Today in History - November 1
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79AD Nov 1,
Pompeii was buried by eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. [see Aug 24]
(HN, 11/1/98)
636 Nov 1, Nicholas
Boileau-Despreaux, French poet, was born. He was also a critic and
official royal historian and wrote "Lutrin. "
(HN, 11/1/99)
834 Nov 1, This day was
declared to be All Saints’ Day by the Catholic Church. [see
835AD]
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C2)
835 Nov 1, After the
spread of Christianity through the west, the Roman Catholic Church
in 835 A.D. made November 1 a church holiday to honor all the
saints. This celebration was called All Saint's Day or All Hallows
and the day before it--October 31--was called All Hallow's Eve
(later Halloween). Pope Gregory extended the Feast of All Saints on
Nov 1 to France and Germany. [see 834AD]
(PTA, 1980, p.204)(HNPD, 10/31/99)
846 Nov 1, Louis II, the
Stutterer, King of France (877-79), was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1210 Nov 1, King John of
England began imprisoning Jews.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1349 Nov 1, Duke of Brabant
ordered the execution of all Jews in Brussels. He accused them of
poisoning the wells.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1355 Nov 1, During the
Hundred Years’ War (1337-1457) an English invasion army under Black
Prince Edward (25) landed at Calais.
(DoW, 1999, p.213)(PC, 1992 ed, p.131)
1470 Nov 1, Edward V, King of
England, was born. [see Nov 3]
(HN, 11/1/98)
1500 Nov 1, Benvunuto Cellini
(d.1571), Italian goldsmith and sculptor, was born. His 1545
autobiography greatly influenced the Renaissance.
(HN, 11/1/00)(WSJ, 2/14/00, p.A20)
1512 Nov 1, Michelangelo's
paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were completed and
first exhibited to the public.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.10)(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)
1535 Nov 1, Francesco Sforza,
Italian ruler ("Il Sforza del Destino") Milan, died.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1582 Nov 1, Maurice of Nassau,
the son of William of Orange, became the governor of Holland,
Zeeland and Utrecht.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1604 Nov 1, William
Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first presented at Whitehall
Palace in London.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1611 Nov 1, Shakespeare's
romantic comedy "The Tempest" was first presented at Whitehall.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1630 Nov 1-1630 Nov 30, In
Italy 12,000 inhabitants of Venice died of plague. 80,000 people
died over a period of 17 months.
(WSJ, 9/7/05,
p.D14)(www.turismovenezia.it/eng/dynalay.asp?PAGINA=913)
1636 Nov 1, Nicholas Boileaus,
French poet and historian, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1672 Nov 1, Heinrich
Schutz (87), composer, died. Pupil of Giovanni Gabrielli from
1609-1672, he was employed by the Elector of Saxony in 1615 and
became Kapellmeister two years later. While employed by the Elector,
Schütz made several visits to Italy and served three two-year
terms as guest court conductor in Copenhagen. Schütz's works
include one opera (a first in the German language), Easter and
Christmas oratorios, three passions, numerous polychoral Psalm
settings in the style of his teacher, Gabrielli, other sacred
concerted works in Latin and German, and Italian madrigals.
(http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/schutz.html)
1688 Nov 1, William of Orange
set sail for England at the head of a fleet of 500 ships and 30,000
men. He intended too oust his father-in-law King James II. The Dutch
parliament, the States General, funded William with 4 million
guilders. Amsterdam financiers provided another 2 million. Some of
this was used to print 60,000 copies of his “Declaration” (of the
reasons inducing him to appear in arms in the Kingdom of England),
which were distributed in England. In 2008 Lisa Jardine authored
“Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory.”
(WSJ, 8/28/08, p.A13)
1748 Nov 1, Christoph Rheineck,
composer, was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1750 Nov 1, Giuseppe Sammartini
(55), composer, died.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1755 Nov 1, An 8.7 earthquake
hit Lisbon, Portugal, and killed some 70,000 people. Heavy damage
resulted from ensuing fires and tsunami flooding in Morocco and
nearly a quarter of a million people were killed. In 2008 Nicholas
Shrady authored “The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin and Reason in the Great
Lisbon Earthquake.”
(HN,
11/1/98)(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmosde.html)(Econ,
4/5/08, p.86)
1757 Nov 1, Antonio Canova
(d.1822), Italian sculptor, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Canova)
1762 Nov 1, Spencer Perceval,
British Prime Minister, was born.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1765 Nov 1, The Stamp Act went
into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)
1769 Nov 1-1769 Nov 3, Sgt.
Jose Francisco Ortega with his scouting party first looked upon SF
Bay from the vicinity of Point Lobos.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, p.W4)
1776 Nov 1, Father Junipero
Serra arrived at the site of Mission of San Juan Capistrano and
re-founded it. His mission was to convert the members of the
Acagchemem tribe called Juanenos by the Spaniards. The tribe at the
time was experiencing the end of a 7-year draught.
(HT, 3/97,
p.58)(http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/missioncalifornia/a/capistranohist.htm)
1783 Nov 1, Continental Army
dissolved and George Washington made his "Farewell Address." [See
Nov 2]
(MC, 11/1/01)
1784 Nov 1, Maryland granted
citizenship to Lafayette and his descendents.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1798 Nov 1, Benjamin Lee
Guinness, Irish brewer and Dublin mayor, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)(MC, 11/1/01)
1800 Nov 1, John and Abigail
Adams moved into “the President’s House” in Washington DC. It became
known as the White House during the Roosevelt administration.
(SFEC, 5/7/00, p.T8)(MC, 11/1/01)
1815 Nov 1, Crawford Williamson
Long, surgeon and pioneer (use of ether), was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1818 Nov 1, James Renwick,
architect, was born. His work included St. Patrick’s Cathedral in
NYC.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1828 Nov 1, Balfour Steward,
Scottish physicist and meteorologist, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1834 Nov 1, The 1st published
reference to poker was as Mississippi riverboat game.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1835 Nov 1, Godfrey Weitzel,
(Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884), was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1854 Nov 1, Fr. Anthony
Maraschi, SJ, arrived in San Francisco along with Fr. Charles
Messea, SJ, and Fr. Aloysius Masnata, SJ.
(GenIV, Winter 04/05)
1861 Nov 1, Lieutenant General
Winfield Scott, 50 year veteran and leader of the U.S. Army at the
onset of the Civil War, retired. Gen. George B. McClellan was made
General-in-Chief of the Union armies.
(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)
1866 Nov 1, Belle Starr
[née Myra Maybelle Shirley], “Bandit Queen” and wild woman of
the west, married James C. Reed (d.1874) in Collins County, Texas.
(www.thehistorynet.com/we/blbanditqueenbellestar/)
1866 Nov 1, 1st Civil Rights
Bill passed.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1867 Nov 1, "Harpers Bazaar"
published.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1869 Nov 1, Louis Riel seized
Fort Garry, Winnipeg, during the Red River Rebellion. Louis Riel,
Metis leader, helped stage an uprising against the influx of white
settlers in Manitoba that resulted in a provisional government that
he led. Manitoba was admitted as Canada’s 5th province and the Metis
were allocated 1.4 million acres of land, but Riel fled charged with
failing to stop the execution of Thomas Scott, an English Protestant
captured during the fighting.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.B2)(HN, 11/1/98)(Reuters,
11/22/02)
1870 Nov 1, The U.S. Weather
Bureau made its first meteorological observations, using reports
gathered by telegraph from 24 locations.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1871 Nov 1, Steven Crane, poet
and novelist, was born. He is best remembered as the author of “The
Red Badge of Courage” (1895), a realistic portrayal of one soldier's
Civil War battle experience. Crane's novels and short stories, which
were influenced by the French Naturalistic writers, showed
individuals at the mercy of natural and social forces. In the early
1890s Crane became a freelance writer in the Bowery area of New York
City and, resulting from his firsthand observation of poverty in the
slums, he wrote “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” (1893), a book
considered shocking at the time. Crane covered the Greco-Turkish War
in 1897 and the Spanish-American War in 1898 as a news
correspondent. His later short-story collections, such as “The Open
Boat” and “Other Tales of Adventure” (1898), are recognized as
masterpieces of the form. Stephen Crane died of tuberculosis in 1900
at the age of 28.
(WSJ, 8/6/98, p.A13)(HNPD, 11/1/98)(HN, 11/1/98)
1880 Nov 1, Sholem Asch,
Polish-born American novelist, was born. He wrote "The Nazarene" and
"The Apostle, Mary."
(HN, 11/1/99)
1880 Nov 1, Grantland Rice,
American sportswriter, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1880 Nov 1, Alfred L Wegener,
German meteorologist (continental shift), was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1894 Nov 1, A vaccine for
diphtheria was announced by Dr. Roux of Paris.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1896 Nov 1, The 1st bare women
breast (Zulu) appeared in National Geographic Mag.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1902 Nov 1, Nordahl Brun Greig,
Norwegian writer, was born. He was a wartime hero during WWII.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1902 Nov 1, Eugen Jochum,
German conductor (Hamburg Orch), was born in Babenhausen, Bavaria.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1904 Nov 1, George Bernard
Shaw's "John Bull's Other Island," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1909 Nov 1, In San Francisco a
ban on cows went into effect, except for a narrow district that was
set apart for handling cattle to be slaughtered. A new ordnance made
it unlawful to keep more than 2 cows and provided that when 2 cows
are kept within city limits, at least an acre of land must be
provided for their pasturage.
(SSFC, 3/22/09, DB p.50)
1911 Nov 1, Italian planes
performed the first aerial bombing on Tanguira oasis in Libya. Lt.
Giulio Cavotti dropped a hand grenade on an oasis outside of
Tripoli. In 2001 Sven Lindqvist authored “A History of Bombing.”
(HN, 11/1/98)(SFC, 4/22/01, BR p.3)
1914 Nov 1, Von Hindenburg was
named marshal of Eastern front.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1914 Nov 1, German and British
fleets battled at Coronel, Chile.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1917 Nov 1, First US soldiers
were killed in combat in WW I.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1918 Nov 1, During a
wildcat strike a replacement motorman, behind schedule, was speeding
a Brighton Beach bound train down what is today the Franklin Avenue
shuttle. The train derailed on a curve and hit a tunnel wall on the
approach to the Prospect Park Station. 102 died in a NYC BMT subway
derailment at Malbone Street, Brooklyn.
(www.bmt-lines.com/history.html)
1918 Nov 1, Yugoslav battleship
Viribus Unitis was sunk by Italians.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1920 Nov 1, Eugene O'Neill's
"Emperor Jones," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1922 Nov 1, The Ottoman Empire
ended as Turkey’s Grand National Assembly abolished the sultanate.
In 2006 Caroline Finkel authored “Osman’s Dream: The History of the
Ottoman Empire.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire)(WSJ, 4/11/06, p.D8)
1923 Nov 1, Victoria de Los
Angeles, Spanish opera soprano, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1923 Nov 1, Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company bought the rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1924 Nov 1, Victoria de los
Angeles, soprano (Mimi-La Boheme), was born in Spain.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1924 Nov 1, Bill
Tilghman (b.1854), legendary Oklahoma marshal, was gunned down by a
drunk in Cromwell, Oklahoma, while trying to arrest Wiley Lynn, a
corrupt prohibition officer.
(HN,
11/1/98)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtilghman.htm)
1928 Nov 1, The Graf Zeppelin
set an airship distance record of 6384 km (3,966 mls).
(MC, 11/1/01)
1930 Nov 1, Albert Ramsdell
Gurney, American playwright, was born. His work included “Love
Letters” and “The Dining Room.”
(HN, 11/1/00)
1931 Nov 1, Dupont introduced
synthetic rubber. [see Nov 3]
(MC, 11/1/01)
1932 Nov 1, Werner von Braun
was named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1934 Nov 1, Jeanette MacDonald
arrived in San Francisco for the upcoming premier of “The Merry
Widow,” in which she co-starred with Maurice Chevalier.
(SSFC, 11/1/09, DB p.42)(TVM, 1977, p.470)
1935 Nov 1, T.S. Eliot's
"Murder in the Cathedral," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1936 Nov 1, The Rodeo Cowboy’s
Association was founded.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1936 Nov 1, In a speech in
Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini described the alliance between his
country and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and
Berlin after Count Ciano’s visit to Germany.
(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)
1938 Nov 1, Seabiscuit raced
against Triple Crown War Admiral at Pimlico and won the match race.
In 2001 Laura Hillenbrand authored “Seabiscuit: An American Legend.”
Over 6 years the horse won 33 victories with record earnings of
$437,730.
(WSJ, 3/9/00, p.W9)
1938 Nov 1, German
colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retired.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1939 Nov 1, The 1st animal, a
rabbit, conceived by artificial insemination was displayed.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1939 Nov 1, 1st jet plane, a
Heinkel He 178, was demonstrated to German Air Ministry.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1940 Nov 1, 1st US air raid
shelter was made in Fleetwood, Pa.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1940 Nov 1, The Iceland skating
rink opened in Berkeley, Ca., with an appearance by Sonya Henie, the
former Olympic champion and Hollywood actress. The facility closed
in 2007.
(SFC, 1/19/07, p.B2)
1941 Nov 1, Japanese marine
staff officers Suzuki and Maejima arrived in Pearl Harbor.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1941 Nov 1, Chetniks attacked
Tito's partisans in Uzice, Yugoslavia.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1942 Nov 1, The 10th day of
battle at El Alamein (Egypt).
(MC, 11/1/01)
1943 Nov 1, American troops
invaded Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1944 Nov 1, "Harvey," a comedy
by Mary Coyle Chase about a man and his invisible friend, a
6-foot-tall rabbit, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1944 Nov 1, Gen. Patton greeted
the 761st Tank Battalion, an all black unit, near Nancy, France.
They had no day off until linking Russian allies on May 5, 1945.
(SSFC, 5/30/04, p.B4)
1945 Nov 1, John H. Johnson
published the first issue of Ebony magazine.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1947 Nov 1, Man O' War (Big
Red), racehorse and triple crown winner, died.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1948 Nov 1, During the
Chinese Civil War (1945-1949) Mao's Red army conquered Mukden,
Manchuria.
(DoW, 1999, p.113)
1950 Nov 1, Two members of a
Puerto Rican nationalist movement, Oscar Collazo and Griselio
Torresola, tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington
to assassinate President Truman. The attempt failed, and one of the
pair Griselio Torresola, was shot dead. On July 24, 1952, Truman
commuted Collazo’s death sentence to life imprisonment, on the same
day he signed an act enlarging the self-government of Puerto Rico.
In 2005 Stephen Hunter authored “American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill
Harry Truman.”
(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)(HNQ, 1/24/02)(WSJ,
11/8/05, p.D8)
1951 Nov 1, Johnny Mercer's
"Top Banana," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1951 Nov 1, A new US federal
law took effect that required bookies, lottery operators and
punchboard dealers to purchase a $50 gambling stamp.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.G6)
1951 Nov 1, The 1st atomic
explosion, witnessed by troops, was at Yucca Flat, Nevada. Members
of the 1st Battalion, 188th Airborne Infantry Regiment from Ft.
Campbell, Kentucky, were the first unwitting test participants to be
sent to that facility by the Atomic Energy Commission and The
Department of Defense in a series of nuclear tests, code named
"Buster-Jangle."
(www.angelfire.com/tx/atomicveteran/exposed.html)
1951 Nov 1, The Algerian
National Liberation Front began guerrilla warfare against the
French.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1952 Nov 1, The United
States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Ivy Mike," in a
test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. The elements Einsteinium
and Fermium were discovered in the debris of the 1st hydrogen bomb
test. In 2002 Greg Herken authored "Brotherhood of the Bomb: the
Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence
and Edward Teller."
(AP, 11/1/07)(NH, 7/02, p.35)(SSFC, 10/12/02,
p.M1)(SFC, 7/3/10, p.C4)
1954 Nov 1, The US Senate
admonished Joseph McCarthy for his slander campaign.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1954 Nov 1, Algerian
nationalists began their successful eight-year rebellion against
French rule. [see Oct 31]
(AP, 11/1/06)
1954 Nov 1, General Fulgencio
Batista was elected president of Cuba.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1955 Nov 1, A time bomb aboard
United DC-6 killed 44 above Longmont, Colorado. Jack Gilbert Graham
rigged a time bomb for the Denver to Seattle flight and put it into
his mother’s suitcase in order to collect the insurance money.
Graham was executed in the gas chamber Jan 11, 1957.
(MC, 11/1/01)(AWC, 1982)
1955 Nov 1, Dale Carnegie
(b.1888), author of “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
(1937), died of Hodgkin’s disease. In 2006 he was inducted into the
Hall of Famous Missourians in Jefferson City, Missouri; joining the
likes of Harry S Truman and Walt Disney.
(http://tinyurl.com/m73my)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie)
1956 Nov 1, Walter Brattain,
John Bardeen and William Shockley were awarded the Nobel Prize in
physics for the invention of the transistor. The trio invented the
transistor in 1948 at the Bell Laboratories. William Schockley,
co-developer of the transistor, founded Schockley Semiconductor
Laboratory in Palo Alto this year. Two of his hires, Robert Noyce
and Gordon Moore, later went on to start Intel Corp. Tim Jackson in
1998 published "Inside Intel."
(SFEC, 8/17/97, BR p.4)(WSJ, 2/13/98, p.A13)(HNQ,
12/23/99)
1956 Nov 1, The Nagy government
of Hungary withdrew from the Warsaw Pact.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1956
Nov 1, Pietro Badoglio (85), Italian general (1922-43), Premier of
Italy (1943-44), died.
(www.fact-index.com/p/pi/pietro_badoglio.html)
1957 Nov 1, World longest
suspension bridge opened in Mackinac Straits, Mich.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1959 Nov 1, Patrice Lumumba was
arrested in the Belgian Congo.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1960 Nov 1, US Pres. Eisenhower
announced that the US would take all steps necessary to defend its
naval base at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay.
(AH, 4/07, p.18)
1961 Nov 1, Pres. J.F. Kennedy
signed executive order 10971 creating a board of three members to
investigate a dispute between TWA and certain of its employees.
(www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/jfkeo/eo/10971.htm)
1961 Nov 1, A prohibition on
tattooing went into effect in NYC because of its role in the spread
of hepatitis.
(SSFC, 10/9/11, DB p.42)
1962 Nov 1, Greece entered the
European Common Market.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1962/index_en.htm)
1962 Nov 1, The Russian Mars 1
Flyby was launched but communications failed en route.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1963 Nov 1-1963 Nov 2, South
Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother were assassinated
in a military coup. Coup leader Duong Van Minh explained that "They
had to be killed… Pres. Diem was too much respected among simple,
gullible people in the countryside." A 3rd brother was later tricked
into surrendering to US forces and was turned over to coup leaders
and killed by firing squad. Col. Nguyen Van Thieu helped organize
the coup that killed Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem.
(AP, 11/2/97)(SFEM, 4/11/99, p.42)(SFEC, 4/23/00,
p.A19)(SFC, 10/1/01, p.B2)
1964 Nov 1, The Vietcong
assaulted the Bien Hoa airport at Saigon, South Vietnam.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1965 Nov 1, In Cairo,
Egypt, a trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1968 Nov 1, Lyndon B. Johnson's
halt to bombing in Vietnam went into effect at 8 AM, Washington
time.
(www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/681031.asp)
1968 Nov 1, The Motion Picture
Association of America unveiled its new voluntary film rating
system: G for general audiences, M for mature audiences (later
changed to GP, then PG), R for restricted audiences, and X (later
changed to NC-17) for adults only.
(AP, 11/1/08)
1968 Nov 1, Georgios Papandreou
(b.1888), Greek minister and 3-time premier, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Papandreou,_senior)
1970 Nov 1, A discotheque near
Grenoble, France, burned. All exits were padlocked and 142 people
died.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/newsid_2537000/2537937.stm)
1971 Nov 1, The Eisenhower
dollar was put into circulation.
(www.coinresource.com/guide/photograde/pg_$1ike.htm)
1972 Nov 1, Ezra Pound
(b.1885), American poet, died in Italy. In 2007 A. David Moody
authored “Ezra Pound: Poet: The Young Genius 1885-1920.”
(Econ, 10/20/07,
p.117)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound)
1973 Nov 1, In the wake of the
Saturday Night Massacre, Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork
appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor,
succeeding Archibald Cox.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1974 Nov 1, Yuko Shimizu,
Sanrio designer and creator of Hello Kitty, set Nov 1 as Hello
Kitty’s birthday and her parents as George and Mary White of London.
(SSFC, 12/26/04, p.M2)
1974 Nov 1, The UN General
Assembly unanimously passed the first of countless resolutions
calling all states to respect the sovereignty, independence,
territorial integrity and non-alignment of the Republic of Cyprus.
(www.cyprus-conflict.net/Greek%20v%20Turk%20narr%20-%201974.htm)
1975 Nov 1, Pier Paolo Pasolini
(b.1922), Italian poet, author and director was murdered. A young
male prostitute was tried and convicted for the murder in 1976.
(http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pasolini.htm)
1978 Nov 1, The Carter
administration announced a multipart support package for the US
dollar. The Treasury planned to use gold sales, foreign borrowing
and a draw on reserves with the IMF to defend the dollar. The
Federal Reserve raised the discount rate a full point.
(WSJ, 1/18/05, p.A1)
1978 Nov 1, The US Dept. of
Justice filed its first statement of contentions and proof, settling
out detailed charges against AT&T, which eventually led to its
breakup.
(www.porticus.org/bell/att_divestiture.html#chroniclenewsupdate)
1978 Nov 1, In Dallas, Texas,
Jonathan Bruce Reed attacked Wanda Jean Wadle and her roommate,
Kimberly Pursley. He'd apparently entered their apartment by posing
as a maintenance man. In 1979 Reed was convicted and condemned to
death for the rape-slaying of Wanda Jean Wadle at her apartment. In
2009 an appeals court ruled that Reed could be freed because
prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from his jury in the belief
that blacks empathize with defendants.
(AP, 1/14/09)
1978 Nov 1, Uganda, following
its invasion into Tanzania, formally annexed a section across the
Kagera River boundary.
(www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr75/ftanzaniauganda1978.htm)
1979 Nov 1, The tanker Burmah
Agate, spilled 10.7 million gallons of oil off Galveston Bay, Texas,
in US's worst oil spill disaster.
(http://tinyurl.com/2jwxd3)
1979 Nov 1, Mamie Doud
Eisenhower (b.1896), wife of former Pres. "Ike" Eisenhower, died at
a family farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
(AP,
11/1/99)(www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/me34.html)
1980 Nov 1, Conservative Edward
Seaga (b.1930) began serving as PM of Jamaica. He defeated Michael
Manley as Jamaica was nearly bankrupt, and became a close ally of US
Pres. Reagan. Seaga served as PM for the Labor Party until 1989.
(SFC, 3/8/96,
p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Seaga)
1981 Nov 1, Antigua and Barbuda
gained independence from Britain.
(http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/Antigua/antigua-barbuda.html)
1983 Nov 1, IBM released PC DOS
version 2.1.
(http://www.e-articles.info/e/a/title/DOS-Versions/)
1983 Nov 1, Anthony van Hoboken
(b.1887), Dutch musicologist, died in Zurich. He is best known for
his Haydn Catalog (1957).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_van_Hoboken)
1984 Nov 1, Norman Krasna
(b.1909), American writer and film producer, died of a heart attack.
The 1947 film “Dear Ruth” was based on his writings.
(www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ja-Kr/Krasna-Norman.html)
1985 Nov 1, Phil Silvers
(b.1911), American comedic actor (Sgt. Bilko), died in his sleep.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Silvers)
1986 Nov 1, In Japan seven
charred bodies of women of the cult Friends of Truth were found on a
beach. Their leader had recently died in a hospital.
(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A19)
1986 Nov 1, A fire in a Sandoz
factory in Basel left 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine.
(http://tinyurl.com/yhsjad)
1987 Nov 1, Ibrahim Hussein of
Kenya won the New York City Marathon in two hours, 11 minutes and
one second; Priscilla Welch of Britain led the women in two hours,
30 minutes and 16 seconds.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1987 Nov 1, Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping retired from the Communist Party's Central Committee.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1987 Nov 1, Rene Levesque
(b.1922), Quebec premier (1976-85), died at age 65.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4258)
1988 Nov 1, Israeli voters went
to the polls in parliamentary elections that resulted in a narrow
victory for the right-wing Likud bloc, requiring the creation of a
coalition government.
(AP, 11/1/98)
1989 Nov 1, East Germany
reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands
of refugees to flee to the West.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1989 Nov 1, A Scandinavian
Airlines System (SAS) and Finnair ban on smoking took effect for all
Nordic flights.
(http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/13/suppl_1/i20)
1990 Nov 1, During a trip to
Orlando, Florida, President Bush accused Iraqi forces of engaging in
“barbarism” and “brutality,” adding, “I don’t believe that Adolf
Hitler ever participated in anything of that nature.”
(AP, 11/1/00)
1991 Nov 1, Clarence Thomas
took his place as the newest justice on the US Supreme Court.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1991 Nov 1, The 3-day session
of the Middle East peace conference recessed in Madrid, Spain. The
conference led to Israeli deals with Jordan and the Palestinians and
established the principle of land for peace.
(AP,
11/1/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Conference_of_1991)(Econ,
5/24/08, p.68)
1992 Nov 1, The space shuttle
Columbia landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla., ending a 10-day mission
that included the deployment of an Italian satellite.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1993 Nov 1, In an address to
pediatricians, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton accused insurance
companies of waging a deceitful campaign against the
administration's health plan.
(AP, 11/1/98)
1993 Nov 1, The space shuttle
Columbia landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending a
two-week mission.
(AP, 11/1/98)
1994 Nov 1, The US Senate
Intelligence Committee released a report saying CIA Director R.
James Woolsey's response to the Aldrich Ames spy case was "seriously
inadequate," but that his predecessors were ultimately to blame for
the scandal.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1994 Nov 1, In Cherry Hill,
Pa., Len Jenoff and Paul Daniels clubbed to death Carol Neulander
(52), the wife of Rabbi Fred J. Neulander (53), under a contract
from Rabbi Neulander. Neulander stood trial in 2001 in New Jersey.
He was convicted of murder Nov 20, 2002 and sentenced to life in
prison.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A18)(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A6)(SFC,
11/23/02, p.A4)
1994 Nov 1, Syd Dernley (73),
British hangman, died. In 1989 he authored “The Hangman's Tale:
Memoirs of a Public Executioner.”
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1994/misc.html)(www.smsfx.com/author/Syd-Dernley/)
1995 Nov 1, The US House voted
to ban so-called “partial birth” abortions by a vote of 288-to-139.
(AP, 11/1/00)
1995 Nov 1, Bosnia peace talks
for the countries of the former Yugoslavia were launched in Dayton,
Ohio, with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 11/1/00)
1996 Nov 1, Accused of peddling
access to the Oval Office, President Clinton demanded an end to what
he called the "escalating arms race" for political money. Bob Dole
countered with his own solutions to "a growing scandal" of
Democratic financial sins.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1996 Nov 1, In Burma the
government program to attract visitors “Visit Myanmar Year” began
with tighter security measures.
(SFEC, 11/10/96, p.T5)
1996 Nov 1, In the Dominican
Republic Pres. Fernandez fired his commander-in-chief Lt. Gen’l.
Juan Bautista Rojas Tobar after he was accused of involvement in the
1994 slaying of Narciso Gonzalez.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.A9)
1996 Nov 1, In Germany a new
law governing store hours will take effect. Bakeries will be allowed
to sell fresh bread on Sunday mornings, though other stores must
remain closed.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A12)
1996 Nov 1, In Guatemala a
Brazilian-made turboprop crashed near Flores in Peten province and
14 people enroute to the Mayan site of Tikal were killed.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.C1)
1996 Nov 1, In Israel Nahum
Kurman, the security chief of a Jewish settlement, was charged
killing the 11-year-old Palestinian boy, Hilmi Shousha.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.C1)
1996 Nov 1, Five police
officers were slain in southern Mexico and another outside Mexico
City. The EPR claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A9)
1996 Nov 1, Norway announced a
$24 million donation to educate girls in 19 African countries. The
gift went to UNICEF’s African Education for All program.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.C1)
1997 Nov 1, Chinese President
Jiang Zemin defended his government during an appearance at Harvard
University, but conceded that China had made mistakes. Meanwhile,
about 2,000 people demonstrated outside both for and against the
Chinese government.
(AP, 11/1/98)
1997 Nov 1, Indonesia shut down
16 insolvent banks and planned austerity measures.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A18)
1997 Nov 1, Iraq announced that
American weapons inspectors working with the UN would not be allowed
to resume work on Nov 3.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A17)
1997 Nov 1, Russia’s Pres.
Boris Yeltsin met with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto at
Krasnoyarsk to discuss economic cooperation.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A22)
1998 Nov 1, John Kagwe of Kenya
won the NY Marathon for the second consecutive year in 2:8:45.
Franca Fiacconi of Italy won among the women in 2:25:17.
(WSJ, 11/2/98, p.A1)(AP, 11/1/99)
1998 Nov 1, Weekend rain caused
severe flooding in central Kansas and Oklahoma. The Whitewater and
Walnut Rivers topped a 35-foot levee.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.A3)
1998 Alfred Mitchell Bingham,
founder of the Depression-era socialist magazine “Common Sense,”
died at age 93.
(WSJ, 11/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 1, In Bangladesh the
first Peace Corps volunteers arrived. 17 US college will study
Bangla, the local language, for 3 months and then teach English to
school teachers.
(SFC, 11/2/98, p.A14)
1998 Nov 1, In Colombia some
1,000 rebels attacked a police base in Mitu, capital of Vaupes
province with missiles shaped from propane cylinders. As many as 60
officers were believed killed. 80 police officers were reported
killed and 45 taken prisoner by the FARC rebels.
(SFC, 11/2/98, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/2/98, p.A1)(SFC,
11/3/98, p.A9)
1998 Nov 1, In Guatemala 10
Americans were killed when their C-47 cargo plane crashed while on a
mission to distribute medicines and medical care.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.A11)
1998 Nov 1, In Macedonia a 2nd
round of elections was scheduled. Right-wing parties unseated the
ruling ex-Communists.
(WSJ, 11/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 1, The military arm of
the radical Islamic group Hamas made an unprecedented threat against
Yasser Arafat, demanding the Palestinian leader halt a crackdown
against it, or face violent vengeance.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1999 Nov 1, Pres. Clinton met
with Middle East leaders in Oslo.
(SFC, 11/1/99, p.A13)
1999 Nov 1, Coast Guard crews
searching for clues in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which
claimed 217 lives, found the first large piece of wreckage off the
New England coast.
(AP, 11/1/00)
1999 Nov 1, Former Chicago Bear
NFL star Walter Payton died at age 45 from a rare cancer of the bile
duct. He made the NFL Hall of Fame in 1993.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A1,15)
1999 Nov 1, In China a 5.6
earthquake shook Shanxi and Hebei provinces and some 20,000 people
were left homeless.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.D8)
1999 Nov 1, In Bad Reichenhall,
Germany, a teenage gunman and his sister were found dead after
commandos stormed the house from which the boy had shot and killed 2
pedestrians and injured 8 others.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 1, In Hong Kong Disney
announced a new theme park. Hong Kong will put up $2.88 billion and
have a 57% stake.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 1, In Lebanon Israeli
warplanes fired some 2 dozen missiles at 6 Hezbollah targets in
Iqlim al-Tuffah.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 1, Mexico increased
its border deposit for US registered vehicles from $11 to as much as
$800 for new models for travel beyond the 15-mile border zone.
(SFC, 10/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 1, In Panama the US
handed over Howard Air Force Base, Fort Kobbe and the Farfan
residential zone.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
2000 Nov 1, In Chechnya rebels
killed 14 Russian soldiers in a series of raids.
(WSJ, 11/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 1, In central India
Chhattisgarh state formed when the sixteen Chhattisgarhi-speaking
southeastern districts of Madhya Pradesh gained statehood.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarh)
2000 Nov 1, 3 Israelis and 6
Palestinians were killed in West Bank clashes.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 1, In Serbia Flora
Brovina, an Albanian activist, was released from prison after
serving 18 months for alleged terrorism.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 1, Yugoslavia was
accepted into the United Nations after eight years of U.N. ostracism
under former strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)(AP, 11/1/01)
2001 Nov 1, The New York
Yankees took a 3-2 games lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks as they
won game five of the World Series, 3-2, in a contest that ended
after midnight.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2001 Nov 1, President Bush
issued Executive Order 13233 allowing past presidents, beginning
with Ronald Reagan in 1980, to have as much say as incumbent
presidents in keeping some of their White House papers private.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.D4)(AP, 11/1/02)(SFC, 1/21/08,
p.C5)
2001 Nov 1, Pres. Bush extended
sanctions against Sudan for one year.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D5)
2001 Nov 1, US planes made
their heaviest assaults to date in northern Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 1, Anthrax spores were
found in 4 mailrooms in Rockville, Md., a postal facility in Kansas
City, 3 new locations in a Manhattan processing center and a 6th
postal facility in Florida.
(WSJ, 11/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 1, A NY state cell
phone law went into effect. It required motorists to use hand-free
systems for use while driving.
(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 1, United Airlines
reported a record 3rd quarter loss of $1.16 billion.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.B1)
2001 Nov 1, In Colombia Carlos
Arturo Pinto (53), a regional prosecutor, was shot to death in
Cucuta by 2 men on motorcycle. Pinto had replaced Maria del Rosario,
who was shot to death in July.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D5)
2001 Nov 1, In Georgia Pres.
Shevardnadze fired his government as demonstrators took to the
streets and demanded changes.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Nov 1, Israeli helicopter
missiles killed 2 Palestinians in a taxi in the West Bank. Yasser
Asideh was identified as a suicide bomber being driven to a target
by Fahami Abu Eisha.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Nov 1, In Pakistan a
statement attributed to bin Laden accused the government of
supporting a Christian crusade and urged people to defend their
faith.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 1, It was reported
that the tri-border area of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil had a
long-standing presence of Islamic extremist organizations.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A3)
2002 Nov 1, A US judge upheld
the 2001 proposed settlement between Microsoft and the Dept. of
Justice.
(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 1, West Coast
dockworkers and shipping lines reached a tentative agreement on key
issues.
(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 1, Scientists reported
that 22-47% of Earth's plant species are in danger of becoming
extinct due to human activity.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A4)
2002 Nov 1, In Bahrain Islamic
and secular candidates won run-off votes for seats in the
parliament, according to final results. 2 women lost in run-off
races.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, Queen Elizabeth
II’s surprise revelation that she knew butler Paul Burrell had taken
some of Princess Diana's possessions for safekeeping prompted
prosecutors to drop theft charges against the servant.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2002 Nov 1, Israel Amir (99),
the first commander of the Israeli air force (1948), died in a Tel
Aviv hospital.
(AP, 11/2/02)(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A22)
2002 Nov 1, Jakov Sirotkovic
(80), a prominent economist and high-ranking member of the Communist
party in the former Yugoslavia (head of the Cabinet in Croatia),
died.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, In Morocco a fire
erupted at an overcrowded Sidi Moussa jail in coastal El Jadida,
killing at least 49 inmates and injuring dozens of other people.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, Russian lawmakers
passed amendments that would sharply curb news coverage of
anti-terrorist operations and prohibit the media from carrying rebel
statements, a legislative step officials called increasingly urgent
in light of last week's hostage crisis.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, A Russian
spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a Belgian astronaut docked
with the international space station.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2002 Nov 1, In South Korea Kim
Hong-up, the 2nd son of President Kim Dae-jung was sentenced to jail
and fined on graft charges, closing one chapter in scandals that
have marred the ageing democracy leader's final year in office.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2003 Nov 1, Democratic
presidential candidate Howard Dean stirred controversy within his
party by telling the Des Moines Register he wanted to be "the
candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks."
The former Vermont governor explained that he intended to encourage
the return of Southern voters who had abandoned the Democrats for
decades but were disaffected with the Republicans.
(AP, 11/1/04)
2003 Nov 1, Two small rebel
groups, the last rebel holdouts in eastern Congo, agreed to join the
country's transitional government. Leaders, Patrick Masunzu and
Aaron Nyamushebwa, agreed to join the government and integrate their
forces into a new national army.
(AP, 11/4/03)
2003 Nov 1, About 100,000
people took to the streets of Berlin to demonstrate against
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's plans to trim Germany's generous
welfare state.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2003 Nov 1, In western India a
tourist bus skidded off a mountain road near Mahabaleshwar and fell
into a gorge, killing 22 people and injuring 30 others.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2003 Nov 1, In Iraq a roadside
bomb killed at least two US soldiers in Mosul.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2003 Nov 1, It was reported
that over a dozen members of Saddam Hussein's government have been
shot dead in the streets of Basra over the last month.
(SFC, 11/1/03, p.A8)
2003 Nov 1, Yehiel Shemi (81),
an Israeli sculptor renowned for his abstract works in metal, died.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2003 Nov 1, Macedonia launched
a lottery to reduce the number of light arms held by the public. An
amnesty for turning in arms was set to expire Dec 15.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.A14)
2003 Nov 1, It was reported
that central Sudan was experiencing its worst grasshopper attack in
3 decades. At least 11 people died and more than 16,000 were
hospitalized with a respiratory illness doctors link to an annual
locust invasion.
(SFC, 11/1/03, p.A8)(AP, 11/2/03)
2003 Nov 1, Taipei, Taiwan,
held the Chinese world's 1st gay pride parade.
(USAT, 2/5/04, p.10A)
2004 Nov 1, US Chief Justice
Rehnquist (80) disclosed that he has thyroid cancer.
(SFC, 11/2/04, p.A2)
2004 Nov 1, Roberto Lavagna
unveiled a plan to restructure, at about 30% the original debt, $100
million of sovereign bonds that Argentina defaulted on 3 years
earlier.
(Econ, 11/6/04, p.40)
2004 Nov 1, James Edward, Baron
Hanson (b.1922), English conservative industrialist, died at his
Berkshire home. He built his businesses through the process of
leveraged buyouts through Hanson PLC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hanson,_Baron_Hanson)(Econ,
11/6/04, p.68)
2004 Nov 1, Botswana voters
gave the ruling Botswana Democratic Party 44 of parliament’s 57
seats. Pres. Festus Mogae promised to fight poverty and AIDS.
(Econ, 11/6/04, p.50)
2004 Nov 1, Iraqi gunmen in
Baghdad seized an American, a Nepalese and 4 Iraqi hostages working
for a Saudi supplier to the US military. American contract worker
Roy Hallums was one of several people kidnapped during an armed
assault on the Baghdad compound where he lived; Hallums was rescued
by coalition forces on Sept. 7, 2005.
(WSJ, 11/2/04, p.A1)(AP, 11/1/05)
2004 Nov 1, Gunmen killed Hatim
Kamil, deputy governor of Baghdad, on his way to work.
(AP, 11/1/04)
2004 Nov 1, Diaa Najm, an Iraqi
freelance television cameraman, was killed while filming clashes
between U.S. troops and insurgents in Ramadi.
(AP, 11/1/04)
2004 Nov 1, Libya’s PM Shukri
Ghanem said he intends to abolish some five billion dollars worth of
subsidies on electricity, fuel and basic food items in a move to
liberalize the economy.
(AFP, 11/1/04)
2004 Nov 1, A Palestinian (16)
blew himself up in a crowded outdoor market in central Tel Aviv,
killing three Israelis and wounding 32. This was the 117th suicide
bombing since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out in 2000. 494
Israelis have been killed in the attacks. Israeli troops killed 3
activists in Nablus and a boy (12) throwing stones in Askar.
(AP, 11/1/04)(SFC, 11/2/04, p.A5)
2004 Nov 1, Puerto Ricans long
have been U.S. citizens but cannot vote for the U.S. president, a
situation that former Gov. Pedro Rossello promises to change if
elected to return to the island's top job.
(AP, 11/1/04)
2004 Nov 1, UN nuclear agency
chief Mohamed ElBaradei urged Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and
called on North Korea to dismantle its weapons program.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, President Bush
outlined a $7.1 billion strategy to prepare for the danger of a
pandemic influenza outbreak, saying he wanted to stockpile enough
vaccine to protect 20 million Americans against the current strain
of bird flu.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Democrats forced
the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session,
questioning intelligence President Bush had used in the run-up to
the war in Iraq; Republicans derided the move as a political stunt.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2005 Nov 1, The US Federal
Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate another quarter point for
the 12th time to 4%.
(SFC, 11/2/05, p.D1)
2005 Nov 1, The US Postal Rate
Commission approved a 2-cent increase effective Jan 2006.
(SFC, 11/2/05, p.A2)
2005 Nov 1, Residents of
Denver, Colorado, voted to legalize the possession of small amounts
of marijuana for adults. Authorities said state possession laws will
be applied instead. State residents voted to suspend their
Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and gave up more than $3 billion in tax
refunds to help the state deal with a recession.
(AP, 11/2/05)(SFC, 11/3/05, p.A5)
2005 Nov 1, Skitch Henderson
(87), the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to
Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops
(1983) and becoming the first "Tonight Show" bandleader (1954), died
in New Haven, Conn.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 1, Militants ambushed
police on a southern Afghan mountain and killed five officers.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 1, Albania's armed
forces chief said their antiquated air force of Soviet-designed MiG
aircraft, which killed 35 Albanian pilots but no enemies, is finally
on its way to the museum and the scrapheap.
(Reuters, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, In Bosnia 2
children in Doribaba died when they were playing with a hand grenade
and pulled the security pin.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 1, Britain's
Competition Commission (CC) gave approval to proposed takeovers of
the London Stock Exchange by the German Deutsche Boerse or the
pan-European market Euronext, but attached conditions.
(AFP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, The first Czech
online daily without a paper edition, Aktualne.cz, was launched
overnight.
(AFP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Two Islamic
militants jailed in the 1981 killing of President Anwar Sadat were
released after more than two decades behind bars. Nageh Ibrahim and
Fouad el-Dawalibi were founding members of al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya,
once Egypt's largest Islamic militant group.
(AP, 11/8/05)
2005 Nov 1, In Ethiopia riot
police clashed with dozens of opposition supporters in Addis Ababa,
fatally shooting at least five people and wounding some 20 others in
renewed protests of the disputed May elections.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, French police fired
tear gas and rioters hurled Molotov cocktails as violence hit a poor
Paris suburb for the fifth straight night in unrest that officials
said had also spread to neighboring towns.
(AFP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, In Iraq 500
prisoners walked free from the US military's Abu Ghraib jail,
released in a goodwill gesture to mark the end of the Muslim holy
month of Ramadan.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Israel's Yad Vashem
Holocaust Memorial opened a Holocaust film library with help from
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, An Israeli missile
strike on a car killed two Palestinians in the Jebaliya refugee
camp, Hassan Madhoun (37), a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
and Fawzi Abu Kara (32) of Hamas.
(AP, 11/1/05)(SFC, 11/2/05, p.A12)
2005 Nov 1, Japanese artist
Hiro Yamagata announced plans to recreate Afghanistan's destroyed
Bamiyan Buddhas using as many as 240 laser beam images, a giant
project that could also bring electricity to local people.
(AFP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Gunfire erupted and
at least four inmates were killed at two Kyrgyz prisons after riot
police entered to restore order following a bloody uprising.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, A trade union said
a strike at the Dutch operations of Royal Dutch Shell PLC over
pensions will be broadened to include the company's natural-gas
production in the north of the Netherlands.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Officials from
North and South Korea agreed to meet next month to work out details
on competing as a unified team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, In the Philippines
6 US Marines took part in a rape at the former US naval base at
Subic Bay. The incident soon fueled anti-US demonstrations in Manila
and objections to US presence in the Philippines. Prosecutors later
contended the victim (22) was attacked in a van at Subic Bay by
Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith as Lance Cpl. Keith Silkwood, Lance Cpl.
Dominic Duplantis and Staff Sgt. Chad Carpentier cheered on the
assault. In Dec, 2006, Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith (21) from St. Louis,
was convicted of raping a Filipino woman and sentenced to 40 years
in prison. He was the first American soldier convicted of wrongdoing
in the Philippines since the country shut down US bases here the
early 1990s. In 2009 his accuser submitted a five-page affidavit to
an appeals court saying she now doubts her own version of events. In
March it was revealed that Smith had paid the victim $2000 in
damages and that she had gone to live in America with her American
boyfriend. On April 23, 2009, the Philippine Court of Appeals
overturned the ruling against Smith, indicating the sexual act was
consensual.
(WSJ, 11/22/05, p.A13)(AP, 6/26/06)(AP,
12/4/06)(AP, 3/18/09)(Econ, 5/2/09, p.43)
2005 Nov 1, Police surrounded
opposition headquarters and clashed with protesters on the
semiautonomous archipelago of Zanzibar (Tanzania) as the ruling
party was declared the winner of presidential and parliamentary
elections. 9 people died in related violence and the opposition made
allegations of rigging.
(AP, 11/1/05)(WSJ, 11/2/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 1, The UN General
Assembly adopted a landmark resolution that will create the first
international day of commemoration for the six million Jews and
other victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The International Day of
Commemoration will be held every year on Jan. 27.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, UN Sec. Gen. Kofi
Annan said he would name Martti Ahtisaari, a former Finish
president, as special envoy to start talks on Kosovo’s future.
(AP, 11/15/05)(Econ, 1/21/06, p.51)
2006 Nov 1, US President George
W. Bush renewed US economic sanctions on Sudan for one year and left
open the door to imposing new ones linked to the violence in Darfur.
(AFP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, Senator John Kerry,
D-Mass., apologized to "any service member, family member or
American" offended by his "botched joke" about how young people
might get "stuck in Iraq" if they did not study hard and do their
homework.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2006 Nov 1, In Indiana
Stephanie Wagner, a missing 16-year-old girl, was found dead in a
field. Authorities jailed Danny R. Rouse (51), her restaurant
co-worker and a convicted child murderer, who confessed to killing
the teen. Rouse was released from prison in March after serving more
than 26 years for murdering a 5-year-old Kansas boy in 1979.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, In Lawrenceville,
Ga., Khalid Adem (30), an Ethiopian immigrant, was convicted of
genital mutilation of his 2-year-old daughter. He was sentenced to
10 years in prison.
(SFC, 11/2/06, p.A3)
2006 Nov 1, CVS announced that
it would acquire Caremark Rx, a big pharmacy benefits manager, for
about $21 billion in stock. This was America’s largest
health-services takeover.
(Econ, 11/4/06, p.75)
2006 Nov 1, Adrienne Shelly
(b.1966), actress and director, was found by her husband hanging by
a bed sheet in their Manhattan apartment in an apparent suicide. In
2008 Diego Pillco (20), an illegal immigrant from Ecuador, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly)(SFC, 3/14/08, p.A4)
2006 Nov 1, William Styron
(81), novelist from the American South, died in Massachusetts. His
books included “The Confessions of Nat Turner” (1967) and “Sophie’s
Choice” (1979). In 1953 he had helped establish the Paris Review.
(SFC, 11/2/06, p.B7)(Econ, 11/11/06, p.95)
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 1, Alexander
Litvinenko, a former KGB agent, met with Mario Scaramella, an
Italian muckraker, at a Picadilly sushi bar. He also met with 2 or
more visiting ex-KGB Russians. On Nov 23 Litvinenko died of
poisoning from radioactive element polonium-210. In 2007 British
prosecutors requested the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi, one of the
former KGB agents present at the meeting, in order to charge him
with murder.
(Econ, 12/16/06, p.22)(WSJ, 5/23/07, p.A14)
2006 Nov 1, An ammonia gas leak
in central China killed one person, injured six and forced the
evacuation of about 20,000 residents. Ammonia gas leaked out of a
broken pipe at a chemical fertilizer factory in the Dawu county of
Hubei province.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, In Colombia the
peasant-based FARC killed 16 police officers and a civilian at a
remote outpost in an attack that appeared to be part of a
coordinated national offensive.
(AP, 11/2/06)(WSJ, 11/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 1, Congo's government
welcomed a decision by the US to impose sanctions on seven warlords
and businessmen who are accused of fueling instability in this vast
country's lawless east.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, Fiji's prime
minister insisted that his government would not step down despite
pressure from the country's military commander, whose relentless
criticism of the administration has raised fears of a possible coup.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, Bangalore, India,
changed its name to Bengaluru, the same as its name in Kannada, the
local language. Bangalore, according to state historians, got its
name from Bendakalooru (the town of boiled beans) after a king
strayed into the area during a hunting trip in the late 14th
century.
(SFC, 11/2/06, p.C1)(AFP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, Ignoring widespread
condemnation, Iran awarded the top prize in a Holocaust cartoon
contest to a Moroccan artist for his depiction of Israel's security
wall with a picture of the Auschwitz concentration camp on it.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, In Iraq unknown
gunmen riding in a private car shot dead police officer Izzaddin
Abbas in central Baghdad as he rode his motorcycle home. A clerk
with the Ministry of Industry was shot and killed in northeastern
Baghdad as he was driving to work. Two court officials were killed
when a their jeep exploded as it crossed a bridge leading over the
Tigris. A car bomb and a mortar attack killed two police officers
and six civilians. A police officer was among three people shot dead
in the northern city of Mosul. Mosul police also discovered the
charred body of an apparent murder victim. The bodies of three
people who were shot after being blindfolded and bound at the wrists
were found dumped in the capital's eastern districts. US military
killed Rafa al-Ithawi, also known as Abu Taha, a mid-ranking member
of al-Qaida in Iraq and his driver in an air strike in Ramadi.
Gunmen abducted a man who coached blind athletes and the head of
Iraq's national basketball federation.
(AP, 11/1/06)(AFP, 11/1/06)(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, Israeli troops,
backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, killed at least six
Palestinian militants. The raid left 9 Palestinians and a soldier
dead.
(AP, 11/1/06)(WSJ, 11/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 1, In Nigeria a court
of appeal in Ibadan, capital of the southwestern Oyo state, declared
unconstitutional the removal earlier this year of governor Rasheed
Ladoja by local lawmakers. Ladoja was impeached by a faction of the
state parliament on January 12 for alleged corruption and abuse of
office and was replaced by his deputy, Adebayo Alao-Akala.
(AFP, 11/4/06)
2006 Nov 1, North Korea said it
was returning to nuclear disarmament talks to get access to its
frozen overseas bank accounts, a vital source of hard currency.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, A Swedish freighter
capsized and sank in a storm on the Baltic Sea, forcing its
14-member crew to jump overboard to save themselves. Rescue
officials said helicopters plucked all but one man from the high
waves and chilly waters. The 500-foot-long Finnbirch went down
between the Swedish islands of Gotland and Oland.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, In Turkey a court
acquitted a 92-year-old retired archaeologist who was put on trial
for writing in a book that Islamic-style head scarves date back more
than 5,000 years, several millennia before the birth of Islam, and
were worn by priestesses who initiated young men into sex.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, The UN Security
Council voted unanimously to extend Ivory Coast's transitional
government for a final year and give new powers to the country's
unelected prime minister to implement a peace plan and prepare for
long-delayed elections.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, The UN Security
Council agreed on a list of banned items that could be used to make
nuclear, chemical and biological weapons or ballistic missiles and
ordered all countries to prevent North Korea from importing or
exporting the items.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, Venezuela’s
President Hugo Chavez handed public workers $3 billion in Christmas
bonuses 1 1/2 months early, angering opposition leaders who called
it part of a cynical pattern of public handouts ahead of a December
presidential election.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, Venezuela and
US-backed Guatemala agreed to withdraw from the race and support
Panama, a compromise reached after voting in the UN General Assembly
dragged through 47 rounds of balloting.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2007 Nov 1, A defiant
Democratic-controlled Congress voted to provide health insurance to
an additional 4 million lower-income children; President Bush vowed
swiftly to cast his second straight veto on the issue.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2007 Nov 1, A federal jury
convicted Vic Kohring, a former Alaska lawmaker, of corruption
charges involving tax protections sought by oil companies as part of
plans for a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Florida’s high
court ruled that the state’s lethal injection procedures aren’t
cruel and unusual, which could clear the way for an execution.
(WSJ, 11/2/07, p.A1)
2007 Nov 1, Chrysler LLC said
it plans to cut up to 12,000 jobs, or up to 15 percent of its
workforce, as part of an effort to slash costs and match slowing
demand for some vehicles.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, General Mills
recalled about 5 million frozen pizzas sold nationwide under the
Totino's and Jeno's labels because of possible E. coli
contamination.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, An alliance
including Google announced a plan to make social networks as open as
Netscape’s browser made the web.
(Econ, 11/3/07, p.78)
2007 Nov 1, A project called
“The Deep Carbon Observatory,” a multidisciplinary, international
initiative dedicated to achieving a transformational understanding
of Earth's deep carbon cycle, received funding from the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation.
(Econ, 2/26/11,
p.86)(https://dco.gl.ciw.edu/about/history)
2007 Nov 1, Retired Air Force
Brigadier Gen. Paul Tibbets (92), who'd piloted the B-29 bomber
Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died in
Columbus, Ohio.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2007 Nov 1, Taliban militants
attacked a police checkpoint in Nad Ali district, in the southern
Helmand province, killing five officers and wounding three others.
In Kandahar province hundreds of Taliban militants fled from
Arghandab district following three days of fighting which left more
than 50 militants dead and hundreds displaced.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Bosnian PM Nikola
Spiric resigned in protest at an international envoy's decision to
impose EU-backed reforms, deepening the country's worst post-war
political crisis.
(AFP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, London's
Metropolitan Police force was convicted of breaching health and
safety laws in the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a
Brazilian, who officers mistook for a suicide bomber on July 22,
2005.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, China’s government
for the first time in 17 months allowed an increase of about 10% in
the retail prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene. The government
also said more than 700 toy factories in southern China have been
banned from exporting what they produce as part of a crackdown on
shoddy products.
(Econ, 11/24/07, p.46)(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Floodwaters and
mudslides spawned by Tropical Storm Noel killed at least 143 people
including 84 in the Dominican Republic and 57 in Haiti. By this
evening Noel was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane and rains
continued to pound the area.
(AP, 11/1/07)(AP, 11/4/07)
2007 Nov 1, The Markets in
Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) went into effect across 30
countries in Europe. It drops traditional rules that required banks
and brokers to use national exchanges for reporting and trading
equities, opening Europe's exchanges to the threat of new
competition.
(Econ, 10/27/07,
p.83)(www.efinancialnews.com/homepage/specialfeatures/2449084355)
2007 Nov 1, A top UN official
said South American traffickers are moving billions of dollars worth
of cocaine through Guinea-Bissau, amid growing demand in Europe, an
amount so large it dwarfs all other economic sectors combined and
could destabilize the coup-prone country.
(AP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 1, Dominique
Strauss-Kahn, former French finance minister, took over as head of
the IMF. By convention the IMF chief is European.
(Econ, 11/3/07, p.88)
2007 Nov 1, The Indian
government proposed to recruit retired soldiers to patrol tiger
sanctuaries in the hopes of saving the last of the cats after an
official report confirmed a drastic drop in wild tiger numbers.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 1, Bombs and shootings
killed at least 21 people in attacks across Baghdad and its northern
suburbs. US and Iraqi troops arrested 85 suspected insurgents in
operations around the country. Two US airmen and an Air Force
civilian were killed by an explosive near Balad Air Base.
(AP, 11/1/07)(WSJ, 11/2/07, p.A1)(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 1, The Israel’
military announced that its forces operating in the Gaza Strip this
week had uncovered and destroyed seven tunnels used by Palestinian
militants to smuggle arms and people.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 1, Italy's president
signed a decree allowing the expulsion of EU citizens "for reasons
of public safety" to fight "episodes of heavy violence and ferocious
crime." This followed the Oct 30 attack on a 47-year-old woman as
she walked along a road after dark toward barracks where she lived.
She was beaten, dragged through mud and left half naked in a ditch.
The woman died 2 days later. Police arrested Nicolae Mailat a
Romanian in his 20s, who lives in a shack in one of several
sprawling settlements on the outskirts of Rome.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 1, In Italy Meredith
Kercher (21), a British university student, was killed [see Nov 2].
(AP, 12/5/09)
2007 Nov 1, Japan's defense
minister ordered ships supporting US-led forces in Afghanistan to
return home after opposition lawmakers refused to support an
extension of the mission, saying it violated the country's pacifist
constitution.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Pakistani security
forces in the Swat region killed at least 60 militant supporters of
a pro-Taliban cleric, hours after a suicide attack on a Pakistan Air
Force bus killed eight and wounded 40. Militants said they had
captured 44 members of the Frontier Corps and were holding them
hostage.
(AP, 11/1/07)(SFC, 11/2/07, p.A21)
2007 Nov 1, The UN said nearly
90,000 people have fled Mogadishu in recent days following the
heaviest fighting to shake the war-battered city in months. About 40
people, mostly Somalis, drowned while crossing the Gulf of Aden on
their way to Yemen in a desperate attempt to escape gunbattles back
home. About 90 others survived and managed to reach the Yemeni
southern shores of Shokara after their rickety vessels capsized.
(AP, 11/1/07)(AP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 1, State media
reported that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signed a law giving
him more power to choose his successor. The new law also provides
for simultaneous presidential and parliamentary polls next year.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, The UN General
Assembly's disarmament committee approved a resolution calling for
all nuclear weapons to be taken off high alert, despite objections
from the United States, Britain and France.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Soldiers used tear
gas, plastic bullets and water cannons to scatter tens of thousands
who massed to protest constitutional reforms that would permit
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election
indefinitely.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2008 Nov 1, Members of the
Machinists Union, representing some 27,000 workers in Washington,
Oregon, and Kansas, ratified a new contract with the Boeing Co.
ending an 8-week strike.
(SSFC, 11/2/08, p.A4)
2008 Nov 1, A gunman fatally
shot Cincinnati minister Rev. Donald Fairbanks Sr. and wounded a
church deacon just after the two men arrived at a northern Kentucky
church to attend a funeral. Frederick L. Davis, of Covington,
quickly surrendered to police and was charged with murder, first
degree assault, criminal mischief and violating an emergency
protection order.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, Yma Sumac (b.1922),
Peruvian-born singer known as the “Nightingale of the Andes,” died
in LA. Her voice was said to range over 4½ octaves. Her first
album, “Voice of the Xtabay” (1950) soared to the top of the LP
charts.
(SFC, 11/4/08, p.B4)
2008 Nov 1, In southern
Afghanistan Dutch Major General Mart de Kruif replaced Canadian
Major General Marc Lessard as head of 19,000 mostly British,
Canadian, Dutch and US NATO-led soldiers of the International
Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, In Australia the
badly decomposed body of Chen Liu (27) was found in Sydney, about
two weeks after a friend reported him missing. 34 nails were found
during a post-mortem examination of Liu's body, and were located
mainly in his skull. They were fired from an 85 mm nail gun at close
range.
(AP, 4/24/09)
2008 Nov 1, Bolivian President
Evo Morales suspended US anti-drug operations as Washington's
relations with his leftist government spiraled downward.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, It was reported
that British Major Sebastian Morley, commander of SAS (Special Air
Service) troops in Afghanistan, has resigned, reportedly in disgust
at equipment failures that he believes led to the death of four of
his troops.
(AFP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Britain’s PM Gordon
Brown left for a tour of oil-rich Gulf states, hoping to persuade
them to give extra funds to help countries hit by the world economic
turmoil.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Five migrants were
rescued after 15 days lost at sea. One died the next day. A total of
33 Dominican migrants were trying to reach Puerto Rico by boat when
they were reported missing by relatives in mid-October. Survivors
said they lost their way after the captain abandoned the ship. The
survivors ate their dead comrades to stay alive. Four Dominicans
were later charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly
helping to organize the illegal boat trip to Puerto Rico that ended
in the deaths of 29 migrants.
(AP, 11/2/08)(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 1, Three Tunisian men
accused of terrorism links by Italian prosecutors arrived in Milan
under heavy security after being extradited from Britain. Habib
Ignaoua, Mohamed Khemiri and Ali Chehidi were arrested in the London
and Manchester areas last year as part of coordinated raids across
Europe against an alleged Italian-based network recruiting fighters
for Iraq and Afghanistan.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, Tutsi-led rebels
tightened their hold on newly seized swaths of eastern Congo,
forcing tens of thousands of frightened, rain-soaked civilians out
of makeshift refugee camps and stopping some from fleeing to
government-held territory. Congolese soldiers killed nine fighters
from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) after 30-50 rebels
attacked a village in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo.
(AP, 11/2/08)(AFP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak promised to push ahead with economic reform and step
up efforts to combat poverty, despite the impact of the
international financial crisis on Egypt's economy.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, In Iraq a police
quick reaction force for Anbar province moved to the border town of
Qaim, about 200 miles northwest of Baghdad, to prevent al-Qaida from
moving into the area from Syria. Unknown assailants gunned down a
policeman on a foot patrol along Palestine Street in Shiite eastern
Baghdad.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Malaysia defended
its recognition of Kosovo as an independent state, a move that
caused Serbia to expel the Southeast Asian nation's ambassador.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, The top officer of
Mexico's federal police force quit amid allegations that drug gangs
have infiltrated senior levels of crime-fighting agencies. Acting
federal police Commissioner Gerardo Garay said he was stepping aside
"to place myself at the orders of legal judicial authorities to
clear up any accusation against me."
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, In South Africa
thousands of dissidents in the African National Congress met to pave
the way for a new South African party, the Congress of the People
(COPE) in a bitter split from the movement that led the
anti-apartheid struggle.
(AFP, 11/1/08)(Econ, 12/13/08, p.58)
2008 Nov 1, Sri Lanka's defense
ministry said its warships sank at least four rebel boats and killed
at least 14 guerrillas while the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE) said they destroyed a navy fast attack craft and a
hovercraft. Security forces took control of a two-kilometer
(1.25-mile) rebel bunker line north of Kilinochchi amidst heavy
fire.
(AFP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Jacques Piccard
(b.1922), a scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper
beneath the ocean than any other man, died in Geneva, Switzerland.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Zimbabwe opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for a truth commission to examine
atrocities in the country dating back to the massacres of ethnic
minorities in the 1980s.
(AFP, 11/1/08)
2009 Nov 1, CIT Group Inc., a
lender to small businesses, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection with the backing of most bondholders in a so-called
“prepackaged” filing.
(Econ, 11/7/09, p.70)
2009 Nov 1, Meb Keflezighi
(27), an Eritrean born American citizen, won the New York City
Marathon (2:09:15). Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia was the women's winner
(2:28:52).
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 1, Sister Marguerite
Bartz (64) was found dead on the Indian reservation of Navaho, NM.
On Nov 6 Reehahlio Carroll (18) was charged with premeditated
killing in the slaying Bartz.
(SFC, 11/7/09,
p.A4)(http://cbs5.com/national/nun.found.dead.2.1288177.html)
2009 Nov 1, Afghanistan
Challenger Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of the nation’s run-off
election, plunging the country into fresh political chaos as
international pressure grew for the race to be scrapped. After
Karzai snubbed a series of demands promoted by his rival as a chance
to avoid a repeat of massive first-round fraud, Abdullah said he saw
no point in standing, but stopped short of calling for a boycott.
(AFP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, A boat carrying 39
apparent asylum seekers sank in the Indian Ocean far from shore. A
Taiwanese fishing trawler and the merchant ship LNG Pioneer arrived
in the area and deployed life rafts and began plucking people from
the water. The stricken ship was in Australia's maritime search and
rescue zone when it sent out distress calls. Up to 11 were still
missing, and one person was confirmed dead.
(AFP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 1, PTTEP Australasia
attempted to plug a leaking well of the West Atlas drilling rig when
a fire then broke out on the rig. The operation to stem the leak has
involved the Thai-based operator towing the West Triton rig from
Singapore, which took five weeks, to drill down some 2.6km under the
seabed to the source of the emissions. The leak has dumped thousands
of barrels of oil into the Timor Sea since it began on August 21.
The blaze was brought under control on Nov 3 when experts managed to
plug the leak that has spewed tons of crude over the past 10 weeks.
(AP, 11/1/09)(AFP, 11/2/09)(AP, 11/3/09)
2009 Nov 1, In China a ship
carrying 100 tons of hydrochloric acid sank in the Yangtze river
after colliding with another vessel.
(AFP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, It was reported
that hundreds of former Chilean military draftees were making a
provocative offer to Chile's government: They would reveal details
of crimes committed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, but
only if their safety is guaranteed.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, In Honduras the US
secretary of labor, Hilda Solis, and a former Chilean president,
Ricardo Lagos, were named to a commission tasked with monitoring the
creation of a power-sharing government, under a US-brokered
agreement to end the nation's 4-month-old political crisis.
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 1, In southern Iraq a
bomb attached to a bicycle near Hillah killed five people and
wounded 37. In the western city of Ramadi, two people — including a
policeman — were killed when twin car bombs exploded minutes apart
in the visitors' parking lot of the city's Traffic Police
Directorate. 3 people were killed when a bomb that was detonated
remotely exploded on a bus as the vehicle approached a police
checkpoint in the southern city of Karbala.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, Israeli security
officials said authorities have arrested Jack Teitel (37), a
Jewish-American extremist suspected of carrying out a series of
high-profile hate crimes.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, In Kosovo thousands
of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in the
capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton as he
attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself
on a key boulevard that also bears his name.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, Mexican soldiers in
the border city of Tijuana detained a group of 13 suspects after a
shootout that wounded a soldier and a gunman. Soldiers raided and
destroyed three methamphetamine labs in the western state of
Michoacan. The raids netted five suspects and more than two metric
tons of apparent methamphetamine.
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 1, US Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Morocco for a series of
meetings with Arab leaders to discuss Middle East peace and other
issues.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, Mohamud Said Omar
(43) was arrested at the request of US authorities in an asylum
seeker's center in Dronten, Netherlands. US authorities suspected
Omar of bankrolling the purchase of weapons for Islamic extremists
and helping other Somalis travel to Somalia in 2007 and 2008. He had
a US green card and was also suspected of recruiting youth in
Minneapolis for Islamic terrorism in Somalia.
(AP, 11/13/09)
2009 Nov 1, In Pakistan
military jets and helicopter gunships pounded militant positions in
and around Makeen. Government forces have laid siege to Sararogha,
captured all the important features and ridges overlooking the town
and cleared half of Kaniguram, a hub of Uzbek militants. 9 militants
and two soldiers were killed in fighting, taking the militants'
death toll to 331 in 16 days of fighting.
(Reuters, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, In Palau 6 Chinese
Muslims, ethnic Uighers, newly released from Guantanamo Bay, traded
life behind bars for rooms with ocean view in the tiny Pacific
nation, which agreed to a US request to resettle them.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, The Palestinians
accused US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of undermining
progress toward Mideast peace talks after she praised Israel for
offering to curb some Jewish settlement construction.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, A Russian
heavy-lift military cargo plane crashed on takeoff in Siberia,
killing all 11 crew members on board.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, A Saudi Arabia
Interior Ministry spokesman said authorities have discovered large
quantities of weapons in the capital Riyadh belonging to al-Qaida
terror network. The discovery included 281 assault rifles and 51
ammunition boxes.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 1, Somali pirates
hijacked a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship with 18 crew off the east
coast of Africa, the latest in an increasing number of attacks. The
hijacking of the al-Mizan was not reported until Nov 10 when the
bandits demanded a $3 million ransom. The ship was reported released
on Nov 23. The pirates asked for and received $15,000 for
"expenses." A self-proclaimed pirate named Abdi Nor said that
pirates did not demand a ransom since the ship was bound for
Mogadishu and carried goods owned by Somalis.
(AP, 11/10/09)(AP, 11/23/09)
2009 Nov 1, Somaliland defense
minister Saleban Warsame Guled said a roadside bomb in the country's
semiautonomous northern region has killed two people, including
Osman Yusuf, an infantry division commander.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2010 Nov 1, The US White House
said President Obama is extending economic sanctions on Sudan for at
least one year, ahead of the country's January referendum on
independence for the south. Sudan rejected the decision.
(AFP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 1, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger said welfare recipients can no longer use
state-issued debit cards at medical marijuana shops, psychics and
other businesses whose services have been deemed "inconsistent with
the intent" of the program. In June Schwarzenegger barred welfare
cards at casino ATMs.
(AP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 1, The SF Giants won
the Baseball World Series beating the Texas Rangers 3-1 in Game 5 in
San Francisco. Edgar Renteria blasted his second home run of the
2010 Fall Classic, a three-run shot, to win the championship.
Renteria had the game-winning hit in the 11th inning of Game 7 in
the 1997 World Series for the Florida Marlins.
(AP, 11/2/10)(http://tinyurl.com/29joxc3)
2010 Nov 1, Salesforce.com
announced the purchase of 14 acres in the Mission Bay area of San
Francisco and planned a new corporate campus to be built over the
next 10 years.
(SFC, 11/2/10, p.D1)
2010 Nov 1, McKesson corp., the
biggest US drug distributor, announced an agreement to buy closely
held US Oncology Inc. for $560 million.
(SFC, 11/2/10, p.D2)
2010 Nov 1, In eastern
Afghanistan the Taliban briefly overran a district seat and torched
government buildings there. Government forces who regained control
of Ghazni province's Khogyani district headquarters a few hours
later discovered that the 16 Afghan policemen stationed there were
missing. (The bodies of four of the policemen were found a few days
later in Ghazni city. 5 more bodies were found on Nov 6. Seven
remained missing) 2 Afghan women were found shot to death in Helmand
province. They had been running a small organization helping other
women set up businesses before their bodies were found in
Naway-e-Barakzayi district. A bomb that killed two coalition
service members. A suicide attack aimed at NATO troops in Zhari
district killed one civilian.
(AP, 11/1/10)(AP, 11/2/10)(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 1, Australian police
said a mother (55) and son (28), along with a 33-year-old Hong Kong
man, have been charged over one of the country's biggest heroin
hauls after drugs with a potential street value of 405 million US
dollars were found in a shipment of doors.
(AFP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Britain's BG Group
announced it will spend 15 billion US dollars on a liquefied natural
gas (LNG) project in Australia, an investment Canberra hailed as a
boost for the national economy.
(AFP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, The UN said
flooding in Benin has affected more than half a million people,
destroyed more than 300,000 acres of crops and killed 81,000
livestock.
(AP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 1, British scientists
said alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin
when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed.
(Reuters, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, China kicked off a
once-a-decade census. Some 6 million people were mobilized to
conduct a 10-day survey.
(AP, 11/1/10)(Econ, 11/6/10, p.56)
2010 Nov 1, In Cuba Roman
Catholic officials announced the names of three more Cuban prisoners
who have accepted exile in Spain in return for freedom.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Egypt’s Information
Minister Annas el-Fiqi ordered all companies providing the service
or television networks with uplinks to reapply for permits. The
measure will affect about a dozen uplink providers and TV stations.
Providers have complained it is aimed at controlling live TV
broadcasts such as political talk-shows.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Police in Greece
arrested two terrorism suspects carrying letter bombs addressed to
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and western embassies in Athens.
The two Greek men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested in central Athens
after a parcel bomb addressed to the Mexican embassy in Athens
exploded at a mail delivery service.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, In northern
Honduras 5 armed men broke into a military base at the major
international airport and made off with a small airplane that
authorities seized last year in an anti-drug operation.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Icelandic
Meteorological Office geophysicist Gunnar Gudmundsson said that
floodwater is coming from the subglacial Grimsvotn volcano, but
there are no signs of the underground tremors that would signal an
eruption.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Indonesia's most
volatile volcano, Mount Merapi, one of 22 that have been
increasingly active, spewed searing clouds of gas and debris for
hours in its most powerful eruption in a deadly week that has left
38 dead.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Ireland's health
minister, Mary Harney, was pelted with red paint as tempers flared
over government plans to slash euro1 billion ($1.4 billion) from the
costs of running an overloaded hospital network.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, In Morocco IMF
director general Dominique Strauss-Kahn said world leaders gathering
at the Group of 20 summit must take action to fix the financial
sector.
(AFP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 1, ExxonMobil in
Nigeria announced the discovery of rich gas condensate off the West
African country's coast as the government seeks to boost gas supply
to help solve electricity shortages.
(AFP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, In northwest
Pakistan a US drone attack killed five people. 4 militants stormed a
police complex in Swabi, killing two officers. Gunmen near Peshawar
attacked tankers carrying fuel for NATO and US troops, wounding a
driver and his assistant.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Philippine
investigators arrested Rolando Fajardo, one of the country's most
elusive fugitives. He was wanted over the 1986 kidnapping of a
Japanese executive.
(AFP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, In Romania a MiG-21
Lancer fighter jet crashed during a training exercise, killing two
experienced pilots.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Russia's Pres.
Medvedev visited Kunashiri Island in the Pacific Ocean claimed by
both Russia and Japan, triggering immediate protests from Tokyo,
which is already involved in a heated dispute with China over
islands to the south.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, In Tanzania Gasper
Kanyarukiga, a former Rwandan businessman, was found guilty of
ordering bulldozers in 1994 to demolish the Nyange Church where
2,000 Tutsis had sought shelter. Judge Taghrid Hikmet said he
intentionally participated in the genocidal act and sentenced him to
30 years in prison.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Turkey's main
Kurdish rebel group extended a truce until elections next summer,
denying responsibility for a suicide attack in Istanbul thought to
have been the work of its own hardliners.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, In Uganda a
controversial newspaper in Kampala published photos, names and home
addresses of gay Ugandans, the second time the paper has done so,
prompting a rights group to seek a legal injunction against the
publication.
(AP, 11/1/10)
2010 Nov 1, Uruguay's Supreme
Court said an amnesty given for any crimes committed by the
country's 12-year dictatorship (1973-1985) is unconstitutional. The
ruling meant that about 20 murders in a case against former dictator
Juan Maria Bordaberry can be investigated.
(AP, 11/1/10)
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