Today in History - September 22
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129 Sep 22,
Claudius Galenus (d.~199-217), Greek physician and scholar, was
born. Some sources put his birth in 131. Galen went to Rome in 162
AD and made his mark as a practicing physician. Galen developed the
first typology of temperament in his dissertation “De
temperamentis,” and searched for physiological reasons for different
behaviors in humans.
(http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/galen.html)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen)
1408 Sep 22, Johannes VII
Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), died.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1515 Sep 22, Anne of Cleeves,
fourth wife of Henry the VIII, was born in Cleeves, Germany.
(HN, 9/22/00)
1520 Sep 22, Selim I, Sultan of
Turkey (1512-20), died at 53.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1528 Sep 22, The Spanish
Narvaez expedition, reduced by disease and combat to 250 men,
completed 5 barges and headed west. [see Texas, 1528]
(ON, 10/03, p.2)
1656 Sep 22, The General
Provincial Court in session at Patuxent, Maryland, impaneled the
first all-woman jury in the Colonies to hear evidence against Judith
Catchpole, who was accused of murdering her child. The jury
acquitted her after hearing her defense of never having been
pregnant.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(AP, 9/22/98)(HN, 9/22/98)
1665 Sep 22, Moliere's "L'amour
Medecin," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1692 Sep 22, The last person
was hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1694 Sep 22, Philip Dormer
Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, statesman of letters whose writings
provide a classic portrayal of an ideal 18th-century gentleman, was
born. He introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
(HN, 9/22/98)(MC, 9/22/01)
1711 Sep 22, The Tuscarora
Indian War began with a massacre of settlers in North Carolina,
following white encroachment that included the enslaving of Indian
children.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1711 Sep 22, French troops
occupied Rio de Janeiro.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1735 Sep 22, Robert Walpole
became the 1st British PM to live at 10 Downing Street.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1745 Sep 22, Bonnie Prince
Charlie's army returned to Edinburgh.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1776 Sep 22, American Captain
Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy with no trial by the British in New
York City during the Revolutionary War. He was considered as one of
the incendiaries of the burning of NYC. Hale was commissioned
by General George Washington to cross behind British lines on Long
Island and report on their activity. His last words are reputed to
have been, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my
country."
(AP, 9/22/97)(SFEC,11/23/97, Par p.14)(HN,
9/22/98)
1788 Sep 22, Theodore Hook,
English novelist best known for “Impromptu at Fulham,” was born.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1789 Sep 22, Congress
authorized the office of Postmaster-General.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1789 Sep 22, Russian forces
under Aleksandr Suvorov drove the Turkish army under Yusuf Pasha
from the Rymnik River, upsetting the Turkish invasion of Russia.
(HN, 9/22/99)
1791 Sep 22, Michael Faraday
(d.1867), English physicist, was born in London. He demonstrated
that a magnetic field induces a current in a moving conductor. He
invented the dynamo, the transformer and the electric motor.
(V.D.-H.K.p.269)(HN, 9/22/00)
1792 Sep 22, The first French
Republic was proclaimed.
(AP, 9/22/06)
1850 Sep 22, An earthquake in
Sichuan, China, killed some 300,000 people.
(www.geohaz.org/member/news/signif.htm)
1862 Sep 22, President Lincoln
announced at a cabinet meeting that he intended to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states
should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863. President Abraham Lincoln brought
the issue of freedom to the forefront of the Civil War when he
delivered the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet, a few days
after the bloody Battle of Antietam. The proclamation stated that
slaves in any of the states in rebellion against the Union would be
freed if the states had not returned to the Union by January 1,
1863. After that, nearly 180,000 black soldiers enlisted to fight
the Confederates until the end of the war.
(SFE Mag., 2/12/95, p. 30)(AP, 9/22/97)(HNPD,
9/22/98)
1864 Sep 22, Union General
Philip Sheridan defeated Confederate General Jubal Early's troops at
the Battle of Fisher's Hill, in Virginia. Gen Early retreated to
Brown's Gap. Sheridan set up camp in Harrisonburg, Va.
(HN, 9/22/98)(MC, 9/22/01)
1868 Sep 22, Race riots took
place in New Orleans, La.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1869 Sep 22, Richard Wagner's
opera "Das Rheingold" premiered in Munich.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1869 Sep 22, The Cincinnati Red
Stockings, the first professional baseball team, arrived in San
Francisco after a rollicking, barnstorming tour of the West.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1882 Sep 22, Wilhelm Keitel,
German field marshal, was born.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1885 Sep 22, Erich Von
Stroheim, director, actor and screenwriter best known for “Greed,”
was born.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1893 Sep 22, Bicycle makers
Charles and Frank Duryea showed off the first American automobile
produced for sale to the public by taking it on a maiden run through
the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts.
(HN, 9/22/00)
1895 Sep 22, Paul Muni, actor
(Academy Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder), was born in Juarez.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1902 Sep 22, John Houseman,
director, producer and actor, was born in Bucharest, Romania.
(HN, 9/22/00)(MC, 9/22/01)
1902 Sep 22, A long-simmering
feud between the Brooks and McFarland clans erupted into a bloody
gunfight in the railroad town of Spokogee, Indian Territory, which
is now Dustin, Oklahoma. Spokogee had sprung up in the path of the
coming Fort Smith & Western Railroad. The Creek name meant "the
exalted," or "near to God." The area around Spokogee was home to two
feuding families, the Brookses and McFarlands. Willis B. Brooks, 48,
was a well-known inhabitant of the Dogwood Settlement and one of the
toughest men to be found in Indian Territory. He was a gunfighter
from Alabama, by way of Texas. Jim McFarland, his chief adversary,
had the reputation of being an outlaw and a killer. While the ribbon
of steel inched its way toward Spokogee, the long-simmering feud
between the warring families heated up and then erupted into a
classic Western gunfight, settled with gun smoke, blood and lead.
(HNQ, 8/25/01)
1903 Sep 22, Italo Marchioni
applied for a patent for pastry cornets to hold ice cream and was
granted the patent on Dec 13, 1903. Ice cream cones were popularized
in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
(HN, 5/2/98)(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.B7)(MC,
9/22/01)(SSFC, 10/5/03, p.C3)
1905 Sep 22, Race riot in
Atlanta, Georgia killed 10 blacks and 2 whites.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1906 Sep 22, Race riots in
Atlanta, Georgia, killed 21 people.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1908 Sep 22, Bulgaria declared
independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
(MC, 9/22/01)
1909 Sep 22, David Reisman, US
sociologist, was born. He authored “The Lonely Crowd.”
(HN, 9/22/00)
1909 Sep 22, In Oakland, Ca.,
Fung Joe Guey made the first West Coast flight of a heavier than air
motor driven airplane at Piedmont Heights. He flew for half a mile
some 15-feet above the ground.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W3)
1913 Sep 22, Coal mine
explosion killed 263 at Dawson, New Mexico. [see Oct 22]
(MC, 9/22/01)
1914 Sep 22, The German cruiser
Emden shelled Madras, India, destroying 346,000 gallons of fuel and
killing only five civilians.
(HN, 9/22/99)
1914 Sep 22, A German submarine
sank 3 British ironclads, 1,459 died. The Aboukir, the Hogue, and
the Cressy, were all sunk in just over one hour. This
loss alerted the British to the deadly effectiveness of the
submarine, which had been generally unrecognized up to that
time.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1914 Sep 22, The RNAS attempted
their first air attack on the Zeppelins at Dusseldorf and Cologne.
There was little damage done.
(AHM, 1/97)
1915 Sep 22, Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas, held its 1st class.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1915 Sep 22, Xavier University,
the first African-American Catholic college, opened in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1918 Sep 22, Henryk Szeryng,
violinist (Brahms Concerto), was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1918 Sep 22, General Allenby
led the British army against the Turks, taking Haifa and Nazareth,
Palestine.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1919 Sep 22, President Woodrow
Wilson abandoned his national tour to support the League of Nations
when he suffered a case of nervous exhaustion.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1919 Sep 22, Steel workers at
Gary, Ind., went on strike to force US Steel to recognize their
union. The walkout ended in 110 days without success.
(PCh, 1992, p.734)(MC, 9/22/01)
1920 Sep 22, Chicago grand jury
convened to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired
to fix the 1919 World Series.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1923 Sep 22, Marquess of Ripon,
game hunter, died, after shooting his 52nd grouse.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1927 Sep 22, Tommy Lasorda,
manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team from 1975 to 1996,
was born.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1927 Sep 22, Gene Tunney
successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack
Dempsey in 10 rounds in the famous "long-count" fight in Chicago.
Referee Dave Barry stopped his count in the 7th round. Boxer Gene
Tunney was down; but Jack Dempsey, had not yet returned to his
corner. By the time the ref was able to resume counting, Tunney was
able to get to his feet. He got an extra 2 to 5 seconds....just what
he needed. Tunney won the fight and retained his world heavyweight
boxing championship.
(http://tinyurl.com/4uqu9o5)(AP, 9/22/97)
1927 Sep 22, Giannotto
Bastianelli, composer, died at 44.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1929 Sep 22, Communist and Nazi
factions clashed in Berlin.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1932 Sep 22, The government of
the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd officially changed its name to
Saudi Arabia.
(www.indiana.edu/~league/1932.htm)
1933 Sep 22, Fay Weldon,
author, was born. Her work included “The Life and Loves of a
She-Devil.”
(HN, 9/22/00)
1938 Sep 22, The musical comedy
revue "Hellzapoppin'," starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, began a
three-year run on Broadway.
(AP, 9/22/06)
1939 Sep 22, Junko Tabei,
Japan, the 1st woman to climb Mount Everest, was born.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1943 Sep 22, The Destroyer
Keppel sank U-229.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1944 Sep 22, The
Allies reoccupied Boulogne.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1944 Sep 22, Mark Linenthal
(1922-2010), navigator on a B-24 Liberator, was shot down on the way
back from bombing an aircraft factory in Munich. He was taken to
Stalag Luft I and remained there it was liberated by the Russians.
He later established himself as a Prof. of English at San Francisco
State Univ., where he published 2 books of poetry “Growing Light”
(1979) and “The Man I Am Watching” 1987).
(SSFC, 9/12/10, p.C1)
1945 Sep 22, President Truman
accepted U.S. Secretary of War Stimson's recommendation to designate
the war World War II.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1946 Sep 22, Evelyn Dick was
charged with butchering her husband.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1947 Sep 22, A Douglas C-54
Skymaster made the first automatic-pilot flight over the Atlantic.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1950 Sep 22, Meryl Streep,
actress (Silkwood), was born.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1950 Sep 22, Omar N. Bradley
was promoted to the rank of five-star general, joining an elite
group that included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George
C. Marshall and Henry H. “Hap” Arnold.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1953 Sep 22, An Islamic
uprising against Jakarta took place in Atjeh (Aceh), Indonesia.
(SFC, 1/20/00, p.A12)(MC, 9/22/01)
1955 Sep 22, Commercial TV
began in England. ITV began broadcasting at 7:15 pm in the London
region only. Associated Rediffusion was awarded the London weekday
license by the ITA, with ITN established as a separate company to
supply news. ATV London began broadcasting on weekends 2 days later.
(http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1057710,00.html)
1955 Sep 22, Hurricane Janet
hit Grenada (British West Indies). 500 people were killed in the
Caribbean area. 75% of the nutmeg trees of Grenada were destroyed.
(PCh, 1992, p.952)(MC, 9/22/01)
1957 Sep 22, The TV series
"Maverick" premiered on ABC.
(AP, 9/22/07)
1958 Sep 22, The detective TV
show "Peter Gunn" premiered on NBC with Craig Stevens (d.2000 at 81)
as the private eye. The show was created by Blake Edwards
(1922-2010) and marked this collaboration with composer Henry
Mancini.
(SFC, 5/13/00, p.A19)(AP, 9/22/08)(SFC, 12/17/10,
p.D5)
1958 Sep 22, Sherman Adams,
assistant to President Eisenhower, resigned amid charges of
improperly using his influence to help an industrialist. Critics of
the Eisenhower Administration called Chief Presidential Adviser
Sherman Adams the "Assistant President" because they considered him
to be too powerful. Adams was the former governor of New Hampshire.
Adams resigned after it was revealed that a Boston industrialist had
given him gifts in exchange for preferential treatment before the
Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
(AP, 9/22/97)(HNQ, 6/13/98)
1958 Sep 22, The nuclear
submarine USS Skate remained a record 31 days under the North Pole.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1959 Sep 22, The first
telephone cable linking Europe and the United States was
inaugurated.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1959 Sep 22, Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev visited San Francisco and dropped in at the ILWU
union hall near Fisherman’s Wharf.
(SSFC, 9/20/09, DB p.50)
1960 Sep 22, Mali became an
independent republic. Pres. Modibo Keita was elected the first
president and introduced a one-party dictatorship.
(www.angelfire.com/ri/georgev/bg8.html)
1961 Sep 22, President John
Kennedy signed a congressional act establishing the Peace Corps. The
government-funded volunteer organization was created to fight
hunger, disease, illiteracy, poverty, and lack of opportunity around
the world.
(HN, 9/22/98)(MC, 9/22/01)
1961 Sep 22, Marion Davies,
actress (Not So Dumb, 5 & 10), died of cancer at 64.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1964 Sep 22, The musical
"Fiddler on the Roof" opened at Imperial Theater on Broadway,
beginning a run of 3,242 performances.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1964 Sep 22, "Man from
U.N.C.L.E," premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 9/22/04)
1964 Sep 22, McGeorge Bundy,
the national security advisor, warned Pres. Johnson that a campaign
speech was open to a charge of deception. Johnson sought to portray
Goldwater as an extremist and claimed strict presidential control of
the nuclear arsenal.
(SFC, 9/2/98, p.A5)
1965 Sep 22, Pres. Johnson
designated Columbus Day a federal public holiday to be celebrated on
Oct. 12. In 1968 He moved it to the 2nd Monday of October. In 2004
Pres. Bush set it to Oct 11.
(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=27311)(http://tinyurl.com/ppcdwp)
1965 Sep 22, Pakistan agreed to
the UN brokered cease-fire that India affirmed the day before. [see
Jan 10, 1966]
(HNQ, 4/26/99)
1966 Sep 22, Edward Albee's
"Delicate Balance," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1969 Sep 22, Willie Mays of the
San Francisco Giants became the first baseball player since Babe
Ruth to hit 600 home runs.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1969 Sep 22, Susan Nason (8) of
Foster City, Ca., was bludgeoned to death. Her body was found 2
months later near Crystal Springs. In Dec 1989 Nason's neighbor and
schoolmate, Eileen Franklin-Lipsker, told police that she suddenly
remembered seeing her father batter her friend and hide the body. In
1990 George Franklin was convicted in the first case to use
recovered-memory testimony. Franklin was released after 6 1/2 years
when a federal judge ruled a mistrial. DNA evidence showed Franklin
was not responsible.
(SFC, 2/4/00, p.A21)(SSFC, 2/8/04,
p.A28)(http://tinyurl.com/9hl2at)
1969 Sep 22, Aleksandras
Stulginskis (b.1885), the 2nd president of Lithuania, died in
Kaunas.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandras_Stulginskis)
1970 Sep 22, President Richard
M. Nixon signed a bill giving the District of Columbia
representation in the U.S. Congress. Pres Nixon requested 1,000 new
FBI agents for college campuses.
(HN, 9/22/98)(http://tinyurl.com/5qrct8)
1970 Sep 22, Abdul Razak
(1922-1976) became Malaysia’s 2nd prime minister.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_Abdul_Razak)
1973 Sep 22, Henry Kissinger
(b.1923), German-born American bureaucrat, was sworn in as America's
1st Jewish Secretary of State, the 1st time a naturalized citizen
held this office. In 2009 Alistair Horne authored “Kissinger: 1973,
The Crucial Year.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger)(Econ, 7/11/09, p.85)
1973 Sep 22, Dallas-Fort Worth
International Airport was dedicated. It was constructed to
accommodate the new jumbo jets.
(Hem., 5/97, p.70)(AP, 9/22/98)
1973 Sep 22, In Chile Michael
Woodward (42), a suspended priest, died. He had been taken into
custody by security forces in the port city of Valparaiso on Sep.
16, 1973. Woodward was allegedly tortured with other detainees on at
least two navy ships used as detention centers. In 2008 retired
admirals Sergio Barros, Guillermo Aldoney and Adolfo Walbaum and
retired navy captains Sergio Barra and Ricardo Riesgo were indicted
for the kidnapping and torture of Woodward and other members of
leftist groups.
(AP, 4/18/08)
1975 Sep 22, President Gerald
R. Ford dodged a second assassination in less than three weeks. Sara
Jane Moore, an FBI informer and self-proclaimed revolutionary,
attempted to shoot President Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but
missed. A bullet she fired slightly wounded a man in the crowd.
Moore was sentenced to life in prison, but was paroled at the end of
2007 after serving over 30 years without getting into trouble.
(AP, 9/22/97)(SFC, 1/1/08, p.A1)
1976 Sep 22, Pres. Ferdinand
Marcos of the Philippines signed Presidential Order 1017 "protecting
the Tasaday and other unexplored cultural communities from
unauthorized entry." In 1971 Manuel Elizalde had described the
Tasaday on Mindanao as a lost Stone Age tribe. In 1986 it was
reported that the Tasaday story was a hoax. In 2003 Robin Hemley
authored "Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the
Tasaday," in which he confirmed the Tasaday as a Stone Age tribe.
(SSFC, 6/22/03,
p.M1)(www.lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1976/pd_1017_1976.html)
1979 Sep 22, A 2-3 kiloton
thermonuclear device was set off in the waters off Bouvet Island, a
little-visited possession of Norway located between the bottom of
South Africa and the Prince Astrid Coast of Antarctica. The list of
suspects quickly narrowed to South Africa and Israel.
(SFCM, 9/25/05,
p.6)(www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/israel/nuke-test.htm)
1979 Sep 22, Abul Ala Mawdudi
(b.1903), Indian-born writer, died. He encouraged terrorism in the
name of Jihad.
(WSJ, 4/4/08,
p.W5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abul_Ala_Maududi)
1980 Sep 22, John Lennon signed
with Geffen Records. The Lennon LP, "Double Fantasy", was released
on Geffen. Lennon was assassinated on December 8, 1980.
(www.jpgr.co.uk/k99131.html)
1980 Sep 22-1980 Oct 9, The
unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks took place in Buffalo, NY.
(http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id104.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/35msbe)
1980 Sep 22, Iraq under Saddam
Hussein invaded Iran following border skirmishes and a dispute over
the Shatt al-Arab waterway. This marked the beginning of a war that
would last eight years. Iraq invaded Iran striking refineries and an
oil-loading terminal on Kharg Island. The Iraqis used the political
instability in Iran to try to capture long-disputed territory. They
attacked across the Shatt al Arab River, a trunk of the great
Tigris-Euphrates river system.
{Iraq, Iran, Oil}
(http://tinyurl.com/2n5z2f)(AP, 9/22/97)(NG,
5/88, p.653,663)
(AP, 9/22/97)(NG, 5/88, p.653,663)
1980 Sep 22, Solidarity
formally was founded, when delegates of 36 regional trade unions met
in Gdansk, Poland, and united under the name Solidarnosc.
(www.historyguide.org/europe/walesa.html)
1982 Sep 22, San Francisco's
famous cable cars made a final run before closing down for a
20-month, $60 million renovation.
(AP, 9/22/02)
1985 Sep 22, Rock and country
music artists participated in FarmAid, a concert staged in
Champaign, Ill., to help the nation's farmers. The first Farm Aid
concert was held to support problems facing US farmers and their
families.
(SFEC, 10/13/96, p.A9)(AP, 9/22/05)
1985 Sep 22, In the 37th Emmy
Awards the winners included Cagney & Lacey, Cosby Show and Tyne
Daly.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Emmy_Awards/1985)
1985 Sep 22, In NYC ministers
of America, Japan, West Germany, France and Britain (the Group of
Five, G-5) unified and adopted the Plaza Accord for currency
intervention and struggled to control capital exchange-rate
movements. Led by the US Treasury's Sec. James Baker, it was the
first effort to restore some semblance of order to the monetary
system since the collapse of the postwar Breton Woods gold-anchored
finance systems in the early 1970s. In the wake of the accord the
dollar lost almost 30% of its value.
(www.g7.utoronto.ca/finance/fm850922.htm)(WSJ,
3/8/04, p.A2)(Econ, 10/9/04, p.72)
1985 Sep 22, The body of Betty
Stuart (22) was found at Aquatic Park in Berkeley, Ca. In 2008
prosecutors using DNA evidence said Anthony McKnight (54), already
in prison for rape and attempted murder, was responsible for her
murder. He had been arrested in 1986 and was already serving a 63
year sentence for the rape and murder of 3 other women. In 2008
McKnight, a former sailor, was convicted on an additional 5 counts
of first-degree murder.
(SFC, 7/17/08, p.B2)(SFC, 9/18/08, p.B2)
1985 Sep 22, In France the
premier confessed to the June 10 attack of Green Peace's Rainbow
Warrior.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace)
1985 Sep 22, Axel Springer
(b.1912), German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer)
1987 Sep 22, On Wall Street,
the stock market surged higher. The Dow Jones industrial average
rose 75.23 points (the largest one-day gain recorded to that time),
closing at 2,568.05.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1987 Sep 22, Dan Rowan, actor
(Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), died at 65.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rowan)
1989 Sep 22, Irving Berlin, one
of America's most prolific songwriters, died in New York City at age
101.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1989 Sep 22, An IRA-bomb killed
10 British marines in Kent.
(http://tinyurl.com/lsjdw)
1990 Sep 22, Saudi Arabia
expelled most of the Yemeni and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh, accusing
them of unspecified “activities jeopardizing the peace and security
of the kingdom.”
(AP, 9/22/00)
1991 Sep 22, California’s
Huntington Library said it would make microfilm copies of the Dead
Sea Scrolls available to the public.
(www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/DeadSeaScrolls.html)
1991 Sep 22, The London
newspaper The Mail published an interview with former intelligence
agent John Cairncross, who admitted being the “fifth man” in the
Soviet Union's notorious British spy ring.
(AP, 9/22/01)
1992 Sep 22, President Bush
vetoed a family and medical leave bill. A similar legislation was
later enacted.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 22, Former US
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger denounced as a "flat-out
lie" an allegation that he and other officials had known American
servicemen were left behind when the war in Southeast Asia ended.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1992 Sep 22, The U.N. General
Assembly voted to expel Yugoslavia.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1993 Sep 22, President Clinton
previewed his health care reform package in an address to a
nationally broadcast session of Congress.
(AP, 9/22/98)
1993 Sep 22, Forty-seven people
were killed when an Amtrak passenger train derailed and crashed into
Bayou Canot near Mobile, Ala.
(AP, 9/22/98)
1993 Sep 22, The space shuttle
"Discovery" and its five astronauts landed at Kennedy Space Center,
ending a 10-day mission.
(AP, 9/22/98)
1993 Sep 22, Russia’s President
Boris Yeltsin disbanded the Supreme Soviet. Yeltsin issued Decree
No. 1400 that dissolved the Congress on the ground that the
president as a guarantor of the spirit of the constitution could not
let a legal deadlock last. Hard-line supporters of the legislature
soon rebelled and over 100 people died in Moscow.
(www.cs.indiana.edu/~dmiguse/Russian/bybio.html)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.A10)
1994 Sep 22, The United States
stepped up its military control of Haiti, breaking up heavy weapons,
guarding pro-democracy activists and giving U.S. troops more leeway
to use force.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1994 Sep 22, Pope John Paul II,
recovering from hip-replacement surgery, canceled his U.S. trip,
planned for October.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1994 Sep 22, In Tolunda,
Angola, faulty brakes caused a train to plunge into a ravine and
some 300 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)(AP, 2/18/04)
1995 Sep 22, Steve Forbes, US
Publishing tycoon, announced a latecomer bid for the Republican
presidential nomination.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 22, Both sides rested
in the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 22, Time Warner struck
a $7.5 billion deal to buy Turner Broadcasting System Incorporated.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep 22, An AWACS plane
carrying US and Canadian military personnel crashed on takeoff from
Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, killing all 24
people aboard.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1996 Sep 22, Reform Party
nominee Ross Perot denounced the decision to exclude him from the
presidential debates, telling NBC that Bob Dole had "poisoned the
attitude" of millions of independent voters that Republicans
desperately needed to win.
(AP, 9/22/97)
1996 Sep 22, Actress Dorothy
Lamour died at her North Hollywood home at age 81.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A6)(AP, 9/22/97)
1996 Sep 22, In Afghanistan the
Taliban guerrillas swept through 3 south-eastern provinces over the
last 2 weeks and now control about 2/3 of the country.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A9)
1996 Sep 22, In Australia Bob
Dent became the first person to kill himself legally under the
world’s only voluntary euthanasia law.
(SFC, 9/27/96, p.A13)
1996 Sep 22, In Greece the
governing socialists won the elections and gave Prime Minister
Simitas about 162 of 300 deputies in the Parliament.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A9)
1996 Sep 22, Mexico’s Civic
Alliance began asking questions of accountability of the leadership.
Pres. Zedillo claims to make $8,000 a month, but he has a secret
fund of $86 million approved by Congress.
(SFC, 9/22/96, Parade p.30)
1996 Sep 22, In South Korea the
captain of the North Korean submarine, recently grounded, was
tracked down and killed. Another infiltrator and 2 South Korean
soldiers were also killed in 2 clashes.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A10)
1996 Sep 22, In Sri Lanka the
military said it killed or wounded 200 Tamil rebels with a loss of
30 government troops.
(WSJ, 9/24/96, p.A1)
1997 Sep 22, Elton John
released his Diana tribute "Candle in the Wind 1997."
(www.vex.net/~paulmac/elton/ej1997.html)
1997 Sep 22, President Clinton,
addressing the United Nations, told world leaders to "end all
nuclear tests for all time" as he sent the long-delayed global
test-ban treaty to the Senate.
(AP, 9/22/98)
1997 Sep 22, Sportscaster Marv
Albert went on trial in Arlington, Va., on charges of sodomy and
assault. Albert later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault,
received no jail time and later had his record cleared.
(AP, 9/22/02)
1997 Sep 22, In the farming
village of Roby, Illinois, a standoff between police and Shirley
Allen (51) began that turned into a 5-week police siege. Her brother
initially showed up with a court order for a psychiatric exam and
she refused to comply. She was finally captured after being shot
with rubber bullets. Shirley Ann Allen was apprehended when she
stepped out onto her porch on October 30, 1997. Illinois State
Police officers fired several large rubber bullets at her from a
grenade launcher, striking her several times. Apparently not
seriously injured, Allen was taken to St. Johns Hospital in
Springfield, Illinois for her "evaluation." Ending on Thursday,
October 30, 1997 a 39-day police siege, the longest in Illinois
history. According to Illinois State Police Director Terry Gainer
between $750,000 and $1,000,000 of taxpayer money was spent during
the stand-off. After six weeks in a mental hospital, Allen was
released when doctors said she posed no danger to herself or others.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A3)(SFC,10/31/97,
p.A3)(www.outlawslegal.com/friendly/shirley.htm)
1997 Sep 22, It was reported
that IBM has developed a new copper chip that will be smaller and up
to 40% more powerful than previous chips.
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A3)
1997 Sep 22, It was reported
that scientists had developed a new technology that takes the
flicker out of starlight using “adaptive optics.”
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A5)
1997 Sep 22, Shoichi Yokoi
(b.1915), Japanese WW II fighter who only surrendered in 1972, died.
For 28 years he had hid in an underground jungle cave on Guam,
fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring
that World War II had ended.
(www.wanpela.com/holdouts/profiles/yokoi.html)
1997 Sep 22, In Serbia the
Socialist Party of Slobodan Milosevic claimed victory in the
elections. Many of his opponents boycotted the elections which they
said were rigged. Zoran Lilic was expected to take the presidency. A
majority was not won and a run-off election was scheduled for Oct 5.
(SFC, 9/22/97, p.A8)(SFC, 9/23/97, p.A10)
1998 Sep 22, Congressional
Republicans worked to snuff out new talk of a punishment for
President Clinton short of impeachment, an idea floated by Democrats
as polls showed most Americans opposed Clinton's removal from
office.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1998 Sep 22, The U.S. and
Russia agreed to help Russia privatize its nuclear program and stop
the export of scientists and plutonium.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1998 Sep 22, Hurricane Georges
hit the Dominican Republic and at least 12 people were killed. Three
people were killed in St. Kitts, 2 in Antigua and 4 in Puerto Rico.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 22, In Ethiopia the
government said that 2,000 Eritreans had been expelled over the past
week bringing the total to 6,500. It charged that Eritrea had forced
out 17,000 Ethiopians.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 22, In NYC Mohammad
Khatami, Pres. of Iran, said that the 10-year fatwa (religious edict
for the death of Rushdie) over author Salman Rushdie is “completely
finished.”
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A11)(SFC, 9/25/98, p.A13)
1998 Sep 22, In Japan Typhoon
Vicki killed 9 people and injured over 100.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 22, In Kosovo Serbian
troops began an offensive against the last of stronghold of ethnic
Albanian separatists. Many rebels were reported killed.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 22, South African
troops poured over the border into Lesotho and 30 people were
reported killed.
(SFC, 9/23/98, p.A12)
1999 Sep 22, Shania Twain won
best entertainer while the Dixie Chicks picked up three trophies,
including best vocal group, at the Country Music Association Awards.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1999 Sep 22, The US Justice
Department filed a huge lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A1)(AP, 9/22/00)
1999 Sep 22, The FBI hit a big
Mexican drug ring, formerly run by Amado Carillo Fuentes, with 93
arrests in the US and the Dominican Republic.
(WSJ, 9/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 22, George Campbell
Scott (b.1927), Hollywood actor, died at his Southern California
home at age 71. His films included "Dr. Strangelove" and "Patton."
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D2)(AP, 9/22/00)
1999 Sep 22, In Brazil the
Chamber of Deputies voted 394 to 41 to expel Hildebrando Pascoal, a
1st term congressman from Acre state, for "lack of parliamentary
decorum." Hildebrando was accused of torture, mass murder and int'l.
drug trafficking but had been immune due to his congressional
status. Pascoal surrendered to federal police the next day.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.C16)(SFC, 9/24/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 22, In East Timor
armed men killed a Dutch journalist and assaulted 2 others as
Australian peacekeepers fanned out from Dili and collected weapons
from pro-Jakarta militia.
(WSJ, 9/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 22, Kyrgyzstan jets
bombed Islamic militants near the villages of Sai and Syrt in the
mountainous Osh region. Officials claimed that 30 rebels were
killed.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 22, A bombing attempt
was made in Ryazan, western Russia. The people arrested were not
Chechens and later pronounced to be Russian Federal Security Service
(FSB) on a training exercise.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A22)(http://piurl.com/5K)
1999 Sep 22, Serbs quit the
multiethnic council working with the UN to administer Kosovo
following the establishment of the Kosovo Protection Corps out of
the KLA.
(SFC, 9/23/99, p.A10)
2000 Sep 22, The Cincinnati
Symphony premiered “The Millennium Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra”
by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The work was commissioned by 27 orchestras.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.C9)
2000 Sep 22, Pres. Clinton
moved to release 30 million barrels of crude oil from the nation’s
570-million-barrel emergency stockpile in a future’s market exchange
to alleviate winter fuel costs.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 22, The US Federal
Reserve joined counterparts in Europe and Japan to intervene in
currency markets in support of the euro. G7 action supported the
euro.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.D1)(Econ, 3/29/08, p.100)
2000 Sep 22, The US government
web site firstgov.gov, a consolidation of 20,000 government sites,
made its debut. Eric Brewer of Inktomi led the project.
(SFC, 9/22/00, p.B1)
2000 Sep 22, Kraft Foods
recalled all taco shells sold nationwide in supermarkets under the
Taco Bell brand after tests confirmed they were made with StarLink,
a genetically engineered corn not approved for human consumption.
(AP, 9/22/01)
2000 Sep 22, In the Czech
Republic hundreds of anti-nuclear protestors from Austria, Germany
and the Czech Republic called for a halt to activation of the
Temelin plant located near the Austrian border to allow for safety
and environmental tests.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 22, France allowed a
chartered aircraft with humanitarian personnel to fly to
Baghdad.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A8)
2000 Sep 22, Venezuela’s Pres.
Chavez announced his 1st major spending program. The $2.1 billion
plan included $819 million for infrastructure and $756 million for
social programs. The rest was for economic stimuli, technology and
security.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A11)
2001 Sep 22, President Bush
consulted at length with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the
United States mustered a military assault on terrorism in the wake
of Sept. 11.
(AP, 9/22/02)
2001 Sep 22, Pres. Bush lifted
sanctions on India and Pakistan.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 22, Pres. Bush signed
the $15 billion aid package for the nation’s airline industry.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 22, Katie Harman, Miss
Oregon, was crowned in Atlantic City, N.J., Miss America for 2002.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A27)(AP, 9/22/02)
2001 Sep 22, Isaac Stern
(b.1920), Ukraine born Jewish immigrant to the US and legendary
violinist, died. In 1960 he saved Carnegie Hall from the wrecking
ball.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A24)(NW, 12/31/01, p.109)
2001 Sep 22, In Afghanistan
there was heavy fighting in the northern provinces of Balkh and
Samangan. 39 Taliban were reported killed along with 2 opposition
fighters.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 22, Pope John Paul II
arrived in Kazakstan with good wishes for Islamic leaders and for
“all people of good will” who seek peace.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A27)
2001 Sep 22, Pakistan confirmed
that it had pulled its senior diplomats out of Afghanistan.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)
2001 Sep 22, The United Arab
Emirates (UAR) cut relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
(SSFC, 9/23/01, p.A14)
2002 Sep 22, The White House
drama "The West Wing" won its third consecutive Emmy as best drama
series; Jennifer Aniston won for best actress in Friends, which won
for the best comedy series.
(SFC, 9/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 22, Gerhard
Schroeder's Social Democrats held onto power in Germany's closest
postwar election, but the chancellor will face a tougher opposition
as he tries to reduce unemployment and revive the economy. The
parliamentary elections pitted center-left Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder against conservative challenger, Bavarian governor Edmund
Stoiber.
(Reuters, 9/22/02)(AP, 9/23/02)
2002 Sep 22, In the Ivory Coast
thousands of angry civilians marched through a rebel-held city of
Bouake, screaming anti-government slogans and cheering the
insurgents behind this West African nation's bloodiest military
uprising.
(AP, 9/22/02)
2002 Sep 22, In Kashmir 6
police were wounded and one Muslim militant killed following an
attack on a police compound in Srinagar.
(SSFC, 9/22/02, p.A12)
2002 Sep 22, In Nepal Maoist
rebels fighting the constitutional monarchy have called for a
three-day countrywide strike aimed at disrupting general elections
slated to begin on November 13. The army killed 76 rebels over the
last 2 days.
(Reuters, 9/22/02)(SFC, 9/23/02, p.A8)(SFC,
9/24/02, p.A13)
2002 Sep 22, Thousands of
Palestinians, many defying military curfews, poured into West Bank
and Gaza streets to protest Israel's assault on Yasser Arafat's
headquarters, and 5 demonstrators were killed by army fire.
(AP, 9/22/02)(WSJ, 9/23/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 22, Switzerland held a
referendum on the use of tons of "excess" gold sold weekly from the
vaults of Switzerland's central bank. The government wants to split
the money three ways: a third to Swiss cantons, or states, a third
to its social security program exclusively for Swiss residents and a
third to be divided evenly between self-help projects for use at
home and abroad.
(AP, 9/21/02)
2003 Sep 22, California signed
into law a privacy bill, effective Jul 1, 2004, that prevents use of
vehicle recorded data without the consent of the owner. GM began
installing data boxes in the 1970s.
(SFC, 9/23/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 22, Actor Gordon Jump
died at age 71.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2003 Sep 22, Hugo Young
(b.1938), British political columnist for the Sunday Times and the
Guardian, died. In 2008 Ion Trewin edited “The Hugo Young Papers:
Thirty Years of British Politics – Off the Record.”
(Econ, 11/29/08, p.86)
2003 Sep 22, In Haiti the
bullet-riddled body of Amiot Metayer (39) was found, more than a
year after he escaped from prison and allegedly went on a rampage
terrorizing government opponents. 3 days of protests followed the
news.
(AP, 9/23/03)(SFC, 9/26/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 22, A suicide bomber,
his body wrapped in explosives and his car filled with 50 pounds of
TNT, struck a police checkpoint outside UN headquarters in Baghdad,
killing an Iraqi policeman who stopped him and wounding 19 people.
(AP, 9/22/03)
2003 Sep 22, NATO selected
Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as the alliance's new
secretary general.
(AP, 9/22/03)
2003 Sep 22, The jawbone of a
cave-man living in what is now Romania, found in 2002 in Pestera cu
Oase, was reported as the oldest fossil from an early modern human
to be found in Europe. It was carbon-dated to between 34,000 and
36,000 years ago.
(AP, 9/22/03)
2003 Sep 22, In Uganda a
speeding bus plowed head-on into a truck loaded with relief food
destined for Burundi, killing 46 people and injuring 33 others.
(AP, 9/22/03)
2004 Sep 22, The US FCC fined
CBS $550,000 for Janet Jackson’s Feb 1 breast exposure.
(SFC, 9/23/04, p.A7)
2004 Sep 22, Federal
prosecutors indicted Sanjay Kumar, former chief of Computer
Associates, saying he helped orchestrate accounting fraud. Stephen
Richards, head of sales, was also named in the 10-count indictment.
(WSJ, 9/23/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 22, The new $600
million Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, named after the
former Oregon Senator (1967-1997), opened in Bethesda, Md., as the
latest addition to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
(SSFC, 3/27/05, Par
p.17)(www.news-medical.net/?id=4963)
2004 Sep 22, In southern Brazil
a school bus swerved off a narrow road and plunged into a reservoir,
killing at least 16 children.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, Six members of the
same family were hanged in Egypt after being convicted for the
revenge-killing of 22 members of a rival family two years ago.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, The European
Commission approved a multi-billion pound bailout of the nuclear
group British Energy, after securing guarantees that the company
would not breach EU competition rules.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, The European Union
agreed in principle to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure
from Italy.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, France signaled it
will slash its public overspending next year to come into line with
EU rules in a 2005 budget published today and forecast economic
growth of 2.5 percent.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, In Haiti, the
death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne topped 1,000.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2004 Sep 22, Indian officials
said they have fenced nearly 40 percent of the porous border with
Bangladesh and would fence the entire frontier by March 2006 to
prevent movement of insurgents, illegal immigrants and smuggling.
(Reuters, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, In India's
mountainous northeast 10 people, including a state government
minister and two lawmakers, were killed in a helicopter crash.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, Four Islamic
militants were killed in a clash with Indian troops along the
disputed border in Kashmir on the eve of a summit between the two
countries' leaders.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 22, In Iraq kidnappers
seized 4 Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile
phone company.
(AP, 9/24/04)
2004 Sep 22, British hostage
Kenneth Bigley appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site
weeping and pleading for his life. He was later beheaded by his
captors.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2004 Sep 22, Suicide attackers
detonated a car bomb near an Iraqi National Guard recruiting center
in west Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 54. US
aircraft and tanks attacked Shiite militia positions in fierce
fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, killing 10 people and injuring
92 others.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2004 Sep 22, A Palestinian
suicide bomber blew herself up near a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem.
2 Israeli police officers were killed.
(AP, 9/22/04)(SFC, 9/23/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 22, On the 2nd day of
the General Assembly's ministerial meeting the UN Security Council
highlighted the need for more military and civilian cooperation to
rebuild war-torn nations, while the secretary-general called for
more resources and a more practical approach to international
peacekeeping efforts.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 22, Zimbabwe's
government dismissed reports of dozens of deaths linked to
malnutrition as lies peddled by detractors and insisted the nation
has more food than it needs.
(AP, 9/22/04)
2005 Sep 22, John Roberts'
nomination as chief justice cleared the US Senate Judiciary
Committee on a bipartisan vote of 13-5.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2005 Sep 22, Hurricane Rita,
weakened to Category 4 status, closed on the Texas coast, sending
hundreds of thousands of people fleeing on a frustratingly slow,
bumper-to-bumper exodus.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2005 Sep 22, Delta Air Lines
Inc. said it will cut up to 9,000 jobs, or 17% of the work force at
its flagship service, and reduce pay and make changes to its route
network to focus more on international flying as it moves swiftly to
restructure its costs in bankruptcy.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, A group of Hong
Kong investors purchased the Bank of America Center in San Francisco
for $1.05 billion. Donald Trump had in interest in the deal from a
previous sale by the investment group in NYC.
(WSJ, 9/23/05, p.B3)
2005 Sep 22, In Massachusetts
Holli Strickland (33) died of gunshot wounds, along with her
grandmother Constance F. Young (71) in what police said was either a
double suicide or murder-suicide in Young's West Springfield
apartment. They had been released from jail 2 days earlier following
charges of severe abuse of Haleigh Poutre (11) was hospitalized in a
vegetative state after her brain stem was partly sheared.
(SFC, 12/6/05, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/7jeol)
2005 Sep 22, Boxer Leavander
Johnson (35) died from injuries suffered in a Sep 17 Los Vegas
boxing match with Jesus Chavez. The match was telecast on HBO.
(WSJ, 9/29/05, p.D10)
2005 Sep 22, In southern
Afghanistan 10 insurgents and an Afghan soldier were killed in an
operation to arrest a top Taliban commander.
(AFP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Algeria Al
Qaeda-aligned Islamic militants killed 10 people, including seven
soldiers, in separate ambushes. The ambushes were blamed on the
GSPC, which is split on whether to support a September 29 referendum
on a partial amnesty in exchange for laying down their arms.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Britain 8
Zimbabwean soccer players and two officials deserted their teams
after a tour, joining thousands of fellow citizens who have sought
refuge abroad over a serious political and economic crisis at home.
(AP, 9/24/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Colombia
suspected rebels killed 10 police officers driving down a remote
highway outside La Cruz, ambushing their truck with gunfire and
homemade gas cylinder bombs.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, Alberto Giraldo
(70), the journalist who spent five years in jail for his role in
the Cali cocaine cartel's funding of former Colombian President
Ernesto Samper's election campaign, died. Viviana Leon, his 2nd
wife, said that before his death Giraldo wrote a book, yet to be
published, detailing how Cali cartel bosses Miguel and Gilberto
Rodriguez Orejuela donated $5 million to Samper's successful 1994
run for the presidency.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, France announced
financial incentives for parents to have a 3rd child, hoping to
boost its fertility rate by helping people to better juggle the
demands of work and family life.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, In India police
said 4 Maoist rebels were killed in two separate gunbattles with
police in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
(AFP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, An Indonesian
court sentenced the last of six Muslim militants accused in the 2004
suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy to 10 years in prison for
helping the alleged masterminds carry out the attack.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, British troops in
the city of Basra greatly reduced their presence in the streets,
apparently responding to a provincial governor's call to sever
cooperation until London apologized for storming a police station to
free two of its soldiers.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, About 150 clerics
and tribal leaders from Iraq's Sunni Arab minority called for the
rejection of the country's draft constitution in an upcoming
referendum, saying that it would lead to the fragmentation of Iraq.
Small arms fire in Ramadi killed one US soldier.
(AP, 9/22/05)(SFC, 9/24/05, p.A3)
2005 Sep 22, Japan's finance
ministry said government debt, already the highest in the
industrialized world, rose 1.7% to a record high of 795.8 trillion
yen ($7.1 trillion) at the end of June.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Japan Sony
Corp. said it will cut about 10,000 jobs, close 11 plants and shrink
or terminate 15 unprofitable operations in an ambitious
restructuring bid to revive its stumbling electronics business.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Nigeria police
said Moujahid Dokubo-Asari, a separatist militia leader, will be
charged with treason, a capital offense. His arrest set off tense
protests in the oil heartland. Dokubo-Asari said his Ijaw ethnic
group and the other people of the Niger delta should break away from
Nigeria and take control of the billions of dollars of oil flowing
from their land.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, Boatloads of
Nigerian guerrilla fighters armed with rifles, machetes and dynamite
launched a drive to hijack oil installations in the waterways of the
Niger Delta, after a judge jailed their leader.
(AP, 9/23/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Pakistan 2
bombings in Lahore killed six people and injured 26.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, Peru's Congress
passed legislation that would require public institutions to
consider open-source software as an alternative to proprietary
systems such as Windows.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 22, A Russian court
rejected Mikhail Khodorkovsky's appeal of his conviction on fraud
and tax evasion charges, but reduced the oil tycoon's prison
sentence from 9 years to 8.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, In Scotland a
judge sentenced a British lord to 16 months in prison for causing a
fire at a hotel. Lord Mike Watson (56) admitted to setting fire to a
curtain after having several drinks at the Scottish Politician of
the Year awards ceremony in Edinburgh on Nov. 12.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, South Africa's
government moved for the first time to seize land from a white
farmer, saying that negotiations to buy the property to hand over to
black claimants were taking too long.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2005 Sep 22, Ukrainian
President Viktor Yushchenko forged an awkward alliance with Viktor
Yanukovych's Party of the Regions, his archrival and Orange
Revolution enemy, to get his choice for new PM through parliament.
Parliament approved Yuriy Yekhanurov with 289 votes.
(AP, 9/22/05)
2006 Sep 22, US President
George W. Bush and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf met at the
White House for key anti-terror talks jarred by his public critiques
of US strategy.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, It was reported
that 11 Domino's employees in Pensacola, Fla., hoping to make a
little more dough and get a bigger slice of the profits have formed
the nation's first union of pizza delivery drivers.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, The new list of
Forbes 400 richest people in the US for the 1st time was composed
only of billionaires. As a group they were worth a record $1.3
trillion.
(WSJ, 9/23/06, p.B3)
2006 Sep 22, The US CDC
recommended that all Americans between 13 and 64 be routinely tested
for AIDS.
(Econ, 9/30/06,
p.40)(www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5514a1.htm)
2006 Sep 22, Hewlett-Packard
Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn resigned in the wake of the company's
ill-fated investigation of boardroom media leaks.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2006 Sep 22, Edward Albert
(b.1951), television and screen actor, died of lung cancer in
Malibu, California. He had a meteoric career as a film star in the
1970s after he starred with Goldie Hawn in “Butterflies Are Free”
(1972). He also starred in “40 Carats” (1973), “The Ice Runner”
(1993), and “Guarding Tess” (1994). Albert was a dedicated
environmentalist and worked with several groups, including the
California Coastal Commission and the state's Native American
Heritage Commission.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albert)
2006 Sep 22, In southern
Afghanistan militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers,
killing 19 of the laborers. The attack occurred in Kandahar province
when a roadside bomb exploded near the bus. A NATO helicopter killed
15 suspected insurgents in Helmand province.
(AP, 9/22/06)(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 22, Enrique Gorriaran
Merlo (65), a former Argentine rebel, died. He claimed that he led
the squad that killed exiled Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in
1980.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Shanghai health
officials added 3 more items to a list of toxic metals in SK-II
products, made in Japan by US consumer products giant Procter and
Gamble. P&G has pulled its popular SK-II line of beauty products
off the shelf after authorities a week earlier discovered traces of
the two toxic metals in nine SK-II products including powder,
foundation, lotion and cleansing oil products. The company said a
hotline had been set up and that all refund requests submitted by
September 21 would be honored.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, Democratic
Republic of Congo's first freely elected parliament in more than 40
years convened, with President Joseph Kabila's coalition poised to
appoint a prime minister.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, France and Russia
signed deals in the transport and aviation sectors worth 10 billion
dollars following a summit between Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin and
his French counterpart Jacques Chirac.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 22, Yvan Keller (46),
arrested a week earlier in France’s eastern city of Mulhouse in
connection with a robbery, hanged himself while in custody. Mr.
Keller admitted to killing dozens of elderly women who lived alone,
all within 40 miles of Mulhouse, in the border region straddling
France, Switzerland and Germany, starting in 1989.
(www.newagebd.com/2006/sep/27/inat.html)
2006 Sep 22, Voters in Gambia
went to the polls in a presidential election widely expected to hand
incumbent strongman Yahya Jammeh a third elected term.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In northwestern
Germany the high-speed, Transrapid magnetic train, traveling at 125
mph, crashed. 23 of the 29 people aboard were killed and others
injured in the first fatal wreck involving the high-tech system. A
gas tank exploded in a bakery in a south German village, burying a
dozen people in the rubble and injuring several more.
(AP, 9/22/06)(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 22, India’s High Court
overturned a ban on the production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi
soft drinks in the southern Indian state of Kerala, but state
officials said they would seek ways to challenge the decision.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Indonesia
Christian mobs torched cars, blockaded roads and looted Muslim-owned
shops in violence touched off by the execution in Central Sulawesi
of 3 Roman Catholics convicted of instigating attacks on Muslims.
Fabianus Tibo (60), Marinus Riwu (48), and Dominggus da Silva (42),
were found guilty of leading a Christian militia that launched a
series of attacks on Muslims in May, 2000, that left at least 70
people dead. Some 200 prisoners escaped in the town of Atambua, and
only 20 had been recaptured by mid-afternoon.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Iraq gunmen
opened fire on Sunni mosques and homes in a religiously mixed
Baghdad neighborhood, killing four people in an attack that drew the
condemnation of Sunni leaders across the city. Muntasir Hamoud
Ileiwi al-Jubouri, an alleged leader of Ansar al-Sunnah, and two of
his aides were captured. He is a leader of the group believed to be
behind the 2004 attack on a US military mess hall. An American
contractor working for the State Department was killed in a rocket
attack in the southern city of Basra. Police found the blindfolded
and bound bodies of nine men from a Sunni tribe who had been dragged
out of a wedding dinner in east Baghdad the night before by men
dressed in Iraqi army uniforms. Four other bodies were found in
other parts of the capital, again blindfolded and with their hands
and legs tied.
(AP, 9/22/06)(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 22, Israelis marked
the Jewish New Year shaken by the inconclusive war in Lebanon, angry
at their leaders and coping with growing gaps between rich and poor.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, Some 800,000
Hezbollah supporters packed a 37-acre square in the suburbs of
Beirut to hear leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. In his first public
appearance since the start of his group's 34-day war with Israel, he
said his group has more than 20,000 rockets, and that an increased
UN peacekeeping force will not hurt its guerrillas' arsenal.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.A7)(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 22, Nepal's interim
parliament passed a new law imposing tighter civilian control over
the army which was once fiercely loyal to the nation's royal family.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Norway police
accused four men suspected in an attack on Oslo's main synagogue of
also plotting to blow up the US and Israeli embassies. The men were
arrested Sep 19 in connection with an attack on the Mosaic Religious
Community synagogue, which was hit with at least 10 bullets on Sep
17.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, Palestinian PM
Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said he will not head a government that
recognizes Israel, striking a potential blow to President Mahmoud
Abbas' attempts to create a national unity government.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2007 Sep 22, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice met with Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki at the United
Nations in their first face-to-face talks since a Baghdad shootout
involving guards from a US company protecting American diplomats.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2007 Sep 22, Afghan authorities
said they had seized dozens of Iranian and Chinese-made weapons
after a brief battle with Taliban fighters near the border with
Iran. In northern Afghanistan NATO helicopters fired on a group of
suspected insurgents in response to a rocket attack. Four Afghans
died and 12 were wounded. 2 Italian soldiers and their two Afghan
staff on a weekend patrol disappeared in western Afghanistan. In
southern Zabul province the Taliban kidnapped three Afghan men
accused of spying for the US and executed them.
(AP, 9/22/07)(AP, 9/23/07)
2007 Sep 22, At least 25,000
textile workers defied a ban on protests in emergency-ruled
Bangladesh to demand back-pay and bonuses in one of the country's
biggest industrial zones.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Marcel Marceau
(b.1923), the world's best-known mime artist, died in Paris, France.
For decades he moved audiences across the globe without uttering a
single word.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7009040.stm)(Econ,
9/29/07, p.91)
2007 Sep 22, Gunmen ambushed an
Iraqi police checkpoint in Baqouba, killing one officer and wounding
five others. A civilian was killed in Khalis, a Shiite enclave near
Baqouba in the volatile Diyala province, when gunmen opened fire on
his car. An American soldier was killed and another wounded when an
EFP hit their patrol in eastern Baghdad.
(AP, 9/22/07)(AP, 9/23/07)
2007 Sep 22, In the central
Myanmar city of Mandalay, a crowd of 10,000 people, including at
least 4,000 Buddhist monks, marched in one of the largest
demonstrations since the 1988 democracy uprising. About 1,000 monks,
led by one holding his begging bowl upturned as a sign of protest,
marched in Yangon for a 5th straight day. The anti-government
demonstrations touched the doorstep of democracy heroine Aung San
Suu Kyi.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Nigeria suspended
a deal by a previous government allowing the private sector to run
the country's federal government-owned "unity" schools.
(AFP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Former Peruvian
President Alberto Fujimori was flown to his home country in police
custody, one day after the Chilean Supreme Court authorized his
extradition on human rights and corruption charges.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, North Korea's No.
2 leader met with a Syrian delegation in Pyongyang, amid suspicions
of a secret nuclear connection between the two countries.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, In NW Pakistan a
suicide bomber blew up his car near a paramilitary convoy, wounding
a soldier. In neighboring Bajaur tribal district authorities
reported that a soldier and two women were killed in overnight
attacks by pro-Taliban militants. Also in Bajaur an Afghan national
and a local tribesman were found shot dead outside Khar.
(AFP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Serbian PM
Vojislav Kostunica warned the United States, NATO and Kosovo
Albanians they would be responsible for devastating consequences if
they "snatch" Kosovo and declare it independent.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, Yu Shyi-kun, the
chairman of Taiwan's ruling party, resigned after prosecutors
indicted him on graft charges. Annette Lu, the island's vice
president facing similar charges, said she would fight the
allegations.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2007 Sep 22, To date 144
countries had ratified the UN Convention Against Torture. Holdouts
included Sudan, North Korea, Myanmar, Zimbabwe and India.
(Econ, 9/22/07, p.72)
2008 Sep 22, Group of Seven
(G7) nations welcomed the $700 billion US markets bailout plan and
said they were prepared to step up international cooperation to
protect the world's financial and banking system.
(Reuters, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, The price of oil
jumped $16.37 to $120.92 per barrel, its biggest single-day gain
ever, as the dollar posted its worst single-day percentage drop.
During this final day for the October contract, oil had soared to as
high as $130 per barrel.
(SFC, 9/23/08, p.D1)(WSJ, 9/23/08, p.C2)(Econ,
9/27/08, p.90)
2008 Sep 22, Nomura Holdings
Inc., Japan's largest brokerage, reached a deal to buy the Asian
operations of bankrupt US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings
Inc. in a deal valued at around $225 million.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, It was reported
that SanDisk, a maker of flash memory, was teaming with 4 top music
labels to roll out a new music medium based on its microSD cards,
which would feature pre-loaded albums and additional content and
compete with the declining CD market.
(SFC, 9/22/08, p.D1)
2008 Sep 22, In southern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb killed a district chief and a police
chief in Kandahar province. An Afghan journalist detained for 11
months at the US military base at Bagram alleged that his captors
kicked him, forced him to stand barefoot in the snow and didn't
allow him to sleep for days. Jawed Ahmad (21), who worked primarily
for CTV, a Canadian television network, was handed over to Afghan
authorities on Sep 21.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, in Australia 400
sheep died in a road accident, prompting animal rights activists to
repeat their call for an end to the long distance transportation of
livestock for slaughter.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, In southern Brazil
5 hooded gunmen killed 15 people on an alleged drug trafficker's
ranch. The suspected trafficker and two of his sons were among the
15 dead.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, The number of
Chinese infants sick in hospital after drinking tainted milk formula
doubled to nearly 13,000 and the country's top quality regulator
resigned in the latest blight on the "made-in-China" brand.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, The UN appealed
for $460 million to feed some 10 million Ethiopians hit by drought
and high food prices. In southeastern Ethiopia two expatriate staff
for French aid group Medecins du Monde were kidnapped in the
rebellious Ogaden region.
(AP, 9/22/08)(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, Georgian forces
shot down a Russian drone near the breakaway province of South
Ossetia.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, The death toll
from heavy monsoon rains and flooding across India reached 119 in
the past three days.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, Iraq and Royal
Dutch Shell PLC signed a deal to establish a joint venture that will
tap natural gas in southern Iraq. A mortar round apparently aimed at
an Iraqi military base missed its target and slammed into a house in
northwestern Baghdad, killing one man and wounding four others. A
car bomb struck a mainly Shiite area in central Baghdad. Police said
two men and a woman were killed and seven people wounded. In Mosul a
bomb hidden under trash killed at least 5 children playing soccer.
(AP, 9/22/08)(SFC, 9/23/08, p.A10)
2008 Sep 22, A driver plowed a
BMW into a group of soldiers at a busy intersection near Jerusalem's
Old City, injuring 13 of them before he was shot to death. The
driver was a Palestinian resident of east Jerusalem who apparently
acted alone.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, Brash conservative
Taro Aso easily won the presidency of Japan's struggling ruling
party, virtually ensuring his election as prime minister later this
week amid political and economic turmoil.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, Mozambique's
former interior minister Almerino Manhenje was arrested in
connection with the disappearance of millions of dollars during his
time in office. He served as home affairs minister in the Joaquim
Chissano administration between 1996 and 2005.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, North Korea asked
the UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) to remove seals and surveillance
equipment from the Yongbyon nuclear reactor.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, In Pakistan gunmen
kidnapped Abdul Khaliq Farahi, Afghanistan's ambassador-designate,
and killed his driver in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.
Farahi was released on Nov 13, 2010.
(AP, 9/21/08)(AP, 11/14/10)
2008 Sep 22, In the Philippines
16 gold miners went into shafts during a typhoon that rapidly
flooded the tunnels in Benguet province. 2 bodies were retrieved on
Sep 25, 3 miners were rescued on Sep 29, 3 more on Sep 30, and 3
more on Oct 1. Two bodies were recovered on Oct 2 and one miner
remained missing. The last of the miners was rescued on Oct 3. He
was then arrested by police, who had a warrant for his arrest on
unrelated theft and robbery charges.
(AP, 9/29/08)(AP, 9/30/08)(AP, 10/1/08)(AP,
10/2/08)(AP, 10/4/08)
2008 Sep 22, In Somalia mortar
rounds slammed into a market in Mogadishu, killing up to 30 people
including children and overwhelming hospitals with dozens of wounded
in the worst fighting in months.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, In South Africa
ANC members of parliament said the ruling African National Congress
will name party deputy head Kgalema Motlanthe as South Africa's
caretaker leader after the ousting of President Thabo Mbeki. His
resignation will take effect Sep 25.
(Reuters, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, In northern Spain
a car bomb killed a soldier in the third attack in just over 24
hours by the Basque separatist group ETA.
(AP, 9/22/08)
2008 Sep 22, In Sri Lanka some
26 Tamil Tigers were killed in ground fighting across the across the
embattled regions of Weli Oya, Kilinochchi and Vavuniya, where
troops were trying to wrest control of the rebel capital of
Kilinochchi.
(AFP, 9/23/08)
2008 Sep 22, Unicef said
Ugandan rebels kidnapped 90 children in eastern Congo and that
fighting has forced 100,000 people to flee the area.
(WSJ, 9/23/08, p.A1)
2009 Sep 22, The Massachusetts
state Senate approved a bill allowing the appointment of a temporary
replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. The measure had passed
the House last week.
(SFC, 9/23/09, p.A10)
2009 Sep 22, In Georgia
washed-out roads and flooded interstate highways around Atlanta
added to the misery after days of torrential rain in the Southeast
claimed at least eight lives.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, In Michigan
off-duty Canton police officer Edward Williams II (36), shot and
killed his wife (33), a Detroit police officer, in a library parking
lot before shooting himself. He soon after at a hospital.
(SFC, 9/23/09, p.A10)(http://tinyurl.com/mlswtr)
2009 Sep 22, In Afghanistan a
roadside bomb blast killed five people in western Farah province.
Eight others in the van were wounded.
(AP, 9/23/09)
2009 Sep 22, Britain’s Office
of Fair Trading (OFT) said it has imposed fines totaling 129.5
million pounds on 103 construction firms in England which it has
found had colluded with competitors on building contracts.
(AFP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, China appealed at
the last minute against a World Trade Organization ruling upholding
parts of a US complaint about Chinese restrictions on imports of
films, books and other audio-visual material.
(Reuters, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, A sharply divided
EU failed to protect the threatened bluefin tuna, as the bloc's
Mediterranean nations refused to back even a temporary a ban on
catching the fish prized by sushi aficionados. Greece, Cyprus,
Malta, Spain, France and Italy, with strong fishermen's lobbies at
home, insisted on continuing the hunt despite the precarious state
of the species. Conservation groups had earlier criticized the EU
for not pushing to list the bluefin tuna under the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, French police
cleared out, then bulldozed, a squalid forest camp near the northern
city of Calais, detaining hundreds of illegal immigrants who had
hoped to slip across the English Channel into Britain.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, In western
Germany 5 people were killed in a bus accident at Radevormwald. It
broke through a crash barrier and plunged 65 feet (20 meters) into
the Wupper river.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, In Honduras
baton-wielding police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators,
chasing them away from the Brazilian embassy where deposed President
Manuel Zelaya, who a day earlier had sneaked back into the country,
remains holed up, avoiding threatened arrest.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said that Iran is stronger than ever and warned that its
military will "cut the hand" of anyone who attacks. But a military
parade where he spoke was marred when an air force plane crashed,
killing seven people.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, Mexican
authorities said there would be no compensation for Jacinta
Francisco Marcial, an Indian market vendor who was wrongfully
convicted of kidnapping and spent three years in prison, in a case
that provoked an international protest.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, In northwestern
Pakistan suspected Islamist militants blew up an empty girls school
on the outskirts of the Peshawar.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, In Somalia Islamic
insurgents attacked an African Union peacekeeping base, sparking a
battle that killed at least 8 people and wounded more than a dozen.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, In Spain Julio
Alberto Poch, an Argentine-born pilot for a low-cost airline, was
arrested during a stopover in a Spanish airport on suspicion of
piloting planes that carried hundreds of dissidents to their deaths
during his country's 1976-1983 "dirty war." He was wanted for
questioning in four probes of more than 1,000 deaths during his time
as a pilot at the Navy Mechanics School.
(AP, 9/23/09)
2009 Sep 22, In Taiwan former
President Chen Shui-bian was indicted on new embezzlement charges
just weeks after being sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 9/23/09)
2009 Sep 22, The UN Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced that flash floods
and lighting have claimed 187 lives and affected 635,273 people in
west Africa since the rainy season started in June. This included
103 dead in Sierra Leone, followed by Ghana (24), Mali (20), Ivory
Coast (19), Burkina Faso (8), Niger (7) and Senegal (6).
(AFP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 22, Venezuelan police
have captured Julio Mendez (38), an American pilot wanted
since 2007 on cocaine smuggling charges in the United States.
(AP, 9/23/09)
2010 Sep 22, A US official in
Washington confirmed reports that the CIA is running an all-Afghan
paramilitary group in Afghanistan that has been hunting al-Qaida,
Taliban, and other militant targets for the agency. A security
professional in Kabul familiar with the operation said the
3,000-strong force was set up in 2002 to capture targets for CIA
interrogation. Al-Jazeera cameraman Mohammad Nadir was arrested in
Kandahar. In Helmand province a Danish soldier was killed and
another wounded by a homemade bomb.
(AP, 9/22/10)(AP, 9/23/10)
2010 Sep 22, NYC officials said
59 taxi drivers have been arrested for manipulating their meters to
double the fare rate.
(SFC, 9/23/10, p.A11)
2010 Sep 22, In NYC Cesar
Mercado (34), who had worked at the Nicaraguan consulate as acting
consul general, was found dead in his apartment in the Bronx by the
driver who went to pick him up to attend the meeting. On Oct 29 a
medical examiner’s report said he had committed suicide.
(AP, 9/24/10)(AP, 10/29/10)
2010 Sep 22, San Francisco’s
Recurrent Energy said it has agreed to be purchased by Sharp Corp.,
Japan’s biggest solar panel manufacturer for as much as $305
million.
(SFC, 9/23/10, p.D1)
2010 Sep 22, Drugmaker Abbott
Laboratories said it is recalling millions of containers of its
best-selling Similac infant formula that may be contaminated with
insect parts.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, It was reported
that North Dakota’s Devil’s Lake, called a slow-growing monster, has
steadily expanded over the last 20 years, swallowing up thousands of
acres, hundreds of buildings and at least two towns in its rising
waters.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, Rutgers Univ.
freshman Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from the George
Washington Bridge. On Sep 19 his roommate and another student had
used a webcam to broadcast live images on the Internet of Clementi
having sex with another man. Roommate Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei were
soon charged with invasion of privacy. On April 20, 2011, Ravi was
charged with a hate crime and accused of deleting tweets and texts
to cover his tracks.
(www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/nyregion/30suicide.html?_r=1)(SFC,
4/21/11, p.A9)
2010 Sep 22, Eddie Fisher
(b.1928), American singer, died in Berkeley, Ca. His 32 hit songs
included “Oh My Papa” (1953). His 5 wives included Debbie Reynolds
(1955), Elizabeth Taylor (1959), Connie Stevens, Terry Richard and
Betty Lin.
(SFC, 9/24/10,
p.C6)(www.discogs.com/artist/Eddie+Fisher)
2010 Sep 22, In southern
Afghanistan a Danish soldier was killed and another wounded by a
homemade bomb in Helmand province.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, Colombian
government forces staged a bombing raid in the eastern La Macarena
mountains that killed Victor Julio Suarez (aka Mono Jojoy), the
senior commander of FARC. 20 guerrillas died in the attack. Computer
hard drives and memory sticks were seized that later revealed data
on gold mines under FARC control.
(Econ, 10/2/10, p.42)(Econ, 1/29/11, p.36)
2010 Sep 22, In Egypt Coptic
Bishop Bishoy said certain verses in the Quran were inserted after
Muhammad's death by one of his successors. Muslim belief says the
prophet received all verses through the archangel Gabriel during his
lifetime. On Sep 25 Egypt's top Islamic institution criticized
Bishoy, warning that the statement threatened Egypt's national
unity. On Sep 26 Egypt's Coptic Christian leader Pope Shenouda III
apologized in a television interview to any Muslims who were
offended by Bishoy’s comments.
(AP, 9/26/10)(AP, 9/26/10)
2010 Sep 22, The European Union
Parliament approved new financial oversight institutions aimed at
preventing another financial crisis like the one that led to massive
bank bailouts at taxpayer expense.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, Germany’s
ThyssenKrupp said it would freeze all new business with Iran with
immediate effect and terminate existing contracts there as soon as
possible in response to ever-harsher sanctions against the Islamic
Republic.
(Reuters, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, In western
Indonesia Muslim militants wearing black masks stormed the tiny
police precinct and unloaded their assault rifles, riddling 3
officers with bullets and shining a spotlight on the country's
changing face of terrorism.
(AP, 10/10/10)
2010 Sep 22, Iran’s pro-reform
Sharq daily said that Emadoddin Baghi (48), a human rights activist,
was convicted of "spreading propaganda" against the ruling
establishment as well as planning to "violate national security." He
was sentenced to 6 years in prison. Baghi has been on trial or in
jail almost continually since 2000 over similar charges. In the
northwest a bomb exploded at a military parade in Mahabad killing 12
people. One official blamed Kurdish separatists who have fought
Iranian forces in the area for decades.
(AP, 9/22/10)(Reuters, 9/26/10)
2010 Sep 22, Several dozen
Iraqis who failed to gain asylum in Europe were returned to Iraq
despite concerns the situation is still too dangerous.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, An Israeli guard
shot dead a Palestinian after rocks were thrown at his car, setting
off clashes with police. Crowds of Palestinian youths violently
rampaged in a tense neighborhood in annexed Arab east Jerusalem
following the shooting death of a local man. This clouded fragile
peace efforts even as the Palestinian president signaled he may back
away from threats to quit negotiations if Israel resumes West Bank
settlement construction.
(AFP, 9/22/10)(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, Ivory Coast began
paying former rebel soldiers who disarmed ahead of elections set for
next month, bringing the West African nation a step closer to ending
years of crisis.
(Reuters, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, In Jamaica a top
court ruled that Shahine Robinson, a lawmaker allied to PM Bruce
Golding, is ineligible to sit in parliament because she also holds
US citizenship.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, Liberia's election
commission said that Prince Johnson's National Union for Democratic
Progress met the requirements for next year's poll. Johnson is best
known for the torture and slaying of ousted president Samuel K. Doe
in 1990. A videotape of the event shows Johnson drinking beer as he
ordered his men to cut off Doe's ears.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, Mexico’s President
Felipe Calderon announced a plan to protect journalists, as violence
against reporters has surged since the government launched a
crackdown on drug traffickers nearly four years ago.
(AP, 9/23/10)
2010 Sep 22, A Thai national
and 3 French employees of marine services company Bourbon were
kidnapped overnight in an attack on one of its ships, the Bourbon
Alexandre, in an oil field off Nigeria. The hostages “in poor
health” were released on Nov 10.
(AP, 9/22/10)(AP, 11/10/10)(AFP, 11/12/10)
2010 Sep 22, In the Philippines
Mohagher Iqbal, chief negotiator for the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic
Liberation Front, told local reporters that his group wanted a
"substate" that he likened to a US state. He said it would not be
independent and would be under a "unitary government.".
(AP, 9/23/10)
2010 Sep 22, A Polish
prosecutor said his office has opened an investigation into whether
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi man accused in the 2000 bombing of
the USS Cole, was mistreated in a prison that the CIA allegedly ran
in Poland.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, Russian news
agencies reported that Russia has dropped plans to supply Iran with
S-300 missiles because they are subject to international sanctions.
(AFP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, Swiss women for
the first time captured most of the seats in the country's
seven-member executive branch, brushing aside Switzerland's history
as one of Europe's last nations to grant women full suffrage.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, In Yemen Al-Qaida
militants holed up in a village in the south fought off repeated
attempts by government troops backed by tanks and heavy artillery to
retake the besieged town. At least four al-Qaida fighters and a
civilian have been killed since the fighting began on Sep 18.
(AP, 9/22/10)
2010 Sep 22, In Zimbabwe
supporter of PM Morgan Tsvangirai died, days after militants from
President Robert Mugabe's rival party attacked a political meeting.
(AFP, 9/22/10)
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