Today in History - September 21
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454 Sep 21, In
Italy, Aetius, the supreme army commander, was murdered in Ravenna
by Valentinian III, the emperor of the West.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1066 Sep 21, At the Battle at
Fulford Norway king Harald III Hardrada beat the British militia.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1327 Sep 21, Edward II of
England, a homosexual, was murdered by order of his wife, Queen
Isabella and Baron Robert Mortimer.
(HN,
9/21/98)(www.stonewallsociety.com/famouspeople/king.htm)
1348 Sep 21, Jews in Zurich
Switzerland were accused of poisoning wells.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1372 Sep 21, Frederik I van
Hohenzollern, monarch of Brandenburg (1417-40), was born.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1415 Sep 21, Frederick III,
German Emperor (1440-1493), was born in Innsbruck Austria.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1435 Sep 21, Treaty of Atrecht.
Philippe le Bon of Burgundy and French king Charles VII signed a
treaty at Arras. Philippe broke with the English and recognized
Charles as France’s only king.
(PCh, 1992, p.145)
1451 Sep 21, Cardinal Nicholas
of Cusa ordered the Jews of Holland to wear a badge.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1452 Sep 21, Girolamo
Savonarola (d.1498), was born in Ferrara. He became a Dominican
monk, reformer, dictator of Florence (1494-98) and martyr. He was
best known for his bonfires of the vanities in which corrupt books
and images were set alight.
(Hem.,4/97,p.53)(WUD, 1994, p.1272,1672)(WSJ,
7/10/98, p.W11)(MC, 9/21/01)
1519 Sep 21, Hans Backofen
(Backoffen), German sculptor, died at about 49.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1520 Sep 21, Suleiman I (the
Magnificent), son of Selim, became the Ottoman sultan in
Constantinople.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.12)(HN, 9/21/98)
1558 Sep 21, Charles V
(b.1500), King of Spain (Carlos I), former Holy Roman Emperor
(1519-1556), died. In 2006 lab tests showed that Charles suffered
from gout.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.19)(http://tinyurl.com/kq9sq)
1575 Sep 21, A major hurricane
hit Puerto Rico on the feast day of St. Matthew and became known as
the San Mateo hurricane.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, Par p.24)
1588 Sep 21, Medina Sidonia's
Spanish Armada flagship, the San Martin, arrived at Santander,
Spain. Almost half of the 130 ships were lost. 20k of 30k men died.
1,500 died in battle, the rest from shipwreck, massacre, starvation
or disease. In 1981 David Howarth authored "The Voyage of the
Armada." In 1988 Peter Kemp authored "The Campaign of the Spanish
Armada."
(ON, 3/02, p.6)
1589 Sep 21, The Duke of
Mayenne of France, head of the Catholic League, was defeated by
Henry IV of England at the Battle of Arques.
(HN, 9/21/98)(MC, 9/21/01)
1591 Sep 21, French bishops
recognized Henri IV as king of France.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1599 Sep 21, The Globe Theater
had its first recorded performance. The 20-sided timber building for
Shakespeare’s plays was constructed on the South Bank of the Thames,
England. The troupe Lord Chamberlain's Men built the Globe Theater.
Timbers came from a dismantled old theater and the new structure
held some 3,000 spectators in 3 galleries. In 2005 James Shapiro
authored “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599.”
(Hem, Mar. 95, p.138)(WSJ, 6/17/97, p.A16)(WSJ,
1/11/99, p.R34)(Econ, 11/5/05, p.92)
1621 Sep 21, King James of
England gave Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1648 Sep 21, In Poland at the
Battle at Pilawce Bohdan Chmielricki beat John II Casimir.
(PCh, 1992, p.241)(MC, 9/21/01)
1673 Sep 21, James Needham
returned to Virginia after exploring the land to the west, which
would become Tennessee.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1676 Sep 21, Benedetto
Odescalchi was elected as Pope Innocent XI.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1677 Sep 21, John and Nicolaas
van der Heyden patented a fire extinguisher.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1692 Sep 21, Two men and seven
women were executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1745 Sep 21, A Scottish
Jacobite army commanded by Lord George Murray routed the Royalist
army of General Sir John Cope at Prestonpans. At the Battle at
Preston Pans Bonnie Prince Charles beat the English army.
(HN, 9/21/98)(MC, 9/21/01)
1746 Sep 21, A French
expeditionary army occupied Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1756 Sep 21, John Loudon
McAdam, engineer who invented and gave his name to macadamized
roads, was born.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1761 Sep 21, King George III of
England was crowned. George was German and had been Elector of
Hanover. Coincidentally, the composer Handel, who was working in
London when King George was crowned, had gone to London after
skipping out on his last job...working for George in Hanover.
Fortunately for Handel, King George forgave him.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1776 Sep 21, Nathan Hale was
arrested in NYC by the British for spying for American rebels.
(SFC, 9/20/03, p.A2)
1776 Sep 21, NYC burned down in
the Great Fire 5 days after British took over.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1780 September 21-22, General
Benedict Arnold, American commander of West Point, met with British
spy Major John André to hand over plans of the important
Hudson River fort to the enemy. Unhappy with how General George
Washington treated him and in need of money, Arnold planned to
"sell" West Point for 20,000 pounds--a move that would enable the
British to cut New England off from the rest of the rebellious
colonies. Arnold's treason was exposed when André was
captured by American militiamen who found the incriminating plans in
his stocking. Arnold received a timely warning and was able to
escape to a British ship, but André was hanged as a spy on
October 2, 1780. Condemned for his Revolutionary War actions by both
Americans and British, Arnold lived until 1801.
(HNPD, 9/21/98)
1792 Sep 21, Collot D'Herbois
proposed to abolish the monarchy in France. The French National
Convention voted to abolish the monarchy. 1st French Republic formed
(AP, 9/21/97)(MC, 9/21/01)
1804 Sep 21, Another major
hurricane hit Puerto Rico on the feast day of St. Matthew and became
known as the San Mateo II hurricane [see 1575].
(SSFC, 8/6/06, Par p.24)
1814 Sep 21, "Star Spangled
Banner" was published as a poem.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1817 Sep 21, Carter Littlepage
Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1823 Sep 21, The Angel Moroni
1st appeared to Joseph Smith (b.1823), according to Smith (founder
of Mormon Church). Smith in New York claimed that an angel named
Moroni led him to ancient golden plates that revealed the untold
story of America during biblical times.
(SFC, 4/8/96, p.A-1,6)(MC, 9/21/01)
1832 Sep 21, Sir Walter Scott
(b.1771), Scottish poet and novelist, died at Abbotsford near
Melrose in the Scottish Borders. His novels included "Ivanhoe" and
"Rob Roy." Scott was later credited with inventing the genre of
historical fiction. In 2010 Stuart Kelley authored “Scott-land: The
Man Who Invented a Nation.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott)(SSFC,
3/11/07, p.G3)(Econ, 7/31/10, p.67)
1837 Sep 21, Charles Lewis
Tiffany (1812-1902) founded his jewelry and china stores.
(MC, 9/21/01)(SSFC, 9/7/03, p.I4)
1862 Sep 21, William Benjamin
Gould and 7 other black men stole a boat and rowed past Fort
Caswell, NC. They were picked up the next day by the Union warship
Cambridge. In 2002 Prof. W.B. Gould published his
great-grandfather’s diary "Dairy of a Contraband: The Civil War
Passage of a Black Sailor."
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.A1)
1862 Sep 21, 300 Indians were
sentenced to hang in Mankato, Minnesota.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1863 Sep 21, Union troops under
Major Gen’l. William S. Rosencrans defeated at Chickamauga sought
refuge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which was then besieged by
Confederate troops. There they lost 10,000 horses and mules to
starvation.
(HT, 4/97, p.52)(HN, 9/21/98)
1866 Sep 21, Charles Jean Henri
Nicolle, bacteriologist, was born. He discovered that typhus fever
is transmitted by body louse and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1928.
(HN, 9/21/98)(MC, 9/21/01)
1866 Sep 21, H.G. Wells
(d.1946), English novelist and historian was born as Herbert George
Wells in Bromley, Kent, England. His work included the novel
"Marriage," "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897)
and "The War of the Worlds" (1898).
(WSJ, 11/21/96,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells)
1872 Sep 21, John Henry Conyers
of SC became the 1st black student at Annapolis.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1878 Sep 21, The obelisk of
Alexandria was erected upright at a public park in London.
(ON, 6/20/11, p.10)
1883 Sep 21, The 1st direct
US-Brazil telegraph connection was made.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1893 Sep 21, Frank Duryea drove
the 1st US made gas propelled car. [see Sep 22]
(MC, 9/21/01)
1895 Sep 21, Juan de la Cierva,
aeronautical engineer who invented the autogyro, was born.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1895 Sep 21, The Duryea Motor
Wagon Company, the 1st auto manufacturer, opened.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1896 Sep 21, General Horatio
Kitchener's army occupied Dongola, Sudan. Gen’l. Herbert Kitchener
led the British conquest of the Sudan. The "kit bag," another name
for a knapsack, was named after him.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, Z1 p.8)(WSJ, 8/25/98, p.A14)(MC,
9/21/01)
1897 Sep 21, The New York Sun
ran its famous editorial that answered a question from 8-year-old
Virginia O'Hanlon: "Is there a Santa Claus?" Francis P. Church
wrote, in part: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as
certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know
that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy."
(AP, 9/21/97)
1902 Sep 21, Allen Lake was
born. He founded Penguin Books in 1935.
(HN, 9/21/00)
1903 Sep 21, The 1st cowboy
film, "Kit Carson," premiered in US.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1904 Sep 21, Exiled Nez Perce
leader Chief Joseph died in Washington state reportedly of a "broken
heart." In 1984 “Chief Joseph’s Own Story” was published.
(HN, 9/21/98)(SFC, 6/13/97, p.A13)
1912 Sep 21, Chuck Jones,
animator and director of Warner Brothers cartoons Bugs Bunny and
Daffy Duck, was born.
(HN, 9/21/00)(MC, 9/21/01)
1913 Sep 21, The 1st aerobatic
maneuver, a sustained inverted flight, was performed in France.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1915 Sep 21, Anthony Comstock
(b.1844), former US Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to
ideas of Victorian morality, died. The anti-porn campaigner had used
his position to seize 50 tons of books and 4 million pictures.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock)(Econ, 3/15/08, p.44)
1915 Sep 21, Stonehenge was
sold by auction for 6,600 pounds sterling ($11,500) to a Mr. Chubb,
who bought it as a present for his wife. He presented it to the
British nation three years later.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1920 Sep 21, Jay Ward,
cartoonist (Rocky & his Friends, Bullwinkle), was born.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1921 Sep 21, Pope Benedictus XV
donated 1 million lire to feed Russians.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1921 Sep 21, In Oppau, Germany,
an explosion at the Bradishe Aniline chemical works, a nitrate
manufacturing plant, destroyed the plant and a nearby village with
561 deaths and over 1500 persons injured.
(HSAB, 1994, p.46)(MC, 9/21/01)
1922 Sep 21, Pres Warren G.
Harding signed a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish
homeland in Palestine.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1922 Sep 21, The US passed a
tariff act. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff bill (named after Joseph
Fordney, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Porter
McCumber, chair of the Senate Finance Committee) was signed by
President Warren Harding. In the end, the tariff law raised the
average American ad valorem tariff rate to 38 percent.
(Econ, 12/20/08,
p.126)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordney-McCumber_Tariff)
1926 Sep 21, San Francisco held
a benefit to raise money for victims of a Sep 17 Florida hurricane
that killed 374-600 people.
(SFC, 9/21/01, WB p.5)
1928 Sep 21, "My Weekly Reader"
magazine made its debut.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1929 Sep 21, Fighting between
China and the Soviet Union broke out along the Manchurian border.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1930 Sep 21, Johann Ostermeyer
patented the flashbulb.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1931 Sep 21, Larry Hagman, Fort
Worth Tx, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas), was born.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1931 Sep 21, Britain went off
the gold standard. The pound devalued 20%.
(AP, 9/21/97)(WSJ, 1/10/09, p.W8)
1933 Sep 21, The trial against
Marinus der Lubbe opened. He was accused of starting the Feb 27
Reichstag fire.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1934 Sep 21, A typhoon struck
Honshu Island, Japan, and killed 4,000.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1936 Sep 21, The German army
held its largest maneuvers since 1914.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1936 Sep 21, The Spanish
fascist junta named Franco generalissimo, supreme commander. [see
Oct 1]
(MC, 9/21/01)
1937 Sep 21, The women's
airspeed record was set at 292 mph by American pilot Jacqueline
Cochran.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1937 Sep 21, "The Hobbit," by
J.R.R. Tolkien (b.1892), was first published.
(WSJ,2/11/97, p.A18)(AP, 9/21/97)
1938 Sep 21, A Category 3
hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing
widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives. Winds hit 183
MPH in New England and 700 were killed. The storm hit Long Island
and Connecticut and caused $308 million in damage.
(AP, 9/21/97)(WSJ, 5/31/06, p.B1)
1938 Sep 21, Winston Churchill
condemned Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1939 Sep 21, Reinhard Heydrich
met in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1941 Sep 21, The US launched
its 1st Liberty-ship, "Patrick Henry."
(MC, 9/21/01)
1941 Sep 21, The German Army
cut off the Crimean Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1942 Sep 21, British forces
attacked the Japanese in Burma.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1942 Sep 21, Nazis executed 116
hostages in Paris.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1944 Sep 21, U.S. troops of the
7th Army, invading Southern France, crossed the Meuse River.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1944 Sep 21, The last British
paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrendered.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1946 Sep 21, The Cleveland
Indians played their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year
stay.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1947 Sep 21, Stephen King,
author, was born in Portland, Maine. He is best known for
supernatural and horror tales including Carrie (1974), Shining
(1977) and Kujo (1981).
(HN, 9/21/00)(SSFC, 7/2/06, Par p.16)
1947 Sep 21, Marsha Norman,
playwright, was born. Her work included "Getting Out" and "'Night
Mother."
(HN, 9/21/00)
1948 Sep 21, Milton Berle made
his debut as permanent host of "The Texaco Star Theater" on NBC
television.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1949 Sep 21, The Communist
People’s Republic of China was proclaimed under Mao Tse Tung with
Chou En-Lai as Premier. "Today, the Chinese people have stood
up." Mao-Tse-Tung led his people to power after half a century (50
yrs.) of civil strife. The Chinese Communists drove Chiang Kai-shek
to Formosa. The capitalist stronghold of Shanghai fell to Mao
Tse-tung Communist guerrillas. The Communist People’s Liberation
Army brought with them to Beijing a northeastern folk dance called
yang ge.
(TOH, 1982, p.1949)(WSJ,12/10/93)(TMC, 1994,
p.1945)(WSJ, 10/26/95, p.A-12)(WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/97)
1949 Sep 21, In Germany the
Allied Occupation Statute came into force. The functions of the
military government were transferred to the Allied high commission.
The Federal Republic of [West] Germany was created under the 3-power
occupation.
(EWH, 1968, p.1180)(MC, 9/21/01)
1949 Sep 21, Manipur merged
with India. The former independent kingdom was strong-armed into
joining India.
(http://manipuronline.com/Manipur/merger.htm)(Econ, 11/7/09, p.43)
1953 Sep 21, North Korean pilot
Lieutenant Ro Kim Suk landed his aircraft at Kimpo airfield outside
Seoul. The Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, powered by a jet engine
superior to those then used in American fighter planes, first saw
combat in Korea during November 1950, where its performance shifted
the balance of air power to Russian-backed North Korea. On April 26,
1953, two U.S. Air Force B-29s dropped leaflets behind enemy lines,
offering a $50,000 reward and political asylum to any pilot
delivering an intact MiG-15 to American forces for study. Although
Ro denied any knowledge of the bounty, he collected the reward, and
American scientists were able to examine the MiG-15.
(HNPD, 8/28/00)
1954 Sep 21, The 1st nuclear
submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned. [see Sep 30]
(MC, 9/21/01)
1955 Sep 21, The last allied
occupying troops left Austria.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1956 Sep 21, Anastasio Somoza
Garcia (b.1896), Nicaraguan dictator, was shot by poet Rigoberto
Lopez Perez. He died on Sep 29 after being sent to a Panama Canal
Zone hospital.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_Garc%C3%ADa)
1957 Sep 21, "Perry Mason,"
starring Raymond Burr, premiered on CBS-TV. The show ran to 1965 and
returned in 1985.
(AP, 9/21/97)(SFC, 8/20/99, p.D6)
1957 Sep 21, Norway's King
Haakon VII died in Oslo at age 85.
(AP, 9/21/07)
1964 Sep 21, Malta became an
independent member of the British Commonwealth.
(AP, 9/21/97)(Econ, 7/14/07,
p.57)(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5382.htm)
1966 Sep 21, Jimmy Hendrix
changed the spelling of his name to Jimi.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1970 Sep 21, "NFL Monday Night
Football" made its debut on ABC TV as the Cleveland Browns defeated
the visiting New York Jets, 31-to-21.
(SFC, 12/7/96, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/00)
1970 Sep 21, In Jordan King
Hussein sent a plea to Israel for air support via the British
embassy. Israel did not respond. The Black September crises left
2,000 people dead in 13 days of fighting.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A12)
1972 Sep 21, Ferdinand Marcos
declared martial law in Philippines.
(www.geocities.com/pinoytv/martiallaw.htm)
1973 Sep 21, The painting "Blue
Poles" by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) sold for $2,000,000 to the
Australian National Gallery.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_Australia)
1973 Sep 21, The US Senate
confirmed Henry Kissinger to be Secretary of State under Pres.
Nixon.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1973 Sep 21, A secret CIA
report indicated that severe repression was planned in Chile and
that 300 students were killed in the technical university when they
refused to surrender to the military. The report was made public in
1999.
(SFC, 7/1/99, p.C3)
1974 Sep 21, US Mariner 10 made
a 2nd fly-by of Mercury.
(NH, 5/01,
p.38)(www.astronautix.com/craft/marner10.htm)
1974 Sep 21, Jacqueline Susann
(b.1918), author, died of cancer. Her books included "Valley of the
Dolls" (1966). In 1987 Barbara Seaman authored Susann's biography:
"Lovely Me." In 2000 the film "Isn't She Great" starred Bette Midler
as Susann.
(SFC, 1/26/00,
p.B1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Susann)
1975 Sep 21, Self-proclaimed
revolutionary Sara Jane Moore attempted to kill President Gerald
Ford as he walked from a San Francisco hotel. A bullet she fired
slightly wounded a man in the crowd. [see Sep 22]
(MC, 9/21/01)
1976 Sep 21, Benjamin Graham
(b.1894), London-born economist and professional investor, died. He
is known as the father of value investing and founder of modern
security analysis. His books included “Security Analysis” written
with David Dodd (1934), and “The Intelligent Investor” (1949).
Warren Buffett studied under him at Columbia Univ.
(WSJ, 10/5/06,
p.D5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Graham)(Econ, 10/22/11,
p.90)
1976 Sep 21, Chilean exile
Orlando Letelier, one time foreign minister to Chilean President
Salvador Allende, was killed when a bomb exploded in his car in
Washington D.C. He was assassinated by order from Chile by Gen’l.
Manuel Contreras, head of the secret police known as DINA. Ronni
Moffitt (25), an American colleague of Letelier, was also killed.
Contreras was convicted of the order in 1993 and sentenced to a
7-year prison term. In 2000 Gen. Pinochet was linked to the killing.
(SFC, 6/27/97, p.A14)(SFC, 7/1/99, p.C3)(SFEC,
5/28/00, p.A7)(AP, 9/21/01)
1977 Sep 21, After weeks of
controversy over past business and banking practices, President
Carter's embattled budget director, Bert Lance, resigned.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1978 Sep 21, Two Soviet
cosmonauts set a space endurance record after 96 days in space.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1981 Sep 21, The US Senate
unanimously confirmed the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to
become the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
(AP, 9/21/01)
1981 Sep 21, Belize under
leader George Price (1919-2011) gained independence from Britain and
joined the UN under protests from Guatemala. As head of the centrist
People's United Party, Price served two terms as prime minister,
1981-84 and 1989-1993.
(www.belizenet.com/bzeguat/chap10.html)(AP,
9/19/11)
1982 Sep 21, National Football
League players began a 57-day strike, their first regular-season
walkout ever.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1982 Sep 21, Amin Gemayel,
brother of Lebanon's assassinated president-elect, Bashir Gemayel,
was himself elected president. He stayed in office until 1988.
(WSJ, 9/12/96, p.A16)(AP,
9/21/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_Gemayel)
1983 Sep 21, In a speech to the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Interior Secretary James G. Watt jokingly
described a special advisory panel as consisting of "a black ... a
woman, two Jews and a cripple." Although Watt later apologized, he
ended up resigning.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1983 Sep 21, In the Philippines
at least 7 people were killed in anti Marcos demonstrations in
Manila.
(http://tinyurl.com/3xjunn)
1984 Sep 21, In Cleveland,
Ohio, Romell Broom (28) raped a murdered Tryna Middleton (14) after
abducting her at knife-point as she walked home from a football game
with friends. His execution in 2009 was delayed as executioners
failed to find a good vein for lethal injection.
(www.associatedcontent.com/article/2185057/romell_brooms_execution_fails_over.html)
1986 Sep 21, In the 38th Emmy
Awards the winners included Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey and
Michael J. Fox.
(http://tinyurl.com/yxktmg)
1987 Sep 21, NFL players went
on strike at midnight mainly over the issue of free agency.
(AP,
9/21/97)(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/almanac/video/1987/)
1987 Sep 21, A U.S. helicopter
gunship disabled an Iranian vessel, the "Iran Ajr," that was caught
laying mines in the Persian Gulf; four Iranian crewmen were killed,
26 wounded and detained.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1988 Sep 21, The Soviet women's
gymnastics team won the gold medal at the Seoul Summer Olympics,
with Romania placing second and East Germany third.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1989 Sep 21, General Colin
Powell was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
(HN, 9/21/98)
1989 Sep 21, Hurricane Hugo,
packing winds of up to 135 mph, crashed into Charleston, S.C.
(AP, 9/21/99)
1989 Sep 21, In Alton, Texas,
21 students died when their school bus collided with a truck and
careered into a water-filled pit.
(AP, 9/21/99)
1990 Sep 21, During a meeting
of the Supreme Soviet, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev scolded
legislators for dragging its feet on an economic rescue plan, and
asked for sweeping new emergency powers to stabilize the economy.
(AP, 9/21/00)
1991 Sep 21, An 18-hour hostage
drama ended in Sandy, Utah, as Richard L. Worthington, who had
killed a nurse and seized control of a hospital maternity ward,
finally freed his nine captives, including a baby who was born
during the siege. Worthington committed suicide in prison in 1994.
(AP, 9/21/01)
1991 Sep 21, Yugoslav army
tanks and artillery began an invasion of eastern Croatia. The Croats
said that some 600 soldiers and 1200 civilians perished in the
3-month bombardment of Vukovar by rebel Serbs,
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14) (SFC,
6/28/97, p.A10)
1992 Sep 21, President Bush
addressed the U.N. General Assembly, offering U.S. support to
strengthen international peacekeeping.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1992 Sep 21, Former defense
secretaries Melvin Laird and James R. Schlesinger told a
congressional committee the Pentagon had known American airmen were
alive in Laos at the end of the Vietnam War and were not returned.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1993 Sep 21, The police drama
"NYPD Blue" premiered on ABC.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1993 Sep 21, The US National
and Community Service Trust Act became law under the Clinton
administration. It included AmeriCorps, a volunteer national service
program for young adults to teach children to read and to
build homes for those in need. A modest living allowance was
provided along with up to $4,725 in education vouchers for
completing one year of service. By 2002 there were some 50,000
participants earning $9,300 per year with education benefits to
$9,500.
(www.nationalservice.gov/pdf/cncs_statute_1993.pdf)(SFEC,11/30/97,
p.A3)(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A3)
1993 Sep 21, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin announced he was ousting the hard-line,
Communist-dominated Congress that had long opposed his reforms.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1994 Sep 21, Prosecutors from
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties announced that Michael
Jackson would not face child molestation charges; however, the case
would remain open until 1999.
(AP, 9/21/99)
1995 Sep 21, US House
Republicans unveiled partial details of their plan for Medicare
aimed at achieving $270 billion in savings over seven years.
(AP, 9/21/00)
1996 Sep 21, President Clinton
and Republican rival Bob Dole agreed to face off in two debates
without Ross Perot.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1996 Sep 21, John F. Kennedy
Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland
Island, Ga.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1996 Sep 21, The board of
all-male Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
(AP, 9/21/97)
1996 Sep 21, In Brazil the
first magazine dedicated to blacks, Raca Brasil, sold out 200,000
copies in 5 days.
(SFC, 9/21/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 21, Thai Prime
Minister Banharn Silpa-archa resigned after 14 months in offices
under charges of corruption and ineptitude.
(SFC, 9/21/96, p.A10)
1997 Sep 21, Saying their
persistent demands for a special investigation had been vindicated,
senior Republicans insisted Attorney General Janet Reno seek
appointment of an independent counsel to look into White House
fund-raising activities, a day after the Justice Department revealed
it had begun a preliminary review.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1997 Sep 21, American
billionaire George Soros, vilified by Malaysian Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohammad as the cause of the national financial crises,
defended himself and called his accuser "a menace to his own
country."
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 21, In Algeria an
armed group killed 53 people in Beni-Slimane and then mutilated and
burned the bodies.
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A9)
1997 Sep 21, From Chile it was
reported that the hantavirus had caused the death of 13 people in
recent months.
(SFEC, 9/21/97, p.A27)
1997 Sep 21, From Poland
election results indicated that Solidarity won 189 of the 460 seats
of the parliament with about 34% of the vote.
(WSJ, 9/23/97, p.A1)
1998 Sep 21, Congress released
the video tape of Pres. Clinton’s grand jury testimony. President
Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony was publicly broadcast; in
it, Clinton tussled with prosecutors over "the truth of my
relationship" with Monica Lewinsky.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/99)
1998 Sep 21, In New York Wadih
el Hage, a Texas American citizen who served as the personal
secretary for Osama bin laden in Sudan, was indicted for lying to a
Manhattan grand jury investigating bin Laden.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A6)
1998 Sep 21, Hurricane Georges
roared through Puerto Rico and the northeast Caribbean. Georges
threatened the islands of the Caribbean. The storm hit Puerto Rico
and killed at least 5 people as winds reached 130 mph. One woman was
killed on St. Kitts.
(SFC, 9/20/98, p.A13)(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A1) (AP,
9/21/99)
1998 Sep 21, Florence Griffith
Joyner (38), winner of 3 gold medals in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul,
died of an apparent heart seizure at her home in Mission Viejo,
Calif. She held the women’s record in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/22/98, p.A1)(AP,
9/21/99)
1998 Sep 21, In Afghanistan a
2nd day of rocket barrages killed at least 10 people in Kabul.
(WSJ, 9/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 21, In Bosnia Biljana
Plavsic conceded defeat to nationalist Nikola Poplasen. Nine
hard-line candidates were disqualified. For the presidency Serb
Zivko Radisic defeated Momcilo Karjisnik, Muslim leader Alija
Izetbegovic won, and Croat Ante Jelavic defeated Kresimir Zubak.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A8)(WSJ, 9/22/98, p.A1)(SFC,
9/26/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 21, From China it was
reported that the government had begun cracking down on the efforts
of dissidents to organize the fledgling China Democratic Party.
(SFC, 9/20/98, p.A16)
1998 Sep 21, In Lesotho
opposition protestors clashed with South African and Botswanan
troops at the royal palace. A faction of the Lesotho army rebelled
11 days ago and deposed the new military leadership. They charged
that the May elections swept by the Lesotho Congress party were
rigged.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A7)
1998 Sep 21, In Malaysia
thousands of protestors clashed with police as the finale to the
Commonwealth Games proceeded. The Suaram human rights group said
that 34 people were arrested.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A7)
1998 Sep 21, In Russia the
central bank began issuing 900 million new rubles valued at $55
million.
(WSJ, 9/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 21, In Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, Mustafa Mahmoud Said Ahmen of Egypt and Rashid Saleh Hemed
of Tanzania were charged with murder in connection with the bombing
of the US Embassy.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A6)
1999 Sep 21, The House Banking
Committee opened an inquiry into allegations of a huge
money-laundering scheme involving the Russian mob and the Bank of
New York.
(AP, 9/21/00)
1999 Sep 21, The FDA approved
Synercid, a new antibiotic from Rhone-Poulenc. Hoechst merged with
Rhone-Poulenc in 1999 to form Aventis.
(WSJ, 9/22/99, p.A1)(Econ, 7/10/04, p.58)
1999 Sep 21, Peter Singer, the
new DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton Center for Human
Values, held his first classes. Singer held that the notion of life
as sacred is a medieval concept and should be replaced with a
utilitarian calculus "aimed at reducing suffering and maximizing
happiness."
(WSJ, 9/24/99, p.W21)
1999 Sep 21, In Columbia the
government gave approval to Occidental Petroleum to drill a test
well near the boundary of the 3,600 U'wa Indians.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 21, In London the new
Globe Theater was scheduled to open on the 400th anniversary of its
first recorded performance. On the same day the adjoining year-round
Inigo Jones theater will open.
(WSJ, 6/17/97, p.A16)
1999 Sep 21, Prime Minister
Ehud Barak of Israel was the 1st foreign leader to visit the new
capital in Berlin.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 21, Japan’s PM Keizo
Obuchi easily won re-election as head of his party. This ensured
that public money would continue to be used to spur economic
recovery.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 21, In Taiwan a 7.6
earthquake killed estimated total of 2,161. The 12-story Sungshan
hotel collapsed and at least 73 people were killed. Prosecutors
later charged 5 people with negligence in the design and
construction of the building.
(SFC, 11/9/99, p.A14)(AP,
9/21/00)(http://nisee.berkeley.edu/taiwan/)
1999 Sep 21, In Serbia
demonstrations against Pres. Milosevic were led by the Alliance for
Change in Belgrade and 18 other cities with lower than expected
turnout.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.A16)
2000 Sep 21, In West Bengal,
India, the release of water from 2 dams left tens of thousands of
people stranded. Floods following torrential rains left at least 59
people dead.
(WSJ, 9/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 21, A Belgrade court
found Pres. Clinton and other world leaders guilty of war crimes for
the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. 14 leaders were sentenced in
absentia to 20 years in prison. The 120-page indictment charged the
leaders for the deaths of 546 Yugoslav army soldiers, 138 Serbian
police officers and 504 civilians, including 88 children.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.A16)
2000 Sep 21, An Iranian appeals
court reduced the prison terms for 10 Jews convicted of
"cooperating" with Israel, in a case that had drawn international
criticism.
(AP, 9/21/01)
2000 Sep 21, In Spain Jose Luis
Ruiz Casado (42), a town councilor, was shot and killed in Sant
Adria de Besos outside of Barcelona. The ETA was blamed.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 21, In Southeast Asia
the death toll from floods reached 235. The Red Cross issued an
appeal for emergency aid to Cambodia.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.D2)
2001 Sep 21, US entertainers
hosted a national telethon: "America: A Tribute to Heroes," to raise
money for the victims of the Sep 11 attacks that was carried on more
than 30 networks.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/02)
2001 Sep 21, A US unmanned
reconnaissance plane was downed in Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 9/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, The US Congress
passed a $15 billion relief package for the nation’s air carriers.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, The DJIA fell 140
to 8,235, while the Nasdaq fell 47 to 1,423, a 3 year low.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A1,11)
2001 Sep 21, Ana Belen Montes,
an employee of the US Defense Intelligence Agency since 1985, was
charged with spying for Cuba. She pleaded guilty in 2002 and was
sentenced to 25 years in jail.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)(WSJ, 3/20/02, p.A1)(SFC,
10/16/02, p.A9)
2001 Sep 21, A US Taurus
rocket, made by Orbital Sciences, carrying a NASA satellite failed
to launch and probably plunged into the Indian ocean.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 21, Ronald C.
Sheffield, a federal security officer was shot and killed in the
Patrick V. McNamara building in Detroit. The gunman was seriously
wounded.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 21, In Afghanistan the
ruling Taliban rejected Pres. Bush’s ultimatum and to give up Osama
bin Laden. The Taliban also threatened to hang Afghan aid workers if
they communicate with their int’l. counterparts.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A7)(SFC, 9/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, Terrorist suspects
were arrested in Britain (4), France (7), Germany (2 warrants), Peru
(3 detained) and Yemen (20 detained). Lofti Raissi, an Algerian
pilot arrested in Britain, was later described as the "lead
instructor" to 4 of the hijackers. Raissi was released Feb 12, 2002,
for lack of evidence.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A3)(SFC, 9/29/01, p.A1)(SFC,
2/13/02, p.A16)
2001 Sep 21, In Estonia Arnold
Ruutel (73), a former Communist leader, was chosen as president by a
special government assembly.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 21, In France a
suspected accidental explosion at a TotalFinaELF chemical fertilizer
plant in Toulouse killed 29 people and injured at least 650.
(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A20)(WSJ, 9/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21-Oct 2, In Tehran
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards opened the First Universal Exhibition of
Sacred Culture and Defense with a theme of Islamic revolution and
holy war. It commemorated the 21st anniversary of the war with Iraq.
(WSJ, 9/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 21, Islamic groups
planned a general strike to protest Pakistan’s support of the
anti-terrorist coalition.
(SFC, 9/21/01, p.A20)
2002 Sep 21, Erika Harold, Miss
Illinois, was crowned in Atlantic City, NJ, as Miss America 2003.
(SSFC, 9/22/02, p.A2)
2002 Sep 21, Angelo Buono Jr.,
whose gruesome killing of young Los Angeles women in the 1970s
earned him the nickname Hillside Strangler, died in a California
prison; he was 67.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2002 Sep 21, In Indonesia 10
people were killed and 15 wounded in an explosion at a fireworks
factory in the town of Slawi in Central Java province.
(Reuters, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, Iraq rejected U.S.
efforts to secure a U.N. resolution threatening war, with Iraqi
state-run radio announcing Baghdad will not abide by unfavorable new
resolutions adopted by the U.N. Security Council.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, In Liberia
government forces and rebels battled for at least three northern and
northwestern towns in a new outbreak of fighting near the border
with Guinea.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, Explosions rocked
Yasser Arafat's compound, including one that showered him with
debris, as the Israeli army systematically blew up or bulldozed
nearly every building around him in the Palestinian Authority's
headquarters.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2002 Sep 21, In Slovakia
Vladimir Meciar, the authoritarian former prime minister, appeared
to edge out his rivals in elections, but he was without the support
needed to catapult him to power in the face of united opposition.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2003 Sep 21, At the 55th Annual
Emmy Awards "The West Wing" won for best drama.
(SFC, 9/22/03, p.D1)
2003 Sep 21, NYSE board of
directors announced the appointment of John S. Reed (64) as interim
chairman and CEO.
(WSJ, 9/22/03, p.C1)
2003 Sep 21, NASA’s $1.5
billion Galileo mission ended a 14-year exploration of the solar
system's largest planet and its moons with the spacecraft crashing
by design into Jupiter at 108,000 mph.
(SFC, 9/22/03, p.B8)(AP, 9/21/04)
2003 Sep 21, A US DynCorp plane
crashed while fumigating cocaine-producing crops in volatile
northern Colombia, killing the American pilot: "preliminary
information indicates the aircraft was struck by hostile ground
fire." The military contractor said it was the 5th shot down by
rebels.
(AP, 9/22/03)(WSJ, 9/23/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 21, In Bolivia a rural
roadblock near Warista ended in a clash with police and soldiers
that left at least 4 people dead.
(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.C2)
2003 Sep 21, The latest
outbreak of fighting between Hutu rebels and the army in Burundi's
decade-long civil war has killed at least 12 people on the outskirts
of Bujumbura.
(AP, 9/23/03)
2003 Sep 21, Paul Martin was
elected by Canada's Liberal Party to succeed Jean Chretien as prime
minister.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2003 Sep 21, In Germany
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party suffered a bitter defeat in
state elections that focused on Germany's stagnating economy.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2003 Sep 21, In India's portion
of Kashmir a bomb hidden inside a videocassette recorder exploded in
a busy market, killing 3 people and wounding 28 others.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2003 Sep 21, In Iraq corporate
and personal income taxes were capped at 15%. All foreign government
entities and their employees were declared exempt.
(WSJ, 10/28/03, p.A4)
2003 Sep 21, The leader of the
Maldives appealed for calm after two days of rioting killed 3 people
and sent shock waves through this tiny Indian Ocean island nation.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2004 Sep 21, The new $219
million Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian opened in
Washington DC. It included some 800,000 artifacts collected by
George Gustav Heye (1874-1957).
(SFC, 9/16/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 21, President Bush,
defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged the U.N. General
Assembly to stand united with the country's struggling government.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2004 Sep 21, The US Federal
Reserve raised the overnight federal-funds interest rate a quarter
point to 1.75%.
(SFC, 9/22/04, p.C1)
2004 Sep 21, Yusuf Islam,
formerly known as singer Cat Stevens, was taken off a
London-to-Washington United Airlines flight because his name had
shown up on a government "no-fly" list.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2004 Sep 21, US forces killed 6
Afghan guerrillas following a rocket attack on a helicopter.
(WSJ, 9/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 21, China's PM Wen
Jiabao hailed a series of agreements with neighboring Kyrgyzstan
including an agreement on the thorny issue of the countries' common
border.
(AFP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, The UN Children's
Fund and the World Food Program launched a $123 million program to
reduce the mortality rate of children in Ethiopia.
(Reuters, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, The death toll
across Haiti from Tropical Storm Jeanne topped 700, with some 500 of
them in Gonaives. Officials expected to find more dead.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2004 Sep 21, In India incessant
rains caused flash floods that knocked down houses and killed at
least 33 people in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 21, Former General
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took a seemingly unassailable lead in
Indonesia's presidential election.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, Iran revealed that
it started converting tons of raw uranium as part of a process that
could be used to make nuclear arms.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, A posting on an
Islamic Web site claimed that the al-Qaida-linked group led by Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi has slain US hostage Jack Hensley.
(AP, 9/21/04)(WSJ, 9/23/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 21, A Turkish
construction company announced that it was halting operations in
neighboring Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees
kidnapped by militants.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, Israeli military
officials said the US will sell them 4,500 smart bombs in a deal
valued as much as $319 million.
(SFC, 9/22/04, p.A15)
2004 Sep 21, Italian and
Lebanese authorities reported the arrest of 10 alleged terrorists,
thwarting plans to blow up the Italian Embassy in Beirut in a car
bomb attack.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, Liechtenstein
ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, bringing to 116
the number of nations that have endorsed the pact.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 21, In northern
Nigeria Islamic militants fighting to create a Taliban-style state
launched their first attacks since January, assaulting two police
stations in the northeast and killing six people.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 21, In Paraguay
Cecilia Cubas (31), the daughter of former Pres. Raul Cubas, was
kidnapped. Her body was found stuffed down a well at a house on the
outskirts of Asuncion, in February 2005.
(Econ, 10/23/04, p.36)(AP, 4/5/08)
2004 Sep 21, Hundreds of Syrian
soldiers stationed in the hills near Lebanon's capital began
dismantling their bases in an effort to appease a U.N. Security
Council demand that all 20,000 Syrian troops leave the country.
(AP, 9/21/04)
2004 Sep 21, Inmates rioted at
a western Venezuela prison, killing at least six fellow inmates and
injuring 35 others before hundreds of national guardsmen restored
order.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 21, Seeking more
influence over global decisions, Brazil, Germany, India and Japan
joined forces to lobby for a permanent UN Security Council seat and
pledged to work together to reform the United Nations.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2005 Sep 21, Hurricane Rita
intensified into a Category 5 storm with 140 mph winds and
threatened to devastate the Texas coast or already-battered
Louisiana by week's end. More than 1.3 million people in Texas and
Louisiana were evacuated The death toll from Katrina topped 1,000.
(AP, 9/21/05)(SFC, 9/22/05, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/06)
2005 Sep 21, A grand jury
report in Philadelphia charged 2 former Catholic leaders, Cardinal
John Krol and Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, with a coverup of sexual
abuse and named 63 priests with records of abusive behaviour. No
criminal charges could be filed because of limits of state law.
(SFC, 9/22/05, p.A7)
2005 Sep 21, In Salt Lake City,
Utah, Mayor Rocky Anderson signed an executive order granting
domestic partner benefits to city workers.
(SFC, 9/22/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 21, A JetBlue Airbus
circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing
gear, while inside the cabin, passengers were able to watch the
drama unfold on live television; the plane landed safely.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2005 Sep 21, Stephen M. Ressa
(27) of Rialto, Ca., drove a stolen car into a crowd on the Las
Vegas Strip killing 2 people and injuring dozens.
(SFC, 9/23/05, p.A6)
2005 Sep 21, Molly Yard (93),
former National Organization for Women president died in Pittsburgh.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2005 Sep 21, The speaker of
Brazil's lower house resigned amid charges he extorted bribes from a
local businessman, the latest casualty of corruption scandals that
have rocked Brazil's government.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, A court convicted
Rev. Denis Vadeboncoeur (65), a Canadian priest, of raping a teenage
member of his Normandy parish and sentenced him to 12 years in
prison, the second conviction for the clergyman who went to jail for
similar crimes in Quebec.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, EU nations agreed
that Turkey must recognize EU member Cyprus during its membership
talks, warning that non-recognition could lead to paralysis in the
negotiations.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, India said at
least 64 people have died and hundreds of thousands displaced after
powerful storms left a trail of devastation across the Indian and
Bangladeshi coasts in the Bay of Bengal.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Indonesia
scrambled to calm public fears of a possible bird flu epidemic after
two more children suspected of having the disease died in the
capital of Jakarta.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, At least eight
people were killed in a gun battle in Baghdad between troops and
insurgents.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Gunmen in Mosul
shot to death Ahlam Youssef, an engineer who works for al-Iraqiya
television, and her husband, said Bassem al-Fadli, a manager at the
station's headquarters in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, About 500
civilians and policemen, some waving pistols and AK-47s, rallied in
the southern city of Basra and denounced "British aggression"
following London's decision to use force to free two of its soldiers
being held by Iraqi police.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, The UN World Food
Program warned that its emergency operations in Iraq, which feed
about 3 million people, were at risk because donors have only come
up with 44 percent of the necessary money.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Domenica
Siniscalco, Italy's economy minister, resigned in a row over the
Bank of Italy and the budget, dealing a major blow to PM Silvio
Berlusconi months before an election that polls say he is likely to
lose.
(AP, 9/22/05)(Econ, 9/24/05, p.61)
2005 Sep 21, Japan's Parliament
re-elected Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister following the ruling
coalition's landslide electoral victory last week, and he pledged to
plow ahead with privatization of the postal service and other
reforms.
(AP, 9/21/05)y
2005 Sep 21, Unidentified
gunmen in Bishkek killed Bayaman Erkinbayev (38), a Kyrgyz lawmaker
and wealthy businessman. He had survived an assassination attempt 5
months ago.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 21, In Lebanon police
arrested four men who allegedly sold cell phone chips to members of
the plot to assassinate former PM Rafik Hariri.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 21, A cabinet minister
who helped lead Mexico's anti-drug fight, his deputy and seven
others died in a helicopter crash in the mountains west of Mexico
City. The helicopter, carrying Public Safety Secretary Ramon Martin
Huerta, Federal Preventive Police Chief Tomas Valencia, five other
passengers and a crew of two, had taken off from a military parade
ground in Mexico City.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 21, North Korea
accused the US of intending to disarm the communist country and then
"crush it to death with nuclear weapons," two days after a landmark
disarmament agreement that was expected to ease tensions.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, In eastern
Pakistan a fireworks explosion triggered a fire at a roadside
restaurant, leaving five people dead and fifteen injured.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Pilots of a
chartered jet carrying 289 Gambian soccer fans faked the need for an
emergency landing in Peru so passengers could watch their nation's
team play a key match.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 21, The Kremlin issued
a letter from President Vladimir Putin to Jordanian King Abdullah
II, delivered personally by Moscow-backed Chechen President Alu
Alkhanov during his Middle Eastern tour. Putin said in the letter
that the situation in Chechnya was "steadily normalizing." Jordan
has a large Chechen Diaspora.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, Russian
authorities blamed a hepatitis A outbreak in Nizhny Novgorod,
Russia's third largest city, on an accident in the sewer network.
More than 790 people, including 149 children under age 14, remained
hospitalized.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, In Saudi Arabia 2
men were beheaded in Riyadh, after being convicted of kidnapping and
raping a woman.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, South Korea
announced it was developing highly sophisticated combat robots that
could complement the roles of human soldiers on battlefields.
(AP, 9/21/05)
2005 Sep 21, UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the United States and 10 other
key countries to ratify the 1996 nuclear test-ban treaty so it can
finally take effect, but like Pakistan, India, Israel and North
Korea, the U.S. administration refuses to do so. It has been signed
by 175 countries and ratified by 123 countries. But it will only
take effect when 44 countries that participated in the Conference on
Disarmament in 1996 and possessed nuclear research and power
reactors have ratified it. To date, 33 of the 44 countries have
ratified the treaty, but there seems little prospects of getting all
11 holdouts to change their positions.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 21, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez said his government would cancel existing mining concessions
and not award new ones.
(WSJ, 9/23/05, p.A15)
2006 Sep 21, The US White House
and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement on rules for
the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2006 Sep 21, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention announced it would recommend all
Americans ages 13 to 64 be routinely tested for HIV.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2006 Sep 21, In NYC Venezuela’s
Pres. Chavez visited the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Harlem and
promised to double the amount of discounted heating oil his country
is shipping to needy Americans. His offer included 100 gallons of
heating oil for each of 12,000 households in rural Alaska.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.A3)(SSFC, 10/8/06, p.A27)
2006 Sep 21, In Santa Cruz,
Ca., Kirby Scudder (50), former bike messenger, set up 500 giant
flashlights to shine skyward every 30 feet along West Cliff Drive
overlooking the Pacific Ocean in his tribute to International Peace
Day. The lights came on at 9PM.
(SFC, 9/21/06, p.B1)(SFC, 9/22/06, p.B7)
2006 Sep 21, The US space
shuttle Atlantis returned safely to its Florida home port, capping a
successful mission to resume International Space Station
construction after the 2003 Columbia accident.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Time Warner Inc.
said it would sell AOL France's Internet access unit to Neuf Cegetel
for $365 million as it overhauls its online business in Europe to
boost advertising.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, In Afghanistan a
NATO helicopter killed 8 suspected insurgents in Helmand province.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 21, The death toll in
Bangladesh and India rose to at least 95 and nearly 1,000 remained
missing after storms capsized boats, toppled houses and washed away
roads.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Chile's President
Michelle Bachelet said her decision to allow the government to
distribute free morning-after contraception pills to girls as young
as 14 was a matter of "equality" within Chilean society.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Iraq’s Defense
Ministry said insurgents are no longer using just volunteers as
suicide car bombers but are instead kidnapping drivers, rigging
their vehicles with explosives and blowing them up. Italy formally
handed over security responsibility of the southern Dhi Qar province
to Iraqi forces, the second of the country's 18 provinces to be
handed over to local control. 2 people were killed and another nine
were wounded when a car bomb exploded near an electricity company
office in Baghdad. The number of Iraqi civilians killed in July and
August hit a record-high 6,599. An American soldier was killed after
his vehicle was hit by a roadside bombing in eastern Baghdad.
(AP, 9/21/06)(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 21, Israeli forces
killed at least 5 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as gunmen fired
rockets into Israel.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.A13)
2006 Sep 21, A Japanese court
ruled that an order forcing Tokyo teachers to stand before Japan's
flag and sing an anthem to the emperor violated the constitution, a
rare victory for the country's waning pacifist movement.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Jordan sentenced 7
people to death for triple hotel bombings that killed 60 people in
Amman last November. Sajida al-Rishawi (35), an Iraqi woman, was
sentenced to death. 6 others were sentenced to death in absentia.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Vladimiro
Montesinos (61), Peru's former spymaster, was sentenced to 20 years
in prison for engineering a deal that sent 10,000 assault rifles to
Colombian guerrillas.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 21, In Russia Gennady
Melikyan, deputy chairman of the Central Bank, was appointed top
regulator to replace the recently murdered Andrei Kozlov.
(WSJ, 9/22/06, p.A6)
2006 Sep 21, Thailand's new
military rulers said that four top members of deposed PM Thaksin
Shinawatra's administration had been detained. The regime also
assumed the duties of parliament, which was dissolved when the
government was ousted in a coup earlier this week, and banned
meetings by all political parties.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Elif Shafak, one
of Turkey's leading authors, was acquitted of "insulting
Turkishness" in her novel "The Bastard of Istanbul," that touched on
the mass killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman
Empire. The University of Arizona assistant professor gave birth to
a daughter on Sep 16 and did not attend her trial.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Vietnam deported
an American pro-democracy activist, state-run television reported.
Cong Thanh Do (47) of San Jose, Ca., was accused of plotting to
overthrow the government.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2007 Sep 21, The United States
said it is donating 97 million dollars (69 million euros) to
Ethiopia in recognition of the Horn of Africa country's "strategic
importance."
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, US Sec. of State
Condoleeza Rice said the US and France have agreed on increasing
diplomatic and economic pressure to force Iran to abandon its
nuclear program.
(SFC, 9/21/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 21, Google filed with
the EU competition regulator for permission to buy rival DoubleClick
for $3.1 billion.
(Reuters, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Chris Kavanagh,
Berkeley rent board member, was arrested in Oakland, Ca., and
charged with fraud for allegedly claiming a false residence in
Berkeley to hold office there.
(SFC, 9/21/07, p.B1)
2007 Sep 21, Mattel Inc,
apologized for damaging China's reputation after recent massive
recalls of its Chinese-made toys, admitting it targeted some goods
that were actually up to scratch.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Kirby Archer (35)
and Guillermo Zarabozo (19) hired the yacht Joe Cool in Miami for a
ride to Bimini. Two days later the US Coast Guard found the yacht
drifting and 12 miles away a life raft, drifting northward with the
Gulf Stream current. In it were Archer and Zarabozo, with a supply
of water, their luggage, and some other curious objects: a blow gun,
darts, several knives, and 22 $100 bills. They said pirates had
attacked the yacht and killed the 4-person crew. Arkansas
prosecutors have accused Archer of robbing the Wal-Mart in
Batesville, where he worked for less than a year as a customer
service manager. On Oct 10 prosecutors charged the 2 men with
murder. Archer later pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping. On Feb
19, 2009, Zarabozo was convicted of murder.
(AP, 10/14/07)(SFC, 2/20/09, p.A10)
2007 Sep 21, One student was
mortally wounded, another injured, at Delaware State University, and
the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman. On Sep
24 police arrested Loyer Braden (18), a DSU freshman on charges of
attempted murder. He was later indicted on a second-degree murder
charge.
(SFC, 9/25/07, p.A6)(AP, 9/21/08)
2007 Sep 21, Alice Ghostley
(b.1926), the Tony Award-winning actress, died in LA. She was best
known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" (1969-1972
and Bernice on "Designing Women" (1987-1993).
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 21, The Rev. Rex
Humbard (88), whose televangelism ministry once spanned the globe,
died in Atlantis, Fla.
(AP, 9/21/08)
2007 Sep 21, The Red Cross
warned that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18
countries across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5
million people and killed at least 270 in Ghana, Kenya, Somalia,
Sudan, Togo, Uganda and other countries.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, A bomb attack in
western Kabul against a convoy of French troops killed one French
soldier and injured 8 Afghan civilians near the blast. Airstrikes
against "anti-coalition militants" in the Garmsir district of
Helmand province killed about 40 fighters.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, A bomb attack near
a city east of Algiers injured two French citizens, one Italian and
six Algerians, including five police.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Australia’s
ex-senator Bob Collins (b.1946), who served as a minister in the
early 1990s, died, days before he was due to face a hearing on 21
charges of child sex abuse dating back three decades.
(AFP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 21, Playboy opened its
first store in Europe at the heart of London's shopping district,
continuing its evolution from adult magazine to international
merchandising brand.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, A new case of
foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in cattle on a farm in southern
England.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, In Canada,
delegates from almost 200 countries agreed to eliminate
ozone-depleting substances faster than originally planned. The
agreement was reached at a conference in Montreal to mark the 20th
anniversary of the Montreal protocol, which was designed to cut
chemicals found to harm the ozone layer.
(Reuters, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 21, Chile's Supreme
Court ruled that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori must be
extradited to face human rights and corruption charges in Peru.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Iraqi officials
said 25 people have been arrested linked to the assassination of Abu
Risha, the leader of the US-backed revolt by Sunni Arab tribesmen in
the western Anbar province against al-Qaida in Iraq. Cholera was
confirmed in a baby in Basra, the farthest south the outbreak has
been detected. American convoys under the protection of Blackwater
USA resumed, four days after the US Embassy suspended all land
travel by its diplomats and other civilian officials in response to
the alleged killing of civilians by the security firm. Followers of
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani refused to attend Friday sermons in
their mosques in the southern city of Basra, in protest of the
overnight assassination of two aides to the country's top Shiite
cleric, one in Diwaniyah province and the other in the southern
Basra area. A roadside bomb killed a Romanian soldier near Tallil in
southern Iraq.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, In Myanmar about
1,500 Buddhist monks marched through downtown Yangon to protest
against Myanmar's military government, beginning their fourth day of
demonstrations at a pagoda that has long served as a national symbol
for dissent.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, Sources said the
presumed head of the Nigerian armed group the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), who goes under the name of
Jomo Gbomo, has been arrested in Angola.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, North Korea and
Syria held high-level talks in Pyongyang, amid suspicions that the
two countries might be cooperating on a nuclear weapons program.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2007 Sep 21, President Gen.
Pervez Musharraf appointed a new intelligence chief and promoted
five other generals in a staff shake up just days after signaling he
would quit the military if elected to a new five-year term. Outside
the Supreme Court, hundreds of flag-waving supporters of Pakistan's
biggest Islamic party held an anti-Musharraf rally as judges heard
petitions challenging his right to run for re-election. Police said
At least 27 people have died after consuming poisonous alcohol in
southern Pakistan. Around 25 soldiers were released after hectic
negotiations between a government-backed tribal jirga and rebels in
South Waziristan.
(AP, 9/21/07)(AFP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 21, Today was the
United Nations' International Day of Peace.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2008 Sep 21, At the 60th annual
Primetime Emmy Awards HBO led with 26 trophies.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 21, The US Federal
Reserve said it had granted a request by the country's last two
major investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, to change
their status to bank holding companies.
(AP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, Oracle’s 5-day
OpenWorld customer conference opened in SF with some 43,000 people
attending.
(SFC, 9/22/08, p.D1)
2008 Sep 21, NYC police
arrested more than a dozen people for stealing pieces of Yankee
Stadium during the 85-year-old ballpark's final game.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 21, Wallace N.
Rasmussen (b.1914), former head of Beatrice Foods (1976-1979), died
at his home in Nashville, Tenn.
(WSJ, 10/4/08, p.A12)
2008 Sep 21, The UN said guns
fell silent across much of Afghanistan for the 26th anniversary of
the International Day of Peace that saw pledges by the US, NATO, the
Afghan government and the Taliban to halt attacks. Taliban militants
attacked a security company guarding a road construction crew in the
southern province of Ghazni, killing two guards. In southwestern
Afghanistan suspected Taliban militants kidnapped about 156 civilian
laborers who were traveling in three buses in the Bala Buluk area.
(AP, 9/21/08)(AFP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 21, Egypt's foreign
ministry said an illegal migrant boat carrying 83 Egyptians headed
for Europe has gone missing off the coast of Greece after leaving
Egypt 3 days ago.
(AP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, Hermann Simm, a
middle ranking civil servant in Estonia’s defense ministry, was
arrested along with his wife and charged with spying for an unnamed
foreign power. He had set up and run a system for handling top
secret documents from NATO allies and handled security clearances
for Estonian officials in the military, security and intelligence
services.
(Econ, 11/8/08, p.68)
2008 Sep 21, Hong Kong
authorities said they found traces of melamine in a batch of
Chinese-made Nestle commercial milk. The next day they forced Nestle
to recall the milk line.
(WSJ, 9/23/08, p.A22)
2008 Sep 21, Iraqi interior
ministry Brig. Adel Abbas was killed along with his driver in a
drive-by shooting in western Baghdad. A finance ministry director
was seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in his car, also in
western Baghdad. An American soldier was killed when his patrol came
under small-arms fire in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/21/08)(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 21, Israel’s PM Ehud
Olmert, crippled by a series of corruption investigations, announced
he would resign, clearing the way for his foreign minister to try to
succeed him as Israel's next leader.
(AP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, In southern
Nigeria MEND declared a ceasefire following a week of attacks on oil
industry targets.
(AFP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, Pakistani troops
and tribesmen opened fire on two US helicopters that crossed into
the country from neighboring Afghanistan. The helicopters did not
return fire and re-entered Afghan airspace without landing.
(www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1479095)
2008 Sep 21, Pirates in
speedboats hijacked a Greek bulk carrier with 19 crew members off
eastern Somalia. On Dec 8 Somali pirates freed the 19-man crew and
MV Captain Stephanos, the Greek-owned and Bahamas-flagged bulk
carrier.
(AP, 9/22/08)(AP, 12/10/08)
2008 Sep 21, Somali refugees
abandoned by smugglers in the dangerous waters of the Gulf of Aden
were rescued. They had drifted for 18 days, and at least 52 died
before the group was rescued off the Yemeni coast. Seventy-one
people survived the journey.
(AP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 21, In northeast Spain
suspected Basque separatists threw petrol bombs at a police station
in Ondorroa to lure officers outside before detonating a car bomb,
which injured 10 people. The attack came only hours after a car bomb
exploded in the regional capital of Vitoria. Nobody was injured.
Authorities suspected ETA.
(AFP, 9/21/08)
2008 Sep 21, In western Turkey
13 newborn, premature babies died over the weekend at Izmir's
Tepecik hospital. In August, investigators looking into the deaths
of 27 newborns at an Ankara hospital concluded that a staff shortage
had increased the risk of infection. Tainted IV treatment was later
suspected.
(AP, 9/22/08)(AP, 9/27/08)
2009 Sep 21, Bob Woodward
released an exclusive 66-page report from Gen. Stanley McChrystal to
President Barack Obama about Afghanistan policy, the first major
national security leak and a sure sign that the celebrated
Washington Post reporter has penetrated yet another administration.
The report was presented to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on
August 30 and was being reviewed by the White House, with McChrystal
widely expected to make a formal request to increase the
62,000-strong US force.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090922/pl_politico/27414)(AFP,
9/22/09)
2009 Sep 21, US prosecutors
said Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of
America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in
loan proceeds.
(Reuters, 9/21/09)
2009 Sep 21, The annual
MacArthur awards were announced with 24 recipients chosen as
winners. Each will receive $500,000, paid as quarterly installments
over five years. The grants, nicknamed the Genius Award, are given
by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents.
(SFC, 9/22/09,
p.C2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Award)
2009 Sep 21, The Philadelphia
Daily News reported that police officer Thomas Strain was put on
desk duty this month because of braids, even though the paper
reported dozens of black officers wear cornrows. The white officer,
who came to work with cornrows, was ordered by a black superior to
get a haircut because the braids violated department standards.
(AP, 9/21/09)
2009 Sep 21, In Illinois a
couple and their 3 children were found brutally slain in the central
farming community of Beason.
(SFC, 9/23/09, p.A10)
2009 Sep 21, Coca Cola chose
the hip-hop song “Wavin’ Flag” by Somali-born singer K’naan (31) as
the anthem for the coming World Cup in South Africa. Born Keynaan
Warsame in Somalia’s seaside capital, Mogadishu, he is now a citizen
of Canada.
(www.thecoca-colacompany.com/presscenter/nr_20090921_fifa_world_cup.html)
2009 Sep 21, Christian Rossiter
(49) an Australian quadriplegic died, ending an existence he had
described as a "living hell." On Aug 14 he had won a landmark legal
battle to starve himself to death by refusing food.
(AP, 9/21/09)
2009 Sep 21, Grant Kippen, the
Canadian head of the UN-backed panel investigating fraud in
Afghanistan's presidential vote, said the panel has agreed to allow
a recount of just a sampling of hundreds of thousands of suspect
ballots to speed the process. In southern Afghanistan a roadside
bomb killed an American service member.
(AP, 9/21/09)(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 21, A strong
6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the remote Himalayan kingdom of
Bhutan, killing at least 12 people and damaging monasteries and
other buildings.
(AP, 9/21/09)(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 21, Bisa Williams,
senior US diplomat in Cuba for the highest level talks in decades,
met with opposition activists in Havana. Williams led a delegation
with the USPS that held talks September 17 in a first round of talks
aimed at restarting bilateral mail service which was cut off in
1963.
(http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_w40/cuba-cubans-talks.html)(SFC,
10/1/09, p.A2)
2009 Sep 21, A Danish court
rejected the military's request to stop a book by a former special
forces soldier from being published. Denmark's armed forces had
asked the Bailiff's Court in Copenhagen to ban Thomas Rathsack's
book, "Ranger: At War With the Elite," for national security
reasons. It describes operations that he took part in as a member of
an army ranger unit in Afghanistan and Iraq.
(AP, 9/21/09)
2009 Sep 21, Gambian President
Yahya Jammeh warned that anyone who sought to destabilize the tiny
west African nation would be killed.
(AP, 9/21/09)
2009 Sep 21, In Honduras
deposed President Manuel Zelaya sneaked back into the country and
holed up at the Brazilian embassy to avoid threatened arrest.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 21, In Indonesia Akbar
Risuddin came into the world at a national record 19.2 pounds (8.7
kilograms). He was born to a diabetic mother in a 40-minute cesarean
delivery that was complicated because of his unusual weight and
size. Guinness World Records cites the heaviest baby as being born
in the US in 1879, weighing 23.75 pounds (10.4 kilograms). However,
it died 11 hours after birth. The book also cites 22.5-pound
(10.2-kilogram) babies born in Italy in 1955 and in South Africa in
1982.
(AP, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 21, Gordon Wateridge
(78), a carer at the former Haut de la Garenne children’s home
during the 1970s on the Channel island of Jersey, was jailed for two
years for sexually assaulting teenage girls there.
(AFP, 9/21/09)
2009 Sep 21, Mexican soldiers
raiding a drug gang safehouse in Monterrey found money-stuffed
envelopes earmarked for various police forces and one marked for
"press." Four people were arrested and $5 million in US and Mexican
currency was seized during the raid.
(AP, 9/23/09)
2009 Sep 21, In northwestern
Pakistan police officers foiled a plan to assassinate a regional
education minister when they took on four militants in a gunbattle
that ended with a teenage suicide bomber blowing himself up. Hafiz
Mohammed Saeed, founder of Laskhar-e-Taiba, was placed under house
arrest in Lahore for a 2nd time. His militant group was believed to
have masterminded the November, 2008, commando assault that left 171
dead in Mumbai.
(AP, 9/21/09)(SFC, 9/22/09, p.A3)
2009 Sep 21, Philippine marines
were ambushed by Abu Sayyaf fighters, as they were leaving a
newly-captured camp on Jolo Island, resulting in the deaths of 8
troopers and 5 guerrillas. Abu Sayyaf reinforcements had come in by
boat from the nearby islands of Basilan to help their comrades on
Jolo.
(AFP, 9/21/09)
2009 Sep 21, Taiwan’s former
President Chen Shui-bian filed a petition to the US Court of Appeals
for the Armed Forces in Washington, DC, claiming that the US still
controls Taiwan because former colonial power Japan never officially
transferred the island to another nation after being defeated in
World War II.
(AP, 9/23/09)
2009 Sep 21, Zimbabwe teachers,
who went on strike over salaries at the start of the new school term
three weeks ago, returned to work after their union called off the
boycott.
(AFP, 9/21/09)
2010 Sep 21, In California
police arrested 8 current and former officials of the city of Bell,
including the mayor and ex-city manager, on charges of corruption.
Mayor Rizzo was booked on 53 counts of misappropriation of public
funds and conflict of interest.
(SFC, 9/22/10, p.C2)
2010 Sep 21, In Georgia lawyers
for 2 men filed suit in DeKalb County against Bishop Eddie Long of
New Birth Missionary Baptist Church of Lithonia alleging coercion
into a sexual relationship. A 2nd suit was filed the next day by a
3rd man. A 4th suit was filed on Sep 24.
(SFC, 9/23/10, p.A13)(SFC, 9/24/10, p.A4)
2010 Sep 21, Walter Breuning, a
Montana resident believed to be the world's oldest man, celebrated
his 114th birthday at a retirement home in Great Falls.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, AT&T started
selling its first phone that includes a backstop for AT&T's own
network, over a satellite. That means blanket coverage of the US,
even in the wilderness or hundreds of miles offshore.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, The Lasker
Foundation announced its Lasker Award winners. Dr. Napoleone Ferrara
(54) of Genentech won the clinical medical research award for his
discovery of a protein that led to the development of a drug to halt
vision loss in age-related macular degeneration. The award for basic
medical research went to Douglas Coleman (78) and Jeffrey Friedman
(56) for discovering the hormone leptin. David Weatherall (77) won
for his work in genetic diseases and clinical care for children with
the genetic blood disorder thalassemia.
(SFC, 9/21/10, p.C3)
2010 Sep 21, Grace Bradley Boyd
(b.1913), actress and widow of Western movie hero Hopalong Cassidy
(d.1972), died southern California. As Grace Bradley she appeared in
35 films.
(SFC, 9/24/10, p.C7)
2010 Sep 21, In southern
Afghanistan a NATO helicopter crashed killing 9 international troops
in a region where forces are ramping up pressure on Taliban
insurgents. It was the deadliest chopper crash for the coalition in
four years. 5 Afghan road construction workers were killed and 4
wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Shinwari district
of Parwan province. In Khost province insurgents attacked a NATO and
Afghan army outpost near the Pakistan border and at least 25 of the
militants were killed in the resulting skirmish.
(AP, 9/21/10)(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 21, In Algeria a bomb
exploded in the centre of Bordj Menaiel town, as a police patrol
passed, killing two policemen and wounding three civilians.
(AFP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, Greenpeace said
that its activists have climbed aboard a Chevron-operated ship to
protest drilling operations in the deep waters off Britain's
Shetland Islands.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, Hurricane Igor hit
Newfoundland, Canada. Provincial Premier Danny Williams said it
caused tens of millions in damages and was the worst in recent
memory.
(SFC, 9/22/10, p.A2)
2010 Sep 21, Eighteen people
have died and 48 are missing after Fanapi churned through southern
China, while 65 people were killed in monsoon rain in India and
100,000 displaced after a lake burst in southern Pakistan. Two
people went missing and thousands of homes flooded when a record
rainstorm hit parts of South Korea during a national holiday.
(AFP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 21, In India the Delhi
Commonwealth Games were plunged into crisis 12 days from the start
after the athletes' village was described as "uninhabitable" and a
footbridge collapsed at the main stadium. An avalanche hit army
mountaineers in northern India, killing two and injuring about 20.
(AFP, 9/21/10)(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, Iran’s ISNA news
agency reported that three men, who were found guilty of drug
trafficking, have been hanged in a prison in the central city of
Yazd.
(AFP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, In Iraq blast
targeting an army patrol on the outskirts of Kirkuk killed 2 Iraqi
soldiers.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, Ireland sold
euro1.5 billion ($2 billion) in government bonds in a closely
watched test of whether international investors would keep buying
Irish treasuries despite the country's deficit, the biggest in
debt-burdened Europe.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, Israel’s nuclear
chief Shaul Chorev said It is against Israel's interests to join a
global anti-nuclear arms treaty and the UN atomic watchdog is
overstepping its mandate in demanding it to do so.
(AFP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, Italian
prosecutors launched an investigation into the Vatican bank's top
executives for allegedly violating money laundering legislation,
triggering a sharp rebuttal by the Vatican. The bank's top two
officials were under investigation for suspected money laundering
and police have frozen 23 million euros ($30.21 million) of its
funds.
(AFP, 9/21/10)(Reuters, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, The International
Criminal Court (ICC) said it will launch cases against as many as
six suspected instigators of postelection violence in Kenya that
left more than 1,000 people dead in 2007-08.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, A new report,
"Mauritius: The trade in primates for research," said wild
long-tailed monkeys sustain broken limbs and other injuries when
trappers catch the primates and transfer them to breeding farms on
the island nation of Mauritius. The report said Mauritius justifies
the catching of wild monkeys on the grounds that the long-tailed
macaque is not native, is a pest and is not deserving of
conservation concerns.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, In Mexico a mob
beat two alleged kidnappers to death in the northern border state of
Chihuahua. The two men and three others were suspected in the
kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl from Asencion.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, In New Zealand a
pod of 74-80 pilot whales stranded themselves on a remote northern
beach, the second time in a month that a mass beaching has happened
in the region. 25 of the animals were already dead when officials
arrived at Spirits Bay beach. Only 24 of the stranded whales
survived.
(AP, 9/22/10)(SFC, 9/23/10, p.A2)
2010 Sep 21, In Pakistan-held
Kashmir a van carrying at least 30 schoolchildren plunged into a
river, and most of the passengers were confirmed or feared dead.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 21, Somali PM Omar
Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke resigned as fighting rattled across
Mogadishu. His resignation ended a dispute with Pres. Ahmed over a
draft constitution.
(SFC, 9/22/10, p.A2)
2010 Sep 21, South African
police said 11 suspected members of an alleged rhino poaching
syndicate have been arrested, as part of an ongoing investigation.
The suspects included 2 veterinarians and a game farmer.
(AFP, 9/21/10)(SFC, 9/23/10, p.A2)
2010 Sep 21, In Turkey a gang
of several dozen men with sticks and pepper spray moved methodically
from one art gallery to the next, assaulting overflow crowds that
had spilled into the streets during the joint opening of several
exhibitions in the center of Istanbul. Half a dozen suspects were
detained.
(AP, 9/26/10)
2010 Sep 21, The UN’s World
Health Organization (WHO) said 40 young Europeans are murdered every
day, with Russia, Albania and Kazakhstan having the highest homicide
rates for people aged 10-29.
(AP, 9/21/10)
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