Today in History - August 19
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1263 Aug 19,
King James I of Aragon censored Hebrew writing.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1399 Aug 19, King Richard II of
England surrendered to his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV).
Henry of Lancaster returned to England to claim his inherited lands.
He marched with an army into Briston and captured Richard II and
claimed the throne. [see Sep 29]
(MC, 8/19/02)(PC, 1992, p.138)
1493 Aug 19, Maximilian
succeeded his father Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor. Frederick
III of Innsbruck (77), German Emperor (1440-1493), died.
(HN, 8/19/98)(MC, 8/19/02)
1524 Aug 19, Emperor Charles
V's troops besieged Marseille.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1561 Aug 19, Mary Queen of
Scots arrived in Leith, Scotland, to assume the throne after
spending 13 years in France.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1580 Aug 19, Andrea Palladio
(b.1508), Renaissance architect, writer (Il Redentore, Venice),
died. He designed the Teatro Olimpico in Vincenza just before his
death. It was completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi. Palladio authored "The
Four Books on Architecture." In 2002 Witold Rybczynski authored "The
Perfect House," on the villas of Palladio.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Palladio)(WSJ, 12/10/98,
p.A20)(WSJ, 11/8/02, p.W12)
1587 Aug 19, Sigismund III was
chosen to be the king of Poland.
(HN, 8/19/98)
1596 Aug 19, Elisabeth Stuart,
English daughter of James I, was born.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1689 Aug 19, Samuel Richardson
(d.1761), English novelist (Pamela, Clarissa), was born in
Derbyshire.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1692 Aug 19, Five women were
hanged in Salem, Massachusetts after being convicted of the crime of
witchcraft. Fourteen more people were executed that year and 150
others are imprisoned.
(HN, 8/19/00)
1743 Aug 19, Marie Jeanne Becu
Comtesse du Barry (d.1793), last mistress of Louis XV, was born.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1753 Aug 19, [Johann] Balthasar
Neumann (66), German architect, died.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1772 Aug 19, Gustavus III of
Sweden eliminated the rule of parties and establishes an absolute
monarchy. It had been subordinate to parliament since 1720.
(HN, 8/19/98)(MC, 8/19/02)
1779 Aug 19, Americans under
Major Henry Lee took the British garrison at Paulus Hook, New
Jersey.
(HN, 8/19/98)
1807 Aug 19, Robert Fulton's
North River Steamboat arrived in Albany, two days after leaving New
York.
(AP, 8/19/07)
1812 Aug 19, The USS
Constitution -- also known as Old Ironsides -- got its name when it
defeated the British warship Guerriere off Nova Scotia in a slugfest
of broadsides, when cannonballs were said to have bounced off her
sides. The USS Constitution won more than 30 battles against the
Barbary pirates off Africa’s coast in the War of 1812.
(SFEC, 7/13/97, Par p.14)(AP, 8/19/97)
1821 Aug 19, There was a failed
liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1822 Aug 19, Melchor Lopez
Jimenez (62), composer, died.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1839 Aug 19, At a meeting of
the French Academy of Sciences in Paris a new photographic process
was unveiled by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre. He "was able to
capture images directly onto small, silvered plates; and in England
where William Henry Fox invented what he called "photogenic
drawing." This process produced a negative image on paper from which
positive images could be made... but it took more than an hour to
take a picture and the fuzzy prints were difficult to see. The
daguerreotype enabled the photographer to create a highly detailed
image. The process consisted of polishing a copper plate, using
iodine to sensitize it, and developing it over mercury after
exposing it to light in a camera. Daguerreotypes became so popular
in the United States that New York City boasted more than 70
daguerreotype studios by 1850.
(Smith., 5/95, p.72)(HNQ, 10/28/98)
1848 Aug 19, The New York
Herald reported the discovery of gold in California.
(AP, 8/19/97)
1856 Aug 19, Gail Borden
(1801-1874) received a patent for condensed milk and opened a small
factory for its production in Walcottville, Conn. At this time milk
in NYC sold for 6-7 cents a quart.
(ON, 5/04, p.5)(AP, 8/19/06)
1864 Aug 19, The 2nd day of
battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1870 Aug 19, Bernard Baruch,
U.S. representative to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, was
born. "Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world
peace or world destruction."
(HN, 8/19/98)(MC, 8/19/02)
1871 Aug 19, Orville Wright
(d.1948), aviation pioneer, was born in Dayton, Oh. His birthday is
celebrated as National Aviation Day.
(HN, 8/19/00)(WUD, 1994, p.1647)(MC, 8/19/02)
1872 Aug 19, Eugene-Prosper
Prevost (63), composer, died.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1876 Aug 19, George Smith
(b.1840), British Assyriologist, died of dysentery in Syria. He was
on his way home from a 3rd trip to Mesopotamia. Smith had completed
the translation of the complete Epic of Gilgamesh in 1874.
(ON, 11/07,
p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smith_(assyriologist))
1881 Aug 19, Georges Enescu,
composer (Romanian Dances), was born in Romania.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1883 Aug 19, Gabrielle "Coco"
Chanel (d.1971), French fashion designer, was born: "My friends,
there are no friends."
(HN, 8/19/00)(AP, 7/26/99)
1902 Aug 19, Ogden Nash
(d.1971), American author and humorist, was born in Rye, NY. Vanity,
vanity, all is vanity/ That's any fun at all for humanity. "Winter
comes but once a year, And when it comes it brings the doctor good
cheer."
(WUD, 1994 p.951)(AP, 10/24/97)(AP, 12/21/98)(HN,
8/19/00)(MC, 8/19/02)
1903 Aug 19, James Gould
Cozzens (d.1978), US novelist, was born in Chicago. His novels
included "Farewell to Cuba" and "Guard of Honor" for which he
won a 1949 Pulitzer.
(MC, 8/19/02)(Internet)
1905 Aug 19, Fitzhugh Lee, US
pilot, vice-admiral (WW II, Navy Cross), was born.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1905 Aug 19, Roald Amundsen and
his crew of 6 aboard Gjøe, a converted herring boat, made
contact with the US Coast Guard cutter Bear, which confirmed their
crossing the Northwest Passage following a 26-month journey.
Amundsen continued by dogsled to the Yukon while his crew completed
their journey at Point Bonita, California, just outside the Golden
Gate.
(SFC, 4/17/00, p.D8)(WSJ, 4/18/00, p.A16)(Ind,
4/27/02, 5A)
1906 Aug 19, Philo T.
Farnsworth (d.1971), inventor (electronic TV), was born in Beaver
County, Utah.
(http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm)
1909 Aug 19, The Indianapolis
Motor Speedway opened with a 2.5 mile race track. It was founded in
1906 and the 1st 500 race was held in 1911.
(MC, 8/19/02)(Internet)
1910 Aug 19, The advance guard
of the Barnum & Bailey Circus began arriving in San Francisco,
claiming to be the biggest ever to visit the Pacific Coast. It
included 1,280 people, 85 railroad cars, 700 horses and 400
elephants.
(SSFC, 8/15/10, DB p.42)
1912 Aug 19, Percy Aldridge
Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premiered.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1914 Aug 19, Elmer Rice' "On
Trial," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1914 Aug 19, The British
Expeditionary Force (BEF) landed in France.
(HN, 8/19/98)
1915 Aug 19, Ring Lardner Jr.,
author and screenwriter (A Star Is Born), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1918 Aug 19, "Yip! Yip!
Yaphank," a musical revue by Irving Berlin featuring Army recruits
from Camp Upton in Yaphank, N.Y., opened on Broadway.
(AP, 8/19/08)
1919 Aug 19, Malcolm Forbes
(d.1990), publisher of Forbes magazine, was born in Brooklyn, NY. "I
don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just
recommend it to everyone."
(HN, 8/19/98)(Internet)
1919 Aug 19, Afghanistan
established independence from the UK with the signing of the Treaty
of Rawalpindi.
(AFP, 8/19/10)
1921 Aug 19, Gene Roddenberry,
television writer and producer, best known for the series "Star
Trek," was born in El Paso, Texas.
(HN, 8/19/98)(MC, 8/19/02)
1923 Aug 19, Vilfredo Federico
Damaso Pareto (b.1848), French-Italian sociologist, economist and
philosopher, died. In 1906 he made the famous observation that 20%
of the population owned 80% of the property in Italy. This was later
generalized by Joseph M. Juran and others into the so-called Pareto
principle (also termed the 80-20 rule) and generalized further to
the concept of a Pareto distribution.
(WSJ, 3/8/08,
p.A7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto)
1929 Aug 19, The comedy program
"Amos 'n' Andy," starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, made
its network radio debut on NBC.
(AP, 8/19/97)
1929 Aug 19, Sergei P.
Diaghilev (b.1872), Russian dance master and leader of the Ballet
Russes, died in Italy.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm1959850/bio)(SFC, 7/15/97,
p.A18)
1934 Aug 19, A plebiscite in
Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler
as Fuhrer. 38 million Germans voted to make Adolf Hitler the
official successor to President von Hindenburg.
(AP, 8/19/97)(HN, 8/19/00)
1936 Aug 19, A trial against
Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinoviev, for alleged "Trotskyism," opened
in Moscow.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1937 Aug 19, Hugo Black
(1886-1971), US Senator from Alabama, was sworn in as associate US
Supreme Court Justice.
(AP,
10/21/97)(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/76/)
1941 Aug 19, The final German
assault on Tallinn began.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_evacuation_of_Tallinn)
1942 Aug 19, 19 US Marines died
during a commando raid on Makin atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The
raid was 2,000 miles behind enemy lines and 9 Marines were left
behind. The 1943 movie, "Gung Ho," was based on the raid and
starred Randolph Scott as Lt. Col. Evans Carlson, leader of the
raid. In 2001 the bodies of 13 Marines, who died on Makin, were
reburied at Arlington National Cemetery.
(SFC, 12/26/00, p.A1)(SFC, 8/18/01, p.A3)
1942 Aug 19, About 5,000
Canadian and 2,000 British soldiers launched a disastrous raid
against the Germans at Dieppe, France. Over 3,600 men perished
in this battle. The information gathered from this landing was
considered valuable for planning the successful Allied landings in
Northern Africa, Sicily, and Normandy, France. Brit. Col. Pat
Porteous (d.2000) received a Victoria Cross for his valor in the
attack which was aimed at gaining experience for the later D-Day
invasion.
(AP, 8/19/97)(HN, 8/19/98)(SFC, 10/16/00,
p.A22)(MC, 8/19/02)
1942 Aug 19, Gen. Paulus
ordered the German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1943 Aug 19, Belgian church
excommunicated Nazi Leon Degrelle.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1944 Aug 19, In an effort to
prevent a communist uprising in Paris, Charles DeGaulle began
attacking German forces all around the city.
(HN, 8/19/98)
1944 Aug 19, The last Japanese
troops were driven out of India.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1944 Aug 19, US 90th and Polish
1st Division occupied Chambois, Normandy.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1946 Aug 19, Bill Clinton, US
President from 1992-2000, was born as William J. Blythe III in Hope,
Arkansas. He was the son of Virginia Cassidy Blythe and William
Jefferson Blythe II. Clinton’s father was killed in a traffic
accident prior to his birth. His mother married Roger Clinton when
Bill was 4 years old.
(SFC, 7/14/96, Par p.23)(SFEC, 3/9/96, Z1
p.5)(WUD, 1994 p.1698)(HNQ, 1/1/02)
1947 Aug 19, J. Arens and D.
van Dorpen synthesized vitamin A.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1948 Aug 19, Tipper Gore, wife
of vice president Al Gore (1993-01), was born.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1950 Aug 19, Edith Sampson
became the first African-American representative to the United
Nations.
(HN, 8/19/98)
1953 Aug 19, Gen'l. Zahedi
ousted PM Mossadegh and became the Premier of Iran in a bloody coup
that left 300 dead. Britain and the US CIA under Allen Dulles
planned a secret mission to overthrow the government. PM Mossadeq
had sought to nationalize the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. The US
government made a formal apology for the coup in 2000. A 1954 CIA
description of the coup was made public in 2000. In 1979 Kermit
Roosevelt (d.2000) published “Countercoup: The Struggle for the
Control of Iran,” an account of his role in the coup. In 2010
Darioush Bayandor authored “Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mossadeq
Revisited.”
(SFC, 11/20/53, p.A1)(SFC, 11/15/99, p.E6)(SFC,
5/29/97, p.A4)(WSJ, 3/20/00, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A18)(SFEC,
6/11/00, p.D6)(WSJ, 4/2/07, p.A6)(Econ, 5/15/10, p.91)
1954 Aug 19, Ralph J. Bunche
was named undersecretary of UN.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1955 Aug 19, US raised the
import duty on bicycles 50%.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1955 Aug 19, Severe flooding in
the Northeast caused by the remnants of Hurricane Diane claimed some
200 lives.
(AP, 8/19/97)
1957 Aug 19, The first balloon
flight to exceed 100,000 feet took off from Crosby, Minnesota. US
Major David Simons reached 30,933 m. in a balloon.
(HN, 8/19/00)(MC, 8/19/02)
1959 Aug 19, Jacob Epstein
(78), US-English sculptor, painter, died.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1960 Aug 19, A tribunal in
Moscow convicted American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.
About 18 months later, the Soviets agreed to release him in exchange
for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy convicted 5 years earlier. The
CIA and the Senate cleared Powers of any personal blame for
the incident.
(AP, 8/19/97)(MC, 8/19/02)
1960 Aug 19, Korabl-Sputnik-2
(Spaceship Satellite-2), also known as Sputnik 5, was launched. On
board were the dogs Belka ( Squirrel) and Strelka (Little Arrow).
Also on board were 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. After a
day in orbit, the spacecraft's retrorocket was fired and the landing
capsule and the dogs were safely recovered. They were the first
living animals to survive orbital flight.
(www.spacetoday.org/Astronauts/Animals/Dogs.html)
1963 Aug 19, NAACP Youth
Council began sit-ins at lunch counters in Oklahoma City.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1963 Aug 19, Newsweek quoted
Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu (1924-2011), official hostess of the South
Vietnamese government, offering to light the match of the next
Buddhist monk suicide.
(NW 8/19/63)(SFC, 1/23/04,
p.A1)(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madame_Ngo_Dinh_Nhu)(AP, 4/27/11)
1964 Aug 19, The Beatles
performed a concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. They
returned there for another concert in 1965.
(www.rarebeatles.com/photopg7/sf81964.htm)
1965 Aug 19, U.S. forces
destroyed a Viet Cong stronghold near Van Tuong, in South Vietnam.
(HN, 8/19/98)
1965 Aug 19, The Auschwitz
trials ended with only 6 life sentences.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1966 Aug 19, An earthquake
struck Varko, Turkey, and some 2,400 were killed.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1967 Aug 19, Beatles' "All You
Need is Love," single went #1.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1968 Aug 19, George Gamow
(b.1904), physicist and writer, died. He popularized the idea of The
Big Bang.
(V.D.-H.K.p.335)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gamow)
1969 Aug 19, Miles Davis and
associates began a 3-day session recording the album "Bitches Brew"
with Tony Williams on drums at Columbia's 30th Street Studio. Other
players included Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Airto Moreira, Herbie
Hancock, Bennie Maupin, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea
and Lenny White. The album was released in the spring of 1970 and
became a commercial success.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, DB
p.40)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitches_Brew)
1970 Aug 19, George Wright and
three other men escaped from the Bayside State Prison farm in
Leesburg, New Jersey. He became affiliated with an underground
militant group, the Black Liberation Army, and lived for a while in
a "communal family" with several of its members in Detroit.
(AP, 9/28/11)
1973 Aug 19, In Santa Cruz,
Ca., Herbert Mullin (b.1947) was declared guilty of first-degree
murder in the cases of Jim Gianera and Kathy Francis, because they
were premeditated, while for the other eight murders he was found
guilty of second-degree murder because they were more impulsive. His
story was alter told by Donald T. Lunde and Jefferson Morgan in “The
Die Song: A Journey in the Mind of a Mass Murderer.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Mullin)
1974 Aug 19, US Ambassador
Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the
American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek
Cypriots.
(AP, 8/19/04)
1976 Aug 19, President Ford
narrowly won the Republican presidential nomination over Ronald
Reagan at the party's convention in Kansas City. The convention was
called to order by Mary Louis Smith, chair of the Republican
National Committee and the first woman to organize and call to order
the convention of a major US political party. In 2005 Craig Shirley
authored “Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That
Started It all.”
(AP, 8/19/97)(SFEC, 8/24/97, p.D8)(WSJ, 2/2/05,
p.D10)
1977 Aug 19, Comedian Groucho
Marx died in Los Angeles at age 86. In 1996 Steven Stolier authored
"Raised Eyebrows." In 2000 Stefan Kanfer authored "Groucho: The Life
and Times of Julius Henry Marx." Simon Louvish authored "Monkey
Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers."
(SFC, 6/5/97, p.A26)(AP, 8/19/97)(WSJ, 5/12/00,
p.W8)(SFEC, 6/25/00, Par p.16)
1978 Aug 19, The Cinema Rex in
Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze, killing over 400 individuals. The
ruling government of Iran reported that Islamic militants set the
fire, while the anti-Shah protesters blamed the intelligence service
of the nation, SAVAK for setting the fire. Later it was disclosed
that Islamic militants set the Cinema Rex fire.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Rex_fire)
1979 Aug 19, In Cambodia a
Phnom Penh court tried, convicted and sentenced Pol Pot and his
deputy, Leng Sary, to death in absentia for genocide during the
Khmer Rouge regime. A "Hate Day" was created to recall Khmer Rouge
crimes. Denise Affonco’s testimony during the trial was later
published as “To the End of Hell: One Woman’s Struggle to Survive
Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge.”
(SFC, 9/15/96, p.A16)(WSJ, 7/19/00,
p.A14)(http://tinyurl.com/2onrxp)(Econ, 12/15/07, p.93)
1980 Aug 19, Willy Russell's
"Educating Rita," premiered in London.
(www.thisistheatre.com/shows/piccadilly105.html)
1980 Aug 19, San Francisco
voters approved Proposition A, a measure to drop district elections
for city supervisors. 69,632 voted for and 68, 036 voted against in
the low turnout special election.
(SFC, 8/19/05, p.F2)
1980 Aug 19, 301 people aboard
a Saudi Arabian L-1011 died as the jetliner made a fiery emergency
landing at the Riyadh airport.
(AP, 8/19/99)
1980 Aug 19, Otto Frank
(b.1889), the father of Anne Frank, died in Switzerland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frank)
1981 Aug 19, Two U.S. Navy F-14
jet fighters shot down a pair of Soviet-built Libyan SU-22s in a
dogfight over the Gulf of Sidra.
(AP, 8/19/06)
1982 Aug 19, Soviet cosmonaut
Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be launched into
space.
(AP, 8/19/07)
1986 Aug 19, A car bomb killed
20 in Tehran, Iran.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_bomb)
1987 Aug 19, A third convoy of
U.S. warships and reflagged Kuwaiti tankers slipped into the Persian
Gulf before dawn and headed up the waterway behind a screen of
mine-seeking helicopters.
(AP, 8/19/97)
1987 Aug 19, In Britain Michael
Ryan (27) shot 16 people dead in Hungerford, Berkshire. He wounded
another 15 before turning the gun on himself.
(Econ, 6/5/10,
p.63)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre)
1988 Aug 19, During a news
conference in his hometown of Huntington, Ind., Republican
vice-presidential nominee Dan Quayle defended his service in the
National Guard during the Vietnam War.
(AP, 8/19/98)
1989 Aug 19, In San Francisco
Roderick "Cooley" Shannon (18) was beaten and shot to death at
Leland and Rutland streets. Officers Earl Sanders and Napoleon
Hendrix determined that J.J. Tennison and Anton Goff did the killing
and withheld evidence in the case. Lovinsky Ricard later confessed
to the murder, but refused to testify. Goff and Tennison were
convicted in Oct, 1990. In 2003 a federal judge threw out the
conviction and Scheduled Goff and Tennison for release. In 2004
Tennison sued SF, Earl Sanders and others for 13 years of wrongful
imprisonment. In 2009 SF officials tentatively agreed to pay $4.6
million to Tennison and $2.9 million to Goff.
(SSFC, 3/16/03, p.A13)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A1)(SFC,
8/27/03, p.A1)(SFC, 8/30/03, p.A1)(SFC, 7/28/09, p.C2)
1989 Aug 19, Mark MacPhail, an
off duty police officer was killed in Savannah, Georgia. Troy Davis
was convicted and sentenced to death in 1991 for killing MacPhail.
In 2008 his execution was reprieved for a 3rd time after 7 of 9
witnesses had recanted their testimony.
(SFC, 10/25/08,
p.A3)(www.fop9.net/markmacphail/)(Econ, 11/29/08, p.35)
1989 Aug 19, The "Pan-European
Picnic" helped precipitate the fall nearly three months later of the
Berlin Wall. Members of Hungary's budding opposition organized a
picnic at the border with Austria to press for greater political
freedom and promote friendship with their Western neighbors. Some
600 East Germans got word of the event and turned up among the
estimated 10,000 participants. They took advantage of the excursion
to escape to Austria.
(AP, 8/19/09)
1989 Aug 19, Polish President
Wojciech Jaruzelski formally nominated Tadeusz Mazowiecki to become
Poland's first non-Communist prime minister in four decades.
(AP, 8/19/99)
1990 Aug 19, Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein offered to free all foreigners detained in Iraq and
Kuwait provided the United States promise to withdraw its forces
from Saudi Arabia and guarantee that an international economic
embargo would be lifted.
(AP, 8/19/00)
1991 Aug 19, Yankel Rosenbaum
(29), an Australian Hasidic scholar, was killed in rioting that
erupted in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn following the
traffic death of a black child. Earlier in the day Gavin Cato (7)
had been hit and killed by a car in a Rabbi’s motorcade. On Oct 29,
1992, a New York City jury acquitted 17-year-old Lemrick Nelson of
Rosenbaum’s murder. In February 1997, a jury convicted Nelson and
Charles Price of violating Rosenbaum's civil rights. In 1998 Lemrick
Nelson Jr. was sentenced to 19 and 1/2 years in prison. In 1998 the
city settled a suit for $1.35 million brought by Jews who accused
City Hall of insufficient protection during the riots. In 2002
Lemrick Nelson and Charles Price had their verdicts thrown out and a
new trial scheduled. In 2005 NYC agreed to pay $1.25 million to
settle a suit brought by the Rosenbaum family.
(SFC, 4/1/98, p.A2)(SFC, 4/3/98, p.A2)(SFC,
1/8/02, p.A3)(SSFC, 6/19/05, p.A3)
1991 Aug 19, A putsch began in
Moscow. Soviet hard-liners, Gennady Yanayev (1937-2010) and the KGB,
removed Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev from power. Yanayev
was one of 12 members of the so-called State Emergency Committee
that announced Gorbachev was being replaced. In defiance Russian
federation Pres. Boris N. Yeltsin called for a general strike. The
coup collapsed two days later.
(DrEE, 1/4/97, p.4)(AP, 8/19/04)(AP, 9/24/10)
1992 Aug 19, The third night of
the Republican National Convention in Houston, billed as "family
values night," featured first lady Barbara Bush and Marilyn Quayle,
wife of Vice President Quayle, as speakers.
(AP, 8/19/97)
1993 Aug 19, Mattel and Fisher
Price toys announced a merger.
(http://tinyurl.com/bxdjz)
1993 Aug 19, Dr. George Tiller
was shot and wounded outside an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kan., by
Rachelle Shannon. Shannon was later sentenced to eleven years in
prison and also ordered to serve 20 additional years for arson and
acid attacks at abortion clinics in Oregon, California and Nevada.
(AP, 8/19/93)
1994 Aug 19, President Clinton
abruptly halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban
refugees.
(AP, 8/19/99)
1994 Aug 19, Linus Pauling
(b.1901), 2-time Nobel Prize winner, died. In 1954 he won the NP for
chemistry and in 1962 the NP for Peace.
(http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1962/pauling-bio.html)
1995 Aug 19, Three top US
diplomats heading to peace talks in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
were killed when their armored vehicle plunged off a muddy road and
exploded.
(AP, 8/19/00)
1996 Aug 19, Ralph Nader
accepted the presidential nomination of the Green Party in Los
Angeles, denouncing tax breaks for corporations and calling for a
"political alternative" to the two mainstream parties.
(AP, 8/19/97)
1996 Aug 19, A judge sentenced
former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years' probation for his
Whitewater crimes.
(AP, 8/19/97)
1996 Aug 19, In Canberra,
Australia, protestors stormed the parliament in opposition to
changes in labor laws and proposed budget cuts to reduce the
nation’s debt.
(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug 19, In Haiti about 20
former soldiers attacked the Port-au-Prince police headquarters. One
person, a shoeshine man, was killed and several injured.
(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug 19, Jordan’s King
Hussein said 2 days of rioting over higher bread prices was quelled.
(WSJ, 8/19/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 19, A Russian
Ilyushin-76 carrying rescue flares and car wheels destined for Libya
crashed at Belgrade’s airport and killed all 12 aboard.
(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A10)
1997 Aug 19, Missouri and
Oklahoma withdrew inmates from a private Texas prison after the
release of a video tape that showed guards using dogs and stun guns
on prisoners made to crawl during a drug raid.
(WSJ, 8/20/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 19, A New Hampshire
man, Carl Drega (67) of Colebrook, killed 2 state troopers, a local
judge and a newspaper editor in Colebrook. The shooting spree ended
with his death near the Canadian border in Vermont. The issue was
believed to be a grudge over a tax case.
(WSJ, 8/20/97, p.A1)(SFC,11/3/97, p.A3)(AP,
8/19/98)
1997 Aug 19, In Cambodia 35,000
people fled across the border to Thailand to escape fighting between
forces loyal to Prince Ranariddh and troops of coup leader Hun Sen.
(WSJ, 8/20/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 19, In Honduras
lawmakers voted to name Archbishop Oscar Andres Rodriguez to oversee
the creation of a new civilian police force.
(SFC, 8/21/97, p.A13)
1997 Aug 19, In Kenya some 300
kiosks were burned in Malindi.
(SFC, 8/21/97, p.A12)
1997 Aug 19, In North Korea
groundbreaking ceremonies were held for 2 nuclear power plants to be
built by a US led Int’l. consortium.
(WSJ, 8/20/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 19, In Sri Lanka
government jets hit rebel positions and some 20,000 government
troops met guerrillas en route to Puliyankulam where 7 soldiers and
more than 50 rebels were reported killed.
(SFC, 8/20/97, p.A9)
1998 Aug 19, President Clinton
spent a quiet 52nd birthday with his family on Martha's Vineyard as
controversy continued to swirl over his admissions to a grand jury
concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
(AP, 8/19/99)
1998 Aug 19, American interests
were threatened by the Int’l. Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews
and Crusaders in a statement sent to Cairo, Egypt. The threat was
accompanied by others from the Islamic Army for the Liberation of
Holy Shrines, which claimed responsibility for the embassy bombings
in Africa.
(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 19, In Cleveland 49
prison guards, police officers and sheriff’s deputies pleaded guilty
to conspiracy charges related to cocaine distribution from an FBI
sting operation from Oct 1996 to Jan 1998.
(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A3)
1998 Aug 19, In Afghanistan
Mullah Mohamed Omar, supreme Taliban ruler, said that: "Even if all
the countries of the world unite, we would defend Osama with our
blood."
(WSJ, 8/21/98, p.A4)
1998 Aug 19, In Burma [Myanmar]
Aung San Suu Kyi was in her 8th day of a roadside protest in her 4th
attempt to travel to Bassein.
(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A16)
1998 Aug 19, In Chile the
senate approved a bill to abolish the national holiday marking the
1973 coup against Pres. Allende. A Unity day was proclaimed instead
to begin in 1999.
(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A16)
1998 Aug 19, In Colombia the
Congress named Carlos Ossa to the post of comptroller general. he
had reported links to Pastor Perafan, a convicted drug trafficker,
and was opposed by Pres. Pastrana.
(SFC, 8/21/98, p.D2)
1998 Aug 19, The Irish
government announced plans to sharply tighten its anti-terrorist
laws.
(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A14)
1998 Aug 19, In Italy the
Assicurazioni Generali insurance company announced that it will pay
$100 million to Holocaust survivors and the heirs of victims for
life insurance and annuity policies that it refused to honor after
WW II.
(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A7)
1998 Aug 19, In Jordan the
cabinet resigned over polluted drinking water in Amman and King
Hussein appointed Fayez Tarawneh to form a new administration.
Hussein was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester for lymphatic cancer.
(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A16)
1998 Aug 19, In Scotland
Campbell Aird was to be fitted with a new bionic arm developed by
the Prosthetics Research and Development Team at Princess Margaret
Rose Orthopedic Hospital. It was to have the first fully powered
electrical shoulder.
(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A17)
1998 Aug 19, In Lucerne,
Switzerland, the new Kultur and Kongresszentrum designed by Jean
Nouvel will open.
(SFC, 7/21/96, p.T5)
1999 Aug 19, Confronting
questions about possible past drug use, Republican presidential
candidate George W. Bush told reporters he had not used illegal
drugs in 25 years, and added that if voters insisted on knowing
more—quote—"they can go find somebody else to vote for."
(AP, 8/19/00)
1999 Aug 19, The Evangelical
Lutheran Church, 5.2 million members, agreed to establish formal
ties with the Episcopal Church, 2.4 million members.
(SFC, 8/20/99, p.a3)
1999 Aug 19, In Indonesia the
government launched an inquiry over $80 million in government funds
funneled by Bank Bali directors to PT Era Giat Prima, a finance and
debt-collection company controlled by a senior official of the
Golkar Party.
(SFC, 8/20/99, p.D3)
1999 Aug 19, Japan and Russia
agreed to establish a military hotline.
(SFC, 8/20/99, p.A19)
1999 Aug 19, Russian troops
failed to take the village of Tando in Dagestan and lost another 18
soldiers and 3 helicopters.
(SFC, 8/20/99, p.A18)
1999 Aug 19, In Belgrade,
Serbia, some 50-150 thousand people demonstrated against Pres.
Slobodan Milosevic.
(SFC, 8/20/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 19, In Venezuela the
Constitutional Assembly declared a judicial emergency and gave
itself new powers to overhaul the court system.
(SFC, 8/20/99, p.D3)
2000 Aug 19, Pres. Clinton
signed the Global Aids and Tuberculosis Relief Act of 2000. It
included a trust fund to care for African AIDS patients. AIDS was
killing 6,000 people a day and had orphaned 15% of the children in
the worst affected cities.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.A5)(SFEC, 8/20/00, p.A7)
2000 Aug 19, In New Mexico a
gas pipeline explosion near Carlsbad killed 10 people camping on the
banks of the Pecos River. An 11th victim died 2 days later.
Investigators found corrosion in the blown pipe wall. Amanda Smith
(25), the 12th victim, died in Sept.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A3)(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A4)(SFC,
9/6/00, p.A7)
2000 Aug 19, It was reported
that 9 people had died in Ethiopia’s Afar region after the Awash
River burst its banks and inundated the Danakil Lowlands. 30,000
people were left homeless.
(SFC, 8/19/00, p.B12)
2000 Aug 19, In Monrovia,
Liberia, four journalists for British TV were charged with espionage
while filming for a 3-part documentary about Liberia, Mauritania,
Mali and Angola. They were freed Aug 25.
(SFC, 8/21/00, p.A10)(SFC, 8/26/00, p.A9)
2000 Aug 19, Norwegian divers
with video equipment went down to the sunken Russian submarine Kursk
in a final attempt to find survivors trapped for a week, even though
Russian officials said all 118 seamen aboard were probably dead.
(AP, 8/19/05)
2000 Aug 19, Hugo Chavez took
the oath of office as president of Venezuela after a landslide
re-election.
(AP, 8/19/01)
2001 Aug 19, Davis Toms won the
PGA Championship with a 1-under-par 69.
(AP, 8/19/02)
2001 Aug 19, Soul singer Betty
Everett died in Beloit, Wis., at age 61.
(AP, 8/19/02)
2001 Aug 19, Donald Woods (67),
former South Africa Daily Dispatch editor and apartheid opponent,
died in Sutton, England.
(SFC, 8/20/01, p.A15)
2001 Aug 19, In Colombia
thousands of soldiers pursued FARC rebels near San Jose del
Guaviare. 20 guerrillas were reported killed including Urias
Cuellar, a high-ranking commander.
(SFC, 8/20/01, p.A9)
2001 Aug 19, In the West Bank
Israeli troops killed Mohammed Abu Arrar (14) at Rafah and Muin Abu
Lawi (38) near Nablus. Samir Abu Zaid and his 2 sons were killed
when their house was shelled in Rafah. Palestinians blamed Israeli
missiles, while the Israelis blamed Palestinian mortar rounds.
Israel later said Zaid and his children were killed by a bomb he was
making.
(SFC, 8/20/01, p.A8)(WSJ, 8/21/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 19, In Macedonia
government shelled the rebel-held village of Neprusteno for 4 hours.
(SFC, 8/21/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 19, In Ukraine a
methane and coal dust explosion killed 55 miners at the Zasiadko
mine in the Donetsk region.
(SFC, 8/20/01, p.A9)(AP, 8/19/02)
2002 Aug 19, In San Jose, Ca.,
an 8-alarm fire consumed about 25% of the new $500 million Santana
Row shopping and residential complex along S. Winchester Blvd.
(SFC, 8/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 19, In Colombia rebels
kidnapped over 2 dozen tourists inside Ensenada Utria national park.
The ELN was blamed.
(SFC, 8/22/02, p.A10)
2002 Aug 19, Japan has launched
a diplomatic offensive to foil South Korea's attempt to rename the
ocean separating the Asian neighbors from "Sea of Japan" to the
"East Sea", saying the weight of history is on the Japanese side.
(Reuters, 8/19/02)
2002 Aug 19, An Islamic high
court in northern Nigeria rejected an appeal by Amina Lawal, a
single mother sentenced to be stoned to death for having sex out of
wedlock.
(AP, 8/19/02)(WSJ, 8/20/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 19, An ailing and
aging John Paul II bid a tearful farewell to his homeland as he
concluded a four-day visit to the Krakow region of Poland.
(AP, 8/19/03)
2002 Aug 19, A Russian Mi-26
military helicopter loaded with troops crashed in Chechnya. 127 were
killed and 32 injured when the troop transport fell into a minefield
in what Russian media called the nation's biggest military
helicopter crash and the biggest single-day casualty count in the
Chechen war. Chechen rebels claimed to have shot the helicopter
down.
(AP, 8/20/02)(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)(AP,
8/21/03)(AP, 8/19/07)
2002 Aug 19, Eduardo Chillida
(78), Basque sculptor, died. He created monumental works and
promoted peace in the Basque region. His work included "The Comb of
the Winds," an iron tangle in San Sebastian.
(SFC, 8/21/02, p.A19)
2002 Aug 19, Swedish financier
Jan Stenbeck (59), who developed an extensive network of media and
telecommunications companies, died in Paris.
(AP, 8/20/02)
2003 Aug 19, An Ohio auto-parts
worker shot a woman to death and wounded 2 other employees in
Andover.
(WSJ, 8/20/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 19, Afghanistan
celebrated its Independence Day. An explosion ripped through the
home of the brother of President Hamid Karzai.
(AP, 8/19/03)
2003 Aug 19, In northeastern
Brazil federal police and government inspectors freed about 800
slave workers from two farms in Bahia state. Another 200 were freed
a week later. The Brazilian government estimated that some 25,000
people work in slavery conditions in Brazil, most of them in remote
Amazon areas.
(AP, 8/30/03)
2003 Aug 19, Royal Bank of
Canada said it would get $195 million plus interest from Enron Corp.
and others in a settlement agreement related to the sale of 11.5
million common shares of EOG Resources.
(AP, 8/19/03)
2003 Aug 19, Fighting persisted
in Chechnya, with six Russian servicemen killed and 11 others
wounded.
(AP, 8/20/03)
2003 Aug 19, It was reported
that France had provided Alstom SA a $3.9 billion lifeline to save
it from bankruptcy. The bailout was made against EU rules.
(WSJ, 8/19/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 19, Carlos Roberto
Reina (77), a former political prisoner who rose to Honduras'
presidency (1993), died at his home in Tegucigalpa. After his
presidential term, he was a judge of the Interamerican Court of
Human Rights and an ambassador to France.
(AP, 8/20/03)
2003 Aug 29, A new Iraq Trade
Bank was established to provide letters of credit for big shipments
to Iraq.
(WSJ, 10/28/03, p.A4)
2003 Aug 19, In Baghdad a car
bomb exploded in front of the hotel housing the UN headquarters,
collapsing the front of the building. UN Special Representative
Sergio Vieira de Mello (55) of Brazil and 22 other people were
killed. UNICEF said that its program co-coordinator for Iraq,
Canadian Christopher Klein-Beekman, was among the dead. In 2008
Samantha Power authored “Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello
and the Fight to Save the World.” In 2010 a court sentenced two
Iraqis to life in jail for taking part in the bombing and the kidnap
of two French journalists a year later.
(SFC, 8/20/03, p.A12)(AP, 8/21/03)(SSFC, 2/10/08,
p.M1)(AFP, 9/22/10)
2003 Aug 19, Taha Yassin
Ramadan, a former Iraqi vice president known as "Saddam's knuckles"
for his ruthlessness and No. 20 on the US list of most-wanted
Iraqis, was turned over to US forces in Mosul. Ramadan was tried and
convicted in November 2006 of murder, forced deportation and
torture, and sentenced to life in prison. The court agreed to turn
it to a death sentence in March 2007. Ramadan was hanged before dawn
on Tuesday, March 20, 2007, for his role in the killing of 148 Shia
Iraqis in Dujail.
(AP, 8/19/03)(SFC, 8/20/03,
p.A13)(www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/15720)
2003 Aug 19, A Hamas bus
bombing in Jerusalem killed 22 people, including as many as six
children.
(AP, 8/20/03)(AP, 8/19/04)
2003 Aug 19, It was reported
that women in Kenya had begun rebelling against a traditional
"cleansing" ritual whereby new widows were required to sleep with a
designated "cleanser" in order to be inherited by male relatives and
freed of haunting spirits.
(SFC, 8/19/03, p.A10)
2003 Aug 19, Morocco sentenced
four men to death and 83 others to prison in a trial centered on
deadly terror attacks that raised fears Islamic extremism is
spreading.
(AP, 8/19/03)
2003 Aug 19, South African
police and the FBI arrested Craig Michael Pritchert, 41, and Nova
Ester Guthrie, 28, in Capetown. The couple are suspected of armed
robberies in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Texas, and
Oregon between 1993 and 1996.
(AP, 8/21/03)
2004 Aug 19, Democratic
presidential nominee John Kerry fought back against campaign
allegations that he had exaggerated his combat record in Vietnam,
accusing President Bush of using a Republican front group "to do his
dirty work."
(AP, 8/19/05)
2004 Aug 19, Carly Patterson
won gymnastics' premier event at the Olympics in Athens, becoming
the first U.S. woman to win the all-around title since Mary Lou
Retton in 1984.
(AP, 8/19/05)
2004 Aug 19, Google, the
Internet search engine, began trading shares at $85 per share. 14.1
million shares were recently sold in a Dutch Auction at $85 per
share. Google shares closed up 18% at $100.33.
(SFC, 8/19/04, p.A1)(SFC, 8/20/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 19, Amelie Delegrange
(22), from Hanvoile, north of Paris, was battered to death in the
southwest London neighborhood of Twickenham Green after a night out
in a wine bar. In 2006 Levi Bellfield, former nightclub bouncer,
faced trial for her murder and the February, 2003, murder of student
Marsha McDonnell (19). Bellfield was convicted on February 25, 2008
of the two murders. The following day, he was sentenced to life
imprisonment with a recommendation that he should never be released.
(AFP,
6/9/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Bellfield)
2004 Aug 19, In Hungary the
Socialist Party effectively ousted Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy
from office and said it would nominate his replacement next week.
(AP, 8/19/04)
2004 Aug 19, In Iraq PM Allawi
gave what he said was a final warning to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to
disarm and the leave the holy shrine in Najaf.
(SFC, 8/20/04, p.A1)
2004 Aug 19, It was reported
that the Darfur refugee count in western Sudan had reached 11.2
million.
(WSJ, 8/19/04, p.A1)
2005 Aug 19, A Texas jury
awarded Carol Ernst, widow of Robert Ernst, $253 million charging
Merck Corp. liable for the heart-related death of Robert Ernst. $229
million was in punitive damages. Texas caps on punitive damages
reduced that figure to about $26 million; Merck planned to appeal.
(WSJ, 8/22/05, p.A1)(AP, 8/19/06)
2005 Aug 19, Morgan Stanley
said it will start trading Russian stocks, bonds and currency
instruments as early as next month as top investment banks flock to
the country to profit from its soaring markets.
(AP, 8/19/05)
2005 Aug 19, In California
Skylar James Deleon (26), a former child actor, was charged with
luring John Jarvi to Mexico in December of 2003, slitting his throat
and leaving the body by the side of a road. Deleon was already
facing trial for hijacking a yacht and throwing the owners overboard
in Nov 2004.
(Reuters, 8/20/05)
2005 Aug 19, Some 4,430
mechanics at Northwest Airlines, based in Eagan, Minnesota, went on
strike at midnight as a 30-day cooling off period expired. The
airline called for $176 million in concessions including 2,000 job
cuts.
(SFC, 8/20/05, p.A4)(SFC, 8/26/05, p.C3)
2005 Aug 19, An Alabama gas
station owner was run over and killed when he tried to stop a driver
from leaving without paying a $52 gas bill.
(SFC, 8/22/05, p.A3)
2005 Aug 19, Dennis Lynds (81),
mystery writer, died in Santa Barbara, Ca. His Dan Fortune private
eye series, written under the pseudonym Michael Collins, included
some 20 books.
(SFC, 8/26/05, p.B7)
2005 Aug 19, In Algeria Islamic
militants killed six hikers in the forests of Ravin Bleu in the
Batna region, 530 kilometers east of Algiers.
(AP, 8/21/05)
2005 Aug 19, Antonio Palocci,
Brazil’s finance minister, was accused of taking monthly payments
from a rubbish collection firm when he was mayor of Riberao Preta in
Sao Paulo state. The news caused speculators to dump Brazilian
bonds, shares and the real.
(Econ, 8/27/05, p.33)
2005 Aug 19, Indian troops
opened fire on Bangladeshi workers and soldiers to stop them
building a river embankment close to the border. Bangladeshi troops
fired back.
(AP, 8/21/05)
2005 Aug 19, In western
Bangladesh 2 suspected Maoist rebels were killed while a bomb they
were making exploded.
(AP, 8/20/05)
2005 Aug 19, Mo Mowlam (55),
British politician, died after hitting her head in a fall in
Canterbury, England. Her no-nonsense negotiating as Northern Ireland
secretary helped forge the province's landmark peace accord.
(AP, 8/19/05)(AP, 8/19/06)
2005 Aug 19, Pierre Nkurunziza
(40), a former Hutu rebel leader, was chosen by lawmakers as
Burundi's president, culminating an internationally mediated effort
that hopes to bring peace to a central African nation wrecked by a
dozen years of ethnic war.
(AP, 8/20/05)
2005 Aug 19, Eleven Colombian
soldiers were ordered arrested in the killing of an Indian tribal
leader who was dragged from his home and later found shot to death.
(AP, 8/20/05)
2005 Aug 19, The Danish
pump-making company Grundfos said that two of its employees accepted
bribes from Iraqi officials under the United Nations' tainted
oil-for-food program.
(AP, 8/20/05)
2005 Aug 19, Ecuador’s defense
minister quit.
(WSJ, 8/22/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 19, In Germany Mounir
El Motassadeq (31), a Moroccan man accused of helping the Sept. 11
hijackers was convicted, of membership in a terrorist organization
but was acquitted of direct involvement in the attacks on the US. He
was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
(Reuters, 8/19/05)
2005 Aug 19, Pope Benedict XVI
warned of rising anti-Semitism and hostility to foreigners, winning
a standing ovation from members of Germany's oldest Jewish community
during a visit to a rebuilt synagogue that had been destroyed by the
Nazis.
(AP, 8/19/05)
2005 Aug 19, India’s Wadia
group, an industrial conglomerate best known for its textile brand
Bombay Dyeing, said it will launch a low-cost airline in October and
is in talks with Airbus and Boeing Co. to buy 50 new jets over the
next five to seven years.
(AP, 8/19/05)
2005 Aug 19, In Iraq gunmen in
Mosul abducted and publicly executed 3 Sunni Arab activists working
to encourage voter participation.
(SFC, 8/20/05, p.A7)
2005 Aug 19, Attackers fired at
least three rockets from Jordan, with one narrowly missing a US Navy
ship docked at Aqaba and killing a Jordanian soldier. It was the
most serious militant attack on the Navy since the USS Cole was
bombed in 2000.
(AP, 8/19/05)
2005 Aug 19, A Kurdish rebel
group fighting for autonomy in Turkey's southeast announced a
one-month cease-fire and said it planned to pursue indirect
negotiations with the government.
(AP, 8/20/05)
2006 Aug 19, In California
explorers from the Cave Research Foundation discovered a large cave
in Sequoia National Park, which they named Ursa Minor.
(SSFC, 9/24/06, p.A1)
2006 Aug 19, Afghan police
backed by NATO aircraft and artillery killed 71 suspected Taliban
militant in fierce clashes that also left five Afghan forces dead in
southern Kandahar province. 3 US soldiers were killed and 3 others
wounded during a clash against Taliban militants in eastern Kunar
province. In southern Uruzgan province, an American and an Afghan
soldier were killed and 3 other Americans wounded in a four-hour
clash with more than 100 insurgents. The latest violence came as the
country celebrated the 87th anniversary of its independence from
Britain.
(AP, 8/19/06)(AP, 8/20/06)
2006 Aug 19, Roger Deakin
(b.1943), English writer and film-maker, died. His last book
“Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees,” was published posthumously in
2007.
(Econ, 7/28/07,
p.85)(http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1860073,00.html)
2006 Aug 19, In East Timor
rampaging youths set houses on fire in Dili, a reminder that
stability has not yet returned to Asia's newest nation following
months of violence.
(CP, 8/19/06)
2006 Aug 19, In Germany a
21-year-old Lebanese was arrested in a police swoop on the railway
station in Kiel as he tried to flee the city, where he was a
student. He was one of two men suspected of planting bombs on German
trains in a failed terrorist attack in July.
(AP, 8/20/06)
2006 Aug 19, At least 13 people
were killed around Iraq, including four Iraqi soldiers in a roadside
bomb explosion in Diwaniyah. An American soldier was killed in
combat in Anbar province.
(AP, 8/19/06)(AP, 8/20/06)
2006 Aug 19, Israeli commandos
raided a Hezbollah stronghold deep inside Lebanon, sparking a fierce
clash with militants that left one Israeli soldier dead. Lebanon
called the raid a "flagrant violation" of the UN-brokered
cease-fire, while Israel said it was aimed at disrupting arms
smuggling from Iran and Syria. A Lebanese civilian was killed when
unexploded Israeli munitions from the offensive detonated in the
village of Ras al-Ein, outside Tyre.
(AP, 8/19/06)
2006 Aug 19, Israeli soldiers
in Ramallah arrested Nasser Shaer, the Palestinian deputy prime
minister. He was the highest-ranking Hamas official rounded up in a
seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling party.
(AP, 8/19/06)
2006 Aug 19, Ten bodies were
found and about 20 other people were believed missing after a 2nd
boat in 2 days carrying would-be immigrants sank off the Italian
island of Lampedusa. Some 70 survivors were plucked from the water
after the boat sank, several of whom said there had been 120 people
on the boat.
(AP, 8/20/06)
2006 Aug 19, In Ivory Coast
waste, which contained hydrogen sulphide, was unloaded from a
Panamanian-registered ship, the Probo Koala, at Abidjan port and
then dumped in at least eight open air sites, including the city's
main rubbish dump. By mid-September 6 people had died and 16,000 had
sought treatment. Dutch-based Trafigura Beheer BV, one of the
world's leading commodities traders, said it had chartered the ship
and said the material was a "mixture of gasoline, water and caustic
washings" following the unloading of a cargo of gasoline in Nigeria.
The sludge was later blamed for killing 15 people and sickening
100,000 more. In 2009 Greenpeace said it had obtained internal
e-mails and other documents that show Trafigura Beheer BV executives
were aware the sludge was hazardous.
(Reuters, 9/7/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.58)(AP,
9/17/09)
2006 Aug 19, French soldiers
landed in Lebanon, the first reinforcements for an expanded UN
peacekeeping force tasked with keeping the truce in the
Israel-Hezbollah conflict. About 50 French troops, military
engineers, were to prepare for the arrival of 200 more soldiers
expected next week.
(AP, 8/19/06)
2006 Aug 19, Ten bodies were
found and about 20 other people were believed missing after a 2nd
boat in 2 days carrying would-be immigrants sank off the Italian
island of Lampedusa. Some 70 survivors were plucked from the water
after the boat sank, several of whom said there had been 120 people
on the boat.
(AP, 8/20/06)
2006 Aug 19, Mexican
prosecutors announced that they have charged two policemen with
protecting the Arellano Felix drug trafficking gang. Mexican police
said they had broken up a vote-buying scheme in Chiapas on the eve
of state elections.
(AP, 8/20/06)
2006 Aug 19, Demonstrations
erupted in Kathmandu, Nepal, after the government hiked fuel prices
by as much as 25% in a bid to save state-owned Nepal Oil Corp (NOC)
from bankruptcy.
(AFP, 8/19/06)
2006 Aug 19, In Nigeria
government troops arrested about 100 people in a search for
militants suspected of taking oil industry workers hostage in the
petroleum-rich south.
(AP, 8/20/06)
2006 Aug 19, Russia handed over
the body of a Japanese fisherman killed by a Russian patrol boat
that opened fire in disputed waters, sparking a diplomatic feud.
(AP, 8/19/06)
2006 Aug 19, In Sudan 2 African
Union peacekeepers from Rwanda were killed and 3 were wounded when
their convoy was ambushed in the Darfur region.
(AP, 8/19/06)
2006 Aug 19, The Turkish
Foreign Ministry said that it had forced two Syria-bound Iranian
planes to land and be searched for rockets and other military
equipment, one on Jul 27 and the other on Aug 8, during the conflict
between Israel and Hezbollah.
(AP, 8/19/06)
2006 Aug 19, A suspected
Kurdish rebel attack caused an explosion and huge fire on a natural
gas pipeline in eastern Turkey.
(AP, 8/19/06)
2007 Aug 19, US Customs seized
a submarine-like vessel filled with hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of cocaine off the Guatemalan coast.
(AP, 8/23/07)
2007 Aug 19, Elvira Arellano
(32), an illegal immigrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a
year to avoid being separated from her American-born son, was
deported from the US to Mexico, where she vowed to continue her
campaign to change US immigration laws.
(AP, 8/21/07)(AP, 8/19/08)
2007 Aug 19, The US space
shuttle Endeavour departed hastily from the International Space
Station, ending a construction mission a day early in order to land
before Hurricane Dean threatens its Houston control center.
(AP, 8/19/07)
2007 Aug 19, Fierce storms from
the upper Mississippi to Texas since last week left 22 people dead.
Six people died in floodwaters across Oklahoma after heavy rains
from the remains of Tropical Storm Erin drenched the state. As much
as 9 inches of rain fell across a wide swath of Oklahoma, leaving
roadways under 5 feet of water. 8 people were reported dead in Texas
and 6 dead in Minnesota.
(Reuters, 8/20/07)(SFC, 8/21/07, p.A6)(AP,
8/22/07)
2007 Aug 19, In southern
Afghanistan, dozens of Taliban insurgents attacked an Afghan army
compound, and the ensuing gunbattle left 10 suspected militants dead
and 4 others wounded. A Canadian soldier was killed when his vehicle
struck a roadside bomb near Kandahar.
(AP, 8/19/07)(AP, 8/20/07)
2007 Aug 19, Simultaneous
grenade attacks were launched on the homes of five Burundian
politicians who recently criticized the president, injuring three
but failing to harm the targets.
(AFP, 8/19/07)
2007 Aug 19, In China at least
36 people were killed as Typhoon Sepat hit the mainland after more
1.3 million people were evacuated as a precaution. In eastern China
At least 14 people died and 59 were injured when a container spilled
molten aluminum with a temperature of 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit at a
factory.
(AP, 8/19/07)(AP, 8/20/07)(AP, 8/22/07)
2007 Aug 19, In east Baghdad a
mortar barrage slammed into a mainly Shiite neighborhood, killing 12
including women and children and wounding 31. French foreign
minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Baghdad on a groundbreaking
visit after years of icy relations with the US over Iraq. In central
Baghdad gunmen driving several cars waylaid a minibus headed for
Sadr City, the capital's Shiite enclave, and abducted 15 passengers,
A top US general said American forces are tracking about 50 members
of an elite Iranian force who have crossed the border into southern
Iraq to train Shiite militia fighters.
(AP, 8/19/07)
2007 Aug 19, Israel said it
would expel refugees from Sudan's war torn Darfur region, touching
off hot debate over whether the Jewish state, founded after the Nazi
genocide, has a duty to take in people fleeing persecution.
(AP, 8/19/07)
2007 Aug 19, Israel opened a
crossing with the Gaza Strip to let in fuel shipments, but tens of
thousands of homes remained without electricity because fuel for a
major Gaza power company hadn't arrived. The EU cut off vital
funding to a Gaza power plant, forcing it to shut down the last of
its generators and darken tens of thousands of Palestinian homes.
Palestinian Information Minister Riad Maliki said the EU ceased
payment "because Hamas took over the electric company and started
collecting the revenues and taking them to its pocket."
(AP, 8/19/07)(AP, 8/20/07)
2007 Aug 19, The Israeli
government and Holocaust survivors struck a deal on a special
allowance for Israelis who lived through the Nazi genocide. It
guaranteed Israelis who survived the Nazi ghettos and concentration
camps a monthly stipend of $284.
(AP, 8/19/07)
2007 Aug 19, Jamaicans headed
inland and tourists fled the country as Hurricane Dean headed for a
direct hit on the island. Dean hit Jamaica as a Category 4 storm.
(AP, 8/19/07)(WSJ, 8/20/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 19, President Maumoon
Abdul Gayoom won an overwhelming victory in a referendum on the
Maldives' future form of government, a poll seen as an informal vote
of confidence in his three-decade rule of the tiny Indian Ocean
nation.
(AP, 8/19/07)
2007 Aug 19, Pakistan army
helicopter gunships killed at least 15 al-Qaeda militants, mostly
Uzbeks, in a pre-dawn raid near the Afghan border. Intelligence
officials in Mir Ali said two women and two children also died in
the strike.
(Reuters, 8/19/07)
2007 Aug 19, In Sudan armed
raiders killed a policeman and wounded four others in an attack on a
refugee camp in Darfur.
(Reuters, 8/20/07)
2007 Aug 19, A new constitution
for Thailand, that is to usher in December general elections and end
military rule, was approved by millions of voters in the country’s
first ever nationwide referendum. This was the 18th constitution
since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932.
(AP, 8/19/07)(Econ, 8/25/07, p.38)
2008 Aug 19, A US federal grand
jury handed down a new indictment against Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal
Acevedo Vila, charging him with four counts of wire fraud and one
count of conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with
alleged campaign finance violations.
(AP, 8/19/08)
2008 Aug 19, US scientists said
they have devised a way to grow large quantities of blood in the
laboratory using human embryonic stem cells.
(SFC, 8/20/08, p.A7)
2008 Aug 19, LeRoi Moore (46),
versatile saxophonist, died of complications from injuries he
suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His signature staccato
fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave
Matthews Band.
(AP, 8/20/08)
2008 Aug 19, In Afghanistan a
team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a US base near
the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. NATO said 3 suicide bombers
detonated their vests and 3 more were shot dead and that 7 attackers
in total were killed.
(AP, 8/19/08)
2008 Aug 19, A suicide car bomb
attack east of Algiers killed 43 people and wounded 45. The attack
targeted a paramilitary gendarmerie training school at Issers. Most
of the dead were young men aged between 18 and 20.
(Reuters, 8/19/08)
2008 Aug 19, Aabid Khan (23), a
Briton who recruited Islamist extremists online to stage holy war
worldwide, including Britain's youngest terrorism convict, was
jailed for 12 years. Sultan Muhammad (23), one of his accomplices,
received a 10-year term.
(Reuters, 8/19/08)
2008 Aug 19, In Bolivia leaders
in 5 opposition controlled states proclaimed a general strike. They
sought greater autonomy and a larger share of royalties from local
oil and gas.
(SFC, 8/20/08, p.A14)
2008 Aug 19, Iraqi troops
raided local government offices in the volatile Diyala province,
arresting two people, including a university president. They then
advanced to the provincial governor's office where exchanged fire
with the government forces, prompting a gunfight that killed the
governor's secretary, Abbas al-Tamimi, and injured four guards.
Iraqi troops detained the son of a prominent Sunni leader during a
raid in Baghdad.
(AP, 8/19/08)(AP, 8/20/08)
2008 Aug 19, The Dutch Navy and
a squad of US Coast Guard raiders seized 4.6 tons (4,200 kilograms)
of cocaine from a Panamanian-flagged freighter that had set sail
from Venezuela. The freighter was boarded on Aug 17 and it took 36
hours of searching to find the drugs.
(AP, 8/23/08)
2008 Aug 19, The 39th annual
Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) opened in Niue. Members at the 2-day
forum agreed to threaten Fiji with suspension unless elections are
held as scheduled by March 2009.
(Econ, 8/23/08,
p.34)(www.forumsec.org/event.cfm?cmd=list&sd=200808)
2008 Aug 19, Pakistan's ruling
coalition met to discuss a replacement for President Pervez
Musharraf. A suicide bomber killed 23 people at a hospital in a
northwestern town in the first attack since Musharraf stepped down.
5 soldiers and 13 Taliban militants died in clashes in a tribal area
bordering Afghanistan.
(AFP, 8/19/08)
2008 Aug 19, A Palestinian
rocket attack on southern Israel violated a truce and led Israel to
close its cargo crossings with the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 8/20/08)
2008 Aug 19, Russian soldiers
took 20 Georgian troops prisoner at a key port in western Georgia
and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the
United States after taking part in earlier US-Georgian military
exercises. Georgia and Russia exchanged prisoners captured during
their brief war.
(AP, 8/19/08)
2008 Aug 19, Armed pirates
seized the MT Bunga Melati Dua, a Malaysian palm oil tanker with 39
crew, off the coast of Somalia, the fourth hijacking in a month.
(AP, 8/20/08)
2008 Aug 19, Turkey's President
Abdullah Gul urged Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, during talks at a
summit of African leaders, to act responsibly and to end the
suffering in the devastated Darfur region. A suicide bombing wounded
13 policemen outside the southern city of Mersin.
(AP, 8/19/08)(AP, 8/20/08)
2008 Aug 19, Vietnamese
authorities freed British glam rocker Paul Gadd, aka Gary Glitter,
after nearly three years in prison on child molestation charges,
then moved immediately to deport him.
(AP, 8/19/08)(Econ, 8/36/08, p.36)
2008 Aug 19, Zambia's President
Levy Mwanawasa (b.1948) died in France. He had been hospitalized at
a French military hospital since suffering a stroke in June.
(AP, 8/19/08)(SFC, 8/20/08, p.B4)
2009 Aug 19, US authorities in
collaboration with Venezuela led to the seizure of about a ton of
cocaine aboard a ship in the Caribbean Sea. Two Venezuelans and a
Colombian were arrested.
(AP, 8/20/09)
2009 Aug 19, Don Hewitt (86), a
TV news pioneer, died. He created the "60 Minutes" news hour in 1968
and produced the popular CBS newsmagazine for 36 years.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Afghan journalists
rejected a Foreign Ministry demand that they suspend the
broadcasting of news about attacks or violence on election day,
accusing the government of unconstitutional censorship. Police
stormed a bank in Kabul and killed three insurgents who had taken it
over, while a wave of attacks killed at least six election workers
around the country on the eve of the presidential election.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Australia
celebrated the biggest trade deal in its history and said it proved
vital ties with China had survived a series of bruising rows. PM
Kevin Rudd said ExxonMobil's 41.3 billion US dollar liquefied
natural gas contract with PetroChina would create up to 6,000 jobs
and pump billions of dollars into the economy. PetroChina ordered
2.25 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) a year over two
decades from ExxonMobil's share of the still-undeveloped Gorgon
plant off Western Australia.
(AFP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Brazilian
prosecutors said Father Clodoveo Piazza, an Italian priest who ran
an award-winning shelter for homeless children in Brazil, has been
charged with sexually abusing boys for years and allowing visiting
foreigners to exploit the children. Piazza, now working as a
missionary in Mozambique, was charged along with another former
director of the nonprofit group Fraternal Help Organization, a
private group based in Salvador.
(AP, 8/20/09)
2009 Aug 19, London's
Metropolitan Police said two men were arrested in the Aug 6 robbery
of $66 million in jewelry. The Barnes Flying Squad, a specialist
unit that deals with armed robberies and high value thefts, made the
arrests.
(AP, 8/20/09)
2009 Aug 19, French police with
Spanish help detained three suspected members of Basque separatist
group ETA in a French Alps ski resort and seized material for making
explosives, after a series of bombings claimed by the group on the
Spanish island of Mallorca.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Germany launched a
campaign to put 1 million electric cars on the road by 2020, making
battery research a priority as it tries to position the country as a
market leader.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Rights group
Amnesty International alleged widespread abuse of protesters
demanding the return of the Honduran president ousted in a coup,
saying in a report that hundreds of people have been beaten and
detained under the interim government.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Iran’s President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nominated Ahmad Vahidi as Defense Minister.
Vahidi had commanded a unit of the Revolutionary Guard known as the
Quds Force at the time of the July 18, 1994, attack on a Jewish
cultural center in Argentina. The Quds Force is involved in
operations abroad, including working with Lebanon's Hezbollah
militant group, which is accused to carrying out the Buenos Aires
attack.
(AP, 8/21/09)
2009 Aug 19, In Iraq a truck
bomb tore through the Foreign Ministry, knocking out concrete slabs
and windows and leaving a mass of charred cars outside killing at
least 65 people and wounding 250. A suicide truck bomber took aim at
the Finance Ministry complex causing part of a nearby overpass to
collapse killing least 28 people. A wave of explosions around
Baghdad killed at least 8 more people as mortars struck inside the
Green Zone. The total death toll from the string of blasts was later
set at 92. One of the suspected masterminds said in a confession
broadcast on Aug 23 that attackers paid $10,000 to get a bomb-laden
truck past checkpoints and next to the Finance Ministry. A US
soldier died of a non-combat related injury.
(AP, 8/19/09)(AP, 8/20/09)(AP, 8/23/09)(AP,
9/8/09)
2009 Aug 19, Philippine troops
clashed with about 30 Muslim gunmen, who took over Mantangule islet
in the southern part of Palawan Island, killing at least seven and
capturing two.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Saudi authorities
said they have arrested 44 suspected militants with al-Qaida links
in a yearlong sweep that also uncovered dozens of machine guns and
electronic circuits for bombs.
(AP, 8/20/09)
2009 Aug 19, In Sudan former
enemies from the north and south signed a deal aimed at bolstering
the 2005 peace deal that ended a 22-year civil war, the African
continent's longest.
(AP, 8/20/09)
2009 Aug 19, Swiss banking
giant UBS AG agreed to turn over to the IRS the details of 4,450
accounts suspected of holding undeclared assets by American
customers, piercing Switzerland's long-standing tradition of banking
secrecy.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, Syrian President
Bashar Assad opened talks with Iranian officials in a visit expected
to include an appeal to free a French academic accused of plotting
to overthrow the Islamic regime.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2009 Aug 19, In Zimbabwe 10
lawmakers from PM Morgan Tsvangirai's party were arrested and
charged with disturbing the peace as they headed into the Finance
Ministry for a meeting.
(AP, 8/19/09)
2010 Aug 19, Neil P. Campbell,
An Australian construction manager, was indicted Aug. 19 by a
federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on the charge of receiving a
bribe while working for an organization receiving US government
funds. On Oct 13 he was detained in India for allegedly taking a
$190,000 bribe to allow a subcontractor to build a hospital and
college in Afghanistan.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Aug 19, Authorities in
eastern Arizona arrested John McCluskey (45) and his alleged
accomplice Casslyn Welch (44) at a campsite in the Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forest. McCluskey fled July 30 with two other inmates from
a private prison in northwest Arizona and evaded authorities in at
least six states before being caught.
(AP, 8/20/10)
2010 Aug 19, In San Francisco
the city’s Recreation and park Commission voted 6-1 to oust Stow
Lake Corp., the 67-year vendor at the Stow Lake snack bar and boat
rental, and replace it with an out-of-state vendor. 3 more public
hearings were scheduled prior to a vote by the Board of Supervisors.
(SFC, 8/20/10, p.C1)
2010 Aug 19, Jonathan Lee of
Ridgeland, Mississippi, returned from an 8-day visit to North Korea
during which he was taken on a tour of the DMZ. He said officials
there welcomed his idea for a "children's peace forest" in the
demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea, although they
said it would only happen if the countries signed a peace treaty
first.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, Chipmaker Intel
announced a deal to buy security software maker McAfee Inc. for
$7.68 billion, or $48 per share, a 60% premium over the stock’s
closing price.
{Computer, USA, M&A}
(SFC, 8/20/10, p.A1)
2010 Aug 19, In Afghanistan one
NATO soldier, several policemen and more than two dozen rebels were
killed in attacks and counter-insurgency operations across the
country. This day August 19 commemorates the signing of the Treaty
of Rawalpindi in 1919, which granted Afghanistan full independence
from Britain. An American soldier was killed in the south. At least
7 members of a road construction crew were killed when they were
attacked by insurgents in Helmand's volatile Sangin district.
25 security guards were killed in the clash with Taliban fighters
with another 15 wounded. An assistant police chief was killed by a
roadside bomb and three other policemen were injured when insurgents
attacked a police post in the Dihrawud district of Uruzgan province.
3 civilians were killed in the same district by a bomb that was
meant for another police official.
(AFP, 8/19/10)(AFP, 8/20/10)(AP, 8/20/10)(SSFC,
8/22/10, p.A6)
2010 Aug 19, In Algeria storms
left a trail of damage across the country killing at least seven
people over the last 2 days.
(AFP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, An Australian
Muslim woman, who sought permission to keep her face and head
covered while she gives evidence at an upcoming trial, was told by a
judge she would have to remove her veil. She is a prosecution
witness in a case against the director of a company that ran a
Muslim women's college in Perth. The director, Anwar Sayed, is
accused of inflating the number of students at the school in 2006
and 2007 to claim hundreds of thousands of dollars in state and
federal grants.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, In China an
attacker riding a 3-wheeled vehicle struck a contingent of security
volunteers killing seven people with 14 wounded in the far west
region of Xinjiang, an area beset by ethnic conflict and separatist
violence.
(AP, 8/19/10)(SFC, 8/20/10, p.A3)
2010 Aug 19, France deported
nearly 100 Gypsies, or Roma, to their native Romania as part of a
very public effort by conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy to
dismantle Roma camps and sweep them out of the country.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, German federal
prosecutors said they have charged two men with violating an arms
embargo by working to export equipment that Iran wanted for its
missile program. Heinz Ulrich K. (65) of Germany was charged with
breaking export laws and Iranian Mohsen A. (52) with incitement to
break them.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, In Iraq insurgents
kept up a relentless campaign against the country's institutions and
security forces, killing five Iraqi government employees in roadside
bombings and other attacks. The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry
Division, officially designated the last combat brigade to leave
Iraq under Obama's plan to end combat operations in Iraq by Aug. 31,
headed home.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, In Indian Kashmir
paramilitary soldiers fired live ammunition to disperse anti-India
protesters and wounded 3 people after residents accused troops of
attacking their homes.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, President Felipe
Calderon said Mexico should consider appointing anonymous judges for
drug trafficking trials, an unexpected proposal that he acknowledged
contradicts the country's efforts to build a more open judicial
system.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, Nigeria’s Health
Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the death toll from a cholera
outbreak in northern Nigerian has risen to 231 while 4,600 others
have been infected.
(AFP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, In South Africa
police fired rubber bullets on protesting teachers throwing bricks
and stones and nurses tore down a gate at a hospital as a the 2nd
day of a nationwide civil servants' strike for higher wages took
hold.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, South Korea said
it has blocked North Korea's new Twitter account from being accessed
in the South, saying the tweets contain "illegal information" under
the country's security laws.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, Sri Lanka's
ex-army chief called the government a "total dictatorship" and said
that he will appeal his recent conviction by a military court, which
he described as a political vendetta.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, The UN said more
than 4 million Pakistanis have been made homeless by nearly 3 weeks
of floods, making the critical task of securing greater amounts of
aid more urgent.
(Reuters, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 19, The Yemeni Defense
Ministry's weekly magazine said that Hazem al-Mujali had surrendered
amid a government crackdown on the organization. Al-Mujali was
accused of the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker and imprisoned,
but on his release apparently rejoined al-Qaida. He escaped a highly
publicized raid late last year in northeast of San'a on al-Qaida
cell suspected of plotting attacks.
(AP, 8/19/10)
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