Today in History - March 11
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222 Mar 11,
Varius A. Bassianus (18), Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), was
murdered.
(MC, 3/12/02)
537 Mar 11, The Goths lay siege
to Rome.
(HN, 3/11/98)
638 Mar 11, Sophronius of
Jerusalem, saint, patriarch of Jerusalem, died.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophronius_of_Jerusalem)
1302 Mar 11, Romeo and Juliet
were married on this day, according to Shakespeare.
(HN, 3/11/98)(MC, 3/11/02)
1513 Mar 11, Giovanni de'
Medici became Pope Leo X. The Medici Pope Leo X led the Catholic
Church until 1521.
(OG)(MC, 3/12/02)
1544 Mar 11, Torquato Tasso,
Italian Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1566 Mar 11, The 2nd Lithuanian statutes
went into effect and upheld a democracy of landowners. The Statute
of Lithuania gave the Seimas legislative power. The parliament had
developed since Casimir ascended to the Polish throne. It was
composed of an upper chamber or Council of Lords and assemblies of
noblemen. They assembled in Vilnius or Brest-Litovsk.
(DrEE, 10/5/96, p.5)(LHC, 3/11/03)
1649 Mar 11, The peace of Rueil
was signed between the Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1665 Mar 11, A new legal code
was approved for the Dutch and English towns, guaranteeing religious
observances unhindered.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1669 Mar 11, Mount Etna in
Sicily began erupting. Lava flows that destroyed at least 10
villages on its southern flank before reaching the city walls of the
town of Catania five weeks later, on 15 April. Contemporaneous
accounts written both in Italian and English mention no deaths
related to this eruption (but give very precise figures of the
number of buildings destroyed, the area of cultivated land lost, and
the economic damage).
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Etna)
1702 Mar 11, The Daily Courant,
the first regular English newspaper was published.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1731 Mar 11, Robert Treat
Paine, Declaration of Independence signer, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1791 Mar 11, Samuel Mulliken of
Philadelphia was the 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1795 Mar 11, Battle at
Kurdla, India: Mahratten beat Moguls.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1801 Mar 11, Paul I (46), Czar
of Russia (1796-1801), was strangled in his bedroom in St.
Petersburg ending 4 years of insane rule. His son Alexander I
Pavlovich (23) succeeded him.
(PCh, 1992, p.360)(SS, 3/23/02)
1810 Mar 11, Emperor Napoleon
of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of
Austria.
(AP, 3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1811 Mar 11, Urbain Jean Joseph
le Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1811 Mar 11, Ned Ludd led a
group of workers in a wild protest against mechanization. Members of
the organized bands of craftsmen who rioted against automation in
19th century England were known as Luddites and also "Ludds." The
movement, reputedly named after Ned Ludd, began near Nottingham as
craftsman destroyed textile machinery that was eliminating their
jobs. By the following year, Luddites were active in Yorkshire,
Derbyshire, Lancashire and Leicestershire. Although the Luddites
opposed violence towards people (a position which allowed for a
modicum of public support), government crackdowns included mass
shootings, hangings and deportation to the colonies. It took 14,000
British soldiers to quell the rebellion. The movement effectively
died in 1813 apart from a brief resurgence of Luddite sentiment in
1816 following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
(HN, 3/11/01)(HNQ, 5/14/01)(WSJ, 3/29/04, p.A1)
1812 Mar 11, Citizenship was
granted to Prussian Jews.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1824 Mar 11, The U.S. War
Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A lifelong friend
and trusted aide of Ulysses S. Grant, Ely Parker rose to the top in
two worlds, that of his native Seneca Indian tribe and the white
man's world at large. He went on to become the first Indian to lead
the Bureau.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1832 Mar 11, Franz Melde,
German physicist (Melde test), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1845 Mar 11, Seven hundred
Maoris led by their chief, Hone-Heke, burned the small town of
Kororareka in protest at the settlement of Maoriland by Europeans,
in breach with the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1850 Mar 11, The Pennsylvania
legislature passed an act to incorporate the Female Medical College
of Pennsylvania, the first regular medical school for women in
America.
(http://homeoint.org/cazalet/histo/pennsylvfem.htm)
1860 Mar 11, Thomas Hastings,
architect of the New York Public Library, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1861 Mar 11, The Confederate
convention in Montgomery, Ala., adopted a constitution.
Representatives from the 7 Confederate states ratified the
constitution of the Confederate states of America.
(AP, 3/11/98)(Econ, 12/1/12, p.34)
1862 Mar 11, Pres. Lincoln
suspended General George McClellan from command of all the Union
armies so that McClellan could concentrate on the Army of the
Potomac and Richmond.
(www.civilwarhome.com/macbio.htm)
1863 Mar 11, A naval engagement
occurred between the CSS Alabama and the USS Hatteras.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1863 Mar 11, Union troops under
General Ulysses S. Grant gave up their preparations to take
Vicksburg after failing to pass Fort Pemberton, north of Vicksburg.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1863 Mar 11, A
Lithuanian ruling group replaced a committee for the lead in an
uprising.
(LHC,3/11/03)
1865 Mar 11, General Sherman
and his forces occupied Fayetteville, N.C. Union General William
Sherman considered Judson Kilpatrick, his cavalry chief, "a hell of
a damn fool." At Monroe's Cross Roads, N.C., his carelessness and
disobedience of orders proved Sherman's point.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1867 Mar 11, Great Mauna Loa
volcano eruption in Hawaii.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1869 Mar 11, Vladimir Odoevsky,
Russian prince, senator, scientist writer and critic, died. A
collection of his short stories was translated to English in 2012.
(NYT, 9/27/12, p.7)(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Odoevsky)
1874 Mar 11, Charles Sumner
(63), a white civil rights leader, died.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1884 Mar 11, Gen. Gordon
learned that the telegraph cable to Cairo had been cut. Khartoum
soldiers killed 5 Mahdists at Halfaya. Mahdist insurgents in return
massacred 150 men from the Khartoum garrison as they were cutting
wood.
(ON, 4/02, p.10)
1885 Mar 11, Sir Michael
Campbell, the first motorist to exceed 300 mph, was born.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1888 Mar 11-14, The famous
"Blizzard of ‘88" struck the northeastern United States, resulting
in some 400 deaths. New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington
were cut off for days.
(AP, 3/11/98)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 9/4/05,
p.A7)
1890 Mar 11, Vannevar Bush was
born. He developed the 1st electronic analogue computer.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1892 Mar 11, Raoul Walsh,
director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), was born in NYC.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1899 Mar 11, Frederick IX, King
of Denmark, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1900 Mar 11, British Prime
Minister Lord Salisbury rejected the peace overtures offered from
Boer leader Paul Kruger.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1905 Mar 11, The Parisian
subway was officially inaugurated.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1906 Mar 11, The Simplified
Spelling Board was announced with Andrew Carnegie funding the
organization, to be headquartered in New York City. In August Pres.
Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order mandating simplified
spelling in all government administrative documents.
(Econ, 8/30/08,
p.19)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board)
1907 Mar 11, President
Roosevelt induced California to revoke its anti-Japanese
legislation.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1908 Mar 11, Lawrence Welk,
orchestra leader, was born in Strasburg, ND.
(HN, 3/11/98)(MC, 3/12/02)
1911 Mar 11, The Cadillac
Division of General Motors demonstrated the first electric self
starter, enabling women to drive alone. Charles Kettering created
the first successful electric self-starter for Cadillac. It was
introduced in the 1912 model. The perfection of the self-starter by
inventor Charles Kettering enormously expanded the market for the
automobile. Kettering, born in Londonville, Ohio, in 1876, had
invented an electric cash register motor while at the National Cash
Register Company in 1906. In 1909 he organized the Dayton
Engineering Laboratories Company, later known as Delco, and soon
made notable improvements in automobile ignition and lighting
systems. His self-starter was introduced in the 1912 Cadillac. He
founded the Charles F. Kettering Foundation dedicated to natural
science research and was co-founder of the Sloan-Kettering Institute
for Cancer Research. Kettering died in 1958.
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)(F, 10/7/96, p.67)(HNQ,
3/3/99)
1917 Mar 11, British troops
occupied Baghdad.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1919 Mar 11, Customs inspectors
in San Francisco found more opium aboard the liner Tenyo Maru
raising the aggregate value discovered to some $15,500. Other
illicit commodities were also removed from the ship.
(SSFC, 3/17/19, p.39)
1919 Mar 11, A general strike
in Germany was crushed.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1926 Mar 11, Ralph David
Abernathy, civil rights leader, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1927 Mar 11, The 1st armored
commercial car hold-up in US took place in Pittsburgh.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1929 Mar 11, Major Seagrave
broke the auto speed record in Daytona Beach. He reached an average
of 223.2 mph in a 450 horse powered Golden Arrow.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1930 Mar 11, Former President
and Chief Justice Taft was the first U.S. president to be buried in
the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
(HN, 3/11/98)(AP, 3/11/02)
1930 Mar 11, Silvio Gesell
(b.1862), German merchant and theoretical economist, died. He was an
ethical vegetarian, considered himself a world citizen and believed
Earth should belong to all people, regardless of race, gender,
class, wealth, religion. Based on his theories the Bavarian
coalmining village of Schwanenkirchen created an alternative
currency in 1931 called the wara, which obligated its holder to pay
a tax. This encouraged all users of the currency to get rid of it as
soon as possible.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell)(Econ, 1/24/09, p.81)
1931 Mar 11, Rupert Murdoch,
media baron, was born in Melbourne, Australia.
(WSJ, 6/5/07,
p.A20)(www.filmreference.com/film/22/Rupert-Murdoch.html)
1931 Mar 11, The USSR banned
the sale or importation of Bibles.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1941 Mar 11, President
Roosevelt authorized the Lend-Lease Act and signed into law the
Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the
Axis.
(AP, 3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1942 Mar 11, As Japanese forces
continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II Gen. Douglas
MacArthur left Corregidor in the Philippines for Australia.
MacArthur, who subsequently vowed, "I shall return," kept that
promise more than 2 1/2 years later. MacArthur relinquished command
in the Philippines to Gen’l. Jonathon Wainwright.
(SFEC, 12/15/96, p.T7)(AP,
3/11/98)(http://tinyurl.com/736ws)
1942 Mar 11, 1st deportation
train left Paris for the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1942 Mar 11, Japanese troops
landed on North Sumatra.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1943 Mar 11, The musical film
“Hello, Frisco, Hello” was released. It starred Alice Faye, John
Payne, Lynn Bari, and Jack Oakie and was directed by H. Bruce
Humberstone. The film tells the story of vaudeville performers in
San Francisco, during the period of the 1915 Panama Pacific
Exposition when Alexander Graham Bell made the first
transcontinental phone call from New York City to San Francisco.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Frisco,_Hello)
1944 Mar 11, The US B-24 bomber
Heaven Can't Wait was shot down over a bay near Papua New Guinea
killing all eleven crew members. Wreckage of the plane was found in
2018.
(SFC, 5/23/18, p.A1)
1945 Mar 11, 1,000 allied
bombers harassed Essen with 4,662 tons of bombs.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1945 Mar 11, Flemish Nazi
collaborator Maria Huygens was sentenced to death.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1948 Mar 11, Reginald Weit
became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1948 Mar 11, Jewish Agency of
Jerusalem was bombed.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1950 Mar 11, Jerry Zucker, film
director and TV producer, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0958387/)
1952 Mar 11, Douglas Adams,
British writer, (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), was born.
(HN, 3/11/01)
1953 Mar 11, F.M. Adams became
the 1st US commissioned woman army doctor.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1953 Mar 11, An American B-47
accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, however the
bomb did not go off due to 6 safety catches.
(HN, 3/11/98)(MC, 3/11/02)
1954 Mar 11, The U.S. Army
charged that Wisconsin Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and his
subcommittee's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, had exerted pressure to
obtain favored treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine, a former
consultant to the subcommittee. The confrontation culminated in the
famous Senate Army-McCarthy hearings.
(AP, 3/11/04)
1955 Mar 11, Alexander Fleming
(73), English bacteriologist (penicillin), died.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1956 Mar 11, Curtis L. Brown
Jr., astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95), was born in NC.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1957 Mar 11, Charles Van
Doren's 14-week run on the rigged NBC game show "Twenty-One" ended
as he was "defeated" by attorney Vivienne Nearing; Van Doren's take
was $129,000.
(AP, 3/11/07)
1957 Mar 11, American explorer
Richard E. Byrd died in Boston at age 68.
(AP, 3/11/07)
1958 Mar 11, A B-47 out of
Hunter AFB in Savannah, Georgia, had just leveled off at 15,000
feet, when a bomb lock failed and dropped a nuclear bomb on the
suburban neighborhood of Florence, South Carolina. The bomb's high
explosives exploded on impact, wrecking a house and injuring several
people on the ground. The extent of radioactive contamination was
never revealed. The device had fallen after Captain Bruce Kulka
accidentally grabbed a lever opening the bomb bay -- almost falling
out himself. It was not fully armed with a fissile core.
(www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Broken_Arrows.html)(AFP,
12/10/14)
1959 Mar 11, The Lorraine
Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun" opened at New York City's
Ethel Barrymore Theater.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1960 Mar 11, Pioneer 5 was
launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1965 Mar 11, "I Lost It at the
Movies," a collection of film criticism by Pauline Kael, was first
published by Little, Brown and Co.
(AP, 3/11/05)
1965 Mar 11, The American navy
began inspecting Vietnamese junks in hopes of ending arms smuggling
to South Vietnam.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1965 Mar 11, The Rev. James J.
Reeb (65), a white minister from Boston, died after whites beat him
during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1966 Mar 11, Three men were
convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1966 Mar 11, The San Francisco
Planning Commission approved construction of a 981-foot television
tower on Mt. Sutro. The American Broadcasting Company owned the
5.23- acre site.
(SSFC, 3/6/16, DB p.50)
1966 Mar 11, In Indonesia army
generals held guns to the head of Pres. Sukarno and forced him to
sign a document transferring power to Gen. Suharto.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A18)
1967 Mar 11, British
psychedelic group Pink Floyd released “Arnold Layne,” their 1st
single song.
(http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/albums/arnold.htm)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.D6)
1968 Mar 11, San Francisco
health authorities announced that evidence of bubonic plague was
discovered in an autopsy on a dead rat found in the Marina District.
The city had not experienced any human deaths from bubonic plague
since 1909 and the last animal death from bubonic plague was
reported in 1941.
(SSFC, 3/11/18, DB p.54)
1969 Mar 11, Levi-Strauss
started to sell bell-bottomed jeans.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1970 Mar 11, Richard L.
Spencer, tenor saxophonist and lead singer for the Winstons, was
awarded a Grammy for “color Him Father.” The DC-based band had
released the song a year earlier. The B-side of the song featured an
instrumental called “Amen, Brother.” This featured a 4-bar solo by
drummer Gregory Coleman that was copied in 1986 for the first volume
of “Ultimate Breaks and Beats.” In 1988 the break was featured on
the “king of Beats,” a 6-minute collage of hip-hop beats and other
samples released by Mantronix.
(Econ, 12/17/11,
p.145)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rIb1-EEWt0)
1970 Mar 11, Iraq’s Ba’ath
Party agreed to an autonomy accord with the Kurd nation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan)
1971 Mar 11, Federal
Communications Commission stated that television networks ABC, NBC
and CBS must have a limited three-hour nightly program service now
called 'Prime Time'. Prime Time began in September of 1971.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1971 Mar 11, Philo T.
Farnsworth (b.1906), inventor of television, died in Salt Lake City,
Utah. Later Prof. Donald Godfrey authored "Philo T. Farnsworth: The
Father of Television" and Evan I. Schwartz authored "The Last Lone
Inventor."
(SFC, 9/7/02,
p.D1)(www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/farnsworth.cfm)
1973 Mar 11, An FBI agent was
shot at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1974 Mar 11, Iraq's "Law for
Autonomy in the Area of Kurdistan" was promulgated. It stipulated
that: "The Kurdish language shall be the official language of
education for Kurds ... Kurdish shall be the official language of
education for the Kurds."
(www.jafi.org.il/education/actual/iraq/4.html)
1977 Mar 11, More than 130
hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed
after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the
negotiations.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1978 Mar 11, Palestinian Arab
terrorists led by Dalal Mughrabi killed 37 people in an attack along
the Tel Aviv coastal highway. The terrorists were identified as
belonging to Fatah; 9 were killed and two captured.
(AP,
3/11/98)(www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_terrorism_1970s.php)
1980 Mar 11, Marilyn McIntyre
(18) was beaten, stabbed and strangled to death at her home in
Columbus, Wis. In 2009 Curtis Forbes, a friend of her husband, was
charged with 1st degree murder based on DNA evidence.
(SFC, 3/31/09,
p.A6)(www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/11251061.html)
1980 Mar 11, In Laos US Air
Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. "Dick" Etchberger (35) used an
M-16 and a radio to call in air strikes and single-handedly held off
the attackers until helicopters arrived at Lima site 85. After
climbing into the chopper behind the others, Etchberger was fatally
wounded when enemy fire struck the aircraft. The others in the
helicopter made it to safety. In 2010 President Barack Obama
posthumously recognized Etchberger for service "beyond the call of
duty" by giving him the nation's highest military award, the Medal
of Honor.
(AP, 9/22/10)
1980 Mar 11, Julius Chan
(b.1939) succeeded Michael Somare as PM of Papua New Guinea.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Somare)
1982 Mar 11, Protesting his
innocence, Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., D-N.J., resigned after 23
years in the Senate, rather than face expulsion in the wake of his
ABSCAM conviction.
(AP,
3/11/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_A._Williams)
1985 Mar 11, The Soviet Union
announced the March 10 death of its leader, Konstantin U. Chernenko.
Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him and
became general-secretary of the Communist party and the Premier of
the Soviet Union.
(TMC, 1994, p.1985)(SFEC, 12/22/96, BR p.7)(AP,
3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1985 Mar 11, Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev visited Lithuania.
(LHC, 3/11/03)
1986 Mar 11, The state of
Georgia pardoned Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who had been
lynched in 1915 for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan.
(AP, 3/11/06)
1988 Mar 11, Pres. Reagan
directed that actions be taken to suspend trade preferences
available to Panama under the Generalized System of Preferences
(GSP) and the Caribbean Basin Initiative.
(www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/031188a.htm)
1988 Mar 11, Saying, "The
people have decided," Gary Hart withdrew a second time from the race
for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. Gary Hart, former
US Senator from Colorado campaigned for the democratic nomination
for president until a photograph of himself with a woman named Donna
Rice, not his wife, appeared. She sat on his lap aboard a boat named
Monkey Business. In 1996 Hart wrote a book using Machiavelli’s "The
Prince" format. It was titled: "The Patriot: An Exhortation to
Liberate America From the Barbarians."
(SFC, 7/14/96, p.C11)(AP, 3/11/98)
1989 Mar 11, Former World Bank
head John J. McCloy, who had advised several presidents, died in
Stamford, Conn., at age 93.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1990 Mar 11, Chile’s General
Augusto Pinochet gave up power after 16 years of rule, but remained
commander of the army. Some 3,200 people were murdered under his
dictatorship and 30,000 more were tortured. Patricio Aylwin
(1918-2016) began serving as president.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricio_Aylwin)(Econ, 12/16/06,
p.89)(SFC, 4/20/16, p.A2)
1990 Mar 11, The Lithuanian
parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore its
independence. The Supreme Council promulgated the historic document:
"On the Re-establishment of the Independent State of Lithuania."
Validity of the 1938 Constitution was briefly reinstated and the
provisional Fundamental Law was adopted. Vytautas Landsbergis was
elected president of Lithuania under the party Sajudis. Landsbergis
was elected Chairman of the Council with Bronislovas Juozas
Kuzmickas, Kazimieras Motieka and Ceslovas Stankevicius as Vice
Chairmen, with Liuvikas Sabutis as Secretary. Four governments were
formed under tenure of the Council. They were led by Kazimiera
Danute Prunskiene, Albertas Simenas, Gediminas Vagnorius and
Aleksandras Algirdas Abisala. Moscow responded with an economic
blockade that brought industry and transportation to a standstill.
In June the Lithuanians agreed to suspend independence.
(DrEE, 10/5/96, p.5)(CSOE)(HN, 3/11/98)(AP,
3/11/00)
1991 Mar 11, Secretary of State
James A. Baker the Third visited Israel, where he met with Foreign
Minister David Levy to discuss prospects for Middle East peace.
(AP, 3/11/01)
1992 Mar 11, Members of the
U.N. Security Council accused Iraq of playing a game of “cheat and
retreat” from its promises to disarm and respect its people's human
rights; Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz lashed back, saying
his country was complying with Gulf War cease-fire resolutions.
(AP, 3/11/02)
1992 Mar 11, Manuel De Dios
Unanue (48), US anti-drug journalist and former editor of El
Diario-La Prensa, was murdered by two bullets to the head in a
restaurant in the Jackson Heights section of the borough of Queens,
New York City. His death was linked to his writing critically about
the Colombian Drug Cartel.
(http://tinyurl.com/2f3c4x)
1993 Mar 11, Janet Reno was
unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be attorney general.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1993 Mar 11, Dino Bravo
(b.1948), wrestler (WWF), was shot to death in Laval, Quebec,
Canada. Bravo, born as Adolfo Bresciano, was known as the “World’s
Strongest Man.”
(www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/bravo.htm)
1993 Mar 11, North Korea
withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in a harsh rebuff
of Western demands to open suspected nuclear weapons development
sites for inspection. It later suspended its withdrawal.
(AP, 3/11/98)(AP, 4/24/03)
1994 Mar 11, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher arrived in Beijing, the mood of his trip already
soured by a fresh government crackdown on Chinese dissidents.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1994 Mar 11, Eduardo Frei
(b.1942) began office as president of Chile.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Frei_Ruiz-Tagle)
1995 Mar 11, President Clinton
nominated Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to be CIA director.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1995 Mar 11, Gerry Adams,
leader of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party, arrived in the United
States for a St. Patrick's Day visit.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1996 Mar 11, On Wall Street,
the Dow Jones industrial average rose 110.55 to end the day at 5581
following a 171.24-point plunge the Friday before.
(AP, 3/11/01)
1996 Mar 11, Charles William
Oatley (92), electrical engineer, died. He perfected the scanning
electron microscope.
(www.tecsoc.org/pubs/history/2002/mar11.htm)
1997 Mar 11, In a startling
turnaround, Senate Republicans agreed to a broader investigation of
campaign financing that would include a look at huge "soft money"
donations.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1997 Mar 11, Senate
confirmation hearings for CIA Director-designate Anthony Lake began.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1997 Mar 11, Scientists from
observatories in Chile and Australia were to announce the discovery
of a star in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Dorado that
measured some 370 times the size of the Sun. Stars of this size are
believed to be doomed to collapse and explode as supernovas.
(SFC, 3/11/97, p.A3)
1997 Mar 11, Rock star Paul
McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1997 Mar 11, A gunman, Allen
Griffin, in Detroit killed 3 and wounded 2 before being killed by
police after staging an robbery at the Comerica Bank on the East
Side.
(SFC, 3/12/97, p.A3)
1997 Mar 11, A nuclear fuel
reprocessing plant experienced 2 fires and an explosion 70 miles
northeast of Tokyo. There were no injuries. The chief investigator
destroyed photographs of the accident. Debris was also removed and
then replaced.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A12)(SFC, 5/1/97, p.A13)
1997 Mar 11, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin reorganized the government and only kept Prime Minister
Chernomyrdin and top economic deputy Chubais.
(WSJ, 3/12/97, p.A16)
1998 Mar 11, It was announced
that the David and Lucille Packard Foundation would give $175
million over 5 years to protect the California landscape from
over-development.
(SFC, 3/11/98, p.A13)
1998 Mar 11, A Florida appeals
court restored Joe Carollo as mayor of Miami after charges of voter
fraud on absentee ballots.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1998 Mar 11, The International
Astronomical Union issued an alert, saying a mile-wide asteroid
could zip very close to Earth on Oct. 26, 2028, possibly colliding
with it. But the next day, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said
there was no chance the asteroid will hit Earth.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1998 Mar 11, In Los Angeles
Efren Saldivar, a respiratory care therapist, claimed to have killed
as many as 50 terminally ill patients from 1989 to 1997 at the
Glendale Adventist medical Center. He later recanted his confession.
Exhumations to verify the claims began Apr 30. In 2001 Saldivar was
arrested for the murder of 6 patients whose remains indicated that
they were murdered. In 2002 Saldivar pleaded guilty to murdering 6
patients. In 2002 Saldivar was sentenced to 6 life terms in prison
plus 15 years to life for attempted murder.
(SFC, 3/28/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.C7)(SFC,
1/10/01, p.A5)(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A7)(USAT, 4/18/02, p.3A)
1998 Mar 11, In Chile Gen’l.
Pinochet could not be removed as head of the army until this date.
His successor would be chosen by Pres. Eduardo Frei from 5 generals
proposed by Pinochet.
(SFC, 12/9/96, p.A18)
1998 Mar 11, In Japan the Tokyo
Public Prosecutor’s Office raided the offices of the Bank of Japan.
Yasayuki Yoshizawa, director of the capital markets division, was
arrested on suspicion of leaking market moving information.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B2)
1998 Mar 11, In Moscow Marino
Yarovov (43) was boiled to death when she fell into a sinkhole of
muddy, boiling water, created from leaking underground hot water
pipes run by Mosenergo. A 10-year old boy died similarly 6 weeks
previously. His father, who tried to rescue him, died 11 days later
from severe burns.
(SFC, 4/8/98, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, The House voted
219-191 to conditionally support President Clinton's plan to send
U.S. troops to Kosovo if a peace agreement was reached.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1999 Mar 11, Defense Sec.
William Cohen announced $3.2 billion in subsidized arms sales to
Egypt.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A16)
1999 Mar 11, The US Rodman
naval base in Panama was transferred to Panama.
(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 11, Pope John Paul II
met with Mohammad Khatami of Iran.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, In Germany Oskar
Lafontaine, the finance minister, resigned following an apparent
power struggle with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Hans Eichel.
Governor of Hesse, was expected to succeed him.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 11, In Ecuador Pres.
Mahuad announced tax increases and other harsh measures to fight the
economic crises.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, In northern Italy
an avalanche killed 3 German skiers.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 11, In Kosovo fighting
spread as Yugoslav forces shelled villages near Prizren.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, Norway approved a
$57.7 million package to compensate the nation's Jews for suffering
during WW II.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 11, In Palestine at
least 85 people were injured in a 2nd day of clashes in the Gaza
Strip.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
2000 Mar 11, Storms in the US
south were blamed for at least 5 deaths.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.A2)
2000 Mar 11, From Argentina it
was reported that researchers had unearthed a pack of large
predatory dinosaurs in Patagonia that dated back to about 100
million years BP.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 11, In Chile Pres.
Ricardo Lagos took power as the 1st socialist president since
Salvadore Allende.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.A19)
2000 Mar 11, in Ukraine a
methane gas explosion at the Barakova mine on the eastern border
killed at least 80 workers.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.A17)
2001 Mar 11, Lawrence Summers,
former Clinton Treasury Secretary, was named as the 27th president
of Harvard. Neil Rudenstine planned to step down in June.
(WSJ, 3/12/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 11, In England 25 new
cases of hoof-and-mouth disease were reported with outbreaks in
Scotland, Wales, Devonshire and Kent.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 11, In Indonesia
anti-Wahid students rallied in Jakarta. A plunging currency added to
the unrest on the streets.
(WSJ, 3/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 11, In Malaysia ethnic
violence between Malays and ethnic Indians continued for a 4th day.
Five people were killed in the last 4 days.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 11, In Mexico some
75,000-100,000 supporters filled the square of Mexico City as the
Zapatista rebels arrived. “We are here to shout for and to demand
democracy, liberty and justice.” Masked Zapatista rebels urged
passage of an Indian rights bill.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/11/02)
2001 Mar 11, In Spain over
100,000 people protested in Madrid against a $23 billion plan to
divert water from the Ebro river to areas in the south.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A14)
2002 Mar 11, At the White House
Pres. Bush outlined a “second stage of the war on terror” in an
address that marked the 6-months since the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
Bush also unveiled a commemorative stamp to raise money to help
Sept. 11 victims "get their lives back in order."
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A1)(AP, 3/11/07)
2002 Mar 11, Two columns of
light soared skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary
memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2002 Mar 11, It was reported
that the US CIA and State Dept. was interviewing former Iraqi
generals for a possible overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 11, The National Book
Critics Circle (f.1974) awarded top honors to W.G. Sebald (d.2001)
for his novel “Austerlitz.” Nicholson Baker won the nonfiction
category for “Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on
Paper.” Martin Amis won the criticism category for “The War
Against Cliché.” Albert Goldbarth won the poetry category for
“Saving Lives.” Adam Sisman won the biography category for
“Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.
Johnson.”
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 11, James Tobin
(b.1918), a key Kennedy advisor and economics Nobelist (portfolio
theory, 1981), died in New Haven, Conn. He developed the ideas of
Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention to
stabilize output and avoid recessions. Outside of academia, Tobin
was widely known for his suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange
transactions, later known as the "Tobin tax."
(WSJ, 3/13/02,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tobin)
2002 Mar 11, Israeli forces
swept into the Jabaliya camp in Gaza and 23 residents were killed in
heavy fighting. PM Sharon announced that Arafat was free to resume
traveling about the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 11, In Pakistan
Shakeel Anwar, head of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi extremist group, was
killed in a gun battle with police. He was wanted in the slaying of
38 people including a former foreign minister.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 11, In Zimbabwe the
polls closed. A request for a 4th day of voting was denied.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A70)
2003 Mar 11, Striking
Broadway musicians settled a contract dispute with theater producers
to end a walkout that shut had down 18 musicals since Mar 7,
agreeing to a smaller number of musicians in the largest theaters.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, California
scientists reported that polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a
family of flame retardants, were found in elevated amounts in the
breasts of Bay Area women.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A4)
2003 Mar 11, Benetton,
an Italian retailer, said it planned to attach salt-grain sized
microchip transmitters to clothing at its 5,000 stores.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.B1)
2003 Mar 11, A US Army
Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Fort Drum, NY, and 11 of 13
soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A5)
2003 Mar 11, Kofi Annan
said military action against Iraq without support of the UN security
council would be out of conformity with the UN charter. The US and
Britain considered a short extension past March 17, but rejected a
45-day deadline backed by 6 council members.
(SFC, 3/11/03, p.A1)(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, The
18-judge world court was inaugurated at the Hague. It had been
approved Jul 17, 1998, by the Rome Treaty.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, A top
Australian intelligence adviser resigned to protest the government's
hard-line policy on Iraq. Andrew Wilkie, one of its senior
intelligence analysts argued that, based on U.S. and other
intelligence information he has seen, there is currently no
justification for a war on Iraq.
(IPS, 3/12/03)
2003 Mar 11, Talks to
unify the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus collapsed after
rival Greek and Turkish leaders failed to agree on a UN
power-sharing agreement.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Iraq
destroyed more Al Samoud 2 missiles raising the total destroyed to
52 of some 100.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Israeli
troops fired a tank shell at a 3-story apartment building, then
razed it, killing a Palestinian gunman who several hours earlier had
attacked an Israeli army patrol.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Russian
Pres. Vladimir Putin bolstered the clout of the Federal Security
Service (FSB) by giving it control over the country's border guards
and government communications.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, In Turkey Recep
Erdogan was confirmed as the prime minister.
(WSJ, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, Striking
Broadway musicians settled a contract dispute with theater producers
to end a walkout that shut had down 18 musicals since Mar 7,
agreeing to a smaller number of musicians in the largest theaters.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, The DJIA fell 44
to 7524, the lowest level of the year, on war concerns and bad
corporate news.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R8)
2003 Mar 11, California
scientists reported that polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a
family of flame retardants, were found in elevated amounts in the
breasts of Bay Area women.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A4)
2003 Mar 11, Benetton,
an Italian retailer, said it planned to attach salt-grain sized
microchip transmitters to clothing at its 5,000 stores.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.B1)
2003 Mar 11, A US Army
Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Fort Drum, NY, and 11 of 13
soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A5)
2003 Mar 11, Kofi Annan
said military action against Iraq without support of the UN security
council would be out of conformity with the UN charter. The US and
Britain considered a short extension past March 17, but rejected a
45-day deadline backed by 6 council members.
(SFC, 3/11/03, p.A1)(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, The
18-judge world court was inaugurated at the Hague. It had been
approved Jul 17, 1998, by the Rome Treaty.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, A top
Australian intelligence adviser resigned to protest the government's
hard-line policy on Iraq. Andrew Wilkie, one of its senior
intelligence analysts argued that, based on U.S. and other
intelligence information he has seen, there is currently no
justification for a war on Iraq.
(IPS, 3/12/03)
2003 Mar 11, Talks to
unify the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus collapsed after
rival Greek and Turkish leaders failed to agree on a UN
power-sharing agreement.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Iraq
destroyed more Al Samoud 2 missiles raising the total destroyed to
52 of some 100.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Israeli
troops fired a tank shell at a 3-story apartment building, then
razed it, killing a Palestinian gunman who several hours earlier had
attacked an Israeli army patrol.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Russian
Pres. Vladimir Putin bolstered the clout of the Federal Security
Service (FSB) by giving it control over the country's border guards
and government communications.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, In Turkey Recep
Erdogan was confirmed as the prime minister.
(WSJ, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2004 Mar 11, The California
Supreme Court halted gay weddings in San Francisco for at least a
few months while it decides whether they are legal. SF responded by
suing the state in Superior Court contending that the state ban on
same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
(AP, 3/12/04)(SFC, 3/12/04, p.A1)(SFC, 6/27/15,
p.A12)
2004 Mar 11, The California
Office of Environmental Health Hazzard Assessment raised the action
level for reporting perchlorate pollution in drinking water from 4
to 6 ppb.
(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A8)
2004 Mar 11, In San Diego 4
Marines were killed when their small UC-35 jet crashed on landing at
Air Station Miramar.
(SFC, 3/12/04, p.B3)
2004 Mar 11, Canadian officials
said a "very sophisticated criminal scheme" bilked the Defense
Department of tens of millions of dollars in computer contracts over
10 years. Public Works Minister Stephen Owen said the government is
going after computer giant Hewlett Packard, the prime contractor in
$160-million worth of military computer hardware and support
services.
(AP, 3/11/04)
2004 Mar 11, In Iraq 2 American
soldiers were killed when the Humvee they were riding in struck a
homemade bomb.
(AP, 3/12/04)
2004 Mar 11, In Madrid, Spain,
a series of 10 bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick
succession at 3 stations, blowing apart four commuter trains. 191
people were killed and over 1,450 wounded. Spanish leaders were
quick to accuse Basque terrorists but a shadowy group claimed
responsibility in the name of al-Qaeda. On October 31, 2007, 3 lead
defendants were convicted of murder. Four other top suspects were
acquitted of murder but convicted of lesser charges. In all 21 of
the 28 defendants were convicted. On July 17, 2008, a Spanish court
cleared four of the 21 people charged for crimes related to the
train bombings. In 2009 7 people were indicted for helping the
bombers flee.
(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A1)(AP, 3/13/04)(SFC, 3/13/04,
p.A1)(SFC, 3/19/04, p.A3)(AP, 3/23/08)(AP, 10/31/07)(Reuters,
7/17/08)(AP, 11/2/09)
2005 Mar 11, Pres. Bush
picked Johns Hopkins physicist Michael Griffin to lead NASA.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A8)
2005 Mar 11, The US Commerce
Dept. reported the US trade deficit for January hit $58.3 billion.
It was just below the all-time high set in Nov, 2004.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 11, Maurice Greenberg,
president and CEO of AIG Int’l. Group, transferred 1.4 million
shares of AIG stock, valued at $2.68 billion, to his wife. He
resigned March 14 amid probes of the company’s accounting.
(SFC, 4/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 11, Crude oil futures
prices climbed over $54 a barrel after the Int’l. Energy Agency
estimated global petroleum demand would grow faster than previously
expected in 2005.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 11, In Georgia Brian
Nichols (33), on trial for rape, shot and killed Superior Court
Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Ann Brandau and Deputy
Hoyt Teasley at the Fulton County Courthouse. He then killed
deferral agent David Wilhelm in Atlanta’s posh Buckhead
neighborhood. Nichols was captured the next day. In 2008 Nichols
pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. On Nov 7, 2008, Nichols
was convicted of murder. On Dec 13 he was sentenced to life in
prison without parole.
(AP, 3/12/05)(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A1)(SFC, 9/23/08,
p.A4)(SFC, 11/7/08, p.A5)(SSFC, 12/14/08, p.A6)
2005 Mar 11, Canada’s Jetsgo
announced in the dead of night that it was going out of business and
grounding all flights immediately as thousands of passengers
prepared to jet away for March break, one of the busiest travel
periods of the year.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Miguel Rodriguez
Orejuela, co-founder of the Cali drug cartel, was sent in handcuffs
on a plane to the US to face trial for drug trafficking and related
charges. The cartel at its peak ruled the world's cocaine industry.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Germany’s
parliament tightened laws against neo-Nazi demonstrations.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 11, In India
separatist rebels threw three grenades in the troubled state of
Assam, killing three people.
(Reuters, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Moldova arrested
Valeriu Pasat, former defense minister, on suspicion of pocketing
$10 million during the 1997 sale of 21 MiG-29 fighter jets to the
US.
(WSJ, 3/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 11, Nepal freed sacked
PM Sher Bahadur Deuba from house arrest, amid mounting international
pressure on the country's king to relinquish power and restore
democracy.
(Reuters, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Pakistan's highest
Islamic court threw out the acquittal of five men convicted of
raping Mukhtar Mai in 2002 on orders from a village council, saying
a lower appeals court had no jurisdiction to rule on the case.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Garry Kasparov,
Russian chess master ranked No. 1 since 1984, announced his
retirement. His future plans included writing and political action,
which included a lead role in Committee 2008: Free Choice, a group
formed by liberal opposition leaders.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 11, South Africa’s
Pres. Mbeki nominated Pius Langa to become chief justice when
incumbent Arthur Chaskalson retires in May. Langa would be the 1st
black to hold the office.
(Econ, 3/19/05, p.54)
2005 Mar 11, The last Syrian
troops left northern Lebanon but left behind intelligence officers
in nine offices. The UN Mideast envoy said Syria needs to produce a
timetable for a full withdrawal from the rest of Lebanon. Since 1976
some 15,000 Syrian troops were killed in the Lebanese civil war.
Lebanese protests following the Feb 14 assassination of Rafik
Hariri, later dubbed the “cedar revolution,” forced Pres. Assad to
withdraw his army after a 30-year stay.
(AP, 3/11/05)(Econ, 4/2/05, p.41)(Econ, 7/25/09,
SR p.11)
2005 Mar 11, Turkey’s state
institution over religious life issued a sermon to be preached at
some 75,000 officially registered mosques on the dangers posed to
national unity by Christian missionaries.
(Econ, 6/25/05, p.49)
2006 Mar 11, Investors began to
recoil from almost any asset class that looked risky.
(Econ, 6/3/06, p.74)
2006 Mar 11, Rural house fires
in Tennessee and Indiana killed 15 members of two families, and most
of the victims were children.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Afghanistan’s
Helmand province the bodies of 2 policemen, kidnapped from their
homes a day earlier, were found beheaded and dumped in the desert. A
roadside bomb hit a police patrol in Helmand's Nad Ali district,
killing a policeman and wounding five others.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Authorities in
Central African Republic accused exiled former President Ange-Felix
Patasse of forming a rebel movement and recruiting fighters to
overthrow the government.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 11, Michelle Bachelet,
a Socialist pediatrician who suffered prison, torture and exile
under Chile's military dictatorship, was sworn in as the nation's
first female president.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, A Chinese activist
who documented villagers' claims of forced abortions and
sterilizations was detained while trying to report the beating of
his cousin. Chen Guangcheng, his older brother and his cousin were
taken away in a police van and other vehicles from their home
village of Dongshigu in Shandong, as they were on their way to file
a police report.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, Police stormed
France's famed Sorbonne University to dislodge students occupying
the building in protest of a new national employment measure, hours
after the demonstrators hurled furniture and ladders from the
landmark's windows.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Iran threatened to
use oil as a weapon if the UN Security Council imposes sanctions
over its nuclear program.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Iraq at least
six people including Amjad Hameed (45), director of Iraq’s public TV
channel and a human rights activist, were killed in drive-by
shootings.
(AP, 3/11/06)(SSFC, 3/12/06, p.A10)
2006 Mar 11, Premier Silvio
Berlusconi denounced Italy's judiciary as a danger to democracy and
promised changes to the system as he tries to hold on to the
premiership in next month's election.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Jordan 2
militants were executed by hanging for the killing in Amman of a US
diplomat.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Nepalese officials
said a 15-year-old boy, whose followers believe he is the
reincarnation of Buddha, has disappeared after 10 months of
meditation in the jungle.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, In the Netherlands
former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic (b.1941), the so-called
"butcher of the Balkans" being tried for war crimes after
orchestrating a decade of bloodshed during his country's breakup,
was found dead in his prison cell. Milosevic spent nearly five years
at a UN detention facility in Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague.
An autopsy showed that he died of a heart attack. A Dutch
toxicologist said he took unprescribed pills that neutralized heart
medication.
(SFC, 3/13/06, p.A3)(WSJ, 3/14/06, p.A1)(Econ,
3/18/06, p.83)
2006 Mar 11, In Lahore,
Pakistan, hundreds of kites filled the skies on the opening day of a
traditional spring festival, despite a ban that followed the deaths
of seven people killed by glass-coated or wire kite strings.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Sudan 5 members
of the main opposition group in eastern Sudan were arrested or
detained, in a move party officials said hindered any chance to
start long-delayed peace talks.
(Reuters, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Turkish and
Kurdish intellectuals gathered under tight security for a major
2-day conference in Istanbul to discuss a peaceful resolution to the
22-year-old Kurdish conflict.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Zimbabwe
lawmaker Giles Mutseyekwa of the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) and seven others were formally charged with violating
security laws. The eight were rounded up on Mar 7-8 after security
agents had arrested one of the suspects identified as Mike Peter
Hitschmann over an arms cache found at his home in Mutare.
(AFP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, Zimbabwe’s Central
Statistical Office said inflation was 782 percent for the 12 months
that ended in February. Moffat Nyoni, acting director of the
government-run Statistical Office, said prices of food and
nonalcoholic beverages rose 824 percent during that time.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2007 Mar 11, The US national
debt was reported to be approaching $9 trillion. Some $240 billion
would be spent this year paying interest on the half that’s held by
public creditors, of which China and Japan are the largest.
(SSFC, 3/11/07, p.D1)
2007 Mar 11, Most of the US
switched to daylight saving time a few weeks earlier than usual.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Halliburton CEO
Dave Lesar announced that his oil services company will soon shift
its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Mideast financial
powerhouse of Dubai.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Hawaii a tour
helicopter crashed on Kauai and one person was killed. This was the
2nd fatal copter crash on the island in 4 days.
(SFC, 3/12/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 11, Betty Hutton
(b.1921), film star, died in Palm Springs. Her films included “Annie
Get Your Gun” (1950) and “Somebody Loves Me” (1952).
(SFC, 3/14/07, p.A2)
2007 Mar 11, In Bolivia
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez called for a socialist
counterattack against the American "empire," taking his campaign to
upstage President Bush's Latin American tour to a packed gymnasium
in a poor, indigenous Bolivian city.
(AP, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, In northeast China
22 miners were confirmed dead and the lives of seven others were
feared lost in a coal mine flood on the previous day. The flood
occurred in a pit belonging to the state-owned Fushun Mining Group
in the province of Liaoning.
(AFP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Colombia about
150 protesters attacked riot police with rocks and metal barriers
and ripped down lampposts Bogota, just moments after President Bush
landed for a six-hour visit. Bush put fighting poverty at the top of
his agenda in Colombia and promised more aid and a trade deal for
Pres. Uribe.
(AP, 3/11/07)(WSJ, 3/12/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 11, Health Ministry
and World Health Organization officials said a 4-year-old Egyptian
boy has contracted the deadly bird flu virus, bringing to 24 the
number of Egyptians who have tested positive for the disease.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Jacques Chirac,
admired and scorned during 12 years as France's president, announced
he will not seek a third term in elections this spring, a widely
expected move given his low popularity, his age and a conservative
rival who has siphoned off his political base. His popularity had
shrunk to 29% as unemployment stood at 8.6%.
(AP, 3/11/07)(Econ, 3/17/07, p.27)
2007 Mar 11, Iranian TV quoted
government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham as saying Ahmadinejad
"intends to attend a UN Security Council meeting to be held on
Iran's nuclear case in order to defend the rights of the Iranian
nation in exploiting peaceful nuclear energy."
(AP, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, At least 58 people
were killed in a spate of attacks across Iraq, including 31 Shiite
pilgrims who died in a car bombing as they returned from a religious
festival.
(AFP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Voters in
Mauritania went to the polls with hopes that whoever wins the first
presidential election since a coup two years ago will not plunge the
country back into totalitarian rule.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Morocco a man
with explosives hidden under his clothes had a dispute with the
owner of an Internet café in Casablanca and a blast occurred as the
two men were coming to blows. Another man at the scene who attempted
to flee was arrested by police and found to be carrying explosives.
(Reuters, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, Palestinian gunmen
from Hamas and Fatah exchanged fire in the Gaza Strip, killing a
local militia leader and wounding seven people.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Russians voted in
scattered regional ballots marred by complaints that opposition
forces are being frozen out of the country's politics.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Somalia a
13-year-old boy and a woman were killed by stray bullets and five
others were injured as Ethiopian troops protecting government
installations battled with insurgents in Mogadishu.
(AP, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, Spain unveiled a
towering monument to those killed three years ago in the bombings
that ripped apart rush-hour commuter trains, a glass oval containing
messages of condolence written in the aftermath of Europe's worst
Islamic terror attack.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Sri Lanka's
president chided his top police officers over a new wave of
"execution-style" killings and demanded immediate action to end a
climate of terror.
(AFP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Zimbabwe's main
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested as riot police
thwarted a planned mass demonstration in Harare against President
Robert Mugabe's government. Top opposition leaders were assaulted
and tortured by police who broke up a prayer meeting planned to
protest government policies. Tsvangirai suffered head injuries while
in police custody. Opposition militant Gift Tandare was killed as
police disbanded the prayer meeting. President Robert Mugabe (83)
said in an interview that he intends to stand in the country's next
presidential elections if they are held as scheduled in 2008.
(AFP, 3/11/07)(Reuters, 3/12/07)(AP, 3/19/07)
2008 Mar 11, The US Federal
Reserve and other central banks said they will pump $200 billion
into the financial markets, using the Term Securities Lending
Facility (TSLF), to help ease the strain from the credit crisis.
Wall Street rebounded with its biggest rally since 2002 at the DJIA
rose 416.66 to 12,156.81. Gas prices rose to a record national level
of $3.2272 per gallon.
(AP, 3/11/08)(SFC, 3/12/08, p.B1,B3)(Econ,
3/15/08, p.89)
2008 Mar 11, Sen. Barack Obama
picked up five more delegates than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in
Mississippi's Democratic primary.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said 26% of US teen girls are
infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease. The rate
was highest among blacks.
(AP, 3/11/08)(WSJ, 3/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 11, The SF Board of
Supervisors passed a law requiring chain restaurants to post
nutrition information on their menus.
(SFC, 3/12/08, p.C1)
2008 Mar 11, The Pacific
Fishery Management Council said it would have to ban all salmon
fishing, due to depleted spawning, unless a request is made for an
emergency exception.
(SFC, 3/13/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 11, The US space
shuttle Endeavour blasted off from a seaside Florida launch pad to
deliver part of a long-awaited Japanese space laboratory and a
Canadian-built robotic system to the International Space Station.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, In western
Afghanistan police backed by NATO-led troops killed four suspected
criminals after a spate of kidnappings and robberies. The ministry
said an Afghan soldier was killed in Kapisa province, just north of
Kabul. Taliban militants attacked a district administrative compound
in southern Zabul province, and the ensuing one-hour gunbattle left
one Taliban dead and three wounded. 5 militants set fire to the
generator, fuel tank and antenna of the tower in the Obe district of
Herat province. The tower belonged to the Areeba company. Afghan and
US-led coalition forces killed nearly a dozen suspected militants in
Helmand during a clash in Garmsir district.
(AP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 11, Bangladesh's
military-backed government backed down from a policy to ensure equal
property rights to women amid angry protests by Muslim clerics that
the move would override Islamic law.
(AFP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, The Belgian
government and banks agreed to pay $170 million to Holocaust
survivors, families of victims and the Jewish community for their
material losses during Word War II.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, The Bank of
England said it would inject a further 10 billion pounds into money
markets amid the ongoing credit crunch.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Some 600,000 poor
Chileans will receive monthly pensions starting in July under a law
signed by President Michelle Bachelet that plugs gaps in Chile's
widely copied private pension system.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, China unveiled
plans to revamp bureaucratic government ministries and create new
agencies to help it tackle pressing issues such as nuclear energy,
food and drug safety, environmental protection and the Internet.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Thousands of
Chinese security personnel fired tear gas to try to disperse more
than 600 monks taking part in a second day of rare street protests
in Tibet.
(Reuters, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, Three generals
regarded as national heroes in Croatia went on trial at the Hague,
accused of orchestrating the killing of at least 150 Serbs in a 1995
military campaign that unleashed widespread murder and pillage.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, EU regulators
cleared Google's $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick,
saying the acquisition won't curb competition for online ads.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, At least 42 people
were killed across Iraq. A roadside bomb hit a bus traveling in
southern Iraq, killing at least 16 civilians, while gunmen opened
fire on another bus in the capital, leaving one person dead. The
Pentagon said up to 90% of the foreign fighters in Iraq cross from
Syria.
(AFP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)(WSJ, 3/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 11, In Japan
authorities arrested in Osaka arrested Hatsue Shimizu (64) and
Yoshiko Ishii (55), two sisters, for allegedly hiding millions of
dollars worth of cash in their garage to evade inheritance taxes.
Their father, who was in the real-estate lease business, died in
2004, leaving $72.9 million to his family.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, Top leaders
Malaysia's opposition-ruled states will no longer follow a longtime
affirmative action program that benefits the majority Malays, in the
wake of an election upheaval that clipped the ruling coalition's
powers.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Mexico's federal
attorney general's office announced an investigation into
allegations of corruption against Interior Secretary Juan Camilo
Mourino, a confidant of the president who holds the government's
second highest profile job.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, State media said
Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza has sacked three senior
members of his government, including his foreign minister.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Nigerian soldiers
hunting Niger Delta gang leader Ateke Tom said they had found a huge
cache of arms and ammunition, along with an illegal pipeline used to
tap stolen oil, in a raid on one of his bases.
(AFP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, In Lahore,
Pakistan, massive suicide bombs ripped through a seven-story police
headquarters and a business, killing 27 people and wounding more
than 200 others in attacks that deepened the security crisis. The
wounded included 32 girls who were hit by flying debris at a school
near the police building.
(AP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, Palestinian
militants in Gaza launched a rocket at the Israeli city of Ashkelon,
causing no injuries but threatening to upset a recent period of
calm.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, In Peru a
helicopter ferrying passengers from the La Granja copper mine owned
by the Rio Tinto Group crashed in the Andes with 10 people aboard.
The wreckage was found the next day.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 11, Serbia and Russia
demanded that the UN administration in Kosovo halt the transfer of
authority to the European Union, calling a handover illegal and
declaring they will never recognize the independence of the Serb
province.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2009 Mar 11, Pres. Obama signed
a $410 billion US spending bill, stuffed with earmarks, to fund the
operations of all but 3 Cabinet departments. He called it a
departure point and unveiled new rules to restrict earmarks.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A8)(WSJ, 3/12/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 11, Pres. Obama signed
a bill rolling back the Bush administration restrictions on Cuban
Americans visiting relatives in Cuba.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A8)
2009 Mar 11, VP Biden announced
that Pres. Obama has chosen Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske as
the nation’s new drug czar.
(WSJ, 3/12/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 11, US authorities
deported 60 Nigerians accused of theft, credit card scams and
drug-related offences.
(AFP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 11, A California state
study said global warming is expected to cause a rise of nearly 5
feet along the coastline and severely threatening SF Bay by 2100.
The rising waters could cost the state $14 billion of more to
safeguard the coast.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/12/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 11, Forbes magazine
released its list of 793 of the world’s richest people. Joaquin "El
Chapo" Guzman, a suspected drug lord and Mexico's most-wanted
fugitive, made the list of billionaires with a fortune described as
"self made." He was No. 701 on the list. The list included 5
Indonesians.
(AP, 3/11/09)(SSFC, 3/15/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 11, In eastern Algeria
suspected Islamist extremists shot and killed a police officer and
wounded another in a shoot-out near Batna city. 3 armed Islamists
were killed by the security forces in Souk El-Thenine town.
(AFP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 11, Australia said it
would provide funding to Zimbabwe's new unity government, the first
Western power to announce direct support to the new administration.
(Reuters, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, More than 30
shipping containers of ammonium nitrate fell off a ship in stormy
seas off Australia, damaging the ship's hull and leaking up to 30
tons of oil [see Mar 13]. Swire Shipping's cargo liner Pacific
Adventurer released about 200,000 liters (53,000 US gallons) of
heavy fuel oil off the coast of Queensland state as it travelled
through cyclonic weather. Australia later sought more than 18
million US dollars in compensation from a Hong Kong-based shipping
company. In August the Hong Kong-based Swire Shipping company said
it will pay Australia 25 million dollars (21 million US) in
compensation for the oil spill.
(AP, 3/11/09)(AFP, 5/6/09)(AFP, 8/8/09)
2009 Mar 11, Brazil’s Central
Bank cut its benchmark Selic rate by 1.5% to 11.25%. further cuts
were expected.
(Econ, 3/28/09, p.44)
2009 Mar 11, In Brazil a
prosecutor charged rancher Regivaldo Galvao, accused of murdering US
nun Dorothy Strang, with trying to fraudulently obtain a plot of the
rain forest that Strang had worked to protect.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 11, In eastern China
11 people were killed and 20 were injured after a blast led to the
collapse of a former factory that was housing railway workers.
Preliminary investigations revealed the collapse was triggered when
leftover aluminium powder in the building in Danyang city, Jiangsu
province ignited and exploded just after midnight.
(AFP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, French Pres.
Sarkozy announced that France will return as full-fledged member of
the 26-naqtion NATO alliance.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 11, German prosecutors
said they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk (88)
with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as
a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his
extradition from the US.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, In southwestern
Germany Tim Kretschmer (17) dressed in black opened fire at his
former high school in Winnenden, killing 12 people. He fled the
scene and killed a 56-year-old janitor of a nearby psychiatric
hospital in a park. He then fled in a hijacked car, and killed 2
more people before apparently shooting himself to death. Kretschmer
graduated last year from the school of about 1,000 students. In 2011
Stuttgart state court gave Kretschmer’s father a 21-month suspended
sentence for not securing his 9mm Beretta pistol.
(AP,
3/11/09)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kretschmer#Perpetrator)(AP,
3/12/09)(AP, 2/10/11)
2009 Mar 11, In Iraq Tariq
Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former foreign minister, was convicted of
crimes against humanity and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the
1992 execution of 42 merchants accused of price gouging while Iraq
was under UN sanctions.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, Italy's highest
court sided with the government and threw out key evidence in an
alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Italy,
dealing a blow to the trial of 26 Americans charged in the case.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, Prosecutors in
Kyrgyzstan charged a prominent opposition leader with murder in a
case that government critics say is politically motivated. Alikbek
Jekshenkulov was accused of involvement in the shooting of a Turkish
citizen in late 2007 and illegal possession of a weapon.
Jekshenkulov was foreign minister until February 2007.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, In Madagascar Col.
Andre Ndrianarijaona, the leader of a group of mutinous soldiers,
declared himself head of the army, raising questions about the
president's hold on power on this impoverished Indian Ocean island.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, Officials in
Namibia said at least 92 people had drowned in its northern regions
since the start of rainy season in Dec.
(SSFC, 3/15/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 11, Pakistan arrested
hundreds of opposition activists and banned protests in two regions
ahead of a planned rally outside the parliament that could weaken
the already shaky rule of the country's US-allied government.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, Saudi Arabia
hosted the leaders of Egypt and Syria in an effort to persuade
Damascus to move away from Iran and join with US-allied Arab
countries in working to blunt Tehran's influence.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, The African Union
extended by three months the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in
Somalia, and called on the UN to lift its arms embargo there.
(AFP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 11, Sri Lanka’s
military killed Sabaratnam Selvathurai, a senior rebel leader, in
fighting in Puthukkudiyiruppu, the last town held by the rebels.
(AP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 11, In Sudan armed men
abducted three international aid workers and two Sudanese guards in
the Darfur region, a week after the government ordered aid groups
expelled in response to an international arrest warrant for Sudan's
president on war crimes charges. The abducted workers were from the
Belgian branch of Doctors Without Borders and they were seized from
their offices in the Saraf Umra area.
(AP, 3/12/09)
2010 Mar 11, US Republican
senators sent a letter to the head of the Boys & Girls Clubs of
America board of governors seeking detailed financial information
about executive compensation, travel and lobbying expenses, and how
the national charity awards grants to local clubs. The four senators
said they were concerned that the chief executive of a charity that
has been closing local clubs for lack of funding was compensated
nearly $1 million in 2008.
(AP, 3/12/10)
2010 Mar 11, A US
court-appointed examiner report investigating the failure of Lehman
Bros. was unsealed. It said Lehman executives had manipulated
balance sheets to temporarily remove $50 billion of troubled assets.
Lehman’s bankruptcy in September, 2008, helped spread fear
throughout the global financial system.
(SFC, 3/13/10, p.D1)
2010 Mar 11, In NYC lawyers
representing construction companies, and rescue and recovery workers
agreed to a settlement that could pay as much as $657.5 million to
responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.
On March 19 a federal judge rejected the ground zero settlement
saying it was insufficient and that too much of it would go to legal
fees. In June a $712 million settlement was reached.
(SFC, 3/12/10, p.A8)(SFC, 3/20/10, p.A5)(SFC,
6/11/10, p.A6)
2010 Mar 11, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai, during a visit to Pakistan, said Afghanistan does not
want a proxy war between Pakistan and India or anybody else fought
on its soil. Five Afghan civilians, four of them children, were
killed in an explosion in Kapisa province. A gunmen shot dead a
South African construction contractor and his Afghan colleague in a
separate attack in Khost province. One member of the NATO-led
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in an
explosion in the south of the country.
(Reuters, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, Brazilian
television network SBT broadcast a tape of Luiz Marques Barbosa (83)
in bed with a 19-year-old that was widely distributed on the
Internet. The station said the video was secretly filmed in January
2009 and sent anonymously to the network. Barbosa was detained in
April out of fear he would flee the country.
(AP, 4/20/10)(http://tinyurl.com/y7vwfnz)
2010 Mar 11, British bank HSBC
said information on 24,000 customers with Swiss accounts has
been stolen, potentially exposing large numbers of international
clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Chile Sebastian
Pinera began serving as president, succeeding Michele Bachelet, who
went off to New York to head the UN organization for women. She
resigned from the UN in 2013 and returned home to campaign.
(Econ, 4/6/13, p.46)
2010 Mar 11, In Greece clashes
between some 200 masked youths and riot police broke out as some
20,000 striking workers protested in central Athens against
government austerity measures.
(SFC, 3/12/10, p.A2)
2010 Mar 11, In Honduras David
Meza (51), a radio journalist whose career spanned three decades,
was ambushed and killed in La Ceiba as he arrived home in his car.
(AP, 3/15/10)
2010 Mar 11, Preliminary
election results released by Iraq's electoral commission showed PM
Nouri al-Maliki leading in Babil province by nearly 14,000 votes and
in Najaf by 7,000, two Shiite provinces in southern Iraq. Manaf
Abdul al-Rawi, alleged Baghdad leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq, was
arrested. He soon gave investigators information that eventually led
to the April 18 strike that killed Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu
Ayyub al-Masri.
(AP, 3/11/10)(SFC, 4/23/10, p.A2)(AP, 5/1/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Kazakhstan a
dam at the Kyzyl-Agash reservoir in the eastern Almaty region
ruptured, pouring water into several nearby villages and affecting
3,000 residents. A 2nd dam was washed away in the nearby Karatalsky
district. Emergency officials said heavy rain and melting snow have
caused severe floods across a region of Kazakhstan neighboring
China, flooding villages and claiming at least 35 lives.
(AP, 3/12/10)(AFP, 3/12/10)(AP, 3/13/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Mexico 2
glowing brides in matching white gowns and four other same-sex
couples made history in Mexico City as they wed under Latin
America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Mexico gunmen
burst into a home in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and opened
fire, killing 5 young men and wounding 5 others, including a
10-year-old girl, during a wake being held for a young man shot to
death in his car earlier in the week. The death toll rose to 6 the
next day after a woman died of wounds suffered in the attack.
(AP, 3/12/10)(AP, 3/13/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Pakistan a
homemade bomb exploded on the outskirts of the northwestern city of
Peshawar, killing four people, including one child.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Somalia heavy
fighting between insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at
least 43 people over two days, as African Union peacekeepers used
tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent
attack.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, Sweden's
parliament narrowly approved a resolution recognizing the 1915 mass
killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide, prompting the Turkish
government to recall its ambassador in protest.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, Ukrainian
lawmakers formed a new majority coalition around President Viktor
Yanukovych. Before forming the new governing coalition, Yanukovych
signed a new law allowing individual deputies to break away from
their parliamentary factions, which allowed his coalition to
eventually control 235 of the chamber's 450 seats. Mykola Azarov,
who served as Yanukovych's campaign strategist in this year's
presidential elections, was chosen as premier.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Yemen 3
southern independence activists were killed and five wounded as
demonstrations in southern towns sparked clashes with police and
sympathy rallies in the north against the crackdown. Yemeni
authorities confiscated Al-Jazeera television broadcasting equipment
from the station's San'a offices after complaining of its coverage
of the country's restive southern region.
(AP, 3/11/10)(AP, 3/12/10)
2010 Mar 11, The Zimbabwe Red
Cross said at least 2.17 million Zimbabweans need food aid and the
figures are set to rise because of an expected poor harvest this
year.
(AFP, 3/11/10)
2011 Mar 11, Jeffrey Tesler
(62), a former British lawyer accused of helping a former
Halliburton Co. subsidiary illegally bribe Nigerian officials to win
over $6 billion in construction contracts, pleaded guilty in Houston
to federal charges of conspiracy and violating the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act.
(SFC, 3/12/11, p.A9)
2011 Mar 11, San Francisco
police began issuing warnings to homeless people enforcing an
ordinance that bans sitting or lying on sidewalks during daytime
hours.
(Reuters, 3/19/11)
2011 Mar 11, In Santa Cruz,
Ca., a tsunami from the earthquake off Japan caused at least $17.1
million in damage to the harbor, and another $4 million to private
boats. Gov. Jerry Brown issued an emergency declaration for the
harbor. A series of powerful surges generated by the quake arrived
about 7:30 a.m. and pounded the Crescent City harbor in northern
California. Eight boats were believed sunk and dozens of others
damaged.
(AP, 3/13/11)
2011 Mar 11, Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker signed a bill taking away the collective bargaining
rights of the state’s government workers.
(SFC, 3/12/11, p.A9)
2011 Mar 11, Amazon.com
notified its Illinois partners that it will stop doing business with
them on April 15 because of a new state law requiring the online
store to collect sales taxes.
(SFC, 3/12/11, p.D2)
2011 Mar 11, Apple’s iPad2
tablet computer arrived in stores.
(SFC, 3/12/11, p.D1)
2011 Mar 11, The African Union
reaffirmed Alassane Ouattara as the legal president of Ivory Coast,
but his future remained uncertain as an aide warned of death threats
and the country's strongman refused to budge from the presidential
mansion.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, In Bahrain
security forces backed by pro-government vigilantes battled
protesters near the offices and compounds of the ruling family.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, NATO defense
ministers in Brussels endorsed a list of the first cities and
provinces where Afghan police and soldiers will take control of
security, a key element in the West's exit strategy from the
decade-old war.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, In China a gas
explosion from a coal mine in the southwest killed 19 miners in
Guizhou province's Liupanshui city.
(AP, 3/12/11)
2011 Mar 11, One of Cuba's
leading dissidents, Oscar Elias Biscet (49), was freed from prison.
He vowed to keep protesting against the government that had just
released him. He was one of 52 who had been jailed since a 2003
government crackdown on opponents known as Cuba's "Black Spring"
that strained the communist-led island's international relations.
(Reuters, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, Egyptian officials
said 4 top security officials have been jailed for ordering police
to shoot and kill protesters during the country’s 18-day uprising.
(SFC, 3/12/11, p.A3)
2011 Mar 11, Euro-zone leaders
began a 2-day summit to launch the “pact for the euro,” a pledge to
align members’ economic policies and enhance their competitiveness.
(Econ, 3/19/11, p.62)
2011 Mar 11, Guyana police said
they have arrested a man (22) who had taken over a high school in a
rural community, where he beat students with a cane and leather
belts and arbitrarily changed school hours. The man, posing as a
government official, pulled off his ruse for two weeks until
suspicious teachers finally called the Ministry of Education.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, In Iraq protesters
gathered in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, one of at least four
demonstrations in major Iraqi cities. The largest rally was in
northern Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, with an estimated turnout of
4,000. Some protesters accused security forces of detaining and
beating them for taking part in demonstrations calling for better
services and a corruption-free government.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, An Israeli family
of five, Ehud and Ruthy Fogel, their two young children and a baby,
were knifed to death as they slept at the Itamar West Bank
settlement. In September Hakim Awwad (18) was sentenced to five
consecutive life sentences for the slayings. On Oct 4 an army
statement said Amjad Awwad (19), a cousin of Hakim Awwad, has
confessed to involvement in the slayings.
(AP, 3/12/11)(AFP, 10/4/11)
2011 Mar 11, In Jamaica gunmen
invaded Spanish Town Hospital and robbed staff of money, phones and
jewelry. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
(AP, 3/12/11)
2011 Mar 11, A ferocious
tsunami spawned by an 8.9 earthquake, one of the largest ever
recorded, slammed Japan's eastern coast, killing hundreds of people
as it swept away boats, cars and homes while widespread fires burned
out of control. At least 574 people were killed including 74
elementary school students and 10 teachers at the Okawa primary
school. Estimates put the toll as high as 1300. At least 10,000
people were missing. Japan declared states of emergency for five
nuclear reactors at two power plants after the units lost cooling
ability in the aftermath of the earthquake. The quake (the
fourth-largest recorded since 1900) was caused when the Pacific
tectonic plate dove under the North American plate, which shifted
Eastern Japan towards North America by about 13 feet. The disaster,
which became known as 3/11, killed 180 villagers at Ukedo. It killed
15,856 people and left another 2,643 missing.
(AP, 3/11/11)(AP,
3/12/11)(http://tinyurl.com/5sphrbr)(SFC, 1/25/12, p.A3)(Econ,
3/10/12, p.35)(Econ, 3/9/13, p.86)(Econ, 1/18/14, p.81)
2011 Mar 11, Jordanians
demanding democratic reforms protested in the capital for the 10th
street week following Muslim prayers, defying an edict by the
kingdom's religious leaders not to demonstrate.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, Libyan security
forces used tear gas and fired in the air on Friday to disperse
worshippers near a mosque in the capital before they could protest
against Muammar Gaddafi. Rebels said that an air strike by forces
loyal to Muammar Gaddafi hit storage tanks of Libya's state-owned
Ras Lanuf Oil and Gas Processing Company (RASCO). Rebels appealed
for arms as they battled with Moamer Kadhafi's advancing forces.
(Reuters, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, Mexico's attorney
general's office said it has extradited Esteban Rodriguez Olivera to
the United States, where he will face charges in New York and
Washington, D.C. federal courts for trafficking cocaine and
money-laundering.
(AP, 3/12/11)
2011 Mar 11, A sign threatening
Ciudad Juarez Public Security Director Julian Leyzaola Perez was
left beside a man who was found tortured but alive and wrapped in a
blanket. Leyzaola had assumed the post a day earlier. Soldiers
raided a drug gang's camp in the northeast and killed eight gunmen
in a shootout. 9 other people were detained in the raid, including a
woman, who claimed she had been kidnapped.
(AP, 3/12/11)
2011 Mar 11, In Mexico masses
of sardines, anchovies, stripped bass and mackerel surged close to
shore on one beach in the resort city of Acapulco, packed so tightly
near the surface they looked like an oil slick from above. Fishermen
attributed the phenomenon to the unusual currents unleashed by
tsunami that followed the earthquake in Japan. Experts couldn't be
sure.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, In Moldova US Vice
President Joe Biden urged the government to fight corruption and
implement pro-Western democratic reforms, saying that Washington
would offer support to Europe's poorest country as it seeks to move
closer to the EU.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, In the Netherlands
the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor,
once among West Africa's most powerful figures, ended with judges
expected to take months to reach a verdict on whether he can be
linked to murders and amputations during Sierra Leone's civil war.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, Norway rejected
oil drilling in ecologically sensitive waters just above the Arctic
circle, partly because of worries over a disaster like the Gulf of
Mexico oil spill.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, In Pakistan a pair
of US missile strikes killed five suspected militants in a tribal
region along the border with Afghanistan. The second strike
apparently hit militants retrieving bodies from the first.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, In the southern
Philippines a gold miner was killed and five others dug up alive by
fellow miners after their hut got buried by a landslide in Pantukan
town.
(AP, 3/13/11)
2011 Mar 11, In Saudi Arabia
hundreds of police deployed in the capital and prevented protests
calling for democratic reforms inspired by the wave of unrest
sweeping the Arab world.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2011 Mar 11, In Tunisia a new
eruption of violence between police and protesters killed 2 and
injured 20.
(SFC, 3/12/11, p.A3)
2011 Mar 11, Yemeni security
forces opened fire on demonstrators taking part in protests
throughout Yemen in what appears to be the biggest turnout in a
month of unrest to demand regime change.
(AP, 3/11/11)
2012 Mar 11, F. Sherwood
Rowland (b.1927), 1995 Nobel prize winner in chemistry, died in
Orange County , Ca. He had warned of Earth’s thinning ozone layer
and crusaded against the use of man-made chemicals that harmed the
atmospheric blanket.
(SFC, 3/13/12, p.A6)
2012 Mar 11, In Afghanistan an
American soldier opened fire on villagers near his base and killed
16 civilians. 9 children and 3 women were among the dead in Kandahar
province. A US service member was detained at a NATO base as the
alleged shooter. The soldier was transferred to Kuwait on March 14
and on to the US on March 16. On March 16 the soldier was identified
as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales (38) of Lake Tapps, Wa.
(AP, 3/11/12)(AP, 3/16/12)(Reuters, 3/16/12)
2012 Mar 11, El Salvador held
mid-term elections. The leftist party led by Pres. Mauricio Funes
lost four seats, leaving the conservatives as the biggest bloc in
the legislature.
(AP, 3/13/12)
2012 Mar 11, An Egyptian
military tribunal acquitted an army doctor of a charge of public
obscenity filed by a protester who claimed she was forced to undergo
a virginity test while in detention.
(AP, 3/11/12)
2012 Mar 11, In France a
non-commissioned officer, dressed in civilian clothes, was shot dead
in the street in Toulouse at point blank range.
(AFP, 3/19/12)
2012 Mar 11, In Honduras Fausto
Hernandez Arteaga (54) of Radio Alegre de Colon was killed in Saba,
Colon province. He was director of the station's "Voice of the News"
program. 19 journalists have been killed over the last two years in
Honduras.
(AP, 3/13/12)
2012 Mar 11, India reversed its
ban on cotton exports in a swift U-turn just six days after the
policy announcement was greeted with outrage from farmers.
(AFP, 3/11/12)
2012 Mar 11, In Iraq gun and
bomb attacks north of Baghdad killed eight people, including Adnan
Hezbar, the bodyguard of the mayor of Tarmiyah, along with four of
Hezbar’s female relatives. In Baquba a roadside bomb set off in
front of a popular cafe killed two civilians and wounded another. A
bomb attached to a motorcycle also exploded near an Iraqi army
patrol in Saadiyah, killing one soldier.
(AFP, 3/11/12)
2012 Mar 11, Israeli war planes
carried out four strikes, killing three people, including a school
boy and a 60-year-old man who medics said was a civilian. Israeli
Defense ministry figures said that militants had fired 124 rockets
at Israel since March 9, including 68 Qassams and 44 longer-range
Grads. In response the air force carried out 26 air raids, 15 of
which targeted militants who were in the act of firing on Israel.
(AFP, 3/11/12)
2012 Mar 11, In Mali Tuareg
rebels seized control of the Tessalit military base while the army
said they had only made a strategic retreat.
(AFP, 3/12/12)
2012 Mar 11, In Nigeria a
suicide bomber blew himself up outside St Finbar’s Catholic church
in Jos, killing 7 attending mass. 4 suicide bombers, including two
that drove the car and two on a motorcycle that escorted the car,
were also reported killed. Soldiers opened fire to disperse a crowd
of onlookers killing at least 3 more people. Gunmen later in the day
shot dead three Christians in Jos.
(AFP, 3/11/12)(AFP, 3/12/12)
2012 Mar 11, In Pakistan a
suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral near the northwestern
city of Peshawar, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than
30 others. The blast went off after mourners had offered prayers for
a local woman.
(AFP, 3/11/12)
2012 Mar 11, In the Philippines
Daily Tribune reporter Fernan Angeles (41) was beaten and shot six
times with a pistol by unidentified men near his home in Pasig city,
a suburb of Manila. He appeared to have been suspected of leaking
information about a drug syndicate's operation to authorities.
(AP, 3/12/12)
2012 Mar 11, In Russia a law
took effect in St. Petersburg which, in part prohibits "the
propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors. Gay rights
activists said it would criminalize even reading, writing or
speaking about gay, lesbian, or transgender people. Violations carry
hefty fines up to $16,700.
(http://tinyurl.com/7pwa2zk)
2012 Mar 11, Senegal's
opposition joined forces in a mass rally to block 85-year-old
President Abdoulaye Wade from landing a third term in office and
back challenger Macky Sall.
(AP, 3/12/12)
2012 Mar 11, In Spain hundreds
of thousands of people across the country took part in
demonstrations called by trade unions to protest the government’s
tough new labor reforms.
(SFC, 3/12/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 11, In Syria
international peace envoy Kofi Annan said he handed over a set of
"concrete proposals" aimed at defusing the Syrian crisis during a
second round of talks with President Bashar al-Assad. 20 bodies were
discovered in the Dbeit district in Idlib. A massacre in Homs left
26 children and 21 women, some with their throats slit and others
bearing stab wounds in the Karm el-Zaytoun and Al-Adawiyeh
neighborhoods of Homs. Four civilians were killed in government
shelling and 10 soldiers were killed when their checkpoint was
attacked by defectors in Idlib province.
(AFP, 3/11/12)(AFP, 3/12/12)(AP, 3/13/12)
2012 Mar 11, In Taiwan
thousands of protesters took to the streets calling on the
government to shut down the island's nuclear power plants, citing
the painful lesson of Japan's 9.0-magnitude earthquake one year ago.
(AFP, 3/11/12)
2012 Mar 11, Hackers claiming
to belong to the Anonymous Internet freedom group posted video
messages on Facebook pages of Tunisian Islamists, threatening
reprisals over their efforts to introduce Salafist laws.
(AFP, 3/11/12)
2013 Mar 11, The Clinton
Foundation announced that grants for over $700,000 will go toward
efforts in Haiti to plant trees, build a coffee farm and train
farmers. Heineken NV announced that it would invest $40 million to
expand a brewery and help farmers who supply it with sorghum.
(AP, 3/12/13)
2013 Mar 11, Detroit jurors
convicted former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (42) on corruption
charges, capping a five-month trial that exposed a brazen
pay-to-play culture during his years in office while the distressed
city lost jobs and people and veered toward insolvency.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg vowed to appeal a judge's ruling that struck
down his pioneering ban on large sugary drinks sold by the city's
restaurants, movie theaters and other food service businesses just a
day before it was to take effect.
(Reuters, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, A US Naval A-6B
Prowler crashed into a farm filed some miles outside of Spokane,
Washington. All 3 crew members were killed.
(SFC, 3/12/13, p.A4)
2013 Mar 11, In eastern
Afghanistan a police officer opened fire on US and Afghan forces at
a police headquarters, sparking a firefight that killed two US
troops and two other Afghan policemen in Wardak province. The
attacker was also killed in the shootout. In a second incident,
outside Kabul, US troops fired on a truck approaching their military
convoy, killing two Afghan men inside. A helicopter crash outside
Kandahar city killed five American service members.
(AP, 3/11/13)(AP, 3/12/13)
2013 Mar 11, In Bahrain Yousef
al-Muhafedha, acting president of the Bahrain Human Rights Center,
was found not guilty of posting inaccurate news on Twitter about
some anti-government protests.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, The British
government launched a campaign to promote London as a center for
Islamic finance, seeking to counter growing competition from rising
centers such as Dubai and Kuala Lumpur.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, Sally Davies,
Britain's top health official, said antibiotic resistance poses a
catastrophic threat to medicine and could mean patients having minor
surgery risk dying from infections that can no longer be treated.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, CAR rebels who
signed a peace deal with the government two months ago, seized
control of two towns in the southeast of Central African Republic,
threatening to undo the country's fragile peace.
(AP, 3/13/13)
2013 Mar 11, In China Shanghai
officials said the number of dumped adult and piglet carcasses
retrieved in tributaries of the Huangpu river had reached 2,813. The
city government, citing monitoring authorities, said the drinking
water quality has not been affected. Authorities have been pulling
out swollen and rotting pigs since March 8. By March 21 the dead pig
count reached over 16,000.
(AP, 3/11/13)(SFC, 3/23/13, p.A2)(Econ, 12/20/14,
p.70)
2013 Mar 11, Residents of the
Falkland Islands voted almost unanimously to stay under British rule
in a referendum. The official count showed 99.8 percent of islanders
voted in favor of remaining a British Overseas Territory in the
two-day poll.
(AP, 3/12/13)
2013 Mar 11, Hungary’s
parliament voted to amend the constitution, despite pleas from the
European Commission that the amendments conflict with EU law.
(Econ, 3/16/13, p.53)
2013 Mar 11, In India Ram
Singh, who was accused of driving the bus during a December
rape attack, was in a cell with three other inmates at Tihar Jail in
New Delhi when he hanged himself either with his own clothes or a
bed sheet.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, In northern Iraq a
suicide attacker drove his explosives-laden car into a police
station, killing five people in Dibis near Kirkuk. Attacks elsewhere
in the country killed six more Iraqis.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, The Int’l.
Criminal Court (ICC) dropped charges of crimes against humanity
against Francis Muthaura, Kenya’s former public service chief, after
a key witness recanted..
(SFC, 3/12/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 11, At least 10 former
senior Malawian government officials, including Cabinet ministers,
were arrested for allegedly plotting a coup to prevent then-Vice
President Joyce Banda from assuming power following the death of the
former president in April last year.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, Mexico’s President
Enrique Pena Nieto moved to overhaul and strengthen the weak and
chaotic regulations that have allowed Carlos slim, the world's
richest man, and its largest Spanish-language media empire to exert
near-total control of Mexico's lucrative telephone and television
markets.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, The Zocalo
newspaper in Mexico’s Coahuila state said it will no longer cover
information related to drug cartels due to safety concerns for its
workers and families.
(SFC, 3/12/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 11, North Korea’s main
newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, reported that the 60-year-old armistice
that ended the Korean War was nullified today as Pyongyang had
earlier announced it would.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, The presidents of
Iran and Pakistan marked the start of construction in Pakistan on a
pipeline to bring Iranian natural gas to Pakistan.
(Econ, 3/16/13, p.43)
2013 Mar 11, In Pakistan a
roadside bomb killed three Pakistani soldiers in in Dogar
village in the Kurram tribal area near the Afghan border.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, Russian scientists
said a new form of microbial life has been found in water samples
taken from Lake Vostok, a giant freshwater lake hidden under
kilometers of Antarctic ice.
(AP, 3/11/13)
2013 Mar 11, Syrian forces
fired heavy machine guns and launched at least one airstrike on a
neighborhood in the central city of Homs. The UN Human Rights
Council released a report that said neither government forces nor
rebels were doing enough to protect civilians. Mortar shells struck
a soccer stadium in a predominantly Christian neighborhood of
Damascus killing 6 civilians.
(AP, 3/11/13)(SFC, 3/12/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 11, CITES
conservationists in Bangkok voted to regulate the trade of shark
species threatened because their fins are used for expensive
delicacies in Asia.
(SFC, 2/12/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 11, In Venezuela
owners of Globovision, the last remaining television station
critical of the government, announced that it is being sold to an
insurance company owner who is apparently friendly with the ruling
socialists, following an unrelenting official campaign to
financially strangle the broadcaster through regulatory pressure.
(AP, 3/12/13)
2014 Mar 11, Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, D-Calif., the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
said the CIA improperly searched a stand-alone computer network
established for Congress in its investigation of allegations of CIA
abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program. She said
the CIA's own inspector general has referred the matter to the
Justice Department.
(AP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, Eric Toth, a
former Washington private school teacher, was sentenced to 25 years
in prison in a child pornography case. He was captured in Nicaragua
in 2013 after a year on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives list.
(AP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, Jos. A. Bank of
Hampstead, Md., and Men’s Wearhouse of Fremont, Ca., announced that
Men’s Wearhouse will acquire Jos. A. Bank for $65/share or about
$1.8 billion.
(SFC, 3/12/14, p.C1)
2014 Mar 11, In Afghanistan
Swedish journalist Nils Horner (51) was shot to death while he was
talking to a translator on a street in Kabul.
(AP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, Albanian
authorities arrested seven Muslims, including two imams, for
allegedly recruiting men to enlist with rebel groups fighting in
Syria. About two-thirds of Albania's 3.2 million inhabitants are
Muslims.
(AP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 12, Austria arrested
Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash at the request of the USA which
has been investigating him since 2006. He was suspected of violating
laws on bribery and forming a criminal organization in the course of
foreign business deals. On March 21 Firtash was released on 125
million-euro ($172.5 million) bail.
(Reuters, 3/13/14)(AP, 3/21/14)
2014 Mar 11, Bank of England
governor Mark Carney said the alleged manipulation of foreign
exchange markets is "as serious as" the Libor rate rigging scandal
that rocked the financial sector. Global regulators were
investigating a number of firms linked to the suspected rigging of
foreign exchange trading.
(AFP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, Michelle Bachelet
took over the presidency of Chile for the second time. She planned
to spend $15 billion on ambitious reforms aimed at redressing steep
income inequality.
(Reuters, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, China’s banking
regulators approved a pilot scheme to allow privately owned banks in
various parts of the country. The China Banking Regulatory
Commission said ten companies, including Internet giants Alibaba and
Tencent, have been picked to invest in China's first five privately
owned banks.
(AP, 3/11/14)(Econ, 3/15/14, p.70)
2014 Mar 11, In CongoDRC a
ground assault by government forces in Makoyoya followed UN
helicopter attacks and killed 22 rebels.
(Econ, 3/15/14, p.47)
2014 Mar 11, In Croatia a court
convicted former PM Ivo Sanader (2004-2009) of siphoning millions in
state money while in power, and sentenced him to nine years in
prison as part of efforts to root out corruption. Sanader was
sentenced separately to 10 years in prison for bribery in 2012.
(AP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, Egyptian
authorities decided to take control of independent mosques in a move
aimed at curbing Islamist dissent. In January, the Religious
Endowments Ministry decided to set a theme topic sent to preachers
around the country for Friday sermons. In late 2013 the ministry
dismissed 55,000 imams (prayer leaders) who did not graduate from
Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the most prestigious institution in
Sunni Islam.
(AFP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, In Egypt Freij
(aka Abu Abdullah), one of the founders of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis
(Champions of Jerusalem), was killed when a bomb he was carrying was
set off by a car accident.
(AP, 3/15/14)
2014 Mar 11, The European
Commission agreed to extend nearly 500 million euros worth of trade
benefits to Ukraine, removing duties on a wide range of agricultural
goods, textiles and other imports in an effort to support the
Ukrainian economy. G7 leaders called on Russia to stop all
efforts to "annex" Ukraine's Crimea region.
(Reuters, 3/11/14)(Reuters, 3/12/14)
2014 Mar 11, France returned
three paintings stolen by the Nazis during WWII to their rightful
owners. This brought the number of looted paintings returned by
France to their rightful owners to 10 in less than a year.
(AP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, In eastern India
Maoist rebels ambushed police and killed 16 involved in a mine
clearing operation in a remote part of Chhattisgarh state,
demonstrating their strength ahead of a general election next month.
(Reuters, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, Israel’s PM
Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any deal with the Palestinians unless
they recognize Israel as the Jewish state and give up their
refugees' right of return.
(AFP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, Israel expressed
its regret over the death of Jordanian judge Raed Zeiter (38) while
he was making his way to the occupied West Bank. He was shot a day
earlier by Israeli soldiers after an altercation at the Allenby
Bridge crossing.
(Reuters, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, An Israeli air
strike killed 3 militants of the Al-Quds Brigades in the southern
Gaza Strip. The air strike came just hours after an unmanned
aircraft of the sort Israel uses for surveillance and missile
strikes crashed in the same area, just east of Khan Yunis.
(AFP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, In northern
Nigeria gunmen on motorbikes began attacking Marabar Kindo village
in Katsina state. Fulani herders were blamed for the attacks on
Hausa farmers that left over 100 dead.
(SFC, 3/14/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 11, Two Russian
cosmonauts and an American astronaut landed back on Earth in
Kazakhstan after a stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS)
of over half a year.
(AFP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, In Libya angry MPs
ousted PM Ali Zeidan after the North Korean-flagged Morning Glory, a
tanker laden with oil from a rebel-held terminal, broke through a
naval blockade and escaped to sea. Zeidan flew to Malta on a Libyan
state plane, but then switched to a private jet after a brief
stopover before departing for Germany. Libyan commander Ibrahim
Jedran, whose militia took over vital oil terminals in the country's
east, said he is seeking help from the United States in a standoff
with the government over the seizure.
(AP, 3/11/14)(AP, 3/12/14)(AFP, 3/12/14)
2014 Mar 11, Romania's lower
house of parliament overwhelmingly voted to block an investigation
by state prosecutors of former Finance Minister Daniel Chitoiu who
they suspect abused his power to further the interests of a private
insurance company. Romania ranks only behind Greece and Bulgaria in
terms of corruption in the 28-nation EU, according to Transparency
International.
(Reuters, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, Russia signed a
preliminary agreement to build at least two more nuclear power
plants in the Iranian port city of Bushehr.
(AFP, 3/12/14)
2014 Mar 11, In northeastern
Syria 3 suicide bombers detonated their explosives belts in a local
administration building in a Kurdish town, killing at least 5
people.
(AP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, In Turkey police
and protesters clashed in Ankara and Istanbul following the death of
Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy who suffered a head injury during
anti-government demonstrations last summer. Elvan was the sixth
person to die in violence surrounding nationwide protests in late
May and June over Erdogan's plans to tear down a park in central
Istanbul.
(Reuters, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, Ukraine's interim
leaders established a new National Guard and appealed to the United
States and Britain for assistance against what they called Russian
aggression in Crimea under a post-Cold War treaty.
(Reuters, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, The parliament of
Ukraine's Crimea peninsula voted for full independence from Ukraine
in preparation for a referendum to join Russia. France threatened
sanctions against Moscow as early as this week. Gunmen took over air
traffic control of the airport in the regional capital Simferopol
and refused landing rights to a flight from the Ukrainian capital.
(AFP, 3/11/14)
2014 Mar 11, The Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said it is sending a
new team to observe military developments in tense regions of
Ukraine and that the new team's mandate has been extended beyond
Crimea to eastern Ukraine. Pro-Russian forces rebuffed previous
attempts to monitor Crimea.
(AP, 3/11/14)
2015 Mar 11, The US Board of
Immigration Appeals in Washington, DC, found that Gen. Carlos
Eugenio Vides Casanova, a former defense minister of El Salvador,
can be deported for his role in the abuse and killing of civilians
during El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s.
(SFC, 3/13/15, p.A5)
2015 Mar 11, The US placed
sanctions on eight Ukrainian separatists and a Russian bank, warning
that recent attacks by rebels armed by Russia violated a
European-brokered ceasefire in the war-torn country.
(Reuters, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, It was reported
that the United States has asked Vietnam to stop letting Russia use
a former US base to refuel nuclear-capable bombers engaged in shows
of strength over the Asia-Pacific region, exposing strains in
Washington's steadily warming relations with Hanoi.
(Reuters, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, A US Army
helicopter crashed near Eglin air Force Base in Florida. 7 Marines
and 4 aircrew were feared dead after the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter
crashed during a night training exercise.
(AFP, 3/11/15)(SFC, 3/12/15, p.A10)
2015 Mar 11, In Texas Manuel
Vasquez, a Mexican mafia hitman, was executed at the Huntsville
state prison for strangling a woman in San Antonio because she
didn’t pay a gang’s 10% tax on her illegal drug sales.
(SFC, 3/12/15, p.A8)
2015 Mar 11, Oceangate of
Washington state unveiled Cyclops, a five seat submarine capable of
diving 500 meters with a battery allowing it to maneuver for up to 8
hours. Potential cruises in the vessel were estimated to cost “as
little as” $1,000 per person.
(Econ., 3/21/15, p.71)
2015 Mar 11, Scientists
reported that evidence from the Cassini spacecraft has indicated
there might be hot springs under the ice of Enceladus, one of the
moons of Saturn.
(SFC, 3/12/15, p.A3)
2015 Mar 11, In Angola heavy
storms hit Lobito late today, sending torrents of water rushing from
surrounding hillsides into the town that sits on the coast of the
south Atlantic ocean. The death toll in Lobito soon rose to 69,
including 36 children.
(AFP, 3/14/15)
2015 Mar 11, Britain’s 2015
Templeton Prize went to Canadian Jean Vanier, who founded the
pioneering global network of "L'Arche" residential communities for
people with and without mental disabilities. The prize, established
in 1972, honors "entrepreneurs of the spirit".
(AFP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, The euro fell to
its lowest level against the dollar since April 2003, at $1.0557.
The main reason is the European Central Bank has not only cut
interest rates but also started creating more euros to put into the
financial system.
(AP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, In France a group
of armed thieves attacked two secure vans carrying jewels at a
motorway toll overnight, making off with a haul worth some nine
million euros ($11 million).
(AFP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, In northern India
a crude bomb exploded in a crowded market in Imphal, the capital of
Manipur state, killing at least 3 people and injuring 15 others.
(AP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, Iraqi soldiers and
Shiite militiamen entered the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit,
breaching one of the biggest strongholds of the extremists in a key
test for Iraqi forces.
(AP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, In Iraq and Syria
US and coalition forces conducted 13 air strikes against Islamic
State militants over the last 24 hours.
(Reuters, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, In Iraq Australian
suicide bomber Jake Bilardi (18), also known as Jihadi Jake, died in
a suicide bomb attack west of Baghdad.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Bilardi)(AP,
10/31/17)
2015 Mar 11, Latvia's Interior
Minister Rihards Kozlovskis said the country’s security is at risk
from Russian-funded advocacy groups waging "information war" that
suggests the Baltic state is persecuting its Russian minority.
(Reuters, 3/12/15)
2015 Mar 11, Lithuania marked
the 25th anniversary of its declaration of independence.
(SFC, 3/12/15, p.A5)
2015 Mar 11, Macedonian police
say they have filed criminal bribery charges against the country's
opposition leader Zoran Zaev, who is embroiled in a clash with the
conservative government over allegations of massive wire-tapping.
(AP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, In Mexico bodies
of two field workers of the National Statistics Institute, missing
since March 2, were found dead in Chihuahua state.
(AP, 3/12/15)
2015 Mar 11, In the Netherlands
a court ruled that the Dutch government must pay compensation to
nine widows and children of Indonesian men summarily executed in
their country's war for independence, a ruling that could open the
door to many more claims.
(AP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, Nigeria said that
36 towns had been retaken from Boko Haram since the start of a
four-nation military offensive, voicing hope that the operation
could lead to the group's total defeat.
(AFP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, Pakistani troops
raided the Karachi headquarters of the Muttahida Quami Movement's
(MQM) offices, arresting about 20 suspects and seizing weapons.
Party leader Faisal Subzwari accused the Rangers of killing one MQM
worker and said the weapons were licensed and necessary to guard the
offices against Taliban threats.
(AP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, In Russia a blaze
broke out in a first-storey cafe at a shopping center Kazan,
Tatarstan province. 5 people were killed and 25 were thought to be
trapped under the rubble.
(Reuters, 3/12/15)
2015 Mar 11, Slovenian police
searched the home of former PM Alenka Bratusek, who is being
investigated on suspicion of abuse of power after her government
unsuccessfully nominated her for the European Commission last year.
Police also searched four other locations linked to Bratusek's
political party.
(AP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, Sweden said it has
offered Ukraine a bilateral loan of $100 million to help shore up
its finances.
(Reuters, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, In Syria the
Islamic State jihadist group launched a major offensive to try to
capture the strategic town of Ras al-Ain on the Syrian-Turkish
border, leaving dozens dead in clashes. At least 12 fighters from
the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which control Ras
al-Ain and the surrounding villages, were killed in the IS
onslaught.
(AFP, 3/11/15)
2015 Mar 11, In central
Tanzania at least 41 people were killed and 23 seriously injured in
a collision between a bus and a truck near Changarawe.
(AFP, 3/11/15)(SFC, 3/12/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 11, Turkish
authorities said they have detained 16 Indonesians from three
families who were trying to cross into Syria, a route frequently
used by sympathizers of Islamic State militants.
(Reuters, 3/11/15)
2016 Mar 11, US officials said
the North Korean regime lost contact with a 70-foot Yono class
"midget" submarine earlier this week.
(http://tinyurl.com/jcpprv2)
2016 Mar 11, Retired
neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson
endorsed billionaire Donald Trump, describing his former rival as "a
very intelligent man."
(AFP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Republican
frontrunner Donald Trump cancelled a campaign event in Chicago after
a violent outbreak between protesters and his supporters.
(AFP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, In Alabama inmates
at William C. Holman Correctional seized control of a dormitory and
stabbed two correctional officers, including warden Carter
Davenport. Three emergency response teams brought the dorm under
control and the prison was placed under lockdown.
(SSFC, 3/13/16, p.A13)
2016 Mar 11, In the SF Bay Area
Teodoro Valencia Jr. (23) was fatally shot by a police officer as he
ran from a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet where he had held up a
cashier with a fake gun. In 2019 Valencia's family reached a
$475,000 settlement with the city to resolve a federal civil rights
lawsuit.
(SFC, 7/19/19, p.C1)
2016 Mar 11, Keith Emerson
(71), flamboyant yet accomplished British keyboardist, was found
dead from an apparent self-inflicted bullet wound to his head at his
condominium in the Los Angeles area. He had pioneered the use of
synthesizers in rock music.
(AP, 3/12/16)
2016 Mar 11, The International
Energy Agency (IEA) said oil price may have finally bottomed out
after an unprecedented drop over the past 18 months.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Belarussian media
said security service have detained prominent businessman Yury Chizh
on suspicion of large-scale tax evasion.
(Reuters, 3/13/16)
2016 Mar 11, A Belgian court
acquitted the Church of Scientology of charges of forming a criminal
organization, and dismissed demands that it should close its Belgian
branch and European headquarters.
(Reuters, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Brazilian
officials said mudslides and flooding caused by overnight heavy
downpours have killed at least 15 people including a 4-year-old boy
in low-income neighborhoods on Sao Paulo's outskirts.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, In Canada a string
of suicides among young people has hit an impoverished aboriginal
reserve in remote central Canada, leading to calls for more social
services support for native communities. Five teenagers and a young
mother at Pimicikamak Cree Nation, north of Winnipeg, have killed
themselves in recent weeks.
(AFP, 3/12/16)
2016 Mar 11, China’s state
media reported that civilian flights will begin to and from Sansha
city, on Woody Island in the Paracel archipelago, a disputed South
China Sea island within a year, as the government expands
infrastructure on islands and reefs also claimed by other countries
in region.
(Reuters, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, In Finland over
3,000 farmers with some 600 tractors gathered on a central Helsinki
square in a protest urging the government to support the country's
agricultural sector suffering on decreasing food prices and EU's
Russia sanctions.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Guyana said it is
creating a special task force to improve relief efforts amid a
prolonged drought that has shriveled crops across the South American
country.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, In Honduras deputy
warden Juan Andres Sanchez, who helped run the Marco Aurelio
penitentiary to the north of the capital Tegucigalpa, was shot and
killed just outside the city.
(AFP, 3/12/16)
2016 Mar 11, In India a massive
cultural festival opened on the banks of the Yamuna River in the
Indian capital despite concerns the sprawling construction of roads,
ramps and pontoon bridges would irreparably damage the river's
floodplains. The festival celebrating the Art of Living Foundation's
35th anniversary is expected to draw some 3.5 million visitors.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Israeli forces
raided a TV station run by the Palestinian militant group Islamic
Jihad in the West Bank as part of a crackdown to curb months of
violence that Israel says has been fueled by incitement in the
Palestinian media.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Lebanon's Interior
Minister Nohad Machnouk said the country's rubbish crisis had been
"99 percent solved" at a government committee meeting on the issue.
(Reuters, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 10, Nigeria’s
governing All Progressives Congress charged that at least 32 of its
members have been shot, clubbed and beheaded to death over the last
two weeks in Rivers state, a stronghold of the opposition Democrats.
(SFC, 3/10/16, p.A4)
2016 Mar 11, North Korea’s
official KCNA news agency reported that leader Kim Jong Un watched a
ballistic missile launch test and ordered the country to improve its
nuclear attack capability by conducting more tests.
(Reuters, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Thousands of
Peruvians marched in downtown Lima to demand the electoral board bar
presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori from next month's vote after
it disqualified two of her rivals in an unprecedented move that has
shaken the race.
(Reuters, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Romania’s PM
Dacian Ciolos said citizens now have full access to the revenue and
spending data of state institutions in move which could help fight
corruption.
(Reuters, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, South Korea's spy
agency told lawmakers that the number of North Korean cyberattacks
on the South has doubled over the past month.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, In Spain four
armed men entered a hair salon in northeastern Madrid and shot dead
a Colombian man (41) through the skull and wounded another man (44)
through the abdomen.
(AP, 3/12/16)
2016 Mar 11, Syrian government
forces battled Islamic State some 7 km (4 miles) from the ancient
site of Palmyra that fell to the jihadists last May. The Russian air
force has hit Palmyra with dozens of air strikes since March 9.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, The UN said South
Sudan has encouraged fighters to rape women in place of wages while
children have been burnt alive and called the young nation one of
the world's most "horrendous" human rights situations.
(AFP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, The UN Security
Council approved its first-ever resolution tackling the escalating
problem of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers who act as predators when
sent to protect vulnerable civilians in some of the world's most
volatile areas.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Yemeni medical
officials said clashes between Shiite rebels and local fighters in
the besieged city of Taiz have intensified, killing at least 45 on
both sides over the past 24 hours.
(AP, 3/11/16)
2016 Mar 11, Zimbabwe Finance
Minister Patrick Chinamasa said white farmers will be compensated
for land seized for redistribution to blacks and that evaluations of
the properties has begun.
(AFP, 3/11/16)
2017 Mar 11, In eastern
Afghanistan gunmen attacked a military air base in Khost province.
One was killed, while two others were still holding out. The
interior ministry said that over the past 25 hours, security forces
had killed 51 armed militants in counter-terrorism operations across
the country.
(Reuters, 3/11/17)
2017 Mar 11, In Brazil Watila
Santos (38) died from yellow fever in Casimiro de Abreu, 93 miles
(150 km) from Rio de Janeiro. Around 30,000 of the city's 42,000
people were soon vaccinated.
(AP, 3/18/17)
2017 Mar 11, In Ethiopia at
least 30 people were killed and dozens more hurt in a giant
landslide at the Koshe landfill, country’s largest rubbish dump, on
the outskirts of Addis Ababa. The death toll soon climbed to 72.
(AFP, 3/12/17)(AFP, 3/14/17)
2017 Mar 11, Narendra Modi's
party won a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh, India's most
populous state, in a massive vote of confidence for the prime
minister halfway into his first term. The BJP won 311 of the total
403 seats.
(AP, 3/11/17)
2017 Mar 11, In eastern India
Maoist rebels ambushed a paramilitary patrol in Chhattisgarh state,
killing 11 policemen.
(Reuters, 3/11/17)
2017 Mar 11, Iraqi paramilitary
forces announced that they had discovered a mass grave at Badush
prison near Mosul containing the remains of hundreds of people
executed by the Islamic State group in 2014.
(AP, 3/11/17)
2017 Mar 11, Italian riot
police moved in to quell violent protests in Naples sparked by the
first major rally in the southern city by the anti-immigrant
Northern League leader.
(AP, 3/11/17)
2017 Mar 11, The Netherlands
barred Turkey's foreign minister from landing in Rotterdam in a row
over Ankara's political campaigning among Turkish emigres, and
President Tayyip Erdogan retaliated, branding his NATO partner a
"Nazi remnant". Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said family
minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya will travel to the Dutch city of
Rotterdam by land. Dutch authorities expelled Kaya for seeking to
woo the vote of expatriate Turks for a key referendum at home.
(Reuters, 3/11/17)(AFP, 3/12/17)
2017 Mar 11, Saudi teenager
Waleed Talal Ali al-Areed was shot dead during a security raid in
the predominantly Shiite village of al-Awamiya. The Interior
Ministry said he was wanted by police and was killed in a shootout
with security forces.
(AP, 3/12/17)
2017 Mar 11, In South Korea
opponents of ousted leader Park Geun-hye (35) rallied in Seoul to
demand that she be arrested, a day after she was thrown out of
office over a corruption scandal involving the country's
conglomerates.
(Reuters, 3/11/17)
2017 Mar 11, Spanish police
said they have freed a 16-year-old girl who was being advertised by
an alleged prostitution ring as a virgin and have made seven
arrests. The ring was based in the southern resort town of Marbella.
(AP, 3/11/17)
2017 Mar 11, In Syria twin
blasts hit the center of Damascus killing at least 40 people. Two
suicide bombers carried out the attack. The next day the death toll
was soon raised to 74. The Levant Liberation Committee said it was
responsible for the two suicide attacks. The former Al-Qaeda
affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front also claimed responsibility.
(Reuters, 3/11/17)(AFP, 3/12/17)(SFC, 3/13/17,
p.A2)
2017 Mar 11, The Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said 300 families of Islamic State
group fighters have fled the jihadists' self-proclaimed capital of
Raqa over the last 24 hours, as rival forces advance on the city.
(AFP, 3/11/17)
2017 Mar 11, Turkish
journalists and opposition lawmakers protested in Istanbul against
the detention of reporters, as a crackdown on the media has
accelerated after the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan.
(AFP, 3/11/17)
2017 Mar 11, Ukraine's army
reported two soldiers killed in clashes with Russian-backed rebels
in eastern Ukraine over the last 24 hours. A rebel spokesman in the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said that one of its
fighters had been killed.
(AFP, 3/11/17)
2018 Mar 11, Trump
administration officials said there will be no more conditions
imposed on North Korea before a first-ever meeting of the two
nation's leaders beyond the North's promise not to resume nuclear
testing and missile flights or publicly criticize US-South Korean
military exercises.
(AP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, In Oakland, Ca.,
Joshua Pawlik (32) was shot and killed by police after waking up
between two homes and failing to respond to repeated commands to
take his hand off a gun. In 2019 the Oakland Police Commission's
disciplinary committee ordered Oakland to fire five officers
involved in the fatal shooting.
(SFC, 7/19/19, p.A1)
2018 Mar 11, In NYC a
helicopter carrying sightseers crashed into the Est River killing
five people. the pilot escaped.
(SFC, 3/12/18, p.A4)
2018 Mar 11, British
authorities reported that trace contamination of a nerve agent was
found in both the Mill pub and Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury.
Hundreds of people who visited the Zizzi restaurant or the Mill pub
in Salisbury were told to wash their clothes.
(Reuters, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, Colombians went to
the polls to elect a new Congress with a resurgent right, bitterly
opposed to a peace deal that allows leftist former rebels to
participate, expected to poll strongly. Left-wing candidate Gustavo
Petro (57) attracted about 40 percent fewer votes than right-wing
coalition candidate Ivan Duque (41). While no party came close to
winning control of either legislature, the Democratic Center party
came out on top in the Senate, with 19 seats and second in the lower
house, with 32 seats.
(AFP, 3/11/18)(Reuters, 3/12/18)
2018 Mar 11, Colombians went to
the polls to elect a new Congress with a resurgent right, bitterly
opposed to a peace deal that allows leftist former rebels to
participate, expected to poll strongly. Left-wing candidate Gustavo
Petro (57) attracted about 40 percent fewer votes than right-wing
coalition candidate Ivan Duque (41). While no party came close to
winning control of either legislature, the Democratic Center party
came out on top in the Senate, with 19 seats and second in the lower
house, with 32 seats.
(AFP, 3/11/18)(Reuters, 3/12/18)
2018 Mar 11, China's National
People's Congress passed a historic constitutional amendment that
abolishes term limits and will enable President Xi Jinping to rule
indefinitely. The hand-picked delegates voted 2,958 in favor with
two opposed, three abstaining and one vote invalidated.
(AP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, Colombians went to
the polls to elect a new Congress with a resurgent right, bitterly
opposed to a peace deal that allows leftist former rebels to
participate, expected to poll strongly. Left-wing candidate Gustavo
Petro (57) attracted about 40 percent fewer votes than right-wing
coalition candidate Ivan Duque (41). While no party came close to
winning control of either legislature, the Democratic Center party
came out on top in the Senate, with 19 seats and second in the lower
house, with 32 seats.
(AFP, 3/11/18)(Reuters, 3/12/18)
2018 Mar 11, Congo DRC
officials said President Joseph Kabila has enacted a law to hike
taxes on so-called strategic metals and ordered government
consultations with foreign companies worried by the change.
(AFP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, Cubans went to the
polls in a one-party vote that marks the penultimate step in a
political process that will culminate next month with the selection
of the Communist-ruled island's first non-Castro leader since the
1959 revolution.
(Reuters, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, Egypt's military
said that 16 jihadists, an officer and a soldier were killed in the
past four days during a major military operation against Islamic
State group jihadists in Sinai.
(AFP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, In Germany a
mosque in the Reinickendorf district of Berlin was set ablaze early
today, likely by three teenagers. Firebombs were also thrown at a
Turkish immigrants' association in the western town of Meschede.
(AP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, Cardinal Karl
Lehmann (81), the former head of Germany's Catholic Bishops
Conference, died at his home in Mainz.
(AP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, Hong Kong
residents voted in by-elections that gave opposition supporters the
chance to recapture lost ground in a contest measuring voters'
appetite for democracy in the semiautonomous Chinese city.
(AP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, In India French
President Emmanuel Macron said his country will commit 700 million
euros to the International Solar Alliance (ISA) at the founding
conference of the organization, reiterating the European country's
commitment to the alliance and clean energy. The treaty-based
organization, launched by India's PM Narendra Modi in 2015, aims to
promote solar energy in 121 countries.
(Reuters, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, In Iran four
"terrorists" were killed after infiltrating and attacking a military
checkpoint in a southeastern border area.
(AFP, 3/12/18)
2018 Mar 11, In Iran a private
Turkish jet carrying a group of young women flying from the United
Arab Emirates to Istanbul crashed into a mountain in Shahr-e Kord,
killing all eleven people on board.
(SFC, 3/12/18, p.A2)
2018 Mar 11, In Poland a new
law banning almost all trade on Sundays took effect, with large
supermarkets and most other retailers closed for the first time
since liberal shopping laws were introduced in the 1990s after
communism's collapse.
(AP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, Russia said it has
successfully launched the hypersonic Kinzhal missile, which
President Vladimir Putin called "an ideal weapon" as he unveiled a
new array of next-generation arms earlier this month.
(AFP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, Saudi Arabian
press announced that the king has established special
anti-corruption units of prosecutors to pursue embezzlement cases in
the kingdom after a recent crackdown.
(AP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, A South African
official said proceedings have been launched to strip the permanent
residency status of Ajay Gupta, one of the lynchpins of a
controversial Indian business family accused of corruption.
(AFP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, In Syria
pro-government media said government forces have divided the eastern
Ghouta enclave outside Damascus into two, dealing a major setback to
rebels and threatening to exacerbate an already dire humanitarian
situation at the doors of the nation's capital. Russia's military
said 52 civilians were able to leave eastern Ghouta for safety in
government-held territory outside. The UN has estimated there are
400,000 civilians trapped in the siege.
(AP, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, Turkish warplanes
reportedly destroyed at least 18 targets belonging to the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq over the last 24
hours.
(Reuters, 3/11/18)
2018 Mar 11, In Vietnam senior
police official Nguyen Thanh Hoa (60) was arrested on suspicion of
involvement in an international gambling ring.
(Reuters, 3/11/18)
2019 Mar 11, Pres. Donald Trump
sought 8.6 billion in his new 2020 budget to build the US-Mexico
border wall. Trump sent Congress a record $4.75 trillion budget
request that called for increased military spending and sharp cuts
to domestic programs.
(SFC, 3/11/19, p.A5)(SFC, 3/11/19, p.A4)
2019 Mar 11, The United States
imposed sanctions on the Russian bank Evrofinance Mosnarbank over
its dealings with the Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA.
(Reuters, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, Taliban fighters
killed or captured an entire Afghan National Army company of more
than 50 soldiers in Badghis province.
(SFC, 3/11/19, p.A2)
2019 Mar 11, In Afghanistan
six-year-old girl, identified as Mahsa, was kidnapped in Kabul. The
kidnappers demanded $300,000 from the girl's father. Two men were
later arrested in the kidnapping and killing of the girl.
(AP, 3/13/19)
2019 Mar 11, In Algeria more
than 1,000 judges said they would refuse to oversee the upcoming
election if Pres. Abdelaziz Bouteflika contests it. The ailing
Bouteflika (82) abandoned his bid for a fifth term in power but
stopped short of stepping down.
(AFP, 3/11/19)(Reuters, 3/12/19)
2019 Mar 11, In Brazil heavy
rains overnight caused the deaths of at least 12 people in and
around Sao Paulo.
(AP, 3/11/19)(SFC, 3/11/19, p.A2)
2019 Mar 11, Authorities in
China, Ethiopia and Indonesia grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft
following the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that
killed 157 people.
(AP, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, Egypt said three
troops and 46 suspected Islamic militants have been killed in recent
days in the northern and central Sinai Peninsula.
(AP, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, A new study,
published in the European Heart Journal, said air pollution causes
790,000 premature deaths every year in Europe and 8.8 million
worldwide, doubling recent assessments.
(AFP, 3/12/19)
2019 Mar 11, Police in India
said they had recovered four videos from four arrested men,
involving other victims in Tamil Nadu state. A woman (19) had said
in a complaint filed with the police that she was traveling with the
four men, two of whom she knew, in a car last month when she was
forcibly disrobed and videotaped. She alleged the men then
threatened to upload the video online if she did not meet them
whenever summoned.
(Reuters, 3/12/19)
2019 Mar 11, Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani began a 3-day visit in Baghdad to deepen bilateral
relations. This was his first official visit to the nation that
Tehran once fought a bloody war against and later backed in the
battle with the Islamic State group.
(AP, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, Iran's
semi-official ISNA news agency said Judge Mohammad Moghiseh has
sentenced Nasrin Sotoudeh (55) to five years for plotting against
the state and two more years for insulting Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was reported that jailed Iranian human
rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 38 years in
prison and 148 lashes.
(AP, 3/11/19)(Reuters, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, In Malaysia
Indonesian Siti Aisyah, one of two women accused of killing North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother by smearing VX nerve agent
on his face, was freed after two years of detention when prosecutors
unexpectedly dropped the murder charge against her.
(AP, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, A Pakistani
anti-graft tribunal indicted former PM Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and six
others over millions of dollars in losses because of delays to a
power project. Ashraf served as prime minister in 2012.
(AP, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, Peruvian President
Martin Vizcarra named actor and former culture minister Salvador del
Solar as his new prime minister.
(Reuters, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, It was reported
that a Philippine appeals court has upheld a decision that an online
news site critical of President Rodrigo Duterte violated a
constitutional ban on foreign ownership of news media.
(AP, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, Sudan's parliament
voted to shorten from one year to six months a state of emergency
declared by President Omar al-Bashir last month in response to
widespread protests.
(Reuters, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, In eastern Syria
Kurdish-led forces slowed an assault to retake a last scrap of land
held by the Islamic State group after hundreds more people
surrendered. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) killed
dozens in continuing clashes with Islamic State fighters at Baghouz.
(AFP, 3/11/19)(Reuters, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, The UN's anti-drug
agency said production of methamphetamine is skyrocketing in
Southeast Asia, with prices dropping and usage expanding.
(AP, 3/11/19)
2019 Mar 11, Much of Venezuela,
including parts of the capital Caracas, remained without power for a
fifth day, crimping vital oil exports and leaving people struggling
to obtain water and food. President Nicolas Maduro again ordered the
suspension of classes and the working day. Opposition leader Juan
Guaido led the country's legislature in declaring a "state of alarm"
over power problems. A five-day power blackout left homes in Caracas
without water.
(Reuters, 3/11/19)(Reuters, 3/12/19)
2019 Mar 11, In Venezuela Luis
Carlos Diaz, a journalist with dual Spanish and Venezuelan
nationality, went missing. Later that night a unit from the feared
SEBIN intelligence police turned up at his home and took away
computers, mobile phones and money, among other items.
(AP, 3/12/19)
2019 Mar 11, In Venezuela the
Red Cross renewed visits to prisons when a Red Cross delegation
visited a model prison in Caracas, the Simon Bolivar Center for the
Formation of New Men.
(AP, 4/10/19)
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