Today in History - September 1
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69CE Sep 1,
Traditional date for the destruction of Jerusalem. [see Aug 29 70CE]
(MC, 9/1/02)
891 Sep 1, Norse defeated near
Louvaine, France.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1159 Sep 1, Adrian IV, [Nicole
Breakspear], only English pope (1154-59), died.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1267 Sep 1, Ramban
(Nachmanides) arrived in Jerusalem to establish a Jewish community.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1482 Sep 1, Krim-Tataren
plundered Kiev.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1511 Sep 1, Council of Pisa
opened. Louis XII of France called the council to oppose the Holy
League of Pope Julius II.
(PTA, 1980, p.432)(MC, 9/1/02)
1557 Sep 1, Jacques Cartier,
French explorer, died in St. Malo, France.
(www.plpsd.mb.ca/amhs/history/cartier.html)
1571 Sep 1, Famagusta, Cyprus,
surrendered to Mustafa Pasha commander of the Turkish forces after
nearly a one year siege. The terms of surrender appeared agreeable
to Venetian Gov. Marcantonio Bragadino (b.1523), but Mustafa Pasha
turned on Bragadino and had him violently tortured and finally
flayed alive.
(http://historicbiography.blogspot.com/2008/01/marcantonio-bragadin.html)
1598 Sep 1, Spanish king Philip
II ("Scourge of Heretics") received his last rites sacrament. [see
Sep 13]
(MC, 9/1/02)
1608 Sep 1, Giacomo Torelli,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1614 Sep 1, Vincent Fettmich
expelled Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1648 Sep 1, Marin Mersenne
(59), French mathematician, died.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1653 Sep 1, Johann Pachelbel
(d.1706), German organist and composer, was born. He is best known
for his “Canon in D.”
(WUD, 1994, p.1034)(SI-WPC, 1997)(MC, 9/1/02)
1661 Sep 1, In the 1st yacht
race England's King Charles II raced his brother James.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1689 Sep 1, Russia began taxing
men's beards.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1676 Sep 1, Nathaniel Bacon led
an uprising against English Governor William Berkeley at Jamestown,
Virginia, resulting in the settlement being burned to the ground.
Bacon's Rebellion came in response to the governor's repeated
refusal to defend the colonists against the Indians. [see May 10,
1676]
(HN, 9/1/99)
1715 Sep 1, Louis XIV (b.1638),
"the Sun King," king of France (1643-1715), died of gangrene. His
wife was Madame de Maintenon, founder of the convent academy Maison
St. Cyr. In 2006 Antonia Fraser authored “Love and Louis XIV.”
(THC,
12/3/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France)(WSJ,
11/4/06, p.P10)
1730 Sep 1, Benjamin Franklin
married Miss Read.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1731 Sep 1, Pierre Danican
Philidor (50), composer, died.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1739 Sep 1, 35 Jews were
sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon, Portugal.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1751 Sep 1, Emmanuel Johann
Joseph Schikaneder, actor, librettist (The Magic Flute), was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1752 Sep 1, The Liberty Bell
arrived in Philadelphia.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1772 Sep 1, Mission San Luis
Obispo de Tolosa formed in California. Father Junipero Serra held
the 1st Mass at San Luis Obispo. He left Father Jose Cavalier the
task of building the state’s 5th mission.
(SFEC, 10/11/98, p.T6)(MC, 9/1/02)(SSFC,
10/20/02, p.C1)
1773 Sep 1, Phillis Wheatley, a
slave from Boston, published a collection of poetry, "Poems on
Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," in London.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1785 Sep 1, Mozart published
his 6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1789 Sep 1, Lady Marguerite
Blessington, beautiful English socialite and author, was born. She
wrote a biography of Lord Byron.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1791 Sep 1, Lydia Sigourney, US
religious author (How to Be Happy), was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1795 Sep 1, James Gordon Bennet
was born. He later served as the editor of the New York Sun, the
first tabloid-sized daily newspaper.
(HN, 9/1/00)
1799 Sep 1, Bank of Manhattan
Company opened in NYC. It was the forerunner to Chase Manhattan.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1807 Sep 1, Former Vice
President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason. [see 1806] Burr
had been arrested in Mississippi for complicity in a plot to
establish a Southern empire in Louisiana and Mexico. Burr was then
tried on a misdemeanor charge, but was again acquitted.
(www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/burr/burrchronology.html)(AP,
9/1/07)
1821 Sep 1, William Becknell
led a group of traders from Independence, Mo., toward Santa Fe on
what would become the Santa Fe Trail.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1836 Sep 1, Protestant
missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman led a party to Oregon. His wife,
Narcissa, was one of the first white women to travel the Oregon
Trail.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1836 Sep 1, Reconstruction
began on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1838 Sep 1, William Clark (68),
2nd lt. of Lewis and Clark Expedition, died.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1849 Sep 1, Elizabeth Harrison,
US educator (Natal Congress of Parents and Teachers), was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1849 Sep 1, California
Constitutional Convention was held in Monterey.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1854 Sep 1, Engelbert
Humperdinck, German opera composer (Hansel & Gretel), was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1859 Sep 1, The 1st Pullman
sleeping car went into service. George M. Pullman began outfitting
railroad cars. His company was incorporated in 1867.
(SFC, 7/1/98, Z1 p.6)(MC, 9/1/02)
1859 Sep 1, R.C. Carrington and
R. Hodgson made the 1st observation of a solar flare.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1861 Sep 1, Ulysses Grant
assumed command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau, MI.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1862 Sep 1, A federal tax was
levied on tobacco, especially that grown in Confederate states.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1862 Sep 1, Battle at Chantilly
(Ox Hill), Virginia, left 2100 casualties. One-armed Union Gen.
Philip Kearny was shot and killed as he inadvertently rode into
Confederate lines at Chantilly.
(AM, 11/04, p.24)(AH, 2/03, p.35)
1862 Sep 1, Oliver Tilden of
the Bronx was killed in the Civil War in Virginia.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1863 Sep 1, RR and ferry
connections between SF and Oakland were inaugurated.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1863 Sep 1, 6th Ohio Cavalry
ambush at Barbees Crossroads, Virginia.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1864 Sep 1, Roger David
Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1864 Sep 1, Confederate forces
under General John Bell Hood evacuated Atlanta in anticipation of
the arrival of Union General William T. Sherman's troops.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1864 Sep 1, 2nd day of battle
at Jonesboro, Georgia, left some 3,000 casualties.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1864 Sep 1, Battle of
Petersburg, VA.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1864 Sep 1, The Charlottetown
Conference, convened in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, was the
first of a series of meetings that ultimately led to the formation
of the Dominion of Canada.
(HNQ, 8/22/99)
1865 Sep 1, Joseph Lister
performed his 1st antiseptic surgery.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1866 Sep 1, James J. Corbett,
"Gentleman Jim," heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97), was born. He
was the boxer who beat the legendary John L. Sullivan. After his
boxing career he became an actor and lecturer.
(MC, 9/1/02)(SC, 9/1/02)
1866 Sep 1, Manuelito, the last
Navaho chief, turned himself in at Fort Wingate, New Mexico.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1868 Sep 1, In San Francisco
the Daily Dramatic Chronicle with widened coverage became the
Morning Chronicle.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, BR p.1)(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A8)(SSFC,
6/7/09, p.W2)
1870 Sep 1, The Prussian army
crushed the French under Marshal MacMahon at Sedan, the last battle
of the Franco-Prussian War.
(HN, 9/1/99)(PCh, 1992, p.516)
1874 Sep 1, In Australia Sydney
General Post Office opened.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1875 Sep 1, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, novelist, was born in Chicago. He created Tarzan, the Ape
Man.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1876 Sep 1, The Ottomans
inflicted a decisive defeat on the Serbs at Aleksinac.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1878 Sep 1, Emma M. Nutt became
the first female telephone operator in the United States, for the
Telephone Despatch Co. of Boston.
(AP, 9/1/03)
1882 Sep 1, The first Labor Day
was observed in New York City by the Carpenters and Joiners Union.
[see Sep 5]
(HN, 9/1/00)
1890 Sep 1, The 1st baseball
tripleheader was between Boston and Pittsburgh.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1894 Sep 1, By an act of
Congress, Labor Day was declared a national holiday.
(WSJ, 9/25/95, p.A-1)(HN, 9/1/99)
1894 Sep 1, The Great Hinckley
Fire destroyed Hinckley, Minn., and five other communities and
killed over 400 people.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(AP, 9/1/08)
1897 Sep 1, The first section
of Boston’s subway system was opened. The Park St. Station in Boston
was the nation’s first subway station. The Boylston Street subway
opened in 1897.
(AP, 9/1/97)(BS, 5/3/98, p.5R)(HNQ, 5/17/99)
1898 Sep 1, Lord Kitchener's
army bombed Omdurman, Sudan. Lt. Winston Churchill approached
Omdurman, the rebel capital, as a scout in the cavalry along with
the rest of Gen. Kitchener's army of 25,000 men. [see Sep 2]
(ON, 10/99, p.2)(MC, 9/1/02)
1900 Sep 1, Richard Arlen,
actor (Alice in Wonderland) was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1900 Sep 1, Andrei Vlasov,
Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht), was born.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1902 Sep 1, The
Austro-Hungarian army was called into the city of Agram to restore
the peace as Serbs and Croats clashed.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1904 Sep 1, Helen Keller with
the faithful help of teacher Annie Mansfield Sullivan, graduated cum
laude from Radcliffe College at age 24. This accomplishment was
particularly remarkable because Keller had lost both sight and
hearing at age 2 after contracting scarlet fever. Sullivan, who
broke through Helen’s childhood isolation to teach her Braille and
sign language, accompanied Helen to every class at Radcliffe,
spelling lectures and books into her hand. After graduation, Keller
embarked on a career of writing on behalf of woman suffrage,
socialism and the rights of the handicapped. Helen Keller died on
June 1, 1968, 32 years after the death of her beloved teacher, Annie
Sullivan.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, BR p.3)(HNPD, 9/3/98)
1905 Sep 1, Alberta and
Saskatchewan became the 8th and 9th Canadian provinces.
(Econ, 9/10/05, p.37)(AP, 9/1/06)
1906 Sep 1, Papua New Guinea
was placed under Australian administration, which continued to 1973.
(www.hubert-herald.nl/PapuaNewGuinea.htm)(Econ,
5/28/11, SR p.17)
1907 Sep 1, Walter Reuther,
labor leader, was born in Wheeling, W.Va. He merged the American
Federation of Labor with the Congress of International Organizations
(HN, 9/1/99)(AP, 9/1/07)
1910 Sep 1, Jack Hawkins, actor
(Ben-Four Just Men) was born in London, England.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1911 Sep 1, M. Fourny set a
world aircraft distance record of 720 km.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1912 Sep 1, Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor (b.1875), Afro-British composer, died.
(http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Song.html#16)
1913 Sep 1, George Bernard
Shaw’s "Androcles and the Lion," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1914 Sep 1, Russia renamed St.
Petersburg to Petrograd.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1914 Sep 1, Martha, the last
known passenger pigeon, died at the Cincinnati Zoo.
(AH, 10/04, p.14)
1916 Sep 1, The US Congress
passed the Keatings-Owen Act, which banned child labor from
interstate commerce. In 1918 it was declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court.
(http://tinyurl.com/2gx7pm)(ON, 2/07, p.6)
1916 Sep 1, Bulgaria declared
war on Romania as the First World War expanded.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1918 Sep 1, US troops landed in
Vladivostok, Siberia, and stayed until 1920. [see Sep 2]
(MC, 9/1/02)
1922 Sep 1, Yvonne De Carlo,
actress (10 Commandments, Munsters) was born in Vancouver, BC.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1922 Sep 1, Vittorio Gassman,
actor (War and Peace) was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1922 Sep 1, Melvin R. Laird
(Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73) was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1922 Sep 1, A NYC law required
all "pool" rooms to change their name to "billiards."
(SC, 9/1/02)
1923 Sep 1, Rocky Marciano,
world heavyweight boxing champion (1952-56), was born. He began
boxing at the relatively advanced age of 24, but rose to the
heavyweight title in 1952 with a perfect record. He retained his
crown for 7 years, winning all six of his title defense prizefights,
then retired undefeated in 1959.
(HN, 9/1/99)(MC, 9/1/02)(SC, 9/1/02)
1923 Sep 1, The Japanese cities
of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by the Great Kanto earthquake
that claimed 99,000-143,000 lives. The 7.9-8.3 quake off Tokyo's
shoreline killed some 99,300 people.
(AP,
9/1/97)(www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq/faq/world.htm)
1928 Sep 1, US Boy Scouts
planted 3,000 Lincoln Highway posts at one mile intervals across the
US. The 1st was at Times Square and the last in San Francisco at the
Legion of Honor.
(SFCM, 9/1/02, p.6)
1928 Sep 1, Albania became a
kingdom. Ahmed Zogu, a Muslim chieftain, proclaimed Albania to be a
monarchy and established himself as “His Majesty King Zog I.” Zogu
pressured the parliament to dissolve itself, and a new constituent
assembly declared Albania a kingdom with Zogu as Zog I, "King of the
Albanians." He obtained Italian aid for modernization and weakened
the constitution to arrange for his son to succeed him. The National
Assembly gave him a title that translates into “prince.”
(CO, Grolier’s / Albania)(SFC, 6/27/97,
p.A16)(www, Albania, 1998)(AP, 12/3/11)
1929 Sep 1, Maddux Air began
the 1st direct aerial passenger service from SF to NY. The 48 hour
trip included 2 nights on trains.
(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.F8)
1930 Sep 1, NY World reported
the disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater. He was
last seen leaving a restaurant on August 6, 1930 and entering a
taxi. Crater was officially declared dead “in abstentia” in 1939,
and his case, Missing Persons File No 13595, was officially closed
in 1979.
(www.nymissing.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=44)
1932 Sep 1, New York City Mayor
James "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigned following charges of graft
and corruption in his administration.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1933 Sep 1, Ann Richards,
Gov-Tx., was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1933 Sep 1, Conway Twitty
[Harold Jenkins], country singer (Hello Darlin'), was born in Miss.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1935 Sep 1, Seiji Ozawa,
conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra), was born in Hoten, Manchuria
(now Shenyang, Liaoning, China).
(www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Ozawa-Seiji.htm)
1937 Sep 1, Ron O'Neal, actor
(Superfly), was born in Utica, NY.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1938 Sep 1, Alan Dershowitz,
attorney (Claus Von Bulow, OJ Simpson), was born in NYC.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1938 Sep 1, George Maharis,
actor (Buz-Route 66, Most Deadly Game), was born in Astoria, NY.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1938 Sep 1, Mussolini cancelled
the civil rights of Italian Jews.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1939 Sep 1, Lily Tomlin,
comedienne, actress (9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me), was born in
Detroit.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1939 Sep 1, Physical Review
published the 1st paper to deal with "black holes."
(MC, 9/1/02)
1939 Sep, 1, At 4:40 a.m.,
World War II began. The Germans attacked Poland with their strategy
of Blitzkrieg, or lightning war. The war started at dawn with salvos
from the cruiser Schleswig-Holstein at the Polish garrison in
Gdansk. In 1989 Donald Cameron Watt authored “How War Came.”
(WSJ, 4/26/95, p.A-16)(AP, 9/1/97)(WSJ, 1/14/07,
p.P8)
1939 Sep 1, Hitler ordered the
extermination of mentally ill.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1939 Sep 1, Switzerland
proclaimed neutrality.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1940 Sep 1, Gen. George
Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of US army.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1941 Sep 1, Jews living in
Germany were required to wear a yellow Star of David. [see Oct 24,
1939]
(MC, 9/1/02)
1942 Sep 1, A federal judge in
Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of
Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1944 Sep 1, Leonard Slatkin,
conductor, was born in LA, Calif.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1945 Sep 1, Americans received
word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. Because of
the time difference, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony
took place.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1946 Sep 1, Barry Gibb, singer
(BeeGees-Stayin' Alive), was born.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1946 Sep 1, The SF 49ers under
coach Lawrence “Buck” Shaw, played their first home game at Kezar
Stadium before a crowd of 45,000. They beat the Chicago Rockets
34-14.
(SSFC, 1/22/12,
p.A2)(www.49ers.com/team/history/founder.html)
1948 Sep 1, Chinese Communists
formed the North China People's Republic.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1949 Sep 1, The 1st network
detective series, Private Eyes, premiered.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1950 Sep 1, West Berlin was
granted a constitution.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1950 Sep 1, In South Korea the
USS DeHaven received an order from its Shore Fire Control Party to
open fire on a large group of refugee personnel located on Pohang
beach. Witnesses said 100 to 200 civilians were killed in the Navy
shelling.
(AP, 4/13/07)
1950 Sep 1, US Company C, 1st
Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment, was almost completely
annihilated as North Korean divisions opened an assault on UN lines
on the Naktong River. Only Company C and other elements of the 2nd
Infantry Division stood in the path.
(SSFC, 11/7/04, Par p.4)
1951 Sept. 1, At the Presidio
in San Francisco, the US, Australia, and New Zealand signed the
Anzus Pact, a joint security alliance to govern their relations.
(Park, Spring/95, p.2)(AP, 9/1/97)
1951 Sep 1, PM Ben-Gurion
ordered the establishment of Mossad, the Israeli secret service.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1952 Sep 1, Sutro Baths in SF
was purchased by developer George Whitney. He sold it to the
National Parks Service in 1977.
(SFC, 4/14/99, Z1 p.4)(SC, 9/1/02)
1954 Sep 1, Martin Luther King
Jr. (1929-1968) became pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in
Montgomery, Alabama.
(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.8)(ON, 4/2011, p.2)
1955 Sep 1, Philip Loeb (61),
actor (Jake-The Goldbergs), died.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1956 Sep 1, Indian state of
Tripura became a territory.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1957 Sep 1, Gloria Estefan,
singer (Miami Sound Machine-Conga, 1-2-3), was born in Cuba.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1960 Sep 1, Robert Bolt's "A
Man For All Seasons," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1961 Sep 1, TWA Flight 529, a
Lockheed Constellation L-049 propliner, crashed shortly after
takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 73 passengers
and 5 crew on board; it was at the time the deadliest single plane
disaster in US history.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_529)
1961 Sep 1, The Soviet Union
ended a moratorium on atomic testing with an above-ground nuclear
explosion in central Asia.
(AP, 9/1/01)
1961 Sep 1, Eero Saarinen (51),
Finnish-US architect (Dulles Airport), died.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1962 Sep 1, UN announced
Earth’s that human population has hit 3 billion.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1962 Sep 1, Some 10,000 died in
an earthquake in western Iran.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1963 Sep 1, Turkey moved
politically closer to Europe with the Treaty of Ankara. It reduced
duties and implicitly recognized Turkey’s right to join the European
Economic Community.
(http://tinyurl.com/tgab2)(WSJ, 9/7/04,
p.A10)(WSJ, 10/6/04, p.A17)
1965 Sep 1-19, Indian gains led
to a major Pakistani counterattack in the southern sector, in
Punjab, where Indian forces were caught unprepared and suffered
heavy losses. The sheer strength of the Pakistani thrust, which was
spearheaded by seventy tanks and two infantry brigades, led Indian
commanders to call in air support. Pakistan retaliated on September
2 with its own air strikes in both Kashmir and Punjab.
(http://www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr65/fkashmir1965)
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(HN,
9/6/98)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A20)(MC, 9/1/02)(Encyclopaedia.com, 2002)
1967 Sep 1, James Dunn (65),
actor (Uncle Earl-It's a Great Life), died.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1967 Sep 1, Siegfried Sassoon
(b.1886), WW I English soldier poet, died. His books included
“Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man” (1928). In 2005 Max Egremont authored
the biography: “Siegfried Sassoon.”
(WSJ, 12/1/05,
p.D9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon)
1968 Sep 1, Pirate Radio Marina
in the Netherlands began transmitting.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1969 Sep 1, There was a race
riot in Hartford, Connecticut.
(http://tinyurl.com/6qb7y4)
1969 Sep 1, A coup in Libya
overthrew the monarchy of King Idris and brought Moammar Gadhafi
(27) to power. Gadhafi emerged as leader of the revolutionary
government and ordered the closure of a U.S. Air Force base.
(AP, 9/1/99)(SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C12)(AP, 12/30/03)
1969 Sep 1, Drew Pearson
(b.1897), Washington Post columnist and newscaster, died.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApearsonD.htm)
1970 Sep 1, Dr. Hugh Scott of
Washington, D.C., became the first African-American superintendent
of schools in a major U.S. city.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1972 Sep 1, American Bobby
Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland,
defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. In 2004 David Edmonds
and John Eidinow authored "Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the
Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time."
(AP, 9/1/97)(SSFC, 2/07/04, p.M1)
1973 Sep 1, In
Copenhagen, Denmark, the 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burned, killing
35.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=44yFsCt3z7Q)
1974 Sep 1, Jack Shelley
(b.1905), former SF mayor (1964-1968), died.
(SFC, 9/1/00,
p.D6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shelley)
1974 Sep 1, In the Netherlands
laws prohibiting pirate radio came into effect.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline)
1975 Sep 1, NYC transit fares
rose from 35 cents to 50 cents.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_transit_fares)
1975 Sep 1, Bougainville Island
announced the formation of the "Republic of the North Solomons," but
failed in its bid to secede from Papua New Guinea.
(WSJ, 3/18/98,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bougainville)
1975 Sep 1, Israel and Egypt
initialed the Sinai II agreement on disengagement. A ceremonial
signing was held in Geneva on Sep 4.
(www.jafi.org.il/education/jafi75/timeline6f.html)
1976 Sep 1, U.S. Rep. Wayne L.
Hays, D-Ohio, resigned in the wake of a scandal in which he admitted
having an affair with secretary Elizabeth Ray.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1976 Sep 1, The New Jersey
Meadowlands racetrack opened.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowlands_Sports_Complex)
1977 Sep 1, Ethel Waters
(b.1896), African-American blues and jazz vocalist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Waters)
1979 Sep 1, A Los Angeles court
ordered Clayton Moore (1914-1999), born as Jack Carlton Moore,
to stop wearing the Lone Ranger mask.
(http://tinyurl.com/2ngftg)(http://wapedia.mobi/en/Clayton_Moore)
1979 Sep 1, Pioneer 11 made the
1st fly-by of Saturn and discovered new moon rings. Ring F of Saturn
was discovered by Lonny Baker at NASA's Ames Research Center from
data sent by Pioneer 11.
(Ind, 7/27/99,
p.1A)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_11)
1981 Sep 1, Albert Speer, a
close associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died
at a London hospital at age 76.
(AP, 9/1/01)
1981 Sep 1, In the Central
African Republic army chief Andre Kolingba (d.2010 at 73) took over
power in another coup that deposed independence leader David Dacko.
Kolingba agreed to re-instate a multi-party system in 1991, but
continued to rule until 1993.
(SFC, 5/22/96,
p.A9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Kolingba)(AFP, 2/8/10)
1981 Sep 1, In Uruguay Gregorio
Alvarez (b.1926), commander-in-chief of the army (1978-1979), became
the country’s de facto president and continued until Feb 12, 1985.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Conrado_%C3%81lvarez)
1982 Sep 1, The US Congress
created the 110,000 acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic
Monument.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.A15)
1982 Sep 1, The evacuation of
the PLO from Lebanon ended.
(www.mideastweb.org/timeline.htm)
1982 Sep 1, Mexico’s President
Lopez Portillo nationalized the private banks. There was an economic
catastrophe that has been labeled the Mexican debt crisis. Mexicans
sent hundreds of millions of dollars abroad amid devaluations and
bank nationalization.
(WSJ,
7/8/96,p.A1)(http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=330)
1983 Sep 1, The KAL flight 007
was downed by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet
airspace. 269 people were killed aboard the Korean Air Lines Boeing
747 including sixty-one Americans, among them Georgia Representative
Larry McDonald. The order was given by Soviet Gen’l. Anatoly
Kornukov who held that the plane was part of a hostile US operation.
In 2005 the History Channel featured a TV documentary on the
tragedy.
(SFC, 5/29/96, A3)(AP, 9/1/97)(WSJ, 1/23/98,
p.A1)(TV, 12/22/05)
1983 Sep 1, Henry "Scoop"
Jackson (b.1912), Sen-D-Wash., died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Jackson)
1984 Sep 1, Howland Chamberlain
(b.1911), American film actor, died in Oakland, Ca.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0150166/)
1985 Sep 1, A US-French
expedition located the wreckage of Titanic, sunk in 1915, about 560
miles off Newfoundland, Canada.
(www.titanic-titanic.com/discovery_of_titanic.shtml)
1986 Sep 1, Paul McCartney
released his "Press to Play" album.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1986 Sep 1, Murray Hamilton
(b.1923), film, theater and TV actor, died in North Carolina.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0358069/)
1987 Sep 1, In California S.
Brian Wilson, Vietnam veteran, had his legs sliced off when a
munitions train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station ran him over
during the Nuremberg Actions protest against weapons shipments to
Central America.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A19)(AP, 9/1/97)
1987 Sep 1, After Jewish
leaders met with the Pope at Castel Gandolfo it was announced that a
document would be produced on the Holocaust. The document was made
public Mar 16, 1998.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.A24)
1988 Sep 1, Leonor Sullivan
(b.1902), Rep-D-Missouri, (1955-77), died.
(http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivan6.html)
1989 Sep 1, A. Bartlett
Giamatti (51), Baseball Commissioner, died of heart attack at his
summer home in Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1990 Sep 1, President Bush
announced that he and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev would
meet in Helsinki, Finland, for a “free-flowing” one-day summit on
the Persian Gulf crisis and other issues.
(AP, 9/1/00)
1991 Sep 1, The Burning Man
Festival came to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada from Baker’s Beach
in San Francisco.
(SFC, 8/30/97, p.A15)
1991 Sep 1, Yugoslavia's
presidency and the country's feuding republics accepted a European
Community plan designed to stop months of fierce fighting among
Croats, Serbs and the army.
(AP, 9/1/01)
1992 Sep 1, Defying a U.S.
government warning, Bobby Fischer announced he would play his
one-time rival, Boris Spassky, in a $5 million chess match in
Yugoslavia despite United Nations-imposed sanctions.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1993 Sep 1, The Pentagon
unveiled a five-year defense plan to further shrink the U.S.
military in favor of a lean, high-tech force.
(AP, 9/1/03)
1993 Sep 1, Louis Freeh was
sworn in as director of the FBI.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1994 Sep 1, Chicago police
found the body of 11-year-old Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, a suspect in
a gang-related killing who apparently became a victim of gang
violence.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1994 Sep 1, Morocco established
low-level diplomatic relations with Israel.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1995 Sep 1, The 716-acre
Limekiln State Park on the California Big Sur coast opened.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, p.T3)
1995 Sep 1, A ribbon-cutting
ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland,
Ohio.
(AP, 9/1/00)
1995 Sep 1, The death penalty
in NY State, signed into law on March 7, became effective.
(www.nycdo.org/)
1995 Sep 1, Moammar Khadafy of
Libya announced the expulsion of all 30,000 Palestinians from Libya.
More than 1,200 ended up in a border camp between Libya and Egypt.
(SFC, 8/22/96, p.E1)
1996 Sep 1, A day after Iraqi
forces moved into a Kurdish safe haven, U.S. officials were warning
the Baghdad government that the incursion would not go unpunished.
That same day, Iraq ordered its troops to withdraw from Irbil.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1996 Sep 1, In India wolves
were reported to have killed 33 children in the area of Banbirpur in
the state of Uttar Pradesh. Some reports had it that at least some
of the killings were by disguised human beings.
(SFC, 9/1/96, p.A16)
1997 Sep 1, The 32nd annual
Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, led by Jerry Lewis, ended with a record
$50.5 million pledged.
(SFC, 9/3/97, p.E5)
1997 Sep 1, The 2nd phase of
the minimum wage raise to $5.15 per hour went into effect
(SFC, 9/1/97,
p.A3)(http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/blminwage.htm)
1997 Sep 1, Scientists
announced in the Physics Review Letters that evidence was found for
an exotic meson subatomic particle. It is supposed to be composed of
an unusual quark combination and only exists for a trillionth of a
trillionth of a second. The experiment supports the current standard
model of physics in which 3 quarks make a proton or a neutron and 2
quarks can combine to make a meson.
(SFC, 9/1/97, p.A7)
1997 Sep 1, In Bosnia several
hundred Bosnian Serbs attacked some 300 armed US troops in an effort
to take back a key TV transmitter that was seized by the Americans
last week. The melee was a standoff.
(SFC, 9/2/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 1, As Britain
continued to mourn the untimely death of Princess Diana, came word
from a source in the Paris prosecutor's office that Diana's driver,
Henri Paul, was legally intoxicated at the time of the crash.
(AP, 9/1/02)
1997 Sep 1, In Switzerland
robbers made off with $37 million in cash from a Zurich post office.
By Sep 8 Swiss and Italian police had detained 13 suspects. A total
of 19 people in five countries were arrested in connection with the
case.
(WSJ, 9/2/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/9/97, p.A11)(AP,
9/1/07)
1998 Sep 1, Mark McGwire of the
St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs, breaking the
one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1998 Sep 1, The DJIA rebounded
288 points and the stock market set an all-time trading volume
record with 1.201 billion shares traded on the NYSE.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 1, The California
Legislature salvaged the Headwaters forest deal by one vote and
approved $425 million to acquire 9,400 acres of redwood forest. The
federal government already approved $250 million.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 1, A federal appeals
court in NY ruled that the Million Youth March in NYC may take place
with a reduced duration to 4 hours from 12, and a limited range to 6
blocks from 29.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 1, Pilots for Air
Canada went on strike for the first time in the association’s 61
year history.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 1, China imposed a ban
on logging upstream on the Yangtze effective by this date due to the
excess flooding following a half-century of clear-cutting.
(SFEC, 9/27/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 12/23/03, p.A1)
1998 Sep 1, In Malaysia capital
controls were imposed on the stock market. Foreigners holding stocks
were not allowed to take their money out of the country for one
year.
(WSJ, 9/8/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 1, During a Kremlin
summit overshadowed by Russian economic and political upheaval,
President Clinton offered Boris Yeltsin a prescription for tough
reforms to lift the country from its crisis.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1998 Sep 1, In Russia the Duma
rejected the nomination by pres. Yeltsin for Viktor Chernomyrdin as
premier. Chernomyrdin said he would form a government without
waiting for parliamentary approval.
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A8)
1998 Sep 1, Vietnam freed 5,000
inmates.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A9)
1999 Sep 1, Twenty-two of
baseball’s 68 permanent umpires found themselves jobless, the
fallout from their union’s failed attempt to force an early start to
negotiations for a new labor contract.
(AP, 9/1/00)
1999 Sep 1, Attorney General
Janet Reno ordered US marshals to FBI headquarters to seize an
infrared videotape containing a recording of FBI communications made
during the 1993 FBI assault of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco,
Texas. FBI officials had stated that no tape of that stage of the
operation existed.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A3)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 1, Researchers
reported that a strain of mice was genetically engineered with an
extra gene for a brain protein called NR2B that helped the mice
remember objects longer that normal mice.
(WSJ, 9/2/99, p.B12)
1999 Sep 1, Colombia took
delivery of 6 refurbished Vietnam-era US military helicopters for
use in the drug war.
(WSJ, 9/2/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 1, In East Timor
pro-Indonesia militia shot and hacked to death Jorges Francisco
Bonaparte (19), a pro-independence activist, a few yards from the
gate of the UN compound in Dili.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 1, In East Timor
pro-independence campaigner Guido Alves Correia in Dili was
murdered. In 2004 Beny Ludji, an Indonesian citizen who was formerly
a commander of the pro-Jakarta Aitarak militia, was sentenced to
eight years in prison for the murder. Jose Gusmao, one of Ludji's
men, was sentenced to 30 months.
(AFP, 5/19/04)
1999 Sep 1, Israeli shelling in
southern Lebanon left 2 Lebanese civilians dead after a roadside
bomb killed 2 Israeli-allied militiamen.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A16)
1999 Sep 1, In Jerusalem
disagreement over the release of 30 Palestinians, jailed for killing
Israelis, was the only issue holding up the signing of a
land-for-security deal.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 1, The Venice Film
Festival opened.
(SFEC, 8/15/99, DB p.48)
1999 Sep 1, In Kashmir
Pakistani soldiers attacked Indian posts over the last 2 days and
left 22 soldiers dead.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A16)
1999 Sep 1, In Panama Mireya
Moscoso began serving as the 1st female president.
(SFC, 9/1/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 1, In Tanzania a
charter plane carrying 10 American tourists from Serengeti National
Park crashed on Mount Meru. 12 people were confirmed dead.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A15)(WSJ, 9/3/99, p.A1)
2000 Sep 1, Pres. Clinton put
the anti-missile national defense system on hold and passed the
decision for moving the project forward to his successor.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 1, It was reported
that an experimental antioxidant extended the lives of nematode
worms by an average 44%.
(WSJ, 9/1/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 1, In Afghanistan the
mine-clearing operations were scheduled to be cut by 50% after the
UN reported lack of funds. 300 people were reported injured by mines
every month. Estimates of mines varied from 5-10 million.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Sep 1, In Argentina a
judge moved to strip immunity from 8 senators who allegedly received
bribes from the administration of Pres. Fernando de la Rua for votes
on labor reform.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Sep 1, In Bangladesh 13
boats with 130 fishermen were reported sunk during rainstorms.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.C16)
2000 Sep 1, Typhoon Maria
struck 2 southern provinces between Huizhou and Shanwei and killed
47 people with $223 million in damages.
(WSJ, 9/6/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A22)
2000 Sep 1, In Indonesia
prosecutors named 19 people, including 3 generals as possible
suspects in the killings and destruction in East Timor in Sept.
1999.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 1, In Mexico Pres.
Zedillo gave his last State of the Nation address.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 1, In the Philippines
Abu Sayyaf rebels demanded $10 million for the release of Jeffrey
Schilling and later said that Schilling had begun a hunger strike.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A12)
2001 Sep 1, In Durban, South
Africa, a variety of African leaders at the UN World Conference
Against Racism demanded apologies, and in some cases financial
reparations, from Western countries that benefited from slavery and
colonization of African countries for over 3 centuries. Activists at
the conference developed a strategy, later known as “BDS,” that
included boycotts, divestments and sanctions, to push their agenda.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A12)(Econ, 9/15/07, p.74)
2000 Sep 1, South Korea
repatriated 63 North Korean spies as a gesture of reconciliation.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A13)
2001 Sep 1, The Los Angeles
Sparks won the WNBA championship, defeating the Charlotte Sting
82-to-54.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2001 Sep 1, The US issued a 34
cent stamp featuring Arabic calligraphy that says “Eid Mubarek,” a
greeting used to celebrate the 2 holiest Islamic holidays, Aid
al-Fitr for the end of Ramadan fasting, and Eid al-Adha for the end
of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
(SFC, 11/30/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 1, Anthony Romero (36)
assumed the office of executive director for the ACLU, the 1st
Latino and openly gay man to head the organization.
(SFC, 3/11/02, p.A3)
2001 Sep 1, Scientists gathered
in the French Alps to discuss a medicine called ivermectine given to
livestock to protect them from parasites. Dung from the animals was
toxic and virtually indestructible and threatened the survival of
insects, birds and bats.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 1, In Angola gunmen
ambushed 2 passenger buses 185 miles south of Luanda, sprayed them
with gunfire and ransacked them. 38 people were killed.
(SFC, 9/4/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 1, In Gaza Col. Tayser
Khattab (52), Palestinian intelligence aide, was killed by a car
bomb. Near Tulkarem a Palestinian woman (22) was killed from a blast
in a taxi.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 1, In Russia Pres.
Putin promised to double salaries for teachers as children began
school on “Knowledge Day.” Current pay was about $35 per month.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 1, In Tokyo, Japan, an
early morning explosion in a mah-jongg parlor killed at least 44
people. The Kabukicho district building was crammed with sex clubs
and gambling parlors.
(SFC, 9/1/01, p.A6)(SFC, 11/16/01, p.E6)
2001 Sep 1, At the UN World
Conference Against Racism a variety of African leaders demanded
apologies, an in some cases financial reparations, from Western
countries that benefited from slavery and colonization of African
countries for over 3 centuries.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A12)
2002 Sep 1, Secretary of State
Colin Powell said the US should first seek a return of UN weapons
inspectors to Iraq before taking any further steps.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, The California
Legislature approved a $99 billion budget, ending a 2-month-old
standoff.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2002 Sep 1, President Alfonso
Portillo announced plans to cut the size of Guatemala's armed forces
by 20% and convert the extra military installations into schools.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Indonesian soldiers
battled an armed band in Papua and killed one insurgent, near where
gunmen shot dead three people, including two U.S. school teachers,
and wounded at least 10 in an ambush the previous day.
(Reuters, 9/1/02)(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A9)
2002 Sep 1, Israeli troops shot
dead four Palestinians not far from a Jewish gravesite near the West
Bank city of Hebron, adding to an already bloody weekend in which
seven other Palestinians, including two children, were killed.
(AP, 9/1/02)(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 1, Israel and Jordan
announced their largest joint project ever, a $800 million pipeline
intended to save the shrinking Dead Sea from environmental
devastation.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Typhoon Rusa, the
worst typhoon to hit South Korea in 40 years, left at least 119
people dead.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2002 Sep 1, In Liberia rebel
forces shelled the northern town of Voinjama in a push to recapture
their former stronghold from government forces.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Mauritania appealed
for international aid, saying lack of rain was causing a food crisis
that has put at risk nearly 1 million people and half of the desert
nation's cattle.
(AP, 9/1/02)
2002 Sep 1, Some 600 Russian
specialists began work on a key phase of an $800 million project to
build a nuclear reactor at Bushehr, Iran.
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A9)
2003 Sep 1, During a Labor Day
trip to Richfield, Ohio, President Bush announced he was creating a
high-level government post to nurture the manufacturing sector.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2003 Sep 1, Actor Rand Brooks
(84), who played Scarlett O'Hara's first husband in "Gone With the
Wind," died in Santa Ynez, Calif.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2003 Sep 1, Suspected Taliban
fighters attacked a government checkpoint and ambushed another group
of Afghan soldiers along the main road linking the south with the
capital, killing at least eight soldiers over the last 2 days.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2003 Sep 1, State media
reported that China will cut an additional 200,000 soldiers as part
of efforts to modernize its armed forces.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2003 Sep 1, The U.S.-picked
Iraqi Governing Council named a new Cabinet.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2003 Sep 1, Arab TV broadcast
an audiotape purportedly from Saddam Hussein denying any involvement
in a bombing in Najaf, Iraq, that killed a beloved Shiite cleric.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2003 Sep 1, Israeli helicopters
fired four missiles at a car carrying Hamas militants, killing at
least one of them and wounding 26 on a crowded Gaza City.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2003 Sep 1, A rebel group
trying to win independence for the Western Sahara has released 243
Moroccan prisoners, some of whom have been held for nearly three
decades. It was the first prisoner release since the UN Security
Council voted in July to urge Morocco and the Polisario to accept a
new plan to settle the long-running dispute over the Western Sahara.
(AP, 9/3/03)
2003 Sep 1, Marijuana went on
sale Monday at Dutch pharmacies to help bring relief to thousands of
patients suffering from cancer, AIDS or multiple sclerosis.
(AP, 9/1/03)
2004 Sep 1, VP Cheney and
Democrat Zell Miller were featured as prime-time speakers at the
Republican Convention in NYC.
(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 1, It was reported
that for about $10 million, Philadelphia city officials planned to
turn all 135 square miles of the city into the world's largest
wireless Internet hot spot. EarthLink was given the contract and
planned to rent 4,000 city light posts for its equipment. Completion
of the network was expected in Spring 2007.
(AP, 9/1/04)(SFC, 3/2/06, p.C2)
2004 Sep 1, Accused U.S. Army
deserter Charles Jenkins said he will surrender to the US to face
charges that have dogged him since he vanished from his unit in
South Korea in 1965. After expressing a desire to put his conscience
at rest, Jenkins reported on September 11, 2004 to Camp Zama in
Japan. He reported in respectful military form, saluting the
receiving military police officer. On November 3, 2004, Jenkins
pleaded guilty to charges of desertion and aiding the enemy, but
denied making disloyal or seditious statements – the latter charges
were dropped. He was sentenced to 30 days' confinement and received
a dishonorable discharge, being released six days early, on November
27, 2004, for good behavior. Jenkins and his family settled on Sado
Island in Japan.
(AP,
9/1/04)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Jenkins)
2004 Sep 1, In Colorado the
criminal trial against LA basketball player Kobe Bryant (26) ended
in a dismissal after the woman (20), who filed a rape charge,
decided not to testify. This saved Bryant’s $136 million contract
with the Lakers. Bryant still faced civil charges.
(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 1, In the 5th annual
Latin Grammys Alejandro Sanz won 4 awards and jazz songstress Maria
Rita of Brazil won 2.
(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A2)
2004 Sep 1, An Argentine
Supreme Court justice resigned rather than face Senate impeachment
proceedings, the 4th judge targeted in a high court purge led by
Pres. Nestor Kirchner.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, In Germany
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Cabinet agreed to forego a 4.4
percent pay raise for itself and top civil servants in an attempt to
help fight the country's burgeoning budget deficit.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, The U.N. atomic
watchdog agency said Iran has announced plans to turn tons of
uranium into a substance that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, In Fallujah, Iraq,
US bombing reportedly killed 17 people.
(WSJ, 9/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 1, Militants in Iraq
freed seven employees of a Kuwaiti trucking firm after their
employer paid $500,000 in ransom.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2004 Sep 1, Capping a day of
angry street protests and a strike by some 200,000 health care
workers, President Vicente Fox spent much of his state-of-the-nation
speech urging Mexicans to not give up on democracy, saying its
"inherent problems are not cause for discouragement.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, Nepal's government
imposed an indefinite curfew and appealed for calm after thousands
of demonstrators ransacked a mosque and clashed with police in the
capital to protest the slaying of 12 Nepalese hostages by Iraqi
militants.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, Pakistani officials
said security forces have arrested two "important" al Qaeda
operatives, including an Egyptian and a Saudi national.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, Martin Torrijos,
the son of a former dictator, took office as Panama's president
promising jobs, better relations with Cuba and a referendum on a
proposed $8 billion expansion of the Panama Canal.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, In Beslan, Russia,
more than a dozen militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a
school in North Ossetia, a region bordering Chechnya, taking hostage
some 300 people, half of them children. They threatening to blow up
the building if police storm it and at least eight people were
killed.
(AP, 9/1/04)(SFC, 9/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 1, In Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, 3 people were killed in a stampede to a newly opened Ikea
branch.
(SFC, 9/2/04, p.C2)
2004 Sep 1, Rebels released six
Sudanese aid workers in Darfur, four days after they went missing
during a trip to register refugees.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2004 Sep 1, A U.N. report
called for a quick increase in the international monitoring force in
Sudan, saying the government has not stopped attacks against
civilians or disarmed marauding militias.
(AP, 9/1/04)
2005 Sep 1, The United States
slapped extra curbs on Chinese imports, hours after talks on a
formula to deal with China's surging textile shipments ended in
failure.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin issued "a desperate SOS" as anger mounted across the
ruined city, with thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims
increasingly hungry, desperate and tired of waiting for buses to
take them out. New Orleans descended into anarchy, as corpses lay
abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm
survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away
from the chaos. Fights and trash fires broke out at the hot and
stinking Superdome and anger and unrest mounted across New Orleans,
as National Guardsmen in armored vehicles poured in to help restore
order across the increasingly lawless and desperate city.
(AP, 9/1/05)(AP, 9/1/06)
2005 Sep 1, The California
Senate approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 1, A SF jury awarded
$27 million to the family of Elizabeth Dominguez (4), who was killed
on Feb 11, 2003, when she was hit by a Muni truck at Potrero Ave and
24th. SF appealed and settled the case in 2008 for $21 million.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.B1)(SFC, 3/6/08, p.B2)
2005 Sep 1, It was reported
that 13% (64 of 490) of the female students at Timken Senior High
School in, Canton, Ohio are pregnant. One girl, eight months
pregnant, said she believes the school's abstinence-based sex
education program isn't enough.
(AP,
9/1/05)(http://cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=238435)
2005 Sep 1, The Swiss firm
Novartis AG said it is offering $4.5 billion in cash for the
remaining stake in Chiron Corp. to complete its takeover of the
US-based biotech company.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, In Afghanistan the
bodies of 2 Japanese tourists were found. The two Japanese teachers,
technical arts teacher Jun Fukusho (44), and female English teacher
Shinobu Hasegawa (30), had been missing for 3 weeks.
(AFP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 1, in Afghanistan
Taliban insurgents stabbed to death Mullah Amir Akhund, a
pro-government Islamic cleric, in Helmand province.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 1, Opposition leader
Sali Berisha's coalition was officially declared winner of Albania's
July 3 parliamentary elections, following weeks of delays in
confirming final results.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, Al-Qaida's No. 2
made the terror group's first direct claim of responsibility for the
July 7 bombings in London in a videotape.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2005 Sep 1, Nearly 600,000
people were evacuated as Typhoon Talim plowed into southern China,
forcing authorities to shut down schools, highways and airports.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, The European
Commission proposed new rules for the 25 European Union nations to
establish common standards on immigration and asylum.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, A Hong Kong jury
convicted Nancy Kissel of murdering her wealthy investment banker
husband in Nov, 2003, by drugging him with a milkshake laced with
sedatives and beating him to death in their luxury apartment. She
received a mandatory life sentence.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, Iraq hanged three
convicted murderers, the first executions since the 2003 ouster of
Saddam Hussein. 2 US soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in
Baghdad.
(AP, 9/1/05)(SFC, 9/3/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 1, In Japan Tokyo’s
Keio University Hospital received a bomb threat linked to demands
that its medical school increase their admissions. 10 other major
university hospitals received similar threats but no explosives were
found.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 1, Libyan authorities
pardoned 1,675 Libyan and foreign prisoners serving time for minor
crimes to mark the 36th anniversary of the revolution, which brought
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 1, President Vicente
Fox, in his last state-of-the-nation address, urged citizens to stay
committed to Mexico's newfound democracy and to remind them that
they are in charge of the nation's future.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 1, The foreign
ministers of Israel and Pakistan, a Muslim country that has long
taken a hard line against the Jewish state, met publicly for the
first time, a diplomatic breakthrough that both ministers linked to
Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, In Italy a summer
music hit has sparked a war of words between left-wingers and
neo-fascists who claim the Colombian pop song, "La camisa negra"
("The black shirt"), as their anthem.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, In Peru Wilbert
Elqui Meza was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for a
2002 car bombing that killed 10 people outside the U.S. Embassy.
Meza was the only one of eight defendants convicted of carrying out
the attack. 2 women received 20-year sentences and a third women was
handed a 25-year sentence for belonging to the Shining Path,
Maoist-oriented rebel group. Four others were acquitted of all
charges.
(AP, 9/3/05)
2005 Sep 1, Typhoon Talim left
Taiwan leaving 3 people killed and 59 injured. Strong winds and
heavy rains, forced offices, schools and financial markets to close.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, Turkey insisted
that it has fulfilled conditions for EU membership, as foreign
ministers of the 25-nation group started meeting in Wales to assess
the predominantly Muslim nation's efforts to join the bloc.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 1, Vadim Kouznetsov,
the chair of a powerful UN budget committee, was arrested by the FBI
on money laundering charges. Kouznetsov, who heads the General
Assembly panel that oversees the UN budget, was the 2nd Russian UN
official to be arrested by the FBI for alleged money laundering in
recent weeks. On Aug. 8, Alexander Yakovlev, a Russian who worked in
the UN procurement office, was arrested for allegedly soliciting a
bribe from a company seeking an oil-for-food contract.
(AP, 9/2/05)
2005 Sep 1, The UN said a
cholera epidemic spreading across West Africa has sickened tens of
thousands of people this year and killed nearly 500 amid a long-term
deterioration in health services in one of the world's poorest
regions.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2005 Sep 1, Venezuelan leader
Hugo Chavez offering planeloads of soldiers and aid workers to help
American victims of Hurricane Katrina, while at the same time taking
aim at the US government for its handling of the crisis. He called
Bush "the king of vacations" and noted he had been at his Texas
ranch and when the storm hit and didn't provide leadership.
(AP, 9/1/05)
2006 Sep 1, US military forces
launched a rocket interceptor that destroyed a mock warhead in outer
space.
(SFC, 9/2/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 1, US federal agents
began rounding up illegal immigrants in Stillmore, Georgia. More
than 120 illegal immigrants were loaded onto buses bound for
immigration courts in Atlanta. Hundreds more fled Emanuel County.
The Crider poultry plant was left scrambling for workers.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 1, Disrupting the
start of the Labor Day weekend, the remnants of Tropical Storm
Ernesto drenched the Mid-Atlantic region, cut power to more than
400,000 customers and forced evacuations. 3 people were reported
killed in North Carolina and Virginia.
(AP, 9/2/06)(SFC, 9/2/06, p.A8)
2006 Sep 1, Nellie Connally
(87), the former Texas first lady who was riding in President
Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, died in Austin, Texas.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2006 Sep 1, In Afghanistan
fighting across the volatile south killed nine Afghan policemen, at
least 13 suspected Taliban and a British soldier.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 1, Brazil pressured
Google to turn over data from Web sites that the government said
were used by criminals. Authorities gave Google 15 days to comply or
face a daily fine of $23,000.
(SFC, 9/2/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 1, Cambodia’s PM Hun
Sen pushed a bill through the lower house of parliament banning
extra-marital affairs. The legislation could get adulterers up to a
year in jail.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.46)
2006 Sep 1, In Chad US Senator
Barack Obama held talks with President Idriss Deby Itno on the
crisis in Sudan's Darfur region and on Chad's oil production, on the
final stop of the African-American politician's tour of the
continent.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Colombia Jesus
Ignacio Roldan led special prosecutors and investigators to the
alleged grave of Carlos Castano, former right-wing paramilitary
leader, near the town of Valencia. Roldan says he killed Castano in
April 2004 on the order of Castano's older brother, Vicente Castano.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Greece beat the
Americans 101-95 in the semifinals of the world championships in
Saitama, Japan.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Hungarian poet
Gyorgy Faludy (95), a legend of resistance to the rise of Nazism and
Communism, died at his home in Budapest. He spent 1950-1953 in the
Stalinist concentration camp at Recsk. Faludy won international fame
with his autobiographical novel "My Happy Days in Hell" in the
1960s, which related his escape from fascist Hungary and his return,
and imprisonment, in a country under communist rule.
(Reuters, 9/2/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.96)
2006 Sep 1, Iran underlined its
disregard for the UN deadline to halt uranium enrichment, now
expired, when its president vowed never to give up its nuclear
program and accused the West of misrepresenting Tehran's nuclear
activities.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In northeastern
Iran a Russian-made Tupolev 154 airplane with 148 people on board
skidded off the runway and caught fire, killing 29 people.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Kurdish leader
Massoud Barzani ordered the Iraqi national flag to be replaced with
the Kurdish one in his northern autonomous region. Gunmen fatally
shot one policeman in each of two towns outside of Baghdad in
separate incidents. Police said they found the body of a Saddam
Hussein-era intelligence officer who had been kidnapped and shot. A
US soldier died from wounds sustained during action in Anbar
province.
(AP, 9/1/06)(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 1, Shinzo Abe, the
front-runner to be Japan's next prime minister, announced his
candidacy, promising to defend Japan's interests and maintain the
security alliance with the US.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Mexico City riot
police, steel barriers, and water cannons surrounded Mexico's
Congress as protesters vowed to stop President Vicente Fox from
delivering his final state-of-the-nation address. Mexican lawmakers,
protesting conservative Felipe Calderon's victory in the July 2
presidential election, stormed the congressional stage and refused
to yield, making Fox the first president in modern Mexican history
not to deliver his annual address to Congress. Fox handed in a
written copy of his report and delivered it over television.
(AP, 9/1/06)(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 1, Morocco’s Interior
Ministry said security agents broke up a group planning terrorist
attacks on tourist sites and government facilities, arresting 56
people who included soldiers and the wives of two pilots at the
state airline.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, A strike paralyzed
Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province after the controversial
burial of a top rebel leader whose killing sparked days of deadly
rioting. Partial strikes also hit southern Sindh and central Punjab
provinces.
(AFP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, World donors
pledged $500 million in aid for Palestinians, including $55 million
for a UN emergency appeal for humanitarian help. Carin Jamtin,
Sweden's aid minister and host of the donors' conference held in the
Swedish capital, said a total of $114 million of the money pledged
will go toward humanitarian aid, with the rest going to rebuilding
infrastructure and other projects.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Spain's Cabinet
approved sending 1,100 troops to the UN peacekeeping force in
Lebanon, calling it a "legitimate" mission to help maintain peace in
the region.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Spain
self-contained, nonsmoking areas with their own ventilation systems,
became requisite for larger restaurants and bars.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Sri Lanka's navy
said it sank 12 Tamil rebel boats overnight, including five suicide
craft, and killed as many as 100 rebel fighters during a fierce
six-hour sea battle off the country's northern coast.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 1, Human rights
activists and African Union officials said the Sudanese government
has launched a major offensive against rebels in war-torn Darfur.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that Syria had pledged to step up
border patrols and work with the Lebanese army to stop the flow of
weapons to Hezbollah.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1-2006 Sep 2,
Separatist Kurdish guerrillas killed 7 Turkish soldiers and wounded
two in stepped-up attacks against the military in southeastern
Turkey.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2007 Sep 1, The Mountaineers of
Boone, North Carolina, pulled off one of the greatest upsets in
college football history as Appalachian State beat No. 5
Michigan 34-32.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 1, Clay Buchholz
threw a no-hitter in his second major league start, just hours after
being called up by the Boston Red Sox. Buchholz struck out nine,
walked three and hit one batter to give the Red Sox a 10-0 victory
over Baltimore.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2007 Sep 1, Idaho Sen. Larry
Craig announced his resignation, saying he would leave office on
Sept. 30, 2007, in the wake of fallout over his arrest and guilty
plea in a Minnesota airport gay sex sting. However, Craig later
reversed his decision, saying he would serve out the rest of his
term.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2007 Sep 1, It was reported
that it is now more expensive to execute someone in the US that to
jail him for life. In North Carolina each capital case was said to
cost some $2 million to legal fees.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.21)
2007 Sep 1, In eastern
Tennessee a small plane carrying 5 Jehovah’s Witness ministers
crashed in the Cherokee National Forest killing all 5 aboard.
(SFC, 9/3/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 1, The industry
ministry of Algiers announced that Algeria is inviting bids to
privatize 13 companies in the electronics, iron, and public works
sectors.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 1, Life expectancy in
Andorra was reported to be longer than in any other world country,
while the same in Swaziland was reported to be the shortest.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.14)
2007 Sep 1, Police arrested
four suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA in
south-west France, believed to be linked to the deadly Madrid
airport bomb in December.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, A US Navy hospital
ship Comfort brought state-of-the-art medical care to Haiti during a
regional goodwill mission aimed at countering leftist Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez's influence.
(AP, 9/7/07)(http://tinyurl.com/2squrt)
2007 Sep 1, It was reported
that Mumbai, India, had a population of 14 million, making it the
largest city in south Asia. The UN said it expected Mumbai to reach
25 million by 2015.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.33)
2007 Sep 1, In Basra gunmen on
a motorcycle assassinated Muslim al-Batat, an aide to the country's
top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. US National
Public Radio said a draft report from the US embassy in Baghdad says
PM Maliki's government is failing to stop officials from committing
fraud and is undermining its own watchdog agency, preventing it from
carrying out effective investigations. The Hunter unmanned aerial
vehicle, or UAV, dropped a precision bomb on two suspected
insurgents believed to be preparing to plant roadside bombs. This
was the US Army's first-ever use of a drone aircraft to kill enemy
fighters in Iraq.
(AP, 9/1/07)(AFP, 9/1/07)(AP, 9/8/07)
2007 Sep 1, Takehiko Endo,
Japan's latest agricultural minister, acknowledged that a private
farming group he leads exaggerated weather damage to the 1999 grape
harvest in order to receive government compensation, which amounted
to $9,930.
(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 1, In Mexico Tropical
Storm Henriette dumped heavy rains on Acapulco, flooding streets and
prompting officials to close more than 1,000 schools, while Tropical
Storm Felix formed in the Caribbean.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, In Morocco
Renault-Nissan head Carlos Ghosn signed a deal to build an assembly
plant in Tangiers, with a planned investment of one billion euros
(1.36 billion dollars) and final capacity of 400,000 vehicles.
(AFP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, North Korea and the
US began face-to-face talks in Geneva aimed at reaching an agreement
on how to proceed with Pyongyang's denuclearization pledge.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, Former Pakistani PM
Benazir Bhutto said in London that talks on a power sharing deal
with President Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she would return to
Pakistan very soon even without an agreement. A suicide bombing
killed four Pakistani troops near the Afghan border, as tribal
elders met with Islamic militants elsewhere to seek the release of
at least 120 Pakistani soldiers. In Karachi a section of a newly
constructed highway bridge came crashing down. At least 6 people
were killed and 13 others injured. Authorities suspended six
officials from the state-run National Highway Authority, which is
responsible for supervising highways in Pakistan, and the National
Logistic Cell, a military-run construction company that built the
Karachi bridge.
(Reuters, 9/1/07)(AP, 9/1/07)(AP, 9/2/07)
2007 Sep 1, Hamas gunmen opened
fire on their own supporters, killing a teenager at a protest on the
Gaza-Egypt border, as tens of thousands of flag-waving Hamas
supporters gathered at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to
demand it be reopened.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, In Panama Pedro
Miguel Gonzalez Pinzon, a man wanted in the US on charges of
involvement in the killing of an American soldier 15 years ago in
Panama, was elected president of that country's congress.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, In Poland 2 small
planes collided during an acrobatic display at the Radom Air Show
killing both pilots.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, The population of
Tanzania was about 39 million, with a GDP per head of $860.
(Econ, 9/1/07, p.44)
2007 Sep 1, In Venezuela more
than two dozen Colombian prisoners arrested three years ago in an
alleged plot against President Hugo Chavez were freed in a goodwill
gesture he hopes will help facilitate a prisoner exchange in
Colombia.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, The World Health
Organization (WHO) confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam,
four of them fatal. The four, including two women, died between June
21 and August 3 while a fifth person, a 29-year-old man, had
recovered.
(Reuters, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, Hundreds of riot
police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse thousands of retired
officers and soldiers in southern Yemen who were demanding to be
allowed back into the military. The protesters were largely members
of the army of south Yemen who were ousted after being defeated by
northern forces.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2007 Sep 1, State media
reported that Zimbabwe's government will allow hotels, restaurants
and bars to raise their rates by up to 50 percent. A woman and a
child were killed in stampedes at an agriculture show in Harare
packed with people lured by scarce snack foods and cheap Chinese
toys and exhibitors hoping to skirt a government price freeze and
sell their animals.
(AP, 9/1/07)(AP, 9/2/07)
2008 Sep 1, The GOP convention
opened at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., in an
abbreviated session due to Hurricane Gustav. Alaska’s Gov. Palin,
GOP candidate for the vice-presidency, disclosed that her daughter,
Bristol (17), is 5 months pregnant. Over 250 demonstrators were
arrested as splinter groups smashed department store and police car
windows. On March 11, 2009, Levi Johnson (19) announced he and
Bristol Palin had decided to end their relationship.
(SFC, 9/2/08, p.A1,5)(WSJ, 9/2/08, p.A4)(SFC,
3/12/09, p.A6)
2008 Sep 1, Hurricane Gustav
smashed into the Gulf coast as a Category 2 storm with 110-mph winds
just southwest of New Orleans, where levees held as waves splashed
over. Some 750,000 people were left without power in Louisiana. It
was later estimated that the storm caused at least $372 in damage to
crops.
(SFC, 9/2/08, p.A1)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.36)(Econ,
10/4/08, p.34)
2008 Sep 1, Roz Savage arrived
in Waikiki, Ha., after rowing 99 days from SF, Ca. The English-born
woman hoped to become the first woman to row alone across the
Pacific Ocean with the goal of raising awareness of the amount of
plastic pollution in the ocean.
(SFC, 9/2/08, p.B2)
2008 Sep 1, In Fairfield, Ca.,
councilman Matt Garcia (21) was critically wounded outside a
friend’s house. He was declared brain dead the next day. There were
no suspects and police had no idea why he was shot. Garcia was taken
off life support on Sep 5. On Sep 13 police announced the arrest of
2 suspects. On Sep 16 murder charges were filed against Henry Don
Williams (32), who remained at large. On Sep 18 murder charges were
filed against Gene Allen Combs (45). Police released Nicole Stewart
(33), who was pregnant by Williams and remained a witness. Garcia
appeared to be the innocent victim of an attempt to collect drug
debts. On May 28, 2010, Williams was convicted of first degree
murder. On Aug 30 Williams was sentenced to 50 years to life in
prison,
(SFC, 9/3/08, p.A1)(SFC, 9/6/08, p.B3)(SSFC,
9/14/08, p.B1)(SFC, 9/19/08, p.B6)(SFC, 5/29/10, p.C2)(SFC, 8/31/10,
p.C2)
2008 Sep 1, In Nevada an air
tanker being used to drop retardant on a wildfire in the Sierra
Nevada crashed after taking off for its last flight of the day,
killing all three crew members.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, Jerry Reed (71), US
singer and actor, died of complications from emphysema. He became a
good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit."
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, Foreign and Afghan
forces killed five children in two separate incidents, further
inflaming tensions over the killings of civilians by troops from the
US and other countries. The US military said US-led coalition and
Afghan troops killed more than 220 suspected Taliban militants in
strikes in southern Afghanistan last week.
(AP, 9/1/08)(Reuters, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Australian actor
Michael Pate (b.1920) died of respiratory failure. He had appeared
in more than 50 films and was a regular guest star on American TV
shows in the 1950s and 60s.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Brazil's Pres. Lula
da Silva suspended the entire leadership of Abin, the nation’s
intelligence agency, after it was accused of tapping the phones of
the Supreme Court chief and members of Congress.
(AP, 9/2/08)(WSJ, 9/2/08, p.A14)(Econ, 9/6/08,
p.45)
2008 Sep 1, Thomas Bata (93),
the Czech-born industrialist who headed the global shoe empire
bearing his family's name from the 1940s to the 1980s, died in
Toronto. The company's headquarters were moved to Toronto under
Bata's leadership when the family's Czech factories were
nationalized by the communists. The company returned to the Czech
Republic in 1989 after the end of communist rule.
(Reuters, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, In China a new tax
on gas guzzling cars took effect in an effort to reduce fuel
consumption and fight pollution. In June the tax on fuel was
increased by almost 20%.
(Econ, 8/23/08, p.54)
2008 Sep 1, In Colombia a car
bomb has exploded in front of the palace of justice in Cali, killing
at least four people and injuring 20 others.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, In east Democratic
Republic of Congo a humanitarian plane carrying 17 passengers and
crew crashed into a mountain with no sign of survivors.
(Reuters, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, The top UN aid
official John Holmes called for greater international efforts to
help millions of Ethiopians suffering from a severe drought.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Hundreds of
thousands of Georgians joined together in anti-Russian protests.
(Econ, 9/6/08, p.32)
2008 Sep 1, The US military
handed over control of once brutally violent Anbar province to Iraqi
forces, marking a major milestone in America's plan to eventually
send its troops home.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Most of the Muslim
Mideast began the first day of Ramadan, but Iraqi Shiites, some
Lebanese Shiites and Iran will start observing the holy month of
fasting on Sep 2.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Japan's chronically
unpopular PM Yasuo Fukuda (72), suddenly announced his resignation
after less than a year in office, throwing the world's
second-largest economy into political confusion.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, In Myanmar Saw
Myint Than, a magazine journalist, was arrested on a charge of
violating the Electronics Law, which regulates all forms of
electronic communication and carries a maximum five-year prison
term. He was freed on Oct 20 after police determined he had not
provided information to The Irrawaddy, a Thailand-based Web site run
by Myanmar exiles.
(AP, 10/22/08)
2008 Sep 1, North Korea began
reassembling its Yongbyon reactor that can make material for atomic
bombs in violation of US conditions for improved diplomatic
relations. Japan's Kyodo news agency reported the restart on Sep 3
citing sources in Beijing close to six-party nuclear talks on North
Korean.
(Reuters, 9/3/08)
2008 Sep 1, Pakistani officials
said that their forces had killed some 560 Pakistani and foreign
fighters and thwarted a push to make Bajur into a militant fortress.
Pakistan’s government opened an investigation into the killings of
five women who tried to choose their own husbands, after a
provincial lawmaker defended their deaths as a "centuries-old
tradition."
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, In the southern
Philippines a homemade bomb exploded at a bus terminal, killing four
people and injuring more than a dozen in Digos city in Davao del Sur
province.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Some three weeks
before the Slovenian parliamentary elections, allegations were made
in Finnish TV in a documentary broadcast by the Finnish national
broadcasting company YLE that Slovenia’s PM Jansa had received
bribes from the Finnish defense company Patria (73.2% of which is
the property of the Finnish government) in the so-called Patria
case. Jansa rejected all accusations as a media conspiracy concocted
by left-wing Slovenian journalists, and asked YLE to provide
evidence or to retract the story. Jansa's naming of individual
journalists, including some of those behind the 2007 Petition
Against Political Pressure on Slovenian Journalists, and the
perceived use of diplomatic channels in an attempt to coerce the
Finnish government into interfering with YLE editorial policy, drew
criticism from media freedom organizations such as the International
Press Institute.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez_Jan%C5%A1a)
2008 Sep 1, A Spanish judge
began gathering information about people who disappeared during
Spain's civil war and subsequent dictatorship, seeking to produce a
reliable list of victims slain away from the battlefield during the
vicious fight between left and right.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, Sri Lanka’s defense
ministry said 33 rebels and four of its own troops were killed in
fighting across the north of the island. It said 49 guerrillas and
11 soldiers were also wounded in the fighting. Government troops
marched into Mallavi, a key LTTE bastion.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, A US-Vietnam
adoption agreement expired with the two sides unable to resolve
disagreements over fraud and corruption, disappointing hundreds of
prospective parents who will have to seek children elsewhere.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2008 Sep 1, Zimbabwe's main
opposition called on regional powers to pressure President Robert
Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party to be more flexible in power-sharing
talks.
(AP, 9/1/08)
2009 Sep 1, A top State
Department official said the US has released $214 million of an aid
package to help Mexico fight drug trafficking, including funds for
five helicopters for the military to be delivered by year's end.
(AP, 9/2/09)
2009 Sep 1, In San Francisco
charges were filed against 5 workers of the Public Utilities
Commission and 2 workers at city approved vendors in a scam that
bilked the city of over $200,000 in goods from 2003-2007. Donnie
Alan Thomas and Miles Bonner, line workers making over $95,000 a
year, masterminded the scam. In 2011 Thomas pleaded guilty to 4
felony charges. Hatim Mansori (11) was stabbed on his first MUNI
ride by himself. No footage of his assailant was captured. Mansori
suffered life-threatening wounds, but was recovering.
(SFC, 9/2/09, p.D2)(SSFC, 11/15/09, p.A13)(SFC,
9/20/11, p.C2)
2009 Sep 1, In Southern
California the Station wildfire continued to rage with 53 homes up
in smoke, thousands more threatened and new rounds of evacuations as
towering flames crackled close to foothill neighborhoods just 15
miles north of downtown Los Angeles. On Sep 3 investigators said the
fire was an act of arson. On Oct 17 the US Forest Service said the
250-square-mile Station fire was 100% contained, 52 days after it
began.
(AP, 9/1/09)(SFC, 9/4/09, p.A7)(SFC, 10/20/09,
p.A5)
2009 Sep 1, Idaho hunters began
stalking gray wolves, following their removal from the federal
endangered species a few months earlier. The quota for this season
was 220. The quota in Montana was set at 75.
(SFC, 9/2/09, p.A8)
2009 Sep 1, In southern
Afghanistan an American service member died of wounds suffered in a
bombing the day before.
(AP, 9/1/09)
2009 Sep 1, In the Bahamas an
amended fisheries laws took effect to give full protection to all
sea turtles found in the Atlantic archipelago's waters by banning
the harvest, possession, purchase and sale of the endangered
reptiles, including their eggs.
(AP, 8/30/09)
2009 Sep 1, A Chilean judge
ordered the arrests of 129 former security officers on charges tied
to the disappearance of leftists and the slaying of the communist
party leadership during the Pinochet dictatorship.
(AP, 9/1/09)
2009 Sep 1, The 53-nation
Commonwealth says it has suspended Fiji automatically after it
failed to respond to a demand to begin restoring democracy to the
island nation.
(AP, 9/1/09)
2009 Sep 1, Ammar al-Hakim
(38), the son of the late leader of Iraq's largest Shiite political
party, acknowledged setbacks and reached out to political rivals as
he formally replaced his father at the helm of the Iranian-backed
Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. Two American soldiers were killed in
a vehicle accident in northern Iraq.
(AP, 9/1/09)(AP, 9/3/09)
2009 Sep 1, In Japan dolphin
hunting season opened in Taijii. Over the next 6 months fishermen
were expected to catch about 2,300 of Japan’s annual quota of 20,000
dolphins, to be sold for meat and to aquariums.
(SSFC, 9/20/09, p.A20)
2009 Sep 1, Malaysian police
arrested Alain Robert (47), a French climber nicknamed "Spiderman,"
after he scaled the iconic 88-story Petronas Twin Towers.
(AP, 9/1/09)
2009 Sep 1, Pakistani
government forces destroyed four militant bases and killed 40
insurgents of Lashkar-e-Islam in a new offensive near the Khyber
Pass, the main route for supplies to US and NATO troops in
Afghanistan. 43 militants were arrested.
(AP, 9/1/09)
2009 Sep 1, Mohammed Nayef (14)
one of three Palestinians who hurled Molotov cocktails at a guard
post near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, died of gunshot
shots from Israeli troops inflicted the previous evening. The Hamas
militant group said two of its fighters have been killed in the Gaza
Strip.
(AP, 9/1/09)
2009 Sep 1, In Slovakia a new
language law was scheduled to come into force to promote the use of
Slovak in public. Hungarian speakers, who numbered about a fifth of
the population, viewed this as a direct attack on their right to
speak their mother-tongue.
(Econ, 8/1/09, p.47)
2009 Sep 1, South Africa’s
defense ministry said it has issued around 2,000 letters of
dismissal to soldiers who last week staged an illegal march and
tried to storm the seat of government.
(AFP, 9/1/09)
2009 Sep 1, In Taiwan the wife
and adult children of Taiwan's former Pres. Chen Shui-bian were
convicted of perjury and sentenced to prison for lying to
investigators in a high-profile corruption case against the
ex-leader. Chen (58) was accused of embezzling $3.15 million during
his 2000-2008 presidency from a special presidential fund, receiving
bribes worth at least $9 million in connection with a government
land deal, and laundering some of the money through Swiss bank
accounts.
(AP, 9/2/09)
2009 Sep 1, Ukrainian PM Yulia
Tymoshenko said Russia and Ukraine have resolved a long standing
dispute over natural gas supplies, after meeting her Russian
counterpart Vladimir Putin at a resort on the Baltic coast in
northern Poland.
(Reuters, 9/1/09)
2010 Sep 1, The United States
changed commanders in Iraq, beginning the final phase of American
military involvement in the country despite political uncertainty
and persistent violence.
(AP, 9/1/10)
2010 Sep 1, The US government
designated the Pakistani Taliban a terrorist group and accused its
leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, of involvement in a December suicide
bombing that killed 7 Americans at a CIA post in eastern
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/2/10, p.A2)
2010 Sep 1, In Maryland police
shot and killed James J. Lee after he took 2 employees and a
security officer hostage at the headquarters of the Discovery
Channel. Lee had demanded that the network ask “the public for
inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining
wildlife on it.” All 3 hostages escaped unharmed.
(SFC, 9/2/10, p.A8)
2010 Sep 1, Apple CEO Steve
Jobs introduced Ping as the social network of music.
(SFC, 11/12/10,
p.D1)(http://venturebeat.com/tag/ping/)
2010 Sep 1, US newspapers
reported that the Afghan central bank had replaced the bank's two
top executives, Khalillulah Ferozi and chairman Sher Khan Farnud --
and ordered Farnud to hand over 160 million dollars' worth of luxury
property purchased in Dubai for himself and for cronies. Anxious
Afghan customers withdrew 80 million dollars.
(AFP, 9/2/10)
2010 Sep 1, In Afghanistan
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) reported
September's first death, another American, in an insurgent attack in
the south. A Muslim leader, Mohammad Hassan Taimuri, was killed in
Kandahar city by a remote-detonated bomb hidden on a motorcycle that
exploded in a downtown square. One other person was killed in the
attack and two people were wounded. The Afghan Health Ministry said
blood samples taken from Afghan schoolgirls who collapsed in
apparent mass poisonings showed traces of toxic chemicals found in
herbicides, pesticides and nerve gas.
(AP, 9/1/10)
2010 Sep 1, In Algeria 2
soldiers were killed and dozens injured after a suicide bomber blew
up a vehicle packed with explosives by a military convoy near the
capital Algiers.
(AFP, 9/2/10)
2010 Sep 1, A court in Botswana
charged former defense minister Ramadeluka Seretse for failing to
disclose his position as a shareholder in a company that was awarded
a government contract. Seretse, a cousin of President Seretse Ian
Khama, resigned Aug 30 after months of corruption allegations from
opposition parties.
(AP, 9/1/10)
2010 Sep 1, In southern China
44 people were missing after a landslide hit Wama village, Yunnan
province, killing at least four people.
(AP, 9/2/10)
2010 Sep 1, In southern
Colombia suspected leftist rebels killed 14 police officers and
wounded seven in an ambush of a five-truck convoy.
(AP, 9/3/10)
2010 Sep 1, Gunmen in eastern
Congo fired on a private plane carrying international aid workers
who escaped into the forest. The aid workers were rescued later in
the day by peacekeepers. A Congolese soldier and two militiamen were
killed in the firefight. 2 pilots in another plane were captured
after an attack by Mai Mai and Rwandan Hutu rebels shortly after
landing at Kilambo. The pilots and 2 injured people were released on
Sep 24.
(AP, 9/1/10)(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 1, In Greece a smoking
ban went into effect outlawing smoking in enclosed public areas and
prohibiting tobacco advertising. 42% of the Greek population over
age 15 smoked, well above the European average of 29%.
(SFC, 9/1/10, p.A2)
2010 Sep 1, India's government
began allocating third-generation (3G) bandwidth for cellphone
services to mobile operators after a multi-billion-dollar auction of
licenses.
(AFP, 9/1/10)
2010 Sep 1, In western India
wave after wave of tar balls floated ashore on the renowned Goa
beaches after a ship dumped tons of waste oil, about three days
after officials believe a ship dumped burnt oil at sea.
(AP, 9/1/10)
2010 Sep 1, Mozambique's state
utility company implemented a 13.4 percent rate increase, while the
state water supplier has also raised prices in and around the
capital. Police opened fire on stone-throwing mobs who were
protesting rising prices. 6 people were killed and 288 wounded.
Another person died the next day. The UN noted that international
food prices have risen to their highest in two years, a level that
could see unrest spread.
(AP, 9/1/10)(AFP, 9/2/10)
2010 Sep 1, In Pakistan 3
suicide bombs ripped through a Shiite Muslim religious procession in
the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 35 people and wounding
250.
(AP, 9/2/10)
2010 Sep 1, Palestinian
security forces arrested more than 250 Hamas members in an overnight
sweep throughout the West Bank after the Islamic militant group
claimed responsibility for shooting dead four Israelis on the eve of
new Mideast peace talks.
(AP, 9/1/10)
2010 Sep 1, In Senegal
Television Futurs Medias (TFM), run by pop star Youssou N’dour (50),
began broadcasting but only in Dakar and its immediate suburbs. Its
government license, issued earlier this year, limited it to cultural
programming and forbade the station from doing newscasts. A request
to broadcast to the rest of the country has so far been denied.
(AP, 9/9/10)(http://tinyurl.com/2eh5yhm)
2010 Sep 1, A South Korean news
report and an intelligence official said North Korea has changed the
names of its trading companies and falsified trade documents to
avoid international sanctions and continue exporting weapons.
(AP, 9/1/10)
2010 Sep 1, A senior Swedish
prosecutor reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange, the latest twist to a puzzling case in which
prosecutors of different ranks have overruled each other.
(AP, 9/1/10)
2010 Sep 1, Thailand long
running high school gang violence was highlighted when students
opened fire on a public bus in Bangkok. 4 stray bullets killed a boy
(9), shaking parents and educators.
(AP, 9/20/10)
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