Today in History - August 27
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1521 Aug 27,
Josquin Des Prez, composer, died.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1522 Aug 27, Giovanni A. Amadei
(75), Amadeo, Italian sculptor, architect, died.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1569 Aug 27, Pope Pius named
Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1576 Aug 27, The Venetian
painter Titian (Tiziano Vecelli), born about 1488, died of the
plague. His handling of color and mastery of new oil techniques made
him one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance.
(Reuters,
8/28/01)(www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tita/hd_tita.htm)
1610 Aug 27, Polish King
Wladyslaw was crowned king of Russia.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1626 Aug 27, The Danes were
crushed by the Catholic League in Germany, marking the end of Danish
intervention in European wars.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1635 Aug 27, Lope Felix de Vega
(72), playwright, poet (Angelica, Arcadia), died.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1665 Aug 27, "Ye Bare & Ye
Cubb," the 1st play performed in N. America, was performed at
Acomac, Va.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1770 Aug 27, The German
philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was born in
Stuttgart. He wrote "The Science of Logic." Hegel greatly influenced
Karl Marx. His method was to metaphysicize everything, that is, to
discern in concrete reality the working of some Idea or Universal
Mind. Hegel proposed that all change, all progress, is brought about
by the conflict of vast forces. A world-historical figure or nation
or event lays down a challenge. This thesis, as he called it, is
opposed by an antithesis. The conflict between them is resolved,
inevitably, by a synthesis of the two forces on a higher plane of
being.
(V.D.-H.K.p.258)(AP, 8/27/97)(HN, 8/27/98)
1776 Aug 27, The Americans were
defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island, New York.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1783 Aug 27, 1st hydrogen
balloon flight (unmanned); reached 900 m altitude.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1788 Aug 27, Jacques Neeker was
named French minister of Finance.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1789 Aug 27, French National
Assembly issued "Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen."
(MC, 8/27/01)
1793 Aug 27, Maximilien
Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety in Paris,
France.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1813
Aug 26-1813 Aug 27, The Battle of Dresden was Napoleon’s last major
victory against the allied forces of Austria, Russia and Prussia.
(www.napoleonguide.com/battle_dresden.htm)
1816 Aug 27, Admiral Sir Edward
Pellew, a noble from Devon, England, bombed Algiers, a refuge for
Barbary pirates. He flew the green, white and black flag of St.
Petroc. In 1836 the battle was pictured in a painting by George
Chambers, Senior. Pellew was subsequently named Lord Exmouth.
(http://tinyurl.com/gjooc)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.66)
1825 Aug 27, William Moorcroft,
East India Co. head of 5,000 acre horse farm at Pusa, India, died
near Balkh, Afghanistan, while returning to India following his trip
to Bukhara, Uzbekistan, to trade for horses. In 1985 Garry Alder
authored "Beyond Bukhara: The Life of William Moorcroft, Asian
Explorer and Veterinary Surgeon."
(ON, 1/02, p.6)
1832 Aug 27, Black Hawk, leader
of Sauk-Indians, gave himself up.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1858 Aug 27, The 2nd of 7 of
the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the 1858 Illinois senatorial race of
took place in Freeport, Ill. Stephen Douglas formulated what became
known as the Freeport Doctrine, which stated that the people of a
territory could, by lawful means, exclude slavery prior to the
formulation of a state constitution. Douglas first pronounced it in
response to a question posed by Lincoln as to how Douglas could
reconcile the doctrine of "popular sovereignty" with the Dred Scott
decision.
(HNQ, 6/4/99)(ON, 4/08, p.2)
1859 Aug 27, The first
commercial oil well was set up. Colonel Edwin L. Drake drilled the
first successful oil well in the United States near Titusville,
Penn.
(HFA, '96, p.36)(AP, 8/27/97)
1861 Aug 27, Union troops made
an amphibious landing at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1861 Aug 27, At the Battle of
Cape Hatteras, SC, Union troops took Fort Clark.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1862 Aug 27, As the Second
Battle of Bull Run raged, Confederate soldiers attacked Loudoun
County, Virginia.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1869 Aug 27, Karl Haushofer,
soldier, geographer, was born.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1871 Aug 27, Theodore Dreiser
(d.1945), American novelist (Sister Carrie, American Tragedy), was
born. "Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer wholly
guided by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason."
(AP, 1/4/00)(HN, 8/27/00)
1874 Aug 27, Karl Bosch, German
chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931), was born.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1877 Aug 27, Charles Stewart
Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd), was born.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1881 Aug 27, New York state’s
Pure Food Law went into effect to prevent "the adulteration of food
or drugs."
(HN, 8/27/00)
1881 Aug 27, A hurricane hit
Florida and the Carolinas; about 700 died.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1882 Aug 17, Samuel Goldwyn,
American movie mogul who helped start MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer), was
born as Schmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw, Poland.
(HN, 8/17/00)
1883 Aug 27, The island volcano
Krakatoa erupted; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda
Strait claimed some 36,417 lives in Java and Sumatra. In 2003 Simon
Winchester authored Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: Aug 27,
1883." [see Aug 26]
(AP, 8/27/97)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.M2)
1886 Aug 27, Eric Coates, viola
player, composer, was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1890 Aug 27, Man Ray (d.1976)
was born as Emmanuel Radinski in Philadelphia, Pa. A painter and
photographer, he and Marcel Duchamp founded the Dadaism movement.
(Reuters, 8/28/01)
1892 Aug 27, Fire seriously
damaged New York City's original Metropolitan Opera House, located
at Broadway and 39th Street.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1894 Aug 27, The US Congress
passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, providing for a graduated
income tax that was down by the Supreme Court May 20, 1895. Pres.
Grover Cleveland enacted the tax to cope with the deficit.
(AP, 8/27/99)(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.D8)
1899 Aug 27, C.S. Forester
(Cecil Scott Forester), novelist, was born in England. He authored
the "Horatio Hornblower" series.
(HN, 8/27/00)(MC, 8/27/02)
1901 Aug 27, In Havana, Cuba,
U.S. Army physician James Carroll allowed an infected mosquito to
feed on him in an attempt to isolate the means of transmission of
yellow fever. Days later, Carroll developed a severe case of yellow
fever, helping his colleague, Army Walter Reed, prove that
mosquitoes can transmit the sometimes deadly disease.
(MC, 8/27/02)(ON, 10/01, p.8)
1908 Aug 27, Lyndon B. Johnson,
the 36th president of the United States (1963-1969), was born near
Stonewall, Texas.
(AP, 8/27/97)(HN, 8/27/98)
1910 Aug 26-27, Agnes Gonxhe
Bojaxhiu (d.1997), later known as Mother Teresa and care-taker of
the poor in Calcutta, was born to an ethnic Albanian family in
Skopje, Macedonia. She later founded the Missionaries of Charity in
Calcutta and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for her work.
(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A10)(SFC, 8/26/97, p.C3)(AP,
9/12/03)
1910 Aug 27, Thomas Edison
demonstrated the first "talking" pictures using a phonograph in his
New Jersey laboratory.
(HN, 8/27/01)
1912 Aug 27, Edgar Rice
Burroughs’s "Tarzan of the Apes" first appeared in a magazine.
Burroughs (d.1950 at 74) wrote "Tarzan of the Apes" for The
All-Story Magazine and received $700.
(SDUT, 6/6/97, p.E2)(SFEC, 5/9/99, Par p.8)(HN,
8/27/00)
1914 Aug 27, 2nd day of battle
at Tannenberg: Germany bombed Usdau.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1915 Aug 27, Walter W. Heller,
economist (Old Myths & New Realities), was born.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1916 Aug 27, Italy declared war
on Germany.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1921 Aug 27, J.E. Clair of Acme
Packing Co. of Green Bay was granted an NFL franchise.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1928 Aug 27, Fifteen nations
signed the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, also known as the Pact of
Paris, outlawing war and calling for the settlement of disputes
through arbitration. Forty-seven other countries eventually sign the
pact. The pact was developed by French foreign minister
Aristide Briand and U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg. The
document did not stipulate any sanctions and allowed for so many
exceptions—including wars of ‘self-defense‘ and obligations under
the League Covenant and Monroe Doctrine—that the pact was quite
ineffective.
(AP, 8/27/97)(HN, 8/27/98)(HNQ, 10/20/00)
1928 Aug 27, 16 people died in
NYC’s 2nd worst subway accident.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1929 Aug 27, Ira Levin, author
(Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day), was born in
NYC.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1932 Aug 27, Antonia Fraser,
biographer (Mary Queen of Scots), was born.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1932 Aug 27-28, In England
200,000 textile workers went on strike.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1934 Aug 27, Arlen, Ira
Gershwin & Harburg musical premiered in NYC.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1937 Aug 27, Andrew Mellon
(b.1855), equity-fund capitalist and former US Treasury Secretary
(1921-1932), died. In 2006 David Canadine authored the biography
“Mellon.”
(www.ustreas.gov/education/history/secretaries/awmellon.shtml)(WSJ,
10/6/06, p.W4)
1938 Aug 27, George Eyston set
an automobile land-speed record.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1939 Aug 27, Nazi Germany
demanded Danzig and Polish corridor.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1939 Aug 27, The world's first
jet-propelled plane, the Heinkel He-178, made its first flight at
Marienehe, north Germany. Hans von Ohain’s aircraft became the first
jet-powered airplane to fly. It remained airborne for 7 minutes.
Erich Warsitz made the 1st jet-propelled flight.
(SFC, 8/10/96, p.A20)(Reuters, 8/28/01)(MC,
8/27/01)
1941 Aug 27, The Soviet armada
began to move out of Tallinn. By the next day 5 ships were sunk by
German bombers and Soviet ships began to encounter minefields set by
the Kriegsmarine and Finnish Navy. The Soviets succeeded in
evacuating 165 ships, 28,000 passengers and 66,000 tons of equipment
from Tallinn.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_evacuation_of_Tallinn)
1941 Aug 27, The Shah of Iran
abdicated the throne to his son Reza Pahlavi. Britain forced Reza
Shah to abdicate and installed his son Mohammed.
(www.indiana.edu/~league/1941.htm)(WSJ, 4/2/07,
p.A6)
1941 Aug 27, The Prime Minister
of Japan, Fumimaro Konoye, issued an invitation for a meeting with
President Roosevelt.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1942 Aug 27, Cuba declared war
on Germany, Japan and Italy.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1944 Aug 27, 200 Halifax
bombers attack oil-installations in Hamburg.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1945 Aug 27, B-29 Superfortress
bombers began to drop supplies into Allied prisoner of war camps in
China.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1945 Aug 27, Life Magazine’s
issue for VJ-Day featured a photo that Life photographer Alfred
Eisenstaedt made on May 8, VE-Day when he got signalman Jim Reynolds
to pose for a kiss with a nurse on Times Square. That the photo was
posed was denied by Life and Reynold’s role was not verified. Edith
Shain (d.2010 at 91) in a letter claimed to be the nurse with
documented letters from Eisenstaedt. In 2007 Houston Police
Department forensic artist Lois Gibson completed a detailed
investigation and concluded that Glenn McDuffie (80) is the man in
Alfred Eisenstaedt's Aug. 14, 1945 image of a sailor kissing a nurse
in Times Square.
(WSJ, 8/14/96, p.A14)(WSJ, 8/20/96, p.A11)(AP,
8/4/07)(SFC, 6/24/10, p.A9)
1945 Aug 27, American troops
began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese
government in World War II.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1948 Aug 27, Former US
Chief Justice Charles Evans (86) Hughes died in Osterville, Mass.
(AP, 8/27/08)
1950 Aug 27, Charles Fleischer,
comedian (Roger Rabbit), was born in Wash, DC.
(www.hollywood.com/celebs/fulldetail/id/188514)
1952 Aug 27, Paul Reubens
(Pee-wee Herman), actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), was born in
Peekskill, NY.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1955 Aug 27, The "Guinness Book
of World Records" was 1st published. It posted sales of 80 million
in 1997.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(WSJ, 7/30/99, p.B1)(MC,
8/27/01)
1958 Aug 27, The Arkansas
Legislature voted 94-1 to pass a law allowing Gov. Orval E. Faubus
to close public schools in the face of forced integration. Ray S.
Smith (1924-2007) was the only dissenting legislator.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1958 Aug 27, USSR launched
Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1961 Aug 27, Francis the
Talking Mule was the mystery guest on "What's My Line."
(MC, 8/27/01)
1962 Aug 27, The United States
launched the Mariner 2 space probe with an Atlas D booster. On
December 14, 1962, Mariner 2 passed within just over 20,000 miles of
Venus, reporting an 800F surface temperature, high surface
pressures, a predominantly carbon dioxide atmosphere, continuous
cloud cover, and no detectable magnetic field.
(AP, 8/27/97)(SFEM, 8/22/99,
p.9)(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-041A.html)
1963 Aug 27, Cambodia severed
ties with South Vietnam.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1963 Aug 27, William Edward
Burghardt Du Bois (b.1868), sociologist, influential leader of black
Americans, founder of the National Negro Committee which eventually
became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, died in Accra, Ghana at the age of 95. He coined the phrase
"double consciousness" to describe the black survival skill of
moving between the black and white American culture.
(WUD, 1994, p.439)(SFEC, 3/22/98, BR p.5)(HNPD,
2/23/99)(HNQ, 5/11/99)
1964 Aug 27, Gracie Allen,
comedian (Burns & Allen), died at 62.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1965 Aug 27, Bob Dylan was
booed off stage in NY's Forest Hills.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1965 Aug 27-1965 Sep 13,
Hurricane Betsy killed 75 in Louisiana & Florida. Betsy left New
Orleans under 7 feet of water.
(www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/betsy1965/)(WSJ, 8/31/05, p.B1)
1965 Aug 27, Le Corbusier
(b.1887), Swiss-French architect and writer, died. He was born as
Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
His book included books include “Vers une architecture” (Towards a
New Architecture) (1923), “The City of Tomorrow” (1925), and “When
the Cathedrals Were White” (1937).
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lecorbu.htm)
1966 Aug 27, There was a race
riot in Waukegan, Illinois.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1966 Aug 27, Sir Francis
Chichester began 1st solo ocean voyage around the world.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1967 Aug 27, Brian Epstein,
manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an
overdose of sleeping pills.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1971 Aug 27, Bennett Cerf
(b.1898), publisher and co-founder of Random House, died. Cerf began
appearing weekly on What's My Line? in 1951 and continued until the
show's CBS network end in 1967.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Cerf)
1971 Aug 27, Margaret
Bourke-White (b.1904), US photographer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White)
1972 Aug 27, The USS Newport
News CA-148 and three other ships (USS Rowan DD-782, USS
Providence CLG-6, and USS Robison DDG-12) carried out a night
time raid against heavily defended targets at the mouth of Haiphong
Harbor.
(www.tranhungdaotrip.com/CONGALionsDen.html)
1975 Aug 27, Haile Selassie,
the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in
Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after he was overthrown in a
military coup. It was later discovered that the Derg, the ruling
military committee, had voted to murder the imprisoned emperor.
Selassie was born of royal blood and originally named Ras Tafari,
and is regarded as the savior by a religious sect originating in
Jamaica whose members are called Rastafarians. Crowned emperor in
1930 under the title Haile Selassie I (meaning "Power of the
Trinity"), he was by tradition a descendant of King Solomon and the
Queen of Sheba. He reigned as emperor of Ethiopia until 1974.
Ryszard Kapuscinski later authored "The Emperor," a biography of
Selassie.
(AP, 8/27/00)(HNQ, 2/4/00)(WSJ, 4/18/01,
p.A20)(Econ, 9/29/07, p.49)
1976 Aug 27, Transsexual Renee
Richards was barred from competing in US Tennis Open in Forest
Hills, NY.
(www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/08.27.html)
1977 Aug 27, "Chicago" closed
at 46th St Theater in NYC after 947 performances.
(www.curtainup.com/chicago.html)
1979 Aug 27, British war hero
Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in his
29-foot sail boat in Sligo, Ireland; the Irish Republican Army
claimed responsibility. Also killed were his 14-year-old grandson
Nicholas, 83-year-old Lady Brabourne, and 15-year-old John Maxwell.
Thomas McMahon (31) was the bombmaker and was jailed at Dublin’s
Mountjoy prison. He was released in 1998 as part of the Northern
Ireland peace agreement.
(AP, 8/27/97)(SFC, 8/8/98, p.A13)(HN, 8/27/98)
1979 Aug 27, In Sanandaj, Iran,
11 Kurdish prisoners were executed by a firing squad following a 30
minute trial under Shiite cleric Sadegh Khalkhali. Jahangir Razmi, a
photographer for Iran’s independent Ettela’at newspaper, captured
the execution on film. Within hours an anonymous photo of the
execution ran across 6 columns of the paper. On Sep 8 the newspaper
was seized by the Foundation for the Disinherited, a state-owned
holding company. On April 14, 1980, the photo won a Pulitzer Prize.
In 2006 Razmi made public 27 images from the execution that he had
kept hidden.
(WSJ, 12/2/06, p.A1)
1979 Aug 27, In Northern
Ireland 18 British militia died in ambush and bomb attack at
Warrenpoint, South Down.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/27/newsid_3891000/3891055.stm)
1980 Aug 27, In South Korea
Chun Doo-hwan (b.1931) had the military junta name him president,
replacing Choi.
(AP,
10/24/07)(www.dpg.devry.edu/~akim/sck/kp2.html)
1981 Aug 27, Rene Soto clubbed
to death Anselmo Covarrubias in LA County. Maria Suarez (21), a
battered "sex slave" to Covarrubias and witness to the murder, was
convicted of first-degree murder and sent to prison. In 2002 Gov.
Davis rejected a recommended parole for Suarez. In 2003 Gov. Davis
issued a parole. Suarez was released in 2004.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.A20)(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A1)(SSFC,
4/6/03, p.A12)(SFC, 5/26/04, p.A1)
1981 Aug 27, Divers recovered
the Banco di Roma safe from the Andrea Doria.
(www.pcgscurrency.com/AndreaDoria.html)
1984 Aug 27, President Reagan
announced the Teacher in Space project.
(www.challenger.org/teachers/history/index.cfm)
1985 Aug 27, Dr. Fisher was a
mission specialist on STS 51-I which launched from Kennedy Space
Center, Florida.
(www.astronautix.com/astros/fislliam.htm)
1985 Aug 27, In Nigeria Gen’l.
Ibrahim Babangida began his rule. He gave up power in 1993.
(www.nigeriabusinessinfo.com/nigeria-elections2003/babangida-regime.htm)
1987 Aug 27, A Soviet Foreign
Ministry official said his country was studying a proposal by West
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to dismantle his country's 72 aging
Pershing 1A missiles if the superpowers destroyed all their
intermediate-range weapons.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1988 Aug 27, Tens of thousands
of civil rights marchers gathered in Washington, D.C., on the eve of
the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"
speech.
(AP, 8/27/98)
1989 Aug 27, Some 100 marched
through Bensonhurst, NYC, protesting racial killings.
(www.city-journal.org/article01.php?aid=1615)
1989 Aug 27, The first U.S.
commercial satellite rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.,
a Delta booster carrying a British communications satellite.
(AP, 8/27/99)
1989 Aug 27, Chuck Berry
performed his tune Johnny B. Goode for NASA staff in celebration of
Voyager II's encounter with the planet Neptune.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1990 Aug 27, Fifty-two
Americans reached freedom in Turkey after they were allowed to leave
Iraq; three young men originally in the group, however, were
detained by the Iraqis. In Washington, the State Department ordered
the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats.
(AP, 8/27/00)
1990 Aug 27, Texan blues
guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan (35) was killed in a helicopter crash
after performing at a concert in Wisconsin.
(Reuters, 8/28/01)
1991 Aug 27, The first flight
of the YF23 V-22 Osprey tiltrotor took place.
(NPub, 2002, p.25)
1991 Aug 27, Moldova (Moldavia)
declared independence from USSR.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova)
1992 Aug 27, President Bush
ordered federal troops to Florida for emergency relief in the wake
of Hurricane Andrew.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1992 Aug 27, The US and its
allies began air patrols following the imposition of a no-fly zone
over southern Iraq to stop air attacks on Shiite Muslim rebels.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)
1993 Aug 27, The U.N. Security
Council suspended 2 1/2-month-old economic sanctions against Haiti
to spur the country's return to democracy. They were reimposed the
following October.
(AP, 8/27/98)
1993 Aug 27, Gen’l. Ibrahim
Babangida ended his rule over Nigeria.
(www.nigeriabusinessinfo.com/nigeria-elections2003/babangida-regime.htm)
1994 Aug 27, The US State
Department said the US and Cuba had agreed to resume talks on Cuban
migration, with the hope of stemming the flow of refugees headed
toward Florida.
(AP, 8/27/99)
1995 Aug 27, American and
Chinese officials agreed to begin planning a fall summit between
President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
(AP, 8/27/00)
1995 Aug 27, A wildfire in the
Hamptons, the largest in 50 years, ended after 4 days. A 16-alarm at
the St. George Hotel complex began in Brooklyn.
(www.emergency.com/hampton.htm)(www.fdnewyork.com/stgeorge.asp)
1996 Aug 27, First lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton addressed the Democratic convention in Chicago,
forcefully making her husband's case for re-election while rebutting
her Republican critics.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1996 Aug 27, California Gov.
Pete Wilson signed an executive order aimed at halting state
benefits to illegal immigrants.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1996 Aug 27, In Indianapolis 4
police officers engaged in a fight outside the city’s Circle Center
mall. They were off duty and had just consumed a large amount of
beer in the city’s luxury suite at a ball game. They were later
tried for battery, disorderly conduct and public intoxication but
the 1997 trial ended in a hung jury.
(SFEC,10/26/97, p.A7)
1996 Aug 27, WorldCom announced
the acquisition of MFS Communications in a $12.4 billion deal.
WorldCom was formerly LDDS Communications and had gone public this
month.
(WSJ, 1/2/97, p.R2)(WSJ, 5/1/02, p.A8)
1996 Aug 27, Actor Greg Morris
("Mission: Impossible") was found dead at his Las Vegas home; he was
61.
(AP, 8/27/97)
1996 Aug 27, Alexander Lanusse,
military president of Argentina (1971-73), died.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1996 Aug 27, In Bosnia the
municipal elections scheduled for Sep 14 were cancelled by the
American diplomat Robert Frowick due to widespread abuse of rules
and regulations.
(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Aug 27, The last Rwandan
refugee camp in Burundi closed.
(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug 27, In India plans
were made to amend the 1948 electricity laws to allow private
companies to enter the transmission sector and help shoulder the
investment needed to satisfy demand.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug 27, Seven Iraqis freed
their 184 captives aboard a Sudanese airliner at the London airport
and asked for political asylum.
(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Aug 27, Israeli police
tore down a youth center in Jerusalem’s Old City saying that it was
illegally built with money from Arafat’s Palestinian Authority.
(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Aug 27, In Norway the 29
stave churches (1100-1400AD) left were under government protection
and threatened by arsonists of a Satanic movement.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.A12)
1996 Aug 27, Russian and
Chechen military commanders signed the Khasavyurt Accords, an
agreement for military disengagement.
(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A8)(USAT, 9/2/04, p.13A)
1996 Aug 27, South Korea was
reported to be the world’s 11th largest economy and America’s 5th
largest trading partner.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 27, The 450,000 strong
army of Turkey was the largest in NATO and the only one that was
exclusively Muslim.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.A10)
1997 Aug 27, Former Agriculture
Secretary Mike Espy was charged with seeking and accepting more than
$35,000 dollars in trips, sports tickets and favors from companies
that did business with his agency. A jury found Espy innocent in
1998 of taking illegal gifts, but eight others pleaded guilty or
were convicted of various charges; President Clinton later issued
seven pardons and a commutation.
(AP, 8/27/02)
1997 Aug 27, There was a report
on the US nuclear arsenal broken down to the number of nuclear
weapons in each state. New Mexico was 1st with 2,850, Georgia 2nd
with 2,000, and Washington State 3rd with 1,600. The total stockpile
was totaled at 12,500 warheads, of which 8,750 were described as
"operational."
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.A6)
1997 Aug 27, A secret CIA
report acknowledged that the CIA knew of human rights abuses by the
Honduran military in the 1980s. It was declassified in 1998.
(SFC, 10/24/98, p.A3)
1997 Aug 27, It was announced
that the diet drugs, Redux and Pondimin, caused brain damage in
animals at doses similar to those taken by humans.
(WSJ, 8/27/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 27, Brandon Tartikoff
(48), TV exec (NBC), died in Los Angeles.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0850748/)
1997 Aug 27, From India it was
reported that at least 945 people had died since June due to
torrential monsoon rains.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.C3)
1997 Aug 27, It was reported
that a 3-part expose in the Israeli Maariv newspaper alleged that
gameshow host Dudu Topaz was involved in rigging the winners in the
Mar 30 show "First in Comedy."
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.E7)(WSJ, 8/28/97, p.A1)
1997 Aug 27 Israel lifted a
month-long blockade of Bethlehem imposed after a suicide bombing
July 30 that killed 16 people.
(WSJ, 8/28/97, p.A1)(AP, 8/27/98)
1997 Aug 27, It was announced
that South Korea had a $22 billion trade deficit in 1996 and that
the purchase of foreign goods was being actively discouraged.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.C3)
1997 Aug 27, The annual Burning
Man Festival began near Gerlach, Nevada, on a private ranch on the
Hualapai Playa, a prehistoric lakebed. Some 20,000 people came to
the instantly created "Black Rock City" for the torching of the
50-foot effigy.
(SFEC, 8/24/97, p.A3)(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A1, 15)
1998 Aug 27, Two suspects in
the August 7 bombing of the US Embassy in Kenya were sent to the
United States to face charges. Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali and
Mohammed Saddiq Odeh were convicted in 2001 of conspiring to carry
out the bombing; both were sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 8/27/08)
1998 Aug 27, The DJIA fell 350
points and markets around the world fell in response to the problems
in Russia.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 27, Hurricane Bonnie
was downgraded to a tropical storm as its winds dropped to 65 mph.
(WSJ, 8/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 27, In Congo Unita
forces from Angola joined the rebels, while forces from Namibia
fought for Kabila’s regime.
(WSJ, 8/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 27, Re: Cyprus. Russia
planned to deliver the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to the
Greek Cypriot government for about $200 million. Pres. Glafcos
Clerides said the missiles would be deployed in Nov. if Turkey did
not accept a proposal for demilitarization.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A11)(SFC, 8/28/98, p.D4)
1998 Aug 27, In Israel a bus
bombing in Tel Aviv injured 21 people. A small bomb in a trash can
exploded in Tel Aviv and injured one person.
(WSJ, 8/28/98, p.A1)(SFC, 8/28/98, p.D3)
1998 Aug 27, In Pakistan Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the coming end of secular law and a
new rule of Islamic law based on the Koran.
(WSJ, 8/31/98, p.A18)
1998 Aug 27, In Kosovo a Serb
shell was said to have killed 11 of 14 members of the Asllani family
fleeing the village of Grape outside of Pristina.
(WSJ, 8/28/98, p.A1)(SFC, 8/28/98, p.D4)
1998 Aug 27, In Russia major
banks announced plans to merge and the government announced that it
would nationalize SBS-Agro, the 3rd largest bank in the country.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.A12)
1999 Aug 27, The US Federal
Communications Commission announced new government wiretapping rules
intended to help law enforcement authorities keep pace with advances
in phone technology. A federal appeals court later threw out some of
the new rules, citing privacy concerns.
(AP, 8/27/00)
1999 Aug 27, In Norway the
Supreme Court declared that it was legal to use discriminatory
statements in real estate listings.
(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A14)
1999 Aug 27, The Russian Mir
space station was closed down as the last crew undocked.
(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A10)
1999 Aug 27, In Russia
investigators suspected that at least 12 current or former Russian
officials had diverted $15 billion in IMF funds through 2 NY banks.
It was reported that an estimated $10 billion left the country
illegally each year.
(USAT, 8/27/99, p.1A)(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A10)
1999 Aug 27, In East Timor some
800 militiamen attacked the village of Mimo and 3 people were
killed.
(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A10)
1999 Aug 27, In Venezuela
members of Congress clashed with police as they attempted to defy a
government ban on conducting a legislative session.
(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A1)
2000 Aug 27, Pres. Clinton
visited the village of Ushafa in Nigeria and urged Nigerians to
confront the "tyranny" of AIDS.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 27, In Colombia gunmen
killed at least 17 people in 2 massacres at Cienaga and
Buenaventura.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 27, In Costa Rica 10
people were killed when a small plane crashed into a volcano.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 27, In Iran fighting
between students and hard-liners in Khorramabad left a police
officer dead.
(SFC, 8/30/00, p.B10)
2000 Aug 27, In Lebanon
elections were held for 63 seats of the 128-member parliament for
Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 27, Kidnappers in the
southern Philippines released 6 foreign hostages for a reported $5
million in ransom. The 5 were part of a group of 21 kidnapped on Apr
23.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 27, In Moscow the
Ostankino television tower caught on fire and burned for close to 26
hours. 2 people were found dead in an elevator that fell some 1000
feet during the fire. A 3rd body was later found in the elevator
shaft.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A12)(SFC, 8/29/00, p.A7)(WSJ,
8/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 27, In Russia a ferry
collided with a barge at the Votkinsky reservoir and 6 people were
killed with 16 injured.
(SFC, 8/28/00, p.A12)
2001 Aug 27, The Bush
administration confirmed that Sec. of State Colin Powell would not
attend the UN conference on racism in Durban, South Africa.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 27, An unmanned US
reconnaissance aircraft, Predator, was reported shot down over
southern Iraq near Basra. In northern Iraq US planes attacked a
missile and Iraq claimed 1 civilian was killed.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A7)(WSJ, 8/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 27, Intel unveiled a
2-GHz Pentium 4 chip.
(SFC, 8/27/01, p.D1)
2001 Aug 27, Michael Dertouzos,
MIT computer scientist, died at age 64. His books included ""The
Unfinished Revolution: Human Centered Computers and What They Can Do
For Us." He also helped drive the creation of the WWW Consortium to
ensure uniformity on the Web.
(SFC, 8/31/01, p.A24)
2001 Aug 27, Australia denied
access to the Tampa, a Norwegian cargo ship carrying some 433
refugees, mostly from Afghanistan, who had been rescued from a
sinking Indonesian ferry.
(SFC, 8/29/01, p.A8)(Econ, 5/7/05, Survey p.13)
2001 Aug 27, In Belarus a
videotape was released that showed 2 men saying they were members of
the Belarus KGB and had shot to death 2 Lukashenko opponents in
Sep., 1999.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A6)
2001 Aug 27, Israeli
helicopters fired missiles into the offices of Mustafa Zibri, chief
of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in El Bireh.
Zibri was killed and thousands of Palestinians began protests.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 27, In Indonesia PM
Megawati reached an agreement with the IMF to restart a $5 billion
loan that was halted last Dec.
(WSJ, 8/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 27, In Macedonia NATO
troops began collecting rebel weapons and one British soldier was
killed when a suspected block of concrete was thrown at his vehicle
by Macedonian youths.
(SFC, 8/28/01, p.A6)(WSJ, 8/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 27, Peru's Congress
voted to lift the constitutional immunity of former President
Alberto Fujimori, so that prosecutors could charge him with crimes
against humanity.
(AP, 8/27/02)
2001 Aug 27, It was reported
that AIDS victims in Thailand were packing stadiums to receive V-1
Immunitor, a locally produced drug advertised as a clinically tested
oral AIDS vaccine. Salang Bunnag sponsored the giveaway directed at
Thailand’s 755,000 AIDS patients.
(SFC, 8/27/01, p.A1)
2002 Aug 27, Pres. Bush met
with Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, who said war with
Iraq was not acceptable and that Saudi Arabia would not cooperate.
Bush told the Saudi diplomat he had not yet decided whether to
attack Iraq.
(SFC, 8/28/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/27/03)
2002 Aug 27, Stanley R.
Greenberg (74), writer, died. His work included over 40 plays for
stage, film and TV including the screenplay for the 1973 film
"Soylent Green."
(SFC, 8/28/02, p.A19)(MoTV, 1977, p.667)
2002 Aug 27, In northern
Colombia government forces clashed with rebels, killing eight
guerrillas. The eight were among 14 people killed in scattered
fighting across the insurgency-plagued nation.
(AP, 8/27/02)
2002 Aug 27, A Tokyo court
acknowledged for the first time Japan's use of biological weapons
before and during World War II, but rejected demands for
compensation by 180 Chinese who claimed they were victims of the
germ warfare program.
(AP, 8/27/03)
2002 Aug 27, In Macedonia 2
policemen were killed ahead of Sep 15 elections.
(WSJ, 8/27/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 27, Two Russian border
guards were arrested and confessed to killing eight of their
comrades in Ingushetia to avenge hazing. President Vladimir Putin
called for better discipline and combat-readiness amid a string of
deadly incidents.
(AP, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 27, In South Africa
delegates to the World Summit on Sustainable Development called for
increased global efforts to bring new agricultural technologies to
poor farmers to help feed the developing world.
(AP, 8/27/02)
2002 Aug 27, In Sudan more
members of the opposition Popular National Congress, including two
former government ministers, were arrested on suspicion of creating
"instability."
(AP, 8/28/02)
2003 Aug 27, The Bush
administration relaxed clean air rules to allow industrial plants to
make upgrades without installing pollution controls.
(SFC, 8/28/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 27, A moving crew
rolled a massive Ten Commandments monument out of the rotunda of the
Alabama Judicial Building to comply with a federal court order as
protesters knelt, prayed and chanted, "Put it back!"
(AP, 8/27/04)
2003 Aug 27, Oklahoma charged
Bernie Ebbers (62), ex-CEO of WorldCom, and 6 other former
executives with 15 felony violations of state's securities laws. The
charges against Ebbers were dropped when the Federal
government filed on March 2, 2004 security fraud and conspiracy
charges. Ebbers was found guilty of all charges on March 15, 2005.
He was sentenced to 25 years in a federal prison in Louisiana, the
toughest sentence yet among other recent corporate accounting
scandals.
(SFC, 8/28/03,
p.B1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Ebbers#Criminal_charges)
2003 Aug 27, In Chicago
Salvador Tapia (36) shot and killed 6 people inside Windy City Core
Supply Inc. autoparts warehouse. He opened fire on police and was
killed. Tapia had been fired from the auto parts warehouse six
months earlier.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2003 Aug 27, American and
Afghan forces killed about a dozen insurgents and recaptured a
mountain pass in southeastern Afghanistan.
(AP, 8/27/03)
2003 Aug 27, Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder said that Germany was committed to deploying troops to
northern Afghanistan to support reconstruction efforts.
(AP, 8/28/03)
2003 Aug 27, In Nasik, India,
thousands of Hindu pilgrims jostling to reach a river for a
religious festival toppled a bamboo fence, sparking a stampede that
killed at least 39 people, mostly women. At least 125 people were
injured.
(AP, 8/27/03)
2003 Aug 27, In Iraq 2 more US
soldiers were killed in combat, and the international relief agency
Oxfam said it pulled its foreign staff out of Iraq because of the
increasing danger.
(AP, 8/27/03)
2003 Aug 27, Nepal's rebels
announced that they were ending a seven-month cease-fire and
withdrawing from peace talks with the government aimed at closing
seven years of insurgency.
(AP, 8/27/03)
2003 Aug 27, The US and North
Korea held direct talks for the first time in months, meeting for a
half-hour on the sidelines of a six-nation summit in Beijing
designed to resolve the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program.
(AP, 8/27/03)
2003 Aug 27, Senegal announced
its 5th government in three years under President Abdoulaye Wade, in
a Cabinet overhaul that followed criticism of Wade's administration
and its handling of recent flooding.
(AP, 8/27/03)
2003 Aug 27, Serbia declared
Kosovo part of its territory.
(WSJ, 8/28/03, p.A1)
2003 Aug 27, Mars came within
34,646,437 miles of Earth, its closest in the past 60 millennia.
(SFC, 8/27/03, p.A1)
2004 Aug 27, President Bush
signed executive orders designed to strengthen the CIA director's
power over the nation's intelligence agencies and create a national
counterterrorism center.
(AP, 8/27/05)
2004 Aug 27, Thousands of
cyclists snarled traffic in NYC and police said they arrested more
than 250 people and confiscated their bicycles in the first
significant protest against President Bush before the Republican
convention.
(Reuters, 8/28/04)
2004 Aug 27, A fire at a
University of Mississippi fraternity house killed 3 students.
(AP, 8/27/05)
2004 Aug 27, It was reported
that SABMiller was investing $82.2 million to build a brewery in
Dongguan, Guangdong province, China.
(WSJ, 8/27/04, p.A10)
2004 Aug 27, In eastern
Colombia rebels killed a mayor and a former town council member
after abducting them at a roadblock.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2004 Aug 27, Liu Xiang
(b.1983), Chinese hurdler, set a record and won Olympic gold in
Athens in the 110 meter hurdles with a time of 12.91 seconds
equaling the 1993 time of Colin Jackson.
(www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-08/28/content_369582.htm)
2004 Aug 27, A group of
Eritreans expelled from Libya hijacked a plane which was flying them
home and forced it to land in Khartoum where they surrendered.
(AFP, 8/27/04)
2004 Aug 27, Al-Sadr's
followers handed over the keys to the Imam Ali Shrine to
religious authorities loyal to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
Militants, who had been holed up in the site, left it after Iraq's
top Shiite cleric brokered a peace deal to end three weeks of
fighting. Iraqi police discovered about 10 bodies in a maverick
religious court run by rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's
followers.
(AP, 8/27/04)
2004 Aug 27, In Iraq saboteurs
hit a pipeline that runs within the West Qurna oilfields, 90 miles
north of the southern city of Basra.
(AP, 8/28/04)
2004 Aug 27, Pakistan's
National Assembly elected former finance minister Shaukat Aziz prime
minister, after he was hand-picked for the post by military leader
Pres. Pervez Musharraf.
(Reuters, 8/27/04)
2004 Aug 27, Riot police used
water cannons to disperse protesters demanding that the Philippines
lift its ban on allowing its citizens to go to war-ravaged Iraq for
jobs.
(AP, 8/27/04)
2004 Aug 27, Officials said one
of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was
brought down by a terrorist act, after finding traces of explosives
in the plane's wreckage. An Islamic militant group claimed
responsibility for the attack in a Web statement. Chechen women
Amanta Nagayeva (30) and S. Dzhebirkhanova (27) had purchased their
tickets at the last minute.
(AP, 8/27/04)(SFC, 8/31/04, p.A8)
2004 Aug 27, A Zimbabwean court
found Briton Simon Mann guilty of attempting to illegally buy arms
for an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea but absolved
66 other suspected mercenaries. In 2011 Simon Mann authored “Cry
Havoc,” his chronicle of the failed coup.
(AP, 8/27/04)(Econ, 12/3/11, p.103)
2005 Aug 27, President Bush
asked Americans in his weekly radio address to be patient with the
US military mission in Iraq as thousands of pro-Bush and anti-war
demonstrators competed for attention in his tiny hometown of
Crawford, Texas.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2005 Aug 27, US Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan said US home prices could fall as the
housing surge "inevitably" slows. He cast doubt on central banks'
ability to sway such asset values.
(Reuters, 8/28/05)
2005 Jun 27, Bunnatine
Greenhouse, a senior contracting official for the US Army Corps of
Engineers, testified to a Democratic Party public committee,
alleging specific instances of waste, fraud, and other abuses and
irregularities by Halliburton with regard to its operations in Iraq
since the Iraq War. In August she was demoted in what her lawyer
called an "obvious reprisal" for her revelations about the
Halliburton contracts.
(SFC, 8/29/05,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Greenhouse)
2005 Aug 27, John Dobson,
Connecticut-based telescope inventor, celebrated his 90th birthday
in SF at the Randall Museum.
(SFC, 8/26/05, p.B1)
2005 Aug 27, Coastal residents
jammed freeways and gas stations as they rushed to get out of the
way of Hurricane Katrina, which was headed toward New Orleans.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2005 Aug 27, Sunni negotiator
Fakhri al-Qaisi said that the Sunnis have submitted
counter-proposals on the constitution to the parliament speaker and
will meet later with the U.S. ambassador.
(AP, 8/27/05)
2005 Aug 27, The US military
has released nearly 1,000 prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison after
Iraqi authorities requested that they be set free.
(AP, 8/27/05)
2005 Aug 27, Kyodo News said
Kenichi Shinoda, an ex-gang boss in Nagoya and formerly the
Yamaguchi-gumi's number-two, became the sixth head of the
90-year-old yakuza gang in a ceremony in the western port city of
Kobe. Japan's biggest underworld syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi,
formally appointed its new don, marking the first change of power
for the dreaded group in 16 years.
(AP, 8/27/05)
2005 Aug 27, A drive-by
shooting in Kosovo killed two Serbs and wounded two more. Serbia's
PM Vojislav Kostunica blamed the shooting on ethnic Albanians.
(AP, 8/29/05)
2005 Aug 27, North Korea
demanded the US rescind its recent appointment of a special envoy on
human rights in the communist country, warning the position could
hurt international efforts to end the North's nuclear weapons
program. Washington announced last week that Jay Lefkowitz, a former
adviser to President Bush, will be in charge of promoting efforts to
"improve the human rights of the long-suffering North Korean
people."
(AP, 8/27/05)
2005 Aug 27, Stanislaw Dziwisz
(66), Pope John Paul II's longtime aide, was installed as archbishop
of Krakow.
(AP, 8/27/05)
2005 Aug 27, UN member states
agreed to let about 30 nations take the lead in trying to resolve
major differences over an action plan world leaders can adopt at
next month's summit.
(AP, 8/27/05)
2006 Aug 27, Heart-pounding spy
thriller "24" finally broke through at the Emmy Awards, winning the
prize as best drama series in its fifth try, while new workplace
satire "The Office" was crowned best comedy.
(Reuters, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 27, In Kentucky a
Comair commuter jet carrying 50 people, crashed in a field and
caught fire shortly after taking off in light rain. The co-pilot was
the sole survivor. The taxi route for commercial jets using Blue
Grass Airport's main runway was altered a week before Comair Flight
5191 took the wrong runway and crashed.
(AP, 8/27/06)(AP, 8/28/07)
2006 Aug 27, Ernesto became the
first hurricane of the Atlantic season with winds of 75 mph, and
forecasters said it would strengthen as it headed toward the Gulf of
Mexico.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, In Afghanistan
insurgent attacks in Helmand province killed a British soldier,
while 10 suspected Taliban militants died when police repelled an
attack on a government compound in the same province. Insurgent
attacks left seven wounded in Kandahar province.
(AP, 8/27/06)(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 27, In Brazil
archbishop Luciano Mendes de Almeida (75), an avid human rights
defender, died.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, Britain’s National
Patient Safety Agency reported that 2,159 patients died between
April 2005 and March 2006 as a result of "patient safety incidents"
in the National Health Service (NHS).
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, China adopted a
new bankruptcy law making it easier to restructure insolvent firms.
It became effective on June 1, 2007.
(http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/china_law_prof_blog/2006/08/revised_bankrup.html)
2006 Aug 27, State media quoted
officials saying that one-third of China's vast landmass is
suffering from acid rain caused by its rapid industrial growth,
while local leaders are failing to enforce environmental standards
for fear of hurting business.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, In western India a
water tank collapsed during a Bharatpur town fair, killing 45 people
who had climbed on top of it to watch a wrestling match.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, Iran test fired a
new submarine-to-surface missile during war games in the Persian
Gulf. A brief video clip showed the long-range missile, called
Thaqeb, or Saturn, exiting the water and hitting a target on the
water's surface within less than a mile.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, In Baghdad 2
explosions killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens. Gunmen in 3
cars opened fire at the outdoor market of Khalis, a mostly Shiite
town. 12 people were killed and 25 others were wounded. 7 US
soldiers were killed in and around Baghdad, 6 by roadside bombs and
one by gunfire. Bombings and shootings killed at least 73 people
across the country. A US service member died in fighting in Anbar
province west of Baghdad.
(AP, 8/27/06)(AP, 8/28/06)(SFC, 8/28/06,
p.A3)(AP, 8/29/06)
2006 Aug 27, Israeli aircraft
fired two missiles at an armored car belonging to the Reuters news
agency, wounding five people, including two cameramen. Two Hamas
militants were killed in separate airstrikes.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, Jordan's
parliament endorsed the country's first anti-terrorism law despite
objections by some lawmakers that the bill curtails freedoms.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, Mauritania police
said the bodies of 15 people found washed ashore on the beaches of
Nouakchatt, Mauritania's capital, are believed to be those of
African migrants who were trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands by
boat. Spain's Interior Ministry said more than 18,300 people have
reached the Canary Islands so far this year, the highest total ever.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, Mexican electoral
officials said Juan Sabines, a leftist candidate, won the governor's
race in Mexico's volatile southernmost state of Chiapas, edging out
Jose Antonio Aguilar, backed by President Vicente Fox's party by
about 6,300 votes.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, Hundreds of
rioters angered by the killing of a rebel Baluch tribal leader
rampaged through Quetta in southwestern Pakistan, burning shops,
banks and police vehicles. Police arrested 450 rioters who rampaged
overnight.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, Militants freed
Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig, two Fox News journalists in
the Gaza Strip, ending a nearly two week hostage drama.
(AP, 8/27/06)
2006 Aug 27, In Russia a man
doused himself with flammable liquids and set himself on fire on Red
Square before dozens of shocked tourists.
(AP, 8/28/06)
2006 Aug 27, In Turkey a bomb
on a minibus injured 21 people including 10 British tourists. The
explosion was in the popular Mediterranean resort town of Marmaris.
2 other bomb blasts hit at the same time in garbage cans on the main
boulevard.
(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14546503/)
2007 Aug 27, Officials
announced that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had resigned,
ending a months long standoff with critics who questioned his
honesty and competence at the helm of the Justice Department. Pres.
Bush accepted his resignation Aug 24. Solicitor General Paul Clement
will be acting attorney general until a replacement is found.
(AP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, Sen. Larry Craig,
R-Idaho, said in a statement he was not involved in any
inappropriate conduct when he was arrested at the Minneapolis
airport and should have not pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reported that Craig was
arrested June 11 by a plainclothes officer investigating complaints
of lewd conduct in an airport restroom.
(AP, 8/27/08)
2007 Aug 27, Atlanta Falcons
quarterback Michael Vick apologized for "using bad judgment and
making bad decisions" and vowed to redeem himself after pleading
guilty in Richmond, Va., to a federal dogfighting charge.
(AP, 8/27/08)
2007 Aug 27, Police arrested
Paul Devoe III (43) in Shirley, NY, following 5 recent murders in
Texas and one in Pennsylvania. On December 19, 2007, the Texas
Travis County District Attorney announced his office's intention to
pursue the death penalty.
(SFC, 8/28/07,
p.A6)(www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/us/28texas.html)
2007 Aug 27, The US-led
coalition in Afghanistan accused Taliban militants of falsely
reporting civilian casualties to discredit Afghan and international
forces. Afghan and US-led coalition troops killed up to 21 suspected
Taliban militants in 3 separate clashes in southern Afghanistan. A
roadside blast killed 4 Afghan soldiers in the east. 3 American and
2 Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush in the Ghazi Abad
district of eastern Kunar province. A NATO trooper died in a nearby
area.
(AP, 8/27/07)(Reuters, 8/27/07)(AP, 8/28/07)(AFP,
8/28/07)
2007 Aug 27, In Colombia the
Bogota stock exchange launched the sale of up to 20% of state-owned
Ecopetrol’s shares.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.31)
2007 Aug 27, Ethiopia ordered
six Norwegian diplomats to leave the country by Sept. 15, expressing
"dissatisfaction" with Norway's conduct in the Horn of Africa
region.
(AP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, Pres. Sarkozy
called for a clear timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops
from Iraq as he outlined an assertive role for France in other world
hotspots. Sarkozy urged EU nations to accept a greater share of
defense spending to cope with escalating global threats.
(AFP, 8/27/07)(Reuters, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, The French
government said a tax official cheated the government out of 600,000
euros ($820,000) by creating a phantom identity as a university
professor and claiming a salary for some 15 years.
(Reuters, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 27, In Greece the
worst wildfires in living memory have killed 63 people and tore
through town and forest alike. In the last 24 hours, 89 new fires
broke out. Arson is often suspected, mostly to clear land for
development.
(AP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, A sniper killed a
Shiite pilgrim on a Baghdad bridge while another was killed and six
injured in other attacks as tens of thousands of faithful made their
way to the southern city of Karbala for a major religious
commemoration. At least five people were killed in Karbala as
scuffles broke out between police and pilgrims. North of Baghdad
hundreds of US and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters and jet
fighters killed 33 Sunni insurgents who were holding back the water
supply to the Shiite town of Khalis. In Fallujah a mosque suicide
bombing left 11 dead and 10 people were wounded in an attack that
targeted an anti-al-Qaida Sunni sheik who had just returned from
Syria.
(AP, 8/27/07)(AP, 8/28/07)(AP, 8/29/07)
2007 Aug 27, Israel’s Haaretz
newspaper reported that security officials fear Hamas' exiled
leadership in Syria is working to renew suicide attacks against
Israel in an effort to derail peace efforts by Israel and
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Israeli intelligence assessed
that Islamic Hamas militants have smuggled 40 tons of weapons into
the Gaza Strip since the group wrested control of the territory in
June.
(AP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, Morocco's former
interior minister, Driss Basri (69), died in a Paris hospital, to be
mourned in some circles as a loyal servant of the crown and
condemned by others as a ruthless axeman.
(AFP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, About 50
pro-democracy activists were arrested outside Yangon, as the Myanmar
junta clamped down on dissent following a series of protests last
week against a sharp hike in fuel prices.
(AFP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, An official said
the Dutch government will spend $38 million over the next four years
to prevent both the growth of Islamic fundamentalism and right-wing
nationalism.
(AP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, Gunmen in southern
Nigeria set free Peter Agwuna, a Nigerian supervisor for the Elf oil
group, who was seized in Port Harcourt about a month ago.
(AFP, 8/28/07)
2007 Aug 27, Pakistan's PM Aziz
called for reconciliation between the country's main political
parties as President Gen. Pervez Musharraf prepares to seek
re-election. But he said the government had no plans to allow two
banned opposition leaders to become premiers again. In northwest
Pakistan militants and soldiers exchanged fire, killing one militant
and injuring three civilians and a soldier in North Waziristan.
(AP, 8/28/07)(AP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, Panama’s cabinet
resigned after a tainted medicine scandal and the government’s
failure to implement construction safety standards.
(WSJ, 8/28/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 27, Russia announced
the arrest of 10 people in the killing of journalist and Kremlin
critic Anna Politkovskaya. Russia's top prosecutor said a Chechen
crime boss, Russian police and security officers were involved in
the death of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya. But he suggested
that someone outside Russia masterminded the killing of the frequent
Kremlin critic.
(AP, 8/27/07)(AP, 8/27/08)
2007 Aug 27, In South Africa
Hewlett-Packard became the first multinational to be exempted from
selling 30 percent of its business in South Africa to black
investors. Under an agreement reached with the government, the
company will instead invest millions of dollars in a new business
institute to provide training for 1,800 students over the next six
years.
(AFP, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, A Sudanese
criminal court dismissed the case against nine people on trial in
connection with the beheading of Mohammed Taha, a prominent
journalist, and brought formal charges against 10 other defendants.
CARE’s country director Paul Barker said the Sudanese government's
Humanitarian Aid Commission had given him 72 hours to leave the
country without giving reasons for the decision.
(AP, 8/27/07)(Reuters, 8/27/07)
2007 Aug 27, Taiwan's leading
computer vendor Acer Inc moved to substantially boost its market
share by acquiring US rival Gateway amid a major consolidation among
the world's top computer companies. Acer said it would pay $710
million for Gateway.
(AP, 8/27/07)(Econ, 9/1/07, p.60)
2007 Aug 27, The UN opened in
Vienna its latest round of talks on global warming.
(WSJ, 8/27/07, p.A1)
2007 Aug 27, Opera Romana
Pellegrinaggi, a Vatican-backed charter airline service, made its
inaugural flight, aiming to carry pilgrims to such Catholic shrines
as Lourdes, Fatima, Santiago de Compostela and the Holy Land.
(AP, 8/27/07)
2008 Aug 27, In Colorado
Democrats officially made Barack Obama their presidential nominee
and Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., their vice presidential nominee,
following speeches by former Pres. Bill Clinton and Sen John Kerry,
the Democrat’s 2004 presidential candidate. Obama made a surprise
late visit to the convention, following Biden’s acceptance speech,
to praise his wife, his former rival, and former President Bill
Clinton for going to bat for him.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 27, In Honolulu Marcus
Eriksen and fellow eco-mariner Joel Paschal celebrated the end of
their 2,600-mile voyage on what they call the JUNK raft. They had
spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic
bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris. Research suggested that
every square kilometer of the ocean has an average of 13,000 pieces
of plastic floating in it. The floating portion was thought to make
up only 15% of marine litter.
(AP, 8/28/08)(Econ, 2/28/09, SR p.9)
2008 Aug 27, US scientists said
they have transformed ordinary pancreas cells in living mice into a
rarer type of cell that churns out insulin opening possibilities for
future treatment of disease.
(WSJ, 8/28/08, p.D3)
2008 Aug 27, In Afghanistan a
German soldier was killed and another three injured in a roadside
bomb attack in Kunduz province. Germany counted some 3,300 soldiers
as part of the international force in Afghanistan. US-led coalition
troops clashed and called in airstrikes against militants in Kunduz
province, killing more than a dozen insurgents. In southern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb killed a US coalition soldier on a
patrol. In the Nad Ali area of Helmand province, a fight between
police and militants killed 14 insurgents. More than a dozen
militants were killed after they attacked a coalition base in
Shaheed Hasas district of the southern Uruzgan province. Two Afghan
guards also died during the attack. About a dozen militants were
killed during a raid by coalition troops in eastern Paktika
province.
(AP, 8/27/08)(AP, 8/28/08)(AP, 8/30/08)
2008 Aug 27, The first outbreak
of violence in China's western region of Xinjiang since a pair of
high-profile attacks during the Olympics left 2 Chinese policemen
dead and 7 more wounded. In north China 9 miners in Hebei province
became trapped underground after the illegal mine they worked in
collapsed. Police were only informed 2 days later. All 9 were feared
dead.
(AP, 8/28/08)(AFP, 8/29/08)
2008 Aug 27, China and Iraq
signed a $3 billion deal revising a prewar agreement for China's
biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field. On Sep 2
Iraq’s Cabinet approved the deal with China National Petroleum Corp.
(AP, 8/28/08)(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Aug 27, The Group of Seven
(G7) industrialized democracies condemned Russia for its actions in
Georgia, underlining the country's growing estrangement from the
West.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 27, A US military ship
docked at the southern Georgian port of Batumi. Meanwhile, Russia's
missile cruiser, the Aurora, and two missile boats, anchored at the
port of Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia. The moves by both sides
underscored an escalating standoff between Moscow and the West over
this small Caucasus nation devastated by war with Russia.
(AP, 8/27/08)
2008 Aug 27, Indian police were
ordered to shoot on sight to end Hindu-Christian clashes. Parts of
eastern Orissa state have been rocked by Hindu-Christian clashes
since Aug 23, when a hardline Hindu holy leader and four other
people were shot dead by unknown assailants.
(AFP, 8/27/08)
2008 Aug 27, American forces
arrested Ali al-Lami, a top Iraqi Shiite government official, as he
stepped off a plane at Baghdad's airport. The US said the man
arrested was a leader of Iranian-backed militias and was behind a
bombing that killed 10 people on June 24, including four Americans.
An American soldier died of wounds suffered in a roadside bombing a
day earlier in northeast Baghdad.
(AP, 8/27/08)(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 27, In
Indian-administered Kashmir police traded fire with militants
allegedly holding 8 people hostage, including 6 children, in a
building in Jammu. 3 soldiers and 3 civilians died in the violence.
The militants had illegally crossed into Indian Kashmir from
Pakistan a day earlier.
(AP, 8/27/08)(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 27, Abie Nathan (81),
the peace activist who made a dramatic solo flight to Egypt in a
rattletrap single-engine plane (1966) and later founded the
groundbreaking "Voice of Peace" radio station, died in Tel Aviv.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 27, The UN Security
Council voted unanimously to keep a peacekeeping force in Lebanon
for another year, calling for stepped-up efforts to achieve a
permanent cease-fire and long-term resolution of the 2006
Israel-Hezbollah war.
(AP, 8/27/08)
2008 Aug 27, In Mexico a
38-year-old man from Oregon was arrested in San Jose del Cabo
following a fight at an apartment complex. He died in jail hours
later. On Aug 31 six Mexican officers placed under house
arrest on suspicion of homicide.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Aug 27, In Pakistan
security forces clashed with militants across the wild tribal belt,
trading fire with insurgents in a health center and repelling a
major assault on an outpost in a region known as an al-Qaida safe
haven. Officials claimed as many as 49 insurgents died as the
fighting spread to South Waziristan.
(AP, 8/27/08)(SFC, 8/28/08, p.A5)
2008 Aug 27, In Spain tens of
thousands of people from around the world hurled tons of ripe
tomatoes at each other in the annual food fight in the eastern
Spanish town of Bunol.
(AP, 8/27/08)
2008 Aug 27, Two hijackers, who
commandeered a jetliner from Sudan's Darfur region and diverted it
to a remote desert airstrip in southern Libya, surrendered after a
22-hour standoff.
(AP, 8/27/08)
2008 Aug 27, Thailand issued
arrest warrants for protest leaders besieging the main government
complex, as authorities scrambled to find a peaceful end to the
administration's most serious challenge yet.
(AP, 8/27/08)
2008 Aug 27, Zimbabwe's
opposition said it will not join any new government with President
Robert Mugabe until power-sharing talks are concluded, after the
84-year-old declared he would name his own cabinet.
(AFP, 8/27/08)
2009 Aug 27, Chicago's 9-story
old main post office, which dated from the 1920s and has been vacant
for more than a decade, was sold at auction for $40 million to
International Property Developers North America Inc, which did not
specify its plans.
(AP, 8/28/09)
2009 Aug 27, Toyota confirmed
that it would stop making cars at the NUMMI plant in Fremont, Ca.,
idling some 4,700 workers.
(SFC, 8/28/09, p.A1)
2009 Aug 27, In Afghanistan a
US service member died in a militant attack involving a roadside
bomb and gunfire, a death that pushed August into a tie with July as
the deadliest months of the eight-year war.
(AP, 8/27/09)
2009 Aug 27, A senior UN
official condemned Australia's controversial intervention into
remote Aboriginal communities, describing the measures as
discriminatory and finding entrenched racism in Australia.
(Reuters, 8/27/09)
2009 Aug 27, Mike Perham (17)
became the youngest person to sail solo around the world with
assistance, as he entered British waters after 156 days at sea. The
Guinness Book of World Records created a new category for Perham:
youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe solo, supported. His
father, Peter, sailed in a boat behind him, but did not offer
assistance, which Guinness defines as being accompanied on the boat
by another human being.
(AFP, 8/27/09)
2009 Aug 27, In Honduras a plan
was made public in which the interim leader offered to resign and
back exiled President Manuel Zelaya's return home, provided the
ousted leader gives up his claim to the presidency.
(AP, 8/28/09)
2009 Aug 27, In Iraq car bombs
targeted primarily Iraqi troops in the city and a northern Baghdad
suburb, killing one and wounding 22 people. Iraqi forces tightened
security around Shiite mosques, shrines and political party offices
ahead of the funeral of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, a top Shiite leader,
who died in Iran a day earlier.
(AP, 8/27/09)
2009 Aug 27, In Mexico the
bodies of four farm workers were found dumped in a stable for bulls
in the western state of Michoacan. The bodies bore signs of torture
and had the letter "Z" carved into their foreheads, a possible
reference to the Zetas, hit men tied to the Gulf cartel. In the
northern state of Nuevo Leon, state Public Safety Secretary Aldo
Fasci said about 2,000 police officers across the state had been
fired over the last two years for suspected links to organized crime
and drug cartels. Speaking at a meeting of private security firms,
he said 500 others were dismissed for other causes.
(AP, 8/28/09)
2009 Aug 27, In Oaxaca, Mexico,
supporters of a teacher’s union tried to retake a school controlled
by Section 59 when gunfire erupted and teacher Antonio Norberto
Camacho was shot to death. Section 59 was created in the midst of
the protests led by Section 22 and anti-government groups in 2006.
(AP, 8/29/09)
2009 Aug 27, In Myanmar fresh
fighting erupted between government forces and an armed ethnic group
in the remote northeast, forcing tens of thousands to flee across
the border into China.
(Reuters, 8/28/09)
2009 Aug 27, In Pakistan a
suicide bomber killed at least 19 security officers at the Torkham
security checkpoint, one of the main border crossings for convoys
ferrying NATO supplies into Afghanistan. A suspected US drone fired
two missiles at a militant hide-out in northwest Pakistan, killing
at least six people and wounding nine.
(AP, 8/27/09)(AP, 8/30/09)
2009 Aug 27, In Russia Sergei
Mikhalkov (96), an author favored by Stalin who wrote the lyrics for
the Soviet and Russian national anthems, died. He fathered two noted
film directors. As a functionary and later chairman of the
government-regulated Soviet Writers' Union, Mikhalkov became an
integral part of the propaganda machine designed to indoctrinate
Soviet citizens and weed out dissidents.
(AP, 8/27/09)(Econ, 9/12/09, p.96)
2009 Aug 27, In Saudi Arabia a
suicide bomber targeted the assistant interior minister, Prince
Mohammed bin Nayef, and blew himself up just before going into a
gathering of well-wishers for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in
Jiddah. Nayef was slightly wounded.
(AP, 8/28/09)
2009 Aug 27, In Sudan Martin
Luther Agwai, the outgoing military commander of the joint
UN-African Union (UNAMID) peacekeeping force in the western Sudan
region, said there is no more war in Darfur. Agwai defended his
soldiers against persistent criticism of their effectiveness,
insisting they have ended the massacres that long plagued the
Sudanese region. The Nigerian officer will be replaced next week by
Rwandan Patrick Nyamvumba.
(AFP, 8/27/09)
2009 Aug 27, Taiwan's president
angered China with his surprise announcement that he has agreed to
let the Dalai Lama visit the island to comfort survivors of a
devastating typhoon.
(AP, 8/27/09)
2009 Aug 27, A Turkish train
collided with a construction vehicle during a journey from Ankara to
Istanbul, derailing several carriages and leaving many people
injured.
(AP, 8/27/09)
2009 Aug 27, Uruguay lawmakers
approved a bill allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt. The
99-seat Chamber or Representatives passed the bill 40-13, with the
remaining members absent. The law, still needing Senate approval,
was supported by socialist President Tabare Vazquez's Broad Front
coalition, which has already legalized gay civil unions and ended a
ban on homosexuals in the armed forces.
(AP, 8/28/09)
2009 Aug 27, Vietnam police
took Bui Thanh Hieu, who writes a blog under the pen name Nguoi Buon
Gio, or Wind Trader, into custody for questioning. Pham Doan Trang,
a writer for the popular online newspaper VietnamNet, was detained
the day before. Both were released on Sep 6.
(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Aug 27, In Zimbabwe South
Africa’s President Jacob Zuma he met with PM Tsvangirai who has
accused Mugabe's ZANU-PF party of stalling on reforms and continuing
to attack and harass its activists.
(AP, 8/28/09)
2010 Aug 27, Aijalon Gomes (31)
hugged former US President Jimmy Carter and boarded a plane for
Boston, seven months after his arrest in North Korea. The North's
state news agency said Kim Yong Nam, the number two leader, has told
former Carter that the reclusive state is committed to
denuclearizing the peninsula and resuming six-way talks.
(AP, 8/27/10)(Reuters, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, The Washington
Post reported that the CIA is making payments to a significant
number of officials in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's
administration. The Post also cited a former CIA official as saying
that the CIA payments to Afghan officials were necessary because
"the head of state is not going to tell you everything" and because
Karzai often seems unaware of moves that members of his own
government make.
(Reuters, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, US federal
officials said they had arrested 370 illegal immigrants as part of a
3-day roundup in the Midwest.
(SFC, 8/28/10, p.A5)
2010 Aug 27, The US military
said it is demanding to know what happened to $1.9 million worth of
computers intended for Iraqi schoolchildren. The computers were
allegedly auctioned off by Iraqi officials for less than $50,000.
(SFC, 8/28/10, p.A2)
2010 Aug 27, Scott Curley (23)
shot and killed Utah Kane county Deputy Brian Harris (41) following
an attempted robbery. Harris was shot near Fredonia, just south of
the Utah border. Curley escaped into the desert area along the
Utah-Arizona border.
(SFC, 8/28/10, p.A5)
2010 Aug 27, Homemade bombs
killed 3 US troops in southern and eastern Afghanistan. 3 insurgents
were reported killed and 3 detained in eastern Paktiya province by
Afghan and coalition forces pursuing a Taliban sub-commander.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, Australian police
warned social networking sites to be alert to illegal child sex
activity, after cracking an alleged pedophile porn ring operating on
Facebook. Australian police said six arrests had been made in
Britain, including the alleged head of the network, three in
Australia and two in Canada.
(AFP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, Bahrain's public
prosecutor banned media from reporting on a prominent Shiite
activist and scores of other opposition members detained in an
ongoing crackdown ahead of October parliament elections.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, Forensic experts
in Bosnia said they have exhumed the remains of 54 Muslim civilians
killed in the July, 1995, Srebrenica massacre. The skeletal remains
were dug out of three mass graves buried under garbage at a dump
site near Srebrenica.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, British
researchers said they have decoded the genetic sequence of wheat.
(SFC, 8/28/10, p.A2)
2010 Aug 27, In northern Iraq
gunmen killed three anti-Qaeda militiamen overnight in the latest
revenge attack against the force credited with turning the tide
against the jihadists.
(AFP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, Kenya's President
Mwai Kibaki signed a new constitution into law that institutes a
US-style system of checks and balances and has been hailed as the
most significant political event since Kenya's independence nearly a
half century ago.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, In northern Mexico
a car exploded in front of the offices of a major Mexican television
station in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas state, where officials were
investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American
migrants.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, Myanmar's junta
carried out a major military reshuffle Friday that retired more than
a dozen senior leaders, in an apparent move to prepare for November
national elections.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, In Nigeria Jhalil
Tafawa Balewa, a physician, businessman and son of the country's
first prime minister, was abducted by gunmen and taken to a forest
in Katampe area on the outskirts of Abuja. The next day police
engaged the suspects and rescued the abductee.
(AFP, 8/29/10)
2010 Aug 27, Some Nigerian
women and girls are being forced into prostitution in neighboring
Ivory Coast after being deceived with promises of a better life
outside of their country, according to a new report by Human Rights
Watch.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, Hundreds of
thousands of Pakistanis fled floodwaters after the surging River
Indus smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to
leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient
graveyard for Muslim saints.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, In Peru Police two
Roman Catholic priests were stabbed to death inside the historic at
the San Francisco monastery two blocks from Lima's main square. The
victims are identified as Ananias Aguila of Peru and Linan Ruiz of
Puerto Rico.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, In Russia 9
suspected militants were killed in two separate shootouts with
police in the Kabardino-Balkariya republic. Separately 5 suspected
militants and a police officer were killed in another shootout in
the republic of Dagestan.
(AP, 8/28/10)
2010 Aug 27, Sudan's President
Omar al-Bashir, for whom international arrest warrants have been
issued over the Darfur conflict, returned home after a trip to
Kenya.
(AFP, 8/28/10)
2010 Aug 27, In northern Turkey
overnight torrential rains triggered landslides and floods in
Gundogdu, killing at least 12 people.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, The UN anti-racism
panel called on Iran to counter racism and ethnic discrimination,
including incitement to hatred by officials and "double
discrimination suffered by women from minorities.
(AP, 8/27/10)
2010 Aug 27, A Venezuelan
National Guard helicopter crashed during a counter-drug mission near
the Colombian border, killing all 10 soldiers on board.
(AP, 8/28/10)
2010 Aug 27, In Yemen gunmen
killed a soldier and wounded three others in an ambush in the
southern province of Lahij.
(AFP, 8/28/10)
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