Today in History - September 25
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813 Sep 25,
Al-Amin, Arabic Caliph of Islam (809-813), was murdered.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1066 Sep 25, King Harold
Godwinson II marched north and attacked the Vikings at the Battle of
Stampford Bridge in Yorkshire. The King of Norway was killed and
Harold’s forces destroyed the Vikings who returned to Norway in 24
of their 300 ships. Marching north to face a Norwegian invasion
force commanded by King Harald Sigurdsson, aka Hardraade, and by his
usurper brother, Tostig, Harold Godwinson defended his crown at
Stamford Bridge, resulting in a Saxon victory and the deaths of both
Harald and Tostig. Soon afterward, however, Harold had to march
south to face another invading contender for his throne, Duke
William the Bastard of Normandy, who defeated and killed Harold at
Hastings on October 14, and took the English crown as William the
Conqueror.
(TLC, 6/25/95)
1066 Sep 25, Harald III
Hardrada (51), king of Norway and England (1047-66), died in battle.
Herald was later laid to rest in Waltham Abbey.
(MC, 9/25/01)(AP, 1/3/03)
1392 Sep 25, Sergius of
Radonezh, aka Sergii Radonezhsky, (b.~1314-1322), a Russian orthodox
monk, died. He helped consolidate the Russian church in the time of
Mongol rule and was canonized in 1452 as Moscow's patron saint.
(AP,
9/5/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergius_of_Radonezh)
1396 Sep 25, A Christian
crusade, led jointly by John the Fearless of Nevers and King
Sigismund of Hungary, ended in disaster at the hands of Sultan
Bajezid I's Ottoman army at Nicopolis.
(HN, 9/25/98)(PCh, 1992, p.137)
1492 Sep 25, Crew members
aboard one of Christopher Columbus' ships, the Pinta, shouted that
they could see land, but it turned out to be a false sighting.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1493 Sep 25, Christopher
Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on
his 2nd voyage to the Western Hemisphere. He was accompanied by 13
clerics; Alvarez Chanca, a physician who left valuable accounts of
the voyage; Juan Ponce de Leon; Juan de la Cosa, a cartographer; and
Columbus’s younger brother Bartholomew.
(AP, 9/25/97)(AM, 7/97, p.58)
1513 Sept 25, Vasco Nunez de
Balboa, Spanish explorer, crossed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed
the Pacific Ocean for Spain. He was named governor of Panama and the
Pacific by King Ferdinand. In 2004 Hugh Thomas authored “Rivers of
Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire from Columbus to Magellan.”
(HFA, '96, p.38)(TL-MB, 1988, p.10)(SFEC,
9/21/97, p.C7)(WSJ, 6/2/04, p.D12)
1525 Sep 25, Johannes
Pistorius, [Bakker], Roman Catholic pastor and church reformer, was
burned at age 26. [see Sep 15]
(MC, 9/25/01)
1555 Sep 25, The Religious
Peace of Augsburg compromised differences between Catholics and
Protestants in the German states. Each prince could chose which
religion would be followed in his realm. Lutheranism was
acknowledged by the Holy Roman Empire. The Peace of Augsburg was the
first permanent legal basis for the existence of Lutheranism as well
as Catholicism in Germany. It was promulgated as part of the Diet of
the Holy Roman Empire. Charles V's Augsburg Interim of 1548 was a
temporary doctrinal agreement between German Catholics and
Protestants that was overthrown in 1552.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.19)(PCh, 1992, p.189)(HNQ,
2/8/99)
1598 Sep 25, In Sweden, King
Sigismund was defeated at Stangebro by his Uncle Charles.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1627 Sep 25, Jacques-Benigne
Bossuet, theologian, was born.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1639 Sep 25, The 1st printing
press in America began operating.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1644 Sep 25, Olaus
Rímer, 1st to accurately measured speed of light, was born in
Denmark.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1680 Sep 25, Samuel Butler
(b.1612), poet and satirist, died.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1683 Sep 25, Jean-Philippe
Rameau, composer, was born in Dijon, France.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1690 Sep 25, One of the
earliest American newspapers, “Publick Occurrences,” published its
first and last edition in Boston. The colonial governor and council
disallowed the pamphlet due to its contents.
(AP, 9/25/00)(WSJ, 3/8/06, p.D14)
1714 Sep 25, Jean-Benoit
Leclair, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1775 Sep 25, British troops
captured Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga, when he and a handful
of Americans led an attack on Montreal, Canada.
(AP, 9/25/97)(HN, 9/25/98)
1777 Sep 25, English general
William Howe conquered Philadelphia. [see Sep 26]
(MC, 9/25/01)
1780 Sep 25, American General
Benedict Arnold joined the British.
(MC, 9/25/01)(ON, 11/01, p.5)
1789 Sep 25, The first United
States Congress [proposed] adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution
and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of the amendments
became the Bill of Rights. 14 copies were hand written and 13 were
sent to the individual states.
(WUD, 1994, p.1703)(AP, 9/25/97)(HN,
9/25/98)(SFC, 1/20/02, p.A11)
1804 Sep 25, The 12th Amendment
was ratified. It required electors to vote separately for the
president and vice-president.
(HN, 9/25/98)(WSJ, 10/27/99, p.A16)(WSJ,
12/11/00, p.A18)
1829 Sep 25, There was a failed
assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1832 Sep 25, William Le Baron
Jenney, US, architect and "father of the skyscraper," was born.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1844 Sep 25-1844 Sep 27, The
first int’l. cricket match was played between the USA and Canada at
the St George's Cricket Club, Bloomingdale Park, NY. Canada won by
23 runs.
(Econ, 7/24/10,
p.83)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v_Canada_%281844%29)
1846 Sep 25, American General
Zachary Taylor's forces captured Monterey, Mexico. [see May 24]
(HN, 9/25/98)
1847 Sep 25, Vinnie Ream, who
sculpted President Abraham Lincoln from life shortly before he was
assassinated, was born.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1849 Sep 25, Johann Baptist
Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky March), died at 45.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1861 Sep 25, Secretary of US
Navy authorized the enlistment of slaves.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1866 Sep 25, (Leonard W) Jerome
Park opened in Bronx for horse racing.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1867 Sep 25, Congress created
the 1st all black university, Howard Univ. in Wash DC.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1888 Sep 25, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles."
(MC, 9/25/01)
1888 Sep 25, The Royal Court
Theatre, London, opened.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1890 Sep 25, President Benjamin
Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park.
Sequoia National Park, the nation’s 2nd oldest, was created by
Congress. The army was assigned park patrol duty.
(AP, 9/25/99)(SFC, 7/21/96, p.T3)(SFC, 2/1/03,
p.A15)
1890 Sep 25, Congress
established California’s Yosemite National Park.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1890 Sep 25, Wilford Woodruff,
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, issued
a Manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy. The
Mormons renounced the practice of polygamy after six decades in
exchange for statehood for Utah. Smith’s revelation that God
authorized polygamy remained in Article 132 of the church’s Doctrine
and Covenants.
(SFC, 8/6/98, p.A11)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)(SSFC,
2/25/07, p.A4)(AP, 9/25/07)
1892 Oct 30, Angelo Siciliano
(d.1972) was born in Italy. In 1903 he and his mother moved to
Brooklyn to live with an uncle. He later became known as body
builder Charles Atlas.
(ON, 12/09,
p.5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Atlas)
1897 Sep 25, William Faulkner
(d.1962), American author, was born in New Albany, Miss. His books
were mostly set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. and include
“The Sound and The Fury” and “Intruder in the Dust.” "The poet's
voice need not merely be the record of man; it can be one of the
props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
(AP, 9/25/97)(HN, 9/25/98)
1903 Sep 25, Mark Rothko,
[Marcus Rothkovich] US émigré painter (Green on Blue),
was born. He came to the US in 1913. His work included “Subway”
(1936/1939), “Street Scene” (1936/1938), “Untitled” (1942),
“Untitled” (1942/1943), “Phalanx of the Mind” (1945), “The Source”
(1946), “Sacrificial Moment” (1946), “Number 18” (1948), and
“Untitled” (1945-1946).
(V.D.-H.K.p.362)(SFC,1/21/97, p.B1,2)(MC,
9/25/01)
1904 Sep 25, A New York City
police officer ordered a female passenger in an automobile on Fifth
Avenue to stop smoking a cigarette. A male companion was arrested
and later fined two dollars for "abusing" the officer.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1905 Sep 25, Red Smith,
sportscaster and columnist, was born in Green Bay Wisc.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1906 Sep 25, Dimitri
Shostakovich (d.1975), Soviet composer who wrote 15 symphonies, was
born. His work included the Violin Concerto No. 2. [see Sep 12]
(WUD, 1994, p.1320)(SFC, 1/30/98, p.E5)(HN,
9/25/98)
1907 Sep 25, Jean Sibelius' 3rd
Symphony premiered.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1909 Sep 25, The first National
Aeronautic Show opened at Madison Square Garden.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1911 Sep 25, Italy declared war
on Turkey.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1915 Sep 25, An allied
offensive was launched in France against the German Army.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1915 Sep 25, At the Battle at
Loos: 8,246 British and 0 German casualties.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1918 Sep 25, John Ireland,
Irish and US archbishop of St Paul, died at 80.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1918 Sep 25, Brazil declared
war on Austria.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1919 Sep 25, Pres. Wilson
collapsed in Pueblo, Colorado. An ailing President Woodrow Wilson
was faced with the possibility that the Senate might not ratify the
Versailles Treaty ending World War I without substantial changes.
Wilson embarked on a grueling railroad tour of America to sway
public opinion in favor of his version of the Treaty, delivering 40
speeches in less than a week. He warned America that without the
Treaty, "there will be another world war" within a single
generation. He was rushed back to a White House sickroom but there
suffered a stroke on October 2. For the five weeks Wilson's life was
in danger, his doctor and Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, kept the
president isolated, but did not declare him unfit to perform his
presidential duties. By November 1, Wilson once again governed the
country, although he was left partially paralyzed, weak and
demoralized. In March 1920, the Senate finally rejected the Treaty
of Versailles.
(AP, 9/25/97)(HNPD, 9/25/98)
1926 Sep 25, Henry Ford
announced 8 hour, 5 day work week.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(MC, 9/25/01)
1926 Sep 25, The Convention to
Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery, an international treaty
created under the auspices of the League of Nations, was first
signed in Geneva to be effective March 9, 1927.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_Slavery_Convention)
1931 Sep 25, Barbara Walters,
television news personality best known for her one-on-one interviews
with famous personalities, was born.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1932 Sep 25, Glenn Gould,
concert pianist best known for his Bach interpretations, was born.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1933 Sep 25, 1st state
poorhouse opened in Smyrna, Georgia.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1933 Sep 25, The 5th
"extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1935 Sep 25, Maxwell Anderson's
"Winterset," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1936 Sep 25-1936 Oct 13, The
Tripartite Agreement between the US, the UK, and France established
that the subscribing nations agree to buy and sell gold freely with
each other in exchange for their own currency.
(www.reserveasset.gold.org/monetary_history/key_documents/after/)
1937 Sep 25, In China Lin Biao
masterminded the ambush and annihilation of more than 1,000 Japanese
troops, at Pingxiangguan pass in Shanxi province.
(AP, 7/16/07)
1937 Sep 25, German Chancellor
Adolf Hitler met with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini in Munich.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1938 Sep 25, President Franklin
Roosevelt urged negotiations between Hitler and Czech President
Benes over the Sudetenland.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1939 Sep 25, German Luftwaffe
struck Warsaw with fire bombs.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1939 Sep 25, Andorra and
Germany finally signed an official treaty ending WW I. The 1919
Versailles Peace Treaty failed to include Andorra.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1940 Sep 25, German High
Commissioner in Norway set up the Vidikun Quisling government.
(SFC, 6/25/97, p.A10)(MC, 9/25/01)
1940 Sep 25, Luftwaffe bombed
the Spitfire factory in Southampton. [see Sep 24]
(MC, 9/25/01)
1942 Sep 25, The War Labor
Board ordered equal pay for women in the United States.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1943 Sep 25, The Red Army
retook Smolensk from the Germans who were retreating to the Dnieper
River in the Soviet Union.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1944 Sep 25, Michael Douglas,
actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile), was born in New Jersey.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1945 Sep 25, Bela Bartok,
Hungarian composer, died at 64. [see Sep 26]
(MC, 9/25/01)
1948 Sep 25, Iva Toguri
D'Aquino (b.1916), a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime
radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose," arrived in SF aboard the General
Hodges and was taken away by FBI agents. On Sep 9, 1949, she was
found guilty of speaking into a microphone concerning the loss of US
ships. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
She was released in 1956 and pardoned by Pres. Ford in 1977.
(AP, 9/5/99)(AH, 10/02, p.28)
1952 Sep 25, Christopher Reeve,
actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), was born in NYC.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1952 Sep 25, The American
Federation of Labor broke a 71-year precedent and endorsed
Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson.
(SFC, 9/20/02, p.E6)
1954 Sep 25, Francois "Doc"
Duvalier won the Haitian presidential election.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1955 Sep 25, Patty Berg won the
LPGA Clock Golf Open.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1956 Sep 25, The first
trans-Atlantic telephone cable went into service.
(AP, 9/25/06)
1957 Sep 25, With 300 members
of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division standing guard, nine
black children forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little
Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds, were escorted to class.
Vice principle Elizabeth Huckaby (d.1999 at 93) escorted the
children and in 1980 published "Crisis at Central High."
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.D5)(AP, 9/25/07)
1958 Sep 25, John B Watson, US
psychologist and behaviorist, died.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1959 Sep 25, President
Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev began Camp David talks.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1959 Sep 25, Cosmopolitan
editor Helen Gurley (37) & David Brown (43) wed.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1960 Sep 25, Emily Post
(b.1873), etiquette expert, died at 86. A 1941 profile of Emily
Price Post called her "the American dictator of correct behavior,"
an apt description since her book on etiquette sold more than
650,000 copies in its first 20 years. Born into high society, Post
wanted to write novels but she turned to etiquette when she
discovered the poor quality of existing books on the subject. For
her, however, "nothing is less important than the fork you
use"--rather, etiquette was the art of making other people feel
comfortable. Post delivered her message with wit and style in radio
broadcasts and a daily column printed in 160 newspapers. A
1941 profile of Emily Price Post called her "the American dictator
of correct behavior," an apt description since her book on etiquette
sold more than 650,000 copies in its first 20 years. In 2008 Laura
Claridge authored “Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress
of American Manners.”
(HNPD, 8/17/00)(WSJ, 10/16/08, p.A13)
1962 Sep 25, Sonny Liston
knocked out Floyd Patterson in round one to win the world
heavyweight title at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
(AP, 9/25/02)
1962 Sep 25, A Black church was
destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1964 Sep 25, The TV show
“Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” debuted with Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle. The
show was directed by Aaron Ruben (1914-2010) and continued to run to
1969.
(SFC, 2/5/10,
p.C7)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0057752/)
1965 Sep 25, 60 year old
Satchel Paige of the Kansas City A's pitched 3 scoreless innings.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1966 Sep 25, Dmitri
Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premiered in Moscow.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1970 Sep 25, Erich M. Remarque
(b.1898), German writer, died. His books included “Im West Nichts
Neues” (All Quiet on the Western Front), 1929.
(http://kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm)
1971 Sep 25, Over 100 Russian
officials were expelled from Britain for spying. Information from
Oleg Lyalin, supposedly a member of the USSR's trade delegation in
the UK, led to the expulsion of 105 Soviet officials from Britain.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/30/newsid_2523000/2523669.stm)
1973 Sep 25, The three-man crew
of the U.S. space laboratory Skylab Two splashed down safely in the
Pacific Ocean after spending 59 days in orbit.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1974 Sep 25, Scientists warned
that continued use of aerosol sprays will cause ozone depletion,
which will lead to an increased risk of skin cancer and global
weather changes.
{Environment, USA, Cancer}
(HN, 9/25/98)(www.todayinsci.com/9/9_25.htm)
1978 Sep 25, In Calif. 144
people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Boeing
727 and a Cessna private plane collided over San Diego.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(AP, 9/25/97)
1978 Sep 25, Jacobo Timerman
was released by Argentina’s ruling junta under international
pressure. His citizenship was stripped, his newspaper confiscated
and he was put on a plane for Israel.
(SFC, 11/12/99, p.D6)
1979 Sep 25, The musical
"Evita" opened on NYC’s Broadway for 1568 performances.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1981 Sep 25, Sandra Day
O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S.
Supreme Court.
(AP, 9/25/97)(HN, 9/25/98)
1982 Sep 25, Pennsylvania
prison guard George Banks killed 13 people including 4 that were his
own children.
(www.internationaljusticeproject.org/illnessGBanks.cfm)
1983 Sep 25, In the 35th Emmy
Awards the winners included Hill St Blues, Cheers, Ed Flanders and
Shelley Long.
(http://tinyurl.com/2wxcpr)
1983 Sep 25, Leslie Michelle
English (2) was raped and murdered in Griffin, Georgia. Her uncle,
Eddie Albert Crawford was convicted of the murder and sentenced to
death. After 20 years on death row Crawford was executed July 19,
2004.
(SFC, 7/19/04, p.A4)
1983 Sep 25, In Northern
Ireland Jimmy Smythe escaped from the Maze prison near Belfast along
with 37 other prisoners. He made his way to San Francisco where he
was arrested and released on bail in 1992. Kevin Barry Artt, Terence
Kirby, and Pol Brennan also escaped and made their way to
California. The were arrested in the 1990s and held in a federal
prison in Pleasanton, CA.
(http://larkspirit.com/ipow/hb4/kbabio.html).
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A20)(SFC, 10/10/98, p.A8)
1985 Sep 25, The Tyrell Museum
of Paleontology was opened to the public. It is located 140 km.
northeast of Calgary at Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
(CFA, '96, p.63)
1987 Sep 25, The US Senate
unanimously approved the nomination of Judge William S. Sessions to
be the new director of the FBI.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1988 Sep 25, Republican George
Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis clashed over deficits, drugs and
the Pledge of Allegiance in their first presidential debate.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1988 Sep 25, Former first
brother Billy Carter died in Plains, Ga., at 51.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1988 Sep 25, Florence Griffith
Joyner won the women's 100-meter dash at the Seoul Olympics.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1989 Sep 25, President Bush,
addressing the UN General Assembly, offered to slash American stocks
of chemical weapons by more than 80%, provided the Soviets did the
same.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1990 Sep 25, In a videotaped
message to Americans, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein warned that if
President Bush launched a war against his country, “it would not be
up to him to end it.”
(AP, 9/25/00)
1990 Sep 25, The UN Security
Council voted 14-to-1 to impose an air embargo against Iraq. Cuba
cast the lone dissenting vote.
(AP, 9/25/00)
1991 Sep 25, A national
commission faulted the government for a lack of leadership in the
fight against AIDS.
(AP, 9/20/01)
1991 Sep 25, The UN Security
Council unanimously passed Resolution 713 that imposed a worldwide
arms embargo against Yugoslavia and all its warring factions.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10)(AP,
9/20/01)
1991 Sep 25, Nazi war criminal
Klaus Barbie died in Lyon, France, at age 77.
(AP, 9/20/01)
1992 Sep 25, A judge in
Orlando, Fla., ruled in favor of Gregory Kingsley, a 12-year-old boy
seeking a "divorce" from his biological parents. He took the name
Shawn Russ.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1992 Sep 25, Some four dozen
San Francisco bicycle riders began to ride up Market Street in a
group called "Commute Clot." It grew to become Critical Mass bike
ride held on the last Friday of each month.
(SFC, 7/30/97, p.A13)(SFC, 9/26/02, p.A25)(SFC,
9/28/07, p.A1)
1992 Sep 25, The Mars
Observer blasted off on a $980 million mission to the red planet.
The probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in August
1993.
(AP, 9/25/97)
1992 Sep 25, Dorothy Harris
(41) and Louis Oates (63) were shot to death at their oil company
office in Palestine, Texas. Kelsey Patterson, a paranoid
schizophrenic, was arrested and convicted of the murder. Patterson
was executed May 18, 2004.
(SFC, 5/19/04,
p.A7)(www.txexecutions.org/reports/322.asp)
1993 Sep 25, Three U.S.
soldiers in Somalia were killed when their helicopter was downed by
a rocket-propelled grenade.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1994 Sep 25, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin began a five-day swing through the United States as he
arrived in New York, hoping to encourage American investment in his
country's struggling economy.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1994 Sep 25, Swiss voters
approved a ban on racist propaganda. The law became effective Jan
1,1995.
(http://natall.com/national-vanguard/114/freedom.html)(www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n4p-2.html)
1995 Sep 25, Ross Perot
announced he would form a new Independence Party that would field
its own White House candidate and would try to be the swing vote in
congressional races.
(AP, 9/25/00)
1995 Sep 25, A New Zealand
volcano, Mt. Ruapehu, erupted with ash and steam spewed 12 miles
high. There was some discussion over the radio whether this event
was a direct result of the nuclear tests by France cited on 9/8/95.
(WSJ, 9/27/95, p.A-16)
1996 Sep 25, NATO generals were
ordered to prepare plans for an extension of allied military force
in Bosnia beyond the Dec. 20 deadline.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A12)
1996 Sep 25, In Afghanistan
rebel forces moved into Kabul. A 100 fighters were killed on both
sides.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 25, In Columbia rebels
attacked an oil pipeline in Arauca province and pumping of 220,000
barrels a day was suspended.
(WSJ, 9/26/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 25, Violence began in
Jerusalem when Israelis opened a tunnel along the west wall of the
old city in opposition to Palestinian sentiments. Seven Arabs were
killed. Resulting riots left 69 Palestinians dead along with 16
Israelis.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A10)(AP, 9/25/97)(Econ, 2/17/07,
p.48)
1996 Sep 25, In the Netherlands
a DC-3 aircraft went into the North Sea near Den Helder and killed
all 32 people on board.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A11)
1996 Sep 25, In Sri Lanka the
military said it killed or wounded 500 Tamil rebels with a loss of
58 government troops and 115 wounded since Sunday when their
offensive began near Kilinochchi.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A11)
1996 Sep 25, Turkey said its
troops killed 47 Kurdish rebels in the eastern provinces.
(WSJ, 9/26/96, p.A1)
1997 Sep 25, The NBC prime-time
drama "ER" did its season premiere live for the Eastern United
States, then repeated the performance live for the West Coast.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1997 Sep 25, President Clinton
pulled open the door of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., as
he welcomed nine blacks who had faced hate-filled mobs 40 years
earlier.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1997 Sep 25, Sportscaster Marv
Albert ended his trial in Arlington, Va., by pleading guilty to
assault and battery charges; within hours, NBC fired him. The
network later rehired him.
(AP, 9/25/07)
1997 Sep 25, In the town of
Scotia in Humboldt County, Ca., 7 protestors settled in the company
office of Pacific Lumber. Sheriff’s deputies applied pepper spray
directly to the eyes of the protestors using cotton swabs and
Q-tips.
(SFC,10/31/97, p.A15)
1997 Sep 25, In California it
was reported that traces of toxaphene, banned in 1982, were found in
at least one bird in a southern Tulare County canal where some 1600
western grebes and millions of fish were found dead.
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.A13)
1997 Sep 25, The space
shuttle Atlantis was launched. Astronaut David Wolf scheduled to
replace Michael Foale on the Mir space station.
(www.cnn.com/TECH/9709/25/shuttle.mir/)(SFC,
9/27/97, p.A3)
1997 Sep 25, A British jet car,
Thrust SSC, driven by Andy Green of the Royal Air Force set a land
speed record of 714.144 mph. [see Oct 13]
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A1,7)
1997 Sep 25, From Brazil it was
reported that local transsexuals could get a free sex-change
operation under new rules that classified the surgery as
experimental.
(SFC, 9/25/97, p.A14)
1997 Sep 25, Iraq demanded that
Turkey pull back some 15,000 troops who crossed its border in
pursuit of Kurdistan Workers Party guerrillas.
(WSJ, 9/26/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 25, In Jordan Khaled
Mashaal, the political leader of Hamas, was chemically attacked by
two men with forged Canadian passports in Amman. Hamas accused the
men of being Israeli Mossad agents. Jordan's King Hussein
intervened, forcing Israel to send the antidote that saved the Hamas
leader's life and release the group's jailed founder in exchange for
the freedom of its captured agents.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A10)(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B4)(SFC,
10/12/97, p.A17)(AP, 9/25/04)
1998 Sep 25, Mark McGwire hit
his 66th home run, just 45 minutes after Sammy Sosa hit his 66th
homer of the season.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1998 Sep 25, Hillary Clinton
spoke on behalf of Barbara Boxer at the SF Hilton. Pres. Clinton
also visited SF and the Bay Area seeking political donations.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 25, Douglas Groat, a
former CIA covert operator, was sentenced to 5 years in prison after
admitting that he attempted to extort $1 million from the agency
with threats to disclose how the US intercepts foreign
communications.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 25, It was reported
that the world economic conditions had impacted the price of the
Beanie Babies, the stuffed critters that burst on the toy market in
1994. Beanie prices were down as much as 45%.
(WSJ, 9/25/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 25, Hurricane Georges
raked the Florida Keys with sheets of rain and 105 mph winds, but
spared Florida the kind of devastation seen across the Caribbean.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1998 Sep 25, Frenchman Benoit
Lecomte reached the Brittany coast after a 72-day swim across the
Atlantic that began Jul 16 at Hyannis, Mass.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A11)
1998 Sep 25, In Liberia the US
transported Roosevelt Johnson out of the country to Sierra Leone.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 25, In Malaysia Abdul
Malek was arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA), at the
height of the "Reformasi" (Reforms) demonstrations following the
sacking and arrest of deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim. In 2007 a
Malaysian court awarded Malek 740,000 dollars for his wrongful
arrest and assault in custody. It was the first time that a
Malaysian court had awarded significant compensation for illegal
detention and abuse.
(AFP, 10/18/07)
1998 Sep 25, In Morocco a
chartered Spanish airliner crashed and killed all 38 people onboard.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A11)
1998 Sep 25, In Russia
Alexander Shokhin quit as the new top economic official.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A10)
1999 Sep 25, Vice President Al
Gore and former Senator Bill Bradley squared off in back-to-back
speeches to the Democratic National Committee as each sought support
for his 2000 presidential campaign.
(AP, 9/25/00)
1999 Sep 25, In Hawaii a
sightseeing plane crashed on the Mauna Loa Volcano. All ten people
onboard were killed.
(SFC, 9/27/99, p.A3)
1999 Sep 25, G7 leaders issued
a joint statement that said it was up to the Japanese to drive down
the value of the yen which had been strengthening against the dollar
and threatened Japanese economic recovery.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 25, In Afghanistan the
Taliban bombed Taloqan and 16 people were killed. At least 40
Taliban soldiers and 8 opposition soldiers were killed in a battle
for Dasht-e-Archi.
(SFC, 9/27/99, p.A18)
1999 Sep 25, In Chechnya
Russian warplanes knocked out local TV and mobile phones and forced
thousands of civilians to flee Grozny. 7 people were reported killed
and 24 wounded. An estimated 100,000 crowded the border crossing to
Ingushetia.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A23)
1999 Sep 25, In East Timor 9 to
16 people were reported killed in rural areas while on a mission to
aid refugees.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 25, In India 2
government ministers were arrested in Bihar and 4 people were killed
amid reports of large-scale election fraud during the 4th round of
voting.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A26)
1999 Sep 25, In Indonesia
student riots extended to Medan, on the island of Sumatra, after 6
people were killed in Jakarta.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 25, From Mexico it was
reported that assaults on trucks had increased from 350 in 1993 to
an estimated 40,000 a year.
(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A12)
1999 Sep 25, In Taiwan powerful
aftershocks continued after the government imposed an emergency
decree to speed up relief operations.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.A1)
2000 Sep 25, In NYC a US
District court ordered Radovan Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb
leader, to pay $4.5 million in damages for 1992 war atrocities
committed by his soldiers.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A16)
2000 Sep 25, It was reported
that synthetic versions of the natural enzymes superoxide dismutase
and catalase extended the lives of microscopic roundworms by as much
as 50%.
(SFC, 9/25/00, p.A6)
2000 Sep 25, In Sydney,
Australia, Cathy Freeman became the first Aborigine to win an
individual Olympic gold medal, capturing the women's 400 meters.
Michael Johnson of the United States became the first man to
successfully defend a 400-meter title.
(AP, 9/20/01)
2000 Sep 25, In Cuba thousands
of protestors joined Fidel Castro to protest US immigration
policies.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 25, In Greece a
nationwide truckers’ strike caused fuel shortages.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 25, In Cheju, South
Korea, the North and South Korea defense ministers, Cho Sung Tae and
Kim Il Chul, met and pledged to work for reconciliation.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 25, In Nepal Maoist
rebels killed 12 police officers in Dunai with crude bombs and guns.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Sep 25, In Serbia
(Yugoslavia) Vojislav Kostunica declared victory over Pres.
Milosevic.
(SFC, 9/26/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 25, In Thailand
flooding left 47 people dead.
(WSJ, 9/26/00, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, Former Chicago
Bulls player Michael Jordan, who'd left professional basketball
after winning a half-dozen championship rings, announced he was
returning to the game with the Washington Wizards.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D5)(AP, 9/25/02)
2001 Sep 25, General Motors
announced the 2002 model year would be the last for the Chevrolet
Camaro and Pontiac Firebird.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2001 Sep 25, The US campaign
against terrorism was renamed “Operation Enduring Freedom.”
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, The FAA lifted a
ban on crop-dusting flights.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 25, The Red Cross
began distributing $30,000 grants to families of the victims of the
WTC and Pentagon. $200 million was received in donations.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A5)
2001 Sep 25, Irving Bernstein,
UCLA labor historian, died at age 84. His books included “The Lean
Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933” (1960), “The
Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941”
(1970), and “A Caring Society” (1985).
(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A20)
2001 Sep 25, Naseer Ahmed
Mujahed, Osama bin Laden’s military chief, faxed a statement to news
agencies that said: “Wherever there are Americans and Jews, they
will be targeted.”
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A7)
2001 Sep 25, A Chinese captain
went down with his freighter in the Taiwan Strait as Typhoon Lekima
lashed the area.
(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, Interpol issued a
bulletin for the arrest of Ayman al-Zawahri (50), an Egyptian
surgeon believed to be Osama bin Laden’s closest al Qaeda associate
in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A8)
2001 Sep 25, Nato agreed to
keep troops in Macedonia beyond the Sep 26 expiration of its
mission.
(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, The Malaysia
government accused Nik Adli Nik Abdul Aziz (34), an Islamic school
teacher, for plotting to overthrow the government. His father served
as the chief minister of Kelantan state. Nik Adli allegedly belonged
to the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia militant group.
(WSJ, 9/26/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 25, In Russia Pres.
Putin issued a 72-hour ultimatum to Chechen rebels to show up for
peace talks.
(WSJ, 9/27/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 25, Saudi Arabia
withdrew diplomatic recognition of the Afghan Taliban government.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/25/02)
2001 Sep 25, Pope John Paul cut
short a speech in Armenia due to symptoms of his Parkinson’s
disease. His visit coincided with celebrations marking the 1,700th
anniversary of Christianity as the state’s religion.
(SFC, 9/26/01, p.C2)
2002 Sep 25, The annual Alaska
oil dividend was announced to be $1,540.76.
(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A7)
2002 Sep 25, US military C-130s
and US troops landed in Ivory Coast to rescue Americans. American
schoolchildren escaped a rebel-held Ivory Coast city that was under
siege as US special forces and French troops moved in to rescue
Westerners caught in the West African nation's bloody uprising.
(AP, 9/25/02)(AP, 9/25/07)
2002 Sep 25, Tropical Storm
Isidore drenched the Gulf Coast.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2002 Sep 25, Explosives
(pentrite) were discovered on a Moroccan jet after passengers left
the flight at an airport in eastern France. There was no detonator
attached to the 3 1/2 ounces of explosives discovered in the
passenger section of a Royal Air Maroc airplane after it landed at
the Metz-Nancy-Lorraine airport.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 25, Indian forces
killed five suspected Islamic militants trying to cross into Indian
Kashmir from Pakistan as new tensions were stoked between the
nuclear rivals over an attack on an Indian temple.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 25, Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi urged the United Nations to come up with a "new,
strongly worded, unambiguous and exacting" resolution on Iraq that
could authorize the use of force if Baghdad fails to comply with it.
(AP, 9/26/02)
2002 Sep 25, In Pakistan the
Islamic Martyrs Brigade (Lashkar Fedayan-e-Islami) held a secret
meeting in Peshawar and announced planned suicide attacks against
American troops in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A18)
2002 Sep 25, In Pakistan 2
gunmen burst into the offices of a Christian welfare organization in
the city of Karachi and opened fire, killing six people, three of
them Christians, and wounding two others.
(Reuters, 9/25/02)(SFC, 9/26/02, p.A22)
2002 Sep 25-2002 Sep 26, Over
800 passengers and crew were believed to have perished when the
Senegal’s crowded MS Joola, a state-run ferry, heaved to its side
shortly before midnight in a storm off the coast of Gambia. There
were only 62 known survivors. The toll was later raised to 1,863
dead. The ship had been pushed into service while still needing
vital repairs.
(WSJ, 9/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 2/3/03)(SFC, 3/24/06,
p.A12)(Econ, 2/24/07, p.58)
2003 Sep 25, In Nashville,
Tenn., 8 people died in a nursing home fire.
(SFC, 9/27/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 25, In a new French
deck of cards Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gets the honor as
ace of spades. Pres. Bush is the king of diamonds and Osama bin
Laden the joker. Thierry Meyssan, the man behind the French deck,
headed the Voltaire Network, a left-wing association that put the
cards on its Internet site.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, Franco Modigliani
(85), Nobel-winning economist, died in Cambridge, Mass.
(AP, 9/25/04)(Econ, 10/4/03, p.74)
2003 Sep 25, George Plimpton
(b.1927), writer and participatory journalist, died in NYC at age
76. He helped found the Paris Review in 1953. His books included
"Paper Lion" (1966).
(SFC, 9/27/03, p.A2)
2003 Sep 25, Edward Said (67),
Palestinian American journalist, critic and author, died. His books
included "Orientalism" and "Culture and Imperialism."
(SSFC, 12/28/03, p.E9)(Econ, 10/4/03, p.84)
2003 Sep 25, In France INSERM,
the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, determined
that 14,802 people had died in August due to the heat wave.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, A mortar blast
tore through a market in Baqouba, Iraq, killing nine civilians and
injuring more than a dozen others. Townspeople suspected American
soldiers stationed nearby may have been the target. Aquila
al-Hashimi (50), the first member of Iraq's American-picked
Governing Council to be targeted for assassination, died, five days
after she was shot in an ambush.
(AP, 9/26/03)(AP, 9/25/03)(WSJ, 9/26/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 25, Israeli troops
killed 4 Islamic militants, including a senior fugitive, in gun
battles in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. One soldier was killed and
six were wounded in the fighting.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, In northern Japan
an 8.3 earthquake, the world's most powerful in 2 1/2 years, injured
at least 589 people and knocked out power on Hokkaido.
(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2003/eq_030925/)
2003 Sep 25, In Nigeria an
Islamic appeals court overturned the conviction of Amina Lawal. She
had been sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, Yuri Senkevich
(66), a documentary filmmaker and host of Russia's longest running
TV show, died.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 25, Sudan's government
and main rebel group signed an agreement on security arrangements
for a six-year political transition in efforts to end their 20-year
civil war.
(AP, 9/26/03)
2004 Sep 25, The Lasker
Foundation awarded its prize for clinical research posthumously to
Dr. Charles Kelman, who made cataract removal an outpatient
procedure. The $50,000 award for basic research went to Dr. Pierre
Chambon, Ronald Evans, and Elwood Jensen for opening up the field of
studying proteins called nuclear hormone receptors.
(SSFC, 9/26/04, p.A10)
2004 Sep 25, Marvin Davis (79),
oil mogul and former owner of 20th Century Fox, died in Beverly
Hills.
(SSFC, 9/26/04, p.B7)
2004 Sep 25, Hurricane Jeanne
lashed the Bahamas with violent winds and torrential rains, making a
direct hit on Abaco island and threatening the country's
second-largest city, Freeport. Late in the day Jeanne hit Florida.
(AP, 9/25/04)(SSFC, 9/26/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 25, Afghan security
forces killed a senior Taliban commander and two of his comrades in
southern Afghanistan. Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, a former inmate at the
US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died in the gunbattle.
(AP, 9/26/04)
2004 Sep 25, In southwest China
a swollen river swept a bus off a bridge, and about 30 passengers
were missing.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, Ma Chengyuan (77),
former president of the renowned Shanghai Museum, died. He saved
priceless artifacts from marauding Red Guards during the Cultural
Revolution.
(AP, 10/10/04)
2004 Sep 25, US warplanes,
tanks and artillery units struck the insurgent stronghold of
Fallujah, killing at least 8 people and wounding 15. The US military
announced the deaths of four Marines and a soldier. Five mortar
shells struck the Iraqi Oil Ministry headquarters in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, An Internet
posting claimed that an al-Qaida-linked group has killed British
hostage Kenneth Bigley.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, An Israeli
helicopter fired two missiles toward a crowd of Palestinians on the
outskirts of a refugee camp, killing a 55-year-old man and wounding
five people.
(SFC, 9/25/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 25, The Israeli army
charged into a Palestinian refugee camp, killing one person and
tearing down 35 homes.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, A film about Iraqi
children victims of war "Turtles can fly" directed by Iranian Bahman
Ghobadi won the Concha de Oro (Golden Shell) at the prestigious San
Sebastian film festival.
(AFP, 9/25/04)
2004 Sep 25, Sudanese
authorities accused an opposition party of plotting to kill more
than three dozen senior government officials and blow up key sites
in the capital.
(AP, 9/25/04)
2005 Sep 25, Pres. Bush said
Congress should consider giving the Defense Dept. the lead role in
responding to natural disasters. Houston began a staggered re-entry
plan following Hurricane Rita and commercial flights resumed to the
area.
(WSJ, 9/26/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 25, In Washington DC a
landmark agreement to forgive billions of dollars of debt for poor
countries sailed toward final approval by finance ministers after
the IMF agreed how to pay for it.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, It was reported
that US Senate leader Bill Frist sold HCA stock worth $12 million
between January and June this year. The assets were allegedly in a
blind trust, but Frist was kept informed of account activities by
the trust administrators. The stock dropped following the sales when
HCA warned it would not meet expectations.
(SSFC, 9/25/05, A3)
2005 Sep 25, The 22nd annual
Folsom Street Fair, a homage to leather fetishists, took place in SF
and drew an estimated 300,000 people.
(SFC, 9/26/05, p.B3)
2005 Sep 25, M. Scott Peck
(b.1936), psychiatrist and author of “The Road Less Traveled”
(1978), died at his home in Warren, Conn.
(SFC, 9/28/05, p.B7)
2005 Sep 25, Don Adams (82), TV
star born as Donald James Yarmy, died in LA. He played Maxwell Smart
on the “Get Smart” TV show from 1965-1970 along with co-star Barbara
Feldon.
(SFC, 9/27/05, p.B5)
2005 Sep 25, A US Chinook
helicopter crashed in remote mountains of southern Afghanistan,
killing all five crew members on board.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, In Australia 20
high-tech solar-powered cars from 10 countries set off on a 3,000
kilometer (1,860 mile) race across the vast outback in the 8th World
Solar Challenge. The Nuna team of the Delft University of Technology
from the Netherlands scored a hat-trick with their third victory in
a row; their Nuna 3 won with a record average speed of 103 km/h.
(AP,
9/25/05)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge)
2005 Sep 25, In Britain
Rochelle Holness (15) vanished after she let home to call her
boyfriend from a telephone box. Her mutilated body was later found
in five black plastic bin bags near a rubbish chute in Catford,
south London. In 2006 John McGrady (48), a convicted rapist and
former butcher, was sentenced to life in prison for the killing.
(AFP, 5/16/06)
2005 Sep 25, The
partially-clothed body of Sally Anne Bowman (18), whose was found
lying in the driveway of her home in Croydon, south London. In 2008
a jury at London's Central Criminal Court found Mark Dixie (37)
guilty of killing the aspiring model. A judge recommended he serve
at least 34 years.
(www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/22/ukcrime3)
2005 Sep 25, China’s government
said it is imposing new regulations to control content on its news
Web sites, another step in its ongoing effort to police a rapidly
expanding Internet population.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, In Germany Porsche
announced that it plans to take a stake of around 20% in VW in a
move that would help shield Europe's biggest car maker from a
hostile takeover.
(AFP, 9/26/05)
2005 Sep 25, A group of
pro-democracy lawmakers from Hong Kong crossed into mainland China
for the first time since being barred for criticizing Beijing after
the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989. They put their case for
electoral reform directly to a Chinese communist leader for the
first time, but complained that they were rebuffed.
(Reuters, 9/25/05)(AFP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A magnitude 5.6
undersea earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia, but there were no
immediate reports of damages or casualties.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, Iran rejected a
resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog agency that put it one step
away from Security Council referral, calling the move "illegal and
illogical" and orchestrated by the United States.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A suicide car
bomber struck an Interior Ministry convoy in Baghdad, killing seven
police commandos and two civilians. Earlier, a bomb mounted on a
bicycle blew apart a music store in Hillah, south of the capital,
killing one. US forces in Sadr City killed at least eight Shiite
gunmen and wounding five. In western Iraq a US soldier was killed
when his vehicle rolled over during a patrol.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, Iraqi and US
authorities killed Abdullah Abu Azzam (Abdullah Najim Abdullah
Mohamed Al-Jawari), the No. 2 official in the al-Qaida in Iraq
organization, in a raid in Baghdad.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 25, Israeli aircraft
blasted suspected Palestinian weapons facilities in Gaza and
authorities arrested hundreds of militants in the West Bank,
launching an offensive against the Islamic group Hamas after it
bombarded Israeli towns with rockets. Hamas announced it would no
longer use Gaza Strip as a staging ground for attacks against
Israel.
(AP, 9/25/05)(SFC, 9/26/05, A4)
2005 Sep 25, Italy's government
stripped Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio of his authority to
represent the country at a World Bank meeting.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A bomb rigged to
the car of May Chidiac, a prominent journalist for an anti-Syrian
television station, exploded severing her arm and leg in the latest
in a string of targeted explosions in Lebanon.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A 7.0 earthquake
hit northern Peru, near Moyobamba, causing power outages and cutting
phone service throughout much of the region. 4 people were reported
killed in Lamas.
(AP, 9/26/05)(SFC, 9/26/05, A3)
2005 Sep 25, Polish voters cast
their ballots in a parliamentary election expected to deal a
crushing defeat to an ex-communist government plagued by scandal and
high unemployment and lead to a coalition government between two
conservative parties. Voters embraced two center-right parties that
have promised tax cuts and clean government.
(AP, 9/25/05)(AP, 9/26/05)
2005 Sep 25, Some 774 Rwandans
convicted by community courts for their role in the 1994 genocide
began excavating stones for road construction as punishment for
their role in the killings of more than a half-million people in
this small central African nation. The convicts were tried by the
newly established community courts, known as Gacaca. At least
760,000 Rwandans were accused of committing crimes during the
genocide.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, Sudanese President
Omar al-Beshir met with King Abdullah in the Saudi city of Jeddah to
discuss cooperation between their countries and regional
developments.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2005 Sep 25, A majority of the
Swiss electorate voted to allow citizens of the 10 new EU member
states to work in Switzerland, according to the final results of a
national referendum.
(AP, 9/25/05)
2006 Sep 25, US air safety
officials eased restrictions on liquids in carry-ons.
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 25, It was reported
that the gap in between US debt payments and return from investments
abroad had reached $2.5 billion in the 2nd quarter of 2006. This
amounted to a quarterly debt payment of about $22 for each American
household.
(WSJ, 9/25/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 25, A US federal judge
granted class action status to tens of millions of "light cigarette"
smokers for a potential $200 billion lawsuit against cigarette
makers.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills to bar the state's massive
pension funds from investing in companies in Sudan and to indemnify
the University of California system from liability from divesting
its investments in the country.
(Reuters, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Murphy Oil agreed
to pay $330 million to settle a class-action suit filed by victims
of Hurricane Katrina whose homes and businesses were inundated when
floodwaters carried nearly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil from a
company storage tank.
(WSJ, 9/26/06, p.A12)
2006 Sep 25, The Louisiana
Superdome, a symbol of misery during Hurricane Katrina, reopened for
a New Orleans Saints game. The Saints defeated the Atlanta Falcons,
23-3.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2006 Sep 25, In Afghan 2 gunmen
on a motorbike killed Safia Hama Jan, the provincial director of the
Ministry of Women's Affairs, outside her home in apparent
retribution for her efforts to help educate women. In Khost province
a bomb killed 2 policemen and a coalition soldier was injured in a
suicide attack. 2 men believed to be suicide attackers were killed
when the car they were in blew up on a road often used by the US-led
coalition and Afghan forces. In Paktika province six suspected
rebels were killed when they were escorting a suicide bomber whose
explosives detonated early.
(AFP, 9/25/06)(AFP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 25, UCB, a Belgian
drug firm, announced a takeover of Germany’s Schwarz Pharma for €4.4
billion.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.71)
2006 Sep 25, Deutsche Oper, a
leading German opera house, canceled a 3-year-old production of
Mozart's "Idomeneo" that included a scene showing the severed head
of the Prophet Muhammad, unleashing a furious debate over free
speech.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 25, In Athens, Greece,
a gang of robbers wielding machine guns stole an estimated $1.9
million from a casino's security van after ramming the vehicle with
a stolen truck.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Guatemalan
security forces took over the Pavon prison farm, which had been
controlled for more than 10 years by inmates who produced drugs,
lived in spacious homes with luxury goods and even rented space for
stores and restaurants. 7 prisoners died when 3,000 police and
soldiers firing automatic weapons stormed the prison just after
dawn.
(Reuters, 9/25/06)(AP, 11/14/10)
2006 Sep 25, Iraq's feuding
ethnic and sectarian groups moved ahead with forming a committee to
consider amending the constitution after their leaders agreed to
delay any division of the country into autonomous states until 2008.
In Basra British forces shot and killed Omar al-Farouq, a leading
al-Qaida terrorist, more than a year after he embarrassed the US
military by making an unprecedented escape from a maximum security
military prison in Afghanistan in July, 2005. A US soldier died of
wounds sustained from enemy fire in Mosul. A US Marine and soldier
were killed in action in western Anbar province.
(AP, 9/25/06)(AP, 9/26/06)(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 25, In Nigeria an
inauguration ceremony in Lagos featured new bailiffs, a corps of 30
men and women, all graduates, in uniforms of black trousers,
ash-colored shirts, yellow badges and cowboy hats and handcuffs on
their belts. Former Lagos bailiffs had converted their role as
enforcer of court judgments on property into an extortion racket.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 25, Pakistan's
President Pervez Musharraf’s memoir “In the Line of Fire,” was
published. He noted that the CIA has paid Pakistan millions for
catching al-Qaida fighters.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.A3)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 25, Somalia's interim
prime minister called on the UN to partially lift an arms embargo on
his country to allow for the deployment of African peacekeepers,
which he said are necessary to stop the advance of Islamic radicals.
A government order banned human smuggling. Ethiopian troops arrived
in Somalia to support the internationally recognized government in
its faceoff with radicals. The Islamic militia in the seaport of
Kismayo opened fire on thousands protesting the fundamentalists'
takeover of the southern town. Witnesses said a teenager was killed.
(AP, 9/25/06)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A3)(AP, 10/8/06)
2006 Sep 25, The Sri Lankan
navy said it had sunk 11 Tamil Tiger rebel ships loaded with troops
and weapons during a five-hour sea battle, killing around 70
separatists.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, A spokesman for
the AU said the African Union will add 4,000 troops to its extended
Darfur peacekeeping mission, bringing the number of police and
soldiers in western Sudan to 11,000. The UN got its first pledges of
troops for a proposed peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region at
a meeting of 49 potential contributing nations.
(AP, 9/25/06)(Reuters, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, The United States
donated patrol boats and electronic equipment to help Tajikistan
guard its borders and stem the flow of heroin from neighboring
Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Pope Benedict XVI
told over 20 Muslim diplomats that Christians and Muslims must work
together to guard against intolerance and violence as he sought to
soothe anger over his recent remarks about Islam.
(AP, 9/25/06)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A8)
2006 Sep 25, In Yemen 4 French
tourists kidnapped Sep 10 were freed.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2007 Sep 25, President George
W. Bush announced new US sanctions against Myanmar's military rulers
and urged other countries to follow suit amid Myanmar's biggest
anti-government protests in 20 years.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, In SF Mayor Gavin
Newsom suspended Ed Jew from his seat on the Board of Supervisors
and swore in Carmen Chu (29), a deputy director in his office of
policy and finance, as interim supervisor.
(SFC, 9/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 25, Julian Revilleza
(26), the accused mastermind of a grade-changing scandal at Diablo
Valley College in Pleasant Hill, Ca., and Los Medanos College in
Pittsburg, pleaded guilty to 15 felonies. As many as 400 grades were
changed from 2000-2006. On Nov 26 Jeremy Tato (26) pleaded no
contest to 8 felonies. On Nov 29 15 more people were charged in the
scandal including Liberato Servo, identified as one of the scheme’s
ringleaders. On Dec 14 the final set of charges were filed against 4
current or former students at Los Medanos.
(SFC, 9/26/07, p.B2)(SFC, 11/27/07, p.B1)(SFC,
11/30/07, p.B2)(SFC, 12/15/07, p.B3)
2007 Sep 25, NRG Energy of
Princeton, NJ, submitted permission to build 2 nuclear reactors in
Texas.
(SFC, 9/25/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 25, In northern Plumas
County, California, state Dept. of Fish and Game began poisoning
Lake Davis to rid the reservoir of northern pike. A similar attempt
in 1997 failed.
(SFC, 9/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 25, Warren Jeffs, the
leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group, was convicted in St.
George, Utah, of being an accomplice to rape for performing a
wedding between a 19-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl. Jeffs was
later sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life in
prison.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2007 Sep 25, A large swath of
coastal land was secured by The Trust for Public Land, paving the
way for the biggest expansion of the US Virgin Islands National Park
since it was created more than 50 years ago. The pristine property
on St. John, known as Estate Maho Bay, will be transferred to the
National Park Service when federal funds become available in 2-3
years.
(AP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, In Afghanistan
about 400 villagers blocked a major highway during a protest after
two civilians, a father and son, were killed by international forces
who were conducting a search operation in the Zhari district of
Kandahar province.
(AP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, The US unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) called MQ-9 Reaper began operating in
Afghanistan. It engaged in combat with a successful strike for the
first time on October 27.
(www.defense-update.com/newscast/1107/news/081107_reaper.htm)
2007 Sep 25, The World Health
Organization said 8 more cases of Ebola have been identified in
Congo, raising to 17 the number of people confirmed to have
contracted the deadly illness.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, A jailed Egyptian
militant committed suicide in his cell. Sayed Ragab Abdullah (45)
had been jailed 15 days ago for alleged membership in an Islamic
militant group.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the United Nations, announced "the
nuclear issue of Iran is now closed," and indicated Tehran would
disregard Security Council resolutions imposed by what he called
"arrogant powers."
(AP, 9/25/08)
2007 Sep 25, A suicide car
bomber struck the police headquarters in Basra, killing at least 3
officers and wounding 20 people. In Baghdad at least 7 people were
killed, six in a car bombing on a shopping street in an eastern
neighborhood near a line of pensioners outside a bank. A US soldier
was killed during a small-arms attack in an eastern neighborhood of
Baghdad.
(AP, 9/25/07)(AP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, Israel's largest
bank said it was severing its last remaining ties with Palestinian
banks in Gaza, following the Israeli government's declaration of the
coastal strip as an "enemy entity."
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, Japan’s Parliament
elected Yasuo Fukuda to be the prime minister, thrusting the
moderate political insider into the job of taking on a resurgent
opposition and rebuilding the scandal-scarred ruling party.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, In Indian Kashmir
5 suspected Muslim militants and a policeman were killed in three
gunbattles in Poonch, Kupwara and Kulgam districts.
(AFP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, Soldiers,
including an army division that took part in the brutal suppression
of a 1988 uprising, converged on Yangon, Myanmar's largest city,
after thousands of monks and sympathizers defied government orders
to stay out of politics and protested once again. The Buddhist monks
marched out for an eighth day of peaceful protest despite orders to
the Buddhist clergy to halt all political activity and return to
their monasteries. Military leaders imposed a nighttime curfew and
banned gatherings of more than 5 people.
(AP, 9/25/07)(WSJ, 9/26/07, p.A1)
2007 Sep 25, Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega accused the US of imposing a worldwide
dictatorship and defended the right of Iran and North Korea to
pursue nuclear technology in a speech before the UN General Assembly
meeting.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, Pakistan’s the
attorney general said President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will stay on
as army chief if he is not re-elected president, as the Supreme
Court prepared for a ruling that could decide the fate of his bid
for another five-year term.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, Haidar Abdel Shafi
(88), medical doctor and founding member of the Palestine Liberation
organization (PLO), died at his home in Gaza City. He had founded
and directed the Gaza branch of the Red Crescent.
(Econ, 10/6/07,
p.101)(www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/26/africa/obits.php)
2007 Sep 25, Poland began
publishing a list of public figures who either collaborated with or
were spied on by its old secret police before 1989.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, In South Africa a
two-week strike by some 50,000 workers that had halted output at
Volkswagen AG , DaimlerChrysler (DAIGn.DE) and other car makers
ended.
(Reuters, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 25, Darfur rebel
leader Khalil Ibrahim said he would carry on fighting during
upcoming peace talks until a final settlement is reached to end the
conflict in western Sudan.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told global leaders the world faces "a
daunting array of challenges" in the coming year, from combating
global warming and fighting poverty to ending the conflict in
Sudan's Darfur region and promoting Mideast peace. He spoke at the
opening of the UN General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2007 Sep 25, The UN Security
Council unanimously passed a French resolution endorsing sending a
European Union-UN force to Chad and the Central African Republic to
protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2008 Sep 25, The Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. seized Seattle-based Washington Mutual Inc.,
and then sold the thrift's banking assets to JPMorgan Chase &
Co. for $1.9 billion. WaMu, founded in 1889, became the largest bank
to fail by far in the country's history. Its $307 billion in assets
eclipse the $40 billion of Continental Illinois National Bank, which
failed in 1984.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, In Oakland, Ca.,
the dedication ceremony for the new Cathedral of Christ the Light
took place at the northwest tip of Lake Merritt.
(SFC, 9/26/08, p.B6)
2008 Sep 25, Dinwiddie Lampton
Jr. (b.1914), former head of American Life and Accident Insurance
Co. of Kentucky, died.
(WSJ, 10/11/08, p.A9)
2008 Sep 25, In Afghanistan a
bomb targeted a bus full of police trainers in Kandahar city,
killing a civilian passerby. The bomb missed the bus. The
bullet-riddled bodies of four police officers were found dumped in
Ghazni province.
(AP, 9/25/08)(AFP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 25, Britain unveiled
its new biometric identity card which the government says will be
vital in fighting illegal immigration and terrorism, while critics
call it an expensive attack on civil liberties.
(Reuters, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 25, China successfully
launched a three-man crew into space to carry out the country's
first spacewalk, beginning the nation's most challenging space
mission since it first sent a person into space in 2003. The
Shenzhou VII spacecraft was launched on a Long March II-F rocket in
western Inner Mongolia.
(AP, 9/25/08)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.60)
2008 Sep 25, The Czech
counterintelligence service said Russian spies operating in the
Czech Republic have tried to increase public opposition to a planned
US missile defense facility. Most Czechs oppose the base, according
to recent polls. The Czech Republic's government has approved the
missile defense treaty, but it still requires the approval of the
Czech parliament, where it faces strong opposition.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 25, The EU banned
imports of baby food containing Chinese milk as tainted dairy
products linked to the deaths of four babies turned up in candy and
other Chinese-made goods that were quickly pulled from stores
worldwide. More than a dozen countries have banned or recalled
Chinese dairy products as melamine was found in milk products from
22 Chinese dairy companies.
(AP, 9/25/08)(SFC, 9/25/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 25, A joint statement
said India's PM Singh met with Pakistan's Pres. Zardari at the UN in
New York and they agreed to boost a faltering peace process between
the nuclear-armed neighbors.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 25, In India about 50
Christians armed with knives, sticks and stones hacked a Hindu man
to death in the eastern state of Orissa in the latest outburst of
sectarian violence that has left 27 people dead. In a 2nd incident
about 500 Hindus attacked and burned about 50 Christian homes and
two prayer halls in Beherasahi village.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, Iraq's Health
Ministry reported that a total of 327 cholera cases had been
confirmed in central and southern Iraq since an outbreak of the
disease last month. A roadside bomb killed an American soldier south
of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/25/08)(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, A pipe bomb
exploded outside the home of a prominent Israeli scholar and
outspoken critic of Jewish West Bank settlements, lightly wounding
him in what police suspect was an attack by Jewish extremists.
(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Sep 25, Mexican federal
prosecutors in Apatzingan, a drug stronghold in the western state of
Michoacan, arrested three drug gang members accused of throwing
grenades into crowds of Independence Day revelers. They belonged to
a group of infamous Gulf Cartel hit men known as the Zetas.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 25, In southeastern
Mexico storms flooded hundreds of people out of their homes and
caused the death of a woman and 4 children whose car plunged into a
swollen irrigation ditch in Nanchital, Veracruz state.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, Pirates seized the
530-foot, Ukrainian cargo vessel, MV Faina, with 21 people aboard
off eastern Somalia. Russia's navy soon sent a warship to Somalia's
coast a day after pirates seized the Ukrainian vessel loaded with 33
tanks, ammunition and 3 Russian crew members. The ITAR-Tass news
agency said the military equipment had been sold to Kenya. It was
later reported that the arms were destined for southern Sudan and
that Kenya’s cooperation would be rewarded in the future with cheap
oil. The shipped was released on Feb 5, 2009, following a ransom of
$3.2 million. Viktor Pinchuk, A top Ukrainian businessman, paid the
"lion's share" of the ransom.
(AP, 9/26/08)(SFC, 9/27/08, p.A5)(Econ, 10/4/08,
p.49)(AP, 2/5/09)(AP, 3/3/09)
2008 Sep 25, South Africa's
parliament elected Kgalema Motlanthe, former trade unionist, freedom
fighter deputy leader of the ruling ANC, as interim president of a
country gripped by the worst political crisis since the end of
apartheid. He was expected to step aside after elections next year,
when Jacob Zuma was expected to become president. Motlanthe, within
hours of taking office , won instant praise by announcing that Manto
Tshabalala-Msimang would be removed as health minister and given a
lesser post in his office. She had promoted nutritional supplements
instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV.
(AP, 9/25/08)(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, In Sri Lanka
fighting in Kilinochchi left at least 24 Tamil Tiger soldiers dead,
with two killed on the government side. Troops also killed nine
rebels in separate attacks along the northern front of Vavuniya and
Weli Oya.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, Turkish warplanes
bombarded Kurdish rebel territory in northern Iraq, damaging a
school and wounding three people.
(AP, 9/26/08)
2008 Sep 25, Typhoon Hagupit
hit northern Vietnam. Floods triggered by the storm left at least 41
people dead and at least $65 million in damages.
(AP, 9/27/08)(AP, 9/28/08)(AP, 9/29/08)
2008 Sep 25, Zimbabwe's central
bank chief said nearly 600 shops had been licensed to sell goods in
foreign currency to fight the world's highest inflation rate and
critical shortages of basic goods.
(AFP, 9/25/08)
2009 Sep 25, US regulators shut
down Atlanta-based Georgian Bank, the 95th US bank to fail this year
as loan defaults rise in the worst financial climate in decades.
(AP, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 25, In NYC the Clinton
Global Initiative launched the Global Impact Investing Network
(GIIN), a new asset class aiming to yield a financial return
alongside a social or environmental benefit.
(Econ, 9/26/09,
p.83)(www.globalimpactinvestingnetwork.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home/index.html)
2009 Sep 25, In Sacramento,
Ca., Garret Griffith Gililland III (28) pleaded not guilty to
charges that included 24 counts in an alleged $100 million
mortgage fraud ring. He was arrested last year in Spain and was
returned to the US to face federal fraud charges.
(SSFC, 9/27/09, p.A8)
2009 Sep 25, Robbers in Pebble
Beach, Ca., allegedly stole some 30 pieces of art valued at $27
million. Angelo Amadio (31) and Dr. Ralph Kennaugh (62) said the
stolen art included paintings by Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse and
Vincent Van Gogh. Investigators on Oct 6 said the heist appeared to
be a scam.
(SFC, 9/30/09, p.D3)(SFC, 10/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Sep 25, In Pennsylvania
police arrested 83 people during protests at the meeting of the G20
Pittsburgh. A “People’s March” attracted some 3,00 people. The G20
ended a 2-day meeting and reached a series of agreements aimed at
navigating the world out of recession. The alliance announced that
it will replace the G7 as the main forum for int’l. economic
cooperation. The G7 will now concentrate mainly on security issues.
(SFC, 9/26/09, p.A4)(Econ, 10/3/09, p.88)(Econ,
10/10/09, p.51)
2009 Sep 25, In Maryland 4
bodies were found in a home in Mount Airy. Police said Charles
Dalton (38), a school janitor struggling to survive the recession,
killed his sleeping wife and 2 children before shooting himself with
a 12-guage shotgun.
(SSFC, 9/27/09, p.A8)
2009 Sep 25, In South Carolina
a medical helicopter, which had just dropped off a patient in
Charleston, crashed near Georgetown killing the pilot, a flight
nurse and a paramedic.
(SSFC, 9/27/09, p.A8)
2009 Sep 25, In Afghanistan an
American died of gunshot wounds from and insurgent attack in Nimroz
province.
(SFC, 9/26/09, p.A2)
2009 Sep 25, An Australian
court sentenced Belal Khazaal (39), a former Qantas Airways baggage
handler, to 12 years in prison for publishing a do-it-yourself jihad
book on the Internet. The book was titled "Provisions of the Rules
of Jihad: Short Judicial Rulings and Organizational Instructions for
Fighters and Mujahideen Against Infidels." Khazaal had also been
convicted in absentia by Lebanese military courts in 2003 and 2005
on terrorism-related charges.
(AP, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 25, Authorities in
China's restive northwestern Xinjiang region charged 21 suspects
over deadly July unrest, the first reported criminal charges to
emerge from the violence.
(AFP, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 25, In Colombia the
chief prosecutor's office said it has unearthed the remains of 17
peasants tortured and killed at a ranch that belonged to the
since-slain, far-right militia leader Carlos Castano in Colombia's
northwest. The peasants were believed slain 10 to 12 years ago by
men under the command of Jesus Ignacio Roldan, alias "Monoleche," a
Castano lieutenant who later participated in the 2004 murder of the
right-wing militia leader.
(AP, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 25, On the Dutch
Caribbean island of Curacao James Hogan (49), a US diplomat, was
reported missing by his wife. On Oct 1 authorities confirmed that
DNA on bloody clothes found along Baya Beach matched with Hogan.
Curacao, the headquarters of the Netherlands Antilles government,
lies about 40 miles (65km) off Venezuela's coast.
(AP, 10/2/09)
2009 Sep 25, The International
Atomic Energy Agency said that Iran has revealed the existence of a
secret uranium-enrichment plant, a development that could heighten
fears about Tehran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon and
escalate its diplomatic confrontation with the West. Armed with the
disclosure President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and
Britain demanded that Tehran fully disclose its nuclear ambitions
"or be held accountable" to an impatient world community.
(AP, 9/25/09)(Econ, 10/10/09, p.51)
2009 Sep 25, In Iraq a
controlled explosion of weapons confiscated by the Iraqi military
went awry east of Mosul, killing 15 soldiers.
(AP, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 25, An Israeli
airstrike killed 3 members of the Palestinian Jihad movement who
were allegedly on their way to fire rockets into Israel.
(SFC, 9/26/09, p.A2)
2009 Sep 25, Japan's new
government launched an investigation into whether previous
administrations entered secret security pacts with Washington,
including one said to endorse US nuclear-armed ships despite a
policy of barring such weapons.
(AP, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 25, Mexican police
arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass
killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border
city.
(AP, 9/26/09)
2009 Sep 25, Palau announced to
the UN General Assembly that it is creating a shark and ray
sanctuary over some 240,000 square miles around its coastline. Palau
had just one boat to patrol the protected waters. Some 20,000 people
populated the 190-square mile archipelago.
(SFC, 9/25/09, p.A6)
2009 Sep 25, Poland approved a
law making chemical castration mandatory for pedophiles in some
cases, sparking criticism from human rights groups.
(Reuters, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 25, Puerto Rico's
government announced that it will lay off more than 16,000 public
workers in the US Caribbean territory, adding to an unemployment
rate higher than that of any US state.
(AP, 9/26/09)
2009 Sep 25, Spanish pianist
Alicia de Larrocha died (86). She thrilled music listeners for
decades with polished and enthralling interpretations of great
classical works.
(AP, 9/26/09)
2009 Sep 25, UN officials said
tens of thousands of Yemenis displaced by warfare between the
government and Shiite rebels were stranded around the war zone with
aid agencies unable to reach them because of the intensified
fighting.
(AP, 9/25/09)
2009 Sep 25, An environmental
group said a gecko with leopard-like spots on its body and a fanged
frog that eats birds are among 163 new species discovered last year
in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia, which included Laos,
Thailand and Vietnam.
(AP, 9/25/09)
2010 Sep 25, In New York US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Palestinian president Mahmud
Abbas met for a second day of talks, after failing to break the
deadlock between Israelis and Palestinians. The talks were
overshadowed by the end of an Israeli moratorium on settlement
building.
(AFP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, In NYC artworks
held by Lehman Brothers and a former subsidiary were auctioned by
Sotheby’s bringing in almost $12.3 million.
(SSFC, 9/26/10, p.A14)
2010 Sep 25, In New Jersey a
student was shot and killed at an off campus house party near Seton
Hall Univ. 4 others were wounded.
(SFC, 9/27/10, p.A8)
2010 Sep 25, In Afghan NATO
said 3 service members were killed in two bomb blasts. A follow-up
operation in Khost province left several more insurgents dead. 2
Afghan civilians riding a motorcycle were killed after failing to
stop while approaching a security perimeter in Helmand province.
Precision NATO bombing in Kunar province killed Abdallah Umar
al-Qurayshi, leader of Al-Qaida affiliated Arab fighters, and Abu
Atta al-Kuwaiti, an Al-Qaida explosives expert.
(AP, 9/25/10)(AP, 9/26/10)(SFC, 9/30/10,
p.A2)(http://tinyurl.com/2eo83mo)
2010 Sep 25, In Britain Ed
Miliband (40) narrowly defeated brother David, the 45-year-old
ex-foreign secretary, in a Labour Party leadership contest, winning
a slender majority of 1.3 percent of votes. On Sep 29 former foreign
secretary David Miliband said he was quitting front-line politics in
the U.K. after losing to his younger brother in a battle for the
leadership of the country's main opposition Labour Party.
(AP, 9/26/10)(AP, 9/29/10)
2010 Sep 25, In Honduras Jesus
Santos, the chief suspect in the massacre of 18 workers at a shoe
factory earlier this month, was killed in a shootout with police.
(AP, 9/26/10)
2010 Sep 25, Tropical Storm
Matthew roared over Central America, dumping heavy rains on
disaster-prone parts of Honduras and Nicaragua and leading to the
evacuation of thousands amid fears of flooding and mudslides.
(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, The Indian
government said it will ask authorities to release hundreds of
students and youths detained during months of civil unrest that has
left at least 107 people dead in Kashmir and review the massive
deployment of security forces there.
(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, Iran’s
semi-official ISNA news agency says Iranian nuclear experts met this
week to discuss how to remove the malicious computer code, dubbed
Stuxnet, which can take over systems that control the inner workings
of industrial plants.
(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, Japan refused to
apologize for detaining a Chinese boat captain, showing no signs of
softening in a dispute between the two economic powers after Japan
gave ground and released him. China made a second call for an
apology and compensation from Tokyo, demanding "practical steps" to
resolve the diplomatic row.
(Reuters, 9/25/10)(AFP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, Mexican
authorities said they have arrested Margarito Soto Reyes (44), an
alleged trafficker known as "The Tiger," who they say shipped a
half-ton of drugs to the US each month and may have been poised to
take over for a dead capo in the Sinaloa cartel. 8 alleged
accomplices were also arrested near Guadalajara. Police in the
northern state of Chihuahua announced they had found the bodies of
six men piled in a sport utility vehicle on a roadside in a remote,
southern area of the state. The men had all apparently been shot in
the head. And in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, unidentified
assailants dumped the hacked-up body of a man on a street.
(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, Mexican
authorities sighted the wreckage of a small plane in the mountains
of Baja California believed to have taken off from Los Angeles, Ca.,
with four people on board.
(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, Nigeria’s Nobel
laureate Wole Soyinka attended an event in Lagos announcing the
platform of the Democratic Front for a People's Federation. The
party claims to be a "zero resource" party, a jab at oil-rich
Nigeria's culture of government graft and corruption.
(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, Nigerian officials
said opened dams in Jigawa state have displaced some two million
people in the north, adding to flood misery that has already washed
away entire villages across a wide swathe of the region. The next
day spokesman for the Hadejia-Jama'are River Basin Development
Authority, said the dams, located in Kano state, which borders
Jigawa, are never manually opened and simply empty automatically
into a spillway once the reservoir fills. He said heavy rainfall
almost everywhere in the country caused the flooding.
(AFP, 9/25/10)(AFP, 9/26/10)
2010 Sep 25, A Pakistani court
acquitted three men charged over a deadly suicide car bomb attack
near the Danish embassy in Islamabad in 2008. Prosecutors said they
would appeal the verdict.
(AFP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, In northwestern
Pakistan suspected US missiles targeted a vehicle, killing four
alleged militants. It was the 17th such attack this month, the most
intense barrage since the airstrikes began in 2004. The drone attack
killed Sheikh Fateh, Al-Qaeda's operational chief for Afghanistan
and Pakistan. The latest strike occurred some hours after gunmen
killed two worshippers in Bahawalpur. NATO helicopters in eastern
Afghanistan launched rare airstrikes into Pakistan, killing more 49
militants and prompting a protest from Islamabad. A second attack
occurred when helicopters returned to the border area and were
attacked by insurgents based in Pakistan. It killed at least four
militants.
(AP, 9/25/10)(AP, 9/27/10)(AFP, 9/28/10)
2010 Sep 25, Hamas, in a
statement from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said "Mahmud
al-Ahmarine (21) has died as the result of wounds inflicted by an
Israeli tank on September 14 east of Gaza City."
(AGFP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, The MV Lugela, a
cargo ship carrying steel bars and wires, sent a distress call to
its Greek operator when pirates attacked it about 900 nautical miles
east of the Somali pirate den of Eyl.
(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, In Syria leaders
of the two rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas held
reconciliation talks in Damascus and said they wanted the
discussions to continue.
(AFP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 25, In Yemen 2
al-Qaida militants ambushed a bus carrying security personnel in the
capital, San’a, spraying the vehicle with gunfire and injuring 10
passengers. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) later claimed
that 14 intelligence officers were killed in the attack.
(AP, 9/25/10)(AFP, 10/9/10)
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