Today in History - October 6
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0877 Oct 6, Charles II the Kale, King of France and Roman emperor (875-77), died at 54.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1014 Oct 6, The Byzantine Emperor Basil II (958-1025) earned the title "Slayer of Bulgars" after he ordered the blinding of 15,000 Bulgarian troops. Basil II was godfather to Russia’s Prince Vladimir.
(HN, 10/6/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_II)(Econ, 2/16/08, p.60)
1072 Oct 6, Sancho II, king of Castilia (1065-72), was murdered.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1517 Oct 6, Fra Bartolommeo (b.1472), Florentine Renaissance painter, died. He was a Dominican monk nicknamed Baccio della Porta. His work included a portrait of Savonarola.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Bartolommeo)(SFC, 5/13/96, p.D-5)
1552 Oct 6, Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (China), was born.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1536 Oct 6, William Tyndale (b.1494), the English translator of the New and Old Testament, was burned at the stake at Vilvoorde Castle (Belgium) as a heretic by the Holy Roman Empire.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale)
1567 Oct 6, The Duke of Alba became guardian of Netherlands.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1582 Oct 6, This day was one of ten skipped to bring the calendar into sync. by order of the Council of Trent. Oct 5-14 were dropped.
(K.I.-365D, p.97)(NG, March 1990, J. Boslough)
1683 Oct 6, 13 Mennonite families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements. They were encouraged by William Penn's offer of 5,000 acres of land in the colony of Pennsylvania and the freedom to practice their religion.
(AP, 10/6/97)(www.ulib.iupui.edu/kade/germantown.html)
1696 Oct 6, Savoy Germany withdrew from the Grand Alliance.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1721 Oct 6, Deaths from smallpox in Boston reached 203 with 2,757 people infected.
(ON, 3/05, p.5)
1762 Oct 6, Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, died at 78.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1780 Oct 6, Over 1500 Patriot fighters assembled on the outskirts of Cowpens, South Carolina, to confront Loyalist forces of British Major Patrick Ferguson.
(ON, 12/07, p.6)
1781 Oct 6, Americans and French began the siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown, the last battle of Revolutionary War.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1783 Oct 6, Benjamin Hanks patented a self-winding clock.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1788 Oct 6, The Polish Diet decided to hold a four year session.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1801 Oct 6, Napoleon Bonaparte imposed a new constitution on Holland.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1804 Oct 6, Jean-Jacques Dessalines (b.1758) had himself crowned James I, Emperor of Haiti. He was murdered two years later in a conspiracy under Christophe and Pétion.
(www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/168.html)
1819 Oct 6, Willem A. Scholten, Dutch potato flour manufacturer, was born.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1820 Oct 6, Jenny Lind, soprano, was born. She was known as the “Swedish Nightingale."
(HN, 10/6/00)
1835 Oct 6, The people of Michigan approved a new state constitution by a vote of 6,299 to 1,359. The constitution repudiated slavery and safeguarded personal liberty.
(AH, 4/07, p.45)(www.michigan.gov/formergovernors/0,1607,7-212--56877--,00.html)
1846 Oct 6, George Westinghouse (d.1914) was born. Inventor and manufacturer Westinghouse, a leader in the development of electric power, also developed a long-distance transmission system for natural gas. Westinghouse held more than 400 patents including shock absorbers, electric brakes for subway cars, air brakes and railroad signals. He promoted the development and construction of electric transformers, enabling the introduction of high-tension systems using single-phase alternating currents.
(HNQ, 7/6/99)(HN, 10/6/00)
1857 Oct 6, The American Chess Association organized. The 1st major US chess tournament was held in NYC. [see Oct 10]
(MC, 10/6/01)
1861 Oct 6, Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC, the USS Flag vs. Britain’s Alert.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1866 Oct 6, The Reno brothers, Frank, John, Simeon and William, committed the country's first train robbery near Seymore, Ind., netting $10,000.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1868 Oct 6, Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, died at 51.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1869 Oct 6, Johannes Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzes," premiered.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1884 Oct 6, The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1887 Oct 6, Charles E. Jeanneret (d.1965), aka Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and city planner, was born. He became known for trenchantly stated principles, such as “a house is a machine for living in" and “a curved street is a donkey track, a straight street, a road for men."
(HN, 10/6/00)(V.D.-H.K.p.363)
1887 Oct 6, Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], singer (Vienna Opera, Met Opera), was born in Austria.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1889 Oct 6, The Moulin Rouge in Paris first opened its doors to the public. Women who made a living washing linen by day transformed themselves into dancers at night.
(AP, 10/6/97)(Reuters, 10/7/19)
1889 Oct 6, Thomas Edison showed his 1st motion picture.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1891 Oct 6, Charles Stewart Parnell (b.1846) died in Brighton, England. Irish statesman and leader of the Irish nationalists in the British House of Commons from 1880-‘90, Charles Parnell’s popularity in Ireland was so great that he was called “the uncrowned king of Ireland." Parnell formed a coalition with William Gladstone, who became prime minister and introduced a bill for Irish home rule in 1886. The bill was defeated. In 1890, as a result of a divorce scandal, Parnell was deposed as leader of the Irish nationalists.
(AP, 10/6/97)(HNQ, 7/20/98)
1892 Oct 6, Alfred Tennyson (b.1809), writer and poet laureate, died at 83.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1893 Oct 6, Nabisco Foods invented Cream of Wheat.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1893 Oct 6, Ford Madox Brown (b.1821), English painter, died in London. In 2010 Angela Thirlwell authored “Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown."
(Econ, 3/13/10, p.87)(http://tinyurl.com/yhpg5ut)
1895 Oct 6, Caroline Gordon, writer, was born. Her work included “The Strange Children."
(HN, 10/6/00)
1898 Oct 6, Gustav Mahler made his debut conducting Vienna Philharmonic.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1905 Oct 6, Tennis great Helen Wills Moody was born in Berkeley, Calif.
(AP, 10/6/05)
1906 Oct 6, Janet Gaynor, film actress, was born.
(HN, 10/6/00)
1908 Oct 6, Carol Lombard, American comedienne and actress who was nominated for an Oscar for My Man Godfrey, was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Lombard started during the silent movie era revealed herself to be a wonderful amusing and witty actress after the advent of the talkies and quickly became one of the top box office draws of the 1930's in such films as 'My Man Godfrey'. Clark Gable was married to Lombard. (My Man Godfrey, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Made for Each Other).
(HN, 10/6/98)(MC, 10/5/01)
1908 Oct 6, Sammy Price, jazz pianist, was born.
(HN, 10/6/00)
1908 Oct 6, Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1909 Oct 6, Pres. William Taft visited San Francisco.
(SSFC, 10/4/09, p.50)
1914 Oct 6, Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian entomologist and adventurer whose Kon-Tiki expedition established the possibility that Polynesians may have originated in South America, was born.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1917 Oct 6, Robert Mitchum, actor (2 for the Seesaw, Ryan's Daughter), was born.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1917 Oct 6, US Congress passed the Trading With the Enemy Act, which allowed the US to seize the property of enemy nationals.
(WSJ, 10/28/06, p.P13)(www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/182.html)
1918 Oct 6, US ship Otranto sank between Scotland and Ireland. 425 people died.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1925 Oct 6, San Francisco’s M-Ocean View streetcar line began service with the outbound terminal at Broad and Plymouth. It was discontinued prior to World War II, on August 6, 1939, and then reestablished back to full service on December 17, 1944.
(METNA News, Aug 2015, p.1)
1927 Oct 6, The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson singing and dancing in black-face. The movie featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes. When The Jazz Singer, a musical about a Jewish cantor's son who longs to sing on Broadway, premiered in New York, silent movies became history and the sound era began. The Jazz Singer is popularly believed to be the first talking picture, but technically, 1926's Don Juan, with its use of a music track recorded on phonograph records synchronized to the film, predated the landmark musical. Originally, Warner Brothers Studio planned to record only the songs on disks while telling the story in silent sequences. Star Al Jolson, however, ad-libbed dialogue in two scenes and opened the talking-picture age with the prophetic words, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!" By 1930, silent movies were a thing of the past.
(AP, 10/6/97)(HNPD, 10/6/98)(HN, 10/6/98)
1927 Oct 6, Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist (Mozart specialist), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1928 Oct 6, Chiang Kai-shek was elected the president of China.
(AP, 10/6/08)
1928 Oct 6, Josip Broz (Tito) was sentenced to 5 years in jail.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1935 Oct 6, Italian army occupied Adua, Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
(MC, 10/6/01)
1939 Oct 6, In an address to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler denied having any intention of war against France and Britain.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1939 Oct 6, Hitler announced plans to resolve "The Jewish problem."
(MC, 10/6/01)
1941 Oct 6, German troops renewed their offensive against Moscow.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1943 Oct 6, The Battle at Vella Lavella was fought in the Solomon Islands.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1943 Oct 6, Himmler ordered the acceleration of "Final Solution."
(MC, 10/6/01)
1944 Oct 6, Soviets marched into Hungary and Czechoslovakia. [see Oct 18]
(MC, 10/6/01)
1945 Oct 6, Gen Eisenhower was welcomed in Hague on Hitler's train.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1946 Oct 6, Pres. Truman questioned Great Britain Jews about Palestine.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1948 Oct 6, "Polonaise" opened at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1948 Oct 6, The play “Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams received its first Broadway performance at the Music Box Theatre in New York City, in a production staged by Margo Jones and designed by Jo Mielziner with Tod Andrews, Margaret Phillips, Monica Boyar and Anne Jackson (1925-2016). The play ran for 102 performances and, at the time.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_and_Smoke)
1948 Oct 6, An American B-29 crashed near Waycross, Ga., during a test flight from Robins AFB. Details of the flight were kept as military secrets and formed the basis for the 1953 U.S. vs. Reynolds case. Details were later declassified and no military secrets were revealed.
(LAT, 4/18/04)
1948 Oct 6, A 7.3 earthquake hit Ashgebat, Turkmenistan, and killed an estimated 110,000 people. Stalinist media at the time claimed only 35,000 deaths.
(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmosde.html)
1949 Oct 6, Pres. Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act that appropriated more than one billion dollars for military aid primarily to members of the Atlantic Pact (NATO).
(EWH, 1968, p.1207)
1949 Oct 6, American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted of being Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000. She ended up serving more than six years. In 1976 she requested a presidential pardon.
(SFC, 11/16/01, WB p.G4)(AP, 10/6/06)
1949 Oct 6, China and Korea established diplomatic relations. Korea became one of the first groups of countries having diplomatic relations with new China.
(www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/yzs/gjlb/2701/default.htm)
1951 Oct 6, Stalin proclaimed Russia has an atom bomb.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1952 Oct 6, The play "Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie (1890-1976) premiered in Nottingham.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mousetrap)
1955 Oct 6, LSD was made illegal in US.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1955 Oct 6, A United Airlines plane bound for SF crashed in Wyoming killing 66 people. It was the worst commercial airline crash to date in US history.
(SFC, 9/30/05, p.F3)
1956 Oct 6, Dr. Albert Sabin discovered oral polio vaccine. Sabin developed an oral vaccine against polio. It began to be used in 1961 and by 1965 was widely used.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(SFC, 6/18/99, p.A40)(MC, 10/6/01)
1958 Oct 6, The US nuclear submarine Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged.
(AP, 10/6/08)
1960 Oct 6, The TV series Surfside Six featured Lee Patterson, Troy Donohue and Van Williams. The show continued to June 25, 1962.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_6)
1961 Oct 6, JFK advised Americans to build fallout shelters from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1964 Oct 6, Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), died at 85.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1965 Oct 6, Patricia Harris took post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African-American U.S. ambassador.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1966 Oct 6, Hanoi insisted the United States must end its bombing in Vietnam before peace talks could begin.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1969 Oct 6, Special Forces Captain John McCarthy was released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges. A 1968 court-martial had concluded that McCarthy had murdered a Cambodian peasant.
(www.fromthewilderness.com/free/hall/Mac.html)
1970 Oct 6, Elvis Presley recorded "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me."
(http://oldies.about.com/od/elvispresleyhistory/a/elvis1970.htm)
1970 Nov 6, Augustin Lara (b.1897), Mexican composer, died. At the time of his death, Lara had written more than 700 songs.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn_Lara)
1972 Oct 6, In Saltillo, Mexico, a 22-car train carrying 2,000 religious pilgrims derailed and caught fire. 208 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)(AP, 2/18/04)
1973 Oct 6, The fourth Arab-Israeli war in 25 years was fought. Israel was taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attacked on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War. Syria tried to regain the Golan Heights with a massive attack with 1,500 tanks. The assault, empowered by Russian equipment, was repulsed by air power.
(WSJ, 5/6/96, p.A-13)(TMC, 1994, p.1973)(AP, 10/6/97)(HN, 10/6/98)(Econ, 3/16/13, p.54)
1973 Oct 6, The Egyptian Air Force under Hosni Mubarak launched a surprise attack on Israeli soldiers on the east bank of the Suez Canal. Egyptian pilots hit 90% of their targets, making Mubarak a national hero. The next year he was promoted to Air Chief Marshal in recognition of service during the October War of 1973 against Israel.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak)
1975 Oct 6, Chilean Vice Pres. Bernardo Leighton and his wife, Anita Fresno, were shot in Rome. Anita was left permanently disabled. In 2000 Chilean authorities arrested former Gen. Eduardo Iturriaga for the shooting.
(SFC, 3/15/00, p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_case)
1976 Oct 6, In his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Ford asserted in SF that there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." Ford later conceded he'd misspoken. Carter charged the Ford administration with excessive secrecy, immorality and weakness in dealing with the Soviet Union and Arab nations. Some 3,000 people protested outside the Palace of Fine Arts. The US non-partisan League of Women Voters organized the presidential debates and continued to do so in 1980 and 1984. In 1988 Democrats and Republicans took control of the debates.
(AP, 10/6/97)(SFC, 10/5/01, WB p.6)(Econ., 10/17/20, p.16)
1976 Oct 6, The so-called "Gang of Four," Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, Jiang Qing, and 3 associates (Zhang Chunqiao (d.2005), Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen) were arrested in Peking, setting in motion an extended period of turmoil in the Chinese Communist Party.
(SFC, 12/25/99, p.B4)(Econ, 5/21/05, p.90)
1976 Oct 6, A Cuban aircraft from Venezuela with 73 people onboard was blown up on a flight over the Caribbean. Castro blamed the explosion on the US. Luis Posada Carriles, a veteran of the Cuban exile’s war against Castro, was charged and twice acquitted in the bombing. Venezuelan authorities kept him in jail for 9 years until his escape in 1985 when he settled in El Salvador. In April, 2005, Posada sought asylum in the US. In May, 2005, declassified documents were made public that linked Posada to the bombing and indicated he was on the CIA's payroll for years.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A8)(SFC, 11/17/97, p.A14)(AP, 4/15/05)(AP, 5/11/05)
1976 Oct 6, In Thailand right-wing political power-brokers, including Kriangsak Chomanan and Samak Sundaravej, provoked mobs to lynch left-wing pro-democracy student protesters at Bangkok's Thammasat University. At least 46 protesters were killed and hundreds wounded by the police and army. A coup installed a new military-guided, right-wing government.
(AP, 12/23/03)(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A12)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.14)
1979 Oct 6, Paul Volcker, new chairman of the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates sharply to clamp down on inflation knowing that it would send interest rates soaring. Volcker held his position until Aug, 1987.
(WSJ, 12/13/99, p.C23)(Econ, 6/19/04, p.11)(WSJ, 1/18/05, p.A13)
1979 Oct 6, Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Carter.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1979 Oct 6, Elizabeth Bishop (b.1911), American poet, died. She had spent 17 years in Brazil and won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1956. In 2008 Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton edited “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell." In 2010 Michael Sledge authored a novel, “The More I Owe You," based on her life.
(Econ, 11/22/08, p.97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop)(SFC, 8/31/10, p.E1)
1980 Oct 6, In San Francisco four teenagers abducted a student (24) at Second St. near Minna following her evening classes at Golden Gate Univ. Michael Brown, Clyde Jackson Larry Shepard (all 17) and Damont Miller (16) raped her over a four-hour period, dumped her on a desolate street, shot her twice and ran her down with their car. She survived and testified at their 1981 trial. All were sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. In 2017 Michael Brown was released on parole.
(SSFC, 12/17/17, p.A1)
1980 Oct 6, Linden Forbes Burnham (19231985) began serving as president of Guyana.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Burnham)
1981 Oct 6, Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat was killed by Islambouli, an Islamic fundamentalist (Takfir wal Hijra) and Egyptian army lieutenant, at the parade ground of Nasser City during a ceremony commemorating the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Although authorities were warned of a death plot hours earlier, the information did not get to the president in time. Abboud and Tarek el-Zomor were convicted in 1984 of plotting the assassination and of belonging to the outlawed Islamic Jihad group, but not of actually killing Sadat. The two were sentenced to 20 years in prison. The five prime suspects, including the shooter, were captured and executed. The events are described in a book by Fouad Allam: "The Brotherhood and I." In 2000 Mohammad Khan produced the film "Days of Sadat," starring Ahmed Zaki.
(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-12)(HNQ, 7/12/98)(SFC, 6/5/00, p.A8)(WSJ, 3/29/04, p.A16)(AP, 3/11/11)
1983 Oct 6, Cardinal Terence Cooke (62), the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of New York, died.
(AP, 10/6/08)
1985 Oct 6, Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, died. In 2001 Peter J. Levinson (1934-2008) authored “September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle."
(SFC, 11/18/08, p.B4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Riddle)
1985 Oct 6, British Police Constable Keith Blakelock (b.1945) was hacked to death at Broadwater Farm a 1960s public housing estate in Tottenham in some of the worst urban rioting in Britain in the past 30 years.
(AP, 8/7/11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Keith_Blakelock)
1986 Oct 6, The Soviet submarine, K-219, with 16 ballistic missiles each carrying 2 warheads, sank about 600 miles east of Bermuda. One of its nuclear reactors had overheated and seaman Sergey Preminin manually shut it down, but sealed his death in the process. It was later revealed that highly radioactive plutonium 239 was released in the mishap.
(SFEC, 11/24/96, p.A1,5)
1987 Oct 6, The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9 to 5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, and both supporters and opponents predicted rejection by the full Senate.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1987 Oct 6, Microsoft announced its first Windows application, Excel.
(Wired, 12/98, p.196)
1987 Oct 6, In Oklahoma Michael Houghton (27) and Laura Lee Sanders (22) were kidnapped from behind a Tulsa bar, stuffed into a car trunk and taken to a rural area where the car was set afire. Scott Allen Hain was executed for the murders on Apr 3, 2003. Hain was 17 in 1987 and claimed to be under the influence of Robert Lambert.
(SFC, 4/4/03, p.A6)
1988 Oct 6, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the president of Chile, conceded defeat in a referendum held the day before to determine whether he should receive a new eight-year term of office. Pinochet, however, stayed president until his term ran out in 1990.
(AP, 10/6/98)
1989 Oct 6, Actress Bette Davis (81) died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. In 1962 she authored her memoir “The Lonely Life." In 2006 Charlotte Chandler authored “The Girl Who Walked Home Alone," a personal biography of Davis.
(AP, 10/6/97)(WSJ, 3/4/06, p.P8)(WSJ, 2/21/09, p.W8)
1989 Oct 6, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev joined in festivities in East Berlin marking the 40th anniversary of East Germany, while thousands of refugees migrated to the West.
(AP, 10/6/99)
1990 Oct 6, President Bush vetoed stopgap spending legislation passed by Congress following the collapse of a deficit-reducing budget agreement.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1990 Oct 6, The space shuttle “Discovery" blasted off on a four-day mission. NASA launched the Ulysses solar probe, an American and European spacecraft, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. It ceased operations in 2008.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_probe)(AP, 10/6/00)(SFC, 6/13/08, p.A5)
1990 Oct 6, Four people were killed in a balloon crash at Gaenserndorf, near Vienna.
(AP, 2/26/13)
1991 Oct 6, Reports surfaced that a former personal assistant to Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill, had accused Thomas of sexually harassing her from 1981-1983.
(AP, 10/6/01)
1991 Oct 6, Cable News Network obtained and aired a videotape made in Beirut, Lebanon, of American hostage Terry Anderson, who quoted his captors as saying they would have “very good news."
(AP, 10/6/01)
1992 Oct 6, President Bush appointed Mary Fisher to the National Commission on AIDS, replacing Magic Johnson.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1992 Oct 6, The US Congress approved HOPE VI, the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere program. It targeted the worst housing estates and encouraged mixed-income communities.
(SFC, 10/2/04, p.B7)(www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/hope6/about/)
1992 Oct 6, The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to establish a war crimes commission for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1993 Oct 6, Basketball superstar Michael Jordan announced his retirement. Jordan attempted a minor-league baseball career, but returned to the Chicago Bulls in March 1995.
(AP, 10/6/98)
1993 Oct 6, Agnes de Mille (b.1905), US dancer and choreographer (Oklahoma!), died at 88. "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0210350/)(AP, 1/9/02)
1993 Oct 6, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat held their first official meeting in Cairo, Egypt, to begin work on realizing terms of the Israeli-PLO accord.
(AP, 10/6/98)
1994 Oct 6, In an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, South African President Nelson Mandela warned against the lure of isolationism, saying the U.S. post-Cold War focus should be on eliminating "tyranny, instability and poverty" across the globe.
(AP, 10/6/99)
1995 Oct 6, President Clinton delivered an address in which he defended his stewardship of US foreign policy and spoke out against what he said was a spreading mood of isolationism.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1995 Oct 6, Boeing Company’s largest group of union workers went on a 69-day strike after voting down a new three-year contract offer.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1996 Oct 6, President Clinton and Bob Dole clashed vigorously over taxes, trustworthiness and spending priorities in a prime-time debate in Hartford, Conn.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1996 Oct 6, An explosion at the Copenhagen headquarters of the Hells Angels killed 2 and injured 16.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, A9)
1996 Oct 6, In Kazakhstan it was reported that the first Chevron gas station opened. The country has 24 billion metric tons of reserves.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, B8)
1996 Oct 6, Turkey’s prime minister urged Libya’s Moammar Khadafy to sign a document to denounce Kurdish rebel terrorism but instead Khadafy condemned Turkish repression of the Kurds. A trade deal hung in suspension.
(SFEC, 10/7/96, A9)
1996 Oct 6, The Czech film “Kolya," directed by Jan Sverak, won the grand prize at the Tokyo Int’l. film festival. A special jury prize went to the Polish film In “Full Gallop" by Krzysztof Zanussi and the Spanish film “Libertarias" by Vicente Aranda.
(SFEC, 10/7/96, D3)
1996 Oct 6, In St. Vincent Jerome “Jolly" Joseph, a taxi boat driver in Bequia, was killed. An American couple, James and Penny Fletcher from West Virginia, were accused of the murder. They were later acquitted.
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.C1)(SFC, 8/9/97, p.A8)
1997 Oct 6, In a blow to both Democrats and Republicans, President Clinton used his line-item veto to kill 38 military construction projects that Congress had added to a spending bill that cost $287 million.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A3)(AP, 10/6/98)
1997 Oct 6, The space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth, bringing home American astronaut Michael Foale after more than four tumultuous months aboard Mir.
(AP, 10/6/98)
1997 Oct 6, Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, a neurologist from UC, won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the new class of proteins called prions described as "an entirely new genre of disease-causing agents." [see 1982] In 1998 researchers at UCSF developed a sensitive technique for rapid detection of the infectious proteins.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/30/98, p.A7)(AP, 10/6/98)
1997 Oct 6, In Magnum, N.C., 5 migrant workers were shot to death by their housemates Jose Luis Cruz Osorio (28) and his brother Alonso Cruz Osorio (18). A 6th man was also shot but escaped and identified the attackers. In 2003 suspects Alonso Cruz Osorio and Jose Luis Cruz Osorio were arrested in the town of Acolman, Mexico.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A7)(www.mayhem.net/Crime/morg9710.html)(AP, 10/23/03)
1997 Oct 6, Nine Bosnian Croats surrendered to the int’l. war crimes tribunal in the Hague. Dario Kordic joined the group when the US promised a speedy trial to volunteer suspects. Kordic was the leader of the Bosnian branch of Franjo Tudjman’s Croatian Democratic Union political party, and was charged with commanding troops who rampaged through 14 towns in the Lasva Valley torturing and killing hundreds of Muslims and burning their homes.
(SFC, 10/6/97, p.A11)
1997 Oct 6, In Vitrolles, France, the cafe Sous-marin was shut down for criticism of the National Front, a far-right party in control of the town.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A15)
1997 Oct 6, In Kenya the government refused to legalize the Safina (Swahili for ark) Party led by Richard Leakey.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A18)
1997 Oct 6, Workers at the Han Young de Mexico factory in Tijuana voted to be represented by an independent union, the Metal, Steel and Allied workers Union of the Authenticated labor Front (FAT). It was the first time that an existing company-dominated union was ousted in the maquiladora industry. After weeks the results were still not formalized and 4 workers who voted for the union were fired. On Nov 10 the Tijuana Labor Board invalidated the vote claiming the union was not nationally registered. [see Dec 14]
(SFC, 10/8/97, p.A8)(SFC, 10/30/97, p.A14)(SFC, 11/15/97, p.A13)
1997 Oct 6, In Palestine Sheik Ahmed Yassin (61), the quadriplegic spiritual leader of Hamas, returned to the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A14)
1998 Oct 6, The Walton Family Charitable Trust Foundation made a $50 million donation to the Univ. of Arkansas business school.
(WSJ, 10/8/98, p.B10)
1998 Oct 6, With a House vote set on launching an open-ended impeachment inquiry, Democrats rushed to counter Republican plans while still underscoring their disapproval of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
(AP, 10/6/99)
1998 Oct 6, Eddie DeBartolo Jr. pleaded guilty in federal court in Louisiana for failing to report that former governor Edwin Edwards extorted $400,000 from him for a casino license. He agreed to pay $1 million in penalties, serve 2 years of probation and testify in future trials against Edwards.
(SFC, 10/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 6, In Riverside, Ca., a former parks employee burst into City Hall and opened fire. Joseph Neale Jr. (48) wounded the mayor and 2 Council members and was himself wounded by police along with 2 others.
(SFC, 10/7/98, p.A3)
1998 Oct 6, In Colombia Norbert Reinhart (49), owner of the Canadian Terramundo drilling Co., exchanged himself for his employee, foreman Ed Leonard, who was being held for ransom by rebels.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.C1)
1998 Oct 6, In Congo rebel commander Richard Mondo told reporters that artillery rounds had been fired into Kindu and that advance units had crossed the Lualaba River. At least 18 government soldiers were reported killed.
(AP, 10/7/98)
1998 Oct 6, In Germany the Christian Democrats named Wolfgang Schaeuble as party leader.
(WSJ, 10/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 6, In Nigeria attacks by Niger Delta protesters shut down the Shell and ENI pipelines. Anger over pollution of cropland and fishing grounds was growing.
(WSJ, 10/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 6, In Pakistan 6 people were killed in Karachi in sectarian violence.
(WSJ, 10/8/98, p.A13)
1998 Oct 6, Syria anointed army chief Emile Lahoud as Lebanon’s president.
(WSJ, 10/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 6, In Russia a nationwide demonstration against overdue wages, inflation and lost jobs was scheduled.
(AP, 10/7/98)
1999 Oct 6, The US NFL voted to place an expansion team in Houston after Bob McNair agreed to pay $700 million for a franchise to begin in 2002. this left Los Angeles, the second-largest TV market in the nation, without a football team.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A1)(AP, 10/6/00)
1999 Oct 6, The US introduced a resolution to the UN Security Council calling for the seizure of assets of the Taliban militia and grounding all int'l. flights from Afghanistan until Osama bin Laden is turned over.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A15)
1999 Oct 6, Five clothing designers agreed to settle a class action suit over working conditions in Saipan. They included Ralph Lauren, Philips-Van Heusen, Bryland L.P., Karan Int'l., and Dress Barn.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 6, The Chechen president called for a holy war against Russia.
(WSJ, 10/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct 6, In East Timor Australian peacekeepers killed 2 anti-independence militia-men near the West Timor border.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.C2)
1999 Oct 6, In Ecuador one person died as the Pichincha volcano dumped 5,000 tons of ash over the city of Quito.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.C2)
1999 Oct 6, In Mexico, furious rains sent swollen rivers raging through the streets of the Gulf coast city of Villahermosa and caused mudslides; dozens of deaths were reported in eastern Mexico’s coastal mountain ranges.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1999 Oct 6, Philippine government officials and Muslim separatists agreed to halt a series of deadly clashes in at least 2 southern provinces, Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat, and to start formal peace talks.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.C2)
1999 Oct 6, Amalia Rodrigues (b.1920), Portuguese actress and fado singer, died at age 79.
(SFC, 10/11/99, p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A1lia_Rodrigues)
2000 Oct 6, The US jobless rate was reported at 3.9%, a 3-decade low.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A3)
2000 Oct 6, Richard Farnsworth (80), stuntman-turned-actor, died at his New Mexico ranch.
(AP, 10/6/01)
2000 Oct 6, In Argentina Vice President Carlos Alvarez resigned amid a fallout over a corruption scandal and a Cabinet shake-up.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 6, In Bolivia Indian leaders and government ministers agreed prop up corn prices, reverse a land titling process and revert water rights back to Indian peasants. This followed 3 weeks of road blocks that had paralyzed the economy.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A9)
2000 Oct 6, In Indonesia 7 people were killed and 38 injured in Irian Jaya following a clash after police and soldiers lowered the separatist Free Papua Movement’s “Morning Star" flag in Wamena town.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 6, Israel pulled troops from Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in an effort to ease tensions.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 6, In the Ivory Coast the Supreme Court disqualified former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara and most other candidates from the presidential elections.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 6, In Reynosa, Mexico, a DC932 plane with 83 passengers overran a runway and crashed into a group of homes and then a canal. 6 people walking along the canal were killed.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 6, In Peru a 5,000 barrel oil spill by an Argentine company threatened the water resources of some 10,000 inhabitants in the northern jungle.
(SFEC, 10/8/00, p.A24)
2000 Oct 6, In Serbia Slobodan Milosevic resigned and the opposition celebrated across the country. Milosevic conceded defeat to Vojislav Kostunica in Yugoslavia's presidential elections, a day after protesters angry at Milosevic for clinging to power stormed parliament and ended his 13-year autocratic regime.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/6/01)
2001 Oct 6, Cal Ripken played his last game in the major leagues as his Baltimore Orioles lost to the visiting Boston Red Sox 5-1.
(AP, 10/6/02)
2001 Oct 6, Pres. Bush warned Afghanistan’s rulers that time is running out. The Taliban said it would release 8 aid workers if the US “stops issuing threats" of military action.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 6, US and British intelligence identified Mohammed Atef, a former Egyptian policeman and close aide to Osama bin Laden, as the key planner of the of the Sep 11 attacks.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 6, In Afghanistan the Northern Alliance was building an airport outside Golbahar to allow a US-led coalition to funnel in military supplies.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 6, In Saudi Arabia a bomb exploded in Khobar. 2 people were killed and 4 were injured.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A17)
2002 Oct 6, Almost 200 cargo ships carrying food, manufacturing equipment and retail goods sat idle all along the U.S. West Coast after four days of talks failed to bring an end to the longest work stoppage in the region in 30 years.
(Reuters, 10/6/02)
2002 Oct 6, Brazilian voters voted 46% in favor of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former factory worker and union boss, as president. Jose Alencar was da Silva's running mate. A runoff with Jose Sera (23%) was scheduled.
(WSJ, 10/2/02, p.A1)(AP, 10/6/02)(SFC, 10/8/02, p.A10)
2002 Oct 6, In Colombia Jose Arroyave, a regional commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was among 7 rebels killed in a military offensive.
(AP, 10/7/02)
2002 Oct 6, A fire broke out on the Limberg, a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, setting barrels of oil ablaze and sparking an explosion killing one Bulgarian crew member. The explosion was soon determined to be the result of a terrorist attack. Insurance paid out $70 million for the damages.
(AP, 10/6/02)(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A13)(AP, 10/6/03)(Econ, 4/22/06, p.73)
2002 Oct 6, Prince Claus (76), the German-born husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, died in Amsterdam.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2002 Oct 6, Pope John Paul II raised to sainthood Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer the Spanish priest who founded the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei (1928), only 27 years after his death.
(AP, 10/6/02)
2003 Oct 6, The annual Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Paul C. Lauterbur (74) of the Univ. of Illinois and Sir Peter Mansfield (69) of the Univ. of Nottingham, for their work that led to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(SFC, 10/7/03, p.A2)
2003 Oct 6, Pres. Bush met with Kenya's Pres. Kibaki, who asked for help in stabilizing Somalia.
(WSJ, 10/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 6, Democrat Bob Graham announced on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he was ending his presidential campaign.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2003 Oct 6, A fire in Yazoo City, Miss., left 5 children (1½-10) dead. Their mothers were at a nightclub.
(SFC, 10/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 6, In Argentina newly released archives of police intelligence, first discovered in 1998 behind a wall in a building that now houses the Commission for Memory, indicated that police infiltrated unions and dissident groups before and during the 1976-83 military dictatorship, monitoring tens of thousands of people for a quarter of a century.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 6, In Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov was declared the winner in the region's presidential vote. Human rights advocates questioned the fairness of a vote held during a war and said the election was heavily tilted in favor of Kadyrov, whose personal security service is widely feared and accused of kidnappings and killings.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 6, In southeastern Colombia FARC guerrillas assassinated two town mayors, Orlando Hoyos and Jaime Zambrano, after they met with rebels in a mountain hideout.
(AP, 10/8/03)
2003 Oct 6, In northeastern Congo dozens of tribal fighters attacked Katchele village with assault rifles and machetes, killing at least 65 people, mainly children, looting property and setting huts on fire.
(AP, 10/7/03)
2003 Oct 6, Roadside bombings in central Iraq killed three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter and wounded six other service members.
(AP, 10/7/03)
2003 Oct 6, In Pakistan gunmen assassinated Maulana Azam Tariq, a hardline Sunni Muslim politician and four other people, spraying their car with automatic weapon-fire before fleeing.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 6, Elisabeta Rizea (91), a Romanian anti-communist resistance fighter whose defiance of the regime made her a symbol of the fight against tyranny, died.
(AP, 10/7/03)
2004 Oct 6, American Irwin Rose and Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins, the ubiquitin proteasome system, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
(AP, 10/6/04)(SFC, 10/7/04, p.A2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteasome)
2004 Oct 6, The US Senate approved an intelligence reorganization bill endorsed by the Sept. 11 commission.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2004 Oct 6, Charles Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons hunter, reported that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs had deteriorated into only hopes and dreams by the time of the U.S.-led invasion last year.
(AP, 10/7/04)
2004 Oct 6, Sirius Satellite Radio planned to spend $500 million to sign “shock jock" Howard Stern for 5 years beginning in 2006.
(SFC, 10/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Oct 6, Light crude oil for November closed in NYC at a record $52.02 per barrel.
(SFC, 10/6/04, p.C1)
2004 Oct 6, The EU recommended Turkey be put on the path to full membership.
(AP, 10/7/04)
2004 Oct 6, In Guinea-Bissau soldiers recently back from a U.N. peacekeeping mission and angry over unpaid wages staged a revolt, surrounding a main military building in the West African nation's capital.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, Followers of renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have agreed to a cease-fire with Iraq's interim government aimed at ending weeks of fighting in the vast Baghdad slum of Sadr City.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, A car bomb exploded at an Iraqi military camp northwest of Baghdad, killing 10 Iraqis and wounding more than 20.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, In Peru villagers in the country's remote Lake Titicaca region doused Alejandro Noalca Mamani (54), an accused thief, with gasoline and setting him ablaze. State-run television station broadcast images the next day.
(AP, 10/8/04)
2004 Oct 6, The Interfax news agency reported that the key production unit of beleaguered Russian oil giant Yukos was handed a back taxes bill for $951 million.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, In Spain a judge ordered the top banker to stand trial on charges of tax fraud.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, Sudan's U.N. ambassador challenged the US to send troops to the Darfur region if it really believes a genocide is taking place.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2005 Oct 6, President Bush sought to rally flagging public support for the war in Iraq, accusing militants of seeking to establish a "radical Islamic empire" with Iraq as the base.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2005 Oct 6, Gregg Miller won the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine for his prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs. Miller has sold more than 150,000 of his Neuticles, more than doubling his $500,000 investment. The silicone implants come in different sizes, shapes, weights and degrees of firmness. Other winners included Nigerian Internet scammers and a team that calculated the pressures created when penguins poop.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6-2005 Oct 7, More than 65 countries and international organizations met at the US State Department to plan for the possible outbreak of potentially deadly bird flu.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2005 Oct 6, The US State Department offered a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspected mastermind in the nightclub bombings in 2002 in Bali, Indonesia.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, Dean VandenBiesen, vice president of operations for LifeGem, said his company uses super-hot ovens to transform funeral ashes to graphite and then presses the stone into blue and yellow diamonds that retail for anywhere from 2,700 to 20,000 dollars.
(AFP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6, Merck & Co. Inc. said a vaccine that targets a human wart virus completely prevented early-stage cervical cancer and precancerous lesions in women caused by the two most common forms of the virus.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, Dennis Murphy (b.1932), screenwriter and author of “The Sergeant" (1958), died in SF. He also wrote the script for the 1971 film version.
(SFC, 10/11/05, p.B9)
2005 Oct 6, Coalition forces who were engaged in combat with militants opened fire on a vehicle carrying Afghan police, killing four and wounding one.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6, In Colombia right-wing paramilitary groups suspended their demobilization process with the government to protest President Alvaro Uribe's decision to jail a paramilitary leader who is wanted in New York on drug trafficking charges.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, In Colombia an intense rainstorm triggered a landslide that buried part of Bello, a shantytown on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Medellin, killing at least 26 people, many of them children.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6-2005 Oct 8, In Guatemala rescue workers searched for victims of a mudslide near Lake Atitlan, a volcano-ringed lake popular with tourists. Panabaj and Tzanchaz were entombed by a mudflow half a mile wide. The death toll in the region from flooding sparked by Hurricane Stan soon climbed to 617 with 42 dead in Mexico, 72 dead in El Salvador and 11 dead in Nicaragua.
(SFC, 10/7/05, p.A3)(AP, 10/9/05)(Econ, 10/15/05, p.43)
2005 Oct 6, Insurgents using suicide and roadside bombs killed at least 13 people, including a U.S. soldier, and wounded 19 in the latest of a series of attacks aimed at wrecking Iraq's constitutional referendum next week.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, Bomb blasts killed six Marines in western Iraq. US forces killed 29 militants in offensives aimed at uprooting al-Qaida insurgents.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6, Africa Union leaders said Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo's could stay in power after his term expires on October 30, giving him up to a year more in office in a bid to resolve the crisis in his divided country.
(AFP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, In Japan the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper was awarded compensation from a small Internet firm that used its news headlines without permission, in a first-of-a-kind ruling in the country. The Intellectual Property High Court, a special branch court of the Tokyo High Court, ordered Digital Alliance Corp. to pay about 237,700 yen (2,000 dollars) to the Yomiuri.
(AFP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, In Lithuania authorities released the pilot of a Russian military plane that crashed in Lithuania, saying he was no longer suspected of violating the Baltic country's airspace.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, Gunmen abducted three local Hamas leaders in a series of kidnappings. Prof. Riad Abdel Karim al-Raz (47), a Palestinian university professor known as a Hamas leader, was released the next day. The al-Farouk bin al-Khatab Brigades, claimed responsibility.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6, Romania said it has deported five students accused of having ties to al-Qaida and trying to recruit members of the country's Muslim community.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, A UN official said the International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued arrest warrants for Joseph Kony and 5 henchmen of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan cult notorious for raping, maiming and killing children.
(Reuters, 10/6/05)(Econ, 10/22/05, p.48)
2006 Oct 6, Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos, a Navy medic, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and conspiracy, telling his court-martial at Camp Pendleton, Calif., that he stood and watched as seven members of a Marine squadron murdered an innocent Iraqi civilian.
(AP, 10/6/07)
2006 Oct 6, The US Centers for Disease Control said 3 people from Washington County, Ga., had experienced respiratory failure and remained hospitalized on ventilators following a meal they shared on Sept. 7 that included carrot juice made by Bolthouse Farms. A woman in Florida was hospitalized mid-September and botulism toxin from bottled carrot juice was suspected.
(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 6, US and European negotiators reached an interim deal on sharing trans-Atlantic air passenger data for anti-terrorism investigations.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, The US FDA approved Zolinza, generic name Vorinostat, a drug that switches off genes associated with cancer.
(Econ, 10/14/06, p.86)
2006 Oct 6, In Virginia opening ceremonies were held for the new $13 million American Civil War Center in Richmond’s former Civil War gun foundry.
(WSJ, 10/12/06, p.W13)
2006 Oct 6, The homicide rate in Oakland, Ca., hit 119 for the year, a 10-year high.
(SFC, 10/7/06, p.B5)
2006 Oct 6, John Jordan O’Neil (b.1911), aka “Buck" O’Neil, baseball’s charismatic Negro Leagues ambassador, died at a Kansas City, Missouri-area hospital. He barnstormed with Satchel Paige and inexplicably fell one vote shy of being elected to the Hall of Fame in February 2006.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O'Neil#_note-1)
2006 Oct 6, In eastern Afghanistan 2 suicide bombers blew themselves up, killing themselves and a policeman and wounding 17 other people.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales fired two top mining officials after a clash between rival bands of miners over access to the country's richest tin deposit left at least 16 dead and more at least 80 injured. The 2-day clash at the Huanuni tin mine caused an estimated $2 million in damage and production losses of $200,000 per day.
(AP, 10/7/06)(Econ, 10/14/06, p.40)
2006 Oct 6, Opposition leaders alleged that Georgia's local and regional elections were riddled with fraud, but international monitors said the balloting was conducted "with general respect for fundamental freedoms."
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, Hungarian PM Ferenc Gyurcsany convincingly won a confidence motion in parliament but a crowd of over 50,000 opposition supporters gathered in front of the building to demand he quit.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, The Panamanian-registered Giant Step ran ashore after catching fire in rough seas off Kashima in eastern Japan, killing one crewman and injuring two others. Of the remaining crew, 13 were rescued but nine are missing.
(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 6, In Lebanon police clashed with hundreds of rioters protesting attempts to demolish illegal housing in a southern suburb of Beirut. One person was killed and at least 16 were wounded.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, ECOWAS leaders met for summit talks in Nigeria.
(AP, 10/9/06)
2006 Oct 6, In southwestern Pakistan police acting on a tip raided several militant hide-outs in Quetta and arrested 48 suspected Taliban who had arrived in small groups from Afghanistan.
(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 6, Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied in a Gaza Strip soccer stadium in a massive show of support for the ruling Hamas group and its beleaguered government. PM Ismail Haniyeh told supporters Hamas will not recognize Israel or give in to international pressure that has crippled the Palestinian government.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, In Sri Lanka heavy sea and land battles erupted with the military reporting the recovery of 22 bodies of Tamil rebels after a Norwegian envoy failed to secure a deal to re-launch peace talks. 49 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a raid by the K-faction of rebels in eastern Sri Lanka. 5 of the splinter group died in the fighting.
(AFP, 10/6/06)(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 6, The UN refugee agency said the number of Somalis fleeing fighting to seek refuge in Kenya has risen dramatically and could stretch the capacity of aid organizations to critical levels.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, A unanimous UN Security Council urged North Korea to abandon all atomic weapons, as it promised last year, and cancel plans to detonate a device. Japan hinted the North could face sanctions or possible military action.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, The fledgling UN Human Rights Council ended its second session after failing to approve any decisions addressing the world's worst abuses. The 47-member council adjourned following a 3-week session. The US is not a member but is an observer. Human Rights Watch said the council, which held its first session in June and July, was a disappointing successor to the widely discredited UN Human Rights Commission.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2007 Oct 6, US Representative Jo Ann Davis (57), Virginia’s first Republican woman elected to Congress, died of breast cancer.
(SSFC, 10/7/07, p.A5)
2007 Oct 6, Sofiane el-Fassila (b.1975), an alleged mastermind (alias Hareg Zoheir, Zobeir Harkat) of several recent suicide bombing attacks in Algeria, was shot dead with 2 suspected accomplices in the town of Boghni. He was the deputy chief of al Qaeda's North Africa wing and believed to be the group's operational leader. Security officials said 8 soldiers and four Islamic extremists have been killed in the last few days in eastern Algeria.
(AFP, 10/6/07)(AP, 10/10/07)(www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071011/world.htm#8)
2007 Oct 6, International military planes called in by Afghan security forces killed 16 rebels, apparently all foreigners, suspected of preparing an attack in the country's east. The dead were said to be from Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Chechnya. Two officers were killed and two others were wounded when a bomb exploded under their car in Yaqoubi district in Khost province. A Taliban ambush in Nuristan province left two other officers dead. Four militants were also killed in the clash, which occurred in the remote Kamdesh district. 2 Afghan civilians were killed in Kunar province after speeding toward a checkpoint without stopping. In Paktika province, a "suspicious" man was shot and killed after being asked to halt. A suicide car bomber attacked an American military convoy on the road to Kabul's airport, killing a US soldier and four Afghans. In the south, in Uruzgan province, Taliban fighters attacked an Afghan security company guarding a road construction project, killing five of the security guards. In Helmand province's Gereshk district, a roadside bomb explosion killed a policeman.
(AP, 10/6/07)(AFP, 10/7/07)(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, The Stirling Prize, Britain's most prestigious architecture prize, was awarded to Germany's Museum of Modern Literature. The classically influenced building designed by David Chipperfield Architects, opened last year in Marbach, southwest Germany.
(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, In London the New Economics Foundation think-tank said the world moved today into "ecological overdraft," the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any year and goes into the red. If everyone in the world had the same consumption rates as in the US it would take 5.3 planet earths to support them, NEF said, noting that the figure was 3.1 for France and Britain, 3.0 for Spain, 2.5 for Germany and 2.4 for Japan.
(Reuters, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 6, Jason Lewis (40), a British adventurer, completed a 13-year trip around the world powered by only his arms and legs. Lewis had begun the journey in 1994 with Steve Smith. The 2 men split after pedaling to Hawaii from San Francisco. In 2005 Smith authored “Pedaling to Hawaii: A Human Powered Adventure Across the Western Hemisphere."
(SSFC, 10/7/07, p.A24)
2007 Oct 6, In eastern Cuba a bus collided with a train, killing at least 28 people and injuring another 73.
(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, Gambia arrested 2 senior Amnesty International officials on suspicion of spying. Tania Bernath, Amnesty International's deputy director for Africa and an advocacy officer Ameen Ayobele, were arrested in the eastern town of Basse after they visited an opposition politician who has been held in detention for more than a year. Yaya Dath, a journalist with the country's privately-owned daily Foroyaa, who was traveling with the London-based Bernath, a British-American national and Ayobele, a Nigerian, was also arrested. All 3 were released on bail on Oct 8.
(AFP, 10/8/07)(AFP, 10/8/07)
2007 Oct 6, Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and chief rival, Abdelaziz Hakim, reached a truce to end bloodshed between their loyalists. The decapitated bodies of two members of an awakening council in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad, were found. Both were Sunnis. In Baghdad a US soldier was killed and three others were wounded by a roadside bombing while they were taking part in a raid against suspected insurgents in the capital.
(AP, 10/6/07)(SSFC, 10/7/07, p.A20)
2007 Oct 6, In western Kenya Stanley Livindo, a ruling party candidate for parliament, was arrested after his bodyguards allegedly shot and killed a supporter of Kenya's largest opposition party and injured two others. The shootings came as tens of thousands of people rallied in the capital to kick off the presidential campaign of Raila Odinga, who has mounted a serious challenge to President Mwai Kibaki in December general elections.
(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, Myanmar's junta tried to cool growing UN pressure over its deadly crackdown on peaceful protests, offering talks with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and relaxing its blockage of the Internet. A day of global protests against Myanmar's junta began in cities across Asia, after the military regime admitted detaining hundreds of Buddhist monks when troops turned their guns on pro-democracy demonstrators last week.
(AFP, 10/6/07)(AP, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 6, Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf swept the presidential election, according to unofficial results, but the Supreme Court could still disqualify the military leader in the vote boycotted by nearly all of Pakistan's opposition. Opposition parties resigned from the parliaments and members of Miss Bhutto’s party abstained from the vote.
(AP, 10/6/07)(Econ, 10/13/07, p.17)
2007 Oct 6, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov will be appointed head of the country's foreign intelligence service.
(AP, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 6, A Saudi newspaper said the Saudi Arabian government will temporarily release 55 prisoners recently transferred from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will give each of them about $2,600 to celebrate the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, A UN inspection team found the Darfur town of Haskanita, under the control of Sudanese troops, burned down. The destruction of the town was in apparent retaliation for the Sep 29 rebel attack on an African Union peacekeeping base in which 10 AU troops were killed. 7,000 residents were forced to flee the area.
(Reuters, 10/7/07)(WSJ, 10/8/07, p.A1)
2007 Oct 6, Typhoon Krosa lashed Taiwan with strong winds and heavy rains, cutting power to nearly half a million homes and disrupting air and sea traffic. Krosa killed five people in Taiwan as it knocked out power to 2 million homes and drenched the island.
(AP, 10/6/07)(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, In Vietnam floods and landslides followed Typhoon Lekima and killed at least 86 people with many missing and some villages cut off and inundated by water.
(Reuters, 10/6/07)(AP, 10/7/07)(AP, 10/11/07)
2008 Oct 6, The United States and Lebanon set up a joint military commission to bolster military cooperation, a move that follows the first visit by the newly elected Lebanese president to Washington.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, Stock markets around the world fell on fears that the global financial crises will worsen. The DJIA fell 800.06 intraday ending down 369.88 to close at 9555.50. Oil prices closed at $87.81, its lowest settlement since February 6.
(SFC, 10/7/08, p.D3)(WSJ, 10/5/08, p.C3)
2008 Oct 6, The US Supreme Court declined a patent appeal from Dish Network forcing the company to pay TiVo $104 million.
(SFC, 10/7/08, p.D6)
2008 Oct 6, It was reported that Atherton, Ca., philanthropist Lorry Lokey (81) had pledged $75 million to the Stanford Univ. School of Medicine for a major stem cell research center. In 2007 he had pledged at least $33 million.
(SFC, 10/6/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 6, Stewart Parnell, an executive for Peanut Butter of America, sent an e-mail saying that delays in shipping product from a Georgia plant was costing huge dollars. Federal investigators later found that batches of product containing salmonella were shipped with fake lab records saying salmonella screenings were negative. On Sep 21 Parnell was sentenced to 28 years in prison.
(SFC, 9/22/15, p.A7)
2008 Oct 6, Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases. French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier (1932-2022) were cited for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV; while Germany's Harald zur Hausen was honored for finding human papilloma viruses that cause cervical cancer.
(AP, 10/6/08)(SSFC, 2/13/22, p.F10)
2008 Oct 6, Bank of America said it will modify troubled mortgages with up to $8.4 billion in interest rate and principal reductions for nearly 400,000 customers of Countrywide Financial Corp., the troubled mortgage lender it acquired last summer.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, Eli Lilly & Co. said it would pay $70 per share for New York’s Imclone. The offer put about $1 billion into the pocket of Bristol-Myers for its stake in Imclone and still allowed it to share in revenue from Erbitux, a cancer medication.
(SFC, 10/7/08, p.D6)
2008 Oct 6, Mother’s Cookies, an Oakland, Ca. institution for 92 years, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. Owner Catterton Partners, a private equity firm based in Connecticut, cited failed efforts to obtain credit financing.
(SFC, 10/9/08, p.C1)
2008 Oct 6, G7 president Robert Zoellick said the Group of Seven is outmoded and should be replaced with a new entity that would include growing economies in Asia and Latin America.
(SFC, 10/7/08, p.D5)
2008 Oct 6, European governments struggled to find a coordinated approach to the crisis sweeping financial markets, as Denmark became the latest country to guarantee bank deposits, putting more pressure on Britain and other countries to follow.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, In France Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of a late French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and 40 other people charged with trafficking arms to war-riven Angola or taking kickbacks faced judges in a long-awaited trial in Paris. Prosecutors alleged that French businessman Pierre Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak, an Israeli tycoon based in France at the time, organized the sale of Russian arms to Angola from 1993-2000, for a total of US$791 million, in breach of French government rules. In 2009 Falcone and Gaydamak were sentenced to 6 years in prison.
(AP, 10/6/08)(Econ, 10/31/09, p.62)
2008 Oct 6, In France traders at Groupe Caisse d’Epargne bank, founded in 1818, began trading in equity derivatives hoping the market would rise. The irregular trades were unwound at a loss of some $808 million.
(WSJ, 10/18/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 6, Clashes between ethnic groups in India's remote northeast killed 19 more people, bringing the death toll from four days of violence to 49, including 15 people shot by police. Another 100,000 people have fled their homes.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert visited Moscow, aiming to focus on Russian arms sales to Israel's enemies. By contrast, Russia hoped the meeting will bolster its image as a Middle East peacemaker.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, A panel of scientists met in Monaco for the 2nd international UNESCO symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World. On Jan 30, 2009, they issued the Monaco Declaration, which summed up their deliberations, and reported that acidity of ocean surface waters has increased 30% since the 17th century.
(SFC, 1/31/09, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/bdtj3p)
2008 Oct 6, A suicide bomber attacked legislator Rasheed Akbar Niwani’s house in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 50. Officials said Pakistani authorities have begun expelling Afghan refugees from the Bajaur tribal region that has become the main battleground between troops and fighters linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda.
(AP, 10/6/08)(Reuters, 10/6/08)(SFC, 10/7/08, p.A8)
2008 Oct 6, In northern Sri Lanka a suspected rebel suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded opposition party office, killing a former army general and 26 others.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, A Nigerian UN peacekeeper was killed when up to 60 gunmen ambushed a patrol in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur.
(AFP, 10/7/08)
2008 Oct 6, Switzerland's top prosecutor charged 10 people with laundering more than US$1 billion dollars (1.349 billion euros) during a decade-long mafia cigarette smuggling operation. Authorities said they broke up the smuggling ring in 2004.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, A magnitude 6.6 earthquake killed at least 10 people in Yangyi, Tibet, the hardest hit village in Dangxiong County.
(Reuters, 10/6/08)(AP, 10/7/08)
2008 Oct 6, Turkish warplanes bombed a Kurdish rebel hideout in northern Iraq, the third air strike in retaliation for an attack that killed 15 soldiers three days ago.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2009 Oct 6, Three Americans whose research in the 1960s laid the foundation for digital images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras. Charles K. Kao (75) was cited for discovering how to transmit light signals over long distances through glass fibers as thin as a human hair. His 1966 breakthrough led to the creation of modern fiber-optic communication networks. Willard S. Boyle (85) and George E. Smith (79) were honored for inventing the eye of the digital camera.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said the Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn. The diffuse ring doesn't reflect much visible light and is so huge it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, The city council of Oakland, Ca., succumbed to public pressure and rolled back parking meter enforcement from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. The rule had gone into effect 3 months earlier.
(SFC, 10/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Oct 6, Afghan forces also killed eight militants in two separate battles in Zabul and Wardak provinces.
(AP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, Australia's central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates by a quarter point, becoming the first major economy to increase the cost of borrowing amid signs its recovery from the global slump is gaining momentum.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, Hilary Mantel won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for her historical novel “Wolf Hall." It covered the period Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn. A sequel, “Bring Up the Bodies," was published in 2012.
(Econ, 10/10/09, p.89)(www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1291)(Econ, 5/5/12, p.81)
2009 Oct 6, In London the play “The Power of Yes," written by Sir David Hare, opened at the Royal National Theater.
(Econ, 10/10/09, p.90)
2009 Oct 6, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov won a defamation lawsuit against a rights activist who blamed him for the killing of a colleague whose murder sparked international outrage. Moscow's Tverskoi district court ordered Memorial rights group chairman Oleg Orlov to retract his statement that Kadyrov was responsible for Natalya Estemirova's death in 2006. Kadyrov sought 10 million rubles ($330,000) in damages, but judge Tatyana Fedosova ruled that Memorial and Orlov should only pay 70,000 rubles ($2,300 rubles).
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Iraq a car bomb blew up in front of a restaurant near Fallujah and killed 9 people with dozens more wounded.
(SFC, 10/7/09, p.A2)
2009 Oct 6, In Ireland the Rev. Aengus Finucane (77), a Roman Catholic missionary, died. He braved the civil war in Biafra (1967-1970) as a pioneer of Irish aid efforts worldwide. That aid effort, initially known as Concern Africa, shortened its name to Concern in 1970 as it gained ambitions to provide food, medical support and education in many of the world's poorest countries. He served as the charity's chief executive from 1981 to 1997.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, Israeli police mobilized reinforcements from across the country to secure volatile Jerusalem, deploying thousands of officers on city streets for fears that two days of clashes with Palestinian protesters would escalate.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Kazakhstan French President Nicolas Sarkozy scored a diplomatic coup during a visit, overseeing an agreement to allow military hardware for French forces fighting in Afghanistan to pass through Kazakh territory and clinching a raft of lucrative energy deals.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, Mongolia signed a long-awaited deal with partners Rio Tinto and Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines to develop a $4 billion Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine after a heated national debate over how to exploit the country's mineral wealth. In September 2011 members of parliament signed a petition asking the government to reopen negotiations on the investment agreement that set the $10 billion project in motion.
(AP, 10/29/09)(www.ivanhoemines.com/s/Home.asp)(Econ, 10/8/11, p.79)
2009 Oct 6, Moroccan police began rounding up 276 young people and continued with an overnight crackdown on juvenile delinquency in Sale, the twin town of the capital Rabat.
(AFP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Nepal landslides triggered by 4 days of torrential rains killed at least 34 people in various western districts.
(AP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, The Hamas government banned motorcycle riders from carrying women on the back seat, the latest in the militants' virtue campaign in Gaza.
(AP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Poland Mariusz Kaminski, the head of the anti-corruption office, was charged with abuse of power after a sting operation in which he encouraged his agents to fabricate documents and offer bribes.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Spain part of the secrecy surrounding the legal proceedings was lifted, new revelations came out, including phone conversations that had been taped by police. Francisco Correa, a Spanish businessman, faced jail as the alleged kingpin in a network of corruption at the heart of the country's main opposition group, the rightwing People's party.
(http://tinyurl.com/y9ow6cs)(Econ, 10/31/09, p.63)
2009 Oct 6, Syria held its first ever fashion design competition, meant to encourage young Syrian talents and local products.
(AP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, Turkish police used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray to disperse hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank held in Istanbul.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Yemen thousands of activists were reported taking to the streets across the south calling for independence, even as much of the central government's army is tied up fighting a Shiite rebellion in the far north.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2010 Oct 6, Documents were released in which the national oil spill commission's staff described "not an incidental public relations problem" by the White House in the wake of the April 20 accident. The report said, the administration made erroneous early estimates of the spill's size, and President Barack Obama's senior energy adviser went on national TV and mischaracterized a government analysis by saying it showed most of the oil was "gone." The analysis actually said it could still be there. The explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers, spewed 206 million gallons of oil from the damaged oil well, and sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit on behalf of Prison Legal News against a county jail in Moncks Corner, SC, over a policy barring inmates from having any reading material other than the Bible.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.A6)
2010 Oct 6, An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were honored for their development in the 1960s and '70s of one of the most sophisticated tools available to chemists today, called palladium-catalyzed cross coupling.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Facebook launched a new way for members to organize their friends, archive personal information and a new dashboard to control personal information sought by 3rd party applications and Web sites.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.D1)
2010 Oct 6, Logitech introduced Revue, a $299.99 set-top box for Google’s new TV service. The device allows users to access websites, Internet video, digital pictures and music from their televisions. Apple’s set-top box was introduced on Sep 1 for $99.
(SSFC, 10/10/10, p.D5)(http://tinyurl.com/2vzxpar)
2010 Oct 6, Cisco introduced its $599 Cisco Umi, a consumer product for video chats on home TVs. The service would also require a monthly fee of $24.99.
(SSFC, 10/10/10, p.D5)(http://tinyurl.com/2vzxpar)
2010 Oct 6, Researchers reported in the journal PLoS ONE that samples collected from hives affected by the colony collapse disorder (CCD) indicated the presence of a virus as well as a fungus. The two pathogens were not found in bee colonies not affected by the syndrome.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, The US and EU said that UN climate talks in Ttianjin, China, were making less progress than hoped due to rifts over rising economies' emission goals, while China pushed back and put the onus on rich nations.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia launched their transatlantic joint business, unveiling new routes and detailing benefits for customers that include a shared frequent flyers program.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, San Francisco unveiled new equipment allowing luxury liners to plug into the city’s power grid, part of an effort to cut diesel suit along the waterfront.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.C2)
2010 Oct 6, Northern Arizona was hit by 3 tornadoes. 28 cars of a parked freight train were derailed. 15 homes in Bellemont were made uninhabitable.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.A8)
2010 Oct 6, It was reported that Afghan Pres. Karzai has begun secret talks over a negotiated end to the war. Sources said that for the first time Taliban representatives are fully authorized to speak for the Quetta Shura, the Afghan Taliban organization based in Pakistan, and its leader Muhammad Omar. Taliban commander Maulawi Jawadullah, accused of organizing deadly ambushes, roadside bombings, and abductions of Afghan police and soldiers in northern Afghanistan, was killed in an airstrike in Yangi Qala district. A NATO service member died in a roadside bombing in the south. An Afghan-NATO force killed six insurgents and destroyed a compound used for making improvised explosive devices in Arghandab district of Kandahar province. 3 militants were killed in Zabul province during a firefight with a joint force. 16 militants were killed in air raids and ground fighting overnight in the Darqad, Yangi Qala and Khwaja Bahawuddin districts of Takhar province.
(SFC, 10/6/10, p.A2)(AP, 10/7/10)(AP, 10/8/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Britain Halima Bashir (30), a doctor who says she was gang-raped in 2004 by Sudanese soldiers after speaking out about atrocities in Darfur, won the Anna Politkovskaya award for women human rights defenders. She wrote about her experiences in her memoir, "Tears of the Desert" (2008).
(Reuters, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Canada Quebec presented legislation to award Bombardier Inc a contract worth more than C$1 billion ($980 million) to build nearly 500 subway cars for Montreal, short-circuiting a bidding process that has dragged on for five years.
(Reuters, 10/5/10)
2010 Oct 6, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told the EU to stop piling pressure on Beijing to revalue its currency, saying a rapid shift could unleash disastrous social turmoil.
(Reuters, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Cuba a resolution from the Foreign Relations Ministry was published into law making the guayabera Cuba's official formal dress garment and mandating that government officials wear them at state functions.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, Ecuador's interior minister said 46 police officers have been detained for alleged participation in the Sep 30 police revolt against President Rafael Correa that claimed 5 lives.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, Ethiopia freed opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa (36), saying it had granted a plea for pardon from her. Birtukan and other opposition figures were charged with plotting against the constitution in connection with those skirmishes, but were released in 2007 after being pardoned. She was sent back to prison in December 2008 after claiming she had never asked for pardon.
(AFP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Former US president Bill Clinton returned to Haiti to participate in a meeting on rebuilding the quake-ravaged nation, as his foundation pledged 500,000 dollars to a huge tent city.
(AFP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, Hungary scrambled to contain a toxic mud spill that left four people dead and more than 100 injured in what is being described as an ecological catastrophe. The spill raised fears that pollution leeching from it could reach the Danube River, which courses through Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine before flowing into the Black Sea.
(AFP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Ratings agency Fitch cut Ireland's credit worthiness another notch, citing the country's long fight to emerge from record deficits, the toughest bank-bailout effort in Europe and a lagging economy.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Italy Concetta Serrano was participating in a live TV show that focuses on missing people when the anchor told her brother-in-law had confessed to have allegedly murdered her daughter. The Italian news agencies broke the story of the alleged confession while the show was being broadcast from inside the uncle's house in the southern Italian town of Avetrana, where Sarah Scazzi (15) disappeared on Aug. 26.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Indian Kashmir 50 students arrested during months of deadly protests were released from custody in a latest move to defuse tension in the Himalayan region.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Indonesia helicopters dropped food to isolated villages and security forces helped clear debris and search for survivors as the number of people killed by floods and landslides across Asia climbed to nearly 110. Three-quarters of the deaths were in eastern Indonesia. In Vietnam 11 bodies were recovered in the worst-hit province of Quang Binh, where authorities were also searching for five sailors from a sunken barge. At least seven other bodies were found in Ha Tinh province, five in Nghe An and three in Quang Tri. On China's nearby island province of Hainan, seven straight days of heavy rains left two people missing and forced 64,000 to evacuate.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Malaysia a newborn baby died after being snatched by a monkey from her family's living room in Negri Sembilan state. Wildlife authorities fatally shot the monkey, which had remained near the house and might have been attracted by a female pet monkey the family kept in a cage.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Nigeria suspected members of Boko Haram, a northern radical Muslim sect, shot and killed Awana Ngala, the leader of the ruling All Nigeria People's Party, the latest attack by a group that engineered a massive prison break last month.
(AFP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Pakistan a US missile strike killed five people in North Waziristan. Militants earlier attacked a depot housing 40 NATO oil tankers on the outskirts of Quetta, killing a member of staff and destroying at least 18 vehicles, in the fourth such attack in a week.
(AFP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Scientists unveiled a spectacular array of more than 200 new species discovered in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, including a white-tailed mouse and a tiny, long-snouted frog.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo returned home and resumed his office after undergoing treatment in Brazil for a blood clot that doctors say resulted from chemotherapy for cancer.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Puerto Rico FBI agents began arresting police officers accused of corruption. Local newspaper El Nuevo Dia reported that police and corrections officers were among 133 people named in the federal indictments, yet to be opened.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev headed a top level business delegation to Algeria, seeking to use his clout to push through delicate energy and telecoms deals with a traditional Moscow ally. Algeria and Russia signed six deals in sectors including energy and transportation.
(AFP, 10/6/10)(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, A Moscow court said it has sentenced 3 ultranationalists, convicted of hate killings and bombings, to long prison sentences. They were part of a militant neo-pagan cult that preyed on labor migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus. From 2008-2009 they killed 10 people and arranged a number of bombings.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.A2)
2010 Oct 6, In Somalia sporadic clashes between Islamic fighters and government soldiers killed four men in Mogadishu.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni called for financial support to increase his country's troop levels in the African Union force in Somalia.
(AFP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Local media reported that Ukraine has adopted a dress code for government workers. The code called on men working at the Cabinet of Ministers to wear mostly gray and dark blue suits and not wear the same suit to work two days in a row. Women were asked to stick to business suits and low-heeled shoes, as well as refrain from excessive makeup and jewelry.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Vietnam fireworks intended for Hanoi's upcoming 1000th birthday celebration exploded prematurely, killing four people and injuring three others.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Yemen assailants fired a rocket at a convoy carrying Britain's No. 2 diplomat and killed a Frenchman working for an Austrian oil company in a pair of attacks that heightened fears over the safety of Westerners in a country facing a growing militant threat. Hisham Assem (19), a guard who worked at the French engineering firm SPIE, was later arrested and charged with killing the Frenchman.
(AP, 10/6/10)(AP, 11/2/10)
2011 Oct 6, The US Justice Dept. said Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $199.5 million for failure to meet contractual obligations relating to a 1998 contract for software licenses and technical support.
(SFC, 10/7/11, p.D2)
2011 Oct 6, In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Annette Morales-Rodriguez (33), who had faked a pregnancy, kidnapped Maritza Ramirez Cruz (23), killed her and cut out her full term fetus, who died in the process.
(SFC, 10/11/11, p.A6)
2011 Oct 6, Some 300 Afghan men and women marched through Kabul, the eve of the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, to condemn the United States as occupiers and demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops. A NATO service member died, but NATO did not disclose any other details.
(Reuters, 10/6/11)(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, Australian police said they have disrupted an international people smuggling ring by arresting two suspected key players in the syndicate following a 10-month undercover sting operation.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Australian actress Diane Cilento (78), who was once married to James Bond actor Sean Connery, died. In 1956 she was nominated for a Tony Award for her portrayal of Helen of Troy in the play "Tiger at the Gates." She received an Academy Award nomination in 1963 for best supporting actress for her work in the movie "Tom Jones."
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, In Bahrain Ahmed Jaber al-Qatan (16) was hit by bird shot used by anti-riot police during a demonstration in western Manama. The interior ministry confirmed his death the next day, saying the youth died of a cardiac arrest.
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, The Bank of England launched a second round of quantitative easing to defend Britain's faltering economy against the euro zone debt crisis, pledging to buy 75 billion pounds of assets with new money in a dramatic move to stave off recession.
(Reuters, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Britain and Switzerland signed an agreement to tax money kept by British residents in secret Swiss bank accounts, a move which could net the British government billions of pounds and help Swiss banking clean up its image. The deal, which must still be approved by the parliaments of both countries, should come into force in 2013.
(Reuters, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said it is to cut around 2,000 jobs as the publicly-funded broadcaster makes savings as part of government efforts to reduce a record deficit.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Chilean police used water canons and tear gas to break up a student march hours after talks with government regarding public education collapsed. By day's end, 168 had been arrested in the capital, and more than 100 more around Chile. Police said 25 officers and five civilians were injured.
(SFC, 10/7/11, p.A2)(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that France did not violate George Soros' rights when convicting him of insider trading, defeating a years-long effort by the billionaire financier to clear his name. He was fined euro2.2 million in 2002, for purchasing shares in French bank Societe Generale in 1988, days after being informed about a planned takeover bid for the bank.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, India-owned Airtel, one of the west African nation's biggest telecom firms, said that more than five million telephone subscribers in Nigeria have been cut off after protesters attacked an exchange. The protesters, members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the nation's central labor movement, were protesting against the alleged casualisation of workers in Airtel and the dismissal of 3,000 employees, charges denied by the company.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Israel's supreme court barred nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu (56) from emigrating on the grounds he still poses a threat to state security. Vanunu served 18 years behind bars for disclosing the inner workings of Israel's Dimona nuclear plant to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper in 1986.
(AFP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, Human Rights Watch said that 13 military leaders from both sides of Ivory Coast's political divide committed war crimes during months of postelection violence in the West African nation, and called on the government to prosecute all suspects equally.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Mexican marines arrested 8 members of the Jalisco New Generation gang. The suspects told them where 32 bodies were hidden in Veracruz state. Marines also arrested 12 members of the rival Zetas gang, including a man alleged to be their operations leader in Veracruz. A Nuevo Leon state official said several police officers allowed a violent drug gang to hold kidnap victims in a local jail while ransom payments were being negotiated.
(AP, 10/7/11)(SFC, 10/8/11, p.A2)
2011 Oct 6, Mexican police arrested four men and a woman for allegedly helping force women to work as prostitutes in Mexico and the United States.
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, In northern Nigeria 10 people died in a truck crash, the third reported incident of its kind in the last week.
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, Philippine police rescued a government midwife kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants after a brief firefight near Parang township on Jolo island. Evangeline Taverisma (55) was kidnapped on Aug 3. An army soldier was killed and three others wounded in the gunbattle near Esperanza town in southern Agusan del Sur province. Troops captured a New People's Army encampment and 12 assault rifles and hit several of the undetermined number of rebels.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Desmond Tutu's last-ditch appeal to South Africa to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama on the eve of his 80th birthday was rejected, marring the start of the celebrations. The Dalai Lama cancelled a planned trip to South Africa because of delays with his visa, provoking a furious response from Tutu who blasted President Jacob Zuma's government as worse than apartheid and accused him of kowtowing to China.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Sweden’s top poet Tomas Transtromer (80).
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, Syrian activists said clashes between troops and deserters killed 12 people, as Western powers sought to pressure Syria over its crackdown on dissent.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders says it is ending its operations in Thailand after 35 years because it could not reach agreement with the government on conditions under which it could provide medical care to illegal migrants.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, The UN said increased access to technology that allows parents to know the sex of their fetus has left Asia short of 117 million women, mostly in China and India.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, A United Nations report said Honduras and El Salvador have the highest homicide rates in the world. Honduras had 6,200 killings in 2010 out of a population of 7.7 million people, while El Salvador with 6.1 million people had 4,000 homicides.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that his government will expropriate homes on the Caribbean resort islands of Los Roques, saying the structures were built on plots bought in shadowy business deals.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2012 Oct 6, Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves from a Republican state representative's assertion that slavery was a "blessing in disguise" and a Republican state House candidate who advocates deporting all Muslims. The claims were made in books written, respectively, by Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro and House candidate Charlie Fuqua of Batesville.
(AP, 10/7/12)
2012 Oct 6, San Francisco police arrested 11 men and nine women as protesters marched through the financial district and tossed projectiles at officers. Police believed the anarchist group known as Black Bloc was involved.
(SFC, 10/9/12, p.C3)
2012 Oct 6, In eastern Afghanistan insurgents killed two American troops in Wardak province, an area that has seen heavy fighting in recent months. An Afghan policeman was killed and another was wounded when a remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorbike was detonated in Sangin district of Helmand province. A roadside bomb killed another Afghan policeman in Kandahar city.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, Cuban authorities released noted blogger Yoani Sanchez more than a day after she was taken into custody near the eastern city of Bayamo, where she traveled for a Spanish man's trial over a car crash that killed another prominent dissident.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, French police carried out raids across the country after DNA on a grenade that exploded last Sep 19 at a kosher grocery store led them to a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recently converted to Islam. A man named by police as Jeremy Louis-Sydney, was killed by police after he opened fire on them, slightly wounding three officers in the eastern city of Strasbourg. Eleven other suspects were arrested across the country. Some of the 12 suspected cell members arrested over the weekend appeared to have plans to go to Syria to fight in its civil war.
(AP, 10/6/12)(AP, 10/10/12)
2012 Oct 6, Israel scrambled fighter jets to intercept a drone that crossed deep into Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea, shooting the aircraft down over the country's southern desert. Suspicion quickly fell on the Iranian-backed, Lebanese Islamic militant group Hezbollah.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, The Mexican navy nabbed Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, a suspected Zetas cartel leader. He was captured in Nuevo Laredo and was believed to have masterminded the massacre of 72 migrants in Tamaulipas state in 2010.
(SFC, 10/9/12, p.A2)
2012 Oct 6, In Morocco some 1,000 judges held an unprecedented sit-in in front of the Supreme Court in Rabat calling for greated independence for the judiciary.
(SSFC, 10/7/12, p.A3)
2012 Oct 6, A North Korean soldier killed two of his superiors and defected to South Korea across the countries' heavily armed border in a rare crossing that prompted South Korean troops to immediately beef up their border patrol.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, Thousands of Pakistanis headed toward the militant-riddled tribal belt to protest US drone strikes — even as a Pakistani Taliban faction warned suicide bombers would stop the demonstration. 32 Americans from the US-based anti-war group CODEPINK joined ex-cricket star Imran Khan for the march.
(AP, 10/6/12)(SSFC, 10/7/12, p.A6)
2012 Oct 6, In central Peru Marxist Shining Path rebels burned 3 helicopters being used by a gas pipeline consortium at a jungle airstrip in Kiteni.
(SSFC, 10/7/12, p.A3)
2012 Oct 6, Philippine troops captured New People’s Army regional chief Benjamin Mendoza (43) and three other suspected insurgents outside their hideout in suburban Quezon city.
(SSFC, 10/7/12, p.A3)
2012 Oct 6, Syrian soldiers clashed with two armed groups that infiltrated from Lebanon, killing several of them.
(AP, 10/7/12)
2012 Oct 6, Turkish artillery fired into Syria for the fourth day in a row, retaliating for mortar shells that landed in Turkish territory. Rebels clashed with Syrian government troops in the border area, activists said, as fears revived that the Syrian crisis could spiral into a regional conflict.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, The pope's butler was convicted of stealing the pontiff's private documents and leaking them to a journalist in the gravest Vatican security breach in recent memory. Paolo Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but the Vatican said a papal pardon was likely.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2013 Oct 6, In southern Afghanistan 4 US soldiers were killed by an IED during a NATO operation.
(Reuters, 10/6/13)(SFC, 10/7/13, p.A2)
2013 Oct 6, In Afghanistan Germany handed control of a key military base in the country's northern province of Kunduz to Afghan security forces. German troops had spent almost a decade there as part of the international effort to combat Taliban insurgents.
(AP, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, CAR officials said 14 people have been killed in violent clashes that began last week between Christians and Muslims in the isolated town of Bangassou.
(Reuters, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, In China about 60 people were injured when security forces fired into a crowd of Tibetan residents who were demanding the release of a fellow villager detained for protesting orders to display the national flag. Police also fired tear gas at those protesting in Biru county in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
(AP, 10/8/13)
2013 Oct 6, In Egypt dozens of people were killed in clashes across the country between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. 48 people died in Cairo and 9 in other parts of the country.
(AFP, 10/6/13)(Reuters, 10/7/13)(AFP, 10/8/13)
2013 Oct 6, Iran's nuclear chief said that authorities arrested four workers in an alleged sabotage plot involving one of the country's nuclear facilities.
(AP, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, In northern Iraq suicide car bombers attacked an elementary school and a police station in Qabak, a small Shiite Turkomen village. The dead included 12 children, the school principal and 2 policemen. Another on foot detonated his payload among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing at least 12 people. Attacks altogether killed at least 33 people.
(AP, 10/6/13)(SFC, 10/7/13, p.A2)
2013 Oct 6, In Morocco thousands of unemployed graduates marched through Rabat demanding jobs in the public sector, weeks before parliament is due to debate planned budget cuts.
(Reuters, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, In Syria at least 8 people were killed by mortar fire that hit a Christian neighbourhood in central Damascus. Government forces reopened a key road leading to the embattled northern city of Aleppo after heavy fighting with rebels that left casualties on both sides.
(AFP, 10/6/13)(AP, 10/7/13)
2013 Oct 6, In Syria international inspectors began the enormous task of destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it.
(AP, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, In Yemen gunmen shot dead a German security guard employed by the German embassy as he was leaving a market in Sanaa.
(Reuters, 10/6/13)
2014 Oct 6, The US Supreme Court denied review of cases in five states that had limited marriage to opposite sex couples. This in effect granted equal marriage rights to gays and lesbians in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
(SFC, 10/7/14, p.A1)
2014 Oct 6, A US federal judge ruled that a “five-second rule" to keep protesters from remaining in place, imposed by police in Ferguson, Mo. following protests over the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, was unconstitutional.
(TIME, 10/20/14, p.13)
2014 Oct 6, NYC’s Hilton Worldwide announced that the Waldorf Astoria, opened in 1893 on the site of millionaire William Waldorf Astor's Fifth Avenue mansion, has been sold to a Chinese insurance company for $1.95 billion. Waldorf's cousin and fellow millionaire John Jacob Astor IV reconstructed the hotel a few years later at a nearby location. It was torn down in 1929, making way for another landmark: the Empire State Building. The Waldorf Astoria has been at its current location on Park Avenue since 1931.
(http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/06/news/waldorf-astoria-hotel-sale/)
2014 Oct 6, A US-British scientist, John O'Keefe, and a Norwegian husband-and-wife research team, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the brain's navigation system — the inner GPS that helps us find our way in the world.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic said it will shut its short-haul domestic service in Britain, partly owing to a lack of demand for connections with its long-haul operations.
(AFP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Brittany Maynard (29), a newlywed diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor, posted a video about her decision to take control over how she dies. She tentatively selected Nov 1 as her date of death in Oregon. The former California teacher moved to Oregon after learning that California was not among the five US states that allowed access to a lethal drug for terminal illness. Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington states also allowed access to the lethal drug.
(SFC, 10/13/14, p.A1)(SFC, 11/3/14, p.A1)
2014 Oct 6, In southern China 5 people were killed in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in Lanjiang village, Guizhou province.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Hong Kong pro-democracy protests subsided as students and civil servants returned to school and work after more than a week of demonstrations, but activists vowed to keep up their campaign of civil disobedience.
(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Iraq a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden armored vehicle into houses used by Shiite militiamen north of Samarra, killing at least 17 people.
(AFP, 10/7/14)
2014 Oct 6, Typhoon Phanfone lashed Japan with torrential rain after killing at least one person, forcing the cancellation of flights and prompting warnings to more than 200,000 people to evacuate their homes.
(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Kashmir tens of thousands of villagers fled their homes as Indian and Pakistani troops bombarded each other with gunfire and mortar shells over the border separating their portions of the disputed region. 9 civilians were killed.
(AP, 10/6/14)(AP, 10/7/14)
2014 Oct 6, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta told the nation in an address before parliament that he would temporarily step down as president while attending a hearing at the International Criminal Court this week insisting that he be a private citizen during the court hearing and not the first president to sit before the court.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Liberia's Justice Minister Christiana Tah stepped down, saying President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf blocked her investigation into fraud allegations against the country's National Security Agency (NSA), which is headed by the president's son.
(Reuters, 10/7/14)
2014 Oct 6, A Macedonian court convicted 17 people in the country's first espionage trial since it proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Mexican federal forces disarmed the entire police corps of Iguala and took over security after officers were accused of colluding with a gang in violence that left 43 students missing.
(AFP, 10/7/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Nepal a bus crowded with holiday travelers veered off a remote mountain road, killing at least 25 and critically injuring many more.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, The Pakistani Taliban denied reports at the weekend that it had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State movement fighting in Syria and Iraq, saying that its statement to the media had been misinterpreted.
(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Poland a methane blast occurred 660 meters (1,265 feet) below the surface at the Myslowice-Wesola mine near the city of Katowice. The body of one missing miner was later recovered. 30 miners were hospitalized with burns and 2 died later from their burns.
(AP, 10/18/14)
2014 Oct 6, Russian opposition politician Vladimir Ashurkov announced on Twitter that he was seeking asylum in the UK due to political persecution by authorities. Ashurkov was the right-hand man of anticorruption blogger Alexei Navalny, who had been under house arrest since February.
(SFC, 10/7/14, p.A2)
2014 Oct 6, In Spain nursing assistant Teresa Romero was diagnosed with Ebola. She had cared for a Spanish priest who died of the disease last month. 4 other people were quarantined and her dog was ordered killed.
(SFC, 10/8/14, p.A3)(Econ, 10/11/14, p.62)
2014 Oct 6, Sweden’s minority center-left coalition of Social Democrats and Greens agreed to demands by the Left Party to restrict the profit private firms can make in welfare and education - a key condition to get the non-government party to support the budget bill, which it will present in the coming weeks.
(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Syrian government forces seized control of a strategic area outside Damascus used by rebels to fire mortar shells at the capital. The Islamic State raised its flag on a building on the outskirts of the frontier town of Kobani after an assault of almost three weeks, but the town's Kurdish defenders said its fighters had not reached the city center. At least 30 people were killed in two suicide attacks on two checkpoints run by Kurdish fighters in the northeastern city of Hasakah.
(AFP, 10/6/14)(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Tanzania 7 people accused of witchcraft were burned alive in the village of Murufiti. Police soon arrested 23 people in connection with the crimes.
(AFP, 10/10/14)
2014 Oct 6, Ukraine officials said 7 civilians and 5 government soldiers have been killed in the past day of clashes with pro-Russian insurgents despite a truce between the two sides.
(AFP, 10/6/14)
2015 Oct 6, US authorities charged John Ashe, a former president of the UN General Assembly, billionaire Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng (68) and four others, for engaging in a wide-ranging corruption scheme. John Ashe, the UN ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda, was the UN president in 2013.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, California Gov. Jerry Brown singed SB358, a bill known as the Fair Pay Act. It closed loopholes in existing antidiscrimination statutes and barred employers from paying women less than men when they do substantially similar work.
(SFC, 10/7/15, p.A1)
2015 Oct 6, Kevin Corcoran (1949), Disney child actor, died in Burbank. He played Moochie in the “Spin and Marty" seriels on the “Mickey Mouse Club" and Arliss Coates in the move “Old Yeller" (1957).
(SFC, 10/9/15, p.D2)
2015 Oct 6, Whitman McGowan (64), SF poet, died of brain cancer.
(SSFC, 10/11/15, p.C9)
2015 Oct 6, In Kentucky Spc. Kevin J. Rodriguez was shot and killed during a blank-firing training exercise at Fort Campbell.
(SFC, 7/21/16, p.A6)
2015 Oct 6, Texas executed convicted killer Juan Martin Garcia (35) for the 1998 shooting and robbery of Hugo Solano, a Christian missionary who had just moved with his family from Mexico. The robbery netted $8.
(SFC, 10/7/15, p.A7)
2015 Oct 6, The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Japanese researcher Takaaki Kajita and Canadian Arthur McDonald for discovering that tiny particles called neutrinos change identities as they whiz through the universe, proving that they have mass.
(AP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, A strain of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, linked to Costco chicken salads, began sickening 19 people in seven US states. It was believed to be more life-threatening than a later E. coli outbreak at northwestern Chipotle restaurants.
(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A10)
2015 Oct 6, In Afghanistan acting Kunduz Gov. Hamdullah Danishi said Taliban fighters on motorbikes have carried out hit-and-run attacks on Afghan forces trying to clear Kunduz city of insurgents. In Kabul at least 3 Taliban fighters were killed and seven policemen wounded in a 10-hour gun battle that began a day earlier.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said his country did not need a Russian military base.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Chad Boko Haram Islamists attacked government soldiers, killing 11 and wounding 13. The army said 37 Boko Haram fighters died in the fighting.
(AP, 10/6/15) (SFC, 10/8/15, p.A3)
2015 Oct 6, Human Rights Watch said top security and ruling party officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo appear to have "hired thugs" to attack peaceful demonstrators last month in Kinshasa.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Europe's top court ruled that data stored on US servers is potentially unsafe because of government spying, a blow to companies such as Facebook that might need to change the way they handle private data from the region. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the “safe-harbor" privacy pact between the European Union and America. It was originally signed in 2000 to bridge cultural and political differences regarding online privacy.
(AP, 10/6/15)(Econ, 10/10/15, p.61)
2015 Oct 6, The European Union's 28 finance ministers agreed to share details of tax deals their countries reach with big multinational companies. The rule would be enacted across the 28 member states by the start of 2017.
(AP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Arpad Goncz (93), Hungary's first democratically-elected president (1990-2000 and widely-respected former dissident, died.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Iraq and Syria the United States and its allies staged 23 air strikes on Islamic State forces in the latest daily round of attacks on the militant group.
(Reuters, 10/7/15)
2015 Oct 6, Israel demolished the houses of two Palestinians involved in attacks last year, reverting to a controversial measure it claims is a deterrent.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Myanmar’s army began clashing with the Shan State Army-North, one of the ethnic armed groups that did not sign an Oct 15 ceasefire deal. 37 clashes took place b October 19 with 7 SSA-N members killed. The army suffered an unspecified number of casualties.
(Reuters, 10/23/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Myanmar Bao Zhuoxuan (16), also known as Bao Mengmeng, and two men helping him were taken away by local police from a guest house in a border town. The son of a rights lawyer detained in China's sweeping crackdown on civil society disappeared after trying to escape to the United States. Zhuoxuan was later reported to be under 24-hour police surveillance at his grandparents' house in Inner Mongolia.
(AP, 10/10/15)(AP, 10/12/15)
2015 Oct 6, Nigeria reported the arrest of Atlantic Energy chairman Olajide Omokore on corruption and money laundering charges, as part of a widening graft investigation in Africa's biggest petroleum producer that has also netted former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, The Philippine Coast Guard spotted a body, debris and an oil slick in the high seas about 400 km west of Laoag. The yacht Europa carrying two Britons, an American, a Canadian and a Filipino disappeared while sailing in waters that were lashed by a storm last week.
(AP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Russian strikes in Syria targeted the main weapons depots of Liwa Suqour al-Jabal, US-trained rebel group, in western Aleppo province and completely destroyed them.
(Reuters, 10/7/15)
2015 Oct 6, A Spanish judge withdrew the passport of former International Monetary Fund head Rodrigo Rato, who is under investigation for tax evasion, money laundering and concealing assets.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian strikes at Palmyra killed 15 Islamic State fighters and destroyed 20 vehicles and three weapons depots. Another 4 Islamic State fighters were reported killed near Raqqa. The Observatory said Russian jets carried out at least 34 air strikes in the last 24 hours. Russia’s defense ministry dismissed reports that its planes had launched air strikes against Palmyra.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and International Organization for Migration (IOM) said more than 114,000 people have fled war-torn Yemen, and the figure could reach at least 200,000 by the end of 2016.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Yemen unidentified assailants fired missiles at an Aden hotel housing Yemeni officials and at a Gulf military base in Aden. An unknown number of people were killed or injured in the attack. The Islamic State in Yemen claimed coordinated suicide bombings targeting the Yemeni government and the Arab military coalition in the southern city of Aden that killed 15 Arab and Yemeni troops.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Yemen an evening suicide bombing outside a mosque in the insurgent-held capital of Sanaa killed 7 people.
(AFP, 10/7/15)
2016 Oct 6, Pentagon officials said forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America.
(AP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Some three million people on the US southeast coast faced an urgent evacuation order as Hurricane Matthew bore down for a direct hit on Florida.
(AFP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Officials said fighting in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz has led to a "rapidly deteriorating" humanitarian situation, leaving thousands of people with limited access to food, water, or medical care. The UN said that as many as 10,000 refugees had arrived in Kabul and northern towns including Taloqan and Mazar-i-Sharif as Kunduz fell to the Taliban.
(Reuters, 10/6/16)(Reuters, 10/8/16)
2016 Oct 6, Aid agencies said fighting between rival armed groups and a string of attacks on humanitarians in northern Central African Republic has hindered the delivery of aid to about 120,000 people in need of food.
(Reuters, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Indian soldiers shot dead seven suspected militants who tried to attack two army bases in northern Kashmir, prompting anger from Pakistan as a crisis between the two neighbors over the disputed region grows.
(Reuters, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, In Italy a British woman (50) was subjected to multiple rapes in the Hotel Alimuri in Sorrento. In 2018 arrest warrants were issued for five workers at the hotel. Investigators had seized the cell phones of male personnel at the hotel and discovered that the suspects had chatted about the attack and exchanged photos taken of the woman while she was being raped. The employees had slipped her a date rape drug, filmed and took photos of the assault. Some were identified by tattoos on their bodies. In 2019 the five men were sentenced to prison terms of between four and nine years.
(The Telegraph, 12/15/19)(AP, 5/14/18)
2016 Oct 6, A Myanmar court sentenced Dutch citizen Klaas Haytema (30) to three months in prison for interfering with a religious observance by unplugging an amplifier blasting a late-night Buddhist sermon near his hotel in Mandalay. He had been arrested in late September after a crowd gathered around his hotel in protest when the loudspeakers at a nearby religious hall were turned off.
(AP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Pakistan passed long-awaited legislation closing a loophole that allowed people who killed for "honor" to walk free, three months after the murder of a social media star by her brother sparked international revulsion.
(AFP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, In Sudan doctors at government hospitals held a nationwide strike to demand better facilities, higher wages and protection from security forces.
(AFP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said his forces would recapture all of Syria, including Aleppo, in a television interview with Denmark's TV 2, but added he would prefer to do so using local deals and amnesties that would allow rebels to leave for other areas.
(Reuters, 10/6/16)
2017 Oct 6, In South Carolina two army privates were killed when a military vehicle struck a formation of soldiers at the Fort Jackson training base.
(SSFC, 10/8/17, p.A8)
2017 Oct 6, The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a group of mostly young activists pushing for a global treaty to ban the cataclysmic bombs.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, More Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar streamed toward the border, despite government assurances that it was stopping the massive exodus of refugees to Bangladesh.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Brazilian Olympic Committee president Carlos Nuzman (75) was suspended by the IOC, a day after being arrested in Rio de Janeiro and accused of storing gold bars in Switzerland.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, A British border guard was one of 12 people arrested in France and Britain as part of an operation against arms and drugs smuggling across the English Channel.
(Reuters, 10/9/17)
2017 Oct 6, Lawyers said Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company has agreed to pay damages to Ian Hurst, a former intelligence officer, whose computer was hacked in 2006 by detectives working for Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
(AP, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, Cambodia's government took initial legal steps to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the country's main opposition party, the latest in a series of moves to gain an advantage ahead of next year's general election.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In eastern Congo DRC militia fighters attacked a UN peacekeeping base, triggering clashes that left two of the fighters dead and two peacekeepers slightly wounded. Thirty-four rebels from a Mai-Mai militia have been killed in fighting with Congo's army in the past week.
(Reuters, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Czech airline Travel Service said it has acquired a majority stake in the national carrier, Czech Airlines, known as CSA. Travel Service reached a deal with the Czech state and Korean Air to buy their CSA stakes.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Danish navy divers found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor's homemade submarine.
(Reuters, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, The European Union and India agreed to step up cooperation in countering violent extremism and radicalization, particularly online, and in enhancing maritime security in the Indian Ocean and beyond in a joint declaration issued at the end of the 14th EU-India Summit.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In Indonesia dozens of men, including several foreigners, were arrested in a raid of a gay sauna in Jakarta, as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people faced increased hostility in the world's most-populous Muslim nation.
(AP, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, Iranian news website Tabnak said authorities have arrested Mahdi Jahangiri, the brother of the country's senior vice president, Eshaq Jahangiri, apparently over finance-related matters.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Japan-based automotive supplier Denso announced plans to invest $1 billion and create more than 1,000 new jobs in its main Tennessee facility to meet growing demand for electric vehicle parts.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Kenyan police fired tear gas at opposition protesters in Nairobi who were demanding that officials involved in August's canceled presidential election be sacked. Crowds had gathered in Nairobi, the port of Mombasa and Kisumu, the western stronghold of the opposition, for the second time this week.
(Reuters, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, A Libyan armed group claimed victory over Italian-backed militias paid to staunch the flow of migrants to Europe from the coastal city of Sabratha. The Anti-ISIS Operations Room, created last year to clear Sabratha of Islamic State militants, said in a statement that they have taken control of the city from the Martyr Anas al-Dabashi and Brigade 48 militias after a weeks-long battle.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, The Our Ocean conference concluded in the Maltese capital of Valletta. The global conference organized by the European Union aimed at better protecting marine life raised more than $7 billion.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In northern Mexico a federal intelligence agent and his mother were killed when assailants opened fire on their car in Chihuahua state. The attack came hours after Stalin Sanchez Gonzalez, the mayor of Paracho, Michoacan state, was gunned down outside his home.
(AP, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, In northern Mozambique suspected Islamists attacked a string of police stations in the small town of Mocimboa de Praia over the last 24 hours killing two policemen. 14 of the gunmen were slain. was believed to be the first jihadist attack on the country.
(AFP, 10/7/17)(AFP, 6/7/18)
2017 Oct 6, Polish officials say that a heavy storm that ravaged parts of western Poland has killed two people and injured 39. Tens of thousands of households were also without electricity after falling trees broke power lines when the storm hit overnight.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In Russia more than 130 fake bomb calls prompted the evacuation of some 100,000 people in the Moscow area.
(SFC, 10/7/17, p.A2)
2017 Oct 6, In Russia at least 16 people were killed when a train slammed into a bus that had broken down on a level crossing near the town of Pokrov, east of Moscow.
(AFP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Spain's government passed a law to make it easier for companies to move their operations around the country just as some businesses consider leaving the region of Catalonia amid a rising conflict over a plan for independence.
(Reuters, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In Sudan a Swiss humanitarian worker disappeared outside her home in the troubled Darfur region. Authorities believed a criminal gang was looking for a ransom.
(AP, 10/9/17)
2017 Oct 6, Syria's army and its allies neared al-Mayadin, pushing an advance on an eastern city seen as Islamic State's main remaining base in the country. Al-Qaida-linked fighters attacked Abu Dali in central Hama province, a key central Syrian village at the crossroads between areas under government control and those controlled by insurgents.
(Reuters, 10/6/17)(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In Turkey Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks on bilateral relations and international issues.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, The Ukrainian parliament passed hotly-disputed bills regarding the rebel-controlled eastern territories following debates interrupted by scuffles.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Pope Francis denounced the proliferation of adult and child pornography on the internet and demanded better protections for children online — even as the Vatican confronts its own cross-border child porn investigation involving a top papal envoy.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, The Legionaries of Christ, a Catholic religious order which fell into disgrace after the discovery that its founder was a sexual abuser with a secret family, was hit by fresh scandal with revelations that the head of its Rome seminary fathered two children. A statement said that Father Oscar Turrion would leave the priesthood.
(Reuters, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, Vietnam’s government said that the party's elite Central Committee has dismissed Nguyen Xuan Anh (39) as city party secretary and removed him from the Central Committee for serious violations of party rules and failing to set an example as a senior party official.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2018 Oct 6, Conservative US judge Brett Kavanaugh (53) was confirmed to the Supreme Court by a 50-48 margin in the Senate, ending months of partisan rancor over his nomination and offering Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency.
(AFP, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, In upper New York state 20 people were killed, including two pedestrians, when a limo carrying 18 people to a birthday party crashed in Schoharie. Limousine operator Nauman Hussain was later charged with criminally negligent homicide. In 2021 Hussain was sentenced to five years probation and 1,000 hours of community service in a plea deal to spare families the emotional toll of a trial.
(SFC, 10/8/18, p.A7)(SFC, 10/11/18, p.A6)(SFC, 9/3/21, p.A5)
2018 Oct 6, In Afghanistan heavily armed Taliban fighters destroyed bridges near the central city of Ghazni, closing the main highway between the capital Kabul and southern Afghanistan. Five militants were killed as they were planting bombs on three bridges on the Kabul-Kandahar highway. Officials said at least 25 Taliban insurgents were killed and 17 were wounded in clashes to secure the highway linking Ghazni and Paktia provinces. At least two Afghan security forces were killed in Taliban attacks in Kabul.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Afghanistan 10 civilians were reported killed and 20 wounded in an air strike on Garda Serai district. US Forces denied it carried out the attack. The Taliban set fire to a government building in Wardak's Sayeed Abad district and killed the district police chief along with nine other policemen late today.
(AFP, 10/7/18)(Reuters, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Armenia Karo Karapetian, a former member of parliament, and Arutyun Karagezian, also a former lawmaker, met in a restaurant in Yerevan. A quarrel over unspecified financial issues broke out. Karapetian was shot and pronounced dead at a hospital. Karagezian was found dead the next day in a suspected suicide.
(AP, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, Bulgarian authorities discovered the body of television reporter Viktoria Marinova (30) in the northern town of Ruse near the Romanian border. Her body was dumped near the Danube River after she reported on the possible misuse of European Union funds in Bulgaria. Prosecutors later said Marinova had been raped, beaten and suffocated.
(AP, 10/8/18)(AP, 10/9/18)
2018 Oct 6, In eastern China 2 people were killed and 16 wounded after a knife-wielding man drove a vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians late today in Ningbo city, Zhejiang province.
(AP, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, In western CongoDRC at least 53 people were dead and more than 72 people hospitalized after a tanker truck collided with another truck in the village of Mbuba, Kongo Central province.
(AP, 10/7/18)(AP, 10/8/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Egypt US First Lady Melania Trump held talks in Cairo on the final leg of a solo four-nation tour of Africa that will also see her visit the Pyramids.
(AFP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, An Egyptian judge slapped a travel ban on Khaled Ali, a former presidential candidate and rights lawyer, over an ongoing investigation into funding for civil society groups.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Oil-rich Gabon, ruled by the same political dynasty for nearly half a century, voted in long-delayed legislative and municipal polls, the first since a presidential election two years ago that was marred by deadly violence and allegations of fraud.
(AFP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In western Germany thousands of environmentalists protested the expansion of a coal mine a day after a court blocked the felling of endangered Hambacher Forest near the site.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit Haiti late today killing at least 14 people with135 injured. At least seven people died in the coastal city of Port-de-Paix and three people died in the nearby community of Gros-Morne in the province of Artibonite.
(AP, 10/7/18)(Reuters, 10/8/18)
2018 Oct 6, In eastern India 34 schoolgirls aged between 12 and 16 were taken to hospital after being beaten with sticks by a group of boys, along with the boys' mothers and neighbors, who had harassed them earlier in the day in the village of Darpakha, Bihar state. Ten people, including four women, were arrested.
(Reuters, 10/8/18)
2018 Oct 6, Indonesia's disaster agency said the death toll from the powerful earthquake and tsunami has climbed to 1,649, with at least 265 people still missing. It also said that number could be higher.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Iranian businessman Farhad Zahedifar, CEO of the Samen Coin website, was returned to Iran with Interpol's help after he fled abroad. He accused of defrauding thousands of investors.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In northern Iraq at least one person was killed and 14 wounded when a bus carrying workers at the small Siniya oil refinery was blown up by an improvised explosive device in Salahuddin province. Three civilians and a policeman were injured when a parked car exploded in a market area in Falluja, Anbar province.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Israel announced new restrictions on Gaza, weeks after the territory's Hamas rulers stepped up protests along the enclave's land and sea borders with Israel. Israel's defence minister ordered the fishing zone to be reduced to six nautical miles (11 km) from nine nautical miles. Under the Oslo Accords of the early 1990s, fishermen are supposed to be allowed to operate up to 20 nautical miles off the coast.
(AP, 10/6/18)(AFP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Indian-controlled Kashmir at least 20 people were killed and 16 others injured when an overcrowded minibus fell into a deep gorge along a mountainous road near southern Ramban town.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Japan Tokyo's famed Tsukiji market, the world's largest fishmarket and a major tourist attraction, held its final tuna auction before a controversial move to a new site next week.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Latvians voted in a general election expected to yield a ruling coalition of pro-Kremlin and populist parties and tarnished by a hacker attack on a popular social network. The pro-Kremlin Harmony party won 19.8 percent of the vote ahead of two populist parties -- KPV LV with 14.25 percent and the New Conservative Party with 13.6 percent. The center-right Greens and Farmers Union of PM Maris Kucinskis won 9.9 percent and New Unity took 6.7 percent as the last party crossing the five-percent threshold to have seats in parliament.
(AFP, 10/6/18)(AFP, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said the process of forming a government more than five months after a national election had returned "to zero", after saying earlier this week there had been a "glimmer of hope".
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Malaysian police said that eight suspected militants, including seven foreigners, have been arrested for allegedly spreading religious extremism that could threaten national security and fan terrorism in the region.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi launched an initiative to disarm and reintegrate the military wing of the country's main opposition party, Renamo, as part of efforts to bolster peace and security.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Romania began two days of voting on a constitutional amendment that would make it harder to legalize same-sex marriage. Romanian law already prohibits same-sex marriages.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Somalia the US military's Africa Command (Africom) carried out an air strike in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow, north of the town of Kismayo. One militant was reported killed.
(Reuters, 10/9/18)
2018 Oct 6, Montserrat Caballe (85), Spanish opera singer, died in Barcelona. She was renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In northern Syria an explosive device detonated in the town of Azaz held by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killing four people, including two children.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Two Turkey-backed Syrian rebel officials said that rebel groups had begun to withdraw heavy weaponry from a demilitarized zone in northwest Syria.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, The Vatican said Pope Francis has authorized a thorough study of Vatican archives into how American ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick advanced through church ranks despite allegations that he slept with seminarians and young priests.
(SSFC, 10/7/18, p.A6)
2018 Oct 6, Yemen's Houthi group arrested a number of people in Sanaa, following demonstrations over economic hardship. Dozens were reported arrested, including 16 female students.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2019 Oct 6, President Donald Trump announced his decision to pull back US troops from northern Syria. The White House issued a late-night statement that it was effectively abandoning the Kurds who did most of the fighting alongside US forces to drive Islamic State extremists from northern Syria.
(AP, 10/7/19)(AFP, 10/7/19)
2019 Oct 6, Warner Bros.' R-rated comic-book movie "Joker" scored $93.5 million over the weekend and stood as the biggest October launch of all time.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, In Kansas four people were killed and five wounded early today when one or two suspects opened fire inside the Tequila KC Bar in Kansas City. Police were hunting for the shooters. One of the two suspects was arrested this afternoon. The other remained at large.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)(AP, 10/7/19)
2019 Oct 6, It was reported that Nevada Officials are testing dead animals and monitoring migratory elk and deer at the state line with Utah for signs of chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious and terminal disorder that causes symptoms such as lack of fear of humans, lethargy and emaciation.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, In Austria man (25) turned himself in to police after allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend, her family and her new boyfriend in the Alpine resort town of Kitzbuehel.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, In Bangladesh Abrar Fahad (21) was killed at the dormitory of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), where he was a second-year student. He had written a Facebook post criticizing a government water deal with India.
(Reuters, 10/9/19)
2019 Oct 6, British rock music drummer Ginger Baker (b.1939), a co-founder of the 1960's supergroup Cream with bass player Jack Bruce and guitarist Eric Clapton, died. Cream was founded in 1966 and disbanded in 1968.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Chinese soldiers issued a warning to Hong Kong protesters who shone lasers at their barracks in the city, in the first direct interaction with mainland military forces in four months of anti-government demonstrations.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Hong Kong police fired tear gas as protesters defied an emergency law and marched wearing masks through the Chinese-controlled city.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news reported that Iran is planning to take legal action against the US for numerous alleged cyber attacks and threats on its networks.
(Bloomberg, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, The Iraqi government announced a series of reforms early today after an "extraordinary" session overnight in response to sweeping anti-government rallies that have left nearly 100 dead in less than a week. At least 18 people were killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and police in Baghdad overnight. Army soldiers fired in the direction of about 300 anti-government protesters who gathered in Sadr City suburb of Baghdad on the sixth day of unrest.
(AFP, 10/6/19)(Reuters, 10/6/19)(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he was seeking "non-aggression" agreements with Gulf Arab nations that do not formally recognize the country as a prelude to possible future peace deals.
(AFP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Teachers in Jordan ended their longest strike ever and are opening the school year four weeks late. A salary raise between 35-75% was secured depending on teacher ranks.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Kosovo held national elections. The main issues for the country's 1.9 million eligible voters included tackling corruption and normalizing relations with Serbia which would pave the way for UN membership. Vetevendosje (Albanian for “self-determination") won about 26% of the vote, and another opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), garnered close to 25%. This was the first election since Kosovo’s independence from Serbia in 2008 that didn’t give plurality support to the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), which received only 21%, largely because of the party’s poor record on fighting corruption.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)(Bloomberg, 10/7/19)
2019 Oct 6, Mauritius PM Pravind Kumar Jugnauth dissolved parliament and said the Indian Ocean island would hold a general election on November 7.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, North Korea said that it won't meet with the United States for more "sickening negotiations" unless it abandons its "hostile policy" against the North, as the two countries offered different takes on their weekend nuclear talks in Sweden.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Portugal began voting in an election that PM Antonio Costa's Socialists are expected to win without an outright majority, leaving the fate of potential allies as the main question. The center-left Socialist Party collected the most votes.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)(SFC, 10/7/19, p.A2)
2019 Oct 6, The Saudi Commission for Tourism & National Heritage posted the new requirements on Twitter, confirming an Oct. 4 report by the Saudi daily Okaz. New guidelines allowed women to rent hotel rooms without a male guardian's presence, and foreign men and women to share a room without proof of marriage.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Tunisians voted for a new parliament but quiet polling stations gave an indication of the economic disillusionment that has emerged since the 2011 revolution and brought political newcomers to challenge established parties. Two polls estimated that Islamist party Ennahdha would win about 40 of the 217 seats in the Assembly of People's Representatives.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)(SFC, 10/7/19, p.A2)
2019 Oct 6, In Ukraine about 10,000 people including former president Petro Poroshenko gathered in central Kiev to protest a plan for broader autonomy for separatist territories ahead of a high-stakes summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
(AFP, 10/6/19)
2020 Oct 6, Pres. Donald Trump abruptly ended talks with Democrats on an economic stimulus bill. If he sticks to that position, it would extinguish hope for another pandemic aid bill before the election. The announcement sent markets falling, and airline stocks fared particularly poorly.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, The White House reversed course and allowed the release of new safety guidelines that make it unlikely a vaccine will be authorized by Election Day.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that another two US White House staffers have tested positive for COVID-19. Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and speechwriter, tested positive for the coronavirus. Miller is an architect of the president’s “America First" foreign policy and restrictive immigration measures.
(Reuters, 10/6/20)(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, The Department of Homeland Security warned that violent white supremacy was the “most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland" in an annual assessment that a former intelligence chief had accused the agency of withholding in deference to President Donald Trump.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, Top US military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went into quarantine after a senior Coast Guard official tested positive for the virus. The official, Adm. Charles Ray, had attended a White House reception with Trump 10 days ago, where people sat close together and without masks.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, The US, many European countries, Japan and others called on China to allow “unfettered access" to Xinjiang for independent observers including UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, and to urgently refrain from detaining Uighurs and members of other minorities. The 39 countries also urged China, in a joint statement read at a meeting of the General Assembly’s human rights committee, to uphold autonomy, rights and freedoms in Hong Kong.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that a ruling late last month from US District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton gives the IRS until Oct. 24 to reconsider the payments for those who were denied or had their money intercepted solely because of their incarceration.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, California to date had 837,102 cases of coronavirus and 16,199 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 106,094 cases and 1,583 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 7,495,674 with the death toll at 210,155.
(sfist.com, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Georgia's Gov. Brian Kemp approved a plan to put up a tall metal fence around the state capitol part as of a $5 million package that includes other security improvements at the building. Democrats swiftly condemned the plan, saying it shows a Republican leadership afraid of its own people.
(AP, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, The director of Michigan's state health department issued more orders reinstating coronavirus restrictions negated by a state Supreme Court ruling, saying he has "broad" legal authority to deal with the pandemic.
(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A8)
2020 Oct 6, A New York City neighborhood erupted in protests after Gov. Andrew Cuomo moved to reinstate restrictions on houses of worship, schools and businesses in areas where coronavirus cases are spiking. Hundreds of Orthodox Jewish men gathered in the streets of Borough Park, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, in some cases setting bonfires by burning masks.
(AP, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, Guitar player Eddie Van Halen (65) died of cancer. In 2012, Guitar World Magazine ranked him No. 1 on its list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, American singer Johnny Nash died at his home in Houston. His song "I Can See Clearly Now" topped the 1972 Billboard charts.
(SFC, 10/8/20, p.A6)
2020 Oct 6, Three scientists were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics today for their work on understanding black holes, which the committee called “one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe." The prize was awarded half to Roger Penrose of Britain for showing how black holes could form and half to Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of UCLA for discovering a supermassive object at the Milky Way’s center.
(NY Times, 10/6/20)(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A6)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that Tasmanian devils, the carnivorous marsupials whose feisty, frenzied eating habits won the animals cartoon fame, have returned to mainland Australia for the first time in some 3,000 years. The 11 most recently released devils began exploring their new home at the nearly 1,000-acre Barrington Tops wildlife refuge in New South Wales state.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it would ban the sale to retail investors of products tracking the price of crypto assets like Bitcoin, arguing that most people lost money on them. The ban, which prompted surprise and anger in the sector, will come into force on Jan. 6, 2021.
(Reuters, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Cyprus and Lebanon reaffirmed an agreement for Lebanese authorities to take back migrants aboard boats trying to reach Cypriot shores.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, French rescuers continued searching for 21 people missing flood victims in Alpine villages and on nearby French and Italian coasts. Authorities said corpses from cemeteries have been found around the Mediterranean shore, apparently swept down by violent rains.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Germany's government released a report saying its security services recorded mote than 1,400 cases of suspected far-right extremism among soldiers, police officers and intelligence agents in the three years ending in March.
(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A2)
2020 Oct 6, A neo-fascist party in Greece, Golden Dawn, was found guilty of running a criminal organization. A criminal court tied the party to multiple attacks, including the fatal stabbing of a left-wing rapper in 2013.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that about 200 workers have been infected with coronavirus at Hungarian energy group MOL's polyol plant being built in the eastern town of Tiszaujvaros.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Iran registered a record 4,151 new cases over the past 24 hours, a period in which 227 patients died. Iran has now reported 479,825 COVID-19 cases and 27,419 deaths.
(The Telegraph, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, In southern Iraq dozens of people were wounded in clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters during the annual Shiite Muslim pilgrimage of Arbaeen.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, The Central Election Commission of Kyrgyzstan declared the results of the Oct. 4 parliamentary election invalid a day after having awarded the majority of seats to two political parties with ties to the president, Sooronbai Jeenbekov sparking mass protests in Bishkek, and other cities. Opposition groups seized physical control of Parliament in protest of parliamentary elections they called rigged.
(AP, 10/6/20)(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, In Libya a migrant worker from Nigeria was burned to death in Tripoli, the latest in abuses that migrants and refuges face in the conflict-stricken country. The alleged perpetrators, all in their 30s, were arrested and referred to prosecutors for investigation.
(AP, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, In Malaysia coronavirus cases spiked to a new daily record with 691 cases an d four new deaths.
(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A8)
2020 Oct 6, West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS lifted sanctions against Mali after PM Moctar Ouane announced the rest of the transitional government positions nearly two months after a military coup.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, The Russian military launched a successful test of the new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, giving Russian President Vladimir Putin something to smile about on his 68th birthday.
(AP, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that tens of thousands of Muslims are descending upon Senegal's holy city this week for the annual Grand Magal pilgrimage, a tradition in West Africa that some fear could become a super-spreader event for COVID-19. The country has had more than 15,000 confirmed cases and 312 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Sri Lanka said 321 cases of coronavirus have been identified among garment workers in the suburbs of Colombo. The country has reported 3,471 infections and 13 deaths.
(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A8)
2020 Oct 6, In northern Syria an explosives-laden truck ignited on a busy street in the town of al-Bab controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) passed a resolution calling for the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reestablish formal diplomatic relations with the United States.
(The Daily Beast, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean must continue to ratchet up stimulus to beat back the devastating economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
(Reuters, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, UN figures showed that the number of people hit by seasonal flooding in East Africa has increased more than five fold in four years. Nearly every state in Sudan has experienced heavy flooding and in neighboring South Sudan, 800,000 people have been affected with 368,000 people forced from their homes.
(BBC, 10/6/20)
2021 Oct 6, The Biden administration announced changes to the federal student loan forgiveness program that would allow thousands more public sector workers, including members of the military, to seek a reprieve on their educational debts. The new policies would affect an estimated 550,000 borrowers and give them an extra two years of progress toward forgiveness.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, US Supreme Court justices questioned why the US government will not allow Abu Zubaydah, a suspected high-ranking al Qaeda figure held at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to testify about his torture at the hands of the CIA.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Three US Supreme Court justices proposed that Abu Zubaydah, the first detainee the CIA subjected to brutal interrogation after 9/11, be allowed to testify about his treatment.
(NY Times, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, A federal judge granted the Justice Department’s request to halt enforcement of the recently passed Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state while the legal battle over the statute makes its way through the federal courts.
(NY Times, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco unveiled two new Justice Department enforcement initiatives aimed at targeting cryptocurrencies and government contractors who fail to report cyber breaches.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 43,971,311 with the death toll at 705,831.
(sfist.com, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, Heavy rain flooded parts of Alabama near Birmingham late today, killing at least one person, closing roads and prompting several water rescues after a flash-flood emergency was issued for several counties. By the next day at least 4 people reported killed.
(Reuters, 10/7/21)(SFC, 10/8/21, p.A6)
2021 Oct 6, The Los Angeles City Council approved a new law that will require proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, gyms and other indoor businesses.
(NY Times, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Case Breakers, group of volunteer sleuths made up of former investigative specialists, claimed to have identified the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious serial killers in the world, who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s. They allege that Gary Francis Poste (d.2018) was the Zodiac Killer, pointing to clues they uncovered over several years. The FBI said the claim is inaccurate.
(The Independent, 10/6/21)(NBC News, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, New Jersey man Khalil Wheeler-Weaver (25), who used dating apps to lure and kill three women five years ago, was sentenced to 160 years in prison. His trial revealed that friends of one victim did their own detective work on social media to ferret out the suspect.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Amazon-owned Twitch, a live-streaming platform for video gamers, said it has suffered a data breach. No further details were provided.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Pfizer Inc said it will study the effectiveness of its vaccine against COVID-19 by inoculating the whole population over the age of 12 in a town in southern Brazil.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, It was reported that two saponin molecules, made from the bark of branches pruned from older trees in Chile’s forests, are being used for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by drugmaker Novavax Inc. The chemicals are used to make adjuvant, a substance that boosts the immune system.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Benjamin List, a German chemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr, and David W.C. MacMillan, a Scottish chemist and a professor at Princeton University, for their development of a new tool to build molecules, work that has spurred advances in pharmaceutical research and lessened the impact of chemistry on the environment.
(NY Times, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Hundreds of Afghans flocked to the passport office in Kabul, just a day after news that it would re-open this week to issue the documents, while Taliban security men had to beat back some in the crowd in efforts to maintain order.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, British PM Boris Johnson rallied his Conservative party faithful, vowing a far-reaching overhaul to wean the UK economy off cheap foreign labor after Brexit.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, England's High Court ruled that Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (72) ordered the phones of his ex-wife, Princess Haya bint al-Hussein (47), and her lawyers to be hacked as part of a "sustained campaign of intimidation and threat" during the custody battle over their children. This came 19 months after the court concluded that Mohammed had abducted two of his daughters, mistreated them and held them against their will.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Britain reported 39,851 new cases of COVID-19, meaning cases reported between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6 were down by 2.0% compared with the previous seven days.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Amazon opened its first general store, called "4-star," outside the United States in a mall in Britain, selling the online retailer's most popular products including books, toys, games and consumer electronics.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Canadian officials said federal employees who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are not exempt from getting the shots will be put on administrative leave without pay. Domestic air, train and cruise ship travelers and workers will soon have to show proof of vaccination.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Chinese Estates Holdings, a major shareholder of embattled developer China Evergrande, said it had proposed to be taken private by Solar Bright Ltd for HK$1.91 billion ($245.30 million).
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, In CongoDRC a 3-year-old boy tested positive for Ebola near the eastern city of Beni, one of the epicenters of the 2018-2020 outbreak, and died from the disease.
(Reuters, 10/8/21)
2021 Oct 6, A court in Cyprus extended the detention of a man, arrested on Sept. 27, that Israel alleges was a would-be assassin recruited by Iran to attack Israeli businesspeople on the island.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The Czech Republic reported more than 1,000 new cases in one day for the first time since May 18.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Denmark and Sweden said they will pause the use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for younger age groups after reports of possible rare side effects, such as myocarditis.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The environmental law firm ClientEarth warned the European Union that it would be breaching its own laws if it labels investments in gas-fuelled energy as "green" in upcoming finance regulations.
(Reuters, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, Police in Germany carried out large-scale raids in 25 cities, after a chance discovery last year put investigators on the trail of a money-laundering network alleged to have funneled millions in ill-gotten gains abroad. They targeted 67 suspects, including 44 Syrians, 10 Germans, five Jordanians and four Lebanese. 11 people were arrested.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Germany repatriated 23 children and their eight mothers from the Roj camp in northeastern Syria this evening, while Denmark brought back 14 children and three women.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said that Germany has agreed to extend compensation to Jewish survivors who endured the World War II siege of Leningrad and two other groups who had not received any monthly pensions from Germany.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Guinea's military junta named Mohamed Beavogui (68), a former civil servant and expert in agricultural finance, as prime minister to preside over a promised transition back to democratic rule following a coup in September.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam's annual policy address, the last in her current term, mapped out priorities for the former British colony. Her plans included a Northern Metropolis on the border with the mainland's technology hub of Shenzhen, covering 300 square km.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Indonesia conducted its first test flight using jet fuel partially from palm oil, as the country plans to commercialize the fuel as it seeks creative ways to use the edible oil domestically.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Iraq signed a contract with Masdar, a UAE-based renewable energy developer to build five solar power plants in the oil-rich country with a chronic energy problem.
(AP, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, Libyan health authorities started to vaccinate migrants in the country against the coronavirus, in cooperation with the UN migration agency.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, New Zealand's central bank hiked interest rates for the first time in seven years, becoming the second major developed economy to raise rates and one of several to dial back hefty stimulus unleashed in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Tens of thousands of Palestinians lined up outside chambers of commerce across the Gaza Strip, hoping to get permits to work inside Israel after rumors circulated that more would be issued to residents of the territory.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Peru's President Pedro Castillo swore in Mirtha Vasquez, a left-wing former head of Congress, as prime minister, replacing her predecessor who resigned after two months in the job, as the administration grapples with political instability.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, An indigenous community in Peru's Espinar province that blocked a key mining road said it plans to continue the blockade indefinitely, a local leader said, in protest against the government and Glencore PLC's Antapaccay copper mine.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Philippines human rights groups staged protests to denounce an attempt by the son and namesake of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to return his family to power by vying for the presidency.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Poland's central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates as the central European nation faces an accelerating inflation rate that is currently the highest in the EU.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Russian authorities said they had fired five senior prison officials and opened a slew of criminal investigations into alleged torture and sexual assaults at a jail in the Saratov region.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Russia's sovereign fund RDIF said the UAE has authorized the Russia-developed one-shot Sputnik Light as both a standalone COVID-19 vaccine and a booster shot.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Slovakia reported 1,971 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily tally since March 23.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, In Ukraine the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial center revealed the initial 159 names of hundreds of Nazi troops who took part in the Babi Yar massacre on Sept. 29-30, 1941, when 33,771 Jews were murdered.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The UN cultural agency said India's school closures and its children's lack of smartphone and internet facilities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic have worsened an educational divide.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, United Nations veteran diplomat Staffan de Mistura was named as the organization's envoy to the Western Sahara conflict, nearly two and a half years after the post had become vacant as a dozen other candidates were rejected by either Morocco or the Polisario Front rebel movement.
(AP, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, The World Health Organization recommended that the world’s first malaria vaccine should be given to children across Africa.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The World Health Organization said it has started shipping COVID-19 medical supplies into North Korea, a possible sign that the North is easing one of the world’s strictest pandemic border closures to receive outside help.
(AP, 10/6/21)
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0877 Oct 6, Charles II the Kale, King of France and Roman emperor (875-77), died at 54.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1014 Oct 6, The Byzantine Emperor Basil II (958-1025) earned the title "Slayer of Bulgars" after he ordered the blinding of 15,000 Bulgarian troops. Basil II was godfather to Russia’s Prince Vladimir.
(HN, 10/6/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_II)(Econ, 2/16/08, p.60)
1072 Oct 6, Sancho II, king of Castilia (1065-72), was murdered.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1517 Oct 6, Fra Bartolommeo (b.1472), Florentine Renaissance painter, died. He was a Dominican monk nicknamed Baccio della Porta. His work included a portrait of Savonarola.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Bartolommeo)(SFC, 5/13/96, p.D-5)
1552 Oct 6, Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (China), was born.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1536 Oct 6, William Tyndale (b.1494), the English translator of the New and Old Testament, was burned at the stake at Vilvoorde Castle (Belgium) as a heretic by the Holy Roman Empire.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale)
1567 Oct 6, The Duke of Alba became guardian of Netherlands.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1582 Oct 6, This day was one of ten skipped to bring the calendar into sync. by order of the Council of Trent. Oct 5-14 were dropped.
(K.I.-365D, p.97)(NG, March 1990, J. Boslough)
1683 Oct 6, 13 Mennonite families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements. They were encouraged by William Penn's offer of 5,000 acres of land in the colony of Pennsylvania and the freedom to practice their religion.
(AP, 10/6/97)(www.ulib.iupui.edu/kade/germantown.html)
1696 Oct 6, Savoy Germany withdrew from the Grand Alliance.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1721 Oct 6, Deaths from smallpox in Boston reached 203 with 2,757 people infected.
(ON, 3/05, p.5)
1762 Oct 6, Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, died at 78.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1780 Oct 6, Over 1500 Patriot fighters assembled on the outskirts of Cowpens, South Carolina, to confront Loyalist forces of British Major Patrick Ferguson.
(ON, 12/07, p.6)
1781 Oct 6, Americans and French began the siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown, the last battle of Revolutionary War.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1783 Oct 6, Benjamin Hanks patented a self-winding clock.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1788 Oct 6, The Polish Diet decided to hold a four year session.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1801 Oct 6, Napoleon Bonaparte imposed a new constitution on Holland.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1804 Oct 6, Jean-Jacques Dessalines (b.1758) had himself crowned James I, Emperor of Haiti. He was murdered two years later in a conspiracy under Christophe and Pétion.
(www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/168.html)
1819 Oct 6, Willem A. Scholten, Dutch potato flour manufacturer, was born.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1820 Oct 6, Jenny Lind, soprano, was born. She was known as the “Swedish Nightingale."
(HN, 10/6/00)
1835 Oct 6, The people of Michigan approved a new state constitution by a vote of 6,299 to 1,359. The constitution repudiated slavery and safeguarded personal liberty.
(AH, 4/07, p.45)(www.michigan.gov/formergovernors/0,1607,7-212--56877--,00.html)
1846 Oct 6, George Westinghouse (d.1914) was born. Inventor and manufacturer Westinghouse, a leader in the development of electric power, also developed a long-distance transmission system for natural gas. Westinghouse held more than 400 patents including shock absorbers, electric brakes for subway cars, air brakes and railroad signals. He promoted the development and construction of electric transformers, enabling the introduction of high-tension systems using single-phase alternating currents.
(HNQ, 7/6/99)(HN, 10/6/00)
1857 Oct 6, The American Chess Association organized. The 1st major US chess tournament was held in NYC. [see Oct 10]
(MC, 10/6/01)
1861 Oct 6, Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC, the USS Flag vs. Britain’s Alert.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1866 Oct 6, The Reno brothers, Frank, John, Simeon and William, committed the country's first train robbery near Seymore, Ind., netting $10,000.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1868 Oct 6, Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, died at 51.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1869 Oct 6, Johannes Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzes," premiered.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1884 Oct 6, The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1887 Oct 6, Charles E. Jeanneret (d.1965), aka Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and city planner, was born. He became known for trenchantly stated principles, such as “a house is a machine for living in" and “a curved street is a donkey track, a straight street, a road for men."
(HN, 10/6/00)(V.D.-H.K.p.363)
1887 Oct 6, Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], singer (Vienna Opera, Met Opera), was born in Austria.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1889 Oct 6, The Moulin Rouge in Paris first opened its doors to the public. Women who made a living washing linen by day transformed themselves into dancers at night.
(AP, 10/6/97)(Reuters, 10/7/19)
1889 Oct 6, Thomas Edison showed his 1st motion picture.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1891 Oct 6, Charles Stewart Parnell (b.1846) died in Brighton, England. Irish statesman and leader of the Irish nationalists in the British House of Commons from 1880-‘90, Charles Parnell’s popularity in Ireland was so great that he was called “the uncrowned king of Ireland." Parnell formed a coalition with William Gladstone, who became prime minister and introduced a bill for Irish home rule in 1886. The bill was defeated. In 1890, as a result of a divorce scandal, Parnell was deposed as leader of the Irish nationalists.
(AP, 10/6/97)(HNQ, 7/20/98)
1892 Oct 6, Alfred Tennyson (b.1809), writer and poet laureate, died at 83.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1893 Oct 6, Nabisco Foods invented Cream of Wheat.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1893 Oct 6, Ford Madox Brown (b.1821), English painter, died in London. In 2010 Angela Thirlwell authored “Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown."
(Econ, 3/13/10, p.87)(http://tinyurl.com/yhpg5ut)
1895 Oct 6, Caroline Gordon, writer, was born. Her work included “The Strange Children."
(HN, 10/6/00)
1898 Oct 6, Gustav Mahler made his debut conducting Vienna Philharmonic.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1905 Oct 6, Tennis great Helen Wills Moody was born in Berkeley, Calif.
(AP, 10/6/05)
1906 Oct 6, Janet Gaynor, film actress, was born.
(HN, 10/6/00)
1908 Oct 6, Carol Lombard, American comedienne and actress who was nominated for an Oscar for My Man Godfrey, was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Lombard started during the silent movie era revealed herself to be a wonderful amusing and witty actress after the advent of the talkies and quickly became one of the top box office draws of the 1930's in such films as 'My Man Godfrey'. Clark Gable was married to Lombard. (My Man Godfrey, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Made for Each Other).
(HN, 10/6/98)(MC, 10/5/01)
1908 Oct 6, Sammy Price, jazz pianist, was born.
(HN, 10/6/00)
1908 Oct 6, Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1909 Oct 6, Pres. William Taft visited San Francisco.
(SSFC, 10/4/09, p.50)
1914 Oct 6, Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian entomologist and adventurer whose Kon-Tiki expedition established the possibility that Polynesians may have originated in South America, was born.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1917 Oct 6, Robert Mitchum, actor (2 for the Seesaw, Ryan's Daughter), was born.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1917 Oct 6, US Congress passed the Trading With the Enemy Act, which allowed the US to seize the property of enemy nationals.
(WSJ, 10/28/06, p.P13)(www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/182.html)
1918 Oct 6, US ship Otranto sank between Scotland and Ireland. 425 people died.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1925 Oct 6, San Francisco’s M-Ocean View streetcar line began service with the outbound terminal at Broad and Plymouth. It was discontinued prior to World War II, on August 6, 1939, and then reestablished back to full service on December 17, 1944.
(METNA News, Aug 2015, p.1)
1927 Oct 6, The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson singing and dancing in black-face. The movie featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes. When The Jazz Singer, a musical about a Jewish cantor's son who longs to sing on Broadway, premiered in New York, silent movies became history and the sound era began. The Jazz Singer is popularly believed to be the first talking picture, but technically, 1926's Don Juan, with its use of a music track recorded on phonograph records synchronized to the film, predated the landmark musical. Originally, Warner Brothers Studio planned to record only the songs on disks while telling the story in silent sequences. Star Al Jolson, however, ad-libbed dialogue in two scenes and opened the talking-picture age with the prophetic words, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!" By 1930, silent movies were a thing of the past.
(AP, 10/6/97)(HNPD, 10/6/98)(HN, 10/6/98)
1927 Oct 6, Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist (Mozart specialist), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1928 Oct 6, Chiang Kai-shek was elected the president of China.
(AP, 10/6/08)
1928 Oct 6, Josip Broz (Tito) was sentenced to 5 years in jail.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1935 Oct 6, Italian army occupied Adua, Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
(MC, 10/6/01)
1939 Oct 6, In an address to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler denied having any intention of war against France and Britain.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1939 Oct 6, Hitler announced plans to resolve "The Jewish problem."
(MC, 10/6/01)
1941 Oct 6, German troops renewed their offensive against Moscow.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1943 Oct 6, The Battle at Vella Lavella was fought in the Solomon Islands.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1943 Oct 6, Himmler ordered the acceleration of "Final Solution."
(MC, 10/6/01)
1944 Oct 6, Soviets marched into Hungary and Czechoslovakia. [see Oct 18]
(MC, 10/6/01)
1945 Oct 6, Gen Eisenhower was welcomed in Hague on Hitler's train.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1946 Oct 6, Pres. Truman questioned Great Britain Jews about Palestine.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1948 Oct 6, "Polonaise" opened at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1948 Oct 6, The play “Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams received its first Broadway performance at the Music Box Theatre in New York City, in a production staged by Margo Jones and designed by Jo Mielziner with Tod Andrews, Margaret Phillips, Monica Boyar and Anne Jackson (1925-2016). The play ran for 102 performances and, at the time.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_and_Smoke)
1948 Oct 6, An American B-29 crashed near Waycross, Ga., during a test flight from Robins AFB. Details of the flight were kept as military secrets and formed the basis for the 1953 U.S. vs. Reynolds case. Details were later declassified and no military secrets were revealed.
(LAT, 4/18/04)
1948 Oct 6, A 7.3 earthquake hit Ashgebat, Turkmenistan, and killed an estimated 110,000 people. Stalinist media at the time claimed only 35,000 deaths.
(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmosde.html)
1949 Oct 6, Pres. Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act that appropriated more than one billion dollars for military aid primarily to members of the Atlantic Pact (NATO).
(EWH, 1968, p.1207)
1949 Oct 6, American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted of being Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000. She ended up serving more than six years. In 1976 she requested a presidential pardon.
(SFC, 11/16/01, WB p.G4)(AP, 10/6/06)
1949 Oct 6, China and Korea established diplomatic relations. Korea became one of the first groups of countries having diplomatic relations with new China.
(www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/yzs/gjlb/2701/default.htm)
1951 Oct 6, Stalin proclaimed Russia has an atom bomb.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1952 Oct 6, The play "Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie (1890-1976) premiered in Nottingham.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mousetrap)
1955 Oct 6, LSD was made illegal in US.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1955 Oct 6, A United Airlines plane bound for SF crashed in Wyoming killing 66 people. It was the worst commercial airline crash to date in US history.
(SFC, 9/30/05, p.F3)
1956 Oct 6, Dr. Albert Sabin discovered oral polio vaccine. Sabin developed an oral vaccine against polio. It began to be used in 1961 and by 1965 was widely used.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(SFC, 6/18/99, p.A40)(MC, 10/6/01)
1958 Oct 6, The US nuclear submarine Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged.
(AP, 10/6/08)
1960 Oct 6, The TV series Surfside Six featured Lee Patterson, Troy Donohue and Van Williams. The show continued to June 25, 1962.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_6)
1961 Oct 6, JFK advised Americans to build fallout shelters from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1964 Oct 6, Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), died at 85.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1965 Oct 6, Patricia Harris took post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African-American U.S. ambassador.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1966 Oct 6, Hanoi insisted the United States must end its bombing in Vietnam before peace talks could begin.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1969 Oct 6, Special Forces Captain John McCarthy was released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges. A 1968 court-martial had concluded that McCarthy had murdered a Cambodian peasant.
(www.fromthewilderness.com/free/hall/Mac.html)
1970 Oct 6, Elvis Presley recorded "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me."
(http://oldies.about.com/od/elvispresleyhistory/a/elvis1970.htm)
1970 Nov 6, Augustin Lara (b.1897), Mexican composer, died. At the time of his death, Lara had written more than 700 songs.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn_Lara)
1972 Oct 6, In Saltillo, Mexico, a 22-car train carrying 2,000 religious pilgrims derailed and caught fire. 208 people were killed.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)(AP, 2/18/04)
1973 Oct 6, The fourth Arab-Israeli war in 25 years was fought. Israel was taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attacked on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War. Syria tried to regain the Golan Heights with a massive attack with 1,500 tanks. The assault, empowered by Russian equipment, was repulsed by air power.
(WSJ, 5/6/96, p.A-13)(TMC, 1994, p.1973)(AP, 10/6/97)(HN, 10/6/98)(Econ, 3/16/13, p.54)
1973 Oct 6, The Egyptian Air Force under Hosni Mubarak launched a surprise attack on Israeli soldiers on the east bank of the Suez Canal. Egyptian pilots hit 90% of their targets, making Mubarak a national hero. The next year he was promoted to Air Chief Marshal in recognition of service during the October War of 1973 against Israel.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak)
1975 Oct 6, Chilean Vice Pres. Bernardo Leighton and his wife, Anita Fresno, were shot in Rome. Anita was left permanently disabled. In 2000 Chilean authorities arrested former Gen. Eduardo Iturriaga for the shooting.
(SFC, 3/15/00, p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_case)
1976 Oct 6, In his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Ford asserted in SF that there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." Ford later conceded he'd misspoken. Carter charged the Ford administration with excessive secrecy, immorality and weakness in dealing with the Soviet Union and Arab nations. Some 3,000 people protested outside the Palace of Fine Arts. The US non-partisan League of Women Voters organized the presidential debates and continued to do so in 1980 and 1984. In 1988 Democrats and Republicans took control of the debates.
(AP, 10/6/97)(SFC, 10/5/01, WB p.6)(Econ., 10/17/20, p.16)
1976 Oct 6, The so-called "Gang of Four," Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, Jiang Qing, and 3 associates (Zhang Chunqiao (d.2005), Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen) were arrested in Peking, setting in motion an extended period of turmoil in the Chinese Communist Party.
(SFC, 12/25/99, p.B4)(Econ, 5/21/05, p.90)
1976 Oct 6, A Cuban aircraft from Venezuela with 73 people onboard was blown up on a flight over the Caribbean. Castro blamed the explosion on the US. Luis Posada Carriles, a veteran of the Cuban exile’s war against Castro, was charged and twice acquitted in the bombing. Venezuelan authorities kept him in jail for 9 years until his escape in 1985 when he settled in El Salvador. In April, 2005, Posada sought asylum in the US. In May, 2005, declassified documents were made public that linked Posada to the bombing and indicated he was on the CIA's payroll for years.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A8)(SFC, 11/17/97, p.A14)(AP, 4/15/05)(AP, 5/11/05)
1976 Oct 6, In Thailand right-wing political power-brokers, including Kriangsak Chomanan and Samak Sundaravej, provoked mobs to lynch left-wing pro-democracy student protesters at Bangkok's Thammasat University. At least 46 protesters were killed and hundreds wounded by the police and army. A coup installed a new military-guided, right-wing government.
(AP, 12/23/03)(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A12)(Econ, 9/6/08, p.14)
1979 Oct 6, Paul Volcker, new chairman of the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates sharply to clamp down on inflation knowing that it would send interest rates soaring. Volcker held his position until Aug, 1987.
(WSJ, 12/13/99, p.C23)(Econ, 6/19/04, p.11)(WSJ, 1/18/05, p.A13)
1979 Oct 6, Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Carter.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1979 Oct 6, Elizabeth Bishop (b.1911), American poet, died. She had spent 17 years in Brazil and won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1956. In 2008 Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton edited “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell." In 2010 Michael Sledge authored a novel, “The More I Owe You," based on her life.
(Econ, 11/22/08, p.97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop)(SFC, 8/31/10, p.E1)
1980 Oct 6, In San Francisco four teenagers abducted a student (24) at Second St. near Minna following her evening classes at Golden Gate Univ. Michael Brown, Clyde Jackson Larry Shepard (all 17) and Damont Miller (16) raped her over a four-hour period, dumped her on a desolate street, shot her twice and ran her down with their car. She survived and testified at their 1981 trial. All were sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. In 2017 Michael Brown was released on parole.
(SSFC, 12/17/17, p.A1)
1980 Oct 6, Linden Forbes Burnham (19231985) began serving as president of Guyana.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Burnham)
1981 Oct 6, Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat was killed by Islambouli, an Islamic fundamentalist (Takfir wal Hijra) and Egyptian army lieutenant, at the parade ground of Nasser City during a ceremony commemorating the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Although authorities were warned of a death plot hours earlier, the information did not get to the president in time. Abboud and Tarek el-Zomor were convicted in 1984 of plotting the assassination and of belonging to the outlawed Islamic Jihad group, but not of actually killing Sadat. The two were sentenced to 20 years in prison. The five prime suspects, including the shooter, were captured and executed. The events are described in a book by Fouad Allam: "The Brotherhood and I." In 2000 Mohammad Khan produced the film "Days of Sadat," starring Ahmed Zaki.
(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-12)(HNQ, 7/12/98)(SFC, 6/5/00, p.A8)(WSJ, 3/29/04, p.A16)(AP, 3/11/11)
1983 Oct 6, Cardinal Terence Cooke (62), the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of New York, died.
(AP, 10/6/08)
1985 Oct 6, Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, died. In 2001 Peter J. Levinson (1934-2008) authored “September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle."
(SFC, 11/18/08, p.B4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Riddle)
1985 Oct 6, British Police Constable Keith Blakelock (b.1945) was hacked to death at Broadwater Farm a 1960s public housing estate in Tottenham in some of the worst urban rioting in Britain in the past 30 years.
(AP, 8/7/11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Keith_Blakelock)
1986 Oct 6, The Soviet submarine, K-219, with 16 ballistic missiles each carrying 2 warheads, sank about 600 miles east of Bermuda. One of its nuclear reactors had overheated and seaman Sergey Preminin manually shut it down, but sealed his death in the process. It was later revealed that highly radioactive plutonium 239 was released in the mishap.
(SFEC, 11/24/96, p.A1,5)
1987 Oct 6, The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9 to 5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, and both supporters and opponents predicted rejection by the full Senate.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1987 Oct 6, Microsoft announced its first Windows application, Excel.
(Wired, 12/98, p.196)
1987 Oct 6, In Oklahoma Michael Houghton (27) and Laura Lee Sanders (22) were kidnapped from behind a Tulsa bar, stuffed into a car trunk and taken to a rural area where the car was set afire. Scott Allen Hain was executed for the murders on Apr 3, 2003. Hain was 17 in 1987 and claimed to be under the influence of Robert Lambert.
(SFC, 4/4/03, p.A6)
1988 Oct 6, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the president of Chile, conceded defeat in a referendum held the day before to determine whether he should receive a new eight-year term of office. Pinochet, however, stayed president until his term ran out in 1990.
(AP, 10/6/98)
1989 Oct 6, Actress Bette Davis (81) died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. In 1962 she authored her memoir “The Lonely Life." In 2006 Charlotte Chandler authored “The Girl Who Walked Home Alone," a personal biography of Davis.
(AP, 10/6/97)(WSJ, 3/4/06, p.P8)(WSJ, 2/21/09, p.W8)
1989 Oct 6, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev joined in festivities in East Berlin marking the 40th anniversary of East Germany, while thousands of refugees migrated to the West.
(AP, 10/6/99)
1990 Oct 6, President Bush vetoed stopgap spending legislation passed by Congress following the collapse of a deficit-reducing budget agreement.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1990 Oct 6, The space shuttle “Discovery" blasted off on a four-day mission. NASA launched the Ulysses solar probe, an American and European spacecraft, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. It ceased operations in 2008.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_probe)(AP, 10/6/00)(SFC, 6/13/08, p.A5)
1990 Oct 6, Four people were killed in a balloon crash at Gaenserndorf, near Vienna.
(AP, 2/26/13)
1991 Oct 6, Reports surfaced that a former personal assistant to Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill, had accused Thomas of sexually harassing her from 1981-1983.
(AP, 10/6/01)
1991 Oct 6, Cable News Network obtained and aired a videotape made in Beirut, Lebanon, of American hostage Terry Anderson, who quoted his captors as saying they would have “very good news."
(AP, 10/6/01)
1992 Oct 6, President Bush appointed Mary Fisher to the National Commission on AIDS, replacing Magic Johnson.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1992 Oct 6, The US Congress approved HOPE VI, the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere program. It targeted the worst housing estates and encouraged mixed-income communities.
(SFC, 10/2/04, p.B7)(www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/hope6/about/)
1992 Oct 6, The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to establish a war crimes commission for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1993 Oct 6, Basketball superstar Michael Jordan announced his retirement. Jordan attempted a minor-league baseball career, but returned to the Chicago Bulls in March 1995.
(AP, 10/6/98)
1993 Oct 6, Agnes de Mille (b.1905), US dancer and choreographer (Oklahoma!), died at 88. "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0210350/)(AP, 1/9/02)
1993 Oct 6, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat held their first official meeting in Cairo, Egypt, to begin work on realizing terms of the Israeli-PLO accord.
(AP, 10/6/98)
1994 Oct 6, In an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, South African President Nelson Mandela warned against the lure of isolationism, saying the U.S. post-Cold War focus should be on eliminating "tyranny, instability and poverty" across the globe.
(AP, 10/6/99)
1995 Oct 6, President Clinton delivered an address in which he defended his stewardship of US foreign policy and spoke out against what he said was a spreading mood of isolationism.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1995 Oct 6, Boeing Company’s largest group of union workers went on a 69-day strike after voting down a new three-year contract offer.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1996 Oct 6, President Clinton and Bob Dole clashed vigorously over taxes, trustworthiness and spending priorities in a prime-time debate in Hartford, Conn.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1996 Oct 6, An explosion at the Copenhagen headquarters of the Hells Angels killed 2 and injured 16.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, A9)
1996 Oct 6, In Kazakhstan it was reported that the first Chevron gas station opened. The country has 24 billion metric tons of reserves.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, B8)
1996 Oct 6, Turkey’s prime minister urged Libya’s Moammar Khadafy to sign a document to denounce Kurdish rebel terrorism but instead Khadafy condemned Turkish repression of the Kurds. A trade deal hung in suspension.
(SFEC, 10/7/96, A9)
1996 Oct 6, The Czech film “Kolya," directed by Jan Sverak, won the grand prize at the Tokyo Int’l. film festival. A special jury prize went to the Polish film In “Full Gallop" by Krzysztof Zanussi and the Spanish film “Libertarias" by Vicente Aranda.
(SFEC, 10/7/96, D3)
1996 Oct 6, In St. Vincent Jerome “Jolly" Joseph, a taxi boat driver in Bequia, was killed. An American couple, James and Penny Fletcher from West Virginia, were accused of the murder. They were later acquitted.
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.C1)(SFC, 8/9/97, p.A8)
1997 Oct 6, In a blow to both Democrats and Republicans, President Clinton used his line-item veto to kill 38 military construction projects that Congress had added to a spending bill that cost $287 million.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A3)(AP, 10/6/98)
1997 Oct 6, The space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth, bringing home American astronaut Michael Foale after more than four tumultuous months aboard Mir.
(AP, 10/6/98)
1997 Oct 6, Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, a neurologist from UC, won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the new class of proteins called prions described as "an entirely new genre of disease-causing agents." [see 1982] In 1998 researchers at UCSF developed a sensitive technique for rapid detection of the infectious proteins.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/30/98, p.A7)(AP, 10/6/98)
1997 Oct 6, In Magnum, N.C., 5 migrant workers were shot to death by their housemates Jose Luis Cruz Osorio (28) and his brother Alonso Cruz Osorio (18). A 6th man was also shot but escaped and identified the attackers. In 2003 suspects Alonso Cruz Osorio and Jose Luis Cruz Osorio were arrested in the town of Acolman, Mexico.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A7)(www.mayhem.net/Crime/morg9710.html)(AP, 10/23/03)
1997 Oct 6, Nine Bosnian Croats surrendered to the int’l. war crimes tribunal in the Hague. Dario Kordic joined the group when the US promised a speedy trial to volunteer suspects. Kordic was the leader of the Bosnian branch of Franjo Tudjman’s Croatian Democratic Union political party, and was charged with commanding troops who rampaged through 14 towns in the Lasva Valley torturing and killing hundreds of Muslims and burning their homes.
(SFC, 10/6/97, p.A11)
1997 Oct 6, In Vitrolles, France, the cafe Sous-marin was shut down for criticism of the National Front, a far-right party in control of the town.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A15)
1997 Oct 6, In Kenya the government refused to legalize the Safina (Swahili for ark) Party led by Richard Leakey.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A18)
1997 Oct 6, Workers at the Han Young de Mexico factory in Tijuana voted to be represented by an independent union, the Metal, Steel and Allied workers Union of the Authenticated labor Front (FAT). It was the first time that an existing company-dominated union was ousted in the maquiladora industry. After weeks the results were still not formalized and 4 workers who voted for the union were fired. On Nov 10 the Tijuana Labor Board invalidated the vote claiming the union was not nationally registered. [see Dec 14]
(SFC, 10/8/97, p.A8)(SFC, 10/30/97, p.A14)(SFC, 11/15/97, p.A13)
1997 Oct 6, In Palestine Sheik Ahmed Yassin (61), the quadriplegic spiritual leader of Hamas, returned to the Gaza Strip.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A14)
1998 Oct 6, The Walton Family Charitable Trust Foundation made a $50 million donation to the Univ. of Arkansas business school.
(WSJ, 10/8/98, p.B10)
1998 Oct 6, With a House vote set on launching an open-ended impeachment inquiry, Democrats rushed to counter Republican plans while still underscoring their disapproval of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
(AP, 10/6/99)
1998 Oct 6, Eddie DeBartolo Jr. pleaded guilty in federal court in Louisiana for failing to report that former governor Edwin Edwards extorted $400,000 from him for a casino license. He agreed to pay $1 million in penalties, serve 2 years of probation and testify in future trials against Edwards.
(SFC, 10/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 6, In Riverside, Ca., a former parks employee burst into City Hall and opened fire. Joseph Neale Jr. (48) wounded the mayor and 2 Council members and was himself wounded by police along with 2 others.
(SFC, 10/7/98, p.A3)
1998 Oct 6, In Colombia Norbert Reinhart (49), owner of the Canadian Terramundo drilling Co., exchanged himself for his employee, foreman Ed Leonard, who was being held for ransom by rebels.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.C1)
1998 Oct 6, In Congo rebel commander Richard Mondo told reporters that artillery rounds had been fired into Kindu and that advance units had crossed the Lualaba River. At least 18 government soldiers were reported killed.
(AP, 10/7/98)
1998 Oct 6, In Germany the Christian Democrats named Wolfgang Schaeuble as party leader.
(WSJ, 10/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 6, In Nigeria attacks by Niger Delta protesters shut down the Shell and ENI pipelines. Anger over pollution of cropland and fishing grounds was growing.
(WSJ, 10/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 6, In Pakistan 6 people were killed in Karachi in sectarian violence.
(WSJ, 10/8/98, p.A13)
1998 Oct 6, Syria anointed army chief Emile Lahoud as Lebanon’s president.
(WSJ, 10/7/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 6, In Russia a nationwide demonstration against overdue wages, inflation and lost jobs was scheduled.
(AP, 10/7/98)
1999 Oct 6, The US NFL voted to place an expansion team in Houston after Bob McNair agreed to pay $700 million for a franchise to begin in 2002. this left Los Angeles, the second-largest TV market in the nation, without a football team.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A1)(AP, 10/6/00)
1999 Oct 6, The US introduced a resolution to the UN Security Council calling for the seizure of assets of the Taliban militia and grounding all int'l. flights from Afghanistan until Osama bin Laden is turned over.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A15)
1999 Oct 6, Five clothing designers agreed to settle a class action suit over working conditions in Saipan. They included Ralph Lauren, Philips-Van Heusen, Bryland L.P., Karan Int'l., and Dress Barn.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 6, The Chechen president called for a holy war against Russia.
(WSJ, 10/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct 6, In East Timor Australian peacekeepers killed 2 anti-independence militia-men near the West Timor border.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.C2)
1999 Oct 6, In Ecuador one person died as the Pichincha volcano dumped 5,000 tons of ash over the city of Quito.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.C2)
1999 Oct 6, In Mexico, furious rains sent swollen rivers raging through the streets of the Gulf coast city of Villahermosa and caused mudslides; dozens of deaths were reported in eastern Mexico’s coastal mountain ranges.
(AP, 10/6/00)
1999 Oct 6, Philippine government officials and Muslim separatists agreed to halt a series of deadly clashes in at least 2 southern provinces, Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat, and to start formal peace talks.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.C2)
1999 Oct 6, Amalia Rodrigues (b.1920), Portuguese actress and fado singer, died at age 79.
(SFC, 10/11/99, p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A1lia_Rodrigues)
2000 Oct 6, The US jobless rate was reported at 3.9%, a 3-decade low.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A3)
2000 Oct 6, Richard Farnsworth (80), stuntman-turned-actor, died at his New Mexico ranch.
(AP, 10/6/01)
2000 Oct 6, In Argentina Vice President Carlos Alvarez resigned amid a fallout over a corruption scandal and a Cabinet shake-up.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 6, In Bolivia Indian leaders and government ministers agreed prop up corn prices, reverse a land titling process and revert water rights back to Indian peasants. This followed 3 weeks of road blocks that had paralyzed the economy.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A9)
2000 Oct 6, In Indonesia 7 people were killed and 38 injured in Irian Jaya following a clash after police and soldiers lowered the separatist Free Papua Movement’s “Morning Star" flag in Wamena town.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 6, Israel pulled troops from Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in an effort to ease tensions.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 6, In the Ivory Coast the Supreme Court disqualified former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara and most other candidates from the presidential elections.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 6, In Reynosa, Mexico, a DC932 plane with 83 passengers overran a runway and crashed into a group of homes and then a canal. 6 people walking along the canal were killed.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A12)
2000 Oct 6, In Peru a 5,000 barrel oil spill by an Argentine company threatened the water resources of some 10,000 inhabitants in the northern jungle.
(SFEC, 10/8/00, p.A24)
2000 Oct 6, In Serbia Slobodan Milosevic resigned and the opposition celebrated across the country. Milosevic conceded defeat to Vojislav Kostunica in Yugoslavia's presidential elections, a day after protesters angry at Milosevic for clinging to power stormed parliament and ended his 13-year autocratic regime.
(SFC, 10/7/00, p.A1)(AP, 10/6/01)
2001 Oct 6, Cal Ripken played his last game in the major leagues as his Baltimore Orioles lost to the visiting Boston Red Sox 5-1.
(AP, 10/6/02)
2001 Oct 6, Pres. Bush warned Afghanistan’s rulers that time is running out. The Taliban said it would release 8 aid workers if the US “stops issuing threats" of military action.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 6, US and British intelligence identified Mohammed Atef, a former Egyptian policeman and close aide to Osama bin Laden, as the key planner of the of the Sep 11 attacks.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 6, In Afghanistan the Northern Alliance was building an airport outside Golbahar to allow a US-led coalition to funnel in military supplies.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Oct 6, In Saudi Arabia a bomb exploded in Khobar. 2 people were killed and 4 were injured.
(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A17)
2002 Oct 6, Almost 200 cargo ships carrying food, manufacturing equipment and retail goods sat idle all along the U.S. West Coast after four days of talks failed to bring an end to the longest work stoppage in the region in 30 years.
(Reuters, 10/6/02)
2002 Oct 6, Brazilian voters voted 46% in favor of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former factory worker and union boss, as president. Jose Alencar was da Silva's running mate. A runoff with Jose Sera (23%) was scheduled.
(WSJ, 10/2/02, p.A1)(AP, 10/6/02)(SFC, 10/8/02, p.A10)
2002 Oct 6, In Colombia Jose Arroyave, a regional commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was among 7 rebels killed in a military offensive.
(AP, 10/7/02)
2002 Oct 6, A fire broke out on the Limberg, a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, setting barrels of oil ablaze and sparking an explosion killing one Bulgarian crew member. The explosion was soon determined to be the result of a terrorist attack. Insurance paid out $70 million for the damages.
(AP, 10/6/02)(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A13)(AP, 10/6/03)(Econ, 4/22/06, p.73)
2002 Oct 6, Prince Claus (76), the German-born husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, died in Amsterdam.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2002 Oct 6, Pope John Paul II raised to sainthood Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer the Spanish priest who founded the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei (1928), only 27 years after his death.
(AP, 10/6/02)
2003 Oct 6, The annual Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Paul C. Lauterbur (74) of the Univ. of Illinois and Sir Peter Mansfield (69) of the Univ. of Nottingham, for their work that led to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(SFC, 10/7/03, p.A2)
2003 Oct 6, Pres. Bush met with Kenya's Pres. Kibaki, who asked for help in stabilizing Somalia.
(WSJ, 10/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 6, Democrat Bob Graham announced on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he was ending his presidential campaign.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2003 Oct 6, A fire in Yazoo City, Miss., left 5 children (1½-10) dead. Their mothers were at a nightclub.
(SFC, 10/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 6, In Argentina newly released archives of police intelligence, first discovered in 1998 behind a wall in a building that now houses the Commission for Memory, indicated that police infiltrated unions and dissident groups before and during the 1976-83 military dictatorship, monitoring tens of thousands of people for a quarter of a century.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 6, In Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov was declared the winner in the region's presidential vote. Human rights advocates questioned the fairness of a vote held during a war and said the election was heavily tilted in favor of Kadyrov, whose personal security service is widely feared and accused of kidnappings and killings.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 6, In southeastern Colombia FARC guerrillas assassinated two town mayors, Orlando Hoyos and Jaime Zambrano, after they met with rebels in a mountain hideout.
(AP, 10/8/03)
2003 Oct 6, In northeastern Congo dozens of tribal fighters attacked Katchele village with assault rifles and machetes, killing at least 65 people, mainly children, looting property and setting huts on fire.
(AP, 10/7/03)
2003 Oct 6, Roadside bombings in central Iraq killed three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter and wounded six other service members.
(AP, 10/7/03)
2003 Oct 6, In Pakistan gunmen assassinated Maulana Azam Tariq, a hardline Sunni Muslim politician and four other people, spraying their car with automatic weapon-fire before fleeing.
(AP, 10/6/03)
2003 Oct 6, Elisabeta Rizea (91), a Romanian anti-communist resistance fighter whose defiance of the regime made her a symbol of the fight against tyranny, died.
(AP, 10/7/03)
2004 Oct 6, American Irwin Rose and Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins, the ubiquitin proteasome system, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
(AP, 10/6/04)(SFC, 10/7/04, p.A2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteasome)
2004 Oct 6, The US Senate approved an intelligence reorganization bill endorsed by the Sept. 11 commission.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2004 Oct 6, Charles Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons hunter, reported that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs had deteriorated into only hopes and dreams by the time of the U.S.-led invasion last year.
(AP, 10/7/04)
2004 Oct 6, Sirius Satellite Radio planned to spend $500 million to sign “shock jock" Howard Stern for 5 years beginning in 2006.
(SFC, 10/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Oct 6, Light crude oil for November closed in NYC at a record $52.02 per barrel.
(SFC, 10/6/04, p.C1)
2004 Oct 6, The EU recommended Turkey be put on the path to full membership.
(AP, 10/7/04)
2004 Oct 6, In Guinea-Bissau soldiers recently back from a U.N. peacekeeping mission and angry over unpaid wages staged a revolt, surrounding a main military building in the West African nation's capital.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, Followers of renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have agreed to a cease-fire with Iraq's interim government aimed at ending weeks of fighting in the vast Baghdad slum of Sadr City.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, A car bomb exploded at an Iraqi military camp northwest of Baghdad, killing 10 Iraqis and wounding more than 20.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, In Peru villagers in the country's remote Lake Titicaca region doused Alejandro Noalca Mamani (54), an accused thief, with gasoline and setting him ablaze. State-run television station broadcast images the next day.
(AP, 10/8/04)
2004 Oct 6, The Interfax news agency reported that the key production unit of beleaguered Russian oil giant Yukos was handed a back taxes bill for $951 million.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, In Spain a judge ordered the top banker to stand trial on charges of tax fraud.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2004 Oct 6, Sudan's U.N. ambassador challenged the US to send troops to the Darfur region if it really believes a genocide is taking place.
(AP, 10/6/04)
2005 Oct 6, President Bush sought to rally flagging public support for the war in Iraq, accusing militants of seeking to establish a "radical Islamic empire" with Iraq as the base.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2005 Oct 6, Gregg Miller won the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine for his prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs. Miller has sold more than 150,000 of his Neuticles, more than doubling his $500,000 investment. The silicone implants come in different sizes, shapes, weights and degrees of firmness. Other winners included Nigerian Internet scammers and a team that calculated the pressures created when penguins poop.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6-2005 Oct 7, More than 65 countries and international organizations met at the US State Department to plan for the possible outbreak of potentially deadly bird flu.
(AP, 10/5/05)
2005 Oct 6, The US State Department offered a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspected mastermind in the nightclub bombings in 2002 in Bali, Indonesia.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, Dean VandenBiesen, vice president of operations for LifeGem, said his company uses super-hot ovens to transform funeral ashes to graphite and then presses the stone into blue and yellow diamonds that retail for anywhere from 2,700 to 20,000 dollars.
(AFP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6, Merck & Co. Inc. said a vaccine that targets a human wart virus completely prevented early-stage cervical cancer and precancerous lesions in women caused by the two most common forms of the virus.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, Dennis Murphy (b.1932), screenwriter and author of “The Sergeant" (1958), died in SF. He also wrote the script for the 1971 film version.
(SFC, 10/11/05, p.B9)
2005 Oct 6, Coalition forces who were engaged in combat with militants opened fire on a vehicle carrying Afghan police, killing four and wounding one.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6, In Colombia right-wing paramilitary groups suspended their demobilization process with the government to protest President Alvaro Uribe's decision to jail a paramilitary leader who is wanted in New York on drug trafficking charges.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, In Colombia an intense rainstorm triggered a landslide that buried part of Bello, a shantytown on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Medellin, killing at least 26 people, many of them children.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6-2005 Oct 8, In Guatemala rescue workers searched for victims of a mudslide near Lake Atitlan, a volcano-ringed lake popular with tourists. Panabaj and Tzanchaz were entombed by a mudflow half a mile wide. The death toll in the region from flooding sparked by Hurricane Stan soon climbed to 617 with 42 dead in Mexico, 72 dead in El Salvador and 11 dead in Nicaragua.
(SFC, 10/7/05, p.A3)(AP, 10/9/05)(Econ, 10/15/05, p.43)
2005 Oct 6, Insurgents using suicide and roadside bombs killed at least 13 people, including a U.S. soldier, and wounded 19 in the latest of a series of attacks aimed at wrecking Iraq's constitutional referendum next week.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, Bomb blasts killed six Marines in western Iraq. US forces killed 29 militants in offensives aimed at uprooting al-Qaida insurgents.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6, Africa Union leaders said Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo's could stay in power after his term expires on October 30, giving him up to a year more in office in a bid to resolve the crisis in his divided country.
(AFP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, In Japan the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper was awarded compensation from a small Internet firm that used its news headlines without permission, in a first-of-a-kind ruling in the country. The Intellectual Property High Court, a special branch court of the Tokyo High Court, ordered Digital Alliance Corp. to pay about 237,700 yen (2,000 dollars) to the Yomiuri.
(AFP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, In Lithuania authorities released the pilot of a Russian military plane that crashed in Lithuania, saying he was no longer suspected of violating the Baltic country's airspace.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, Gunmen abducted three local Hamas leaders in a series of kidnappings. Prof. Riad Abdel Karim al-Raz (47), a Palestinian university professor known as a Hamas leader, was released the next day. The al-Farouk bin al-Khatab Brigades, claimed responsibility.
(AP, 10/7/05)
2005 Oct 6, Romania said it has deported five students accused of having ties to al-Qaida and trying to recruit members of the country's Muslim community.
(AP, 10/6/05)
2005 Oct 6, A UN official said the International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued arrest warrants for Joseph Kony and 5 henchmen of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan cult notorious for raping, maiming and killing children.
(Reuters, 10/6/05)(Econ, 10/22/05, p.48)
2006 Oct 6, Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos, a Navy medic, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and conspiracy, telling his court-martial at Camp Pendleton, Calif., that he stood and watched as seven members of a Marine squadron murdered an innocent Iraqi civilian.
(AP, 10/6/07)
2006 Oct 6, The US Centers for Disease Control said 3 people from Washington County, Ga., had experienced respiratory failure and remained hospitalized on ventilators following a meal they shared on Sept. 7 that included carrot juice made by Bolthouse Farms. A woman in Florida was hospitalized mid-September and botulism toxin from bottled carrot juice was suspected.
(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 6, US and European negotiators reached an interim deal on sharing trans-Atlantic air passenger data for anti-terrorism investigations.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, The US FDA approved Zolinza, generic name Vorinostat, a drug that switches off genes associated with cancer.
(Econ, 10/14/06, p.86)
2006 Oct 6, In Virginia opening ceremonies were held for the new $13 million American Civil War Center in Richmond’s former Civil War gun foundry.
(WSJ, 10/12/06, p.W13)
2006 Oct 6, The homicide rate in Oakland, Ca., hit 119 for the year, a 10-year high.
(SFC, 10/7/06, p.B5)
2006 Oct 6, John Jordan O’Neil (b.1911), aka “Buck" O’Neil, baseball’s charismatic Negro Leagues ambassador, died at a Kansas City, Missouri-area hospital. He barnstormed with Satchel Paige and inexplicably fell one vote shy of being elected to the Hall of Fame in February 2006.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O'Neil#_note-1)
2006 Oct 6, In eastern Afghanistan 2 suicide bombers blew themselves up, killing themselves and a policeman and wounding 17 other people.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales fired two top mining officials after a clash between rival bands of miners over access to the country's richest tin deposit left at least 16 dead and more at least 80 injured. The 2-day clash at the Huanuni tin mine caused an estimated $2 million in damage and production losses of $200,000 per day.
(AP, 10/7/06)(Econ, 10/14/06, p.40)
2006 Oct 6, Opposition leaders alleged that Georgia's local and regional elections were riddled with fraud, but international monitors said the balloting was conducted "with general respect for fundamental freedoms."
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, Hungarian PM Ferenc Gyurcsany convincingly won a confidence motion in parliament but a crowd of over 50,000 opposition supporters gathered in front of the building to demand he quit.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, The Panamanian-registered Giant Step ran ashore after catching fire in rough seas off Kashima in eastern Japan, killing one crewman and injuring two others. Of the remaining crew, 13 were rescued but nine are missing.
(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 6, In Lebanon police clashed with hundreds of rioters protesting attempts to demolish illegal housing in a southern suburb of Beirut. One person was killed and at least 16 were wounded.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, ECOWAS leaders met for summit talks in Nigeria.
(AP, 10/9/06)
2006 Oct 6, In southwestern Pakistan police acting on a tip raided several militant hide-outs in Quetta and arrested 48 suspected Taliban who had arrived in small groups from Afghanistan.
(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 6, Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied in a Gaza Strip soccer stadium in a massive show of support for the ruling Hamas group and its beleaguered government. PM Ismail Haniyeh told supporters Hamas will not recognize Israel or give in to international pressure that has crippled the Palestinian government.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, In Sri Lanka heavy sea and land battles erupted with the military reporting the recovery of 22 bodies of Tamil rebels after a Norwegian envoy failed to secure a deal to re-launch peace talks. 49 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a raid by the K-faction of rebels in eastern Sri Lanka. 5 of the splinter group died in the fighting.
(AFP, 10/6/06)(AP, 10/7/06)
2006 Oct 6, The UN refugee agency said the number of Somalis fleeing fighting to seek refuge in Kenya has risen dramatically and could stretch the capacity of aid organizations to critical levels.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, A unanimous UN Security Council urged North Korea to abandon all atomic weapons, as it promised last year, and cancel plans to detonate a device. Japan hinted the North could face sanctions or possible military action.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2006 Oct 6, The fledgling UN Human Rights Council ended its second session after failing to approve any decisions addressing the world's worst abuses. The 47-member council adjourned following a 3-week session. The US is not a member but is an observer. Human Rights Watch said the council, which held its first session in June and July, was a disappointing successor to the widely discredited UN Human Rights Commission.
(AP, 10/6/06)
2007 Oct 6, US Representative Jo Ann Davis (57), Virginia’s first Republican woman elected to Congress, died of breast cancer.
(SSFC, 10/7/07, p.A5)
2007 Oct 6, Sofiane el-Fassila (b.1975), an alleged mastermind (alias Hareg Zoheir, Zobeir Harkat) of several recent suicide bombing attacks in Algeria, was shot dead with 2 suspected accomplices in the town of Boghni. He was the deputy chief of al Qaeda's North Africa wing and believed to be the group's operational leader. Security officials said 8 soldiers and four Islamic extremists have been killed in the last few days in eastern Algeria.
(AFP, 10/6/07)(AP, 10/10/07)(www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071011/world.htm#8)
2007 Oct 6, International military planes called in by Afghan security forces killed 16 rebels, apparently all foreigners, suspected of preparing an attack in the country's east. The dead were said to be from Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Chechnya. Two officers were killed and two others were wounded when a bomb exploded under their car in Yaqoubi district in Khost province. A Taliban ambush in Nuristan province left two other officers dead. Four militants were also killed in the clash, which occurred in the remote Kamdesh district. 2 Afghan civilians were killed in Kunar province after speeding toward a checkpoint without stopping. In Paktika province, a "suspicious" man was shot and killed after being asked to halt. A suicide car bomber attacked an American military convoy on the road to Kabul's airport, killing a US soldier and four Afghans. In the south, in Uruzgan province, Taliban fighters attacked an Afghan security company guarding a road construction project, killing five of the security guards. In Helmand province's Gereshk district, a roadside bomb explosion killed a policeman.
(AP, 10/6/07)(AFP, 10/7/07)(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, The Stirling Prize, Britain's most prestigious architecture prize, was awarded to Germany's Museum of Modern Literature. The classically influenced building designed by David Chipperfield Architects, opened last year in Marbach, southwest Germany.
(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, In London the New Economics Foundation think-tank said the world moved today into "ecological overdraft," the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any year and goes into the red. If everyone in the world had the same consumption rates as in the US it would take 5.3 planet earths to support them, NEF said, noting that the figure was 3.1 for France and Britain, 3.0 for Spain, 2.5 for Germany and 2.4 for Japan.
(Reuters, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 6, Jason Lewis (40), a British adventurer, completed a 13-year trip around the world powered by only his arms and legs. Lewis had begun the journey in 1994 with Steve Smith. The 2 men split after pedaling to Hawaii from San Francisco. In 2005 Smith authored “Pedaling to Hawaii: A Human Powered Adventure Across the Western Hemisphere."
(SSFC, 10/7/07, p.A24)
2007 Oct 6, In eastern Cuba a bus collided with a train, killing at least 28 people and injuring another 73.
(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, Gambia arrested 2 senior Amnesty International officials on suspicion of spying. Tania Bernath, Amnesty International's deputy director for Africa and an advocacy officer Ameen Ayobele, were arrested in the eastern town of Basse after they visited an opposition politician who has been held in detention for more than a year. Yaya Dath, a journalist with the country's privately-owned daily Foroyaa, who was traveling with the London-based Bernath, a British-American national and Ayobele, a Nigerian, was also arrested. All 3 were released on bail on Oct 8.
(AFP, 10/8/07)(AFP, 10/8/07)
2007 Oct 6, Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and chief rival, Abdelaziz Hakim, reached a truce to end bloodshed between their loyalists. The decapitated bodies of two members of an awakening council in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad, were found. Both were Sunnis. In Baghdad a US soldier was killed and three others were wounded by a roadside bombing while they were taking part in a raid against suspected insurgents in the capital.
(AP, 10/6/07)(SSFC, 10/7/07, p.A20)
2007 Oct 6, In western Kenya Stanley Livindo, a ruling party candidate for parliament, was arrested after his bodyguards allegedly shot and killed a supporter of Kenya's largest opposition party and injured two others. The shootings came as tens of thousands of people rallied in the capital to kick off the presidential campaign of Raila Odinga, who has mounted a serious challenge to President Mwai Kibaki in December general elections.
(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, Myanmar's junta tried to cool growing UN pressure over its deadly crackdown on peaceful protests, offering talks with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and relaxing its blockage of the Internet. A day of global protests against Myanmar's junta began in cities across Asia, after the military regime admitted detaining hundreds of Buddhist monks when troops turned their guns on pro-democracy demonstrators last week.
(AFP, 10/6/07)(AP, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 6, Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf swept the presidential election, according to unofficial results, but the Supreme Court could still disqualify the military leader in the vote boycotted by nearly all of Pakistan's opposition. Opposition parties resigned from the parliaments and members of Miss Bhutto’s party abstained from the vote.
(AP, 10/6/07)(Econ, 10/13/07, p.17)
2007 Oct 6, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov will be appointed head of the country's foreign intelligence service.
(AP, 10/6/07)
2007 Oct 6, A Saudi newspaper said the Saudi Arabian government will temporarily release 55 prisoners recently transferred from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will give each of them about $2,600 to celebrate the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, A UN inspection team found the Darfur town of Haskanita, under the control of Sudanese troops, burned down. The destruction of the town was in apparent retaliation for the Sep 29 rebel attack on an African Union peacekeeping base in which 10 AU troops were killed. 7,000 residents were forced to flee the area.
(Reuters, 10/7/07)(WSJ, 10/8/07, p.A1)
2007 Oct 6, Typhoon Krosa lashed Taiwan with strong winds and heavy rains, cutting power to nearly half a million homes and disrupting air and sea traffic. Krosa killed five people in Taiwan as it knocked out power to 2 million homes and drenched the island.
(AP, 10/6/07)(AP, 10/7/07)
2007 Oct 6, In Vietnam floods and landslides followed Typhoon Lekima and killed at least 86 people with many missing and some villages cut off and inundated by water.
(Reuters, 10/6/07)(AP, 10/7/07)(AP, 10/11/07)
2008 Oct 6, The United States and Lebanon set up a joint military commission to bolster military cooperation, a move that follows the first visit by the newly elected Lebanese president to Washington.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, Stock markets around the world fell on fears that the global financial crises will worsen. The DJIA fell 800.06 intraday ending down 369.88 to close at 9555.50. Oil prices closed at $87.81, its lowest settlement since February 6.
(SFC, 10/7/08, p.D3)(WSJ, 10/5/08, p.C3)
2008 Oct 6, The US Supreme Court declined a patent appeal from Dish Network forcing the company to pay TiVo $104 million.
(SFC, 10/7/08, p.D6)
2008 Oct 6, It was reported that Atherton, Ca., philanthropist Lorry Lokey (81) had pledged $75 million to the Stanford Univ. School of Medicine for a major stem cell research center. In 2007 he had pledged at least $33 million.
(SFC, 10/6/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 6, Stewart Parnell, an executive for Peanut Butter of America, sent an e-mail saying that delays in shipping product from a Georgia plant was costing huge dollars. Federal investigators later found that batches of product containing salmonella were shipped with fake lab records saying salmonella screenings were negative. On Sep 21 Parnell was sentenced to 28 years in prison.
(SFC, 9/22/15, p.A7)
2008 Oct 6, Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases. French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier (1932-2022) were cited for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV; while Germany's Harald zur Hausen was honored for finding human papilloma viruses that cause cervical cancer.
(AP, 10/6/08)(SSFC, 2/13/22, p.F10)
2008 Oct 6, Bank of America said it will modify troubled mortgages with up to $8.4 billion in interest rate and principal reductions for nearly 400,000 customers of Countrywide Financial Corp., the troubled mortgage lender it acquired last summer.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, Eli Lilly & Co. said it would pay $70 per share for New York’s Imclone. The offer put about $1 billion into the pocket of Bristol-Myers for its stake in Imclone and still allowed it to share in revenue from Erbitux, a cancer medication.
(SFC, 10/7/08, p.D6)
2008 Oct 6, Mother’s Cookies, an Oakland, Ca. institution for 92 years, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. Owner Catterton Partners, a private equity firm based in Connecticut, cited failed efforts to obtain credit financing.
(SFC, 10/9/08, p.C1)
2008 Oct 6, G7 president Robert Zoellick said the Group of Seven is outmoded and should be replaced with a new entity that would include growing economies in Asia and Latin America.
(SFC, 10/7/08, p.D5)
2008 Oct 6, European governments struggled to find a coordinated approach to the crisis sweeping financial markets, as Denmark became the latest country to guarantee bank deposits, putting more pressure on Britain and other countries to follow.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, In France Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of a late French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and 40 other people charged with trafficking arms to war-riven Angola or taking kickbacks faced judges in a long-awaited trial in Paris. Prosecutors alleged that French businessman Pierre Falcone and Arkady Gaydamak, an Israeli tycoon based in France at the time, organized the sale of Russian arms to Angola from 1993-2000, for a total of US$791 million, in breach of French government rules. In 2009 Falcone and Gaydamak were sentenced to 6 years in prison.
(AP, 10/6/08)(Econ, 10/31/09, p.62)
2008 Oct 6, In France traders at Groupe Caisse d’Epargne bank, founded in 1818, began trading in equity derivatives hoping the market would rise. The irregular trades were unwound at a loss of some $808 million.
(WSJ, 10/18/08, p.B1)
2008 Oct 6, Clashes between ethnic groups in India's remote northeast killed 19 more people, bringing the death toll from four days of violence to 49, including 15 people shot by police. Another 100,000 people have fled their homes.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert visited Moscow, aiming to focus on Russian arms sales to Israel's enemies. By contrast, Russia hoped the meeting will bolster its image as a Middle East peacemaker.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, A panel of scientists met in Monaco for the 2nd international UNESCO symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World. On Jan 30, 2009, they issued the Monaco Declaration, which summed up their deliberations, and reported that acidity of ocean surface waters has increased 30% since the 17th century.
(SFC, 1/31/09, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/bdtj3p)
2008 Oct 6, A suicide bomber attacked legislator Rasheed Akbar Niwani’s house in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 50. Officials said Pakistani authorities have begun expelling Afghan refugees from the Bajaur tribal region that has become the main battleground between troops and fighters linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda.
(AP, 10/6/08)(Reuters, 10/6/08)(SFC, 10/7/08, p.A8)
2008 Oct 6, In northern Sri Lanka a suspected rebel suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded opposition party office, killing a former army general and 26 others.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, A Nigerian UN peacekeeper was killed when up to 60 gunmen ambushed a patrol in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur.
(AFP, 10/7/08)
2008 Oct 6, Switzerland's top prosecutor charged 10 people with laundering more than US$1 billion dollars (1.349 billion euros) during a decade-long mafia cigarette smuggling operation. Authorities said they broke up the smuggling ring in 2004.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2008 Oct 6, A magnitude 6.6 earthquake killed at least 10 people in Yangyi, Tibet, the hardest hit village in Dangxiong County.
(Reuters, 10/6/08)(AP, 10/7/08)
2008 Oct 6, Turkish warplanes bombed a Kurdish rebel hideout in northern Iraq, the third air strike in retaliation for an attack that killed 15 soldiers three days ago.
(AP, 10/6/08)
2009 Oct 6, Three Americans whose research in the 1960s laid the foundation for digital images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras. Charles K. Kao (75) was cited for discovering how to transmit light signals over long distances through glass fibers as thin as a human hair. His 1966 breakthrough led to the creation of modern fiber-optic communication networks. Willard S. Boyle (85) and George E. Smith (79) were honored for inventing the eye of the digital camera.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said the Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn. The diffuse ring doesn't reflect much visible light and is so huge it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, The city council of Oakland, Ca., succumbed to public pressure and rolled back parking meter enforcement from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. The rule had gone into effect 3 months earlier.
(SFC, 10/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Oct 6, Afghan forces also killed eight militants in two separate battles in Zabul and Wardak provinces.
(AP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, Australia's central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates by a quarter point, becoming the first major economy to increase the cost of borrowing amid signs its recovery from the global slump is gaining momentum.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, Hilary Mantel won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for her historical novel “Wolf Hall." It covered the period Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn. A sequel, “Bring Up the Bodies," was published in 2012.
(Econ, 10/10/09, p.89)(www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1291)(Econ, 5/5/12, p.81)
2009 Oct 6, In London the play “The Power of Yes," written by Sir David Hare, opened at the Royal National Theater.
(Econ, 10/10/09, p.90)
2009 Oct 6, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov won a defamation lawsuit against a rights activist who blamed him for the killing of a colleague whose murder sparked international outrage. Moscow's Tverskoi district court ordered Memorial rights group chairman Oleg Orlov to retract his statement that Kadyrov was responsible for Natalya Estemirova's death in 2006. Kadyrov sought 10 million rubles ($330,000) in damages, but judge Tatyana Fedosova ruled that Memorial and Orlov should only pay 70,000 rubles ($2,300 rubles).
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Iraq a car bomb blew up in front of a restaurant near Fallujah and killed 9 people with dozens more wounded.
(SFC, 10/7/09, p.A2)
2009 Oct 6, In Ireland the Rev. Aengus Finucane (77), a Roman Catholic missionary, died. He braved the civil war in Biafra (1967-1970) as a pioneer of Irish aid efforts worldwide. That aid effort, initially known as Concern Africa, shortened its name to Concern in 1970 as it gained ambitions to provide food, medical support and education in many of the world's poorest countries. He served as the charity's chief executive from 1981 to 1997.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, Israeli police mobilized reinforcements from across the country to secure volatile Jerusalem, deploying thousands of officers on city streets for fears that two days of clashes with Palestinian protesters would escalate.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Kazakhstan French President Nicolas Sarkozy scored a diplomatic coup during a visit, overseeing an agreement to allow military hardware for French forces fighting in Afghanistan to pass through Kazakh territory and clinching a raft of lucrative energy deals.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, Mongolia signed a long-awaited deal with partners Rio Tinto and Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines to develop a $4 billion Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine after a heated national debate over how to exploit the country's mineral wealth. In September 2011 members of parliament signed a petition asking the government to reopen negotiations on the investment agreement that set the $10 billion project in motion.
(AP, 10/29/09)(www.ivanhoemines.com/s/Home.asp)(Econ, 10/8/11, p.79)
2009 Oct 6, Moroccan police began rounding up 276 young people and continued with an overnight crackdown on juvenile delinquency in Sale, the twin town of the capital Rabat.
(AFP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Nepal landslides triggered by 4 days of torrential rains killed at least 34 people in various western districts.
(AP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, The Hamas government banned motorcycle riders from carrying women on the back seat, the latest in the militants' virtue campaign in Gaza.
(AP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Poland Mariusz Kaminski, the head of the anti-corruption office, was charged with abuse of power after a sting operation in which he encouraged his agents to fabricate documents and offer bribes.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Spain part of the secrecy surrounding the legal proceedings was lifted, new revelations came out, including phone conversations that had been taped by police. Francisco Correa, a Spanish businessman, faced jail as the alleged kingpin in a network of corruption at the heart of the country's main opposition group, the rightwing People's party.
(http://tinyurl.com/y9ow6cs)(Econ, 10/31/09, p.63)
2009 Oct 6, Syria held its first ever fashion design competition, meant to encourage young Syrian talents and local products.
(AP, 10/7/09)
2009 Oct 6, Turkish police used water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray to disperse hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank held in Istanbul.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2009 Oct 6, In Yemen thousands of activists were reported taking to the streets across the south calling for independence, even as much of the central government's army is tied up fighting a Shiite rebellion in the far north.
(AP, 10/6/09)
2010 Oct 6, Documents were released in which the national oil spill commission's staff described "not an incidental public relations problem" by the White House in the wake of the April 20 accident. The report said, the administration made erroneous early estimates of the spill's size, and President Barack Obama's senior energy adviser went on national TV and mischaracterized a government analysis by saying it showed most of the oil was "gone." The analysis actually said it could still be there. The explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers, spewed 206 million gallons of oil from the damaged oil well, and sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit on behalf of Prison Legal News against a county jail in Moncks Corner, SC, over a policy barring inmates from having any reading material other than the Bible.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.A6)
2010 Oct 6, An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were honored for their development in the 1960s and '70s of one of the most sophisticated tools available to chemists today, called palladium-catalyzed cross coupling.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Facebook launched a new way for members to organize their friends, archive personal information and a new dashboard to control personal information sought by 3rd party applications and Web sites.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.D1)
2010 Oct 6, Logitech introduced Revue, a $299.99 set-top box for Google’s new TV service. The device allows users to access websites, Internet video, digital pictures and music from their televisions. Apple’s set-top box was introduced on Sep 1 for $99.
(SSFC, 10/10/10, p.D5)(http://tinyurl.com/2vzxpar)
2010 Oct 6, Cisco introduced its $599 Cisco Umi, a consumer product for video chats on home TVs. The service would also require a monthly fee of $24.99.
(SSFC, 10/10/10, p.D5)(http://tinyurl.com/2vzxpar)
2010 Oct 6, Researchers reported in the journal PLoS ONE that samples collected from hives affected by the colony collapse disorder (CCD) indicated the presence of a virus as well as a fungus. The two pathogens were not found in bee colonies not affected by the syndrome.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, The US and EU said that UN climate talks in Ttianjin, China, were making less progress than hoped due to rifts over rising economies' emission goals, while China pushed back and put the onus on rich nations.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia launched their transatlantic joint business, unveiling new routes and detailing benefits for customers that include a shared frequent flyers program.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, San Francisco unveiled new equipment allowing luxury liners to plug into the city’s power grid, part of an effort to cut diesel suit along the waterfront.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.C2)
2010 Oct 6, Northern Arizona was hit by 3 tornadoes. 28 cars of a parked freight train were derailed. 15 homes in Bellemont were made uninhabitable.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.A8)
2010 Oct 6, It was reported that Afghan Pres. Karzai has begun secret talks over a negotiated end to the war. Sources said that for the first time Taliban representatives are fully authorized to speak for the Quetta Shura, the Afghan Taliban organization based in Pakistan, and its leader Muhammad Omar. Taliban commander Maulawi Jawadullah, accused of organizing deadly ambushes, roadside bombings, and abductions of Afghan police and soldiers in northern Afghanistan, was killed in an airstrike in Yangi Qala district. A NATO service member died in a roadside bombing in the south. An Afghan-NATO force killed six insurgents and destroyed a compound used for making improvised explosive devices in Arghandab district of Kandahar province. 3 militants were killed in Zabul province during a firefight with a joint force. 16 militants were killed in air raids and ground fighting overnight in the Darqad, Yangi Qala and Khwaja Bahawuddin districts of Takhar province.
(SFC, 10/6/10, p.A2)(AP, 10/7/10)(AP, 10/8/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Britain Halima Bashir (30), a doctor who says she was gang-raped in 2004 by Sudanese soldiers after speaking out about atrocities in Darfur, won the Anna Politkovskaya award for women human rights defenders. She wrote about her experiences in her memoir, "Tears of the Desert" (2008).
(Reuters, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Canada Quebec presented legislation to award Bombardier Inc a contract worth more than C$1 billion ($980 million) to build nearly 500 subway cars for Montreal, short-circuiting a bidding process that has dragged on for five years.
(Reuters, 10/5/10)
2010 Oct 6, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told the EU to stop piling pressure on Beijing to revalue its currency, saying a rapid shift could unleash disastrous social turmoil.
(Reuters, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Cuba a resolution from the Foreign Relations Ministry was published into law making the guayabera Cuba's official formal dress garment and mandating that government officials wear them at state functions.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, Ecuador's interior minister said 46 police officers have been detained for alleged participation in the Sep 30 police revolt against President Rafael Correa that claimed 5 lives.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, Ethiopia freed opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa (36), saying it had granted a plea for pardon from her. Birtukan and other opposition figures were charged with plotting against the constitution in connection with those skirmishes, but were released in 2007 after being pardoned. She was sent back to prison in December 2008 after claiming she had never asked for pardon.
(AFP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Former US president Bill Clinton returned to Haiti to participate in a meeting on rebuilding the quake-ravaged nation, as his foundation pledged 500,000 dollars to a huge tent city.
(AFP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, Hungary scrambled to contain a toxic mud spill that left four people dead and more than 100 injured in what is being described as an ecological catastrophe. The spill raised fears that pollution leeching from it could reach the Danube River, which courses through Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine before flowing into the Black Sea.
(AFP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Ratings agency Fitch cut Ireland's credit worthiness another notch, citing the country's long fight to emerge from record deficits, the toughest bank-bailout effort in Europe and a lagging economy.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Italy Concetta Serrano was participating in a live TV show that focuses on missing people when the anchor told her brother-in-law had confessed to have allegedly murdered her daughter. The Italian news agencies broke the story of the alleged confession while the show was being broadcast from inside the uncle's house in the southern Italian town of Avetrana, where Sarah Scazzi (15) disappeared on Aug. 26.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Indian Kashmir 50 students arrested during months of deadly protests were released from custody in a latest move to defuse tension in the Himalayan region.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Indonesia helicopters dropped food to isolated villages and security forces helped clear debris and search for survivors as the number of people killed by floods and landslides across Asia climbed to nearly 110. Three-quarters of the deaths were in eastern Indonesia. In Vietnam 11 bodies were recovered in the worst-hit province of Quang Binh, where authorities were also searching for five sailors from a sunken barge. At least seven other bodies were found in Ha Tinh province, five in Nghe An and three in Quang Tri. On China's nearby island province of Hainan, seven straight days of heavy rains left two people missing and forced 64,000 to evacuate.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Malaysia a newborn baby died after being snatched by a monkey from her family's living room in Negri Sembilan state. Wildlife authorities fatally shot the monkey, which had remained near the house and might have been attracted by a female pet monkey the family kept in a cage.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Nigeria suspected members of Boko Haram, a northern radical Muslim sect, shot and killed Awana Ngala, the leader of the ruling All Nigeria People's Party, the latest attack by a group that engineered a massive prison break last month.
(AFP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Pakistan a US missile strike killed five people in North Waziristan. Militants earlier attacked a depot housing 40 NATO oil tankers on the outskirts of Quetta, killing a member of staff and destroying at least 18 vehicles, in the fourth such attack in a week.
(AFP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Scientists unveiled a spectacular array of more than 200 new species discovered in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, including a white-tailed mouse and a tiny, long-snouted frog.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo returned home and resumed his office after undergoing treatment in Brazil for a blood clot that doctors say resulted from chemotherapy for cancer.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Puerto Rico FBI agents began arresting police officers accused of corruption. Local newspaper El Nuevo Dia reported that police and corrections officers were among 133 people named in the federal indictments, yet to be opened.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev headed a top level business delegation to Algeria, seeking to use his clout to push through delicate energy and telecoms deals with a traditional Moscow ally. Algeria and Russia signed six deals in sectors including energy and transportation.
(AFP, 10/6/10)(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, A Moscow court said it has sentenced 3 ultranationalists, convicted of hate killings and bombings, to long prison sentences. They were part of a militant neo-pagan cult that preyed on labor migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus. From 2008-2009 they killed 10 people and arranged a number of bombings.
(SFC, 10/7/10, p.A2)
2010 Oct 6, In Somalia sporadic clashes between Islamic fighters and government soldiers killed four men in Mogadishu.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni called for financial support to increase his country's troop levels in the African Union force in Somalia.
(AFP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, Local media reported that Ukraine has adopted a dress code for government workers. The code called on men working at the Cabinet of Ministers to wear mostly gray and dark blue suits and not wear the same suit to work two days in a row. Women were asked to stick to business suits and low-heeled shoes, as well as refrain from excessive makeup and jewelry.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Vietnam fireworks intended for Hanoi's upcoming 1000th birthday celebration exploded prematurely, killing four people and injuring three others.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Yemen assailants fired a rocket at a convoy carrying Britain's No. 2 diplomat and killed a Frenchman working for an Austrian oil company in a pair of attacks that heightened fears over the safety of Westerners in a country facing a growing militant threat. Hisham Assem (19), a guard who worked at the French engineering firm SPIE, was later arrested and charged with killing the Frenchman.
(AP, 10/6/10)(AP, 11/2/10)
2011 Oct 6, The US Justice Dept. said Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $199.5 million for failure to meet contractual obligations relating to a 1998 contract for software licenses and technical support.
(SFC, 10/7/11, p.D2)
2011 Oct 6, In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Annette Morales-Rodriguez (33), who had faked a pregnancy, kidnapped Maritza Ramirez Cruz (23), killed her and cut out her full term fetus, who died in the process.
(SFC, 10/11/11, p.A6)
2011 Oct 6, Some 300 Afghan men and women marched through Kabul, the eve of the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, to condemn the United States as occupiers and demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops. A NATO service member died, but NATO did not disclose any other details.
(Reuters, 10/6/11)(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, Australian police said they have disrupted an international people smuggling ring by arresting two suspected key players in the syndicate following a 10-month undercover sting operation.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Australian actress Diane Cilento (78), who was once married to James Bond actor Sean Connery, died. In 1956 she was nominated for a Tony Award for her portrayal of Helen of Troy in the play "Tiger at the Gates." She received an Academy Award nomination in 1963 for best supporting actress for her work in the movie "Tom Jones."
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, In Bahrain Ahmed Jaber al-Qatan (16) was hit by bird shot used by anti-riot police during a demonstration in western Manama. The interior ministry confirmed his death the next day, saying the youth died of a cardiac arrest.
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, The Bank of England launched a second round of quantitative easing to defend Britain's faltering economy against the euro zone debt crisis, pledging to buy 75 billion pounds of assets with new money in a dramatic move to stave off recession.
(Reuters, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Britain and Switzerland signed an agreement to tax money kept by British residents in secret Swiss bank accounts, a move which could net the British government billions of pounds and help Swiss banking clean up its image. The deal, which must still be approved by the parliaments of both countries, should come into force in 2013.
(Reuters, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said it is to cut around 2,000 jobs as the publicly-funded broadcaster makes savings as part of government efforts to reduce a record deficit.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Chilean police used water canons and tear gas to break up a student march hours after talks with government regarding public education collapsed. By day's end, 168 had been arrested in the capital, and more than 100 more around Chile. Police said 25 officers and five civilians were injured.
(SFC, 10/7/11, p.A2)(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that France did not violate George Soros' rights when convicting him of insider trading, defeating a years-long effort by the billionaire financier to clear his name. He was fined euro2.2 million in 2002, for purchasing shares in French bank Societe Generale in 1988, days after being informed about a planned takeover bid for the bank.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, India-owned Airtel, one of the west African nation's biggest telecom firms, said that more than five million telephone subscribers in Nigeria have been cut off after protesters attacked an exchange. The protesters, members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the nation's central labor movement, were protesting against the alleged casualisation of workers in Airtel and the dismissal of 3,000 employees, charges denied by the company.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Israel's supreme court barred nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu (56) from emigrating on the grounds he still poses a threat to state security. Vanunu served 18 years behind bars for disclosing the inner workings of Israel's Dimona nuclear plant to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper in 1986.
(AFP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, Human Rights Watch said that 13 military leaders from both sides of Ivory Coast's political divide committed war crimes during months of postelection violence in the West African nation, and called on the government to prosecute all suspects equally.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Mexican marines arrested 8 members of the Jalisco New Generation gang. The suspects told them where 32 bodies were hidden in Veracruz state. Marines also arrested 12 members of the rival Zetas gang, including a man alleged to be their operations leader in Veracruz. A Nuevo Leon state official said several police officers allowed a violent drug gang to hold kidnap victims in a local jail while ransom payments were being negotiated.
(AP, 10/7/11)(SFC, 10/8/11, p.A2)
2011 Oct 6, Mexican police arrested four men and a woman for allegedly helping force women to work as prostitutes in Mexico and the United States.
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, In northern Nigeria 10 people died in a truck crash, the third reported incident of its kind in the last week.
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, Philippine police rescued a government midwife kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants after a brief firefight near Parang township on Jolo island. Evangeline Taverisma (55) was kidnapped on Aug 3. An army soldier was killed and three others wounded in the gunbattle near Esperanza town in southern Agusan del Sur province. Troops captured a New People's Army encampment and 12 assault rifles and hit several of the undetermined number of rebels.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Desmond Tutu's last-ditch appeal to South Africa to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama on the eve of his 80th birthday was rejected, marring the start of the celebrations. The Dalai Lama cancelled a planned trip to South Africa because of delays with his visa, provoking a furious response from Tutu who blasted President Jacob Zuma's government as worse than apartheid and accused him of kowtowing to China.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Sweden’s top poet Tomas Transtromer (80).
(AP, 10/7/11)
2011 Oct 6, Syrian activists said clashes between troops and deserters killed 12 people, as Western powers sought to pressure Syria over its crackdown on dissent.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders says it is ending its operations in Thailand after 35 years because it could not reach agreement with the government on conditions under which it could provide medical care to illegal migrants.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, The UN said increased access to technology that allows parents to know the sex of their fetus has left Asia short of 117 million women, mostly in China and India.
(AFP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, A United Nations report said Honduras and El Salvador have the highest homicide rates in the world. Honduras had 6,200 killings in 2010 out of a population of 7.7 million people, while El Salvador with 6.1 million people had 4,000 homicides.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2011 Oct 6, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that his government will expropriate homes on the Caribbean resort islands of Los Roques, saying the structures were built on plots bought in shadowy business deals.
(AP, 10/6/11)
2012 Oct 6, Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves from a Republican state representative's assertion that slavery was a "blessing in disguise" and a Republican state House candidate who advocates deporting all Muslims. The claims were made in books written, respectively, by Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro and House candidate Charlie Fuqua of Batesville.
(AP, 10/7/12)
2012 Oct 6, San Francisco police arrested 11 men and nine women as protesters marched through the financial district and tossed projectiles at officers. Police believed the anarchist group known as Black Bloc was involved.
(SFC, 10/9/12, p.C3)
2012 Oct 6, In eastern Afghanistan insurgents killed two American troops in Wardak province, an area that has seen heavy fighting in recent months. An Afghan policeman was killed and another was wounded when a remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorbike was detonated in Sangin district of Helmand province. A roadside bomb killed another Afghan policeman in Kandahar city.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, Cuban authorities released noted blogger Yoani Sanchez more than a day after she was taken into custody near the eastern city of Bayamo, where she traveled for a Spanish man's trial over a car crash that killed another prominent dissident.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, French police carried out raids across the country after DNA on a grenade that exploded last Sep 19 at a kosher grocery store led them to a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recently converted to Islam. A man named by police as Jeremy Louis-Sydney, was killed by police after he opened fire on them, slightly wounding three officers in the eastern city of Strasbourg. Eleven other suspects were arrested across the country. Some of the 12 suspected cell members arrested over the weekend appeared to have plans to go to Syria to fight in its civil war.
(AP, 10/6/12)(AP, 10/10/12)
2012 Oct 6, Israel scrambled fighter jets to intercept a drone that crossed deep into Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea, shooting the aircraft down over the country's southern desert. Suspicion quickly fell on the Iranian-backed, Lebanese Islamic militant group Hezbollah.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, The Mexican navy nabbed Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, a suspected Zetas cartel leader. He was captured in Nuevo Laredo and was believed to have masterminded the massacre of 72 migrants in Tamaulipas state in 2010.
(SFC, 10/9/12, p.A2)
2012 Oct 6, In Morocco some 1,000 judges held an unprecedented sit-in in front of the Supreme Court in Rabat calling for greated independence for the judiciary.
(SSFC, 10/7/12, p.A3)
2012 Oct 6, A North Korean soldier killed two of his superiors and defected to South Korea across the countries' heavily armed border in a rare crossing that prompted South Korean troops to immediately beef up their border patrol.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, Thousands of Pakistanis headed toward the militant-riddled tribal belt to protest US drone strikes — even as a Pakistani Taliban faction warned suicide bombers would stop the demonstration. 32 Americans from the US-based anti-war group CODEPINK joined ex-cricket star Imran Khan for the march.
(AP, 10/6/12)(SSFC, 10/7/12, p.A6)
2012 Oct 6, In central Peru Marxist Shining Path rebels burned 3 helicopters being used by a gas pipeline consortium at a jungle airstrip in Kiteni.
(SSFC, 10/7/12, p.A3)
2012 Oct 6, Philippine troops captured New People’s Army regional chief Benjamin Mendoza (43) and three other suspected insurgents outside their hideout in suburban Quezon city.
(SSFC, 10/7/12, p.A3)
2012 Oct 6, Syrian soldiers clashed with two armed groups that infiltrated from Lebanon, killing several of them.
(AP, 10/7/12)
2012 Oct 6, Turkish artillery fired into Syria for the fourth day in a row, retaliating for mortar shells that landed in Turkish territory. Rebels clashed with Syrian government troops in the border area, activists said, as fears revived that the Syrian crisis could spiral into a regional conflict.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2012 Oct 6, The pope's butler was convicted of stealing the pontiff's private documents and leaking them to a journalist in the gravest Vatican security breach in recent memory. Paolo Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but the Vatican said a papal pardon was likely.
(AP, 10/6/12)
2013 Oct 6, In southern Afghanistan 4 US soldiers were killed by an IED during a NATO operation.
(Reuters, 10/6/13)(SFC, 10/7/13, p.A2)
2013 Oct 6, In Afghanistan Germany handed control of a key military base in the country's northern province of Kunduz to Afghan security forces. German troops had spent almost a decade there as part of the international effort to combat Taliban insurgents.
(AP, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, CAR officials said 14 people have been killed in violent clashes that began last week between Christians and Muslims in the isolated town of Bangassou.
(Reuters, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, In China about 60 people were injured when security forces fired into a crowd of Tibetan residents who were demanding the release of a fellow villager detained for protesting orders to display the national flag. Police also fired tear gas at those protesting in Biru county in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
(AP, 10/8/13)
2013 Oct 6, In Egypt dozens of people were killed in clashes across the country between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. 48 people died in Cairo and 9 in other parts of the country.
(AFP, 10/6/13)(Reuters, 10/7/13)(AFP, 10/8/13)
2013 Oct 6, Iran's nuclear chief said that authorities arrested four workers in an alleged sabotage plot involving one of the country's nuclear facilities.
(AP, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, In northern Iraq suicide car bombers attacked an elementary school and a police station in Qabak, a small Shiite Turkomen village. The dead included 12 children, the school principal and 2 policemen. Another on foot detonated his payload among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing at least 12 people. Attacks altogether killed at least 33 people.
(AP, 10/6/13)(SFC, 10/7/13, p.A2)
2013 Oct 6, In Morocco thousands of unemployed graduates marched through Rabat demanding jobs in the public sector, weeks before parliament is due to debate planned budget cuts.
(Reuters, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, In Syria at least 8 people were killed by mortar fire that hit a Christian neighbourhood in central Damascus. Government forces reopened a key road leading to the embattled northern city of Aleppo after heavy fighting with rebels that left casualties on both sides.
(AFP, 10/6/13)(AP, 10/7/13)
2013 Oct 6, In Syria international inspectors began the enormous task of destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it.
(AP, 10/6/13)
2013 Oct 6, In Yemen gunmen shot dead a German security guard employed by the German embassy as he was leaving a market in Sanaa.
(Reuters, 10/6/13)
2014 Oct 6, The US Supreme Court denied review of cases in five states that had limited marriage to opposite sex couples. This in effect granted equal marriage rights to gays and lesbians in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
(SFC, 10/7/14, p.A1)
2014 Oct 6, A US federal judge ruled that a “five-second rule" to keep protesters from remaining in place, imposed by police in Ferguson, Mo. following protests over the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, was unconstitutional.
(TIME, 10/20/14, p.13)
2014 Oct 6, NYC’s Hilton Worldwide announced that the Waldorf Astoria, opened in 1893 on the site of millionaire William Waldorf Astor's Fifth Avenue mansion, has been sold to a Chinese insurance company for $1.95 billion. Waldorf's cousin and fellow millionaire John Jacob Astor IV reconstructed the hotel a few years later at a nearby location. It was torn down in 1929, making way for another landmark: the Empire State Building. The Waldorf Astoria has been at its current location on Park Avenue since 1931.
(http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/06/news/waldorf-astoria-hotel-sale/)
2014 Oct 6, A US-British scientist, John O'Keefe, and a Norwegian husband-and-wife research team, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the brain's navigation system — the inner GPS that helps us find our way in the world.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic said it will shut its short-haul domestic service in Britain, partly owing to a lack of demand for connections with its long-haul operations.
(AFP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Brittany Maynard (29), a newlywed diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor, posted a video about her decision to take control over how she dies. She tentatively selected Nov 1 as her date of death in Oregon. The former California teacher moved to Oregon after learning that California was not among the five US states that allowed access to a lethal drug for terminal illness. Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington states also allowed access to the lethal drug.
(SFC, 10/13/14, p.A1)(SFC, 11/3/14, p.A1)
2014 Oct 6, In southern China 5 people were killed in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in Lanjiang village, Guizhou province.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Hong Kong pro-democracy protests subsided as students and civil servants returned to school and work after more than a week of demonstrations, but activists vowed to keep up their campaign of civil disobedience.
(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Iraq a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden armored vehicle into houses used by Shiite militiamen north of Samarra, killing at least 17 people.
(AFP, 10/7/14)
2014 Oct 6, Typhoon Phanfone lashed Japan with torrential rain after killing at least one person, forcing the cancellation of flights and prompting warnings to more than 200,000 people to evacuate their homes.
(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Kashmir tens of thousands of villagers fled their homes as Indian and Pakistani troops bombarded each other with gunfire and mortar shells over the border separating their portions of the disputed region. 9 civilians were killed.
(AP, 10/6/14)(AP, 10/7/14)
2014 Oct 6, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta told the nation in an address before parliament that he would temporarily step down as president while attending a hearing at the International Criminal Court this week insisting that he be a private citizen during the court hearing and not the first president to sit before the court.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Liberia's Justice Minister Christiana Tah stepped down, saying President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf blocked her investigation into fraud allegations against the country's National Security Agency (NSA), which is headed by the president's son.
(Reuters, 10/7/14)
2014 Oct 6, A Macedonian court convicted 17 people in the country's first espionage trial since it proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Mexican federal forces disarmed the entire police corps of Iguala and took over security after officers were accused of colluding with a gang in violence that left 43 students missing.
(AFP, 10/7/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Nepal a bus crowded with holiday travelers veered off a remote mountain road, killing at least 25 and critically injuring many more.
(AP, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, The Pakistani Taliban denied reports at the weekend that it had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State movement fighting in Syria and Iraq, saying that its statement to the media had been misinterpreted.
(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Poland a methane blast occurred 660 meters (1,265 feet) below the surface at the Myslowice-Wesola mine near the city of Katowice. The body of one missing miner was later recovered. 30 miners were hospitalized with burns and 2 died later from their burns.
(AP, 10/18/14)
2014 Oct 6, Russian opposition politician Vladimir Ashurkov announced on Twitter that he was seeking asylum in the UK due to political persecution by authorities. Ashurkov was the right-hand man of anticorruption blogger Alexei Navalny, who had been under house arrest since February.
(SFC, 10/7/14, p.A2)
2014 Oct 6, In Spain nursing assistant Teresa Romero was diagnosed with Ebola. She had cared for a Spanish priest who died of the disease last month. 4 other people were quarantined and her dog was ordered killed.
(SFC, 10/8/14, p.A3)(Econ, 10/11/14, p.62)
2014 Oct 6, Sweden’s minority center-left coalition of Social Democrats and Greens agreed to demands by the Left Party to restrict the profit private firms can make in welfare and education - a key condition to get the non-government party to support the budget bill, which it will present in the coming weeks.
(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, Syrian government forces seized control of a strategic area outside Damascus used by rebels to fire mortar shells at the capital. The Islamic State raised its flag on a building on the outskirts of the frontier town of Kobani after an assault of almost three weeks, but the town's Kurdish defenders said its fighters had not reached the city center. At least 30 people were killed in two suicide attacks on two checkpoints run by Kurdish fighters in the northeastern city of Hasakah.
(AFP, 10/6/14)(Reuters, 10/6/14)
2014 Oct 6, In Tanzania 7 people accused of witchcraft were burned alive in the village of Murufiti. Police soon arrested 23 people in connection with the crimes.
(AFP, 10/10/14)
2014 Oct 6, Ukraine officials said 7 civilians and 5 government soldiers have been killed in the past day of clashes with pro-Russian insurgents despite a truce between the two sides.
(AFP, 10/6/14)
2015 Oct 6, US authorities charged John Ashe, a former president of the UN General Assembly, billionaire Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng (68) and four others, for engaging in a wide-ranging corruption scheme. John Ashe, the UN ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda, was the UN president in 2013.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, California Gov. Jerry Brown singed SB358, a bill known as the Fair Pay Act. It closed loopholes in existing antidiscrimination statutes and barred employers from paying women less than men when they do substantially similar work.
(SFC, 10/7/15, p.A1)
2015 Oct 6, Kevin Corcoran (1949), Disney child actor, died in Burbank. He played Moochie in the “Spin and Marty" seriels on the “Mickey Mouse Club" and Arliss Coates in the move “Old Yeller" (1957).
(SFC, 10/9/15, p.D2)
2015 Oct 6, Whitman McGowan (64), SF poet, died of brain cancer.
(SSFC, 10/11/15, p.C9)
2015 Oct 6, In Kentucky Spc. Kevin J. Rodriguez was shot and killed during a blank-firing training exercise at Fort Campbell.
(SFC, 7/21/16, p.A6)
2015 Oct 6, Texas executed convicted killer Juan Martin Garcia (35) for the 1998 shooting and robbery of Hugo Solano, a Christian missionary who had just moved with his family from Mexico. The robbery netted $8.
(SFC, 10/7/15, p.A7)
2015 Oct 6, The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Japanese researcher Takaaki Kajita and Canadian Arthur McDonald for discovering that tiny particles called neutrinos change identities as they whiz through the universe, proving that they have mass.
(AP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, A strain of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, linked to Costco chicken salads, began sickening 19 people in seven US states. It was believed to be more life-threatening than a later E. coli outbreak at northwestern Chipotle restaurants.
(SFC, 11/26/15, p.A10)
2015 Oct 6, In Afghanistan acting Kunduz Gov. Hamdullah Danishi said Taliban fighters on motorbikes have carried out hit-and-run attacks on Afghan forces trying to clear Kunduz city of insurgents. In Kabul at least 3 Taliban fighters were killed and seven policemen wounded in a 10-hour gun battle that began a day earlier.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said his country did not need a Russian military base.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Chad Boko Haram Islamists attacked government soldiers, killing 11 and wounding 13. The army said 37 Boko Haram fighters died in the fighting.
(AP, 10/6/15) (SFC, 10/8/15, p.A3)
2015 Oct 6, Human Rights Watch said top security and ruling party officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo appear to have "hired thugs" to attack peaceful demonstrators last month in Kinshasa.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Europe's top court ruled that data stored on US servers is potentially unsafe because of government spying, a blow to companies such as Facebook that might need to change the way they handle private data from the region. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the “safe-harbor" privacy pact between the European Union and America. It was originally signed in 2000 to bridge cultural and political differences regarding online privacy.
(AP, 10/6/15)(Econ, 10/10/15, p.61)
2015 Oct 6, The European Union's 28 finance ministers agreed to share details of tax deals their countries reach with big multinational companies. The rule would be enacted across the 28 member states by the start of 2017.
(AP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Arpad Goncz (93), Hungary's first democratically-elected president (1990-2000 and widely-respected former dissident, died.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Iraq and Syria the United States and its allies staged 23 air strikes on Islamic State forces in the latest daily round of attacks on the militant group.
(Reuters, 10/7/15)
2015 Oct 6, Israel demolished the houses of two Palestinians involved in attacks last year, reverting to a controversial measure it claims is a deterrent.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Myanmar’s army began clashing with the Shan State Army-North, one of the ethnic armed groups that did not sign an Oct 15 ceasefire deal. 37 clashes took place b October 19 with 7 SSA-N members killed. The army suffered an unspecified number of casualties.
(Reuters, 10/23/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Myanmar Bao Zhuoxuan (16), also known as Bao Mengmeng, and two men helping him were taken away by local police from a guest house in a border town. The son of a rights lawyer detained in China's sweeping crackdown on civil society disappeared after trying to escape to the United States. Zhuoxuan was later reported to be under 24-hour police surveillance at his grandparents' house in Inner Mongolia.
(AP, 10/10/15)(AP, 10/12/15)
2015 Oct 6, Nigeria reported the arrest of Atlantic Energy chairman Olajide Omokore on corruption and money laundering charges, as part of a widening graft investigation in Africa's biggest petroleum producer that has also netted former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, The Philippine Coast Guard spotted a body, debris and an oil slick in the high seas about 400 km west of Laoag. The yacht Europa carrying two Britons, an American, a Canadian and a Filipino disappeared while sailing in waters that were lashed by a storm last week.
(AP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, Russian strikes in Syria targeted the main weapons depots of Liwa Suqour al-Jabal, US-trained rebel group, in western Aleppo province and completely destroyed them.
(Reuters, 10/7/15)
2015 Oct 6, A Spanish judge withdrew the passport of former International Monetary Fund head Rodrigo Rato, who is under investigation for tax evasion, money laundering and concealing assets.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian strikes at Palmyra killed 15 Islamic State fighters and destroyed 20 vehicles and three weapons depots. Another 4 Islamic State fighters were reported killed near Raqqa. The Observatory said Russian jets carried out at least 34 air strikes in the last 24 hours. Russia’s defense ministry dismissed reports that its planes had launched air strikes against Palmyra.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and International Organization for Migration (IOM) said more than 114,000 people have fled war-torn Yemen, and the figure could reach at least 200,000 by the end of 2016.
(AFP, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Yemen unidentified assailants fired missiles at an Aden hotel housing Yemeni officials and at a Gulf military base in Aden. An unknown number of people were killed or injured in the attack. The Islamic State in Yemen claimed coordinated suicide bombings targeting the Yemeni government and the Arab military coalition in the southern city of Aden that killed 15 Arab and Yemeni troops.
(Reuters, 10/6/15)
2015 Oct 6, In Yemen an evening suicide bombing outside a mosque in the insurgent-held capital of Sanaa killed 7 people.
(AFP, 10/7/15)
2016 Oct 6, Pentagon officials said forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America.
(AP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Some three million people on the US southeast coast faced an urgent evacuation order as Hurricane Matthew bore down for a direct hit on Florida.
(AFP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Officials said fighting in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz has led to a "rapidly deteriorating" humanitarian situation, leaving thousands of people with limited access to food, water, or medical care. The UN said that as many as 10,000 refugees had arrived in Kabul and northern towns including Taloqan and Mazar-i-Sharif as Kunduz fell to the Taliban.
(Reuters, 10/6/16)(Reuters, 10/8/16)
2016 Oct 6, Aid agencies said fighting between rival armed groups and a string of attacks on humanitarians in northern Central African Republic has hindered the delivery of aid to about 120,000 people in need of food.
(Reuters, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Indian soldiers shot dead seven suspected militants who tried to attack two army bases in northern Kashmir, prompting anger from Pakistan as a crisis between the two neighbors over the disputed region grows.
(Reuters, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, In Italy a British woman (50) was subjected to multiple rapes in the Hotel Alimuri in Sorrento. In 2018 arrest warrants were issued for five workers at the hotel. Investigators had seized the cell phones of male personnel at the hotel and discovered that the suspects had chatted about the attack and exchanged photos taken of the woman while she was being raped. The employees had slipped her a date rape drug, filmed and took photos of the assault. Some were identified by tattoos on their bodies. In 2019 the five men were sentenced to prison terms of between four and nine years.
(The Telegraph, 12/15/19)(AP, 5/14/18)
2016 Oct 6, A Myanmar court sentenced Dutch citizen Klaas Haytema (30) to three months in prison for interfering with a religious observance by unplugging an amplifier blasting a late-night Buddhist sermon near his hotel in Mandalay. He had been arrested in late September after a crowd gathered around his hotel in protest when the loudspeakers at a nearby religious hall were turned off.
(AP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Pakistan passed long-awaited legislation closing a loophole that allowed people who killed for "honor" to walk free, three months after the murder of a social media star by her brother sparked international revulsion.
(AFP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, In Sudan doctors at government hospitals held a nationwide strike to demand better facilities, higher wages and protection from security forces.
(AFP, 10/6/16)
2016 Oct 6, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said his forces would recapture all of Syria, including Aleppo, in a television interview with Denmark's TV 2, but added he would prefer to do so using local deals and amnesties that would allow rebels to leave for other areas.
(Reuters, 10/6/16)
2017 Oct 6, In South Carolina two army privates were killed when a military vehicle struck a formation of soldiers at the Fort Jackson training base.
(SSFC, 10/8/17, p.A8)
2017 Oct 6, The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a group of mostly young activists pushing for a global treaty to ban the cataclysmic bombs.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, More Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar streamed toward the border, despite government assurances that it was stopping the massive exodus of refugees to Bangladesh.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Brazilian Olympic Committee president Carlos Nuzman (75) was suspended by the IOC, a day after being arrested in Rio de Janeiro and accused of storing gold bars in Switzerland.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, A British border guard was one of 12 people arrested in France and Britain as part of an operation against arms and drugs smuggling across the English Channel.
(Reuters, 10/9/17)
2017 Oct 6, Lawyers said Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company has agreed to pay damages to Ian Hurst, a former intelligence officer, whose computer was hacked in 2006 by detectives working for Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
(AP, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, Cambodia's government took initial legal steps to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the country's main opposition party, the latest in a series of moves to gain an advantage ahead of next year's general election.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In eastern Congo DRC militia fighters attacked a UN peacekeeping base, triggering clashes that left two of the fighters dead and two peacekeepers slightly wounded. Thirty-four rebels from a Mai-Mai militia have been killed in fighting with Congo's army in the past week.
(Reuters, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Czech airline Travel Service said it has acquired a majority stake in the national carrier, Czech Airlines, known as CSA. Travel Service reached a deal with the Czech state and Korean Air to buy their CSA stakes.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Danish navy divers found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor's homemade submarine.
(Reuters, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, The European Union and India agreed to step up cooperation in countering violent extremism and radicalization, particularly online, and in enhancing maritime security in the Indian Ocean and beyond in a joint declaration issued at the end of the 14th EU-India Summit.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In Indonesia dozens of men, including several foreigners, were arrested in a raid of a gay sauna in Jakarta, as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people faced increased hostility in the world's most-populous Muslim nation.
(AP, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, Iranian news website Tabnak said authorities have arrested Mahdi Jahangiri, the brother of the country's senior vice president, Eshaq Jahangiri, apparently over finance-related matters.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Japan-based automotive supplier Denso announced plans to invest $1 billion and create more than 1,000 new jobs in its main Tennessee facility to meet growing demand for electric vehicle parts.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Kenyan police fired tear gas at opposition protesters in Nairobi who were demanding that officials involved in August's canceled presidential election be sacked. Crowds had gathered in Nairobi, the port of Mombasa and Kisumu, the western stronghold of the opposition, for the second time this week.
(Reuters, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, A Libyan armed group claimed victory over Italian-backed militias paid to staunch the flow of migrants to Europe from the coastal city of Sabratha. The Anti-ISIS Operations Room, created last year to clear Sabratha of Islamic State militants, said in a statement that they have taken control of the city from the Martyr Anas al-Dabashi and Brigade 48 militias after a weeks-long battle.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, The Our Ocean conference concluded in the Maltese capital of Valletta. The global conference organized by the European Union aimed at better protecting marine life raised more than $7 billion.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In northern Mexico a federal intelligence agent and his mother were killed when assailants opened fire on their car in Chihuahua state. The attack came hours after Stalin Sanchez Gonzalez, the mayor of Paracho, Michoacan state, was gunned down outside his home.
(AP, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, In northern Mozambique suspected Islamists attacked a string of police stations in the small town of Mocimboa de Praia over the last 24 hours killing two policemen. 14 of the gunmen were slain. was believed to be the first jihadist attack on the country.
(AFP, 10/7/17)(AFP, 6/7/18)
2017 Oct 6, Polish officials say that a heavy storm that ravaged parts of western Poland has killed two people and injured 39. Tens of thousands of households were also without electricity after falling trees broke power lines when the storm hit overnight.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In Russia more than 130 fake bomb calls prompted the evacuation of some 100,000 people in the Moscow area.
(SFC, 10/7/17, p.A2)
2017 Oct 6, In Russia at least 16 people were killed when a train slammed into a bus that had broken down on a level crossing near the town of Pokrov, east of Moscow.
(AFP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Spain's government passed a law to make it easier for companies to move their operations around the country just as some businesses consider leaving the region of Catalonia amid a rising conflict over a plan for independence.
(Reuters, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In Sudan a Swiss humanitarian worker disappeared outside her home in the troubled Darfur region. Authorities believed a criminal gang was looking for a ransom.
(AP, 10/9/17)
2017 Oct 6, Syria's army and its allies neared al-Mayadin, pushing an advance on an eastern city seen as Islamic State's main remaining base in the country. Al-Qaida-linked fighters attacked Abu Dali in central Hama province, a key central Syrian village at the crossroads between areas under government control and those controlled by insurgents.
(Reuters, 10/6/17)(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, In Turkey Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks on bilateral relations and international issues.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, The Ukrainian parliament passed hotly-disputed bills regarding the rebel-controlled eastern territories following debates interrupted by scuffles.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, Pope Francis denounced the proliferation of adult and child pornography on the internet and demanded better protections for children online — even as the Vatican confronts its own cross-border child porn investigation involving a top papal envoy.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2017 Oct 6, The Legionaries of Christ, a Catholic religious order which fell into disgrace after the discovery that its founder was a sexual abuser with a secret family, was hit by fresh scandal with revelations that the head of its Rome seminary fathered two children. A statement said that Father Oscar Turrion would leave the priesthood.
(Reuters, 10/7/17)
2017 Oct 6, Vietnam’s government said that the party's elite Central Committee has dismissed Nguyen Xuan Anh (39) as city party secretary and removed him from the Central Committee for serious violations of party rules and failing to set an example as a senior party official.
(AP, 10/6/17)
2018 Oct 6, Conservative US judge Brett Kavanaugh (53) was confirmed to the Supreme Court by a 50-48 margin in the Senate, ending months of partisan rancor over his nomination and offering Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency.
(AFP, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, In upper New York state 20 people were killed, including two pedestrians, when a limo carrying 18 people to a birthday party crashed in Schoharie. Limousine operator Nauman Hussain was later charged with criminally negligent homicide. In 2021 Hussain was sentenced to five years probation and 1,000 hours of community service in a plea deal to spare families the emotional toll of a trial.
(SFC, 10/8/18, p.A7)(SFC, 10/11/18, p.A6)(SFC, 9/3/21, p.A5)
2018 Oct 6, In Afghanistan heavily armed Taliban fighters destroyed bridges near the central city of Ghazni, closing the main highway between the capital Kabul and southern Afghanistan. Five militants were killed as they were planting bombs on three bridges on the Kabul-Kandahar highway. Officials said at least 25 Taliban insurgents were killed and 17 were wounded in clashes to secure the highway linking Ghazni and Paktia provinces. At least two Afghan security forces were killed in Taliban attacks in Kabul.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Afghanistan 10 civilians were reported killed and 20 wounded in an air strike on Garda Serai district. US Forces denied it carried out the attack. The Taliban set fire to a government building in Wardak's Sayeed Abad district and killed the district police chief along with nine other policemen late today.
(AFP, 10/7/18)(Reuters, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Armenia Karo Karapetian, a former member of parliament, and Arutyun Karagezian, also a former lawmaker, met in a restaurant in Yerevan. A quarrel over unspecified financial issues broke out. Karapetian was shot and pronounced dead at a hospital. Karagezian was found dead the next day in a suspected suicide.
(AP, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, Bulgarian authorities discovered the body of television reporter Viktoria Marinova (30) in the northern town of Ruse near the Romanian border. Her body was dumped near the Danube River after she reported on the possible misuse of European Union funds in Bulgaria. Prosecutors later said Marinova had been raped, beaten and suffocated.
(AP, 10/8/18)(AP, 10/9/18)
2018 Oct 6, In eastern China 2 people were killed and 16 wounded after a knife-wielding man drove a vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians late today in Ningbo city, Zhejiang province.
(AP, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, In western CongoDRC at least 53 people were dead and more than 72 people hospitalized after a tanker truck collided with another truck in the village of Mbuba, Kongo Central province.
(AP, 10/7/18)(AP, 10/8/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Egypt US First Lady Melania Trump held talks in Cairo on the final leg of a solo four-nation tour of Africa that will also see her visit the Pyramids.
(AFP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, An Egyptian judge slapped a travel ban on Khaled Ali, a former presidential candidate and rights lawyer, over an ongoing investigation into funding for civil society groups.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Oil-rich Gabon, ruled by the same political dynasty for nearly half a century, voted in long-delayed legislative and municipal polls, the first since a presidential election two years ago that was marred by deadly violence and allegations of fraud.
(AFP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In western Germany thousands of environmentalists protested the expansion of a coal mine a day after a court blocked the felling of endangered Hambacher Forest near the site.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit Haiti late today killing at least 14 people with135 injured. At least seven people died in the coastal city of Port-de-Paix and three people died in the nearby community of Gros-Morne in the province of Artibonite.
(AP, 10/7/18)(Reuters, 10/8/18)
2018 Oct 6, In eastern India 34 schoolgirls aged between 12 and 16 were taken to hospital after being beaten with sticks by a group of boys, along with the boys' mothers and neighbors, who had harassed them earlier in the day in the village of Darpakha, Bihar state. Ten people, including four women, were arrested.
(Reuters, 10/8/18)
2018 Oct 6, Indonesia's disaster agency said the death toll from the powerful earthquake and tsunami has climbed to 1,649, with at least 265 people still missing. It also said that number could be higher.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Iranian businessman Farhad Zahedifar, CEO of the Samen Coin website, was returned to Iran with Interpol's help after he fled abroad. He accused of defrauding thousands of investors.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In northern Iraq at least one person was killed and 14 wounded when a bus carrying workers at the small Siniya oil refinery was blown up by an improvised explosive device in Salahuddin province. Three civilians and a policeman were injured when a parked car exploded in a market area in Falluja, Anbar province.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Israel announced new restrictions on Gaza, weeks after the territory's Hamas rulers stepped up protests along the enclave's land and sea borders with Israel. Israel's defence minister ordered the fishing zone to be reduced to six nautical miles (11 km) from nine nautical miles. Under the Oslo Accords of the early 1990s, fishermen are supposed to be allowed to operate up to 20 nautical miles off the coast.
(AP, 10/6/18)(AFP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Indian-controlled Kashmir at least 20 people were killed and 16 others injured when an overcrowded minibus fell into a deep gorge along a mountainous road near southern Ramban town.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Japan Tokyo's famed Tsukiji market, the world's largest fishmarket and a major tourist attraction, held its final tuna auction before a controversial move to a new site next week.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Latvians voted in a general election expected to yield a ruling coalition of pro-Kremlin and populist parties and tarnished by a hacker attack on a popular social network. The pro-Kremlin Harmony party won 19.8 percent of the vote ahead of two populist parties -- KPV LV with 14.25 percent and the New Conservative Party with 13.6 percent. The center-right Greens and Farmers Union of PM Maris Kucinskis won 9.9 percent and New Unity took 6.7 percent as the last party crossing the five-percent threshold to have seats in parliament.
(AFP, 10/6/18)(AFP, 10/7/18)
2018 Oct 6, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said the process of forming a government more than five months after a national election had returned "to zero", after saying earlier this week there had been a "glimmer of hope".
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Malaysian police said that eight suspected militants, including seven foreigners, have been arrested for allegedly spreading religious extremism that could threaten national security and fan terrorism in the region.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi launched an initiative to disarm and reintegrate the military wing of the country's main opposition party, Renamo, as part of efforts to bolster peace and security.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Romania began two days of voting on a constitutional amendment that would make it harder to legalize same-sex marriage. Romanian law already prohibits same-sex marriages.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In Somalia the US military's Africa Command (Africom) carried out an air strike in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow, north of the town of Kismayo. One militant was reported killed.
(Reuters, 10/9/18)
2018 Oct 6, Montserrat Caballe (85), Spanish opera singer, died in Barcelona. She was renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, In northern Syria an explosive device detonated in the town of Azaz held by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killing four people, including two children.
(AP, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, Two Turkey-backed Syrian rebel officials said that rebel groups had begun to withdraw heavy weaponry from a demilitarized zone in northwest Syria.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2018 Oct 6, The Vatican said Pope Francis has authorized a thorough study of Vatican archives into how American ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick advanced through church ranks despite allegations that he slept with seminarians and young priests.
(SSFC, 10/7/18, p.A6)
2018 Oct 6, Yemen's Houthi group arrested a number of people in Sanaa, following demonstrations over economic hardship. Dozens were reported arrested, including 16 female students.
(Reuters, 10/6/18)
2019 Oct 6, President Donald Trump announced his decision to pull back US troops from northern Syria. The White House issued a late-night statement that it was effectively abandoning the Kurds who did most of the fighting alongside US forces to drive Islamic State extremists from northern Syria.
(AP, 10/7/19)(AFP, 10/7/19)
2019 Oct 6, Warner Bros.' R-rated comic-book movie "Joker" scored $93.5 million over the weekend and stood as the biggest October launch of all time.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, In Kansas four people were killed and five wounded early today when one or two suspects opened fire inside the Tequila KC Bar in Kansas City. Police were hunting for the shooters. One of the two suspects was arrested this afternoon. The other remained at large.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)(AP, 10/7/19)
2019 Oct 6, It was reported that Nevada Officials are testing dead animals and monitoring migratory elk and deer at the state line with Utah for signs of chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious and terminal disorder that causes symptoms such as lack of fear of humans, lethargy and emaciation.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, In Austria man (25) turned himself in to police after allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend, her family and her new boyfriend in the Alpine resort town of Kitzbuehel.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, In Bangladesh Abrar Fahad (21) was killed at the dormitory of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), where he was a second-year student. He had written a Facebook post criticizing a government water deal with India.
(Reuters, 10/9/19)
2019 Oct 6, British rock music drummer Ginger Baker (b.1939), a co-founder of the 1960's supergroup Cream with bass player Jack Bruce and guitarist Eric Clapton, died. Cream was founded in 1966 and disbanded in 1968.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Chinese soldiers issued a warning to Hong Kong protesters who shone lasers at their barracks in the city, in the first direct interaction with mainland military forces in four months of anti-government demonstrations.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Hong Kong police fired tear gas as protesters defied an emergency law and marched wearing masks through the Chinese-controlled city.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news reported that Iran is planning to take legal action against the US for numerous alleged cyber attacks and threats on its networks.
(Bloomberg, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, The Iraqi government announced a series of reforms early today after an "extraordinary" session overnight in response to sweeping anti-government rallies that have left nearly 100 dead in less than a week. At least 18 people were killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and police in Baghdad overnight. Army soldiers fired in the direction of about 300 anti-government protesters who gathered in Sadr City suburb of Baghdad on the sixth day of unrest.
(AFP, 10/6/19)(Reuters, 10/6/19)(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he was seeking "non-aggression" agreements with Gulf Arab nations that do not formally recognize the country as a prelude to possible future peace deals.
(AFP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Teachers in Jordan ended their longest strike ever and are opening the school year four weeks late. A salary raise between 35-75% was secured depending on teacher ranks.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Kosovo held national elections. The main issues for the country's 1.9 million eligible voters included tackling corruption and normalizing relations with Serbia which would pave the way for UN membership. Vetevendosje (Albanian for “self-determination") won about 26% of the vote, and another opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), garnered close to 25%. This was the first election since Kosovo’s independence from Serbia in 2008 that didn’t give plurality support to the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), which received only 21%, largely because of the party’s poor record on fighting corruption.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)(Bloomberg, 10/7/19)
2019 Oct 6, Mauritius PM Pravind Kumar Jugnauth dissolved parliament and said the Indian Ocean island would hold a general election on November 7.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, North Korea said that it won't meet with the United States for more "sickening negotiations" unless it abandons its "hostile policy" against the North, as the two countries offered different takes on their weekend nuclear talks in Sweden.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Portugal began voting in an election that PM Antonio Costa's Socialists are expected to win without an outright majority, leaving the fate of potential allies as the main question. The center-left Socialist Party collected the most votes.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)(SFC, 10/7/19, p.A2)
2019 Oct 6, The Saudi Commission for Tourism & National Heritage posted the new requirements on Twitter, confirming an Oct. 4 report by the Saudi daily Okaz. New guidelines allowed women to rent hotel rooms without a male guardian's presence, and foreign men and women to share a room without proof of marriage.
(AP, 10/6/19)
2019 Oct 6, Tunisians voted for a new parliament but quiet polling stations gave an indication of the economic disillusionment that has emerged since the 2011 revolution and brought political newcomers to challenge established parties. Two polls estimated that Islamist party Ennahdha would win about 40 of the 217 seats in the Assembly of People's Representatives.
(Reuters, 10/6/19)(SFC, 10/7/19, p.A2)
2019 Oct 6, In Ukraine about 10,000 people including former president Petro Poroshenko gathered in central Kiev to protest a plan for broader autonomy for separatist territories ahead of a high-stakes summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
(AFP, 10/6/19)
2020 Oct 6, Pres. Donald Trump abruptly ended talks with Democrats on an economic stimulus bill. If he sticks to that position, it would extinguish hope for another pandemic aid bill before the election. The announcement sent markets falling, and airline stocks fared particularly poorly.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, The White House reversed course and allowed the release of new safety guidelines that make it unlikely a vaccine will be authorized by Election Day.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that another two US White House staffers have tested positive for COVID-19. Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and speechwriter, tested positive for the coronavirus. Miller is an architect of the president’s “America First" foreign policy and restrictive immigration measures.
(Reuters, 10/6/20)(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, The Department of Homeland Security warned that violent white supremacy was the “most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland" in an annual assessment that a former intelligence chief had accused the agency of withholding in deference to President Donald Trump.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, Top US military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went into quarantine after a senior Coast Guard official tested positive for the virus. The official, Adm. Charles Ray, had attended a White House reception with Trump 10 days ago, where people sat close together and without masks.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, The US, many European countries, Japan and others called on China to allow “unfettered access" to Xinjiang for independent observers including UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, and to urgently refrain from detaining Uighurs and members of other minorities. The 39 countries also urged China, in a joint statement read at a meeting of the General Assembly’s human rights committee, to uphold autonomy, rights and freedoms in Hong Kong.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that a ruling late last month from US District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton gives the IRS until Oct. 24 to reconsider the payments for those who were denied or had their money intercepted solely because of their incarceration.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, California to date had 837,102 cases of coronavirus and 16,199 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 106,094 cases and 1,583 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 7,495,674 with the death toll at 210,155.
(sfist.com, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Georgia's Gov. Brian Kemp approved a plan to put up a tall metal fence around the state capitol part as of a $5 million package that includes other security improvements at the building. Democrats swiftly condemned the plan, saying it shows a Republican leadership afraid of its own people.
(AP, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, The director of Michigan's state health department issued more orders reinstating coronavirus restrictions negated by a state Supreme Court ruling, saying he has "broad" legal authority to deal with the pandemic.
(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A8)
2020 Oct 6, A New York City neighborhood erupted in protests after Gov. Andrew Cuomo moved to reinstate restrictions on houses of worship, schools and businesses in areas where coronavirus cases are spiking. Hundreds of Orthodox Jewish men gathered in the streets of Borough Park, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, in some cases setting bonfires by burning masks.
(AP, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, Guitar player Eddie Van Halen (65) died of cancer. In 2012, Guitar World Magazine ranked him No. 1 on its list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, American singer Johnny Nash died at his home in Houston. His song "I Can See Clearly Now" topped the 1972 Billboard charts.
(SFC, 10/8/20, p.A6)
2020 Oct 6, Three scientists were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics today for their work on understanding black holes, which the committee called “one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe." The prize was awarded half to Roger Penrose of Britain for showing how black holes could form and half to Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of UCLA for discovering a supermassive object at the Milky Way’s center.
(NY Times, 10/6/20)(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A6)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that Tasmanian devils, the carnivorous marsupials whose feisty, frenzied eating habits won the animals cartoon fame, have returned to mainland Australia for the first time in some 3,000 years. The 11 most recently released devils began exploring their new home at the nearly 1,000-acre Barrington Tops wildlife refuge in New South Wales state.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it would ban the sale to retail investors of products tracking the price of crypto assets like Bitcoin, arguing that most people lost money on them. The ban, which prompted surprise and anger in the sector, will come into force on Jan. 6, 2021.
(Reuters, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Cyprus and Lebanon reaffirmed an agreement for Lebanese authorities to take back migrants aboard boats trying to reach Cypriot shores.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, French rescuers continued searching for 21 people missing flood victims in Alpine villages and on nearby French and Italian coasts. Authorities said corpses from cemeteries have been found around the Mediterranean shore, apparently swept down by violent rains.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Germany's government released a report saying its security services recorded mote than 1,400 cases of suspected far-right extremism among soldiers, police officers and intelligence agents in the three years ending in March.
(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A2)
2020 Oct 6, A neo-fascist party in Greece, Golden Dawn, was found guilty of running a criminal organization. A criminal court tied the party to multiple attacks, including the fatal stabbing of a left-wing rapper in 2013.
(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that about 200 workers have been infected with coronavirus at Hungarian energy group MOL's polyol plant being built in the eastern town of Tiszaujvaros.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Iran registered a record 4,151 new cases over the past 24 hours, a period in which 227 patients died. Iran has now reported 479,825 COVID-19 cases and 27,419 deaths.
(The Telegraph, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, In southern Iraq dozens of people were wounded in clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters during the annual Shiite Muslim pilgrimage of Arbaeen.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, The Central Election Commission of Kyrgyzstan declared the results of the Oct. 4 parliamentary election invalid a day after having awarded the majority of seats to two political parties with ties to the president, Sooronbai Jeenbekov sparking mass protests in Bishkek, and other cities. Opposition groups seized physical control of Parliament in protest of parliamentary elections they called rigged.
(AP, 10/6/20)(NY Times, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, In Libya a migrant worker from Nigeria was burned to death in Tripoli, the latest in abuses that migrants and refuges face in the conflict-stricken country. The alleged perpetrators, all in their 30s, were arrested and referred to prosecutors for investigation.
(AP, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, In Malaysia coronavirus cases spiked to a new daily record with 691 cases an d four new deaths.
(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A8)
2020 Oct 6, West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS lifted sanctions against Mali after PM Moctar Ouane announced the rest of the transitional government positions nearly two months after a military coup.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, The Russian military launched a successful test of the new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, giving Russian President Vladimir Putin something to smile about on his 68th birthday.
(AP, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, It was reported that tens of thousands of Muslims are descending upon Senegal's holy city this week for the annual Grand Magal pilgrimage, a tradition in West Africa that some fear could become a super-spreader event for COVID-19. The country has had more than 15,000 confirmed cases and 312 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Sri Lanka said 321 cases of coronavirus have been identified among garment workers in the suburbs of Colombo. The country has reported 3,471 infections and 13 deaths.
(SFC, 10/7/20, p.A8)
2020 Oct 6, In northern Syria an explosives-laden truck ignited on a busy street in the town of al-Bab controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens.
(AP, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) passed a resolution calling for the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reestablish formal diplomatic relations with the United States.
(The Daily Beast, 10/7/20)
2020 Oct 6, The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean must continue to ratchet up stimulus to beat back the devastating economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
(Reuters, 10/6/20)
2020 Oct 6, UN figures showed that the number of people hit by seasonal flooding in East Africa has increased more than five fold in four years. Nearly every state in Sudan has experienced heavy flooding and in neighboring South Sudan, 800,000 people have been affected with 368,000 people forced from their homes.
(BBC, 10/6/20)
2021 Oct 6, The Biden administration announced changes to the federal student loan forgiveness program that would allow thousands more public sector workers, including members of the military, to seek a reprieve on their educational debts. The new policies would affect an estimated 550,000 borrowers and give them an extra two years of progress toward forgiveness.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, US Supreme Court justices questioned why the US government will not allow Abu Zubaydah, a suspected high-ranking al Qaeda figure held at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to testify about his torture at the hands of the CIA.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Three US Supreme Court justices proposed that Abu Zubaydah, the first detainee the CIA subjected to brutal interrogation after 9/11, be allowed to testify about his treatment.
(NY Times, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, A federal judge granted the Justice Department’s request to halt enforcement of the recently passed Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state while the legal battle over the statute makes its way through the federal courts.
(NY Times, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco unveiled two new Justice Department enforcement initiatives aimed at targeting cryptocurrencies and government contractors who fail to report cyber breaches.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 43,971,311 with the death toll at 705,831.
(sfist.com, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, Heavy rain flooded parts of Alabama near Birmingham late today, killing at least one person, closing roads and prompting several water rescues after a flash-flood emergency was issued for several counties. By the next day at least 4 people reported killed.
(Reuters, 10/7/21)(SFC, 10/8/21, p.A6)
2021 Oct 6, The Los Angeles City Council approved a new law that will require proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, gyms and other indoor businesses.
(NY Times, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Case Breakers, group of volunteer sleuths made up of former investigative specialists, claimed to have identified the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious serial killers in the world, who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s. They allege that Gary Francis Poste (d.2018) was the Zodiac Killer, pointing to clues they uncovered over several years. The FBI said the claim is inaccurate.
(The Independent, 10/6/21)(NBC News, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, New Jersey man Khalil Wheeler-Weaver (25), who used dating apps to lure and kill three women five years ago, was sentenced to 160 years in prison. His trial revealed that friends of one victim did their own detective work on social media to ferret out the suspect.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Amazon-owned Twitch, a live-streaming platform for video gamers, said it has suffered a data breach. No further details were provided.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Pfizer Inc said it will study the effectiveness of its vaccine against COVID-19 by inoculating the whole population over the age of 12 in a town in southern Brazil.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, It was reported that two saponin molecules, made from the bark of branches pruned from older trees in Chile’s forests, are being used for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by drugmaker Novavax Inc. The chemicals are used to make adjuvant, a substance that boosts the immune system.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Benjamin List, a German chemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr, and David W.C. MacMillan, a Scottish chemist and a professor at Princeton University, for their development of a new tool to build molecules, work that has spurred advances in pharmaceutical research and lessened the impact of chemistry on the environment.
(NY Times, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Hundreds of Afghans flocked to the passport office in Kabul, just a day after news that it would re-open this week to issue the documents, while Taliban security men had to beat back some in the crowd in efforts to maintain order.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, British PM Boris Johnson rallied his Conservative party faithful, vowing a far-reaching overhaul to wean the UK economy off cheap foreign labor after Brexit.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, England's High Court ruled that Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (72) ordered the phones of his ex-wife, Princess Haya bint al-Hussein (47), and her lawyers to be hacked as part of a "sustained campaign of intimidation and threat" during the custody battle over their children. This came 19 months after the court concluded that Mohammed had abducted two of his daughters, mistreated them and held them against their will.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Britain reported 39,851 new cases of COVID-19, meaning cases reported between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6 were down by 2.0% compared with the previous seven days.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Amazon opened its first general store, called "4-star," outside the United States in a mall in Britain, selling the online retailer's most popular products including books, toys, games and consumer electronics.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Canadian officials said federal employees who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are not exempt from getting the shots will be put on administrative leave without pay. Domestic air, train and cruise ship travelers and workers will soon have to show proof of vaccination.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Chinese Estates Holdings, a major shareholder of embattled developer China Evergrande, said it had proposed to be taken private by Solar Bright Ltd for HK$1.91 billion ($245.30 million).
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, In CongoDRC a 3-year-old boy tested positive for Ebola near the eastern city of Beni, one of the epicenters of the 2018-2020 outbreak, and died from the disease.
(Reuters, 10/8/21)
2021 Oct 6, A court in Cyprus extended the detention of a man, arrested on Sept. 27, that Israel alleges was a would-be assassin recruited by Iran to attack Israeli businesspeople on the island.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The Czech Republic reported more than 1,000 new cases in one day for the first time since May 18.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Denmark and Sweden said they will pause the use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for younger age groups after reports of possible rare side effects, such as myocarditis.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The environmental law firm ClientEarth warned the European Union that it would be breaching its own laws if it labels investments in gas-fuelled energy as "green" in upcoming finance regulations.
(Reuters, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, Police in Germany carried out large-scale raids in 25 cities, after a chance discovery last year put investigators on the trail of a money-laundering network alleged to have funneled millions in ill-gotten gains abroad. They targeted 67 suspects, including 44 Syrians, 10 Germans, five Jordanians and four Lebanese. 11 people were arrested.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Germany repatriated 23 children and their eight mothers from the Roj camp in northeastern Syria this evening, while Denmark brought back 14 children and three women.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said that Germany has agreed to extend compensation to Jewish survivors who endured the World War II siege of Leningrad and two other groups who had not received any monthly pensions from Germany.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Guinea's military junta named Mohamed Beavogui (68), a former civil servant and expert in agricultural finance, as prime minister to preside over a promised transition back to democratic rule following a coup in September.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam's annual policy address, the last in her current term, mapped out priorities for the former British colony. Her plans included a Northern Metropolis on the border with the mainland's technology hub of Shenzhen, covering 300 square km.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Indonesia conducted its first test flight using jet fuel partially from palm oil, as the country plans to commercialize the fuel as it seeks creative ways to use the edible oil domestically.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Iraq signed a contract with Masdar, a UAE-based renewable energy developer to build five solar power plants in the oil-rich country with a chronic energy problem.
(AP, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, Libyan health authorities started to vaccinate migrants in the country against the coronavirus, in cooperation with the UN migration agency.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, New Zealand's central bank hiked interest rates for the first time in seven years, becoming the second major developed economy to raise rates and one of several to dial back hefty stimulus unleashed in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Tens of thousands of Palestinians lined up outside chambers of commerce across the Gaza Strip, hoping to get permits to work inside Israel after rumors circulated that more would be issued to residents of the territory.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Peru's President Pedro Castillo swore in Mirtha Vasquez, a left-wing former head of Congress, as prime minister, replacing her predecessor who resigned after two months in the job, as the administration grapples with political instability.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, An indigenous community in Peru's Espinar province that blocked a key mining road said it plans to continue the blockade indefinitely, a local leader said, in protest against the government and Glencore PLC's Antapaccay copper mine.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Philippines human rights groups staged protests to denounce an attempt by the son and namesake of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to return his family to power by vying for the presidency.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Poland's central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates as the central European nation faces an accelerating inflation rate that is currently the highest in the EU.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Russian authorities said they had fired five senior prison officials and opened a slew of criminal investigations into alleged torture and sexual assaults at a jail in the Saratov region.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Russia's sovereign fund RDIF said the UAE has authorized the Russia-developed one-shot Sputnik Light as both a standalone COVID-19 vaccine and a booster shot.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, Slovakia reported 1,971 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily tally since March 23.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, In Ukraine the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial center revealed the initial 159 names of hundreds of Nazi troops who took part in the Babi Yar massacre on Sept. 29-30, 1941, when 33,771 Jews were murdered.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The UN cultural agency said India's school closures and its children's lack of smartphone and internet facilities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic have worsened an educational divide.
(Reuters, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, United Nations veteran diplomat Staffan de Mistura was named as the organization's envoy to the Western Sahara conflict, nearly two and a half years after the post had become vacant as a dozen other candidates were rejected by either Morocco or the Polisario Front rebel movement.
(AP, 10/7/21)
2021 Oct 6, The World Health Organization recommended that the world’s first malaria vaccine should be given to children across Africa.
(AP, 10/6/21)
2021 Oct 6, The World Health Organization said it has started shipping COVID-19 medical supplies into North Korea, a possible sign that the North is easing one of the world’s strictest pandemic border closures to receive outside help.
(AP, 10/6/21)
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