Today in History - September 19
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0086 Sep 19,
Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman emperor (138-161), was born.
(MC, 9/19/01)
0866 Sep 19, Leo VI Sophos,
Byzantine Emperor (886-912) and writer (Problematica), was born.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1356 Sep 19, In a landmark
battle of the Hundred Years' War, English Prince Edward defeated the
French at Poitiers. Jean de Clermont, French marshal, died in
battle.
(HN, 9/19/98)(MC, 9/19/01)
1523 Sep 19, Emperor Charles V
and England signed an anti-French covenant.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1544 Sep 19, Francis, the king
of France, and Charles V of Austria signed a peace treaty in Crespy,
France, ending a 20-year war.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1559 Sep 19, 5 Spanish ships
sank in a storm off Tampa. About 600 died.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1676 Sep 19, Rebels under
Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Va., on fire. [see Sep 1]
(MC, 9/19/01)
1692 Sep 19, Giles Corey was
pressed to death for standing mute and refusing to answer charges of
witchcraft brought against him. He is the only person in America to
have suffered this punishment.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1737 Sep 19, Charles Carroll
(d.1832), American patriot and legislator, was born. He was the only
Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration and his signature read
Charles Carroll of Carrollton. He lived in Maryland where, as a
Roman Catholic he was forbidden from voting and holding public
office. However, the wealthy Carrolls moved in the highest social
circle and entertained George Washington and the Marquis de
Lafayette at their estate.
(HNQ, 1/14/99)(MC, 9/19/01)
1737 Sep 19, In India’s Bay of
Bengal a cyclone destroyed some 20,000 ships. It was estimated that
more than 300,000 people died in the densely populated area called
the Sundarbans. Later research indicated the population of Calcutta
at the time to be around 20,000. An estimate of the number of deaths
was revised down to about 3,000.
(http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/gif_images/1737Calcutta.pdf)
1777 Sep 19, During the
Revolutionary War, American soldiers won the first Battle of
Saratoga, aka Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights). American
forces under Gen. Horatio Gates met British troops led by Gen. John
Burgoyne at Saratoga Springs, NY.
(AP,
9/19/97)(www.americanrevolution.com/BattleofSaratoga.htm)
1783 Sep 19, Jacques Etienne
Montgolfier launched a duck, a sheep and a rooster aboard a hot-air
balloon at Versailles, France.
(AP, 9/19/06)
1788 Sep 19, Charles de
Barentin became lord chancellor of France.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1796 Sep 19, President
Washington's farewell address was published. In it, America's first
chief executive advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all
nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
(AP, 9/19/97)
1843 Sep 19, Gustave-Gaspard
Coriolis (b.1792), French engineer and mathematician, died. He
showed that the laws of motion could be used in a rotating frame of
reference if an extra force called the Coriolis acceleration is
added to the equations of motion.
(www.gap-system.org/~history/Mathematicians/Coriolis.html)
1802 Sep 19, Lajos Kossuth
(d.1894), Hungarian statesman and president, was born. "The
instinctive feeling of a great people is often wiser than its wisest
men."
(AP,
7/2/97)(www.thenagain.info/WebChron/EastEurope/Kossuth.html)
1841 Sep 19, The first railway
to span a frontier was completed between Stousbourg and Basle, in
Europe.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1846 Sep 19, Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning eloped.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1848 Sep 19, Hyperion, a moon
of Saturn, was discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England).
(MC, 9/19/01)
1849 Sep 19, The 1st commercial
laundry was established, in Oakland, California.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1854 Sep 19, Henry Meyer
patented a sleeping rail car.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1863 Sep 19, In Georgia, the
two-day Battle of Chickamauga began as Union troops under George
Thomas clashed with Confederates under Nathan Bedford Forrest.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1864 Sep 19, Union forces under
Gen. Sheridan defeated Confederate forces under Gen. Jubal Early at
Winchester, Virginia. The Battle of Opequon is more commonly known
as the Third Battle of Winchester. Archibald Campbell Godwin
(b.1831), Confederate brig-general, died in the battle.
(ON, 10/20/11,
p.11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_C._Godwin)
1864 Sep 19, Archibald Campbell
Godwin, Confederate brig-general, died in battle.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1871 Sep 19, President Abraham
Lincoln's body was transferred to a partially completed permanent
tomb at Springfield, Il.
(www.state.il.us/HPA/hs/Tomb.htm)
1870 Sep 19, Two Prussian
armies began a 135-day siege of Paris as the 2nd Empire collapsed.
This forced the people of the city to eat Castor and Pollux, the 2
elephants in the zoo.
(PCh, 1992, p.516)(SFC, 4/17/99, p.B3)
1876 Sep 19, The 1st carpet
sweeper was patented by Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1881 Sep 19, The 20th president
of the United States, James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by
assassin, Charles J. Guiteau. Alexander Graham Bell had made several
unsuccessful attempts to remove the assassin’s bullet with a new
metal detection device.
(AP, 9/19/97)(AP, 11/14/97)(ON, 5/02, p.9)
1893 Sep 19, New Zealand became
the first nation to grant women the right to vote.
(SFC, 8/15/98, p.E4)(HN, 9/19/01)
1894 Sep 19, Rachel Field,
novelist and playwright who wrote "All This and Heaven Too" and "And
Now Tomorrow," was born.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1899 Sep 19, French Capt.
Alfred Dreyfus won a pardon after a retrial was forced by public
opinion. He was soon released from Devil's Island in French Guiana.
(PCh, 1992,
p.628)(www.spiritus-temporis.com/alfred-dreyfus/)
1900 Sep 19, President Loubet
of France pardoned Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, twice
court-martialed and wrongly convicted of spying for Germany.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1904 Sep 19, Bergen Baldwin
Evans (d.1978), American educator and author who wrote the
"Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage," was born in Ohio.
"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without
freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."
(AP, 8/11/98)(HN, 9/19/98)(MC, 9/19/01)
1904 Sep 19, Gen. Nogi's
assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1906 Sep 19, Addressing the
annual dinner of The Associated Press in New York, Mark Twain said
there were "only two forces that can carry light to all the corners
of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press
down here."
(AP, 9/19/00)
1907 Sep 19, US Supreme Court
Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was born in Suffolk, Va.
(AP, 9/19/07)
1908 Sep 19, Gustav Mahler's
7th Symphony, premiered in Prague.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1910 Sep 19, George Cohan's
"Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1911 Sep 19, William Golding
(d.1993), novelist best known for Lord of the Flies, was born. He
won the Nobel Prize in 1983.
(HN, 9/19/98)(MC, 9/19/01)
1911 Sep 19, Red Tuesday.
20,000 protested for universal rights.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1915 Sep 19, Elizabeth Stern,
Canadian pathologist, was born. She first published a case report
linking a specific virus to a specific cancer.
(HN, 9/19/00)
1916 Sep 19, The 1st landing on
Schiphol, Farman F-22 of Soesterberg.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1918 Sep 19, American troops of
the Allied North Russia Expeditionary Force received their baptism
of fire near the town of Seltso against Soviet forces.
(HN, 9/19/99)
1918 Sep 19, Liza Nina Mary
Frederica Lehmann, composer, died at 56.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1919 Sep 19, Blanche Thebom,
mezzo-soprano (Amneris-Aida), was born in Monessen, Penn.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1921
Sep 19, WBZ in Springfield, Mass., made its first radio broadcast.
It operated under one of the first three "commercial licenses" for
broadcasting in the new 360 meter frequency.
(www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/wbz.html)
1931 Sep 18-1931 Sep 19, The
Mukden Incident was initiated by the Japanese Kwangtung Army in
Mukden. It involved an explosion along the Japanese-controlled South
Manchurian Railway. It was soon followed by the Japanese invasion of
Manchuria and the eventual establishment of the Japanese-dominated
state of Manchukuo. The neutrality of the area, and the ability of
Japan to defend its colony in Korea, was threatened in the 1920s by
efforts at unification of China. Within three months Japanese troops
had spread out throughout Manchuria, an occupation that finally
ended at the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945.
(HNQ, 11/27/98)
1932 Sep 19, Mike Royko,
journalist (Chic Daily News) and author (Boss), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1934 Sep 19, Brian Epstein,
rock manager (Beatles), was born.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1934 Sep 19, Bruno Hauptmann
was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the
Lindbergh infant.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1939 Sep 19, The British
Expeditionary Force reached France.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1939 Sep 19, Lord Haw-Haw
became the radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1939 Sep 19, Wehrmacht (German
regular army) murdered 100 Jews in Lukov, Poland.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1940 Sep 19, A Nazi decree
forbade gentile woman to work in Jewish homes.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1941 Sep 19, "Mama" Cass
Elliot, singer for the Mamas & Papas, was born as Ellen Naomi
Cohen.
(www.casselliot.com)
1941 Sep 19, The German army
conquered Kiev.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1941 Sep 19, The Nazi's forced
all German Jews from the age of 6 to wear the Star of David.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1941 Sep 19, 1st meeting of
partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1943 Sep 19, Liberator bombers
sank U-341.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1944 Sep 19, The Luftwaffe
bombed Eindhoven: 200 killed.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1944 Sep 19, The 3-month battle
at Huertgen Forest on the Belgian-German border began. A 1998 HBO
film made a rough portrayal: "When Trumpets Fade."
(WSJ, 7/24/98,
p.A15)(www.angelfire.com/ak5/combat/HuertgenForest.html)
1945 Sep 19, Nazi propagandist
William Joyce, known as "Lord Haw-Haw," was sentenced to death by a
British court.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1947 Sep 19, Jackie Robinson
was named 1947 "Rookie of Year." [see Sep 17]
(MC, 9/19/01)
1948 Sep 19, Jeremy Irons,
England, actor (French Lieutenant's Woman), was born.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1948 Sep 19, Moscow announced
it would withdraw all soldiers from Korea by the end of the year.
(HN, 9/19/98)
1950 Sep 19, Allied foreign
ministers announced in NY that they regarded Adenauer's government
to be "the only German Government freely and legitimately
constituted and therefore entitled to speak for Germany as the
representative of the German people in international affairs."
(http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/gray_germanys.html)
1950 Sep 19, The UN rejected
membership of China's People Republic.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1951 Sep 19, Italian civil
servants struck for a pay increase.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1955 Sep 19, President Juan
Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.
(TMC, 1994, p.1955)(SFC, 12/24/96, p.A8)(AP,
9/19/97)
1957 Sep 19, The United States
conducted its first underground nuclear test, code-named "Rainier,"
in the Nevada desert.
(AP, 9/19/07)
1957 Sep 19, Eight engineers,
who had recently left Shockley Semiconductor, signed papers to form
Fairchild Semiconductor in Santa Clara County. Jean A. Hoerni
(1925-1997) was one of the "Fairchild Eight." He was credited with
building the bridge from the transistor to the integrated circuit.
Eugene Kleiner (d.2003), another co-founder, helped found the
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capital firm in 1972. The
other engineers included Julius Blank (1925-2011), Jay Last, Victor
Grinich (d.2000 at 75), Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce and Sheldon
Roberts. NYC bankers Arthur Rock and Bud Coyle helped the engineers
start Fairchild Semiconductor.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A26)(SFC, 11/26/03, p.D1)(SSFC,
9/30/07, p.F1)(SFC, 9/24/11, p.C3)
1959 Sep 19, Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev reacted angrily during a visit to Los Angeles upon
being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn't be allowed to
visit Disneyland.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1960 Sep 19, Cuban leader Fidel
Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, angrily checked out
of the Shelburne Hotel in a dispute with the management. Castro
accepted an invitation to stay at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.
(AP, 9/19/07)
1960 Sep 19, India and Pakistan
signed the Indus Waters Treaty.
(Econ, 5/22/10, SR
p.18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Waters_Treaty)
1961 Sep 19-20, Betty (d.2004)
and Bernard Hill returned home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from a
trip in Canada and seemed to have lost memory of 2 hours of the
drive. Under hypnosis 3 years later they recounted being kidnapped
and examined by aliens. Their story led to the 1966 book
“Interrupted Journey” by John G. Fuller.
(SFC, 10/19/04,
p.B6)(www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/hill.htm)
1967 Sep 19, Nigeria began an
offensive against Biafra. [see Jul 6]
(MC, 9/19/01)
1968 Sep 19, Chester Carlson
(62), inventor of the photocopy machine (1960), died. In 2004 David
Owen authored “Copies In seconds.”
(WSJ, 8/6/04, p.A8)(ON, 11/04, p.9)
1970 Sep 19, "The Mary Tyler
Moore Show" with Ed Asner debuted on CBS TV and ran to 1977. Mary
Richards threw her hat at 7th St. and Nicollet Ave. in Minneapolis
for the opening credits. In 2001 the city planned a $150,000 statue
of Mary to be made by Gwendolyn Gillen of Wisconsin. In 1989 Robert
S. Alley and Irby B. Brown authored “Love Is All Around,” a complete
documentary of the show.
(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.39)(AP, 9/19/00)(WSJ,
6/19/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 11/12/05, p.P14)
1972 Sep 19, Robert M Casadesus
(b.1899), French pianist and composer, died in Paris. His Seventh
Symphony, Op.68, with the chorus "Israel," was premiered at Alice
Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center a few weeks later.
(www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Casadesus-Robert.htm)
1972 Sep 19, A Black September
letter bomb killed Ami Shehori (Shachori), Israeli attache at the
embassy in London.
(www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/international/middleeast/08chrono.html)
1973 Sep 19, Gram Parsons (26),
rock band leader, died from a drug overdose at the Joshua Tree Inn,
Ca. His bands included the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers
with the young singer Emmylou Harris. Phil Kaufman hijacked Parson’s
body and burned it in Joshua Tree. In 1991 Ben Fong-Torres published
"Hickory Wind," a biography of Parsons. In 1999 the album "Return of
the Grievous Angel - A Tribute to Fram Parson" was released. In 2006
the film documentary “Fallen Angel” was produced.
(WSJ, 7/18/97, p.A13)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.E1)(WSJ,
9/20/99, p.A26)(SFC, 6/9/06, p.E5)
1975 Sep 19, The British sitcom
"Fawlty Towers," created by John Cleese, premiered. Six episodes
aired in this year and 6 more in 1979. PBS brought the show to
America in 1980.
{Britain, TV}
(WSJ, 3/8/99,
p.A16)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0072500/)
1981 Sep 19, Simon &
Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkel)
1982 Sep 19, In the 34th Emmy
Awards the winners included Hill Street Blues, Barney Miller, Alan
Alda & Carol Kane.
(http://tinyurl.com/2u6ww4)
1982 Sep 19, Prof. Scott E.
Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon Univ. posted an emoticon, the first
online smiley face, in a message to an online electronic bulletin
board at 11:44 a.m., during a discussion about the limits of online
humor and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.
(AP, 9/18/07)
1983 Sep 19, Chuck Woolery
(b.1941) began hosting the syndicated TV game show “Love
Connection.” He continued to 1995. The show was produced by Eric
Lieber (1937-2008)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Woolery)(SSFC, 7/6/08, p.B6)
1983 Sep 19, St. Kitts and
Nevis became a single nation, but Nevis retained the right to
secede. St Kitts and Nevis declared independence from the UK.
(SFC,10/15/97,
p.C4)(www.worldstatesmen.org/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis.html)
1984 Sep 19, Britain and China
completed a draft agreement on transferring Hong Kong from British
to Chinese rule by 1997.
(AP, 9/19/99)
1985 Sep 19, The Mexico City
area was struck by the first of two devastating quakes (8.1) that
officially claimed 9,500 lives. Some 40,000 people were injured.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(SFC, 12/31/96, p.C9)(AP,
9/19/97)(SSFC, 4/16/06, p.F4)
1985 Sep 19, Italo Calvino
(b.1923), Italian writer, died. A collection of his essays was soon
published titled "The Literature Machine." In 1999 the
original 11 essays and 25 others were published under the title:
"Why Read the Classics," translated by Martin McLaughlin. In 2003
McLaughlin published “Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings By
Italo Calvino.”
(SFEC, 10/24/99, BR p.5)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.M4)
1986 Sep 19, Federal health
officials announced that the experimental drug AZT would be made
available to thousands of AIDS patients.
(AP, 9/19/01)
1986 Sep 19, Harken Energy
agreed to acquire Spectrum 7 Energy Corp., a Texas oil and gas
company where George W. Bush was chairman, for 200,000 shares and a
consulting salary. Bush became a Harken board member and a
$100,000-a-year ($120,000-a-year) consultant. In 1989 Harken sold
80% of its Aloha petroleum subsidiary to a group of insiders. An SEC
investigation pointed to disguised Harken losses of $8 million.
(SFC, 7/9/02, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/9/02, p.A4)
1987 Sep 19, Supreme Court
nominee Robert H. Bork concluded 5 days of testimony before the US
Senate Judiciary Committee, vowing that he would "interpret the law
and not make it."
(AP, 9/19/97)
1987 Sep 19, Philippine leftist
opposition leader Leandro Alejandro (b.1960) was murdered.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, Z1 p.5)
1988 Sep 19, Swimmer Janet
Evans gave the United States its first gold medal of the Summer
Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, by winning the 400-meter individual
medley. US swimmer Greg Louganis hit his head on the springboard
during preliminary competition.
(AP,
9/19/98)(www.infoplease.com/spot/mm-louganis.html)
1988 Sep 19, Israel succeeded
in launching a test satellite, the Ofeq ("Horizon") 1, over the
Mediterranean Sea.
(AP, 9/19/08)
1989 Sep 19, A Paris-bound
French DC-10, UTA Flight 772, was bombed over the Sahara desert of
Niger and all 170 passengers died. French authorities placed the
blame on Libya’s Abdallah Senoussi, brother-in-law of Moammar
Khadafy and chief of foreign operations for the Libyan secret
service. The six Libyan suspects were named by a French judge in
1998 and tried in absentia in 1999. The attack was in retaliation
for French intervention on behalf of Chad in a war with Libya since
the mid 1980s. In 2004 Libya signed a $170 million compensation
accord with families of the people killed. In 2008 a federal judge
in Washington ordered Libya and six of its officials to pay more
than $6 billion in damages to the families of 7 Americans killed in
the attack.
(SFC, 5/7/97, p.C3)(SFEC,10/19/97, p.A26)(WSJ,
1/30/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A11)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)(AP,
9/19/99)(AP, 1/9/04)(Reuters, 1/16/08)
1990 Sep 19, Iraq began
confiscating foreign assets from countries that were imposing
sanctions against the Baghdad government.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1991 Sep 19, German hikers
Erica and Helmut Simon found a well-preserved prehistoric corpse
(c3300BCE), later named Otzi (Frozen Fritz), in a glacier on the
Hauslabjoch Pass, about 100 yards from Austria in northern Italy. It
was kept at the Univ. of Innsbruck for study. In 1998 analysis
indicated that the Ice Man had internal parasites and carried the
woody fruit of a tree fungus as a remedy. Tattoos on the body were
also found to be placed over areas of active arthritis. A flint
arrow was also found in his back.
(SFC, 4/27/96, p.A-5)(SFC, 12/25/98, p.A4)(SFEC,
5/7/00, p.T4)(WSJ, 2/3/04, p.A1)
1991 Sep 19, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir accused the United States of tilting toward
the Arabs in its eagerness to organize a Mideast peace conference.
(AP, 9/19/01)
1991 Sep 19, UN Resolution 712
allowed a partial lifting of the embargo against Iraq for
humanitarian purposes.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A12)
1992 Sep 19, Top finance
officials of the seven largest industrial countries pledged in
Washington, D.C., to cooperate closely to resolve the worst currency
crisis in two decades.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1993 Sep 19, The NBC sitcom
"Seinfeld" and the offbeat CBS drama "Picket Fences" each won three
trophies at the 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
(AP, 9/19/98)
1993 Sep 19, Polish voters
turned left in parliamentary elections, giving the most number of
seats to the Democratic Left Alliance.
(AP, 9/19/98)
1994 Sep 19, Some 3,000 U.S.
troops peacefully entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
(AP, 9/19/99)(MC, 9/19/01)
1995 Sep 19, The New York Times
and The Washington Post published the Unabomber’s manifesto.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 19, The US Senate
passed a welfare overhaul bill.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 19, The US ambassador
and the commander of American forces in Japan apologized for the
rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl committed by three US servicemen.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1995 Sep 19, Orville
Redenbacher (b.1907), popcorn magnate, died at his home in Coronado,
Ca., from drowning in a bathtub.
(http://nwitimes.com/articles/1995/09/20/export142113.txt)
1996 Sep 19, American astronaut
Shannon Lucid, on board the Russian Mir space station since March,
eagerly greeted the crew of Atlantis hours after their arrival and
docking.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1996 Sep 19, IBM announced it
would extend health benefits to the partners of its homosexual
employees.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1996 Sep 19, Guatemala’s
government and leftist guerillas under Ricardo Arnoldo Ramirez
signed a peace accord that called for a 33% troop and budget
reduction from 43,000 by 1999. Otto Perez Molina negotiated the
accords for the government.
(SFC, 9/20/96, p.A15)(SFC, 9/15/98, p.A22)(Econ,
1/21/12, p.42)
1996 Sep 19, In Nigeria it was
reported that police clashed with demonstrators last week and 10
people were killed in the city of Kaduna. The crowd was protesting
the arrest of their spiritual leader on charges of broadcasting
material that could incite unrest.
(WSJ, 9/19/96, p.A1)
1997 Sep 19, The crime drama
"L.A. Confidential" opened. It was directed by Curtis Hanson. Los
Angeles and New York film critics later voted it the best film of
the year. Kim Bassinger won the Golden Globes award for best
supporting actress.
(SSFC, 9/1/02, Par p.14)(AP, 9/19/07)
1997 Sep 19, It was reported
that the US trade deficit rose to $10.3 billion in July, a 25% jump
over June.
(WSJ, 9/19/97, p.A2)
1997 Sep 19, A US Air Force B-1
bomber crashed on a training mission in Montana and all 4 crew
members were killed.
(SFC, 9/20/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 19, Alfredo Enrique
Tello Jr. (19) was found charred and dismembered in an Aspen Hill,
Md., garage. One suspected killer, Samuel Sheinbein (17), fled to
Israel. A 2nd suspect, Aaron B. Needle (17), was held in jail. In
Oct. the attorney general decided to return Sheinbein to the US. The
two young men were indicted on murder and conspiracy charges. Needle
committed suicide by hanging in 1998.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A3)(SFC,10/20/97,
p.A1)(SFC,10/31/97, p.A3)(SFEC, 4/19/98, p.A18)
1997 Sep 19, In his first
public comments since the death of Princess Diana, Princes Charles
told the British people he would always feel the loss of his former
wife, and thanked them for their support.
1997 Sep 19, In England a
passenger train collided with a freight train in west London and 6
people were killed and 170 injured.
(SFC, 9/20/97, p.A10)(AP, 9/19/98)
1998 Sep 19, Miss Virginia
Nicole Johnson, a 24-year-old diabetic who wore an insulin pump on
her hip, was crowned Miss America 1999.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, p.A2)(AP, 9/19/99)
1998 Sep 19, At the 22nd annual
Oktoberfest in Cincinnati 25,000 kazoos were distributed in an
attempt to set a Guinness record for the "World’s Largest Kazoo
Band."
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)
1998 Sep 19, Susan Barrantes,
mother of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was killed in a car
crash in Argentina; she was 61.
(AP, 9/19/99)
1998 Sep 19, In Liberia
fighting in Monrovia left at least 33 dead as the government tried
to arrest Roosevelt Johnson, former rebel leader. The next day he
was accused of plotting against Pres. Taylor and fled to the US
Embassy.
(SFC, 9/20/98, p.A14)
1998 Sep 19, In Pakistani
controlled Kashmir Indian artillery fire killed 9 people and wounded
11 others over the last 2 days.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, p.A17)
1998 Sep 19, In Uganda police
arrested 18 people suspected of planning attacks on diplomatic
missions and government installations.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, p.A24)
1999 Sep 19, German voters
handed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s governing Social Democrats a
humiliating defeat in elections in the eastern state of Saxony,
giving it just eleven percent of the votes.
(AP, 9/19/00)
1999 Sep 19, In Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, over 10,000 people protested against PM Mahathir Mohamad
on the one-year anniversary of the arrest of ex-Deputy Premier Anwar
Ibrahim, who was reported to be suffering from arsenic poisoning.
Police responded with tear gas and water cannons. Protesters wore
red and adopted the battle cry of “reformasi” from neighboring
Indonesia.
(SFC, 9/20/99, p.A9)(WSJ, 9/20/99, p.A1)(Econ,
11/17/07, p.53)
2000 Sep 19, In Australia the
Romanian women's gymnastics team won the gold medal at the Sydney
Olympics; Russia won the silver, China took the bronze, and the U.S.
placed fourth.
(AP, 9/19/01)
2000 Sep 19, The US Senate
voted 83-15 to end trade restrictions on China. The vote also
removed a fiscal obstacle to Beijing’s 14-year drive to join the
WTO.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 19, Kenneth E.
Behring, a West Coast developer, gave $80 million to the Smithsonian
Institution’s National Museum of American History.
(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 19, Researchers
reported for the 1st time that a new vaccine was effective against
Staph infections.
(WSJ, 9/20/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 19, Current world oil
demand was running at 76 million barrels a day.
(WSJ, 9/19/00, p.A23)
2000 Sep 19, Nine Cubans were
rescued at sea after their Antonov AN-2 biplane plunged into the
Gulf of Mexico. The cargo ship Chios Dream pulled found the
survivors and a 10th body. Immigration officials soon granted their
legal entry to the US.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A12)(SFC, 9/22/00, p.A9)
2000 Sep 19, In East Timor the
UN granted its peacekeepers the right to shoot at armed attackers
without warning.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 19, Japan’s research
whaling fleet returned home with 88 whales that included 43 Bryde
whales, 5 sperm and 40 minke whales.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 19, In Pakistan a bomb
exploded in a produce market and 16 people were killed in Islamabad.
Over 80 people were wounded.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 19, In the Philippines
a government court ruled that nearly $627 million in Swiss bank
deposits belonging to the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos should go
to the government.
(SFC, 9/20/00, p.A14)
2001 Sep 19, Pres. Bush warned
Afghanistan that he would not negotiate to take custody of Osama bin
Laden. The Pentagon began deploying troops, ships and planes to the
Persian Gulf under code name "Operation Infinite Justice." The title
became a working name after Islamic scholars objected that "infinite
justice" is reserved for God.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/20/01, p.A1)(SFC,
9/21/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 19, The parent
companies of American Airlines and United Airlines both announced
plans to lay off 20,000 employees.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2001 Sep 19, Imad Mughniyeh,
Lebanese head of Hezbollah overseas operations, and Dr. Ayman
al-Zawahri, a senior bin Laden aide, were named in a Jane’s Foreign
Report as possible masterminds for the Sep 11 attacks in addition to
Osama bin Laden.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 19, In Colombia
Guambiano Indians in Cauca state attacked Paez Indians and 7 people
were killed with at least 19 wounded.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Sep 19, In Colombia
Yolanda Ceron, a Catholic nun active in human rights work, was shot
and killed in Tumaco.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.D3)
2001 Sep 19, An Air France
Concorde flew from Paris on a test flight with 86 employee
volunteers.
(WSJ, 9/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 19, In Indonesia Ayip
Syafrudin, leader of the Laskar Jihad (Holy War Warriors), said he
would declare a jihad against the US if it attacks Muslim countries.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 19, Japan’s PM Koizumi
promised to push legislative changes to permit Japanese troops to
provide logistical support for a US-led war on terrorism.
(SFC, 9/20/01, p.A12)
2002 Sep 19, President Bush
asked Congress for authority to "use all means," including military
force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein if he did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon
all weapons of mass destruction.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2002 Sep 19, Kansas City first
base coach Tom Gamboa was attacked without warning by two fans, a
father and son, who came out of the seats at Chicago's Comiskey
Park. The father, 34-year-old William Ligue Jr., and his 15-year-old
son later received probation.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2002 Sep 19, Scientists urged
stronger warning labels for acetaminophen, a painkiller used in
numerous products including Tylenol. Overdose caused liver damage
and annual deaths numbered some 100.
(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 19, In Colombia Army
troops killed 21 guerrillas on 23 fronts and freed 2 kidnapped
civilians. A 3rd hostage died in the fighting.
(SFC, 9/20/02, p.A12)
2002 Sep 19, German police
stormed homes and froze bank accounts across the country after
outlawing 16 more groups linked to a jailed Islamic militant accused
of plotting an airplane attack in Turkey.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19, Ivory Coast's
former junta leader, Gen. Robert Guei, was killed after heavily
armed forces attacked government and security installations in
Abidjan and other cities in the West African country.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19, In Nigeria Ijaw
tribe militants captured seven foreign-owned oil facilities and
threatened to invade dozens more in a bid to force the government to
change election boundaries they say favor a rival tribe.
(AP, 9/20/02)(SFC, 9/21/02, p.A6)
2002 Sep 19, North Korea
announced it had made the city of Sinuiju on its border with China a
"special administrative region," a move South Korean media said was
the first step towards creating a new economic zone. The project was
soon mothballed after its first governor, Yang Bin, was jailed in
China for tax evasion. Yang Bin was formally sentenced in July 2003
for 18 years, and was fined for 2.3 million renminbi.
(Reuters, 9/19/02)(Econ, 10/2/10,
p.45)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Bin)
2002 Sep 19, A Palestinian blew
himself up on a crowded bus in downtown Tel Aviv, killing at least
five other people and wounding 49. It was the second suicide bombing
in two days after a six-week lull.
(AP, 9/19/02)
2002 Sep 19-20, The Colombian
air force bombarded two rebel camps in northwest Colombia, killing
an estimated 200 insurgents.
(AP, 9/20/02)
2003 Sep 19, Hurricane Isabel
knocked out power to more than 4.5 million people as it weakened
into a tropical storm and raced toward Canada after swamping tidal
communities along Chesapeake Bay. 21 of 36 storm victims were in
Virginia.
(AP, 9/19/03)(AP, 9/20/03)(WSJ, 9/23/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 19, In Chechnya rebel
attacks and a mine blast have left 7 Russian servicemen dead in the
past 24 hours in the Kremlin's military campaign against Chechen
separatists.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2003 Sep 19, The government of
Georgia scrapped an accord guaranteeing religious freedom for
Catholics. The next day the Vatican issued an unusually strong
rebuke to the former Soviet republic and its dominant Orthodox
Church.
(AP, 9/20/03)
2003 Sep 19, In Iraq former
Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad, Saddam Hussein's last defense minister,
surrendered to an American commander after weeks of negotiations. He
was no. 27 on the most-wanted list.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2003 Sep 19, In the Maldives
unrest erupted at the Maafushi prison after a young man named Evan
Naseem was tortured to death. Police opened fire and 3 people were
killed. Violent riots followed as did a state of emergency.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.54)
2003 Sep 19, Zimbabwe military
police barred journalists from entering their offices, defying a
court order to allow the country's only independent daily newspaper
to resume publishing.
(AP, 9/19/03)
2004 Sep 19, "The Sopranos" won
best drama series at the Emmy Awards while "Arrested Development"
won best comedy series.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2004 Sep 19, The United States
suffered its biggest Ryder Cup loss in 77 years as it lost to the
Europeans, 18 1/2 to 9 1/2.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2004 Sep 19, President George
W. Bush has decided to lift sanctions against Libya, which he
expects to trigger release of more than $1 billion US to families of
Pan Am 103 victims.
(AP, 9/20/04)
2004 Sep 19, Belarus barred
dozens of opposition candidates from running in the Oct 17
legislative elections.
(WSJ, 9/20/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 19, British commoners
gained the right to stroll over an additional 153,000 hectares of
private land.
(Econ, 9/18/04, p.62)
2004 Sep 19, Former President
Jiang Zemin turned over his last major post as chairman of the
commission that runs China's military to his successor, Hu Jintao
(61), completing the country's first peaceful leadership transition
since its 1949 revolution.
(AP, 9/19/04)
2004 Sep 19, In northern Egypt
a pickup truck and a minibus collided head on a rural road, killing
13 people and injuring 10.
(CP, 9/19/04)
2004 Sep 19, Floodwaters
brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 90 people in Haiti.
(AP, 9/20/04)
2004 Sep 19, In India flooding
in the densely populated West Bengal has swamped hundreds of
villages, killing three people and making more than 650,000
homeless.
(AP, 9/19/04)
2004 Sep 19, A suicide attacker
detonated a car bomb near a joint U.S.-Iraqi checkpoint, killing 3
people and wounding 7, including four U.S. soldiers in the northern
city of Samarra. US warplanes and artillery pounded the guerrilla
stronghold of Fallujah. A militant group posted a video showing the
beheading of 3 Kurdish hostages.
(AP, 9/19/04)(SFC, 9/20/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 19, Kazakhs chose a
new parliament expected to be dominated by Otan, the party of Pres.
Nursultan Nazarbayev and Asar, a new party run by his daughter. US
backed int’l. monitors called the elections to the 77-seat Mazhilis
flawed.
(AP, 9/19/04)(WSJ, 9/22/04, p.A1)(Econ, 9/25/04,
p.55)
2005 Sep 19, The US government
has told a Texas court that Pope Benedict XVI should be given
immunity from a lawsuit accusing him of conspiring to cover up the
sexual molestation of three boys by a seminarian. Assistant U.S.
Attorney General Peter Keisler said that, as pope, Benedict enjoys
immunity as the head of a state, the Vatican. He said that allowing
the lawsuit to proceed would be "incompatible with the United
States' foreign policy interests."
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, Officials ordered
residents evacuated from the lower Florida Keys as Tropical Storm
Rita headed toward the island chain, threatening to grow into a
hurricane with a potential 8-foot storm surge.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, New Orleans Mayor
C. Ray Nagin, facing pressure from Washington and Hurricane Rita on
the way, halted his campaign to repopulate his city and ordered the
few residents and business owners who had returned to leave again.
Mandatory evacuation would begin Sep 21.
(AP, 9/20/05)(SFC, 9/20/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 19, A new report by
the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies
said that of the estimated 3,000 foreign fighters in Iraq, the
largest number, about 20 percent, comes from Algeria, followed by
Syria and Yemen with about 18 percent and 17 percent, respectively.
About 15 percent come from Sudan, 12 percent from Saudi Arabia, 5
percent from Egypt, and the rest from other countries.
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, L. Dennis
Kozlowski (58), former Tyco International Ltd. CEO, was sentenced 8
1/3 to 25 years in prison for looting the company of hundreds of
millions of dollars. Tyco's former finance chief, Mark Swartz (44)
received the same sentence. NY State Supreme Court Justice Michael
Obus ordered the defendants to pay a total of $134 million in
restitution to Tyco. In addition, the judge fined Kozlowski $70
million, and Swartz $35 million.
(AP, 9/20/05)(SFC, 9/20/05, p.D1)
2005 Sep 19, The Secular
Coalition for America, a new lobbying organization “whose purpose is
to amplify the diverse and growing voice of the nontheistic
community in the US,” began operations with former Nevada State
Senator Lori Lipman Brown as director/lobbyist.
(www.open.org/~lloydk/HAS/NL2005/news11.htm)
2005 Sep 19, The MacArthur
Foundation announced the 25 winners of its genius awards.
(SFC, 9/20/05, p.B1)
2005 Sep 19, Researchers
reported that partially paralyzed mice recovered following stem cell
shots.
(SFC, 9/20/05, p.A4)
2005 Sep 19, NASA administrator
Michael Griffin said a $104 billion program to return to the moon by
2018 would feature new “Crew Exploration Vehicles,” to replace the
shuttle fleet.
(SFC, 9/20/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 19, In SF Arkelylius
Collins (20) was murdered at Third and Kirkwood in a hail of
gunfire. Terrel Rollins (22) was injured. In 2006 Daniel Dennard
(21) and Deonte Bennett (21), members of the Oakdale Mob, were
indicted on charges of murder. Rollins was killed on May 4, 2006,
and Dennard was released. On July 19, 2008, Dennard was shot and
killed on Bayshore Blvd. not far from where Rollins had been
murdered. In 2009 Bennett was arrested and charged in an alleged
murder for hire plot.
(SFC, 3/2/06, p.B2)(SFC, 7/21/08, p.A1)(SFC,
1/22/09, p.B8)
2005 Sep 19, In Ohio Katelind
Caudill (13) was shot and killed by Melvin Keeling (43) because she
told authorities her best friend was being molested. Keeling fled
the Cincinnati area. He was also sought for the killing of 2
convenience store clerks, Lisa Kendall (29) and Kendora Furr (38) at
the Family Express store in Remington, Indiana. On Sep 28 more than
a dozen investigators on the Keeling task force combed the woods in
Gary, Indiana and found the fugitive's wallet, ID and other personal
items a few blocks from where Keeling abandoned his van. Tracking
dogs also followed Keeling's scent from the wooded area to nearby
train tracks. He was an apparent suicide.
(SFC, 9/22/05,
p.A6)(www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=34686)
2005 Sep 19, Rescue teams
searched for two Argentine men whose snowmobile plunged into a deep
ice crevasse in Antarctica over the weekend, but hopes of pulling
them out alive were fading.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Mark Latham,
former head of Australia’s Labor Party, published “The Latham
Diaries,” the story of the Labor Party from 1996-2005, and a
sobering account of the state of Australian democracy 100 years
after Federation.
(www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/catalogue/0-522-85215-7.html)
2005 Sep 19, Belgium issued an
international arrest warrant for Chad's former leader Hissene Habre,
charging him with atrocities during his 1982-90 rule. Habre, who
lives in exile in Senegal, is being pursued under Belgium's
"universal jurisdiction" laws, which allow for prosecutions for
crimes against humanity wherever they were committed.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 19, Brazil issued its
1st int’l. bond in its own currency. Brazil’s export boom had driven
the real upwards against the dollar.
(Econ, 9/24/05, p.90)
2005 Sep 19, In a statement
aired on a pan-Arab TV station, Al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri
said his terror network had carried out the July 7 London bombings.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2005 Sep 19, Classrooms and
chairs were scarce at crowded Burundian primary schools as 500,000
children, nearly double last year's enrollment, showed up for the
first day of classes following the elimination of fees.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, The World Wildlife
Federation said severely depleted cod stocks in the Grand Banks off
Canada's east coast face being totally wiped out by illegal fishing.
(Reuters, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, China's state
media reported that its family planning agency admitted that
officials in the eastern province of Shandong had carried out forced
abortions and sterilizations. Time magazine last week reported that
at least 7,000 people in Shandong were forcibly sterilized earlier
this year by officials under pressure to limit the growth of the
country's massive population.
(AFP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Colombian troops
raided a sprawling clandestine drug laboratory run by a paramilitary
group that was capable of producing 10 tons of cocaine a month. In a
separate operation, the military seized six tons of marijuana
allegedly belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,
or FARC, the country's main leftist rebel group.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 19-2005 Sep 29, In
Ethiopia authorities arrested 859 opposition members across the
country and security forces killed one opposition member in the
Amhara region, 250 miles south of the capital, Addis Ababa.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 19, French police
probing a ring which allegedly recruited Muslim fighters for the
anti-US insurgency in Iraq arrested six men in the Paris area.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, In Guatemala gang
members armed with guns and grenades burst inside a youth prison and
slaughtered 12 inmates, leaving behind a gruesome, bloody scene.
Members of the Mara Salvatrucha launched a well-organized attack on
imprisoned members of the rival Mara 18 gang as they slept at Etapa
II, or Phase II prison.
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, India said it
would increase vaccine production to protect against future
outbreaks of Japanese encephalitis as the death toll from the
disease rose to 765 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The
encephalitis is transmitted from pigs to humans by mosquitoes.
Japanese encephalitis first surfaced in Uttar Pradesh in 1978. Over
4,000 people have died in the state since the disease first hit. A
quarter of survivors are left disabled.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, A severe storm
ripped through southern India, killing at least 18 people and
leaving some 50,000 homeless. Most of the victims were either
electrocuted or died in house collapses as overnight rains triggered
flooding in the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh state.
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, An Indonesian
warship fired on a Chinese fishing fleet it suspected of using
illegal nets, killing one crew member and wounding two others in the
Arafuru sea off Papua Island.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 19, In Iraq a nephew
of Saddam Hussein was sentenced to life in prison for funding Iraq's
violent insurgency and for bomb-making.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Four US soldiers
died in two roadside bombings near the insurgent stronghold of
Ramadi.
(AP, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, Iraqi police
detained two British soldiers in the southern port city of Basra,
following a shooting incident. British forces smashed jail walls to
free 2 British commandos detained earlier in the day by Iraqi
police. Iraqi officials said at least 2 civilians were killed.
(AP, 9/19/05)(SFC, 9/20/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 19, In Mexico a
special federal prosecutor sought the arrest of ex-President Luis
Echeverria and other former officials for their alleged involvement
in the massacre of student protesters in 1968.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, North Korea agreed
to stop building nuclear weapons and allow international inspections
in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security
assurances, a breakthrough that marked a first step toward
disarmament after two years of six-nation talks.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas said the Gaza-Egypt border will reopen only as part of
an international agreement, quashing speculation Egypt and the
Palestinians might operate a crossing without Israel's blessing.
(AP, 9/19/05)
2005 Sep 19, Rebel groups said
militias backed by the Sudanese government killed 30 people over the
weekend in fresh attacks in Darfur, threatening new peace talks
under way in Nigeria. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said 17 people were killed in
Korbia in northern Darfur Sep 17 and 13 died in attacks on Jabel
Marra in the west on Sep 18.
(Reuters, 9/20/05)
2005 Sep 19, Lukman B. Lima, a
veteran leader of Thailand's insurgency, issued a warning: militants
from Indonesia and Arab nations might join the fight for a separate
homeland if the Thai government continues a crackdown that's
provoking a new generation of Muslim fighters.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2006 Sep 19, President Bush
addressed the 61st meeting of the UN General Assembly with a call
for nations to unite to work for a more peaceful world where
"extremists are marginalized by the peaceful majority." UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered an emotional farewell
address, appealing to the world to unite against human rights
abuses, religious divisions, brutal conflicts and an unjust world
economy.
(AP, 9/19/06)(AP, 9/19/07)
2006 Sep 19, A Georgia judge
struck down the state’s photo ID requirement to vote.
(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 19, Sam Harris
published his polemic ”Letter to a Christian Nation.” It was a
philosophical attack on the basic tenets held by all major
religions.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 19, Warren Buffet,
billionaire investor, pledged $50 million to help set up an
international nuclear fuel bank that aspiring powers could turn to
for reactor fuel instead of making it on their own.
(SFC, 9/20/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 19, The MacArthur
Foundation announced the 25 winners of its genius awards.
(SFC, 9/19/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 19, George Lucas,
creator of "Star Wars," announced that his private foundation will
give his alma mater, the University of Southern California, $175
million to endow and rebuild its School of Cinematic Arts in what
amounts to the largest donation in USC history.
(Reuters, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Motorola Inc.
agreed to buy Symbol Technologies, a maker of bar-code readers, for
$3.9 billion.
(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A21)
2006 Sep 19, John Nejedly (91),
former 10-year California state senator, died. He helped lead the
1982 fight against the Peripheral Canal and wrote the bill
authorizing the construction of the bridge on Highway 160 near
Antioch, which was named in his honor.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.B9)
2006 Sep 19, In central and
southern Afghanistan clashes and bombings left up to 34 Taliban
fighters and one policeman dead in five separate incidents.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 19, In Argentina
Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz (77) a former police investigator, was
sentenced to life in prison in connection with the disappearance of
six people during the so-called "Dirty War" against political
dissent.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, In Australia Judge
Murray Wilcox granted Aborigines a title claim over Perth, the
capital of Western Australia.
(AFP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 19, Australia and
Japan imposed financial sanctions on 11 North Korean companies, a
Swiss company and its president, based on allegations they helped
the communist nation's weapons programs.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, A British soldier
pleaded guilty to one count of inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians,
while he and his comrades denied all other charges in a landmark
court-martial.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Cambodia's King
Norodom Sihamoni started the official part of a week-long visit to
the Czech Republic, a country where he spent 13 years from 1962-1975
and considers as his "second home."
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Supporters of
Congo's presidential challenger barricaded streets, stopped traffic
and threw stones in Kinshasa, a day after a fire at his headquarters
destroyed the party's television and radio stations.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, In southern
Germany a US AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter crashed on a
training mission, killing two American soldiers.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 19, Some 2,000-3,000
protesters stormed the headquarters of Hungarian state television
and forced it off the air briefly in an explosion of anger. The
protests began after a recording of PM Gyurcsany's comments made in
May was leaked to Hungarian media. In his speech to a meeting of
Socialist deputies, the prime minister admitted that the government
had lied about the state of the economy in order to ensure victory
in the elections.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, In India at least
two people were killed and more than 100 detained during violent
protests against a court-ordered crackdown on illegal shops in New
Delhi. At least 20 people were killed in coastal villages in eastern
India after a major storm swept in to the Bay of Bengal and
destroyed hundreds of mud huts.
(AFP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 19, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the UN General Assembly and took aim
at US policies in Iraq and Lebanon. He accused Washington of abusing
its power in the UN Security Council to punish others while
protecting its own interests and allies.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, The Iraqi
government said it will shut down all offices belonging to the
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) around the country. The chief judge in
Saddam Hussein's genocide trial was replaced amid complaints he was
being too easy on the deposed Iraqi leader. A rocket attack on a
Shiite neighborhood in southern Baghdad killed 10 people and wounded
19. In northern Iraq at least 17 people were killed and 11 wounded
in twin bombings in the town of Al-Shurqat.
(AP, 9/19/06)(AFP, 9/20/06)(AP, 9/19/07)
2006 Sep 19, Police in southern
Italy arrested scores of people in an overnight crackdown on
organized crime, including on clans that had a grip on the local
tourist industry.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Ivory Coast
authorities arrested 2 French executives of Trafigura Beheer BV, the
Dutch commodities company implicated in the recent dumping of toxic
waste. Claude Dauphin and Jean-Pierre Valentini, charged with
poisoning and infractions of toxic waste laws, were sent to
prison.
(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A10)
2006 Sep 19, Einars Repse,
Latvia's former prime minister (2002-2004), accidentally killed a
pedestrian while driving on a remote road. He said he would stop
campaigning for parliament, although he will remain a candidate. The
EU's official statistics agency, Eurostat, said Latvia registered
222 traffic deaths per 1 million residents in 2004, the highest in
the union.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 19, A group of sexual
abuse survivors filed a lawsuit against Mexican Cardinal Norberto
Rivera, claiming he hid evidence to protect a priest accused of
molesting boys. A lawyer for the Chicago-based Survivors Network of
Those Abused by Priests filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior
Court. Rivera, now Mexico's top-ranking cardinal, helped cover up
abuse by the Rev. Nicolas Aguilar involving 50 boys when Aguilar
served as a parish priest in central Puebla state in 1987. Rivera
was bishop of Tehuacan in Puebla state at the time.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Sudan's Pres. Omar
Hassan al-Bashir, on the sidelines of the UN General assembly, said
his country would never allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur and
charged that the West wanted to dismember his country in order to
help Israel. He agreed that the 7,000 AU peacekeepers could stay.
(Reuters, 9/19/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.51)
2006 Sep 19, In Thailand a
6-man military junta launched a coup against PM Thaksin Shinawatra,
circling his offices with tanks, seizing control of TV stations and
declaring a provisional authority pledging loyalty to the king. This
was the 18th coup since 1932. General Prem Tinsulanonda was widely
seen as the mastermind of the coup.
(AP, 9/19/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.27)(Econ, 12/6/08,
p.34)
2007 Sep 19, The US Senate
blocked legislation that would have regulated the amount of time
troops spent in combat, a blow for Democrats struggling to challenge
President Bush's Iraq policies.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2007 Sep 19, O.J. Simpson was
released from jail after posting $125,000 bail in connection with
the alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors at a Las
Vegas hotel.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2007 Sep 19, Dan Rather (75)
filed a $70 million lawsuit alleging that CBS and its former parent
company intentionally botched the aftermath of a discredited story
about President Bush's military service to curry favor with the
administration.
(AP, 9/20/07)
2007 Sep 19, Topps Co. CEO
Arthur Shorin said shareholders had approved a deal in which Michael
Eisner’s Tornante Co. investment firm and Madison Dearborn Partners
LLC would take the baseball card and candy company private for $9.75
per share.
(SFC, 9/20/07, p.C3)
2007 Sep 19, The governing
Board of Trustees of California State Univ. approved hefty executive
pay increases ranging from 9-18 percent for Chancellor Charles Reed,
his four top deputies and 23 campus presidents.
(SFC, 9/20/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 19, In California
AT&T set this day for ending its automated time of day phone
service, saying it needed the prefix for new phone numbers.
(SFC, 9/3/07, p.D1)
2007 Sep 19, Julian Walker (34)
of Atlanta, Georgia, suspected in the slayings of his ex-wife and
his girlfriend’s father, shot and killed himself after he was
surrounded by police in Fairview Heights, Ill.
(SFC, 9/20/07, p.A8)
2007 Sep 19, The US-led
coalition accused the Taliban of using children as human shields
during a battle in southern Afghanistan. The troops fought Taliban
trying to flee a compound, and more than a dozen suspected militants
were killed. 6 civilians, including women and children, died in
Helmand province's Gereshk region after Taliban fighters fled
fighting with NATO forces and sought shelter in the civilian homes.
About 2,500 Afghan and NATO troops launched a new military operation
in the Gereshk region of Helmand province. Militants attacked a
private security company in Zabul province, killing one security
guard. The ensuing gunbattle left one suspected insurgent dead. More
than three dozen Taliban fighters were reported killed in Uruzgan
province. In Kandahar province, an Afghan was killed and several
others were wounded in a road accident involving a NATO patrol
vehicle and a civilian car. NATO said it was investigating a
shipment of weapons intercepted near the border with Iran on Sep 6.
Some 10,000 vaccinators began the weeklong campaign with the aim to
vaccinate 1.3 million Afghan children against polio.
(AP, 9/19/07)(AP, 9/20/07)(AP, 9/21/07)(AP,
9/22/07)
2007 Sep 19, The Bank of
England announced that it would inject 10 billion pounds into
longer-term money markets next week amid the ongoing global credit
squeeze.
(AFP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Bachan Athwal
(70), a London grandmother, was jailed for life for ordering the
execution of Surjit Athwal, her cheating daughter-in-law in India,
after discovering she was having an affair with a married man.
Athwal’s 43-year-old son Sukhdave was also found guilty and jailed
for a minimum 27-year term.
(AFP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, In Cambodia Nuon
Chea, the top surviving leader of the notorious Khmer Rouge, whose
radical policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7
million people, was charged with crimes against humanity and war
crimes.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, President Francois
Bozize of the Central African Republic (CAR) dubbed as "grotesque"
allegations from Human Rights Watch that his army was guilty of
various abuses against civilians in the country.
(AFP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, China’s government
froze prices that it controls for the rest of the year, in the
latest sign of mounting concern over inflation, which reached 6.5%
in the year through August.
(WSJ, 9/20/07, p.A6)
2007 Sep 19, Typhoon Wipha
flooded streets and destroyed hundreds of homes as it swept through
eastern China, but the storm eventually weakened and caused little
overall damage in the financial center of Shanghai. One man was
electrocuted.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Vlatko Pavletic
(77), a former speaker of Croatia's parliament who served as acting
president for two months beginning in Dec, 1999, died.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Gabriele Pauli
(50), Bavaria's most glamorous politician, shocked the Catholic
state in Germany by suggesting marriage should last just 7 years.
She said after that time, couples should either agree to extend
their marriage or it should be automatically dissolved.
(Reuters, 9/20/07)
2007 Sep 19, In Iran Kian
Tajbakhsh, an urban planning consultant with the Soros Foundation's
Open Society Institute, was released after he spent four months in a
notorious prison on suspicion of trying to stir up a revolution.
(AP, 9/20/07)
2007 Sep 19, Iraqi troops
killed 14 militants in clashes in the northern city of Mosul,
following a failed suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi army base in
the city's eastern sector. A roadside bomb in Mosul killed one Iraqi
soldier and wounded three. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives
belt near a US Army checkpoint outside Muqdadiyah, killing one
civilian. In a pre-dawn raid in Balad Ruz, US troops killed one
Iraqi insurgent who the military said was linked to Iran's
paramilitary Quds Force. A US soldier was killed during combat
operations in the west of the Iraqi capital and another one died of
non-battle related causes.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Kyrgyzstan's Pres.
Kurmanbek Bakiyev called a national referendum on changing the
constitution to elect the Parliament by party list, a change that
would hurt the country's many small parties and independent
politicians.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Israel's Security
Cabinet declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" in order to cut
off power and fuel supplies to the coastal strip.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Antoine Ghanem
(64), an anti-Syrian lawmaker from the Christian Phalange Party, was
killed in a blast in Beirut. Six other people also died.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Morocco’s King
Mohammed VI named Abbas El Fassi (67), a longtime government
minister and the leader of a secular political party, as prime
minister. He replaced Driss Jettou, a longtime businessman who had
served since 2002.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, More than 2,000
monks protested across Myanmar for a 2nd straight day against the
country's junta.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Nepal's Maoists
kicked off a controversial campaign to oust the monarchy, a day
after the ex-rebels stormed out of government in a blow to the
Himalayan country's peace process.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, New Zealand police
found the body of Anan Liu (27), a young Asian woman in a car
outside the home of a three-year old toddler, Qian Xun Xue,
nicknamed "Pumpkin," who was abandoned at a train station in
Australia. The father Nai Zin Xue (54), a martial arts expert and
magazine publisher, caught a flight to Los Angeles after abandoning
the toddler. US authorities launched a manhunt for Xue, who was
captured nearly five months later by six Chinese Americans near
Atlanta, Georgia. In 2009 a New Zealand jury found him guilty of his
wife's murder and sentenced him to life in prison.
(Reuters, 9/19/07)(AP, 6/19/09)(AP, 7/30/09)
2007 Sep 19, In northwest
Pakistan dozens of gunmen raided a checkpoint near a stronghold of
Taliban and al-Qaida militants and abducted 7 soldiers. Authorities
sent a delegation of tribal elders to South Waziristan to seek the
release of a group of 260 soldiers abducted Aug. 30.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, In the Philippines
the US embassy said the US government will spend 190 million dollars
over the next five years on development aid projects in the troubled
southern Philippines.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, In Moscow Iraq's
foreign minister said Iraqi authorities have arrested a man
suspected of organizing the murder of four Russian diplomats in
Baghdad last year. Hoyshan Zebari identified the suspect as a man
named Abu Nur and said he was a member of the terrorist group
al-Qaida in Iraq.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2007 Sep 19, Turkey's devout
Muslim PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the constitution should be
changed to remove a ban at universities on head scarves, the most
potent symbol of the national divide over the role of religion in
politics.
(AP, 9/19/07)
2008 Sep 19, A global recovery
in markets took place after the US took steps to limit damage from a
seize-up in world credit markets following the forced private sale
or government takeover in recent days. The Bank of England offered
to lend an additional 22 billion pounds (40 billion dollars) to
financial institutions struggling to obtain funds amid a worldwide
squeeze on credit.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, US federal
securities regulators, in an effort to boost investor confidence in
the face of a market crisis, took the dramatic step of temporarily
banning the trading practice of short selling financial stocks. The
rules were soon adjusted to allow bona fide market making and
hedging activity. The SEC eased buyback rules allowing corporations
to purchase in one day up to 100% of the average daily trading
volume of their stock.
(AP, 9/19/08)(WSJ, 9/23/08, p.A9,B1)
2008 Sep 19, Ken Cockrel Jr.
was sworn in as the city's new mayor, vaulted into office by a sex
scandal that destroyed the reign of Kwame Kilpatrick and threw
Detroit's government into chaos for months.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, In Nebraska at
least 86 workers were fired at the JBS Swift & Co. Grand Island
meat packing plant after they walked off their jobs amid a dispute
over Ramadan prayers.
(SFC, 9/20/08, p.A4)
2008 Sep 19, Former Blink-182
drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in
a fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people just
before midnight.
(AP, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 19, In western
Afghanistan a roadside bomb hit a US-led coalition convoy killing
one coalition soldier.
(WSJ, 9/20/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 19, PM Kevin Rudd
announced that Australia will launch a multi-million dollar
international carbon capture and storage institute to fight global
warming.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Hammaad Munshi
(18), said by prosecutors to be the youngest Briton to be convicted
of a terrorism offence, was jailed for two years. He was found
guilty last month of being part of a cell that spread extremist
propaganda and provided practical guides on how to make poisons and
suicide vests.
(Reuters, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, David Heiss (21),
German office worker, stabbed Matthew Pyke (20) 86 times in an
attack in Nottingham. He had met Pyke and Joanna Witton, Pyke’s
girlfriend, on a war games website, and flew to England after the
couple made disparaging remarks about him. On May 11, 2009, Heiss
was sentenced to life in prison.
(http://news.cnet.com/technically-incorrect/?keyword=David+Heiss)(AFP,
5/11/09)
2008 Sep 19, Masked kidnappers
in Egypt seized 19 hostages including German, Italian and Romanian
tourists in a remote desert area near the Sudanese and Libyan
borders. The kidnappers demanded $15 million in ransom. On Sep 29
Egyptian and Sudanese forces rescued the captives near the
Sudanese-Chadian border.
(Reuters, 9/22/08)(AP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 19, Haiti said its
system of agriculture has been destroyed by the last 4 tropical
storms, Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike. The storms killed 425 people in
less than a month. On Oct 3 authorities said the official death toll
from four storms that ravaged Haiti this summer nearly doubled to
793 people.
(SFC, 9/20/08, p.A10)(AP, 10/3/08)(Econ, 2/14/09,
p.45)
2008 Sep 19, Indian police in
New Delhi battled suspected Islamic militants holed up in a house,
killing two and arresting one before 2 others escaped. They were
believed to be members of the Indian Mujahedeen, the group
responsible for the Sep 13 serial bombings in New Delhi.
(AP, 9/19/08)(SFC, 9/20/08, p.A10)
2008 Sep 19, Seven Iraqis were
killed in a raid by American troops backed by attack aircraft
targeting al-Qaida in Iraq. Those killed in the Sunni town of Adwar
included four suspected insurgents and three women. Iraqi officials
and neighbors said the family had no connection to the insurgency.
Gunmen killed Sheik Oday Ali Abbas al-Ajrish, a cleric loyal to US
foe Muqtada al-Sadr, in the southern city of Basra.
(AP, 9/19/08)(AP, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 19, In Italy hundreds
of African immigrants took their anger over the alleged mafia
killing of six Africans to the streets, hurling rocks and smashing
windows in Castel Volturno.
(AP, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 19, Alitalia cancelled
flights and regulators said they might soon ground the troubled
flag-carrier as it hurtles toward bankruptcy after the failure of
another rescue plan.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Japan's
agriculture minister resigned in a widening scandal over rice
contaminated with mold and pesticide that was sold as food for
thousands of people, including schoolchildren and nursing home
patients.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, In central Nepal a
bus rolled off a mountain highway and crashed into a river, killing
at least 14 people and injuring 25 others.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Nigerian militants
destroyed another major oil pipeline in the Niger Delta after a week
of the most intense attacks against Africa's biggest oil and gas
industry for years.
(Reuters, 9/20/08)
2008 Sep 19, North Korea said
it is making "thorough preparations" to restart its nuclear reactor,
accusing the United States of failing to fulfill its obligations
under an international disarmament-for-aid agreement.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, In Quetta,
Pakistan, a bomb exploded at a religious school run by a pro-Taliban
Islamist party, killing five people and wounding 10 more. A witness
claimed it was caused by a suicide bomber intercepted at the main
gate. Unknown gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on a police
patrol vehicle in Quetta, killing one officer and wounding one
policeman and a passer-by.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Russia said it
will boost its defense budget next year by more than a quarter to a
post-Soviet high of $50 billion. Russian stock exchanges halted
trading after stocks shot higher, rebounding off a two-day closure
amid a financial crisis as the government rushed through emergency
measures that included more money for banks and purchases of shares
to stem plunging prices. Trading resumed later in the day.
(AP, 9/19/08)(WSJ, 9/20/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 19, Singapore banned
all dairy imports from China and the European Union demanded answers
from Beijing as the baby formula scandal, which left 4 babies dead
and over 6 thousand infants ill across China, spread to liquid milk.
(Reuters, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, South Korea said
it will completely withdraw its remaining troops from Iraq by
December, ending five years of military deployment.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Spain approved a
decree under which it will pay jobless immigrants to go home, more
evidence of how its once-booming economy has quickly gone bust.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Ben Stocking (49),
an Associated Press reporter in Vietnam, was punched, choked and hit
over the head with a camera by police who detained him for a short
while as he covered a Catholic prayer vigil at the site of the
former Vatican Embassy in Hanoi. The city had started to clear the
site after announcing a day earlier that it planned to use the land
for a public library and park.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2008 Sep 19, Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF
and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) again failed to break a
deadlock over forming a cabinet after reaching a power-sharing deal.
(AP, 9/19/08)
2009 Sep 19, The FBI arrested
Najibullah Zazi (24) of the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, on
charges of making false statements to federal agents in an ongoing
terror investigation. Supporting documents contend the man admitted
receiving weapons and explosives training from al-Qaida in Pakistan.
Also arrested were Zazi's father, Mohammed Wali Zazi (53) in Denver;
and an associate, Ahmad Wais Afzali (37) of Queens, NY. On Feb 22,
2010, Zazi pleaded guilty admitting that he had agreed to conduct an
Al-Qaida-led “martyrdom operation” in NYC.
(AP, 9/20/09)(SFC, 2/23/10, p.A6)
2009 Sep 19, NASA launched the
Black Brant XII to gather data on the highest clouds in the Earth's
atmosphere.
(AP, 9/20/09)
2009 Sep 19, In Afghanistan two
children were killed when a suicide attacker, believed to have been
a woman, blew herself up in a crowded area of western Herat city. A
Danish soldier was killed and another injured after they came under
fire during a patrol in Helmand province. A suicide attacker drove a
vehicle into a Hungarian convoy morning in the northern city of
Pul-e-Khumri. The suicide attacker was killed, but there were no
casualties in the convoy. An American soldier died in fighting in
the east.
(AFP, 9/19/09)(AP, 9/19/09)(AP, 9/20/09)
2009 Sep 19, Australian
authorities delivered a formal apology to the many thousands of
people who were abused in state-run orphanages and children's homes
in decades past.
(AFP, 9/19/09)
2009 Sep 19, In southeastern
China at least 16 people died and 14 were injured after a truck hit
a road maintenance vehicle from behind, sending it off a bridge.
(AP, 9/19/09)
2009 Sep 19, Colombia
extradited Nancy Conde Rubio (37), a captured leftist rebel who
unwittingly helped officials rescue 15 hostages, including three
American military contractors. She was bundled aboard a plane to
Florida to face charges of terrorism in a US federal court. Colombia
also sent back another woman and eight men to face charges in the US
related to drug trafficking.
(AP, 9/20/09)
2009 Sep 19, In the Dominican
Republic Angel Villanova (19), baseball player for the SF Giants,
allegedly shot and killed Mario Velete (25). Villanova had first
signed with the Giants in 2006 and had recently signed a contract
for $2.1 million.
(SSFC, 9/27/09, p.A1)
2009 Sep 19, In Germany a
doctor (50) leading a group therapy session gave participants drugs
and other substances that killed two and hospitalized ten. One
person was left comatose and in critical condition.
(AP, 9/20/09)
2009 Sep 19, In Indonesia a
strong earthquake shook the popular resort island of Bali, injuring
at least seven people and sending panicked tourists and residents
fleeing out of homes and hotels.
(AP, 9/19/09)
2009 Sep 19, Maurizio
Montalbini (56), Italian sociologist, died. He had spent months
dwelling in caves to study how the mind and body cope with complete
isolation. In 1987 he claimed his first world record after spending
210 days alone in a cave in the Apennine mountains.
(AP, 9/20/09)
2009 Sep 19, In southern Mexico
gunmen attacked a group of illegal immigrants, killing one and
wounding five as well as an alleged people smuggler in Chiapas
state.
(AP, 9/19/09)
2009 Sep 19, Off the Moroccan
coast an inflatable dinghy sank before dawn off Perejil, a rocky
Spanish-owned islet in the Mediterranean Sea. Some 42 would-be
illegal immigrants were crammed onto the boat. 11 migrants from
Niger and Senegal survived and 8 bodies were recovered. The next day
the 11 migrants were expelled from Morocco.
(AFP, 9/21/09)(AFP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 19, Nigeria’s
Information Minister Dora Akunyili said she's asked movie houses to
stop screening "District 9" because the South Africa-based sci-fi
movie about aliens and discrimination makes Nigerians look bad.
Akunyili said she has asked Sony for an apology and wants them to
edit out the Nigerian antagonists and the name of the main Nigerian
gangster Obesandjo, whose name closely resembles that of former
President Olusegun Obasanjo. The film brought in some US$37 million
(euro25.16 million) during its US debut weekend in August.
(AP, 9/19/09)
2009 Sep 19, Russia said it
will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland since Washington
has dumped a planned missile shield in Eastern Europe. It also
harshly criticized Iran's president for new comments denying the
Holocaust.
(AP, 9/19/09)
2009 Sep 19, Lt. Col.
Yelizaveta Mukasei (97), a Soviet spy who worked undercover in the
West with her husband, died in Moscow. Mukasei, whose code name was
Elza, lived in Los Angeles from 1939 to 1943 when her husband,
Mikhail, was working undercover there. Mikhail, whose code name was
Zephyr, died last year at age 101.
(AP, 9/21/09)
2009 Sep 19, Sweden's
centre-right government announced income tax cuts of 10 billion
kronor to stimulate the job market, its primary objective.
(AFP, 9/19/09)
2009 Sep 19, Thai nationalists
clashed with police and villagers as they tried to march toward an
ancient temple on the Cambodian border, while anti-government
protesters in the capital marked the third anniversary of a coup
that continues to create political turmoil.
(AP, 9/19/09)
2009 Sep 19, Yemen offered a
conditional cease-fire to the Shiite rebels it is battling in the
north, following international concern over a deadly airstrike
against civilians displaced from the war zones.
(AP, 9/19/09)
2010 Sep 19, US officials
finally declared BP's broken well in the Gulf of Mexico
"dead", following a successful “bottom kill,” five months after a
deadly oil rig blast sparked one of the costliest and largest
environmental disasters ever.
{USA, Louisiana}
(AFP, 9/20/10)(SFC, 9/20/10, p.A16)
2010 Sep 19, Deputies searched
a wide swath of Southern California for a break-off religious sect
of 13 people that included children as young as three. They had left
behind letters indicating they were awaiting an apocalyptic event
and would soon see Jesus and their dead relatives in heaven. The
group of El Salvadoran immigrants, led by Reyna Marisol Chicas (32)
of Palmdale, was found just before noon at Jackie Robinson Park near
Palmdale.
(AP, 9/19/10)(SFC, 9/20/10, p.A5)
2010 Sep 19, Researchers from
Wake Forest Univ. Baptist Medical Center, NC, reported that spiriva,
a drug already used to treat obstructive pulmonary disease, can
provide significant relief symptoms for adult asthmatics who have
difficulty obtaining relief with other drugs.
(SFC, 9/20/10, p.A5)
2010 Sep 19, In Texas 3
children were found shot dead at a Houston apartment building. Their
father, Muhammed Goher (47), was charged with their murder and was
hospitalized after surviving an apparent suicide attempt.
(SFC, 9/20/10, p.A5)
2010 Sep 19, The Utah Army
National Guard ignited a fire at Camp Williams, about 30 miles south
of Salt Lake City, while practicing with a .50 caliber machine gun.
At least 3 homes were destroyed as the fire went out of control.
(SFC, 9/21/10, p.A5)
2010 Sep 19, In Afghanistan the
bodies of three election officials kidnapped during voting were
found in northern Balkh province. The Free and Fair Election
Foundation of Afghanistan reported "extensive irregularities"
ranging from the destruction of polling centers to ballot stuffing,
erratic opening and closing times of polls and interference by
candidates. Allegations of fraud and a low voter turnout
overshadowed vote counting in the parliamentary election. 6 children
were killed in an insurgent rocket attack in northern Kunduz
province.
(Reuters, 9/19/10)(AFP, 9/19/10)(AP, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, In Britain Pope
Benedict XVI beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman at an open-air
Mass and marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a
personal reflection on the evil of the Nazi regime, praising those
who "courageously" resisted it.
(AP, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, In Canada "The
King's Speech" won the top award at the Toronto International Film
Festival, giving the Tom Hooper-directed film some early momentum
heading into Oscar awards season.
(Reuters, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, China said it has
suspended high-level contacts with Japan over the extended detention
of a Chinese fishing boat captain arrested after a Sep 7 collision
near disputed islands.
(AP, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, Colombia's
military killed at least 27 rebels in an air raid and ensuing ground
assault near the border with Ecuador. The dead included FARC
commander Sixto Cabana and Domingo Biojo (55), who had spent half
his life in the FARC. The next day Colombia's national police chief
said three informants will divide a reward of up to $500,000 for
leading authorities to the rebel camp.
(AP, 9/19/10)(AP, 9/20/10)(SFC, 9/21/10, p.A2)
2010 Sep 19, Egyptians
officials said Mohammed Dababish, a top Hamas security official, was
arrested at Cairo airport for using falsified travel documents.
(AP, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, In southwestern
Germany a female attorney (41) went on a shooting spree in Loerrach
killing her 5-year-old son, her estranged husband and a male nurse
before killing herself in an exchange of fire with police.
(AP, 9/20/10)
2010 Sep 19, In northern India
heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas. 24 people
died as falling boulders crushed their homes in three villages in
Almorah district in Uttrakhand state. Another 23 people were either
swept away by floodwaters or died when homes collapsed in landslides
in Pitthoragarh, Champawat and Uttarkashi regions over the weekend.
(AP, 9/20/10)
2010 Sep 19, In India gunmen on
motorbikes shot at a tourist bus near the main mosque in New Delhi,
wounding two Taiwanese visitors, weeks before the city hosts the
Commonwealth Games.
(Reuters, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, In Indian Kashmir
3 people wounded during recent protests against Indian rule died
ahead of a visit by a delegation of lawmakers seeking ways to defuse
months of civil unrest. A 22-year-old woman was killed in Sopore
town by security forces.
(AP, 9/19/10)(AP, 9/20/10)
2010 Sep 19, Iraq signed a deal
with Turkey to extend for 15 years the use of the main pipeline
linking its northern oilfields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.
3 car bombs tore through Baghdad and the former insurgent stronghold
of Fallujah, killing at least 36 people. Al-Qaida's front group in
Iraq later claimed responsibility for the two Baghdad bombings that
killed at least 31 people at a government security agency and what
it called an "evil" mobile phone provider.
(AFP, 9/19/10)(AP, 9/19/10)(AP, 9/24/10)
2010 Sep 19, In Ciudad Juarez,
Mexico, a front-page editorial by El Diario de Juarez asked warring
drug cartels to say what they want from the newspaper, so it can
continue its work without further death, injury or intimidation of
its staff.
(AP, 9/20/10)
2010 Sep 19, Nigeria’s
anti-narcotics agency said the United States has removed Nigeria
from the list of major drug trafficking countries, describing the
move as recognition of its fight against trafficking.
(AFP, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, In Pakistan a
suspected US missile strike killed five alleged militants in the
North Waziristan tribal area. Weekend clashes during a two-day
search operation on the outskirts of Peshawar killed 15 militants
and two police officers and wounded two soldiers.
(AP, 9/19/10)(AP, 9/20/10)
2010 Sep 19, In Peru hundreds
of coca growers briefly seized control of a power plant in Aguaytia,
cutting off electricity to the estimated 430,000 people who live in
Ucayali province. Police moved in arresting 120 people and freeing
30 employees. Authorities said that coca growers were still blocking
a main highway with dozens of disabled buses and trucks.
(AP, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, Philippine troops
clashed with Abu Sayyaf gunmen in a southern coastal village and
killed Abdukarim Sali, a long-wanted militant who helped in the 2001
kidnapping of three American and 17 Filipino tourists and the
takeover of a hospital. Dozens of rebels from the larger Moro
Islamic Liberation Front attacked a village in Basilan's Lamitan
town, killing one villager and wounding another.
(AP, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, Moscow mayor Yuri
Luzhkov (74) left the country for what his spokesman said was a
holiday in Austria, amid growing speculation that he could be
dismissed from one of Russia's most powerful jobs. Luzhkov and his
billionaire property mogul wife Yelena Baturina were viewed as
having fallen out of favor.
(Reuters, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, Spain’s armed
Basque separatist group ETA says it is willing to accept
international mediation to help solve its long-running conflict with
Spain's government. The statement came a day after the Spanish
newspaper El Pais released a video on its website believed to have
been filmed by ETA earlier this year as a training aid which shows a
hooded gunman practicing assassination techniques by shooting into a
car.
(AP, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, Swedes voted for a
new parliament. Polls showed the center-right government heading for
a historic second term unless an Islam-bashing far-right group
spoils its majority. The ruling center-right coalition faced the
prospect of forming a minority government after losing its majority
in the election because of a surge in support for Sweden Democrats,
an anti-immigrant party. PM Fredrik Reinfeldt was re-elected by
moving his Moderate party to the center, vowing to overhaul but not
dismantle the state.
(AP, 9/19/10)(Reuters, 9/20/10)(Econ, 1/29/11,
p.56)
2010 Sep 19, Typhoon Fanapi
made a direct hit on Taiwan, dumping more than 40 inches (one meter)
of rain in some places. Two people were left dead along with tens of
millions of dollars of damage. After crossing Taiwan, it slammed
into southern China.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 19, In eastern
Tajikistan heavily armed Islamic militants ambushed a military
convoy, killing at least 26 soldiers. The attackers were said to
include militants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Russia's volatile
southern region of Chechnya, led by Mullo Abdullo (b.1950), a
radical Islamic commander who took an active part in the civil war.
Warlord Alovuddin Davlatov was also suspected to have taken part in
the ambush.
(AP, 9/20/10)(AP, 10/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, In Thailand
thousands of anti-government "Red Shirt" protesters defied an
ongoing state of emergency in Bangkok to stage their first major
demonstration since their street protests were ended by a deadly
military crackdown in May.
(AP, 9/19/10)
2010 Sep 19, In Zimbabwe 5
people were injured in the capital Harare when pro-Mugabe militants
stoned a meeting meant to gather public opinion on a new
constitution.
(AFP, 9/20/10)
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