Today in History - September 14
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258 Sep 14,
Thascius Caecilius Cyprian (b.~200), Christian writer and Bishop of
Carthage (248), died as a martyr in Carthage.
(www.fact-index.com/c/cy/cyprian.html)
407 Sep 14, Johannes
Chrysostomus (b.c347), patriarch of Constantinople (398) and exiled
in 404, died in Pontus (later northeast Turkey). He is generally
considered the most prominent doctor of the Greek Church and the
greatest preacher ever heard in a Christian pulpit.
(www.newadvent.org/cathen/08452b.htm)
1146 Sep 14, Zangi of the Near
East was murdered. The Sultan Nur ad-Din, his son, pursued the
conquest of Edessa (NW Mesopotamia).
(HN, 9/14/98)
1321 Sep 14, Dante Alighieri,
author of the "Divine Comedy," died of malaria just hours after
finishing writing "Paradiso." The poem was completed in Italian
rather than Latin. It helped make Italian the dominant linguistic
force in European literature for the next few centuries. In 2006
Barbara Reynolds authored “Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker,
the Man.”
(www.newadvent.org/cathen/04628a.htm)(WSJ,
3/26/99, p.W2)(Econ, 12/2/06, p.84)
1486 Sep 14, Heinrich Agrippa
von Nettesheim (d.1535), German occultist, alchemist, royal
astrologer, was born in Cologne.
(www.britannica.com)
1531 Sep 14, Philipp Apian
(d.1589), German geographer and cartographer, was born.
(www.antiquemaps.co.uk/chapter12.html)
1544 Sep 14, Henry VIII's
forces took Boulogne, France.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1646 Sep 14, Robert Devereux
(b.1591), 3rd earl of Essex, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Devereux,_3rd_Earl_of_Essex)
1716 Sep 14, The 1st lighthouse
in US was lit in Boston Harbor.
(www.lighthouse.cc/boston/history.html)
1737 Sep 14, Johann Michael
Haydn (d.1806), composer and younger brother of Franz Joseph, was
born in Austria.
(www.haydn.dk/index.php)
1741 Sep 14, George Frederick
Handel (1685-1759) finished "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it
in London non-stop for 23 days. Messiah premiered April 13, 1742.
(LGC-HCS, p.41)(
http://www.gospelcom.net/ch/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps147.shtml)
1750 Sep 14, Carl T. Pachelbel
(b.1690), German-born US organist and composer, died. He was the
younger brother of Johann Pachelbel.
(www.iwchorale.org/Charles_Theodore_Pachelbel.htm)
1759 Sep 14, Louis Joseph de
Montcalm-Grozon, Marquis de Montcalm (b.1712) and chief of
French forces, died at age 47 on the Plains of Abraham in Canada.
(www.britannica.com)
1760 Sep 14, Luigi
Cherubini (d.1842), Italian-born prodigy and French composer, was
born.
(www.britannica.com)
1769 Sep 14, Baron Freidrich
von Humboldt (d.1859), German naturalist and explorer who made the
first isothermic and isobaric maps, was born.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1773 Sep 14, Russian forces
under Aleksandr Suvorov successfully stormed a Turkish fort at
Hirsov, Turkey.
(HN, 9/14/99)
1786 Sep 14, Two French ships
appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to
visit Spain's California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent
scientists, navigators, cartographers, illustrators, and physicians.
For the next ten days Jean Francois de La Pérouse, the
commander of this expedition, took detailed notes on the life and
character of the area. Perouse’s notes were later published under
the title “Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786: The
Journals of Jean Francois De LA Perouse.”
(http://tinyurl.com/fbuud)
1791 Sep 14, Louis XVI solemnly
swore his allegiance to the French constitution.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1812 Sep 14, The Russian army
left Moscow. Napoleon's invasion of Russia reached its climax as his
Grande Armee entered Moscow, only to find the enemy capital deserted
and burning, set afire by the few Russians who remained. The fires
were extinguished by Sep 19.
(ON, 10/2010,
p.11)(http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/B/Borodino.html)
1814 Sep 14, In the dawn light
Francis Scott Key saw that the American flag still waved over Fort
McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. He looked on from the
deck of a boat on the Patasco River nine miles away and wrote “The
Star Spangled Banner.” The lyrics were alter adopted to the British
tune "To Anacreon in Heaven,” which had also served as Irish
drinking song and a number of other songs. "The Star-Spangled
Banner" was officially recognized as the national anthem in 1931.
The 40 feet long flag had been made by Baltimore widow Mary Young
Pickersgill and her 13-year-old daughter just a month before the
attack. In 1907 the flag was donated to the Smithsonian.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.A2)(AP, 9/14/97)(HN,
9/14/98)(WSJ, 7/3/02, p.B1)
1836 Sep 14, Aaron Burr, the
3rd US Vice President, died. He had served as vice-president under
Thomas Jefferson. Burr is alleged to have fathered a black
illegitimate son named John Pierre Burr. In 1999 Roger W. Kennedy
authored "Burr, Hamilton and Jefferson: A Study in Character." In
2007 Nancy Isenberg authored “Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron
Burr.”
(WSJ, 10/27/99, p.A16)(WSJ, 10/5/05, p.A1)(WSJ,
5/24/07, p.D7)
1847 Sep 14, US forces under
Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City (the "Halls of
Montezuma"). The Mexican forces fled with their leader, Santa Anna.
(HFA, '96, p.48)(AP, 9/14/97)
1849 Sep 14(OS), Ivan Pavlov
(d.1936), Russian physiologist who studied dogs' responses to food
suggestions, was born. He won a Nobel Prize in 1904.
(HN, 9/14/98)( www.crystalinks.com/pavlov1.html)
1851 Sep 14, James Fenimore
Cooper (b.1789), writer, died at Cooperstown, NY.
(www.online-literature.com)
1852 Sep 14, Augustus Pugin
(b.1812), English Gothic architect and designer, died. He had just
this year helped oversee the completion of the new Palace of
Westminster and sketched a design for the clock tower shortly before
his death. In 2007 Rosemary Hill authored “God’s Architect: Pugin
and the Building of Romantic Britain.
(Econ, 8/11/07,
p.74)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Pugin)(WSJ, 3/20/09,
p.W14)
1852 Sep 14, Arthur Wellesley
(b.1769), General and Duke of Wellington, died at 83.
(http://en.wikipedia.org)
1853 Sep 14, The Allies landed
at Eupatoria on the west coast of Crimea.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1856 Sep 14, At the Battle of
San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeated invaders. General José
Dolores Estrada led his men against the powerful forces of William
Walker and his filibusters, who sought to take over Nicaragua and
all of Central America.
(www.guideofnicaragua.com/0102/MatagalpaEN.html)
1860 Sep 14, Hamlin Garland,
author, was born. He wrote about the Midwest in novels such as “A
Son of the Middle Border” and “The Book of the American Indian.”
(HN, 9/14/00)
1862 Sep 14, At the battles of
South Mountain and Crampton’s Gap, Maryland Union troops smashed
into the Confederates as they closed in on what would become the
Antietam battleground. Confederates delayed McClellan’s advance
against Lee.
(HN, 9/14/98)(AM, 11/04, p.28)
1862 Sep 14, A contingent of
Federal troops escaped from the beleaguered Harper's Ferry.
(www.nps.gov/hafe/jackson.htm)
1864 Sep 14, Lord Robert Cecil,
one of the founders of the League of Nations and its president from
1923 to 1945, was born.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1867 Sep 14, Charles Dana
Gibson, illustrator, was born. He was the creator of the ‘Gibson
Girl.’
(HN, 9/14/00)
1872 Sep 14, Britain paid US
$15 million for damages during Civil War. The British government
paid £3 million in damages to the United States in
compensation for building the Confederate commerce-raider Alabama.
The confederate navy‘s Alabama was built at the Birkenhead
shipyards. Despite its official neutrality during the American Civil
War, Britain allowed the warship to leave port, and it subsequently
played havoc with Federal shipping. The U.S. claimed compensation,
and a Court of Arbitration at Geneva agreed, setting the amount at
£3 million.
(HNQ, 9/2/00)(ON, 9/01, p.12)
1879 Sep 14, Margaret Sanger
(d.1966), feminist, nurse, birth control proponent, was born in
Corning, NY. [see Sep 14, 1883]
(www.who2.com/margaretsanger.html)
1882 Sep 14, British General
Wolseley (d.1913) reached Cairo.
(www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/battles/egypt/egypt4.htm)
1883 Sep 14, Margaret Higgins
Sanger was born. While not the first in the U.S. advocating the use
of contraceptives, she coined the term "birth control" in 1914. She
was the founder of the birth control movement in the United States
and the National Birth Control League. Wife of an affluent architect
and mother of three, Sanger worked as a visiting nurse on New York's
Lower East Side, where she witnessed the misery and poverty caused
by uncontrolled fertility. Sanger became a nurse and after moving to
New York City in 1912 became involved in the bohemian society. She
launched Woman Rebel magazine in March 1914. For sending pleas for
birth control through the mails, she was indicted in August 1914
under New York's 1873 Comstock Act, which classified information
related to contraception as being obscene. She went on to lead a
global movement for birth control and founded the organization that
would later become Planned Parenthood. She died on September 6,
1966. [see Sep 14, 1879]
(HNQ, 6/22/98)(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.39)(HN,
9/14/98)(HNPD, 9/14/98)
1883 Sep 14, A Ukase barred
Yiddish theater in Russia.
(www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1010)
1885 Sep 14, Vittorio Gui
(d.1975), Italian conductor and composer (Batture d'aspetto), was
born in Rome.
(www.operone.de/komponist/gui.html)
1886 Sep 14, Jan Garrique
Masaryk (d.1948), Czech statesman, was born.
(www.britannica.com)
1886 Sep 14, George K. Anderson
of Memphis, Tennessee, patented typewriter ribbon.
(www.inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltypewriter.htm)
1887 Sep 14, Karl Taylor
Compton, physicist and atomic bomb scientist, was born in Wooster,
Ohio.
(www.britannica.com)
1893 Sep 14, In Virginia the
Randolph-Macon Women’s College opened under Pres. William Waugh
Smith. The first session began with 36 boarding students and
12 professors.
(SSFC, 9/10/06,
p.A2)(www.rmwc.edu/about/history.asp)
1899 Sep 14, Hal B. Wallis
(d.1986), film producer, was born in Chicago. His work included “The
Maltese Falcon, Casablanca.”
(www.britannica.com)
1901 Sep 14, President McKinley
died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin.
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the 26th President
of the United States upon the death of William McKinley, who was
shot eight days earlier.
(AP, 9/14/97)(HN, 9/14/98)
1905 Sep 14, Pierre de Brazza
(b.1852), Franco-Italian explorer, died and was buried in Algeria.
He was born in Italy and later naturalized French. Brazza
single-handedly opened up for France entry along the right bank of
the Congo that eventually led to French colonies in West Africa. In
2006 his remains were exhumed and moved to a mausoleum in
Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo.
(Econ, 10/7/06,
p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Savorgnan_de_Brazza)
1911 Sep 14, Russian Premier
Piotr Stolypin was mortally wounded in an assassination attempt at
the Kiev opera house.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1912 Sep 14, The United States
government notified Nicaragua that it would protect American lives
and property there and uphold the government against rebels.
(MC,
9/14/01)(www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/usmcnic3.html)
1913 Sep 14, The Lincoln
Highway Association announced the route of the Lincoln Highway. Its
leaders, particularly Henry Joy, President of the Packard Motor Car
Company, decided on as straight a route as possible and that
decision dictated the course. That initial line was 3,389 miles
long. Less than half of it, 1,598 miles, was improved. (Eventually,
as segments of the route were improved, the length shrunk to about
3,140 miles).
(www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/lincoln.cfm)
1913 Sep 14, Jacobo Guzman
Arbenz (d.1971), president of Guatemala (1951-54) was born. He was
overthrown by the CIA. Arbenz, soldier and nationalist politician
and president Guatemala, was the son of a Swiss pharmacist who
emigrated to Guatemala, Arbenz joined a group of army officers that
overthrew dictator Jorge Ubico in 1944. Arbenz became president with
the support of army and leftists, including the Communist Party. His
radical policies, especially regarding expropriation of portions of
the United Fruit Company holdings, led to a U.S. backed coup in 1954
and his fleeing to Mexico. Arbenz died in 1971 in Mexico City.
(NG, 10/1988,)(HNQ,
1/14/00)(www.bookrags.com/biography/jacobo-arbenz-guzman/)
1921 Sep 14, Constance Baker
Motley, first African-American women to be appointed a federal
judge, was born.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1927 Sep 14, Isadora Duncan
(born in San Francisco in 1878), modern dance pioneer, died in Nice,
France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports
car. A 1968 film with Vanessa Redgrave portrayed her life.
(AP, 9/14/97)(WSJ, 2/20/98, p.A16)(SFC, 9/13/02,
p.E2)
1929 Sep 14, The Dow Jones
Industrials added Curtis-Wright as a replacement for Wright
Aeronautical.
(WSJ, 4/8/04, p.C4)
1930 Sep 14, Allan Bloom,
writer, was born. His work included “The Closing of the American
Mind.”
(HN, 9/14/00)
1930 Sep 14, Nazis took 107
seats in German elections.
(www.zum.de/whkmla/region/germany/wr2932.html)
1933 Sep 14, Zoe Caldwell,
actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), was born in Australia. In 2001
Caldwell authored “I Will Be Cleopatra: An Actress’s Journey.”
(www.infoplease.com)(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.M4)
1934 Sep 14, Kate Millet,
feminist writer, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work included
“Sexual Politics.”
(HN, 9/14/00)(www.infoplease.com)
1936 Sep 14, Irving G. Thalberg
(37), film producer and husband to actress Norma Shearer (d.1983),
died of pneumonia. In 1937 Hollywood established the Thalberg
Memorial Award people whose work reflected a "consistently high
quality." In 2009 Mark A. Viera authored “Irving Thalberg: Boy
Wonder to Producer Prince.”
(WSJ, 2/9/01, p.W1)(SSFC, 7/25/04, Par p.2)(Econ,
11/14/09, p.103)
1937 Sep 14, TG Masaryk
(b.1886), the first president of Czechoslovakia, died in Bohemia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.G._Masaryk)(http://tinyurl.com/856hg)
1939 Sep 14, British fleet sank
the German U-39 U-boat.
(www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsUboats.htm)
1939 Sep 14, In the 1930s Igor
Sikorsky (d.1972) turned his attention again to helicopter design
and on this day flew the VS-300 on its first test flight. Sikorsky,
scientist, engineer, pilot and businessman, was a pioneer in
aircraft design who is best known for his successful development of
the helicopter. He was fascinated with flight even as a child in
Russia, and a 1908 meeting with the Wright brothers determined the
course of his life in aviation. After two early helicopter designs
failed, Sikorsky turned his attention to fixed-wing aircraft. By
1913 he had developed the Il’ya Muromets, four-engine passenger
aircraft that were converted to bombers for use in WWI. The
Bolshevik Revolution forced Sikorsky and his family to emigrate to
America in 1919 where he established the Sikorsky Aero Engineering
Corporation in New York. Over the next 20 years, Sikorsky’s company
built passenger planes and flying boats, including the S-40 American
Clipper that was used to open new air routes across the Pacific.
[see Sep 13]
(HNPD, 10/27/98)
1940 Sep 14, Congress passed
the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft
in U.S. history. It passed by one vote.
(AP, 9/14/97)(SFEC, 8/27/00, BR p.4)
1942 Sep 14, The 3-day Battle
of Edson's Ridge at Guadalcanal continued.
(www.gnt.net/~jrube/indx2.html)
1943 Sep 14, German troops
abandoned the Salerno front in Italy.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1944 Sep 14, A Category 3
hurricane, the Great Atlantic Hurricane, struck eastern New England.
Winds hit 109 MPH in Connecticut and 46 people were killed on land
and caused $100 million in damage. The storm sank 5 ships killing
344 people.
(AP, 9/21/97)(WSJ, 5/31/06,
p.B1)(www.geocities.com/hurricanene/Majorne.htm)
1944 Sep 14, The submarine USS
Pampanito picked up 73 allied prisoners left adrift following the
Sep 12 submarine attack on a Japanese convoy that included the
transport ship Rakuyo Maru.
(SFC, 3/18/09, p.B2)
1947 Sep 14, Sam Neill, actor
(Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano), was born in Omagh, Northern
Ireland.
(www.entertainment.msn.com)
1948 Sep 14, A groundbreaking
ceremony took place in New York at the site of the United Nations'
world headquarters.
(AP, 9/14/99)
1956 Sep 14, Egypt assumed
complete control over the operation of the Suez Canal.
(EWH, 1968, p.1249)
1957 Sep 14, Pres. Eisenhower
met with Arkansas Gov. Faubus in Rhode Island. Faubus agreed to
cooperate with the president’s decisions regarding the high schools
of Little Rock.
(http://tinyurl.com/2vggdj)
1959 Sep 14, The Soviet space
probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as
it crashed onto the lunar surface.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1960 Sep 14, The "Twist" sung
by Chubby Checker (born as Ernest Evans in 1941) hit #1. It reached
#1 a 2nd time in Jan. 1962.
(www.shsu.edu/~mus_rjm/MUS264/Lectures/Notes_Mar20.html)
1960 Sep 14, A Congo coup led
by Col. Mobutu overthrew PM Patrice Lumumba.
(www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mobutu-Sese-Seko)
1960 Sep 14, Iraq, Iran,
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela formed OPEC. Fuad Rouhani
(1907-2004) of Iran served as its 1st secretary-general. In 1964 he
was succeeded by Abdul Rahman Bazzaz of Iraq.
(HN, 9/14/98)(WSJ, 7/28/03, p.A8)
1963 Sep 14, Mary Ann Fischer
of Aberdeen, S.D., gave birth to four girls and a boy, the first
surviving quintuplets in the United States.
(AP, 9/14/03)
1964 Sep 14, UC Berkeley
officials announced a new policy prohibiting political action at the
campus entrance at Bancroft Way and Telegraph.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1964 Sep 14, Pope Paul VI
opened the third session of the Second Ecumenical Council of the
Vatican, also known as Vatican Two.'' The session closed two months
later.
(AP, 9/14/06)
1964 Sep 14, Vasily Grossman
(b.1905), Ukraine-born journalist and writer, died, His work
included the novel “Life and Fate,” a chronicle of the Battle of
Stalingrad, which wasn’t published until 1980.
(WSJ, 5/5/07,
p.P16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Grossman)
1965 Sep 14, The situation
comedy "My Mother the Car" premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 9/14/05)
1965 Sep 14, The TV show
"F-Troop" premiered. It ended in 1967 after 65 episodes.
(www.televisionwesterns.com/table/F-Troop.html)
1965 Sep 14, Dmitry Medvedev
was born in Leningrad. In 2008 with the backing of Vladimir Putin,
he became prime minister of Russia.
(WSJ, 2/28/08, p.A14)
1965 Sep 14, The 4th meeting of
2nd Vatican council opened.
(www.vatican.va)
1966 Sep 14, Operation
Attleboro, designed as a training exercise for American troops in
South Vietnam, became a month-long struggle against the Viet Cong.
(HN, 9/14/98)
1966 Sep 14, Tillie Edelstein
(b.1898), actress and screenwriter, died. As Gertrude Berg, she
created “The Goldbergs” (1929), a radio program that later became
first television sitcom. In 2009 Aviva Kempner directed a
documentary of Berg titled “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Berg)(SFC,
8/7/09, p.E5)
1968 Sep 14, Al Frueh (b.1880),
American caricature artist (New Yorker magazine), died.
(WSJ, 8/21/01,
p.A17)(www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/221010/Al-Frueh)
1969 Sep 14, Males of Swiss
canton Schaffhausen rejected female suffrage.
(www.keesings.com/search?kssp_a_id=23580n02swi&kssp_selected_tab=article)
1971 Sep 14, "Cannon" with
William Conrad premiered on CBS-TV.
(www.tv.com/cannon/show/82/summary.html)
1972 Sep 14, The family drama
series "The Waltons" premiered on CBS.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1973 Sep 14, Pres Nixon signed
into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout.
(www.profootballhof.com)
1975 Sep 14, Rembrandt's
"Nightwatch" was slashed and damaged in Amsterdam.
(www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n7_v86/ai_21113228)
1975 Sep 14, Pope Paul VI
declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first native-born
American saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
(AP, 9/14/97)(HN, 9/14/98)
1978 Sep 14, The Soviet Union
suspended further flights of the supersonic TU 144.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1979 Sep 14, Colombia signed an
extradition treaty with the US, but Colombian leaders enacted
legislation that nullified the pact. It became effective march 4,
1982.
(SFC, 10/2/98,
p.B3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradition_treaties)
1982 Sep 14, John C. Gardner
(b.1933), US, writer (Life & Times of Chaucer High), was killed
in a motorcycle accident. In 2004 Barry Silesky authored "John
Gardner: Literary Outlaw."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner)(WSJ,
2/13/04, p.W8)
1982 Sep 14, Lebanon's
president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1982 Sep 14, Princess Grace of
Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries
from a car crash the day before. Her daughter Stephanie survived the
crash. Kelly rose to prominence in film with 1952's 'High Noon', and
she worked with Alfred Hitchcock in several films including 'Rear
Window'. Her movie career was a brief six years where she did win an
Oscar for 'The Country Girl'. In 1956 she retired from film
following her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
(AP, 9/14/97)(AP, 10/10/02)
1984 Sep 14, Janet Gaynor (77),
the first actress to win an Academy Award (1929), died in San
Francisco. She had never fully recovered from a car crash in 1982.
Her 34 movies included “Seventh Heaven” and the first “A Star Is
Born.”
(SSFC, 9/13/09, DB p.46)
1985 Sep 14, The situation
comedy "The Golden Girls" premiered on NBC and continued to 1992.
The show included Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan
(d.1010 at 76) and Estelle Getty as 4 older women living together in
Florida.
(AP, 9/14/05)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0088526/)(LSA,
Spring, 2009, p.44)(SFC, 6/4/10, p.C8)
1985 Sep 14, Shiite Muslim
kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Benjamin Weir after holding
him captive for 16 months.
(AP, 9/14/05)
1986 Sep 14, President Reagan
and his wife, Nancy, appeared together on radio and television to
appeal for a “national crusade” against drug abuse.
(AP, 9/14/01)
1987 Sep 14, Cal Ripken
(b.1960), baseball star for the Baltimore Orioles, ended his streak
of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Ripken,_Jr.)
1987 Sep 14, Transportation
Secretary Elizabeth Dole resigned to devote herself to the
presidential campaign of her husband, Senate Minority Leader Bob
Dole.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1988 Sep 14, Hurricane
“Gilbert” slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula after forcing
thousands of residents to flee.
(AP, 9/14/00)
1989 Sep 14, ACT-UP AIDS
activists shut down the New York Stock Exchange for a short time
when they chained themselves to a balcony overlooking the floor.
(SFC, 3/22/97, p.A13)
1989 Sep 14, Joseph T.
Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman on disability for mental illness,
killed himself after he shot 8 people dead and wounded 12 at a
printing plant in Louisville, Ky.
(AP, 9/14/99)
1990 Sep 14, Ken Griffey, Sr.
and Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in the 1st inning.
(www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/1990SEPTEMBER.stm)
1990 Sep 14, During the Persian
Gulf crisis, the US Navy reported that American troops had fired a
warning shot at an Iraqi tanker, then boarded it briefly before
allowing it to proceed.
(AP, 9/14/00)
1991 Sep 14, US Secretary of
State James A. Baker III met with leaders of the Baltic nations,
which had declared independence from the Soviet Union.
(AP, 9/14/01)
1991 Sep 14, Carolyn Suzanne
Sapp of Hawaii was crowned “Miss America.”
(AP, 9/14/01)
1991 Sep 14, The government of
South Africa, the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom
Party signed a national peace pact.
(AP, 9/14/01)
1992 Sep 14, The grand dragon
of the Ku Klux Klan's Invisible Empire of Florida announced that he
was moving the group's headquarters from Orlando to Gainesville. He
said, it's "a progressive community, and we think we can fit in."
(www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040906-012530-6093r.htm)
1992 Sep 14, Germany cut key
interest rates for the first time in five years, an action the
United States and European Community nations had been urging to help
spur a world economic recovery.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1992 Sep 14, The Italian Lira
was devalued 7%. This forced Italy to withdraw from the Exchange
Rate Mechanism (ERM), a pre-euro system of semi-pegged currencies.
(http://tinyurl.com/eh943)(Econ, 7/16/11, p.79)
1993 Sep 14, British tourist
Gary Colley was shot and killed, his female companion Margaret
Jagger wounded, at a highway rest stop in Florida. Three young men,
Aundra Aikins, John Crumitie, and Deron Spear, were arrested charged
and convicted. Two suspects later received life sentences; two
others received lesser sentences.
(AP, 9/14/03)(SFC, 8/29/97, p.A8)
1993 Sep 14, Israel and Jordan
signed a framework for negotiations, a day after the signing of a
PLO-Israeli peace accord.
(AP, 9/14/03)
1994 Sep 14, On the 34th day of
a strike by players, Bud Selig, acting commissioner, announced the
1994 baseball season was over. All 28 baseball owners voted to
cancel rest of 1994 season.
(AP, 9/14/99)
1995 Sep 14, Bosnian Serbs
agreed to move heavy weapons and tanks away from Serajevo. NATO
halted bombing in response.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1996 Sep 14, There was a rumor
published that was gleaned from the Internet that “friendly fire”
caused the crash of TWA Flight 800.
(SFC, 9/14/96, p.A4)
1996 Sep 14, Tara Dawn Holland
of Overland Park, Kansas, won the Miss America beauty pageant.
(SFC, 9/15/96, p.A6)(AP, 9/14/97)
1996 Sep 14, Juliet Prowse
(b.1936), actress and dancer (Mona McCluskey), died.
(www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0187948.html)
1996 Sep 14, Bosnians went to
the polls in their first national elections since the
three-and-a-half civil war that ravaged the Balkan republic.
(AP, 9/14/97)
1996 Sep 14, In Cambodia King
Norodom Sihanouk granted amnesty to Ieng Sary, the Khmer Rouge rebel
leader.
(SFC, 9/15/96, p.A16)
1997 Sep 14, At the 49th Annual
Primetime Emmy Awards, "Law and Order" won best drama series while
"Frasier" won best comedy series.
(AP, 9/14/02)
1997 Sep 14, An Air Force
F-117A Stealth fighter broke apart in midair at a Baltimore County
air show. The pilot ejected safely but about a dozen people on the
ground were slightly injured.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A2)
1997 Sep 14, Overcoming fears
of violence, Bosnians flooded polling stations to vote in local
elections.
(AP, 9/14/02)
1997 Sep 14, In India at least
77 people were killed when a train plunged from a bridge near Champa
town in the east of Madhya Pradesh state. Another 234 were injured.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A11)
1997 Sep 14, Two Israeli
soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon.
(WSJ, 9/15/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 14, Israel announced
that it will return half of the $67 million in Palestinian tax
revenues as a “goodwill gesture.”
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 14, It was reported
that Norway is the world’s 2nd largest oil exporter and that the
government sets aside nearly $8.3 billion into a fund for the
future.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A24)
1998 Sep 14, President Clinton,
struggling to regain his footing from the Monica Lewinsky scandal,
pledged during a speech in New York to work with America's allies to
deal with the "biggest financial challenge facing the world in a
half-century."
(AP, 9/14/03)
1998 Sep 14, In Chicago Vincas
Valkavickas (78), a retired factory worker, was put under
deportation proceedings. A complaint alleged that he assisted Nazi
forces as a Lithuanian police officer and guarded Jewish men, women
and children between 1941-1944 at Sviencionys, Lithuania.
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 14, In Miami ten
suspected Cuban spies were arrested for trying to penetrate the
military and exile groups. Five men later pleaded guilty to lesser
charges; the trial of the other five has been postponed until May
2000. The 5 remaining men were convicted in June, 2001, for acting
as unregistered agents and conspiracy to commit crimes against the
US. In 2009 a federal judge lowered the life sentence of Ramon
Labanino to 30 years. The 19-year sentence against Fernando Gonzalez
was reduced to about 18 years.
(WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A1) (WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A1)(AP,
9/14/99)(SSFC, 8/5/07, p.A19)
1998 Sep 14, In Albania
fighting continued in Tirana. Anti-government protestors stormed
public buildings and 3 Berisha supporters were killed in a
counter-attack.
(WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A1)(USAT, 9/15/98, p.12A)(SFC,
9/15/98, p.A6)
1998 Sep 14, Air Canada pilots
ended a 13-day strike with a 9% salary increase over 2 years.
(SFC, 9/15/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 14, Yang Shangkun
(b.1907), president of China during the 1969 Tiananmen massacre,
died in Beijing.
(WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/16/98, p.C4)
1998 Sep 14, Ecuador allowed
its currency, the sucre, to drop by almost 10%. Pres. Jamil Mahuad
outlined a new emergency economic package. The currency devaluation
went to 15% and a new austerity eliminated power subsidies.
Welfare coupons for $17 were to be issued to the poor beginning Nov
1.
(WSJ, 9/15/98, p.A17)(WSJ, 9/16/98, p.A17)
1998 Sep 14, In Indonesia a
strike by 6,000 taxi drivers in Medan deteriorated into a riot.
Hundreds looted a government-owned rice warehouse on East Timor.
(WSJ, 9/16/98, p.A19)
1999 Sep 14, Hurricane “Floyd”
clobbered the Bahamas, toppling power lines, ripping roofs off homes
and pushing a roiling sea into streets before heading toward the
southeastern United States. Hurricane Floyd forced the evacuation of
800,00 in South Carolina and 500,000 in Georgia.
(SFC, 9/15/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/14/00)
1999 Sep 14, In Anaheim, Ca.,
Dung Trinh killed 3 employees at West Anaheim Medical Center during
a shooting spree. He was despondent over the death of his mother.
(SFC, 9/15/99, p.A6)
1999 Sep 14, Indonesian
soldiers looted the abandoned UN mission in Dili, East Timor, just
hours after 110 UN personnel and 13-hundred East Timorese were
evacuated and flown to safety to end a ten-day siege.
(SFC, 9/15/99, p.A14)(AP, 9/14/00)
2000 Sep 14, President Clinton
said he was “quite troubled” by the way the Energy and Justice
departments had handled the Wen Ho Lee case, and he expressed his
regrets.
(AP, 9/14/01)
2000 Sep 14, US Government
scientists narrowly rejected a proposal to ease the ban on gay male
blood donors, citing uncertainty over whether the move would
increase the AIDS risk to the nation's blood supply.
(AP, 9/14/01)
2000 Sep 14, In Belgium truck
drivers agreed to lift a blockade of highways and fuel depots after
5 days of fuel cost protests.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 14, In Burma the
military lifted restrictions against Suu Kyi and 8 other leaders of
the National League for Democracy.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A10)
2000 Sep 14, In Cambodia and
Vietnam the Mekong River flooded. At least 89 people had died in
Cambodia and 8 in Vietnam since the floods began in July.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A18)
2000 Sep 14, Germany banned the
Blood and Honor skinhead group saying it spread Nazism through
music, magazines and web sites.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.D4)
2000 Sep 14, In Peru a video
was broadcast that showed Vladimiro Montesinos, the country’s chief
spy, bribing congressman Alberto Kouri to support Pres. Fujimori.
The heads of Peru’s 14 military divisions were all from the
military-school class of Montesinos. The annual military budget was
$1.5 billion. There were allegations that Montesinos was involved in
the sale of AK47 assault rifles to rebels in Colombia. In 2009
Fujimori acknowledged that soon after the video emerged he paid
Montesinos $15 million in state money to quit.
(SFC, 9/16/00, p.A10)(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A23)(SFC,
9/22/00, p.D3)(AP, 7/13/09)
2000 Sep 14, In the Philippines
guerrillas bombed 3 gas stations and lawmakers planned to undo
economic reforms and nationalize oil imports to cut soaring fuel
costs.
(WSJ, 9/15/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 14, In Spain Ramon
Rekalde, a former Socialist Party official, was wounded with a shot
in the head in San Sebastian. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.D2)
2001 Sep 14, Pres. Bush
declared a national emergency and summoned as many as 50,000
military reservists. Congress approved nearly $40 billion and gave
Pres. Bush war powers ok. The number of hijackers involved in the
Sep 11 attacks was raised from 18 to 19 and their names were made
public. Bush prayed with his Cabinet and attended services at
Washington National Cathedral, then flew to New York, where he waded
into the ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed rescue
workers in a flag-waving, bullhorn-wielding show of resolve.
Americans packed churches and clogged public squares on a day of
remembrance for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
(SFC, 9/15/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.A1)(AP,
9/14/06)
2001 Sep 14, Passenger lists
were published for the 4 airplanes that were hijacked and crashed by
terrorists on Sep 11.
(SFC, 9/14/01, p.A6)
2001 Sep 14-24, Six chartered
flights carrying mostly Saudi nationals departed from the US. [see
Sep 20]
(WSJ, 6/1/04, p.A4)
2001 Sep 14, A Palestinian
attack wounded 2 Israeli policemen.
(SSFC, 9/16/01, p.A28)
2002 Sep 14, President Bush
said the United States was willing to take Iraq on alone if the
United Nations failed to "show some backbone" by confronting Saddam
Hussein.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2002 Sep 14, In Lackawanna, New
York, 5 men of Yemeni descent were charged with supporting foreign
terrorist organizations. They trained in an al Qaeda camp run by
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network in the spring of 2001. A 6th
member of the cell was arrested in Bahrain. All 6 were indicted Oct
21. In 2003 Mukhtar al-Bakri was sentenced to 10 years, Yasein Taher
to 9 years. All terms ranged from 7-10 years.
(AP, 9/15/02)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A12)(SFC, 10/22/02,
p.A7)(SFC, 12/5/03, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/18/03, p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, Lolita Torres
(72), a singer and one of the top actresses of Argentina's golden
era of cinema, died of complications from a lung infection.
(AP, 9/15/02)
2002 Sep 14, In China 38 (49)
people died and hundreds were hospitalized with food poisoning after
eating breakfast snacks, sesame cakes, fried dough sticks and fried
glutinous rice balls, in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. A man
jealous of a business rival later confessed to spiking his
competitor's breakfast snacks with rat poison.
(Reuters, 9/14/02)(Reuters, 9/17/02)(WSJ,
9/17/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, In Congo DRC it
was reported that some 1,200 people had died from a cholera epidemic
and that another 18,000 were infected.
(SFC, 9/14/02, p.A20)
2002 Sep 14, In Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, demonstrators threw homemade firebombs at police
who retaliated with tear gas during a fourth day of violent protests
over electricity blackouts that have left 2 dead.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In France Tim
Montgomery, American sprinter, set a 9.78 second record in the
100-meter dash at the IAAF Grand Prix in Paris. In 2004 he admitted
to using steroids and a growth hormone. In 2005 he was banned from
track for 2 years and his 2001-2005 records were expunged.
(SFC, 6/24/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/14/05, p.A1)
2002 Sep 14, In Italy tens of
thousands of protesters rallied in central Rome, accusing
conservative Premier Silvio Berlusconi of using political power for
his personal benefit, and saying opposition parties were not doing
enough about it.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Ivory Coast’s
Azagny National Park there were only 39,000 western chimpanzees left
of an original 600,000. The western chimpanzee, one of four
subspecies of the common chimpanzee, was already extinct in the wild
in Benin, Gambia and Togo. It was almost extinct in Senegal, Burkina
Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Ghana.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, President Emile
Lahoud said Lebanon will start pumping water from a shared border
river for its southern villages despite Israeli military threats.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Liberia Pres.
Charles Taylor lifted the state of emergency he imposed eight months
ago, declaring that the rebel insurrection against his government
had been all but crushed.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Macedonia an
ethnic Albanian was killed and two were wounded in a clash with
police, as tensions soared on the eve of key elections.
(AP, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, South and North
Korea have set a date to begin mine clearing and establish a
military hotline during reconstruction of railway links across their
fortified border divided for 50 years.
(Reuters, 9/14/02)
2002 Sep 14, In Syria 2 buses
collided in the northeast, killing 13 people and injuring four
others.
(AP, 9/15/02)
2003 Sep 14, Japanese filmmaker
Takeshi Kitano's "Zatoichi," the story of a mythical blind
swordsman, and Denys Arcand's "The Barbarian Invasions" took top
awards at the Toronto International Film Festival.
(Reuters, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14, Illinois Gov. Rod
Blagojevich directed the state Special Advocate to draft a plan for
busing inexpensive medications from Canada for state employees and
retirees.
(SFC, 9/15/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 14, The Lasker
foundation presented awards for medical research to Dr. Robert
Roeder for his work on gene transcription, and to Dr. Marc Feldman
and Sir Ravinder Maini for their anti-TVF work that led to drugs for
treating rheumatoid arthritis.
(SSFC, 9/14/03, p.A2)
2003 Sep 14, Yetunde Price
(31), older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, was
shot and killed in LA County. Suspect Aaron Michael Hammer (24) was
arrested 2 days later.
(SFC, 9/16/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 14, Hafiz Abdul Rahim,
a top commander of the former Taliban regime who allegedly led rebel
fighters in southern Afghanistan, was killed along with 14 other
fighters in a shootout with Afghan forces.
(AP, 9/16/03)
2003 Sep 14, Estonians passed a
referendum to join the European Union.
(AP, 9/15/03)
2003 Sep 14, In the West Africa
country of Guinea-Bissau the army launched a coup, arresting the
president and ordering government ministers detained. Verissimo
Correia Seabre and fellow senior officers arrested the elected
president, Kumba Yala.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14, Lt. Gen. Ricardo
Sanchez, the US military commander in Iraq, authorized the use of
loud rock music, "to create fear, disorient ... and prolong capture
shock." The tactic became common in the US war on terror, with
forces systematically using loud music on hundreds of detainees in
Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
(AP, 12/10/08)
2003 Sep 14, In Iraq a roadside
bomb attack on a convoy in the troubled city of Fallujah killed one
US soldier and injured three others.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14, In Cancun, Mexico,
the WTO talks collapsed when delegates from Africa, the Caribbean
and Asia walked out accusing wealthy nations of failing to offer
sufficient compromises on agriculture and other issues.
(SFC, 9/15/03, p.A3)(AP, 9/14/08)
2003 Sep 14, A Saudi importer
of some 58,000 Australian sheep was reported to be trying to
give them away for free. The sheep had been stranded for five
weeks on the ship, the Cormo Express, due to a 6% infection rate for
scabby mouth disease. Australia in 2002 had imposed tougher rules on
ships exporting livestock to the Persian Gulf after it was revealed
that 14,500 sheep had died from heat stress in one month. Some 5,700
sheep aboard the Cormo Express died before Eritrea accepted the
animals.
(AP, 9/14/03)(Econ, 12/2/06, p.88)
2003 Sep 14, Dhaher bin Thamer
al-Shimry, a Saudi marijuana trafficker, was beheaded, bringing the
number of beheadings in the kingdom this year to 41.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14, Pope John Paul II
wrapped up a pilgrimage to Slovakia by beatifying two clerics, Greek
Catholic Bishop Vasil Hopko and Roman Catholic Sister Zdenka
Schelingova, who were jailed and tortured under the former communist
regime.
(AP, 9/14/03)
2003 Sep 14,
Sweden voted 56-42% "No" in a referendum on whether to adopt the
euro.
(Reuters, 9/15/03)
2004 Sep 14, President Bush
told veterans in Las Vegas he was proud of his time in the Texas Air
National Guard as he sought to deflect questions about his
Vietnam-era service.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2004 Sep 14, Arizona,
California and Nevada joined with the federal government to
undertake a 50-year, $620 million project to restore wildlife
habitat along 342 miles of the lower Colorado River.
(SFC, 9/15/04, p.A8)
2004 Sep 14, Firefox, developed
by Mozilla, released a new Web browser.
(Econ, 9/25/04, p.76)
2004 Sep 14, More than 35,000
Colombian Indians marched in a violence-wracked region to protest
attacks against Indians and a free-trade pact pursued by the US.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2004 Sep 14, Hurricane Ivan
whipped western Cuba with 160 mph winds. The hurricane knocked some
25 million barrels of oil off world markets by causing undersea
mudslides in the Gulf of Mexico.
(AP, 9/14/04)(WSJ, 10/27/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 14, A car bomb ripped
through a busy market near a Baghdad police headquarters where
Iraqis were waiting to apply for jobs on the force killing 47 and
wounding 114. Gunmen opened fire on a van carrying police home from
work in Baqouba, killing 12 people.
(AP, 9/14/04)(SFC, 9/15/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 14, Saboteurs blew up
a junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River in
northern Iraq, setting off a chain reaction in power generation
systems that left the entire country without power.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2004 Sep 14, Senior Israeli
Cabinet ministers approved the payment of cash advances to Jewish
settlers who will be removed from their homes under Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2004 Sep 14, Mount Asama, one
of Japan's largest and most active volcanoes, began spewing gray
smoke into the air. Its last major eruption was in 1783.
(AP, 9/15/04)
2004 Sep 14, Russia announced
it was pouring $5.4 billion in additional funding into its security
agencies.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2004 Sep 14, A UN World Health
report said 6-10 thousand people were dying from disease and
violence in Sudan’s Darfur region.
(SFC, 9/15/04, p.A3)
2005 Sep 14, A US federal judge
in Sacramento ruled that requiring children to recite a Pledge of
Allegiance that contains the phrase “under God” in public schools is
unconstitutional.
(SFC, 9/15/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 14, The US Coast
Guard, acting on Colombian intelligence, intercepted a ship towing
an unmanned submarine-like vessel that held more than 2 tons of
cocaine. Separately, 2.5 tons of cocaine were discovered hidden in
the oil tanks of a ship docked in the Colombian Pacific port of
Buenaventura.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Sep 14, The Port of New
Orleans resumed commercial operations. Officials said damage to
agriculture in the Gulf states due to Hurricane Katrina has topped
$3 billion.
(AP, 9/14/05)(SFC, 9/15/05, p.C1)
2005 Sep 14, Delta Airlines and
Northwest Airlines, America’s 3rd and 4th largest airlines, filed
for bankruptcy.
(Econ, 9/17/05, p.59)
2005 Sep 14, Robert Wise (91),
film editor turned director, died of heart failure. He was nominated
for seven Academy Awards, had hits in a variety of genres and worked
with Orson Welles on "Citizen Kane." But he gained his greatest
acclaim and four Oscars, with the big-budget productions of "West
Side Story" and "The Sound of Music." In 1996 he became the 26th
recipient of the American Film Institute’s life achievement award.
(AP, 9/15/05)(SFC, 9/16/05, p.B8)
2005 Sep 14, In Afghanistan
about 40 gunmen attacked a police post in the mountainous Char-Chilo
district of Uruzgan province. Police killed three of the attackers
and arrested one after a two-hour gunbattle. A bomb exploded along a
road frequently traveled by U.S.-led and Afghan army forces near
Tirin Kot, the provincial capital, blowing up a civilian vehicle and
killing three passengers.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Sep 14, In Australia the
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization)
Total Wellbeing Diet book was reported to have already sold 370,000
copies. Publishers targeted sales of one million to the country of
just 20 million people.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, Brazil’s police
arrested 43 people during raids on clandestine rings sneaking an
increasing number of Brazilians into the United States, Europe and
Mexico.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Sep 14, Britain declared
that the Ulster Volunteer Force, a major outlawed Protestant group
in Northern Ireland, has abandoned its 11-year-old truce and is an
enemy of the peace once again.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, Chile’s Supreme
Court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution,
paving the way for a trial of the former dictator for his alleged
role in the disappearance and killing of 15 dissidents during his
1973-90 regime.
(AP, 9/15/05)
2005 Sep 14, Egypt said it had
found an arms-smuggling tunnel under the Gaza border, and
Palestinians crossing the frontier were warned to return by sunset
when passport controls will be reimposed.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In NYC Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted US unilateralism, militarism
and privilege and called for the UN to promote spirituality. The
conservative Muslim leader advanced unusual broad concepts,
including recommendations that the UN "institutionalize justice at
the international level" and ensure all members have "equal rights."
(AP, 9/16/05)
2005 Sep 14, A leading Shiite
lawmaker said Iraq's draft constitution has been finalized and will
be sent to the United Nations to be printed.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, More than a dozen
explosions ripped through Baghdad in rapid succession, killing at
least 160 people and wounding 570 in a series of attacks that began
with a suicide car bombing that targeted laborers assembled to find
work for the day. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility.
(AP, 9/14/05)(SFC, 9/15/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 14, Gunmen wearing
military uniforms surrounded a village north of Baghdad and executed
17 men.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In Nepal police
fired tear gas and beat protesters with batons as 7,000 people
poured into the center of the Nepalese capital in continuing
pro-democracy rallies.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In Pakistan gunmen
on a motorcycle murdered a minority Shiite Muslim in Quetta before
fleeing.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, Former Russian PM
Mikhail Kasyanov said he plans to run in the 2008 presidential
election. He urged Russia's fragmented opposition to unite or face
at least another decade of undemocratic rule.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In Geneva the UN
refugee and food agencies' chiefs made a joint appeal to donors for
more money to alleviate shortages of survival rations for people
displaced by war across Africa.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, Taiwan failed for
the 13th straight year to get a seat at the United Nations, a move
that has been blocked annually since 1993 by archrival China and its
allies.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2005 Sep 14, In NYC UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to world leaders marking the
60th anniversary of the United Nations to help restore confidence in
the world body. He also said that UN members had failed to achieve
the profound reform the global organization needed on its 60th
anniversary. President Bush urged compassion for the needy and
pressed the global community to "put the terrorists on notice" by
cracking down on any activities that could incite deadly attacks.
(AP, 9/14/05)
2006 Sep 14, US federal health
officials said an outbreak a deadly strain of E. coli (0157:H7) had
left at least one person dead in Wisconsin over 100 others sick and
warned consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach. The outbreak in 8
states soon extended to 25. The number sickened rose to at least
190. Most of the spinach crop at this time of the year comes from
California. A special effort was under way in the Salinas Valley of
California, a major leafy-vegetable growing region, to look for any
possible source of contamination there. The outbreak was traced to
California’s Natural Selection Foods of San Juan Bautista, which
recalled all suspect products. This was the same deadly strain that
in 1982 had sickened at least 47 people in Oregon and Michigan who
ate McDonald’s burgers. A surveillance system setup after a 1993
outbreak at the Jack-in-the-Box fast food chain helped single out
spinach as the likely source of this outbreak. A 2nd death on Sep
20, a 2-year-old boy in Idaho, was attributed to the spinach E.
coli. A 3rd death in late August, a woman (84) in Nebraska, was also
attributed to the spinach E. coli. On Sep 29 the FDA cleared spinach
from California’s Monterey, San Benito and Santa Clara counties.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.A9)(WSJ, 9/25/06, p.A4)(SFC,
9/30/06, p.A5)(SFC, 10/7/06, p.A6)
2006 Sep 14, In Green Bay,
Wisc., police arrested two 17-year-olds, suspected of plotting a
shooting spree at East High School. William C. Cornell and Shawn R.
Sturtz were arrested for suspicion of conspiracy to commit
first-degree intentional homicide and conspiracy to commit arson.
Police found homemade bombs and weapons at their homes.
(http://kutv.com/topstories/topstories_story_258075847.html)
2006 Sep 14, In Washington DC 2
people demonstrated prosthesis that moved in response to thoughts.
Their bionic arms were designed by the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 14, The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $68.2 million to fight parasitic
diseases that included leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis and hookworm.
The new money will support efficacy trials in India and Africa.
(WSJ, 9/14/06, p.A11)
2006 Sep 14, The hedge fund
Amaranth Advisors, led by Nick Maounis, announced a loss of some
$560 million. The name was taken from the Greek word for “unfading.”
Brian Hunter (32), a Canadian energy trader, got caught on the wrong
side of falling natural gas futures.
(WSJ, 9/23/06, p.B5)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.83)
2006 Sep 14, Mickey Hargitay
(80), Hungarian-born actor and world champion bodybuilder, died. He
was named Mr. Universe, Mr. America and Mr. Olympia in 1955. He was
married to sex siren Jayne Mansfield (1957-1964) and his daughter is
the Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay. California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger played Hargitay in the 1982 TV movie "The Jayne
Mansfield Story."
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 14, Prof. Frederic
Evans Wakemen Jr. (68), leading US scholar on China, died in Oregon.
His books included “Policing Shanghai 1927-1937” (1995) and
“Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service” (2004). Prof.
Wakemen had taught at UC Berkeley (1965-2006).
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.B5)
2006 Sep 14, Taliban militants
attacked police headquarters in western Afghanistan, raising fears
that insurgents fleeing NATO attacks in the south are opening new
fronts. Two police and two militants were killed.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Some 200
Pakistanis and Sri Lankans reached the Canary Islands in a 40-meter
(100-feet) metal boat. Officials began making arrangements the next
day for the repatriation of the immigrants. Canaries regional
President Adan Martin said 500 African children out of 836 minors
who have arrived in the Canaries this year were to be transferred to
the Spanish mainland. Some 20,000 would-be immigrants to Europe had
reached the Canary Islands since the beginning of the year.
(AP, 9/15/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.64)
2006 Sep 14, China’s stock
market regulator made official a ban on foreign acquisitions of
domestic stockbrokers and investment banks.
(Econ, 9/23/06, p.84)
2006 Sep 14, Current and former
French officials specializing in terrorism said that an al-Qaida
alliance with the Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known
by its French initials GSPC, was cause for concern. Al-Qaida's No.
2, Ayman al-Zawahri, announced the "blessed union" in a video posted
this week on the Internet to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept.
11 attacks in the United States.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 14, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel said she has again raised human rights issues with
visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and urged Beijing to respect the
freedom of the press.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Three men became
the first rabbis ordained in Germany since World War II.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2006 Sep 14, Ex-Col. Guy
Francois, former army commander twice accused of plotting to
overthrow Haiti's government, was shot to death in an upscale suburb
of the capital.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 14, An Indian federal
minister proposed a 1,000 US dollar incentive to encourage people to
break centuries-old taboos and marry across caste boundaries.
(AFP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, An Iranian
opposition figure said Iran has secretly revived a program to enrich
uranium using laser technology, reportedly with favorable results,
citing information from members of the resistance inside the
country.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Iraqi officials
said Abu Jaafar al-Liby, described by the ministry as either the
second or third most important figure in al-Qaida in Iraq, was
killed by police earlier this week. Car bombs and drive-by shootings
killed at least 19 people, including 5 US soldiers, in a series of
attacks around central Iraq. Death squads left behind at least 22
bodies.
(AP, 9/14/06)(AP, 9/15/06)(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A14)
2006 Sep 14, Libya's population
grew by 1.8% per year to 5.3 million in 2006 from 1995. A rare
government census showed that Libya had also cut its illiteracy rate
to 11.9% from 19% a decade ago.
(Reuters, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Nigerian President
Olusegun Obasanjo held talks in Tokyo on the start of a
trans-Pacific trip.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Poland will send
at least 900 troops early next year to bolster the NATO mission in
Afghanistan. NATO said the offer did not ease the immediate need for
2,500 additional soldiers in the violence-wracked south.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, The Swiss central
bank raised its key Libor interest rate by a quarter of a percentage
point to a range between 1.25% and 2.25% to dampen the threat of
inflation.
(AFP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Turkey's top
Islamic cleric asked Pope Benedict XVI to take back recent remarks
he made about Islam on Sep 12. He unleashed a string of
counteraccusations against Christianity, raising tensions before the
pontiff's November visit.
(AP, 9/14/06)(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A17)
2006 Sep 14, Ukraine’s
pro-Russia premier suspended a bid to join NATO.
(WSJ, 9/15/06, p.A1)
2007 Sep 14, US Pres. Bush
signed the Honest leadership and Open Governance Act of 2007. It
required that the names of sponsors of earmarks be disclosed openly
and at an early stage. It also called for increasing transparency in
bundling, the fund-raising strategy whereby one supporter
coordinates contributions from many individuals. It also required
senators who leave office to wait 2 years before taking a cushy job
at a lobbying firm.
(Econ, 9/22/07, p.42)
2007 Sep 14, Resigning US
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left the Justice Dept. following a
farewell speech.
(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A5)
2007 Sep 14, The Monitor Group
of Cambridge issued a scathing review of the administration of the
Univ. of California finding widespread poor performance in the UC
president’s office and a broad lack of confidence in the office by
the governing regents and 10 UC campuses.
(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 14, Two airplanes
collided at the Reno National Championship Air Races, killing one
pilot and injuring another in the third fatal crash at the event in
four days.
(AP, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, Afghan police in
the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province killed 3 Taliban commanders
allegedly involved in the abduction of 23 South Koreans two months
ago.
(AP, 9/16/07)
2007 Sep 14, In Algeria a bomb
hidden in a bag exploded outside a compound housing police officials
in Zemmouri, killing three people.
(AP, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, Australian police
confirmed that corrupt police officers were linked with a bloody
gangland war which raged for years in the country's second largest
city. Melbourne's criminal war began in the late 1990s and claimed
29 lives.
(AFP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, The global credit
crisis struck Northern Rock PLC, Britain’s 5th largest mortgage
lender, as the Bank of England said it had approved emergency
funding to help the bank overcome a liquidity crisis.
(AP, 9/14/07)(Econ, 9/22/07, p.92)
2007 Sep 14, Human Rights Watch
said that soldiers in the Central African Republic (CAR) have
massacred hundreds of people and burned villages, forcing civilians
to flee, during a counter-insurgency campaign. The watchdog group
blamed President Francois Bozize's elite guard for atrocities
carried out since mid-2005, but said other military units, their
rebel foes and bandit groups were also guilty.
(AFP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, China’s government
said it has ordered judges to use the death penalty more sparingly
by showing leniency for murderers who cooperate with authorities and
white collar criminals who help recoup their ill-gotten gains.
Beijing also said it will give urban Chinese who break the one-child
policy a black mark on their credit reports.
(AP, 9/14/07)(WSJ, 9/15/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 14, A UN spokesman
said UN peacekeepers have discovered three graves, each containing
several bodies, at Rubare, a military base in eastern Congo recently
abandoned by rebels loyal to a renegade Gen. Nkunda.
(Reuters, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Developers in
Dubai said the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building since July,
has also become the tallest free-standing structure on earth,
reaching 1,822 feet. The over 700-meter (2,313 feet) Burj Dubai
tower complex, a part of the Dubai Mall, was expected to be
completed this year. The design was by Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill of Chicago.
(Econ, 1/8/05, p.57)(SFC, 3/31/05, p.A2)(AP,
9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Jacques Martin
(b.1933), the French television personality once married to
now-first lady Cecilia Sarkozy, died. Martin shot to fame as the
host of a series of hit comedy shows on French television, including
the satirical "Le Petit Rapporteur," a spoof newscast that ran from
1975-1976.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Georgia’s defense
minister said Georgia will cut the size of its military contingent
in Iraq from 2,000 soldiers and other personnel to around 300 by
next summer.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Powerful
earthquakes struck Indonesia for a third day, terrorizing thousands
of people who slept outside in fear of tsunami and falling debris.
The death toll reached 21 and seismologists warned that the
worst may be yet to come.
(AP, 9/14/07)(Reuters, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, In Iraq some 1,500
mourners called for revenge as they buried the leader of the Sunni
revolt against al-Qaida, Adbul-Sattar Abu Risha, who had been
assassinated by a bomb claimed by an al-Qaida front. A suicide truck
bomb hit a police checkpoint near Beiji, killing four policemen.
South of Baghdad, unidentified gunmen killed three farmers who were
taking their turn guarding a village. Farther south in the city of
Hillah, gunmen attacked the home of Col. Hussein Ali Hassoon al
Khafaji, an Iraqi army battalion commander, killing a guard and
wounding another. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the
possibility of cutting US troop levels in Iraq to 100,000 by the end
of 2008, well beyond the cuts President Bush had approved.
(AP, 9/14/07)(AP, 9/14/08)
2007 Sep 14, Japan's space
agency launched its much-delayed lunar probe, beginning what it
calls the largest mission to the moon since the US Apollo flights.
The Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE), probe was
launched aboard one of the space program's mainstay H-2A rockets
from its launch-pad on remote Tanegashima island.
(AP, 9/13/07)
2007 Sep 14, It was reported
that researchers at Tokyo Univ. had developed a method, dubbed
surrogate broodstocking, whereby they inject newly hatched, sterile
Asian masu salmon with sperm-growing cells from rainbow trout. The
grown salmon then produce trout.
(SFC, 9/14/07, p.A14)
2007 Sep 14, Eight members of
Nigeria's ruling party seized by gunmen in the southern
oil-producing state of Ondo last weekend were released.
(AFP, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, Her party said
former PM Benazir Bhutto will return to Pakistan from an eight-year
exile on Oct. 18. The government said she was free to come back but
would have to face corruption cases against her.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Officials in
Paraguay said fires have scorched 3 million acres and forced the
evacuation of some 15,000 people. Protracted drought was cited along
with illegal loggers, illicit hunters and clandestine marijuana
farmers.
(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 14, Rwanda’s
government said floods killed 15 people and left about 1,000 people
homeless after 2 days of torrential downpours in the hills of
northern Rwanda.
(Reuters, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, A roadside bomb
blast and clashes between soldiers and secessionist Tamil Tiger
guerrillas across Sri Lanka's volatile north killed 29 people.
(AP, 9/15/07)
2007 Sep 14, Sudan's President
Omar al-Bashir said his government is ready to implement a
cease-fire with rebel forces at the start of peace talks over the
conflict in Darfur, scheduled for next month in Libya.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2007 Sep 14, Authorities in
Uganda said the heaviest rainfall in 35 years has displaced 150,000
people since August with at least 9 reported deaths. 400,000 people
were said to have lost their livelihoods.
(SFC, 9/15/07, p.A3)
2008 Sep 14, The Denver Broncos
won 39-38 following a 2-point conversion after a mistaken call by
NFL referee Ed Hochuli gave them the ball in the last minute of the
game.
(AP, 9/18/08)
2008 Sep 14, California
legislators said they had reached a spending compromise, potentially
ending a record-breaking budget impasse.
(SFC, 9/15/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 14, In southern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a convoy carrying
Afghan doctors working for the UN, killing two doctors and their
driver. They were on a mission to monitor efforts to vaccinate
children against polio. 6 children died in central Ghazni after
ordnance they were playing with exploded. An Afghan interpreter
working for the US military was shot dead as he stepped out of his
home.
(AFP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, In Western
Australia's 4 people died in a helicopter crash in the Bungle Bungle
National Park of the remote Kimberly region.
(AFP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Archaeologist
Georgi Kitov (b.1943), an expert on the treasure-rich Thracian
culture of antiquity, died of a heart attack while excavating a
temple in central Bulgaria.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 14, In eastern Congo a
riot ensued following accusations that a soccer player was using
witchcraft. 13 people were left dead.
(SFC, 9/16/08, p.A7)
2008 Sep 14, Roadside bombs
killed five Iraqi policemen and injured eight others north of
Baghdad. An American soldier in Iraq died of causes unrelated to
combat.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, France's ecology
minister said the government is considering a "picnic tax" on
disposable dishes to encourage people to use reusable plates and
cups instead.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Mexico's military
seized US$26.2 million in cash believed to belong to members of the
Sinaloa drug cartel. This was the 2nd biggest seizure since March
2007, when police seized US$207 million linked to a trafficking ring
for pseudoephedrine.
(AP, 9/18/08)
2008 Sep 14, The Movement for
the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the main militant group
in Nigeria's southern oil region, declared a state of war after two
days of clashes with government forces, launching reprisal raids and
raising the specter of more conflict in Africa's biggest oil
producer.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Pakistani security
forces killed 16 suspected militants and wounded 25 on in the Bajur
tribal region, the latest round of a military offensive with no end
in sight.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Aeroflot Flight
821, traveling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains city of Perm,
crashed near residential buildings as it was preparing to land,
killing all 88 people aboard, including 21 foreign nationals. A
Russian investigator said the crash of the Boeing-737-500 was most
likely caused by engine failure.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, In Somalia at
least six people, including an African Union (AU) peacekeeper, were
killed Sunday in two separate incidents in Mogadishu.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, In Sudan Minni
Minnawi, a leader of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) faction turned
presidential advisor after signing the peace deal with Khartoum,
said his forces had came under attack at their base at Kolge in the
east Jebel Marra region.
(AFP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Typhoon Sinlaku
pounded Taiwan with fierce winds and torrential rains, leaving at
least 11 people dead.
(AP, 9/14/08)(AFP, 9/16/08)
2008 Sep 14, A Turkish ferry
carrying some 100 people sank in the Sea of Marmara, killing at
least one person. At least 23 more were missing.
(AP, 9/15/08)
2009 Sep 14, The US attended
its first formal meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, saying it
will try to promote dialogue at a body it once avoided and heavily
criticized.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 14, Google rolled out
Fast Flip, which lets users scroll through the contents of online
newspapers in much the same way as they leaf through pages in print.
(www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/technology/internet/15google.html)(Econ,
9/19/09, p.74)
2009 Sep 14, Jody Powell (65),
former White House press secretary for Jimmy Carter (1977-1981, died
of a heart attack at his home in Maryland.
(SFC, 9/15/09, p.C4)
2009 Sep 14, Patrick Swayze
(57), actor, died from pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles. He
personified a particular kind of masculine grace both on and off
screen, from his roles in films like "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost" to
the way he carried himself in his long fight with cancer.
(AP, 9/15/09)
2009 Sep 14, Afghan and foreign
forces killed 27 Taliban militants in gunfights and an air strike in
a rebel stronghold of Kandahar province. A Taliban spokesman said
four militants were killed and five civilians died in the crossfire.
(AFP, 9/15/09)
2009 Sep 14, In Australia
energy giants Chevron, Shell and ExxonMobil agreed to develop the
massive Gorgon field, giving the final go-ahead to a liquefied
natural gas (LNG) project worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 14, The leaders of
Brazil and Guyana met to inaugurate the $5 million Takutu River
Bridge, that is expected to boost trade between Brazil and the
Caribbean. Traffic began crossing the bridge nearly two months ago
but today’s ceremony was billed as its formal commissioning.
(AP, 9/15/09)
2009 Sep 14, A British judge
sentenced Abdulla Ahmed Ali (28), the ringleader of a plot to bring
down trans-Atlantic planes with liquid explosives, to at least 40
years in jail and three fellow British Muslims to long prison
sentences.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 14, China filed a WTO
complaint over new US tariffs on Chinese tires, stepping up pressure
on Washington in the latest in a series of trade disputes.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 14, China broke ground
on its fourth space center. The new port on the southern island
province of Hainan, slated to go into use in 2013, highlights the
country's soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first
man into orbit.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 14, France Telecom SA
summoned all 20,000 of its managers to a conference call in an
effort to respond to a string of 23 employee suicides that unions
blame partly on layoffs and restructuring at the telecommunications
giant.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 14, In Germany
Siegfried Wolf, the co-chief executive of Magna International Inc.,
said as many as 10,500 Opel jobs in Europe could be cut, including
nearly half of them in Germany. Opel employs some 49,000 workers in
Europe and has plants in Germany, Spain, Britain, Poland and
Germany.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 14, In Indonesia
expanded Islamic law was passed by the regional parliament in Aceh
province. One key article regarding adultery threatened 100 cane
lashes for the unmarried and stoning to death for those who are
married.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 14, In Iran
authorities arrested at least 7 children and grandchildren of senior
clerics in Qom in fresh pressure on religious leaders who sympathize
with the opposition.
(SFC, 9/16/09, p.A5)
2009 Sep 14, In Mexico 31
police officers were arrested in Hidalgo state on suspicion of
collaborating with the Zetas, a gang of drug cartel hit men. 92
police were arrested there in June. Gunmen opened fire inside a
Ciudad Juarez hardware store, killing the woman who owned the store
and four other people, including a 19-year-old man. Minutes later an
armed gang killed five men riding in a pickup truck.
(AP, 9/14/09)(AP, 9/16/09)
2009 Sep 14, Norway's
left-leaning government faced a splintered opposition in an election
focused on how to manage the Nordic nation's soaring oil wealth and
seal cracks in its welfare system. Jens Stoltenberg's Labor-led
coalition won 86 seats to keep a slim majority in the 169-seat
Parliament after using oil money to shield the welfare state from
the global recession.
(AP, 9/14/09)(AP, 9/15/09)
2009 Sep 14, In Pakistan at
least 18 women and girls were killed in a stampede which broke out
as charity workers were handing out free flour to the poor in a
crowded neighborhood of Pakistan's financial capital Karachi.
(AP, 9/15/09)
2009 Sep 14, In Pakistan a US
missile slammed into a car at dawn, killing up to five militants in
the remote tribal belt near the Afghan border in the third attack in
a week. Nazimuddin, alias Yahyo, a top Uzbek militant, was believed
to be among the dead. Burqa-clad assailants armed with Kalashnikov
rifles and hand grenades attempted to attack an oil terminal in
Karachi, but were thwarted by a security guard who was gunned down
as the suspects escaped. Police later found a large cache of
rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), explosives, suicide vests, burqas
and other items apparently dumped by the suspects near a sewer in
the area. Fighter jets pounded suspected militant hide-outs and
killed five insurgents in the Salarzai area of the northwest Bajur
tribal region.
(AP, 9/15/09)(AFP, 9/14/09)(AP, 9/15/09)(AP,
9/17/09)
2009 Sep 14, Finance Minister
Diana Dragutinovic said Serbia will have to lay off about one-fifth
of its government employees, 14,000 people, to meet conditions set
by the International Monetary Fund to receive more financial aid. A
trade union representing state employees has already announced
strikes if the layoffs are carried out.
(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 14, In southern
Somalia foreign troops firing from 6 helicopters killed two people
in a car and then took two others captive in an insurgent-held
village near Barawe. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan (30), a Kenyan citizen
and one of Africa's most wanted al-Qaida suspects, was one of the
dead. He was wanted for questioning in connection with the car
bombing of a beach resort in Kenya and the near simultaneous attempt
to shoot down an Israeli airliner in 2002. Forces from the US Joint
Special Operations Command were involved in the raid.
(AP, 9/14/09)(AP, 9/15/09)
2009 Sep 14, The Saudi Interior
Ministry said on Jan 18, 2010, that an investigation has shown that
three Saudi militants were killed in a Sept. 14 blast outside the
country [see Afghanistan and Pakistan Sep 14, 2009].
(AP, 1/18/10)
2009 Sep 14, Vietnamese
scholars disbanded the Institute of Development Studies, the
country's first independent think tank, to protest a government
decree, effective Sep 15, restricting the right to conduct and
publish research.
(AP, 9/15/09)
2010 Sep 14, Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc, which filed for bankruptcy exactly two years ago, sued
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and dozens of other defendants to
recover more than $3 billion of which it said it was deprived due to
the bankruptcy filing.
(Reuters, 9/15/10)
2010 Sep 14, In North Carolina
Ariana Iacono (14) went back to school with her mother and her nose
ring, after her first suspension for a nose piercing ended. She was
suspended again for five days because her nose ring violated the
Johnston County school system's dress code. If she comes back to
school on Sept. 21 with the nose stud, she'll face a 10-day
suspension or referral to "alternative schooling." A similar
situation went to the courts in 2002, when a woman was fired from
her job at a Costco store over her eyebrow ring. The woman was also
a member of the Church of Body Modification, but the courts
eventually ruled that her religious beliefs did not require her to
always wear her jewelry.
(AP, 9/16/10)
2010 Sep 14, It was reported
that only about 3,500 tigers worldwide were left in the wild, with
less than a third of them breeding females. Most of the tigers were
in India.
(SFC, 9/15/10, p.A2)
2010 Sep 14, Afghan and NATO
troops killed 3 insurgents in eastern Wardak province. Four Taliban
were killed in southeastern Zabul province.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, Assailants
targeting security officials in Bahrain set off an explosion that
damaged several parked cars in the first such attack since the
country's Sunni-led rulers began a crackdown on suspected Shiite
dissidents last month.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, The British
embassy said Britain has offered to build 11 warships for Brazil, as
Brazil hones a maritime defense contract to protect recently found
vast offshore oil deposits.
(AFP, 9/15/10)
2010 Sep 14, Colombian
authorities reported the arrest of Javier Caceres (52), a veteran
lawmaker and former president of Congress, on criminal conspiracy
charges for alleged collusion with far-right militias.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, The European
Commission threatened legal action against France over its crackdown
on Roma minorities, drawing a parallel between their treatment and
World War II-era deportations.
(AFP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, Nokia, the Finnish
phone giant, unveiled of 3 new touchscreen smartphones.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100914/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc3609)
2010 Sep 14, Indian police
opened fire on stone-throwing protesters in Kashmir as small groups
took to the streets in defiance of curfew orders.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, Iran
released Sarah Shourd (32), an American woman, on a bail of $500,000
more than a year after she was detained. Authorities said they were
not considering the immediate release of two companions arrested
with her.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, Farzad Farhangian,
a press attache at the Iranian embassy in Brussels, called for an
uprising against the Tehran government, as he became the third
Europe-based envoy to defect this year and announced he was seeking
asylum in Norway.
(AFP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, Three Palestinians
were wounded by Israeli tank fire in a clash along the volatile Gaza
border. On Sep 25 Hamas reported that one died as the result of his
wounds.
(AFP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 14, The New York-based
Committee to Protect Journalists said Kazakhstan's failure to
improve media freedom has damaged its international standing and the
situation is getting worse, not better.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, A Nigerian
official said police over the weekend arrested 10 members of Boko
Haram, a radical Muslim sect accused of a recent spate of targeted
killings of police officers and local officials. Police also
arrested two more sect followers freed in a recent prison break.
Pere Fiofori, Emmanuel Gladstone and Dobra Ogbe, aged between 30 and
35, were arrested in an hotel in Ondo town and handed over to the
Rivers State police in connection with last month's murder of Soboma
George, in Port Harcourt.
(AP, 9/14/10)(AFP, 9/18/10)
2010 Sep 14, In Pakistan 2 US
missile attacks hit alleged militant targets in a tribal area
killing 15 alleged militants. They hit in a part of North Waziristan
region dominated by the Haqqani and Hafiz Gul Bahadur networks of
militants fighting US troops across the border in Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/14/10)(AFP, 9/15/10)
2010 Sep 14, Peruvian President
Alan Garcia chose Education Minister Jose Chang as the new prime
minister and Ismael Benavides as economic chief in a widely expected
cabinet shuffle to pave the way for his party to launch a candidate
in next year's presidential election.
(Reuters, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, Authorities in the
self-declared republic of Somaliland said their troops have
surrounded up to 300 Ethiopian rebels who entered the territory
illegally.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, The South
Africa-based retailer Massmart confirmed that it was in negotiations
to be acquired by Wal-Mart for $4.1 billion.
(Econ, 10/2/10, p.68)
2010 Sep 14, A Venezuelan
military helicopter crashed into a navy research boat and plunged
into the sea, leaving two missing and five injured.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, Zimbabwe's state
airline said it has fired 40 striking pilots for failing to meet a
deadline to return to their posts. The pilots said the indebted
airline has not paid out operational allowances for nearly 20
months. They earned up to $2,500 a month, about one third of the
international pay scale for airline pilots.
(AP, 9/14/10)
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