Today in History - September 4
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c522BC Sep 4, Pindar (d.~443),
Greek poet, was born.
(WUD, 1994 p.1094)(MC, 9/4/01)
1024 Sep 4, Conrad II (the
Sailor) was chosen as German king.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1207 Sep 4, Boniface of
Montferrat, leader of the 4th Crusade, was ambushed and killed by
the Bulgarians.
(Nationmaster.com)
1260 Sep 4, At the Battle of
Montaperto in Italy, the Tuscan Ghibellines, who supported the
emperor, defeated the Florentine Guelfs, who supported papal power.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1383 Sep 4, Amadeus VIII, duke
of Savoye, and the last antipope (Felix V (1439-48), was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1479 Sep 4, After four years of
war, Spain agreed to allow a Portuguese monopoly of trade along
Africa's west coast and Portugal acknowledged Spain's rights in the
Canary Islands.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1553 Sep 4, Cornelia da
Nomatalcino, a monk who converted to Judaism, was burned at the
stake.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1564 Sep 4, A 10-ship Spanish
fleet under Pedro Menendez de Aviles made landfall in Florida.
Menendez was under orders from Phillip II to oust the French.
(Arch, 1/05, p.47)
1609 Sep 3-4, Henry Hudson
discovered the island of Manhattan. The exact date is not known.
(MC, 9/3/01)(www.hudsonriver.com)
1682 Sep 4, English astronomer
Edmund Halley saw his namesake comet.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1768 Sep 4, Vicomte
François René de Chateaubriand, French writer,
novelist (Atala) and chef who gave his name to a style of steak, was
born.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1781 Sep 4, Mexican Provincial
Governor, Felipe de Neve, founded Los Angeles. He founded El Pueblo
de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles (Valley of Smokes),
originally named Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de
Porciuncula, by Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish army captain and Juan
Crespi, a Franciscan priest, who had noticed the beautiful area as
they traveled north from San Diego in 1769. 44 Spanish settlers
named a tiny village near San Gabriel, Los Angeles. Los Angeles,
first an Indian village Yangma, was founded by Spanish decree. 26 of
the settlers were of African ancestry.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(AP, 9/4/97)(SFEC, 4/12/98, Par
p.20)(HN, 9/4/98)(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.4)(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1787 Sep 4, Louis XVI of France
recalled parliament.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1790 Sep 4, Jacques Necker was
forced to resign as finance minister in France.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1802 Sep 4, A French aeronaut
dropped eight-thousand feet equipped with a parachute.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1807 Sep 4, Robert Fulton began
operating his steamboat. [see Aug 17]
(MC, 9/4/01)
1810 Sep 4, Donald McKay, US
naval architect, built fastest clipper ships, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1820 Sep 4, Czar Alexander
declared that Russian influence in North America extended as far
south as Oregon and closed Alaskan waters to foreigners.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1824 Sep 4, Anton Bruckner,
composer and Wagner disciple, was born in Austria.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1833 Sep 4, Barney Flaherty
(10) answered an ad in "The New York Sun" and became the first
newsboy, later called a paperboy.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1838 Sep 4, Henrietta
d'Angeville (1794-1871) became the 1st woman to climb to the top of
Mt. Blanc, France. In 1808 mountain guides had carried Marie
Paradis, a local serving girl, to the top.
(ON, 4/04, p.1)
1842 Sep 4, Work on Cologne
cathedral resumed after 284-year hiatus.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1846 Sep 4, Daniel Burnham, US
architect, city planner and builder of skyscrapers, was born.
(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1862 Sep 4, Robert E. Lee's
Confederate 50,000-man army invaded Maryland, starting the Antietam
Campaign. New York Tribune reporter George Smalley scooped the world
with his vivid account of the Battle of Antietam.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1864 Sep 4, Bread riots took
place in Mobile, Alabama.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1870 Sep 4, At news of Sedan,
Paris workers invaded the Palais Bourbon and forced the Legislative
Assembly to proclaim the fall of the Empire. Emperor Louis Napoleon
III was overthrown in a bloodless coup. The 3rd French Republic was
proclaimed in Paris and a government of national defense was formed.
(HN, 9/4/98)(ON, 9/06,
p.12)(www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/timeline.htm)
1882 Sep 4, Thomas Edison
displayed the first practical electrical lighting system. He
successfully turned on the lights in a one square mile area of New
York City with the world’s 1st electricity generating plant.
(MC, 9/4/01)(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.R6)
1886 Sep 4, Elusive Apache
leader Geronimo (1829-1909) surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles
(1839-1925) at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz. This ended the last major
US-Indian war.
(HN, 9/4/98)(ON, 10/06, p.4)
1888 Sep 4, George Eastman
received patent #388,850 for his roll-film camera and registered his
trademark: "Kodak." George Eastman introduced the box camera.
(V.D.-H.K.p.273)(AP, 9/4/97)(MC, 9/4/01)
1892 Sep 4, Darius Milhaud,
Aix-en-Provence France, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1893 Sep 4, Beatrix Potter,
English author, first told the story of Peter Rabbit in the form of
a "picture letter" to Noel Moore, the son of Potter's former
governess. A 2nd illustrated letter the same month later became “The
Tale of Jeremy Fisher.” The “Tale of Peter Rabbit” was published in
1901.
(HN, 9/4/00)(AP, 9/4/04)(Econ, 1/6/07, p.67)
1894 Sep 4, Some 12,000 tailors
in New York City went on strike to protest the existence of
sweatshops.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1904 Sep 4, Dali Lama signed a
treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1905 Sep 4, Mary Renault (Mary
Challans), author who wrote about her wartime experiences in “The
Last of the Wine” and “The King Must Die,” was born. She also wrote
“Funeral Games.”
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1907 Sep 4, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg (64), Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), died.
(WUD, 1994, p.622)(MC, 9/4/01)
1908 Sep 4, Richard Wright
(d.1960), novelist who wrote about the abuses of blacks in white
society, best known for “Native Son” (1940), was born near Natchez,
Miss.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, DB p.61)(AP, 9/4/08)
1912 Sep 4, Alexander Liberman,
editor, painter and photographer (639), was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1914 Sep 4, General von Moltke
ceased German advance in France.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1915 Sep 4, Rudolf Schock,
German opera and operetta tenor, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1915 Sep 4, The U.S. military
placed Haiti under martial law to quell a rebellion in its capital
Port-au-Prince.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1917 Sep 4, The American
expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World
War I when a German plane attacked a British-run base hospital..
(AP, 9/4/08)
1918 Sep 4, Paul Harvey,
conservative radio commentator, was born in Tulsa, Okla.
(HN, 9/4/98)(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)
1920 Sep 4, Craig Claiborne,
food critic, food columnist (NY Times Cookbook) and cookbook author,
was born.
(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1920 Sep 4, Maggie Higgins, the
first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1951) for international
reporting, for her work in Korean war zones, was born.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1923 Sep 4, Noel Coward's revue
"London Calling," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1939 Sep 4, German troops
stormed into Danzig (Gdansk).
(MC, 9/4/01)
1939 Sep 4, The Nazis marched
into Czestochowa, Poland, two days after they invaded Poland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cz%C4%99stochowa)
1939 Sep 4, The Polish ghetto
of Mir was exterminated.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1941 Sep 4, German submarine
U-652 fired at the U.S. destroyer Greer off Iceland, beginning an
undeclared shooting war.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1942 Sep 4, Soviet planes
bombed Budapest in the war's first air raid on the Hungarian
capital.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1943 Sep 4, Allied troops
captured Lae-Salamaua, in New Guinea.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1943 Sep 4, British 8th army
landed at Taranto in South Italy.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1944 Sep 4, British troops
liberated Antwerp, Belgium.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1945 Sep 4, US regained
possession of Wake Island from Japan. The American flag was raised
on Wake Island after surrender ceremonies there.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1948 Sep 4, Queen Wilhelmina
abdicated the Dutch throne for health reasons.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1950 Sep 4, The Beetle Bailey
cartoon appeared for the 1st time in syndication. Beatle Bailey, the
laziest private in the army, was created by Mort Walker.
(USAT, 8/31/00, p.1D)(SFC, 6/18/96, p.B2)
1950 Sep 4, The 1st helicopter
rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1950 Sep 4, A heavy typhoon
struck Japan and killed about 250 people.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1951 Sep 4, President Truman
addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in
San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television
broadcast. The broadcast was carried by 94 stations.
(AP, 9/4/97)(HN, 9/4/98)
1951 Sep 4, Juozas Luksa
(b.1921), aka “Skirmantas” or “Daumantas,” Lithuanian partisan, was
killed by Soviet counterintelligence. In 2003, director Jonas
Vaitkus released a movie based on his life, “Utterly Alone.”
(VilNews,
5/10/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juozas_Luk%C5%A1a)
1954 Sep 4, The 1st passage of
McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage, completed.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1957 Sep 4, Arkansas National
guardsmen turned away Black students from Central High School in
Little Rock. 9 students made it into the school on September 24
under the protection of federal troops sent by Pres. Eisenhower. In
2007 Elizabeth Jacoway authored “Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the
Crises That Shocked the Nation.”
(AH, 10/07, p.61)
1957 Sep 4, Ford Motor Co.
introduced the 1958 Edsel. It was designed by Roy Brown and sold
only 173,000 units through 1960.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, p.D12)(AP, 9/4/97)
1959 Sep 4, "Mack the Knife"
was banned from radio -- at least from WCBS Radio in New York City.
The ban was due to teenage stabbings in NYC.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1965 Sep 4, Beatles' "Help!,"
single went #1 for 3 weeks.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1965 Sep 4, Philosopher,
musician, doctor, theologian and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer died
in Lambaréné, Gabon. Born near Alsace, Germany, in
1875, Schweitzer decided to devote himself to providing health care
to people in Africa at the age of 30. Schweitzer and his wife
Hélène moved to Gabon in 1913 and opened a hospital in
Lambaréné, which he later expanded with money from the
Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 1952. Schweitzer also spoke out
against the dangers of nuclear weapons, became an organist and
expert on Johann Sebastian Bach, and served as a church pastor and
university professor. He lived by the principle of "reverence for
life."
(HNPD, 9/4/98)
1967 Sep 4, Michigan Gov.
George Romney told a TV interview he'd undergone a "brainwashing" by
U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam, a comment that
apparently damaged Romney's bid for the Republican presidential
nomination.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1968 Sep 4, In the Republic of
Congo, Brazzaville, an army coup deposed Pres. Masemba-Debat.
(WUD, 1994, p.1687)
1969 Sep 4, The US Food and
Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills
safe, despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked
to the pills.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1969 Sep 4, In California Gov.
Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce package into law,
effective January 1, 1970.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, Z1
p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce)
1969 Sep 4, In Brazil Fernando
Gabeira helped kidnap the US ambassador in Rio, Charles Elbrick
(d.1983), to protest the military dictatorship. Elbrick was released
unhurt four days later, but Gabeira was banned from entering the US.
(AP,
10/27/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burke_Elbrick)
1970 Sep 4, Natalia Makarova
(b.1940), Russian ballet dancer, requested asylum while on tour in
Britain.
(WSJ, 10/1/98,
p.A20)(www.abt.org/education/archive/choreographers/makarova_n.html)
1970 Sep 4, Salvador Allende
Gossens (1908-1973) won the presidential election in Chile. A week
later in Washington Henry Kissinger discussed a "covert action
program" to oust Allende.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.D1)
1971 Sep 4, "The Lawrence Welk
Show" was seen for the last time on ABC-TV. A week later it opened
on the Lawrence Welk Network.
(www.accordionusa.com/fe_01_07.htm)
1971 Sep 4, An Alaska Airlines
jet crashed near Juneau, killing 111 people.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1972 Sep 4, The TV game show
"The Price Is Right" returned with Bob Barker and continued for 35
seasons. A nighttime version also began this year hosted by Dennis
James (1917-1997) up to 1977.
(SFC, 6/5/97,
p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_James)
1972 Sep 4, U.S. swimmer Mark
Spitz won a record seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter relay
at the Munich Summer Olympics.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1973 Sep 4, William E Colby
(1920-1996), became the 10th director of the CIA.
(http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/wcolby.htm)
1974 Sep 4, The US & German
DR established diplomatic relations.
(http://tinyurl.com/6xdex7)
1974 Sep 4, General Creighton
Williams Abrams, US commander in Vietnam (1968-1972), died in
Washington DC of lung cancer. In 2005 the “Vietnam Chronicles:
The Abrams Tapes” transcribed and edited by Lewis Sorley was
published.
(WSJ, 3/18/05, p.W6)
1981 Sep 4, David Brinkley
(1920-2003) ended an illustrious 38-year career with NBC News this
day. ABC had offered him an opportunity too good to refuse.
(http://tinyurl.com/38bq4z)
1984 Sep 4, Canada's
Progressive Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney, won a landslide
victory in general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime
Minister John N. Turner.
(AP, 9/4/04)
1987 Sep 4, A Soviet court
convicted West German pilot Mathias Rust of charges stemming from
his daring flight to Moscow's Red Square, and sentenced him to four
years in a labor camp. He was released the following August.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1988 Sep 4, Officials in
Bangladesh reported that floods had inundated three-quarters of
their impoverished nation, claiming at least 882 lives. Monsoon
floods left over 3,000 dead this year.
(AP, 9/4/98)(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A15)
1989 Sep 4, The US Air Force
launched its last Titan 3 rocket, which reportedly carried a
reconnaissance satellite. Since 1964, the Titan 3 had sent more than
200 satellites into space.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1989 Sep 4, Georges Simenon
(86), Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), died. The
Belgian born writer, authored some 200 novels. Many featured the
crime-busting hero Inspector Maigret.
(SFC, 6/9/00,
p.D5)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/simenon.htm)
1990 Sep 4, The air evacuation
of Western women and children stranded in Iraq and Kuwait resumed,
with 25 Americans among the nearly 300 who made it to Jordan.
(AP, 9/4/00)
1991 Sep 4, South African
President F.W. de Klerk proposed a new constitution that would allow
blacks to vote and govern; the African National Congress rejected
the plan, charging it was designed to maintain white privileges.
(AP, 9/4/01)
1992 Sep 4, The US government
reported the nation's unemployment rate had edged down to 7.6
percent in August 1992, but also said adult joblessness had worsened
slightly and the economy had lost thousands of crucial manufacturing
jobs.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1993 Sep 4, The Fatah faction
of the PLO endorsed a peace accord with Israel.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1993 Sep 4, Pope John Paul II
launched the first papal visit to the former Soviet Union as he
began a tour of the Baltic republics.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1993 Sep 4, Herve Hillechaize
(50) died in Los Angeles. The Fantasy Island actor shot himself to
death.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1994 Sep 4, On the eve of a
U.N.-sponsored conference on population in Cairo, Egypt, Vice
President Al Gore told NBC the United States was seeking a blueprint
for world population growth that rejected abortion as a family
planning tool and an international right.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1995 Sep 4, Attorney William
Moses Kunstler (b.1919) died in NYC. The UCLA attorney spoke out for
the politically unpopular in a controversial career and defended the
Chicago 7.
(SFC, 4/8/96,
p.A3)(www.nndb.com/people/218/000025143/)
1995 Sep 4-1995 Sep 7,
Hurricane Luis hit the Virgin Islands.
(NH, 10/96, p.60)(www.nhc.noaa.gov/1995luis.html)
1995 Sep 4, The Fourth World
Conference on Women opened in Beijing with more than 4,750 delegates
from 181 countries.
(AP, 9/4/00)
1996 Sep 4, The Smashing
Pumpkins rock group won 7 MTV music awards including Best Video for
“Tonight, Tonight,” and Best Alternative Music Video for 1979.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B4)
1996 Sep 4, Actor Jack Lemon,
Singer Johnny Cash, playwright Edward Albee, saxophonist Benny
Carter and ballet dancer Maria Tallchief were the recipients of the
Kennedy Center Honors for their life work in the performing arts.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B2)
1996 Sep 4, Whitewater
prosecutors had Susan McDougal held in contempt for refusing to tell
a grand jury whether President Clinton had lied at her trial.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1996 Sep 4, Anti-aircraft fire
lit up the skies of Baghdad, hours after the United States fired a
new round of cruise missiles into southern Iraq and destroyed an
Iraqi radar site. The US again launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at
Iraqi air defense sites. The 2nd launch was deemed a success after
the first launch failed to destroy intended targets. The Tomahawks
were made by Hughes Aircraft Co. and cost about $1 mil apiece.
Kurdish leader Barzani wrote a latter to Sec. of State Christopher
Warren and asked that the US mediate. 44 cruise missiles were
launched over 2 days plus a rocket from an F-16 fighter.
(AP, 9/4/97)(SFC, 4/9/96, A1)(SFC, 9/5/96,
p.A8)(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 4, In Columbia the
government will require businesses with a net worth of more than 85k
to buy war bonds to finance the war against leftist rebels.
(WSJ, 9/4/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 4, In the Congo
authorities found 200 slaughtered elephants in a marsh of the
National Park of Odzala.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 4, France said it will
stop changing its clocks twice a year.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 4, Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu met with Palestinian leader Arafat and agreed to
pursue a peace settlement.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.1)
1997 Sep 4, A trio of Buddhist
nuns acknowledged in Senate testimony that their temple outside Los
Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by
Vice President Al Gore and later destroyed or altered records to
avoid embarrassment.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1997 Sep 4, It was reported
that scientists have pinpointed the gene, Torsin 1, responsible for
dystonia, a condition marked by uncontrolled movements.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A6)
1997 Sep 4, In Algeria 22
people were killed in El Arbi. Their throats were slit and bodies
burned.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 4, In Cuba an
explosion shook 3 tourist hotels and one Italian tourist was killed.
Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon (25) of Salvador was arrested and accused of
carrying out a half-dozen hotel attacks. He worked for Luis Posada
Carriles, who was supported by the Cuban-American National
Foundation. Cruz was sentenced to death in 1999. In 2010 Cuba's
Supreme Court commuted the death sentence ruling that he should
serve 30 years in prison instead. Francisco Chavez Abarca of El
Salvador was later arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison for
planting some of the bombs.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A21)(WSJ,
3/24/99, p.A1)(AP, 12/3/10)(SFC, 5/24/11, p.A2)
1997 Sep 4, In Israel a triple
suicide bombing in a mall in the heart of Jerusalem claimed the
lives of seven people, including the three assailants.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A1)(AP, 9/4/98)
1997 Sep 4, From Kenya it was
reported that the unemployment rate was 35%.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 4, In Turkey 33 people
were killed when 2 buses collided near Ankara. Turkey has the
highest incidence of road traffic deaths with 2,713 killed in the
first 7 months of this year.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)
1998 Sep 4, During a visit to
Ireland, President Clinton said the words "I'm sorry" for the first
time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, describing his behavior
as indefensible.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1998 Sep 4, In NYC the Million
Youth March ended in a wild melee as police rushed the speaking
platform after the event ran minutes over the allotted time. An
estimated 20,000 people were in attendance. Mayor Giuliani later
supported the police action at the rally where 6,000 people had
gathered. Some 3,000 officers were massed in the area. A grand jury
was later asked to investigate.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A3)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A3)(SFC,
9/9/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 4, In Yarmouth Harbor,
New Brunswick, the new Incat 046 catamaran collided with a fishing
dragger and killed Captain Clifford Hood (33). The new ferry carried
up to 900 passengers and 240 cars from Bar Harbor, Maine, to
Yarmouth across the Bay of Fundy at 50 mph. Travel time was cut in
half from 6.5 hours for the 105 mile run.
(SFC, 10/5/98, p.A3,5)
1998 Sep 4, In Nevada two Air
Force helicopters crashed during training and all 12 people aboard
were killed.
(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 4, In Brazil the
Central Bank raised interest rates from 20 to 30%.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D2)
1998 Sep 4, In Osasco, Brazil,
near Sao Paulo a Universal Church roof collapsed and killed at least
23 people and injured 500.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A19)
1998 Sep 4, Flooding and
mudslides in India was reported to have killed over 2,000 this year.
(WSJ, 9/4/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 4, Former Rwandan
Prime Minister Jean Kambanda was sentenced to life in prison for his
role in the 1994 killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 4, Ukraine clinched a
$2.2 billion IMF loan and announced a de facto currency devaluation
for its hryvnia to between 2.5 and 3.5 to the dollar.
(WSJ, 9/8/98, p.A23)
1999 Sep 4, In NYC the 2nd
Million Youth March headed by Khalid Abdul Muhammad was attended by
1-2 thousand people and watched over by 1,400 police officers.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A2)
1999 Sep 4, Martin R. Frankel,
a Connecticut money manager, accused of cheating insurance companies
in five states out of more than $200 million, was arrested in at the
Hotel Prem in Hamburg, Germany.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A6)(AP, 9/4/00)
1999 Sep 4, In Dagestan a car
bomb killed at least 22 people at a Russian military housing block
in Buinaksk. The death toll son expanded to 64. Russian officials
believed that Khattab, a Jordanian operating in Chechnya, ordered
the bombing. In 2000 5 suspects were charged in the bombing. In 2001
six men were convicted. In 2004 Magomed Salikhov was arrested in
Baku for his role in the bombing. In Feb, 2006, Salikhov was
acquitted of organizing the explosion, but was sentenced to over 4
years in prison for membership a rebel group. The Russian Supreme
Court overturned the acquittal on June 15 and ordered the
investigation to be reopened. A Dagestan jury acquitted Salikhov on
Nov 10.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A12)(SFC,
9/8/99, p.A16)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.C1)(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)(AP,
11/13/04)(AP, 6/15/06)(AP, 11/11/06)
1999 Sep 4, Ethiopia claimed
that the proposed outline for the implementation of a peace plan
contradicted an original agreement regarding the withdrawal of
Eritrea's forces. Eritrea the next day took the statement as
"tantamount to a declaration of war."
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 4, At Sharm El-Sheikh
(Sharm Al Sheik), Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and
Palestinian Authority Pres. Yasser Arafat signed a new deal that
ceded West Bank land to the Palestinians and set up a timetable for
peace.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/21/99, p.A21)
1999 Sep 4, In East Timor
pro-Indonesia militia took control of much of the country in
defiance of the election results hours after the United Nations
announced that residents had overwhelmingly voted for independence
from Indonesia. A dozen people were reported killed in Dili.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A11)(AP, 9/4/00)
2000 Sep 4, In Australia a
Beechcraft King Air 200 plane crashed near Mount Isa after flying
for 6 hours on autopilot. 8 people were killed and believed to have
blacked out after loss of cabin pressure following takeoff from
Perth.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 4, French
investigators announced that a stray length of metal which had
gashed a tire of a supersonic Concorde, leading to a fuel tank fire
and the plane's fatal crash the previous July, probably came from a
Continental Airlines plane that had taken off on the same runway
four minutes earlier.
(AP, 9/4/01)
2000 Sep 4, In France farmers
along with and truckers and taxi drivers protested high fuel costs
with demonstrations at 80 facilities.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Sri Lanka the
government “Operation Sunrise” left some 144 government soldiers and
over 230 rebels dead along with some 766 wounded.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Uganda at least
41 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in Lake Albert, 140
miles north of Kampala.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.D2)
2001 Sep 4, President Bush
opened the door to a future cut in the capital gains tax, but said
he first wanted to see the effects of the previous spring's income
tax cut.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, Texas Republican
Phil Gramm announced he would leave the U.S. Senate at the end of
his third term, following fellow conservatives Jesse Helms and Strom
Thurmond into retirement.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, The US and Mexico
agreed on small measures to improve food safety, enhance law
enforcement and fight money laundering as Pres. Fox came to visit
with Pres. Bush.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 4, Police shot and
killed Rolland Rohm (28) at the Rainbow Farms campground in
Vandalia, Mich., after he allegedly pointed a weapon at an officer.
The campground had been set up for marijuana advocates. Owner Grover
T. Crosslin was killed by FBI snipers a day earlier.
(SFC, 9/5/01,
p.A5)(http://cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17211.shtml)
2001 Sep 4, In the Bahamas a
fire destroyed Bay Street businesses in Nassau’s Straw Market.
(WSJ, 9/6/01, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, President Bush
promised to seek Congress' approval for "whatever is necessary" to
oust Saddam Hussein including using military force.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Secretary of State
Colin Powell was heckled by dozens of activists on the closing day
of the World Summit in South Africa as he defended America's record
on the environment and helping the developing world.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Texas cocktail
waitress and aspiring pop star Kelly Clarkson was voted the first
"American Idol" at the conclusion of the Fox TV series.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, In California it
was reported that the Phytophthora ramorum microbe, responsible for
sudden oak death, had infected the coastal redwood saplings.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, In Afghanistan
Pres. Karzai announced a new currency to replace the array of
inflated banknotes issued by the Taliban and regional warlords.
Warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former US ally, called for a jihad
against US forces.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, China reported that
flooding had killed 1,532 people this year.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 4, Colombian
authorities reported the break up of an international kidnapping
ring organized by the nation's second-largest rebel group to fund
its insurgency. The leader of the ring was captured in July, and
authorities have arrested his successor and other rebels within the
last couple of days, said Gen. Reynaldo Castellanos. The crime
network was run out of Bogota by members of the National Liberation
Army. It included leftist groups from Chile, Ecuador, Peru and
Mexico that kidnapped people and stole cars, among other crimes.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, In Puerto Rico US
Navy security officers fired tear gas at protesters who hurled rocks
over a fence during bombing exercises on the island of Vieques.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, The World Summit on
Sustainable Development closed with just a handful of small
victories and some promising new initiatives. Colin Powell was
heckled and the US was viewed as a key obstacle to setting firm
targets on many issues. The Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (EITI), an anti-corruption scheme to oversee oil
production, was launched by UK PM Tony Blair, at the World Summit on
Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, SA.
(AP, 9/5/02)(SFC, 9/5/02,
p.A10)(www.osi-az.org/eitiabout.shtml)
2003 Sep 4, Pres. Bush signed
the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) into law. It required the
collection of data on sexual abuse in prison and the creation of a
commission to recommend ways of prevention.
(Econ, 8/6/05,
p.25)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003)(Econ,
5/7/11, p.32)
2003 Sep 4, Miguel Estrada,
whose nomination became a flash point for Democratic opposition to
President Bush's judicial choices, withdrew from consideration for
an appeals court seat after Republicans failed in seven attempts to
break a Senate filibuster.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2003 Sep 4, The US House agreed
to a 2.2 percent pay raise for Congress, enough to boost lawmakers'
annual salaries to about $158,000 next year.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2003 Sep 4, Verizon
Communications and two unions, the Communications Workers of America
and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, reached a
tentative, five-year contract agreement after four months of talks.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2003 Sep 4, Researchers
reported that the hormone YY3-36 appeared to curb the appetite of
obese people.
(SFC, 9/4/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 4, British and
Colombian authorities said they had seized nearly $7 billion in
securities from an international drug and money-laundering ring.
Authorities arrested 14 alleged members of the ring, 10 in England,
two in Colombia and two in Ecuador.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2003 Sep 4, Mario Monteforte
Toledo, Guatemalan writer and activist, died. His work included the
1952 novel "En Donde Acaban los Caminos" (Where the Roads End).
(SFC, 9/5/03, p.A23)
2004 Sep 4, Hurricane Frances
ripped apart roofs, shattered windows and flooded neighborhoods as
it raged through the Bahamas leaving 2 people dead.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 4, A gunfight broke
out in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia,
leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 4, India's PM Singh
said his government was ready to talk to any militant group,
including those in Kashmir, abandoning previous preconditions that
the rebels must first disarm.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2004 Sep 4, Insurgents clashed
with American and Iraqi troops in northern Iraq, and local officials
said eight Iraqis were killed and more than 50 wounded. A suicide
attacker detonated a car bomb outside a police academy in the
northern city of Kirkuk as hundreds of trainees and civilians were
leaving for the day, killing 17 people and wounding 36. Saboteurs
blew up an oil pipeline in southern Iraq.
(AP, 9/4/04)(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 4, Lebanese lawmakers
amended their constitution to keep pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud
in office, boldly reaffirming their loyalty to Damascus and defying
a U.N. resolution calling for presidential elections.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2004 Sep 4, A shaken President
Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness
after more than 330 people were killed in a hostage-taking at a
southern school.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, US Health and Human
Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In New Orleans
police killed at least 4 people who shot at contractors. The
official Louisiana state death toll stood at 59 but the number was
expected to rise to thousands.
(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, European Union and
NATO said the US has asked for emergency assistance, requesting
blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In southern
Afghanistan 13 suspected Taliban fighters were killed in fighting
with US and Afghan forces in Kandahar province. More than 40
suspected militants were arrested.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In France fire
ripped through a high-rise apartment building south of Paris,
killing 16 people, two of them children. 4 people were detained in
connection with the suspected arson attack. 3 teenage girls
confessed to starting the fire.
(AP, 9/4/05)(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Iraq US troops
killed 7 insurgents in Tal Afar, including six who fired at the
Americans from a mosque.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, The oil-rich
Persian Gulf state of Kuwait said it will donate $500 million in aid
to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Nepal police
fired tear gas and used bamboo batons to stop pro-democracy
demonstrators from marching into the capital's center, arresting
former PM Girija Prasad Koirala (80) and dozens of other protesters.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Pakistan's
opposition called for a country-wide strike to press their demand
for the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Russian President
Vladimir Putin sacked navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov. The
military faced criticism over its handling of a mini-submarine
accident last month.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said
it had signed a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
(www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=2640)
2005 Sep 4, In eastern Saudi
Arabia police fought running gun battles with al-Qaida militants in
Dammam in clashes that killed two extremists and a police officer.
The militants aimed to attack oil facilities.
(AP, 9/4/05)(WSJ, 2/25/06, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, In Turkey a group
of nationalist Turks attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish
demonstrators with stones, following violent clashes between Kurdish
demonstrators and police in Istanbul.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, US Health and Human
Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In New Orleans
police killed at least 4 people, who allegedly shot at contractors.
The official Louisiana state death toll due to Hurricane Katrina
stood at 59 but the number was expected to rise to thousands. In
2008 federal officials opened an investigations into shootings on
the Danziger Bridge where 2 people were killed and 4 wounded. In
2010 former Lt. Michael Lohman pleaded guilty to conspiring to
obstruct justice. He and others filed false reports to make the
shootings on the Danziger Bridge seem justifiable. On April 16,
2010, officer Robert Barrios was charged with conspiring to obstruct
justice in relation to the bridge shootings.
(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/08, p.A5)(SFC,
2/25/10, p.A4)(SFC, 4/17/10, p.A4)
2005 Sep 4, European Union and
NATO said the US has asked for emergency assistance, requesting
blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In southern
Afghanistan 13 suspected Taliban fighters were killed in fighting
with US and Afghan forces in Kandahar province. More than 40
suspected militants were arrested.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In France fire
ripped through a high-rise apartment building south of Paris,
killing 16 people, two of them children. 4 people were detained in
connection with the suspected arson attack. 3 teenage girls
confessed to starting the fire.
(AP, 9/4/05)(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Iraq US troops
killed 7 insurgents in Tal Afar, including six who fired at the
Americans from a mosque.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, The oil-rich
Persian Gulf state of Kuwait said it will donate $500 million in aid
to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Nepal police
fired tear gas and used bamboo batons to stop pro-democracy
demonstrators from marching into the capital's center, arresting
former PM Girija Prasad Koirala (80) and dozens of other protesters.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Pakistan's
opposition called for a country-wide strike to press their demand
for the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Russian President
Vladimir Putin sacked navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov. The
military faced criticism over its handling of a mini-submarine
accident last month.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said
it had signed a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
(www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=2640)
2005 Sep 4, In eastern Saudi
Arabia police fought running gun battles with al-Qaida militants in
Dammam in clashes that killed two extremists and a police officer.
The militants aimed to attack oil facilities.
(AP, 9/4/05)(WSJ, 2/25/06, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, In Turkey a group
of nationalist Turks attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish
demonstrators with stones, following violent clashes between Kurdish
demonstrators and police in Istanbul.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2006 Sep 4, Tropical storm
Ernesto soaked the East Coast of the US claiming 6 lives and left
19,000 customers in the new York area without power.
(WSJ, 9/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 4, In south-central
Montana a wildfire had spread across 180,000 acres, over 280 sq.
miles, since it was sparked by lightning on Aug 22. It was only 20%
contained.
(SFC, 9/5/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 4, In Newry, Maine, 4
people were found killed at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast. The
victims were shot and then dismembered. Christian Nielsen (31), a
resident at the inn for 2-months, was arrested. The dead included
owner Julie Bullard (65), her daughter Selby (30), her friend Cindy
Beatson (43), and Arkansas resident James Whitehurst.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 4, In Berkeley, Ca.,
Nicholas Beaudreaux shot and killed Wayne Drummond in front of
Blake’s Restaurant. In 2009 Lamar Crowder (21) pleaded no contests
to voluntary manslaughter and testified against Beaudreaux (23), who
was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting.
(SFC, 7/9/09, p.D2)
2006 Sep 4, In southern
Afghanistan 2 US warplanes accidentally strafed their own forces,
killing one Canadian soldier and seriously wounding five others. A
British soldier attached to NATO was also killed in a Kabul suicide
bombing, which left another four Afghans dead. 16 suspected Taliban
militants and five Afghan police died in separate Afghan violence.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Steve Irwin (44),
world-famous Australian "crocodile hunter" and television
environmentalist, was killed by a stingray blow to the chest while
filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. His "Crocodile
Hunter" show, in which the adventurer appeared in his trademark
khaki shorts and shirt, was first broadcast in 1992 and has been
shown around the world on the Discovery cable network ever since.
(AFP, 9/4/06)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.82)
2006 Sep 4, Global press titan
Rupert Murdoch launched a new free title: thelondonpaper, a 48-page
color paper, dominated by gossip and real-life stories, in the city
centre. The first free paper in London was launched seven years ago,
in 1999. Metro, a daily morning paper published by Associated
Newspapers, has a circulation of around a million copies in the
capital and 13 other big towns.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In CongoDRC a boat
overloaded with passengers and freight sank in choppy waters on Lake
Kivu, killing at least 35 people.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Cyprus 3 British
holidaymakers were charged with willful manslaughter over the death
of a Cypriot teenager in a hit-and-run accident in the coastal
resort of Protaras last month. A rented Opel "repeatedly rammed" the
moped in what police described as a revenge attack following a fight
outside a Protaras disco in which a friend of the accused was beaten
up.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Egypt a
passenger train collided with a cargo train north of Cairo, killing
5 people and injuring 30 others.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In France the
Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet, took off with a full
load of passengers for the first time. Carrying 474 Airbus
employees, the 308-ton jet left from Toulouse, southern France, on
the first of four test flights.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Iraq a popular
Iraqi soccer star was kidnapped. 33 bullet-riddled bodies were found
in Baghdad and 2 more in Kut. At least two people also were killed
and six were wounded in and around Baqouba. Two suicide bombers
slammed into a checkpoint on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing an
Iraqi soldier and wounding eight. Gunmen in Ramadi killed Maj. Gen.
Mohammad Thumeil, who had served in former Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein's military. An American soldier was killed by a roadside
bomb north of Baghdad, while a 2nd soldier died of non-combat
related injuries. 2 US Marines and one sailor were killed in
fighting Anbar province.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, Nabeel Ahmed Issa
al-Jaourah opened fire on tourists near a popular Roman ruins site
in Jordan's capital, killing Christopher Stokes, a British man, and
wounding five other foreigners and a local police officer. Police
overpowered and arrested the attacker at the scene. Al-Jaourah was
sentenced to death in December.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/21/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Lebanon US civil
rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson met with Hezbollah officials and
called on them to show proof that two captured Israeli soldiers are
still alive. A UN spokesman said Secretary-General Kofi Annan has
agreed to requests by Hezbollah and Israel that he mediate in
negotiations over the release of two abducted Israeli soldiers.
Qatar announced that it would contribute 200 to 300 troops to the UN
peacekeeping force in Lebanon, making the Persian Gulf state the
first Arab country to commit soldiers to the peace effort in
Lebanon.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Philippine marines
clashed with nearly 200 al-Qaida-linked rebels on Jolo Island. 6
government troops were killed and 19 wounded in the monthlong
US-backed offensive. In Dec the military said Khaddafy Janjalani,
head of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf, was killed in the fighting
and that his remains had been found. DNA evidence confirmed his
death.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/27/06)(AP, 1/20/07)
2006 Sep 4, Somalia's weak
government and an Islamic militia that controls much of the south
signed an agreement to eventually form a unified national army.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sri Lanka President
Mahinda Rajapakse said security forces had captured Sampur, a key
town used by Tamil Tigers to target artillery at a major naval port.
Rajapakse urged the rebels to return to peace talks.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sudan said it would
allow African troops to remain in Darfur only under African Union
control and accused Washington of attempting "regime change" in
Khartoum by trying to bring in a UN force.
(Reuters, 9/4/06)
2007 Sep 4, US President George
W. Bush arrived in Sydney for a regional summit with the city locked
down in the biggest security operation in Australian history.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Mattel Inc.'s
reputation took another hit after the world's largest toy maker
announced a third major recall of Chinese-made toys in little more
than a month because of excessive amounts of lead paint.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Florida Broward
County Sheriff Ken Jenne resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to
federal tax evasion and mail fraud charges.
(SFC, 9/5/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 4, New York city’s
first Arab-language school opened.
(Econ, 9/8/07, p.36)
2007 Sep 4, 5-nation war games
began in the Bay of Bengal. Indian and US aircraft carriers launched
fighter jets into the air as American submarines cruised below
Japanese, Australian and Singaporean warships.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 4, Afghan security
forces in overnight fighting said they have killed Mullah Mateen, a
Taliban commander alleged to be behind the July kidnappings of 23
South Korean church workers. The Taliban denied the dead man was one
of their militants. Up to 27 other insurgents were also slain.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said 7 insurgents were killed
in the clash, all of them ordinary fighters. He said the Taliban had
no commander called Mullah Mateen, and said he did not know who the
government was referring to. Afghan and coalition soldiers in Shah
Wali Kot district, in southern Kandahar province, came under attack
while on patrol. They fought back before calling in air support and
over a dozen insurgents were killed in the engagement. About 18
miles away, insurgents sheltering in a traditional low-walled Afghan
compound attacked another joint patrol. Airstrikes later pounded the
position, killing six insurgents.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Australia 2
Indonesians were jailed over a people-smuggling operation to bring
83 Sri Lankans into Australia. The two pleaded guilty to smuggling
83 Sri Lankans into Australian waters in February near Christmas
Island in the Indian Ocean.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, A skirmish near the
disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh killed two Azerbaijani
soldiers and three Armenian troops.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, A Eurostar train
shattered the record for the quickest rail journey between Paris and
London, using a new high-speed track that shaved some 30 minutes off
the previous fastest time. The 306 mile (492 kilometer) journey from
the Gare du Nord in Paris to Saint Pancras took just two hours,
three minutes and 39 seconds from station to station.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Most of London's
sprawling transport network shut down after maintenance workers
walked off the job, arousing commuter anger and drawing warnings the
strike will inconvenience millions of Britons. Subway maintenance
workers agreed to cut short the strike.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Jane Tomlinson
(43), terminal cancer sufferer, died in London following a 7-year
battle against the disease. Tomlinson had raised thousands of pounds
after being diagnosed with terminal breast cancer by taking on a
series of grueling physical challenges.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Canada’s PM Stephen
Harper suspended Parliament and reconvened a new session on October
16, setting up a vote of confidence in his minority Conservative
government that could trigger an election.
(Reuters, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, An official said
China's environmental watchdog has closed down 400 factories since
it started a national campaign in July to tackle water pollution.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Rangers and 300
villagers abandoned a gorilla reserve in eastern Congo as government
soldiers battled troops loyal to a renegade general in sections of
Virunga park. The UN said ten thousand Congolese refugees have fled
to neighboring Uganda following clashes between the Congolese army
and renegade troops in its eastern provinces.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/4/07)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.52)
2007 Sep 4, Denmark's
intelligence service arrested eight Islamic militants linked to
leading al-Qaida figures, and said the suspects were plotting an
attack involving explosives.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, It was reported
that Ethiopian authorities plan to kill tens of thousands of stray
dogs in the capital using strychnine-laced meat, saying they want to
eradicate rabies before next week's celebration of the Coptic
millennium.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Germany 3
suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group
nursing "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on
suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on US
facilities in Germany. In 2008 Fritz Martin Gelowicz (29), Daniel
Martin Schneider (22) and Adem Yilmaz (29) were charged with
membership in a terrorist organization.
(AP, 9/5/07)(SFC, 9/3/08, p.A8)
2007 Sep 4, Former Iranian
President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked to head a key clerical body
empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader,
state media reported, in a vote seen as a setback for hard-liners in
Iran's ruling establishment.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, An Iraqi appeals
court upheld death sentences imposed against "Chemical Ali" al-Majid
and two other Saddam Hussein lieutenants convicted of crimes against
humanity for their roles in a massacre of Kurds. 3 separate attacks
in Baghdad killed four US soldiers and at least 11 civilians.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, Hurricane Felix
roared ashore as a fearsome Category 5 storm, the first time in
recorded history that two top-scale storms have made landfall in the
same season. The storm hit near the swampy Nicaragua-Honduras
border, home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians dependent on
canoes to make their way to safety. Some 332 people left dead or
missing.
(AP, 9/4/07)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.45)
2007 Sep 4, Nigeria’s national
news agency said Nigeria will spend 950 million naira (7.3 million
dollars/ 5.3 million euros) to resettle nationals living in the
disputed Bakassi Peninsula ceded to Cameroon last year.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, A senior US
diplomat said North Korea remains on a list of states that sponsor
terrorism, dismissing North Korean claims that Washington decided to
remove the designation.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Pakistan suicide
bombers attacked a bus filled with government workers and a
commercial area near Islamabad, killing at least 25 people and
deepening the sense of crisis in a country beset with political
uncertainty and Islamic militants.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Russia’s
Voronezh region an explosion killed three people at a sugar refinery
owned by Prodimex Group, one of the country's largest producers.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Alain Robert
climbed to the top of Moscow’s 795-feet-high West Federation Tower,
in less than a half-hour using a ladder.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2008 Sep 4, The musical “Fela!”
premiered off-Broadway at 37 Arts Theatre B in New York City. It was
based on the work of Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo-Fela
(1938-1997). In 2010 the show won 3 Tony awards.
(SFC, 8/3/11,
p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela!)
2008 Sep 4, In St. Paul, Minn.,
John McCain claimed the GOP presidential nomination portraying
himself as a maverick warrior and agent of change.
(AP, 9/5/08)(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 4, Jack Abramoff (49),
once powerful DC lobbyist, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for
his part in a political corruption scandal. He had already spent 2
years in prison for a fraudulent casino boat deal in Florida. On Sep
10 a federal judge shaved 2 years from his Florida sentence
guaranteeing the Abramoff will serve no more that 4 additional
years. Abramoff was released from jail in June 2010.
(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A4)(SFC, 9/11/08, p.A7)(SFC,
6/23/10, p.A6)
2008 Sep 4, Detroit Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick (38) pleaded guilty to a pair of felony obstruction
charges in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after
months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's
11th-largest city. Kilpatrick’s sentence included 4 months behind
bars, a $1 million fine and forfeiture of his license to practice
law.
(AP, 9/4/08)(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A4)
2008 Sep 4, A US coast Guard
helicopter went down off Oahu, Ha., killing 4 crew members.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 4, Albanian artist
Saimir Strati in Tirana glued 229,764 corks of various shapes and
colors over a plastic banner measuring 12.94 meters by 7.1 meters to
make the art piece "Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar
while dancing with the sea and the sun". He worked 14 hours a day
for 28 days to complete his project.
(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Ethiopia unveiled
its famed Axum Obelisk after more than three years of work to
re-erect the 150-ton stela plundered by fascist Italy 70 years ago
and returned only in 2005.
(AFP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Tropical Storm
Hanna roared along the edge of the Bahamas ahead of a possible
hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 137 dead in
Haiti.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, In northeast China
24 people were killed and six injured in a coal mine gas explosion,
that left 3 miners trapped.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, In Georgia US Vice
President Dick Cheney condemned Russia for what he called an
"illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to redraw this US ally's borders
by force.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, German ministers
agreed to update data protection laws for the digital age in the
wake of scandals showing how easily personal details can be bought
on the Internet.
(AFP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Some 20 Greek
anarchists stormed a supermarket in Thesaaloniki and handed out food
for free in the latest of a wave of raids provoked by soaring
consumer prices.
(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, The US military
arrested an Iraqi cameraman and three of his family members during a
raid on their home in Baghdad. Omar Husham (28) was arrested in the
predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Pakistan’s
Parliament passed resolutions condemning an American-led attack in
Pakistani territory after the government summoned the US ambassador
to protest the unusually bold raid that officials say killed at
least 15 people. Four Islamist militants were killed and five
wounded in a missile attack by a suspected US drone in the village
of Char Khel in North Waziristan near Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/08)(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Middle East envoy
Tony Blair toured a Palestinian aluminum factory in Beit Iba and was
told it runs at one-third capacity because of Israeli import
restrictions. He promised he'll take it up with Israeli authorities.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 4, In Moscow officials
said BP PLC and its billionaire Russian partners in the joint
venture TNK-BP have agreed on a deal that forces out its embattled
CEO and signals an end to a bitter struggle for control of the
Russian-British company.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Russian troops
killed 5 suspected Muslim rebels in Dagestan.
(WSJ, 9/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 4, Spanish police
arrested Vallejo-Guarin (47), a suspected Colombian drug trafficker,
listed among the most wanted by the US Drug Enforcement
Administration.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 4, Syrian President
Bashar Assad announced that his country has handed over proposals
for peace with Israel to Turkish mediators and would wait for
Israel's response before holding any face-to-face negotiations.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Teachers in
Zimbabwe's public schools went on strike to press for higher pay,
despite a pay rise for civil servants announced by the government.
(AFP, 9/7/08)
2009 Sep 4, A US federal
appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft
can be sued by people who claim they were wrongfully detained as
material witnesses after 9/11, and called the government practice
"repugnant to the Constitution." The ruling allows Abdullah al-Kidd,
a US citizen, to proceed with a lawsuit that claims his
constitutional rights were violated when he was detained in 2003 as
a material witness in a federal terrorism case.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 4, US regulators
closed the First Bank of Kansas in Missouri, pushing to 85 the
number of US banks that have failed this year.
(SFC, 9/5/09, p.D1)
2009 Sep 4, The US Embassy in
Afghanistan says it has fired eight security guards following
allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living
quarters. Two other guards resigned and also left. All of them
appeared in photographs that depicted guards and supervisors in
various stages of nudity at parties flowing with alcohol. The
management team of the private contractor that provided the guards
was also to being replaced immediately.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In northern
Afghanistan a US jet blasted two fuel tankers hijacked by the
Taliban in Kunduz province, setting off a huge fireball that killed
dozens of civilians who had rushed to the scene to collect fuel. As
many as 142 civilians died in the German-ordered NATO airstrike. A
French soldier was killed and nine others injured when their
vehicles were hit by a bomb near Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. A
Polish soldier was killed in the east. A French marine was killed in
an IED attack.
(AP, 9/4/09)(AFP, 9/5/09)(AP, 9/17/09)(AP,
10/8/09)(Econ, 1/2/10, p.37)
2009 Sep 4, Arab League chief
Amr Moussa, speaking in Italy, said any Israeli offer for a
settlement freeze that doesn't include east Jerusalem is
unacceptable and "will suspend the peace process." Aides of Israel’s
PM said Benjamin Netanyahu will approve hundreds of new housing
units in West Bank settlements before slowing settlement
construction, in an apparent snub of Washington's public demand for
a total settlement freeze.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, The Belgian
government said it has accepted a US request to take in one detainee
from U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In China security
forces in the far-west city of Urumqi used tear gas to break up
fresh protests, as thousands of Han Chinese demanded better security
after a reported spate of attacks with syringes.
(Reuters, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In Ingushetia a
roadside bomb blast ripped through a police car, killing three
officers and wounding two others. Ingush authorities shot dead 3
insurgents. One man, identified as Rustam Dzortov, was a suspected
ringleader of rebel operations in Ingushetia and had organized the
suicide bombing of Ingush President Yunus Bek Yevkurov's motorcade
earlier this year. The two others may have been planning a terrorist
act in Moscow. In neighboring Chechnya two suspected insurgents were
killed in a similar incident. The suspected insurgents were found to
have explosives strapped to them, hand grenades, and train tickets
to Moscow.
(AP, 9/4/09)(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 4, Mexican federal
police detained Armando Medina (49), a small-town mayor of Mugica,
Michoacan state, on suspicion of aiding drug traffickers. This is
the same state where eight other city chiefs have been arrested
since May on similar charges. In the northern state of Durango, two
gunmen were killed in a shootout with federal police in the city of
Gomez Palacio. The federal government auctioned off property seized
from drug traffickers, smugglers, money launderers and tax evaders,
including a DC-9 jet that was used to transport 5.5 metric tons of
cocaine in 2006. The agency did not disclose the identity of winning
bidders. Mexican soldiers, acting on a tip about armed men, detained
Jose Rodolfo Escajeda in Nuevo Casas Grandes, in northern Chihuahua
state. The suspected drug gang leader was linked to a 2006 border
incursion by armed traffickers into Texas and the killing of an
anti-crime activist in July. Five gunmen and a bystander were killed
in a shootout at a lake that began when assailants opened fire on an
army patrol on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey. A
Ciudad Juarez police officer was shot to death outside his home..
(AP, 9/5/09)(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Sep 4, Pakistan said
paramilitary troops have killed five suspected militants and
arrested 24 in an ongoing operation in the northwestern Khyber
tribal region.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In southern Sudan
heavily armed fighters attacked an ethnic Dinka settlement in
Bony-Thiang, north of the state capital Malakal, killing 20 people.
Angry Dinka groups then launched a retaliatory raid on the nearby
Shilluk village of Bon, killing five people including a woman and
two children.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 4, In southern
Thailand bomb believed to have been planted by Islamic insurgents
exploded outside a restaurant where security forces were eating
breakfast, killing a policeman and wounding 12 other people.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, Thousands of
opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president
across Latin America, accusing him of everything from
authoritarianism to international meddling. The protests,
coordinated through Twitter and Facebook, drew more than 5,000
people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of Venezuela
and Honduras. Smaller demonstrations were held in other Latin
American capitals, as well as New York and Madrid.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2010 Sep 4, Hurricane Earl
brushed past the Northeast US and dumped heavy, wind-driven rain on
Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages, but caused little damage. It
continued north and made landfall near Western Head, Nova Scotia.
Earl lost its tropical storm status over Canada, but the storm still
left one person dead and nearly one million people without power in
the northeastern.
(AP, 9/4/10)(AFP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 4, Paul Conrad
((b.1924), LA Times political cartoonist, died. His 50 year career
included 3 Pulitzer Prizes.
(SSFC, 9/5/10, p.C9)
2010 Sep 4, President Hamid
Karzai said an Afghan peace council to pursue talks with the Taliban
has been set up, the latest step in a gradual move toward
reconciliation with the Islamist insurgents.
(Reuters, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, Bahrain state media
released the photographs of 23 Shiites — ranging from opposition
figures to professors and taxi drivers — accused of conspiring to
overthrow the government. They include opposition leader Abdul-Jalil
al-Singace, whose arrest on Aug. 13 marked the first salvo by
officials against members of a Shiite majority, 60-70% of the
population being cast as coup plotters who could open the door to
Iranian influence.
(AP, 9/5/10)(Econ, 10/16/10, p.56)
2010 Sep 4, British tax
collectors said a new computer system has revealed that almost 6
million people have paid the wrong amount of income tax, and 1.4
million will be told to repay an average of 1,500 pounds ($2,300)
each.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In southern Congo
at least 200 people were feared dead after a boat engine caught fire
and led the vessel to overturn on the Kasai River. Survivors who
swam to safety said nearby fishermen refused to help drowning
passengers in the dark of night, instead looting the goods aboard
the burning vessel and beating people with oars. Earlier the same
day, a boat on a river in northwest Equateur Province hit a rock and
capsized. More than 70 people were believed dead among 100 estimated
passengers.
(AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 4, In France Roma
migrants whose camp was bulldozed led a protest in Paris against the
French government's security crackdown, with similar demonstrations
taking place across the country and abroad.
(AFP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In Guatemala
torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides killed
at least 48 people, most of them in separate disasters along the
same highway.
(AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 4, Thousands of
Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the US Embassy in Jakarta to
denounce an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the
9/11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran. The Dove
World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has said it will burn
the Islamic holy book on Sep 11, the ninth anniversary of the NYC
terror attacks.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, Iran’s hardline
Kayhan newspaper reported that security forces have killed four
members of an outlawed Kurdish group in the western province of
Kordestan. Nasrin Sotoudeh (45) was summoned by official notice to
Tehran's Evin Prison, and did return home. She had represented
opposition activists and political figures. State media reported in
December that she was accused of spreading propaganda against the
ruling system. On Jan 10, 2011, her husband said has been convicted
of security offenses and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
(AFP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/8/10)(AP, 1/10/11)
2010 Sep 4, In New Zealand
chimneys and walls crumbled to the ground, roads cracked in half and
residents were knocked off their feet as a powerful magnitude-7.1
earthquake rocked the South Island. No one was killed.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In New Zealand's
Southern Alps a light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames
near a popular tourist spot, killing nine people including four
foreign tourists.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, Two Palestinians
were killed and another three were wounded in Israeli air strikes
carried out after a rocket attack from Gaza. This was the first
exchange of fire since the relaunch of Middle East peace talks last
week. Two raids targeted smuggling tunnels along the border with
Egypt, causing a tunnel to collapse on the two men, and a third
struck a former base used by the militant Hamas movement.
(AFP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 4, Philippine police
commandos killed an Abu Sayyaf commander linked to last year's
kidnapping of Red Cross workers and gunned down two other militants
in a clash in the south. Gafur Jumdail and two of his men were
killed near Maimbung town on Jolo island after clashing with
commandos tracking a Malaysian militant and allied Filipino
fighters.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 4, In Sudan a Darfur
rebel group said 10 people were killed in clashes with Sudanese
police in two camps for displaced people in West Darfur state.
U.N.-African Union peacekeepers said 9 people were killed in the
clashes.
(AFP, 9/4/10)(AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/8/10)
2010 Sep 4, Yemeni police
arrested 14 suspected members of al-Qaida in a raid on one of the
group's alleged hideouts in Abyan province in the town of Lawder.
Gunmen from a separatist movement attacked an army post in Rabwa
near the town of Habalein and killed four soldiers. Two of the
attackers died as well.
(AP, 9/5/10)
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