Today in History - October 2
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692 Oct 2, A
Mayan prisoner from Copan, depicted in a well-preserved stone
sculpture found in 2011, was captured on this day.
(AP, 7/8/11)
1187 Oct 2, Sultan Saladin
captured Jerusalem from Crusaders.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin)
1263 Oct 2, At Largs, King
Alexander III of Scotland repelled an amphibious invasion by King
Haakon IV of Norway.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1452 Oct 2, King Richard III,
of England (1483-85), was born.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1535 Oct 2, Jacques Cartier
first saw the site of what is now Montreal and proclaimed "What a
royal mountain," hence the name of the city. [see 1536] Having
landed in Quebec a month ago, Jacques Cartier reached a town, which
he named Montreal.
(SFEC, 3/2/97, p.T7)(HN, 10/2/98)
1608 Oct 2, Jan Lippershey,
spectacle maker, formally offered to the Estates of Holland his new
spyglass for warfare. He was the 1st to file a patent claim for a
spyglass.
(www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9048449)(CW,
Spring ‘99, p.33)
1656 Oct 2, US colony
Connecticut passed a law against Quakers.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1715 Oct 2, Peter II, czar of
Russia (1727-30), was born.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1737 Oct 2, Francis Hopkinson,
US writer and lawyer, was born. He designed the Stars & Stripes.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1780 Oct 2, British spy John
Andre was hanged in Tappan, N.Y., for conspiring with Benedict
Arnold.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1800 Oct 2, Nat Turner, slave
and the property of Benjamin Turner, was born in Southampton county,
Va. He was sold in 1831 to Joseph Travis from Jerusalem, Southampton
county, Va.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html)
1803 Oct 2, Samuel Adams
(b.1722), former Gov. of Mass. (1793-1797), died. He was a
propagandist, political figure, revolutionary patriot and statesman
who helped to organize the Boston Tea Party. In 2008 Ira Stoll
authored “Samuel Adams: A Life.”
(AHD, 1971, p.14)(WSJ, 11/3/08,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams)
1804 Oct 2, England mobilized
to protect against an expected French invasion by Napoleon.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1833 Oct 2, The NY Anti-Slavery
Society was organized.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1835 Oct 2, The first battle of
the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers fought Mexican
soldiers near the Guadalupe River; the Mexicans ended up
withdrawing.
(AP, 10/2/08)
1836 Oct 2, Darwin returned to
England aboard HMS Beagle after 5 years abroad. He visited Brazil,
the Galapagos Islands, and New Zealand. His studies were important
to his theory of evolution, which he put forth in his groundbreaking
scientific work of 1859, "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection."
(MC, 10/2/01)
1847 Oct 2, Paul von Hindenburg
(Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg), German Field
Marshall during World War I whose brilliant victories on the Eastern
Front promoted him to become the second president of the Weimar
Republic, was born.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1851 Oct 2, Ferdinand Foch,
French Allied commander in WW I, was born.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1853 Oct 2, Austrian law
forbade Jews from owning land.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1862 Oct 2, An Army under Union
General Joseph Hooker arrived in Bridgeport, Alabama to support the
Union forces at Chattanooga.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1863 Oct 2, San Francisco
Archbishop Alemany sent a letter to Fr. Maraschi, SJ, pastor of St.
Ignatius Church, announcing that St. Ignatius Church would lose its
parish status. The church did not regain its status as a parish
until 1994.
(GenIV, Winter 04/05)
1865 Oct 2, Former Confederate
General Robert E. Lee became president of Washington and Lee
University in Virginia.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1866 Oct 2, J. Osterhoudt
patented a tin can with key opener.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1869 Oct 2, Mohandas Karamchad
Gandhi (d.1948), called Mahatma, Hindu nationalist, political and
spiritual leader was born in Porbandar, India. His nonviolent
actions helped to eradicate British rule in India. He was
assassinated in 1948. "Love is the strongest force the world
possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable." [see Oct 3]
(AHD, 1971, p.542)(HFA, '96, p.40)(SFC, 1/31/97,
p.A13)(AP, 10/2/97)(AP, 1/12/98)(HN, 10/2/98)
1870 Oct 2, The papal states
voted in favor of union with Italy. The capital was moved from
Florence to Rome.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1871 Oct 2, Cordell Hull,
Secretary of State for President Franklin Roosevelt who promoted
cooperation with the Soviet Union against Adolf Hitler, was born.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1871 Oct 2, Mormon leader
Brigham Young, 70, was arrested for polygamy. He was later
convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1879 Oct 2, Wallace Stevens,
poet, was born.
(HN, 10/2/00)
1879 Oct 2, A dual alliance was
formed between Austria and Germany, in which the two countries
agreed to come to the other's aid in the event of aggression.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1890 Oct 2, Julius Henry
"Groucho" Marx (d.1977), American comedian, was born. Although there
is some discrepancy about the exact date, Groucho was most likely
born on this date in New York. He later went on to host the
television quiz show "You Bet Your Life." He began singing as a boy
and then performed wisecracking comedy on stage and screen with his
brothers (Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and Gummo). Groucho also had radio
shows, wrote books and screenplays, and became the most famous Marx
Brother for his mustached, cigar-smoking persona and lines like, "I
sent the club a wire stating, ‘please accept my resignation. I don’t
want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.’"
"There’s one way to find out if a man is honest—ask him. If he says
‘yes,’ you know he is crooked." Groucho Marx died in 1977.
(SFEC, 5/25/97, p.C15)(HNPD, 10/2/98)(AP,
10/2/97)
1895 Oct 2, The 1st cartoon
comic strip was printed in a newspaper. [see May, 1895]
(MC, 10/2/01)
1900 Oct 2, William A. ‘Bud’
Abbot, comedian, was born. He was the straight man to Lou Costello.
(HN, 10/2/00)
1901 Oct 2, Roy Campbell, poet,
was born. His work included "The Flaming Terrapin."
(HN, 10/2/00)
1901 Oct 2, The 1st Royal Naval
submarine launched at Barrow.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1904 Oct 2, Graham Greene
(d.1991), British author, was born. His work included "The Power and
the Glory," "The Heart of the Matter" and "Ministry of Fear," which
was made into a 1940s movie by Fritz Lang. "I didn't invent the
world I write about- it's all true." In 2004 Norman sherry concluded
his 3-volume biography: “The Life of Graham Greene.”
(SFEC,10/26/97, DB p.44)(AP, 4/3/00)(HN,
10/2/00)(SFC, 10/2/04, p.E1)
1909 Oct 2, Orville Wright set
an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert
Latham's previous record of 508 feet.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1909 Oct 2, Raymonde de
Larouche (1918), Franch actress, flew a Voisin airplane during a
taxiing lesson under Gabriel Voisin at Chalons, establishing the
first recorded flight by a woman.
(ON, 4/10, p.11)
1919 Oct 2, President Wilson
suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and
Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall was urged to assume the presidency
but he refused. It was Marshall who had earlier said: "What this
country needs is a really good five-cent cigar." The quote was
attributed to Marshall in 1920 by the SFEM.
(DFP, 7/28/96, p.J1)(SFEM, 12/15/96, p.15)(AP,
10/2/97)
1920 Oct 2, Max Bruch, composer
(Scottish Fantasy), died at 82.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1927 Oct 2, Svante Arrhenius
(b.1859), Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
(1903), died in Uppsala. At the turn of the century, Svante
Arrhenius had calculated that emissions from human industry might
someday bring a global warming.
(http://tinyurl.com/lxu4w)(www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm)
1928 Oct 2, Clarence Barron
(b.1855), author and president of Dow Jones & Co., died. Hugh
Bancroft (1879-1933) succeeded him as president of Dow Jones.
(www.newsbios.com/newslum/barron.htm)
1932 Oct 2, The NY Yankees won
the World Series against the Chicago Cubs in 4 games.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_World_Series)
1933 Oct 2, Eugene O'Neill's
comedy "Ah, Wilderness," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1936 Oct 2, Johnnie Cochran,
attorney (OJ Simpson defense attorney), was born.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1939 Oct 2, The Benny Goodman
Sextet recorded "Flying Home."
(AP, 10/2/99)
1940 Oct 2, 17 German aircrafts
were shot down above England.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1940 Oct 2, The British liner
Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sank.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1941 Oct 2, Gilbert Gable,
mayor of Port Orford, Ore., announced with some pals that they were
fed up of being neglected by legislators in Salem and Sacramento and
began promoting a 51st state named Jefferson with Yreka as the
capital.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A26)(AH, 2/05, p.20)
1941 Oct 2, Operation Typhoon,
a German all-out drive against Moscow, began in earnest. In 2006
Rodric Braithwaite authored “Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at
War.”
(AP,
10/2/97)(http://www.bartcop.com/arc4110.htm)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.95)
1941 Oct 2, 6 Paris synagogues
were bombed by Gestapo. [see Oct 3]
(MC, 10/2/01)
1942 Oct 2, The "Queen Mary"
sliced the cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1944 Oct 2, Nazi troops crushed
the 2-month-old (63 days) Warsaw Uprising, during which a
quarter-million people were killed.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1948 Oct 2, Donna Karan,
fashion designer (Coty Award-1977), was born in Forest Hills, NY.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1948 Oct 2, "Finian's Rainbow"
closed at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 performances.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1948 Oct 2, In New York the 1st
Grand Prix at Watkins Glen was held. Cameron Argetsinger (1921-2008)
was the main driving force behind the race which was won by Frank
Griswold. Formula racing continued there until bankruptcy in 1981.
Two year later Corning Glass Works revived the Watkins Glen race
course in partnership with Int’l. Speedway Corp.
(WSJ, 4/26/08,
p.A6)(www.nascar.com/races/tracks/wgi/index.html)
1949 Oct 2, USSR recognized the
People's Republic of China.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1950 Oct 2, The comic strip
"Peanuts," created by Charles M. Schulz (28), was syndicated to
seven newspapers as "Li'l Folks." It started with only four
characters: Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty (Reichardt), Shermy and
the world's most famous beagle, Snoopy. Schulz announced his
retirement in 1999 with the last Peanuts to appear Feb 13, 2000.
(SFC, 11/29/97, p.C1)(SFC, 12/15/99, p.E1)(AP,
10/2/08)
1950 Oct 2, Mao Tse Tung sent a
telegram to Stalin. China intervened in Korea.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1952 Oct 2, Clive Barker,
writer (Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions), was born.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1957 Oct 2, The World War II
drama "The Bridge on the River Kwai," directed by David Lean,
premiered in Britain. The film opened in the United States the
following December.
(AP, 10/2/07)
1958 Oct 2, Marie Stopes, birth
control pioneer, died.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1958 Oct 2, The former French
colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence from
France under the leadership of Sekou Toure.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A15)(AP, 10/2/97)
1959 Oct 2, Rod Serling's "The
Twilight Zone" made its debut on CBS-TV.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1961 Oct 2, The medical drama
``Ben Casey,'' starring Vince Edwards and Sam Jaffe, premiered on
ABC.
(AP, 10/2/01)
1963 Oct 2, Defense Sec. Robert
McNamara told Pres. Kennedy in a cabinet meeting that: "We need a
way to get out of Vietnam." McNamara proposed to replace the 16,000
US advisors with Canadian personnel.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A2)
1963 Oct 2, W. German
Chancellor Adenauer condemned western grain shipments to USSR.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1964 Oct 2, Scientists
announced findings that smoking can cause cancer.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1967 Oct 2, Thurgood Marshall,
the first African-American Supreme Court justice, was sworn in as an
associate justice of he U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall had previously
been the solicitor general, the head of the legal staff of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
and a leading American civil rights lawyer.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)(AP, 10/2/97)(HN, 10/2/98)
1968 Oct 2, Pres. Johnson
established Redwood National Park in northern California under
Public Law 90-545. Congress created the Redwood National Park in
California at a cost of $306 million. Large portions of the Arcata
Redwood Corp. lands were detached to form sections of Redwood
National Park. The land was initially assembled by Michigan timber
baron Arthur Hill. His son, Harry Hill, built the French Renaissance
townhouse that is now the Italian consulate.
(www.eoearth.org/article/Redwood_National_Park,_United_States)(SFC,
9/9/97, p.A19)(SFEC, 12/5/99, p.T1)
1968 Oct 2, Pres. Johnson
signed a bill establishing Washington state’s North Cascades
National Park.
(SSFC, 7/18/04,
p.D7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cascades_National_Park)
1968 Oct 2, The 2,650-mile
Pacific Crest Trail, spanning Mexico to Canada, was designated a
National Scenic Trail as part of the US National Trails System Act.
(SFC, 7/16/08,
p.E2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail)
1968 Oct 2, US Supreme Court
Justice Abe Fortas withdrew his nomination as chief justice. Six
months later, he resigned from the court, admitting he'd made a
financial deal with the Louis Wolfson Foundation.
(http://hnn.us/articles/11753.html)
1968 Oct 2, In Mexico soldiers
under Pres. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz used automatic weapons and killed
some 300 students in the Mexico City Tlatelolco massacre prior to
the start of the summer Olympics. The government said only 50
students were killed during gunfire that lasted 5 hours. Luis
Echeverria, later president, was the interior minister and the man
in charge of public security. He was called before a congressional
committee in 1998. Evidence in 1999 confirmed that pre-positioned
soldiers fired on the students. In 2002 a special prosecutor said he
has found no evidence to support historians' claims that some 300
people died when army troops opened fire on demonstrators in 1968.
He put the number killed at 38. A judge dismissed other genocide
charges against Echeverria in July 2005, ruling that while he may
have been responsible for a separate 1971 student massacre, he could
not be tried because the statute of limitations had expired in 1985.
(WUD, 1994, p.1687)(SFC, 9/1/96, p.A16)(SFEC,
4/6/97, p.C12)(WSJ, 8/13/97, p.A12)(SFC, 2/4/98, p.C2,14)(WSJ,
9/10/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A10)(AP, 8/5/02)(AP, 3/27/09)
1968 Oct 2, Marcel Duchamp
(b.1887), French painter, died. He was known best for his 1915 "Nude
Descending a Staircase."
(V.D.-H.K.p.361)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp)
1970 Oct 2, A plane carrying
the Wichita State Univ. football team crashed near Silver Plume,
Colorado, killing 29 passengers as well as the Captain and
Flight Attendant.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_State_University_Crash)
1973 Oct 2, Paavo "Flying Finn"
Nurmi (b.1897), Finnish runner, died. He won a total of 9 Olympic
gold medals and 3 silver medals between 1920 and 1928.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Nurmi)
1974 Oct 2, Nancy Wilcox,
believed to have been a victim of the serial killer Ted Bundy
(d.1989), disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah.
(www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/wilcox_nancy.html)
1974 Oct 2, Pele (b.1940),
Brazilian soccer player born as Edson Arantes do Nascimento, came
out of retirement to join the NY Cosmos of the North American Soccer
League. Steve Ross (1927-1992), chairman of Warner Brothers and
founder of the Cosmos, offered him a reported $7 million for a
3-year contract. In 2006 Gavin Newsham authored “Once in a Lifetime:
The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos.”
(SFC, 6/26/06,
p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9)
1975 Oct 2, President Ford
welcomed Japan’s Emperor Hirohito to the United States.
(AP, 10/2/00)
1975 Oct 2, Armand Hammer
(1898-1992) pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges of making
illegal contributions in the names of other persons to the 1972
Nixon re-election campaign.
(WSJ, 6/29/00, p.A26)(http://tinyurl.com/4nv5yw)
1978 Oct 2, Syrian troops
pounded Christian districts of Beirut with heavy artillery and
rocket fire early today, and right-wing officials said Lebanese
militias were fighting back with every weapon they had.
(http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/30thyear/onthisday/10157571.html)
1980 Oct 2, US Rep. Michael
"Ozzie" Myers, D-Pa., convicted of accepting a bribe in the FBI's
ABSCAM sting operation, was expelled from the House, becoming the
first congressman ousted by his colleagues since the outbreak of the
Civil War.
(AP, 10/2/05)
1981 Oct 2, In Iran
Hojjatoleslam Ali Khamenehi was elected president.
(www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-6395.html)
1982 Oct 2, A truck bomb in
Tehran killed 60 and injured 700. Authorities blamed ''American
mercenaries.''
(http://tinyurl.com/2j23lb)
1982 Oct 2, The Indian guru
Swami Muktananda (b.1908) died. He had opened meditation centers in
the US during the 1970s and attracted some 20,000 devotees. In 1983
he was charged posthumously with seducing young girls and stashing
funds in a Swiss bank account.
(SFC, 6/15/05,
p.A1)(www.leavingsiddhayoga.net/secret.htm)
1984 Oct 2, Richard W. Miller
became the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with
espionage. Miller was tried three times; he was sentenced to 20
years in prison, but was released after nine years.
(AP, 10/2/04)
1985 Oct 2, Rock Hudson
(b.1925), film star, died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. after
a battle with AIDS. Upon his death it was publicly made known that
he had been a closet homosexual. Marc Christian McGinnis
(1953-2009), Hudson’s lover, soon sued Hudson’s estate alleging
emotional distress. In 1989 a jury awarded him $21.75 million in
damages, but this was later reduced to $5.5 million and settled in
1991. McGinnis never contracted AIDS, but died of pulmonary
problems.
(SFC, 11/28/96, p.C14)(AP, 10/2/97)(SSFC,
12/6/09, p.C8)
1986 Oct 2, In India Sikhs
attempted to assassinate Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991).
(http://tinyurl.com/yjyxzh)
1987 Oct 2, On Capitol Hill,
more Democratic senators lined up against Supreme Court nominee
Robert H. Bork as President Reagan continued to lobby undecided
lawmakers on behalf of his candidate for the high court.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1987 Oct 2, Peter Brian
Medawar, Brazilian-born English medical scientist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar)
1988 Oct 2, The Summer Olympic
Games concluded in Seoul, South Korea. The USSR won 55 gold medals,
E. Germany won 37, and the US won 36.
(SFC, 7/14/96, Par p.4)(HN, 10/2/98)
1988 Oct 2, An Olympic scandal
involved American boxer Roy Jones, who was robbed of a gold medal at
the Olympic Games in Seoul, when he lost a split decision to South
Korea's Park Si-Hun despite outpunching his opponent 86-32. Three
judges who voted for the Korean were later suspended.
(AP,
9/23/11)(http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=T-8IS94GFyY)
1989 Oct 2, Nearly 10,000
people marched through Leipzig, East Germany, demanding legalization
of opposition groups and adoption of democratic reforms in the
country's largest protest since 1953.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1990 Oct 2, President Bush,
trying to muster acceptance for a $500 billion package of tax
increases and spending cuts, asked Americans in a televised address
to support the plan.
(AP, 10/2/00)
1990 Oct 2, The US Senate voted
90-to-9 to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the
Supreme Court.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1991 Oct 2, Ousted Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide asked the Organization of American
States in Washington to send a delegation to his homeland to demand
that the newly installed military junta surrender power immediately.
(AP, 10/2/01)
1992 Oct 2, The campaigns of
President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton agreed to hold three
presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1992 Oct 2, In Brazil Col.
Ubiratan Guimaraes led the "Carandiru massacre," where 111 inmates
where killed during a raid to quell a prison riot. At the Carandiru
prison in Sao Paulo 102 prisoners were killed by troops under Col.
Ubiratan Guimaraes. Guimaraes was convicted in 2001 and sentenced to
632 years in prison, but awaited a 2nd trial. In 2006
Guimaraes (63) was murdered at his apartment in Sao Paulo.
(SFC, 9/21/98, p.A14)(SSFC, 7/1/01, p.A18)(AP,
9/11/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.48)
1993 Oct 2, Henry Ringling
North (83), circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), died at a Swiss
hospital.
(http://tinyurl.com/cgbza)
1993 Oct 2, Hundreds of
opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin battled police in
Moscow and set up burning barricades in the biggest clash of
Russia's 12-day-old political crisis.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1993 Oct 2, In Son La, Vietnam,
53 members of the Thai minority died in a mass suicide organized by
Ca Van Lieng, leader of a doomsday cult.
(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A19)
1994 Oct 2, U.S. soldiers in
Haiti detained several leaders of the country's pro-army militias as
part of an effort to dismantle armed opposition to restoration of
elected rule.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1994 Oct 2, Harriet Nelson
(85), actress (The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), died of heart
failure in Laguna Beach, Ca.
(AP, 10/2/04)
1995 Oct 2, O.J. Simpson’s
jurors stunned the courtroom and the nation by reaching verdicts in
the sensational eight-month murder trial in less than four hours.
The decision was kept secret until the following day, when it was
announced that Simpson had been acquitted. Simpson was acquitted in
the double-murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend
Ronald Goldman.
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-1)(SFEC, 9/8/96, BR p.1)(AP,
10/2/00)
1996 Oct 2, Mark Fuhrman was
given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no
contest to perjury for denying at O.J. Simpson's criminal trial that
he had used a certain racial slur in the past decade.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1996 Oct 2, The US Army
prepared to shift 5,000 troops to Bosnia from Germany for 6-months
to protect troops slated to leave.
(SFC, 10/2/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 2, The EU said that it
will challenge the US Helms-Burton law in a new court of world
trade.
(SFC, 10/2/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 2, The US meeting
between Benjamin Netanyahu, Yasser Arafat and King Hussein ended
with no specific issues resolved in the recent Middle East flare-up
between Palestinians and Jews.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 2, In Bulgaria former
PM Andrei Lukanov was assassinated. It was said that he had new
proofs of corruption in the highest power circles. In 2003 5 men
were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without chance of
parole.
(SFC, 10/5/96, p.A10)(AP, 11/28/03)
1996 Oct 2, Mexican and US
authorities captured 5 alleged hit men of the Arellan Felix brothers
drug cartel in a series of raids in Mexico and California.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 2, The AeroPeru flight
603, a Boeing 757, crashed shortly after takeoff into the Pacific
and all 61 passengers and nine crew members were killed. The pilot
claimed loss of navigational equipment just before the crash.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)(AP, 10/2/97)
1997 Oct 2, President Clinton
proposed sending inspectors to farms around the world to ensure that
foreign-grown fruits and vegetables are safe for American consumers.
The president also said he would ask Congress to empower the Food
and Drug Administration to ban produce from countries whose safety
precautions do not meet American standards.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1997 Oct 2, A Navy F-14 Tomcat
fighter jet crashed off the coast of N. Carolina. One crew member
was rescued but the pilot was still missing.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 2, In California some
200 police, FBI, IRS and DEA agents swept over 18 homes and business
in Oakland, Hayward and San Leandro and seized 73 kilograms of
cocaine valued at $70 million. Some 22 people were arrested in the
drug and smuggling ring culminating a 3-month investigation.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.A19)
1997 Oct 2, In Algeria
attackers killed 20 members of a wedding party in Blida.
(SFEC, 10/5/97, p.A22)
1997 Oct 2, In Azerbaijan a
helicopter with 20 passengers crashed near an offshore oil platform
and no survivors were found.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Oct 2, In Brazil thousands
turned out to greet Pope John Paul II for the start of his 4-day
visit.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B2)
1997 Oct 2, The EU formally set
up a common foreign and security policy in the Amsterdam Treaty. It
set to adopt key asylum and immigration measures within five years
of the treaty's entry into force, expected in 1999.
(Econ, 8/26/06,
p.42)(http://hrw.org/worldreport/Helsinki-28.htm)
1998 Oct 2, The House released
4,600 pages of evidence that detailed President Clinton's efforts to
contain the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it erupted.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1998 Oct 2, Gene Autry
(b.1907), America’s first singing cowboy and former owner of the
Anaheim Angels, died at age 91 in Studio City, CA. He made 96 films
and cut 635 records including "Back in the Saddle Again." His comic
sidekick was Smiley Burnette and his horse was named Champion. His
career spanned some 60 years. Autry is the only entertainer to have
earned five stars on the commemorative sidewalk for his work in
radio, records, film, television, and live theatrical performance.
(SFC, 10/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 10/5/98, p.A18)(SFEC,
12/20/98, Z1 p.5)(HNQ, 7/26/01)
1998 Oct 2, In Europe the new
"Swatchmobile," a 2-seater plastic car by Daimler-Benz, made its
debut. The Smart car was to sell for $8,500 and was rated at 59
miles per gallon.
(WSJ, 10/2/98, p.B1)
1998 Oct 2, In Japan the
parliament passed bills to provide $74 billion in taxpayer money to
help banks recover from bad loans.
(SFC, 10/3/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct 2, In Mongolia
Sanjaasurangiin Zorig (36), who helped oust the Communist regime in
1990, was assassinated. He was stabbed and hacked with a knife and
an ax. It was seen as a move to silence pro-democracy officials.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A1)(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A14)(WSJ,
10/22/98, p.A17)
1999 Oct 2, The controversial
art show "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi
Collection" opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Mayor Giuliani
withheld the museum's monthly city subsidy and started eviction
proceedings. The show included Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary"
fashioned with some elephant dung.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 2, The US and Russia
opened a new video-conferencing center in Moscow to allow real-time
links with the White House.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A17)
1999 Oct 2, Bo Mya, leader of
the Karen National Union, said he would grant sanctuary to the
Burmese students who were flown to the Thai-Burma following a 26
hour takeover of the Burmese Embassy in Thailand.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A25)
1999 Oct 2, In India 6 people,
including 4 police personnel, were killed as national elections
began in Tripura state.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A23)
1999 Oct 2, From Kenya it was
reported that the flamingos of Lake Nakuru had migrated away to
other locations. Environmental stress from industrial refuse and
other wastes was blamed. Fluctuating salinity was also suspect in
that flamingoes feed on the algae spirulina platensis, which blooms
in saline waters. It was later reported that tens of thousands of
flamingos on Lake Bogoria had died since July due to heavy metals.
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A9)(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A8)
1999 Oct 2, Russian troops
engaged Chechen guerrilla defenders as armored columns rolled into
the villages of Alpatova and Chernokosova.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A22)
1999 Oct 2, In the Ukraine
Natalia Vitrenko of the leftist Progressive Socialist Party was
wounded in a grenade attack at a campaign meeting in Inguletsk.
(WSJ, 10/4/99, p.A)
2000 Oct 2, Pres. Clinton
signed into law the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) as
Title 1 of the Trade and Development Act of 2000. It offered
tangible incentives for African countries to continue their efforts
to open their economies and build free markets.
(www.agoa.gov/)(http://tinyurl.com/3yj69b)
2000 Oct 2, Virginia Gov. James
Gilmore granted an absolute pardon to Earl Washington Jr., 17 years
after the mentally retarded man was convicted for the rape and
homicide of a mother of 3. An initial 1994 DNA test indicated
another man in the case. A new DNA test identified a convicted
rapist. In 2006 a federal jury awarded $2.25 million to Washington.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A4)(SFC, 5/6/06, p.A3)
2000 Oct 2, Britain’s 1st bill
of rights went into effect.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 2, Israeli troops
fired on protesting Arabs. 19 people were killed in the West Bank
and Gaza and another 7 in Arab towns of northern Galilee. The 4 day
toll rose to 48 dead and over 1,300 wounded. In 2003 the Or
Commission blamed the government of PM Barak for not paying
attention to rising discontent among Israel’s Arabs. In 2005 Israeli
authorities, citing lack of evidence, said they would not file
charges against any police officers for the killings of 13 Arabs
during the October, 2000, riots.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/3/00, p.A1)(SFC,
9/18/05, p.A3)
2000 Oct 2, In the Philippines
soldiers freed 12 Christian evangelists from Abu Sayyaf rebels after
one escaped and alerted the military. The guerrillas escaped with 5
remaining hostages.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A8)
2000 Oct 2, In Serbia the
opposition staged a general strike as Pres. Milosevic went on
national TV and called on his countrymen to re-elect him. In his
first public address since a disputed election, Milosevic branded
his opponents puppets of the West. A wave of unrest aimed at driving
him from power swept Yugoslavia, and the government responded by
arresting dozens of strike leaders.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A8)(AP, 10/2/01)
2000 Oct 2, In Sri Lanka a
suspected suicide bomber killed at least 19 people at a political
rally.
(WSJ, 10/3/00, p.A1)
2001 Oct 2, NATO
Secretary-General Lord Robertson said the United States had provided
"clear and conclusive" evidence of Osama bin Laden's involvement in
the attacks on New York and Washington.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A4)(AP, 10/2/02)
2001 Oct 2, Acting
Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift unveiled security measures that
included a new security chief at Logan International Airport, where
hijackers boarded the two planes that smashed into the World Trade
Center.
(AP, 10/2/02)
2001 Oct 2, The US Federal
Reserve cut interest rates for a 9th time and reduced the federal
funds rate to 2.5%, its lowest level since 1962. The DJIA rose 113
to 8,950. The Nasdaq rose 11 to 1,492.
(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A1,D2)
2001 Oct 2, A US Treasury Dept
official reported that over $100 million of suspected terrorist
assets had been frozen in domestic and foreign banks since the Sep
11 attacks.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A4)
2001 Oct 2, India demanded that
Pakistan shut down the Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of the Prophet
Mohammad) militant group responsible for the Oct 1 attack in
Srinagar that killed 40 people. India also asked the US to outlaw
the group and to freeze its assets.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 2, Palestinian gunmen
attacked an Israeli settlement in Gaza and killed a teenage couple.
At least 15 others were wounded. 2 gunmen were killed by Israeli
sharpshooters.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 2, In Russia Defense
Minister Sergei Ivanov signed a weapons framework agreement with
Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani for as much as $300 million.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 2, Farouk al-Sharaa,
Syrian foreign minister, said Syria is determined to help the int’l.
effort to combat terrorism. He added that to achieve that goal,
terrorism’s roots and causes would have to be addressed.
(WSJ, 10/3/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 2, Cash-strapped
Swissair shut down flight operations and stranded thousands of
passengers around the globe.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.D3)
2002 Oct 2, Andrew Fastow (40),
the former chief financial officer of Enron Corp. was charged with
securities, wire and mail fraud, money laundering and conspiring to
inflate Enron's profits and enrich himself at the company’s expense.
On Sep 26, 2006, Fastow was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
(AP, 10/2/02)(SFC, 9/27/06, p.C1)
2002 Oct 2, The New Jersey
Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Democratic Party could
replace Sen. Torricelli on the November ballot with former senator
Frank Lautenberg.
(AP, 10/2/03)
2002 Oct 2, West Coast
dockworkers and shippers agreed to federal mediation as the 4-day
lockout paralyzed 29 ports.
(SFC, 10/3/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 2, James Martin (55)
was shot to death by a sniper in Wheaton, Md. He was the 1st to die
at the hands of a local serial killer. The next day, five people in
the Washington D.C. area were shot dead, setting off a frantic
manhunt. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were later arrested
for 10 killings and three woundings; Muhammad has been sentenced to
death, Malvo to life in prison.
(NW, 10/21/02, p.28)(AP, 10/2/07)
2002 Oct 2, Norman O. Brown
(89), author of "Life Against Death" (1959), died in Santa Cruz, Ca.
(SFC, 10/7/02, p.A19)
2002 Oct 2, Bosnian Serb
wartime leader Biljana Plavsic, one of the highest-ranking suspects
at the U.N. war crimes tribunal, pleaded guilty to one count of
crimes against humanity.
(AP, 10/2/02)
2002 Oct 2, Iraq said it would
not accept any new U.N. resolution to cover the operations of arms
inspectors on its soil and vowed it would hit back hard against any
U.S. attack on Baghdad.
(AP, 10/2/02)
2002 Oct 2, In the Philippines
a bomb killed an American soldier in Zamboanga and was detonated by
a Filipino on a motorcycle who died in the blast that killed one
other person.
(Reuters, 10/3/02)(WSJ, 10/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 2, In northern Syria
mountain homes collapsed after caves beneath them gave way in the
Sawad Hill district. 31 people were killed and 22 injured.
(AP, 10/2/02)(SFC, 10/3/02, p.A9)
2003 Oct 2, The annual Ig Noble
prizes were awarded at Harvard Univ.
(SFC, 10/6/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 2, South Africa's J.M.
Coetzee, whose stories tell of innocents and outcasts oppressed by
the cruel weight of history, won the 2003 Nobel Prize for
literature. His books included "Dusklands" (1974), "In the heart of
the Country" (1977), "Waiting for the Barbarians" (1980), "Life and
Times of Michael K" (1983) and "Disgrace" (1999).
(AP, 10/2/03)(WSJ, 10/14/03, p.D10)
2003 Oct 2, The US House voted
281-142 to prohibit doctors from carrying out what abortion
opponents call partial birth abortion.
(AP, 10/2/04)
2003 Oct 2, The Los Angeles
Times published allegations that California gubernatorial candidate
Arnold Schwarzenegger had sexually harassed six women in the past;
the actor acknowledged "bad behavior" on his part, and apologized.
2003 Oct 2, John Dunlop (89),
former Labor Secretary died.
(AP, 10/2/04)
2003 Oct 2, In Bahrain
assailants hurled gasoline bombs at a busload of police officers,
wounding five of them.
(AP, 10/3/03)
2003 Oct 2, Two Canadian
peacekeepers were killed and three were injured in a land-mine blast
in the Afghan capital Kabul.
(Reuters, 10/2/03)
2003 Oct 2, In Haiti police
trying to raid a shantytown touched off a gunfight that killed five
men in the city of Gonaives.
(AP, 10/3/03)
2003 Oct 2, North Korea said it
is using plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel rods to make
atomic weapons.
(AP, 10/2/03)
2003 Oct 2, Pakistan's army
launched its largest offensive against al-Qaida and other militants
in a rugged tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing at least 12
suspects.
(AP, 10/2/03)
2004 Oct 2, The Loveparade,
which originated in Berlin in 1989, came to San Francisco for its
1st annual bash. Matthias Roeingh, founder, was on hand.
(SSFC, 10/3/04, p.B1)
2004 Oct 2, IMF and World Bank
officials in Washington DC failed to resolve their differences over
debt relief for the world's poorest countries and Iraq while
expressing concern about the impact high oil prices would have on a
strengthening global economy.
(AP, 10/3/04)
2004 Oct 2, Afghan intelligence
agents backed by international peacekeepers arrested 25 people
allegedly linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida in an early morning
raid in eastern Kabul.
(AP, 10/2/04)
2004 Oct 2, In Ontario, Canada,
a record 1,446 pound pumpkin was unveiled.
(SFC, 10/12/04, p.B1)
2004 Oct 2, Two US ships
carrying 300 pounds of plutonium were scheduled to dock in
Cherbourg, France. A French nuclear factory planned to transform it
into fuel assemblies and return it next year to Charleston, SC.
(SFC, 10/1/04, p.A15)
2004 Oct 2, In Haiti
authorities recovered the decapitated bodies of three policemen,
among at least seven people killed in a 2nd day of violence.
Aristide supporters demanded his return from exile in South Africa,
launching what they called "Operation Baghdad."
(AP, 10/2/04)(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 2, In northeast India
a spate of bombings and gun attacks in crowded public places killed
73 people in markets and a railroad station across Assam and
Nagaland states.
(SSFC, 10/3/04, p.A8)(AP, 10/2/05)
2004 Oct 2, A militant group in
Iraq claimed in an Internet statement that it abducted and beheaded
an Iraqi construction contractor who worked on a U.S. military base.
(AP, 10/3/04)
2004 Oct 2, About 100,000 Kurds
demonstrated outside provincial government offices, demanding that
the turbulent, oil hub of Kirkuk be made part of the autonomous
Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
(AP, 10/2/04)
2004 Oct 2, Israeli troops
killed 10 Palestinian militants, as the military expanded one of its
largest offensives against Palestinian militants in four years of
fighting.
(AP, 10/2/04)(SSFC, 10/3/04, p.A11)
2004 Oct 2, In Lebanon a
military prosecutor has charged 35 Arab nationals and alleged
members of an al-Qaida-linked terror group with plotting to bomb
foreign targets, including the Italian and Ukrainian diplomatic
missions.
(AP, 10/2/04)
2004 Oct 2, In eastern Pakistan
thousands of minority Shiite Muslims rampaged through the city of
Sialkot in a riot sparked by a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque
that killed 31 people.
(AP, 10/2/04)
2004 Oct 2, Turkish troops and
Kurdish rebels clashed in southeastern Turkey in fighting that
killed two soldiers and a guerrilla.
(AP, 10/3/04)
2005 Oct 2, In New York the
40-foot boat the Ethan Allen capsized on Lake George over so quickly
that none of the 47 passengers from Michigan could put on a life
jacket. 20 people were killed.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 2, Nipsey Russell
(80), actor and comedian, died in NY. As the "poet laureate of
television," he delivered his signature four-line verse during
frequent guest appearances on TV game shows and talk shows. Russell
launched his TV career in 1961 as Officer Anderson in the series
"Car 54, Where are You?" He also appeared in the 1994 film version.
(AP, 10/4/05)
2005 Oct 2, Playwright August
Wilson (60), whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black
experience in 20th-century America included such landmark dramas as
"Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," died of liver cancer.
(AP, 10/3/05)(Econ, 10/8/05, p.94)
2005 Oct 2, Afghan government
forces killed 31 suspected Taliban militants near the eastern border
with Pakistan. In a separate clash militants attacked a truck
carrying supplies for U.S.-led coalition forces in Surobi district
of eastern Paktia province, killing the truck driver. In fighting
that followed, three more militants were killed and two arrested.
Two Afghan army officers were wounded.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 2, Afghan election
officials said ballot boxes from about 4% of the country’s 26,000
polling stations were set aside for investigation on suspicion of
fraud.
(SFC, 10/3/05, p.A8)
2005 Oct 2, The fragmented
political opposition in Belarus chose Alexander Milinkevich (58), a
former US-educated physicist, to challenge President Alexander
Lukashenko in next year's presidential election.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2, In western Colombia
leftist FARC rebels attacked a police station in an isolated jungle
town, killing at least five police officers.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 2, The US ambassador
urged Colombia to spray weed killer inside the country's spectacular
nature parks to destroy cocaine-producing crops, insisting the
chemicals will not cause widespread damage to the reserves'
ecosystems.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2, A Dubai-based
newspaper said it stands by a story in which it quoted Iran's
president as saying he might curtail oil sales if his nation is
referred to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions over its
nuclear program.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2, Voters in the
German city of Dresden cast the last ballots in the inconclusive
national election in what could offer a breakthrough in a bitter
power struggle over who will be the next chancellor. The election
there was postponed for two weeks due to the death of a neo-Nazi
candidate. Conservative challenger Angela Merkel's party gained a
seat in Dresden, the last remaining district in parliamentary
balloting.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2, Hundreds of U.S.
troops combed through a village near the Syrian border, breaking
into houses and fighting sporadic gun battles with gunmen on the
second day of a new offensive against al-Qaida insurgents. At least
eight militants were killed.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2, Al-Qaida in Iraq
claimed to have captured two US Marines participating in an
offensive in western Iraq, threatening in a Web statement to kill
them within 24 hours. The US military said the claim appeared to be
fake.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2, Israel suspended
its offensive into the Gaza Strip following a lull in rocket fire by
Palestinian militants, but it is ready to restart the operation if
attacks resume.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2, Libya awarded 44
oil exploration permits to predominantly Asian and European
companies after a first batch was awarded earlier this year mainly
to American firms.
(AFP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 2, Portuguese Prime
Minister Jose Socrates met Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in Tripoli,
as Libya continues its bid to warm relations with the West.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2, Felipe Calderon,
Mexico's former energy secretary, appeared headed toward another
victory in the 2nd round of the ruling National Action Party's
3-part presidential primary.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2, Moroccan police
began rounding up African refugees. Doctors Without Borders soon
reported that Morocco had dropped about 1,000 people in the desert
and left them there to walk for nearly a week. As a result, the
government established the two holding centers at Touizgue and
Berden for those people to find refuge.
(AP, 10/18/05)
2005 Oct 2, Assailants fired
rockets at a Pakistani army base, killing a soldier and three
government employees in a spate of violence in the lawless tribal
area along the Afghan border.
(AP, 10/3/05)
2005 Oct 2, Hamas gunmen
clashed with Palestinian security forces in the Gaza Strip. A police
commander and a civilian were killed and at least 50 others were
wounded.
(SFC, 10/3/05, p.A8)
2005 Oct 2, Project leader
Exxon Mobil corporation said Russia's massive Sakhalin-1 oil and gas
field started pumping oil off the country's Pacific coast at the
weekend.
(AP, 10/2/05)
2005 Oct 2-2005 Oct 3, In
Colombia suspected leftist rebels (FARC) killed at least 13 coca
harvesters near Vistahermosa as part of a struggle with far-right
paramilitary gangs for control of the lucrative cocaine trade.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2006 Oct 2, Bob Woodward’s new
book “State of Denial: Bush at War. Part III,” was published.
(SFC, 9/30/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 2, In Nickel Mines,
Pennsylvania, Charles Carl Roberts IV (32), a local truck driver,
lined at least 11 girls against a blackboard and shot them in the
head at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County. He shot
himself as police stormed the schoolhouse. Two young students were
killed, along with a female teacher's aide who was slightly older
than the students. Seven others, most shot at point-blank range,
were taken to hospitals, and two of them died early the next day.
(AP, 10/3/06)(SFC, 10/3/06, p.A1)(Econ, 10/7/06,
p.38)
2006 Oct 2, Americans Andrew Z.
Fire and Craig C. Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or
medicine for discovering a powerful way to turn off the effect of
specific genes, opening a new avenue for disease treatment.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2006 Oct 2, Morgan Stanley said
it has acquired China's Nan Tung Bank, a deal that would give the
Wall Street giant a coveted onshore commercial banking license in
China ahead of U.S. investment bank rivals.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2006 Oct 2, Actress Tamara
Dobson (59) died in Baltimore, Md.
(AP, 10/2/07)
2006 Oct 2, In Afghanistan 9
people were killed in various Taliban attacks and bomb blasts. They
included four Afghan soldiers killed when their vehicle struck a
bomb in Paktia province and five civilians killed in a bomb blast in
Musa Qala in Helmand province in the south. Two gunbattles in
eastern Afghanistan killed four Afghan and two US troops. NATO
prepared to assume military command of all of the country from the
US-led coalition.
(AP, 10/2/06)(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 2, Preliminary results
indicated that Bosnians elected new leaders, Milorad Dodik and Haris
Silajdzic, split along ethnic lines over whether to further unify
the country in a push toward European Union membership or allow
Serbs to maintain their political distinctness.
(AP, 10/2/06)(Econ, 6/30/07, p.60)
2006 Oct 2, Georgia released
four Russian officers whose arrest on spying charges prompted Moscow
to announce sweeping travel and communications sanctions in the
worst bilateral crisis in years.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2006 Oct 2, Indian PM Manmohan
Singh and South African President Thabo Mbeki signed a sweeping pact
to buttress ties between the regional powerhouses. The Pretoria
agreement was followed by the signing of a pact on cooperation in
education and another between Indian Railways which runs one of the
world's biggest networks and South African railway company Spoornet.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2006 Oct 2, Smoke and ash from
land-clearing fires in Indonesia blanketed a large swath of the
country's west, sending air quality levels plummeting there and in
neighboring Singapore and Malaysia.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2006 Oct 2, Iraq’s Parliament
extended the state of emergency as gunmen seized 14 employees from
computer stores in downtown Baghdad in the second mass kidnapping in
as many days. A police patrol was ambushed in southern Iraq by
gunmen who killed two officers and injured three. At least 50
corpses were discovered scattered around Baghdad overnight. 4 US
soldiers were killed in Baghdad in separate small-arms fire attacks.
Another four were killed in a roadside bomb attack on their patrol
northwest of Baghdad.
(AP, 10/2/06)(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 2, Italian police said
they had smashed an Algerian Islamic fundamentalist cell that gave
logistical support to suspected militants in Algeria.
(Reuters, 10/2/06)
2006 Oct 2, Nicaragua lobbied
for support for an $18 billion canal linking the Pacific and
Atlantic, saying a second international waterway is needed to handle
the world's booming shipping business.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 2, Dozens of militants
abducted 25 Nigerian oil workers in an attack on their convoy in the
southern delta region. 5 soldiers were killed and 9 left missing
when militants sank two boats used to guard a Shell convoy.
(AP, 10/3/06)(WSJ, 10/3/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 2, In the Gaza town of
Rafah gunbattles between Fatah and Hamas left 2 people dead and 14
wounded.
(SFC, 10/3/06, p.A3)
2006 Oct 2, Foreign Minster
Ruben Ramirez said that Paraguay and Washington would not renew a
defense-cooperation agreement for 2007 over the South American
country's refusal to grant US troops inside Paraguay immunity from
prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 2, Vladimir Kramnik of
Russia and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria played to a draw in Game 6 of
the world chess championship after Kramnik agreed to resume
competition after a dispute over bathroom breaks threatened to halt
the tournament.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 2, Turkey’s PM Recep
Tayyip Erdogan began his latest push to keep EU membership hopes on
track with a visit to Washington, where he received a key
endorsement from the Bush administration. Turkey was the largest
supplier of non-combat equipment to American forces in Iraq.
(http://tinyurl.com/gvg4s)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.62)
2006 Oct 2, Thailand's
respected central bank chief said he has agreed to join the interim
Cabinet, a move that appeared likely to reassure the business
community.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2006 Oct 2, An informal UN poll
showed that South Korea's foreign minister Ban Ki-Moon (67) has
nearly full support from the Security Council, including its five
veto-wielding members, and appears almost certain to succeed Kofi
Annan as secretary-general of the United Nations.
(AP, 10/3/06)
2006 Oct 2, Zambia's Electoral
Commission said that President Levy Mwanawasa was re-elected to a
second term, collecting 43% of the votes cast in last week's
balloting.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2007 Oct 2, A draft report by
the Government Accountability Office said Federal employees wasted
at least $146 million over a one-year period on business- and
first-class airline tickets, in some cases simply because they felt
entitled to the perk.
(AP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 2, Blackwater chairman
Erik Prince, testifying before the House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee, vigorously rejected charges that guards from his
private security firm acted recklessly while protecting State
Department personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2007 Oct 2, A federal jury in
New York ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6
million to former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders, concluding
she'd been sexually harassed and fired out of spite.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2007 Oct 2, Nasdaq agreed to
acquire the Boston stock Exchange for about $61 million.
(WSJ, 10/3/07, p.C3)
2007 Oct 2, In Colorado 5
workers trapped at least 1,500 feet underground survived an initial
chemical fire at a hydroelectric plant near Georgetown, but died
before emergency workers could rescue them.
(AP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 2, The new $800
million MGM Grand Casino opened in downtown Detroit. Across the
street the old MGM Grand, which had opened in 1999, closed on Sep
30.
(WSJ, 9/26/07, p.B1)
2007 Oct 2, George Grizzard
(79), Tony Award-winning actor, died in New York.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2007 Oct 2, James Michaels
(86), innovative editor of Forbes magazine (1961-1999), died.
(www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/business/04michaels.html)(WSJ, 10/6/07,
p.A17)
2007 Oct 2, In Afghan a mother
and her two children boarded a police bus in Kabul only seconds
before a suicide bomber detonated his payload inside, an attack that
killed 13 police and civilians. Taliban militants killed two
policemen and destroyed a remote government office in central
Afghanistan, as five Dutch troops were wounded in a clash in the
country's south.
(AP, 10/2/07)(AP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 2, Australia’s
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said that over the past two years
the intake of Africans has been cut from 70% of the total of 13,000
refugees to just 30%.
(AFP, 10/2/07)
2007 Oct 2, Magda Pniewska
(26), a Polish woman, was shot in the head and died after being
caught in the cross-fire between two gunmen in a residential street
in London. On April 22, 2008, Armel Gnango (17) was convicted of
murder for being involved in the gunfight.
(AFP, 10/3/07)(AFP, 5/22/08)
2007 Oct 2, Canada’s Justice
Minister Rob Nicholson said the government plans to criminalize
identity theft to give police the ability to stop such activity
before any fraud has actually been carried out.
(AP, 10/3/07)
2007 Oct 2, China’s Pres. Hu
Jintao kicked off the 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai as 7,500
athletes from over 165 countries entered the stadium before a crowd
of 80,000.
(WSJ, 10/3/07, p.B3A)
2007 Oct 2, Colombia's navy
seized 2 tons of cocaine, most destined for the United States, in
small packages labeled with the British flag from a truck on the
country's Caribbean coast.
(AP, 10/4/07)
2007 Oct 2, The United Iraqi
Alliance, the Shiite bloc of PM al-Maliki, demanded that the US
military abandon its recruitment of Sunni tribesmen into the Iraqi
police force. Britain's PM Brown arrived in Iraq to meet troops and
lawmakers and announced plans to withdraw more than 1,000 troops
from Iraq by year's end, and Iraq said it will take over security
from British forces in the southern Basra province within two
months. 11 people were killed, including two women, a child and four
police officers, in five separate attacks, including a suicide car
bombing at a police checkpoint near Khalis, 50 miles north of
Baghdad.
(AP, 10/2/07)(SFC, 10/3/07, p.A3)
2007 Oct 2, Israel completed
the release of 86 Palestinian prisoners and soldiers briefly opened
fire as family members rushed toward the prisoners at the Erez
crossing in the Gaza Strip. 2 people were wounded. A blast in Gaza
killed four people, including three Fatah activists and a bystander.
Hamas accused Fatah of having tried to attack the security compound,
saying explosives in the car apparently blew up prematurely.
(SFC, 10/3/07, p.A12)(AP, 10/3/07)(WSJ, 10/3/07,
p.A1)
2007 Oct 2, Myanmar's reclusive
junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, finally granted an audience to
a UN envoy hoping to broker an end to Myanmar's crackdown on
pro-democracy protesters.
(AP, 10/2/07)
2007 Oct 2, North Korean leader
Kim Jong Il showed scant enthusiasm for the visiting South Korean
president, while orchestrated crowds of thousands cheered the start
of the second summit between the divided Koreas since World War II.
(AP, 10/2/07)
2007 Oct 2, Pakistan agreed to
grant ex-premier Benazir Bhutto an amnesty on corruption charges.
Opposition legislators resigned to undercut President Gen. Pervez
Musharraf's re-election bid, but the Pakistani leader pushed ahead
with plans for an expected victory, naming Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, a
former spymaster, to head the military in his place.
(AP, 10/2/07)(AFP, 10/2/07)(Econ, 10/6/07, p.48)
2007 Oct 2, A group of elder
statesmen, including former President Carter and Nobel peace
laureate Desmond Tutu, began a tour of Darfur to promote a political
solution to the region's conflict.
(AP, 10/2/07)
2007 Oct 2, Thailand's coup
leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin was officially named a deputy
prime minister, but he denied that his appointment to the cabinet
was an attempt to cling to power.
(AP, 10/2/07)
2007 Oct 2, Shop owners said
Zimbabwe's supermarkets have run out of bread after bakers were
forced to suspend their operations due to a critical shortage of
wheat.
(AFP, 10/2/07)
2008 Oct 2, US vice
presidential candidates held their only debate prior to elections.
Alaska’s Gov. Sarah Palin often spoke in generalities. Delaware Sen.
Joe Biden was generally focused and forceful, and seemed to take
painstaking care not to appear disrespectful in the least.
(AP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 2, The US FBI arrested
Puerto Rico Sen. Jorge de Castro Font (45) for providing political
favors in exchange for cash and services totaling roughly half a
million dollars. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on 31
criminal counts including bribery, wire fraud and money laundering.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Oct 2, A new report
suggested that HIV, the AIDS virus, originated in Africa between
1884 and 1924. Earlier estimates had put the date around 1930. A new
estimate of how many Americans have the AIDS virus put the number at
about 1.1 million.
(SFC, 10/2/08, p.A3)(Reuters, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 2, Bolivian state
media reported that President Evo Morales has rejected a request
from the US Drug Enforcement Administration to fly anti-narcotics
missions over the South American nation's territory.
(AP, 10/3/08)
2008 Oct 2, Britain’s Beckley
Foundation, a charity which numbers senior experts and other
academics among its advisors, reported that cannabis is less harmful
than alcohol or tobacco, and called for a "serious rethink" of
drug policy.
(AFP,
10/2/08)(www.beckleyfoundation.org/aboutus/)
2008 Oct 2, General Vladimir
Zagorec was extradited from Austria to Croatia on charges of
stealing gems used a collateral in an arms deal during the Balkan
wars of the 1990s. 4 days later his lawyer’s daughter Ivana Hodak
(26) was murdered.
(Econ, 11/1/08, p.61)
2008 Oct 2, Suicide bombers
targeted Shiite worshippers as they left morning prayers at two
Baghdad mosques, killing 24 people and injuring 50 others. Gunmen
fatally shot six Sunnis as they traveled in a minibus in the mainly
Shiite town of Wajihiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad. A suicide
bomber in western Baghdad wounded four American soldiers and 2
Iraqis.
(AP, 10/2/08)(WSJ, 10/3/08, p.A14)
2008 Oct 2, India’s ban on
smoking in public places became effective, leaving public health
officials with a much tougher task: get the nation's estimated 120
million smokers to stub out their cigarettes.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Oct 2, In northwest
Pakistan a suicide bomber blew himself up near the house of
politician Asfandyar Wali Khan, who was receiving guests to mark the
end of the Islamic fasting month at his home in Charsadda, killing
at least four people.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Oct 2, Choi Jin-sil (39),
one of South Korea's most popular actresses, was found dead in an
apparent suicide after suffering from post-divorce depression and
harassment by online rumors about her allegedly irregular financial
dealings.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Oct 2, Sri Lanka’s air
force bombed the offices of the rebel peace secretariat, the
headquarters for its negotiating team in long-defunct peace talks.
Scattered battles killed 42 rebel fighters and two soldiers.
(AP, 10/3/08)
2009 Oct 2, President Barack
Obama, while in Copenhagen, met with General Stanley McChrystal, the
top commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, for the first
time since McChrystal presented a grim assessment of the war effort
and requesting more troops.
(Reuters, 10/2/09)
2009 Oct 2, Michael David
Barrett (48), accused of taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN
reporter Erin Andrews, was arrested at O’Hare Airport as he arrived
on a flight from Buffalo, NY. He faced federal charges of interstate
stalking for taking the videos, trying to sell them to celebrity Web
site TMZ and posting the videos online. On March 15, 2010, Barrett
was sentenced to 2½ years in prison.
(AP, 10/3/09)(SFC, 3/16/10, p.A5)
2009 Oct 2, In San Francisco
the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9 free music festival, financed by
investment banker Warren Hellman, opened for a 3 day session.
(SSFC, 10/4/09, p.C2)
2009 Oct 2, In southern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber struck a US convoy, killing two
American soldiers. Militants attacked a convoy of empty trucks
returning to Pakistan after delivering supplies to a NATO base in
Kunar province of eastern Afghanistan. One driver was killed, three
were wounded and 13 trucks were burned. An Afghan policeman
conducting a joint operation with US soldiers opened fire on the
Americans, killing two of them before fleeing in Wardak province. A
third US service member died of wounds from a bomb attack in Wardak
the day before.
(AP, 10/2/09)(AP, 10/3/09)
2009 Oct 2, An Australian woman
was sentenced to life in prison for the starvation death of her
7-year-old daughter. The woman was convicted of murder in June. Her
husband, convicted at the same time of manslaughter in his
daughter's death, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment. The girl,
known as Ebony, weighed barely 20 pounds (9kg) when she died in
November, 2007.
(AP, 10/2/09)
2009 Oct 2, In Canada "Toronto
18" member Mohamed Dirie was sentenced to seven years in jail for
his role in a plot to bomb Toronto landmarks in 2006, the second
member of the group to be given jail time.
(AP, 10/3/09)
2009 Oct 2, Chechen forces
engaged in a 2-hour gunbattle with militants leaving 8 insurgents
dead.
(SFC, 10/3/09, p.A2)
2009 Oct 2, In Denmark the IOC
opened a meeting hearing the cases led by government leaders and
kings to win the right to stage the 2016 Olympic Games. US Pres.
Obama spoke for Chicago, Japan's new PM Yukio Hatoyama spoke for
Tokyo, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva spoke for Rio de
Janeiro, and Spain's King Juan Carlos and PM Jose Luis Rodriguez
Zapatero spoke for Spain. Brazil won the bid.
(AFP, 10/2/09)(AP, 10/3/09)
2009 Oct 2, In England a Sikh
policeman was awarded 10,000 pounds in compensation by a tribunal
after bosses ordered him to remove his turban for riot training.
(AFP, 10/2/09)
2009 Oct 2, In France Armenia's
President Serge Sarkisian started his tour of Armenian communities
worldwide amid violent protests from members of a diaspora angry
over plans to establish ties with Turkey.
(AP, 10/2/09)
2009 Oct 2, In southern India
flash floods and heavy rains killed at least 172 people in the state
of Karnataka and 50 in neighboring Andhra Pradesh. One more person
was killed in the southern seaside resort state of Goa as heavy
rains resulted in the collapse of 250 houses. Fifty of the victims
drowned when a rescue boat capsized.
(AFP, 10/3/09)(AP, 10/4/09)(AP, 10/5/09)
2009 Oct 2, A boat carrying
about 100 asylum seekers left an Indonesian port bound for Australia
but never arrived. The information was made public in May, 2010, by
Australian Customs and Border Protection Service chief executive
Michael Carmody during a routine Senate inquiry into government
operations.
(AP, 5/25/10)
2009 Oct 2, Ireland voted 67%
to 33% in favor of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, overturning a previous no
vote and taking a key step towards ending the 27-nation bloc's
deadlock.
(AFP, 10/3/09)(Econ, 10/10/09, p.25)
2009 Oct 2, In Italy rivers of
mud unleashed by heavy rains overnight flooded parts of the Sicilian
city of Messina, leaving at least 22 people dead while sweeping away
cars and collapsing buildings. 40 people remained missing.
(AP, 10/3/09)(AP, 10/4/09)
2009 Oct 2, Hamas militants
traded a two-minute video showing an apparently unharmed Sgt. Gilad
Schalit, a captured Israeli soldier, for 19 Palestinian women held
in Israeli jails, the first tangible step toward defusing a key
flashpoint in Israeli-Palestinian hostilities.
(AP, 10/2/09)
2009 Oct 2, In Mexico gunmen
killed eight people in five separate attacks, including a state
policewoman who was shot in the head in broad daylight in a
residential area. In Ciudad Juarez at least 11 people, including two
police officers and a child, were killed over the last 24 hours. A
Mexican Air force plane crashed in President Felipe Calderon's home
state of Michoacan, killing three soldiers. Federal officials
announced 2 raids by security forces that netted the largest
seizures of methamphetamine precursor chemicals in the country's
history. Agents seized 20 tons of chemicals at Manzanillo port in
the Pacific coast state of Colima and 17 tons in the border city of
Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas.
(AP, 10/2/09)
2009 Oct 2, The Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) sacked the managing directors of three banks which it
said were in "grave situation", seven weeks after it applied similar
sanctions to the heads of five other banks.
(AFP, 10/2/09)
2009 Oct 2, Pakistan's
paramilitary forces said that they had killed 27 more militants,
including two commanders, in Khyber.
(AP, 10/3/09)
2009 Oct 2, In Puerto Rico some
500 law officers swarmed into a public housing project and other
sites to dismantle a trafficking ring allegedly run by the island's
top drug suspect, Angel Ayala Vazquez, a man described as an
aspiring Robin Hood and a patron to reggaeton stars. Ayala, better
known as "Angelo Millones," was captured last month following a
seven-year investigation.
(AP, 10/2/09)
2009 Oct 2, Six Senegalese
soldiers were killed and three wounded in an attack near the border
of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. The soldiers were in a vehicle
returning to their base in the southern Casamance region east of its
capital Ziguinchor when their vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled
grenade.
(AP, 10/3/09)
2009 Oct 2, Somali pirates
hijacked the Alakrana, a Spanish tuna trawler, with a 36-member crew
in the Indian Ocean 415 miles (670km) from the Seychelles islands.
Two days later Spanish naval forces, taking part in the EU
anti-piracy mission, captured two suspected pirates as they tried to
travel ashore to Somalia from the Alakrana in a skiff. All of the
crew were released safe and sound 47 days later after a ransom of
four million dollars was paid.
(AP, 10/2/09)(AP, 11/5/09)(AFP, 9/24/11)
2009 Oct 2, In Sri Lanka a
schoolgirl (12) was killed by a car bomb in northwestern Sri Lanka
that also wounded 12 others, mostly students who were about to
travel in the vehicle.
(AP, 10/2/09)
2009 Oct 2, In southern Sudan
fighting broke out in an oil-rich area between forces loyal to an
ex-warlord and the state’s governor.
(AP, 10/2/09)(AFP, 10/3/09)
2010 Oct 2, In Afghanistan at
least three civilians were killed along with 17 insurgents in a NATO
air strike targeting senior Taliban commanders in southern Helmand
province. ISAF accidentally killed two civilians when insurgents
attacked a military base in Baraki Barak district of Logar province
south of Kabul.
(Reuters, 10/3/10)
2010 Oct 2, Australian PM Julia
Gillard met the chief of international forces in Afghanistan and
vowed support for the US-led mission in a surprise visit to troops
on her first overseas trip as leader.
(AFP, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, Britain’s Druids
hailed a semi-governmental Charity Commission’s decision to grant it
charitable status just like mainstream religions such as the Church
of England. The Druid Network, a group of about 350 Druids, will
receive exemptions from taxes on donations.
(AP, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, China offered to
buy Greek government bonds in a show of support for the country
whose debt burden triggered a crisis for the euro zone and required
an international bailout. Premier Wen Jiabao made the offer at the
start of a two-day visit, where he says he expects to expand ties in
all areas.
(Reuters, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, In China 8 workers
were killed and three others were injured when the residential
building toppled in Xi'an, the capital of northwestern Shaanxi
province.
(AP, 10/3/10)
2010 Oct 2, Ecuador agreed to
raise wages in the armed forces by up to $35 million annually, days
after soldiers battled rebel police to rescue President Rafael
Correa from what he called a coup bid. Defense Minister Javier Ponce
said it was chance the wage were agreed two days after the assault
on Correa. He said the increases will cost $30 million to $35
million a year.
(Reuters, 10/4/10)
2010 Oct 2, French families,
students and private sector workers joined mass demonstrations
against the government's pension reforms, and unions hoped as many
as 3 million protesters would take to the streets.
(Reuters, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, Guatemalan police
captured a suspected drug trafficker wanted in the US for cocaine
smuggling and seized nearly $2 million in cash that his brother was
carrying in two bags. Mauro Ramirez Barrios, alias "The Purple One,"
was arrested in the southern town of San Bernardino after a four-day
search. Ramirez, an alleged lieutenant of Juan Ortiz Lopez, was
arrested two weeks after he escaped police during a shootout at a
Guatemala City shopping mall that killed two officers.
(AP, 10/3/10)(AP, 3/31/11)
2010 Oct 2, In central
Indonesia a train crashed into another parked at a railway station,
killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens, many seriously. The
next day Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi said Halik Rudianto,
the train’s engineer, had failed to stop at a red signal. Rudianto
was arrested for negligence.
(AP, 10/2/10)(AP, 10/3/10)
2010 Oct 2, Visiting Iran
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad assured Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
that their ties were solid, a view unlikely to please Washington
which is working to isolate the Islamic state.
(Reuters, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, Latvians went to
the polls, as the Baltic nation emerges from a savage economic
slump, with polls showing the Moscow-tied left being poised for big
gains. PM Valdis Dombrovskis's center-right coalition took 63 seats
in the 100-member parliament in the election. His Unity Party won 33
seats, while the Moscow-linked, left-wing Harmony Center won 29.
(AFP, 10/2/10)(AP, 10/3/10)(Econ, 10/9/10, p.74)
2010 Oct 2, In Mexico 33
murders took place in Chihuahua state over the last 2 days with 9 of
the dead in Ciudad Juarez. In the northeast an explosion at a plaza
in Guadalupe injured 15 people. Authorities blamed the attack on
drug cartels targeting the civilian population to cause chaos. In
the northeast an explosion at a plaza in Guadalupe injured 15
people. Authorities blamed the attack on drug cartels targeting the
civilian population to cause chaos.
(AFP, 10/2/10)(AFP, 10/3/10)(AP, 10/4/10)
2010 Oct 2, In Moroccan
publisher Ahmed Benshemsi said his Arab-language weekly magazine
Nichane has gone bankrupt and been forced to close because "the
highest circles of power" had organized a boycott of advertisers.
The boycott was launched in August last year after Nichane, its
French-language stablemate Telquel and France's prestigious Le Monde
conducted an opinion poll on the monarchy.
(AFP, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, In Pakistan 2
suspected American missile strikes killed 16 alleged militants in a
northwestern tribal region, a sign the US is unwilling to stop using
the tactic despite heightened tensions between the two countries
over NATO's recent border incursions. Those killed were believed to
be insurgents working for warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur. Gunmen killed
Farooq Khan, a moderate Islamic scholar who was the vice chancellor
of Swat University, and his assistant.
(AP, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, Senior Palestinian
politicians backed President Mahmoud Abbas' demand to link peace
talks to restrictions on Israeli settlement building, delivering a
new setback to bogged down US efforts to salvage the negotiations.
(AP, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, In Peru a small
plane carrying British tourists crashed near the famed Nazca Lines,
killing all six people on board.
(AP, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, At least seven
Somali civilians were killed in a fire fight between African Union
forces and hardline Islamist rebels.
(AFP, 10/2/10)
2010 Oct 2, South African
authorities arrested Henry Okah, an ex-leader of a militant group
that claimed responsibility for the Oct 1 dual car bombing that
killed 12 people in Nigeria. A day before the bombings, security
agencies in South Africa had raided Okah's home and seized a laptop,
though they did not arrest him.
(AP, 10/3/10)
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