.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1881 Aug 3, US Nation Lawn
Tennis Association removed "Nation" from name.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1882 Aug 3, US Congress passed
the 1st Immigration Act. The amended act banned Chinese immigration
for ten years. The Chinese Exclusion Act barred laborers from China
and halted a massive immigration of Cantonese peasants. [see
1882-1943]
(HN, 8/3/98)(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1
p.4)(www.u-s-history.com/pages/h739.html)
1884 Aug 3, Louis Gruenberg,
composer (Daniel Jazz), was born near Brest Litovsk, Poland.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1887 Aug 3, Rupert Brooke
(d.1915), English poet who mainly wrote about World War I, was born:
"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
(AP, 2/20/98)(HN, 8/3/98)
1900 Aug 3, Ernie Pyle
(d.1945), World War II correspondent who wrote about the common
soldier, was born. "One of the paradoxes of war is that those in the
rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to
get out."
(HN, 8/3/98)(AP, 4/18/99)
1900 Aug 3, John T. Scopes,
Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution, was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1901 Aug 3, John Stennis,
Sen-D-Miss, was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1902 Aug 3, Ray Block,
orchestra leader (Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason), was born in France.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1902 Aug 3, Habib Bourguiba,
1st president of Tunisia, was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1902 Aug 3, Judson Laire,
actor, singer (Papa-Mama), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1905 Aug 3, Maggie Kuhn, social
activist and founder of "The Gray Panthers," was born.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1905 Aug 3, Dolores Del Rio,
actress (What Price Glory?), was born in Mexico.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1907 Aug 3, Irene Tedrow,
actress (Lucy-Dennis the Menace, Mr. Novak), was born in Denver,
Colo.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1908 Aug 3, Col. Allan
Allensworth (1842-1914) filed the site plan for the first
African-American town, Allensworth, California. Allensworth had
purchased 800 acres in Tulare County along the Sante Fe rail line
and planned a settlement to be governed, financed and operated by
black people. The town flourished for a decade and then began to
crumble. In 1976 it was transformed into a 240-acre state park.
(HN, 8/3/98)(SFC, 1/8/07, p.A1)
1909 Aug 3, Walter Van
Tilberg, Western novelist, was born. He wrote "The Ox-Bow Incident."
(HN, 8/3/00)
1911 Aug 3, Airplanes were used
for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes
reconnoitered Turkish lines near Tripoli.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1914 Aug 3, Germany invaded
Belgium and declared war on France at the onset of World War I. The
German plan for victory in France was known as the Schlieffen Plan,
and was based on a quick strike and the capture of Paris.
(HN, 8/3/98)(AP, 8/3/08)(ON, 8/08, p.5)
1914 Aug 3, German Admiral
Souchon, commander of the battle cruisers Goeben and Breslau,
received an unexpected change in his orders. After attacking the
Algerian coast he was no longer to sail west to the Atlantic Ocean.
Instead, he was now ordered to turn around and sail east to Turkey.
His new mission was to persuade the neutral Turkish government to
enter the war on the side of Germany. The 2 ships were sold to
Turkey and Souchon was made commander of the Turkish navy. He took
the ships into the Black Sea, where he bombarded the Russian cities
of Odessa, Sebastopol and Novorossiysk without the knowledge or
consent of the Turkish government.
(http://www.worldwar1.com/sfgb.htm)(ON, Dec,
1995)
1916 Aug 3, Roger Casement,
knighted for his service in the Congo, was hanged at London’s
Pentonville Prison for his activities on behalf of Irish
independence.
(SFEM, 8/16/98, p.12)(HN, 8/3/99)
1918 Aug 3, James MacGregor
Burns, political writer (The Lion & the Fox), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1920 Aug 3, P.D. James (Phyllis
Dorothy James), British mystery writer, was born.
(HN, 8/3/00)
1920 Aug 3, Maria Karnilova,
actress (Olga-Ivan the Terrible), was born in Hartford, Ct.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1921 Aug 3, Hayden Carruth,
novelist (Crow & Heart), was born in Waterbury, Ct.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1921 Aug 3, Marilyn Maxwell,
actress (East of Sumatra), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1921 Aug 3, Baseball
commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis refused to reinstate the former
Chicago White Sox players implicated in the "Black Sox" scandal,
despite their acquittals on a technicality in a jury trial.
(AP, 8/3/01)(SC, 8/3/02)
1921 Aug 3, The 1st aerial crop
dusting was in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1923 Aug 3, Anne Klein, fashion
designer (Anne Klein II), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1923 Aug 3, Calvin Coolidge was
sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, following the
death of Warren G. Harding. It took several hours for the news of
President Warren G. Harding's death in California to reach the small
town of Plymouth, Vermont, where he was enjoying a short vacation,
but by 2 a.m., Coolidge was told that Harding was dead.
Traditionally, the president is sworn in by the chief justice of the
Supreme Court--but he slept 500 miles away. At 2:30 a.m. on August
3, 1923, Coolidge's father, a notary public, administered the oath
of office to his son by the light of a kerosene lamp.
(AP, 8/3/97)(HNPD, 8/3/98)
1924 Aug 3, Leon Uris, writer,
was born. His works included "Battle Cry" and "Exodus."
(HN, 8/3/00)
1924 Aug 3, Joseph Conrad
(b.1857), Ukraine-born and Poland-raised novelist (Jozef Teodor
Konrad Korzeniowski), died in England. In 2008 Jim Stape authored
“The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad)
1926 Aug 3, Tony Bennett,
singer, was born in Queens, NY.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1927 Aug 3, Gordon Scott, actor
(Tarzan & the Trappers), was born in Portland, Oregon.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1927 Aug 3, Members of the West
Virginia Univ. Botanical Expedition on a trip to Peters Mountain in
Virginia, found wildflowers that were related to the Kankakee
mallow, and named it the Peters Mountain mallow. [see 1872]
(Nat. Hist., 3/96, p.57-58)
1928 Aug 3, Ray Barbuti saved
the US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by
winning 400 m (47.8 sec).
(SC, 8/3/02)
1929 Aug 3, Bethel Leslie,
entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1930 Aug 3, James Komack,
writer, director, actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father), was born in
NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1931 Aug 3, Alex Cord, actor
(Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1935 Aug 3, Richard D. Lamm,
Gov-D-Colo, was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1935 Aug 3, Georgi S. Shonin,
cosmonaut (Soyuz 6), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1936 Aug 3, The State
Department urged Americans in Spain to leave because of that
country's civil war.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1938 Aug 3, George Memmoli,
actor (Earl-Hello Larry), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1938 Aug 3, Terry "5 Wigs"
Wogan, British talk show host (Irish Days), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1940 Aug 3, John W. Carlin,
Gov-D-KS, was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1940 Aug 3, Martin Sheen, actor
(Subject Was Roses, Wall St), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1940 Aug 3, The Supreme Soviet
officially registered the acceptance of Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania into the USSR.
(SC,
8/3/02)(www.historycommission.ee/temp/conclusions_frame.htm)
1941 Aug 3, Beverly Lee, singer
(Shirelles-Soldier Boy), was born in Passaic, NJ.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1941 Aug 3, Martha Stewart,
cookbook author, actress (Those Two), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1943 Aug 3, Gen. George S.
Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him
of cowardice. Patton was later ordered by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
to apologize for this and a second, similar episode.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1945 Aug 3, Ron Hendren, TV
host (Entertainment Tonight), was born in Pinehurst, NC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1945 Aug 3, Chinese troops
under American General Joseph Stilwell took the town of Myitkyina
from the Japanese.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1948 Aug 3, Whittaker Chambers,
an editor for Time Magazine and a former Communist, told a hearing
of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that he was a
courier of stolen government documents in a Communist espionage
operation during the 1930s, some of which were supplied by Alger
Hiss. He publicly accused former State Department official Alger
Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground, a charge Hiss
denied.
(SFC, 11/16/96, p.A3)(AP, 8/3/97)
1949 Aug 3, The US Congress
approved the celebration of Flag Day. Presidents had tried since
1916 to establish a national observance to show respect for the
flag. It was President Truman who signed it into law, finally,
establishing June 14th as Flag Day.
(http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/flagday.asp)
1949 Aug 3, The Basketball
Association of America and the National Basketball League merged to
form the National Basketball Association.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1950 Aug 3, John Landis,
American film director, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Landis)
1950 Aug 3, A US Military
Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) of 35 men arrives in Saigon. By the
end of the year, the US was bearing half of the cost of France's war
effort in Vietnam. Pres. Truman gave military aid to the Vietnamese
regime of Bao-Dai.
(www.oakton.edu/user/~wittman/chronol.htm)
1950 Aug 3, In South Korea Maj.
Gen'l. Hobart R. Gay ordered the demolition of the Waegwan Bridge
over the Naktong River to prevent enemy crossings. The bridge was
filled with refugees. 25 miles down river the 650-foot long
Tuksong-dong bridge was also destroyed as refugees crossed.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A6)
1951 Aug 3, Frank Pace, Jr.,
Secretary of the Army, announced that 90 cadets of the United States
Military Academy at West Point, NY, were to be expelled for cheating
during examinations. Many of them were on the football team. In 1996
James Blackwell authored “On Brave Old Army Team: Cheating Scandal
That Rocked the Country - West Point, 1951.”
(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=13874)(http://tinyurl.com/yfw7u3)
1952 Aug 3, Jay North, actor
(Dennis the Menace, Maya), was born in North Hollywood, Calif.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1952 Aug 3, The 15th Olympic
Games concluded in Helsinki. US competitors won 40 gold medals.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.E4)(SC, 8/3/02)
1953 Aug 3, Ian Bairnson,
guitarist (Alan Parsons Project, Pilot), was born in Shetland Isles,
Scotland.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1953 Aug 3, Pres. Eisenhower
created the US Information Agency to communicate with foreign
nations and counter Soviet propaganda. "The USIA explains and
supports American foreign policy and promotes US national interests
through a wide range of overseas information programs." Theodore
Streibert served as its first director. The agency was dissolved in
1999. In 2008 Nicholas J. Cull authored “The Cold War and the United
States Information Agency.”
(WSJ, 7/23/08,
p.A13)(http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/usia/abtusia/commins.pdf)
1953 Aug 3, Frank Blair became
the news anchor of the Today Show.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1954 Aug 3, The 1st VTOL
(Vertical Take-off & Land) aircraft was flown.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1954 Aug 3, Sidonie Gabrielle
Colette (b.1873), French actress, librettist, novelist (Claudine)
and critic, died. Her novels included "Le Ble en herbe" (The
Ripening Seed) and "Julie de Carneilhan (1941). In 1999 Judith
Thurman authored "Secrets of the Flesh," a biography of Colette.
(WSJ, 10/14/99, p.A24)(SC, 8/3/02)
1955 Aug 3, Automobile
Association of America ended support of auto racing.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1955 Aug 3, Hurricane Connie
began pounding US for 11 days.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1956 Aug 3, Kirk Brandon,
rocker (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny-Outland), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1958 Aug 3, The nuclear-powered
submarine USS Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North
Pole underwater. The Nautilus was decommissioned in 1980 and
designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982.
(PCh, 1992, p.965)(AP,
8/3/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_%28SSN-571%29)
1959 Aug 3, Victoria Jackson,
actress (Casual Sex, SNL), was born in Miami, Fla.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1960 Aug 3, Niger gained
independence from France. Hamani Diori was president.
(SFC, 8/9/97, p.A12)(SC, 8/3/02)(EWH, 1st ed.,
p.1170)
1961 Aug 3, Britain’s
Parliament adopted the Suicide Act of 1961, which decriminalized
suicide in the UK, but made assisting one punishable by up to 14
years in jail.
(Econ, 6/6/09,
p.55)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Act_1961)
1963 Aug 3, James Hetfield,
heavy metal rocker (Metallica-Helpless), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1963 Aug 3, Carlo Imperato,
actor (Fame), was born in Bronx, NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1963 Aug 3, Allan Sherman
released "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda."
(SC, 8/3/02)
1963 Aug 3, Beatles made a
final performance the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1966 Aug 3, Lenny Bruce
(b.1925), stand up comic, died at his home in Hollywood, Ca., from a
morphine overdose.
(WSJ, 5/29/03,
p.D8)(www.fadetoblack.com/foi/lennybruce/bio.htm)
1967 Aug 3, John Femia, actor
(Square Pegs, Hello Larry), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1967 Aug 3, President Lyndon B.
Johnson announced plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.
(HN, 8/3/98)
1970 Aug 3, A 4-day NFL strike
ended when the owners agreed to put $4.5 million into the players'
pension fund and insurance benefits annually. The players also
received increased preseason and per diem payments.
(www.buffalobills.com/team/history/important-dates-august.html)
1970 Aug 3, Hurricane "Celia"
reached its peak as it made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, as
a strong Category Three hurricane.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Celia)
1971 Aug 3, Paul McCartney
announced the formation of his group Wings.
(www.rockhall.com/inductee/paul-mccartney)
1972 Aug 3, The US Senate
ratified the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM treaty). It banned
the construction of systems to defend against ballistic missile
attacks. It had been signed in Moscow on May 26 and entered into
force on October 3.
(SFC, 10/18/99,
p.A5)(www.fas.org/nuke/control/abmt/)
1974 Aug 3, Jenny Beck, TV and
film actress, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Beck_(actress))
1975 Aug 3, The Louisiana
Superdome was dedicated.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Superdome)
1976 Aug 3, Valeri Sablin,
Soviet Navy officer, was executed for mutiny. He was a
character in the 1990 Hollywood film “Hunt for Red October.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Sablin)
1977 Aug 3, Radio Shack issued
a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer. 25 existed and
within weeks thousands were ordered.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80)
1977 Aug 3, Archbishop Makarios
(b.1913), president of Cyprus, died.
(SFC, 3/13/02,
p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makarios)
1979 Aug 3, INS inspectors at
the SF Int’l. Airport stopped 2 male Mexican nationals because their
bags contained cosmetics. The INS soon issued a new directive
temporarily halting its agents from turning back foreign visitors
suspected of being homosexuals.
(SFC, 8/13/04, p.F4)
1980 Aug 3, Closing ceremonies
were held in Moscow for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, which had
been boycotted by dozens of countries, including the United States.
(AP, 8/3/00)
1981 Aug 3, US air traffic
controllers (PATCO) went on strike, despite a warning from President
Reagan they would be fired. Most of the 13,000 controllers defied
Reagan’s order to return to work within 48 hours and were fired.
(AP, 8/3/02)(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A17)
1983 Aug 3, Carolyn Jones
(b.1930), actress, died. She is best remembered for playing the role
of Morticia Addams in the classic TV Series The Addams Family.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Jones)
1987 Aug 3, The Iran-Contra
congressional hearings ended, with none of the 29 witnesses tying
President Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to
Nicaraguan rebels.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1988 Aug 3, The Soviet Union
released Mathias Rust, the West German who landed a small plane in
Moscow's Red Square in May 1987.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1989 Aug 3, Shiite Muslim
kidnappers in Lebanon suspended their threat to execute another
American hostage, three days after the purported hanging of Lt. Col.
William R. Higgins.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1989 Aug 3, Hashemi Rafsanjani
was sworn in as president of Iran.
(AP, 8/3/99)
1990 Aug 3, US announced the
commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1990 Aug 3, Radio Kuwait went
off the air due to the Iraqi invasion.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1990 Aug 3, A day after Iraq
invaded Kuwait, thousands of Iraqi soldiers pushed to within a few
miles of the border with Saudi Arabia, heightening world concerns
that the invasion could spread.
(AP, 8/3/00)
1991 Aug 3, The Pan Am games
opened in Havana.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1991 Aug 3, US Secretary of
State James A. Baker III met with King Hassan the Second of Morocco.
Baker asked the monarch for his help in gaining Palestinian
participation in a Middle East peace conference.
(AP, 8/3/01)
1992 Aug 3, The US Senate voted
to sharply restrict and eventually end U.S. testing of nuclear
weapons.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1992 Aug 3, Millions of South
African blacks joined a nationwide strike against white-led rule.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1993 Aug 3, The US Senate voted
96-3 to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(AP, 8/3/98)
1993 Aug 3, James Jordan, the
father of basketball star Michael Jordan, was found dead in a South
Carolina creek, 11 days after he was slain; his remains were not
identified until Aug. 13.
(AP, 8/3/98)
1994 Aug 3, President Clinton
told a prime-time news conference he would sign either of two
Democratic health care plans before Congress.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1994 Aug 3, VP Al Gore broke a
50-50 tie in the US Senate by voting in favor of an ethanol tax
credit. In 2009 the credit added almost $5 billion to the federal
deficit. In 2010 Gore admitted that first-generation ethanol was a
mistake.
(SFC, 11/30/10,
p.A16)(http://tinyurl.com/2c4xaup)
1994 Aug 3, Stephen G. Breyer
was sworn in as the US Supreme Court's newest justice in a private
ceremony at Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's Vermont summer
home.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1994 Aug 3, Arkansas carried
out the nation's first triple execution in 32 years.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1995 Aug 3, Wisconsin Gov.
Tommy Thompson announced an end to welfare offices in the state at
the site of a new jobs center in Racine.
(SFC, 9/1/97, p.A3)
1995 Aug 3, A Palestinian, Eyad
Ismoil, was flown to the United States from Jordan to face charges
he’d driven a bomb-laden van into New York’s World Trade Center. The
1993 explosion killed six people and injured more than one-thousand;
Ismoil is serving a life sentence.
(AP, 8/3/00)
1996 Aug 3, At the Atlanta
Olympics, the U.S. men's 400-meter relay, without Carl Lewis, failed
to win the gold medal, finishing behind Canada. The American women's
400 and 1,600 relay teams, and the men's 1,600, all won gold. The
U.S. men's basketball team beat Yugoslavia 95-69 to win the gold.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1996 Aug 3-4, In Malaysia there
was a nationwide power blackout that lasted 16 hours in some areas.
(WSJ, 8/9/96, p.A5c)
1996 Aug 3-4, Sri Lanka’s
military said it killed some 200 Tamil separatist rebels in a
weekend battle. Rebels said 100 government soldiers were killed.
Both sides denied the others claims.
(WSJ, 8/6/96, p.A1)
1997 Aug 3, The US Court of
Appeals issued a reprieve for Thomas Thompson, accused of the 1981
murder of Ginger Fleischli, less than 36 hours before his scheduled
death. California filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court. He was
executed Jul 14, 1998.
(SFC, 8/4/97, p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/db9ve)
1997 Aug 3, UPS went out on
strike.
(SFC, 8/4/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 3, Anjouan Island
unilaterally declared independence from Comoros. It complained that
it was not receiving a fair share of export revenues mainly from the
sale of ylang-ylang flowers, used to make perfume.
(SFC, 8/10/01,
p.A18)(www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107423.html)
1997 Aug 3, On Feb 8, 2011,
Otto Rene Rodriguez (52) told the Associated Press in an exclusive
interview that he received powerful C-4 explosives and $2,000 in
cash directly from Luis Posada Carriles to carry out an Aug 3, 1997,
bombing at Havana's Melia Cohiba hotel. He was captured trying to
enter the country on a subsequent trip with 1.5 kilos (3.3 pounds)
of C-4 that Posada had given him.
(AP, 2/9/11)
1997 Aug 3, Iran's new
president, moderate Muslim cleric Mohammad Khatami, took office with
a message of peace to the world. In a reference to the United
States, he said his country opposed the "high-handedness of certain
big countries."
(AP, 8/3/98)
1997 Aug 3, In South Africa a
Greyhound bus crashed near Trompsburg and left 4 people dead.
(Eyewitness, Brett Moses)
1998 Aug 3, The White House
played down the possibility that President Clinton would reverse
previous statements and admit to a sexual relationship with former
White House intern Monica Lewinsky when he testified before a grand
jury.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1998 Aug 3, Lucky Stores and
Albertson’s announced a merger creating the largest supermarket
chain in the US.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 3, It was reported
that the US prison population grew 5.2% to 1,244,554 in 1997.
(WSJ, 8/3/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 3, US researchers
announced the discovery of a number of new species on the island of
Navassa, a US territory of 2 sq. miles in the Greater Antilles, 40
miles west of Haiti.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A3)
1998 Aug 3, The Oregon coastal
Coho salmon were listed by the federal government as a Threatened
species.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A7)
1998 Aug 3, Soviet composer
Alfred Schnittke (63) died in Germany. The Kronos Quartet released a
2-disk recording "Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets"
just weeks before his death.
(WSJ, 8/4/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 10/18/98, DB p.49)
1998 Aug 3, In Austria Hermann
Nitsch (b.1938) ignored animal rights protestors and began a 6-day
festival during which he planned to kill pigs and bulls and paint
pictures with their blood. This was his 100th such performance
(named the 6-Day Play after its length) and it took place at his
castle, Schloss Prinzendorf.
(SFC, 8/4/98,
p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Nitsch)
1998 Aug 3, In Congo rebellious
troops seized control of several cities. Sylvain Mbuchi, claimed to
be the rebel leader and announced that the military had decided to
remove Kabila from power. Kabila last week ordered Rwandan and Tutsi
troops to leave Congo.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/4/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 3, In India 34
villagers were killed in Himachal Pradesh state.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A12)
1998 Aug 3, In Northern Ireland
Protestant marchers and Catholic residents compromised on the Aug 8
Apprentice Boys parade scheduled in Londonderry.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A12)
1998 Aug 3, It was reported
that Mexico’s bill for preventing the collapse of its banking system
in 1995 was up to $65 billion.
(SFC, 8/3/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 3, In Rwanda Hutu
rebels massacred at least 104 civilians over the weekend.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A12)
1998 Aug 3, Serb forces overran
2 more ethnic Albanian strongholds.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A8)
1998 Aug 3, In Sudan the
government declared a unilateral cease-fire.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A12)
1998 Aug 3, The UN approved
plans for a NATO action in Kosovo to counter the Serb offensive.
(WSJ, 8/4/98, p.A1)
1999 Aug 3, The new Talk
Magazine, a Hearst publication, hit the newsstands under Tina Brown,
editor-in chief, and Ron Galotti, publisher.
(SFC, 8/3/99, p.A7)(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1999 Aug 3, Congressional
Republicans, shrugging off a presidential veto threat, nailed down
the details of an agreement for a ten-year, $792 billion tax cut.
(AP, 8/3/00)
1999 Aug 3, Arbitrators ruled
the government had to pay the heirs of Dallas dressmaker Abraham
Zapruder $16 million for his movie film that captured the
assassination of President Kennedy.
(AP, 8/3/00)
1999 Aug 3, It was reported
that scientists had identified the gene, ABC1, that regulates the
body's good cholesterol, HDL.
(SFC, 8/3/99, p.A6)
1999 Aug 3, Richard Olney,
writer on French cooking, died in France at age 71. His
autobiography "Reflexions" was due for publishing in Oct.
(SFC, 8/4/99, p.C2)
1999 Aug 3, In Colombia
fighting died down in Currulao with 15 FARC rebels and one soldier
dead. 2 Pentecostal pastors were reported killed near
Lejanias.
(SFC, 8/4/99, p.A9)
1999 Aug 3, In Indonesia Pres.
Habibie validated the June 7 election results.
(WSJ, 8/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 3, An Iraqi military
doctor, who had defected to Jordan, reported that 400 Iraqi
dissidents, wounded in recent clashes with security forces, were
executed. Maj. Saad Khazal Jabbar said 120 people were killed in the
anti-government riots in Baghdad.
(SFC, 8/5/99, p.A14)
1999 Aug 3, Three days of rain
in the Manila area left 33 dead. In South Korea 57 people died or
were missing from Monsoon rains. In Vietnam 24 were dead and at
least 5 died in Thailand. Numerous people were left homeless and
many were missing.
(SFC, 8/4/99, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 3, In Turkey Abdulah
Ocalan called on the PKK to abandon its armed struggle and pull
forces out of Turkey by Sept. 1.
(SFC, 8/4/99, p.A1)
2000 Aug 3, George W. Bush
accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s
convention in Philadelphia with a 52 minute speech He presented
himself as an outsider who would return "civility and respect" to
Washington politics.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.A1)(AP, 8/3/01)
2000 Aug 3, It was reported
that scientists had developed the genetic blueprint of the cholera
bacterium.
(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 3, Canadian sailors
dropped from helicopters and took over the GTS Katie, a private
American freighter, that held 3 Canadian soldiers and $250 million
in military equipment that was being returned from Kosovo. The
freighter had refused to dock over a payment dispute.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.A17)
2000 Aug 3, In Indonesia
prosecutors charged former Pres. Suharto with corruption for
allegedly skimming $750 million in public funds from charities under
his control.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.D3)
2000 Aug 3, In Sri Lanka the
government presented rebels with a new constitution that offered
autonomy to minority Tamils. Ramil Wickremesinghe, opposition United
National Party leader, rejected the offer.
(SFC, 8/4/00, p.D3)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A11)
2001 Aug 3, In Chicago an
elevated commuter train rear-ended another and over 140 people were
injured.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A3)
2001 Aug 3, Banamex was
acquired by Citigroup in a $12.5 billion deal.
(SFC, 8/9/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 3, Christopher Hewett
(b.1922), British theater, film and TV Actor, died in LA, Ca. He was
best known for his role as Mr. Lynn Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr.
Belvedere. He also portrayed Mr. Roarke's sidekick Lawrence on the
final season of the original Fantasy Island, and the effeminate
stage director Roger DeBris in Mel Brooks's classic 1968 film comedy
The Producers.
(AP,
8/3/06)(www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Christopher_Hewett)
2001 Aug 3, Yasser Arafat’s
news agency called for a halt to armed attacks against Israel.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 3, Kim Jong Il arrived
in Moscow following 9-day train ride from North Korea.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Aug 3, Russia freed John
E. Tobin Jr. (24), a US Fulbright scholar. Tobin had spent 6 months
in jail, half of one-year drug sentence, on a marijuana conviction
that he claimed was set up.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A6)(AP, 8/3/02)
2001 Aug 3, In Thailand the
Constitutional Court acquitted PM Thaksin Shinawatra of corruption
charges.
(SFC, 8/4/01, p.A7)
2002 Aug 3, The American
Service-Members' Protection Act (ASPA), a United States federal law
introduced by US Senator Jesse Helms as an amendment to the National
Defense Authorization Act, was passed by Congress. The stated
purpose of the amendment was "to protect United States military
personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United
States government against criminal prosecution by an international
criminal court to which the United States is not party." It became
known as the “Hague invasion act.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Servicemembers%27_Protection_Act)(Econ,
3/7/09, p.67)
2002 Aug 3, Barbara Jean Laney
(67), former model and actress (TV’s Sky King), was beaten,
strangled and stabbed to death at her Bradenton, Florida, condo. In
2006 Gary Michael Cloud (49) was sentenced to life in prison for her
murder.
(SSFC, 7/30/06, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/hosx8)
2002 Aug 3, In Indonesia some
5,000 Muslims marched peacefully through Jakarta, calling for the
nationwide imposition of Shariah, or Islamic law, to rescue the
country from its many ills.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2002 Aug 3, In Londonderry,
Northern Ireland, Catholic mail carriers went on strike, over fears
they could be targeted in revenge for the latest killing of a local
Protestant. Chris Whitson (20), a Catholic, was pummeled outside of
Kelly's nightclub in Belfast. He died Aug 13.
(AP, 8/3/02)(AP, 8/13/02)
2002 Aug 3, North and South
Korea opened a fresh round of talks amid moves by the communist
North to improve ties with the United States and Japan and
revitalize its faltering economy.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2002 Aug 3, In Nigeria amid
political wrangling and fears of violence, President Olusegun
Obasanjo said nationwide municipal elections would be postponed for
the second time in six months.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2002 Aug 3, Philippine troops
captured seven suspected members of the Muslim Abu Sayyaf guerrilla
group said to be linked to al Qaeda.
(AP, 8/4/02)
2002 Aug 3, Taiwanese President
Chen Shui-bian declared in a speech that Taiwan was "not someone
else's province" but rather an independent country separate from
China. Chen's comments sparked an uproar both in China and at home,
prompting him to back away from his pointed rhetoric.
(AP, 8/3/03)
2002 Aug 3, Turkey's parliament
approved a reform package aimed at boosting its chances of joining
the European Union by abolishing the death penalty and granting
greater rights to the nation's Kurds.
(AP, 8/3/02)
2003 Aug 3, Hank Stram, Marcus
Allen, James Lofton, Elvin Bethea and Joe DeLamielleure were
inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2003 Aug 3, The Episcopal
Church's House of Deputies further paved the way for the Rev. V.
Gene Robinson to become the church's first openly gay elected
bishop, approving him on a 2-1 vote.
(AP, 8/5/04)
2003 Aug 3, As of this day 249
U.S. soldiers have died since the beginning of military operations
in Iraq.
(AP, 8/4/03)
2003 Aug 3, Fires in Flathead
Ct., Montana, covered over 23,000 acres and into the edge of Glacier
National Park. Tow other fires burned nearby.
(SSFC, 8/3/03, p.A13)
2003 Aug 3, Dr. Pater Safar
(79), regarded as the father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr),
died in Pittsburgh, Pa.
(SFC, 8/5/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 3, Annika Sorenstam
completed a career Grand Slam at the Women's British Open, beating
Se Ri Pak by a stroke in a thrilling head-to-head showdown.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2003 Aug 3, In western India 3
buildings collapsed when a cooking gas cylinder exploded, killing at
least 43 people and injuring 39.
(AP, 8/4/03)
2003 Aug 3, In northern
Pakistan dynamite used for building a water channel blew up in a
village, killing at least 45 people and injuring 150 others.
(AP, 8/3/03)
2003 Aug 3, The worst wildfires
in 20 years raged across central Portugal, killing at least nine
people.
(AP, 8/4/03)
2003 Aug 3, It was reported
that the economic crises in Zimbabwe has led to corpses being
stacked up because relatives could not afford burial costs.
(SSFC, 8/3/03, p.A16)
2004 Aug 3, Homeland Security
Secretary Tom Ridge defended the decision to tighten security in New
York and Washington even though the intelligence behind the latest
terror warnings was as much as four years old.
(AP, 8/3/05)
2004 Aug 3, The Statue of
Liberty pedestal in New York City reopened to the public for the
first time since the Sept. 11 attacks.
(AP, 8/3/05)
2004 Aug 3, At Cape Canaveral,
Fla., a Delta II rocket lifted the spacecraft Messenger on a 6
½ year journey toward Mercury. The name stood for Mercury
Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging.
(SFC, 8/4/04, p.A2)(Econ, 7/24/04, p.74)
2004
Aug 3, Missouri voters solidly endorsed a state constitutional
amendment banning gay marriage. The Democratic primary endorsed
Auditor Claire McCaskill (51) over Gov. Bob Holden.
(AP, 8/4/03)(SFC, 8/4/04, p.A2)
2004 Aug 3, In London 13 Asian
men were arrested. One known as Moussa (or al-Hindi) was later said
to be the head of al-Qaeda in Britain.
(Econ, 8/7/04, p.46)
2004
Aug 3, A car bomb planted by suspected Colombian rebels ripped apart
three passing police vehicles, killing nine officers.
(AP, 8/4/03)
2004 Aug 3, Henri
Cartier-Bresson (b.1908), French photographer of the decisive
moment, died. In 2005 Pierre Assouline authored “Henri
Cartier-Bresson: A Biography.”
(WSJ, 8/5/04, p.A1)(Econ, 8/7/04, p.67)(Econ,
9/3/05, p.75)
2004
Aug 3, Fierce gunbattles broke out between Iraqi police and dozens
of masked militants roaming the northern city of Mosul, killing 12
Iraqis and wounding 26 others.
(AP, 8/4/03)
2004
Aug 3, A Sudanese official and Arab tribal leader said rebels
masquerading as Arab militia have killed 28 Arab tribesman in
attacks in western Sudan over the last week.
(AP, 8/4/03)
2005 Aug 3, Luis Diaz (67), a
Florida man who spent 26 years in prison on rape charges, was
released after a judge exonerated him because new DNA evidence cast
doubts on his guilt. Authorities believed at the time the former
cook was Miami's infamous "Bird Road rapist" blamed for attacks on
at least 25 women between 1977 and 1979.
(AFP, 8/3/05)
2005 Aug 3, The FBI raided the
Maryland residence of Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar as part
of a probe into whether a US congressman made or approved payments
to officials in West Africa.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Aug 3, NASA astronaut
Steve Robinson successfully pulled 2 protruding gap fillers from the
underside of the shuttle Discovery.
(SFC, 8/4/05, p.A3)
2005 Aug 3, Some 2,000 Afghan
security forces rushed to an eastern province after dozens of
suspected Taliban rebels wearing army uniforms killed 8 police and
soldiers in an attack on a region that has been largely peaceful in
recent months.
(AP, 8/3/05)
2005 Aug 3, British police
charged Ismael Abdurahman (23) of South London, arrested on July 28,
on an offense relating to terrorism.
(SFC, 8/4/05, p.A10)
2005 Aug 3, In Canada 43 of 140
train cars left the tracks at Wabamun, Alberta. Some of the cars
contained bunker fuel oil, used in liquid asphalt and to power
barges and ships. 15 of those cars, as well as a car full of
lubricating oil, began to leak into Wabamun lake.
(CP, 8/5/05)
2005 Aug 3, China's UN
ambassador said the US and China have agreed to work together to
block a plan to expand the powerful UN Security Council.
(AP, 8/3/05)
2005 Aug 3, German shoemaker
Adidas-Salomon AG said it will buy Reebok for $3.8 billion, giving
the company about 20 percent of the US market and the potential to
better challenge leader Nike Inc. on its home turf.
(AP, 8/3/05)
2005 Aug 3, An Iraqi Airways
plane landed at Istanbul airport and then took off again for
Baghdad, inaugurating its Iraq-Turkey route after a 14-year hiatus.
(AP, 8/4/05)
2005 Aug 3, About 1,000 U.S.
Marines and Iraqi forces launched attacks in western Iraq in
operation Quick Strike, aimed at disrupting insurgents and foreign
fighters in the Euphrates River valley. A Marine amphibious assault
vehicle on patrol during combat operations near the Syrian border
hit a roadside bomb. 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter were
killed. A US Marine was killed by small-arms fire in Ramadi.
(AP, 8/3/05)(AP, 8/4/05)(AP, 8/5/05)
2005 Aug 3, A group of
Mauritanian army officers, including Colonel Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz,
announced the overthrow of Pres. Maaouiya Ould Taya. The Military
Council for Justice and Democracy named Col. Ely Mohammed Vall as
temporary leader. Vall installed 17-member ruling junta and a
24-member cabinet of technocrats to govern the country. The junta
promised to create true democratic institutions after a 2-year
transitional period. A quick return to calm indicated acceptance of
Taya's bloodless overthrow. The UN and EU denounced the coup and
Washington called for Taya to be restored to power.
(AP, 8/3/05)(AP, 8/5/05)(WSJ, 8/5/05, p.A7)(WSJ,
3/1/06, p.A7)(Econ, 8/16/08, p.50)
2005 Aug 3, Dutch authorities
seized 5 tons of cocaine, valued at $275 million, hidden in reels of
steel cable in the Port of Rotterdam in what was described as one of
the country's biggest drug busts. 13 suspects (aged 15-50) from the
Netherlands, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Greece and the US, were
arrested later.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Aug 3, UN agencies
increased their appeals to a total of $75 million to help 2.5
million people in desperate need of food in Niger.
(AP, 8/4/05)
2005 Aug 3, Islamic Jihad, a
major Palestinian militant group, declared that it would fire no
more rockets at Israelis through Israel's planned Gaza Strip
withdrawal, after a deadly barrage inadvertently killed a 5-year-old
Palestinian boy.
(AP, 8/3/05)
2005 Aug 3, Southern Sudanese
Arabs fled Juba after ethnic Africans angered by the death of their
popular rebel leader went on a two-day rampage, chasing Arabs in the
street and burning Arab shops and homes. At least 18 people were
killed. Northern and southern Sudanese leaders called for calm
during a third day of clashes in the capital that have killed at
least 84 people since the death of former southern rebel John
Garang. Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir announced the launch of a
committee to probe the death of vice president John Garang.
(AP-Reuters, 8/3/05)
2005 Aug 3, Suriname's
president Ronald Venetiaan easily won re-election in a vote by an
assembly of regional councils, ending a heated battle that had left
the South American country's leadership in limbo for more than two
months.
(AP, 8/3/05)
2005 Aug 3, According to
Amnesty International 2 Yemeni men said they were held in solitary
confinement in secret, underground US detention facilities in an
unknown country and interrogated by masked men for more than 18
months without being charged or allowed any contact with the outside
world.
(AP, 8/4/05)
2006 Aug 3, US authorities
confirmed at least 25 deaths in 9 states from the heat wave that set
in on July 30.
(SFC, 8/4/06, p.A3)
2006 Aug 3, In Phoenix, Ariz.,
Dale S. Hausner (33) and Samuel John Dieteman (30), accused of
shooting two dozen people, including six fatally, were arrested
after police tailed them for a week. In 2009 Hausner was convicted
of 6 murders. In 2009 Dieteman was sentenced to life in prison for
random shootings in the Phoenix area in 2005 and 2006.
(AP, 8/5/06)(WSJ, 3/28/09, p.A2)(SFC, 7/30/09,
p.A4)
2006 Aug 3, Arthur Lee (61),
rock pioneer, died in Memphis. He fronted the band Love and
established himself as the 1st black rock star in the post Beatle’s
era. The group’s debut album, “Love,” was the 1st rock record
released by Electra Records.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.B6)
2006 Aug 3, Afghanistan's
government ordered around 1,500 South Korean Christians who came to
the Islamic republic for a "peace festival" to leave the country.
The US-led coalition killed 25 Taliban fighters in a joint operation
with Afghan forces in the country's south. A gunbattle near the
capital killed one militant. A suspected Taliban suicide car bomber
killed 21 civilians and wounded 13 at a bazaar in Panjwayi. On the
outskirts of Kandahar city militant attacks killed 4 Canadian
soldiers and wounded another 10.
(AFP, 8/3/06)(AP, 8/4/06)
2006 Aug 3, Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf (90), German-born opera soprano, died in Schrums,
Austria.
(SFC, 8/4/06, p.B9)(Econ, 8/12/06, p.72)
2006 Aug 3, In Brazil officials
said authorities are evicting thousands of peasants who have been
ordered off ranches in northern Brazil by a court ruling obtained by
the land owners.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, More than 230,000
customers in Ontario and Quebec were without power following a
series of violent thunderstorms over the past couple of days.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, Typhoon Prapiroon
slammed into southern China, packing heavy rain and 75 mph winds as
authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people from their homes.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, State press
reported that China is building a 27-billion-dollar train line from
Beijing to the southern economic hub of Shenzhen and foreign
investors will be invited to join the project. The new
2,300-kilometer (1,420-mile) railway will cut travel time between
Beijing and Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, from 24 hours to 10.
(AFP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, In eastern Congo a
small passenger plane crashed into a mountain and then tumbled into
a valley, killing all 17 passengers and crew.
(AP, 8/4/06)
2006 Aug 3, A pair of European
central banks raised interest rates, increasing expectations on Wall
Street that the Federal Reserve would follow suit next week. The
European Central Bank hiked rates .25% to 3%, with a similar hike by
the Bank of England to 4.75%.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, A French law that
allows regulators to force Apple Computer Inc. to make its iPod
player and iTunes online store compatible with rival offerings went
into effect.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, French health
officials said the sweltering temperatures that gripped Europe last
month killed 112 people.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, making his first trip to Haiti, called
for strengthening the national police force to stem an upsurge in
kidnapping and lawlessness.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, In India federal
MPs demanded a nationwide ban on Pepsi and Coke after the
privately-funded Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said 11
drinks sold by the two US companies contained unacceptable doses of
pesticides.
(AFP, 8/4/06)
2006 Aug 3, Siti Fadilah
Supari, Indonesia’s health minister, declared that genomic data on
bird flu viruses could be accessed by anyone.
(Econ, 8/12/06, p.65)
2006 Aug 3, In Iraq an
improvised explosive device in a pile of garbage exploded in the
center of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and injuring 32.
Gunmen shot to death four people in separate incidents in Baghdad,
Amarah, Mosul and Basra. The bodies of 9 men were found floating in
separate places in the Tigris River. At least two of the bodies were
blindfolded, bound and shot. Coalition forces killed at least three
"terrorists" during an air strike and multiple raids southeast of
Baghdad. A suicide bomber drove into a soccer field in the town of
Hatra near Mosul, setting off a blast that killed 7 spectators and 3
policemen. Gunmen shot and killed 4 people and wounded 8 from a
Shiite family in Dujail. 2 US Marine were killed in Anbar province.
(AP, 8/3/06)(AP, 8/4/06)(SFC, 8/4/06, p.A9)
2006 Aug 3, A massive wave of
guerrilla rockets pounded northern Israel in a matter of minutes,
killing 8 people. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader,
offered to stop the attacks if Israel ends its airstrikes. Israel
lost four soldiers in fighting. Israeli military said four Hezbollah
fighters were killed and two wounded. Lebanese security officials
said a missile crashed into a two-story house in the border village
of Taibeh, killing a couple and their daughter. Lebanese PM Fuad
Saniora said Lebanon's death toll in more than three weeks of
Israel-Hezbollah fighting has reached more than 900. France
circulated a revised UN resolution calling for an immediate halt to
Israeli-Hezbollah fighting and spelling out conditions for a
permanent cease-fire in Lebanon.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, Israeli troops
raided southern Gaza, killing at least eight Palestinians, including
four militants and an 8-year-old boy.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, Japanese Foreign
Minister Taro Aso arrived in Baghdad on a surprise visit, bringing
with him a loan of 3.3 billion yen ($29 million) to jump-start
Iraq's economic development.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, In Malaysia the
Islamic world's largest organization of countries demanded on that
the UN implement an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon and investigate
what it called flagrant human rights violations by Israel.
(AP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, In Mexico Mrs.
Alberta Alcantara Juan and Mrs. Teresa Gonzalez Cornelio were
arrested (along with Jacinta Francisco Marcial) for events that
supposedly occurred on March 26, 2006 when Federal Investigation
Agents attempted to confiscate local merchants’ goods and damaged
some of them. In 2010 Mexico's Supreme Court overturned kidnapping
convictions and ordered the release of the two Otomi Indian market
vendors whose case received international attention. Marcial was
freed last year.
(http://tinyurl.com/373f25t)(AP, 4/28/10)
2006 Aug 3, Pakistani Interior
Minister Aftab Sherpao and US envoy Ryan Crocker signed a memorandum
of understanding for $2.7 million in security and communications
gear and to help build more posts on the Afghan frontier.
(AFP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, Fresh fighting
broke out between Philippine forces and Al-Qaeda-linked militants
after four people were killed in a major operation to capture two
suspected Bali bombers.
(AFP, 8/3/06)
2006 Aug 3, In Sri Lanka
artillery fire hit 4 schools being used as shelters from fighting
raging between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels, killing at
least 17 people in the northeastern town of Muttur.
(AP, 8/3/06)(SFC, 8/4/06, p.A10)
2006 Aug 3, Ukrainian Pres.
Viktor Yushchenko nominated former foe Viktor Yanukovych for prime
minister after Yanukovych signed a memorandum on national unity.
(SFC, 8/3/06, p.A3)
2007 Aug 3, In Alaska Mindy
Schloss (52), a nurse practitioner, was last seen alive in
Anchorage. Her body was found on Sep 13 near Wasilla. In 2010 Joshua
Alan Wade (29) acknowledged that he had shot and killed Schloss, who
lived next door to him.
(SFC, 2/17/10,
p.A6)(www.amw.com/missing_persons/recovered.cfm?id=47985)
2007 Aug 3, A jury at Camp
Pendleton, Calif., sentenced Marine Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III to
15 years in prison for the murder of an Iraqi civilian during a
fruitless search for an insurgent.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2007 Aug 3, In Kentucky a judge
ruled that 3 attorneys, accused of bilking their clients in a $200
million fen-phen settlement, must repay at least $62.1 million in
settlement funds and interest.
(AP, 8/4/07)
2007 Aug 3, Oakland police
arrested 7 people, including Yusuf Bey IV, in a predawn raid on Your
Black Muslim Bakery and 3 homes in connection with 3 homicides
including the Aug 2 murder of Oakland Post journalist Chauncey
Bailey. The Post had been investigating the organization’s finances.
Alameda County health inspectors shut down the bakery after finding
health-code violations. A judge converted the bakery’s Chapter 11
bankruptcy case to Chapter 7 liquidation setting Aug 9 as its last
day of business.
(SFC, 8/4/07, p.A1,6)(SSFC, 8/5/07, p.A11)
2007 Aug 3, American Home
Mortgage released all but 750 of its 7,000 employees as it ran out
of money, the latest victim of the subprime mortgage implosion.
(SFC, 8/4/07, p.C2)
2007 Aug 3, Two dogs belonging
to actor Ving Rhames mauled Jacob Adams (40), a caretaker for the
actor's dogs, to death at the star's Brentwood, Ca., home.
(AP, 8/4/07)(AP, 8/5/07)
2007 Aug 3, It was reported
that Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca is being strangled by city-fed
pollution that is driving away local people who draw sustenance from
its mythical waters.
(AFP, 8/3/07)
2007 Aug 3, Four people were
killed after a helicopter flying from northern England to southern
Scotland crashed in northwest England. The wreckage was found the
next day.
(AFP, 8/4/07)
2007 Aug 3, China asserted the
sole right to recognize living Buddhas, reincarnations of famous
lamas that form the backbone of the religion's clergy. All future
incarnations of living Buddhas related to Tibetan Buddhism must get
government approval.
(AP, 8/3/07)
2007 Aug 3, China banned
Indonesian seafood after checks turned up dangerous contamination.
Indonesian authorities called the move an apparent reaction to an
Indonesian ban on some tainted Chinese products. The Chinese
administration said Indonesian products have been found to contain
mercury and cadmium, metals that can accumulate in water and soil
from burning garbage, mining or other industrial processes.
(AP, 8/4/07)
2007 Aug 3, Lenovo Group Ltd.
said it will sell a basic personal computer aimed at China's vast
but poor rural market and priced as low as $199.
(AP, 8/3/07)
2007 Aug 3, About 50 women
occupied a central square in Makhachkala, Dagestan, declaring a
hunger strike and vowing not to leave until authorities tell them
what happened to their missing children. The president of Dagestan,
Mukhu Aliev, admitted last month that 76 people have been kidnapped
so far this year in Dagestan. In six of those cases, the abductors
wore camouflage uniforms similar to those worn by law enforcement
officers.
(AP, 8/4/07)
2007 Aug 3, The death toll in
south Asia rose to at least 186 people killed. 19 million have been
driven from their homes as heavy monsoon rains triggered floods,
destroyed crops and submerged roads across a wide swath of northern
India and Bangladesh. The UN child welfare agency said that in India
alone, the number of dead from the monsoons topped 1,100.
(AP, 8/3/07)(AFP, 8/4/07)
2007 Aug 3, In Tanzania
Darfur's fractious rebel groups gathered for talks aimed at
hammering out a united front, following UN approval of a beefed up
peacekeeping mission in the Sudanese region.
(AP, 8/3/07)
2007 Aug 3, In Uganda gunmen on
Lake Albert attacked a boat operated by Canada's Heritage Oil Corp.,
killing a British contractor. 3 armed patrol boats from Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), on the other side of the lake, had opened
fire on Heritage's boat.
(AP, 8/3/07)
2007 Aug 3, In Venezuela US
actor Sean Penn accompanied Pres. Chavez on a visit to western
Venezuela. "I'm also here as a journalist and so I owe it to that
medium to wait until I've digested, fact-checked and finished my
journey here" before saying more, Penn said. He thanked Chavez for
the visit.
(AP, 8/4/07)
2007 Aug 3, Virgin Islands’
authorities arrested Kamal Thomas and charged him with first-degree
murder and assault, as well as using a dangerous weapon while
committing a crime. James Cockayne (21) of new Hope, Pa., was killed
on June 19 near a shopping center.
(AP, 8/6/07)
2007 Aug 3, In Zimbabwe the
Interception of Communication Act was published in the government
gazette. The bill, signed by President Robert Mugabe, allows the
state to eavesdrop on private phone conversations and monitor faxes
and emails.
(AFP, 8/3/07)
2008 Aug 3, Some 19,000 runners
participated in the 31st annual SF Marathon. Chad Worthen (34) of
Sacramento won with a time of 2:31:52. Lauren Gustafson of Millbrae
won among the women with a time of 2:52:33.
(SFC, 8/4/08, p.B1)
2008 Aug 3, In Gearhart,
Oregon, a small plane crashed into a seaside house killing 2 people
aboard and 2 children in the vacation home.
(SFC, 8/5/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 3, Lou Teicher
(b.1924), pianist, died in North Carolina. He was half of the
popular piano duo Ferrante & Teicher whose movie themes and love
songs earned them wide popularity in the 1960s. Together they
recorded some 150 albums.
(SFC, 8/7/08, p.B5)
2008 Aug 3, In Afghanistan a
roadside bomb struck a US-led coalition vehicle, killing one service
member and wounding another on the outskirts of Kabul. Afghan and
NATO troops targeted a group of Taliban fighters in Helmand
province, killing 17 militants and wounding six others. Four police
were killed separately in a militant ambush in central Ghazni
province.
(AP, 8/3/08)(AP, 8/4/08)
2008 Aug 3, In Algeria 21
people, six of them policemen, were injured in a suicide car bomb
attack in the town of Tizi Ouzou in Algeria's Kabylie region.
(AFP, 8/3/08)
2008 Aug 3, Cambodia said that
Thai soldiers are occupying a second temple site on their border in
an escalation of an ongoing armed standoff that nearly led to
clashes between the neighbors last month.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2008 Aug 3, In Canada a small
plane crashed on Vancouver Island. Two survivors were pulled from
the wreckage but five other people on the aircraft died.
(Reuters, 8/4/08)
2008 Aug 3, In Greece
Athanassios Arvanitis (31) beheaded his girlfriend and her dog on
the island of Santorini and then escaped in a patrol car. Police
shot him 5 times as he ran over 2 women on a motorcycle before being
caught.
(SFC, 8/4/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 3, Hundreds of
Honduran squatters angry over a land dispute attacked the home of
Henry Sorto, a local police official. Five employees and six of
Osorto's family members were burned, shot and hacked to death with
machetes.
(AP, 8/4/08)(AP, 8/5/08)
2008 Aug 3, In northern India
145 people, including many women and children, were killed when
pilgrims stampeded at a Hindu temple. The devotees were attending a
9-day religious festival at the Naina Devi Temple in the Bilaspur
district of the Himachal Pradesh state.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2008 Aug 3, In Indonesia a top
health official said a factory worker had died of bird flu west of
Jakarta, bringing the death toll in the country worst hit by the
virus to 112.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2008 Aug 3, In Iraq a truck
bomb exploded during rush hour on a busy street in northern Baghdad,
killing at least 12 people and wounding about two dozen. A roadside
bomb killed six people, including three Iraqi soldiers, and wounded
13 others south of Baghdad. In Tarmiyah a clash between US-allied
fighters and civilians killed one civilian and wounded 10 others.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2008 Aug 3, Israeli and
Palestinian officials said most of the 180 Fatah supporters, who had
fled into Israel, would be sent back into the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2008 Aug 3, The breakaway
republic of South Ossetia began sending hundreds of children across
the border to its Russian ally amid increasing violence between the
republic and Georgian government forces.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2008 Aug 3, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn (b.1918), Russian Nobel literature laureate (1970),
died of heart failure in his Moscow home. His books, which included
“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” (1962) and "Gulag
Archipelago" (1973), chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef
Stalin's slave labor camps. In 1974, he was stripped of his
citizenship and put on a plane to West Germany for refusing to keep
silent about his country's past.
(Reuters, 8/4/08)(WSJ, 8/9/08, p.W12)
2008 Aug 3, In Scotland the
Int’l. Primatological Society Congress opened a 6-day conference. On
August 5 scientists released a report saying the nearly half of the
world’s 634 types of primates are in danger of becoming extinct due
to human activity.
(SFC, 8/5/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 3, In Senegal former
US president Bill Clinton wound up a four-nation Africa tour aimed
at combating HIV/AIDS in Dakar, praising France for its financial
support through the agency Unitaid.
(AP, 8/4/08)
2008 Aug 3, In Somalia a bomb
hidden under a pile of garbage killed at least 20 people, half of
them women who were sweeping the street in Mogadishu.
(AP, 8/3/08)
2008 Aug 3, In Sri Lanka the
South Asian summit ended. Tensions between India and Pakistan
overshadowed the summit, but the two nuclear-armed rivals vowed to
work together and save a tenuous peace process. A draft summit
declaration called for collective action to combat "all forms of
terrorist violence" that was threatening their "peace, stability and
security." The leaders also agreed to implement a regional trade
pact, signed in 1995 but never fully implemented. Troops repulsed an
attempt by Tamil rebels to retake a recently captured guerrilla
stronghold in heavy fighting that killed 21 rebels and three
soldiers. Thirteen rebels and three soldiers were killed in other
clashes in the Mannar, Vavuniya and Welioya regions.
(AFP, 8/3/08)(AP, 8/4/08)
2008 Aug 3, Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez says 24 Sukhoi fighter jets have been
delivered to Venezuela, and are ready to defend his country from
"imperialist" aggressions.
(AP, 8/4/08)
2008 Aug 3, Zimbabwe's rival
parties resumed power-sharing talks, a day ahead of the expiry of a
deadline to conclude discussions to end a ruinous political crisis.
(AFP, 8/3/08)
2009 Aug 3, Bank of America
agreed to pay $33 million to settle a complaint filed by the SEC
alleging that the bank misled investors over bonuses at Merrill
Lynch as BofA was finalizing its takeover of the securities firm in
late 2008.
(Econ, 8/8/09, p.63)
2009 Aug 3, In Afghanistan a
bomb hidden in a rubbish bin exploded near a police convoy in Herat,
killing 12 people, including a woman and a girl and 2 police
officers, as a wave of Taliban violence gripped the nation ahead of
elections. An ambush in Faryab province killed an Afghan driver, but
his passenger, a Korean engineer, escaped without injury.
(AFP, 8/3/09)(SSFC, 8/2/09, p.A2)
2009 Aug 3, Belgian authorities
recaptured Abdelhaq Melloul-Khayari, a convict who escaped twice in
as many weeks, including once from a Bruges prison by helicopter.
(AP, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, Karlheinz Schreiber
(75), a German-Canadian arms dealer and key figure in a political
party financing scandal involving former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, was
extradited to Germany from Canada to face criminal charges after
losing a decade-long court battle. He was key figure in a
funding scandal which badly damaged Chancellor Angela Merkel's
conservatives a decade ago. Schreiber was arrested in Canada about
10 years ago, and is wanted by prosecutors in Augsburg for tax
evasion, fraud and bribery.
(AP, 8/3/09)(Reuters, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, China’s state media
reported that more than 500 villagers in central China have been
found to have high concentrations of a dangerous metal in their
bodies after a series of leaks from the Changsha Xianghe Chemical
Plant in Hunan province's Zhentou township. 509 people were found to
have high concentrations of cadmium and 33 were hospitalized over
the weekend.
(AP, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, Ecuadorean
President Rafael Correa, announced that "many" radio and TV
frequencies will revert to the state over what he called
irregularities in their licenses. He gave no specifics.
(AP, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, Nikolaos Makarezos
(90), one of the leaders of the military dictatorship that ruled
Greece from 1967-1974, died. Makarezos, the junta's chief economic
policymaker, served as deputy prime minister and minister for
coordination under dictator George Papadopoulos.
(AP, 8/6/09)
2009 Aug 3, A seven-minute
video, apparently made by the Korps Brigade Mobil, or Brimob, the
paramilitary police, shows prisoner Yawen Wayeni lying in a jungle
clearing in eastern Indonesia moments after troops allegedly sliced
open his abdomen with a bayonet. Police said Wayeni, captured for
allegedly vandalizing several of their buildings and vehicles, was
shot in the thigh and stomach while resisting arrest and that he
died on the way to the hospital. The video was made public in the
Internet in 2010.
(AP,
8/4/10)(http://hub.witness.org/en/upload/killing-yawan-wayeni)
2009 Aug 3, In Iran Fahimeh
Mousavi-nejad, the wife of former Vice President Mohammad Abtahi on
trial for postelection violence, said his televised "confessions"
were made under pressure. Her husband was one of the top figures in
a trial that began Aug 1 for around 100 people detained in the
postelection crackdown. Iran's supreme leader formally endorsed
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term as president in a ceremony
that sought to portray unity among the country's leadership but was
snubbed by prominent critics of the disputed election.
(AP, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, In Iraq Asaib Ahl
al-Haq (League of the Righteous), a group believed to be responsible
for killing US soldiers and kidnapping British soldiers, agreed to
renounce violence following a weekend meeting with PM
al-Maliki. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives at a police
checkpoint in Saqlawiya. 3 civilians were killed and 7 people were
wounded including 3 police officers.
(SFC, 8/4/09, p.A2)
2009 Aug 3, Israeli police said
that they had broken up an Israeli-American crime ring specializing
in tax fraud and money laundering in an operation codenamed
"American Pie." The chief suspect was Marvin Berkowitz (62) who
holds dual Israeli and US citizenship. Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's
ultranationalist foreign minister, promised to step down if he is
charged after police recommended that he be indicted for a string of
alleged corruption offenses.
(AP, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, Kenya's Pres. Mwai
Kibaki said all prisoners on death row will immediately have their
sentences commuted to life imprisonment. Kenya's 97 prisons were
built for a population of about 15,000 but currently have an inmate
population of more than 40,000.
(AP, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, Anders Fogh
Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, took office as NATO's new
secretary-general. He said his top priorities would be guiding the
war in Afghanistan to a successful conclusion, repairing ties with
Russia, and expanding NATO's partnership with moderate nations in
North Africa and the Middle East.
(AP, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, The Palestinian
Fatah movement published a new platform saying it will keep pursuing
peace talks but reserves the right to resist Israeli occupation.
(AP, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, In South Korea
thousands of riot police strengthened their siege of a troubled
South Korean auto firm, spraying liquid tear gas from a helicopter,
after talks to end a prolonged occupation by strikers collapsed.
(AFP, 8/3/09)
2009 Aug 3, In Switzerland
there was an arson attack at Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella's lodge in
Bach, Austria. An attack on his mother's grave took place a week
earlier. The next day drug maker Novartis said animal rights
militants were responsible.
(AP, 8/4/09)
2009 Aug 3, In Venezuela a
far-left party led by Lina Ron attacked the opposition-aligned
Globovision TV station. The next day Pres. Chavez condemned the
attack and had Ron arrested for taking part in the assault.
(SFC, 8/3/09, p.A2)
2010 Aug 3, Time magazine
reported on that Haitian-American music star Wyclef Jean (37) will
announce his bid for president of earthquake-ravaged Haiti this
week. A three-time Grammy award-winner, Jean was a founding member
of the hip-hop trio The Fugees and won wider fame for his
collaboration with Colombian pop star Shakira. He released a song
two years ago called "If I Was President". Haiti’s ruling Unity
party nominated ousted ex-Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis to
lead the earthquake-ravaged nation.
(Reuters, 8/4/10)(AP, 8/4/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Manchester,
Connecticut, Omar Thornton (34), a black warehouse driver who was
caught steeling beer, went on a shooting rampage at the Hartford
Distributors warehouse after he was asked to quit, killing eight
people before committing suicide.
(SFC, 8/4/10, p.A4)
2010 Aug 3, In San Francisco
federal authorities announced the seizure of over 200,000
counterfeit retail items at Fisherman’s Wharf valued at $100
million. 11 people were charged with conspiracy and smuggling. The
targeted network was accused of importing goods from China that
imitated 70 national and int’l. brands. Estimates of sham goods were
reported to account for as much as 7-8% of the world’s retail
economy.
(SFC, 8/4/10, p.A9)
2010 Aug 3, Intel and the FTC
confirmed the settlement of an anti-trust case.
(SFC, 8/4/10, p.D1)
2010 Aug 3, In Afghanistan
insurgents wearing suicide vests tried to storm NATO's largest base
in the south, but did not breach its defenses. All of the attackers
were killed in the fighting including "approximately four" people in
suicide vests. New Zealand suffered its first combat fatality in
Afghanistan when a soldier died in an ambush that left another two
New Zealand soldiers and an Afghan interpreter wounded in central
Bamiyan province. An Afghan operation began in a rugged region east
of Kabul in Laghman province to flush out the Taliban. Commanders
called for backup from foreign forces after at least 10 Afghan
soldiers were killed and up to 20 captured.
(AP, 8/3/10)(AFP, 8/13/10)
2010 Aug 3, British MPs of
Pakistani origin hit out at President Asif Ali Zardari, saying he
should be back home sorting out the flooding disaster rather than
launching his son's career.
(AFP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, British oil giant
BP said it will sell its Colombian business for a total of 1.9
billion dollars (1.4 billion euros) to national oil company
Ecopetrol and Talisman of Canada.
(AFP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In eastern China
Fang Jiantang (26), a knife-wielding man, went on a slashing rampage
in a kindergarten, leaving 3 children and one teacher dead in
Shandong province. About 20 children and staff members were injured.
Police detained Jiantang.
(AP, 8/4/10)
2010 Aug 3, In China gas
exploded at a coal mine in the southern province of Guizhou, killing
10 people and trapping 7.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Iraq a car bomb
in Kut killed at least 15 people. Suspected al-Qaida militants
killed 5 Iraqi soldiers in a brazen dawn attack at a western Baghdad
checkpoint and planted the terror group's black banner before
fleeing the scene. An Iraqi soldier and a policeman were killed and
nine people were wounded in other attacks across Baghdad.
(AP, 8/3/10)(SFC, 8/4/10, p.A3)
2010 Aug 3, Israeli municipal
officials confirmed the approval for the building of 40 apartments
in a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem's disputed eastern sector.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Indian Kashmir 4
more demonstrators died as new protests erupted in defiance of pleas
for calm from the region's chief minister.
(AFP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, Lebanese and
Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border in the most serious
clashes since a fierce war four years ago. 3 Lebanese nationals, two
soldiers and a journalist, and an Israeli soldier were killed in the
shootout which saw both sides threatening retaliation if the
shooting recurred. Israeli troops returned the next day to the site
of the shootout and cut down a number of trees growing along the
border, completing a task which had set off the confrontation.
(AP, 8/3/10)(AFP, 8/4/10)
2010 Aug 3, Mexico’s President
Felipe Calderon said he would consider a debate on legalizing drugs
as his government announced that more than 28,000 people have been
killed in drug violence since he launched a crackdown against
cartels in 2006.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Nigeria Islamic
police smashed 80,000 bottles of beer in the city of Kano to enforce
a sharia law ban on consumption of alcohol that exists in much of
the country's north.
(AFP, 8/4/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army dissidents detonated a bomb in a hijacked taxi
outside a police base in Londonderry, damaging buildings but
wounding no one despite the attackers' inaccurate warning. On Jan
12, 2011, police charged Londonderry resident Martin McCloone with
six criminal counts connected to the attack.
(AP, 8/3/10)(AP, 1/12/11)
2010 Aug 3, In Pakistan gunmen
killed at least 45 people Karachi after the assassination of a
prominent lawmaker set off a cycle of revenge attacks. Dozens of
vehicles and shops were set ablaze as security forces struggled to
regain control of the city.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Pakistan
floodwaters that devastated the mountainous northwest surged into
the heartland, submerging dozens of villages along bloated rivers
whose torrents have killed at least 1,500 people and put 100,000 at
risk of disease. Fresh rains in the hardest-hit northwest threatened
to overwhelm a major dam and unleash a new deluge.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, Authorities in
Panama said they recovered three more bodies on property owned by a
jailed US man who prosecutors say has confessed to killing five
fellow Americans to get their money and property in a Panamanian
resort area.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Peru at least
one farmer died when police cleared a roadblock set by coca growers
demanding the government halt efforts to eradicate coca plantations
in the world's top producer of the leaf, used to make cocaine.
(Reuters, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, Russia's
Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said some of the devastating
wildfires sweeping western Russia are out of control. PM Putin said
he would personally supervise the reconstruction of fire-ravaged
homes via video cameras to be installed at each construction site.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Rwanda the
French-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accused Kigali of
"flouting democracy" ahead of elections as Rwanda's regulatory body
suspended some 30 media organizations.
(AFP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In northern Siberia
a twin-engine Antonov-24 turboprop passenger plane crashed near
Igarka, killing at least 11 of the 15 people on board.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In South Africa a
judge sentenced former national police chief Jackie Selebi
(60) to 15 years in prison on corruption charges, saying he
was an embarrassment to the crime-plagued country and the police
officers who had served under him.
(AP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Arusha,
Tanzania, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR),
found Dominique Ntawukulilyayo (68) guilty of genocide and sentenced
him to 25 years of imprisonment. Prosecutors said Ntawukulilyayo in
1994 had transported soldiers to a hill where thousands of refugee
Tutsis had gathered after he promised to feed and protect them. The
soldiers joined other assailants in an attack, leaving possibly
thousands of Tutsis dead.
(Reuters, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 3, The UN launched an
appeal for 478 million dollars (362 million euros) in aid to
Zimbabwe, 100 million dollars more than in 2009, saying the country
was at crossroads.
(AFP, 8/3/10)
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