Today in History - November 21
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496AD Nov 21,
Pope Gelasius, an African by birth or descent, died. He changed the
mid-February lottery rules for young Roman men so that they drew
names of Catholic Saints to emulate instead of young girls for play.
The Lupercalia pagan rite had been revived to bring good luck to the
city following a plague. He named Feb 14 as St. Valentine’s Day.
(PTA, 1980, p.98)(SFEM, 2/9/97, p.11)(SSFC,
2/11/01, DB p.40)
1272 Nov 21, Edward I was
proclaimed King of England.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England)
1492 Nov 21, Pinta under
Martin Pinzon separated from Columbus' fleet.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1555 Nov 21, Georgius Bauer
(b.1494), German mineralogist (Agricola), died. His full description
of mining, smelting, and chemistry in "De Re Metallica," was
published in Basel in 1556. In it he described the hazards of
mining, including occupational diseases such as "difficulty in
breathing and destruction of the lungs." It was still the major
source on the state of technology in the Middle Ages. In 1912 it was
translated by Herbert Hoover, mining engineer and future US
president.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R25)(WSJ, 7/29/06,
p.P8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Agricola)
1579 Nov 21, Thomas Gresham
(b.1519), English merchant and financier, died. He worked for King
Edward VI of England and for Edward's half-sister Queen Elizabeth I
of England. Gresham’s Law: "Bad money drives out good." Gresham's
law is commonly stated as: "When there is a legal tender currency,
bad money drives good money out of circulation." Or, more
accurately, "Money overvalued by the State will drive money
undervalued by the State out of circulation."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gresham)
1620 Nov 21, Leaders of the
Mayflower expedition framed the “Mayflower Compact,” designed to
bolster unity among the settlers. The Pilgrims reached Provincetown
Harbor, Mass.
(HN, 11/21/98)(MC, 11/21/01)
1654 Nov 21, Richard Johnson, a
free black, was granted 550 acres in Virginia.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1692 Nov 21, Carlo Fragoni,
Italian poet, was born.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1694 Nov 21, Francois Marie
Arouet Voltaire (d.1778), French philosopher, historian, dramatist
and essayist, was born. Born to middle class parents, he later
attended the Jesuit college of Louis-le-Grand in Paris. The
environment exposed him to the world of society and the arts. After
the success of his tragedy “Oedipe” in 1718, he was pronounced the
successor to the great dramatist Racine. He adopted the pen name
Voltaire, though its exact origins and meaning are uncertain. The
author of “Candide” (1759) and the “Philosophical Dictionary”
(1764), Voltaire's works often attacked injustice and intolerance
and epitomized the Age of Enlightenment. He wrote that "Self-love
resembles the instrument by which we perpetuate the species. It is
necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure and it has to be
concealed." "All styles are good except the tiresome sort." “Love
truth, but pardon error.” "The great errors of the past are useful
in many ways. One cannot remind oneself too often of crimes and
disasters. These, no matter what people say, can be forestalled."
S.G. Tellentyre said on Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but
I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
(WUD, 1994, p.1600) (G&M,
2/1/96, p.A-22)(AP, 7/17/97)(SFEC, 1/4/98, Z1p.8)(HNQ,
10/1/98)(SFEC, 10/11/98, Z1 p.8)(HN, 11/21/98)(HNQ, 11/8/00)
1695 Nov 21, Henry Purcell
(36), English composer (Indian Queen), died.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1710 Nov 21, Barnardo Pasquini
(72), composer, died.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1783 Nov 21, Jean-Francois
Pilatre de Rozier (1754-1785) and the Marquis d’Arlandes made the
first free-flight ascent in a balloon, to over 500 feet, in Paris.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Romain)(NPub, 2002, p.2)
1785 Nov 21, William Beaumont,
surgeon, was born. He later studied digestion by peering through a
natural opening of the stomach wall in a young Indian in Prairie du
Chien, Wisconsin.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1787 Nov 21, Samuel Cunard
(d.1865), founder of the 1st regular Atlantic steamship line, was
born in Canada.
(MC, 11/21/01)(WSJ, 7/1/03, p.D8)
1789 Nov 21, North Carolina
became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
(AP, 11/21/97)(HN, 11/21/98)
1794 Nov 21, Honolulu Harbor
was discovered.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1806 Nov 21, In the Decree of
Berlin Emperor Napoleon banned all trade with England.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1811 Nov 21, Heinrich W. von
Kleist (34), German playwright, died.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1817 Nov 21, Richard Brooke
Garnett (d1863), Brig General (Confederate Army), was born. He died
at Gettysburg.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1818 Nov 21, Frenchman Hipolito
Bouchard and Englishman Peter Corney led a 2-ship attack against the
presidio at Monterey, Ca. Gov. Pablo de Sola and his soldiers and
families fled as some 400 rebels pulled to shore. The presidio was
ransacked and burned. Bouchard and Corney days later plundered
Mission San Juan Capistrano and the rancho at El Refugio.
(SFC, 10/10/03, p.B3)y
1818 Nov 21, Russia's Czar
Alexander I petitioned for a Jewish state in Palestine.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1834 Nov 21, HMS Beagle
anchored at Bay of San Carlos, Chile.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1837 Nov 21, Thomas Morris of
Australia skipped rope 22,806 times.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1847 Nov 21, Steamer "Phoenix"
was lost on Lake Michigan. 200 people were killed.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1848 Nov 21, The John C.
Fremont expedition, in search of a railroad route across the Rocky
Mountains, reached Pueblo, Colorado. There Fremont hired Bill
Williams (61), a mountaineer with 40 years experience.
(ON, 12/06, p.5)
1848 Nov 21, Alfred de Musset's
"Andre del Sarto," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1852 Nov 21, Duke Univ.,
founded in 1838 as Union Institute in NC, was chartered as Normal
College.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1855 Nov 21, Franklin Colman, a
pro-slavery Missourian, gunned down Charles Dow, a Free Stater from
Ohio, near Lawrence, Kansas.
(HN, 11/22/02)
1864 Nov 21, Confederate
General John Bell Hood launched the Franklin-Nashville Campaign into
Tennessee from northern Alabama. Hood led the Confederate Army of
Tennessee in its offensive into Tennessee, which was decisively
broken in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. Hood, a graduate of
West Point, had been in the U.S. Cavalry until the Civil War broke
out. He was seriously wounded attacking Little Round Top during the
Battle of Gettysburg and later lost a leg at Chickamauga in
September of that year. In 1864, he was appointed a Lieutenant
General under Joseph E. Johnston‘s command in defense of Atlanta. In
July, Confederate president Jefferson Davis put Hood in command who
promptly attacked Sherman‘s Union army and was repulsed. Hood then
attempted a long march to the north and west to assault Sherman‘s
rear and ran into Union Army of the Cumberland. The November Battle
of Franklin and December Battle of Nashville decisively defeated
Hood‘s Army which was harassed and almost destroyed in its retreat.
Hood‘s own request to end his command was granted the following
month. After the war he lived in New Orleans.
(HNQ,
11/4/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin-Nashville_Campaign)
1864 Nov 21-22, Battle at
Griswoldville, Georgia.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1871 Nov 21, Moses F. Gale
patented a cigar lighter in NYC.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1871 Nov 21, The 1st human
cannonball, Emilio Onra, was fired from a cannon.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1877 Nov 21, Inventor Thomas A.
Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.
(V.D.-H.K.p.270)(AP, 11/21/97)
1886 Nov 21, Harold G.
Nicolson, English diplomat and author (Good Behavior), was born.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1888 Nov 21, Adolph Arthur
“Harpo” Marx, American comedian, one of the Marx brothers, was born.
The inventive American pantomimist never spoke a line in his many
movies, which he starred in alongside his brothers.
(HN, 11/23/00)
1898 Nov 21, Rene Magritte
(d.1967), Belgian surrealist painter, was born. His work
includes “Golconda.” In 1998 a collection of his work was edited by
Giselle Ollinger-Zinque and Frederik Leen. It included his
Surrealist paintings as well as his wallpaper designs, illustrated
music scores, advertising posters, and photographs from his amateur
films.
(WUD, 1994, p.863)(WSJ, 12/3/98, p.W4)(HN,
11/21/00)
1899 Nov 21, Vice President
Garret A. Hobart, serving under President McKinley, died in
Paterson, N.J., at age 55.
(AP, 11/21/99)
1901 Nov 21, Richard Strauss'
opera "Feuersnot," premiered in Dresden.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1904 Nov 21, Coleman Hawkins,
jazz saxophonist, was born.
(HN, 11/21/00)
1904 Nov 21, Motorized
omnibuses replaced horse-drawn cars in Paris.
(HN, 11/21/98)
1906 Nov 21, In San Juan,
President Theodore Roosevelt pledged citizenship for Puerto Rican
people.
(HN, 11/21/98)
1906 Nov 21, China prohibited
opium trade.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1907 Nov 21, Jim Bishop, author
(The Day Lincoln was Shot), was born.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1907 Nov 21, The Cunard liner
Mauritania set a new speed record for steamship travel, 624 nautical
miles in a one day run.
(HN, 11/21/02)
1907 Nov 21, Gaetano Braga
(78), composer, died.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1908 Nov 21, Elizabeth G.
Speare, writer of historical novels for children, was born.
(HN, 11/21/00)
1911 Nov 21, Suffragettes
stormed Parliament in London. All were arrested and all chose prison
terms.
(HN, 11/21/98)
1915 Nov 21, The HMS Endurance,
under Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 27 man crew, sank in the Weddell
Sea of Antarctica. The whole crew escaped on 3 lifeboats that
included the “James Caird.” They drifted for 5 months and when the
ice broke rowed to Elephant Island. Shackleton then rowed the Caird
for 800 miles with 5 men to South Georgia Island and returned to
pick up the 21 men left behind. Frank Hurley captured the sinking on
35-mm movie film. In 1933 F.A. Worsely, the captain of the
Endurance, authored “Shackleton’s Boat Journey.” In 1999 Caroline
Alexander authored “The Endurance.”
(WSJ, 4/2/98, p.B1,15)(SFEC, 1/24/99, BR
p.6)(WSJ, 4/16/99, p.W14)(ON, 5/00, p.10)(WSJ, 4/28/07, p.P8)
1916 Nov 21, The HMHS
Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic, sank in the Kea Channel
off Greece after being hit by a mine or a torpedo. 30 people in
lifeboats died from the suction of the sinking ship. The Britannic,
launched in 1914 from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast,
Ireland, included an additional expansion joint due to design update
following the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
(www.titanic-titanic.com/britannic.shtml)(AH,
10/07, p.14)
1916 Nov 21, Franz Jozef I,
King of Austria and Hungary, died.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1917 Nov 21, German ace Rudolf
von Eschwege was killed over Macedonia when he attacked a
booby-trapped observation balloon packed with explosives.
(HN, 11/21/99)
1917 Nov 21, Maxim Gorki called
Lenin a blind fanatic and unthinking adventurer.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1918 Nov 21, The last German
troops left Alsace-Lorraine, France.
(HN, 11/21/98)
1918 Nov 21, Two German
ammunition trains exploded in Hamont, Belgium and 1,750 died.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1918 Nov 21, Polish soldiers
organized a pogrom against Jews of Galicia, Poland.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1920 Nov 21, Stan “The Man”
Musial, Hall of Fame baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals,
was born.
(HN, 11/21/98)
1920 Nov 21, Mussolini's squad
began terror and 11 died in Bologna, Italy.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1921 Nov 21, Geza Anda,
Hungarian-Swiss pianist, was born.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1921 Nov 21, The 1st mid-air
refueling was done by hand over Long Beach on a Curtiss JN-4.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D2)
1922 Nov 21, Rebecca L. Felton
of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S.
Senate.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1925 Nov 21, Three-time
All-American Harold "Red" Grange played his last football game for
the University of Illinois and joined the Chicago Bears less than a
week later on Thanksgiving Day. Grange was the most glamorous and
well-known football player of the 1920s. In one collegiate game
against Michigan in 1924, Grange ran for 402 yards and five
touchdowns. Known as the "Galloping Ghost" for his spectacular
broken-field running, the Wheaton, Illinois, native drew huge crowds
during a 17-game barnstorming tour with the Bears in late 1925. He
is credited with establishing professional football as a popular
spectator sport. Red Grange died at the age of 87 on January 28,
1991.
(HNPD, 11/21/98)
1927 Nov 21, Picketing strikers
at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado were fired on by state
police; six miners were killed.
(AP, 11/21/07)
1929 Nov 21, Marilyn French,
novelist and critic, was born. Her work includes “The Women's Room.”
(HN, 11/21/00)
1930 Nov 21, In Indonesia lava
began flowing as the Mount Merapi volcano erupted. 13 villages were
destroyed and some 1369 people were killed by pyroclastic flows.
(http://dogeatdogma.com/merapi.htm)
1934 Nov 21, The Cole Porter
musical “Anything Goes,” starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney,
premiered at New York's Alvin Theatre.
(HN, 11/21/00)(AP, 11/21/04)
1934 Nov 21, A court ruled
Gloria Vanderbilt unfit for custody of her daughter.
(HN, 11/21/98)
1937 Nov 21, Marlo Thomas, film
and TV actress, was born in Detroit, Mich. In 1980 she married Phil
Donohue.
(SSFC, 11/21/04, Par p.28)
1938 Nov 21, Nazi forces
occupied western Czechoslovakia and declared its people German
citizens. This annexation of Sudetenland was the first major
belligerent action by Hitler. The allies chose to sit still for it
in return for a promise of "peace in our time," which Hitler later
broke.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1938 Nov 21, Leopold Godowsky
(68), pianist and composer, died.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1941 Nov 21, Juliet Mills,
actress (Nanny & the Professor, QB VII), was born in London
England.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1942 Nov 21, Tweety Bird,
cartoon character, was born.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1942 Nov 21, The
Alaska-Canadian Highway across Canada was formally opened.
(HFA, ‘96, p.42)(AP, 11/21/97)
1945 Nov 21, Goldie Hawn,
Takoma Park, Md., actress (Laugh-in, Private Benjamin), was born.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1945 Nov 21, General Motors
workers went on strike.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1945 Nov 21, The last residents
of the US Japanese-American internment left their camps.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, Z1 p.6)
1945 Nov 21, Robert Benchley
(56), US humorist (My 10 Years in a Quandary), died.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1945 Nov 21, Bummy Davis
(b.1920 as Albert Davidoff), former middleweight boxer turned thug,
died after taking on 2 hoodlums in Brooklyn, NY. In 1951 W.C.
Heinz's wrote "Brownsville Bum," an account of the Bummy
Davis tragedy for True Magazine. In 2003 Ron Ross authored Bummy
Davis vs. Murder, Inc.”
(WSJ, 3/5/08, p.D9)(www.ronross.us/reviews.html)
1949 Nov 21, The UN Assembly
decided for the eventual independence of Italy’s former colonies. In
the meantime they remained under UN supervision. United Nations
granted Libya its independence in the year 1952.
(EWH, 1968, p.1176)(HN, 11/21/98)
1953 Nov 21, The "Piltdown
Man," discovered in 1912, was proved to be a hoax. Paleontologist
Kenneth Oakley and anatomists Joseph S. Weiner and Wilfred Le Gros
Clark reexamined the bones from the 1912 Piltdown man and found
unmistakable signs of forgery.
(MC, 11/21/01)(PacDisc. Spring/’96, p.16)
1955 Nov 21, Argentina asked
Panama for the return of ex-president Peron.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1957 Nov 21, A student strike
began at the Central Univ. of Venezuela (UCV) against the electoral
fraud of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. This soon led his
downfall.
(WSJ, 11/24/07,
p.A12)(www.handsoffvenezuela.org/students_march_referendum.htm)
1958 Nov 21, Mel Ott (49),
Baseball Hall-of-Famer, died in New Orleans.
(AP, 11/21/08)
1958 Nov 21, A Soviet-East
German commission met in East Berlin to discuss the transfer to East
German control of Soviet functions and end its occupation status in
Berlin.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1959 Nov 21, Jack Benny on
violin and Richard Nixon on piano played their famed duet.
(MC, 11/21/01)
1962 Nov 21, China agreed to a
cease-fire on India-China border.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1963 Nov 21, President Kennedy
and his wife, Jacqueline, began a two-day tour of Texas.
(AP, 11/22/03)
1963 Nov 21, Robert Stroud,
"bird man of Alcatraz", died at the federal prison in Springfield,
Mo. His canary studies were done at Leavenworth, Kansas, and
included the book "Stroud’s Digest of Diseases of Birds." He also
worked on a critical history of the US prison system (Looking
Outward).
(AHHT, 10/02, p.22)(SSFC, 9/22/02,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdman_of_Alcatraz)
1963 Nov 21, Roman Catholic
Vatican Council authorized the use of vernacular instead of Latin in
the Sacraments.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1963 Nov 21, India launched its
first rocket from Thumba in Kerala state.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumba_Equatorial_Rocket_Launching_Station)
1964 Nov 21, The upper level of
New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which connected Brooklyn and
Staten Island, was opened. Designed by Swiss émigré
Othmar Ammann, it was the world's longest suspension bridge at the
time. It was.
(AP, 11/21/07)(WSJ, 6/5/03, p.D8)
1967 Nov 21, President Lyndon
B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act, allotting $428 million for
the fight against pollution.
(HN, 11/21/98)(AP, 11/21/07)
1969 Nov 21, The Senate voted
down the nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth to the Supreme Court,
the first time since 1930 that a candidate for the nation's highest
court was rejected.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1970 Nov 21, US Army Special
Forces raided the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but found no
prisoners. It would be later learned that the POWs had been
relocated to Dong Hoi, on July 14. The POWs were moved because the
well in the compound had dried up and the nearby Song Con River had
begun to overflow its banks. This flooding problem, not a security
leak, resulted in the prisoners being transported to Dong Hoi to a
new prison nicknamed "Camp Faith." US planes conduct widespread
bombing raids in North Vietnam.
(www.psywarrior.com/sontay.html)(HN, 11/21/99)
1973 Nov 21, President Nixon's
attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-
minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to
Watergate.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1974 Nov 21, The Freedom of
Information Act was passed by Congress over Pres. Ford's veto.
(www.usdoj.gov/oip/1974attachb.htm)
1976 Nov 21, Syrian army
completed its final phase of occupation of Lebanon.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1977 Nov 21, The 1st commercial
flight of the Anglo-French Concorde jet was from London to Bahrain.
(www.britishairways.com/concorde/faq.html#4)
1979 Nov 21, A mob attacked the
US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.
(AP, 11/21/99)
1980 Nov 21, An estimated 83
million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time soap opera
“Dallas” to find out “who shot J.R.” It turned out to be Kristin
Shephard, played by Mary Crosby.
(SFC, 9/9/96, p.A26)(SFEC, 12/12/99, p.B10)(AP,
11/21/00)
1980 Nov 21, In Las Vegas 87
people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1982 Nov 21, In Sri Lanka the
first Tiger activist to be killed by security forces was shot and
wounded and died a few days later on November 27.
(AP, 11/3/06)
1983 Nov 21, "Doonesbury"
opened at Biltmore Theater in NYC for 104 performances.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0258532/)
1985 Nov 21, Former U.S. Navy
intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, and accused
of spying for Israel. Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in
1987.
(AP, 11/21/97)(WSJ, 1/28/98, p.A18)(SFC, 3/1/00,
p.A23)
1985 Nov 21, Yonkers, NY, was
found guilty of intentional discrimination in its housing and
schools.
(http://tinyurl.com/2oegnj)
1986 Nov 21, The US Justice
Department began the inquiry into the National Security Council in
what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal; Lt. Col. Oliver North
shredded important documents. Albert Hakim (d.2003) was the
financial person behind the arms-for-hostages deal.
(HN, 11/21/01)(SFC, 4/29/03, A21)
1987 Nov 21, An eight-day siege
began at a detention center in Oakdale, La., as Cuban detainees,
alarmed over the possibility of being returned to Cuba, seized the
facility and took hostages.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1987 Nov 21, James E. Folsom
(79), former 2-term governor of Alabama (1947-1951 and 1955-59),
died.
(http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/folsom.html)
1987 Nov 21, In South Korea
riot police stood guard to prevent violence by rival supporters as
presidential candidates traded charges of corruption and cruelty.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1988 Nov 21, President-elect
George Bush announced he was retaining Dick Thornburgh as attorney
general and Lauro Cavazos as education secretary, and appointing
Richard Darman budget director.
(AP, 11/21/98)
1988 Nov 21, Canada's
Progressive Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney, won the country's general election.
(AP, 11/21/98)
1989 Nov 21, A law banning
smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush.
(http://tinyurl.com/gf6zq)
1989 Nov 21, The proceedings of
Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
(AP, 11/21/99)
1990 Nov 21, President Bush
arrived in Saudi Arabia, where he conferred with Saudi King Fahd and
Kuwait’s exiled emir.
(AP, 11/21/00)
1990 Nov 21, Junk-bond
financier Michael R. Milken, who had pleaded guilty to six felony
counts, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to ten years in
prison. He served two.
(AP, 11/21/00)
1991 Nov 21, President Bush
signed a civil rights bill, then sought to calm a storm of
controversy by withdrawing a tentative order to end government
hiring preferences for blacks and women.
(AP, 11/21/01)
1991 Nov 21, The U.N. Security
Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt to succeed Javier Perez
de Cuellar of Peru as the new Secretary-General.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.A13)(AP, 11/21/97)
1992 Nov 21, Sen. Bob Packwood,
R-Ore., issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that
he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women over the years.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1993 Nov 21, The U.S. House of
Representatives voted against making the District of Columbia the
51st state, 277-153.
(AP, 11/21/98)
1993 Nov 21, Actor Bill Bixby
died in Century City, Calif., at age 59.
(AP, 11/21/98)
1993 Nov 21, The Neo-fascist
MSI won 36% of municipal elections in Rome.
(www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v257i0020_07.htm)
1993 Nov 21, Three former
Panamanian soldiers were found guilty of involvement in the
previously unsolved 1971 murder of Hector Gallego, a Colombian Roman
Catholic priest.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1994 Nov 21, Sen. Jesse Helms,
R-N.C., remarked in a newspaper interview that President Clinton
"better have a bodyguard" if he were to visit North Carolina; Helms
later called his comment a mistake.
(AP, 11/21/99)
1994 Nov 21, NATO retaliated
for repeated Serb attacks on a U.N. safe haven by bombing an
airfield in a Serb-controlled section of Croatia.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1995 Nov 21, The Dow Jones
Industrials in the US closed above 5000 for the first time to
5023.55.
(WSJ, 11/22/95, p.A-1)(AP, 11/21/97)
1995 Nov 21, The Dayton Peace
Accord, was initialed by the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia.
US Sec. of State, Warren Christopher and chief mediator Richard
Holbrooke manage to keep the parties talking for over 3 weeks to
reach this agreement to end three and a-half years of ethnic
fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. One year deployment of 20,000 US
troops as one-third of a NATO peace keeping force was estimated to
cost about $1.5 bil. The US also planned to contribute $600 mil over
three years to help rebuild Bosnia.
(WSJ, 11/22/95, p.A1,3)(SFC, 10/6/00, p.A19)(AP,
11/21/00)
1995 Nov 21, Former Nazi Capt.
Erich Priebke was extradited from Argentina to Italy to face trial
for his role in the Ardeatine Caves massacre. A court found him
guilty in 1996 but released him because too much time had elapsed
since the crime. There was a major uproar and he was again arrested
and a 1997 trial convicted him and co-defendant Major Karl Hass.
Priebke was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Hass was convicted but
released due to mitigating circumstances. face charges in the
massacre of 335 Italian civilians in Nazi-occupied Rome.
(AP, 3/23/97)(WSJ, 10/3/95, p.A-21) (WSJ,
11/21/95, p.A-1)(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A9)
(AP, 11/21/02)
1995 Nov 21, France detonated a
fourth underground nuclear blast at its test site in the South
Pacific.
(AP, 11/21/00)
1995 Nov 21, Israel granted
citizenship to jailed US spy Jonathan Jay Pollard.
(www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2501/is_n3_v18/ai_19129729/pg_6)
1996 Nov 21, In the northwest
US heavy storms left at least 8 dead.
(SFC, 11/21/96, p.A7)
1996 Nov 21, Thirty-three
people were killed, and more than 100 injured, when an explosion
blamed on leaking gas ripped through a six-story building in San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1996 Nov 21, From Turkey Yasar
Kemal, author, sought asylum in Sweden. He had been convicted by a
Turkish court of defending Kurd’s rights.
(SFC, 11/22/96, p.A22)
1997 Nov 21, "The Food and Drug
Administration Act of 1997" was signed into law by President
Clinton. The new law was designed to enhance the product development
and review process; streamline the way the Agency regulates medical
devices; simplify enforcement procedures; and move the Agency toward
greater use of national and international standards. The law gave
the FDA new powers to speed the approval of drugs to combat a host
of killer diseases, including cancer and AIDS.
(PR, NPTH, 6/4/98)(AP, 11/21/98)
1997 Nov 21, It was reported
that physicists led by Norman Rostoker (73) had designed a compact,
boron-fueled fusion reactor that used high-speed particles to
generate electricity.
(SFC,11/21/97, p.A26)
1997 Nov 21, In West Virginia a
house fire in Weston left 5 children dead. It was later discovered
that the fire had been intentionally set for an insurance claim. In
1998 parents Janette Ables and Barbara and Ricky Brown were indicted
on 15 counts.
(SFC,12/12/97, p.B10)(SFC, 9/18/98, p.A3)
1997 Nov 21, From Brazil it was
reported that new legislation would limit public employees to a
total compensation of $12,000 per month. Also proposed was the
elimination of job protection that could cost 280,000 civil servants
their jobs.
(SFC,11/21/97, p.A16)
1997 Nov 21, In Bogota,
Columbia, suspected right-wing paramilitaries killed at least 14
people. Later near Urrao a suspected death squad killed 7 people
including a Communist boss.
(WSJ, 11/24/97, p.A1)
1997 Nov 21, U.N. arms
inspectors returned to Iraq after Saddam Hussein's three-week
standoff with the United Nations over the presence of Americans on
the team.
(AP, 11/21/98)
1997 Nov 21, In Somalia five UN
and European aid workers were kidnapped by fighters of the Wasangeli
subclan in apparent retaliation for the seizure of a Palestinian
businessman by a rival subclan, the Marjeteen, earlier in the day.
(SFC,11/24/97, p.A12)
1997 Nov 21, From South Korea
it was reported that 6 people were arrested for spying for North
Korea. Separately the government decided to seek $60 billion from
the IMF to bail out of its economic crises.
(SFC,11/21/97, p.D2,6)
1998 Nov 21, President Clinton,
visiting South Korea, warned North Korea to forsake nuclear weapons
and urged the North to seize a "historic opportunity" for peace with
the South.
(AP, 11/21/99)
1998 Nov 21, Isao Okawa,
chairman of CSK Corp., and Sega Enterprises, donated $27 million to
MIT for the creation of a center for children founded on the belief
that new digital technology will drive fundamental changes in
education.
(SFC, 11/23/98, p.A5)
1998 Nov 21, Rail workers in
southern France extended their strike for the 12th day. A
Europe-wide rail strike was planned for Nov 27.
(SFEC, 11/22/98, p.A26)
1998 Nov 21, In Indonesia Pres.
Habibie ordered a new corruption inquiry into former autocrat
Suharto.
(SFEC, 11/22/98, p.A24)
1998 Nov 21, Italian officials
released Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the
Kurdistan Workers' Party, the main Kurdish rebel group.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1998 Nov 21, From Mexico it was
reported that hundreds of people had been evacuated from villages
near Volcano de Fuego, which threatened to erupt within days.
(SFC, 11/21/98, p.A6)
1998 Nov 21, In Russia it was
reported that an icy storm claimed 13 lives in Moscow over the last
week.
(SFC, 11/21/98, p.A6)
1999 Nov 21, President Clinton,
speaking at a conference in Florence, Italy, called on prosperous
nations to spread global wealth by helping poor countries with
Internet hookups, cell phones, debt relief and small loans.
(AP, 11/21/00)
1999 Nov 21, The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $26 million donation to UNICEF
for the elimination of tetanus.
(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A2)
1999 Nov 21, Some 3,000 of
8,000 demonstrators crossed onto the Fort Benning army base in
Georgia to protest against the School of the Americas and the 10
year anniversary of Jesuit priests killed in El Salvador by soldiers
trained at the school.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A2)
1999 Nov 21, Quentin Crisp
(born as Denis Pratt), writer, performer and raconteur, died in
Manchester, England, at age 90. His books included "The Naked Civil
Servant," "How to Become a Virgin" and "New York Diaries."
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.C4)
1999 Nov 21, Afghanistan and
Iran resumed trade following recently imposed UN restrictions on
Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 21, In Chechnya some
5,000 rebels barricaded themselves in Grozny in preparation for a
Russian offensive.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 21, In Colombia Jaime
Orlando Lara (30) was extradited to the US for smuggling heroine to
the US. He was the first drug offender to be extradited since 1990.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 21, In Jordan King
Abdullah pardoned 25 Hamas members and expelled 4 of them to Qatar.
Jordanian authorities expelled Khalid Mishal, Ibrahim Ghawsha, and
two other members to Qatar; released the remaining detainees; and
announced that the HAMAS offices would remain closed permanently.
Charges against the HAMAS officials included possession of weapons
and explosives for use in illegal acts.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A13)(Econ, 10/10/09,
p.50)(www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_99/mideast.html)
1999 Nov 21, In South Korea
thousands of workers gathered in Seoul and demanded a reduction of
the workweek from 44 to 40 hours. They also protested government
plans to privatize state-run power, gas and financial firms.
(SFC, 11/22/99, p.A13)
2000 Nov 21, Pres. Clinton
agreed not to punish China for exporting missile components to Iran
and Pakistan after China promised to end future technological
cooperations with countries seeking to develop missile weaponry.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A20)
2000 Nov 21, In a setback for
George W. Bush, the Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request
to keep the presidential recounts going; Democrats were jubilant,
Republicans bitter and angry. The Florida Supreme Court issued a
42-page unanimous decision that called for the recount in 3 counties
to continue and that results be posted no later than 9 a.m. Nov 27.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A1)(AP, 11/21/01)
2000 Nov 21, Research published
in a British medical journal showed children who use mobile phones
risk suffering memory loss, sleeping disorders and headaches. The
study said that those younger than 18 are more vulnerable to cell
phone radiation because their immune systems are less robust.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2000 Nov 21, In Bosnia final
election results were released. Hard-line nationalists won support
among the Serbs and Croats. Mirko Sarovic was declared the winner of
the Bosnian Serb republic over prime minister Milorad Dodik.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.C5)(SFC, 11/24/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 21, Egypt recalled its
envoy from Israel to protest the bombings in Gaza.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 21, In Egypt at least
11 people were left dead after robbers escaped with $361,000 from
the National Bank of Egypt in Maragha following a gun battle with
police.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.C6)
2000 Nov 21, An Israeli
motorist was wounded and a Palestinian was killed in the Gaza Strip.
(WSJ, 11/22/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 21, In Peru the
legislature refused to accept the resignation of Pres. Fujimori and
ousted him for moral incapacity.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 21, In Serbia Slobodan
Milosevic was declared the only candidate for head of the Socialist
Party.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A19)
2000 Nov 21, In Spain Ernest
Lluch (63), a former government minister, was killed by suspected
ETA gunmen in a Barcelona suburb.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.C6)
2001 Nov 21, Tiger Woods won
his 4th consecutive PGA Grand Slam with a win at Poipu Bay in
Hawaii.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Nov 21, Florida disbarred
F. Lee Bailey (68) for payment in a 1994 drug case that was supposed
to go to the government.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 21, A series of 100
waves broke over Maverick’s Reef in Half Moon Bay, Ca.
(SFC, 1/31/07, p.A1)
2001 Nov 21, Ottilie W.
Lundgren (94) of Oxford, Conn., died of inhalational anthrax in a
case that baffled investigators.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A10)(AP, 11/21/02)
2001 Nov 21,
Actor-turned-author Gardner McKay died in Honolulu at age 69.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2001 Nov 21, In Afghanistan the
Taliban in Kandahar pledged to continue their fight.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 21, India border
forces in Kashmir killed at least 12 suspected Islamic guerrillas
trying to cross a cease-fire line with Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 21, Nepal's Maoist
rebel leader Prachanda (b.1954), the name means fierce, announced a
withdrawal from a 4-month cease-fire agreement. Attacks on police
stations and government installations quickly followed.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A12)(Econ, 8/23/08,
p.33)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prachanda)
2002 Nov 21, The United States
and the Philippines signed a controversial agreement which would
allow U.S. forces to use the Asian country as a supply point for
military operations.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, A US-led
consortium said it is suspending construction of 2 new nuclear
reactors in North Korea.
(SFC, 6/28/08, p.A3)
2002 Nov 21, The US National
Book Awards were presented. Robert A. Caro won the non-fiction award
for "Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson;" the fiction
award went to Julia Glass for "Three Junes;" the poetry award was
won by Ruth Stone for "In the Next Galaxy."
(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A2)
2002 Nov 21, Intensive cleaning
began aboard the cruise ship Disney Magic after over 100 passengers
fell sick from an unknown stomach virus.
(SFC, 11/23/02, p.A2)
2002 Nov 21, Merck published a
study of vaccine that prevents cervical cancers caused by human
papilloma virus (HPV) that could be available by 2006.
(WSJ, 11/21/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 21, The International
Monetary Fund agreed to Argentina's request to postpone for a year a
$141 million loan payment due the next day.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, In Australia
speaker Jonathan Hunt ruled that "knitting is permitted in the house
but is not permitted from the minister's chair." Retired lawmaker
Marilyn Waring admitted to knitting 32 garments during 9 years in
Parliament. She said in her autobiography it was the only productive
thing she had accomplished in the debating chamber.
(AP, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 21, The 19 NATO
leaders demanded that Iraq "fully and immediately" comply with a UN
resolution to disarm. It was at the NATO Summit in Prague that
the NATO Response Force initiative was announced together with the
other major military transformation initiatives, the Prague
Capabilities Commitment and the fundamental revision of the NATO
military command structure. The NRF concept was approved by
Ministers of Defense in June 2003 in Brussels.
(AP,
11/21/02)(http://www.nato.int/issues/nrf/index.html)
2002 Nov 21, The Baltic nations
of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania joined former communist states
Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia as the next wave of NATO
states.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, Al-Qaida leader
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the network's chief of operations in the
Persian Gulf, was reported to have been captured earlier in the
month. The Saudi of Yemeni descent was captured in Dubai and flown
to a CIA prison in Afghanistan and then onto Thailand where he was
waterboarded and interrogated. He had allegedly planned the Oct 12,
2000, attack on the US Navy destroyer Cole.
(AP, 11/21/02)(SFC, 9/29/11, p.A2)
2002 Nov 21, In Indonesia Imam
Samudra (35), the suspected mastermind of last month's devastating
Bali bombings was arrested near Jakarta.
(Reuters, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, A Palestinian man
wearing a bomb belt blew himself up on a Jerusalem city bus packed
with high school students and soldiers, killing 11 passengers and
wounding dozens in a morning rush hour attack. Four of the victims
were aged 8 to 16.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, Prince Takamado, a
member of the Japanese imperial household known for his love of
sports, died after collapsing while playing squash.
(Reuters, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, In Sidon, Lebanon,
Bonnie Witherall (31), an American missionary, was shot and killed
at a Christian center that provides medical care and aid to
Palestinian refugees.
(AP, 11/21/02)
2002 Nov 21, In Kaduna,
Nigeria, protesters set fire to cars and churches in the during
demonstrations over a newspaper article suggesting Islam's founding
prophet might have chosen a wife from among contestants in the Miss
World beauty pageant in Nigeria. Witnesses said at least four people
were stabbed and burned to death. Some 200 people died in ensuing
riots and the writer of the article was forced to flee to Norway.
(AP, 11/21/02)(Econ, 4/30/11, p.72)
2002 Nov 21, In Pakistan Mir
Zafarullah Khan Jamali, a moderate government loyalist, was elected
PM.
(SFC, 11/22/02, p.A11)
2002 Nov 21, In northern
Pakistan a 5.5 earthquake hit the Gilgit region and at least 25
people were killed.
(SFC, 11/22/02, p.A18)
2003 Nov 21, Health officials
said a deadly outbreak of hepatitis A at a Chi-Chi's Mexican
restaurant in suburban Pittsburgh was probably caused by green
onions from Mexico.
(AP, 11/21/04)
2003 Nov 21, The Air Force
conducted a 2nd test of the "Mother of All Bombs," officially the
Massive Ordnance Air Blast, in Florida. It was 1st tested Mar 11.
(AP, 11/21/03)
2003 Nov 21, In northern
Afghanistan at least 60 suspected Taliban and Taliban sympathizers
were released from Shibergan jail in Jawzjan province.
(AP, 11/22/03)
2003 Nov 21, In Bolivia
assailants shot and killed Jessica Nicole Borda (22), the daughter
of an American consular official, during a carjacking attempt in the
eastern city of Santa Cruz.
(AP, 11/21/03)
2003 Nov 21, In Brazil Pres.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged to provide homesteads for 400,000
poor farm families by 2006. His Bolsa Familia plan merged 4 income
transfer programs into one with payments to the poorest families of
up to 95 reais ($33) a month. By 2008 some 11 million families
received benefits under the plan.
(Econ, 10/25/03, p.35)(AP, 11/22/03)(Econ,
2/9/08, p.39)
2003 Nov 21, In Colombia Rev.
Jose Rubin Rodriguez, a Catholic priest who was missing for a week,
was found shot to death. The army captured a suspected rebel who it
says coordinated the kidnapping of eight foreign backpackers two
months ago.
(AP, 11/22/03)
2003 Nov 21, More than a dozen
rockets fired from donkey carts slammed into Iraq's Oil Ministry and
two downtown Baghdad hotels used by foreign journalists and civilian
defense contractors.
(AP, 11/21/04)
2003 Nov 21, Peru's Pres.
Toledo apologized for the 70,000 deaths from the country's 20-year
battle with the Shining Path insurgency, and promised to punish
officers that a scathing report blamed for many of the worst abuses.
(AP, 11/22/03)
2004 Nov 21, President Bush,
trying to mend relations with Latin America, pledged during an
economic summit in Chile to make a fresh push for stalled
immigration reforms.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2004 Nov 21, Donald Trump's
casino empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2004 Nov 21, The NBA suspended
Indiana's Ron Artest for the rest of the season following a brawl
that broke out at the end of a game against the Detroit Pistons.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2004 Nov 21, A trespassing deer
hunter in northern Wisconsin opened fire on other hunters when they
asked him to leave, killing 5 and wounding 3. Another hunter died
the next day. Police arrested Chai Soua Vang, a Hmong man of St.
Paul Minn., for killing 6 hunters. In 2005 Vang (36) was convicted
of 1st degree murder and sentenced to 6 life terms.
(AP, 11/22/04)(WSJ, 11/23/04, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/05,
p.A3)
2004 Nov 21, US led troops
mounted overnight raids on suspected al-Qaida compounds in eastern
Afghanistan, killing four people and detaining several others.
(AP, 11/21/04)
2004 Nov 21, Scientists began
releasing water from Glen Canyon Dam to flood the Grand Canyon in a
5-day effort to restore the Colorado river ecosystem.
(SFC, 11/22/04, p.A2)
2004 Nov 21, In Chile
Asia-Pacific leaders wrapped up an annual summit dominated by US
President George W. Bush's core security agenda.
(AP, 11/21/04)
2004 Nov 21, In northern China
a Bombardier CRJ-200 passenger plane crashed in an ice-covered lake
seconds after takeoff, killing all 54 people aboard and one person
on the ground after an apparent midair explosion.
(AP, 11/21/04)(WSJ, 11/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 21, Iraq's Electoral
Commission set national elections for January 30.
(AP, 11/21/04)
2004 Nov 21, In southern Israel
swarms of locusts devoured lawns and palm trees.
(AP, 11/21/04)
2004 Nov 21, At least 66 Maoist
rebels and 10 government troopers were killed in an overnight clash
in Nepal's far-western Pandon village.
(AP, 11/21/04)
2004 Nov 21, Ukrainians cast
ballots in a presidential run-off.
(AP, 11/21/04)
2005 Nov 21, President Bush,
the first US chief executive to visit Mongolia, saluted Mongolia's
"fearless warriors" for helping his embattled effort to establish
democracy in the heart of the Middle East.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, The US federal
Centers for Disease Control said a man from Great Britain has been
diagnosed with the human form of mad cow disease, the 2nd documented
US case of the illness.
(AP, 11/22/05)
2005 Nov 21, Camden, NJ, was
named the most dangerous city in the USA for the 2nd year in a row
by the Morgan Quitno, a Kansa-based publishing and research company.
(SFC, 11/21/05, p.A2)
2005 Nov 21, In New Mexico,
police arrested Monsignor Dale Fushek (53), former vicar gen’l. of
the Phoenix Roman Catholic Diocese, on sex charges involving boys
and young men. On May 22, 2006, three of the 10 misdemeanor counts
were dismissed at the request of the prosecution. On December 5,
2006, the lawsuit filed on January 27, 2005, was settled by the
Diocese of Phoenix for $100,000. The settlement does not imply any
admission of guilt, according to the Diocesan attorney Mike Haran.
The case was dismissed with prejudice, which means it cannot be
refiled.
(SFC, 11/22/05,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Fushek)
2005 Nov 21, General Motors
Corp. said it will eliminate 30,000 jobs and close nine North
American assembly, stamping and powertrain plants by 2008 as part of
an effort to get production in line with demand and position the
world's biggest automaker to start making money again after
absorbing nearly $4 billion in losses so far this year.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, Intel Corp. and
Micron Tech. announced plans to form a joint venture, IM Flash
Technologies LLC, to make flash memory for consumer tech gadgets.
(SFC, 11/22/05, p.C1)
2005 Nov 21, Hugh Sidey (78),
Time magazine political columnist, died in Paris.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2005 Nov 21, British
authorities said Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (1953), the governor of
Nigeria’s oil-rich state Bayelsa, has skipped bail and returned
home. He had been arrested and charged in Britain for laundering
millions.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, China ordered
already strict anti-bird flu measures tightened following two new
outbreaks in poultry, while Romania said it would destroy 2,000 farm
birds after finding the virus in hens and North Korea tightened
border controls.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, In Egypt ballot
results showed that the banned Muslim Brotherhood won about a
quarter of the parliamentary seats open in the second round of
balloting despite widespread violence that marred the voting.
(Reuters, 11/21/05)(AP, 11/22/05)
2005 Nov 21, In Egypt Iraqi
leaders backed a Sunni call for a timetable for the withdrawal of
U.S.-led forces and said Iraq's opposition had a "legitimate right"
of resistance. The announcement concluded a reconciliation
conference backed by the Arab League.
(AP, 11/22/05)(SFC, 11/22/05, p.A1)(WSJ,
11/22/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 21, Egyptian forces
shot dead Salem Khadr al-Shnub, a Bedouin leader in the Sinai
peninsula. He was wanted over his suspected involvement in a string
of deadly bombings in the area. Two of Shnub's relatives, Sallam
Sweilam and Sallam Sallam Sweilam, were also killed in the clashes.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, EU foreign
ministers authorized the start of negotiations on an agreement to
prepare Bosnia for EU membership a decade after the Balkan nation
was ravaged by Europe's worst fighting since World War II. Leaders
of Bosnia's three major ethnic groups signed an accord designed to
unify the Balkans by remaking the government's constitutional
structure.
(AP, 11/21/05)(AP, 11/22/05)
2005 Nov 21, EU defense
ministers adopted a plan to open up their $35 billion arms industry
to increased cross-border competition within the 25-nation bloc, a
landmark move designed to cut costs for tight military budgets.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, France's PM
Villepin pledged to find more jobs for youths from poor suburbs,
where unrest continued to simmer and a high school guard suffered a
fatal heart attack trying to extinguish blazing cars.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, US forces
mistakenly fired on a civilian vehicle outside an American base in a
city north of Baghdad, killing 5 people, including 2 children.
Gunmen in Tarmiya killed 4 police officers. In Basra gunmen killed a
Sunni cleric. A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb near
Habaniya.
(AP, 11/21/05)(SFC, 11/22/05, p.A13)(SFC,
11/23/05, p.A3)
2005 Nov 21, PM Ariel Sharon
asked Israel's president to dissolve parliament, pushing for a quick
March election just hours after deciding to leave his hard-line
Likud Party and to form a new centrist party.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, Kenya held a
referendum on the country’s 1st proper constitution since
independence. Voters divided into 2 factions over the referendum:
bananas called for a yes vote and oranges said no. Voters rejected
the new constitution (57-43%), supported by Pres. Kibaki, the most
serious political setback since he was elected nearly 3 years ago.
(AP, 11/22/05)(Econ, 11/26/05, p.58)
2005 Nov 21, Hezbollah
guerrillas in Lebanon fired mortars and rockets at Israeli troops in
a disputed border area, the first clash between the two sides in
five months. 4 Hezbollah guerrillas were killed in raids meant to
capture Israeli troops along the Lebanon border.
(AP, 11/21/05)(WSJ, 11/22/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 21, The leaders of
Russia and Japan said the settlement of a 60-year-old dispute that
kept their nations from formally ending their World War II
hostilities requires closer economic cooperation and patient
trust-building as Tokyo backed Moscow's bid to join the World Trade
Organization.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, Moscow police
launched operation “Counterfeit,” a citywide sting operations aimed
at shutting down producers and sellers of counterfeit music, movies
and software, in the latest clampdown on rampant piracy that
threatens Russia's bid to join the WTO.
(AP, 11/24/05)
2005 Nov 21, Turkey's prime
minister rushed to the overwhelmingly Kurdish southeast and urged
calm after weeks of rioting, vowing that his government would
investigate charges that security forces, and not Kurdish
guerrillas, were behind a recent fatal bombing.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, A UN count of HIV
infections around the world topped 40.3 million.
(SFC, 11/22/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 21, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez pledged to help build a natural gas pipeline stretching from
Venezuela to Argentina during talks with Argentine leader Nestor
Kirchner.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, In Yemen a
tribesman threatened to kill two Swiss tourists he kidnapped if the
government uses force to free them. Hasan Ahmed al-Dhamen said that
he would kill his two hostages, a man and a woman, if security
forces tried to raid his hide-out.
(AP, 11/21/05)
2005 Nov 21, Zimbabwe's
state-owned national airline grounded its entire fleet after running
out of fuel as the southern African country's economy continues to
crumble.
(Reuters, 11/22/05)
2006 Nov 21, The US
Environmental Protection Agency announced that pesticides can be
applied over and near bodies of water without a permit under the
federal Clean Water Act.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, In Atlanta, Ga.,
Kathryn Johnston (92) was shot to death by police after she fired at
narcotics investigators as they stormed her house in a no-knock
raid. In 2007 2 officers pleaded guilty to killing Johnston. One of
the officers had planted marijuana there as part of a cover story.
In 2009 a judge sentenced 3 former Atlanta police officers to prison
for their role in the botched raid.
(AP, 11/22/06)(SFC, 4/27/07, p.A4)(SFC, 2/25/09,
p.A4)
2006 Nov 21, An Australian
government report said Australia should use its uranium to fuel its
own nuclear power industry and curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Australia held 38% of the world’s low cost uranium reserves.
(Econ, 11/25/06, p.59)
2006 Nov 21, In Austria
diplomats said most of the 35 nations at a key meeting of the UN
nuclear watchdog agency have agreed to deny Iran technical aid for a
plutonium-producing reactor.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, The UN Security
Council voted to extend the EU peacekeeping force in Bosnia for a
year, welcoming "tangible signs" of the Balkan nation's progress
toward EU membership.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, Cambodian PM Hun
Sen, other senior officials and South Korea’s President Roh Moo-Hyun
arrived in Siem Reap, the gateway to the famed Angkor temple
complex, to kick off the Angkor-Gyeongju Culture Expo, a joint
cultural festival that runs through January 2007.
(AFP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, In northeastern
China a bus carrying primary school students plunged off a bridge,
killing eight of the children and injuring 39.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, Gunfire and street
fights erupted outside Congo's supreme court and a blaze swept
through the building as hearings began over fraud allegations in a
presidential election meant to bring lasting peace. Bosange Mbaka, a
reporter with the Kinshasa-based newspaper Mambenga, was arrested
while covering a supreme court hearing in Kinshasa. In May 2007
media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called for his
release.
(AP, 11/21/06)(AFP, 5/21/07)
2006 Nov 21, In Paris, France,
nations representing half the world's population signed a
long-awaited, $12.8 billion pact for a nuclear fusion reactor that
could revolutionize global energy use for future generations. The
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project by
the US, the EU, China, India, Russia, Japan and South Korea will
attempt to combat global warming by harnessing the fusion that runs
the sun, creating an alternative to polluting fossil fuels. The
project under the direction of Kaname Ikeda of Japan will be built
in Cadarache in the southern French region of Provence and is
expected to create about 10,000 jobs and take about eight years to
build. The project was first proposed by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
(AP, 11/21/06)(Econ, 11/25/06, p.61)
2006 Nov 21, Iraq restored
diplomatic relations with Syria as part of a wider regional effort
to clamp off violence in Iraq. Iraqi and US forces raided Baghdad's
Sadr City and detained seven militia members, including one believed
to have information about an American soldier kidnapped last month.
A young boy and two other people were killed in the early morning
raid. A US soldier died of a non-hostile injuries north of Baghdad.
(AP, 11/21/06)(AP, 11/22/06)
2006 Nov 21, Israel's Supreme
Court ordered the government to recognize same-sex marriages
performed abroad.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, The Israeli
military launched a three-pronged offensive in the northern Gaza
Strip, killing a top Hamas commander in its latest operation against
Palestinian rocket squads. An elderly Palestinian woman died in a
gunbattle between troops and militants. Two Italian aid workers were
kidnapped in the Gaza Strip. Both were released within 24 hours.
(AP, 11/21/06)(AP, 11/22/06)
2006 Nov 21, In Lebanon
prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was
assassinated in a suburb of Beirut.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, Arab and African
leaders in Libya agreed to work together to end the crisis in the
Darfur region of Sudan.
(AP, 11/22/06)
2006 Nov 21, Roberto Marcos
Garcia (50), chief reporter for the weekly Testimonio crime magazine
in Mexico’s port city of Veracruz, was toppled from his motorcycle
and run over by unidentified assailants who then shot him at close
range.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, Nepal's government
and rebels signed a peace deal to end a decade-long insurgency,
paving the way for the guerrillas to join the country's interim
government.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, In Nicaragua Doris
Jimenez (25) was murdered in San Juan. Her boyfriend Eric Volz (27),
an American real estate broker working in Managua, was convicted of
her murder despite evidence that placed him in Managua at the time
her death. In early 2007 Volz began a 30 year sentence as he waited
for an appeal.
(WSJ, 3/17/07, p.A14)
2006 Nov 21, In Quetta,
Pakistan, police arrested 39 Afghans suspected of being Taliban
fighters. An Islamist group insisted the detainees were only
students.
(AP, 11/21/06)
2006 Nov 21, In southern Poland
23 coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Halemba mine.
(AP, 11/23/06)
2006 Nov 21, Konstantin
Meshcheryakov, co-owner of a small Russian private bank, was gunned
down in an apparent contract killing in central Moscow.
Spetssetstroibank with offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg opened
in 1994.
(AP, 11/22/06)
2006 Nov 21, The UN said an
estimated 4.3 million people were infected with HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS, in the last 12 months. The UNAIDS report estimated that
the total number of people infected with HIV stood between 34-47
million.
(http://tinyurl.com/tajka)(Econ, 11/25/06, p.84)
2007 Nov 21, Michigan’s Gov.
Jennifer Granholm issued an order that bars discrimination against
state workers based on their "gender identity or expression," which
protects the rights of those who behave, dress or identify as
members of the opposite sex.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 21, New Hampshire set
its presidential primary to Jan 8, claiming its traditional spot as
the nation’s first primary.
(SFC, 11/22/07, p.A4)
2007 Nov 21, Officials in the
US announced the recall of more than a half-million pieces of
Chinese-made children's jewelry contaminated with lead.
(AP, 11/21/08)
2007 Nov 21, Herbert Saffir
(b.1917), an engineer who created the five-category system used to
describe hurricane strength, died. Saffir began working on an
intensity scale in 1969 as part of a United Nations project.
Saffir's scale was expanded by former National Hurricane Center
director Robert H. Simpson and became known as the Saffir-Simpson
scale in the 1970s.
(AP, 11/23/07)
2007 Nov 21, Aruba authorities
announced they had re-arrested Dutch student Joran van der Sloot and
two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, on suspicion of
involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily
harm that resulted in the 2005 death of Natalee Holloway.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 21, The presidents of
Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey launched the construction of a
railroad that will link ex-Soviet republics in the Caucasus and
Central Asia with Europe, bypassing Russia.
(AP, 11/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, PM Gordon Brown
tried to reassure Britons their personal details were safe after the
one of the biggest security breaches in the country's history left
millions of people exposed to identity theft and bank fraud.
(AP, 11/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, Canada’s
government set aside 25 million acres of wilderness in the Northwest
Territories for conservation.
(SFC, 11/22/07, p.A3)
2007 Nov 21, Chile’s Supreme
Court threw out embezzlement indictments against former dictator
Gen. Augusto Pinochet's widow and four of his children, who had been
accused of misuse of state funds related to multimillion-dollar
overseas bank accounts.
(SFC, 11/22/07, p.A3)
2007 Nov 21, Colombia's
government said it was canceling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's
mediation role with leftist rebels in a possible hostage swap,
dealing a blow to efforts to free three kidnapped US contractors and
a former presidential candidate.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 21, Costa Rica's
president signed into law a free trade agreement (CAFTA) with its
Central American neighbors, the United States and the Dominican
Republic. Costa Ricans voted for the trade deal in a national
referendum, moving it forward. But then it became stalled again as
congress squabbled over the enabling legislation dealing with 13
different aspects of the deal. In late 2008 lawmakers overcame the
final intellectual-property hurdle by allowing schools and
universities to copy some materials and by reducing prison time for
those guilty of selling pirated goods.
(AP, 11/22/07)(AP, 11/11/08)
2007 Nov 21, A French judge
filed preliminary charges against former President Jacques Chirac in
a probe of suspicions that people were given fake jobs while he was
mayor of Paris (1977-1995). Some 10,000 people, mainly tobacco
sellers, marched through Paris to protest a smoking ban in cafes as
of Jan 1. Coordinated acts of sabotage struck France's high-speed
trains, causing further delays to services already widely disrupted
by strikes, just as talks were opening to coax unions into ending
their walkout.
(AP, 11/21/07)(AP, 11/22/07)(Econ, 11/24/07,
p.56)
2007 Nov 21, Two British
teenagers (16) faced up to three years in jail after a Ghanaian
court found them guilty of smuggling 6 kg (13 lbs) of cocaine. The
teenagers, who pleaded not guilty, had told British TV they were
tricked into carrying the bags by male acquaintances in Ghana and
Britain and did not know their content. In 2008 the 2 girls were
sentenced to one year in jail to include time already served. They
were released on July 17, 2008.
(Reuters, 11/21/07)(AP, 1/23/08)(AFP, 7/17/08)
2007 Nov 21, In Hungary several
trade unions and civic groups held a series of strikes and protests
against the Socialist-led government's plans to privatize health
insurance and close some railway lines.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 21, India and the
International Atomic Energy Agency agreed to start negotiations on
putting Indian reactors under IAEA safeguards, clearing a key hurdle
to closing a US-Indian nuclear supply pact. Dozens of soldiers
marched through Calcutta and police imposed a curfew to try to quell
riots that erupted after protesters alleged government brutality.
(Reuters, 11/21/07)(AP, 11/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, A suicide car bomb
exploded at a police checkpoint guarding a courthouse in Ramadi,
killing at least six people in the largest attack on Anbar
province's capital in months. Iraqi security forces found 40
decomposed bodies, including women and children, north of Ramadi
near Lake Tharthar in an area controlled until recently by al-Qaida
in Iraq. A police officer was killed in a drive-by shooting in
central Kut. The US military said six suspected militants were
killed and 10 captured in two days of raids across central and
northern Iraq.
(AP, 11/21/07)(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 21, Owners of the only
salmon farm in Northern Ireland said they have lost their entire
population of more than 100,000 fish, worth some $2 million, to a
jellyfish attack. Pelagia nocticula, popularly known as the mauve
stinger, is noted for its purplish night-time glow and its
propensity for terrorizing bathers in the warmer Mediterranean Sea.
Until the past decade, the mauve stinger has rarely been spotted so
far north in British or Irish waters, and scientists cite this as
evidence of global warming.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 21, Pakistan asked a
key international forum comprising Britain and its former colonies
to delay a decision on whether to suspend it from the Commonwealth.
Law Minister Afzal Hayder said the government had freed 5,634
political activists and anti-government lawyers, including cricketer
Imran Kahn. 623 people remained in government custody. The army said
security forces attacked mountaintop positions of pro-Taliban
militants in the Swat region of northwestern Pakistan, leaving 40
fighters dead.
(AP, 11/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, In Senegal street
vendors protesting an attempt to clear them from the center of Dakar
clashed with police, throwing rocks at officers who fired tear gas
to disperse the crowd. Last week, Senegal's security forces began
clearing the capital's intersections of hawkers and beggars under a
presidential decree aimed at bringing some order to Dakar's clogged
streets.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 21, Ishmael Beah (27),
a former child soldier and survivor of Sierra Leone's civil war, was
appointed UNICEF's first Advocate for Children Affected by War.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 21, A South African
police officer died when a helicopter carrying 14 police officers
and five air force officials crashed near the border with Lesotho.
(AFP, 11/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, In northern Sri
Lanka soldiers killed nine Tamil Tiger rebels in several clashes.
(AP, 11/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, In southern
Thailand unidentified gunmen killed four local government employees
in the same district where a prominent political party leader was
campaigning.
(AP, 11/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, The UN Security
Council extended the EU's peacekeeping force in Bosnia for a year,
citing the Balkan nation's "very limited progress" towards EU
membership and its failure to implement key reforms.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2007 Nov 21, The UN Security
Council welcomed a deal signed by Congo and Rwanda to forcibly
disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels in Congo in an effort to reduce tensions
between the central African neighbors.
(Reuters, 11/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, In Venezuela tens
of thousands of President Hugo Chavez's supporters filled the
streets to back his proposed constitutional changes, while
anti-government student leaders announced a bold plan to march on
the presidential palace.
(AP, 11/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, More than 60
migrants drowned when their boat capsized off Yemen during an
attempt to flee their war torn homeland of Somalia.
(AP, 11/22/07)
2008 Nov 21, The DJIA rose
494.13 to close at 8,046.42 following news that Pres.-elect Obama
would likely pick Timothy Geithner, chief of the New York Federal
Reserve, as the next Treasury secretary.
(SFC, 11/22/08, p.C1)
2008 Nov 21, The Nebraska
Legislature voted 43-5 to make abandonment of children legal only
for infants up to 30 days old. Gov. Dave Heinemen signed the
emergency bill effective after midnight.
(SFC, 11/22/08, p.A2)
2008 Nov 21, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber rammed the gate of an army base in the southern
province of Zabul, killing three civilians and seriously wounding
four Afghan soldiers. A man was killed after being interrogated by
the Taliban leadership. US-led troops shot and killed a civilian in
Khost when the vehicle he was in came too close to a patrol. 8
wedding-goers were killed when two or three grenades were thrown
into the men's section of the wedding in the northern province of
Parwan.
(AP, 11/21/08)(AFP, 11/22/08)
2008 Nov 21, Mario Ferreyra
(63), an ex-Argentine police commander, committed suicide in front
of rolling television cameras as he was about to be arrested for
alleged human rights violations during the country's dictatorship.
(AP, 11/22/08)
2008 Nov 21, Canada and
Colombia signed a free trade agreement, hoping to boost investment
and trade flows at a time of global economic instability.
(AP, 11/22/08)
2008 Nov 21, Chinese
authorities destroyed the home of leading rights activist Ni Yulan
in front of her distraught husband who pleaded with the government
to release her from jail. Chen Daojun, a writer and journalist who
was arrested after protesting against a power plant in southwest
China, was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of
subverting state power.
(AFP, 11/21/08)
2008 Nov 21, In eastern Congo
armed men shot and killed a 20-year-old woman at the Kibati refugee
camp where thousands of displaced people live in constant fear,
caught between soldiers and rebels. Armed men also forced families
there out of their huts and looted them. Didace Namujimbo, a
journalist working for a UN-backed radio station, was shot dead in
Bukavu.
(AP, 11/21/08)(AP, 11/22/08)
2008 Nov 21, Ethiopia’s
government said the death toll from floods in southeastern Ethiopia
has risen to 17 and more than 100,000 people have been left
homeless.
(AP, 11/21/08)
2008 Nov 21, German security
officials said they are dropping the pursuit of a ban on Scientology
after finding insufficient evidence of illegal activity.
(AP, 11/22/08)
2008 Nov 21, Germany banned
Hezbollah's Lebanon-based satellite television station on grounds
that it violates the country's constitution.
(AP, 11/23/08)
2008 Nov 21, In Iraq thousands
of followers of a radical Shiite cleric protested a proposed
US-Iraqi security deal, burning an effigy of President George W.
Bush in the same square where Iraqis beat a toppled Saddam Hussein
statue five years ago.
(AP, 11/21/08)
2008 Nov 21, A shootout between
Lebanese soldiers and a group of gunmen in the northern port city of
Tripoli left one of the gunmen dead and two wounded.
(AP, 11/21/08)
2008 Nov 21, In Mexico Attorney
General Eduardo Medina Mora told reporters that Noe Ramirez,
Mexico’s former drug czar, accepted $450,000 from drug traffickers,
and that cartel leaders offered to pay him monthly for alerting them
to planned police operations. In Tijuana 3 gunmen burst into the Bar
Utopia, a bar popular with university students and opened fire. 2
men and a woman died instantly and 3 others died the next day.
(AP, 11/21/08)(AP, 11/22/08)
2008 Nov 21, Courts in
military-ruled Myanmar handed long prison sentences to a prominent
Buddhist monk and Zarganar, a popular comedian active in the
country's pro-democracy movement, rounding out two weeks of an
intensive judicial crackdown on activists.
(AP, 11/21/08)
2008 Nov 21, Amsterdam said it
will order the closure of dozens of coffee shops that sell cannabis
near schools in accordance with new legislation.
(AP, 11/21/08)
2008 Nov 21, In northwestern
Pakistan a bomb killed eight mourners at the funeral of Shiite
cleric Allama Nazir Shah Naqvi, who was fatally shot earlier in the
day.
(AP, 11/21/08)(SFC, 11/22/08, p.A3)
2008 Nov 21, Vadim Pokrovsky,
Russia's anti-AIDS coordinator, said the number of registered HIV
cases is growing 10 percent a year despite increased government
funding. He said that the actual number of people with HIV was
likely higher than 1 million.
(AP, 11/21/08)
2008 Nov 21, Somali security
forces and Islamic insurgents engaged in one of the fiercest
gunbattles in recent weeks in Mogadishu, killing at least 17 people
and wounding six.
(AP, 11/21/08)
2008 Nov 21, Somali pirates
released a hijacked Greek-owned tanker with all 19 crew safe and the
oil cargo intact. The Liberian-flagged tanker MV Genius had been
seized on Sept. 26. The ship's management company said a ransom was
paid but did not say how much.
(AP, 11/22/08)
2008 Nov 21, Zimbabwe refused
to let former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, ex-US President Jimmy
Carter and rights advocate Graca Machel to visit the impoverished
African country for a humanitarian mission. They came as members of
The Elders group, formed by former South African President Nelson
Mandela to foster peace and tackle world conflicts.
(AP, 11/22/08)
2009 Nov 21, Th US Senate voted
60-39 to open debate on the health care bill. The vote was hailed a
victory for Pres. Obama, but final passage of the legislation was
far from certain.
(AP, 11/22/09)
2009 Nov 21, In Afghanistan a
rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul, wounding two
people. NATO took command of the training of the Afghan army and
police to consolidate efforts on building an effective security
force, a vital precondition for the withdrawal of foreign troops.
(AP, 11/21/09)(Reuters, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 21, Australia issued
"catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild
lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country.
(AFP, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 21, The University of
East Anglia, in eastern England, said computer hackers have broken
into a server at a well-respected climate change research center and
posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online, stoking
debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for
man-made climate change. More than a decade of correspondence
between leading British and US scientists was included in about
1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents posted on Web sites following the
security breach last week.
(AP, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 21, In northern China
a gas explosion tore through the state-run Xinxing coal mine in
Heilongjiang province, killing at least 107 people with 2 missing.
(AP, 11/21/09)(AP, 11/22/09)(AP, 11/25/09)
2009 Nov 21, Indonesian
authorities picked up Abdul Basir Latip, a co-founder of the Al
Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf extremist group, at Jakarta airport for
using a false passport.
(AFP, 12/16/09)
2009 Nov 21, Italian police
arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and
providing logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in
Mumbai, India. The day before the attacks began on Nov. 26 they
allegedly sent money using a stolen identity to a US company to
activate Internet phone accounts used by the attackers and their
handlers.
(AP, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 21, In Northern
Ireland a car containing a 400-pound (180kg) device, crashed through
barriers outside the Belfast headquarters of the province's policing
supervision board and partially exploded. Elsewhere, police
exchanged shots with paramilitaries in a border village and 3 people
were arrested.
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(AFP, 11/22/09)
2009 Nov 21, In Pakistani
Kashmir 3 suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up as police
chased them.
(Reuters, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 21, Hamas announced
that it has reached an agreement with other militant groups in Gaza
to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns to prevent
retaliatory attacks.
(AP, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 21, Russia’s PM
Vladimir Putin pledged to widen the country’s anti-crisis aid
package with a car scrappage scheme and mortgage support to jolt the
economy out of the worst recession in 15 years. President Dmitry
Medvedev sharply criticized officials in the ruling Kremlin-backed
party for manipulating recent regional votes, saying it must learn
to win fairly.
(AP, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 21, Russian spaceship
designer Konstantin Feoktistov (83), the only non-Communist space
traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, died. In 1964,
he traveled aboard the Voskhod spaceship as part of the first group
space flight in history.
(AP, 11/22/09)
2009 Nov 21, Saudi health
officials announced the first deaths from swine flu of this year's
annual pilgrimage to Mecca, as four pilgrims succumbed to the
disease soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 21, Sri Lanka said it
would grant free movement to the remaining war-displaced civilians
held in internment camps, meeting a key demand of the international
community. The government reiterated it would complete the
resettlement of civilians by the end of January.
(AFP, 11/21/09)
2009 Nov 21, In Sudan Silva
Kashif (16), a girl from south Sudan, was arrested convicted and
lashed 50 times after a Khartoum judge ruled her knee-length skirt
was indecent. Her mother, Jenty Doro, later said she planned to sue
the police who made the arrest and the judge who imposed the
sentence, as her daughter was underage and a Christian.
(Reuters, 11/27/09)(AFP, 11/28/09)
2010 Nov 21, A national US
study by CQ Press found St. Louis as the nation's most dangerous
city in 2009, overtaking Camden, NJ. Detroit, Flint, Mich., and
Oakland, Calif., rounded out the top five. For the second straight
year, the safest city with more than 75,000 residents was Colonie,
NY.
(AP, 11/22/10)
2010 Nov 21, In Afghanistan 3
civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in Kandahar province. Small
arms fire and a rocket attack killed the police chief of Musa Khel
district of Khost province. ISAF said more than 20 militants were
killed in air strikes and fighting, mainly in the restive south. The
watchdog panel charged with rooting out fraud in the recent
parliamentary election disqualified 19 candidates who had been
announced as winners in preliminary results. A man working on a
stream clearing project in Kandahar province was killed by an
unknown gunman in front of his children in Zhari district. 7 were
killed, two were wounded and four were captured during a clearing
operation that ended in Herat province. In northern Kunduz province,
insurgents attacked a checkpoint set up by a local police force,
sparking heavy fighting. Two of the local police were killed, along
with 17 of the attackers. A NATO service member died in an insurgent
attack in southern Afghanistan.
(AFP, 11/21/10)(AP, 11/21/10)(AP, 11/22/10)(AP,
11/25/10)
2010 Nov 21, Burkina Faso held
presidential elections. President Blaise Compaore (59), a former
army captain, was expected to win as he faced an opposition so
divided it could not mount a unified campaign to fight him
effectively at the polls. State media suggested Compaore won at
least 80% of the peaceful vote.
(AP, 11/21/10)(Econ, 11/27/10, p.58)
2010 Nov 21, In China water
flooded a small coal mine, trapping 28 people as they did safety
work to expand the mine's capacity. 13 workers escaped and rescue
work was continuing for the 28 missing at the Batian mine in the
southwestern province of Sichuan. 29 miners were rescued on Nov 22.
(AP, 11/21/10)(Econ, 11/27/10, p.51)
2010 Nov 21, In Indonesia the
death toll from the Mount Merapi volcano rose to 304 after more
victims succumbed to severe burns and illnesses.
(SFC, 11/22/10, p.A2)
2010 Nov 21, Iranian newspapers
reported that Pres. Ahmadinejad said the best age for girls to get
married was between 16 and 18. The Iranian intelligence ministry
said its security forces have killed two "terrorists" in clashes in
the Kurdish-populated western city of Sanandaj.
(Reuters, 11/21/10)(AFP, 11/21/10)
2010 Nov 21, Ireland became the
second European country to ask for a multibillion euro emergency
loan to help stabilize its debt-ridden banks. Finance Minister Brian
Lenihan (1959-2011) recommended to a cabinet meeting that the
government should apply for a financial bailout program from the EU
and the IMF.
(AP, 11/21/10)(AFP,
11/21/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lenihan,_Jnr)
2010 Nov 21, In Israel 2
workers were killed and two others were in critical condition in a
Haifa hospital after inhaling poisonous material from an accidental
leak at the country's oil refinery.
(AP, 11/24/10)
2010 Nov 21, In Mexico Silverio
Cavazos Ceballos (41), the former governor of the Pacific state of
Colima (2005-2009), was shot dead by a group of armed men. Police
mounting an operation to find the killers came across a doctor in an
area near the crime. He was startled by officers and began to run
away. They shot him dead when he ignored orders to stop.
(AP, 11/21/10)(AP, 11/22/10)
2010 Nov 21, In Pakistan 4
suspected US missiles slammed into a house in North Waziristan,
killing six people. The dead included 3 militants and 3 local
tribesmen harboring them.
(AP, 11/21/10)
2010 Nov 21, Palestinian
president Mahmud Abbas said that he will not return to the
negotiating table with Israel without a settlement freeze that
includes annexed Arab east Jerusalem. Thousands of young Jewish
settlers held a mass demonstration outside Israeli PM Benjamin
Netanyahu's offices in Jerusalem in protest at plans for a new ban
on settlement building.
(AFP, 11/21/10)
2010 Nov 21, Poles voted in
local elections expected to reward the government's reluctance to
trim the welfare state in the EU's largest new member, the only one
in Europe to avoid a recession.
(AP, 11/21/10)
2010 Nov 21, A global tiger
summit meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, approved a wide-ranging
program with the goal of doubling the world's tiger population in
the wild by 2022 backed by governments of the 13 countries that
still have tiger populations: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China,
India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
and Russia. Experts wild tigers could become extinct in 12 years if
countries where they still roam fail to take quick action to protect
their habitats and step up the fight against poaching.
(AP, 11/21/10)
2010 Nov 21, In central Somalia
at least 13 people were killed in heavy clashes that began a day
earlier between armed groups fighting for control of villages.
(AP, 11/21/10)
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