Today in History - September 27
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70CE Sep 27,
The walls of upper city of Jerusalem were battered down by Romans.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1259 Sep 27, Ezzeline III da
Romano, gentleman of Verona, "cruel monster", died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1404 Sep 27, William of
Wykeham, chancellor and Bishop of Winchester, died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1540 Sep 27, The Society of
Jesus, a religious order under Ignatius Loyola, was approved by the
Pope. The Jesuits were recognized by Pope Paul III. They were to
become the chief agents of the Church of Rome in spreading the
Counter-Reformation.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.16)(HN, 9/27/98)
1601 Sep 27, Maria de Medicis
(1575-1642), the 2nd wife of King Henry IV of France, gave birth to
Louis XIII, who later became king of France (1610-43). Henry IV, in
honor of the birth, revived a tapestry scheme by poet Nicholas Houel
and artist Antoine Caron, that had been conceived in honor of
Caterina de Medici (1519-1589). Louis ascended to the throne at the
age of nine following the assassination of his father. At 17, he
seized control of the empire from his mother Marie de' Medici. Louis
XIII proved to be a strongly pro-Catholic ruler.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de%27_Medici)(Econ, 11/1/08,
p.98)
1605 Sep 27, Jan Karol
Chodkiewicz (1560-1621), Lithuanian Hetman (Jonas Karolis
Katkevičius-Katkus), led Lithuanian and Polish forces to victory
against a Swedish army at Kircholm, Latvia. Chodkiewicz carried the
day in a victory that, taking into account the disparity of power
and strategic result, was huge. It is estimated that 6000 Swedes
died. Sweden’s King Charles IX was wounded.
(www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/images/kircholm_27_sept.htm)
1660 Sep 27, St. Vincent de
Paul, Vincentian founder, died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1696 Sep 27, Alfonsus M. de'
Liguori, Italian theologian, bishop, and religious order founder,
was born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1722 Sep 27, Samuel Adams
(d.1803), American propagandist, political figure, revolutionary
patriot and statesman who helped to organize the Boston Tea Party,
was born. He was Lt. Gov. of Mass from 1789-94.
(AHD, 1971, p.14)(HN, 9/27/98)(MC, 9/27/01)
1777 Sep 27, At the Battle of
Germantown the British defeated Washington's army. English General
William Howe occupied Philadelphia. [see Sep 25,26]
(MC, 9/27/01)
1779 Sep 27, John Adams was
named to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1787 Sep 27, The US
Constitution was submitted to states for ratification. [see Sep 28]
(MC, 9/27/01)
1791 Sep 27, Jews in France
were granted French citizenship. Jews were granted religious and
civic rights in 1791.
(HN, 9/27/98)(WSJ, 8/7/00, p.A13)
1792 Sep 27, George Cruikshank,
London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist), was born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1803 Sep 27, Samuel Francis
DuPont (d.1865), Rear Admiral (Union Navy), was born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1809 Sep 27, Raphael Semmes
(d.1877), Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), was born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1821 Sep 27, The Mexican Empire
declared its independence. Revolutionary forces occupied Mexico City
as the Spanish withdraw.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1825 Sep 27, The first
locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George
Stephenson in England. [see Sep 28]
(AP, 9/27/97)
1831 Sep 27, Joannis
Capodistrias (55), Greek governor of Troezen, was murdered.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1833 Sep 27, Charles Darwin
rode a horse to Santa Fe.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1834 Sep 27, Charles Darwin
returned to Valparaiso.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1840 Sep 27, Alfred T. Mahan,
navy admiral, was born. He wrote “The Influence of Seapower on
History” and other books that encouraged world leaders to build
larger navies. Although a brilliant naval historian and noted
theorist on the importance of sea power to national defense, Alfred
Thayer Mahan hated the sea and dreaded his duties as a ship's
captain.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1840 Sep 27, Thomas Nast,
caricaturist, was born. He created the Democratic donkey and the
Republican elephant.
(HN, 9/27/00)
1850 Sep 27, The US Donation
land Act was enacted. It allowed Americans to stake claims that
would become valid after treaties were negotiated with Indian tribes
and ratified by Congress.
(SSFC, 2/27/11,
p.G2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donation_Land_Claim_Act)
1852 Sep 27, "Uncle Tom's
Cabin," premiered in Troy, NY.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1854 Sep 27, The first great
disaster involving an ocean liner in the Atlantic occurred when the
steamship Arctic sank off the coast of Newfoundland with 300 people
aboard. It had collided in heavy fog with the French ship Vesta.
(AP, 9/27/97)(Arch, 7/02, p.7)(Arch, 9/02, p.6)
1855 Sep 27, George F.
Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle," 2nd American opera, opened in NYC.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1862 Sep 27, Louis Botha,
commander-in-chief of the Boar Army against the British and first
president of South Africa, was born.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1863 Sep 27, Jo Shelby's
cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1864 Sep 27, Confederate
guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson and his henchmen, including a teenage
Jesse James, massacred 20 unarmed Union soldiers at Centralia, Mo.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1864 Sep 27, Battle at Pilot
Knob (Ft Davidson), Missouri. 1700 were killed or injured.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1869 Sep 27, Wild Bill Hickok,
sheriff of Hays City, Kan., shot down Samuel Strawhim, a drunken
teamster causing trouble.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1870 Sep 27, Henry T.P.
Comstock (50), Canadian silver prospector, died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1892 Sep 27, Book matches were
patented by Diamond Match Company.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1896 Sep 27, Sam Ervin,
(Sen-D-NC), Watergate committee chairman, was born.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1898 Sep 27, Vincent (Miller)
Youmans, songwriter, was born. He is best known for “Tea for Two”
and musical scores such as “No, No Nanette” and “Flying Down to
Rio.”
(HN, 9/27/00)(MC, 9/27/01)
1905 Sep 27, Annalen der Physik
published a fourth paper by Albert Einstein, "Does the Inertia of a
Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?," in which Einstein developed
an argument for arguably the most famous equation in the field of
physics: E = mc². Einstein considered the equivalency equation
to be of paramount importance because it showed that a massive
particle possesses an energy, the "rest energy", distinct from its
classical kinetic and potential energies.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_Papers)
1910 Sep 27, 1st test flight of
a twin-engined airplane was made in France.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1912 Sep 27, W C Handy
published "Memphis Blues," the 1st Blues Song.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1916 Sep 27, 1st Native
American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians. [see May 13]
(MC, 9/27/01)
1916 Sep 27, Constance of
Greece declared war on Bulgaria.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1917 Sep 27, Louis Auchincloss,
novelist, was born in Lawrence, NY. His work included “Portrait in
Brownstone, The Embezzler,” and ”Watchfires.
(HN, 9/27/00)(MC, 9/27/01)
1917 Sep 27, Hilaire Germain
Edgar Degas (b1834), French impressionist painter died in Paris. His
fascination with horses was covered in the 1998 book "Degas at the
Races" by Jean Sutherland.
(WSJ, 10/2/96, p.B5)(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR
p.8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas)
1918 Sep 27, President Woodrow
Wilson opened his fourth Liberty Loan campaign to support men and
machines for World War I.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1919 Sep 27, British troops
withdrew from Archangel.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1919 Sep 27, Adelina [Adela JM]
Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), died at 76.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1920 Sep 27, Eight Chicago
White Sox players were charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.
[see Sep 28]
(HN, 9/27/98)
1921 Sep 27, Engelbert
Humperdinck, German opera composer (Hansel & Gretel), died.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1924 Sep 27, Bud Powell, jazz
pianist, was born.
(HN, 9/27/00)
1825 Sep 27, The Stockton and
Darlington rail line opened in England. The first locomotive to haul
a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England. The
British engineers Richard Trevithick and George Stevenson were the
first innovators of the technology.
(AP,
9/27/97)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonG.htm)
1927 Sep 27, Red Rodney,
trumpeter, was born.
(HN, 9/27/00)
1928 Sep 27, The United States
said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government. [see Sep
28]
(AP, 9/27/97)
1930 Sep 27, Igor Kipnis,
harpsichordist and professor (Fairfield), was born in Berlin,
Germany.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1936 Sep 27, Franco troops
conquered Toledo.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1937 Sep 27, The 1st Santa
Claus Training School opened in Albion, NY.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1938 Sep 27, Ocean liner Queen
Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow. The RMS Queen Elizabeth,
the largest passenger liner built to that date, boasted a
200,000-horsepower engine and beautiful art deco style. The elegant
ocean liner was named to honor Queen Elizabeth, a consort of King
George VI of England and mother to Queen Elizabeth II.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1938 Sep 27, Jewish lawyers
were forbidden to practice in Germany.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1938 Sep 27, League of Nations
declared Japan the aggressor against China.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1939 Sep 27, Germany occupied
Warsaw. Poland surrendered after 19 days of resistance to invading
forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland had endured a
brutal 3 day bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe.
(AP, 9/27/97)(HN, 9/27/98)
1940 Sep 27, Black leaders
protested discrimination in US armed forces.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1940 Sep 27, 55 German
aircrafts were shot down above England.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1940 Sep 27, Nazi-Germany,
Italy and Japan signed a formal alliance called Tripartite Pact, a
10 year military and economic alliance strengthening the Axis
alliance.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1942 Sep 27, Glenn Miller and
his Orchestra performed together for the last time, at the Central
Theater in Passaic, N.J., prior to Miller's entry into the Army.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1942 Sep 27, The S.S. Stephen
Hopkins, a Liberty Ship with an all-San Francisco crew, engaged the
German raider Stier and her tender, Tannenfels. It shelled and
brought down the Stier and hit the Tannenfels before it was sunk. Of
a crew of 58, only 15 survived. They reached the shore of Brazil
after a 31-day voyage in an open lifeboat.
(SFC, 9/27/96, p.B1)
1942 Sep 27, Australian forces
defeated the Japanese on New Guinea in the South Pacific.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1942 Sep 27, Heavy German
assault in Stalingrad.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1942 Sep 27, Reinhard Heydrich,
"Butcher of Prague," was appointed SS-general.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1943 Sep 27, Bing Crosby, the
Andrews Sisters and the Vic Schoen Orchestra recorded "Pistol
Packin' Mama" and "Jingle Bells" for Decca Records.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1944 Sep 27, Aimee Semple
McPherson (b.1890), Canadian and US evangelist and faith healer,
died at age 53.
(www.answers.com/topic/aimee-semple-mcpherson)
1944 Sep 27, Aristide Maillol,
French sculptor and graphic artist, died in car crash at 82.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1944 Sep 27, Thousands of
British troops were killed as German forces rebuffed their massive
effort to capture the Arnhem Bridge across the Rhine River in
Holland.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1945 Sep 27, Misha Dichter,
pianist (Tchaikovsky 2nd prize-1966), was born in Shanghai, China.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1945 Sep 27, Stephanie Pogue,
artist and art professor, was born.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1949 Sep 27, HUAC held hearings
on alleged communist infiltration of the Radiation Laboratory at UC
Berkeley.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F2)
1950 Sep 27, U.S. Army and
Marine troops liberate Seoul, South Korea.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1951 Sep 27, Persian troops
occupied oil refinery at Abadan.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1953 Sep 27, A typhoon
destroyed 1/3 of Nagoya, Japan.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1954 Sep 27, "Tonight!" hosted
by Steve Allen, made its debut on NBC-TV.
(AP,
9/27/97)(www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show-experience/timeline/)
1956 Sep 27, Mildred E "Babe"
Didrikson Zaharias (b.1911), track and field gold medalist
(1932) and Hall of Fame golfer, died in Galveston, Texas. Six years
earlier the Associated Press had named her the Greatest Female
Athlete of the First Half of the 20th Century.
(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/2/)(AP,
9/27/06)
1956 Sep 27, The U.S. Air Force
Bell X-2, the world's fastest and highest-flying plane, crashed,
killing the test pilot.
(HN, 9/27/98)
1956 Sep 27, Gerald Raphael
Finzi, composer, died at 55.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1959 Sep 27, Beth Heiden, 3000m
speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1980), was born in Madison, Wisc.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1959 Sep 27, Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev concluded his visit to the United States. During
the visit he debated with Richard Nixon. He also saw the filming of
Can Can and the found the dance immoral. Bassetts produced 50 tubs
of borscht sorbet in honor of Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to
Philadelphia.
(TMC, 1994, p.1959)(SFEC, 9/15/96, C10)(WSJ,
8/1/00, p.A24)(AP, 9/27/00)
1959 Sep 27, Typhoon Vera
battered the main Japanese island of Honshu, killing nearly 5,000
people.
(AP, 9/27/97)(MC, 9/27/01)
1960 Sep 27, Europe's 1st
"moving pavement," (travelator), opened at Bank station.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1960 Sep 27, Sylvia Pankhurst,
feminist, died. She with her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst, had
established the militant Women's Social and Political Union in 1903.
These British suffragettes employed controversial, even violent
methods to win the right to vote. In 1918, women over thirty were
granted the vote, and in 1928, the voting age was lowered to 21, the
voting age of men.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1961 Sep 27, Hilda Doolittle
(b.1886), American poet, died in Zurich. In 1984 poet Barbara Guest
(d.2006) authored the biography “Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and
Her World.”
(SFC, 2/20/06,
p.B3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.D.)
1963 Sep 27, Lee Harvey Oswald
visited the Cuban consulate in Mexico.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1963 Sep 27, At 10:59 AM census
clock, the US population was recorded at 190,000,000.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1964 Sep 27, The Warren
Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy, announced that according to its findings Lee Harvey Oswald
acted alone as did Jack Ruby in the assassination. Later evidence
indicated a Mafia contract killing. In 1965 Harold Weisberg (d.2002)
authored “Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report.”
(WSJ, 5/17/95, p.A-18)(AP, 9/27/97)(HN,
9/27/98)(HC)(SFC, 2/25/02, p.B6)
1967 Sep 27, Felix F. Yussupov,
litigious Russian monarchist and slayer of Rasputin, died at 80.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1968 Sep 27, Portugal’s
President Americo Thomaz replaced PM Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
with Marcelo Caetano after Salazar suffered a major stroke, caused
by his falling from a chair in his summer house.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar)
1971 Sep 27, Pamela Churchill
Harriman (1920-1997), English-born socialite, married her former
lover and former New York Governor Averell Harriman (79). She was
the former wife (1939-1946) of Randolph Churchill, the son of
Winston Churchill. From 1993-1997 she served as the US ambassador to
France.
(SFC, 10/23/96,
p.E6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Harriman)
1977 Sep 27, Japan Airlines
Flight 715, a DC-8, crashed into a hill in bad weather while
attempting to land at the Kuala Lumpur Subang Airport. 34 people,
including 8 of the 10 crew members and 26 of the 69 passengers, were
killed when the aircraft broke on impact.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines)
1979 Sep 27, Congress gave
final approval to forming the Department of Education, the 13th
Cabinet agency in U.S. history.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1981 Sep 27, In Iran the
Mojahedin used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers
against units of the Pasdaran. Smaller left-wing opposition groups,
including the Fadayan, attempted similar guerrilla activities.
(www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-6395.html)
1985 Sep 27, Hurricane Gloria,
having come ashore at North Carolina with winds of 130 mph,
proceeded to head up the Atlantic coast toward New England.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1986 Sep 27, The US Senate
joined House of Reps voting for "sweeping tax reforms."
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3SUR/is_v67/ai_5012957)
1987 Sep 27, Football fans
suffered through their first Sunday without football since players
went on strike. NFL owners soon organized games with replacement and
nonstriking players.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1988 Sep 27, Canadian sprinter
Ben Johnson left for home in disgrace 3 days after placing first in
the men's 100-meter dash at the Seoul Summer Olympics. He was
stripped of his gold medal by officials who said he had used
anabolic steroids.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1988 Sep 27, Grand jury
evidence showed Tawana Brawley fabricated her rape story.
(http://tinyurl.com/jjlua)
1989 Sep 27, Columbia Pictures
Entertainment Inc. agreed to a $3.4 billion buyout by Sony
Corporation.
(AP, 9/27/99)
1990 Sep 27, The US Senate
Judiciary Committee approved the Supreme Court nomination of David
H. Souter.
(AP, 9/27/00)
1990 Sep 27, The deposed emir
of Kuwait delivered an emotional address to the UN General Assembly
in which he denounced the “rape, destruction and terror” inflicted
upon his country by Iraq.
(AP, 9/27/00)
1991 Sep 27, President Bush
announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating
all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the Soviet Union
to match the gesture.
(AP, 9/27/01)
1991 Sep 27, The US Senate
Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence
Thomas to the US Supreme Court.
(AP, 9/27/01)
1991 Sep 27, Oona Chaplin
(b.1926), daughter of Eugene O'Neill and wife of Charlie Chaplin,
died in Switzerland at age 66.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0152253/)
1992 Sep 27, Texas billionaire
Ross Perot spoke with his supporters in Dallas on the eve of a
meeting with representatives of President Bush and Democrat Bill
Clinton, both of whom were hoping Perot would stay on the campaign
sidelines.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1993 Sep 27, Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison, R-Texas, was indicted on charges that, as Texas state
treasurer, she'd misused state facilities and employees. The
indictment was dismissed for technical reasons; Hutchison was
reindicted and later acquitted.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1993 Sep 27, Retired Gen. James
H. Doolittle died in Pebble Beach, Calif., at age 96.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1994 Sep 27, More than 350
Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the
Capitol to sign the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform
they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
(AP, 9/27/99)
1995 Sep 27, The US government
unveiled its redesigned $100 bill, featuring a larger, off-center
portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
(AP, 9/27/97)
1995 Sep 27, At the O.J.
Simpson trial, the prosecution and defense presented dueling
summations.
(AP, 9/27/00)
1995 Sep 27-1995 Oct 6,
Hurricane Opal caused at least 50 deaths in Guatemala and Mexico and
20 deaths in the United States. The storm hit Central America before
striking Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina.
(AP, 9/11/04)(www.wunderground.com)
1996 Sep 27, Texan Charles
Hurwitz of Maxxam Inc. agreed to exchange his hold on the Headwaters
forest in California in exchange for cash, land or other government
assets.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 27, John G. Bennett
Jr., head of the defunct Foundation for New Era Philanthropy since
1989, was indicted on 82 counts of fraud, money laundering, tax
crimes and false statements. He was allegedly responsible for
bilking charities of $135 million in a scheme that collapsed in
1995. In 1997 he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He helped to
reduce losses from 100 to 20 million
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A3)(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A3)(SFC,
9/23/97, p.A2)
1996 Sep 27, US Defense Sec.
William Perry said the 3 Baltic nations would not be among the first
new NATO members drawn from Eastern Europe.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 27, The Taliban
militia, a band of former seminary students, forced President
Burhanuddin Rabbani and his government out of Kabul.
{Afghan}
(AP, 9/27/97)(www.afghan-web.com/history/)
1996 Sep 27, In Gambia Yahya
Jammeh defeated 3 civilian rivals in national elections. Observers
said that the elections were severely flawed. Jammeh’s government
had outlawed opposition parties, muzzled the press, forbade meetings
between rival candidates and foreign diplomats, and used soldiers to
attack opposition rallies.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A11)
1996 Sep 27, In Milan, Italy,
50,000 metal workers marched on strike.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 27, In Japan the Prime
Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto dissolved the parliament and set new
elections for Oct. 20.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 27, In Mexico PRI
deputies presented a final report on government corruption and voted
to end the commission of corruption. A separate government panel
said $1.34 billion was missing from the 1990 privatization of
Telefonos de Mexico.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A9)
1996 Sep 27, Rwandan Pastor
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana (73) was charged with ordering the slaughter
of hundreds of Tutsis in Kibuye in 1994. It was charged that he had
arranged that they seek refuge in his Seventh Day Adventist Church,
whereupon he called in Hutus to kill them.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A11)
1997 Sep 27, The space shuttle
Atlantis, docked with the problem-plagued Russian Mir station to
drop off American David Wolf and pick up Michael Foale.
(AP, 9/27/98)
1997 Sep 27, In Algeria
witnesses said armed men killed 11 female teachers at Ain Adden
School in Sfisef while shouting “Blood, blood, blood, destruction,
destruction, destruction,” the rallying cry of the Armed Islamic
Group.
(SFC, 9/30/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 27, In Indonesia two
cargo ships collided in the strait of Malacca and at least 28 crew
members were missing. Smog from fires impacted visibility.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A21)
1997 Sep 27, In Hong Kong
lawmakers approved an election law that reduced the number of people
who could vote and increased the power of big business.
(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 27, In North Korea Kim
Jong Il ordered the establishment of the “9-27” camps for orphaned
and homeless children to “normalize” the country.
(SFC, 9/30/98, p.A10)
1997 Sep 27, In Thailand the
parliament passed a constitution intended to fight government
corruption and rejected a no-confidence motion against Prime
Minister Chavilit.
(WSJ, 9/29/97, p.A1)
1998 Sep 27, In Holmdel, N.J.,
the nation’s first Vietnam Museum opened as the Vietnam Era
Educational Center.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A7)
1998 Sep 27, St. Louis Cardinal
Mark McGwire hit his 69th and 70th home runs in his last game of the
season against the Montreal Expos at Busch Stadium. The ball was
later sold at auction for $3.005 million to Todd McFarlane, creator
of "Spawn" comic books.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A1)(SFC, 2/9/99, p.A2)
1998 Sep 27, Gerhard Schroeder
and his Social Democrats won national elections in Germany,
following 16 years of conservative rule under Chancellor Helmut
Kohl.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A1) (AP, 9/27/99)
1998 Sep 27, In Malaysia about
10,000 people gathered in Kuala Lumpur to protests a crackdown on
dissent by the Mahathir regime.
(WSJ, 9/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 27, Serbian troops
bombarded and burned villages in southern Kosovo.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A10)
1998 Sep 27, In Slovakia
opposition leaders claimed victory after 2 days of elections for a
new parliament. Prime Minister Meciar’s Movement for a Democratic
Slovakia won 27% of the vote. Slovak Democratic Coalition leader
Mikulas Dzurinda was seen as Meciar’s successor
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A9)
1998 Sep 27, In Sri Lanka
government troops clashed with Tamil rebels and at least 49 people
were killed.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A10)
1999 Sep 27, Tiger Stadium
closed in grand fashion after 87 years as the Tigers beat the Kansas
City Royals, 8-to-2.
(AP, 9/27/00)
1999 Sep 27, Senator John
McCain of Arizona officially opened his campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination, the same day former Vice President Dan
Quayle dropped his White House bid.
(WSJ, 9/28/99, p.A1)(AP,
9/27/00)
1999 Sep 27, Afghanistan's
rulers protested a UN decision to reseat the former Rabbani
government, which was driven from Kabul in 1996.
(WSJ, 9/28/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 27, In Algeria
attackers killed 7 people at a fake roadblock at Hamman Salhine.
(SFC, 9/30/99, p.D14)
1999 Sep 27, In Chechnya
Russian jets dropped bombs for a 5th day and thousands of civilians
fled to towns and villages in the region. Some 300 people were
reported killed in the air strikes around Grozny.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 27, In South Africa a
bus of British tourists overturned as it approached Lydenburg and 27
people were killed.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.C16)
2000 Sep 27, In Sydney,
Australia, the U.S. Olympic baseball team beat Cuba 4-0 to capture
its first baseball gold medal.
(AP, 9/27/01)
2000 Sep 27, Venus Williams
became only the second player to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and
the Olympics in the same year with her 6-2, 6-4 victory over Elena
Dementieva. The first was Steffi Graf, in 1988.
(AP, 9/27/01)
2000 Sep 27, It was reported
that the Asian swamp eel, Monopterus albus, was within a mile of the
fragile Florida Everglades National Park.
(WSJ, 9/27/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 27, In China an
explosion at the Muchonggou Coal Mine in Shuicheng, Guizhou
province, killed 118 miners.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Sep 27, In the Czech
Republic IMF and World Bank officials ended their meetings a day
early due to disruptions by protestors. Some 600 demonstrators were
arrested from an estimated total of 12,000.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Sep 27, In Egypt Shereef
Fawzi Mohammad el-Falali (35), a civil engineer, was arrested in
Heliopolis for providing intelligence information to Israel.
(SFC, 11/29/00, p.C7)
2000 Sep 27, Jordan planned a
flight to Iraq regardless of clearance from the UN sanctions
committee.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A15)
2000 Sep 27, In the Philippines
Jolo Island villagers in Lapu dumped 3 Abu Sayyaf rebel bodies at a
police station. 3 villagers were also killed in the fight with
rebels.
(SFC, 9/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Sep 27, In the Philippines
10 people died after some 50 rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front attacked farmers and soldiers in Carmen village, North
Cotabato province.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D2)
2000 Sep 27, In Syria 99
intellectuals published a demand for more democracy and freedom of
expression.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D5)
2000 Sep 27, OPEC’s top leaders
gathered in Caracas for a 2-day meeting. OPEC speakers called on
Western countries to reduce taxes levied on oil to ease prices.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A1)(SFC, 9/28/00, p.A1)
2001 Sep 27, Pres. Bush
announced enhanced airport security measures that included national
guard soldiers at checkpoints and armed air marshals on planes as a
first step toward federal control of airline security.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.A1)(AP, 9/27/02)
2001 Sep 27, US and British
warplanes struck 2 artillery sites in Iraq’s southern no-fly zone.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D6)
2001 Sep 27, Def. Sec. Donald
Rumsfeld displayed the new Medal for the Defense of Freedom to be
awarded to all Defense Dept. civilian employees killed or wounded in
the sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.A16)
2001 Sep 27, The WTO issued a
blueprint for a new round of talks scheduled for Nov 9 in Qatar. It
called for concessions from the US, EU and Japan in opening markets
for textiles, steel and agriculture.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A12)
2001 Sep 27, In Afghanistan the
Taliban said it had delivered an official request for Osama bin
Laden to leave the country.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 27, In India the
central government banned the Student’s Islamic Movement of India
(SIMI). This triggered a day of riots and led to 4 deaths in
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
(WSJ, 10/1/01, p.A21)
2001 Sep 27,
Israeli-Palestinian fighting left 5 Palestinians dead. Israel
demolished some houses in a Gaza camp in response to a Hamas attack.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Sep 27, In Jakarta,
Indonesia, protesters burned US flags outside the US Embassy and
threatened to kill Americans.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.A9)
2001 Sep 27, In Macedonia
ethnic Albanian rebels declared that they had formally disbanded and
were returning to civilian life.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D4)
2001 Sep 27, In Romania Gellu
Naum, surrealist poet, playwright and translator, died at age 86.
His work included 20 poetry books, of which the 1st was “The
Incendiary Traveler” (1936) and the novel “Zenobia” (1985).
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A18)
2001 Sep 27, In Switzerland
Friedrich Leibacher went on a shooting rampage in the local
parliament of Zug, killing 14 people before taking his own life.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D2)(AP, 9/27/02)
2001 Sep 27, In Turkey 2 more
prisoners died from a hunger strike against the new high-security
prisons. This raised the total to 38.
(SFC, 9/28/01, p.D6)
2002 Sep 27, President Bush
said the UN should have a chance to force Saddam Hussein to give up
his weapons of mass destruction before the US acted on its own
against Iraq, but told a Republican fund-raising event in Denver
that action had to come quickly.
(AP, 9/27/03)
2002 Sep 27, In Washington DC
some 1,500-2,000 activists protested the start of the annual
meetings of the World Bank and IMF. About 650 were arrested.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A3)
2002 Sep 27, Three U.S.
lawmakers, all Democrats, arrived in Baghdad to gauge the possible
effects of war on ordinary Iraqi citizens. The visit by Rep. Jim
McDermott of Washington and fellow House Democrats David Bonior of
Michigan and Mike Thompson of California followed a Sept. 14 visit
by a delegation led by Rep. Nick Rahall, a West Virginia Democrat.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, The DJIA fell 295
to 7701.45. Nasdaq fell 22.45 to 1199.16.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.B1)
2002 Sep 27, All West Coast
ports shut down when the Pacific Maritime Assoc. locked out some
10,500 longshoremen in retaliation for work slowdowns. Contract
negotiations had recently deteriorated.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 27, The federal
government increased the flow of water into the Klamath River from
Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon following the die-off of some 12,000
salmon in northern California.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A2)
2002 Sep 27, Charles Henri Ford
(94), poet and novelist, died in Manhattan. His work included "The
Young and Evil" (1933), considered by some as the 1st gay novel, and
"Water From a Bucket: A Diary, 1947-1957."
(SFC, 10/1/02, p.A18)
2002 Sep 27, In Australia a
federal judge formally gave control of a remote chunk of the
northwest slightly bigger than Greece to an Aboriginal tribe,
marking the end of six years of negotiations.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, Lord Ashdown
(b.1941) began serving as the international community's High
Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He ended his term May 30,
2006.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown)
2002 Sep 27, East Timor, the
first country to be born in the 21st century, gained a seat at the
United Nations, swelling the membership roll to 191.
(Reuters, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, In Lebanon tens of
thousands marched through the streets of Beirut chanting "death to
Israel" and "death to America," in support of Palestinians' third
year of uprising.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, A Mexican military
court charged three army officers (Gen. Francisco Quiros Hermosillo,
Brig. Gen. Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro and Maj. Francisco
Barquin) with homicide in the killings of 143 leftist
activists and revolutionaries, the first prosecution of soldiers for
crimes committed during the so-called "dirty war" of the 1970s.
(AP, 9/27/02)(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A6)
2002 Sep 27, In Morocco 26
parties, nearly a dozen of them formed in the past two years,
contested parliamentary in elections. A fundamentalist party that
wants to apply Islamic law, performed strongly in elections. The
socialists of Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi finished first
with 50 seats, Jettou said. The conservative Istiqlal Party, the
socialists' coalition partner in the previous parliament, won 48
seats.
(AP, 9/26/02)(AP, 9/28/02)(AP, 9/29/02)(AP,
10/2/02)
2002 Sep 27, Russian troops
used artillery overnight to block suspected rebels from crossing
into Chechnya through a forested part of the republic of Ingushetia
after firefights that left at least 17 Russian servicemen dead.
(AP, 9/27/02)
2002 Sep 27, In Sudan a thunder
storm killed 26 people in two separate accidents in Khartoum when a
Ferris wheel collapsed and a pleasure boat sank.
(AP, 9/28/02)
2003 Sep 27, President Bush and
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Iran and North Korea to
abandon suspected nuclear weapons programs, but disagreed over how
to deal with both countries; Putin also declined at the end of a
two-day summit at Camp David to pledge any postwar help for Iraq.
(AP, 9/27/04)
2003 Sep 27, Donald O'Connor
(78), film star and composer, died in Calabasas, Calif. His films
included "Singing in the Rain" (1952).
(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.A1)
2003 Sep 27, The Algerian army
reported that it had killed 150 armed Islamic militants in a
two-week operation in the eastern foothills of this north African
country.
(AP, 9/27/03)
2003 Sep 27, Brazil and Cuba
signed $200 million in new business deals in Cuba by private
Brazilian enterprises.
(AP, 9/27/03)
2003 Sep 27, Europe's first
mission to the moon blasted off aboard a European Ariane rocket from
French Guiana. The SMART-1 probe made it to within 3,100 miles of
the moon on Nov 15, 2004, and proceeded to move into an elliptical
orbit. The spacecraft ended its mission Sep 3, 2006, when it crashed
into the lunar surface.
(AP, 9/28/03)(SFC, 11/17/04, p.A3)(SSFC, 9/3/06,
p.A5)
2003 Sep 27, In western Iran a
bus plunged from a mountain road into a river, killing 21 passengers
and injuring 11.
(AP, 9/28/03)
2003 Sep 27, A Palestinian
militant was killed when a bomb he was making blew up on as Israel
maintained a high alert over a New Year holiday weekend.
(Reuters, 9/27/03)
2003 Sep 27, A Russian rocket
brought two Russian and four foreign satellites, including Nigeria's
first, into orbit. Nigeria's $13 million craft, to be used for
taking photos, was built by a British firm.
(AP, 9/27/03)(Econ, 9/13/03, p.42)
2003 Sep 27, In northeast
Uganda rebels of the LRA fighting a 17-year insurgency raided a
village, killing at least 22 people.
(AP, 9/28/03)
2004 Sep 27, President Bush
asked Congress for more than $7.1 billion to help Florida and other
Southeastern states recover from their lashing by four hurricanes.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2004 Sep 27, A US Justice
Department audit said the FBI had a backlog of hundreds of thousands
of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terror and espionage
investigations.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2004 Sep 27, NBC announced that
"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno would be succeeded by "Late Night" host
Conan O'Brien in 2009.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2004 Sep 27, John Kamm (53),
the businessman-turned-rights lobbyist behind the release of scores
of dissidents from Chinese prisons, was one of 24 people awarded
500,000-dollar MacArthur Foundation grants. 7 of the winners,
including Kamm, were from the SF Bay Area.
(AP, 9/28/04)(SFC, 9/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 27, Operation Black
Widow, a local, state and federal investigation in San Francisco,
ended as 8 top members of the Nuestra Familia prison gang entered
guilty pleas to federal racketeering charges.
(SFC, 9/28/04, p.B3)
2004 Sep 27, San Francisco
renamed its sports stadium "Monster Park", in a 4-year deal that
trades $6 million from an electronics cable company for the name to
Candlestick Park.
(AP, 9/28/04)(SFC, 9/28/04, p.B1)
2004 Sep 27, The body of Maxina
Danner (17), a student at Lincoln High, was found wrapped in a
blanket near Visitacion Ave. and Mansell. She had disappeared that
morning on her way to school. In 2005 Royce Miller (21), a youth
councilor at a group home, was arrested in connection with the
murder. In 2007 Miller was convicted of 2nd degree murder.
(SFC, 9/30/04, p.A1)(SFC, 2/12/05, p.B2)(SFC,
3/21/07, p.B2)
2004 Sep 27, In Brazil a strike
by bank workers entered its 2nd full week.
(WSJ, 9/28/04, p.A20)
2004 Sep 27, In Dubai a wall
collapsed at an airport construction site, killing more than eight
workers and injuring many more.
(AP, 9/27/04)
2004 Sep 27, Galapagos park
rangers ended a 17-day protest after Ecuador's government fired a
new park director the rangers claimed favored commercial fishing
over the islands' unique environment.
(AP, 9/27/04)
2004 Sep 27, U.S. jets pounded
suspected Shiite militant positions in the Baghdad slum of Sadr
City, killing at least five people and wounding 40. Elsewhere,
insurgents detonated car bombs and fired rockets, killing at least 7
National Guardsmen, in separate attacks.
(AP, 9/27/04)(WSJ, 9/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 27, An Israeli
helicopter fired a missile at a Palestinian vehicle traveling in the
southern Gaza Strip, killing one person and wounding three others. 7
Palestinians were killed in several incidents across the West Bank
and Gaza. In Gaza City gunmen kidnapped a CNN TV producer and
released him the next day.
(AP, 9/27/04)(SFC, 9/28/04, p.A8)(WSJ, 9/29/04,
p.A1)
2004 Sep 27, Lebanon said
Ismail Katib, a local al Qaeda operative captured a week earlier,
died “of a heart attack” while in police custody.
(WSJ, 9/28/04, p.A1)(Econ, 10/2/04, p.47)
2004 Sep 27, In Nigeria
militiamen trying to wrest control of the oil-rich Niger Delta
threatened to launch a "full-scale armed struggle" on
petroleum-pumping operations in Africa's largest crude oil producing
nation.
(AP, 9/28/04)(WSJ, 9/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Sep 27, In Thailand
officials announced that a case of avian-flu was possibly caused by
human-to-human transmission.
(SFC, 9/28/04, p.A3)
2005 Sep 27, Former FEMA
director Michael Brown angrily blamed the Louisiana governor, the
New Orleans mayor and even the Bush White House that appointed him
for the dismal response to Hurricane Katrina in a fiery appearance
before Congress; in response, lawmakers alternately lambasted and
mocked the former official.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2005 Sep 27, New Orleans Police
Superintendent Eddie Compass stepped down from his post 4 weeks
after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2005 Sep 27, Army reservist
Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her
role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2005 Sep 27, NASA and other
institutions reported a huge galaxy, HUDF-JD2, dating from about 800
million years after the Big Bang. Odds on the date were given at
75%. The galaxy was said to be unusually massive and mature for its
place in the young universe.
(SFC, 10/10/05, p.A4)
2005 Sep 27, A research team
from Hong Kong reported that the horseshoe bat is the source of the
SARS virus. A 2nd team from China, Australia and the US reported
similar findings 2 days later. The syndrome 1st appeared in China in
2002 and killed 774 people worldwide.
(SFC, 9/30/05, p.A12)
2005 Sep 27, In Afghanistan Ali
Ahmad Jalali, the Interior Minister, resigned and said some senior
officials were involved in drugs and corruption.
(SFC, 9/28/05, p.A14)
2005 Sep 27, An American
supervisor for USPI, a Houston-based security firm, allegedly shot
to death his Afghan interpreter after a quarrel. Officials said Noor
Ahmad (37) was shot in the head at a compound of his employer, U.S.
Protection and Investigations, at Tut village in Farah province's
Gulistan district in western Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Sep 27, Australian PM John
Howard won unanimous support from state premiers for tough new
counter-terrorism laws, including detention without charge and
electronic tagging of suspects.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, In Colombia
government spraying of coca plant killer was reported to be driving
growers and traffickers out of their usual territory into national
parks where spraying is banned. Here they are burning thousands of
acres of virgin rain forest and poisoning rivers with chemicals.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, A suicide bomber
attacked Iraqis applying for jobs as policemen in Baqouba, 30 miles
north of Baghdad, killing nine and wounding 21. US and Iraqi
authorities said their forces had killed Abdullah Abu Azzam, the No.
2 official in the al-Qaida in Iraq organization, in a weekend raid
in Baghdad, claiming to have struck a "painful blow" to the
country's most feared insurgent group.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, In Iraq NATO's top
brass opened a long-awaited training academy for the Iraqi military
that the alliance say will significantly increase its role in the
country.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, In southern Iraq
police found the bodies of 22 Iraqi men who had been shot in the
head and dumped in a deserted area of Badrah district northeast of
Kut and 100 miles southeast of Baghdad.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, Protestant
politicians rejected the Irish Republican Army's disarmament as
inadequate, and said they would not share power in Northern
Ireland's government with the IRA's political party Sinn Fein for
years, if ever.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, Israel hit Gaza
with shells and airstrikes to suppress rocket fire and detained 379
West Bank militants in an overnight sweep against Hamas and Islamic
Jihad activists.
(AP, 9/27/05)(WSJ, 9/28/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 27, At least 18 people
were killed and 40 others injured when two passenger buses crashed
head on along Peru's coastal Panamerican highway.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, The leader of
Poland's Law and Justice party (PiS) said he would begin talks to
form a new center-right coalition government after the final count
confirmed its election victory. PiS won by promising to uproot the
uklad, a network of ex-spies, corrupt businessmen and political
insiders, who have dominated Poland since 1989.
(AP, 9/27/05)(Econ, 9/29/07, p.54)
2005 Sep 27, In Russia Pres.
Putin fielded questions on live coast-to-coast television and
rebuffed the idea of holding on to the presidency past 2008.
(SFC, 9/28/05, p.A10)
2005 Sep 27, Russia’s navy said
it successfully test-launched a newly-developed intercontinental
ballistic missile.
(AP, 9/28/05)
2005 Sep 27, In South Africa
Brett Kebble (41), a mining entrepreneur, African National Congress
supporter and cultural philanthropist, was found shot to death in
Johannesburg. His business dealings had come under scrutiny. Drug
trafficker Glen Agliotti was implicated in the murder. Jackie
Selebi, South Africa’s chief of police, later admitted to being a
friend to Agliotti. In 2010 a judge dropped murder charges against
Agliotti.
(AP, 9/28/05)(Econ, 1/19/08, p.50)(Reuters,
11/25/10)
2005 Sep 27, A senior US State
Department official said the president of Uzbekistan made it clear
that American forces must leave their air base in the Central Asian
country, and the U.S. intends to do so "without further discussion."
(AP, 9/27/05)
2005 Sep 27, After killing at
least 31 people in China and the Philippines, Typhoon Damrey slammed
ashore in Vietnam, forcing the evacuation of nearly 300,000 people.
(AP, 9/27/05)
2006 Sep 27, President Bush
hosted a peacemaking dinner at the White House for the bickering
leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Hamid
Karzai.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)(AP, 9/27/07)
2006 Sep 27, Republicans
announced they would hold their 2008 presidential convention in the
Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.30)(AP, 9/27/07)
2006 Sep 27, Jacob "Kobi"
Alexander, the former chief and founder of Comverse Technology Inc.,
was arrested in Namibia, where he awaited extradition to the US to
face criminal fraud charges related to stock options. Alexander had
recently transferred tens of millions of dollars to Namibia. He was
released after 6 days on $1.4 million bail.
(Reuters, 9/27/06)(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)(WSJ,
11/17/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 27, The US FDA
approved Vectibix (panitimumab), a new colon cancer drug developed
by Amgen and Abgenix.
(SFC, 9/28/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 27, In Bailey,
Colorado, Duane Morrison (53) held 6 girls hostage at Platte Canyon
High School for hours before fatally wounding Emily Keyes (16). He
sexually molested the girls and then killed himself as authorities
stormed in.
(AP, 9/28/06)(SFC, 9/28/06, p.A3)(AP,
9/29/06)(SFC, 10/6/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 27, In Charleston,
South Carolina, a video store was held up by a group of children,
including a 14-year-old girl suspected of wielding a BB gun that
looked like a pistol. City Council member Larry Shirley, reacting
later to the video store holdup, said parents who can't properly
care for their kids should be sterilized.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 27, Afghan security
forces killed 25 suspected insurgents during a clash in southern
Afghanistan, while a suicide bombing targeting a NATO convoy wounded
one civilian.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, British
billionaire Richard Branson proposed changes to aircraft movements
at busy airports and the way planes land under a plan he said would
cut the world's aviation emissions by up to 25%.
(Reuters, 9/27/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.65)
2006 Sep 27, EU air safety
officials backed tightened rules on the amount of liquids and size
of carry-on baggage passengers can bring onto commercial flights.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, France ended a
decades-old system of inequality by bringing lagging pensions of war
veterans from former colonies into line with those of their French
counterparts whose retirement payment is two-thirds higher. The
decision was not retroactive.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 27, A team of French
doctors said they successfully operated on a man in near
zero-gravity conditions on a flight looping in the air like a roller
coaster to mimic weightlessness.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, Germany opened a
conference in Berlin on opening a 2-year dialogue separating Islamic
fundamentalism from Islam.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.62)
2006 Sep 27, Indonesia’s
government said it will resettle more than 3,000 families whose
houses have been swamped by mud surging from a gas exploration site
and will dump the sludge into the sea to avoid more destruction. The
eruption took place 4 months earlier 150 meters from where PT
Lapindo Brantas was drilling an exploratory well. The company was
controlled by the family of Aburizal Bakrie, Indonesia’s welfare
minister.
(AP, 9/27/06)(Econ, 10/7/06, p.51)
2006 Sep 27, In Iraq the US
military said it killed four suspected terrorists and four
civilians, including a pregnant woman, in a raid in Baqouba. An
investigation followed as surviving family members said the attack
was unprovoked. Gunmen killed 10 people near a Sunni mosque at
Ramadan prayers.
(AP, 9/27/06)(SFC, 9/28/06, p.A19)(WSJ, 9/28/06,
p.A1)
2006 Sep 27, An Israeli court
released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest ranking
Hamas official to be freed following a crackdown on the Islamic
militant group. But the court temporarily banned him from going to
his government office in the city of Ramallah. Israeli airstrikes on
a house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah killed a
14-year-old girl and wounded seven other people.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, Jordan's military
court convicted five men of plotting attacks against US troops in
Iraq, including a cousin of slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, At the Hague,
Netherlands, a UN tribunal sentenced Momcilio Krajisnik (61), the
former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, to 27 years in prison
for war crimes, but acquitted him of the harsher charge of genocide.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, In northwestern
Pakistan drive-by gunmen killed two militants and wounded three in
another car. The militants who came under attack were believed to be
loyal to a pro-Taliban tribesman known only as Hanan, who had
started a campaign to oust Uzbek militants living in the Shakai
mountain valley region north of Wana.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, Russia's chief
election body dismissed a petition aimed at allowing President
Vladimir Putin to run for a third term.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, The Sri Lanka
government revealed that Tamil Tigers have agreed to resume
face-to-face negotiations and end a seven-month deadlock in talks.
(AFP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, The Ugandan army
accused rebels of violating the increasingly fragile truce, which
was signed last month, by leaving neutral assembly points.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 27, In Venezuela’s Los
Roques islands Elena Vecoli (34), a newly married Italian woman, was
murdered and her husband, Riccardo Prescendi (46) beaten inside an
inn popular with foreign tourists. Police identified 3 suspects the
next day.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2007 Sep 27, President
Bush promised to take steps to reduce air traffic congestion and
long delays that were leaving travelers grounded.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2007 Sep 27, The US Supreme
Court halted the execution of Carlton Turner Jr. (28), a man
convicted of killing his parents in Texas, after already agreeing to
review lethal injection procedures in Kentucky. Turner was 19 when
he shot Carlton Turner Sr., (43) and Tonya Turner (40) several times
in the head. Turner was executed on Jul 10, 2008.
(AP, 9/28/07)(SFC, 7/10/08, p.A4)
2007 Sep 27, The Cleveland
adult toy firm GVA-TWN said they would acquire Good Vibrations, a SF
sex toy retailer.
(SFC, 9/28/07, p.C1)
2007 Sep 27, In Oakland, Ca., 4
people were charged with growing marijuana that since 2001 was used
in cookies and other packaged food made by Tainted Inc.
(SFC, 9/28/07, p.B3)
2007 Sep 27, In Florida a
spacecraft named Dawn blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on
a mission to explore two giant asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
Dawn was powered by a trio of solar-powered electric engines that
ionize and expel xenon gas. It could serve as a blueprint for future
interplanetary transport.
(Reuters, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Miles Cooper (27),
a caretaker at a primary school in Cambridge, was convicted of
sending a spate of letter bombs that hurt eight people in England
and Wales earlier this year.
(AFP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, China issued an
evenhanded plea for calm in Myanmar, calling on all sides to show
restraint.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Irakli
Okruashvili, Georgia's hawkish former defense minister, was detained
on corruption charges, days after he alleged that President Mikhail
Saakashvili had ordered him to kill a prominent businessman.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Iran’s President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveled stopped in Bolivia, where he pledged $1
billion in investment. He pledged investment over the next five
years to help the poor Andean nation tap its vast natural gas
reserves, extract minerals, generate more electricity and fund
agricultural and construction projects. He then visited Venezuela to
meet President Hugo Chavez. Chavez embraced the Iranian leader,
calling him "one of the greatest anti-imperialist fighters" and "one
of the great fighters for true peace."
(AP, 9/28/07)
2007 Sep 27, Iraq's Sunni vice
president held a rare meeting with the country's top Shiite cleric
to seek support for a 25-point blueprint for political reform. A
parked car bomb struck a predominantly Shiite area in eastern
Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding two others.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Israeli forces
killed two Gaza militants in a missile strike.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, In Myanmar troops
cleared protesters from the streets of central Yangon, giving them
10 minutes to leave or be shot as the Myanmar junta intensified a
two-day crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years. At least nine
people were killed, including a Japanese national. In December a UN
investigator documented 31 people killed by the end of the crackdown
in October.
(Reuters, 9/27/07)(AP, 12/7/07)
2007 Sep 27, In Nigeria gunmen
disguised as soldiers killed a Colombian oil worker and abducted two
other foreigners in a raid on the construction yard of oil services
company Saipem.
(Reuters, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Pakistan's chief
justice ordered the immediate release of detained opposition members
as President Gen. Pervez Musharraf formalized his disputed candidacy
for a new five-year term.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, Somali and
Ethiopian troops ordered thousands to vacate their homes in
Mogadishu to allow the forces to search for arms and insurgents.
(AP, 9/29/07)
2007 Sep 27, In northern Sri
Lanka the military said artillery fire, gunbattles and a bombing had
killed 25 rebels, three civilians and a soldier. The civilian
casualties occurred when a remote-control bomb went off in a
government-controlled town.
(AP, 9/27/07)
2007 Sep 27, A UN tribunal
convicted Mile Mrksic (60), a Serb army officer, of clearing the way
for the torture and killing of 194 Croats seized from a hospital in
a 1991 massacre. Veselin Sljivancanin (54), the area's chief
security officer, was sentenced to five years for failing to protect
the Croats from beatings and torture by the local Serb paramilitary
forces and Territorial Defense units. Officer Miroslav Radic (45)
was acquitted of any wrongdoing.
(AP, 9/27/07)(WSJ, 9/28/07, p.A1)
2008 Sep 27, Taliban militants
released the last 30 of approximately 150 Afghan laborers they had
abducted for almost a week after suspecting the workers of being
Afghan soldiers. 118 were released a day earlier. 3 had been
released earlier in the week due to illness.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, According to an
estimate by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), up to A$12
billion ($10 billion) in illicit drug money could be flowing out of
Australia every year.
(Reuters, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, Mission commander
Zhai Zhigang floated, a Chinese astronaut, performed the nation's
first-ever spacewalk, the latest milestone in an ambitious program
that is increasingly rivaling the United States and Russia in its
rapid expansion. Fellow astronaut Liu Boming also emerged briefly
from the capsule to hand Zhai a Chinese flag that he waved for an
exterior camera filming the event. The third crew member, Jing
Haipeng, monitored the Shenzhou 7 from inside the re-entry module.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, It was reported
that the elephant population in Congo’s Virunga National Park had
dropped to under 200, mostly due to poaching. In 1964 there were an
estimated 2,900. In 2006 the number had dropped to 400.
(Econ, 9/27/08, p.62)
2008 Sep 27, In India one child
was killed and 18 people were wounded in a bomb attack in a crowded
shopping area in New Delhi. A young boy was killed instantly when he
picked up a bag containing the bomb to return it to suspects who
fled the market before the explosion. A 2nd man died the next day
from his injuries.
(AFP, 9/27/08)(AP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 27, The UN Security
Council unanimously approved a new resolution reaffirming previous
sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment
program and offering Tehran incentives to do so.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, Iraqi police
fatally shot Riya Qahtan, a Kurdish politician, in Diyala province,
a killing that underlines the growing tensions between Kurds and
Arabs in parts of the north. The US military arrested five
Iranian-backed Shiite extremists, in 3 separate locations in eastern
Baghdad. accused in recent rocket attacks on Iraqi and American
forces. The extremists were suspected of links to the Hezbollah
Brigades, a Shiite extremist group that the US believes is backed by
Iran.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, The AIDS virus was
reported to afflict some 5.5 million of South Africa’s 49 million
population.
(Econ, 9/27/08, p.19)
2008 Sep 27, The population of
Seoul, South Korea, was reported to be about 23 million.
(Econ, 9/27/08, SR p.3)
2008 Sep 27, Sri Lankan fighter
jets bombed a rebel base in Kilinochchi district. The government it
said was used to train suicide bombers. The pro-rebel Tamilnet
website said the bombs fell on a civilian town, killing one person
and injuring two, including a child. Clashes between government
soldiers and rebels left 17 dead in the country's war-ravaged north.
(AFP, 9/27/08)(AFP, 9/28/08)
2008 Sep 27, In Damascus,
Syria, a car packed with explosives detonated on a crowded
residential street, killing 17 people and wounding more than a dozen
others.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, A Ukrainian ship,
sailing under a North Korean flag, sank in the Black Sea and all
crew members were missing. the 5,000-ton Tolstoy was carrying a
cargo of scrap metal to the Turkish port of Nemrut.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Sep 27, Zimbabwe's main
opposition leader and designated prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai
said it was "urgent" the country form a new government to ensure
food supplies and prevent starvation.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2009 Sep 27, Donald Fisher,
co-founder of the Gap Inc. (1969), died in SF. He and his wife began
collecting art as they founded their blue jeans outlet and by 2009
the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection had become one of the world’s
largest private holdings of late 20th and early 21st century art.
(SFC, 9/28/09, p.A1)
2009 Sep 27, William Safire
(b.1929), conservative columnist for the NY Times, died. Safire had
authored over a dozen books and won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary
in 1978, for his scathing articles on the financial affairs of
Carter White House budget director Bert Lance.
(SFC, 9/28/09, p.A4)
2009 Sep 27, In Afghanistan a
suicide car bomb explosion targeting Afghanistan's energy minister
killed four civilians in Herat province. In southern Afghanistan a
roadside explosion killed a British soldier on a vehicle patrol in
Helmand province. Taliban militants ambushed a truck convoy in
eastern Kunar province, killing six drivers and burning their
vehicles. A private van hit a roadside bomb in northern Faryab
province. Six of the people inside were killed and another seven
injured.
(AP, 9/27/09)(AP, 9/28/09)
2009 Sep 27, Germans voted on
whether to give Chancellor Angela Merkel a second term, as the
country faces rising unemployment and threats by Islamic extremists
over Germany's role in Afghanistan. Voters ended the conservative
Merkel's right-left "grand coalition" and gave her a comfortable
center-right majority, thanks to a strong performance by her new
government ally, the business-oriented Free Democrats.
(AP, 9/27/09)(AP, 9/28/09)
2009 Sep 27, Iran said it
successfully test-fired short-range missiles during military drills
by the elite Revolutionary Guard, a show of force days after the US
warned Tehran over a newly revealed underground nuclear facility it
was secretly constructing. A consortium connected to the powerful
Revolutionary Guard bought a majority share in the country's
telecommunications company, bringing the strategic sector under the
elite military force's control.
(AP, 9/27/09)(AP, 9/28/09)
2009 Sep 27, Two Uzbeks,
including Oybek Jabbarov (31), freed from the Guantanamo Bay prison
arrived in Ireland. Amnesty International appealed to other EU
nations to deliver on pledges to give new homes to US terror
detainees.
(AP, 9/27/09)
2009 Sep 27, Israeli police
used stun grenades to disperse Palestinian rioters at a volatile
Jerusalem site holy to Jews and Muslims. The compound is home to the
gold-capped Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa mosque, and Muslims see
it as their religion's third-holiest site after the Saudi Arabian
holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The site has been under Israeli
control since 1967, but is administered by a Muslim religious body
known as the Waqf.
(AP, 9/27/09)
2009 Sep 27, A New Zealand
teen, Cherelle May Dudfield (18), flashed her breasts at passing
cars and ended with up in a hospital after a distracted driver ran
into her. In Dec she was found guilty of disorderly behavior for the
prank and was fined $198.
(AP, 12/18/09)
2009 Sep 27, In the northern
Philippines rescuers plucked bodies from muddy floodwaters and saved
drenched survivors from rooftops. The death toll in the Philippines
from Typhoon Ketsana reached 246 with 42 missing. The economic cost
was nearly $100 million.
(AP, 9/27/09)(AP, 9/30/09)
2009 Sep 27, Portugal voted in
parliamentary elections that are predicted to keep the Socialist
Party in power despite the highest jobless rate in over 20 years.
The center-left Socialist Party of PM Jose Socrates retained power
winning 36.5% of the vote compared with 29% for the center-right
Social Democratic Party. Turnout was about 60%.
(AP, 9/27/09)(SFC, 9/28/09, p.A2)(Econ, 10/3/09,
p.65)
2009 Sep 27, It was reported
that some 300,000 Syrian farmers, herders and their families have
been forced by drought to abandon their homes for makeshift urban
camps.
(SSFC, 9/27/09, p.A18)
2009 Sep 27, Sudan’s President
Omar al-Beshir announced the immediate lifting of state censorship
on the press, meeting a key demand of the media ahead of Sudan's
first elections in almost 25 years.
(AFP, 9/27/09)
2009 Sep 27, In Venezuela Pres.
Hugo Chavez proposed that South American and African nations unite
to create a cross-continental mining corporation to keep control of
their resources. Chavez made diplomatic inroads in Africa at a
summit of South American and African leaders where he offered
Venezuela's help in oil projects, mining and financial assistance.
Venezuela signed agreements to work together on oil projects with
South Africa, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan and Cape Verde.
(Reuters, 9/27/09)(AP, 9/28/09)
2010 Sep 27, President Barack
Obama signed a $30 billion small business lending bill into law,
claiming a victory on economic policy for his fellow Democrats ahead
of November congressional elections.
(Reuters, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, Sponsored by the
US Department of Homeland Security, Cyber Storm III kicked off for a
3-day series of simulated events designed to exploit holes in the
nation's cybersecurity system. It was Washington's first chance to
test the new National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration
Center, which was set up last fall to act as a hub for coordinating
cybersecurity.
(http://tinyurl.com/24jewsu)
2010 Sep 27, Six US Air Force
officers and one researcher assembled at the prestigious National
Press Club in Washington, DC, to give their intriguing testimony of
personal involvement in a major UFO cover-up. The officers planned
to discuss UFOs and nuclear missiles, including an alleged incident
in March, 1967, at a Montana missile base where 10 Minuteman
missiles were mysteriously deactivated as a UFO allegedly hovered
overhead.
(http://www.wanttoknow.info/ufos/ufos_national_press_club_witness_testimony)
2010 Sep 27, In a videotaped
statement US Spec. Jeremy Morlock (22) admitted involvement in a
plan to kill 3 Afghan civilians in Kandahar between January and May
this year. He sought to shift blame for the plot on his squad’s
staff sergeant, who he said planted the idea. In March 2011 Morlock
was sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to three
counts of murder, as well as conspiracy and other charges. He said
the killings were part of a deliberate plan to murder Afghan
civilians.
(SFC, 9/28/10, p.A6)(AP, 3/30/11)
2010 Sep 27, Downtown Los
Angeles, Ca., recorded a record 113 degrees.
(SFC, 9/29/10, p.A1)
2010 Sep 27, In Florida Patrick
Dell (41) shot and killed his wife, Natasha Whyte-Dell (36) and 4
step children before killing himself. A 5th stepchild survived the
rampage in Riviera Beach.
(SFC, 9/28/10, p.A7)
2010 Sep 27, In Georgia Brandon
Joseph Rhode (31) was executed by lethal injection for the 1998
murders of a trucking company owner and his 2 children. He was
convicted in 2000 of the killings of Steven Moss (37), his
11-year-old son Bryan and 15-year-old daughter Kristin during a
burglary of their Jones County home in central Georgia.
(SFC, 9/28/10, p.A6)
2010 Sep 27, George Blanda
(83), former American football star, died. He played longer than
anyone in pro football history and racked up the most points in a
career that spanned four decades, mostly with the Chicago Bears and
Oakland Raiders.
(AP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, In Afghanistan a
Polish soldier died of injuries sustained when a land mine exploded
under his patrol vehicle in the eastern province of Ghazni. US
General David Petraeus said many small insurgent groups had already
made "overtures" to NATO forces about quitting the fight.
(AP, 9/27/10)(SFC, 9/28/10, p.A4)
2010 Sep 27, Police in Brazil’s
state of Rio Grande do Sul arrested Rev. Avelino Backes (70) after
finding him in a hospital in the town of Santa Rosa. Backes
disappeared in 2008 after being sentenced to seven years in jail for
molesting girls aged 9 and 10 in the neighboring state of Santa
Catarina in the 1990s.
(AP, 9/29/10)
2010 Sep 27, Cambodia laid out
plans to tackle graft in one of the world's most corrupt nations, in
an attempt to reassure foreign investors.
(AFP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, In eastern China 2
men were sentenced to death for abducting and trafficking 40
infants. They were sentenced for their involvement in a ring that
abducted dozens of baby boys from Sichuan and Yunnan provinces and
sold them to villagers in neighboring Fujian for up to $6,000 each.
(AP, 9/28/10)
2010 Sep 27, Colombia's
inspector general ousted Sen. Piedad Cordoba (55), an outspoken
opposition senator, barring her from public service for 18 years for
allegedly "promoting and collaborating" with Latin America's last
remaining rebel army.
(AP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, In Colombia a
mudslide swept over people changing from one bus to another because
an earlier slide was blocking a mountain road, and at least 20
people were buried.
(AP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, Indonesia and
France served as co-chairs of the Group of 20 Working Group on
Anti-corruption during a 2-day meeting in Jakarta. The WGAC was
among the most significant outcomes of the G20 summit in Toronto in
June 2010.
(www.deplu.go.id/Pages/PressRelease.aspx?IDP=1002&l=en)
2010 Sep 27, Iran’s IRNA news
agency reported that the Stuxnet worm is mutating and wreaking
further havoc on computerized industrial equipment in Iran where
about 30,000 IP addresses have already been infected.
(AFP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, Iraqi police
officials said a bomb exploded as Alaa Muhsen, a news anchor for
Iraqiya television, drove through southern Baghdad.
(AP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, Settlement
building resumed across the West Bank just hours after a 10-month
freeze expired, but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held back on
a threat to quit peace talks with Israel over the move. Abbas said
he would wait at least a week before deciding whether to quit
Mideast peace talks, giving US mediators precious time to broker a
compromise.
(AFP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, In Jamaica
hundreds of medical technicians, nurse's aides and other support
staff at major public hospitals went on strike to demand pay raises
and allowances they say haven't been paid by the government.
(AP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, In Mexico the
bodies of Tancitaro Mayor Gustavo Sanchez and city adviser Rafael
Equihua were discovered in a pickup truck abandoned on a dirt road
near the city of Uruapan, the fifth city leader to be slain in
Mexico since mid-August. Also in Michoacan state, five gunmen and a
marine were killed in a shootout in Coahuayana on the Pacific coast.
Another gunbattle in the Gulf coast state of Tamaulipas left eight
gunmen and one marine dead in the border city of Reynosa. In the
border state of Chihuahua, gunmen broke into a police complex,
subdued the guards and stole at least 40 automatic rifles and 23
handguns.
(AP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, In Nigeria gunmen
hijacked a school bus in Abia state and kidnapped 15 children on
board in the oil-rich south. The next day they demanded a $130,000
ransom for their release. On Oct 1 a joint military and police
taskforce "rescued" the children and no ransom was paid.
(AFP, 9/28/10)(AP, 10/1/10)
2010 Sep 27, Pakistan was
chosen to head the UN atomic agency's governing body, despite its
refusal to accept the nonproliferation treaty and its link to the
nuclear black marketer who supplied Iran and North Korea.
(AP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, Pakistani
intelligence officials said two NATO helicopters carried out a third
strike inside Pakistani territory, killing five militants and
wounding nine others. A suspected US missile strike killed four
people near Mir Ali, North Waziristan. Pakistan's Frontier Corps
paramilitary said it had recovered a huge hoard of military
equipment stolen from NATO supply convoys travelling to Afghanistan.
The equipment was looted during the last five to six months.
(AP, 9/27/10)(AFP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, The Romanian
government was in an uproar over austerity protests. The interior
minister resigned, the opposition demanded the prime minister go as
well and top police officials held emergency talks with the
president.
(AP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, In Serbia
basketball player Miladin Kovacevic (23) pleaded guilty to beating a
fellow American student into a coma in the case that has strained
relations between the United States and Serbia. In November he was
sentenced to two years and three months for the beating of Bryan
Steinhauer (24) in May 2008 near Binghamton University in upstate
New York.
(AP, 9/27/10)(AP, 1/21/11)
2010 Sep 27, Representatives of
45 nations and international bodies met in Madrid to consider plans
to strengthen an African Union peacekeeping force in war-torn
Somalia.
(AFP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, Sudan’s government
promised to inject almost two billion dollars into conflict-stricken
Darfur, but again demanded war crimes charges against its president
be dropped.
(AFP, 9/27/10)
2010 Sep 27, A boat with 85
African migrants capsized off Yemen drowning at least 13 people. It
was being towed by the US Navy back to Somalia a day after being
discovered.
(SFC, 9/28/10, p.A2)(http://tinyurl.com/2wxgqmv)
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