Today in History - September 9
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490BC Sep 9,
First Persian attack on Greece. Greeks led by Miltiades defeated the
Persians at the Battle of Marathon. Pheidipiddes, a hemerodromi or
long-distance foot messenger, was dispatched to run 26 miles from
Marathon to Athens to announce the victory. He reached Athens and
proclaimed: “Rejoice! We conquer!” The he dropped dead. In the
Battle of Marathon Darius the Great of Persia was defeated by the
Greeks. The Greeks initiated the war when Persia, the strongest
power in western Asia, established rule over Greek-speaking cities
in Asia Minor. [see Sep 12]
(HFA, '96, p.38)(V.D.-H.K.p.49)(SFC, 7/14/96,
p.T7)(http://eawc.evansville.edu, p.10)
9CE Sep 9, Publius Quinctilius
Varus (59), Roman governor of Germania (6-9CE), died of likely
suicide following defeat at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
Arminius, aka Hermann the German, had stopped a Roman advance
eastward across the Rhine at the battle of Teutoburg, setting a
limit on the Roman border.
(http://www.fact-index.com/p/pu/publius_quinctilius_varus.html)(Econ,
8/7/10, p.86)
337 Sep 9, Constantine's three
sons, already Caesars, each took the title of Augustus. Constantine
II and Constans shared the west while Constantius II took control of
the east.
(HN, 9/9/98)
384 Sep 9, Flavius Honorius,
emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1087 Sep 9, William the
Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England, died in Rouen while
conducting a war which began when the French king made fun of him
for being fat.
(HN, 9/9/00)
1513 Sep 9, James IV (40), King
of Scotland (1488-1513), was defeated and killed by English at the
Battle of Flodden Field. The Scottish navy was sold to France.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.10)(HN, 9/9/98)
1543 Sep 9, Mary, Queen of
Scots, was crowned Queen of England.
(HN, 9/9/01)
1556 Sep 9, Pope Paul IV
refused to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1567 Sep 9, Lomaraal, Count van
Egmont and Philip van Hoorne, were arrested by Alba.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1583 Sep 9, Girolamo
Frescobaldi (d.1643, Italian composer, was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)(WUD, 1994 p.568)
1585 Sep 9, Duc Armand Jean du
Plessis de Richelieu (d.1642), French cardinal and statesman who
helped build France into a world power under the leadership of King
Louis XIII, was born. He was premier of France from 1624 to 1642.
(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1585 Sep 9, Pope Sixtus V
deprived Henry of Navarre of his rights to the French crown.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1683 Sep 9, Algernon Sidney,
English Whig politician and plotter, was beheaded.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1675 Sep 9, New England
colonial authorities officially declared war on the Wampanoag
Indians. War soon spread to include the Abenaki, Norwottock,
Pocumtuck and Agawam warriors.
(MC, 9/9/01)(AH, 6/02, p.47)
1739 Sep 9, A slave revolt in
Stono, SC, led by an Angolan slave named Jemmy, killed 20-25 whites.
Three slave uprisings occurred in South Carolina in 1739. Whites
soon passed black codes to regulated every aspect of slave life.
(SFC, 12/18/96,
p.A25)(www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p284.html)(AH, 2/05, p.66)
1753 Sep 9, The 1st steam
engine arrived in US colonies.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1754 Sep 9, William Bligh,
legendary captain of HMS Bounty, was born. [see Sep 10]
(MC, 9/9/01)
1776 Sep 9, The term "United
States" was adopted by the second Continental Congress to be used
instead of the "United Colonies."
(AP, 9/9/97)(HN, 9/9/98)
1786 Sep 9, George Washington
called for the abolition of slavery.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1791 Sep 9, French Royalists
took control of Arles and barricaded themselves inside the town.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1815 Sep 9, John Singleton
Copley (b.1737), American artist, died in London.
(www.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia)
1822 Sep 9, Napoleon J K P
Bonaparte, French prince and member National Convention, was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1828 Sep 9, Leo Tolstoy,
Russian novelist, was born. His work included “War and Peace” and
“Anna Karenina.” [see Aug 28]
(HN, 9/9/00)
1830 Sep 9 Charles Durant flew
a balloon from New York City across the Hudson River to Perth Amboy,
N.J.
(AP, 9/9/05)
1834 Sep 9, Parliament passed
the Municipal Corporations Act, reforming city and town governments
in England.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1839 Sep 9, John Herschel
(1792-1871), English astronomer, took the 1st glass plate
photograph.
(www.getty.edu)
1841 Sep 9, The Great Lakes
steamer "Erie" sank off Silver Creek, NY., and 300 people died.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1850 Sep 9, California was
admitted as the 31st state of the US.
(INV, 7/95, p.12)(SFC, 6/13/96, p.A17)(SFC,
1/25/97, p.A17)(AP, 9/9/97)
1850 Sep 9, Territories of New
Mexico and Utah were created.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1859 Sep 9, The SS Great
Eastern's first voyage was cut short by a boiler explosion. The
22,500-ton (displacement) iron steamship, designed by Isambard
Kingdom Brunel, was built on the Thames River, England. It had been
christened Leviathan during a initial launching attempt in early
November 1857. Thereafter it was always known as the Great Eastern.
(http://tinyurl.com/2u23gy3)
1861 Sep 9, Sally Louisa
Tompkins (b.1833) was commissioned as a Confederate captain of
cavalry. Born into a wealthy and altruistic family in coastal
Mathews County, Virginia, Tompkins was destined for a life of
philanthropy. After moving to Richmond, she spent much of her time
and a considerable portion of her fortune assisting causes she
considered worthy. With the onset of civil war, she labored on the
behalf of the South's wounded soldiers, and for this she became the
first and only woman to receive an officer's commission in the
Confederate army.
(HNQ, 5/17/01)
1862 Sep 9, Gen’l. Lee split
his army and sent Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1863 Sep 9, The Union Army of
the Cumberland passed through Chattanooga, Ten., as they chased
after the retreating Confederates following the Battle of Cumberland
Gap.
(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1867 Sep 9, Luxembourg gained
independence.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1886 Sep 9, The Berne
International Copyright Convention took place at the instigation of
Victor Hugo and backed the individual copyright laws of the European
states. It was updated in 1971. In 1993 the Brussels directive
brought in a Europe-wide 70-year rule.
(HN, 9/9/00)(WSJ, 1/31/02,
p.A16)(www.ifla.org.sg/documents/infopol/copyright/ucc.txt)
1887 Sep 9, Alfred M. Landon,
Republican governor of Kansas who carried only two states in his
overwhelming defeat for the presidency by Franklin Roosevelt in
1936, was born. He ran as a presidential candidate in 1932 and 1936.
(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1890 Sep 9, Colonel Harland
Sanders, originator of Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food restaurants,
was born in Henryville, Ind. [see Dec 16]
(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1893 Sep 9, Frances Cleveland,
wife of President Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in
the White House. It was the first time a president's child was born
in the executive mansion.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1899 Sep 9, Louis Cheslock
(d.1981), composer and author (Mencken on Music), was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1900 Sep 9, James Hilton,
British novelist who authored "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye Mr.
Chips," was born. In Lost Horizon he created the imaginary world of
"Shangri-La.”
(HN, 9/9/98)
1901 Sep 9, Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, died at 36.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1904 Sep 9, Mounted police were
1st used in NYC.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1908 Sep 9, Orville Wright made
the 1st 1-hr airplane flight at Fort Myer, Va.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1908 Sep 9, Russia grabbed part
of Poland.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1909 Sep 9, San Francisco held
a parade in honor of its work horses. Some 2000 horses and 986
drivers paraded down Market Street before thousands of spectators.
(SSFC, 9/6/09, p.46)
1909 Sep 9, Kwame Nkrumah,
communist and premier of the Gold Coast and president of Ghana
(1960-66), was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1911 Sep 9, An airmail route
opened between London and Windsor.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1912 Sep 9, Kurt Sanderling,
conductor (East Berlin Symphony 1960-77), was born in Arys, Germany.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1914 Sep 9, In the Battle of
Marne the German advance stalled and Paris was saved.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1915 Sep 9, A German zeppelin
bombed London for the first time, causing little damage.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1919 Sep 9, Most of Boston's
1,500-member police force went on strike. The city’s police
commissioner fired the strikers and Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), who
was running for governor, came out in support of the firings.
(AP, 9/9/99)(AH, 6/07,
p.67)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge)
1922 Sep 9, William T. Cosgrave
replaced assassinated Irish leader Michael Collins.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1922 Sep 9, Turkish troops
under Mustafa Kemal conquered Smyrna, Greece. This effectively ended
in the field the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) more than three years
after the Greek army had landed on Smyrna on 15 May, 1919. In 2008
Giles Milton authored “Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922: The Destruction
of Islam’s City of Tolerance.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Smyrna)(Econ, 5/3/08,
p.90)
1926 Sep 9, The National
Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was incorporated by the Radio Corporation of
America, which had originated as Marconi Wireless.
(AP, 9/9/08)(SFC, 8/2/99, p.B3)
1927 Sep 9, Elvin Jones
(d.2004), jazz drummer, was born in Pontiac, Mich.
(SFEC, 5/21/00, DB p.44)(SFC, 5/20/04, p.B8)
1928 Sep 9, Julian E
"Cannonball" Adderley (d.1975), US, jazz musician (Black Messiah),
was born. Adderley was a member of the Miles Davis ensemble of the
1950s, and in the 1960s scored a hit of his own with 'Mercy, Mercy,
Mercy'.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1932 Sep 9, The steamboat SS
Observation exploded in NYC East River and 71 were killed.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1934 Sep 9, Sonia Sanchez,
poet, was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
(HN, 9/9/00)
1934 Sep 9, G. Kaufman and M.
Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1939 Sep 9, Nazi army reached
Warsaw.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1940 Sep 9, 28 German aircraft
were shot down above England.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1941 Sep 9, Otis Redding, rock
bassist (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay), was born in Dawson, Ga.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1942 Sep 9, A Japanese float
plane, launched from a submarine, made its first bombing run on a
U.S. forest near Brookings, Oregon. Japanese planes drop incendiary
bombs on Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests of the
Northwest. The forests failed to ignite, but Pacific Coast citizens
stepped-up their blackout drills in preparation for future Japanese
raids.
(HN, 9/9/99)(MC, 9/9/01)
1943 Sep 9, Allied forces in
operation Avalanche landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War
II. They encountered strong resistance from German troops.
(AP, 9/9/97)(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1945 Sep 9, Japanese in S.
Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrendered to Allies.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1945 Sep 9, The 1st "bug" in a
computer program was discovered by Grace Hopper. A moth was removed
with teasers from a relay and taped into the log.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1948 Sep 9, The Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) emerged out of Soviet
occupation. Kim Du Bong stood as Chairman of the Presidium of the
Supreme People’s Assembly.
(www.worldstatesmen.org/Korea_North.htm)
1950 Sep 9, "Where's Charley?"
closed at St James Theater NYC after 792 performances.
(www.newyorkcitytheatre.com/theaters/broadwaytheater/history.html)
1950 Sep 9, There were massive
arrests of communists in France.
(www.todayinhistory.com/s75-9-09-event-results.html)
1956 Sep 9, Elvis Presley made
the first of three appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show." By his
third and final appearance on the Sullivan show, due to a number of
viewers, who were outraged at his suggestive gyrations, Elvis was
filmed from only the waist-up.
(AP, 9/9/97)(MC, 9/9/01)
1957 Sep. 9, President
Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass
Congress since Reconstruction.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1960 Sep 9, Hurricane Donna hit
the Florida Keys and moved up the coast to New England. It caused 50
US deaths and $387 million in damage.
(WSJ, 5/31/06,
p.A1)(http://tampa.about.com/cs/history/l/bl1960.htm)
1963 Sep 9, In Italy a
landslide into Vaiont Dam emptied a lake and killed 3-4,000 people.
[see Oct 9]
(MC, 9/9/01)
1963 Sep 9, Alabama Gov George
Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police
to bar black students from enrolling in white schools.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1964 Sep 9, John Osborne's
"Inadmissible Evidence," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1965 Sep 9, Sandy Koufax,
baseball’s Great Jewish Hope, pitched a perfect game. It was the
first perfect game thrown by a left-hander since 1880. In 2002 Jane
Leavy authored "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy."
(WSJ, 10/22/02,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Koufax%27s_perfect_game)
1965 Sep 9, US Navy pilot James
Stockdale (d.2005) was shot down in Vietnam. He was beaten, tortured
and taken to Hoa Lo prison (Hanoi Hilton) and released in 1973. In
1992 he ran as VP candidate with Ross Perot.
(SFC, 7/6/05, p.B7)
1965 Sep 9, Francois Mitterrand
was nominated for French presidency.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1965 Sep 9, Tibet was made an
autonomous region of China.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1967 Sep 9, "Rowan and Martin's
Laugh-In" aired as a one-time special on NBC; its success led to a
regular series beginning in January 1968. The show folded in 1973.
(AP, 9/9/07)(SSFC, 5/25/08, p.B6)
1968 Sep 9, Arthur Ashe
(1943-1993) became the 1st black to win the US Open men’s tennis
singles championship.
(www.answers.com/topic/arthur-ashe)(http://tinyurl.com/d2xhty)
1969 Sep 9, Allegheny Flight
853 collided with Piper Cherokee above Indiana. 82 were killed.
{Air Crash, Indonesia, USA}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853)
1970 Sep 9, U.S. Marines
launched Operation Dubois Square, a 10-day search for North
Vietnamese troops near DaNang. Marine pilots in their diminutive
Douglas A-4 Skyhawks provided vital close air support for ground
forces in Vietnam.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1971 Sep 9, John Lennon
released his mega hit "Imagine" in the US. It was released in
Britain on October 8.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(album))
1971 Sep 9, Hockey legend
Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National
Hockey League (NHL).
(www.iosphere.net/~mtbailey/tbc/gordie_howe.html)
1971 Sep 9, A list of Pres.
Richard Nixon’s major political opponents, compiled by Charles
Colson, written by George T. Bell (assistant to Colson, special
counsel to the White House), was sent in memorandum form to John
Dean. It did not become public until 1973.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List)
1971 Sep 9-1971 Sep 13, Some
1,000 prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica
Correctional Facility near Buffalo, NY, in a siege that claimed 43
lives. In 2000 a federal judge ordered an $8 million settlement to
some 400 inmates to settle a prisoner class action suit. $4 million
was for lawyers.
(SFC, 1/5/00,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Prison_riots)(AP, 9/9/08)
1972 Sep 9, The US Olympic
basketball team was beaten for the 1st time by a full-time Russian
military team. The Russians also beat the Americans in the overall
medal haul.
(WSJ, 7/10/96,
p.A9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics)
1974 Sep 9, in Boston,
Massachusetts, a group called Restore Our Alienated Rights
(R.O.A.R.) held a rally at City Hall Plaza a few days before the
start of school. When Senator Ted Kennedy took the stage to speak in
favor of busing, the crowd reacted in anger. Protests and violence
continued for three years.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/maps/maps_pop.html)
1976 Sep 9, Mao Tse-tung (82),
Chinese Communist party chairman (1949-76) died in Beijing. "Who
controls a man’s ideas controls the man." In 1965 he launched the
controversial Cultural Revolution, an often-brutal campaign to
reform Chinese society. He was later held responsible for over 70
million deaths. Mao Zedong’s death triggered a 2-year power
struggle. The Cultural Revolution's chief architects, Mao’s widow
(Jiang Qing) and 3 others, the so-called Gang of Four, were jailed.
Deng Xiaoping returned from disgrace and eventually seized power. In
2005 Jung Chang and Jon Halliday authored “Mao: The Unknown Story.”
(SFEC, 10/7/96, A9)(WSJ, 5/12/98, p.A22)(SSFC,
10/23/05, p.M1)(AP, 9/9/07)
1978 Sep 9, Jack L. Warner
(b.1892), US movie producer, died. He was born as Itzhak Eichelbaum
in London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish-Jewish family, and became the
president and driving force behind the highly successful development
of Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Warner)
1979 Sep 9, In the 31st Emmy
Awards the winners included: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth
Gordon.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Emmy_Awards/1979)
1982 Sep 9, Robert Thibadeau at
CMU-10A: Pittsburgh Zoo Options: The zoo is a worthwhile place to
visit, but in my three years in Pittsburgh I have watched it
deteriorate for lack of funds. Fortunately they have this wonderful
'adopt an animal' program. The adoption can be a day or month.
Orangutanns (sic) eat light at $.75 a day or $22.50 a month, and for
$15 a day or $450 a month you get yourself an entire elephant.
Double that and you can probably have his name changed to Clyde.
Triple it and I bet they will let you dye him pink. Visitation
rights come with any adoption. The flyer is on my office door --
5321.
(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm)
1984 Sep 9, Walter Payton of
the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown's combined yardage record by
reaching 15,517 yards.
(http://tinyurl.com/2sd85s)
1985 Sep 9, President Ronald W.
Reagan issued Executive Order No. 12532 establishing sanctions
against South Africa. Reagan banned the sale of computers to South
African security agencies, barred most loans to the Pretoria
government, halted the importation of the Krugerrand, South Africa's
gold coin (effective Oct 11), and stopped exports of nuclear
technology until South Africa signs an accord to prevent the spread
of nuclear weapons.
(www-tech.mit.edu/V105/N38/apart.38n.html)(http://tinyurl.com/2ruefg)
1985 Sep 9, In Birmingham,
England, race riots took place and continued thru Sep 11.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handsworth_riots)
1985 Sep 9, In Thailand there
was a failed coup attempt. Former PM Kriangsak was caught with other
retired military officers at the headquarters of the plotters.
(AP, 12/23/03)
1986 Sep 9, Frank Reed,
American director of a private school in Lebanon, was taken hostage;
he was released 44 months later.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1987 Sep 9, Appearing before
President Reagan's special commission on AIDS, Surgeon General C.
Everett Koop denounced doctors and other health workers who refused
to treat AIDS patients, calling them a "fearful and irrational
minority."
(AP, 9/9/97)
1987 Sep 9, A parked tank car
containing butadiene ignited in the New Orleans area. A jury in 1997
awarded $3.4 billion in punitive damages to some 8,000 people who
claimed to have suffered mental and physical injuries. Five
companies were charged with CSX Transportation owing 2.5 bil.
(SFC, 9/9/97, p.A10)
1988 Sep 9, The "Stars and
Stripes," a catamaran piloted by Dennis Conner, completed a 2-0
washout of a New Zealand monohull for the America's Cup off San
Diego. Conner's victory was eventually upheld in court.
(AP, 9/9/98)
1988 Sep 9, Financial Corp. of
America filed for bankruptcy with assets of $33.8 billion.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A4)
1989 Sep 9, West German Steffi
Graf won the women's tennis title at the U.S. Open in New York,
defeating second-ranked Martina Navratilova.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1990 Sep 9, Pete Sampras
defeated Andre Agassi to win the US Open men’s title.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1990 Sep 9, President Bush and
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev held a one-day summit in
Helsinki, Finland, after which they joined in condemning Iraq’s
invasion of Kuwait.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1990 Sep 9, Liberian dictator
Pres. Samuel K. Doe was killed after being captured by rebels led by
Prince Johnson. Doe was tortured by rivals and bled to death after
an ear was cut off. The remains of Doe’s Krahn-dominated army
composed the AFL or Armed Forces of Liberia.
(SFC, 4/10/96, p.A-4)(SFC, 4/17/96, p.A-8)(AP,
9/9/00)(AP, 2/24/10)
1990 Sep 9, Alexandr Men,
Russian Biblical scholar and writer, was murdered by an ax-wielding
assailant just outside his home of Semkhoz, Russia.
(Econ, 3/6/10,
p.103)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Men)
1991 Sep 9, Boxer Mike Tyson
was indicted in Indianapolis on a charge of raping Desiree
Washington, a beauty pageant contestant. Tyson was later convicted.
(AP, 9/9/01)
1992 Sep. 9, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin called off a trip to Japan in the face of growing
pressure to resolve a dispute over four Kurile islands seized by the
former Soviet Union in 1945.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1993 Sep 9-1993 Sep 14,
Hurricane Gert caused 76 deaths. It affected Mexico, Honduras, Costa
Rica, and Nicaragua.
(AP, 9/11/04)(www.wunderground.com)
1993 Sep 9, PLO leaders and
Israel agreed to recognize each other, clearing the way for a peace
accord.
(AP, 9/9/98)
1993 Sep 9, Former Philippine
President Ferdinand Marcos was buried in his homeland, four years
after his death in exile.
(AP, 9/9/98)
1993 Sep 9, About a hundred
Somali gunmen and civilians were killed when U.S. and Pakistani
peacekeepers fired on Somalis attacking other peacekeepers.
(AP, 9/9/98)
1994 Sep 9, The United States
agreed to accept at least 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year in return
for Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 9, Prosecutors in Los
Angeles said they would not seek the death penalty for O.J. Simpson.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 9, The space shuttle
Discovery blasted off on an 11-day mission.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1995 Sep 9, Amtrak’s “Broadway
Limited” service between New York and Chicago, begun in 1902,
made its final run.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1995 Sep 9, Bosnian Serbs
blamed UN forces for a shell that killed ten people at a Bosnian
Serb hospital the day before.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1996 Sep 9, Promising safer
skies, President Clinton issued orders to tighten airport security
and challenged Congress to support a $1.1 billion anti-terrorism
crackdown.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1996 Sep 9, Keeping her word
not to cooperate with Whitewater prosecutors, Susan McDougal was led
away to jail for contempt of court, denying she was trying to
protect President Clinton with her silence.
(AP, 9/9/97)
1996 Sep 9, Boston investor
Thomas H. Lee donated $22 mil to Harvard Univ.
(WSJ, 9/10/96, p.A6)
1996 Sep 9, Bill Monroe
(b.1911), Blue Grass pioneer, died 4 days shy of his 85th b-day. His
blues style was much influenced by the thumb-style blues guitar
picking of a black musician named Arnold Schultz. In 2000 Richard D.
Smith authored the biography "Can’t You Hear me Callin’."
(WSJ, 9/16/96, p.A14)(WSJ, 7/28/00,
p.W9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Monroe)
1996 Sep 9, An Australian
livestock official reported that the burning ship, Uniceb, with
70,000 sheep had probably sunk. It had been bound for Jordan when
the crew abandoned it after it caught fire on Sep 2.
(SFC, 9/10/96, p.A11)
1997 Sep 9, Actor Burgess
Meredith died in Malibu, Calif., at age 89. He had played the
Penguin on TV’s Batman and numerous films in a 60 year film career.
He was born Nov 16, 1907 in Cleveland.
(SFC, 9/11/97, p.A18)(AP, 9/9/98)
1997 Sep 9, Richie Ashburn,
Hall of Fame baseball player (Phillies, Mets), died at 70.
(www.baseball-reference.com/a/ashburi01.shtml)
1997 Sep 9, In China former
Beijing mayor Chen Xitong was handed over to prosecutors on charges
of corruption in a scandal with the loss of as much as $2.2 billion
in public funds.
(SFC, 9/10/97, p.A9)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.49)
1997 Sep 9, Sinn Fein, the
IRA's political ally, accepted the Mitchell Principles and formally
renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern
Ireland's future.
(AP, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1998 Sep 9, Pres. Clinton
released $20 million in aid for the refugees in Kosovo.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D3)
1998 Sep 9, Kenneth Starr,
independent council, delivered 36 boxes to Capital Hill that
contained 2 copies of his report on the case for the impeachment of
Pres. Clinton. His probe began with the failed Arkansas land deal
and ended with the Monica Lewinsky affair.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.A3)(WSJ, 9/10/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 9, Four tourists who
had paid $32,500 each were taken in a tiny submarine to view the
wreckage of the Titanic, 2 1/2 miles below the Atlantic off
Newfoundland.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1998 Sep 9, The Tripartite Gold
Commission closed. It was set up in 1946 by Britain, France and the
United States to oversee the return of some $4 billion in gold
plundered by the Nazis from European treasuries.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 9, The UN General
Assembly elected Uruguay’s foreign minister as president for its
53rd session. Didier Opertiti replaced Hennadiy Udovenko of Ukraine.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 9, The UN Security
Council voted to suspend periodic reviews of the economic sanctions
on Iraq.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 9, A 5.5 earthquake
hit Italy between the towns of Castelluccio Inferiore and Laino
Borgo where the regions of Calabria and Basilicata meet.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 9, In Kosovo some
25,000 civilians streamed out of the southwest as Serbian forces
shelled their villages.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.A13)
1998 Sep 9, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin nominated Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov to be prime
minister.
(SFC, 9/10/98, p.A15)
1999 Sep 9, Pres. Clinton moved
to cut military ties with Indonesia and the IMF suspended its
lending program due to the violence in East Timor.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 9, The White House
announced a $15 million federal gun-buyback program.
(WSJ, 9/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 9, The US State Dept.
released its first annual assessment on the state of religious
affairs around the world.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D2)
1999 Sep 9, Janet Reno named
former Republican Sen. John Danforth as special counsel to
investigate the 1993 Waco, Texas, deaths of the Branch Davidian
cult.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/9/00)
1999 Sep 9, In Miami undercover
agents arrested 15 more people for suspected drug smuggling at the
airport.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 9, In NYC it was
reported that 3 people had died from mosquito-borne St. Louis
encephalitis in the last few weeks. The virus was later identified
as the West Nile Virus, never before reported in the Western
Hemisphere. 3 years later the virus reached California.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A3)(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A9)(Econ,
8/2/08, p.34)
1999 Sep 9, Jim "Catfish"
Hunter (53), Hall of Fame baseball pitcher, died in Hertford, North
Carolina, from Lou Gehrig's disease.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/9/00)
1999 Sep 9, Actress Ruth Roman
(75) died in Laguna Beach, California.
(AP, 9/9/00)
1999 Sep 9, In Cambodia Kaing
Khek, aka "Duch" and former head of the Khmer Rouge torture center,
was charged with genocide.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D4)
1999 Sep 9, China and the US
agreed to reopen negotiations for China's entry into the WTO.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D3)
1999 Sep 9, In Dagestan Russia
lost a Su-25 combat jet.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D4)
1999 Sep 9, Israel released 199
Palestinians from prison and detailed the 7% of West Bank land
scheduled for transfer.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D3)(WSJ, 9/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 9, An explosion
shattered a 9-story apartment building in Moscow and at least 14
people were killed. A natural gas leak was suspected, but a bomb was
not ruled out. The death toll moved up to 90 with 249 injured and
officials said it was caused by a terrorist bomb. [see Dec 29,
2003]
(SFC, 9/9/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A12)(SFC,
9/11/99, p.A9)
1999 Sep 9, In Serbia 2
grenades exploded in a crowd of French troops and demonstrating
Serbs at Kosovska Mitrovica. 37 civilians and 8 French soldiers were
injured.
(SFC, 9/11/99, p.A8)
1999 Sep 9, In Venezuela the
Constitutional Assembly agreed to reverse its order for Congress to
shut down and allowed Congress to resume normal activities in an
accord mediated by the Catholic Church.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.A16)
2000 Sep 9, Venus Williams beat
Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5 for the U.S. Open women's singles
championship, her first Grand Slam title.
(AP, 9/9/01)
2000 Sep 9, President Clinton
proposed spending about $1.6 billion to help communities recover
from recent Western wildfires.
(AP, 9/9/01)
2000 Sep 9, California
celebrated its 150th birthday.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.A3)
2000 Sep 9, In Congo rebels
captured Dongo and forced the retreat of government troops toward
Imese. Scores were killed in a 36-hour battle.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.13)
2000 Sep 9, In France union
leaders called for an end to the 6-day fuel protests.
(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.A18)
2000 Sep 9, It was reported
that Venezuela had begun a criminal investigation against Ford and
Firestone due to at least 47 deaths from defective tires on Ford
Explorers.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A10)
2001 Sep 9, Barry Bonds of the
San Francisco Giants hit three home runs against the Colorado
Rockies to give him 63 for the season, passing Roger Maris'
once-magical mark and moving him closer to Mark McGwire's record.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2001 Sep 9, Lleyton Hewitt ran
down Pete Sampras to earn his first Grand Slam title, 7-6 (4), 6-1,
6-1 at the U.S. Open.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2001 Sep 9, The US pulled out
of the World Conference Against Racism objecting to hateful language
in a preliminary declaration.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D5)
2001 Sep 9, In Sacramento
Joseph Ferguson (20), a suspended security guard, killed a 5th
victim in 24 hrs. He shot himself to death the next day following a
police chase and shootout that injured 2.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 9, In Afghanistan
Ahmed Shah Masood (48), the opposition leader (Lion of Panjshir),
was injured and a close aide killed from an explosion triggered by
agents posing as journalists. Massood died shortly after the
explosion.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 9, Najwa bin laden
left her husband, Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan and returned to
her native Syria, taking with her a son and her two youngest
daughters. Eman, Omar's sister, was left behind with her father and
siblings. Omar bin Laden (20) had left the family and Afghanistan
earlier in the year.
(AP, 1/6/10)
2001 Sep 9, In Belarus
presidential elections were held. Pres. Lukashenko won with 75.6% of
the vote. There were widespread allegations of fraud and abuse.
Opposition leader Vladimir Goncharik won 15.4%.
(SSFC, 9/2/01, p.A14)(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B1)(SFC,
9/11/01, p.B3)
2001 Sep 9, It was reported
that some 3,000 people had been executed in China since Pres. Zemin
announced a crackdown in April.
(SSFC, 9/9/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 9, EU foreign
ministers agreed on the need for a new int’l. military force to
provide security in Macedonia after NATO withdrawal.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 9, In Nahariya,
Israel, an Israeli Arab, Muhammad Saker Habashi (55), killed himself
and 3 others in a suicide bombing. At least 71 other people were
wounded. 4 other people were killed in the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 9, In Damak, Nepal, a
Bhutanese leader, R.K. Budhathoki, was attacked and killed with
khukris, the traditional Nepalese curved knives.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 9, In the UAR Mustafa
Ahmed al Hissawi, an associate of Osama bin Laden, retrieved about
$5,000 sent by Marwan al Shehhi, a UAE citizen believed to be the
Sep 11 pilot of US Flight 175.
(WSJ, 11/2/01, p.A13)
2002 Sep 9, The US State
Department cleared the way for giving $41.6 million in arms and
equipment to Colombia, certifying that the country's military has
met human rights requirements in three areas.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, Allied aircraft
struck Iraq for the third time in a week, bombing a military
facility southeast of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, In Burundi 183
civilians were killed by uniformed men in an area of heavy fighting
between government troops and rebels. On Sep 18 the government
promised an investigation.
(AP, 9/18/02)
2002 Sep 9, In El Salvador a
small plane crashed into the slopes of a mountain, killing four
prominent Guatemala businessmen and the pilot.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, In Egypt a military
court convicted 51 men in one of the country's biggest cases against
Muslim militants in years and sentenced them to two to 15 years in
prison. The group was dubbed al-Wa'ad (the Promise).
(AP, 9/9/02)(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 9, The Rajdhani
Express train derailed in Bihar state and fell into a river, killing
at least 118 people. An Indian railway official said that it was an
act of sabotage.
(AP, 9/10/02)(WSJ, 9/10/02, p.A1)(Reuters,
9/11/02)(AP, 9/9/03)
2002 Sep 9, Iraq challenged the
United States to produce "one piece of evidence" that it was
producing weapons of mass destruction. UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan said the Security Council must be allowed to have its say on a
possible attack against Iraq.
(AP, 9/9/03)
2002 Sep 9, In Nepal Maoist
rebels launched an overnight attack on a remote Nepali town
targeting several government offices. At least 57 soldiers and
police were killed and a counterattack was launched.
(Reuters, 9/9/02)(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 9, An earthquake
struck just off Papua New Guinea's north coast, killing 3 people and
causing a tidal wave that washed away at least 40 homes.
(AP, 9/9/02)
2002 Sep 9, Tens of thousands
of Sri Lankans rallied in the capital Colombo in a show of support
for peace talks with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels aimed at ending
one of Asia's longest-running wars.
(Reuters, 9/9/02)
2003 Sep 9, The Catholic
archdiocese of Boston agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims by
more than 550 people who said they were sexually abused by priests.
(SFC, 9/10/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 9, The WSJ disclosed
that Dick Grasso, Chairman of the NYSE, had a retirement package
close to $140 million along with entitlements to an additional $48
million. His 2001 pay exceeded $30 million with a base pay of $1.4
million. Grasso soon decided to forego the $48 million undisclosed
compensation. In 2007 Charles Gasparino authored “King of the Club:
Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange.
(WSJ, 9/11/03, p.C1)(WSJ, 5/25/04, p.C1)(WSJ,
11/21/07, p.D10)
2003 Sep 9, Alabama voters
rejected Amendment One by a margin of 2 to 1. The liberal tax
measure was endorsed by Gov. Bob Riley and based on Judeo-Christian
ethics.
(SSFC, 12/12/04, p.A14)
2003 Sep 9, Edward Teller (95),
Hungarian-born pioneer in molecular physics and dubbed the "father
of the H-bomb" for his role in the early development of nuclear
weapons, died.
(SFC, 9/10/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 9, Argentina missed a
$2.9 billion payment to the IMF.
(Econ, 9/13/03, p.32)
2003 Sep 9, France's leading
undertaker estimated the country's death toll from a summer heat
wave at 15,000.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2003 Sep 9, Israeli troops
killed three Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, in an arrest
raid in the West Bank city of Hebron, as Israel signaled both
reluctant acquiescence and disapproval of the Palestinians'
candidate for prime minister. In Jerusalem twin suicide bombings, 5
hours apart, killed 16 Israelis. One suicide bomber chose a
nightspot packed with young Israelis, the other a bus stop where
soldiers were waiting for their ride homes.
(AP, 9/9/03)
2003 Sep 9, The European
Union's high court ruled that Italy and other EU governments can
temporarily ban genetically modified foods while they examine health
risks, but must provide "detailed grounds," not general fears, to do
so.
(AP, 9/9/03)
2003 Sep 9, In western
Venezuelan 2 passengers buses crashed in separate highway accidents,
killing 45 people and injuring dozens of others.
(AP, 9/9/03)
2004 Sep 9, Secretary of State
Colin Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that abuses
by government-supported Arab militias in Sudan qualified as genocide
against the black African population in the Darfur region.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2004 Sep 9, It was reported
that a munitions plant in Oklahoma had suspended production of
“bunker buster” bombs after workers there developed anemia.
(WSJ, 9/9/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 9, Tourists and
residents were told to evacuate the Florida Keys because the
powerful Hurricane Ivan could hit the island chain by Sunday. It had
top sustained winds of 160 mph, making it a Category 5 storm.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, Ayman al-Zawahri
said in an al Qaeda videotape that the US will be ultimately
defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/10/04, p.A14)
2004 Sep 9, Crown Prince
Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah (30), the future king of the oil-rich
sultanate of Brunei, married a 17-year-old half-Swiss commoner.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, Hurricane Ivan grew
into the deadliest of storms overnight, packing winds of 160 mph as
it made a beeline for Jamaica after pummeling Grenada, Barbados and
other islands, causing at least 20 deaths. Police in Grenada battled
looters.
(AP, 9/9/04)(WSJ, 9/9/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/10/04,
p.A1)
2004 Sep 9, A military Lynx
helicopter crashed near the city of Brno in the Czech Republic,
killing six British soldiers.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, In Indonesia a car
bomb exploded outside the gates of the Australian Embassy in
Jakarta, killing 10 people and wounding more than 160.
(Econ, 9/11/04, p.39)(AP, 9/9/05)
2004 Sep 9, US jets pounded the
rebel stronghold of Fallujah, and American and Iraqi forces entered
the central city of Samarra for the first time in months to try to
reseat the city council and regain control. US and Iraqi security
forces launched attacks to flush out insurgents in northern Iraq,
killing 12 people.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, Clashes with
Israeli troops killed 8 Palestinians and left 27 wounded in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/9/04)(WSJ, 9/10/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 9, Nigerian troops
battled militia forces in the mangrove swamps of Africa's leading
oil region, the Niger Delta. The offensive has forced refugees to
stream into the Port Harcourt.
(AP, 9/9/04)
2004 Sep 9, A huge explosion
rocked North Korea. The huge blast hit a mountainous area close to
an underground missile base that was listed as a possible uranium
enrichment site. North Korea later said that the huge cloud caused
by an explosion near its border with China was the planned
demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project.
(Reuters, 9/12/04)(AP, 9/13/04)
2004 Sep 9, Pakistani jets
pounded a suspected training facility for foreign militants in a
two-hour barrage in tribal South Waziristan, killing 50 people.
Pakistani troops assaulted a suspected terror hideout, killing at
least six militants. Five of the six dead were foreigners.
(AP, 9/9/04)(AP, 9/10/04)
2005 Sep 9, The Bush
administration removed Mike Brown, director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, from the Gulf Coast disaster zone and ordered him
back to Washington. FEMA discontinued a debit card program that gave
victims cards worth $2000.
(SFC, 9/10/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 9, Leandro
Aragoncillo, an FBI intelligence analyst at Fort Monmouth, and a
former official with the Philippines National Police were arrested,
charged in a federal criminal complaint with acting as unregistered
agents of a foreign official and passing classified information to
that official and others in the Republic of the Philippines.
(www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/publicaffairs/NJ_Press/files/arag0912_r.htm)
2005 Sep 9, A military
spokesman said the US military is tube-feeding more than a dozen of
the 89 terror suspects on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison
in Cuba.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 9, A Nevada couple
pleaded guilty in San Jose, Calif., to all charges related to
planting a human fingertip in a bowl of Wendy's chili in a scheme to
extort money from the fast food restaurant chain.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2005 Sep 9, Hewlett-Packard
introduced a line of TV sets equipped with hard drives and the
ability to connect to wireless networks.
(SFC, 9/9/05, p.C3)
2005 Sep 9, Afghan and
coalition forces killed 30 enemies and captured 60 others during an
operation in Grishk district of Helmand.
(AFP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 9, The presidents of
Bolivia, Brazil and Peru inaugurated a $810 million highway project
to connect Brazil's Atlantic coast to Peru's Pacific ports before
the end of the decade.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, China deployed a
fleet of 5 warships near a gas field in the East China Sea, a area
that is disputed by China and Japan.
(SSFC, 9/11/05, p.A12)
2005 Sep 9, It was reported
that China Telecom has started blocking access to Skype, a popular
Internet telephone service that is threatening its long-distance
revenue.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Croatia's
government said that army officers can give lessons about the 1991
Serbo-Croat war in elementary schools, despite critics' claims the
move marks a return to communist-style links between schools and the
military.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Pro-government
newspapers trumpeted President Hosni Mubarak's re-election victory
after preliminary results showed he swept Egypt's first contested
race for his job. The turnout was 23%.
(AP, 9/9/05)(Reuters, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, The body that
controls French winemaking said makers of Bordeaux wines have been
told to reduce their output this year by about 12% because of
overproduction and falling prices.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Indian border
guards killed 3 Bangladeshi villagers after they had strayed across
the border near the eastern Bangladesh town of Akhaura. India and
Bangladesh share a 4,095-kilometre (2,539-mile) border, which India
is busy fencing in a bid to cut the level of illegal immigration.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, The Baghdad
International Airport, the country's only reliable link to the
outside world, closed in an embarrassing pay dispute between the
government and a British security company.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi's Cabinet approved a bill to limit the use of
phone taps, legislation prompted after conversations recorded during
a bank takeover investigation were leaked to the media this summer.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Japanese software
company Access Co., maker of the NetFront Internet browser for
mobile devices, said it has agreed to buy PalmSource Inc., maker of
the Palm operating system for handheld computers and cell phones,
for $324 million in cash.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, NATO nations agreed
to use alliance ships and aircraft to rush European aid to the US
Gulf Coast in response to an American request for more help to cope
with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 9, Latin American and
US officials stepped up pressure against legislative efforts to oust
Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos, whose anti-corruption campaign
has driven lawmakers of his own party into alliance with rivals.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, In Pakistan 3
suspected foreign militants were arrested after a shootout with
Pakistani forces near Afghanistan. A bystander was killed and her
son wounded by stray bullets during the clash near Miran Shah,
capital of the North Waziristan tribal area.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 9, A magnitude 7.3
earthquake struck off the northeast coast of the Pacific island
nation of Papua New Guinea.
(AP, 9/9/05)
2005 Sep 9, Zimbabwe’s
President Robert Mugabe signed amendments that adopted
constitutional changes that make it easier for the state to seize
private property and prevent opponents from traveling abroad to
criticize his 25-year rule. The constitutional overhaul stripped
landowners of their right to appeal expropriation of their property
by the state and declared all real estate is now on a 99-year lease
from the government.
(AP, 9/12/05)
2006 Sep 9, Space shuttle
Atlantis and its six astronauts blasted off on a mission to resume
construction of the international space station for the first time
since the Columbia disaster 3 1/2 years ago.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, Joanna Veil, aged
28 and pregnant, vanished after leaving work in Ben Lomond, Ca. Her
body was found Sep 14 in a remote area of Santa Cruz County. In 2007
authorities named Michael McClish (38) a suspect in the case.
McClish was convicted in 2007 for another murder and sentenced to 18
years in prison. In 2008 he was charged with Veil’s murder.
(SFC, 9/16/06, p.B1)(SFC, 5/8/08, p.B2)
2006 Sep 9, Clair Burgener
(84), 5-term US Republican congressman from San Diego (1973-1983),
died.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.B9)
2006 Sep 9, Elisabeth Ogilvie
(89), writer, died at her home in Cushing, Maine. Her 46 books
included the Tide trilogy, which centered on the Bennet family and
lobster-trapping life.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.B9)
2006 Sep 9, Afghan and NATO
soldiers killed at least 40 suspected Taliban militants in fierce
raids that destroyed insurgent hideouts and a weapons-making factory
in Kandahar province. One NATO soldier died. 2 coalition soldiers
training Afghan troops were killed in combat. 2 policemen were
killed when dozens of Taliban rebels attacked their post in western
Farah province with machine guns and rockets. Gen. Ray Henault,
chief of NATO’s military committee, said he would ask the 26
alliance members for up to 2,500 more soldiers.
(AP, 9/9/06)(AP, 9/10/06)(SSFC, 9/10/06, p.A19)
2006 Sep 9, In Brazil Ubiratan
Guimaraes, the police colonel accused of ordering a 1992 jail
massacre of more than 100 inmates, was shot dead in his apartment in
Sao Paulo.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 9, British PM Tony
Blair arrived in Tel Aviv for talks with his Israeli counterpart
Ehud Olmert and other key players in the region on the stalled
Middle East peace process.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, Five central Asian
countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan) signed a nuclear-free zone treaty, but it did not cancel
out a 1992 agreement to allow Russia to transport and deploy nuclear
weapons there under certain circumstances.
(SSFC, 9/10/06, p.A18)
2006 Sep 9, In CongoDRC it was
reported to take 155 days to register a business at a cost of 5
times the average annual income of $120.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.60)
2006 Sep 9, In Finland leaders
and top officials from 38 Asian and European nations gathered in
Helsinki for the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). The agenda included
security issues, trade and global warming.
(AFP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 9, In India recent
estimates by conservationists and some officials put the population
of Bengal tigers at 1,200 to 1,500. The government insisted the
tiger population was stable at around 3,500.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.46)
2006 Sep 9, Iran's top nuclear
negotiator met with the European Union foreign policy chief for
crucial talks seen as the last chance for Iran to avoid U.N.
sanctions over its nuclear defiance.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, In Iraq the US-led
coalition said an Iraqi court has convicted 38 people of charges
related to the insurgency, including kidnapping and murder. Their
sentences ranged from six months to life. At least 15 violent deaths
were reported across the country. Millions of Shiite pilgrims
thronged Karbala for a religious festival that ended peacefully amid
tight security. Authorities found the bullet-riddled bodies of 6
people dumped in Mahmoudiya. One unidentified body, blindfolded with
hands and feet bound, was found in the Tigris River in Suwayah.
(AP, 9/9/06)(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 9, The 10-week Israeli
military operation, code named Summer Rains, left 230 Gazans dead,
including over 60 children. It had no noticeable impact on militant
activities.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.47)
2006 Sep 9, Italy's PM Romano
Prodi said Syria has agreed "in principle" to a European Union
presence on its border to help stem the flow of weapons into
Lebanon.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, The Chinese movie
"Still Life" won the top award at the Venice Film Festival.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2006 Sep 9, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim militants shot dead two policemen in an attack on a
police check post. They also looted arms and ammunition.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, The ship Moubarak
heading from Madagascar to the Comoros Islands sank in the Indian
Ocean this weekend in bad weather. Of the 76 people on board, 43
people were rescued after the boat sank. 33 people were missing.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 9, It was reported
that some 15,000 students from Saudi Arabia were enrolling on
college campuses across the United States this semester under a new
educational exchange program brokered by President Bush and Saudi
King Abdullah.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, In northern Sri
Lanka at least 26 troops were killed and over 125 wounded in new
fighting as Tamil rebels resisted an army advance into
guerrilla-held territory.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, Sudan authorities
confiscated all copies of the independent al-Sudani newspaper, the
latest move in a resurgence of censorship since the beheading of a
journalist last week. Paul Salopek was released from a prison in the
war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on
espionage charges.
(Reuters, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 9, Tens of thousands
of red-clad protesters thronged Taiwan's capital, demanding that
President Chen Shui-bian resign over a series of alleged corruption
scandals involving his family and inner circle. Shih Ming-teh, a
former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), began
camping with fellow protesters in the center of Taipei.
(AP, 9/9/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.48)
2006 Sep 9, Pope Benedict XVI
began a six-day homecoming to his native Bavaria.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2007 Sep 9, In the 2007 MTV
Music Video Awards the winners included: Video of the Year: Rihanna,
"Umbrella," featuring Jay-Z; Male Artist of the Year: Justin
Timberlake; Female Artist of the Year: Fergie. Britney Spears
performed her new single "Gimme More" in a much-criticized comeback
attempt at the event in Las Vegas.
(AP, 9/10/07)(AP, 9/9/08)
2007 Sep 9, Phil Frank (64),
longtime resident of Sausalito, Ca., and creator of the Farley and
Elderberries comic strips, announced his retirement. His Farley
strip had run in the SF Chronicle for decades.
(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 9, The remains of Sam
(7) and Lindsey (8) Porter were found near the Missouri River in
Sugar Creek, Mo. They had been missing since their disappearance on
June 5, 2004. On November 20 their father, Dan Porter (44), already
in jail for their kidnapping, was charged in their shootings.
(SFC, 11/21/07,
p.A4)(www.kmbc.com/news/14090631/detail.html)
2007 Sep 9, In Utah searchers
found the body of Camille Cleverley (22) at the base of a cliff near
Bridal Veil Falls in Provo. The Brigham Young Univ. student had been
missing for over a week.
(SFC, 9/10/07, p.A4)
2007 Sep 9, Afghanistan
President Hamid Karzai said he was ready to hold talks with Taliban
militants in an effort to end their bloody insurgency against his
US-backed administration.
(AFP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Large swathes of
Bangladesh were underwater again after heavy rains, adding to the
misery of millions hit by flooding that has killed more than 830
people since late July.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, The British couple
named as suspects in the disappearance of their 4-year-old daughter
returned to England, days after being grilled by Portuguese police
about new forensic evidence authorities believe ties them to the
case.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Bishop Han
Dingxiang (71), who led an underground congregation of Roman
Catholics and was repeatedly detained in China for his loyalty to
the Vatican, died in police custody. He died while being treated in
a hospital for an unspecified illness.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 9, Volkswagen
announced the Up! At the Frankfurt Motor Show. The 6,000 euro
($8,300) is a small car intended for emerging markets.
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.78)
2007 Sep 9, Guatemala held
presidential elections. Front runners Alvaro Colom, candidate of the
center left National Unity of Hope party, and Otto Perez Molina, of
the conservative Patriotic Party, were virtually tied in recent
polls. The 2 candidates faced a presidential runoff in November
after a close first-round vote.
(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.A1)(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 9, In southern India a
highway overpass collapsed in Hyderabad, crushing vehicles and
injuring pedestrians taking shelter from a rainstorm. At least 2
people were killed. officials said they feared 20 people had died.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 9, Iraq's Foreign
Minister Hoshyar Zebari urged neighbors to prevent "terrorists and
killers" from crossing into his country and warned that the violence
in Iraq could spill across its borders. A mortar attack in a
predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad killed one person, and
an explosion in a booby-trapped minibus south of the capital, in
Mahmoudiya, also killed one. A coordinated attack on a police
station in Hajaj, a predominantly Sunni village in northern Iraq,
left five policemen and four civilians dead before the gunmen were
driven off with the help of residents. A US airstrike in northern
Iraq killed an insurgent suspected to be behind the quadruple
suicide bombings in August against communities of Yazidis.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Israeli police said
they have cracked a cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis accused in a
string of attacks on foreign workers, religious Jews, drug addicts
and gays. Eight immigrants from the former Soviet Union were
arrested in recent days in connection with at least 15 attacks, and
a ninth fled the country.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, In northern Mexico
a truck carrying 25 tons of ammonium nitrate blew up after colliding
with another vehicle, killing at least 37 people, including three
reporters who came to the scene near Sacramento.
(AP, 9/10/07)(Econ, 9/15/07, p.40)
2007 Sep 9, Moroccan
nationalist party Istiqlal vowed to keep an alliance with socialists
after emerging as the surprise winner in elections marred by the
lowest turnout ever in the north African nation.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Pakistani police
manned roadblocks and rounded up supporters of former PM Nawaz
Sharif as he prepared to end seven years in exile and return to
Pakistan to lead a campaign to topple the country's US-allied
military ruler. Suspected pro-Taliban militants ambushed a military
convoy in troubled northwestern Pakistan, triggering a shootout that
killed 10 militants and wounded seven soldiers.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Shepherds from 32
countries joined their Spanish colleagues to lead flocks of sheep
through the streets of downtown Madrid in defense of ancient grazing
routes threatened by urban sprawl and manmade frontiers. Modern-day
Madrid lies squarely in the way of two venerable north-south routes,
one dating back to 1372.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Southern Sudanese
officials said government troops have agreed to end their siege of
61 south Sudanese soldiers, resolving a stand-off that risked
undermining the north-south peace deal.
(Reuters, 9/9/07)
2007 Sep 9, Thousands of
protesters blocked a central Taipei street and displayed candles in
the shape of the Chinese character for "fart" to demand that Taiwan
President Chen Shui-bian step down over suspected corruption.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2008 Sep 9, In Berkeley, Ca.,
the last 4 protesters in a lone redwood voluntarily climbed down.
The struggle to protect 42 trees from being felled for a sports
training center had begun on December 1, 2006. UC later sought as
much as $10,000 from each of the tree sitters for attorney fees.
(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A1)(SFC, 9/22/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 9, San Antonio, Texas,
unveiled a deal that will make it the first US city to harvest
methane gas from human waste on a commercial scale and turn it into
clean-burning fuel.
(Reuters, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, O3B Networks Ltd.,
founded by Greg Wyler (38), announced plans to launch as many as 16
satellites that could provide Internet service to Africa, the Middle
East and parts of Latin America by 2010 at a cost of some $650
million.
(WSJ, 9/9/08, p.B1)(www.o3bnetworks.com/)
2008 Sep 9, Angola's former
rebel movement and main opposition party UNITA faced up to a
crushing electoral defeat in a landmark peacetime poll in which it
won only 10.4% of the vote. The ruling left-wing MPLA (Popular
Movement for the Liberation of Angola), which has been in power for
over three decades, had nearly 82 percent of the votes.
(AFP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, The 27-member EU
stopped short of offering Ukraine membership during an EU-Ukraine
summit hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. But the two sides
began work on an "association accord," a step that offers closer
political and economic ties and in the past has been designed to
prepare nations for eventual membership.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 9, An Italian study
showed a new way to test for cervical cancer is more accurate than a
pap smear and identified more dangerous lesions.
(Reuters, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, A NATO bomb missed
its target by more than 1 1/2 miles and hit a house, killing two
Afghan civilians and wounding 10 at a time of rising tension between
the Afghan government and international troops over the use of
airstrikes.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, Hurricane Ike
roared south of Havana, Cuba, after tearing across the island
nation, ravaging homes, killing at least four people and forcing 1.2
million to evacuate.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, The Iraqi oil
ministry said Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed
to a gas joint venture with Iraq worth up to four billion dollars,
becoming the first Western oil major to gain access to the
violence-wracked country's vast energy reserves.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, Morocco said it
would start vaccinating all livestock after the outbreak of Peste
des Petits Ruminants, a deadly viral disease, ahead of the Eid
festival when millions of animals are sacrificed.
(AFP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, Militants in
Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta hijacked a vessel with five
expatriate and eight Nigerian oil workers on board. Robin Hughes
from St Margaret's Bay, Kent, was among 27 oil workers kidnapped by
militants when their vessel was hijacked. Hughes (59) was freed on
April 19, 2009.
(AFP, 9/10/08)(AFP, 4/20/09)
2008 Sep 9, North Korea held a
military parade to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the country’s
founding, but leader Kim Jong Il (66) was missing. Media later
reported that Kim Jong Il had brain surgery after a stroke last
month and could have partial paralysis on one side.
(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A3)(AP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 9, OPEC ministers
decided to scale back production by some 520,000 barrels a day in
the face of falling oil prices and slowing demand. Hours earlier
Russia proposed extensive cooperation with OPEC.
(WSJ, 9/10/08, p.A7)
2008 Sep 9, Asif Ali Zardari.
the widower of assassinated former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto,
took office as the country's new president, facing immediate
pressure to crack down on Islamic militants and address daunting
economic problems. Zardari and Afghan Pres. Karzai hosted a joint
news conference and declared that they stand together against the
Taliban and al-Qaida.
(AP, 9/9/08)(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A7)
2008 Sep 9, Russia said it will
station 7,600 troops in South Ossetia and in Abkhazia, announcing an
imposing long-term presence less than a day after agreeing to pull
forces back from areas surrounding the provinces.
(AP, 9/9/08)(WSJ, 9/10/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 9, Serbian lawmakers
ratified a pre-membership agreement with the EU and an oil and gas
deal with Russia after months of heated debate over the direction of
the country's policies.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, A gunman killed an
outspoken Somali lawmaker in the provincial town of Baidoa, the
latest in a series of attacks in the lawless African nation.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 9, Thailand's PM Samak
was forced to resign along with his Cabinet after a court ruled that
he had violated the constitution by hosting TV cooking shows while
in office. The Cabinet will remain in a caretaker position until a
new administration is installed.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2008 Sep 9, Tamil Tiger rebels
launched an air and ground assault on a military complex in northern
Sri Lanka. 5 women were among 10 suicide bombers that struck the
Vavuniya military complex, 260 kilometers (160 miles) north of
Colombo. At least 15 people were killed in the attack. The UN
announced it was withdrawing its aid workers from Sri Lanka's
embattled north ahead of a major military drive, as Colombo claimed
its first downing of a rebel aircraft.
(AP, 9/9/08)(AFP, 9/12/08)
2008 Sep 9, Togo’s Health
Ministry said an outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed for the
first time since last year.
(AP, 9/9/08)
2009 Sep 9, President Barack
Obama, in a major speech before Congress, promised to overhaul the
nation's health care system. Not a single Republican has endorsed
any of the plans approved so far by four House and Senate
committees. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., heckled Obama with a shout of
“You lie!” regarding Obama’s assertion of no planned medical care to
illegal immigrants. Wilson soon apologized but refused to do so on
the House floor.
(AP, 9/9/09)(SFC, 9/11/09, p.A18)
2009 Sep 9, The US, Britain,
Cyprus, Japan and Singapore signed on to an international plan, the
“New York Declaration,” to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia.
The New York Declaration is an agreement between the signatory flag
states which condemns acts of piracy and armed robbery against
vessels and seafarers and recognizes that self protection measures
taken by vessels can be highly effective in avoiding, delaying and
deterring acts of piracy. The nonbinding political document was
originally tabled on May 29, 2009.
(SFC, 9/10/09,
p.A2)(www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unifeed/d/13476.html)
2009 Sep 9, Lawyers said 3
Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay formally accepted an
offer to take up new lives in the Pacific island nation of Palau and
could be moved there as early as next month.
(AP, 9/10/09)
2009 Sep 9, California
Assemblyman Mike Duvall, R-Yorba Linda, resigned after a videotape
surfaced of his bragging about sexual exploits with 2 women, one of
whom reportedly worked as a lobbyist.
(SFC, 9/10/09, p.A11)
2009 Sep 9, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Camp Bastion NATO base in
southern Helmand province, killing at least two Afghan civilians and
wounding several foreign and local troops. British commandos freed
NY Times reporter Stephen Farrell (46) in a raid on a Taliban
hide-out in northern Afghanistan. Farrell and his translator had
been taken hostage on Sep 5. A British soldier died during the raid
as well as Afghan translator, Sultan Munadi (34) and 2 civilians.
(AFP, 9/9/09)(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, Australia announced
that it has launched a war crimes investigation into the 1975
killing of five Australian-based journalists during an attack by
Indonesian forces in East Timor.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, Colombian customs
agents said they seized $11.3 million in cash from a shipping
container in the nation's largest cargo port. Ret. Gen. Francisco
Pedraza was captured at the installations of the IV Brigade in
Medellin, Antioquia. He is being investigated for homicide, forced
displacement and terrorism as part of an investigation into the 2001
massacre of at least 26 people in Naya, Cauca state.
(AP, 9/9/09)(AP, 9/10/09)
2009 Sep 9, Dubai’s Sheikh
Mohammed al-Maktoum opened the Arabian Peninsula's first metro
system, the $7.6 billion project, hoping to capture the world's
spotlight on the catchy date of 9/9/09, whether the sleek system is
fully ready to go or not.
(AP, 9/9/09)(Econ, 9/12/09, p.52)
2009 Sep 9, In Ecuador Gloria
Daniela Lopez, a Los Angeles college student, was stabbed to death
in Ambato. Her body was found the next day with her throat slit. A
family friend later said she had been decapitated and possibly
raped. A local police investigation was said to be stalled because
she was American.
(SFC, 10/9/09, p.D5)
2009 Sep 9, Gabon’s the
opposition claimed that violence in Port-Gentil, Gabon's second
city, claimed 15 lives after last week's disputed presidential
election, far more than the official toll provided by the
government.
(AFP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, Grenada’s PM
Tillman Thomas said Grenada has sold some 100 Venezuelan-built
houses at a deep discount to people left homeless by Hurricane Ivan
in 2004. Venezuela financed the construction of 120 homes. They were
finished three years ago, but electrical inspections delayed their
sale. Valued at $92,000 each, the structures were sold for only
$2,000, to help cover the cost of the land title transfer. The
government selected mostly single mothers who were renting or living
with relatives. The unsold structures were planned to be used as
shelters for victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, In Iraq a car bomb
exploded outside a house in the flash point city of Kirkuk, killing
eight people inside the building and wounding one. US-backed Iraqi
soldiers raided a home in southeastern Baghdad before dawn, killing
two men inside and arresting an Iraqi soldier from an intelligence
unit. A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi patrol in the Abu Ghraib
district, killing one soldier and injuring two others. An Iraqi army
colonel was killed by a bomb attached to his car in the insurgent
stronghold of Mosul.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, In Jamaica John A.
Terry (65), Britain’s honorary consul in Montego Bay, was found
strangled in bed with a note denouncing him as a homosexual.
(Econ, 9/19/09, p.49)(AP, 10/3/09)
2009 Sep 9, Conservationists
said poaching and drought-related hunger have killed more than 100
of Kenya's famous elephants in the north of the country so far this
year. Around 23,000 elephants live in Kenya but populations can be
devastated by poaching within a couple of years. A recent survey in
Chad showed its elephant population had declined from 3,800 to just
over 600 in the past three years.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, A Malaysian
government report said indigenous tribal girls have been sexually
abused by loggers in remote jungles on Borneo island, in the first
official verification of rape accusations involving timber
companies.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, In Mexico a
Bolivian-born man, clutching a Bible and claiming a divine mission,
hijacked a plane with more than 100 people aboard after takeoff from
Cancun. The incident ended quickly and without bloodshed when police
arrested Jose Flores (44) in Mexico City. Police in Morelia said
that they had seized eight counterfeit police and rescue vehicles
including an intensive care ambulance with official-looking logos
and paint jobs. The vehicles belonged to gang members who planned to
use them to conduct illegal activities. In 2011 Josmar Flores was
sentenced to seven years, seven months and 15 days in prison.
(Reuters, 9/10/09)(AP, 9/10/09)(AP, 5/19/11)
2009 Sep 9, Salvadoran
authorities said they had arrested 4 alleged Mara 18 gang members
and a police officer in the Sep 2 slaying of French documentary
filmmaker Christian Poveda. The arrested officer was identified as
Jose Napoleon Espinoza, an agent assigned to the 911 emergency phone
system in Soyapango outside the capital, San Salvador.
(AP, 9/10/09)
2009 Sep 9, In Sierra Leone at
least 221 people, including many schoolchildren returning from
holidays, remained missing a day after the wooden Teh Teh ferry
capsized at sea. 39 people survived. 30 bodies were recovered and
all the missing were feared dead.
(AP, 9/10/09)(AP, 9/12/09)
2009 Sep 9, The Dalai Lama
received Slovakia's Jan Langos award for his promotion of human
rights and his leadership in the nonviolent campaign by Tibetans
seeking autonomy from China. The Jan Langos Foundation gives its
award to "an outstanding figure of the local defiance against
oppressed regimes and their security services" and to civil servants
and politicians who "endeavor for human dignity and freedom."
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, A Somali Islamic
court cut off the hands of two men accused of theft and lashed
another accused of rape.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, In South Korea
performers from around the world have gathered on the South Korean
island of Jeju for this week's international Delphic Games,
popularly known as the "Culture Olympics." The first Delphic Games
of the modern era were held in Russia in 2000 and the second in
Malaysia in 2005.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, Spain’s PM
Rodriguez Zapatero told Parliament the 2010 budget would aim to
raise overall taxes by 1.5% of GDP in order to help meet demands of
the most needy. Unemployment, the worst in Europe, had reached 18%
and was still climbing.
(Econ, 9/12/09, p.58)
2009 Sep 9, Thailand's national
police chief resigned after being transferred to an inactive post in
the wake of an official recommendation that he be prosecuted for his
role in a deadly crackdown against anti-government protesters last
year.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, A teacher (29) in
Bangkok, Thailand, was captured on film beating a student (14) and
bashing his head against a blackboard. The 50-second clip, filmed by
a classmate using a mobile phone, was broadcast Sep 21 on a
nationally televised morning news program, sparking national outrage
and pledges from education officials to crack down on corporal
punishment in classrooms.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 9, In Turkey flash
floods roared across a major highway and a commercial district in
Istanbul, killing at least 32 people and forcing dozens to scramble
onto the roofs of cars and trucks. Some of the dead drowned inside
their vehicles.
(Reuters, 9/9/09)(AFP, 9/10/09)
2009 Sep 9, A Uganda army
spokesman said government forces have rescued 100 kidnapped children
and young adults during an operation against the Lord’s Resistance
Army rebel group in neighboring Central African Republic.
(AP, 9/9/09)
2009 Sep 9, Uruguay’s Senate
gave final approval for gay and lesbian couples to adopt children,
making it the first country in Latin America to do so. The executive
branch will decide when the law takes effect.
(SFC, 9/10/09, p.A2)
2009 Sep 9, In Yemen 17 rebels
were killed in an air strike, according to a government statement,
which said they were caught sneaking through the mountains near
Saada. Four men survived the attack and were in custody.
(AP, 9/10/09)
2010 Sep 9, President Barack
Obama exhorted Rev. Terry Jones, a Florida minister, to "listen to
those better angels" and call off his plan to engage in a
Quran-burning protest this weekend. The Rev. Terry Jones from the
Dove Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, said he has decided to
hold off a burning of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11
attacks. Jones said he won't follow through with the burning if he's
able to meet on Sep 11 with the organizers behind a mosque planned
near ground zero in New York.
(AP, 9/9/10)(AP, 9/10/10)
2010 Sep 9, A US federal judge
in southern California ruled that the US military’s ban on openly
gay service members is unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
Judge Virginia Phillips ruled for the plaintiffs, a group of gay
activists know as the Log Cabin Republicans.
(SFC, 9/9/10, p.A9)(Econ, 10/16/10, p.40)
2010 Sep 9, A massive
explosion, apparently triggered by a broken gas line, sent flames
roaring through San Bruno, a neighborhood near San Francisco, Ca.,
destroying 37 homes and badly damaged 8 others. At least 7 people
were killed and over 50 injured. On Sep 27 the death toll rose to 8
as another victim died of injuries from the blast.
(AP, 9/10/10)(SFC, 9/10/10, p.A1)(SFC, 9/11/10,
p.A1)(SSFC, 9/12/10, p.A1)(SFC, 9/23/10, p.C5)(SFC, 9/29/10, p.C4)
2010 Sep 9, In Pennsylvania
Kraft worker Yvonne Hiller of northeast Philadelphia shot and killed
two co-workers after she was suspended from a Kraft Foods plant.
(AP, 9/10/10)
2010 Sep 9, An Afghan insurgent
commander, who was allegedly planning bombings in Kabul on the eve
of the Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, and two of his associates
were killed in a NATO airstrike. Intelligence sources had tracked
Nur Mohammed and two armed militants to a field in the remote Musahi
district of Kabul province.
(AP, 9/10/10)
2010 Sep 9, Bangladesh's high
court banned the lease of coastal land to ship-breaking yards, in a
ruling welcomed by environmentalists who say the industry destroys
fragile eco-systems. Dismantling old ships is a major industry in
Bangladesh, providing more than two-thirds of domestic steel and
creating tens of thousands of jobs.
(AFP, 9/10/10)
2010 Sep 9, The Belgium
government said that an investigation into sexual abuse in the
Catholic Church can continue even though a June 24 raid on the
archdiocese has been ruled illegal. The next day the commission
looking into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy said it had received
testimony from hundreds of victims and that witnesses’ widespread
abuse over decades had led to at least 13 suicides.
(AP, 9/9/10)(AP, 9/10/10)
2010 Sep 9, British legislators
authorized a sweeping inquiry into illicit snooping on politicians
and celebrities by tabloids, as one lawmaker called for media tycoon
Rupert Murdoch to testify over allegations one of his newspapers
illegally hacked into cell phones.
(AP, 9/9/10)
2010 Sep 9, In China Chen
Guangcheng (39), a blind, self-taught activist lawyer, was released
from prison and promptly confined in his rural village with limited
access to communication. He had documented forced abortions and
other abuses.
(AP, 9/9/10)
2010 Sep 9, In Egypt 11 police
recruits died and another four were injured when flames engulfed
their barracks in a Cairo suburb.
(AFP, 9/9/10)
2010 Sep 9, The European
Parliament called on France to suspend its expulsion of gypsies. The
rare criticism of an EU state was backed by 337 lawmakers meeting in
Strasbourg, France, with 245 opposed and 51 abstentions. To date
France had deported 8,000 people to Romania and Bulgaria this year
alone.
(AP, 9/9/10)(Econ, 9/18/10, p.73)
2010 Sep 9, In Guinea 2 senior
voting officials were charged with vote tampering and sentenced to
one year in prison a week before a crucial presidential vote. Not
even their lawyers were informed of the court proceeding.
(AP, 9/10/10)
2010 Sep 9, An Iranian
opposition group claimed to have discovered a new uranium enrichment
plant being built about 75 miles (120 km) west of Tehran and said it
was 85 percent complete. The head of Iran's nuclear agency, Ali
Akbar Salehi, said the country has no undeclared nuclear sites. A US
government official also disputed the claim by the People's
Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, saying the site did not appear to
have a nuclear role.
(AP, 9/10/10)
2010 Sep 9, In Mexico gunmen
killed 25 people in a series of drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez,
marking the deadliest day in more than two years for the Mexican
border city.
(AP, 9/11/10)
2010 Sep 9, In Pakistan a
roadside bomb killed 10 people and wounded four in a tribal region
on the Afghan border. A suicide bomber detonated himself inside the
house of a government minister in the Pakistan's southwestern city
of Quetta, killing three people. A suspected American missile strike
killed five alleged militants in North Waziristan.
(AP, 9/9/10)
2010 Sep 9, In Russia's North
Caucasus a suicide car bomber hit the Vladikavkaz central market,
North Ossetia, killing 19 people and wounding more than 130 people
in one of the worst attacks in the volatile region in years. On Oct
12 Federal Security Service chief Alexander Bortnikov said 3
organizers were arrested in late September in Ingushetia. He said
two other suspects were killed by security forces.
(AP, 9/9/10)(Reuters, 9/10/10)(AP, 10/12/10)
2010 Sep 9, In Somalia at least
2 African Union troops, 3 civilians and 5 attackers were killed in a
suicide raid on Mogadishu airport. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility
and said the attack was aimed at a high-level meeting of UN, African
Union and Somali officials at the airport.
(AFP, 9/9/10)(AP, 10/6/11)
2010 Sep 9, South Africa
released new statistics indicating that its murder rate, one of the
highest in the world, has dropped by 8.6 percent to its lowest level
in nearly two decades.
(AP, 9/9/10)
2010 Sep 9, Spain gave final
approval to labor market reforms designed to shake up a listless
economy and help slash a bloated deficit that has prompted
European-wide worries of another Greek-style debt crisis.
(AP, 9/9/10)
2010 Sep 9, A senior southern
Sudan official said northern Sudan has resolved an angry dispute
with the south by returning the payment of crucial oil revenues to
hard currency.
(AFP, 9/9/10)
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