Today in History - July 3
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987 Jul 3, The count of Paris, Hugh Capet (49), became king of France. Paris soon emerged as the center of French political, cultural and religious life, once again becoming the capital.
(PCh, 1992, p.78)(HNQ, 4/18/02)(MC, 7/3/02)
1570 Jul 3, Antonio Paleario (67), Italian humanist, was executed by the inquisition.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1570 Jul 3, The Turks began their attack on Nicosia, Cyprus, after Venice refused to surrender the island.
(http://historicbiography.blogspot.com/2008/01/marcantonio-bragadin.html)
1608 Jul 3, The city of Quebec was founded as a trading post by Samuel de Champlain. The French adventurer Etienne Brule accompanied Champlain to North America and was reportedly eaten by the Huron Indians.
(AP, 7/3/97)(www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1608champlain.html)
1642 Jul 3, Maria de' Medici (~69), French queen-mother, died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1683 Jul 3, Edward Young, English poet, dramatist and literary critic, was born. His work included "Night Thoughts."
(HN, 7/3/99)
1738 Jul 3, John Singleton Copley, finest colonial American artist, was born in Mass.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1754 Jul 3, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity (later Pittsburgh) in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French, leaving them in control of the Ohio Valley. This marked the beginning of the French and Indian War also called the 7 Years' War. In 2005 Fred Anderson authored “The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War."
(HN, 7/13/98)(Arch, 1/05, p.46)(WSJ, 12/14/05, p.D15)
1775 Jul 3, Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1778 Jul 3, The Wyoming Massacre occurred during the American Revolution in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. As part of a British campaign against settlers in the frontier during the war, 360 American settlers, including women and children, were killed at an outpost called Wintermoot's Fort after they were drawn out of the protection of the fort and ambushed.
(HNQ, 11/5/98)(MC, 7/3/02)
1790 Jul 3, In Paris the Marquis of Condorcet proposed granting civil rights to women.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1799 Jul 3, In Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) Gen. Toussaint L’Ouverture formally declared Gen. Andre Rigaud, the leader of a revolutionary army in the south and west of Saint-Domingue, a rebel.
(ON, 2/10, p.8)
1801 Jul 3, Johann Nepomuk Went (56), composer, died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1806 Jul 3, Michael Keens exhibited the 1st cultivated strawberry.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1809 Jul 3, Joseph Quesne (62), composer, died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1816 Jul 3, Dorothea Jordan (65), French actress, mistress (William IV), died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1844 Jul 3, Dankmar Adler, architect and engineer, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1844 Jul 3, Ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiated a commercial treaty with China that opened five Chinese ports to U.S. merchants and protected the rights of American citizens in China.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1848 Jul 3, Gen. Peter Von Scholten, faced with the likely destruction of towns and plantations by a slave revolt, declared the slaves of the Danish West Indies (later US Virgin Islands) to be freed.
(SSFC, 7/5/09, p.A3)
1861 Jul 3, US Colonel Jackson received his CSA commission as brigadier general.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1861 Jul 3, Pony Express arrived in SF with overland letters from NY.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1863 Jul 3, The last rebel assault was repulsed at the Battle of Gettysburg at 4 p.m. The Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated. The last Confederate assault at Gettysburg was Pickett’s Charge against the center of the Union line that left some 7,000 of 13,000 [15,000] Confederate troops dead. Lt. Gen. James Longstreet gave Maj. Gen. George Pickett the assent. General Lee took responsibility. The Union and Confederate armies suffered an estimated 50-51 thousand casualties in the battle. It was the bloodiest battle the country had yet seen. Upon whom the responsibility for the South's failure at Gettysburg rests has been widely debated, but five months after the epic battle, Confederate General Robert E. Lee admitted, "I thought my men were invincible." The fighting in the small Pennsylvania town marked a pivotal point in the Union's ascent to victory and helped decide the outcome of the Civil War. In 1974 Michael Shaara published "The Killer Angels," a novel about the 3-day battle.
(SFC, 7/7/96, T6)(SFC,2/17/97, p.A3)(AP, 7/3/97)(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.D5)(HN, 7/3/98)(WSJ, 9/11/98, p.W10)(HNPD, 7/6/99)
1863 Jul 3, Battle of Donaldsonville, LA.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1864 Jul 3, Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA, began and lasted until Jul 9.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1864 Jul 3, At Harpers Ferry, WV, Federals evacuated in face of Early's advance.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1871 Jul 3, William Henry Davies, Welsh poet, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1871 Jul 3, Jesse James robbed a bank in Corydon, Iowa, of $45,000.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1875 Jul 3, Ernst F. Sauerbruch, German Nazi surgeon, was born.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1878 Jul 3, George M. Cohan, American entertainer, was born. He wrote the songs "Over There," "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" and the play "Yankee Doodle-Dandy."
(HN, 7/3/99)
1878 Jul 3, John Wise flew the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1883 Jul 3, Franz Kafka (d.1924), Czech novelist, author of "The Metamorphosis," was born in Prague. "The Castle" and "The Trial," were both published after his death. He died of tuberculosis.
(V.D.-H.K.p.367-368)(WSJ, 10/10/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/14/97, p.A11)(HN, 7/3/98)
1883 Jul 3, SS Daphne sank on Clyde River in Scotland and 195 died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1886 Jul 3, In Germany Karl Benz drove the 1st automobile. [see Jan 29]
(MC, 7/3/02)
1890 Jul 3, Idaho became the 43rd state of the US.
(HFA, ‘96, p.32)(AP, 7/3/97)
1898 Jul 3, The Spanish cruisers Cristóbal Colón, Almirante Oquendo, Vizcaya and Infanta Maria Teresa, and two torpedo-boat destroyers, lay bottled up in Santiago Harbor, with seven American ships maintaining a blockade just outside. Without warning, the Spanish squadron attempted to break out, and the Americans attacked, sinking one torpedo boat and immediately running the other aground. The Americans gave chase to Oquendo, Vizcaya and Colón. After a brief battle, all the Spanish warships were overtaken, with only two American causalities, both from the U.S. armored cruiser Brooklyn.
(AP, 7/3/98)(HNPD, 7/3/98)
1899 Jul 3, The nation's first juvenile court opened on the West Side after reformers like Jane Addams pushed the Illinois legislature to recognize that children were developmentally different from adults.
(SFEC, 6/27/99, Z1 p.1)
1901 Jul 3, Members of The Wild Bunch, including Kid Curry, committed their last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train. Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and his lover Etta Place had already fled to New York where a picture of Etta and Sundance was taken. The trio by this time were settled in Argentina.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy)
1906 Jul 3, George Sanders, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950), was born in Russia.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1907 Jul 3, A Papal decree forbade the modernization of theology.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1908 Jul 3, M.F.K. Fisher, food writer, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1908 Jul 3, In San Francisco the coroner and his deputies celebrated the opening of the new morgue at 368 Fell St.
(SSFC, 6/29/08, DB p.58)
1908 Jul 3, Joel Chandler Harris (59), author and creator of Uncle Remus, died in Atlanta.
(AP, 7/3/08)
1909 Jul 3, Stavros Niachos, Greek shipping magnate, was born.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1912 Jul 3, Elizabeth Taylor, novelist and short story writer, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1916 Jul 3, The 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near the NJ shore.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1916 Jul 3, Hetty Green (b.1834), American investor, died in NYC. In 2012 Janet Wallach authored “The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age."
(SSFC, 10/21/12, p.F7)
1918 Jul 3, The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the oldest US environmental conservation law, prohibited killing or harassing birds migrating across international borders.
(SFC, 4/9/99, p.A5)(SFC, 10/23/02, p.A4)(www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html)
1918 Jul 3, Ottoman Sultan Mehmet Resad died and Vahdettin (1861-1926) became the new Sultan.
(www.turkeyswar.com/whoswho/who-vahidettin.htm)
1921 Jul 3, Francois-Arnold Reichenbach, documentary filmmaker, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1929 Jul 3, Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1930 Jul 3, Carlos Kleiber (d.2004), conductor (Bavarian State Orchestra), was born in Berlin, Germany.
(SFC, 7/19/04, p.B6)
1930 Jul 3, Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration. [see Jul 21]
(AP, 7/3/97)
1937 Jul 3, Tom Stoppard, British author and dramatist, was born in Czechoslovakia. His plays include "Rosencrantz and Gilderstern are Dead" and "The Real Thing."
(HN, 7/3/99)(MC, 7/3/02)
1939 Jul 3, Ernst Heinkel demonstrated an 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1940 Jul 3, British Royal Navy sank a French fleet in North Africa, ten days after France had signed an armistice with Nazi Germany.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1943 Jul 3, Liberator bombers sank U-628.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1944 Jul 3, Lisa Alther, author, was born in Kingsport, Ten. "The degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Alther)
1944 Jul 3, The U.S. First Army opened a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1944 Jul 3, During World War II, Soviet forces recaptured Minsk.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1945 Jul 3, U.S. troops landed at Balikpapan and took Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1947 Jul 3, Soviet Union didn't partake in the Marshall Plan.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1948 Jul 3, Kidnapper Caryl Chessman was sentenced to death.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1949 Jul 3, San Francisco’s Municipal Railway debuted its new electric trolley buses. Hundreds of busses were purchased at $19,500 apiece.
(SFC, 2/24/18, p.C1)
1950 Jul 3, US Pres. Truman signed public law 600. It provided federal statutory authorization for the people of Puerto Rico to write their own constitution.
(www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2004/vol8n34/CBRoadComnwlth.shtml)
1950 Jul 3, American and North Korean forces clashed for the first time in the Korean War. U.S. carrier-based planes attacked airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.
(AP, 7/3/98)(HN, 7/3/98)
1951 Jul 3, Jean-Claude Duvalier, [Papa Doc], deposed Haitian president-for-life, was born.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1952 Jul 3, Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill (1902-1997) of Wayne State Univ. used a mechanical heart pump to operate on a patient at Detroit’s Harper Hospital. This was regarded as the world’s first successful use of a mechanical pump in open-heart surgery.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodrill-GMR)
1954 Jul 3, In Salem Mass., champion female athlete Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956) won the US Women's Open. She had just come back from a battle with cancer, yet won the event by 12 strokes.
(www.uswomensopen.com/2004/press/whatta-gal.html)
1954 Jul 3, Food rationing ended in Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1956 Jul 3, Loew's was removed from the DJIA and International Paper was added as a component of the Dow Jones.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R46)(WSJ, 4/8/04, p.C4)
1962 Jul 3, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1962 Jul 3, French Pres. Charles De Gaulle pronounced Algeria an independent country following the July 1 elections. De Gaulle evacuated Algeria and a million settlers flooded into France.
(www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm)(WSJ, 11/16/95, p.A-18)
1965 Jul 3, Trigger (25), the golden palomino horse of Roy Rogers, died. Trigger was mounted by Bishoff's Taxidermy of California and were on display for years at the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California. The original Trigger is currently on display at The Roy Rogers - Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Missouri. In 2010 Trigger, along with his saddle, took top dollar at an auction of memorabilia.
(www.surfnetinc.com/chuck/hoss-rr.htm)(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A2)(http://tinyurl.com/2blll9t)
1967 Jul 3, North Vietnamese soldiers attacked South Vietnam’s only producing coal mine at Nong Son.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1969 Jul 3, Brian Jones (27), founder of the Rolling Stones (1962), was found dead at the bottom of Cotchford Farm swimming pool.
(www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.4/BrianJones.html)
1970 Jul 3, A British Dan-Air charter, flying a Comet 4 turbojet, crashed near Barcelona and 112 were killed.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=834)
1971 Jul 3, James Douglas Morrison (b.1943), singer for the Doors rock group, died of an apparent heart attack in Paris, France. Jim Morrison (27) was buried at Pere Lachaise cemetery.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.D2)(AP, 7/3/97)
1973 Jul 3, The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) opened in Helsinki with 35 states sending representatives.
(http://tinyurl.com/4wq42s)
1975 Jul 3, The US Civil Service Commission adopted new suitability regulations devoid of the previous language about "immoral" conduct or "sexual perversion." This voided Pres. Eisenhower’s 1953 executive order on firing gays.
(www.fedglobe.org/news/12now_history.html)
1976 Jul 3, Shane Lynch, Irish singer (Boyzone), was born in Dublin, Ireland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Lynch)
1976 Jul 3, Israel launched its daring mission to rescue 103 passengers and Air France crew members being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1976 Jul 3, Spain’s King Juan Carlos appointed Adolfo Suarez (1932-2014), a young Francoist minister, as prime minister in an effort to try to unite Francoists and anti-Franco Socialists, who were still in a sense fighting the 1936-1939 civil war.
(Reuters, 3/23/14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Su%C3%A1rez)
1977 Jul 3, Raymond Damadian produced the 1st image of a human chest using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In 1970 he found that cancer cells could be distinguished from healthy tissues using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
(Econ, 12/6/03, TQp.15)
1978 Jul 3, The US Supreme Court, in Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation, upheld an FCC ban on George Carlin's "seven dirty words" and other indecencies on radio, and TV "when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience." The ban was upheld on the grounds that broadcasters had a “uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans.
(WSJ, 3/24/04, p.A4)(Econ, 7/23/05, p.14)(http://tinyurl.com/2jeh4j)
1978 Jul 3, The Amazon Pact was established. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela signed the Amazon Pact, a Brazilian initiative designed to coordinate the joint development of the Amazon Basin.
(http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Amazon+Pact)
1978 Jul 3, China cut off economic and technical aid to Vietnam.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1979 Jul 3, Dan White, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison. He served five years.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1979 Jul 3, Helen Van Slyke, English writer, died. She left a manuscript that was completed by James Elward (1929-1996) titled "Public Smiles, Private Tears" that became a best-seller. It was about a woman’s rise in the world of retail fashion.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A20)(http://tinyurl.com/3bzrf3)
1980 Jul 3, The 15-year-old Berkeley Barb, founded by Max Scherr, released its final issue in Berkeley, Ca. Scherr ran the left-wing paper from 1965-1973.
(SFC, 7/1/05, p.F2)
1982 Jul 3, Mumia Abu-Jamal (b.1954), radio reporter and former Black Panther, was convicted for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner in Pittsburgh. Jamal supporters said he was framed. Prosecutors said Jamal shot Faulkner after seeing the officer struggling with Jamal’s brother, William Cook, who had been stopped for a traffic violation. In 1996 Jamal was still on death row. In 1999 Gov. Tom Ridge signed a 2nd death warrant for lethal injection on Dec 2. In December, 2001, a federal judge affirmed his murder conviction but ordered that Abu-Jamal should either receive a new sentencing hearing or have his sentence commuted to life in prison because of an error by the trial judge in presenting rules of sentencing to the jury (see March 27, 2008).
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Mumia_Abu-Jamal)
1984 Jul 3, The US Supreme Court ruled that Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members.
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=468&invol=609)
1984 Jul 3, Raoul Salan (b.1899), French general, OAS leader (Algeria), died. Salan was one of the four Generals who organized the 1961 Algiers Putsch operation, and then founded the Organization armée secrète (OAS) terrorist group.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Salan)
1986 Jul 3, President Reagan presided over a gala ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1986 Jul 3, Rudy Vallee (b.1901), singer (Vagabond Dreams), died.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4143)
1987 Jul 3, Two men became the first hot-air balloon travelers to cross the Atlantic. British millionaire Richard Branson and Swedish-born Per Lindstrand, the balloon's designer, were forced to jump into the sea as their craft went down off the coast of Scotland.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1988 Jul 3, The US Navy cruiser ship USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airbus A-300 in the Persian Gulf shortly after it took off from Bandar Abbas for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. All 290 people aboard were killed after the crew of the Vincennes misidentified the plane as an Iranian F-14 fighter. The attack followed what the US Navy refers to as Operation Praying Mantis, a daylong naval battle in the Persian Gulf between American forces and Iran. That battle came after the USS Samuel B. Robertson struck a mine that the Americans later accused Iran of laying in the shipping channels it was trying to keep open for Kuwaiti oil tankers. In 1996 the US paid $131.8 million in compensation of which half would go directly to the families of the people killed. Iran filed suit in World Court in 1989 and settled out of court in Feb, 1996.
(WSJ, 2/23/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-14)(AP 7/3/97)(AP, 7/03/10)(AP, 7/3/18)
1989 Jul 3, By a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court upheld abortion restrictions in the state of Missouri. The court ruled that states do not have to provide funds for abortions.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1989 Jul 3, The movie "Batman," set a record of quickest $100 million (10 days).
(www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/fastest.htm?page=100&p=.htm)
1989 Jul 3, Jim Backus (76), actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), died of pneumonia.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0000822/bio)
1990 Jul 3, In Moscow, Kremlin hard-liner Yegor K. Ligachev received an enthusiastic reception at a Communist Party congress as he criticized reforms by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, saying perestroika had been marred by "limitless radicalism."
(AP, 7/3/00)
1990 Jul 3, Maurice Girodias (b.1919), French publisher, died.
(wwwa.britannica.com/eb/article-9000838?hook=170089)
1991 Jul 3, Former corporate enemies Apple Computer and IBM publicly joined forces in a broad pact to swap technologies and develop new machines.
(AP, 7/3/01)
1991 Jul 3, A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was videotaped beating a handcuffed prisoner in his patrol car. The officer was suspended, but later reinstated after a grand jury refused to indict him.
(AP, 7/3/01)
1992 Jul 3, The president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, was voted out of office as lawmakers from Slovakia blocked his re-election in parliament.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1992 Jul 3, Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum, the only Jew to attend Vatican II, died.
(www.worldofquotes.com/history/7_3/9/)
1993 Jul 3, Steffi Graf of Germany won her third consecutive Wimbledon title as she defeated Jana Novotna of the Czech Republic.
(AP, 7/3/98)
1993 Jul 3, Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale died in Montreal, Canada, at age 56.
(AP, 7/3/98)
1993 Jul 3, Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Haiti's military chief, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, separately signed an accord designed to return Aristide to power.
(AP, 7/3/98)
1994 Jul 3, Pete Sampras defeated Goran Ivanisevic to win the Wimbledon men's championship, 7-6, 7-6, 6-0.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1994 Jul 3, Thirty-one people died in three separate crashes on Texas highways.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1995 Jul 3, Irish Republican Army sympathizers rioted in Northern Ireland’s two largest cities in outrage over the early parole of a British soldier convicted of killing a Roman Catholic woman.
(AP, 7/3/00)
1995 Jul 3, Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez (b.1928), tennis great, died of stomach cancer in Las Vegas, Nevada.
(www.tennisfame.org/enshrinees/pancho_gonzales.html)
1996 Jul 3, The Clinton administration awarded a $1 mil grant to the Univ. of Alabama for an experiment that would test for illicit drug use of everyone arrested in Birmingham.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A3)
1996 Jul 3, US Secret Service agents claimed to have broken up an operation by a New York couple that used monitoring equipment to steal 80,000 cellular phone numbers and id codes from motorists on an expressway that passed their apartment building.
(WSJ, 7/3/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 3, Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $1 bil federal contract to build the next-generation space shuttle.
(WSJ, 7/3/96, p.A3)
1996 Jul 3, A jokester lit firecrackers in a fireworks store in Scottown, Ohio. A blaze erupted and 9 people were killed and 11 injured as they stampeded out.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A3)(AP, 7/3/97)
1996 Jul 3, A federal agency approved the Union Pacific $5.4 bil acquisition of San Francisco based Southern Pacific Rail Corp. The merger will eliminate about 3,500 jobs.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 3, Chad’s Pres. Idriss Deby won 70% of the vote. He defeated Abdelkader Wadal Kamougue, a southern leader who led coup in 1975. The election was widely seen as flawed.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/29/01, p.A1)
1996 Jul 3, Russians went to the polls to re-elect Boris Yeltsin president over his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov. Boris Yeltsin won the presidential elections with about 53.7% of the vote. Zyuganov received about 40.4%.
(WSJ, 7/5/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/97)
1997 Jul 3, In his first formal response to Paula Jones' charges of sexual harassment, President Clinton denied all allegations in her lawsuit and asked a judge to dismiss the case.
(AP, 7/3/02)
1997 Jul 3, Mississippi became the 1st state to settle its tobacco suit, less than one week before the 1st scheduled trial.
(http://tinyurl.com/amlhg)
1997 Jul 3, Lockheed Martin Corp., the nation's biggest defense contractor, announced its purchase of Northrop Grumman Corp. for $11.2 billion [$7.9 billion]. However, the merger fell apart over antitrust concerns.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/02)
1997 Jul 3, The Rainbow Family, founded in 1971, began their 25th gathering in Ochoco National Forest in Oregon. 20-30,000 were expected to participate.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 3, Blues guitarist Johnny Copeland (b.1937), the "Texas Twister," died. His 1985 "Showdown" album with Albert Collins (d.1993) and Robert Cray won a Grammy for best traditional blues recording.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.C3)
1997 Jul 3, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (Lionsgate) was formed in Vancouver, BC. Its headquarters were later moved to Santa Monica, Ca.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Gate_Entertainment)(Econ, 1/25/14, p.57)
1998 Jul 3, Pres. Clinton ended his trip to China and praised Pres. Zemin as a man with "good imagination." Clinton concluded his Far East tour in Hong Kong, where he challenged leaders to set the pace for rescuing Asia from the region's financial crisis.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/9)
1998 Jul 3, A Western Water Policy Review Commission reported that farms and ranches, which soak up to 78% of the West’s available water, must give some up to the growing cities and restore degraded ecosystems.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 3, Residents in northeastern Florida continued to evacuate because of wildfires closing in from three directions.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1998 Jul 3, The 12th World AIDS Conference ended in Geneva.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1998 Jul 3, In Colombia rebels of the ELN freed 15 hostages, members of the army backed civic group called "Girls of Steel" in a deal brokered by Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A11)
1998 Jul 3, In Indian-held Kashmir Pakistani shelling forced over 2,000 villagers to flee and 7 people were reported killed in Dawar.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A11)
1998 Jul 3, Serbian forces in Kosovo broke through a stone blockade near Kijevo.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 3-5, 1998 Vienna celebrated the 400th anniversary of opera.
(SFEC, 5/10/98, p.T3)
1999 Jul 3, President Clinton, acting to head off potential problems with the safety of imported food, said in his weekly radio address he was ordering inspectors at American ports to brand all unsafe and rejected food products, "Refused US."
(AP, 7/3/00)
1999 Jul 3, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith fired at Asians and Blacks in Springfield, and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 3, In Beijing talks between the North and South Korea collapsed.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A22)
1999 Jul 3, A boat smuggling 11 people out of Cuba capsized and one person was killed. Joel Dorta Garcia (27) and David Garcia Capote (33) were arrested and accused of charging $8,000 for smuggling each passenger.
(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A11)
1999 Jul 3, In Kosovo British NATO troops killed 2 ethnic Albanians and wounded 2 others during a street celebration marking the 9th anniversary of Kosovo's unrecognized declaration of independence.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A15)
1999 Jul 3, In Kuwait elections were held for seats in the 50-member parliament. Only some 113,000 men of the 1.8 million population were allowed to vote. Liberals raised their number of seats from 4 to 14.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A20)(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A12)
2000 Jul 3, President Clinton made a congratulatory telephone call to Mexican President-elect Vicente Fox, a day after Fox’s election.
(AP, 7/3/01)
2000 Jul 3, A 1970’s steel observation tower that preservationists said had desecrated the battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was demolished.
(AP, 7/3/01)
2000 Jul 3, Harold Nicholas, younger member of the tap-dancing Nicholas Brothers, died at age 79. In 2000 Constance Valis Hill authored "Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers."
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A19)
2000 Jul 3, In Mexico the elections showed 42.7% for Vincente Fox, 35.8% for Labastida, and 16.5% for Cardenas.
(SFC, 7/4/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 3, The Palestinian leadership said that a Palestinian state would be declared by September 13.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A8)(WSJ, 7/5/00, p.A1)
2001 Jul 3, In Columbus, Ohio, Brian Dalton (22) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fiction writing in his journal about sexually abusing and torturing children.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A4)
2001 Jul 3, General Electric's $41 billion purchase of Honeywell International was vetoed by the European Union. It was the first time a merger of two U.S. companies was stopped solely by European regulators.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2001 Jul 3, The last parts of the US spy plane in China were flown out.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 3, Mordecai Richler, Canadian social critic and novelist, died at age 70. His work included the novel "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (1959).
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.D3)
2001 Jul 3, In Indonesia a Christian gang killed 18 Muslims, including women and children, on the island of Sulawesi.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 3, Muhammad al-Humaimidi, a high-ranking Iraqi diplomat, asked for asylum in NYC.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 3, In his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands, former Yugoslav Pres. Milosevic refused to respond to charges and called the tribunal illegitimate.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/02)
2001 Jul 3, In the Philippines Abu Sayyaf rebels freed 2 hostages and warned the government to withdraw from Muslim-majority islands or face more kidnappings.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 3, In the Philippines 53 people were left dead in landslides from Typhoon Utor as the storm moved toward Taiwan.
(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D3)
2001 Jul 3, In Russia Flight TD-352, a Tu-154 operated by Vladivostok Avia, crashed in Siberia near the village of Burdakovka. All 143 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1421072.stm)
2001 Jul 3-2001 Jul 4, A Russian roundup operation sent an estimated 26,000 Chechen refugees fleeing to Ingushetia. Lt. Gen. Vladimir Moltenskoi, acting commander of Russian forces, later acknowledged that his troops committed widespread crimes during the operation.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A8)(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 3, In Ukraine TV director Ihor Alexandrov was beaten to death by unknown assailants in Slaviansk. In 2000 a European court on Human Rights had cleared him of charges for violating laws on campaign coverage.
(WSJ, 7/9/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2002 Jul 3, The Tennessee Legislature passed a 1-cent sales tax increase, the highest in state history, and ended a partial government shutdown.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A4)
2002 Jul 3, It was reported that Operation Xtermination, a drug investigation at Camp Lejeune, NC, seized over $1.4 million in drugs and convicted over 80 marines and sailors.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 3, Jean-Marie Messier, the much-maligned chairman of Vivendi Universal, was formally removed from his post and replaced by Jean-Rene Fourtou of the pharmaceutical company Aventis.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2002 Jul 3, Over Australia balloonist Steve Fossett was forced to spend an extra night in the air as the winds that helped him become the first person to fly solo around the world bedeviled the final stage of his voyage.
(Reuters, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, Brazil and Mexico signed a trade agreement that reduced import duties on some 800 products.
(WSJ, 7/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 3, Chinese police found Wang Bingzhang, a pro-democracy activist and US resident, in Guangxi Province. He had been recently kidnapped with 2 others in Vietnam.
(SFC, 12/21/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 3, It was reported that up to 40,000 companies might collapse in Germany this year.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 3, In Georgetown, Guyana, police opened fire on demonstrators who broke into the presidential compound, killing two people and wounding six others during a protest timed to coincide with the start of a Caribbean summit.
(AP, 7/4/02)
2002 Jul 3, An oil tanker was reported to have run aground in stormy seas on a reef near Fiji's popular tourist islands, threatening an ecological disaster if the cargo leaks.
(Reuters, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, In western Mexico 5 people returning from a political rally, among them a 101-year-old man, were ambushed and shot to death.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, At least 39 people were killed and more feared dead when landslides caused by Typhoon Chata'an destroyed houses on the western Pacific island of Chuuk in Micronesia.
(Reuters, 7/3/02)(WSJ, 7/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 3, In Pakistan security forces killed 4 al Qaeda fighters near the Afghan border at Germa. 3 security men were killed. A land dispute broke out in Northern Waziristan near the Afghan border and 21 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A10)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 3, Peru temporarily suspended programs to eradicate coca fields and encourage farmers to grow alternative crops, moves that jeopardize U.S.-backed efforts to fight the cocaine trade.
(AP, 7/3/02)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 3, Swiss authorities said a collision-warning system was out of service in the Zurich tower when it took control of a Russian airliner and a cargo jet shortly before they collided on July 1 at 35,000 feet, killing 71 people, including 45 children headed for an end-of-school beach holiday. One of 2 required air controllers was on a break.
(AP, 7/3/02)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 3, Turkey's jittery stock market fell again following reports that officials discussed a moratorium on the nation's $30 billion foreign debt.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2003 Jul 3, The US jobless rate was reported to have surged to a nine-year high in June as employers cut 30,000 workers from their payrolls.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, Astronomers said they have found a Jupiter-like body circling a distant star, dubbed HD 70642 some 94 light years from Earth, in a planetary system like ours. The finding was presented at a conference at the Paris Astrophysics Institute.
(AP, 7/4/03)
2003 Jul 3, The US military commander in Europe was ordered to begin planning for possible American intervention in Liberia.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, London's Trafalgar Square reopened to the public after a $42 million facelift.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, Tens of thousands of South Korean auto and metal workers staged a half-day walkout to demand a 40-hour workweek and better working conditions. Most people worked half a day on Saturdays.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, Indonesia's military said it killed 15 insurgents in new fighting in Aceh province, and the rebels said they have detained two local journalists.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, The US government put a $25 million bounty on Saddam Hussein and $15 million on his sons. US troops killed 11 Iraqis who ambushed a convoy outside Baghdad.
(AP, 7/3/03)(AP, 7/4/03)
2003 Jul 3, Yuri Shchekochikhin (b.1950), a deputy editor for Russia’s Novaya Gazeta and member of parliament, died of a mysterious allergic reaction. He had long campaigned against Boris Yeltsin's war in Chechnya. Friends and relatives were convinced that he was poisoned.
(WSJ, 12/8/06, p.A12)
2003 Jul 3, In Suweir, Saudi Arabia, Turki Nasser al-Dandani, the top suspect wanted in the May 12 Riyadh suicide bombing, was killed along with three other militants in a gunbattle when police raided their hideout.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, Slovakia's parliament approved an amendment to make abortion legal until the 24th week of pregnancy.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2004 Jul 3, Two Estonian students clinched the country's seventh straight wife-carrying world championship on Saturday, winning the "wife's" weight in beer and a sauna.
(AP, 7/4/04)
2004 Jul 3, Insurgents attacked an Iraqi checkpoint south of the capital, killing five national guard soldiers and wounding five more.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, A statement attributed to an Iraqi militant group claimed on a Web site that a captive US Marine had been beheaded. However, the group later denied the claim; Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun turned up alive five days later.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2004 Jul 3, In the Indian portion of Kashmir a mountain gunbattle, a time bomb hidden in a fruit seller's hand cart and a grenade lobbed in a busy market killed 8 people and wounded 44.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, Israeli troops shot and killed a 9-year-old Palestinian boy in the 5th day of an army operation meant to prevent militants from firing rockets at Israeli towns by the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, In Nicaragua a week of heavy rains caused floods and mudslides that claimed 25 lives.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, Tropical storm Mindulle, the Korean word for dandelion, pushed toward South Korea after killing at least 31 people in the Philippines and 18 in Taiwan.
(Reuters, 7/3/04)(AP, 7/4/04)
2004 Jul 3, Andrian Nikolayev (74), former Soviet cosmonaut died in Cheboksary, Chuvash Autonomous Republic.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2004 Jul 3, Rwanda reopened its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, further reducing tension between the two countries.
(AFP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, Sudan pledged to disarm Arab militias, known as Janjaweed.
(Reuters, 7/3/04)
2005 Jul 3, Roger Federer won his third consecutive Wimbledon title by beating Andy Roddick 6-2, 7-6 (2), 6-4.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2005 Jul 3, NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft collided with the comet Tempel 1, half the size of Manhattan, creating a brilliant cosmic smashup that capped a risky voyage to uncover the building blocks of life on Earth.
(Reuters, 7/4/05)(SFC, 7/4/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 3, Gaylord Nelson (b.1916), former Wisconsin governor (1959-1963) and US senator (1963-1981), died. He founded Earth Day (1970), and helped spawn the modern environmental movement. Nelson was at the center of legislation that resulted in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (1968), the Clean Air Act (1970), and passage of the Endangered Species Act.
(AP, 7/3/05)(SFC, 7/4/05, p.A2)(http://www.nelsonearthday.net/)
2005 Jul 3, Albanians held elections for a new parliament.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 3, One of Australia's 12 Apostles has disappeared. One of nine limestone stacks that made up the famous landmark off Australia's southern coast collapsed into the Indian Ocean.
(AP, 7/4/05)
2005 Jul 3, In India's Gujarat state the death toll from floods was raised to 132 people, where 25 million people were affected by the floods.
(AFP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 3, A car bomb killed three Iraqi policemen north of Baghdad. 2 US soldiers were wounded in a suicide attack near a checkpoint in the western city of Ramadi.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 3, In Mexico State the former ruling party (PRI) added momentum for the upcoming presidential race with a crushing victory.
(AP, 7/4/05)
2005 Jul 3, In Saudi Arabia security forces killed al-Qaida leader Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari (36), during a fierce gunbattle in eastern Riyadh. The Moroccan topped the nation's list of most-wanted militants.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 3, In St. Lucia leaders of the Caribbean Community, began to hold a four-day summit with only three of 15 members, Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados, saying they are ready to join a single market that would eliminate tariffs and ease migration for skilled workers and professionals in the region.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 3, Syrian’s new agency SANA reported that security forces had killed an Arab extremist who was trying to illegally cross into neighboring Lebanon with other suspected militants. 2 Syrian soldiers were also killed in the clash.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2006 Jul 3, Former Private Steven D. Green was charged in federal court in Charlotte, N.C., with raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl (Abeer Qassim al-Janabi) and killing her (March 11), her parents and sister. Four members of Green's unit were charged as well; one later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 100 years in prison.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2006 Jul 3, A US federal judge issued a temporary retraining order barring the Navy from using a type of high-intensity sonar that could harm marine animals during war games that began last week in the Pacific Ocean. On July 7 the US Navy and environmental groups agreed on a settlement which prevented the Navy from using the sonar within 25 miles of the newly established Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument during the exercises.
(SFC, 7/3/06, p.A3)(SFC, 7/8/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 3, Benjamin Hendrickson (55), an Emmy Award-winning actor on the "As the World Turns" soap opera, was found dead of suicide with a gunshot to the head in his Long Island home.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 3, Jack Smith (b.1913), singer and TV host for “You Asked for It," died at his home in southern California. In 1958 he replaced Art Baker, who created the show in 1950.
(SFC, 7/11/06, p.B4)
2006 Jul 3, A US general said the United States is giving $2 billion worth of military weapons and vehicles to modernize Afghanistan's national army.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Judges and prosecutors from Cambodia and abroad were sworn in to begin the UN-backed judicial process to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, China's new train from Beijing to Tibet arrived in the ancient capital of Lhasa, ending its maiden journey after climbing to elevations so high that ballpoint pens and packaged foods burst.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, It was reported that 579 Cubans had entered the US over the last 9 months by landing on Puerto Rico’s Mona Island, 40 miles from the coast of the Dominican Rep.
(SFC, 7/3/06, p.A8)
2006 Jul 3, Iraq’s parliament convened despite a boycott by Sunni Arab legislators protesting a colleague's abduction. Bombs struck markets north and south of Baghdad, with nationwide attacks killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Nissan Motor Co. approved opening talks with General Motors Corp. over a possible alliance.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, In India's Jammu-Kashmir state clashes between Indian government forces and suspected Islamic separatist militants killed 13 people.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Two bitter rivals declared themselves Mexico's next president, sparking fears of violence. Electoral officials said they wouldn't name a winner until a vote-by-vote hand count.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, In northwestern Pakistan an explosion hit a bus carrying paramilitary troops, killing at least 6 soldiers and wounding 5 others.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Palestinian militants holding an Israeli soldier gave Israel less than 24 hours to start releasing 1,500 Palestinian prisoners and implied that he would be killed if it did not comply, but Israel said it would not negotiate.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, A subway train derailed in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, killing 43 people. "Initial investigations show it was an accident," said Vicente Rambla, spokesman for the Valencia regional government.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2006 Jul 3, At least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in three Claymore mine attacks carried out by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's northern and eastern regions.
(AFP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Sudan's foreign minister rejected calls by the top UN envoy in the country to make additions to a peace deal for Darfur after widespread rejection of the accord. A group of Sudanese rebels in more than 50 cars attacked the town of Hamarat Sheikh in the Kordofan region of Darfur. At least a dozen people were killed. In southern Sudan at least six people were killed and 11 wounded when gunmen ambushed a German aid agency vehicle. Witnesses said the attackers, some of whom were uniformed, were rebel fighters with the LRA.
(Reuters, 7/3/06)(AP, 7/5/06)(AFP, 7/5/06)
2007 Jul 3, President Bush refused to rule out an eventual pardon for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after already commuting his prison sentence in the CIA leak case.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2007 Jul 3, A Los Angeles jury awarded $6.2 million to firefighter Brenda Lee, who said she was harassed by colleagues because she is black and a lesbian. The harassment she said included someone mixing urine with her mouthwash.
(AP, 7/4/07)
2007 Jul 3, Hilton Hotels Corp. said it has agreed to be acquired by the Blackstone Group LP for $18.5 billion in cash. The deal was valued at $26 billion including debt.
(SFC, 7/4/07, p.C1)
2007 Jul 3, Boots Randolph (80), tenor sax player, died in Nashville, Tenn. His 1963 hit “Yakety Sax, written with guitarist James Rich," became the theme song for television’s “The Benny Hill Show."
(SFC, 7/4/07, p.B5)
2007 Jul 3, Afghan and NATO forces clashed with Taliban militants in the southern Zhari district of Kandahar overnight, leaving 33 suspected insurgents dead. US-led coalition troops killed a suspected militant and detained two others during an operation in eastern Afghanistan. Yousuf Ibrahim (35), from Saudi Arabia, was detained after a brief scuffle with police in Kabul. He had spent the last 8 years in Afghanistan, fighting alongside the Taliban.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, British police focused on at least four physicians with roots outside Britain, including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket, in the investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, The US-made film "Nanking," documenting eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed by Japanese troops in China during World War Two, opened in Beijing.
(Reuters, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, China issued guidelines restricting organ transplants for foreigners, giving priority to Chinese patients in the government's latest effort to regulate procedures that have been criticized as profit-driven and unethical. Officials said that Chinese inspectors have found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children's snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, In Germany striking train drivers brought parts of the rail network to a standstill, backing their demands for a large pay increase with a walkout that affected tens of thousands of commuters.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, In Ghana African leaders vowed to speed up the economic and political integration of their continent to pursue the goal of a United States of Africa, but they also agreed to study more closely how to achieve it.
(Reuters, 7/4/07)
2007 Jul 3, Indonesia barred Eni Faleomavaega, the Democrat congressman for American Samoa, from visiting Papua, but has denied the move is to cover up alleged human rights abuses in the remote region. Faleomavaega has been a critic of Jakarta's policies in Papua.
(Reuters, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, Iran's leading reformist daily newspaper was ordered closed, less than two months after it was allowed to resume publishing.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, PM Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet approved a draft oil law. In Baghdad, an Iraqi army lieutenant colonel and an Interior Ministry intelligence officer were killed in separate drive-by shootings. A car bomb hit the convoy of an Iraqi police colonel in Kirkuk, killing two passers-by and wounding 17. Oras Mohammed Abdul-Aziz was executed by hanging for his role in the August, 2003, blast that killed Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and 84 other people.
(AP, 7/3/07)(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 3, A human rights group said Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq routinely torture detainees with methods including electric shock and hold them in overcrowded facilities without formal charges or access to legal aid.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, Fumio Kyuma, Japan's defense minister, resigned under an avalanche of criticism for suggesting that the United States was justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the attacks saved Japan from a Soviet invasion.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, Pakistani security forces clashed with militants outside the radical Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, where students have carried out a string of kidnappings of police officers and alleged prostitutes, killing at least 9 people.
(SFC, 7/4/07, p.A5)
2007 Jul 3, South Korea enacted legislation to remove bureaucratic barriers in the security industry and help brokers, banks and insurers to consolidate. To date no foreign had listed on the Seoul stock exchange.
(Econ, 7/14/07, p.78)
2007 Jul 3, Spanish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero promised that every child born in Spain would receive a baby bonus of €2,500, according to national press reports.
(Econ, 2/16/08, p.59)(http://piurl.com/5i)
2007 Jul 3, The Alinghi team from Switzerland successfully defended sailing's coveted America's Cup, beating Emirates Team New Zealand 5-2.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2007 Jul 3, Venezuela’s energy minister said in newly published comments that Venezuela has agreed to sell gasoline to Iran.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, President Hugo Chavez said his government will nationalize Venezuela's privately owned hospitals and clinics if they fail to reduce health care costs.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2008 Jul 3, Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for fleecing investors of more than $2.4 billion in a fraud that destroyed the world's largest independent commodities broker.
(Reuters, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, Larry Harmon (83) wasn't the original Bozo the Clown, but he was the real one. Harmon, who portrayed the wing-haired clown for more than half a century, died of congestive heart failure.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Jul 3, US employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy's fragile state. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, Vodafone Group PLC said it planned to acquire a 70% stake in Ghana Telecom Co. for $900 million.
(WSJ, 7/5/08, p.B6)
2008 Jul 3, In Afghanistan gunmen lobbed a grenade and sprayed a police checkpoint with gunfire in the southern Kandahar province, killing eight officers. A roadside blast next to a police vehicle in central Ghazni province killed two officers and wounded five others. In eastern Paktika province, Afghan and foreign troops killed seven suspected militants during a clash near the Pakistan border. Afghan security forces seized 1.4 tons of opium in western Afghanistan near the border with Iran.
(AP, 7/4/08)(AFP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 3, Top Bolivian and US officials sought to heal their nations' strained relations in their first meeting since a raucous protest outside the American embassy sent the US ambassador back to Washington for security consultations.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, Former Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba arrived in the Netherlands to face war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, The Cypriot parliament approved the European Union treaty, making Cyprus the 20th EU member to ratify the document aimed at streamlining decision-making in the bloc.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Jul 3, In El Salvador a bus carrying members of an evangelical church was swept off a bridge in San Salvador. 29 bodies were recovered the next day.
(SFC, 7/4/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 3, Lydia Lassen-Berge (69), a former prostitute dubbed the "Black Widow" by the German press, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of four wealthy but frail elderly male companions. Siegmund Schlufter (53), her accomplice, was sentenced to 12 years in jail for carrying out the killings.
(AFP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, In Indonesia a police source said that a group of 10 suspected Muslim militants detained in raids on Sumatra island by Indonesia's anti-terrorism unit was plotting to attack Western targets. The raids followed the capture of a suspected militant after a tip-off by authorities in Singapore.
(Reuters, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, It was reported that Italian authorities have started fingerprinting tens of thousands of Gypsies living in nomad camps across the country, brushing aside accusations of racism by human rights advocates and international organizations. The Interior Ministry said prints will only be taken from people who do not have a valid Italian or EU document.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, In the southern Philippines suspected communist guerrillas launched a series of attacks, lobbing a grenade that killed three people and raiding a police station and a gold mining company.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, In southeastern Slovenia two canoes were crushed running over a dam. The next day divers pulled seven bodies out of the Sava River and fought strong currents to search for five other people still missing.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Jul 3, South Korea's president called for an end to a long-running dispute over American beef imports, saying it was time for the nation to concentrate instead on overcoming its economic difficulties.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, In Sri Lanka a wave of battles in Mannar, Vavuniya and Welioya killed 32 rebels and two soldiers.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Jul 3, A group of around 200 Zimbabweans gathered outside the US embassy in Harare, pleading for political asylum and food after being displaced in recent election violence.
(AFP, 7/3/08)
2009 Jul 3, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced her decision to leave office more than a year early, effective July 26. The announcement left open the possibility of a presidential run.
(AP, 7/4/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Washington state federal agents said they have arrested 31 people and busted a drug trafficking ring that was directed by a cartel in Jalisco, Mexico. The 2-week Operation Arctic Chill seized 23 guns including a .50 Desert Eagle pistol and an AK-47-type assault rifle.
(SFC, 7/4/09, p.A5)
2009 Jul 3, The “Dog Days of Summer" officially begin and continue to August 11. This period got its name from the Egyptian belief that the Dog Star, Sirius, added heat to Earth as it rose and fell with the sun during this period.
(SFC, 7/3/09, p.D8)
2009 Jul 3, US Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001. In southeast Afghanistan two US soldiers were killed when their base came under attack. The attack included an attempted suicide truck bombing of the base in the Zirok district of southeastern Paktika province. As many as 30 Taliban insurgents might have been killed when troops called in air strikes.
(AP, 7/3/09)(AP, 7/6/09)
2009 Jul 3, Algeria, Niger and Nigeria signed an accord to build a 10-billion-dollar trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe.
(AFP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, Australia announced a 155 million US dollar package for isolated Aboriginal communities, after a new report revealed shocking levels of child abuse among the downtrodden minority.
(AFP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Brazil prison guards foiled a new attempt to smuggle a cell phone into Danilo Pinheiro prison near the city of Sorocaba by a carrier pigeon wearing a tiny backpack. Police said that the practice is becoming almost commonplace.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In London a fire ripped through the 12-story Lakanal House block of Sceaux Gardens Estate, a 1960s-era public housing block in south London, killing six people including a newborn baby.
(AFP, 7/4/09)
2009 Jul 3, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a top Iranian cleric, said that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country's disputed presidential election.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Kashmir police used batons and tear gas to break up fresh anti-India protests, with more than two dozen people injured in the clashes in Srinagar and Baramullah.
(AFP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Libya peacekeepers in Somalia and the war crimes warrant for Sudan's president dominated the final day of an African Union summit, after a late-night compromise on a new regional authority. Africa's leaders agreed to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Darfur.
(AFP, 7/3/09)(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Mexico City kidnappers opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles during an attempted rescue of the victim. The rescue failed with catastrophic errors. When police fired back, two commanders, including the chief of the city's elite rapid response force, were shot from behind by their own officers. Meanwhile, one of the kidnappers inside the home fatally shot Yolanda Ceballos (50) before killing himself. Seven other kidnappers were captured. Anti-kidnapping chief Juan Maya Aviles was later suspended.
(AP, 8/21/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Pakistan US missiles slammed into the hideout of Taliban commander Noor Wali, allied to warlord Baitullah Mehsud in the tribal belt in South Waziristan. Another missile strike hit an insurgent communications center in Kokat Khel. The strikes reportedly killed a total of 17 people. Pakistani warplanes bombed suspected militant hide-outs, killing at least four insurgents and wounding seven others. The Pakistani military said at least 13 militants and four local tribesmen were killed over the last 24 hours in the districts of Swat and Dir. A Pakistani helicopter crash killed 26 security personnel on the mountainous border of the Orakzai and Khyber ethnic Pashtun tribal regions. The Taliban claimed responsibility, but a senior security official said the military MI-17 helicopter had crashed due to a technical fault. Ehsan, alias Abu Jandal, a mid-level Taliban commander, was killed in Qambar area.
(AFP, 7/3/09)(AP, 7/3/09)(AFP, 7/4/09)(SFC, 7/4/09, p.A3)(AFP, 7/5/09)
2009 Jul 3, A top Kremlin aide said Russia will allow the US to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, in a gesture aimed at bolstering US military operations and improving strained ties between Washington and Moscow.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Sudan gunmen kidnapped an Irish and Ugandan women from the office of the Irish aid group Goal in the North Darfur city of Kutum. A Sudanese watchman was also seized before being released later. Arab tribes supported by the government were implicated. Sharon Commins (33) and her Ugandan colleague, Hilda Kuwuki (42), were released on Oct 18.
(AFP, 7/4/09)(AP, 10/18/09)(AFP, 10/24/09)
2009 Jul 3, Sudanese police arrested 13 women in a raid on a Khartoum cafe for wearing trousers in violation of the country's strict Islamic law. 10 of them were flogged inside a Khartoum police station. One of those arrested, journalist Lubna Hussein, said she is challenging the charges, which can be punishable by up to 40 lashes.
(AP, 7/13/09)(AP, 7/21/09)
2009 Jul 3, The head of Venezuela's telecommunications regulatory agency said that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked for failing to update their registrations with the government. The government now controls six television channels, including the Caracas-based international network Telesur, two national radio networks and other smaller media outlets including 600 radio stations and 72 community TV stations.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2010 Jul 3, The US government said it is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.
(AP, 7/3/10)
2010 Jul 3, In the Gulf of Mexico a Taiwanese converted tanker, dubbed "A Whale" and billed as the world's largest oil skimmer, arrived from Portugal in the Gulf of Mexico for testing. Officials hoped it would scrub 21 million gallons of oil-tainted seawater per day. The US Coast Guard later said it was too big to maneuver around the smaller patches and ribbons of oil.
(AP, 7/03/10)(SSFC, 7/4/10, p.A8)(AP, 7/17/10)
2010 Jul 3, The US Drug Enforcement Administration said it has helped seize a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine. DEA officials said that the diesel electric-powered submarine was constructed in a remote jungle and captured near a tributary close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. Ecuadorean authorities seized the sub before it could make its maiden voyage. The sophisticated camouflaged vessel has a conning tower, periscope and air-conditioning system. It measured about nine-feet-high from the deck plates to the ceiling and stretched nearly a 100 feet long. The DEA says it was built for trans-oceanic drug trafficking.
(AP, 7/3/10)
2010 Jul 3, The British government said it has ordered many ministries to plan for spending cuts of up to 40%, far greater than announced in an emergency budget. As Britain bid to slash a record budget deficit, departments had been warned to expect spending cuts of about 25%, but many ministries have now been asked to identify where cuts of 40% could be made.
(AFP, 7/3/10)
2010 Jul 3, In Northumbria, England, Raoul Moat (37), a nightclub bouncer and bodybuilder, seriously injured a policeman and his ex-girlfriend and killed her new partner in and around Newcastle, before apparently fleeing to the nearby Northumbria National Park. One of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended dramatically on July 10 when Raoul Moat shot himself dead after a six-hour stand-off with armed police.
(AP, 7/9/10)(AP, 7/10/10)
2010 Jul 3, It was reported that checkpoints in Iraq, set up for fighting insurgents, have turned into shady customs stations where police demand a $9 bribe if a lorry driver’s papers are in order and multiples of that if not.
(Econ, 7/3/10, p.46)
2010 Jul 3, In Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbayeva was sworn in as president. She would hold office for 18 months and would be ineligible to stand for election.
(SSFC, 7/4/10, p.A3)(Econ, 7/3/10, p.42)
2010 Jul 3, In Nigeria gunmen attacked two cargo vessels off the coast of the oil-producing Niger Delta, killing one crew member and kidnapping 12 foreign workers. The crew members were seized near Bonny in southern Rivers state. The military believe they were from eastern Europe. The workers were freed 2 days later along with three sailors taken hostage in May.
(Reuters, 7/3/10)(AFP, 7/5/10)
2010 Jul 3, In Syria, Mohammed Oudeh (73), the key planner of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes, died.
(AP, 7/3/10)
2011 Jul 3, A San Francisco BART officer shot and killed a man at the Civic Center Station who had used a bottle as a weapon and drew a knife on an officer.
(SFC, 7/5/11, p.C1)
2011 Jul 3, The Erik, a 100-foot (32-meter) tourist fishing boat, capsized about 60 miles (100 km) south of the Baja California port of San Felipe. A US tourist died and 7 US tourists were missing along with one Mexican crew member.
(AP, 7/4/11)
2011 Jul 3, In north Afghanistan a suspected militant on a motorbike threw a hand grenade at the gates of a school in Maimana, Faryab province, injuring 17 children. Police arrested the gunman.
(AFP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, A Bangladesh court issued an arrest warrant for Tarique Rahman, a son of ex-premier Khaleda Zia, over a 2004 grenade attack that killed 24 people at an opposition rally. Rahman has been living in London since 2008.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, Belarus blocked access to Facebook, Twitter and a major Russian social networking site in an attempt to prevent opposition protests on a national holiday. Thousands of police and special forces were deployed in the center of Minsk, the capital.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Egypt the trial began of 48 people accused of involvement in deadly Muslim-Christian clashes on May 7 that left 12 people dead. Police and soldiers arrested around 50 people from the shanty town of Ezbet Abu Qarn in a drugs raid.
(AFP, 7/3/11)(AFP, 7/5/11)
2011 Jul 3, Egypt's Nabil al-Arabi formally replaced his compatriot Amr Mussa as secretary general of the Arab League.
(AFP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Indonesia the Mount Soputan volcano erupted on Sulawesi island.
(SFC, 7/4/11, p.A2)
2011 Jul 3, In Iraq gunmen wearing police uniforms kidnapped and killed five Iraqi policemen in Anbar province, a former insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Italy some 45 police and carabinieri officers were injured west of Turin as demonstrators protested construction of a high-speed rail linking Italy to France. At least five people were arrested.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Mexico the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won a decisive victory in voting for governor of Mexico state, the country's most populous state. PRI also scored wins in two other states.
(AP, 7/4/11)
2011 Jul 3, In southern Mexico unidentified gunmen killed the widow of legendary Mexican guerrilla leader Lucio Cabanas. Isabel Anaya Nava (54) was shot to death along with her sister Reyna (58) as they left a church in the community of Xaltianguis, Guerrero state. Jesus Rejon Aguilar, ranked as the #3 leader of the Zetas, was captured in Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico state.
(AP, 7/3/11)(SFC, 7/5/11, p.A3)
2011 Jul 3, In Morocco thousands of pro-democracy activists protested across the country to demand more reforms two days after voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution the king said will expand freedoms.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Nigeria assailants threw a bomb at drinking spot near a police barracks in Maiduguri. At least 8 people were killed and 15 others wounded.
(AP, 7/4/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Syria security police reportedly shot dead two protesters in a Damascus suburb that has seen expanding protests against Pres. Assad. Armed troops returned to Hama. At least 24 people were killed in widespread demonstrations over the next 2 days.
(Reuters, 7/4/11)(Econ, 7/9/11, p.45)
2011 Jul 3, Turkey's foreign minister visited Libya and recognized the rebel leaders as the country's legitimate representatives and promised them an additional $200 million in aid.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, Thailand held elections. PM Abhisit Vejjajiva conceded his party lost national elections to the opposition led by Yingluck Shinawatra (44), the sister of ousted former leader Thaksin Shinawatra. Her Pheu Thai party won a majority of 265 seats in the 500-seat lower house of parliament outright. The Democrat party won 159 seats. The apparent election result paved the way for Yingluck to become Thailand's first female prime minister. An international monitoring group later said up to one million Thais were disenfranchised ahead of the kingdom's crucial recent election because of outdated lists of voters.
(AP, 7/3/11)(AP, 7/4/11)(AFP, 7/5/11)(Econ, 7/9/11, p.23)
2011 Jul 3, In Uganda a motorized canoe left Panyimur on the Ugandan side of the 20-km-wide Lake Albert with 31 passengers aboard. It sank as it approached Mahagi on the Congolese side. In northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 30 people were missing and one was rescued when a motorized boat sank on Lake Albert.
(AFP, 7/5/11)(AFP, 7/6/11)
2011 Jul 3, A Yemeni cabinet official said Pres. Saleh, in hospital in Riyadh, will not cede power until he returns to oversee a transition. Some 15 militants and 10 soldiers were killed and dozens injured during clashes outside a military base near Zinjibar. Tribesmen have blockaded oil-producing areas of Maarib province, costing the government millions of dollars a day in lost exports and sparking a severe fuel crisis, hours-long power outages, and rocketing prices.
(Reuters, 7/3/11)
2012 Jul 3, A US federal judge ordered Iran to pay more than $813 million in damages and interest to the families of 241 US soldiers killed in the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon. After this opinion, this court will have issued over $8.8 billion in judgments against Iran as a result of the October 23, 1983, Beirut bombing.
(AFP, 7/6/12)
2012 Jul 3, Andy Griffith (86), TV actor, died at his home in Dare County, North Carolina. He was best known for his role as Sheriff Andy Taylor in “The Andy Griffith Show" (1960 to 1968), and later for his role as a criminal defense lawyer on "Matlock" 1986 to 1995).
(Reuters, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, A man in Afghan army uniform opened fire on NATO soldiers at a military base near Kabul, wounding five. The attacker fled the area.
(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, Australia and Indonesia agreed to work more closely to crack down on people-smuggling, with visiting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saying his people were victims of the trade as well.
(AFP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Bahraini authorities said they have launched an investigation against 15 police officers over allegations of abuse involving inmates.
(AP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Barclays Plc Chief Executive Bob Diamond quit under fire from politicians and regulators, the highest-profile casualty of an interest rate-rigging scandal spanning more than a dozen big banks across the world.
(Reuters, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Two British Tornado GR4s from Royal Air Force Lossiemouth, each piloted by a two member crew, went down in the Moray Firth in northeast Scotland. A helicopter airlifted two airmen to a hospital in Inverness while efforts to find the missing pair were called off due to poor visibility and bad weather.
(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, Chinese police clashed for a second day with protesters in Shifang, who stopped the construction of a heavy metals factory over environmental concerns. Authorities bowed to violent protests and cancelled plans to build the controversial metals factory.
(AFP, 7/3/12)(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, In Colombia retired police general Mauricio Santoyo surrendered himself to US agents and was flown to the US to face drug trafficking charges. He allegedly received some $5 million for betraying counter-narcotics operation dating from 2002-2008.
(SFC, 7/4/12, p.A2)
2012 Jul 3, In Honduras the pilot of a suspected drug flight was shot and killed in an anti-narcotics by two US Drug Enforcement Administration agents after he refused to surrender. A 2nd injure pilot was arrested. Honduran police said the twin-engine plane arriving from Colombia with a load of cocaine crashed while being chased by government aircraft.
(AP, 7/9/12)
2012 Jul 3, In India officials said at least 95 have died in Assam state under the worst monsoon floods to hit in a decade.
(SFC, 7/4/12, p.A2)
2012 Jul 3, In central Iraq a truck bomb blamed on Al-Qaeda killed at least 40 people at a crowded market in Diwaniyah. Two car bombs killed 6 people in Karbala. Two separate gun and bomb attacks in Diyala province killed 4 people. In Taji a policeman was among 2 people killed in simultaneous bomb attacks. Another bomb attack in the town of Tuz Khurmatu killed a policeman and wounded another. In Baghdad, a series of assassinations by gunmen using silenced pistols left 3 people dead two police officers and a parliament official. An army major was killed while leading raids on two suspected Al-Qaeda safe houses in which five alleged insurgents were detained.
(AFP, 7/3/12)(AFP, 7/4/12)(SFC, 7/4/12, p.A3)
2012 Jul 3, In Italy Sergio Pininfarina (85), former head of Pininfarina SpA, died overnight in Turin. The family company was known for its designs of sleek Ferraris and other cars.
(AP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, In Mexico a powerful car bomb exploded outside the home of the top police official of the border state of Tamaulipas, killing 2 policemen and injuring 4 officers and 3 civilians.
(AP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Mexico’s Agriculture Dept. said an outbreak of H7N3 bird flu virus has infected about 2.5 million chickens and led authorities to destroy or dispose almost a million birds in Jalisco state.
(SFC, 7/6/12, p.A2)
2012 Jul 3, Myanmar's reformist government granted amnesties for at least 20 political prisoners, but opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for the release of hundreds more still behind bars.
(AP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Pakistan agreed to reopen its NATO supply line after the US said it was sorry for American airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November. On July 4 Pakistan's Cabinet endorsed the decision to reopen the route.
(AP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, In Peru protesters opposing the $4.8 billion Conga gold mine battled police and soldiers. The violence claimed at least 3 lives in Celendin, Cajamarca state. A 5th protester died on July 5 following 2 days of clashes. Cesar Medina (16) was returning home from an Internet cafe, his mother says, and got caught up in a crowd of demonstrators when police and soldiers opened fire. A bullet tore into his head, killing him instantly.
(SFC, 7/4/12, p.A2)(SSFC, 7/8/12, p.A3)(AP, 7/14/12)
2012 Jul 3, Sudan inked oil exploration and production-sharing agreements with companies from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France-Belgium and Nigeria.
(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government troops pounded several rebel-held districts in the central city of Homs. The Observatory said 38 people were killed across the country.
(AFP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, The Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) pulled out of the Cairo conference, citing political disputes. The Syrian Kurdish National Council stormed out of the meeting, protesting that the final document failed to specifically mention the Kurds.
(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, Taiwan opened a space research control center, as part of an ambitious international project aimed at exploring the origins of the universe. Facilities at the Payload Operations and Control Center in the northern Lungtan township started monitoring signals transmitted from the International Space Station immediately after the inauguration.
(AFP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Zimbabwe's leaders made public a year's ultimatum to foreign-owned banks and other firms to cede a 51% stake to local black people in compliance with equity and empowerment laws. The government notice was dated June 30.
(AFP, 7/3/12)
2013 Jul 3, NASA announced that Jason-1, a satellite that tracked rising sea levels, has ended its useful life. The joint US and French satellite was launched on Dec 7, 2001.
(SFC, 7/4/13, p.D3)
2013 Jul 3, Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan was released from home confinement ending over 5½ years in federal custody for corruption offenses.
(SFC, 7/4/13, p.A8)
2013 Jul 3, Doug Engelbart (88), inventor of the computer mouse, died at his home in Atherton, Ca.
(SFC, 7/4/13, p.D5)(Econ, 7/13/13, p.86)
2013 Jul 3, Argentina extradited Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorf to the US. The Colombian, arrested in 2011, was suspected of using submarines to smuggle 8 tons of cocaine to the US.
(SFC, 7/4/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 3, Belgium’s King Albert (79) announced he will abdicate on July 21, the country’s national holiday, and pass the throne of this fractious nation to his son.
(AP, 7/4/13)(SFC, 7/4/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 3, Brazilian truckers demanding cheaper fuel, better highways and lower tolls torched toll booths and crippled traffic in several regions, continuing their protests into a third day.
(AP, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, The British government said it is banning khat, an herbal stimulant, despite advice against such a move by an official advisory body.
(AP, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Egypt at least 16 people were killed and 200 wounded when gunmen opened fire on supporters of President Mohamed Mursi who were rallying outside Cairo University. Egypt's military ousted its first freely elected president after millions protested around the country and demanded Morsi's resignation. Abdel Fattah El Sisi, the head of Egypt's armed forces, announced on state television that Egypt's constitution was suspended, a new civilian government would be installed, and early elections would be held.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)(AP, 7/4/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Georgia a Turk and a Moldovan were detained after crossing the border from Armenia in a truck with tens of millions of dollars worth of heroin hidden in a secret compartment.
(Reuters, 7/5/13)
2013 Jul 3, The Indian government launched a $22 billion welfare program to give cheap food to hundreds of millions of people, a center-piece of the ruling Congress party's plan to win a third term in office in elections due by May 2014.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rouhani called for the government and powerful clergy to end interference in the private lives of the Iranian people, free up Internet access and allow state media to be more open about Iran's problems.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Iraq a roadside bomb killed at least 7 people in a Baghdad suburb while the bodies of 3 construction workers were found elsewhere in the capital. A bombing at a teahouse in Baghdad killed 3 people.
(AP, 7/3/13)(AP, 7/4/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Mexico Jalisco state prosecutors said authorities have found 7 severed heads stuffed in plastic bags on the edge of a highway near the city of Guadalajara.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Nigeria Maj. Gen. Henry Ayoola said the military went on the offensive after 28 civilians were killed last week. He said soldiers killed more than 100 gunmen blamed for ethno-religious clashes started by cattle rustling in central Nigeria.
(AP, 7/4/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Pakistan unmanned US aircraft fired four missiles at a house before dawn, killing at least 17 suspected militants in North Waziristan. The drone strike elicited a swift condemnation by the Pakistani government.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Portugal's financial markets went into a nosedive as the government teetered on the brink of collapse, alarming investors and reigniting concerns about the eurozone's strategy for dealing with its prolonged financial crisis.
(AP, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Russian Authorities arrested Evgeny Urlashov, the only opposition mayor of a major Russian city, for allegedly soliciting bribes, and said they found vast sums of cash stashed in his apartment building. The Investigative Committee in Yaroslavl said that it arrested Urlashov and three of his deputies for allegedly demanding a bribe of 14 million rubles (about $420,000) from an unidentified contractor.
(AP, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Saudi businessmen, expatriates and several countries welcomed a four-month extension to an amnesty for foreign workers with visa violations, saying it allowed businesses to operate as usual in the world's top oil exporter.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Taiwanese soldier Hung Chung-chiu (24) died after being forced to perform a vigorous regime of sit-ups, push-ups, jumping jacks and squats in sweltering heat at a base in suburban Taipei, just three days away from completing his mandatory 20-month service requirement. His punishment was ordered because he brought a banned cell phone onto his base. On July 24 Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou apologized for the death and ordered military officials to investigate the tragedy.
(AP, 7/24/13)
2014 Jul 3, In San Diego retired navy officer Admond Aruffo pleaded guilty for his role in a scheme to bilk the Navy of millions of dollars for port services while manager of japan operations for Glenn Defense marine Asia, a Singapore company.
(SFC, 7/5/14, p.A5)
2014 Jul 3, Corinthian Colleges Inc. of Santa Ana and the US Education Dept. reached an agreement in which 85 of the company’s 110-plus campuses will go up for sale and close down 12 others.
(SFC, 7/5/14, p.A6)
2014 Jul 3, Category 2 Hurricane Arthur, the first hurricane of the season, made landfall near the outer banks of North Carolina forcing thousands of vacationers to abandon their Independence Day plans.
(AP, 7/3/14)(SFC, 7/4/14, p.A6)
2014 Jul 3, In Brazil an unfinished overpass collapsed in the World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte. Two people were reported killed.
(AP, 7/4/14)
2014 Jul 3, Chinese President Xi Jinping began a two-day visit to Seoul. The leaders of China and South Korea simultaneously snubbed North Korea, bolstered their already booming trade relationship and gave the US and Japan a look at Beijing's growing influence south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, A China-based tour operator said North Korea will reopen some of its domestic scheduled air routes for the first time in years, another sign of moves to bolster tourism in the isolated country.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Chinese patrol ships arrested six Vietnamese fishermen in waters off China's Hainan Island. An official in the district where the fishermen came from, said the arrests took place in disputed waters near the Gulf of Tonkin.
(AP, 7/4/14)
2014 Jul 3, In Egypt 2 men were killed in a bomb blast in Cairo, one of several explosions on the anniversary of the army's removal of Egypt's elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. Nearly 200 people were arrested and 3 killed in clashes between security forces and protesters.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)(Reuters, 7/4/14)(SFC, 7/4/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 3, A European Union court annulled sanctions placed by the 28-nation bloc on a leading Iranian university because of its alleged involvement with the country's nuclear program due to insufficient evidence. An asset freeze will remain in place for another two months to hinder Tehran's Sharif University of Technology from instantly withdrawing its frozen funds.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, French director Florent Marcie filmed Libyan insurgents from Zintan from the start of the Libyan uprising to the fall of leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and screened his film for the first time at Sarajevo's WARM festival. Some 120 Zintan fighters chartered a plane and traveled to Sarajevo to watch the premiere of the documentary.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Greeks were warned to expect brief power cuts as workers at the Public Power Corporation go on strike to protest government plans to sell part of the company.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, India's Foreign Ministry said that nearly 50 Indian nurses from the southern state of Kerala have been taken against their will from a hospital in the militant-controlled city of Tikrit in Iraq. The 46 nurses, trapped in Tikrit for more than a week, crossed into the Kurdish region on July 4. All returned to India on July 5.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)(AP, 7/5/14)
2014 Jul 3, Iraqi and US security officials said insurgents are preparing for an assault on Baghdad, with sleeper cells planted inside the capital to rise up at "Zero Hour" and aid fighters pushing in from the outskirts.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant marched across eastern Syria near the border with Iraq, seizing towns, villages and the country's largest oil field as rival rebel factions gave up the fight. ISIL released 32 Turkish truck drivers who they captured during a lightning offensive across northern and western Iraq last month.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region asked its parliament to plan a referendum on Kurdish independence.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Japan eased some sanctions on North Korea in return for its reopening of a probe into the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by the reclusive state decades ago, as a fresh report emerged that some of them were alive.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Kuwait police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters gathered in front of a jail to demand the release of Musallam al-Barrack, a former opposition lawmaker. He was detained a day earlier as part of an investigation into allegations of insulting the country's judiciary.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Thieves in central Mexico stole a pick-up truck carrying dangerous radioactive material. The load of iridium 192 was normally used in industrial radiography. The load of iridium 192 was found the next day abandoned on a street a few miles from where the truck was stolen.
(Reuters, 7/4/14)
2014 Jul 3, In Mexico Filiberto Hernandez Martinez (43), a zumba and karate teacher, was detained and confessed to killing at least 4 girls and a woman since 2010 in the northern state of San Luis Potosi.
(Reuters, 7/5/14)
2014 Jul 3, In Myanmar Buddhist mobs on motorbikes drove through Mandalay in a second night of attacks on minority Muslims. In response authorities imposed a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. A Muslim man was killed, beaten to death early today on his way to morning prayers.
(AP, 7/3/14)(Reuters, 7/4/14)
2014 Jul 3, In the Netherlands an Amsterdam court ruled that the traditional figure known as Black Pete, the sidekick to the Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus, is a negative stereotype of black people and the city must rethink its involvement in holiday celebrations involving him.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, In Nigeria Mubarak Bala (29), a chemical process engineer released from a mental ward to which his Muslim family committed him by force, said he is getting death threats for blaspheming against Islam and declaring himself an atheist.
(SFC, 7/4/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 3, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said the government has deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers abandoned the area. Baghdad denied this and said the frontier remained under its full control.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, A Somali lawmaker and his bodyguard were killed in Mogadishu when al Shabaab gunmen blocked their car and sprayed it with bullets, the fifth such attack in as many days.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, South African police fired rubber bullets to disperse workers who blocked the entrance to the construction site of state power utility Eskom's Medupi power station on the third day of a wage strike.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, In South Korea the display manufacturing unit of Samsung Electronics Co. said it secured approval from Vietnam to build a $1 billion factory in the Southeast Asian country.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Ukraine's Pres. Poroshenko shook up the leadership of his struggling military, appointing a new defense minister and top general tasked with stamping out the corruption that has left the country's armed forces faltering before a pro-Russian insurgency. Three helicopters bearing the markings of the Russian armed forces violated Ukrainian airspace several times. Ukraine followed up with protests to Russia.
(AP, 7/3/14)(Reuters, 7/4/14)
2015 Jul 3, In Arizona a new law made it possible for anyone to order a laboratory test with no need to see a doctor. Theranos, a company based in Palo Alto, Ca., had lobbied for the legal change.
(Econ, 6/27/15, p.51)
2015 Jul 3, An outbreak of salmonella began in the US. By September one person was dead and at least 285 others left sickened. It was traced to cucumbers imported from Mexico by a San Diego distributor.
(SSFC, 9/6/15, p.A7)
2015 Jul 3, Solar Impulse 2 landed in Hawaii following a record-breaking 5-day journey from Japan. The 118-hour voyage by pilot Andre Borschberg broke the 2006 record of 76 hours set by Steve Fossett in a round the world jet flight.
(SFC, 7/4/15, p.A6)
2015 Jul 3, US health insurer Aetna said it has agreed to acquire smaller rival Humana for $37 billion in cash and stock.
(SFC, 7/4/15, p.A7)
2015 Jul 3, The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project, or TAP, said it has started investing in Albania's infrastructure to prepare for starting construction of the pipeline next year. The 870 km (540 miles) pipeline from the Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan will cross Turkey, Greece and Albania and undersea to Italy, and deliver Caspian gas to Europe in early 2020.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, In China a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit a rural part of far western Xinjiang region, killing 6 people, injuring dozens and destroying or damaging thousands of homes.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Greece's PM Alexis Tsipras defended a weekend referendum he hopes will reset bailout negotiations and demanded creditors forgive a third of the country's debt and allow delayed repayments for the rest.
(AFP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, An Indian official said some 1,400 primary school teachers have quit in Bihar state in recent months amid an ongoing investigation into fake qualifications.
(AFP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Israeli commander Yisrael Shomer shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank as he and others hurled rocks at his SUV army vehicle. A video later showed Muhammad al-Kasbah (17) was shot as he fled the scene.
(SFC, 7/4/15, p.A4)(SFC, 7/14/15, p.A5)
2015 Jul 3, In Libya at least 10 civilians were killed when three separate car bombs exploded simultaneously in Derna. The bombings set off clashes between local IS-militants and al-Qaida linked militias that continued into the next day.
(SSFC, 7/5/15, p.A3)
2015 Jul 3, Malaysian PM Najib Razak denied news reports that nearly $700 million were funneled from an indebted state investment fund into his personal accounts.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Dutch police have detained some 200 people for ignoring a ban on public assembly imposed in a neighborhood hit by four days of late-night rioting following the death of a man in police custody.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, In northeastern Nigeria suspected Boko Haram militants killed 11 men in Miringa village, dragging them from their homes and shooting them for escaping forced conscription by their group. At Malari village, just outside Maiduguri, an explosion from a teenage girl at the market killed at least 10 people. Minutes later a woman in a taxi blew up at a military checkpoint and killed a soldier and two passengers.
(AFP, 7/3/15)(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Palestinian forces arrested overnight around 100 Hamas members in the West Bank. An official said they had intended to carry out attacks against the Palestinian Authority (PA).
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Russian lawmakers voted for a bill forcing online search engines to remove search results about a specific person at that person's request.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Russia launched an unmanned cargo ship from Kazakhstan to the Int’l. Space Station. The Progress M-28 ship was set to dock on July 5.
(SFC, 7/4/15, p.A4)
2015 Jul 3, Slovakia's spy agency in its annual report said Russian agents have significantly increased their activities in Slovakia and all other NATO and European Union countries in connection with the crisis in Ukraine.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, In South Korea an explosion killed 6 workers at a chemical plant run by Hanwha Chemical Co. in the southeastern city of Ulsan.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Syrian government forces carried out heavy air strikes on rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo. Rebel forces seized some buildings from government control on the northwestern city outskirts of Jamiyat al-Zahra. At least 35 insurgents were killed in that area, including a dozen Syrians and many others of central Asian origin. A bomb exploded inside a mosque in an opposition-held suburb of Damascus, killing a Sunni Muslim cleric.
(Reuters, 7/3/15)(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated a mosque on the grounds of his gigantic palace complex naming it the "Bestepe People's Mosque" and opened it to the public in an apparent effort to stave off more criticism over his spending.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, In southeastern Yemen a drone attacked an army base held by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), killing 4 suspected militants. Saudi-led air strikes and clashes in Aden killed 13 Shiite Huthi rebels and 8 pro-government fighters.
(Reuters, 7/3/15)(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, The UN children's agency said at least 29 people have died in South Sudan's latest cholera outbreak.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2016 Jul 3, Noel Neill (b.1920), film and TV actress who played Lois Lane in the “Superman" movie serials and on TV, died at her home in Tucson.
(SFC, 7/6/16, p.D6)
2016 Jul 3, In Louisiana a drunken driver, Tracy Govan (44), sideswiped a police car at a traffic stop on I-55 in Sterlington killing Officer David Elahi and injuring two others.
(SFC, 7/4/16, p.A5)
2016 Jul 3, Chinese authorities said three days of heavy rain in southern China have left 50 people dead and another 12 missing and destroyed thousands of homes, as areas along the Yangtze River braced for more floods. The death toll soon rose to 128 with damages to more than 1.9 million hectares of crops and direct economic losses of more than 38 billion yuan ($5.70 billion).
(AP, 7/3/16)(Reuters, 7/5/16)
2016 Jul 3, In China protest against an incinerator in Lubu town, Guangdong province, turned violent and police were injured as people attempted to break into government offices.
(AP, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, In Germany tens of thousands took part the the annual gay pride parade in Cologne.
(SFC, 7/4/16, p.A2)
2016 Jul 3, An Indian official said at least 40 people were feared dead following a weekend downpour that triggered flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand state.
(Reuters, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, In Iraq at least 115 people were killed in a suicide blast in the Karada district of Baghdad. Another 5 people were killed in a Shiite neighborhood east of Baghdad. The death toll from the truck bombing in the Karada district continued to rise to at least 186 as more human remains were recovered. The Health Ministry put the toll at 292.
(AP, 7/4/16)(AP, 7/4/16)(AP, 7/7/16)(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 3, The Israeli army attacked two Syrian military targets on the Golan Heights after stray Syrian fire damaged the security fence along the demarcation line.
(AFP, 7/4/16)
2016 Jul 3, Israeli firms announced that a consortium led by US firm Noble Energy has approved a $265-million project to sink a new well in the Tamar natural gas field off Israel.
(AFP, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, In Libya a car bomb exploded overnight in one of the busiest districts of Benghazi, killing at least 2 police officers and wounding seven other people.
(AP, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, A court in the Maldives barred a group of journalists from working for their newly formed media organization for two years, threatening its closure in a move they criticized as an assault on media freedom in the archipelago nation. The journalists had launched Mihaaru news two months ago after the country's oldest and most reputed news organization, Haveeru Media Group, was shut down as a result of court arbitration of an ownership dispute.
(AP, 7/4/16)
2016 Jul 3, Myanmar's bitterly-divided Rakhine State saw mass protests as thousands of Buddhists, including monks, demonstrated in a show of opposition to a government edict referring to Muslim communities in the restive province.
(AFP, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, In northern Pakistan heavy monsoon rains overnight triggered flash floods that killed at least 30 people in the Chitral district.
(AP, 7/3/16)(SFC, 7/4/16, p.A2)
2016 Jul 3, Philippine police seized about 180 kg (400 pounds) of high-grade methamphetamine worth 900 million pesos ($19.2 million).
(AP, 7/4/16)
2016 Jul 3, Turkey delivered humanitarian aid and other non-military products to Gaza. The Panama-flagged Lady Leyla landed in the Israeli port of Ashdod with 11,000 tons of supplies, including food packages of flour, rice, and sugar, as well as 10,000 toys.
(SFC, 7/4/16, p.A2)
2017 Jul 3, In California Danny Pham (27) was found dead at the Orange County Central Jail Complex while serving 180 days for car theft. He was reportedly killed by a cellmate who was in jail on two murder charges.
(http://tinyurl.com/ybpewluq)(SFC, 7/24/17, p.A5)
2017 Jul 3, Oregon enacted a rule change allowing people who do not identify with their gender to instead mark “X" on their driver’s licenses of state ID cards.
(SFC, 8/12/17, p.A6)
2017 Jul 3, In Afghanistan an American soldier (19) died in Helmand province from wounds received in an attack.
(Reuters, 7/5/17)
2017 Jul 3, Arab nations isolating Qatar extended a deadline for the energy rich country to respond to their demands by another 48 hours, allowing its top diplomat to carry a handwritten response to Kuwait's ruler in an effort to end the diplomatic crisis.
(AP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Bangladesh a boiler explosion late today at a garment plant near the city of Dhaka killed 10 people and injured dozens, the latest industrial tragedy to hit one of the world's biggest garment producers.
(Reuters, 7/4/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Belarus about 100 people protested, calling for the former Soviet republic to reduce its military dependence on Russia and seek closer ties with Europe.
(AP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Bahrain female rights activist Ebtisam al-Sayegh (48) was taken into custody by masked, armed police shortly before midnight. Al-Sayegh has alleged that she was tortured and sexually assaulted during a previous detention in May.
(AP, 7/4/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Brazil the billionaire Batista family's 10.3 billion-real ($3.1 billion) leniency deal sparked anger over what many saw as lax penalties and a lack of transparency. Many Brazilians questioned Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot's plea deal by which he decided not to jail brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista - who admitted to bribing nearly 2,000 politicians.
(Reuters, 7/4/17)
2017 Jul 3, British authorities said they have seized 79 handguns at a border check on the French side of the Channel Tunnel in the largest such haul on record.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Congo DRC Banro Corp said fighting between the Congolese army and a local militia in the east has forced its Namoya gold mine to suspend all operations and temporarily evacuate its staff. Ten militiamen and two army soldiers have in fighting over the last 24 hours.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, Djibouti said it has asked the African Union to deploy observers along its disputed border with Eritrea after Qatar withdrew its peace-keeping troops on June 14.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Ethiopia Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe handed over $1 million (880,000 euros) at the start of the AU's bi-annual summit in Addis Ababa, after auctioning off 300 of his own cattle, as well as those belonging to some of his supporters to help make the AU self-supporting.
(AFP, 7/2/17)
2017 Jul 3, The European Union urged Myanmar to protect journalists from "intimidation, arrest or prosecution" after several cases of reporters running into trouble with the law, including three detained by the army last week.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, French energy giant Total signed a $4.9 billion agreement to develop an Iranian offshore gas field, in the biggest foreign deal since sanctions on Iran were eased.
(AFP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, France, Germany and the European Union pledged more money for Libya's coast guard and more support for Italy to cope with a surge of migrant arrivals from Africa.
(AP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives promised more police, more homes and full employment within eight years when they presented their program for an election in which she will seek a fourth term in office.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Germany eighteen people were killed when a tour bus carrying mostly pensioners smashed into a trailer truck and burst into flames on the A9 motorway near the small Bavarian town of Stammbach.
(AFP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, Iranians opened a "Trumpism" cartoon contest in which hundreds of participants were invited to submit artwork mocking the US leader. Hadi Asadi won first prize and a $1,500 award. His cartoon shows Trump wearing a jacket made of dollar notes while drooling on books, a reference to cultural material. "I wanted to show Trump while trampling symbols of culture," said Asadi.
(AP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Iraq Islamic State fighters battled to hold on to the last few streets under their control in the Old City of Mosul, making a doomed last stand in their former Iraqi stronghold. Seven female suicide bombers blew themselves up in Mosul. At least one Iraqi soldier was killed in two separate suicide attacks.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)(AP, 7/3/17)(SFC, 7/4/17, p.A3)
2017 Jul 3, In central Mexico nine people were killed in a series of shootings involving disputes between suspected fuel thieves in Puebla state.
(AP, 7/4/17)
2017 Jul 3, Mexican artist Luis Cuevas (b.1934) died in Mexico City. He had worked mainly in ink drawings depicting the wretched of the earth in an unblinking expressionist manner.
(SSFC, 7/9/17, p.C11)
2017 Jul 3, In the Philippines a Senate committee said it will investigate police actions after a Reuters report detailed how officers have used hospitals to cover up executions in President Rodrigo Duterte's year-old war on drugs.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, The Syrian army unilaterally announced a halt to fighting in the country's south that would coincide with a new round of peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana.
(AFP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, Thailand immigration officials said tens of thousands of migrant workers, most of them from Myanmar, have fled from Thailand in fear after new labor regulations adopted by the military government. About 60,000 workers left between June 23 and June 28, and the number has risen since.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, Ukraine said it is investigating the country’s M.E. Doc software company, accused of being patient zero in the June 28 global cyberepidemic. The company’s eponymous software is widely used by businesses across the country.
(SFC, 7/4/17, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, It was reported that Kentucky's Gov. Matt Bevin's administration is cutting dental and vision coverage for nearly have a million state residents after his Medicaid overhaul plan was rejected in court.
(SFC, 7/3/18, p.A5)
2018 Jul 3, A federal judge in Massachusetts extended an order blocking the federal government for three weeks from cutting off housing assistance to people who were forced to leave their homes in Puerto Rico because of Hurricane Maria.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Australia Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson was sentenced to 12 months in detention for covering up child sex abuse and ordered to serve at least six months before being eligible for parole.
(SFC, 7/3/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, In Tunisia Souad Abederrahim (54) was elected by the Tunis municipal council to serve as the city's first female mayor.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, Belarus authorities in Minsk thwarted the opposition's attempt to hold a rally and detained several activists.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, The British government said it will ban gay conversion therapy as part of a $5.9 miilion effort to make society more inclusive for LGBT people.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, British police arrested a female health care worker on suspicion of murdering eight babies and trying to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, northwestern England. Nurse Lucy Letby was soon released without charges. She was arrested again in 2019 and released. In 2020 she was charged with several counts of murder.
(AP, 7/3/18)(SFC, 11/13/20, p.A4)
2018 Jul 3, A Chilean judge sentenced eight retired military officers to 18 years in prison for the 1973 kidnapping and murder of folk singer Victor Jara and a government official at the start of the country's military dictatorship. A ninth veteran was sentenced to five years for cover-up.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, Comoros President Azali Assoumani and visiting Saudi interior minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef signed agreements worth $22 million to help finance water and road infrastructure in the poor Indian Ocean island nation.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, Human Rights Watch said at least 5,000 people have been killed in the Kasai region of Congo DRC over the past two years and more than 1.4 million displaced, while "only a few low-level criminal suspects have been prosecuted".
(Reuters, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, A Danish appeals court increased the prison sentence of Frederik Oliver Schmidt (25), convicted of aggravated manslaughter for crashing his jet ski into a boat on May 6, 2016, and killing American students Leah Bell (18) of Madisonville, Louisiana, and Linsey Malia (21) of Easton, Massachusetts.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, A judge in Ecuador ordered former Pres. Rafael Correa jailed for failing to appear in court as part of an investigation into the botched 2012 kidnapping of an opposiiton lawmaker. The judge also approved a request to seek Correa's extraditioon from Belgium.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, The European Commission called on Belarus to develop an action plan "to ensure timely implementation of all safety improvement measures in accordance with their safety significance" for the nearly completed Astravets nuclear power plant.
(Reuters, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In France riots erupted in the western city of Nantes after news spread that a police officer had shot dead a 22-year-old man after stopping his car. Police said the young man's car had been under surveillance as part of a drug-trafficking investigation.
(AFP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In France Greenpeace crashed a Superman-shaped drone into a wall of the spent-fuel pool building at EDF's Bugey nuclear plant to demonstrate its vulnerability to outside attacks.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In France Wang Jian (57), the co-chairman of HNA Group, a conglomerate that operates China's fourth-largest airline and finance, logistics and other businesses around the world, died in an accident while on a business trip. Wang fell a dozen or so meters (yards) while taking photos on a high wall in Bonnieux.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Germany Wiesbaden prosecutors said that Ali Bashar (20), who's in custody for the May slaying of Susanna Feldman, is believed to have raped a 11-year-old German girl in a refugee home in March in the western city. Prosecutors said Bashar and a 14-year-old Afghan boy also raped the 11-year-old together in May. The Afghan boy is accused of also raping her another time and was arrested a day earlier.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Indonesia at least 31 people were killed and a frantic rescue operation was underway off the island of Sulawesi for passengers of a sinking passenger ferry. The captain steered the 48.5-meter-long (159-foot-long) vessel toward shore after it began sinking on a voyage from the port of Bira to Selayar island. Three people remained missing and believed drowned inside the vessel.
(AP, 7/3/18)(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, Iraqi authorities began recounting votes from May's disputed parliamentary election, officials said, a step toward forming a new government after weeks of delays.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, The Israeli military said it had uncovered a plot by Hamas militants to spy on soldiers by befriending them on social media and luring them into downloading fake dating apllicatrions that gave Hamas access to their smartphones.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A4)
2018 Jul 3, Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak was arrested in a stunning fall from grace following a shock election loss in May amid allegations of massive corruption and misappropriation at a state fund he founded.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Mali local government administrators responsible for organizing July 29 presidential and legislative elections indefinitely extended a strike until demands for better safety and pay are met. Election organizers late today agreed to end a two-week strike over working conditions, lifting a threat to a looming vote.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)(Reuters, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Pakistan torrential monsoon rains lashed many cities and towns across the country before dawn, flooding streets and killing six people in Lahore.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Palestinian leaders strongly condemned a new Israeli law that will freeze money transfers to the Palestinian Authority to punish the PA's payments to families of those jailed for attacks.
(AFP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In the Philippines Mayor Ferdinand Bote of northern General Tinio town was shot and killed by an unidentified man riding a motorcycle. He was the 2nd mayor killed in two days. The gunman escaped.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In the Philippines government troops clashed with 30-40 militants and drove them away from the small farming community of Mopac where they planned to launch an attack on the town center of Datu Paglas about a half km away.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, Poland braced for protests against judicial reforms that come into force at midnight despite strong opposition at home and an ongoing row between Warsaw and the EU. Malgorzata Gersdorf, the head of Poland's Supreme Court insisted that under the Constitution of Poland her term as the court's first president runs until 2020.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Romania's upper house of parliament voted through a change to the criminal code that could overturn a prison sentence given to the leader of the ruling party. The vote came in the face of complaints and protests from opposition politicians and anti-corruption activists who have accused the government of allowing widespread graft.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Russian investigators said historian Yury Dmitriyev (62) has been charged with sexual assault and faces up to 20 years in prison, if convicted. Dmitriyev was accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter between 2012 and 2016 and vehemently denied all the charges. He spent decades locating and exhuming mass graves of people killed under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's rule. Activists said the case against him is an attempt by authorities to muzzle the outspoken historian.
(AFP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Serbia Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko met with President Aleksandar Vucic in a bid to boost ties with the Balkan country, a key Russian ally in Europe, as both states seek to join the European Union.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Swiss President Alain Berset urged all sides not to endanger the nuclear agreement between global powers and Iran, after meeting his Tehran counterpart, Hassan Rouhani.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Syrian rebel negotiators began a new round of talks with Russian officers over a peace deal in southern Syria that would hand over their weapons and allow Russian military police to enter rebel-held towns.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said one of the Islamic
State's last pockets in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour came under intense shelling from the US-led coalition. At least 12 militants are believed to have been killed in Hajin. The Observatory also said at least 11 displaced Syrians fleeing the fighting in southwestern Syria were killed when they stepped on a land mine. The Islamic State group said the son of its top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed fighting Syrian government forces. Their statement did not specify when he was killed.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Tunisia Souad Abederrahim (54) was elected by the Tunis municipal council to serve as the city's first female mayor.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, In southern Turkey a gunman killed the deputy head of the Trade and Industry Chamber for the city of Osmaniye. The organization's president was wounded in the attack.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, The United Arab Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority ordered firms to identify and freeze the accounts and assets of nine Iranian individuals and entities the UAE has placed on its terrorism list.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In southern Yemen 46 detainees walked free after months or years spent in detention in one of several prisons controlled by the United Arab Emirates.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2019 Jul 3, President Donald Trump warned Iran against stepping up uranium enrichment, the latest escalation of the conflict over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program that has plunged the Gulf into renewed uncertainty.
(Bloomberg, 7/4/19)
2019 Jul 3, The Trump administration told Justice Dept. lawyers to find a way to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A6)
2019 Jul 3, A US federal appeals court refused to allow Pres. Donald Trump to start building his wall at the Mexican boder using money set aside for the military.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A9)
2019 Jul 3, The parents of Otto Warmbier filed a claim for a seized North Korean cargo ship, seeking to collect on a multimillion-dollar judgment awarded in the American college student's death.
(AP, 7/6/19)
2019 Jul 3, California became the first state in the US to ban discrimination against black employees based on their natural hairstyles. In 2020 July 3 was declared National Crown Day to celebrate the day the CROWN Act (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) legislation was signed into law.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A1)(Good Morning America, 7/2/20)
2019 Jul 3, In San Diego Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher (40) was given a demotion by a military jury and the maximum sentence of four months' confinement for posing with a human casualty in Iraq in 2017. He will spend no time in jail because it is less than the time he was held in custody before the trial.
(AP, 7/4/19)
2019 Jul 3, Arte Johnson (b.1929), American comic actor, died in Los Angeles. He made his mark in TV comedy show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" from 1967-1971.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.C2)
2019 Jul 2, A US federal judge temporarily block an Ohio law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
(http://tinyurl.com/y5qbch7b)(SFC, 7/5/19, p.A6)
2019 Jul 3, US stock markets closed at record highs. The DJIA closed at 26,966; Nasdaq closed at 8,170.23; the S&P 500 closed at 2995.82, a record high for the 3rd straight day.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.D1)
2019 Jul 3, In northeastern China a tornado blew through Kaiyaun late today, killing six people and injuring another 190.
(SFC, 7/5/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 3, In India Rahul Gandhi resigned as president of the opposition Congress Party, long led by his politically powerful family.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 3, Iran ignored US and EU warnings and vowed to exceed within days the maximum uranium enrichment level it agreed to in the landmark 2015 nuclear accord. Iran warned it will restore a mothballed reactor and step up enrichment if European nations fail to offer it economic guarantees by a July 7 deadline. Iran's intelligence minister said Tehran and Washington could hold talks only if the US ended its sanctions and Iran's top authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave his approval.
(AFP, 7/3/19)(Reuters, 7/4/19)
2019 Jul 3, The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, an international body of Muslim nations, condemned the opening of an Israeli tunnel that runs beneath a Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem.
(AP, 7/3/19)
2019 Jul 3, A Kenyan court sentenced Rashid Charles Mberesero to life in jail for being an accomplice in the 2015 attack on Garissa Univ. that left 148 people dead. Mohamed Abdi Abikar and Hassan Aden Hassan were sentenced to 41 years each for assisting in the attack.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 3, In Libya an airstrike hit a detention center for migrants near Tripoli early today killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 130. The Tripoli-based government blamed Hifter's self-styled Libyan National Army for the airstrike and called for the UN to investigate. The UN later reported that Libyan guards shot at refugees and migrants trying to flee from airstrikes that killed at least 53 people, including six children. Witnesses later told UN investigators that they tried to escape but were stopped by guards and forced back inside.
(AP, 7/3/19)(Reuters, 7/4/19)(AP, 1/27/20)
2019 Jul 3, Pakistan's military said an explosion has killed five soldiers near the Indian border in Kashmir.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 3, President Vladimir Putin signed a bill suspending Russia's participation in a pivotal nuclear arms treaty. The decree formalizes Russia's departure from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty with the US following Washington's withdrawal from the pact.
(AP, 7/3/19)
2019 Jul 3, American rapper A$AP Rocky (30), a performer, producer and model, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was detained in Sweden along with his bodyguard and two other members of his entourage in connection with a fight in a Stockholm city-center street in the early hours of June 30.
(Reuters, 7/20/19)
2019 Jul 3, A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in southern Syria killing at least three people in Sweida province.
(AP, 7/3/19)
2019 Jul 3, A boat carrying 86 migrants from Libya sank off the Tunisian city of Zarzis and only three passengers are known to have survived the shipwreck.
(AP, 7/4/19)
2019 Jul 3, Turkey's state-run news agency said two Russian women, who are suspected of being Islamic State militants and are allegedly listed as wanted by Interpol, have been detained by authorities while trying to enter Turkey illegally from neighboring Syria accompanied by their nine children in an effort to return to Russia.
(AP, 7/3/19)
2019 Jul 3, The UN said that conflict had intensified in a region of South Sudan since a peace deal was signed, with hundreds of civilians raped or murdered by warring factions.
(AFP, 7/3/19)
2020 Jul 3, In South Dakota President Donald Trump dug deeper into America's divisions by accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history" during a speech at Mount Rushmore. Trump said he will establish a “National Garden of American Heroes… a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans who ever lived." Supporters, most of them maskless flouted public health guidelines that recommend not gathering in large groups.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, US prosecutors said Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, a Nigerian man charged with conspiring to launder a fortune from email scams, has arrived in Chicago to face charges. UAE authorities arrested Abbas last month. Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, had showed off his wealth to 2.4 million Instagram followers. Hushpuppi, and another cyber-heist suspect Olalekan Jacob Ponle (aka Mr Woodberry) appeared in a Chicago court. They had been arrested in Dubai, where they lived, in June. Dubai police said they had been extradited to the US.
(NBC News, 7/4/20)(BBC, 7/10/20)
2020 Jul 3, The US set another record with 52,300 newly reported coronavirus infections, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
(AP, 7/4/20)
2020 Jul 3, In Colorado interim police chief Vanessa Wilson said the police officers who took disturbing photos at the memorial site where Elijah McClain was placed in a police chokehold and later died have all been terminated from the Aurora Police Department. McClain (23) died on August 30, 2019, days after police confronted him as he walked home from a convenience store.
(ABC News, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, California officials said the coronavirus is suspected of killing two more death row inmates at San Quentin State Prison, where about 40% of inmates are now infected.
(AP, 7/4/20)
2020 Jul 3, California to date had 250,431 cases of coronavirus and 6,312 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 27,745 cases and 595 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 2,793,022 with the death toll at 129,405.
(sfist.com, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, In California Ari Gershman (45), a Danville doctor, was shot and killed while off-roading with his son near Downieville in Sierra County. The unnamed gunman was arrested a day later. The son escaped into the wilderness and spent 30 hours in the Tahoe National Forest before a search party found him. Police the following day arrested John Thomas Conway (40) of Honcut, a rural community in Butte County. Conway was hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
(SFC, 7/7/20, p.B1)(SFC, 7/9/20, p.B2)
2020 Jul 3, In Florida Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez issued a new overnight curfew effective immediately closing casinos, movie theaters and other entertainment venues to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 3, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed an executive order that allows local officials to issue their own mask mandates if they want, as coronavirus cases continued to increase.
(AP, 7/4/20)
2020 Jul 3, Medical technology company Becton Dickinson and Co said it received an order from the UK government for 65 million injection devices to support Britain's COVID-19 vaccination program.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Los Angeles-based company, formally known as Lucky Brand Dungarees, LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to millions of dollars in outstanding debts owed to lenders.
(Good Morning America, 7/6/20)
2020 Jul 3, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi said their rheumatoid arthritis drug Kevzara failed to meet the main goals of a US study testing it in the most critically ill COVID-19 patients.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Zydus, part of Cadila Healthcare Ltd, said it has received approval from Indian regulators to begin human studies for its COVID-19 vaccine contender, as the novel coronavirus infections continue to surge in the world's fourth worst-hit nation.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Australia reported a drop in new coronavirus cases, with a surge in the second most populated state Victoria appearing to have eased, although more than 10,000 people have refused to be tested in hotspot suburbs of Melbourne.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Bolivia has reported more than 32,000 cases of the coronavirus and more than 1,000 deaths. Cases were expected to peak around the time of presidential elections planned for September.
(SFC, 7/3/20, p.A9)
2020 Jul 3, Botswana said it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses — 275 — found in the popular Okavango Delta area in recent weeks. A day earlier Botswana's government announced “an alarming surge of rhinoceros poaching in the Okavango Delta" in recent days.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, It was reported that distressed British satellite constellation operator OneWeb, which had entered bankruptcy protection proceedings at the end of March, has completed a sale process, with a consortium led by the UK Government as the winner. The group includes funding from India's Bharti Global.
(TechCrunch, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, China reported three new coronavirus cases in the mainland, compared with five cases a day earlier.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, It became clear that Graziano Mesina (78) had fled Corsica after the supreme court in Rome turned down an appeal against a 30-year sentence for drug trafficking.
(Econ., 7/11/20, p.41)
2020 Jul 3, The European Commission said it had given conditional approval for the use of antiviral remdesivir in severe COVID-19 patients following an accelerated review process, making it the region's first authorized therapy to treat the virus.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, French President Emmanuel Macron named Jean Castex, who coordinated France’s virus reopening strategy, as the country's new prime minister, replacing Edouard Philippe, who resigned earlier in the day.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, The Paris appeals court upheld a decision to end a years-long investigation into the plane crash that sparked Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, citing lack of sufficient evidence.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, German scientists began a nationwide study to gain a better overview of the actual prevalence of the new coronavirus in the country's population and test how well measures to prevent its spread are working.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, India reported another single-day record high of new coronavirus cases. The new 20,903 cases took the national total to 625,544. Another 379 deaths took that total to 18,213.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 3, Two Israeli defence contractors said they will partner with Abu Dhabi-based technology company Group 42 to develop technologies to help fight the new coronavirus.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Tokyo reported 124 new cases, up from 107 the day before, partly due to increased testing among nightlife workers in the Shinjuku and Ikebukuro districts.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Malian officials said armed men attacked farming villages in the central Mopti region this week, killing at least 33 people. Fulani armed groups have been targeting Dogon farmers and Dogon farmers have been responsible for attacks on Fulani villages in the region.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 3, The Mexican government said it has formally joined the Int'l. Labor Organization's Convention 189 on the rights of domestic workers. C189 entered into force on 5 September 2013. This makes Mexico the thirtieth member State of the ILO and the seventeenth member State in the Americas to ratify the Convention.
(https://tinyurl.com/ycwmtwkd)(SFC, 7/6/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 3, In Mexico soldiers patrolling the the border city of Nuevo Laredo came under fire from drug cartel gunmen. The military said 12 attackers were killed. In Guanajuato state armed men killed five police officers.
(SSFC, 7/5/20, p.A3)
2020 Jul 3, Oman's health minister said the sultanate had witnessed a "scary" surge in cases that required boosting hospital capacity, especially intensive care units.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, In eastern Pakistan a passenger train crashed into a bus carrying Sikh pilgrims, killing 22 people.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 3, Philippine Pres. Rodrigo Duterte signed a widely opposed anti-terror law that critics fear could be used against human rights defenders to muzzle dissent. The law allows the detention of suspects for up to 24 days without charges.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A3)
2020 Jul 3, In the Philippines thousands of jeepneys, flamboyantly decorated jeeps that serve as cheap public transport across the country, were back on the streets of Manila, bringing relief to companies and commuters who have struggled with coronavirus curbs.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, President Vladimir Putin ordered amendments that would allow him to remain in power until 2036 to be put into the Russian Constitution after voters approved the changes during a week-long plebiscite. Other key reforms include an amendment granting former Russian presidents automatic immunity from criminal prosecution, as well as reforms enshrining a reference to "belief in God" and a statement about marriage being only the union of a man and a woman. Changes to the constitution will come into force on July 4.
(AP, 7/3/20)(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, A Russian Orthodox Church panel in Yekaterinburg defrocked a coronavirus-denying monk who has defied Kremlin lockdown orders and taken control of a monastery. Father Sergiy urged his backers to come to defend the Sredneuralsk women's monastery where he has holed up since last month.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Serbia reported 309 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours along with 11 deaths.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 3, South Africa reported another record high of daily coronavirus cases with 8,728. Total cases now numbered more than 168,000.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 3, Turkey launched a trial for 20 Saudi officials accused of killing Jamal Khashoggi in October, 2018, with rights groups saying the prosecution offered the best chance for justice for the slain journalist. The next session was scheduled for November 24.
(The Telegraph, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, A court in Istanbul, Turkey, convicted Taner Kilic, Amnesty Int'l.'s former Turkey chairman, of membership in a terror organization and sentenced him to more than six years in prison. Three other activists were also convicted. Amnesty Int'l. condemned the ruling.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 3, In northwestern Turkey an explosion at a fireworks factory killed four people and injured at least 97 others outside the town of Hendek, Sakarya province. A manager and two supervisors were soon detained following the explosion in northwestern Sakarya province.
(AP, 7/3/20)(AP, 7/4/20)
2020 Jul 3, Uganda so far has 900 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with 847 recoveries and no deaths.
(BBC, 7/3/20)
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987 Jul 3, The count of Paris, Hugh Capet (49), became king of France. Paris soon emerged as the center of French political, cultural and religious life, once again becoming the capital.
(PCh, 1992, p.78)(HNQ, 4/18/02)(MC, 7/3/02)
1570 Jul 3, Antonio Paleario (67), Italian humanist, was executed by the inquisition.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1570 Jul 3, The Turks began their attack on Nicosia, Cyprus, after Venice refused to surrender the island.
(http://historicbiography.blogspot.com/2008/01/marcantonio-bragadin.html)
1608 Jul 3, The city of Quebec was founded as a trading post by Samuel de Champlain. The French adventurer Etienne Brule accompanied Champlain to North America and was reportedly eaten by the Huron Indians.
(AP, 7/3/97)(www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1608champlain.html)
1642 Jul 3, Maria de' Medici (~69), French queen-mother, died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1683 Jul 3, Edward Young, English poet, dramatist and literary critic, was born. His work included "Night Thoughts."
(HN, 7/3/99)
1738 Jul 3, John Singleton Copley, finest colonial American artist, was born in Mass.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1754 Jul 3, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity (later Pittsburgh) in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French, leaving them in control of the Ohio Valley. This marked the beginning of the French and Indian War also called the 7 Years' War. In 2005 Fred Anderson authored “The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War."
(HN, 7/13/98)(Arch, 1/05, p.46)(WSJ, 12/14/05, p.D15)
1775 Jul 3, Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1778 Jul 3, The Wyoming Massacre occurred during the American Revolution in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. As part of a British campaign against settlers in the frontier during the war, 360 American settlers, including women and children, were killed at an outpost called Wintermoot's Fort after they were drawn out of the protection of the fort and ambushed.
(HNQ, 11/5/98)(MC, 7/3/02)
1790 Jul 3, In Paris the Marquis of Condorcet proposed granting civil rights to women.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1799 Jul 3, In Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) Gen. Toussaint L’Ouverture formally declared Gen. Andre Rigaud, the leader of a revolutionary army in the south and west of Saint-Domingue, a rebel.
(ON, 2/10, p.8)
1801 Jul 3, Johann Nepomuk Went (56), composer, died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1806 Jul 3, Michael Keens exhibited the 1st cultivated strawberry.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1809 Jul 3, Joseph Quesne (62), composer, died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1816 Jul 3, Dorothea Jordan (65), French actress, mistress (William IV), died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1844 Jul 3, Dankmar Adler, architect and engineer, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1844 Jul 3, Ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiated a commercial treaty with China that opened five Chinese ports to U.S. merchants and protected the rights of American citizens in China.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1848 Jul 3, Gen. Peter Von Scholten, faced with the likely destruction of towns and plantations by a slave revolt, declared the slaves of the Danish West Indies (later US Virgin Islands) to be freed.
(SSFC, 7/5/09, p.A3)
1861 Jul 3, US Colonel Jackson received his CSA commission as brigadier general.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1861 Jul 3, Pony Express arrived in SF with overland letters from NY.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1863 Jul 3, The last rebel assault was repulsed at the Battle of Gettysburg at 4 p.m. The Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated. The last Confederate assault at Gettysburg was Pickett’s Charge against the center of the Union line that left some 7,000 of 13,000 [15,000] Confederate troops dead. Lt. Gen. James Longstreet gave Maj. Gen. George Pickett the assent. General Lee took responsibility. The Union and Confederate armies suffered an estimated 50-51 thousand casualties in the battle. It was the bloodiest battle the country had yet seen. Upon whom the responsibility for the South's failure at Gettysburg rests has been widely debated, but five months after the epic battle, Confederate General Robert E. Lee admitted, "I thought my men were invincible." The fighting in the small Pennsylvania town marked a pivotal point in the Union's ascent to victory and helped decide the outcome of the Civil War. In 1974 Michael Shaara published "The Killer Angels," a novel about the 3-day battle.
(SFC, 7/7/96, T6)(SFC,2/17/97, p.A3)(AP, 7/3/97)(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.D5)(HN, 7/3/98)(WSJ, 9/11/98, p.W10)(HNPD, 7/6/99)
1863 Jul 3, Battle of Donaldsonville, LA.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1864 Jul 3, Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA, began and lasted until Jul 9.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1864 Jul 3, At Harpers Ferry, WV, Federals evacuated in face of Early's advance.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1871 Jul 3, William Henry Davies, Welsh poet, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1871 Jul 3, Jesse James robbed a bank in Corydon, Iowa, of $45,000.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1875 Jul 3, Ernst F. Sauerbruch, German Nazi surgeon, was born.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1878 Jul 3, George M. Cohan, American entertainer, was born. He wrote the songs "Over There," "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" and the play "Yankee Doodle-Dandy."
(HN, 7/3/99)
1878 Jul 3, John Wise flew the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1883 Jul 3, Franz Kafka (d.1924), Czech novelist, author of "The Metamorphosis," was born in Prague. "The Castle" and "The Trial," were both published after his death. He died of tuberculosis.
(V.D.-H.K.p.367-368)(WSJ, 10/10/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/14/97, p.A11)(HN, 7/3/98)
1883 Jul 3, SS Daphne sank on Clyde River in Scotland and 195 died.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1886 Jul 3, In Germany Karl Benz drove the 1st automobile. [see Jan 29]
(MC, 7/3/02)
1890 Jul 3, Idaho became the 43rd state of the US.
(HFA, ‘96, p.32)(AP, 7/3/97)
1898 Jul 3, The Spanish cruisers Cristóbal Colón, Almirante Oquendo, Vizcaya and Infanta Maria Teresa, and two torpedo-boat destroyers, lay bottled up in Santiago Harbor, with seven American ships maintaining a blockade just outside. Without warning, the Spanish squadron attempted to break out, and the Americans attacked, sinking one torpedo boat and immediately running the other aground. The Americans gave chase to Oquendo, Vizcaya and Colón. After a brief battle, all the Spanish warships were overtaken, with only two American causalities, both from the U.S. armored cruiser Brooklyn.
(AP, 7/3/98)(HNPD, 7/3/98)
1899 Jul 3, The nation's first juvenile court opened on the West Side after reformers like Jane Addams pushed the Illinois legislature to recognize that children were developmentally different from adults.
(SFEC, 6/27/99, Z1 p.1)
1901 Jul 3, Members of The Wild Bunch, including Kid Curry, committed their last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train. Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and his lover Etta Place had already fled to New York where a picture of Etta and Sundance was taken. The trio by this time were settled in Argentina.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy)
1906 Jul 3, George Sanders, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950), was born in Russia.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1907 Jul 3, A Papal decree forbade the modernization of theology.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1908 Jul 3, M.F.K. Fisher, food writer, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1908 Jul 3, In San Francisco the coroner and his deputies celebrated the opening of the new morgue at 368 Fell St.
(SSFC, 6/29/08, DB p.58)
1908 Jul 3, Joel Chandler Harris (59), author and creator of Uncle Remus, died in Atlanta.
(AP, 7/3/08)
1909 Jul 3, Stavros Niachos, Greek shipping magnate, was born.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1912 Jul 3, Elizabeth Taylor, novelist and short story writer, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1916 Jul 3, The 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near the NJ shore.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1916 Jul 3, Hetty Green (b.1834), American investor, died in NYC. In 2012 Janet Wallach authored “The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age."
(SSFC, 10/21/12, p.F7)
1918 Jul 3, The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the oldest US environmental conservation law, prohibited killing or harassing birds migrating across international borders.
(SFC, 4/9/99, p.A5)(SFC, 10/23/02, p.A4)(www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html)
1918 Jul 3, Ottoman Sultan Mehmet Resad died and Vahdettin (1861-1926) became the new Sultan.
(www.turkeyswar.com/whoswho/who-vahidettin.htm)
1921 Jul 3, Francois-Arnold Reichenbach, documentary filmmaker, was born.
(HN, 7/3/01)
1929 Jul 3, Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1930 Jul 3, Carlos Kleiber (d.2004), conductor (Bavarian State Orchestra), was born in Berlin, Germany.
(SFC, 7/19/04, p.B6)
1930 Jul 3, Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration. [see Jul 21]
(AP, 7/3/97)
1937 Jul 3, Tom Stoppard, British author and dramatist, was born in Czechoslovakia. His plays include "Rosencrantz and Gilderstern are Dead" and "The Real Thing."
(HN, 7/3/99)(MC, 7/3/02)
1939 Jul 3, Ernst Heinkel demonstrated an 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1940 Jul 3, British Royal Navy sank a French fleet in North Africa, ten days after France had signed an armistice with Nazi Germany.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1943 Jul 3, Liberator bombers sank U-628.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1944 Jul 3, Lisa Alther, author, was born in Kingsport, Ten. "The degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Alther)
1944 Jul 3, The U.S. First Army opened a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1944 Jul 3, During World War II, Soviet forces recaptured Minsk.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1945 Jul 3, U.S. troops landed at Balikpapan and took Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1947 Jul 3, Soviet Union didn't partake in the Marshall Plan.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1948 Jul 3, Kidnapper Caryl Chessman was sentenced to death.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1949 Jul 3, San Francisco’s Municipal Railway debuted its new electric trolley buses. Hundreds of busses were purchased at $19,500 apiece.
(SFC, 2/24/18, p.C1)
1950 Jul 3, US Pres. Truman signed public law 600. It provided federal statutory authorization for the people of Puerto Rico to write their own constitution.
(www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2004/vol8n34/CBRoadComnwlth.shtml)
1950 Jul 3, American and North Korean forces clashed for the first time in the Korean War. U.S. carrier-based planes attacked airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.
(AP, 7/3/98)(HN, 7/3/98)
1951 Jul 3, Jean-Claude Duvalier, [Papa Doc], deposed Haitian president-for-life, was born.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1952 Jul 3, Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill (1902-1997) of Wayne State Univ. used a mechanical heart pump to operate on a patient at Detroit’s Harper Hospital. This was regarded as the world’s first successful use of a mechanical pump in open-heart surgery.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodrill-GMR)
1954 Jul 3, In Salem Mass., champion female athlete Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956) won the US Women's Open. She had just come back from a battle with cancer, yet won the event by 12 strokes.
(www.uswomensopen.com/2004/press/whatta-gal.html)
1954 Jul 3, Food rationing ended in Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1956 Jul 3, Loew's was removed from the DJIA and International Paper was added as a component of the Dow Jones.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R46)(WSJ, 4/8/04, p.C4)
1962 Jul 3, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1962 Jul 3, French Pres. Charles De Gaulle pronounced Algeria an independent country following the July 1 elections. De Gaulle evacuated Algeria and a million settlers flooded into France.
(www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm)(WSJ, 11/16/95, p.A-18)
1965 Jul 3, Trigger (25), the golden palomino horse of Roy Rogers, died. Trigger was mounted by Bishoff's Taxidermy of California and were on display for years at the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California. The original Trigger is currently on display at The Roy Rogers - Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Missouri. In 2010 Trigger, along with his saddle, took top dollar at an auction of memorabilia.
(www.surfnetinc.com/chuck/hoss-rr.htm)(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A2)(http://tinyurl.com/2blll9t)
1967 Jul 3, North Vietnamese soldiers attacked South Vietnam’s only producing coal mine at Nong Son.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1969 Jul 3, Brian Jones (27), founder of the Rolling Stones (1962), was found dead at the bottom of Cotchford Farm swimming pool.
(www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.4/BrianJones.html)
1970 Jul 3, A British Dan-Air charter, flying a Comet 4 turbojet, crashed near Barcelona and 112 were killed.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=834)
1971 Jul 3, James Douglas Morrison (b.1943), singer for the Doors rock group, died of an apparent heart attack in Paris, France. Jim Morrison (27) was buried at Pere Lachaise cemetery.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.D2)(AP, 7/3/97)
1973 Jul 3, The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) opened in Helsinki with 35 states sending representatives.
(http://tinyurl.com/4wq42s)
1975 Jul 3, The US Civil Service Commission adopted new suitability regulations devoid of the previous language about "immoral" conduct or "sexual perversion." This voided Pres. Eisenhower’s 1953 executive order on firing gays.
(www.fedglobe.org/news/12now_history.html)
1976 Jul 3, Shane Lynch, Irish singer (Boyzone), was born in Dublin, Ireland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Lynch)
1976 Jul 3, Israel launched its daring mission to rescue 103 passengers and Air France crew members being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1976 Jul 3, Spain’s King Juan Carlos appointed Adolfo Suarez (1932-2014), a young Francoist minister, as prime minister in an effort to try to unite Francoists and anti-Franco Socialists, who were still in a sense fighting the 1936-1939 civil war.
(Reuters, 3/23/14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Su%C3%A1rez)
1977 Jul 3, Raymond Damadian produced the 1st image of a human chest using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In 1970 he found that cancer cells could be distinguished from healthy tissues using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
(Econ, 12/6/03, TQp.15)
1978 Jul 3, The US Supreme Court, in Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation, upheld an FCC ban on George Carlin's "seven dirty words" and other indecencies on radio, and TV "when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience." The ban was upheld on the grounds that broadcasters had a “uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans.
(WSJ, 3/24/04, p.A4)(Econ, 7/23/05, p.14)(http://tinyurl.com/2jeh4j)
1978 Jul 3, The Amazon Pact was established. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela signed the Amazon Pact, a Brazilian initiative designed to coordinate the joint development of the Amazon Basin.
(http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Amazon+Pact)
1978 Jul 3, China cut off economic and technical aid to Vietnam.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1979 Jul 3, Dan White, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison. He served five years.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1979 Jul 3, Helen Van Slyke, English writer, died. She left a manuscript that was completed by James Elward (1929-1996) titled "Public Smiles, Private Tears" that became a best-seller. It was about a woman’s rise in the world of retail fashion.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A20)(http://tinyurl.com/3bzrf3)
1980 Jul 3, The 15-year-old Berkeley Barb, founded by Max Scherr, released its final issue in Berkeley, Ca. Scherr ran the left-wing paper from 1965-1973.
(SFC, 7/1/05, p.F2)
1982 Jul 3, Mumia Abu-Jamal (b.1954), radio reporter and former Black Panther, was convicted for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner in Pittsburgh. Jamal supporters said he was framed. Prosecutors said Jamal shot Faulkner after seeing the officer struggling with Jamal’s brother, William Cook, who had been stopped for a traffic violation. In 1996 Jamal was still on death row. In 1999 Gov. Tom Ridge signed a 2nd death warrant for lethal injection on Dec 2. In December, 2001, a federal judge affirmed his murder conviction but ordered that Abu-Jamal should either receive a new sentencing hearing or have his sentence commuted to life in prison because of an error by the trial judge in presenting rules of sentencing to the jury (see March 27, 2008).
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Mumia_Abu-Jamal)
1984 Jul 3, The US Supreme Court ruled that Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members.
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=468&invol=609)
1984 Jul 3, Raoul Salan (b.1899), French general, OAS leader (Algeria), died. Salan was one of the four Generals who organized the 1961 Algiers Putsch operation, and then founded the Organization armée secrète (OAS) terrorist group.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Salan)
1986 Jul 3, President Reagan presided over a gala ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1986 Jul 3, Rudy Vallee (b.1901), singer (Vagabond Dreams), died.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4143)
1987 Jul 3, Two men became the first hot-air balloon travelers to cross the Atlantic. British millionaire Richard Branson and Swedish-born Per Lindstrand, the balloon's designer, were forced to jump into the sea as their craft went down off the coast of Scotland.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1988 Jul 3, The US Navy cruiser ship USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airbus A-300 in the Persian Gulf shortly after it took off from Bandar Abbas for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. All 290 people aboard were killed after the crew of the Vincennes misidentified the plane as an Iranian F-14 fighter. The attack followed what the US Navy refers to as Operation Praying Mantis, a daylong naval battle in the Persian Gulf between American forces and Iran. That battle came after the USS Samuel B. Robertson struck a mine that the Americans later accused Iran of laying in the shipping channels it was trying to keep open for Kuwaiti oil tankers. In 1996 the US paid $131.8 million in compensation of which half would go directly to the families of the people killed. Iran filed suit in World Court in 1989 and settled out of court in Feb, 1996.
(WSJ, 2/23/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-14)(AP 7/3/97)(AP, 7/03/10)(AP, 7/3/18)
1989 Jul 3, By a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court upheld abortion restrictions in the state of Missouri. The court ruled that states do not have to provide funds for abortions.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1989 Jul 3, The movie "Batman," set a record of quickest $100 million (10 days).
(www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/fastest.htm?page=100&p=.htm)
1989 Jul 3, Jim Backus (76), actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), died of pneumonia.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0000822/bio)
1990 Jul 3, In Moscow, Kremlin hard-liner Yegor K. Ligachev received an enthusiastic reception at a Communist Party congress as he criticized reforms by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, saying perestroika had been marred by "limitless radicalism."
(AP, 7/3/00)
1990 Jul 3, Maurice Girodias (b.1919), French publisher, died.
(wwwa.britannica.com/eb/article-9000838?hook=170089)
1991 Jul 3, Former corporate enemies Apple Computer and IBM publicly joined forces in a broad pact to swap technologies and develop new machines.
(AP, 7/3/01)
1991 Jul 3, A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was videotaped beating a handcuffed prisoner in his patrol car. The officer was suspended, but later reinstated after a grand jury refused to indict him.
(AP, 7/3/01)
1992 Jul 3, The president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, was voted out of office as lawmakers from Slovakia blocked his re-election in parliament.
(AP, 7/3/97)
1992 Jul 3, Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum, the only Jew to attend Vatican II, died.
(www.worldofquotes.com/history/7_3/9/)
1993 Jul 3, Steffi Graf of Germany won her third consecutive Wimbledon title as she defeated Jana Novotna of the Czech Republic.
(AP, 7/3/98)
1993 Jul 3, Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale died in Montreal, Canada, at age 56.
(AP, 7/3/98)
1993 Jul 3, Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Haiti's military chief, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, separately signed an accord designed to return Aristide to power.
(AP, 7/3/98)
1994 Jul 3, Pete Sampras defeated Goran Ivanisevic to win the Wimbledon men's championship, 7-6, 7-6, 6-0.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1994 Jul 3, Thirty-one people died in three separate crashes on Texas highways.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1995 Jul 3, Irish Republican Army sympathizers rioted in Northern Ireland’s two largest cities in outrage over the early parole of a British soldier convicted of killing a Roman Catholic woman.
(AP, 7/3/00)
1995 Jul 3, Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez (b.1928), tennis great, died of stomach cancer in Las Vegas, Nevada.
(www.tennisfame.org/enshrinees/pancho_gonzales.html)
1996 Jul 3, The Clinton administration awarded a $1 mil grant to the Univ. of Alabama for an experiment that would test for illicit drug use of everyone arrested in Birmingham.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A3)
1996 Jul 3, US Secret Service agents claimed to have broken up an operation by a New York couple that used monitoring equipment to steal 80,000 cellular phone numbers and id codes from motorists on an expressway that passed their apartment building.
(WSJ, 7/3/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 3, Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $1 bil federal contract to build the next-generation space shuttle.
(WSJ, 7/3/96, p.A3)
1996 Jul 3, A jokester lit firecrackers in a fireworks store in Scottown, Ohio. A blaze erupted and 9 people were killed and 11 injured as they stampeded out.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A3)(AP, 7/3/97)
1996 Jul 3, A federal agency approved the Union Pacific $5.4 bil acquisition of San Francisco based Southern Pacific Rail Corp. The merger will eliminate about 3,500 jobs.
(SFC, 7/4/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 3, Chad’s Pres. Idriss Deby won 70% of the vote. He defeated Abdelkader Wadal Kamougue, a southern leader who led coup in 1975. The election was widely seen as flawed.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/29/01, p.A1)
1996 Jul 3, Russians went to the polls to re-elect Boris Yeltsin president over his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov. Boris Yeltsin won the presidential elections with about 53.7% of the vote. Zyuganov received about 40.4%.
(WSJ, 7/5/96, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/97)
1997 Jul 3, In his first formal response to Paula Jones' charges of sexual harassment, President Clinton denied all allegations in her lawsuit and asked a judge to dismiss the case.
(AP, 7/3/02)
1997 Jul 3, Mississippi became the 1st state to settle its tobacco suit, less than one week before the 1st scheduled trial.
(http://tinyurl.com/amlhg)
1997 Jul 3, Lockheed Martin Corp., the nation's biggest defense contractor, announced its purchase of Northrop Grumman Corp. for $11.2 billion [$7.9 billion]. However, the merger fell apart over antitrust concerns.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/02)
1997 Jul 3, The Rainbow Family, founded in 1971, began their 25th gathering in Ochoco National Forest in Oregon. 20-30,000 were expected to participate.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 3, Blues guitarist Johnny Copeland (b.1937), the "Texas Twister," died. His 1985 "Showdown" album with Albert Collins (d.1993) and Robert Cray won a Grammy for best traditional blues recording.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.C3)
1997 Jul 3, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (Lionsgate) was formed in Vancouver, BC. Its headquarters were later moved to Santa Monica, Ca.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Gate_Entertainment)(Econ, 1/25/14, p.57)
1998 Jul 3, Pres. Clinton ended his trip to China and praised Pres. Zemin as a man with "good imagination." Clinton concluded his Far East tour in Hong Kong, where he challenged leaders to set the pace for rescuing Asia from the region's financial crisis.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/9)
1998 Jul 3, A Western Water Policy Review Commission reported that farms and ranches, which soak up to 78% of the West’s available water, must give some up to the growing cities and restore degraded ecosystems.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 3, Residents in northeastern Florida continued to evacuate because of wildfires closing in from three directions.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1998 Jul 3, The 12th World AIDS Conference ended in Geneva.
(AP, 7/3/9)
1998 Jul 3, In Colombia rebels of the ELN freed 15 hostages, members of the army backed civic group called "Girls of Steel" in a deal brokered by Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A11)
1998 Jul 3, In Indian-held Kashmir Pakistani shelling forced over 2,000 villagers to flee and 7 people were reported killed in Dawar.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A11)
1998 Jul 3, Serbian forces in Kosovo broke through a stone blockade near Kijevo.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 3-5, 1998 Vienna celebrated the 400th anniversary of opera.
(SFEC, 5/10/98, p.T3)
1999 Jul 3, President Clinton, acting to head off potential problems with the safety of imported food, said in his weekly radio address he was ordering inspectors at American ports to brand all unsafe and rejected food products, "Refused US."
(AP, 7/3/00)
1999 Jul 3, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith fired at Asians and Blacks in Springfield, and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 3, In Beijing talks between the North and South Korea collapsed.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A22)
1999 Jul 3, A boat smuggling 11 people out of Cuba capsized and one person was killed. Joel Dorta Garcia (27) and David Garcia Capote (33) were arrested and accused of charging $8,000 for smuggling each passenger.
(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A11)
1999 Jul 3, In Kosovo British NATO troops killed 2 ethnic Albanians and wounded 2 others during a street celebration marking the 9th anniversary of Kosovo's unrecognized declaration of independence.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A15)
1999 Jul 3, In Kuwait elections were held for seats in the 50-member parliament. Only some 113,000 men of the 1.8 million population were allowed to vote. Liberals raised their number of seats from 4 to 14.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.A20)(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A12)
2000 Jul 3, President Clinton made a congratulatory telephone call to Mexican President-elect Vicente Fox, a day after Fox’s election.
(AP, 7/3/01)
2000 Jul 3, A 1970’s steel observation tower that preservationists said had desecrated the battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was demolished.
(AP, 7/3/01)
2000 Jul 3, Harold Nicholas, younger member of the tap-dancing Nicholas Brothers, died at age 79. In 2000 Constance Valis Hill authored "Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers."
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A19)
2000 Jul 3, In Mexico the elections showed 42.7% for Vincente Fox, 35.8% for Labastida, and 16.5% for Cardenas.
(SFC, 7/4/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 3, The Palestinian leadership said that a Palestinian state would be declared by September 13.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A8)(WSJ, 7/5/00, p.A1)
2001 Jul 3, In Columbus, Ohio, Brian Dalton (22) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fiction writing in his journal about sexually abusing and torturing children.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A4)
2001 Jul 3, General Electric's $41 billion purchase of Honeywell International was vetoed by the European Union. It was the first time a merger of two U.S. companies was stopped solely by European regulators.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2001 Jul 3, The last parts of the US spy plane in China were flown out.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 3, Mordecai Richler, Canadian social critic and novelist, died at age 70. His work included the novel "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (1959).
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.D3)
2001 Jul 3, In Indonesia a Christian gang killed 18 Muslims, including women and children, on the island of Sulawesi.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 3, Muhammad al-Humaimidi, a high-ranking Iraqi diplomat, asked for asylum in NYC.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 3, In his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands, former Yugoslav Pres. Milosevic refused to respond to charges and called the tribunal illegitimate.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/02)
2001 Jul 3, In the Philippines Abu Sayyaf rebels freed 2 hostages and warned the government to withdraw from Muslim-majority islands or face more kidnappings.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 3, In the Philippines 53 people were left dead in landslides from Typhoon Utor as the storm moved toward Taiwan.
(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/6/01, p.D3)
2001 Jul 3, In Russia Flight TD-352, a Tu-154 operated by Vladivostok Avia, crashed in Siberia near the village of Burdakovka. All 143 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1421072.stm)
2001 Jul 3-2001 Jul 4, A Russian roundup operation sent an estimated 26,000 Chechen refugees fleeing to Ingushetia. Lt. Gen. Vladimir Moltenskoi, acting commander of Russian forces, later acknowledged that his troops committed widespread crimes during the operation.
(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A8)(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 3, In Ukraine TV director Ihor Alexandrov was beaten to death by unknown assailants in Slaviansk. In 2000 a European court on Human Rights had cleared him of charges for violating laws on campaign coverage.
(WSJ, 7/9/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2002 Jul 3, The Tennessee Legislature passed a 1-cent sales tax increase, the highest in state history, and ended a partial government shutdown.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A4)
2002 Jul 3, It was reported that Operation Xtermination, a drug investigation at Camp Lejeune, NC, seized over $1.4 million in drugs and convicted over 80 marines and sailors.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A5)
2002 Jul 3, Jean-Marie Messier, the much-maligned chairman of Vivendi Universal, was formally removed from his post and replaced by Jean-Rene Fourtou of the pharmaceutical company Aventis.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2002 Jul 3, Over Australia balloonist Steve Fossett was forced to spend an extra night in the air as the winds that helped him become the first person to fly solo around the world bedeviled the final stage of his voyage.
(Reuters, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, Brazil and Mexico signed a trade agreement that reduced import duties on some 800 products.
(WSJ, 7/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 3, Chinese police found Wang Bingzhang, a pro-democracy activist and US resident, in Guangxi Province. He had been recently kidnapped with 2 others in Vietnam.
(SFC, 12/21/02, p.A10)
2002 Jul 3, It was reported that up to 40,000 companies might collapse in Germany this year.
(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 3, In Georgetown, Guyana, police opened fire on demonstrators who broke into the presidential compound, killing two people and wounding six others during a protest timed to coincide with the start of a Caribbean summit.
(AP, 7/4/02)
2002 Jul 3, An oil tanker was reported to have run aground in stormy seas on a reef near Fiji's popular tourist islands, threatening an ecological disaster if the cargo leaks.
(Reuters, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, In western Mexico 5 people returning from a political rally, among them a 101-year-old man, were ambushed and shot to death.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2002 Jul 3, At least 39 people were killed and more feared dead when landslides caused by Typhoon Chata'an destroyed houses on the western Pacific island of Chuuk in Micronesia.
(Reuters, 7/3/02)(WSJ, 7/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 3, In Pakistan security forces killed 4 al Qaeda fighters near the Afghan border at Germa. 3 security men were killed. A land dispute broke out in Northern Waziristan near the Afghan border and 21 people were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A10)(SFC, 7/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 3, Peru temporarily suspended programs to eradicate coca fields and encourage farmers to grow alternative crops, moves that jeopardize U.S.-backed efforts to fight the cocaine trade.
(AP, 7/3/02)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 3, Swiss authorities said a collision-warning system was out of service in the Zurich tower when it took control of a Russian airliner and a cargo jet shortly before they collided on July 1 at 35,000 feet, killing 71 people, including 45 children headed for an end-of-school beach holiday. One of 2 required air controllers was on a break.
(AP, 7/3/02)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Jul 3, Turkey's jittery stock market fell again following reports that officials discussed a moratorium on the nation's $30 billion foreign debt.
(AP, 7/3/02)
2003 Jul 3, The US jobless rate was reported to have surged to a nine-year high in June as employers cut 30,000 workers from their payrolls.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, Astronomers said they have found a Jupiter-like body circling a distant star, dubbed HD 70642 some 94 light years from Earth, in a planetary system like ours. The finding was presented at a conference at the Paris Astrophysics Institute.
(AP, 7/4/03)
2003 Jul 3, The US military commander in Europe was ordered to begin planning for possible American intervention in Liberia.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, London's Trafalgar Square reopened to the public after a $42 million facelift.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, Tens of thousands of South Korean auto and metal workers staged a half-day walkout to demand a 40-hour workweek and better working conditions. Most people worked half a day on Saturdays.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, Indonesia's military said it killed 15 insurgents in new fighting in Aceh province, and the rebels said they have detained two local journalists.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, The US government put a $25 million bounty on Saddam Hussein and $15 million on his sons. US troops killed 11 Iraqis who ambushed a convoy outside Baghdad.
(AP, 7/3/03)(AP, 7/4/03)
2003 Jul 3, Yuri Shchekochikhin (b.1950), a deputy editor for Russia’s Novaya Gazeta and member of parliament, died of a mysterious allergic reaction. He had long campaigned against Boris Yeltsin's war in Chechnya. Friends and relatives were convinced that he was poisoned.
(WSJ, 12/8/06, p.A12)
2003 Jul 3, In Suweir, Saudi Arabia, Turki Nasser al-Dandani, the top suspect wanted in the May 12 Riyadh suicide bombing, was killed along with three other militants in a gunbattle when police raided their hideout.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2003 Jul 3, Slovakia's parliament approved an amendment to make abortion legal until the 24th week of pregnancy.
(AP, 7/3/03)
2004 Jul 3, Two Estonian students clinched the country's seventh straight wife-carrying world championship on Saturday, winning the "wife's" weight in beer and a sauna.
(AP, 7/4/04)
2004 Jul 3, Insurgents attacked an Iraqi checkpoint south of the capital, killing five national guard soldiers and wounding five more.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, A statement attributed to an Iraqi militant group claimed on a Web site that a captive US Marine had been beheaded. However, the group later denied the claim; Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun turned up alive five days later.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2004 Jul 3, In the Indian portion of Kashmir a mountain gunbattle, a time bomb hidden in a fruit seller's hand cart and a grenade lobbed in a busy market killed 8 people and wounded 44.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, Israeli troops shot and killed a 9-year-old Palestinian boy in the 5th day of an army operation meant to prevent militants from firing rockets at Israeli towns by the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, In Nicaragua a week of heavy rains caused floods and mudslides that claimed 25 lives.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, Tropical storm Mindulle, the Korean word for dandelion, pushed toward South Korea after killing at least 31 people in the Philippines and 18 in Taiwan.
(Reuters, 7/3/04)(AP, 7/4/04)
2004 Jul 3, Andrian Nikolayev (74), former Soviet cosmonaut died in Cheboksary, Chuvash Autonomous Republic.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2004 Jul 3, Rwanda reopened its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, further reducing tension between the two countries.
(AFP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 3, Sudan pledged to disarm Arab militias, known as Janjaweed.
(Reuters, 7/3/04)
2005 Jul 3, Roger Federer won his third consecutive Wimbledon title by beating Andy Roddick 6-2, 7-6 (2), 6-4.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2005 Jul 3, NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft collided with the comet Tempel 1, half the size of Manhattan, creating a brilliant cosmic smashup that capped a risky voyage to uncover the building blocks of life on Earth.
(Reuters, 7/4/05)(SFC, 7/4/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 3, Gaylord Nelson (b.1916), former Wisconsin governor (1959-1963) and US senator (1963-1981), died. He founded Earth Day (1970), and helped spawn the modern environmental movement. Nelson was at the center of legislation that resulted in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (1968), the Clean Air Act (1970), and passage of the Endangered Species Act.
(AP, 7/3/05)(SFC, 7/4/05, p.A2)(http://www.nelsonearthday.net/)
2005 Jul 3, Albanians held elections for a new parliament.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 3, One of Australia's 12 Apostles has disappeared. One of nine limestone stacks that made up the famous landmark off Australia's southern coast collapsed into the Indian Ocean.
(AP, 7/4/05)
2005 Jul 3, In India's Gujarat state the death toll from floods was raised to 132 people, where 25 million people were affected by the floods.
(AFP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 3, A car bomb killed three Iraqi policemen north of Baghdad. 2 US soldiers were wounded in a suicide attack near a checkpoint in the western city of Ramadi.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 3, In Mexico State the former ruling party (PRI) added momentum for the upcoming presidential race with a crushing victory.
(AP, 7/4/05)
2005 Jul 3, In Saudi Arabia security forces killed al-Qaida leader Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari (36), during a fierce gunbattle in eastern Riyadh. The Moroccan topped the nation's list of most-wanted militants.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2005 Jul 3, In St. Lucia leaders of the Caribbean Community, began to hold a four-day summit with only three of 15 members, Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados, saying they are ready to join a single market that would eliminate tariffs and ease migration for skilled workers and professionals in the region.
(AP, 7/2/05)
2005 Jul 3, Syrian’s new agency SANA reported that security forces had killed an Arab extremist who was trying to illegally cross into neighboring Lebanon with other suspected militants. 2 Syrian soldiers were also killed in the clash.
(AP, 7/3/05)
2006 Jul 3, Former Private Steven D. Green was charged in federal court in Charlotte, N.C., with raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl (Abeer Qassim al-Janabi) and killing her (March 11), her parents and sister. Four members of Green's unit were charged as well; one later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 100 years in prison.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2006 Jul 3, A US federal judge issued a temporary retraining order barring the Navy from using a type of high-intensity sonar that could harm marine animals during war games that began last week in the Pacific Ocean. On July 7 the US Navy and environmental groups agreed on a settlement which prevented the Navy from using the sonar within 25 miles of the newly established Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument during the exercises.
(SFC, 7/3/06, p.A3)(SFC, 7/8/06, p.A4)
2006 Jul 3, Benjamin Hendrickson (55), an Emmy Award-winning actor on the "As the World Turns" soap opera, was found dead of suicide with a gunshot to the head in his Long Island home.
(AP, 7/7/06)
2006 Jul 3, Jack Smith (b.1913), singer and TV host for “You Asked for It," died at his home in southern California. In 1958 he replaced Art Baker, who created the show in 1950.
(SFC, 7/11/06, p.B4)
2006 Jul 3, A US general said the United States is giving $2 billion worth of military weapons and vehicles to modernize Afghanistan's national army.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Judges and prosecutors from Cambodia and abroad were sworn in to begin the UN-backed judicial process to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, China's new train from Beijing to Tibet arrived in the ancient capital of Lhasa, ending its maiden journey after climbing to elevations so high that ballpoint pens and packaged foods burst.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, It was reported that 579 Cubans had entered the US over the last 9 months by landing on Puerto Rico’s Mona Island, 40 miles from the coast of the Dominican Rep.
(SFC, 7/3/06, p.A8)
2006 Jul 3, Iraq’s parliament convened despite a boycott by Sunni Arab legislators protesting a colleague's abduction. Bombs struck markets north and south of Baghdad, with nationwide attacks killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Nissan Motor Co. approved opening talks with General Motors Corp. over a possible alliance.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, In India's Jammu-Kashmir state clashes between Indian government forces and suspected Islamic separatist militants killed 13 people.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Two bitter rivals declared themselves Mexico's next president, sparking fears of violence. Electoral officials said they wouldn't name a winner until a vote-by-vote hand count.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, In northwestern Pakistan an explosion hit a bus carrying paramilitary troops, killing at least 6 soldiers and wounding 5 others.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Palestinian militants holding an Israeli soldier gave Israel less than 24 hours to start releasing 1,500 Palestinian prisoners and implied that he would be killed if it did not comply, but Israel said it would not negotiate.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, A subway train derailed in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, killing 43 people. "Initial investigations show it was an accident," said Vicente Rambla, spokesman for the Valencia regional government.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2006 Jul 3, At least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in three Claymore mine attacks carried out by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's northern and eastern regions.
(AFP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 3, Sudan's foreign minister rejected calls by the top UN envoy in the country to make additions to a peace deal for Darfur after widespread rejection of the accord. A group of Sudanese rebels in more than 50 cars attacked the town of Hamarat Sheikh in the Kordofan region of Darfur. At least a dozen people were killed. In southern Sudan at least six people were killed and 11 wounded when gunmen ambushed a German aid agency vehicle. Witnesses said the attackers, some of whom were uniformed, were rebel fighters with the LRA.
(Reuters, 7/3/06)(AP, 7/5/06)(AFP, 7/5/06)
2007 Jul 3, President Bush refused to rule out an eventual pardon for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after already commuting his prison sentence in the CIA leak case.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2007 Jul 3, A Los Angeles jury awarded $6.2 million to firefighter Brenda Lee, who said she was harassed by colleagues because she is black and a lesbian. The harassment she said included someone mixing urine with her mouthwash.
(AP, 7/4/07)
2007 Jul 3, Hilton Hotels Corp. said it has agreed to be acquired by the Blackstone Group LP for $18.5 billion in cash. The deal was valued at $26 billion including debt.
(SFC, 7/4/07, p.C1)
2007 Jul 3, Boots Randolph (80), tenor sax player, died in Nashville, Tenn. His 1963 hit “Yakety Sax, written with guitarist James Rich," became the theme song for television’s “The Benny Hill Show."
(SFC, 7/4/07, p.B5)
2007 Jul 3, Afghan and NATO forces clashed with Taliban militants in the southern Zhari district of Kandahar overnight, leaving 33 suspected insurgents dead. US-led coalition troops killed a suspected militant and detained two others during an operation in eastern Afghanistan. Yousuf Ibrahim (35), from Saudi Arabia, was detained after a brief scuffle with police in Kabul. He had spent the last 8 years in Afghanistan, fighting alongside the Taliban.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, British police focused on at least four physicians with roots outside Britain, including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket, in the investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, The US-made film "Nanking," documenting eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed by Japanese troops in China during World War Two, opened in Beijing.
(Reuters, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, China issued guidelines restricting organ transplants for foreigners, giving priority to Chinese patients in the government's latest effort to regulate procedures that have been criticized as profit-driven and unethical. Officials said that Chinese inspectors have found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children's snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, In Germany striking train drivers brought parts of the rail network to a standstill, backing their demands for a large pay increase with a walkout that affected tens of thousands of commuters.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, In Ghana African leaders vowed to speed up the economic and political integration of their continent to pursue the goal of a United States of Africa, but they also agreed to study more closely how to achieve it.
(Reuters, 7/4/07)
2007 Jul 3, Indonesia barred Eni Faleomavaega, the Democrat congressman for American Samoa, from visiting Papua, but has denied the move is to cover up alleged human rights abuses in the remote region. Faleomavaega has been a critic of Jakarta's policies in Papua.
(Reuters, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, Iran's leading reformist daily newspaper was ordered closed, less than two months after it was allowed to resume publishing.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, PM Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet approved a draft oil law. In Baghdad, an Iraqi army lieutenant colonel and an Interior Ministry intelligence officer were killed in separate drive-by shootings. A car bomb hit the convoy of an Iraqi police colonel in Kirkuk, killing two passers-by and wounding 17. Oras Mohammed Abdul-Aziz was executed by hanging for his role in the August, 2003, blast that killed Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and 84 other people.
(AP, 7/3/07)(AP, 7/6/07)
2007 Jul 3, A human rights group said Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq routinely torture detainees with methods including electric shock and hold them in overcrowded facilities without formal charges or access to legal aid.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, Fumio Kyuma, Japan's defense minister, resigned under an avalanche of criticism for suggesting that the United States was justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the attacks saved Japan from a Soviet invasion.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, Pakistani security forces clashed with militants outside the radical Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, where students have carried out a string of kidnappings of police officers and alleged prostitutes, killing at least 9 people.
(SFC, 7/4/07, p.A5)
2007 Jul 3, South Korea enacted legislation to remove bureaucratic barriers in the security industry and help brokers, banks and insurers to consolidate. To date no foreign had listed on the Seoul stock exchange.
(Econ, 7/14/07, p.78)
2007 Jul 3, Spanish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero promised that every child born in Spain would receive a baby bonus of €2,500, according to national press reports.
(Econ, 2/16/08, p.59)(http://piurl.com/5i)
2007 Jul 3, The Alinghi team from Switzerland successfully defended sailing's coveted America's Cup, beating Emirates Team New Zealand 5-2.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2007 Jul 3, Venezuela’s energy minister said in newly published comments that Venezuela has agreed to sell gasoline to Iran.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2007 Jul 3, President Hugo Chavez said his government will nationalize Venezuela's privately owned hospitals and clinics if they fail to reduce health care costs.
(AP, 7/3/07)
2008 Jul 3, Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for fleecing investors of more than $2.4 billion in a fraud that destroyed the world's largest independent commodities broker.
(Reuters, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, Larry Harmon (83) wasn't the original Bozo the Clown, but he was the real one. Harmon, who portrayed the wing-haired clown for more than half a century, died of congestive heart failure.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Jul 3, US employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy's fragile state. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, Vodafone Group PLC said it planned to acquire a 70% stake in Ghana Telecom Co. for $900 million.
(WSJ, 7/5/08, p.B6)
2008 Jul 3, In Afghanistan gunmen lobbed a grenade and sprayed a police checkpoint with gunfire in the southern Kandahar province, killing eight officers. A roadside blast next to a police vehicle in central Ghazni province killed two officers and wounded five others. In eastern Paktika province, Afghan and foreign troops killed seven suspected militants during a clash near the Pakistan border. Afghan security forces seized 1.4 tons of opium in western Afghanistan near the border with Iran.
(AP, 7/4/08)(AFP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 3, Top Bolivian and US officials sought to heal their nations' strained relations in their first meeting since a raucous protest outside the American embassy sent the US ambassador back to Washington for security consultations.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, Former Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba arrived in the Netherlands to face war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, The Cypriot parliament approved the European Union treaty, making Cyprus the 20th EU member to ratify the document aimed at streamlining decision-making in the bloc.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Jul 3, In El Salvador a bus carrying members of an evangelical church was swept off a bridge in San Salvador. 29 bodies were recovered the next day.
(SFC, 7/4/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 3, Lydia Lassen-Berge (69), a former prostitute dubbed the "Black Widow" by the German press, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of four wealthy but frail elderly male companions. Siegmund Schlufter (53), her accomplice, was sentenced to 12 years in jail for carrying out the killings.
(AFP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, In Indonesia a police source said that a group of 10 suspected Muslim militants detained in raids on Sumatra island by Indonesia's anti-terrorism unit was plotting to attack Western targets. The raids followed the capture of a suspected militant after a tip-off by authorities in Singapore.
(Reuters, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, It was reported that Italian authorities have started fingerprinting tens of thousands of Gypsies living in nomad camps across the country, brushing aside accusations of racism by human rights advocates and international organizations. The Interior Ministry said prints will only be taken from people who do not have a valid Italian or EU document.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, In the southern Philippines suspected communist guerrillas launched a series of attacks, lobbing a grenade that killed three people and raiding a police station and a gold mining company.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, In southeastern Slovenia two canoes were crushed running over a dam. The next day divers pulled seven bodies out of the Sava River and fought strong currents to search for five other people still missing.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Jul 3, South Korea's president called for an end to a long-running dispute over American beef imports, saying it was time for the nation to concentrate instead on overcoming its economic difficulties.
(AP, 7/3/08)
2008 Jul 3, In Sri Lanka a wave of battles in Mannar, Vavuniya and Welioya killed 32 rebels and two soldiers.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Jul 3, A group of around 200 Zimbabweans gathered outside the US embassy in Harare, pleading for political asylum and food after being displaced in recent election violence.
(AFP, 7/3/08)
2009 Jul 3, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced her decision to leave office more than a year early, effective July 26. The announcement left open the possibility of a presidential run.
(AP, 7/4/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Washington state federal agents said they have arrested 31 people and busted a drug trafficking ring that was directed by a cartel in Jalisco, Mexico. The 2-week Operation Arctic Chill seized 23 guns including a .50 Desert Eagle pistol and an AK-47-type assault rifle.
(SFC, 7/4/09, p.A5)
2009 Jul 3, The “Dog Days of Summer" officially begin and continue to August 11. This period got its name from the Egyptian belief that the Dog Star, Sirius, added heat to Earth as it rose and fell with the sun during this period.
(SFC, 7/3/09, p.D8)
2009 Jul 3, US Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001. In southeast Afghanistan two US soldiers were killed when their base came under attack. The attack included an attempted suicide truck bombing of the base in the Zirok district of southeastern Paktika province. As many as 30 Taliban insurgents might have been killed when troops called in air strikes.
(AP, 7/3/09)(AP, 7/6/09)
2009 Jul 3, Algeria, Niger and Nigeria signed an accord to build a 10-billion-dollar trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe.
(AFP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, Australia announced a 155 million US dollar package for isolated Aboriginal communities, after a new report revealed shocking levels of child abuse among the downtrodden minority.
(AFP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Brazil prison guards foiled a new attempt to smuggle a cell phone into Danilo Pinheiro prison near the city of Sorocaba by a carrier pigeon wearing a tiny backpack. Police said that the practice is becoming almost commonplace.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In London a fire ripped through the 12-story Lakanal House block of Sceaux Gardens Estate, a 1960s-era public housing block in south London, killing six people including a newborn baby.
(AFP, 7/4/09)
2009 Jul 3, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a top Iranian cleric, said that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country's disputed presidential election.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Kashmir police used batons and tear gas to break up fresh anti-India protests, with more than two dozen people injured in the clashes in Srinagar and Baramullah.
(AFP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Libya peacekeepers in Somalia and the war crimes warrant for Sudan's president dominated the final day of an African Union summit, after a late-night compromise on a new regional authority. Africa's leaders agreed to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Darfur.
(AFP, 7/3/09)(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Mexico City kidnappers opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles during an attempted rescue of the victim. The rescue failed with catastrophic errors. When police fired back, two commanders, including the chief of the city's elite rapid response force, were shot from behind by their own officers. Meanwhile, one of the kidnappers inside the home fatally shot Yolanda Ceballos (50) before killing himself. Seven other kidnappers were captured. Anti-kidnapping chief Juan Maya Aviles was later suspended.
(AP, 8/21/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Pakistan US missiles slammed into the hideout of Taliban commander Noor Wali, allied to warlord Baitullah Mehsud in the tribal belt in South Waziristan. Another missile strike hit an insurgent communications center in Kokat Khel. The strikes reportedly killed a total of 17 people. Pakistani warplanes bombed suspected militant hide-outs, killing at least four insurgents and wounding seven others. The Pakistani military said at least 13 militants and four local tribesmen were killed over the last 24 hours in the districts of Swat and Dir. A Pakistani helicopter crash killed 26 security personnel on the mountainous border of the Orakzai and Khyber ethnic Pashtun tribal regions. The Taliban claimed responsibility, but a senior security official said the military MI-17 helicopter had crashed due to a technical fault. Ehsan, alias Abu Jandal, a mid-level Taliban commander, was killed in Qambar area.
(AFP, 7/3/09)(AP, 7/3/09)(AFP, 7/4/09)(SFC, 7/4/09, p.A3)(AFP, 7/5/09)
2009 Jul 3, A top Kremlin aide said Russia will allow the US to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, in a gesture aimed at bolstering US military operations and improving strained ties between Washington and Moscow.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Sudan gunmen kidnapped an Irish and Ugandan women from the office of the Irish aid group Goal in the North Darfur city of Kutum. A Sudanese watchman was also seized before being released later. Arab tribes supported by the government were implicated. Sharon Commins (33) and her Ugandan colleague, Hilda Kuwuki (42), were released on Oct 18.
(AFP, 7/4/09)(AP, 10/18/09)(AFP, 10/24/09)
2009 Jul 3, Sudanese police arrested 13 women in a raid on a Khartoum cafe for wearing trousers in violation of the country's strict Islamic law. 10 of them were flogged inside a Khartoum police station. One of those arrested, journalist Lubna Hussein, said she is challenging the charges, which can be punishable by up to 40 lashes.
(AP, 7/13/09)(AP, 7/21/09)
2009 Jul 3, The head of Venezuela's telecommunications regulatory agency said that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked for failing to update their registrations with the government. The government now controls six television channels, including the Caracas-based international network Telesur, two national radio networks and other smaller media outlets including 600 radio stations and 72 community TV stations.
(AP, 7/3/09)
2010 Jul 3, The US government said it is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.
(AP, 7/3/10)
2010 Jul 3, In the Gulf of Mexico a Taiwanese converted tanker, dubbed "A Whale" and billed as the world's largest oil skimmer, arrived from Portugal in the Gulf of Mexico for testing. Officials hoped it would scrub 21 million gallons of oil-tainted seawater per day. The US Coast Guard later said it was too big to maneuver around the smaller patches and ribbons of oil.
(AP, 7/03/10)(SSFC, 7/4/10, p.A8)(AP, 7/17/10)
2010 Jul 3, The US Drug Enforcement Administration said it has helped seize a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine. DEA officials said that the diesel electric-powered submarine was constructed in a remote jungle and captured near a tributary close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. Ecuadorean authorities seized the sub before it could make its maiden voyage. The sophisticated camouflaged vessel has a conning tower, periscope and air-conditioning system. It measured about nine-feet-high from the deck plates to the ceiling and stretched nearly a 100 feet long. The DEA says it was built for trans-oceanic drug trafficking.
(AP, 7/3/10)
2010 Jul 3, The British government said it has ordered many ministries to plan for spending cuts of up to 40%, far greater than announced in an emergency budget. As Britain bid to slash a record budget deficit, departments had been warned to expect spending cuts of about 25%, but many ministries have now been asked to identify where cuts of 40% could be made.
(AFP, 7/3/10)
2010 Jul 3, In Northumbria, England, Raoul Moat (37), a nightclub bouncer and bodybuilder, seriously injured a policeman and his ex-girlfriend and killed her new partner in and around Newcastle, before apparently fleeing to the nearby Northumbria National Park. One of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended dramatically on July 10 when Raoul Moat shot himself dead after a six-hour stand-off with armed police.
(AP, 7/9/10)(AP, 7/10/10)
2010 Jul 3, It was reported that checkpoints in Iraq, set up for fighting insurgents, have turned into shady customs stations where police demand a $9 bribe if a lorry driver’s papers are in order and multiples of that if not.
(Econ, 7/3/10, p.46)
2010 Jul 3, In Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbayeva was sworn in as president. She would hold office for 18 months and would be ineligible to stand for election.
(SSFC, 7/4/10, p.A3)(Econ, 7/3/10, p.42)
2010 Jul 3, In Nigeria gunmen attacked two cargo vessels off the coast of the oil-producing Niger Delta, killing one crew member and kidnapping 12 foreign workers. The crew members were seized near Bonny in southern Rivers state. The military believe they were from eastern Europe. The workers were freed 2 days later along with three sailors taken hostage in May.
(Reuters, 7/3/10)(AFP, 7/5/10)
2010 Jul 3, In Syria, Mohammed Oudeh (73), the key planner of the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes, died.
(AP, 7/3/10)
2011 Jul 3, A San Francisco BART officer shot and killed a man at the Civic Center Station who had used a bottle as a weapon and drew a knife on an officer.
(SFC, 7/5/11, p.C1)
2011 Jul 3, The Erik, a 100-foot (32-meter) tourist fishing boat, capsized about 60 miles (100 km) south of the Baja California port of San Felipe. A US tourist died and 7 US tourists were missing along with one Mexican crew member.
(AP, 7/4/11)
2011 Jul 3, In north Afghanistan a suspected militant on a motorbike threw a hand grenade at the gates of a school in Maimana, Faryab province, injuring 17 children. Police arrested the gunman.
(AFP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, A Bangladesh court issued an arrest warrant for Tarique Rahman, a son of ex-premier Khaleda Zia, over a 2004 grenade attack that killed 24 people at an opposition rally. Rahman has been living in London since 2008.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, Belarus blocked access to Facebook, Twitter and a major Russian social networking site in an attempt to prevent opposition protests on a national holiday. Thousands of police and special forces were deployed in the center of Minsk, the capital.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Egypt the trial began of 48 people accused of involvement in deadly Muslim-Christian clashes on May 7 that left 12 people dead. Police and soldiers arrested around 50 people from the shanty town of Ezbet Abu Qarn in a drugs raid.
(AFP, 7/3/11)(AFP, 7/5/11)
2011 Jul 3, Egypt's Nabil al-Arabi formally replaced his compatriot Amr Mussa as secretary general of the Arab League.
(AFP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Indonesia the Mount Soputan volcano erupted on Sulawesi island.
(SFC, 7/4/11, p.A2)
2011 Jul 3, In Iraq gunmen wearing police uniforms kidnapped and killed five Iraqi policemen in Anbar province, a former insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Italy some 45 police and carabinieri officers were injured west of Turin as demonstrators protested construction of a high-speed rail linking Italy to France. At least five people were arrested.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Mexico the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won a decisive victory in voting for governor of Mexico state, the country's most populous state. PRI also scored wins in two other states.
(AP, 7/4/11)
2011 Jul 3, In southern Mexico unidentified gunmen killed the widow of legendary Mexican guerrilla leader Lucio Cabanas. Isabel Anaya Nava (54) was shot to death along with her sister Reyna (58) as they left a church in the community of Xaltianguis, Guerrero state. Jesus Rejon Aguilar, ranked as the #3 leader of the Zetas, was captured in Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico state.
(AP, 7/3/11)(SFC, 7/5/11, p.A3)
2011 Jul 3, In Morocco thousands of pro-democracy activists protested across the country to demand more reforms two days after voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution the king said will expand freedoms.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Nigeria assailants threw a bomb at drinking spot near a police barracks in Maiduguri. At least 8 people were killed and 15 others wounded.
(AP, 7/4/11)
2011 Jul 3, In Syria security police reportedly shot dead two protesters in a Damascus suburb that has seen expanding protests against Pres. Assad. Armed troops returned to Hama. At least 24 people were killed in widespread demonstrations over the next 2 days.
(Reuters, 7/4/11)(Econ, 7/9/11, p.45)
2011 Jul 3, Turkey's foreign minister visited Libya and recognized the rebel leaders as the country's legitimate representatives and promised them an additional $200 million in aid.
(AP, 7/3/11)
2011 Jul 3, Thailand held elections. PM Abhisit Vejjajiva conceded his party lost national elections to the opposition led by Yingluck Shinawatra (44), the sister of ousted former leader Thaksin Shinawatra. Her Pheu Thai party won a majority of 265 seats in the 500-seat lower house of parliament outright. The Democrat party won 159 seats. The apparent election result paved the way for Yingluck to become Thailand's first female prime minister. An international monitoring group later said up to one million Thais were disenfranchised ahead of the kingdom's crucial recent election because of outdated lists of voters.
(AP, 7/3/11)(AP, 7/4/11)(AFP, 7/5/11)(Econ, 7/9/11, p.23)
2011 Jul 3, In Uganda a motorized canoe left Panyimur on the Ugandan side of the 20-km-wide Lake Albert with 31 passengers aboard. It sank as it approached Mahagi on the Congolese side. In northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 30 people were missing and one was rescued when a motorized boat sank on Lake Albert.
(AFP, 7/5/11)(AFP, 7/6/11)
2011 Jul 3, A Yemeni cabinet official said Pres. Saleh, in hospital in Riyadh, will not cede power until he returns to oversee a transition. Some 15 militants and 10 soldiers were killed and dozens injured during clashes outside a military base near Zinjibar. Tribesmen have blockaded oil-producing areas of Maarib province, costing the government millions of dollars a day in lost exports and sparking a severe fuel crisis, hours-long power outages, and rocketing prices.
(Reuters, 7/3/11)
2012 Jul 3, A US federal judge ordered Iran to pay more than $813 million in damages and interest to the families of 241 US soldiers killed in the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon. After this opinion, this court will have issued over $8.8 billion in judgments against Iran as a result of the October 23, 1983, Beirut bombing.
(AFP, 7/6/12)
2012 Jul 3, Andy Griffith (86), TV actor, died at his home in Dare County, North Carolina. He was best known for his role as Sheriff Andy Taylor in “The Andy Griffith Show" (1960 to 1968), and later for his role as a criminal defense lawyer on "Matlock" 1986 to 1995).
(Reuters, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, A man in Afghan army uniform opened fire on NATO soldiers at a military base near Kabul, wounding five. The attacker fled the area.
(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, Australia and Indonesia agreed to work more closely to crack down on people-smuggling, with visiting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saying his people were victims of the trade as well.
(AFP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Bahraini authorities said they have launched an investigation against 15 police officers over allegations of abuse involving inmates.
(AP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Barclays Plc Chief Executive Bob Diamond quit under fire from politicians and regulators, the highest-profile casualty of an interest rate-rigging scandal spanning more than a dozen big banks across the world.
(Reuters, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Two British Tornado GR4s from Royal Air Force Lossiemouth, each piloted by a two member crew, went down in the Moray Firth in northeast Scotland. A helicopter airlifted two airmen to a hospital in Inverness while efforts to find the missing pair were called off due to poor visibility and bad weather.
(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, Chinese police clashed for a second day with protesters in Shifang, who stopped the construction of a heavy metals factory over environmental concerns. Authorities bowed to violent protests and cancelled plans to build the controversial metals factory.
(AFP, 7/3/12)(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, In Colombia retired police general Mauricio Santoyo surrendered himself to US agents and was flown to the US to face drug trafficking charges. He allegedly received some $5 million for betraying counter-narcotics operation dating from 2002-2008.
(SFC, 7/4/12, p.A2)
2012 Jul 3, In Honduras the pilot of a suspected drug flight was shot and killed in an anti-narcotics by two US Drug Enforcement Administration agents after he refused to surrender. A 2nd injure pilot was arrested. Honduran police said the twin-engine plane arriving from Colombia with a load of cocaine crashed while being chased by government aircraft.
(AP, 7/9/12)
2012 Jul 3, In India officials said at least 95 have died in Assam state under the worst monsoon floods to hit in a decade.
(SFC, 7/4/12, p.A2)
2012 Jul 3, In central Iraq a truck bomb blamed on Al-Qaeda killed at least 40 people at a crowded market in Diwaniyah. Two car bombs killed 6 people in Karbala. Two separate gun and bomb attacks in Diyala province killed 4 people. In Taji a policeman was among 2 people killed in simultaneous bomb attacks. Another bomb attack in the town of Tuz Khurmatu killed a policeman and wounded another. In Baghdad, a series of assassinations by gunmen using silenced pistols left 3 people dead two police officers and a parliament official. An army major was killed while leading raids on two suspected Al-Qaeda safe houses in which five alleged insurgents were detained.
(AFP, 7/3/12)(AFP, 7/4/12)(SFC, 7/4/12, p.A3)
2012 Jul 3, In Italy Sergio Pininfarina (85), former head of Pininfarina SpA, died overnight in Turin. The family company was known for its designs of sleek Ferraris and other cars.
(AP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, In Mexico a powerful car bomb exploded outside the home of the top police official of the border state of Tamaulipas, killing 2 policemen and injuring 4 officers and 3 civilians.
(AP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Mexico’s Agriculture Dept. said an outbreak of H7N3 bird flu virus has infected about 2.5 million chickens and led authorities to destroy or dispose almost a million birds in Jalisco state.
(SFC, 7/6/12, p.A2)
2012 Jul 3, Myanmar's reformist government granted amnesties for at least 20 political prisoners, but opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for the release of hundreds more still behind bars.
(AP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Pakistan agreed to reopen its NATO supply line after the US said it was sorry for American airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November. On July 4 Pakistan's Cabinet endorsed the decision to reopen the route.
(AP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, In Peru protesters opposing the $4.8 billion Conga gold mine battled police and soldiers. The violence claimed at least 3 lives in Celendin, Cajamarca state. A 5th protester died on July 5 following 2 days of clashes. Cesar Medina (16) was returning home from an Internet cafe, his mother says, and got caught up in a crowd of demonstrators when police and soldiers opened fire. A bullet tore into his head, killing him instantly.
(SFC, 7/4/12, p.A2)(SSFC, 7/8/12, p.A3)(AP, 7/14/12)
2012 Jul 3, Sudan inked oil exploration and production-sharing agreements with companies from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France-Belgium and Nigeria.
(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government troops pounded several rebel-held districts in the central city of Homs. The Observatory said 38 people were killed across the country.
(AFP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, The Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) pulled out of the Cairo conference, citing political disputes. The Syrian Kurdish National Council stormed out of the meeting, protesting that the final document failed to specifically mention the Kurds.
(AFP, 7/4/12)
2012 Jul 3, Taiwan opened a space research control center, as part of an ambitious international project aimed at exploring the origins of the universe. Facilities at the Payload Operations and Control Center in the northern Lungtan township started monitoring signals transmitted from the International Space Station immediately after the inauguration.
(AFP, 7/3/12)
2012 Jul 3, Zimbabwe's leaders made public a year's ultimatum to foreign-owned banks and other firms to cede a 51% stake to local black people in compliance with equity and empowerment laws. The government notice was dated June 30.
(AFP, 7/3/12)
2013 Jul 3, NASA announced that Jason-1, a satellite that tracked rising sea levels, has ended its useful life. The joint US and French satellite was launched on Dec 7, 2001.
(SFC, 7/4/13, p.D3)
2013 Jul 3, Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan was released from home confinement ending over 5½ years in federal custody for corruption offenses.
(SFC, 7/4/13, p.A8)
2013 Jul 3, Doug Engelbart (88), inventor of the computer mouse, died at his home in Atherton, Ca.
(SFC, 7/4/13, p.D5)(Econ, 7/13/13, p.86)
2013 Jul 3, Argentina extradited Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorf to the US. The Colombian, arrested in 2011, was suspected of using submarines to smuggle 8 tons of cocaine to the US.
(SFC, 7/4/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 3, Belgium’s King Albert (79) announced he will abdicate on July 21, the country’s national holiday, and pass the throne of this fractious nation to his son.
(AP, 7/4/13)(SFC, 7/4/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 3, Brazilian truckers demanding cheaper fuel, better highways and lower tolls torched toll booths and crippled traffic in several regions, continuing their protests into a third day.
(AP, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, The British government said it is banning khat, an herbal stimulant, despite advice against such a move by an official advisory body.
(AP, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Egypt at least 16 people were killed and 200 wounded when gunmen opened fire on supporters of President Mohamed Mursi who were rallying outside Cairo University. Egypt's military ousted its first freely elected president after millions protested around the country and demanded Morsi's resignation. Abdel Fattah El Sisi, the head of Egypt's armed forces, announced on state television that Egypt's constitution was suspended, a new civilian government would be installed, and early elections would be held.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)(AP, 7/4/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Georgia a Turk and a Moldovan were detained after crossing the border from Armenia in a truck with tens of millions of dollars worth of heroin hidden in a secret compartment.
(Reuters, 7/5/13)
2013 Jul 3, The Indian government launched a $22 billion welfare program to give cheap food to hundreds of millions of people, a center-piece of the ruling Congress party's plan to win a third term in office in elections due by May 2014.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rouhani called for the government and powerful clergy to end interference in the private lives of the Iranian people, free up Internet access and allow state media to be more open about Iran's problems.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Iraq a roadside bomb killed at least 7 people in a Baghdad suburb while the bodies of 3 construction workers were found elsewhere in the capital. A bombing at a teahouse in Baghdad killed 3 people.
(AP, 7/3/13)(AP, 7/4/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Mexico Jalisco state prosecutors said authorities have found 7 severed heads stuffed in plastic bags on the edge of a highway near the city of Guadalajara.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Nigeria Maj. Gen. Henry Ayoola said the military went on the offensive after 28 civilians were killed last week. He said soldiers killed more than 100 gunmen blamed for ethno-religious clashes started by cattle rustling in central Nigeria.
(AP, 7/4/13)
2013 Jul 3, In Pakistan unmanned US aircraft fired four missiles at a house before dawn, killing at least 17 suspected militants in North Waziristan. The drone strike elicited a swift condemnation by the Pakistani government.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Portugal's financial markets went into a nosedive as the government teetered on the brink of collapse, alarming investors and reigniting concerns about the eurozone's strategy for dealing with its prolonged financial crisis.
(AP, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Russian Authorities arrested Evgeny Urlashov, the only opposition mayor of a major Russian city, for allegedly soliciting bribes, and said they found vast sums of cash stashed in his apartment building. The Investigative Committee in Yaroslavl said that it arrested Urlashov and three of his deputies for allegedly demanding a bribe of 14 million rubles (about $420,000) from an unidentified contractor.
(AP, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Saudi businessmen, expatriates and several countries welcomed a four-month extension to an amnesty for foreign workers with visa violations, saying it allowed businesses to operate as usual in the world's top oil exporter.
(Reuters, 7/3/13)
2013 Jul 3, Taiwanese soldier Hung Chung-chiu (24) died after being forced to perform a vigorous regime of sit-ups, push-ups, jumping jacks and squats in sweltering heat at a base in suburban Taipei, just three days away from completing his mandatory 20-month service requirement. His punishment was ordered because he brought a banned cell phone onto his base. On July 24 Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou apologized for the death and ordered military officials to investigate the tragedy.
(AP, 7/24/13)
2014 Jul 3, In San Diego retired navy officer Admond Aruffo pleaded guilty for his role in a scheme to bilk the Navy of millions of dollars for port services while manager of japan operations for Glenn Defense marine Asia, a Singapore company.
(SFC, 7/5/14, p.A5)
2014 Jul 3, Corinthian Colleges Inc. of Santa Ana and the US Education Dept. reached an agreement in which 85 of the company’s 110-plus campuses will go up for sale and close down 12 others.
(SFC, 7/5/14, p.A6)
2014 Jul 3, Category 2 Hurricane Arthur, the first hurricane of the season, made landfall near the outer banks of North Carolina forcing thousands of vacationers to abandon their Independence Day plans.
(AP, 7/3/14)(SFC, 7/4/14, p.A6)
2014 Jul 3, In Brazil an unfinished overpass collapsed in the World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte. Two people were reported killed.
(AP, 7/4/14)
2014 Jul 3, Chinese President Xi Jinping began a two-day visit to Seoul. The leaders of China and South Korea simultaneously snubbed North Korea, bolstered their already booming trade relationship and gave the US and Japan a look at Beijing's growing influence south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, A China-based tour operator said North Korea will reopen some of its domestic scheduled air routes for the first time in years, another sign of moves to bolster tourism in the isolated country.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Chinese patrol ships arrested six Vietnamese fishermen in waters off China's Hainan Island. An official in the district where the fishermen came from, said the arrests took place in disputed waters near the Gulf of Tonkin.
(AP, 7/4/14)
2014 Jul 3, In Egypt 2 men were killed in a bomb blast in Cairo, one of several explosions on the anniversary of the army's removal of Egypt's elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. Nearly 200 people were arrested and 3 killed in clashes between security forces and protesters.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)(Reuters, 7/4/14)(SFC, 7/4/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 3, A European Union court annulled sanctions placed by the 28-nation bloc on a leading Iranian university because of its alleged involvement with the country's nuclear program due to insufficient evidence. An asset freeze will remain in place for another two months to hinder Tehran's Sharif University of Technology from instantly withdrawing its frozen funds.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, French director Florent Marcie filmed Libyan insurgents from Zintan from the start of the Libyan uprising to the fall of leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and screened his film for the first time at Sarajevo's WARM festival. Some 120 Zintan fighters chartered a plane and traveled to Sarajevo to watch the premiere of the documentary.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Greeks were warned to expect brief power cuts as workers at the Public Power Corporation go on strike to protest government plans to sell part of the company.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, India's Foreign Ministry said that nearly 50 Indian nurses from the southern state of Kerala have been taken against their will from a hospital in the militant-controlled city of Tikrit in Iraq. The 46 nurses, trapped in Tikrit for more than a week, crossed into the Kurdish region on July 4. All returned to India on July 5.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)(AP, 7/5/14)
2014 Jul 3, Iraqi and US security officials said insurgents are preparing for an assault on Baghdad, with sleeper cells planted inside the capital to rise up at "Zero Hour" and aid fighters pushing in from the outskirts.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant marched across eastern Syria near the border with Iraq, seizing towns, villages and the country's largest oil field as rival rebel factions gave up the fight. ISIL released 32 Turkish truck drivers who they captured during a lightning offensive across northern and western Iraq last month.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region asked its parliament to plan a referendum on Kurdish independence.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Japan eased some sanctions on North Korea in return for its reopening of a probe into the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by the reclusive state decades ago, as a fresh report emerged that some of them were alive.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Kuwait police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters gathered in front of a jail to demand the release of Musallam al-Barrack, a former opposition lawmaker. He was detained a day earlier as part of an investigation into allegations of insulting the country's judiciary.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Thieves in central Mexico stole a pick-up truck carrying dangerous radioactive material. The load of iridium 192 was normally used in industrial radiography. The load of iridium 192 was found the next day abandoned on a street a few miles from where the truck was stolen.
(Reuters, 7/4/14)
2014 Jul 3, In Mexico Filiberto Hernandez Martinez (43), a zumba and karate teacher, was detained and confessed to killing at least 4 girls and a woman since 2010 in the northern state of San Luis Potosi.
(Reuters, 7/5/14)
2014 Jul 3, In Myanmar Buddhist mobs on motorbikes drove through Mandalay in a second night of attacks on minority Muslims. In response authorities imposed a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. A Muslim man was killed, beaten to death early today on his way to morning prayers.
(AP, 7/3/14)(Reuters, 7/4/14)
2014 Jul 3, In the Netherlands an Amsterdam court ruled that the traditional figure known as Black Pete, the sidekick to the Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus, is a negative stereotype of black people and the city must rethink its involvement in holiday celebrations involving him.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, In Nigeria Mubarak Bala (29), a chemical process engineer released from a mental ward to which his Muslim family committed him by force, said he is getting death threats for blaspheming against Islam and declaring himself an atheist.
(SFC, 7/4/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 3, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said the government has deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers abandoned the area. Baghdad denied this and said the frontier remained under its full control.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, A Somali lawmaker and his bodyguard were killed in Mogadishu when al Shabaab gunmen blocked their car and sprayed it with bullets, the fifth such attack in as many days.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, South African police fired rubber bullets to disperse workers who blocked the entrance to the construction site of state power utility Eskom's Medupi power station on the third day of a wage strike.
(Reuters, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, In South Korea the display manufacturing unit of Samsung Electronics Co. said it secured approval from Vietnam to build a $1 billion factory in the Southeast Asian country.
(AP, 7/3/14)
2014 Jul 3, Ukraine's Pres. Poroshenko shook up the leadership of his struggling military, appointing a new defense minister and top general tasked with stamping out the corruption that has left the country's armed forces faltering before a pro-Russian insurgency. Three helicopters bearing the markings of the Russian armed forces violated Ukrainian airspace several times. Ukraine followed up with protests to Russia.
(AP, 7/3/14)(Reuters, 7/4/14)
2015 Jul 3, In Arizona a new law made it possible for anyone to order a laboratory test with no need to see a doctor. Theranos, a company based in Palo Alto, Ca., had lobbied for the legal change.
(Econ, 6/27/15, p.51)
2015 Jul 3, An outbreak of salmonella began in the US. By September one person was dead and at least 285 others left sickened. It was traced to cucumbers imported from Mexico by a San Diego distributor.
(SSFC, 9/6/15, p.A7)
2015 Jul 3, Solar Impulse 2 landed in Hawaii following a record-breaking 5-day journey from Japan. The 118-hour voyage by pilot Andre Borschberg broke the 2006 record of 76 hours set by Steve Fossett in a round the world jet flight.
(SFC, 7/4/15, p.A6)
2015 Jul 3, US health insurer Aetna said it has agreed to acquire smaller rival Humana for $37 billion in cash and stock.
(SFC, 7/4/15, p.A7)
2015 Jul 3, The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project, or TAP, said it has started investing in Albania's infrastructure to prepare for starting construction of the pipeline next year. The 870 km (540 miles) pipeline from the Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan will cross Turkey, Greece and Albania and undersea to Italy, and deliver Caspian gas to Europe in early 2020.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, In China a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit a rural part of far western Xinjiang region, killing 6 people, injuring dozens and destroying or damaging thousands of homes.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Greece's PM Alexis Tsipras defended a weekend referendum he hopes will reset bailout negotiations and demanded creditors forgive a third of the country's debt and allow delayed repayments for the rest.
(AFP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, An Indian official said some 1,400 primary school teachers have quit in Bihar state in recent months amid an ongoing investigation into fake qualifications.
(AFP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Israeli commander Yisrael Shomer shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank as he and others hurled rocks at his SUV army vehicle. A video later showed Muhammad al-Kasbah (17) was shot as he fled the scene.
(SFC, 7/4/15, p.A4)(SFC, 7/14/15, p.A5)
2015 Jul 3, In Libya at least 10 civilians were killed when three separate car bombs exploded simultaneously in Derna. The bombings set off clashes between local IS-militants and al-Qaida linked militias that continued into the next day.
(SSFC, 7/5/15, p.A3)
2015 Jul 3, Malaysian PM Najib Razak denied news reports that nearly $700 million were funneled from an indebted state investment fund into his personal accounts.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Dutch police have detained some 200 people for ignoring a ban on public assembly imposed in a neighborhood hit by four days of late-night rioting following the death of a man in police custody.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, In northeastern Nigeria suspected Boko Haram militants killed 11 men in Miringa village, dragging them from their homes and shooting them for escaping forced conscription by their group. At Malari village, just outside Maiduguri, an explosion from a teenage girl at the market killed at least 10 people. Minutes later a woman in a taxi blew up at a military checkpoint and killed a soldier and two passengers.
(AFP, 7/3/15)(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Palestinian forces arrested overnight around 100 Hamas members in the West Bank. An official said they had intended to carry out attacks against the Palestinian Authority (PA).
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Russian lawmakers voted for a bill forcing online search engines to remove search results about a specific person at that person's request.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Russia launched an unmanned cargo ship from Kazakhstan to the Int’l. Space Station. The Progress M-28 ship was set to dock on July 5.
(SFC, 7/4/15, p.A4)
2015 Jul 3, Slovakia's spy agency in its annual report said Russian agents have significantly increased their activities in Slovakia and all other NATO and European Union countries in connection with the crisis in Ukraine.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, In South Korea an explosion killed 6 workers at a chemical plant run by Hanwha Chemical Co. in the southeastern city of Ulsan.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Syrian government forces carried out heavy air strikes on rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo. Rebel forces seized some buildings from government control on the northwestern city outskirts of Jamiyat al-Zahra. At least 35 insurgents were killed in that area, including a dozen Syrians and many others of central Asian origin. A bomb exploded inside a mosque in an opposition-held suburb of Damascus, killing a Sunni Muslim cleric.
(Reuters, 7/3/15)(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated a mosque on the grounds of his gigantic palace complex naming it the "Bestepe People's Mosque" and opened it to the public in an apparent effort to stave off more criticism over his spending.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, In southeastern Yemen a drone attacked an army base held by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), killing 4 suspected militants. Saudi-led air strikes and clashes in Aden killed 13 Shiite Huthi rebels and 8 pro-government fighters.
(Reuters, 7/3/15)(AP, 7/3/15)
2015 Jul 3, The UN children's agency said at least 29 people have died in South Sudan's latest cholera outbreak.
(AP, 7/3/15)
2016 Jul 3, Noel Neill (b.1920), film and TV actress who played Lois Lane in the “Superman" movie serials and on TV, died at her home in Tucson.
(SFC, 7/6/16, p.D6)
2016 Jul 3, In Louisiana a drunken driver, Tracy Govan (44), sideswiped a police car at a traffic stop on I-55 in Sterlington killing Officer David Elahi and injuring two others.
(SFC, 7/4/16, p.A5)
2016 Jul 3, Chinese authorities said three days of heavy rain in southern China have left 50 people dead and another 12 missing and destroyed thousands of homes, as areas along the Yangtze River braced for more floods. The death toll soon rose to 128 with damages to more than 1.9 million hectares of crops and direct economic losses of more than 38 billion yuan ($5.70 billion).
(AP, 7/3/16)(Reuters, 7/5/16)
2016 Jul 3, In China protest against an incinerator in Lubu town, Guangdong province, turned violent and police were injured as people attempted to break into government offices.
(AP, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, In Germany tens of thousands took part the the annual gay pride parade in Cologne.
(SFC, 7/4/16, p.A2)
2016 Jul 3, An Indian official said at least 40 people were feared dead following a weekend downpour that triggered flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand state.
(Reuters, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, In Iraq at least 115 people were killed in a suicide blast in the Karada district of Baghdad. Another 5 people were killed in a Shiite neighborhood east of Baghdad. The death toll from the truck bombing in the Karada district continued to rise to at least 186 as more human remains were recovered. The Health Ministry put the toll at 292.
(AP, 7/4/16)(AP, 7/4/16)(AP, 7/7/16)(Reuters, 7/7/16)
2016 Jul 3, The Israeli army attacked two Syrian military targets on the Golan Heights after stray Syrian fire damaged the security fence along the demarcation line.
(AFP, 7/4/16)
2016 Jul 3, Israeli firms announced that a consortium led by US firm Noble Energy has approved a $265-million project to sink a new well in the Tamar natural gas field off Israel.
(AFP, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, In Libya a car bomb exploded overnight in one of the busiest districts of Benghazi, killing at least 2 police officers and wounding seven other people.
(AP, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, A court in the Maldives barred a group of journalists from working for their newly formed media organization for two years, threatening its closure in a move they criticized as an assault on media freedom in the archipelago nation. The journalists had launched Mihaaru news two months ago after the country's oldest and most reputed news organization, Haveeru Media Group, was shut down as a result of court arbitration of an ownership dispute.
(AP, 7/4/16)
2016 Jul 3, Myanmar's bitterly-divided Rakhine State saw mass protests as thousands of Buddhists, including monks, demonstrated in a show of opposition to a government edict referring to Muslim communities in the restive province.
(AFP, 7/3/16)
2016 Jul 3, In northern Pakistan heavy monsoon rains overnight triggered flash floods that killed at least 30 people in the Chitral district.
(AP, 7/3/16)(SFC, 7/4/16, p.A2)
2016 Jul 3, Philippine police seized about 180 kg (400 pounds) of high-grade methamphetamine worth 900 million pesos ($19.2 million).
(AP, 7/4/16)
2016 Jul 3, Turkey delivered humanitarian aid and other non-military products to Gaza. The Panama-flagged Lady Leyla landed in the Israeli port of Ashdod with 11,000 tons of supplies, including food packages of flour, rice, and sugar, as well as 10,000 toys.
(SFC, 7/4/16, p.A2)
2017 Jul 3, In California Danny Pham (27) was found dead at the Orange County Central Jail Complex while serving 180 days for car theft. He was reportedly killed by a cellmate who was in jail on two murder charges.
(http://tinyurl.com/ybpewluq)(SFC, 7/24/17, p.A5)
2017 Jul 3, Oregon enacted a rule change allowing people who do not identify with their gender to instead mark “X" on their driver’s licenses of state ID cards.
(SFC, 8/12/17, p.A6)
2017 Jul 3, In Afghanistan an American soldier (19) died in Helmand province from wounds received in an attack.
(Reuters, 7/5/17)
2017 Jul 3, Arab nations isolating Qatar extended a deadline for the energy rich country to respond to their demands by another 48 hours, allowing its top diplomat to carry a handwritten response to Kuwait's ruler in an effort to end the diplomatic crisis.
(AP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Bangladesh a boiler explosion late today at a garment plant near the city of Dhaka killed 10 people and injured dozens, the latest industrial tragedy to hit one of the world's biggest garment producers.
(Reuters, 7/4/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Belarus about 100 people protested, calling for the former Soviet republic to reduce its military dependence on Russia and seek closer ties with Europe.
(AP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Bahrain female rights activist Ebtisam al-Sayegh (48) was taken into custody by masked, armed police shortly before midnight. Al-Sayegh has alleged that she was tortured and sexually assaulted during a previous detention in May.
(AP, 7/4/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Brazil the billionaire Batista family's 10.3 billion-real ($3.1 billion) leniency deal sparked anger over what many saw as lax penalties and a lack of transparency. Many Brazilians questioned Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot's plea deal by which he decided not to jail brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista - who admitted to bribing nearly 2,000 politicians.
(Reuters, 7/4/17)
2017 Jul 3, British authorities said they have seized 79 handguns at a border check on the French side of the Channel Tunnel in the largest such haul on record.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Congo DRC Banro Corp said fighting between the Congolese army and a local militia in the east has forced its Namoya gold mine to suspend all operations and temporarily evacuate its staff. Ten militiamen and two army soldiers have in fighting over the last 24 hours.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, Djibouti said it has asked the African Union to deploy observers along its disputed border with Eritrea after Qatar withdrew its peace-keeping troops on June 14.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Ethiopia Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe handed over $1 million (880,000 euros) at the start of the AU's bi-annual summit in Addis Ababa, after auctioning off 300 of his own cattle, as well as those belonging to some of his supporters to help make the AU self-supporting.
(AFP, 7/2/17)
2017 Jul 3, The European Union urged Myanmar to protect journalists from "intimidation, arrest or prosecution" after several cases of reporters running into trouble with the law, including three detained by the army last week.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, French energy giant Total signed a $4.9 billion agreement to develop an Iranian offshore gas field, in the biggest foreign deal since sanctions on Iran were eased.
(AFP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, France, Germany and the European Union pledged more money for Libya's coast guard and more support for Italy to cope with a surge of migrant arrivals from Africa.
(AP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives promised more police, more homes and full employment within eight years when they presented their program for an election in which she will seek a fourth term in office.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Germany eighteen people were killed when a tour bus carrying mostly pensioners smashed into a trailer truck and burst into flames on the A9 motorway near the small Bavarian town of Stammbach.
(AFP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, Iranians opened a "Trumpism" cartoon contest in which hundreds of participants were invited to submit artwork mocking the US leader. Hadi Asadi won first prize and a $1,500 award. His cartoon shows Trump wearing a jacket made of dollar notes while drooling on books, a reference to cultural material. "I wanted to show Trump while trampling symbols of culture," said Asadi.
(AP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, In Iraq Islamic State fighters battled to hold on to the last few streets under their control in the Old City of Mosul, making a doomed last stand in their former Iraqi stronghold. Seven female suicide bombers blew themselves up in Mosul. At least one Iraqi soldier was killed in two separate suicide attacks.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)(AP, 7/3/17)(SFC, 7/4/17, p.A3)
2017 Jul 3, In central Mexico nine people were killed in a series of shootings involving disputes between suspected fuel thieves in Puebla state.
(AP, 7/4/17)
2017 Jul 3, Mexican artist Luis Cuevas (b.1934) died in Mexico City. He had worked mainly in ink drawings depicting the wretched of the earth in an unblinking expressionist manner.
(SSFC, 7/9/17, p.C11)
2017 Jul 3, In the Philippines a Senate committee said it will investigate police actions after a Reuters report detailed how officers have used hospitals to cover up executions in President Rodrigo Duterte's year-old war on drugs.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, The Syrian army unilaterally announced a halt to fighting in the country's south that would coincide with a new round of peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana.
(AFP, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, Thailand immigration officials said tens of thousands of migrant workers, most of them from Myanmar, have fled from Thailand in fear after new labor regulations adopted by the military government. About 60,000 workers left between June 23 and June 28, and the number has risen since.
(Reuters, 7/3/17)
2017 Jul 3, Ukraine said it is investigating the country’s M.E. Doc software company, accused of being patient zero in the June 28 global cyberepidemic. The company’s eponymous software is widely used by businesses across the country.
(SFC, 7/4/17, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, It was reported that Kentucky's Gov. Matt Bevin's administration is cutting dental and vision coverage for nearly have a million state residents after his Medicaid overhaul plan was rejected in court.
(SFC, 7/3/18, p.A5)
2018 Jul 3, A federal judge in Massachusetts extended an order blocking the federal government for three weeks from cutting off housing assistance to people who were forced to leave their homes in Puerto Rico because of Hurricane Maria.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Australia Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson was sentenced to 12 months in detention for covering up child sex abuse and ordered to serve at least six months before being eligible for parole.
(SFC, 7/3/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, In Tunisia Souad Abederrahim (54) was elected by the Tunis municipal council to serve as the city's first female mayor.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, Belarus authorities in Minsk thwarted the opposition's attempt to hold a rally and detained several activists.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, The British government said it will ban gay conversion therapy as part of a $5.9 miilion effort to make society more inclusive for LGBT people.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, British police arrested a female health care worker on suspicion of murdering eight babies and trying to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, northwestern England. Nurse Lucy Letby was soon released without charges. She was arrested again in 2019 and released. In 2020 she was charged with several counts of murder.
(AP, 7/3/18)(SFC, 11/13/20, p.A4)
2018 Jul 3, A Chilean judge sentenced eight retired military officers to 18 years in prison for the 1973 kidnapping and murder of folk singer Victor Jara and a government official at the start of the country's military dictatorship. A ninth veteran was sentenced to five years for cover-up.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, Comoros President Azali Assoumani and visiting Saudi interior minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef signed agreements worth $22 million to help finance water and road infrastructure in the poor Indian Ocean island nation.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, Human Rights Watch said at least 5,000 people have been killed in the Kasai region of Congo DRC over the past two years and more than 1.4 million displaced, while "only a few low-level criminal suspects have been prosecuted".
(Reuters, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, A Danish appeals court increased the prison sentence of Frederik Oliver Schmidt (25), convicted of aggravated manslaughter for crashing his jet ski into a boat on May 6, 2016, and killing American students Leah Bell (18) of Madisonville, Louisiana, and Linsey Malia (21) of Easton, Massachusetts.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, A judge in Ecuador ordered former Pres. Rafael Correa jailed for failing to appear in court as part of an investigation into the botched 2012 kidnapping of an opposiiton lawmaker. The judge also approved a request to seek Correa's extraditioon from Belgium.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, The European Commission called on Belarus to develop an action plan "to ensure timely implementation of all safety improvement measures in accordance with their safety significance" for the nearly completed Astravets nuclear power plant.
(Reuters, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In France riots erupted in the western city of Nantes after news spread that a police officer had shot dead a 22-year-old man after stopping his car. Police said the young man's car had been under surveillance as part of a drug-trafficking investigation.
(AFP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In France Greenpeace crashed a Superman-shaped drone into a wall of the spent-fuel pool building at EDF's Bugey nuclear plant to demonstrate its vulnerability to outside attacks.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In France Wang Jian (57), the co-chairman of HNA Group, a conglomerate that operates China's fourth-largest airline and finance, logistics and other businesses around the world, died in an accident while on a business trip. Wang fell a dozen or so meters (yards) while taking photos on a high wall in Bonnieux.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Germany Wiesbaden prosecutors said that Ali Bashar (20), who's in custody for the May slaying of Susanna Feldman, is believed to have raped a 11-year-old German girl in a refugee home in March in the western city. Prosecutors said Bashar and a 14-year-old Afghan boy also raped the 11-year-old together in May. The Afghan boy is accused of also raping her another time and was arrested a day earlier.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Indonesia at least 31 people were killed and a frantic rescue operation was underway off the island of Sulawesi for passengers of a sinking passenger ferry. The captain steered the 48.5-meter-long (159-foot-long) vessel toward shore after it began sinking on a voyage from the port of Bira to Selayar island. Three people remained missing and believed drowned inside the vessel.
(AP, 7/3/18)(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, Iraqi authorities began recounting votes from May's disputed parliamentary election, officials said, a step toward forming a new government after weeks of delays.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, The Israeli military said it had uncovered a plot by Hamas militants to spy on soldiers by befriending them on social media and luring them into downloading fake dating apllicatrions that gave Hamas access to their smartphones.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A4)
2018 Jul 3, Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak was arrested in a stunning fall from grace following a shock election loss in May amid allegations of massive corruption and misappropriation at a state fund he founded.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Mali local government administrators responsible for organizing July 29 presidential and legislative elections indefinitely extended a strike until demands for better safety and pay are met. Election organizers late today agreed to end a two-week strike over working conditions, lifting a threat to a looming vote.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)(Reuters, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Pakistan torrential monsoon rains lashed many cities and towns across the country before dawn, flooding streets and killing six people in Lahore.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Palestinian leaders strongly condemned a new Israeli law that will freeze money transfers to the Palestinian Authority to punish the PA's payments to families of those jailed for attacks.
(AFP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In the Philippines Mayor Ferdinand Bote of northern General Tinio town was shot and killed by an unidentified man riding a motorcycle. He was the 2nd mayor killed in two days. The gunman escaped.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In the Philippines government troops clashed with 30-40 militants and drove them away from the small farming community of Mopac where they planned to launch an attack on the town center of Datu Paglas about a half km away.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, Poland braced for protests against judicial reforms that come into force at midnight despite strong opposition at home and an ongoing row between Warsaw and the EU. Malgorzata Gersdorf, the head of Poland's Supreme Court insisted that under the Constitution of Poland her term as the court's first president runs until 2020.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Romania's upper house of parliament voted through a change to the criminal code that could overturn a prison sentence given to the leader of the ruling party. The vote came in the face of complaints and protests from opposition politicians and anti-corruption activists who have accused the government of allowing widespread graft.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Russian investigators said historian Yury Dmitriyev (62) has been charged with sexual assault and faces up to 20 years in prison, if convicted. Dmitriyev was accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter between 2012 and 2016 and vehemently denied all the charges. He spent decades locating and exhuming mass graves of people killed under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's rule. Activists said the case against him is an attempt by authorities to muzzle the outspoken historian.
(AFP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Serbia Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko met with President Aleksandar Vucic in a bid to boost ties with the Balkan country, a key Russian ally in Europe, as both states seek to join the European Union.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Swiss President Alain Berset urged all sides not to endanger the nuclear agreement between global powers and Iran, after meeting his Tehran counterpart, Hassan Rouhani.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, Syrian rebel negotiators began a new round of talks with Russian officers over a peace deal in southern Syria that would hand over their weapons and allow Russian military police to enter rebel-held towns.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said one of the Islamic
State's last pockets in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour came under intense shelling from the US-led coalition. At least 12 militants are believed to have been killed in Hajin. The Observatory also said at least 11 displaced Syrians fleeing the fighting in southwestern Syria were killed when they stepped on a land mine. The Islamic State group said the son of its top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed fighting Syrian government forces. Their statement did not specify when he was killed.
(AP, 7/4/18)
2018 Jul 3, In Tunisia Souad Abederrahim (54) was elected by the Tunis municipal council to serve as the city's first female mayor.
(SFC, 7/4/18, p.A2)
2018 Jul 3, In southern Turkey a gunman killed the deputy head of the Trade and Industry Chamber for the city of Osmaniye. The organization's president was wounded in the attack.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, The United Arab Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority ordered firms to identify and freeze the accounts and assets of nine Iranian individuals and entities the UAE has placed on its terrorism list.
(Reuters, 7/3/18)
2018 Jul 3, In southern Yemen 46 detainees walked free after months or years spent in detention in one of several prisons controlled by the United Arab Emirates.
(AP, 7/3/18)
2019 Jul 3, President Donald Trump warned Iran against stepping up uranium enrichment, the latest escalation of the conflict over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program that has plunged the Gulf into renewed uncertainty.
(Bloomberg, 7/4/19)
2019 Jul 3, The Trump administration told Justice Dept. lawyers to find a way to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A6)
2019 Jul 3, A US federal appeals court refused to allow Pres. Donald Trump to start building his wall at the Mexican boder using money set aside for the military.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A9)
2019 Jul 3, The parents of Otto Warmbier filed a claim for a seized North Korean cargo ship, seeking to collect on a multimillion-dollar judgment awarded in the American college student's death.
(AP, 7/6/19)
2019 Jul 3, California became the first state in the US to ban discrimination against black employees based on their natural hairstyles. In 2020 July 3 was declared National Crown Day to celebrate the day the CROWN Act (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) legislation was signed into law.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A1)(Good Morning America, 7/2/20)
2019 Jul 3, In San Diego Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher (40) was given a demotion by a military jury and the maximum sentence of four months' confinement for posing with a human casualty in Iraq in 2017. He will spend no time in jail because it is less than the time he was held in custody before the trial.
(AP, 7/4/19)
2019 Jul 3, Arte Johnson (b.1929), American comic actor, died in Los Angeles. He made his mark in TV comedy show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" from 1967-1971.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.C2)
2019 Jul 2, A US federal judge temporarily block an Ohio law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
(http://tinyurl.com/y5qbch7b)(SFC, 7/5/19, p.A6)
2019 Jul 3, US stock markets closed at record highs. The DJIA closed at 26,966; Nasdaq closed at 8,170.23; the S&P 500 closed at 2995.82, a record high for the 3rd straight day.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.D1)
2019 Jul 3, In northeastern China a tornado blew through Kaiyaun late today, killing six people and injuring another 190.
(SFC, 7/5/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 3, In India Rahul Gandhi resigned as president of the opposition Congress Party, long led by his politically powerful family.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 3, Iran ignored US and EU warnings and vowed to exceed within days the maximum uranium enrichment level it agreed to in the landmark 2015 nuclear accord. Iran warned it will restore a mothballed reactor and step up enrichment if European nations fail to offer it economic guarantees by a July 7 deadline. Iran's intelligence minister said Tehran and Washington could hold talks only if the US ended its sanctions and Iran's top authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave his approval.
(AFP, 7/3/19)(Reuters, 7/4/19)
2019 Jul 3, The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, an international body of Muslim nations, condemned the opening of an Israeli tunnel that runs beneath a Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem.
(AP, 7/3/19)
2019 Jul 3, A Kenyan court sentenced Rashid Charles Mberesero to life in jail for being an accomplice in the 2015 attack on Garissa Univ. that left 148 people dead. Mohamed Abdi Abikar and Hassan Aden Hassan were sentenced to 41 years each for assisting in the attack.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 3, In Libya an airstrike hit a detention center for migrants near Tripoli early today killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 130. The Tripoli-based government blamed Hifter's self-styled Libyan National Army for the airstrike and called for the UN to investigate. The UN later reported that Libyan guards shot at refugees and migrants trying to flee from airstrikes that killed at least 53 people, including six children. Witnesses later told UN investigators that they tried to escape but were stopped by guards and forced back inside.
(AP, 7/3/19)(Reuters, 7/4/19)(AP, 1/27/20)
2019 Jul 3, Pakistan's military said an explosion has killed five soldiers near the Indian border in Kashmir.
(SFC, 7/4/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 3, President Vladimir Putin signed a bill suspending Russia's participation in a pivotal nuclear arms treaty. The decree formalizes Russia's departure from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty with the US following Washington's withdrawal from the pact.
(AP, 7/3/19)
2019 Jul 3, American rapper A$AP Rocky (30), a performer, producer and model, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was detained in Sweden along with his bodyguard and two other members of his entourage in connection with a fight in a Stockholm city-center street in the early hours of June 30.
(Reuters, 7/20/19)
2019 Jul 3, A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in southern Syria killing at least three people in Sweida province.
(AP, 7/3/19)
2019 Jul 3, A boat carrying 86 migrants from Libya sank off the Tunisian city of Zarzis and only three passengers are known to have survived the shipwreck.
(AP, 7/4/19)
2019 Jul 3, Turkey's state-run news agency said two Russian women, who are suspected of being Islamic State militants and are allegedly listed as wanted by Interpol, have been detained by authorities while trying to enter Turkey illegally from neighboring Syria accompanied by their nine children in an effort to return to Russia.
(AP, 7/3/19)
2019 Jul 3, The UN said that conflict had intensified in a region of South Sudan since a peace deal was signed, with hundreds of civilians raped or murdered by warring factions.
(AFP, 7/3/19)
2020 Jul 3, In South Dakota President Donald Trump dug deeper into America's divisions by accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history" during a speech at Mount Rushmore. Trump said he will establish a “National Garden of American Heroes… a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans who ever lived." Supporters, most of them maskless flouted public health guidelines that recommend not gathering in large groups.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, US prosecutors said Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, a Nigerian man charged with conspiring to launder a fortune from email scams, has arrived in Chicago to face charges. UAE authorities arrested Abbas last month. Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, had showed off his wealth to 2.4 million Instagram followers. Hushpuppi, and another cyber-heist suspect Olalekan Jacob Ponle (aka Mr Woodberry) appeared in a Chicago court. They had been arrested in Dubai, where they lived, in June. Dubai police said they had been extradited to the US.
(NBC News, 7/4/20)(BBC, 7/10/20)
2020 Jul 3, The US set another record with 52,300 newly reported coronavirus infections, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
(AP, 7/4/20)
2020 Jul 3, In Colorado interim police chief Vanessa Wilson said the police officers who took disturbing photos at the memorial site where Elijah McClain was placed in a police chokehold and later died have all been terminated from the Aurora Police Department. McClain (23) died on August 30, 2019, days after police confronted him as he walked home from a convenience store.
(ABC News, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, California officials said the coronavirus is suspected of killing two more death row inmates at San Quentin State Prison, where about 40% of inmates are now infected.
(AP, 7/4/20)
2020 Jul 3, California to date had 250,431 cases of coronavirus and 6,312 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 27,745 cases and 595 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 2,793,022 with the death toll at 129,405.
(sfist.com, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, In California Ari Gershman (45), a Danville doctor, was shot and killed while off-roading with his son near Downieville in Sierra County. The unnamed gunman was arrested a day later. The son escaped into the wilderness and spent 30 hours in the Tahoe National Forest before a search party found him. Police the following day arrested John Thomas Conway (40) of Honcut, a rural community in Butte County. Conway was hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
(SFC, 7/7/20, p.B1)(SFC, 7/9/20, p.B2)
2020 Jul 3, In Florida Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez issued a new overnight curfew effective immediately closing casinos, movie theaters and other entertainment venues to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 3, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed an executive order that allows local officials to issue their own mask mandates if they want, as coronavirus cases continued to increase.
(AP, 7/4/20)
2020 Jul 3, Medical technology company Becton Dickinson and Co said it received an order from the UK government for 65 million injection devices to support Britain's COVID-19 vaccination program.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Los Angeles-based company, formally known as Lucky Brand Dungarees, LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to millions of dollars in outstanding debts owed to lenders.
(Good Morning America, 7/6/20)
2020 Jul 3, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi said their rheumatoid arthritis drug Kevzara failed to meet the main goals of a US study testing it in the most critically ill COVID-19 patients.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Zydus, part of Cadila Healthcare Ltd, said it has received approval from Indian regulators to begin human studies for its COVID-19 vaccine contender, as the novel coronavirus infections continue to surge in the world's fourth worst-hit nation.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Australia reported a drop in new coronavirus cases, with a surge in the second most populated state Victoria appearing to have eased, although more than 10,000 people have refused to be tested in hotspot suburbs of Melbourne.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Bolivia has reported more than 32,000 cases of the coronavirus and more than 1,000 deaths. Cases were expected to peak around the time of presidential elections planned for September.
(SFC, 7/3/20, p.A9)
2020 Jul 3, Botswana said it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses — 275 — found in the popular Okavango Delta area in recent weeks. A day earlier Botswana's government announced “an alarming surge of rhinoceros poaching in the Okavango Delta" in recent days.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, It was reported that distressed British satellite constellation operator OneWeb, which had entered bankruptcy protection proceedings at the end of March, has completed a sale process, with a consortium led by the UK Government as the winner. The group includes funding from India's Bharti Global.
(TechCrunch, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, China reported three new coronavirus cases in the mainland, compared with five cases a day earlier.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, It became clear that Graziano Mesina (78) had fled Corsica after the supreme court in Rome turned down an appeal against a 30-year sentence for drug trafficking.
(Econ., 7/11/20, p.41)
2020 Jul 3, The European Commission said it had given conditional approval for the use of antiviral remdesivir in severe COVID-19 patients following an accelerated review process, making it the region's first authorized therapy to treat the virus.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, French President Emmanuel Macron named Jean Castex, who coordinated France’s virus reopening strategy, as the country's new prime minister, replacing Edouard Philippe, who resigned earlier in the day.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, The Paris appeals court upheld a decision to end a years-long investigation into the plane crash that sparked Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, citing lack of sufficient evidence.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, German scientists began a nationwide study to gain a better overview of the actual prevalence of the new coronavirus in the country's population and test how well measures to prevent its spread are working.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, India reported another single-day record high of new coronavirus cases. The new 20,903 cases took the national total to 625,544. Another 379 deaths took that total to 18,213.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 3, Two Israeli defence contractors said they will partner with Abu Dhabi-based technology company Group 42 to develop technologies to help fight the new coronavirus.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Tokyo reported 124 new cases, up from 107 the day before, partly due to increased testing among nightlife workers in the Shinjuku and Ikebukuro districts.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Malian officials said armed men attacked farming villages in the central Mopti region this week, killing at least 33 people. Fulani armed groups have been targeting Dogon farmers and Dogon farmers have been responsible for attacks on Fulani villages in the region.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 3, The Mexican government said it has formally joined the Int'l. Labor Organization's Convention 189 on the rights of domestic workers. C189 entered into force on 5 September 2013. This makes Mexico the thirtieth member State of the ILO and the seventeenth member State in the Americas to ratify the Convention.
(https://tinyurl.com/ycwmtwkd)(SFC, 7/6/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 3, In Mexico soldiers patrolling the the border city of Nuevo Laredo came under fire from drug cartel gunmen. The military said 12 attackers were killed. In Guanajuato state armed men killed five police officers.
(SSFC, 7/5/20, p.A3)
2020 Jul 3, Oman's health minister said the sultanate had witnessed a "scary" surge in cases that required boosting hospital capacity, especially intensive care units.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, In eastern Pakistan a passenger train crashed into a bus carrying Sikh pilgrims, killing 22 people.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 3, Philippine Pres. Rodrigo Duterte signed a widely opposed anti-terror law that critics fear could be used against human rights defenders to muzzle dissent. The law allows the detention of suspects for up to 24 days without charges.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A3)
2020 Jul 3, In the Philippines thousands of jeepneys, flamboyantly decorated jeeps that serve as cheap public transport across the country, were back on the streets of Manila, bringing relief to companies and commuters who have struggled with coronavirus curbs.
(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, President Vladimir Putin ordered amendments that would allow him to remain in power until 2036 to be put into the Russian Constitution after voters approved the changes during a week-long plebiscite. Other key reforms include an amendment granting former Russian presidents automatic immunity from criminal prosecution, as well as reforms enshrining a reference to "belief in God" and a statement about marriage being only the union of a man and a woman. Changes to the constitution will come into force on July 4.
(AP, 7/3/20)(Reuters, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, A Russian Orthodox Church panel in Yekaterinburg defrocked a coronavirus-denying monk who has defied Kremlin lockdown orders and taken control of a monastery. Father Sergiy urged his backers to come to defend the Sredneuralsk women's monastery where he has holed up since last month.
(AP, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, Serbia reported 309 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours along with 11 deaths.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 3, South Africa reported another record high of daily coronavirus cases with 8,728. Total cases now numbered more than 168,000.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 3, Turkey launched a trial for 20 Saudi officials accused of killing Jamal Khashoggi in October, 2018, with rights groups saying the prosecution offered the best chance for justice for the slain journalist. The next session was scheduled for November 24.
(The Telegraph, 7/3/20)
2020 Jul 3, A court in Istanbul, Turkey, convicted Taner Kilic, Amnesty Int'l.'s former Turkey chairman, of membership in a terror organization and sentenced him to more than six years in prison. Three other activists were also convicted. Amnesty Int'l. condemned the ruling.
(SFC, 7/4/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 3, In northwestern Turkey an explosion at a fireworks factory killed four people and injured at least 97 others outside the town of Hendek, Sakarya province. A manager and two supervisors were soon detained following the explosion in northwestern Sakarya province.
(AP, 7/3/20)(AP, 7/4/20)
2020 Jul 3, Uganda so far has 900 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with 847 recoveries and no deaths.
(BBC, 7/3/20)
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