Today in History - September 10
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1349 Sep 10, The
Jews who survived a massacre in Constance, Germany, were burned to
death.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1382 Sep 10, Louis I, the Great,
King of Hungary and Poland, died. Mary (1372-1395), daughter of Louis
I, became queen of Hungary.
(PC, 1992 ed,
p.135)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Hungary)
1419 Sep 10, John the Fearless
(48), Burgundy and French warrior, was murdered at Montereau, France,
by supporters of the dauphine.
(HN, 9/10/98)(MC, 9/10/01)
1487 Sep 10, Julius III, Italian
counter-Reformation Pope (1550-1555), was born. He was also a poet and
promoted the Jesuits.
(WUD, 1994, p.773)(HN, 9/10/98)(MC, 9/10/01)
1547 Sep 10, The Duke of Somerset
led the English to a resounding victory over the Scots at Pinkie
Cleugh. This was the last battle to be fought between English and
Scottish royal armies and the last in which the longbow was used
tactically en masse.
(HN, 9/10/98)(WSJ, 11/4/04, p.D10)
1547 Sep 10, The English demanded
that Edward VI (10), wed Mary Queen of Scots (5).
(MC, 9/10/01)
1547 Sep 10, Pierlugi Faranese,
Italian son of Pope Paul III, was murdered.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1588 Sep 10, Nicholas Lanier,
composer, was born.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1588 Sep 10, Thomas Cavendish
returned to England, becoming the third man to circumnavigate the globe.
(HN, 9/10/98)
1608 Sep 10, John Smith was
elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia. Before
coming to Virginia, John Smith had served as a mercenary in Hungary and
was wounded, captured and sold into slavery by his Turkish adversaries;
he escaped by killing his owner. Smith studied the Powhattan language
and culture. Pocahontas was a Powhattan Indian girl of 10-11 years when
she new Smith in Virginia. Records of the colony were kept by William
Strachey, its official historian. The Powhattans were an aggressive
tribe and under Chief Powhattan’s leadership, they conquered and
subjugated more than 20 other tribes.
(WSJ, 6/13/95, p.A-18)(AP, 9/10/97)
1623 Sep 10, Lumber and furs were
the first cargo to leave New Plymouth in North America for England.
(HN, 9/10/98)
1736 Sep 10, Carter Braxton, US
farmer and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1749 Sep 10, Emilie du Chatelet
(b.1706), writer and mathematician, died from an infection that
followed a pregnancy. Her work included a translation of Newton’s
Principia from Latin to French. She met Voltaire in 1733 and they soon
began living together. In 1957 Nancy Mitford authored “Voltaire in
Love.” In 2006 David Bodanis authored “Passionate Minds: The Great
Enlightenment Love Affair” and Judith P. Zinsser authored “La Dame
d’Esprit.”
(www.math.wichita.edu/history/women/chatelet.html)(WSJ, 12/9/06, p.P12)
1754 Sep 10, William Bligh, was
born. He was the British naval officer who was the victim of two
mutinies, the most famous on the HMS Bounty which was taken over by
Fletcher Christian in 1789. [see Sep 9]
(HN, 9/10/98)
1776 Sep 10, George Washington
asked for a spy volunteer and Nathan Hale volunteered.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1779 Sep 10, Louis Alexandre
Piccinni, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1794 Sep 10, America's first
non-denominational college, Blount College (later the University of
Tennessee), was chartered.
(AP, 9/10/97)
1813 Sep 10, The nine-ship
American flotilla under Oliver Hazard Perry wrested naval supremacy
from the British on Lake Erie by capturing or destroying a force of six
English vessels in the War of 1812. With Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry's flagship unable to fight, an outmatched British flotilla faced
the prospect of a remarkable victory. But Perry only transferred his
pennant to another ship and fought on. American Captain Oliver Hazard
Perry led his home-built 10-vessel fleet to victory against a
six-vessel British squadron commanded by Captain Robert H. Barclay in
the Battle of Lake Erie. Perry's triumph, marked by his legendary
message to General William Henry Harrison, "We have met the enemy and
they are ours," was of great strategic value for the United States
because it ensured American control of the Northwest Territory. During
the battle, Perry left his badly damaged Lawrence and transferred his
motto flag, reading, "Don't Give Up the Ship," to Niagara. From there
he continued the fight.
(AP, 9/10/97)(HN, 9/10/98) (HNPD, 9/10/98)
1823 Sep 10, Simon Bolivar was
named president of Peru and assumed the presidency with dictatorial
powers. He had led the wars for independence from Spain in Venezuela,
Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1836 Sep 10, Joseph Wheeler II,
Maj. Gen. of the Confederacy, Cavalry, Army of Tennessee, was born.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1838 Sep 10, The opera "Benvenuto
Cellini," by Hector Berlioz, premiered in Paris. It was based on
Cellini's autobiography.
(MC, 9/10/01)(WSJ, 12/16/03, p.D10)
1846 Sep 10, Elias Howe of
Spencer, Mass., received a U.S. patent for his first workable
lockstitch sewing machine. Howe, a Massachusetts machinist, developed
his sewing machine in 1843-45 and patented it in 1846. Although Howe's
machine sewed only short, straight lines, tailors and seamstresses saw
it as a threat to their jobs. Unable to market his machine in America,
Howe took it to Britain where he sold the rights to an English
manufacturer in 1847. Upon his return to the United States, Howe
discovered that his patent had been infringed upon by other sewing
machine manufacturers, such as Isaac Singer. After a lengthy court
battle, Howe's patent was upheld and royalties from sewing machine
sales made him a wealthy man.
(CFA, '96, p.54)(AP, 9/10/97)(HNPD, 7/9/98)(HN,
9/10/98)
1847 Sep 10, John Roy Lynch, first
African-American to deliver the keynote address at a Republican
National Convention, was born.
(HN, 9/10/98)
1849 Sep 10, US actor Edwin Booth,
brother of Lincoln Assassinator John Wilkes Booth, made his 1st
performance in Richard III.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1855 Sep 10, Sevastopol, under
siege for nearly a year, capitulated to the Allies in the Crimean war.
(HN, 9/10/98)
1861 Sep 10, Confederates at
Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, fell back after being attacked by Union
troops. There were 170 casualties. The action was instrumental in
helping preserve western Virginia for the Union.
(HN, 9/10/98)(MC, 9/10/01)
1869 Sep 10, A Baptist minister
invented the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan. The jinrikisha, or rickshaw,
was developed as a cheap alternative to horse power in 1870. In 1998
Tony wheeler wrote “Chasing Rickshaws” with photographs by Richard
I’Anson.
(SFEC, 10/11/98, p.T9)(MC, 9/10/01)
1875 Sep 10, M.K. Ciurlionis
(d.1911), Lithuanian artist and composer, was born. Sep 22 is also
given as a birth date.
(LC, 1998, p.12,24)
1879 Sep 10, Pacific Coast Oil Co.
was founded in San Francisco by Lloyd Tevis, George Loomis and Charles
Felton. In 1906 it became Standard Oil Co. (California). In 1926 it
became Standard Oil Co. of California (Socal). In 1984 it became
Chevron Corp. In 2001 it became ChevronTexaco. In 2005 it was renamed
Chevron Corp.
(SFC, 10/20/04, p.C6)(SFC, 5/10/05, p.D1)
1882 Sep 10, The 1st international
conference to promote anti-Semitism met in Dresden Germany (Congress
for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests).
(MC, 9/10/01)
1885 Sep 10, Carl Clinton Van
Doren, historian and critic who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography
on Benjamin Franklin, was born. His work included “9th Wave.”
(HN, 9/10/98)(MC, 9/10/01)
1890 Sep 10, Franz Werfel, author
(40 Days of Musa Dagh), was born in Austria.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1892 Sep 10, Arthur Compton,
physicist, was born in Wooster, Ohio.
(HN, 9/10/00)
1894 Sep 10, London taxi driver
George ("Mac") Smith was 1st to be fined for drunk driving (no horse to
take him home).
(MC, 9/10/01)
1896 Sep 10, Elsa Schiaparelli,
French fashion designer, was born.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1897 Sep 10, Police shot at
striking mine workers in Pennsylvania and 20 people were killed.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1907 Sep 10, Alaska’s Tongass
National Forest, the largest US National Forest, was established as
part of the National Forest System in a presidential proclamation made
by Theodore Roosevelt. In 1908 it was joined with the Alexander
Archipelago Forest Reserve, established in 1902.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, Z1
p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongass_National_Forest)
1907 Sep 10, Herbert Marcus Sr.,
his sister Carrie Marcus Nieman, and her husband A.I. Nieman opened the
retail firm Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas. By 2002 the firm had 32 US
stores.
(SSFC, 9/9/07, p.G3)(AP, 9/10/07)
1912 Sep 10, In France J. Vedrines
became the first pilot to break 100 m.p.h. barrier.
(HN, 9/10/98)
1914 Sep 10, The six-day Battle of
the Marne ended, and the German advance into France was stopped. 20th
century history turned on this pivotal event.
(HN, 9/10/98)(WSJ, 12/31/99, p.A10)
1915 Sep 10, Edmond O'Brien
(d.1985), film actor, was born in NYC. His films included "Hunchback of
Notre Dame" (1939) and "The Wild Bunch" (1969).
(www.hollywood.com)
1919 Sep 10, New York City
welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served
in the U.S. First Division during World War I.
(AP, 9/10/97)
1923 Sep 10, The Irish Free state
joined the League of Nations.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1923 Sep 10, In response to a
dispute with Yugoslavia, Mussolini mobilized Italian troops on Serb
front.
(HN, 9/10/98)
1924 Sep 10, Leopold and Loeb were
found guilty of deliberate, casual murder in Chicago.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1924 Sep 10, Willis Polk (b.1867),
San Francisco architect, died. He had designed the Filoli estate on the
Peninsula and the glass-fronted Hallidie Building on Sutter St.
(SFC, 12/19/96,
p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Polk)
1927 Sep 10, Yma Sumac,
[Chavarri], 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam), was born in Ichocan, Peru.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1929 Sep 10, Arnold Palmer, golfer
who won four Masters, two British Opens and one U.S. Open, was born.
(HN, 9/10/98)
1932 Sep 10, The Independent City
Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opened in NYC.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1934 Sep 10, Charles Kuralt (d.Jul
4, 1997), TV journalist, was born in Wilmington, NC. He was known for
his popular “On the Road” television program.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.A5)(HN, 9/10/00)
1935 Sep 10, Mary Oliver, Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet, was born in maple Heights, Ohio.
(HN, 9/10/00)
1935 Sep 10, Sen. Huey P. Long,
"The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, died from a gunshot wound
inflicted Sep 8 by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss Jr. In 2006 Richard D. White
authored “Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long.”
(AP, 9/8/97)(Econ, 4/22/06, p.80)
1939 Sep 10, Canada declared war
on Nazi Germany.
(AP, 9/10/97)
1941 Sep 10, Stephen Jay Gould
(d.2002), biologist, paleontologist and writer, was born in NYC. His
books included “Time’s Cycle” and “The Panda’s Thumb.”
(HN, 9/10/00)(SFC, 5/21/02, p.A6)
1942 Sep 10, RAF dropped 100,000
bombs on Dusseldorf.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1942 Sep 10, British troops landed
on Madagascar.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1943 Sep 10, German troops
occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1944 Sep 10, Thomas Allen, British
opera singer, was born.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1944 Sep 10, Lt. Gen. Frederick
Browning spoke against Montgomery: "But, sir, I think we might be going
a bridge too far."
(MC, 9/10/01)
1945 Sep 10, Vidkun Quisling was
sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis. He was
executed by firing squad in October 1945.
(AP, 9/10/07)
1948 Sep 10, Mildred Gillars,
accused of being Nazi wartime radio broadcaster "Axis Sally," was
indicted in Washington, D.C., on treason charges. She was later
convicted, and served 12 years in prison.
(AP, 9/10/04)
1950 Sep 10, In South Korea 43
American war planes dropped 93 napalm canisters over Wolmi to clear out
its eastern slope for UN troops. Village residents later said dozens of
people were killed.
(SSFC, 8/3/08, p.A16)
1952 Sep 10, Germany and Israel
signed the Luxembourg Agreement, an accord about recovery payments.
West Germany agreed to pay Israel a sum of 3 billion marks over the
next fourteen years. It was signed by West German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett and World Jewish
Congress President Nahum Goldmann.
(http://tinyurl.com/etznn)(http://tinyurl.com/h6n7m)
1954 Sep 10, A 12 second
earthquake killed 1,460 in Orleansville, Algeria.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1954 Sep 10, Peter Anders, German
opera singer, died.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1955 Sep 10, The TV show
"Gunsmoke," starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon, premiered on
CBS and lasted to 1975.
(AP, 9/10/05)
1956 Sep 10, In Louisville, Ky.,
the public schools integrated.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1961 Sep 10, Jomo Kenyatta
returned to Kenya from exile, during which he had been elected
president of the Kenya National African Union.
(HN, 9/10/98)
1963 Sep 10, 20 black students
entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala.,
following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C.
Wallace. President John F. Kennedy federalized Alabama's National Guard
to prevent Governor George C. Wallace from using guardsmen to stop
public-school desegregation.
(AP, 9/10/97)(HN, 9/10/98)
1964 Sep 10, Palestinian
Liberation Army (PLA) formed.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1966 Sep 10, The Beatles'
"Revolver," album went #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1967 Sep 10, Gibraltar voted
12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1972 Sep 10, At the Munich Summer
Olympics, the US Olympic basketball team lost to the Soviets, 51-50, in
a gold-medal match marked by controversy because officials ordered the
final three seconds of the game replayed, enabling the Soviets to win.
The US protested, to no avail. Frank Shorter of the United States won
the men's marathon at the Munich Olympics.
(AP,
9/10/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics)
1973 Sep 10, A second version of
the TV game show “Concentration” was syndicated, with Jack Narz as
host. It ran through September 8, 1978.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_(game_show))
1973 Sep 10, Muhammad Ali defeated
Ken Norton in a heavyweight boxing match and avenged a loss to Norton
the previous March.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali)
1976 Sep 10, 5 Croatian terrorists
captured a TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY.
(http://nycslav.blogspot.com/2005/11/croatian-terroristsin-new-york.html)
1976 Sep 10, Dalton Trumbo
(b.1905), US novelist and screenwriter, died at age 70. His books
included “Johnny Got His Gun” (1939). He used pseudonyms for a number
of Hollywood screenplays after he was blacklisted as one of the
“Hollywood Ten” by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtrumbo.htm)
1977 Sep 10, Convicted murderer
Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to date
to be executed by the guillotine in France.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, Z1 p.6)(AP, 9/10/97)
1979 Sep 10, Pres. Agostinho Neto
(b.1922), Angola’s 1st president, died and Jose Eduardo dos Santos was
elected president. Neto was originally embalmed but later cremated.
(SFC, 8/24/01,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostinho_Neto)(SFC, 9/10/08, p.A5)
1979 Sep 10, Four Puerto Rican
nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the House of
Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Truman were
granted clemency by President Carter.
(AP, 9/10/99)
1981 Sep 10, Pablo Picasso’s
painting Guernica was returned to Spain and installed in Madrid’s Prado
Museum. Picasso had stated in his will that the painting was not to
return to Spain until the Fascists lost power and democracy was
restored.
(HN, 9/10/00)
1983 Sep 10, John Vorster, prime
minister of white-ruled South Africa from 1966 to 1978, died in Cape
Town at age 67.
(AP, 9/10/99)
1984 Sep 10, British scientist
Alec Jeffreys and colleagues discovered that x-ray images of bits of
DNA showed patterns unique to individuals. Jeffries, a geneticist at
Leicester Univ., and his research team found that DNA sequences,
specific to individuals, could be identified as visible bands. He
dubbed his findings DNA fingerprinting. This led to the use of DNA to
solve thousands of crimes.
(Econ, 3/13/04, TQ p.34)(SSFC, 9/13/09, p.A17,20)
1987 Sep 10, Pope John Paul
II arrived in Miami, where he was welcomed by President and Mrs.
Reagan, to begin a 10-day tour of the United States.
(AP, 9/10/97)
1988 Sep 10, Gretchen Elizabeth
Carlson of Minnesota was crowned Miss America.
(AP, 9/10/98)
1988 Sep 10, Steffi Graf of West
Germany achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970
by winning the U.S. Open women's final.
(AP, 9/10/98)
1989 Sep 10, Hungary gave
permission for thousands of East German refugees and visitors to
emigrate to West Germany.
(AP, 9/10/99)
1990 Sep 10, The Ellis Island
Immigration Museum opened following a 6-year, $170 million restoration.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.T11)
1990 Sept 10, In Catamarca,
Argentina, the body of 17-year-old Maria Soledad Morales was found. She
had been tortured, mutilated and killed. Her murder was covered up by
local authorities and as of 1996 no one had yet been charged.
(WSJ, 4/16/96, p.A-1)
1990 Sep 10, Iran agreed to resume
full diplomatic ties with onetime enemy Iraq.
(AP, 9/10/00)
1991 Sep 10, The Senate Judiciary
Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 9/10/01)
1992 Sep 10, Less than two months
before Election Day, President Bush unveiled a repackaged economic
manifesto which included a possible 1 percentage-point across-the-board
tax-rate cut.
(AP, 9/10/97)
1993 Sep 10, The cult series "The
X-Files" premiered on Fox Television.
(AP, 9/10/98)
1993 Sep 10, First lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton lashed out at what she called "standpat, negative,
nay-saying" opponents of health reform in an address to state
legislators at George Washington University.
(AP, 9/10/98)
1994 Sep 10, President Clinton,
Vice President Al Gore and top national security advisers met to
discuss intervention in Haiti, but made no final decisions.
(AP, 9/10/99)
1994 Sep 10, Amy Clampitt
(b.1920), American poet, died. Her books included “Kingfisher” (1983).
In 2005 Willard Spiegelman edited her selected letters: “Love, Amy: The
Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt.”
(WSJ, 7/22/05,
p.W7)(www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=890)
1995 Sep 10, NBC’s “ER” won eight
Emmy Awards, but lost best dramatic series to ABC’s “NYPD Blue;” NBC’s
“Frasier” won five awards, including best comedy series.
(AP, 9/10/00)
1995 Sep 10, A plane carrying
members of a skydivers club crashed in Shacklefords, Virginia, killing
ten parachutists, the plane’s pilot and a man on the ground.
(AP, 9/10/00)
1996 Sep 10, Ross Perot picked
economist Pat Choate, a Washington economist and author, to share the
Reform Party presidential ticket.
(SFC, 9/11/96, p.A1)(AP, 9/10/97)
1996 Sep 10, The US Senate dealt a
double defeat to gay-rights activists, voting to reject same-sex
marriage in federal law (Defense of Marriage Act - DOMA) by a vote of
85-14. It also rejected (50-49) a separate bill that would have barred
job discrimination against gays.
(WSJ, 9/11/96, p.A1)(AP, 9/10/97)
1996 Sep 10, The US 1997 defense
bill was passed and allotted the 1.5 million members of the military a
3% pay raise to begin Jan 1.
(SFC, 9/11/96, p.A9)
1996 Sep 10, The UN General
Assembly voted to endorse a nuclear test ban treaty. India refused to
sign and prevented the treaty from taking effect. India, Bhutan and
Libya voted against the treaty. Cuba, Lebanon, Syria, Tanzania and
Mauritius abstained.
(SFC, 9/11/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 10, Humberto de la Calle,
vice-president of Columbia, resigned as a protest to the presidency of
Ernesto Samper.
(SFC, 9/11/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 10, Typhoon Sally hit
Guangdong province in southern China and killed more than 130 people.
(SFC, 9/11/96, p.A9) (SFC, 9/14/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 10, Saddam Hussein
announced the lifting of all travel restrictions to or within the
Kurdish zone.
(SFC, 9/13/96, p.A13)
1996 Sep 10, Hurricane Hortense
pounded Puerto Rico, causing at least 21 deaths and destroying
thousands of homes.
(AP, 9/10/97)
1997 Sep 10, Former Agriculture
Secretary Mike Espy pleaded innocent to charges of accepting $35,000 in
sports tickets, travel and lodging from companies regulated by the
Agriculture Department. He was later acquitted.
(AP, 9/10/98)
1997 Sep 10, Discovery Comm.
Bought a 70% stake in the Travel Channel from Paxson Comm. for $20
million. Paxson had acquired the Travel Channel in June from Clear
Channel Comm.
(www.backchannelmedia.com/articles/41-42-new-era-demands-new.html)
1997 Sep 10, The $250 million Mars
Global Surveyor successfully went into orbit around Mars for its 2 year
mapping mission.
(USAT, 8/29/97, p.12A)(SFC, 9/10/97, p.A4)
1997 Sep 10, The ashes of Eliot
Ness, FBI agent, were laid to rest in Cleveland.
(HIR, 9/11/97, p.11B)
1997 Sep 10, In LA 11 people were
killed in a fiery car crash after a day of selling corn.
(HIR, 9/11/97, p.11B)
1997 Sep 10, In Cuba a former
Salvadoran soldier was arrested and confessed to carrying out a series
of bomb attacks. A statement said that Raul Ernesto Cruz was paid
$4,500 for each bomb he planted and that he had been trained in El
Salvador.
(SFC, 9/11/97, p.A12)
1998 Sep 10, Keiko the killer
whale, star of the 1993 "Free Willy" movie, was returned to Iceland,
where he was captured in 1979 at age 2. Much of his early life was
spent at a Mexico City amusement park.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A10)(SFC, 10/17/03, p.D1)
1998 Sep 10, US wrestler Sam
Henson took first place in the World Wrestling Championships in Iran.
He defeated Namik Abdullavev of Azerbaijan. Iranians stood for the US
anthem for the first time in 19 years.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D4)
1998 Sep 10, President Clinton met
with members of his Cabinet to apologize, ask forgiveness and promise
to improve as a person in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
(AP, 9/10/99)
1998 Sep 10, The 445-page Starr
report on Pres. Clinton was to be made partly public in the Internet.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 10, In Monterey County,
Ca., narcotics investigators busted a khat plantation. The plant leaves
contain cathinone, a natural amphetamine.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A19)
1998 Sep 10, The Northwest
Airlines and its pilots reached an agreement to end their 13-day strike.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A3)(AP, 9/10/99)
1998 Sep 10, In Aurora, Colorado,
2 men and one woman were found killed just 2 miles from a shooting
spree that killed 6 on Labor Day.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 10, In Brazil the Sao
Paulo stock exchange fell 15.8% in the afternoon. Earlier in the week
the government announced spending cuts and a plan to halve the budget
deficit, which stood at 7% of GDP.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D2)
1998 Sep 10, Air Canada and its
pilots reached an agreement to end a 9-day strike. [see Sep 14]
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 10, In Israel troops
killed Imad and Adel Awadallah, senior figures in Hamas west of Hebron.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 10, In Kazakhstan a
rocket, carrying 12 Globalstar satellites valued at $180 million,
crashed shortly after takeoff.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 10, The Rotterdam
Convention was adopted at a diplomatic conference in Rotterdam. It is a
multilateral agreement to promote shared responsibilities in relation
to importation of hazardous chemicals, became legally binding to its
parties. It officially entered into force on Feb 24, 2004. As of 2008,
73 countries were signatories and 126 were parties.
(www.ec.gc.ca/international/multilat/rotterdam_e.htm)
1998 Sep 10, In Pakistan a court
sentenced a Muslim to death for blasphemy. Ghulam Akbar Kahn, a Shiite
Muslim, took the name of Mohammed in vain during a May 1995 scuffle
with a rival Sunni Muslim.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D4)
1998 Sep 10, In Russia the Duma
supported Yeltsin’s nomination of Yevgeny Primakov (68) as prime
minister.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A10)
1999 Sep 10, Eleven Puerto Rican
nationalists were freed under the clemency deal offered by Pres.
Clinton. The US government began freeing 14 Puerto Rican nationalists
granted clemency by President Clinton.
(SFC, 9/11/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/10/00)
1999 Sep 10, A federal judge
ordered an end to busing and other means of achieving racial balance in
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the North Carolina school system that pioneered
urban busing in the United States after a landmark Supreme Court ruling
three decades earlier.
(AP, 9/10/00)
1999 Sep 10, Asian-Pacific leaders
met for a summit in Auckland (City of Sails), New Zealand.
(SFC, 9/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 10, In Afghanistan the UN
reported that the production of opium doubled to 5,060 tons from 2,310
last year.
(SFC, 9/11/99, p.A9)
1999 Sep 10, It was reported that
Canada has 339 species in serious danger of disappearing and no federal
legislation for protection of endangered animals.
(SFC, 9/10/99, p.D4)
1999 Sep 10, Israel transferred 7%
of the West Bank to Palestinian control.
(SFC, 9/11/99, p.A8)
1999 Sep 10, In Italy a 15-ton
bronze horse, designed after an idea by Leonardo da Vinci, was
scheduled to be unveiled at the 500th anniversary of the French
occupation of the Ducal palace in Milan, when da Vinci's prototype was
disfigured. It was begun by Charles Dent (d.1994), a United Airlines
pilot, and finished by a foundation that he endowed. It was cast in
Beacon, N.Y.
(SFC, 6/26/99, p.A1)
2000 Sep 10, The Broadway show
“Cats” closed after nearly 18 years and 7,485 performances at the NYC
Winter Garden.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.F4)
2000 Sep 10, The TV series “West
Wing” won a record 9 Emmys at the 52nd Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards,
including best drama series; NBC's “Will & Grace (news - Y! TV)”
won best comedy.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A1)(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, Controversial
basketball coach Bob Knight was fired by Indiana University for what
was called a pattern of unacceptable behavior.
(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, Marat Safin beat Pete
Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 to become the first Russian to win the U.S. Open.
(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, Tiger Woods won the
Canadian Open by one stroke over Grant Waite.
(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, The US federal
government agreed to drop its case against Wen Ho Lee, a former Los
Alamos scientist, in exchange for a single guilty plea for downloading
classified material to an insecure computer. Lee was released 3 days
later.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 10, The space shuttle
Atlantis docked with the international space station.
(AP, 9/10/01)
2000 Sep 10, In Austria OPEC
ministers planned to call for a 2% raise in oil output. Ministers
approved a 3% hike of 800,000 barrels of oil.
(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/11/00, p.B8)
2000 Sep 10, In Hong Kong
elections were held. Democrats gained seats in the legislative council
but most seats were filled with pro-Beijing and big-business candidates.
(WSJ, 9/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 10, In Italy a flood in
Calabria killed at least 10 people at the Le Giare campground near
Soverato.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.B8)
2000 Sep 10, In Malaysia Abu
Sayyaf rebels kidnapped 3 men from Pandanan Island off Borneo and took
them to Jolo island in the Philippines.
(WSJ, 9/12/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 10, The Palestine Central
Council in Gaza postponed the Sep 13 deadline for statehood and planned
to pursue another round of peace talks.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 10, In Sierra Leone
British troops stormed the jungle base of the West Side Boys and freed
7 hostages. 25 rebels were killed along with 1 British soldier. 18
rebels were taken prisoner including leader Foday Kallay. SAS troopers
eradicated the West Side Boys led by Commanders Mega-Rapist, Slaughter
and others.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A8)(Econ, 10/22/05, p.61)
2000 Sep 10, In Sri Lanka
government forces destroyed 14 Tamil Tiger bunkers in Jaffna. 12
soldiers and 70 guerrillas were killed.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.B8)
2001 Sep 10, The Bush
administration designated the Colombian paramilitary group, the United
Self-Defense Forces (AUC), as a terrorist group.
(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 10, Attorney General John
Ashcroft rejected a proposed $58 million increase in FBI financing for
counter-terrorism programs.
(SFC, 6/1/02, p.A1)
2001 Sep 10, The UN Security
Council ended an arms embargo against Yugoslavia.
(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B3)
2001 Sep 10, Secretary of State
Colin Powell arrived in Lima, Peru, to attend an Organization of
American States foreign ministers meeting.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2001 Sep 10, In Fiji Pres. Iloilo
swore in banker Laisenia Qarase as prime minister.
(SFC, 9/10/01, p.B1)
2001 Sep 10, Iraq said it shot
down a 2nd US spy plane. The US reported an unmanned plane missing.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C3)
2001 Sep 10, Israeli forces and
Palestinians exchanged gunfire in Jenin and Gaza and 3 Palestinians
were killed.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C3)
2001 Sep 10, In Japan the
government reported that a dairy cow had tested positive for mad-cow
disease. It was the 1st instance of the disease in Asian animals.
(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 10, The Nikkei closed at
10195, the lowest point since Aug 1984.
(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A19)
2001 Sep 10, In Norway
parliamentary elections no party received a majority. The ruling Labor
Party had its worst showing in decades. Labor won 24% of the vote, its
worst showing since 1924 as voters rejected the high-tax funded social
welfare system.
(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A1)(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B2)
2001 Sep 10, In Switzerland nurse
Roger Andermatt (32) was reported to have confessed to killing of 27
elderly and ailing patients over a 6-year period (1995-2001). In 2005
he was sentenced to life in prison for killing 22 elderly nursing home
residents.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C4)(AP, 1/28/05)
2001 Sep 10, In Turkey a Marxist
militant suicide bomber, Ugur Bulbul, killed killing himself and three
others, including an Australian woman and 2 policemen near Istanbul’s
historic Taksim Square. 21 were injured. Bulbul was released from
prison 6 months earlier for membership in the banned Revolutionary
People’s Liberation Party-Front, a Marxist group, that later claimed
responsibility.
(WSJ, 9/11/01, p.A1)(SFC, 9/11/01, p.B3)(SFC,
9/12/01, p.C4)(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 10, The Bush
administration raised the nationwide terror alert to yellow, its
second-highest level, closed nine U.S. embassies overseas and
heightened security at federal buildings and landmarks in America on
the eve of the Sept. 11 anniversary.
(AP, 9/10/03)
2002 Sep 10, Martin Strel of
Slovenia finished swimming the 2,360-mile length of the Mississippi. He
began July 4 and covered 11-12 miles per day.
(WSJ, 9/11/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 10, In the Florida
Democratic primary Bill McBride won over former Attorney General Janet
Reno by some 8,196 votes for a chance to unseat Gov. Jebb Bush. McBride
was certified as winner on Sep 17. Polling stations opened late and
problems cropped up with new touchscreen voting machines.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 9/13/02, p.A1)(WSJ,
9/18/02, p.A1)(AP, 9/10/03)
2002 Sep 10, It was reported that
US forces in Afghanistan had launched Operation Champion Strike in the
Bermel Valley aimed at re-entering al Qaeda.
(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A5)
2002 Sep 10, In Argentina
thousands of people staged a 10-minute demonstration in Buenos Aires to
protest a crime wave that has engulfed this country as it falls deeper
into economic crisis.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 10, Colombia stepped up
its emergency powers to battle growing insurgency violence, announcing
it can detain people without warrants, restrict travel and impose
curfews.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 10, In southeastern
France authorities said flooding and heavy rain had claimed the lives
of 26 people. Rescuers were searching for dozens of others reported
missing.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 10, In Indonesia soldiers
arrested nurse Joy Lee Sadler (57) and academic Lesley McCullough (40)
in Aceh province on charges of violating tourist visas by meeting with
Aceh rebels. Sadler struck a commander who tried to take her friend's
computer. Sadler was released Jan 10, 2003.
(SFC, 12/18/02, p.A21)(SFC, 1/10/03, p.A17)
2002 Sep 10, Radical farmers in
San Salvador, Mexico, have declared this town outside Mexico City to be
autonomous, two months after they forced the government to abandon
plans for a new airport.
(AP, 9/11/02)
2002 Sep 10, In South Africa the
highest court ruled that gay couples have the right to adopt children
and laws that prevent them from doing so violate their constitutional
rights.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2002 Sep 10, Switzerland became
the 190th member of the UN, preserving its historic neutrality but
stepping more actively onto the world stage.
(AP, 9/10/02)
2003 Sep 10, Ben Glisan, former
Enron treasurer, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit
fraud and was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison.
(WSJ, 9/11/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 10, The first video
image of Osama bin Laden in nearly two years was broadcast on
Al-Jazeera TV.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2003 Sep 10, Argentina refinanced
$21 billion in debt including $12.3 billion with the IMF.
(Econ, 9/13/03, p.32)
2003 Sep 10, A Bangladesh court
convicted and sentenced five zookeepers to 14 years in prison for
killing three tigers in 1996 and planning to sell their skins.
(AP, 9/10/03)
2003 Sep 10, In northeast Colombia
a bomb strapped to a horse exploded in a plaza in a small town, killing
at least eight people, including a toddler, and injuring 20 others.
(AP, 9/10/03)
2003 Sep 10, Imam Samudra (33),
the man accused of being the "intellectual mastermind" of last year's
Oct 12 Bali nightclub bombings was sentenced to face a firing squad
after being found guilty of the attack that killed 202 people.
(AP, 9/10/03)
2003 Sep 10, In Irbil, Iraq, a
suicide car bomber struck the US intelligence headquarters, killing
three Iraqis, including a 12-year-old boy.
(AP, 9/10/03)(WSJ, 9/11/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 10, Israeli warplanes
flattened the home of senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar with a half-ton
bomb, wounding him and killing his eldest son and a bodyguard, in
retaliation for twin suicide bombings that killed 15 Israelis a day
earlier.
(AP, 9/10/03)
2003 Sep 10, Ivory Coast created a
commission made up of members of the army and rebel movements to chart
the course of disarmament and reunification after a 9-month civil war.
(AP, 9/10/03)
2003 Sep 10, In Cancun, Mexico,
the WTO began its fifth ministerial meeting, with trade ministers from
every country expected to attend a five-day gathering to thrash out
many problems surrounding the latest "round" of trade liberalization
talks.
(AP, 9/10/03)
2003 Sep 10, In Puebla, Mexico, a
clandestine fireworks factory exploded, killing at least six people and
injuring 12 others.
(AP, 9/10/03)
2003 Sep 10, Swedish Foreign
Minister Anna Lindh was stabbed in the stomach and wrist at an
exclusive department store in downtown Stockholm. She died the next
day. In 2003 Mijailo Mijailovic, a 25-year-old Swede of Yugoslav
origin, confessed to the murder. In 2004 Mijailovic was sentenced to
life in prison.
(AP, 9/10/03)(AP, 9/11/03)(AP, 1/7/04)(SFC, 3/24/04,
p.A8)
2004 Sep 10, President Bush
ordered a partial cut in U.S. assistance to Venezuela because of its
alleged role in the international trafficking of women and children for
sexual exploitation.
(AP, 9/10/04)
2004 Sep 10, California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia.
(Reuters, 9/10/04)
2004 Sep 10, CBS News vigorously
defended its report about President Bush's Air National Guard service,
with anchor Dan Rather saying broadcast memos questioned by forensic
experts came from "what we consider to be solid sources." An
independent panel later concluded that documents used in the story
could not be verified.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2004 Sep 10, Scientists reported
evidence for a planet near a dwarf star some 230 light years from Earth
in the constellation Hydra.
(SFC, 9/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 10, Brock Adams (77),
former transportation secretary died in Stevensville, Md.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2004 Sep 10, Canada said it was
donating one million dollars (770,000 US) to United Nations efforts to
pacify strife-torn Darfur in western Sudan.
(AFP, 9/11/04)
2004 Sep 10, Li Yuanjiang, the
former editor-in-chief of one of China's biggest newspapers, the
Guangzhou Daily, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking bribes.
Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong
Province in southern mainland China. The city was formerly known
internationally as Canton, after a French language transliteration of
the name of the province in Cantonese.
(AP, 9/11/04)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou)
2004 Sep 10, European finance
ministers chose Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker to represent the
group of 12 European Union countries that share the euro currency.
(AP, 9/10/04)
2004 Sep 10, Japan confirmed a
12th case of mad cow disease.
(AP, 9/13/04)
2004 Sep 10, Two Lebanese men were
shot dead in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/10/04)
2004 Sep 10, Nepali PM Sher
Bahadur Deuba vowed to crush a deadly Maoist revolt as giant neighbor
India promised more military help to fight the leftist guerrillas.
(AP, 9/10/04)
2004 Sep 10, Yemen reported that
its troops had killed Hussein Badr Eddin al-Hawthi (al-Houthi), a rebel
cleric whose “Believing Youth” forces have battled the government in a
remote northern region for months.
(AP, 9/10/04)(SFC, 9/11/04, p.A10)(Econ, 5/21/05,
p.51)
2004 Sep 10, Simon Mann, a former
British special forces soldier and the alleged leader of a foiled coup
plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, was sentenced to seven years in
prison for trying to buy weapons from Zimbabwe's state arms
manufacturer.
(AP, 9/10/04)
2005 Sep 10, Cadaver dogs and
boatloads of forensic workers fanned out across New Orleans to collect
the corpses left behind by Hurricane Katrina; cleanup crews towed away
abandoned cars and even began readying a hotel for reopening.
(AP, 9/10/06)
2005 Sep 10, Clarence "Gatemouth"
Brown (81), the singer and guitarist who built a 50-year career playing
blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died in his hometown of Orange,
Texas, where he had gone to escape Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 10, E. Stewart Williams,
Palm Springs architect, died in Palm Springs. He designed Frank
Sinatra’s 1st Palm Springs home in 1947.
(SFC, 11/9/05, p.B11)
2005 Sep 10, Afghan soldiers
reportedly tried to assassinate Rahim Wardak, the country's defense
minister, by shooting at his convoy at Kabul's main airport. Wardak had
already left his vehicle and was unhurt. Nine suspects, all soldiers,
were arrested in the attack. The next day Afghanistan said the shootout
was not an assassination attempt, but an internecine battle between
groups of soldiers.
(AP, 9/10/05)(WSJ, 9/12/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 10, In Azerbaijan more
than 2,000 orange-clad opposition members rallied in Baku, demanding
that President Ilhan Aliev resign and that authorities ensure that
parliamentary elections in November are free and fair.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 10, Chinese President Hu
Jintao urged Canada to expand its investment in the Asian giant and
pledged to improve living standards in the world's most populous
country.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2005 Sep 10, In the Republic of
Congo a plane crashed north of Brazzaville, killing 13 people.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 10, A defiant Egyptian
opposition ratcheted up the pressure on President Hosni Mubarak, after
he was reelected with the votes of only one-fifth of the electorate.
(AFP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 10, More than 500
U.S.-trained Georgian soldiers left for Iraq as part of a regular
rotation of troops by the former Soviet republic.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 10, Baghdad International
Airport, Iraq's only reliable and relatively safe link to the outside
world, reopened after being closed for a day in a payments dispute
between the government and a British security firm.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 10, It was reported that
the student populations at the Univ. of Rome numbered 180,000; at the
National Univ. of Mexico it was over 200,000; and at Turkey’s Anadolu
Univ. it numbered some 530,000.
(Econ, 9/10/05, Survey p.4)
2005 Sep 10, In Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro, head of the former rebel New Forces (FN), insisted that
his side no longer recognized South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki as a
mediator. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan admitted that next month's
planned presidential election would have to be abandoned.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 10, In Northern Ireland
Protestant extremists threw homemade grenades, gasoline bombs and other
makeshift weapons and at least a dozen police and two civilians were
wounded in the latest fury over a restricted Belfast parade. Most of
the rioting took place in Belfast’s ten most disadvantaged wards.
(AP, 9/11/05)(Econ, 9/17/05, p.57)
2005 Sep 10, Masked gunmen
abducted Lorenzo Cremonesi of the Corriere della Serra daily, an
Italian journalist in the Gaza Strip town of Deir El-Balah. He was
released after a few hours.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 10, In Mexico 7 Guatemala
men were caught near the Guatemalan border with six large-caliber
rifles and 1,600 rounds of ammunition. They faced charges of weapons
trafficking.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 10-2005 Sep 13, A
Pakistani army operation in North Waziristan destroyed a major al-Qaida
hide-out. The army arrested 21 suspected militants, including
foreigners, and a government official accused of helping them in a
remote northwestern tribal region near Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/13/05)
2005 Sep 10, Syrian President
Bashar Assad met with leaders of 10 militant Palestinian groups based
in Syria, defying U.S. pressure to crack down on these groups. Syria's
official news agency SANA reported Assad urged the radical Palestinian
leaders, including Khaled Mashaal, the political leader of the militant
Hamas group, to close ranks and continue the struggle in order to
achieve their goal of an independent Palestinian state.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2005 Sep 10, Zimbabwe President
Robert Mugabe arrived in Cuba, criticizing the International Monetary
Fund, even though the organization a day earlier deferred a decision
for six months on whether to expel the African nation.
(AP, 9/10/05)
2006 Sep 10, Peyton Manning and
the Indianapolis Colts defeated Eli Manning and the New York Giants
26-21 in the first NFL game to feature two brothers starting at
quarterback.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2006 Sep 10, Golf pioneer Patty
Berg (88) died in Fort Myers, Fla.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2006 Sep 10, Bennie Smith (72),
St. Louis blues guitarist, died.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.B8)
2006 Sep 10, Florence intensified
into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season as it headed for
Bermuda, where residents installed storm shutters and hauled their
yachts onto beaches.
(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai formally opened a 25-million-dollar Coca-Cola bottling
plant, one of the most significant investments in Afghanistan since the
ousting of the Taliban five years ago. In eastern Afghanistan Gov.
Abdul Hakim Taniwal (63) was killed with his nephew and bodyguard in a
suicide attack outside his office in the Paktia capital of Gardez. The
US military warned that a suicide bombing cell is targeting foreign
troops in Kabul. In the Panjwayi district of Kandahar 94 Taliban were
killed and one was wounded in four different engagements overnight. The
alliance offensive near the main southern city of Kandahar killed
another 92 suspected Taliban fighters, pushing its 10-day toll of
militant dead past 510. Gunmen kidnapped a Colombian aid worker and two
Afghan employees of a French-funded nongovernment organization west of
Kabul.
(AP, 9/10/06)(AFP, 9/10/06)(AP, 9/11/06)(SFC,
9/11/06, p.A3)(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 10, Daniel Smith (20),
the son of Anna Nicole Smith (38) died suddenly in the Bahamas, three
days after the former Playboy Playmate gave birth to a girl. A second
round of toxicology tests revealed that he died of a toxic combo of
methadone and the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro.
(Reuters, 9/11/06)(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 10, in Bangladesh police
used batons to break up a protest, where demonstrators took to the
streets across the country in another general strike ahead of elections
in January.
(AFP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, In Brazil
international trade officials sought to strike a positive tone at the
end of a two-day meeting aimed at restarting negotiations for the
stalled World Trade Organization's Doha Round. The talks were billed as
a High Level Meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) developing nations, but
they represented the first time nearly all the parties involved have
come together since the Doha talks were suspended.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 10, China announced
detailed controls on the distribution of news by foreign news agencies,
banning all content that violates its own tight media restrictions.
(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, In Cuba leaders of
the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of 116 developing nations began
gathering for a 6-day summit (Sep 11-16). NAM was founded in 1961.
(Reuters, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, Wrangling forced
Iraq's parliament to suspend debate on a bill that Sunni Arab groups
fear would break up the country. At least 27 people were killed across
Iraq. In Kut 6 bodies bearing signs of torture were found in the Tigris
River. 2 bodies were found in Musayyib and 3 more near the Duluiya
bridge.
(AP, 9/10/06)(SFC, 9/11/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 10, The Chinese film
“Still Life” won the top award as the 11-day Venice Film Festival came
to a close. The Chinese film was about the Three Gorges Dam project.
(SFC, 9/11/06, p.D5)
2006 Sep 10, Montenegrins voted in
the first parliamentary elections since the tiny state split from
Serbia. Police announced a crackdown on an alleged ethnic Albanian
terrorist group authorities said had threatened the ballot. The
coalition of PM Milo Djukanovic headed for an absolute majority with a
projected 41 seats in the 81-seat parliament.
(AP, 9/10/06)(SFC, 9/11/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 10, In southwestern
Pakistan a bomb explosion outside a roadside restaurant wounded 14
people in Quetta. In northwestern Pakistan suspected Islamic militants
killed a tribal elder.
(AP, 9/10/06)(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 10, One ethnic Russian
man was killed and three were injured in a brawl with ethnic Armenians
at a cafe in the town of Volsk in the Saratov region, fueling fears of
a rise of ethnic violence across Russia.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 10, Islamic militants
controlling much of southern Somalia shut down a radio station for
playing love songs and other music, the latest step to impose strict
religious rule which has sparked fears of an emerging, Taliban-style
regime. Islamic militants, who closed down a Somali radio station,
allowed it back on the air so long as it does not play music or love
songs.
(AP, 9/10/06)(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 10, Officials said Sri
Lanka's military had lost 28 soldiers in 3 days of stiff artillery and
mortar attacks as it advanced slowly toward northern Tamil Tiger rebel
strongholds. The rebels accused Colombo of ignoring moves by Norway to
end the latest bloodshed.
(AFP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, Taufa’ahau Tupou IV
(b.1918), King of Tonga, died in New Zealand. He was the son of Queen
Salote Tupou III and her consort Prince Tungi, and served as the King
of Tonga from the death of his mother in 1965.
(WSJ, 9/11/06,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taufa'ahau_Tupou_IV)
2006 Sep 10, Armed Yemeni
tribesmen kidnapped four French tourists in the east of the country to
press for their relatives to be released from jail.
(AP, 9/10/06)
2007 Sep 10, America's top
commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker
testified before Congress about the unpopular Iraq war. Petraeus said
last winter's buildup in US troops had met its military objectives "in
large measure" and that he envisions the withdrawal of roughly 30,000
US troops by next summer. MoveOn.org, an online network of Americans
opposed to the war, published a full-page ad in the NY Times with a
banner headline saying “General Petraeus or General Betray Us.”
(AP, 9/11/07)(Econ, 9/29/07, p.35)
2007 Sep 10, In Chicago mobsters
James Marcello (65), Joseph Lombardo (78), Frank Calabrese (70) and
Paul Schiro (70) were convicted of all counts including racketeering,
conspiracy, bribery, illegal gambling and tax fraud. Anthony Doyle
(62), a retired police officer, was also convicted for leaking
information to the mob known as The Outfit.
(SFC, 9/11/07, p.A5)
2007 Sep 10, Kenneth John Freeman
(44), an American man accused of raping his daughter and posting the
videos on the Internet, agreed to be extradited from Hong Kong to the
United States.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, UC Berkeley announced
a $113 million gift from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation of
Menlo Park, Ca.
(SFC, 9/11/07, p.D1)
2007 Sep 10, Blackstone Group LP
bought a 20% stake in a Chinese chemical company in its first deal in
the country since a Chinese government fund bought into the US private
equity firm.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, US defense research
company QinetiQ announced that an unmanned solar-powered aircraft had
soared for 54 hours more than 50,000 feet above New Mexico and may hold
the record for unmanned flight.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, It was reported that
John Kanzius of Erie, Pa., had accidentally discovered a way to burn
salt water when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency
generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as
the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, Dame Anita Roddick
(64), founder of Body Shop, died after suffering a major brain
hemorrhage. She used her international cosmetics chain to promote
eco-friendly practices long before they were widely fashionable. She
had opened her first shop in Brighton in 1976 and sold the business in
2006 to L’Oreal for $1.1 billion.
(AP, 9/10/07)(Econ, 9/15/07, p.80)
2007 Sep 10, Jane Wyman (b.1917),
filmstar and the 1st wife of Ronald Reagan, died in Rancho Mirage, Ca.
her work included roles in 86 films and 350 television shows. She won
an Oscar for her role a deaf rape victim in the 1948 film “Johnny
Belinda.”
(SFC, 9/11/07, p.A2)
2007 Sep 10, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw set off his explosives in a
crowded area killing 28 people in Gereshk, Helmand province. Children
selling chewing gum and cigarettes were among the victims of the blast.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, Bangladesh's
military-backed government lifted an eight-month emergency ban on
indoor politics as it promised democracy would be restored by the end
of 2008. A Dhaka-based human rights group said 126 people had been
killed by law enforcement agencies since the emergency rule began with
at least 22 tortured to death.
(AP, 9/10/07)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.43)
2007 Sep 10, Canada's top election
official stuck to his controversial ruling allowing Muslim women to
stay veiled when voting, despite protests from Prime Minister Stephen
Harper.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 10, In Colombia soldiers
swarmed onto a farm and captured Diego Montoya, one of the world's most
wanted drug traffickers hiding in bushes in his underwear. He led the
Norte del Valle cartel and was captured along with an uncle and three
other cartel members.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 10, Congolese authorities
blocked Frederic Bintsamou, an ex-rebel chief, from entering
Brazzaville to take up duties as a deputy minister under a peace deal,
but promised they were still adhering to the "principle" of his
inclusion in the government.
(AFP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, Indonesia’s Supreme
Court ordered Time magazine to pay $106 million in damages for defaming
former Indonesian dictator Suharto by alleging in a May 1999 story that
his family amassed billions of dollars during his 32-year rule. Lower
courts had earlier ruled in Time’s favor. Time appealed the decision.
(AP, 9/10/07)(Econ, 5/10/08, p.70)
2007 Sep 10, PM Nouri al-Maliki
told lawmakers that Iraqi forces were not ready to take over security
from the US military across the country. US and Iraqi troops backed by
helicopters killed three civilians in the Shiite slum of Sadr City in a
pre-dawn raid on the home of a suspected militia leader. A bomb blew up
around noon near the Shiite Buratha mosque in northern Baghdad, killing
two civilians and wounding six others. An insurgent group in Iraq
posted a videotape that showed a German hostage who has been held for
more than six months and threatened to kill him unless Germany withdrew
its troops from Afghanistan within 10 days. The US command said that a
US soldier, whose patrol in the Kirkuk area was hit with rockets a day
earlier, had died from injuries sustained in the attack. In the Sunni
city of Samarra US and Iraqi troops got into a fierce firefight with
suspected al-Qaida in Iraq fighters in a morning assault. 12 of the
insurgents were killed and 3 US soldiers were wounded. In western
Baghdad 7 US soldiers were killed in a vehicle accident that also
claimed the lives of two detainees. Another US soldier was killed and
two were injured when their vehicle overturned east of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, It was reported that
the regional government of Kurdistan had signed a deal with
Dallas-based Hunt Oil Co. to explore for oil in their region.
(WSJ, 9/10/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 10, Israeli PM Ehud
Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met in Jerusalem to
discuss guidelines for resuming peace negotiations.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, Lithuanian PM
Gediminas Kirkilas said at a Seimas session that Lithuania will
increase its tariffs for transiting natural gas to the Kaliningrad
region proportionally to any gas hikes in the price Russia charges its
Lithuanian customers.
(www.interfax.com/3/311558/news.aspx)
2007 Sep 10, Several explosions in
Veracruz state, believed to be the work of saboteurs, ripped apart
natural gas pipelines for Mexico's state oil monopoly. The explosions
forced the evacuation of some 12,000 people. The so-called People's
Revolutionary Army (EPR) claimed responsibility.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 10, In central Mexico a
bus carrying worshippers on a pilgrimage to a famous shrine plunged
into a valley, killing nine passengers and leaving 38 injured.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 10, Final election
results showed that Morocco's conservative Istiqlal party won the most
seats in parliamentary elections, allowing it to form the next
government with its current ruling coalition allies.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, Former PM Nawaz
Sharif returned to Pakistan from a seven-year exile, hoping to campaign
against the country's US-allied military ruler, but was immediately
charged with corruption and deported to Saudi Arabia hours later.
Pro-Taliban militants freed more than 260 Pakistani troops who were
kidnapped nearly two weeks ago in a restive tribal region near the
border with Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2007 Sep 10, Sudanese government
forces resumed air strikes in Darfur with an attack on a town that
killed more than a dozen civilians.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2008 Sep 10, An internal
government report said US Interior Department employees in Denver and
Washington, who oversaw oil drilling on federal lands, had sex and used
illegal drugs with workers at energy companies where they were
conducting official business.
(AP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 10, The US Pentagon
cancelled the $40 billion competition for new aerial refueling tankers
for the Air Force, delaying the competition to a new administration,
and giving a reprieve to Boeing.
(WSJ, 9/11/08, p.B1)
2008 Sep 10, The US Treasury Dept.
accused Iran’s national maritime carrier, the Islamic Republic of Iran
Shipping Lines, of helping the country’s nuclear and missile programs.
The proliferator designation, designed to stop companies from doing
business in the US, further block the carrier’s ability to move money
through US banks.
(WSJ, 9/11/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 10, A regulatory filing
revealed that Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman, and his family had
purchased a 6.4% stake in the New York Times.
(Econ, 9/20/08, p.78)
2008 Sep 10, Hurricane Ike
barreled across the warm, energizing waters of the Gulf of Mexico on
its way toward the Texas coast after crashing through Cuba's tobacco
country and toppling aging Havana buildings. Ike had already killed at
least 80 people in the Caribbean.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, Frank Mundus (1925),
the legendary shark fisherman said to have inspired the Captain Quint
character in the movie "Jaws," died in Honolulu.
(AP, 9/15/08)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.102)
2008 Sep 10, Bolivia’s President
Evo Morales said that he is expelling the US ambassador for allegedly
inciting violent opposition protests.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, Turkish Cypriot
leader Mehmet Ali Talat said he accepts a reduction of Turkey's
military contingent but that his side will still need security
guarantees from Ankara as part of a deal to unite the divided island.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, A Georgian police
officer was killed by gunfire that came from the direction of a Russian
checkpoint near separatist South Ossetia.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, A strong earthquake
rocked southern Iran sending tremors across the Persian Gulf to the
skyscrapers of Dubai. Iranian state television reported that seven
people were killed and 40 others were injured.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, Two bombs exploded an
hour apart in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, killing at least two
people and wounding 15 others, including women and children. Health
officials said cholera has killed two people in a province south of
Baghdad, indicating that water quality and sanitation remain poor in a
country that has endured years of war.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, Israeli defense
officials say the government has told all businessmen involved in
military sales to Georgia to immediately cease visits to the former
Soviet republic. The officials said the directive was decided upon this
week because Israel is concerned about damage to its relations with
Russia.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, In northern Israel a
military helicopter crashed at sundown and burst into flames killing
two crew members.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, In Lebanon Druse
Sheik Saleh Aridi died in his village of Baissour in the hills east of
Beirut, after a bomb planted under his car was detonated by remote
control as he drove away from his home. The country's first political
assassination in months threatened efforts to reconcile its divided
factions.
(AP, 9/11/08)
2008 Sep 10, Ahmad Ismail, a
member of Malaysia's ruling party, was suspended for three years for
"stoking racial tensions" with incendiary comments about ethnic Chinese
that shook the governing coalition.
(AFP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, A Dutch court
dismissed a bid by Bosnian Muslim survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica
massacre to hold the Netherlands liable for its troops' failure to
protect the so-called safe haven.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, Pirates hijacked a
South Korean bulk carrier with 22 crew off Somalia's coast but were
thwarted in a separate attempt to seize a Greek ship. The crew and
vessel were released on Oct 16 with no comment on ransom.
(AP, 9/10/08)(AP, 10/16/08)
2008 Sep 10, Officials said at
least 89 people have died in wildfires sweeping through Mozambique,
South Africa and Swaziland.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, An unmanned Russian
cargo ship blasted off successfully carrying supplies, equipment and
gifts for the international space station.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, In Sri Lanka air
force jets attacked a rebel intelligence base in the north, stepping up
a punishing wave of airstrikes a day after Tamil Tiger fighters
launched a surprise attack on a military base. UN chief Ban Ki-moon
expressed international concern for tens of thousands civilians trapped
in Sri Lanka's north as government forces prepared for a major showdown
with Tamil separatists.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 10, In Geneva the Large
Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle collider, passed its
first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions
around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground ring in what scientists
hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the
universe. On Sep 19 it started leaking helium and had to be turned off.
The technical problems delayed for at least two months the quest for
scientists to learn more about the nature of the universe and the
origins of all matter.
(AP, 9/10/08)(AP, 9/20/08)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.96)
2008 Sep 10, Ruedi Rymann (75), a
farmer and cheesemaker and renowned yodeler, died at his home in
Giswil, Switzerland. In 2007 Viewers of a Swiss television series
devoted to popular national music voted Rymann’s “Dr Schacher Seppli”
as the greatest Swiss hit of all.
(SFC, 10/9/08,
p.B8)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsy6wA-T0o)
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