Today in History - August 10
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Aug 10, Feast of St. Lawrence on the Catholic
calendar. Also the approximate date of the Perseid Me-teors. Thus
the meteors are called the Tears of St. Lawrence.
(CFA, '96,Vol 179, p.23)
794
Aug 10, Fastrada (30), 3rd wife of French king
Charlemagne, died.
(MC, 8/10/02)
843 Aug 10, Treaty of Verdun:
Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divided
France.
(MC, 8/10/02)
955 Aug 10, Otto organized his
nobles and defeated the invading Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld
in Germany.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1296 Aug 10, John the Blind,
King of Bohemia, Count of Luxembourg, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1461 Aug 10, Alfonso ed Espina,
bishop of Osma, urged an Inquisition in Spain.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1497 Aug 10, John Cabot told
King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia."
(MC, 8/10/02)
1500 Aug 10, Diego Diaz
discovered Madagascar.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1539 Aug 10, King Francis of
France declared that all official documents were to be written in
French, not Latin.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1557 Aug 10, Spanish and
English troops in alliance defeated the French at the Battle of St.
Quentin (San Quintino). French troops were defeated by Emanuele
Filiberto's Spanish army at St. Quentin, France. In 1559 Filiberto
made Turin capital of his Savoy state.
(HN,
8/10/98)(www.niaf.org/news/news_italy/news_italy_mar2003.asp)
1560 Aug 10, Hieronymus
Praetorius, German composer, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1582 Aug 10, Russia ended its
25-year war with Poland. Russia and Poland concluded the Peace of
Jam-Zapolski under which Russia lost access to the Baltic and
surrendered Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.23)(HN, 8/10/98)
1589 Aug 10, Pietro Antonio
Tamburini, Italian composer, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1627 Aug 10, Cardinal Richelieu
began a siege of La Rochelle.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1628 Aug 10, The Swedish
228-foot warship Vasa capsized and sank in Stockholm harbor on her
maiden voyage because the ballast was insufficient to counterweight
the 64 guns and ballast. The wreckage was found in 1956. It opened
as part of a the Vasa museum in 1990. Twenty-five men and women
drowned when the ship sank. Vasa was the most expensive and richly
ornamented warship of its time in Sweden. She was recovered in 1961
and the skeletal remains were exhumed in 1989.
(NG, 5/95, Geographica)(WSJ, 7/21/00, p.W12)(HN,
8/10/00)
1675 Aug 10, King Charles II
laid the foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich. [see Jun
22]
(MC, 8/10/02)
1730 Aug 10, Sebastien de
Brossard (74), French composer, died. He authored the "Dictionnaire
de musique" (Paris, 1703).
(MC, 8/10/02)(Internet)
1753 Aug 10, Edmund Jennings
Randolph, governor of Virginia and first U.S. attorney general, was
born.
(HN, 8/10/00)
1779 Aug 10, Louis XVI of
France freed the last remaining serfs on royal land.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1787 Aug 10, Mozart completed
his "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik."
(MC, 8/10/02)
1792 Aug 10, Some 10,000
Parisians attacked the Tuileries Palace of Louis XVI at the
instigation of Georges Jacques Danton (33), after Louis ordered his
Swiss guard to stop firing on the people. The mob massacred some 600
guardsmen. The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason,
and executed the following January.
(PC, 1992, p.345)(AP, 8/10/07)(ON, 2/09, p.8)
1806 Aug 10, Johann Michael
Haydn (68), composer, died.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1809 Aug 10, Ecuador struck its
first blow for independence from Spain.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1810 Aug 10, Camillo di Cavour,
helped bring about the unification of Italy under the House of
Saxony.
(HN, 8/10/99)
1813 Aug 10, A number of
British barges manned by marines shelled the town of St. Michaels,
Md., on the Chesapeake Bay. Residents had hoisted lanterns to
treetops and masts and caused the British canons to overshoot their
mark. One house was hit by a cannonball on the roof and the ball
rolled across the attic and down the staircase frightening Mrs.
Merchant as she carried her infant daughter downstairs.
(SMBA, 1996)
1814 Aug 10, John Clifford
Pemberton (d.1881), Lt Gen (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1821 Aug 10, Missouri became
the 24th state.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1827 Aug 10, There were race
riots in Cincinnati and some 1,000 blacks left for Canada.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1829 Aug 16, The original
Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston aboard the
ship Sachem to be exhibited to the Western world.
(AP, 8/16/97)
1831 Aug 10, William Driver of
Salem, Massachusetts, was the first to use the term "Old Glory" in
connection with the American flag, when he gave that name to a large
flag aboard his ship, the Charles Daggett.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1835 Aug 10, Mob of whites and
oxen pulled a black school to a swamp outside of Canaan, NH.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1846 Aug 10, President James
Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution. The
US Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after
English scientist James Smithson (1765-1836), whose bequest of
$500,000 made it possible. The Smithsonian Institute was born and
Joseph Henry became its first secretary.
(SFEC, 8/25/96, p.T6)(AP, 8/10/07)
1861 Aug 10, General Nathaniel
Lyon died at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri. He was the 1st
Union general to die in the Civil War. The 2nd land battle of the
Civil War was fought along Wilson’s Creek in southwest Missouri. The
fight was considered a Confederate victory. This 1st major battle
west of the Mississippi was pivotal in determining the fate of the
most populous state west of the Mississippi River in the early
months of the Civil War."
(HNQ,
6/5/02)(www.civilwarhome.com/wilsonscreek.htm)(AM, 11/04, p.28)
1861 Aug 10, Friedrich Julius
Stahl (b.1802), conservative German jurist and publicist, died in
Bruckenau. He developed the idea that Germans are a people based on
descent.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Julius_Stahl)(Econ, 2/11/06,
Survey p.13)
1864 Aug 10, Confederate
Commander John Bell Hood sent his cavalry north of Atlanta to cut
off Union General William Sherman's supply lines.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1865 Aug 10, Alexander K.
Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1869 Aug 10, O.B. Brown
patented a moving picture projector.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1874 Aug 10, Herbert Clark
Hoover (d.1964), the 31st president of the United States
(1929-1933), was born in West Branch, Iowa.
(AP, 8/10/97)(SFEC, 1/12/97, Z3 p.4)(HN,
8/10/98)(AH, 12/02, p.20)
1874 Aug 10, Antanas Smetona
(d.1944), the 1st president of Lithuania, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanas_Smetona)
1877 Aug 10, Col. John Gibbon
slaughtered Nez-Perce Indians at Big Hole River.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1885 Aug 10, Leo Daft opened
America's first commercially operated electric streetcar, in
Baltimore.
(AP, 8/10/99)
1889 Aug 10, Dan Rylands
patented a screw cap.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1893 Aug 10, Chinese were
deported from SF under the 1892 Exclusion Act.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1895 Aug 10, The 1st Queen's
Hall Promenade Concert featured Wagner's "Rienzi."
(MC, 8/10/02)
1897 Aug 10, Felix Hoffmann, a
German worker for Bayer, rediscovered aspirin (acetyl salicyclic
acid), the active ingredient of the willow plant’s (salicin). In
1832 a French chemist named Charles Gergardt had experiments with
salicin and created salicylic acid. On March 6, 1899, Bayer
registered Aspirin as a trademark.
(http://didyouknow.org/aspirin/)(Econ, 12/11/10,
p.100)
1904 Aug 10, Angelo G.
Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII, became a priest.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1904 Aug 10, Dutch newspaper
Volk fired gay journalist Jacob de Cock.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1909 Aug 10, George W.
Crockett, first African-American lawyer with the U.S. Department of
Labor, was born.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1909 Aug 10, Leo Fender,
inventor of the first mass-produced electric guitar, was born.
(HN, 8/10/00)
1911 Aug 10, The House of Lords
in Great Britain gave up its veto power, making the House of Commons
the more powerful House.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1912 Aug 10, Leonard Woolf
(1880-1969), English man of letters, married writer Virginia
Duckworth (b.1882). Virginia Woolf committed suicide in 1941.
(WSJ, 12/17/05,
p.P13)(www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/)
1913 Aug 10, The Treaty of
Bucharest ended the Second Balkan War. It was concluded by the
delegates of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece. The
entire "disputed zone" was taken by Serbia, Greece secured its
position in Thessaloniki and southeastern Macedonia, the Ottomans
regained all the territories lost in the First Balkan War to
Bulgaria with the exception of eastern (Pirin) Macedonia, and the
Romanians seized Southern Dobruja.
(www.maknews.com/html/articles/stefov/stefov61.html)
1913 Aug 10, The Great Powers
recognized an independent Albanian state. Demographics were ignored,
however, and half of the territories inhabited by Albanians (such as
Kosova and Chameria) were divided among Montenegro, Serbia and
Greece.
(www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos149.htm)
1914 Aug 10, At Luik, German
12"/16.5" guns reached Belgian boundary.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1919 Aug 10, Ukrainian National
Army massacred 25 Jews in Podolia, Ukraine.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1920 Aug 10, Allies recognized
Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1920 Aug 10, The Ottoman
sultanate at Constantinople signed the Treaty of Sevres with the
Allies and associated powers. It promised a homeland for the Kurds,
but the nationalist government in Ankara did not sign the treaty. It
set the borders of Turkey recognized Armenia as an independent
state.
(SFC, 2/17/99, p.A10)(EWH, 4th ed,
p.1086)(www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/versa/sevres1.html)
1920 Aug 10, Turkish government
renounced its claim to Israel and recognized the British mandate.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1921 Aug 10, Franklin D.
Roosevelt (39) was stricken with polio at his summer home on the
Canadian island of Campobello, New Brunswick. Mrs. Roosevelt acted
as her partially paralyzed husband’s eyes and ears by traveling,
observing and reporting her observations to him. As First Lady, an
author and newspaper columnist and, later, a delegate to the United
Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt labored tirelessly for the poor and
disadvantaged. In the words of historian John Kenneth Galbraith, she
showed "more than any other person of her time, that an American
could truly be a world citizen."
(HNPD, 10//99)(SSFC, 8/1/04, p.D11)
1923 Aug 10, Joaquin Sorolla y
Bastida (b.1863), Spanish impressionist painter, died in Cercedilla.
His work included “A View of Malaga.”
(WSJ, 10/29/04, p.A15)(www.britannica.com)
1926 Aug 10, Marie-Claire
Alain, French organist, composer, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1927 Aug 10, Pres. Calvin
Coolidge took part in the formal dedication of Mount Rushmore.
Gutzon Borglum began work and the Mount Rushmore project was
completed in 1941. When South Dakota officials invited Gutzon
Borglum (1867-1941) to design a sculpture on the face of the Black
Hills, he declared, "American history shall march along that
skyline." Bor-glum’s son Lincoln (d.1986) led the completion of the
project created by some 400 workers.
(www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/texte/mount_rushmore.htm)(SSFC, 9/9/07,
p.C4)(ON, 2/11, p.10)
1928 Aug 10, Eddie Fisher
(d.1010), American singer, was born. His hits included "I'm Walking
Behind You" and "Oh, My Pa-Pa."
(SFC, 9/24/10, p.C6)
1929 Aug 10, John Alldis,
composer, conductor, was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1932 Aug 10, Rin Tin Tin
(b.1918), US Hollywood-dog, died. In 2011 Susan Orlean authored “Rin
Tin Tin: The Life and Legend.” In 1922 Rin Tin Tin was spotted by
the maker of a motion picture camera and his career began. He went
on to create a total of 26 motion pictures for Warner Brothers and
received over 10,000 fan letters per week.
(http://www.tv.com/people/rin-tin-tin/)
1941 Aug 10, Great Britain and
the Soviet Union promised aid to Turkey if it was attacked by the
Axis.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1942 Aug 10, Gen. Bernard Law
Montgomery was named commandant of the British 8th Army campaigning
in N. Africa. He arrived Aug 13.
(www.topedge.com/panels/ww2/na/frame.html)
1943 Aug 10, Hitler watched the
lynching of allied pilots.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1944 Aug 10, Race riots took
place in Athens, Alabama.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1944 Aug 10, During World War
II, American forces overcame Japanese resistance on Guam.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1945
Aug 10, Robert Goddard (b.1882), American rocket scientist, died. He
received 214 patents for rocket systems and components. In 2003
David Clary authored "Rocket Man," a biography of Goddard.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goddard_(scientist))(WSJ,
8/7/03, p.W8)
1945 Aug 10, Japan announced
its willingness to surrender to Allies provided that the status of
Emperor Hirohito remains unchanged. Yosuke Yamahata photographed the
aftermath of the bombing of Nagasaki. He was dispatched by the
Japanese military, but did not turn over the pictures to the
military authorities.
(HFA, ‘96, p.36)(WSJ, 8/1/95, p.A-8)(MC, 8/10/02)
1947 Aug 10, Ian Anderson,
rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle), was born in Scotland.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1947 Aug 10, William Odom set a
solo record by completing a round-the-world flight in 73 hours and 5
minutes, landing at Chicago's Douglas Airport.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1948 Aug 10, Allen Funt's
"Candid Microphone," later titled "Candid Camera," made its
television debut on ABC-TV.
(AP, 8/10/98)
1949 Aug 10, The National
Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense. Pres.
Truman signed a bill that established a department of defense with
broader and more definite powers for the Sec. of defense. Gen’l.
Omar N. Bradley was appointed chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
(AP, 8/10/97)(EWH, 1968, p.1207)
1950 Aug 10, President Harry S.
Truman called the National Guard to active duty to fight in the
Korean War.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1950 Aug 10, In South Korea
some 200-300 prisoners were killed by South Korean police near
Dokchon.
(SFC, 4/21/00, p.A19)
1959 Aug 10, Rosanna Arquette
(actress: Pulp Fiction, Silverado, Desperately Seeking Susan, New
York Stories, The Executioner's Song, After Hours), was born.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1960 Aug 10, Antonio Banderas,
actor (Phila, Evita, Mambo Kings, was born in Malaga, Spain.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1961 Aug 10, Denmark formally
applied for membership in the European Community.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1961/index_en.htm)
1968 Aug 10, In West Virginia
35 people were killed in the crash of a Piedmont Airlines Fairchild
FH-227 at Kanawha County Airport.
(AP, 8/10/08)
1969 Aug 10, Leno and Rosemary
LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of
Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four
other people were found slain.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1970 Aug 10, Dan Mitrione
(b.1920), a former Indiana police officer and FBI agent who had been
advising Latin American governments, including Uruguay's, on
techniques for interrogating suspects, was killed by Tupamaro
guerrillas. He had been kidnapped on July 31. In 2010 diplomatic
cables revealed that President Richard Nixon wanted the Uruguayan
government to threaten to kill leftist prisoners in an attempt to
save the life of Mitrione.
(AP,
8/13/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione)
1972 Aug 10, An Earth-grazing
meteoroid grazed the atmosphere above Canada. It entered the Earth's
atmosphere in daylight over Utah.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Daylight_1972_Fireball)
1975 Aug 10, Television
personality David Frost announced he had purchased the exclusive
rights to interview former President Nixon.
(AP, 8/10/00)
1977 Aug 10, US and Panama
negotiations for a Panama Canal Zone treaty, begun on February 15,
were completed [see Sep 7].
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrijos-Carter_Treaties)
1977 Aug 10, Postal employee
David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, N.Y., accused of being the
"Son of Sam" gunman responsible for six slayings and seven
woundings. Berkowitz was sentenced to six consecutive
25-years-to-life sentences.
(AP, 8/10/07)
1979 Aug 10, Michael Jackson
(21) launched his solo career with “Off the Wall.”
(WSJ, 6/8/05,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_Wall)
1981 Aug 10, Coca-Cola Bottling
Co agreed to pump $34 million into black businesses.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1981-8/1981-08-10-CBS-13.html)
1981 Aug 10, Richard Nixon
Museum in San Clemente closed (http://tinyurl.com/2n6pvf). On July
11, 2007, the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Ca., officially opened
as a federal facility.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Presidential_Library_and_Museum)
1986 Aug 10, "Me and My Girl"
opened at Marquis Theater in NYC for 1420 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=5982)
1987 Aug 10, President Reagan
said he would nominate C. William Verity Jr., a retired steel
company executive, to replace the late Malcolm Baldrige as commerce
secretary.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1987 Aug 10, Iorwith Wilbur
Able (b.1908), CEO of the United Steel Workers of America (1965-77),
died. I.W. Able had also served as vice-president of the AFL-CIO.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iorwith_Wilbur_Abel)
1988 Aug 10, President Reagan
signed the Civil Liberties Act, a measure providing $20,000 payments
to Japanese-Americans interned by the U.S. government during World
War II.
(AP, 8/10/97)(SFEC, 8/9/98, p.A1)
1988 Aug 10, Adela Rogers St.
John (b.1894), journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela_Rogers_St._Johns)
1989 Aug 10, Poland's Roman
Catholic church suspended an agreement to move nuns from a convent
on the edge of Auschwitz, blaming Jewish groups for creating what it
called an "atmosphere of aggressive demands."
(AP, 8/10/99)
1990 Aug 10, Washington DC
Mayor Marion Barry was convicted of a single misdemeanor drug charge
and acquitted on another; the judge declared a mistrial on 12 other
counts.
(AP, 8/10/00)
1990 Aug 10, US's Magellan
spacecraft landed on Venus.
(www2.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/guide10.html)
1991 Aug 10, The Revolutionary
Justice Organization, one of the groups holding hostages in Lebanon,
announced it would release an American within 72 hours. The next
day, Edward Tracy was freed.
(AP, 8/10/01)
1991 Aug 10, Nine Buddhists
were found slain at their temple outside Phoenix, Arizona. Two
teen-agers were later arrested; one pleaded guilty to murder, the
other was convicted of murder.
(AP, 8/10/01)
1992 Aug 10, President Bush met
at his Kennebunkport, Maine, vacation home with Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Afterward, Bush announced that Mideast peace
talks would resume in two weeks in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1993 Aug 10, President Clinton
signed a massive deficit-reduction bill into law.
(AP, 8/10/98)
1993 Aug 10, Ruth Bader
Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S.
Supreme Court.
(AP, 8/10/98)
1994 Aug 10, President Clinton
claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss,
at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by
Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
(AP, 8/10/99)
1995 Aug 10, Norma McCorvey,
"Jane Roe" of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion,
announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1995 Aug 10, Timothy McVeigh
and Terry Nichols were charged with eleven counts in the Oklahoma
City bombing. McVeigh was later convicted of murder. He was executed
by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the US Federal Penitentiary
in Terre Haute, Indiana. McVeigh (33) stated that his only regret
was not completely leveling the federal building. Nichols was
convicted of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter and sentenced
to life in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Execution)(AP,
8/10/00)
1996 Aug 10, US Sen. Bob Dole
completed the Republican ticket by announcing former housing
secretary Jack Kemp as his running mate.
(WSJ, 8/12/96, p.A1)(AP, 8/10/97)
1996 Aug 10, Cascading power
outages hit parts of nine Western states. [3:40 p.m. PST]
(SFC, 8/13/96, p.A10)(AP, 8/10/97)
1996 Aug 10, In Tijuana,
Mexico, gunmen kidnapped a Japanese businessmen, Mamoru Konno of
Sanyo Video, and held him for $2 mil ransom. He was found released
on Aug 19 after payment of the ransom.
(SFC, 8/13/96, p.A10) (SFC,
8/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug 10, In the Philippines
Mount Canlaon erupted and killed 3 climbers. The mountain was one of
21 active volcanoes in the Philippines.
(SFC, 8/12/96, p.C1)
1997 Aug 10, U.S. envoy Dennis
Ross met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an attempt to restart the
Mideast peace process.
(AP, 8/10/98)
1997 Aug 10, In Nashville a
riot erupted when a police officer killed a black murder suspect.
(WSJ, 8/11/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 10, It was reported
that the gasoline additive MTBE, methyl tert-butyl ether, was
leaking into ground water in California and elsewhere in the US.
Some 1,000 wells in California tested above the state’s action
level. The additive leaks from gasoline stations and dissolves in
water and seeps into aquifers. In 1995 the EPA reported that it
caused cancer in laboratory animals.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, p.A1,14)
1997 Aug 10, Peter Braestrup,
founder of the Wilson Quarterly, died in Maine at age 68.
(SFC, 8/12/97, p.A17)
1997 Aug 10, In Columbia police
arrested drug trafficker Waldo Simeon Vargas, alias “The Minister.”
He was a former associate of Pablo Escobar and created his own
organization after the Cali chiefs were arrested in 1995.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)
1997 Aug 10, In the 6th World
Championship in Athletics in Athens (Aug 1-Aug 10), the American
4x400m team beat the British quartet by just 0.18 seconds in the
final. Antonio Pettigrew ran the anchor leg for the US team that
won, but subsequently admitted to taking performance-enhancing
drugs. In 2010 the BBC, citing UK Athletics (UKA) and the
International Association of Athletics' Federations (IAAF), said the
British quartet of Roger Black, Jamie Baulch, Iwan Thomas and Mark
Richardson, would be promoted to gold.
(AFP,
1/7/10)(http://www2.iaaf.org/Results/Past/WCH97/data/M/4X4/Rf.html)
1997 Aug 10, In Peru a
snowstorm trapped some 40 vehicles on the Andes highway between
Abancay and Puquio and left 6 people dead in their vehicles.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)
1997 Aug 10, In Uganda the
state-owned Sunday Vision reported that its Chinese-built arms
factory would stop producing land mines and grenades. The Ugandan
army would be supplied but the products would not be exported.
Dry-cells would be produced to replace the land mines and grenades.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)
1997 Aug 10, In Taiwan a
19-seat Formosa Airlines Dornier 228 crashed on the island of Matsu
and killed all 16 onboard.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/11/97, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright announced a $2 million reward for information
leading to the conviction of terrorists who bombed U.S. embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans.
(AP, 8/10/99)
1998 Aug 10, The 308,000
sq.-foot Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center opened in
Mashantucket, Conn.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A16)
1998 Aug 10, In Afghanistan it
appeared that the Taliban were in control of Mazar-e-Sharif.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, In Angola fighting
broke out between government troops and UNITA.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, Congo claimed to
have recaptured the Atlantic ports near the mouth of the Congo River
that were taken by Tutsi rebels.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, Fighting in
Kashmir resumed and 19 people were reported killed in battles
between Indian security forces and Pakistan-backed separatist
rebels.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 10, In Kosovo ethnic
Albanians reportedly killed 10 police officers. 3 KLA rebels were
also reported killed.
(SFC, 8/11/98, p.A10)
1998 Aug 10, Residents of Nevis
voted on whether to break away from St. Kitts. 62% voted in favor
but the resolution required 67%.
(SFC, 7/15/98, p.C12)(SFC, 8/10/98, p.A14)(SFC,
8/12/98, p.C2)
1999 Aug 10, In Granada Hills,
Los Angeles County, Buford Oneal Furrow (37) opened fire at a Jewish
day camp center and wounded 1 adult, a teenager and 3 children. He
also shot and killed postal worker Joseph Ileto. In 2001 Buford
agreed to plead guilty for a mandatory life sentence and is serving
two life sentences.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/12/99, p.A17)(SFC,
1/24/01, p.A4)(AP, 8/11/04)
1999 Aug 10, In Dagestan the
Interior Ministry said 44 militants were killed and 80 wounded in
fighting with Russian forces.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 10, An Indian jet shot
down a Pakistani naval reconnaissance plane over the disputed Sir
Creek area. and all 16 people in the plane were killed.
(www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9908/10/india.pak.plane.01/index.html)
1999 Aug 10, In Indonesia
religious fighting killed 18 people in Ambon.
(WSJ, 8/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 10, In Israel Akram
Alkam (22) was shot and killed by Israeli police after he twice
struck hitchhiking Israeli soldiers at Nachshon Junction with his
car.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A10)
1999 Aug 10, In Serbia Gen'l.
Momcilo Perisic (55) declared his leadership in the Movement for
Democratic Serbia.
(WSJ, 8/12/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 10, In Sierra Leone
rebels released the remaining hostages along with 200 civilians
taken prisoner earlier.
(SFC, 8/11/99, p.A10)
2000 Aug 10, The Reform Party’s
convention opened in Long Beach, Ca., amid a struggle for control
between delegates supporting Pat Buchanan and party leaders. $12.5
million in federal matching funds was at stake. Buchanan moved his
faction to the right and dissidents broke off to a separate
convention. The Federal Election Commission awarded the campaign
money to Buchanan in Sept.
(SFC, 8/10/00, p.A3)(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A1)(SFC,
9/13/00, p.A2)
2000 Aug 10, A US Navy
helicopter crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. 2 crew members were
rescued, 2 were killed and 2 were missing.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.D3)
2000 Aug 10, In Congo rebels
fought government troops near Dongo. Jean-Pierre Bemba, head of the
Ugandan backed Congolese Liberation Movement, said his rebels had
killed some 800 government soldiers on riverboats using missiles.
(SFC, 8/12/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 10, In Iraq Pres.
Chavez of Venezuela held talks with Pres. Saddam Hussein in support
of upcoming oil talks in Caracas. Chavez defied the United States by
being the first head of state to visit Iraq since the Gulf War.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A15)(AP, 8/10/01)
2000 Aug 10, In Kashmir 11
people were killed and 19 wounded from a car bomb set off by the
Hizbul Mujahedeen.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A14)
2001 Aug 10, Space shuttle
Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral with supplies and a fresh
crew for the Int’l. Space Station.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A4)
2001 Aug 10, A tourist
helicopter crashed near the Grand Canyon and 6 people were killed.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, About 20 US and
British jets bombed air-defense installation south of Baghdad in
retaliation for increased anti-aircraft activity. Iraqis claimed 1
civilian was killed and 11 wounded.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, In Argentina
nearly 1 million people gathered to pray to St. Cayetano, patron of
work and bread, for an easing of the economic crises that has left 1
in 3 Argentines in poverty. The government struggled to keep from
defaulting on a $127 billion debt.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, Britain stepped in
to save Northern Ireland's power-sharing government by taking away
its powers for a day, a legal maneuver that removed a deadline to
elect a new leader of the Catholic-Protestant government.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)(AP, 8/10/02)
2001 Aug 10, In Cambodia King
Sihanouk signed war-crimes legislation to try senior Khmer Rouge
leaders.
(WSJ, 8/15/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 10, Israeli forces
took over 9 buildings in East Jerusalem in retaliation for the
suicide bombing that killed 15 people.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10, In Macedonia 2
mines hit military trucks near Skopje and 7 soldiers were killed.
The army retaliated with an assault on Ljuboten.
(SFC, 8/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Aug 10-12, In Macedonia
security forces killed 6 ethnic Albanian civilians and burned at
least 22 houses in the village of Ljuboten. Another 3 were killed
from indiscriminate shelling and another died when shot while
fleeing.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.E4)
2002 Aug 10, Sammy Sosa hit
three 3-run homers in Chicago's 15-1 rout of Colorado. Barry Bonds
of the San Francisco Giants broke Willie McCovey's 1969 record for
intentional walks in a season with his 46th of the year.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2002 Aug 10, It was reported
that the Bush administration had begun warning foreign diplomats
that they could lose US military assistance if they join the Int'l.
Criminal Court without pledging to protect Americans from its reach.
Article 98 allowed nations to negotiate immunity on a bilateral
basis.
(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A12)
2002 Aug 10, Leaders of Roman
Catholic religious orders, meeting in Philadelphia, approved details
of their plan to keep sexually abusive clergy away from children,
while retaining them in the priesthood, creating review boards to
monitor how their communities handle offenders.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2002 Aug 10, In China rescue
crews pulled the bodies of 7 workers from a flooded mine in the
central Chinese province of Henan. One more was recovered the next
day.
(AP, 8/11/02)
2002 Aug 10, China's Science
and Technology Daily reported approval of a home-grown AIDS drug for
the first time that will end the dependence of Chinese with the
disease on imported medicine. Jiduo Fuding was developed by the
Northeast General Pharmaceutical Factory.
(Reuters, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, In rural Upper
Egypt 3 gunmen ambushed two vehicles, killing 22 members of a rival
family.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, Indonesia's top
legislature approved direct presidential elections for the world's
most populous Muslim country, marking a major step in the nation's
messy transition to democracy.
(Reuters, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, Israeli soldiers
shot dead a Palestinian electricity department worker as he sat in
his city-owned truck and the army expressed its sorrow and said it
had opened an investigation. Gunfire in a Jordan Valley settlement
killed a suspected Palestinian militant and an Israeli woman.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, In Mali a
Constitutional Court reversed the outcome of last month's
parliamentary elections, giving an opposition alliance a comfortable
lead.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, In northwestern
Mexico a bus crashed through a railing and into a shallow river near
Hermosillo, killing 16 passengers and injuring two dozen others.
(AP, 8/12/02)
2002 Aug 10, Kemal Dervis,
Turkey's economy minister and the architect of a $16 billion,
foreign-backed recovery program, to run for parliament and called on
bickering politicians to join forces for a strong government.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2002 Aug 10, A UNICEF report
said about 2,500 Haitian children are smuggled illegally into the
Dominican Republic each year to work as manual laborers or beggars.
(AP, 8/10/02)
2003 Aug 10, Atlanta Braves
shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in
major league history against the St. Louis Cardinals. St. Louis beat
Atlanta 3-2.
(AP, 8/11/04)
2003 Aug 10, Britain sweltered
through its hottest day on record and Alpine glaciers melted as the
heat wave that has baked much of Europe for days sizzled
relentlessly on. Britain topped 100 degrees for the first time in
recorded history.
(AP, 8/11/03)(AP, 8/10/08)
2003 Aug 10, Eight Russian
soldiers and police died in rebel attacks in a day of violence
throughout Chechnya.
(AP, 8/11/03)
2003 Aug 10, India's prime
minister called for an end to bloodshed between Pakistan and India
in a statement read before a peace conference in Islamabad.
(AP, 8/10/03)
2003 Aug 10, Israeli warplanes
bombed suspected Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, hours
after the militant group shelled northern Israel, killing a teenage
boy.
(AP, 8/10/03)
2003 Aug 10, Pirates in the
Strait of Malacca struck a small tanker near the Port Klang, Kuala
Lumpur. They looted the ship and took it into Indonesia waters and
sought $100,000 ransom for the top 3 officers.
(SFC, 8/15/03, p.A8)
2003 Aug 10, Liberian President
Charles Taylor delivered a farewell address to a nation bloodied by
14 years of war.
(AP, 8/11/04)
2003 Aug 10, In Pakistan gunmen
on motorcycles opened fire on a van in the southern port city of
Karachi, killing five people.
(AP, 8/10/03)
2003 Aug 10, In the southern
Philippines army troops searching for a suspected Islamic militant
clashed with unidentified men, killing three gunmen.
(AP, 8/10/03)
2003 Aug 10, Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko, aboard the international space center, married his
earthbound bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev, who was at Johnson Space
Center in Houston, in the first wedding ever conducted from space.
(AP, 8/11/08)
2003 Aug 10, Saudi police
arrested 10 suspected Muslim militants following a gunfight after
police tried to stop their cars outside Riyadh.
(WSJ, 8/12/03, p.A1)
2004 Aug 10, Pres. Bush
nominated Porter J. Goss, Florida Republican congressman, to head
the CIA. Goss spent most of his career as a clandestine operative in
Latin America.
(AP, 8/11/04)(WSJ, 8/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 10, The US Federal
Reserve Open Market Committee (FMOC) hiked the federal funds target
rate, to 1.50 percent from 1.25 percent.
(AFP, 8/11/04)
2004 Aug 10, The 20-year-old
woman, who accused Kobe Bryant of rape, filed a federal lawsuit in
Denver against the NBA star. The lawsuit was later settled out of
court; terms were not disclosed.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2004 Aug 10, Barry Bonds became
the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in 13
consecutive seasons, connecting in San Francisco's 8-7 loss to
Pittsburgh.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2004 Aug 10, In Austria a bus
carrying mostly British tourists veered off a road in the province
of Salzburg and rolled down an embankment, killing at least five
people.
(AP, 8/10/04)
2004 Aug 10, In southwest China
a 5.6 earthquake killed four and injured nearly 600 in Yunnan
province. More than 125,000 people were left homeless and cracked
walls in reservoirs posed a threat to villages downstream.
(AP, 8/12/04)
2004 Aug 10, Thirty-three
missing Dominican migrants were found alive after nearly two weeks
at sea, but two died on the way to the hospital. 53 others died on
the journey.
(AP, 8/10/04)(SFC, 8/12/04, p.A12)
2004 Aug 10, Libya agreed to
pay $35 million to the non-US victims of the 1986 Berlin disco
bombing. Libya's Kadhafi Foundation, which negotiated the terms of a
compensation deal for victims of the bombing, demanded compensation
from the United States for subsequent air strikes against the north
African country.
(AP, 8/10/04)(WSJ, 8/11/04, p.A1)
2005 Aug 10, Pres. Bush visited
a Caterpillar plant in Illinois where he signed a $286.4 billion
highway bill. It was the most expensive US public works program to
date.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A1)(Econ, 5/31/08, p.38)
2005 Aug 10, Industry group
figures showed that applications for US home mortgages fell last
week, its third consecutive drop, as refinancing activity waned and
interest rates reached four-month highs.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, David Myers (47),
former WorldCom controller, was sentenced to a year and a day in
prison for his high-ranking role in the largest accounting fraud in
U.S. history. Buford Yates, ex-director of general accounting,
received the same sentence.
(SFC, 8/11/05, p.C3)
2005 Aug 10, Tennessee prison
inmate George Hyatte and his wife, Jennifer, surrendered in
Columbus, Ohio, a day after she'd allegedly ambushed two prison
guards at a courthouse, killing one of them, to help her husband
escape. Jennifer Hyatte was later sentenced to life in prison by
agreeing to testify against her husband. George Hyatte, already
facing 41 years of incarceration, awaited trial in the murder of
Wayne Morgan and escaping jail.
(AP,
8/10/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_courthouse_shooting)
2005 Aug 10, A fire destroyed
an egg facility in Michigan and killed some 250,000 chickens.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 10, Oil reached record
highs as prices for September delivery touched $65 per barrel and
closed at $64.90.
(SFC, 8/11/05, p.C1)
2005 Aug 10, In Brazil
impeachment proceedings began against Rep. Jose Dirceu, a federal
legislator and a former top Cabinet official, in connection with a
bribery scandal that has rocked President Luiz Inacio da Silva's
Workers' Party.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, In Brazil
authorities said they had identified some of the Sao Paulo bank
heist thieves and were looking into the possibility the heist was
pulled off by the First Capital Command, one of Brazil's most
notorious organized crime groups.
(AP, 8/12/05)
2005 Aug 10, The castaway
television thriller "Lost" debuted as the most watched U.S. import
on British television since soap opera "Dallas" captivated fans more
than 20 years ago.
(AP, 8/11/05)
2005 Aug 10, Canada won a
ruling against the US under NAFTA ordering the US to drop
punitive duties on Canadian softwood and refund $4 billion already
collected. The US refused to comply and won support from the WTO.
(www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2005/2005-08-12-04.asp)(Econ, 9/10/05,
p.38)
2005 Aug 10, In Chile Gen.
Augusto Pinochet's wife and younger son were arrested and charged as
accomplices in a tax evasion case linked to an investigation into
the former dictator's multimillion dollar fortune overseas.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, Congolese Vice
President Azeria Ruberwa met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Ruberwa talked of his government's
concerns about 14 Congolese men, suspected of plotting a coup, who
were in Uganda. Rugunda said 8 men left before the expulsion order.
The other six were given 48 hours to leave.
(AP, 8/24/05)
2005 Aug 10, The Sikorsky 76
helicopter on a scheduled flight from Tallinn to Helsinki, Finland,
went down with 2 pilots and 12 passengers about 3 miles off the
coast of Estonia.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, In Haiti police
stormed a volatile slum in Port-au-Prince in an attack on well-armed
gangs that witnesses said left at least five people dead.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, Iran removed the
final seals from equipment at a uranium conversion plant as U.N.
inspectors watched, paving the way for Tehran to fully open the
facility despite European and U.S. calls for it to maintain the
suspension of its nuclear program.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, Gunmen kidnapped
Brig. Gen. Khudayer Abbas, a senior Iraqi Interior Ministry
official, as he drove his car in central Baghdad. A suicide bomber
killed six people and wounded 14 when he drove a car at a police
patrol in the Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad.
(AP, 8/10/05)(Reuters, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, A UN agency
reported the 1st avian flu appearance in Mongolia and said 80
migratory birds have died near the Siberian border.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 10, Thomas Devlin (15)
was attacked and stabbed to death as he walked home with friends in
north Belfast.
(http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/violence/deaths2005draft.htm)(AP,
10/20/07)
2005 Aug 10, In the southern
Philippines a series of powerful explosions described as terrorist
attacks ripped through Zamboanga city and injured at least 14
people.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, An assailant beat
a Polish envoy near Poland's Moscow embassy, drawing diplomatic
protests over the second such attack in four days.
(AP, 8/11/05)
2005 Aug 10, Russia’s Defense
Ministry said more than 3,450 Russian troops have been killed in
Chechnya since federal forces re-entered the southern Russian region
six years ago.
(AP, 8/10/05)
2005 Aug 10, South Korea
ordered an end to a 25-day strike by unionized pilots at Asiana
Airlines.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A11)
2005 Aug 10, In Venezuela
lawmakers approved a transfer of $14 million (30.6 billion bolivars)
as seed money for a new Treasury Bank to handle government banking
needs.
(WSJ, 8/11/05, p.A11)
2006 Aug 10, In NYC organizers
said Germany's Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk (51) won the 3,100-mile
Self-Transcendence event, capturing the world's longest foot race in
41 days, eight hours, 16 minutes and 29 seconds. Suprabha Beckjord
(50) was 14th overall and the only woman to finish, doing so after
60 days, four hours, 35 minutes and 24 seconds.
(AFP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, Wal-Mart Stores
said it will work with Chinese government officials to establish
labor unions in all its outlets in China.
(SFC, 8/11/06, p.D2)
2006 Aug 10, NASA satellite
data showed that the ice sheet in Greenland is melting faster than
expected.
(WSJ, 8/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 10, In Afghanistan a
roadside bomb killed two Afghan civilians in Jalalabad.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, A Brazilian
congressional committee approved a report recommending the expulsion
of 72 federal lawmakers from Congress on charges of participating in
a nation-wide plan to divert funds from the country’s health-care
system.
(WSJ, 8/11/06, p.A5)
2006 Aug 10, British
authorities said they had thwarted a terrorist plot to
simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the US using
explosives smuggled in carry-on luggage. US Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff said the terrorists planned to use liquid
explosives disguised as beverages and other common products and
detonators disguised as electronic devices.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In Chile a drug
trafficking network working on behalf of the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC) was dismantled. Police seized almost a
half-ton of cocaine and arrested 12 people.
(AP, 8/12/06)
2006 Aug 10, Saomai, the most
powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades, slammed into its
southeastern coast, destroying hundreds of homes and battering the
region with rain and wind after more than 1.3 million people were
evacuated. It ultimately killed at least 483 people.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2006 Aug 10, Hector Orlando
Martinez Quinto (38) was captured in Costa Rica. He was accused of
participating in a 2002 rebel (FARQ) attack that killed 119
civilians in Boyaya, in one of the worst tragedies in Colombia's
four-decade-old guerrilla war.
(AP, 8/11/06)
2006 Aug 10, Rights activists
said at least nine inmates have died in Georgian prisons in the past
10 days as the Caucasus Mountains nation suffers through high
temperatures not seen in two decades.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In India 2 more
states banned the sale of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo soft drinks at
government-run schools and colleges over allegations they contain
high levels of pesticides.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In Iraq a suicide
bomber detonated a belt of explosives near a highly revered Shiite
shrine in Najaf, killing at least 35 people and injuring 122.
(AP, 8/10/06)(SFC, 8/11/06, p.A8)
2006 Aug 10, Israel said will
hold back on its new ground offensive in Lebanon until the weekend
to give cease-fire efforts another chance. In Jerusalem a tourist
(25) was stabbed to death by an Arab youth near one of the gates to
the walled Old City in what was believed to be a political attack.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10-2006 Aug 11,
Italian police raided Internet cafes, money-transfer offices and
long-distance phone call centers catering to Muslims and arrested 40
people in a crackdown linked to Britain's announcement it had
thwarted an alleged terror plot.
(AP, 8/11/06)
2006 Aug 10, Yasuo Takei,
Japan’s richest man, died. Forbes listed his assets at $5.4 billion.
In 1966 he founded Fuji Shoji, a consumer loan company. In 1974 it
was renamed Takefuji and grew to become a leader in Japan’s loan
industry. In 2004 he was convicted for ordering an illegal
wiretapping of a reported who criticized his company.
(SFC, 8/14/06, p.B8)
2006 Aug 10, Malawi's President
Bingu wa Mutharika demanded the resignation of Ishmael Wadi, a top
prosecutor, for withdrawing corruption charges against the nation's
previous leader. Wadi dropped the charges after Mutharika suspended
the head of the anti-corruption bureau, Gustave Kaliwo. Wadi said
the suspension left the bureau with no powers to prosecute.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In Mexico leftist
activists blockaded bank headquarters and called for a march on the
offices of federal prosecutors, as officials recounted some of the
ballots from the disputed presidential election. A protester was
shot dead when assailants fired on a march of about 8,000 people
calling for the governor's resignation in Oaxaca.
(AP, 8/10/06)(AP, 8/11/06)
2006 Aug 10, In southern
Nigeria gunmen in military fatigues seized two foreign oil workers.
A Belgian and a Moroccan were abducted as they traveled through the
city of Port Harcourt taking to at least 10 the number kidnapped in
the past week.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, In Serbia a panel
of international judges convicted and sentenced Selim Krasniqi and
two other former rebel fighters to 7 years in prison for detaining
and beating fellow ethnic Albanians who allegedly collaborated with
Serb authorities during the 1998 Kosovo war.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2006 Aug 10, The Sri Lankan
military attacked Tamil Tiger rebels from land and air, and the
rebels retaliated in heavy fighting that killed at least 13
combatants. A Nordic cease-fire monitor warned that the situation
was worsening.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2007 Aug 10, The United States
launched an expedition toward the Arctic to map the sea floor off
Alaska.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Federal regulators
said that they are pulling $200 million in funding from the Martin
Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital a troubled hospital that serves one
of LA’s poorest neighborhoods, forcing it to all but shut down. The
hospital was built after the 1965 Watts riots to bring health care
to poor, minority communities in south Los Angeles.
(AP, 8/11/07)
2007 Aug 10, In southern
Indiana 3 men were killed in a coal mine when a nylon sling used to
transport supplies up and down a shaft got caught, causing the
bucket the men were riding in to tip and send them plummeting more
than 500 feet to their deaths.
(WSJ, 8/11/07, p.A1)(AP, 8/10/08)
2007 Aug 10, PM Gordon Brown
said that foot-and-mouth disease had been contained within a small
area of England, despite tests for a suspected new outbreak in a
herd several miles from the initial cluster of cases.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Canada's prime
minister announced plans for an army training center and a deepwater
port on the third day of an Arctic trip meant to assert sovereignty
over a region.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Congo's ruling
coalition in Brazzaville was declared the winner of legislative
elections, despite opposition charges of electoral fraud.
(AFP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Denmark was
reported to be planning a monthlong expedition, to begin Aug 12, to
seek evidence that the Lomonosov Ridge, a 1,240-mile underwater
mountain range, is attached to the Danish territory of Greenland,
making it a geological extension of the Arctic island.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, In East Timor
dozens of attackers raided the Salesian Don Bosco convent and raped
several female students, including one around 8 years old.
(AP, 8/11/07)
2007 Aug 10, The European
Central Bank injected another $83.8 billion into the banking system
amid signs that bad US mortgages were digging deeper into the world
economy. Europe's main stock markets slumped further, with London
and Paris shedding more than 3.0 percent, amid turmoil ignited by
concerns about a weak US housing sector.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, In India a
government report said 77% of Indians, about 836 million people,
live on less than half a dollar a day in one of the world's hottest
economies. Suspected separatist rebels gunned down a group of
migrant workers as they slept and bombed two markets in the
insurgency-wracked northeast, bringing the total number of people
killed in a week of violence to 23. Police have blamed the violence
on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom and the Karbi Longri
National Liberation Front.
(Reuters, 8/10/07)(AP, 8/11/07)
2007 Aug 10, A car bomb struck
a market in a Kurdish area in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing
at least eight people and wounding dozens. Scattered violence struck
Iraqis nationwide, with at least 15 people killed or found dead.
South of Baghdad, the US military said a helicopter was forced down,
leaving two soldiers injured.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Japan and the US
signed an agreement aimed at protecting classified military
information to be shared by the two countries promoting closer
defense cooperation.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, Malawi said it
will deploy 800 troops to Darfur in Sudan to serve in the future
United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force.
(AFP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, A Dutch cruise
ship rescued 14 African migrants after their boat capsized in rough
Mediterranean waters as they tried to reach Europe, while
authorities searched for 11 other passengers who were feared
drowned.
(AP, 8/11/07)
2007 Aug 10, In Nigeria gunmen
kidnapped an American manager from oil services firm Hydrodive as he
traveled to work in Port Harcourt, where gunfire rang out across the
region’s main city for a fifth day.
(Reuters, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, In Puerto Rico a
police officer shot and killed Miguel Caceres Cruz during a struggle
at a traffic jam. Javier Pagan Cruz, the officer who fired the
shots, was convicted of murder and a weapons charge and sentenced to
109 years in prison. Prosecutors later said two associate police
could have prevented the slaying. In 2011 a jury acquitted the two
police officers of being accessories to murder.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Police_Department)(AP,
3/26/11)
2007 Aug 10, The Sudanese Media
Centre said security forces have handed 33 suspects accused of
trying to overthrow the government to the justice ministry for
investigation.
(Reuters, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 10, A Security Council
resolution authorized the UN, at the request of the Iraqi
government, to promote political talks among Iraqis and a regional
dialogue on issues including border security, energy and refugees as
well as help tackling the country's worsening humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 8/11/07)
2008 Aug 10, Shelley Malil
(43), comic film and TV actor, stabbed his girlfriend more than 20
times in San Diego County. On Aug 13 he was charged with attempted
murder.
(AP, 8/13/08)
2008 Aug 10, Isaac Hayes
(b.1942), singer, died in Memphis. The baldheaded, baritone-voiced
soul crooner laid the groundwork for disco. His 1971 "Theme From
Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards.
(AP, 8/11/08)
2008 Aug 10, In Afghanistan
five civilians died when their vehicle struck a freshly planted mine
close to an Afghan military base in Zhari district in southern
Kandahar province. Australia's Defense Department said that its
troops had captured Mullah Bari Ghul, the Taliban's senior leader in
the central province of Uruzgan during a targeted operation last
week. 8 civilians held hostage by Taliban militants were killed in
an air strike by US-led troops during a battle that also left 25
rebel fighters dead in southern Uruzgan province.
(AP, 8/10/08)(AFP, 8/11/08)
2008 Aug 10, In southern
Australia some 5,000 people rallied to protest the dwindling water
levels of the Murray River, claiming the loss was causing an
environmental disaster.
(AFP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Voters in Bolivia
vigorously endorsed President Evo Morales in a recall referendum he
devised to try to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist
crusade, partial unofficial results showed. More than 62 percent of
voters ratified the mandate.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, In Canada
explosions at a propane facility in Toronto forced thousands to
evacuate. One firefighter died at the scene. A riot broke out and an
officer was shot in the leg in a north Montreal neighborhood where a
Honduran teenager (18) was shot and killed by police a day earlier.
(SFC, 8/11/08, p.A3)(AP, 8/11/08)(SFC, 8/12/08,
p.A3)
2008 Aug 10, In northwest China
bombings and fierce clashes took place between police and attackers,
the second outbreak of deadly violence there in under a week. Two
women were among a squad of assailants accused of killing 12 people
when they hurled homemade bombs at government buildings and police.
(AFP, 8/10/08)(AP, 8/11/08)
2008 Aug 10, Welshwoman Nicole
Cooke handed Britain their first gold of the Beijing Olympic Games
when she won the women's cycling road race.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Japan's Masato
Uchishiba has won his second straight Olympic gold medal, pinning
France's Benjamin Darbelet just seconds into their final match in
the men's 66-kilogram division and bringing Japan its first judo
gold of the Beijing Games.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Georgian troops
retreated from the breakaway province of South Ossetia and their
government pressed for a truce, overwhelmed by Russian firepower as
the conflict threatened to set off a wider war. Georgia said it has
shot down 10 Russian planes, including four brought down Aug 9. It
also claimed to have captured two Russian pilots, who were shown on
Georgian television. Ukraine warned Russia it could bar Russian navy
ships from returning to their base in the Crimea because of their
deployment to Georgia's coast.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, In southern India
40 villagers riding on a truck were swept away by a flooded river
and feared dead. Monsoon rains have claimed at least 59 lives in the
past three days.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Iraqi Foreign
Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said the US must provide a "very clear
timeline" to withdraw its troops from Iraq as part of an agreement
allowing them to stay beyond this year. A series of bombs struck
Iraqi security forces and commuters in the Baghdad area, killing at
least seven people and wounding 25 others. A female suicide bomber
killed a US soldier and at least four Iraqis in a complex attack in
Tarmiyah. An Iraqi police official said 17 Iraqis were killed in the
Tarmiyah attack, including 3 members of the Awakening Council.
(Reuters, 8/10/08)(AP, 8/10/08)(AP, 8/11/08)(SFC,
8/11/08, p.A5)
2008 Aug 10, Pakistani forces
bombed dozens of houses in Bajur, a tribal region near the Afghan
border, amid reports that days of clashes have killed at least 100
insurgents and nine paramilitary troops. Pakistani forces pulled out
of Bajur after 3 days of fighting. A Taliban spokesman said as many
as 100 Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed. Officials
acknowledged that 55 were missing.
(AP, 8/10/08)(SSFC, 8/11/08, p.A11)
2008 Aug 10, In the Philippines
nearly 3,000 troops and police launched an attack after guerrillas
defied an ultimatum to withdraw from five towns in North Cotabato
province.
(AP, 8/11/08)
2008 Aug 10, South African
President Thabo Mbeki spent more than eight hours in talks with
Zimbabwe's president and opposition leaders to try to resolve a
deadly political dispute.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2008 Aug 10, Sri Lankan
soldiers launched a pre-dawn attack on Tamil separatists in the
embattled north, killing 15 rebels, while other battles in the
region left 24 rebels and one soldier dead, said the military.
(AP, 8/10/08)
2009 Aug 10, In Oakland, Ca.,
Hassani Campbell (5) was reported missing by his foster parents
Louis Ross (38) and Jennifer Campbell (33). The couple were arrested
on Aug 28 on suspicion of killing the boy, who suffered from
cerebral palsy.
(SFC, 8/29/09, p.A1)
2009 Aug 10, At least three
Afghan police and two civilians were killed in a brazen attack by
Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers on government buildings near
Kabul. A US soldier was killed in the south in a hostile fire
incident. 22 Taliban insurgents and two Afghan soldiers also died in
violence.
(Reuters, 8/10/09)(AP, 8/11/09)
2009 Aug 10, Australia said it
has pledged 7.8 million US dollars this year to help save more than
100 indigenous languages which are in grave danger of dying out.
(AFP, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, Canada’s Nortel
Networks said its chief executive would step down immediately and
its board would shrink from nine directors to just three as the
bankrupt telecom equipment maker sheds its major assets.
(Reuters, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, China said that it
has released more than 1,200 detainees held over the unrest in Tibet
last year while more than 700 people are still being held over last
month's riots in Xinjiang. China's police said they have installed
2.75 million surveillance cameras since 2003 and are expanding the
system into the largely neglected countryside.
(AFP, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton arrived in the strife-torn Democratic Republic
of Congo on the fourth leg of her seven-nation African tour. Clinton
said she would press Democratic Republic of Congo's government to
address the root causes of the conflict in the east and stop the use
of women as "weapons of war."
(Reuters, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, In Cuba 14 people
were killed and at least 33 hospitalized after two trucks loaded
with passengers collided in the central Cuban province of Ciego de
Avila.
(AP, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, Leaders of the
Union of South American Nations (UNASUL), a 12-member group inspired
by Brazil, met in Quito, Ecuador, in an attempt to further
integration. Colombia’s Pres. Uribe did not attend, in part because
Ecuador broke of ties with Colombia last year.
(Econ, 8/15/09, p.31)
2009 Aug 10, In Iraq a double
truck bombing tore through the village of a small Shiite ethnic
minority near the northern city of Mosul killing at least 35 people
in Khazna. 9 blasts wracked Baghdad in a wave of violence that
killed 22 people. All told more than 250 were left wounded.
(AP, 8/10/09)(SFC, 8/11/09, p.A4)
2009 Aug 10, Israeli warplanes
bombed a smuggling tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border in response to
Palestinian rocket and mortar fire, in a brief flare-up of violence
at a time of relative quiet in the volatile Palestinian territory.
(AP, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, Typhoon Etau
slammed into the west coast of Japan. 13 people were killed in
raging floodwaters and landslides, and 10 others were missing.
(AP, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, In Mexico Pres.
Obama huddled with the leaders of Mexico and Canada for a swift
North American summit, where the swine flu epidemic and knotty
disputes over cross-border trade dominated a lengthy agenda.
(AP, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, Mexican soldiers
arrested Juan Daniel Carranco Salazar, the alleged leader of the
Gulf cartel's operations in the Caribbean resort of Cancun. State
prosecutors in Baja California announced their arrest of state
detective Sergio Alvarado Chong in the border city of Mexicali with
8 kilograms (17.64 pounds) of cocaine.
(AP, 8/11/09)
2009 Aug 10, New Zealand
announced that it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 to 20
percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
(AP, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, In Pakistan attack
helicopters and artillery pounded militant hideouts following
clashes between rebels and security forces in North Waziristan. 3
militants were reported killed.
(AFP, 8/10/09)
2009 Aug 10, In central
Slovakia 19 workers were trapped underground after a fire and
explosion hit the Handlova coal mine. The trapped workers were nine
miners who were initially sent to battle a blaze and 11 sent as
reinforcements as the fire grew. All were believed killed.
(AP, 8/10/09)(AP, 8/11/09)
2010 Aug 10, President Barack
Obama signed a $26 billion bill would protect some 300,000 teachers,
police and others from election-year layoffs.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, A San Francisco
judge ordered Wells Fargo to pay its customers $203 million for
manipulating debit transactions to maximize overdraft fees.
(SFC, 8/12/10, p.A1)
2010 Aug 10, In Ohio Roderick
Davie (38) was executed by lethal injection for the murder of 2
co-workers at a pet supply company in 1991.
(SFC, 8/11/10, p.A4)
2010 Aug 10, In Afghanistan 2
gunmen with explosives strapped to them tried to storm the office of
an international security company in Kabul. When guards fought back,
the men detonated their explosives, killing two Afghan drivers. This
followed a UN report that the number of civilians killed in the
Afghan war jumped 25 percent in the first half of 2010 compared with
the same period last year, with insurgents responsible for the
spike.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, Brazil signed on
to UN sanctions against Iran despite misgivings over the measures
following its efforts to negotiate a nuclear-swap deal with the
Islamic state.
(AP, 8/11/10)
2010 Aug 10, The death toll
from landslides in northwestern China more than doubled to 702, as
crews in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors
from flooding that has afflicted millions of people.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, China Kanghui
Holdings, a maker of orthopedic implants, and its stockholders
priced 6.7 million American depositary shares, representing 40.1
million ordinary shares, at $10.25 apiece. The stock listed on the
New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "KH."
(AP, 8/11/10)
2010 Aug 10, The leaders of
Colombia and Venezuela re-established diplomatic relations, saying
they are starting to repair confidence undermined by years of
recriminations between the two countries. The announcement came
after a four-hour meeting between Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez and
Colombia's new leader, Juan Manuel Santos.
(AP, 8/11/10)
2010 Aug 10, In the Dominican
Rep. over 30,000 truck drivers began a one-day strike to protest a
government proposal to increase the fuel tax.
(SFC, 8/11/10, p.A2)
2010 Aug 10, Indonesia and the
US launched a biodiversity research centre on the holiday island of
Bali to further studies of the archipelago's rich and diverse
species.
(AFP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, In Iraq the leader
of an anti-Qaeda militia was gunned down outside his home, while
bombs killed three civilians in a series of attacks south of
Baghdad.
(AFP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, Japan apologized
to South Korea for its colonial rule over the country, seeking to
strengthen ties between the two countries ahead of the 100th
anniversary of the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, Lebanon criticized
a US Congressman's decision to suspend $100 million of military aid
over concerns that Iranian-backed Hezbollah may have influence over
the Arab country's army and American-supplied weapons could be used
to threaten neighboring Israel.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, Mexico's Supreme
Court ruled that all 31 states must recognize same-sex marriages
performed in the capital, though its decision does not force those
states to begin marrying gay couples in their territory.
(AP, 8/11/10)
2010 Aug 10, Pakistan’s
President Asif Ali Zardari returned to his flood-ravaged country,
where he faced a storm of criticism for visiting Europe as his
country was gripped by what his government called the nation's worst
natural disaster. The UN said the Pakistan’ government's estimate of
13.8 million people affected by the country's worst-ever floods
exceeded the combined total of three recent megadisasters, the 2004
Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti
earthquake.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, Rescuers in
mountainous Indian-controlled Kashmir raced to save dozens of
stranded foreign trekkers and find 500 people still missing in flash
floods that have killed 140.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, In Poland several
thousand protestors rallied before Warsaw's presidential palace to
seek the removal of a cross erected there after the April air crash
death of president Lech Kaczynski.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, In Puerto Rico
Coraly Campos feuded with her partner and told him he would never
see the two children again. She then beat them, stabbed them with a
kitchen knife and set the house afire. Her 3-year-old daughter and
1-year-old son died in the attack in the city of Trujillo Alto.
Campos also tried to kill herself. On March 11, 2011, Campos (21)
was convicted of first-degree murder, child abuse, arson, domestic
abuse and violation of weapons laws.
(AP, 3/12/11)
2010 Aug 10, Saudi Arabia's
telecommunications regulator said it would allow BlackBerry
messaging services to continue in the kingdom, citing "positive
developments" with the device's Canadian manufacturer.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, Northern and
southern Sudanese leaders resumed negotiations on the ramifications
of possible southern independence early next year, such as the
distribution of oil wealth.
(AFP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 10, In Turkey
suspected Kurdish rebels blew up part of an Iraqi-Kurdish pipeline
killing 2 people and cutting the flow of oil in Sirnak province.
(SFC, 8/11/10, p.A2)
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