Today in History - September 5
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1187 Sep 5,
Louis VIII, [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26), was born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1235 Sep 5, Henry I, duke of
Brabant, died. Brabant was a duchy later divided between Netherlands
and Belgium.
(WUD, 1994 p.177)(MC, 9/5/01)
1519 Sep 5, In the 2nd Battle
of Tehuacingo, Mexico, Hernan Cortes faced the Tlascala Aztecs.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1548 Sep 5, Catharine Parr
(36), queen of England and last wife of Henry VIII, died.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1550 Sep 5, William Cecil
appointed himself English minister of foreign affairs.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1566 Sep 5, Suleiman I, Great
Law Giver and sultan of Turkey (1520-66), died at 71. Suleyman the
Magnificent died and his great empire began a gradual decline under
his slothful son, Selim II. Suleyman during his reign commissioned
the architect Sinan to build the Suleymanye, perhaps the finest
mosque ever constructed.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.21)(WSJ, 4/29/99, p.A24)(MC,
9/5/01)
1568 Sep 5, Tommasso
Campanella, Italian philosopher and poet, who wrote “City of the
Sun,” was born.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1569 Sep 5, Pieter Breughel,
South Netherlands (Flemish) painter, died at about 44.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1622 Sep 5, In France Richelieu
became Cardinal.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1634 Sep 5, Battle at
Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III & Catholic Spain beat Sweden
& German protestants.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1638 Sep 5, Louis XIV, "The Sun
King" (1643-1715) of France, was born. He built the palace at
Versailles. [see Sep 16]
(HN, 9/5/98)
1664 Sep 5, After days of
negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrendered to
the British, who would rename it New York. The citizens of New
Amsterdam petitioned Peter Stuyvesant to surrender to the English.
(HN, 9/5/98)(ON, 4/00, p.3)
1666 Sep 5, The great fire of
London, begun on Sep 2, was extinguished. Old St. Paul’s was among
the 87 churches burned down.
(HN, 9/5/98)(www.stpauls.co.uk)
1698 Sep. 5, Russia's Peter the
Great imposed a tax on beards.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1735 Sep 5, Johann Christian
Bach (d.1782), composer, son of JS Bach, was born. He is known as
the London Bach. He traveled to Italy, became a Catholic, and went
to England where he was mentor to the young Mozart. He also
represented the Style Gallant.
(LGC-HCS, p.31)(MC, 9/5/01)
1750 Sep 5, A decree issued in
Paderborn Prussia allowed for annual search of all Jewish homes for
stolen or "doubtful" goods.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1774 Sep 5, The first
Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in a secret session
in Carpenter's Hall with representatives from every colony except
Georgia. Tensions had been tearing at relations between the
colonists and the government of King George III. The British taking
singular exception to the 1773 shipboard tea party held in Boston
harbor. The dispute convinced Britain to pass the "Intolerable
Acts"- 4 of which were to punish Mass. for the Boston Tea Party.
Peyton Randolph of Williamsburg, Va., chaired the 1st Continental
Congress. Its first official act was a call to prayer.
(AP, 9/5/97)(HNQ, 6/25/00)(AH, 10/04, p.14)(AH,
4/07, p.31)
1778 Sep 5, Gideon Olmstead and
3 fellow Americans took over the British sloop Active and sailed it
toward the New Jersey coast, where it was intercepted by the
American brig Convention, owned by the state of Pennsylvania. A
state court ruled the sloop a prize of the state. An appeals
committee overturned the Philadelphia court. Olmstead spent the next
30 years fighting for his claim and won in 1808. [see Mar 6, 1779]
(ON, 12/01, p.9)
1781 Sep 5, The British fleet
arrived off the Virginia Capes and found 26 French warships in three
straggling lines. Rear Adm. Thomas Graves waited for the French to
form their battle lines and then fought for 5 days. Outgunned and
unnerved he withdrew to New York. The French had some 37 ships and
29,000 soldiers and sailors at Yorktown while Washington had some
11,000 men engaged. French warships defeated British fleet, trapping
Cornwallis in Yorktown.
(NG, 6/1988, p.763)(SFEC,11/23/97, Par p.19)(MC,
9/5/01)
1792 Sep 5, Maximilien
Robespierre was elected to the National Convention in France.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1791 Sep 5, Giacomo Meyerbeer,
Vogelsdorf Germany, opera composer (Les Huguenots, Le Prophete), was
born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1793 Sep 5, The Reign of Terror
began during the French Revolution as the National Convention
instituted harsh measures to repress counter-revolutionary
activities. One delegate, claiming that the middle class Girondist
(moderates) leaders be sentenced to death cried, "It is time for
equality to wield its scythe over all the heads. Very well,
Legislator, place Terror on the agenda!" The delegates agreed to
arrest all suspects and dissenters, try them swiftly in the kangaroo
courts known as the Revolutionary Tribunals, and sentence them
uniformly to death.
(MC, 9/5/01)(AP, 9/4/07)
1800 Sep 5, Malta surrendered
to British after they blockaded French troops.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1803 Sep 5, Francois Devienne,
composer, died at 44.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1804 Sep 5, In a daring night
raid, American sailors under Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, boarded the
captured USS Philadelphia and burned the ship to keep it out of the
hands of the Barbary pirates who captured her.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1816 Sep 5, Louis XVIII of
France dissolved the chamber of deputies, which had been challenging
his authority.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1836 Sep. 5, Sam Houston was
elected president of the Republic of Texas.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1842 Sep 5, Jesse James,
legendary outlaw of the American West, was born. [see 1847]
(HN, 9/5/00)
1844 Sep 5, Iron ore was
discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Range.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1847 Sep 5,
Jesse Woodson James (Jesse James, d.1882) was born in Kearney, Mo,
the son of a clergyman. At seventeen, James left his native Missouri
to fight as a Confederate guerrilla in the Civil War. After the war,
he returned to his home state to establish one of history’s most
notorious outlaw gangs. With his younger brother Frank and several
other ex-Confederates, including Cole Younger and his brothers,
James robbed his way across the Western frontier targeting banks,
trains, stagecoaches, and stores from Iowa to Texas. Eluding even
the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the gang escaped with
thousands of dollars.
(WUD, 1994 p.762)(USLC, 9/5/99)(MesWP)
1859 Sep 5, Harriot E. Wilson's
“Our Nig,” was published, the first U.S. novel by an African
American woman.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1862 Sep 5, Gen. Lee crossed
Potomac & entered Maryland. [see Sep 4]
(MC, 9/5/01)
1864 Sep 5, British, French
& Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1867 Sep 5, The first shipment
of cattle left Abilene, Kansas, on a Union Pacific train headed to
Chicago.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1870 Sep 5, Author Victor Hugo
returned to Paris from the Isle of Guernsey where he had lived in
exile for almost 20 years.
(HN, 9/5/00)
1877 Sep 5, The great Sioux
warrior Crazy Horse, a cousin of Kicking Bear, was fatally bayoneted
at age 36 by a soldier at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. In 1975 Stephen
Ambrose authored "Crazy Horse and Custer." In 2002 Ambrose was
accused of plagiarizing from the 1955 book "Custer" by Jay Monaghan
(d.1980). In 1999 Larry McMurtry authored the biography "Crazy
Horse" for the Penguin Lives series. In 2004 Joseph M. Marshall III
authored “The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History.” In 2006
Kingsley M. Bray authored “Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life.”
(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.14)(HN, 12/24/99)(SFC,
1/9/02, p.A2)(SSFC, 12/5/04, p.E5)(AH, 10/07, p.62)
1878 Sep 5, Bat Masterson,
Wyatt Earp, Bill Tilghman and Clay Allison, four of the West's most
famous gunmen, met in Dodge City, Kansas.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1881 Sep 5, A fire in the thumb
of Michigan killed 169 people and burned a million acres.
(SFC, 10/30/03, p.A15)
1882 Sep 5, The first Labor Day
observance--a picnic and parade--was held in New York City. Parades
like the one in Buffalo, New York, around 1900, soon became an
important part of Labor Day festivities. Matthew Maguire, a
machinist and secretary of the New York City Central Labor Union,
probably first suggested the celebration in 1882 to recognize the
contributions of workers to America. Local and regional Labor Day
observances spread across the nation until, on June 28, 1894, the
U.S. Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September a
legal holiday.
(AP, 9/5/97)(HNPD, 9/5/98)
1885 Sep 5, The 1st gasoline
pump was delivered to a gasoline dealer in Ft. Wayne, Ind.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1887 Sep 5, A gas lamp at
Theater Royal in Exeter started a fire killing about 200.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1892 Sep 5, Joseph Szigeti,
Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933), was born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1897 Sep 5, Arthur C. Nielson,
founder of the Nielson Ratings, was born.
(HN, 9/5/00)
1905 Sep 5, Arthur Koestler
(d.1983), Hungarian novelist and essayist, was born. He wrote about
communism in “Darkness at Noon” (1941) and “The Ghost in the
Machine.”
(HN, 9/5/98)(SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.5)(WSJ, 8/26/06,
p.P8)
1905 Sep 5, The
Russian-Japanese War ended as representatives of the combating
empires, meeting in New Hampshire, signed the Treaty of Portsmouth.
Japan achieved virtually all of its original war aims.
(AP, 9/5/97)(HN, 9/5/98)
1910 Sep 5, Marie Curie
demonstrated the transformation of radium ore to metal at the
Academy of Sciences in France.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1912 Sep 5, John Cage (d.1992),
inventive composer, writer, philosopher, and artist, was born. [2nd
source says Sep 15] “The highest purpose is to have no purpose at
all.”
(HN, 9/5/98)(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)(AP, 6/20/00)
1914 Sep 5, The First Battle of
the Marne began during World War I. The German First Army was led by
Gen. Alexander von Kluck.
(AP, 9/5/97)(WSJ, 12/31/99, p.A10)
1921
Sep 5, Roy Gardner (1886-1940), train and mail robber, made his
escape from McNeil Island in Washington state during an inmate
baseball game. He was probably the first and only man to escape from
the Island, which led the US Government to build another "escape
proof" federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
(www.cybersleuths.com/billkelly/bkbonuschap1.htm)
1921 Sep 5, Actress Virginia
Rappe died in suite rooms (1219-1221) rented by film comedian Roscoe
"Fatty" Arbuckle at the St. Francis Hotel in SF. Arbuckle was
charged with her murder. In 1922 he was acquitted of a reduced
charge of manslaughter, but his career was over. In 2004 Jerry Stahl
authored the imaginary memoir “I, Fatty.” Evidence suggested that
Rappe had died due to a botched abortion.
(SFC, 8/4/04, p.E4)(AH, 2/05, p.46)
1929 Sep 5, Roger Babson
(1875-1967), investment advisor, gave a speech saying, "Sooner or
later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific." Later that day the
stock market declined by about 3%. This became known as the "Babson
Break". The Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression soon
followed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Babson)(Econ,
9/11/10, p.88)(www.babson.com/)
1933 Sep 5, In an uprising
known as the "Revolt of the Sergeants," Fulgencio Batista took over
control of Cuba. Pres. Cespedes and his cabinet abandoned the
Presidential palace the next day.
(www.historyofcuba.com/history/time/timetbl3.htm)
1938 Sep 5, Achille Gaggia,
Italian barman, applied for a patent for an espresso maker that
forced boiling water through coffee at high pressure. The Gaggia
company was founded in 1947 and formally formed in 1948.
(Econ, 6/11/11, SR
p.6)(www.gaggia.com/storia_espresso.asp)
1939 Sep 5, The United States
under FDR proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1939 Sep 5, In Czestochowa,
Poland, approximately 150 Jews were shot dead by the Germans. The
day was remembered as “Bloody Monday.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cz%C4%99stochowa)
1940 Sep 5, Raquel Welch, film
actress (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles), was born in
Chicago, Ill.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1942 Sep 5, Eduardo Mata,
Mexico City Mexico, conductor (Improvisaciones), was born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1942 Sep 5, Werner Herzog,
director (Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck), was born.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1942 Sep 5, British and US
bombed Le Havre & Bremen.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1944 Sep 5, "Mad Tuesday"
65,000 Dutch Nazi collaborators fled to Germany.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1944 Sep 5, Germany launched
its first V-2 missile at Paris, France.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1945 Sep 5, Iva Toguri D'Aquino
(1916-2006), a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio
propagandist "Tokyo Rose," was arrested in Yokohama. In 1949 she was
tried in San Francisco and convicted for having spoken “into a
microphone concerning the loss of ships.” Toguri was sentenced to 10
years in prison but was released after six years for good behavior;
she was pardoned in 1977 by President Ford.
(AP, 9/5/99)(SFC, 9/28/06, p.A18)(SFC, 9/28/06,
p.A18)
1950 Sep 5, Cathy Guisewite,
cartoonist and creator of the “Cathy” cartoon strip, was born in
Dayton, Ohio. In 2010 Guisewite said her cartoon strip, begun in
1976, would end on Oct 3.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Guisewite)(SFC, 8/12/10, p.A12)
1953 Sep 5, The 1st privately
operated atomic reactor opened in Raleigh NC.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1953 Sep 5, US gave Persian
premier Zahedi $45 million aid.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1955 Sep 5, The 1st SigAlert, a
traffic alert system, was broadcast in Los Angeles. The system was
invented by Loyd C. Sigmon (d.2004).
(SSFC, 6/6/04, B5)
1957 Sep 5, Viking Press frist
published "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. Kerouac typed out the
manuscript in 20 days on a single roll of teletype paper. In 1997
his book of notes from the early 1950s: "Some of the Dharma" was
published.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, BR p.8)(SSFC, 1/30/05, p.A19)(AP,
9/5/07)
1957 Sep 5, Cuban dictator
Batista bombed the Cienfuegos uprising.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1958 Sep 5, The novel "Doctor
Zhivago" by Russian author Boris Pasternak was published in the
United States for the first time.
(AP, 9/5/98)
1958 Sep 5, Martin Luther King
was arrested in an Alabama protest for loitering and fined $14 for
refusing to obey police.
(HN, 9/5/98)
1958 Sep 5, The 1st color video
recording on magnetic tape was presented in Charlotte, NC.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1960 Sep 5, Cassius Clay
captured Olympic light heavyweight gold medal.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1960 Sep 5, Congo’s President
Kasavubu fired Premier Lumumba.
(http://tinyurl.com/2s9dyw)
1960 Sep 5, Senegal became
independent from France. Leopold Sedar Senghor (d.2001 at 95), poet
and politician, was elected president of Senegal, Africa.
(PC, 1992, p.973)(HN, 9/5/98)(SFC, 12/21/01,
p.A34)
1961 Sep 5, President Kennedy
signed a law against hijacking. It called for the death penalty for
convicted hijackers.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1972 Sep 5, Terror struck the
Munich Olympic games in West Germany as Arab guerrillas attacked the
Israeli delegation. Palestinian terrorists killed 2 athletes and
took 9 others and their coaches hostage. Eleven Israelis, five
guerrillas and a police officer were killed in a 20-hour siege. The
Palestinian commandos were linked to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich
Ramirez Sanchez. In 1984 George Jonas authored “Vengeance,” an
account of an Israeli hit squad ordered to track down those
responsible for the Munich attack. In 2000 the TV documentary "One
Day in September" depicted the events. In 2005 Aaron J. Klein
authored “Striking Back,” and account of Israel’s response to the
Munich attack. The 2005 the Stephen Spielberg film “Munich” was
based on the book by George Jonas.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)(WSJ, 9/8/00, p.W4)(WSJ,
12/21/05, p.D10)(WSJ, 1/14/06, p.A9)
1974 Sep 5, Charles Dean (23),
brother of 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean, was captured by
Pathet Lao. He was executed on or about December 14, 1974. In 2003
his remains were reported found along with Australian companion Neil
Sharman.
(SFC, 11/19/03,
p.A3)(www.crocuta.net/Dean/Charlie_Dean.htm)
1975 Sep 5, President Ford
escaped an attempt on his life by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a
disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, Calif. In 1997 Jess
Bravin wrote her biography: “Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette
Alice Fromme.”
(SFC, 6/18/97, p.E5)(AP, 9/5/97)
1975 Sep 5, Czech tennis ace
Martina Navratilova asked for political asylum in NYC.
(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/1998/usopen/news/1998/08/28/stats/thisday.html)
1977 Sep 5, The United States
launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft two weeks after launching its
twin, Voyager 2.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1977 Sep 5, West German
industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer was kidnapped in Cologne by
members of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Schleyer was later killed by his
captors. Schleyer was the president of the German Employers
Federation.
(AP, 9/5/97)(WSJ, 1/11/00, p.A1)
1978 Sep 5-17, US Pres. Carter,
Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt met at Camp David,
Md.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(TL, 1988, p.119)(SFC, 6/2/97,
p.D5)
1980 Sep 5, In Fresno, Ca.,
Billy Ray Hamilton and his girlfriend Connie Barbo killed Bryon
Schletewitz (27), Josephine Rocha (17) and Douglas White (18),
employees at Fran’s Market, on directions from Clarence Ray Allen.
Allen, incarcerated at Folsom Prison for murder, had ordered the
murder of Schletewitz for testifying against him during his 1997
trial for the murder of Mary Sue Kitts (17). Clarence Ray Allen (76)
was executed by lethal injection on January 17, 2006 at San Quentin
State Prison in California.
(SFC, 12/8/05, p.B3)(SFC, 1/13/06,
p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ray_Allen)
1980 Sep 5, The opera
“Satyagraha” by Philip Glass, commissioned by the city of Rotterdam,
was first performed by the Netherlands Opera.
(WSJ, 4/19/08,
p.W14)(www.philipglass.com/html/recordings/satyagraha.html)
1980 Sep 5, The St. Gotthard
tunnel in the Swiss Alps, the world's longest auto tunnel, opened.
(HFA, '96,
p.38)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Road_Tunnel)
1982 Sep 5, In San Francisco a
van crashed into a taxi carrying actress Janet Gaynor (75), her
husband Paul Gregory, actress Mary Martin and manager Ben Washer.
Washer was killed and the others were injured. Gaynor never fully
recovered and died in 1984.
(SSFC, 9/13/09, DB p.46)
1984 Sep 5, Robert S. Laurent
(1933-2004) received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) and was
kept alive for 8 days by the electric heart assist pump until a new
heart became available. Dr. Peer M. Portner (d.2009 at 69) of
Stanford Univ. pioneered the device.
(http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/02/09/daily110.html)(SFC,
2/25/09, p.B6)
1986 Sep 5, The Pakistan army
stormed a hijacked US B-747 in Karachi and 22 people were killed. In
2001 Zayd Hassan Abd Al-latif Masud Al Safarini, jailed in Pakistan
for 15 years, arrived in Alaska and was expected to face a 1991
indictment for the 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am jet. In 2003 Safarini
pleaded guilty and agreed to 3 life sentences plus 25 years. On Jan
3, 2008, Pakistani authorities freed and deported four Palestinians
convicted in the hijacking.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/17/03, p.A4)(AP,
9/5/06)(AP, 1/3/08)
1987 Sep 5, Some four-dozen
people were killed in an Israeli air raid on targets near the
southern Lebanese port town of Sidon.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1987 Sep 5, In his weekly radio
address, President Reagan urged American workers to shun
protectionist legislation and "meet the competition head-on."
(AP, 9/5/97)
1988 Sep 5, On the campaign
trail, Republican George Bush continued to link his opponent with
"the liberal left," while Democrat Michael Dukakis charged that
under a GOP administration, "the rich have become richer, the poor
have gotten poorer."
(AP, 9/5/98)
1989 Sep 5, In his first
nationally broadcast address from the White House, President Bush
outlined a plan to fight illicit drugs, which he called the
"quicksand of our entire society."
(AP, 9/5/99)
1990 Sep 5, Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein urged Arabs to rise up in a Holy War against the West
and former allies who had turned against him.
(AP, 9/5/00)
1990 Sep 5, In Moscow, Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq
Aziz.
(AP, 9/5/00)
1991 Sep 5, Jury selection
began in Miami in the drug and racketeering trial of former
Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega.
(AP, 9/5/01)
1991 Sep 5, In Moscow, Soviet
lawmakers approved the creation of an interim government to usher in
a new confederation.
(AP, 9/5/01)
1992 Sep 5, A strike that had
idled nearly 43,000 General Motors Corp. workers ended as members of
a United Auto Workers local in Lordstown, Ohio, approved a new
agreement.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1993 Sep 5, "Jelly's Last Jam"
closed at Virginia Theater NYC after 569 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4684)
1993 Sep 5, "Will Rogers
Follies" closed at Palace Theater NYC after 983 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=9383)
1993 Sep 5, Claude Renoir,
French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), died at 78.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0005841/)
1993 Sep 5, Seven Nigerian
soldiers were killed in a militia ambush in Somalia as they went to
the aid of other UN peacekeepers surrounded by a stone-throwing mob.
(AP, 9/5/98)
1994 Sep 5, A U.N.-sponsored
population conference opened in Cairo, Egypt, where Norwegian Prime
Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland lashed out at the Vatican and at
Muslim fundamentalists by defending abortion rights and sex
education. 179 nations signed a statement to ensure every woman’s
right to education and health care and to make choices about
childbearing. In 2004 world leaders of 85 nations endorsed the plan
but the US refused because the statement mentioned “sexual
rights.”
(AP, 9/5/99)(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A9)
1995 Sep 5, O.J. Simpson jurors
heard testimony that police detective Mark Fuhrman had uttered a
racist slur, and advocated the killing of blacks.
(AP, 9/5/00)
1995 Sep 5, First Lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton, addressing the UN-sponsored fourth World Conference
on Women in Beijing, declared it was "time to break the silence"
about the abuse of women.
(AP, 9/5/05)
1995 Sep 5, James "Pigmeat"
Jarrett, pianist, died at 95.
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1995/music.html)
1995 Sep 5, France under Pres.
Chirac resumed nuclear testing, after a three-year moratorium, in
the French South Pacific atoll of Mururoa. World-wide protests
failed to stop testing.
(WSJ, 9/8/95, p.A-8)(AP, 9/5/00)
1996 Sep 5, “Kinds of Minds” by
Daniel C. Dennet ($20) and “Full House: The Spread of Excellence
From Plato to Darwin” by Stephen Jay Gould ($25) were reviewed.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 5, Computer scientists
found the largest known prime number while testing a Cray T94
computer system. It has 378,632 digits and can be expressed as two
to the 1,257,787th power minus 1.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.A6)
1996 Sep 5, Astronomers using
the Hubble space telescope discovered a galaxy under construction.
They say 18 gigantic star clusters were packed within a space just 2
million light years across and apparently on the verge of forming a
brand new galaxy. Light from the event originated 11 billion years
ago.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A3)
1996 Sep 5, Hurricane Fran hit
at Cape Fear, North Carolina. It tore through the Carolinas with
winds at 115-mph.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A3)(AP, 9/5/97)
1996 Sep 5, Cambodia rushed
troops to aid the 1,000 or so Khmer Rouge dissidents near the
village of Chup Koki. About 5,500 Khmer Rouge rebels remained loyal
to Pol Pot.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 5, In France PM Alain
Juppe proposed a tax cut. It would reduce the top marginal rate to
54% next year from 56.8%, and to 47% in 2000.
(WSJ, 9/66/96, p.A11)
1996 Sep. 5, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin acknowledged he had serious health problems and would
undergo heart surgery.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1996 Sep 5, In Suriname Jules
Wijdenbosch, backed by former military strongman Desi Bouterse,
defeated Pres. Ronald Venetiaan in a close runoff.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A14)
1996 Sep 5, Turkey declared a
new security zone inside northern Iraq and air attacks were staged
on suspected Kurdish rebel bases.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A13)
1997 Sep 5, In Arizona Sec. of
State Jane Dee Hull assumed the role of governor, the 3rd current
female governor in the US after Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey
and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A5)
1997 Sep 5, The new Kansas City
Jazz Museum opened next to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
(WSJ, 11/19/97, p.A20)
1997 Sep 5, Leon Edel (b.1907),
American scholar and biographer, died. His work included a 5-volume
biography of Henry James (1843-1916), for which he received the 1963
Pulitzer Prize.
(WSJ, 6/17/08,
p.A21)(www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Edel-Jos.html)
1997 Sep 5, In Argentina a
group headed by Sociedad Macri SA took over the postal service with
an offer to pay the state about $102 million annually for 20 years.
(WSJ, 9/8/97, p.A15)
1997 Sep 5, In England funeral
services for Princess Diana were held in London. Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II broke the royal reticence over Princess Diana's death,
delivering a televised address in which she called her former
daughter-in-law "a remarkable person." The 1973 song “Candle in the
Wind,” an ode to Marilyn Monroe on the album “Goodbye Yellow Brick
Road” by Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin, was adopted for the
funeral.
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/24/97, p.E1)(AP,
9/5/07)
1997 Sep 5, Hungarian-born
conductor Sir George Solti (b.1912) died at age 84 in France. He was
made a Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1972 for his
contributions to British music.
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A3)(AP, 9/5/98)
1997 Sep 5, Athens, Greece, won
the competition to host the 2004 Summer Olympics.
(WSJ, 9/8/97, p.A16)
1997 Sep 5, In India Mother
Teresa (b.1910), the Calcutta nun who worked on behalf of the
destitute, died of heart failure in Calcutta. Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II broke the royal reticence over Princess Diana's death,
calling her "a remarkable person" in a televised address. In 1996 a
US Congress joint resolution declared her an honorary US citizen. In
2003 Albania declared 2004 to be "Mother Teresa Year" and set aside
Oct. 19 as a national holiday in her honor. "It is Christmas every
time you let God love others through you ... yes, it is Christmas
every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand."
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A1)(AP, 9/5/98)(AP, 9/12/03)(SFC,
9/3/10, p.A4)
1997 Sep 5, In Israel Prime
Minister Netanyahu announced that the Oslo peace process was being
frozen.
(SFC, 9/6/97, p.A3)
1997 Sep 5, In Lebanon at least
12 Israeli commandos were killed in a botched raid deep inside
Lebanese territory. Itamar Ilya, a commando, was killed with 11
other soldiers in Southern Lebanon.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A1)(SFC, 6/26/98,
p.A16)(http://tinyurl.com/64nx84f)
1998 Sep 5, The opera
“Turandot” opened in a Ming Dynasty palace in the Forbidden City.
The $15 million production was conducted by Zubin Mehta.
(WSJ, 9/16/98, p.A20)
1998 Sep 5, President Clinton
appealed to the people of Ireland never to allow "the enemies of
peace to break your will" as he wrapped up a three-day visit.
(AP, 9/5/99)
1998 Sep 5, 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)
1999 Sep 5, The Houston Comets
won their third straight WNBA championship, beating the New York
Liberty, 59-to-47.
(AP, 9/5/00)
1999 Sep 5, Allen Funt, founder
of "Candid Camera" and the father of "reality" television, died in
Pebble Beach at 84.
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.B1)
1999 Sep 5, Alan Clark
(b.1928), diarist and a conservative member of British Parliament,
died. His several books of military history, included “The Donkeys”
(1961), which became the musical satire, “Oh, What a Lovely War!.”
In 2009 Ion Trewin authored “Alan Clark: The Biography.”
(Econ, 10/3/09, p.106)
1999 Sep 5, In China increases
in salaries, pensions and welfare payments were announced for 84
million people as a birthday gift for the Oct 1 anniversary.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 5, In Dagestan several
thousand rebels began a 2nd siege from Chechnya. Hundreds of Islamic
insurgents launched a new offensive in southern Russia, hours after
a bomb smashed a building housing Russian military families; the
blast was the first of four apartment building explosions blamed by
Russian officials on Chechen rebels that killed a total of about 300
people.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)(AP, 9/5/00)
1999 Sep 5, In East Timor
anti-independence militias went on a rampage and 100 people were
reported slaughtered in a church and hundreds of other beheaded as
tens of thousands tried to flee. 18 suspects were indicted for the
slaughter in 2001. In Indonesia 7 senior officials were charged in
2002 including former East Timor Gov. Abilio Soares.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A1)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A14)
1999 Sep 5, In India month long
staggered elections for a new parliament began. 6 party activists
were killed on the 1st day of elections. India had 543 parliamentary
districts.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A14)(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A13)(SFEC,
9/19/99, p.A22)
1999 Sep 5, In Israel 2 car
bombs exploded prematurely in Tiberius and Haifa and 3 men placing
them were killed. Israeli police soon arrested 5 associated suspects
believed to be Israeli Arabs.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A14)
2000 Sep 5, On the eve of
congressional hearings into the recall of 6.5 million Firestone
tires, Ford Motor Co. released new documents to bolster its
contention that it had no reason to doubt the safety of the tires
being investigated in 88 deaths.
(AP, 9/5/01)
2000 Sep 5, Oyster harvesting
was shut down in Galveston Bay as a large toxic algal bloom began to
spread from the Texas Gulf Coast to the Florida panhandle. Million
of fish began to die.
(SFC, 9/30/00, p.B10)
2000 Sep 5, In Honduras
protestors from the Chorti tribe began blocking Copan Archeological
Park and demanded land to farm. Police removed some 900 protestors
on Sep 7 and at least 17 people were injured.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 5, The Vatican issued
a statement that declared efforts to depict all religions as equal
are wrong and reasserted that the Catholic Church is the one true
church.
(WSJ, 9/6/00, p.A1)
2001 Sep 5, Mexican President
Vicente Fox arrived at the White House as the first state visitor of
the Bush presidency. Fox told Pres. Bush that he would like a
sweeping immigration settlement by the end of the year.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/5/02)
2001 Sep 5, A SF federal
appeals court ruled that prisoners have a constitutional right to
reproduce. This opened the door for fatherhood via artificial
insemination for those prisoners denied conjugal visits.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 5, Heywood Hale Broun
(83), sports commentator, died in Kingston, N.Y.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2001 Sep 5, In Northern Ireland
Protestant extremists threw a homemade bomb at Catholic girls
walking to school through a gauntlet of riot police. 2 police
officers were wounded. The paramilitary Red Hand Defenders took
responsibility.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 5, In Mexico Maria de
los Angeles Tames, attorney and daughter of a former senator, was
killed. On Mar 5, 2002, Juan Antonio Dominguez, mayor of Atizapan,
was arrested in connection with the slaying of the city council
member, who had planned to reveal evidence of corruption and drug
trafficking. On Apr 10, 2002 Dominguez and his former chief of staff
Daniel Garcia were charged with masterminding the murder.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 4/12/02, p.A1)
2001 Sep 5, In Peru the
attorney general filed homicide charges against former Pres.
Fujimori (who was living in self-exile in Japan), linking him to 2
massacres by the Colina group, paramilitary death squads, in the
early 1990s.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A8)(AP, 9/5/02)
2001 Sep 5, In South Africa a
fire killed at least 19 people at Kruger National Park. 15 of the
dead were women hired to cut grass.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.E5)
2002 Sep 5, The U.S. military
stated that American and British planes attacked an air defense
command and control facility at a military airfield 240 miles
southwest of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 5, In Illinois Judge
Harold Frobish of Livingston County ruled that prison inmates can
choose to starve themselves rather than endure years of solitary
confinement and that right outweighs the state's duty to keep them
alive.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.A4)
2002 Sep 5, Actor Cliff Gorman
(65), who'd won a Tony for portraying comedian Lenny Bruce in the
1971 play "Lenny," died in New York.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 5, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt in the southern city
of Kandahar. The attack, by a man dressed in military uniform,
occurred shortly after a powerful car bomb in the capital killed at
least 26 people and wounded 150.
(Reuters, 9/6/02)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 5, In Gabon US Sec. of
State Colin Powell talked into the night with the Pres. Omar Bongo
about the country's commitment to preserve its lush forests, peace
efforts and the IMF.
(AP, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 5, The Canadian
government said it will spend C$105 million ($66.9 million) in the
first stage of a plan to connect the country's rural residents to
high-speed Internet service by 2005.
(Reuters, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 5, In Colombia gunmen
on motorcycles killed Fernando Mancilla, the new chief of secret
police for Antioquia province, as he drove his car in Medellin.
(AP, 9/6/02)(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A17)
2002 Sep 5, In Congo some
6,000 Ngiti and Lendu tribe tribal fighters and their allies
attacked the mission hospital in Nyankunde, slaughtering patients in
their beds. They killed some 650 people from the Bira, Hema and 16
other tribes on the 1st day of the attacks.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2002 Sep 5, In Greece Dimitris
Koufodinas (44), a main hit man for the November 17 terror
group, surrendered to police.
(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A13)
2002 Sep 5, Palestinian
fighters blew up an Israeli tank in Gaza, killing the driver
instantly. Another Palestinian, linked to the Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade, killed an Israeli officer and wounded another soldier
before he was shot dead.
(SFC, 9/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Sep 5, In Somalia
militiamen tied white flags to their weapons as an informal
cease-fire halted two days of fierce fighting in a capital area that
has left more than 25 people dead and 50 wounded.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2003 Sep 5, A roller coaster
derailed at Southern California's Disneyland theme park, killing one
man and injuring 10 other people, including a 9-year-old.
(Reuters, 9/5/03)
2003 Sep 5, Gisele MacKenzie
(76), former TV star, died. She starred on "Your Hit Parade" from
1953-1957, after which she starred in NBC's "The Gisele MacKenzie
Show."
(SFC, 9/6/03, p.A16)
2003 Sep 5, Afghan forces in
the southern province of Zabul captured five fugitive Taliban
militants, including an insurgent leader, after a battle that killed
scores of rebels. Coalition forces killed Mullah Abdul Razzaq
Hafees, a Taliban commander, and 19 other militants in fighting in
southern Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/6/03)(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Sep 5, Hurricane Fabian
slammed into Bermuda killing 4 people. [see Sep 6]
(AP, 9/5/08)
2003 Sep 5, Statistics Canada
said the nation's unemployment rate rose to 8.0% in August, an
18-month high.
(AP, 9/5/03)
2003 Sep 5, Costa Rica's Arenal
Volcano spewed lava, rocks and ash in its strongest eruption in more
than two years.
(AP, 9/5/03)
2003 Sep 5, Wayan Limbak (106),
a Balinese dancer who helped create the island's famous Monkey
Dance, died. Working with German painter Walter Spies in the 1930s,
Limbak adopted a traditional exorcism ritual to invent the dance,
known in Indonesian as Kecak.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2003 Sep 5, Israeli commandos
killed a Hamas bombmaker in a firefight and pulverized the West Bank
apartment building in which he had been hiding.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2003 Sep 5, European Union
foreign ministers met in Riva del Garda, Italy, to discuss Iraq, the
tattered Mideast peace plan and their bloc's draft constitution as
some 500 anti-globalization protesters blocked main roads to an
Italian Alps town.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2004 Sep 5, The 19th Burning
Man went up in flames in Gerlach, Nevada, where some 35, 664 people
had gathered for the annual festival.
(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.B1)
2004 Sep 5, The eye of
Hurricane Frances made official landfall near Sewall’s Point, Fl.
Sustained winds of 105 mph knocked out power to some 2 million
people. Frances left 19 dead in Florida as it slowly moved
northwest.
(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.A1)(SFC, 9/6/04, p.A1)(WSJ,
9/8/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 5, Australian Prime
Minister John Howard defended his country's controversial refusal to
ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gases as he launched the
19th World Energy Congress in Sydney.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 5, In Sylhet,
Bangladesh, 2 people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast.
(Reuters, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 5, London’s Sunday
Times reported that John Knight, a millionaire British arms dealer,
is reportedly fuelling a bloody civil war in Sudan by arranging to
supply its government with tanks, rocket launchers and a cruise
missile.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 5, Iraqi forces
reportedly captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the King of Clubs and
most wanted member of Saddam Hussein's ousted dictatorship. DNA
evidence revealed that the suspect was only a cousin of al-Douri. An
ensuing battle left as many as 70 people dead. A mortar attack
killed 2 US soldiers.
(AP, 9/5/04)(SFC, 9/6/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 5, Typhoon Songda,
billed as the strongest to hit southern Japan in at least three
decades, lashed Okinawa island with heavy rains and high winds and
headed toward Japan's main islands.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 5, A Turkish company
said it was withdrawing from Iraq a day after Iraqi militants
threatened to behead its employee unless it ceased operations there.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2005 Sep 5, President Bush
nominated John Roberts (50) to succeed William H. Rehnquist as chief
justice and called on the Senate to confirm him before the Supreme
Court opens its fall term on Oct. 3. Roberts could shape the court
for decades to come. President Bush and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen
Blanco, during a Gulf Coast tour, consoled Hurricane Katrina victims
and thanked relief workers.
(AP, 9/5/05)(AP, 9/5/06)
2005 Sep 5, A nuclear-powered
US Navy submarine collided with a Turkish cargo ship in the Persian
Gulf. Nobody was injured and both ships appeared to suffer only
superficial damage.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Jerry Rice ended an
NFL career that included three Super Bowls and records for most
career receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2005 Sep 5, Taylor Behl (17), a
Virginia Commonwealth University student, disappeared. Her body was
found in Mathews County, about 70 miles east of Richmond, a month
later. Behl’s body was found in a shallow grave with the help of
photos on Benjamin Fawley’s Web site. In 2006 Fawley (39) was
sentenced to 30 years in prison for her death.
(AP, 8/10/06)
2005 Sep 5, In the town of
Soelden, Austria, a 1,500-pound chunk of concrete being used for
construction at a ski resort fell from a helicopter and hit a
gondola cable, hurling dozens of passengers to the ground and
killing 9 Germans. In 2006 the helicopter pilot was convicted of
criminal negligence and sentenced to 15 months in prison.
(AP, 9/5/05)(AP, 6/23/06)
2005 Sep 5, China said the
death toll from last week's Typhoon Talim climbed by 13 to at least
95 on the mainland, with another 30 people missing.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, China and the EU
reached an agreement to unblock some 77 million garments held up at
European borders after Chinese textile imports broke through 2005
quota limits.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Suspected rebels
dynamited six energy pylons, leaving more than 2.3 million people in
southwestern Colombia without electricity.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 5, In eastern Congo a
Russian-made airplane crashed in the forest, killing 7, including 3
Russian crew members.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Egypt an actor
knocked over a candle on a stage filled with billowing paper,
starting a blaze that killed at least 32 people at the Culture
Palace in Beni Suef.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Egypt a bus in
Abu Swaylim village collided with a car and then plunged into a
canal, killing 7 people, leaving at least 5 missing and presumed
drowned, and injuring 14.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Indonesia a
domestic jetliner slammed into a crowded neighborhood after taking
off from Medan, bursting into flames and killing at 143 people
including 44 on the ground. 18 passengers survived the crash,
including an 18-month-old boy.
(AP, 9/6/05)(AP, 9/5/06)
2005 Sep 5, Insurgents launched
a surprise attack on Baghdad's heavily guarded Interior Ministry
building, killing two police officers and wounding several others.
In southern Iraq, two British soldiers were killed by a roadside
bomb. In the northern city of Tal Afar, bodies of 3 district leaders
were found. The 3 had turned down demands by insurgents to cooperate
in their fight with US and Iraqi forces. 8 Iraqi civilians,
including 5 children, were killed in fighting there. Another 25
Iraqi civilians died in other incidents in Baghdad, Baqouba and
elsewhere.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Kashmir's main
political separatist alliance started peace talks with the Indian
prime minister, seeking trust and an easing of harsh military
controls in the troubled region.
(Reuters, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Kosovo President
Ibrahim Rugova (1944-2006), linked for decades to the ethnic
Albanian majority's anti-Serb struggle, said he has lung cancer, but
he pledged to stay in office as the U.N.-run province nears crucial
talks on its future.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Kyrgyzstan
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said that his Central Asian nation will
allow the US military base on its territory for as long as necessary
to bring stability to Afghanistan, but he also said the rent will
increase.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Nepal more than
a dozen demonstrators were hurt in violent clashes with police, the
3rd day of protests against King Gyanendra's seizure of power seven
months ago. Authorities released more than 50 pro-democracy
protesters detained over the weekend.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, Nigerian unions
dropped a threat to hold a nationwide general strike but instead
vowed to launch a series of mass street rallies to protest against
rising petrol prices.
(AFP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, An explosion
destroyed a house after nightfall in Gaza City, killing four people
and injuring at least 30. It belonged to a well-known family of
supporters of the Islamic militant group Hamas, but the Israeli
military denied having anything to do with the blast.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, UBS said it will
sell three of Switzerland's oldest private banks and asset manager
GAM to Julius Baer for 5.6 billion Swiss francs ($4.6 billion), to
enable it to focus on its own private banking business.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 5, In the Ukraine
Oleksandr Zinchenko, a close aide to President Viktor Yushchenko who
was a chief organizer of the "Orange Revolution" protests, said he
had resigned from the government because of systemic corruption.
(AP, 9/6/05)
2005 Sep 5, A Venezuela
official said a state governor allied to leftist Pres. Hugo Chavez
has ordered troops to seize an abandoned tomato-processing plant
owned by the H.J. Heinz Co.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2006 Sep 5, Pres. Bush named
Mary Peters, former Federal Highway Administrator, to replace Norm
Pineta as transportation secretary.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 5, The Academy of
American Poets announced that Michael Palmer (63), a resident of San
Francisco, has been selected as the recipient of the 13th Wallace
Stevens Award for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of
poetry." The award included $100,000.
(http://tinyurl.com/gcmho)
2006 Sep 5, Dan Rather said he
has donated $2 million to his alma mater, Sam Houston State
University, the largest single monetary gift in the school's
127-year history.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, Chevron and Devon
energy announced successful oil production from a new deep water
region in the Gulf of Mexico estimated at 3-15 billion barrels of
oil plus gas.
(WSJ, 9/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 5, Bill Ford stepped
down as CEO of Ford Motor Co. and was replaced by Alan Mulally, a
top Boeing executive. Mulally will get a base salary of $2 million
and an immediate payout of $18.5 million which includes a $7.5
million hiring bonus and $11 million to offset forfeited performance
and stock option awards from Boeing.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.C3)(WSJ, 9/9/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 5, The US FDA granted
Abiomed approval to sell AbioCor, the world’s first implantable
artificial heart.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 5, The lower deck of
the SF Bay Bridge reopened after being shut down for the 3-day Labor
Day weekend due to demolition work.
(SFC, 9/5/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 5, The Wireless
Silicon Valley Project picked Silicon Valley Metro Connect, a
collaboration of Azulstar Networks, Cisco systems, IBM and Seakay,
to build and operate a wireless network across 38 cities in the SF
Bay Area.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 5, A cook was charged
with shooting and dismembering the owner of a Maine
bed-and-breakfast and three other people in a Labor Day weekend
killing rampage. Christian Nielsen has since pleaded not guilty to
murder by reason of insanity.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2006 Sep 5, In southern
Afghanistan US artillery and airstrikes killed between 50 and 60
suspected Taliban militants, the fourth day of a NATO-led offensive.
NATO said 700 Taliban were trapped by the offensive.
(AP, 9/5/06)(WSJ, 9/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 5, A federal judge in
Argentina ruled unconstitutional a 1990 presidential pardon extended
to Jorge Rafael Videla, who led Argentina's military junta during
the worst periods of the so-called "Dirty War" crackdown on
dissidents between 1976 and 1983. A day earlier the same judge ruled
that pardons for Albano Harguinday, the interior minister under
Videla, and Jose Martinez de Hoz, the economy minister under Videla,
were also unconstitutional.
(http://tinyurl.com/0)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.47)
2006 Sep 5, Burundi
Vice-President Alice Nzomukunda resigned over corruption and human
rights abuses that she says are hampering her nation's progress.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5316690.stm)
2006 Sep 5, Danish authorities
said they foiled a serious terror plot with the arrest of nine men
accused of preparing explosives for a planned attack in Denmark. The
suspects were Danish citizens between the ages of 18 and 33. Eight
of them had immigrant backgrounds. In 2007 a jury in Copenhagen
handed down guilty verdicts to Mohammad Zaher (34), Ahmad Khaldhadi
(22), and Abdallah Andersen (32). Riad Anwer Daabas (19) was
acquitted. Zaher and Khaldhadi, described as the two most active,
were each sentenced to 11 years in prison, while Andersen was given
a four-year sentence.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 11/24/07)
2006 Sep 5, Cellular telephones
were found inside four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security
prison after suspicious officials took X-rays of each of the
inmates.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, French oil and gas
field surveyor Geophysique said it will buy US rival Veritas for
$3.1 billion in cash and stock, establishing a major new global
player in the booming oil exploration industry.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, The Iraqi
parliament voted to extend the country's state of emergency for 30
more days.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, Israeli forces left
five villages in southern Lebanon and were replaced by Lebanese
troops, who also moved into the center of a Hezbollah stronghold
devastated by weeks of fighting.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, In Kyrgyzstan Maj.
Jill Metzger (33), a US Air Force officer, went missing while
shopping in the capital of Bishkek. Metzger reappeared 3 days later
and said she had been seized by three young men and a woman in a
minibus and held in a rural area about 30 miles from the capital.
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 5, In south Lebanon a
remote-controlled bomb wounded a senior police intelligence officer
who played a key role in the investigation into the slaying of a
former Lebanese prime minister. Four of the officer's aides and
bodyguards were killed in the sophisticated attack.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, The president of
Mexico's top electoral court recommended that the full tribunal
uphold the slim lead of ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon.
Marcelo Garza, the top police investigator for Nuevo Leon, a
northern Mexican state that borders Texas, was shot to death by a
lone gunman outside an art gallery.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, Pakistan's
government and pro-Taliban militants signed an agreement in Miran
Shah to ensure "permanent peace" in a tribal region bordering
Afghanistan, seeking to end five years of violent unrest in the
area. Under the truce the Pakistan army pulled back to barracks tens
of thousands of troops that had been involved in bloody operations
against suspected Taliban and al-Qaida hideouts, and militants
agreed to halt attacks in Pakistan and over the border against
foreign troops in Afghanistan. Tribal elders were supposed to police
the deal. The truce ended in July 2007. Lawmakers from a coalition
of six Islamic groups threatened to vacate their parliamentary seats
if the government changes a rape law criticized by human rights
activists.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 7/16/07)
2006 Sep 5, Palestinian
security officers went on the rampage in Gaza City to demand back
pay from the cash-strapped Hamas-led government. Israel pressed
ahead with its offensive against Hamas militants, killing five with
airstrikes in the Rafah refugee camp.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, Russian President
Vladimir Putin met South African leader Thabo Mbeki at the start of
a visit intended to forge closer ties between the mineral and
diamond superpowers.
(Reuters, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, Turkey became the
first Muslim country with diplomatic ties to Israel to pledge troops
to an expanding international peacekeeping force that will monitor a
fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, In Somalia
thousands of people massed in Mogadishu vowing to fight any foreign
peacekeepers sent to the embattled nation, while a coalition of East
African nations approved an ambitious plan to deploy troops in
Somalia by early next month.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, Police in Uruguay
arrested 27 people suspected of trafficking drugs to Europe and
seized a record 770 pounds of cocaine.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2007 Sep 5, Fred Thompson
(b.1942), former Tennessee Senator (1994-2002) as well as film and
TV character actor, announced himself as a formal Republican
candidate for the US presidency on the Jay Leno show. Thompson quit
the race on Jan 22, 2008.
(SFC, 9/6/07,
p.A4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson)(SFC, 1/23/08,
p.A11)
2007 Sep 5, Contest organizers
in Tucson, Az., said Kelly McBee, a 30-year-old mother of three from
northern Wyoming, is the new Mrs. America. McBee won the national
crown in a ceremony at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 5, Coroners in
Southern California said as many as 28 people may have died of
heat-related causes during the last 8-day run of hot weather.
(SFC, 9/6/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 5, In Virginia US Rep.
Paul Gillmor (68), a Republican from Ohio, was found dead in his
apartment in Arlington.
(SFC, 9/6/07, p.A7)
2007 Sep 5, Afghan and US-led
coalition troops killed more than 40 suspected Taliban militants in
southern Afghanistan. 13 mine-clearing workers were kidnapped in
Paktia province.
(AP, 9/5/07)(AP, 9/6/07)(AP, 9/7/07)
2007 Sep 5, In Australia
President Bush urged Pacific Rim nations to band together on
tackling global warming, saying all major polluters must be part of
any solution.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, The Belgian-based
International Polar Foundation unveiled what it claimed to be the
world's first zero-emissions polar science station in Antarctica to
conduct research on climate change.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Chinese authorities
said two late-night radio shows that discussed sex and drugs have
been banned for damaging young people and being "extremely
pornographic."
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 5, German officials
announced that three militants from an Islamic group linked to
al-Qaida were planning "imminent" bomb attacks against Americans in
Germany when an elite anti-terrorist unit raided their small-town
hideout.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2007 Sep 5, The ship Oceanic
II, dubbed the Scholar Ship, became home to some 200 students from
35 countries and embarked from Piraeus, Greece, as a seaborne
university funded by Royal Caribbean Cruises. A 16-week semester
included stops in Lisbon, Panama City, Auckland, Shanghai and other
places for just under $20,000.
(SFC, 9/12/07, p.61)
2007 Sep 5, In Guatemala 2
candidates from Nobel Laureate and presidential hopeful Rigoberta
Menchu's political party were shot dead amid a wave of
campaign-related violence that has claimed about 50 lives.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, In Karbala US
forces captured an Iraqi believed to be working as the local contact
to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps's elite Quds Force to
supply Shiite militias with Iranian-made weapons.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Interior Minister
Meir Sheetrit said Israel will grant citizenship to some of the
estimated 300 refugees from Sudan's violence-ridden Darfur region
who have already arrived.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Japan and North
Korea held talks for the first time in six months in a bid to ease
tensions amid signs of cautious optimism for progress from the
arch-foes. The meeting in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator is
part of a working group set up by six-nation talks designed to stop
North Korea's nuclear weapons programs.
(AFP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Hurricane Henriette
threatened Mexico's mainland after punishing the Los Cabos resorts.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, North Korea said it
had arrested spies working for an unspecified foreign country who
were collecting intelligence on the communist state's military and
state secrets.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Militants freed six
soldiers who were among more than 100 Pakistani troops abducted over
the weekend near the Afghan border.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Rwanda's President
Paul Kagame said that his country was no longer interested in
joining the southern African grouping SADC in order to avoid
"overlapping" roles with other blocs.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 5, Canada’s ambassador
to Zimbabwe said the number of people facing serious food shortages
there is expected to grow to 4.1 million over the first quarter of
next year.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2008 Sep 5, US bank regulators
shut down Silver State Bank, saying the Nevada bank failed because
of losses on soured loans, mainly in commercial real estate and land
development. It was the 11th failure this year of a federally
insured bank.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, In SF Western
artist Thom Ross displayed 100 wooden Indians on horseback on the
same stretch of Ocean Beach that was used in a 1902 photo of Buffalo
Bill Cody and his Wild West Show featuring live Indians on
horseback.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 5, In Berkeley, Ca.,
arborists began removed trees in preparation for a $124 million UC
athletic training center. 4 protesters continued a 21-month-old
protest in a lone redwood.
(SFC, 9/7/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 5, In Lancaster, Ca.,
a road was paved, at the request of Honda’s Santa Monica advertising
agency, with grooves so that passing cars would hear a rendition of
Rossini’s William Tell Overture. On Sep 23, following complaints and
safety concerns the road was repaved.
(WSJ, 10/24/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 5, Robert Giroux
(b.1914), NYC publisher (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), died in New
Jersey. He had joined Farrar as editor in chief and was made a full
partner in 1964.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A2)
2008 Sep 5, In western
Afghanistan an overnight raid in Farah province killed six militants
and two civilians.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Angolans voted for
the first time in 16 years in a parliamentary election expected to
extend the ruling party's hold of more than three decades in the
oil-rich African nation. A new quota required 30% of the candidates
to be women.
(AP, 9/5/08)(Econ, 9/20/08, p.76)
2008 Sep 5, Quentin Bryce was
sworn in as Australia's governor general, the first woman to act as
the British queen's representative Down Under. Morris Iemma (47),
the embattled premier of Australia's most populous state, New South
Wales, was forced to resign after his party withdrew support for him
over a dramatic reshuffle of his cabinet.
(AP, 9/5/08)(AFP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Bolivia
protesters stormed a small airport and blocked major highways across
eastern Bolivia in a standoff over central government reforms
designed to empower the nation’s indigenous majority.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Canada joined the
US and EU in imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe's authoritarian regime
headed by President Robert Mugabe.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, EU nations called
for an international probe to find out which country should shoulder
responsibility for starting the conflict between Georgia and Russia.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Rosetta, the
European deep space probe launched in 2004, completed a flyby of the
Steins asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
(SFC, 9/7/08, p.A6)
2008 Sep 5, The flagship of the
US Navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored outside the key Georgian port
of Poti, bringing in tons of humanitarian aid to a port still
partially occupied by hundreds of Russian troops.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, The Iraqi
government reacted sharply to published allegations that the US
spied on Iraq's PM Maliki, warning that future ties with the United
States could be in jeopardy if the report were true. An explosion in
the western Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour killed six bodyguards of
ex-Iraqi deputy prime minister and former Pentagon favorite, Ahmad
Chalabi, who escaped the suicide car bomb attack on his convoy.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, An Israeli defense
official said Israel has allowed Palestinian security forces in the
West Bank to receive a shipment of about 1,000 Kalashnikov rifles
and tens of thousands of bullets in a step aimed at bolstering the
moderate Palestinian government there. The weapons shipment reached
the Palestinians through Jordan about one week ago.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Mila Schoen
(b.1916), an Italian designer of elegant, impeccably tailored
clothes, died at her villa in northern Italy.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Japan
right-leaning former Foreign Minister Taro Aso announced that he
will run for ruling party president in a move that would put him on
track to take over as Japan's next prime minister.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, US Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, once
reviled as a "mad dog" by President Reagan, on a historic visit
which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies. John
Foster Dulles was the last US Secretary of State to visit Tripoli,
in May 1953.
(Reuters, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, Malaysia said it is
dispatching three navy vessels to the Gulf of Aden to protect its
merchant ships following a sharp surge in pirate attacks off the
coast of Somalia.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Mexico two 18th
century paintings, "The Adoration of the Three Kings" and "The Birth
of the Virgin," were stolen from the Santa Matilde church in
Pachuca, the capital of central Hidalgo state. In February, 2010,
they were found in an art gallery in Tlaquepaque, a town near the
city of Guadalajara, where they were on sale for $35,000.
(AP, 2/26/10)
2008 Sep 5, The political party
of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged Myanmar's
military government to ensure her well-being as she continued to
refuse food deliveries to protest her detention.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Nigeria said it has
set up a 40-member technical committee on peace talks to end the
crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
(AFP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Pakistan's Supreme
Court reinstated three judges ousted by Pervez Musharraf, cementing
political divisions in the country a day before it elects a new
president. An explosion possibly caused by a missile strike killed
five suspected foreign militants near the Afghan border in North
Waziristan.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to try to reach a final status peace
agreement with Israel by the end of the year, but he admitted the
goal, set by US President George W. Bush, might not be achieved.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Poland police
detained Krzysztof B. (45), in the eastern city of Siedlce, after
his wife and daughter came forward with the allegations that he had
imprisoned and raped his daughter (21) for 6 years fathering 2
children, who were put up for adoption.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 5, In Sri Lankan
soldiers captured three Tamil Tiger rebel bunkers and killed 24
guerrillas in fighting across the island's restive north.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 5, Taiwan newspapers
said authorities in central Taiwan have turned off the red light at
the county's last legal brothel after the death of its pimp aged 87.
Prostitution has been illegal in Taiwan since 1997. Licensing of new
brothels stopped in 1974, but isolated illegal brothels can be found
all over the island. Brothels licensed prior to 1974 were allowed to
keep operating.
(Reuters, 9/8/08)
2008 Sep 5, Togo’s PM Komla
Mally unexpectedly resigned after less than a year in office. He had
been accused of lacking initiative and of being ineffective.
(SFC, 9/7/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 5, In Kiev US Vice
President Dick Cheney pledged US support for Ukraine following last
month's war between neighboring Russia and Georgia.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2009 Sep 5, Brown Schneider
celebrated his 3rd birthday at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park with
family and friends.
(EW, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, In Afghanistan a US
soldier serving in the NATO-led coalition died after coming under
fire in the east of the country.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, The Group of 20
rich and developing countries held talks in London. They were
expected to commit to further efforts to boost growth, despite
fledging signs of an economic recovery.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, Keith Waterhouse
(80) a prolific British author, journalist and playwright, died.
Waterhouse was best known for the 1959 novel Billy Liar -- the story
of a day-dreamer who plans his escape from a depressing job as an
undertaker. It was made into a film in 1963.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, A sightseeing boat
carrying dozens of Bulgarian tourists sank in Lake Ohrid on
Macedonia's western border, and at least 15 people drowned.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, Chinese leaders
removed the Communist Party chief of the restive western city of
Urumqi, trying to appease public anger following sometimes violent
protests this week that the government worries could re-ignite
deadly ethnic rioting. The removal of Li Zhi came amid reports of
police again dispersing crowds outside Urumqi's government offices
using tear gas, and more unconfirmed reports of needle attacks.
(Reuters, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, In Iraq hundreds of
Sunni Arabs opposed to the presence of Kurdish troops in disputed
areas of northern Iraq demonstrated against a plan to deploy a mixed
force of American, Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers in the area.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, Gani Fawehinmi (71)
prominent Nigerian lawyer and rights activist died in Lagos after a
prolonged battle with cancer. Fawehinmi, holder of Nigeria's highest
legal title, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), was an author,
publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights
lawyer and politician.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, Pakistan officials
said troops killed 43 alleged militants in an operation in the
Khyber tribal region while airstrikes left several more dead in the
stronghold of the new Taliban chief elsewhere in the northwest.
Government fighter jets and helicopter gunships pounded militant
hide-outs in three villages of the Orakzai tribal region, the
stronghold of new Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, In Sweden Tesfaldet
Tesloy (28), an illegal Eritrean immigrant who has lived in Sweden
for six years, appeared on TV to collect a tax-free lottery prize of
1.2 million Swedish crown (101,654 pounds). Sweden's attempts to
deport the man have failed due to his country's refusal to take him
back, highlighting a common problem for immigration officials.
(Reuters, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, The IMF said
Zimbabwe has received about 400 million dollars, as Special Drawing
Rights, in support from the International Monetary Fund, part of its
broader effort to cushion the blows of the global economic crisis.
To convert the SDRs into hard currency, Zimbabwe would have to find
another country to buy them. Otherwise the money serves to bolster
Harare's meager foreign reserves.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, Crews working on a
seismic retrofit of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge found what
authorities called a "significant crack" in the eastern span that
could keep the California landmark closed beyond a planned holiday
weekend shutdown.
(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Sep 5, In Louisiana Dennis
Carter Sr. (50) shot his estranged wife, son and 2-year-old grandson
to death and critically wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law at
their rural home, then killed himself as police tried to pull over
his car 20 minutes later.
(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Sep 5, A small airplane
crashed into a Tulsa, Okla., park killing all 5 people on board.
(SSFC, 9/6/09, p.A7)
2009 Sep 5, Milwaukee police
arrested Walter Ellis (49) after DNA evidence linked him to the
slaying of 9 women, including 8 suspected prostitutes, dating back
to 1986. On Feb 18, 2011, Ellis was convicted in the deaths of 7
women and faced a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
(SFC, 9/8/09, p.A6)(SFC, 2/19/11, p.A6)
2009 Sep 5, In Afghanistan a US
soldier serving in the NATO-led coalition died after coming under
fire in the east of the country. Gunmen snatched New York Times
reporter Stephen Farrell, who has dual British-Irish nationality,
and his interpreter Sultan Munadi, while they were reporting on the
aftermath of a NATO air strike on fuel tankers that killed scores of
people. On Sep 9 Farrell was freed in a raid that killed a British
soldier as well as Afghan translator Sultan Munadi (34).
(AFP, 9/5/09)(AFP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 5, The Group of 20
rich and developing countries held talks in London. They were
expected to commit to further efforts to boost growth, despite
fledging signs of an economic recovery. Top finance officials agreed
to curb hefty bankers’ bonuses, but the US and Britain shied away
from imposing a cap.
(AP, 9/5/09)(SSFC, 9/6/09, p.A5)
2009 Sep 5, In Britain racially
charged violence erupted between a group protesting Islamic
extremism and counter-demonstrators in the central city of
Birmingham. Authorities arrested 90 people. The clashes erupted when
a rally by the English Defense League ran into counter-demonstrators
including anti-fascists and youths of South Asian descent.
(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Sep 5, Keith Waterhouse
(80) a prolific British author, journalist and playwright, died.
Waterhouse was best known for the 1959 novel Billy Liar -- the story
of a day-dreamer who plans his escape from a depressing job as an
undertaker. It was made into a film in 1963.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, The sightseeing
boat Ilinden, carrying 55 Bulgarian tourists, sank in Lake Ohrid on
Macedonia's western border, and 15 people drowned.
(AP, 9/5/09)(AFP, 9/6/09)
2009 Sep 5, Chinese leaders
removed the Communist Party chief of the restive western city of
Urumqi, trying to appease public anger following sometimes violent
protests this week that the government worries could re-ignite
deadly ethnic rioting. The removal of Li Zhi came amid reports of
police again dispersing crowds outside Urumqi's government offices
using tear gas, and more unconfirmed reports of needle attacks.
(Reuters, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, In Colombia a
grenade exploded in a crowd celebrating a national soccer team win
in Medellin, killing one person and wounding at least 30. Police
thought a reveler may have accidentally detonated the grenade by
mishandling it.
(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Sep 5, In Iraq hundreds of
Sunni Arabs opposed to the presence of Kurdish troops in disputed
areas of northern Iraq demonstrated against a plan to deploy a mixed
force of American, Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers in the area.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, In southern Mexico
gunmen killed Jose Francisco Fuentes Esperon (43), a state
congressional candidate, his wife (38) and two sons (9&13) in
their home in Villahermosa in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
Police later arrested a boy (16) and two young men for allegedly
killing Fuentes and his family. Chihuahua state prosecutors reported
that a severed human head was found placed on a car hood in the
border city of Ciudad Juarez, along with a message relating to drug
cartels.
(AP, 9/5/09)(AP, 9/7/09)
2009 Sep 5, Gani Fawehinmi (71)
prominent Nigerian lawyer and rights activist died in Lagos after a
prolonged battle with cancer. Fawehinmi, holder of Nigeria's highest
legal title, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), was an author,
publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights
lawyer and politician.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, Pakistan officials
said troops killed 43 alleged militants in an operation in the
Khyber tribal region while airstrikes left several more dead in the
stronghold of the new Taliban chief elsewhere in the northwest.
Government fighter jets and helicopter gunships pounded militant
hide-outs in three villages of the Orakzai tribal region, the
stronghold of new Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud. The
tortured body of Akhtar Ali (28), operator of an electrical repair
shop, was dumped on the doorstep of the family home in Mingora. He
had been kidnapped on Sep 1. His death was believed to have resulted
from a case of mistaken identity.
(AP, 9/5/09)(Econ, 10/3/09, p.49)
2009 Sep 5, In Somalia at least
six civilians were killed and 18 others wounded in clashes that
erupted when insurgents attacked government and African Union forces
in Mogadishu.
(AFP, 9/6/09)
2009 Sep 5, In Sweden Tesfaldet
Tesloy (28), an illegal Eritrean immigrant who has lived in Sweden
for six years, appeared on TV to collect a tax-free lottery prize of
1.2 million Swedish crown (101,654 pounds). Sweden's attempts to
deport the man have failed due to his country's refusal to take him
back, highlighting a common problem for immigration officials.
(Reuters, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 5, The IMF said
Zimbabwe has received about 400 million dollars, as Special Drawing
Rights, in support from the International Monetary Fund, part of its
broader effort to cushion the blows of the global economic crisis.
To convert the SDRs into hard currency, Zimbabwe would have to find
another country to buy them. Otherwise the money serves to bolster
Harare's meager foreign reserves.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2010 Sep 5, In southern
California 7 people were shot at a house party in Lancaster,
including a girl (14) who later died of her wounds. Manuel Jamines,
a Guatemalan immigrant, was fatally shot by a Los Angeles police
officer. His death led to several days of violent protests. Police
and witnesses said Jamines was threatening people with a knife.
(SFC, 9/6/10, p.A4)(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 5, Afghanistan's
Taliban said they would attempt to disrupt the Sep 18 elections and
warned Afghans to boycott the vote, the first explicit threat
against the poll by the hardline Islamists. A British soldier was
killed by an exploding grenade. The death takes to 333 the British
death toll in Afghanistan since 2001. Afghan journalist Sayed Hamid
Noori was found outside his Kabul home covered in stab wounds. Noori
had once been an anchor for state television and a newspaper editor.
More recently, he held a leadership position in Afghanistan's
Association of Independent Journalists and teacher of young
journalists.
(Reuters, 9/5/10)(AFP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 5, Bangladesh issued a
red alert over an outbreak of anthrax which has infected nearly 300
people and killed about 150 cattle in the north of the country in
the past two weeks.
(Reuters, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 5, The Basque
separatist militant group ETA declared a cease-fire in a video
statement, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its
quest for an independent homeland.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 5, In Dagestan a
suicide car-bomber killed 3 soldiers and wounded 32 others in an
attack on a Russian military base. In Kabardino-Balkariya, another
republic of the Caucasus region that includes Dagestan, a policeman
was shot to death by a man whom he'd stopped for a document check.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 5, In Ecuador 15
people were killed and at least seven injured when a drunken Luis
Alberto Hessmer Vargas drove an SUV into a crowded bus stop in the
coastal city of Guayaquil.
(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 5, In Iraq a car bomb
and suicide bombers hit a Baghdad military headquarters and killed
12 people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the
failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their
security. Five soldiers were among the dead. American troops found
themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi
military headquarters in the center of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 5, In northern Mexico
soldiers opened fire on a family's car when it allegedly failed to
stop at a military checkpoint, killing a 15-year-old boy and his
father. Relatives who were also in the car said they were shot at
after they passed a military convoy. On Sep 12 the military
announced that it filed charges against four troops for the
shooting.
(AP, 9/6/10)(AP, 9/12/10)
2010 Sep 5, Mozambican
authorities said five fishing boats have capsized in a storm off the
country's central coast, killing at least 15 fishermen.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 5, In Nigeria more
than a dozen vehicles including three fuel tankers and two
mini-buses caught fire in a pile-up on a highway, site of a deadly
multi-car crash three weeks ago. No death toll was immediately
available. Three separate shootings occurred by motorcycle-riding
gunmen, leaving a retired police officer dead. Another person
reported wounded later died, and four others were injured.
(AFP, 9/5/10)(AFP, 9/7/10)
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