Today in History - July 23
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306 Jul 23, Constantine was proclaimed Caesar of the west by the army, while Severus, the former Caesar, was proclaimed Augusta of the west by Galerius.
(HN, 7/23/98)
636 Jul 23, Arabs gained control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1298 Jul 23, Jews were massacred at Wurzburg, Germany.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1373 Jul 23, Birgitta of Sweden, Swedish saint, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1403 Jul 23, The Battle of Shrewsbury was fought by the Percys against King Henry IV. Henry Percy (39), [Harry Hotspur], was killed in the battle.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1558 Jul 23, Battle at Grevelingen: Gen. Lamoral van Egmont beat France. [see Jul 13]
(MC, 7/23/02)
1562 Jul 23, Gottfried, Gotz von Berlichingen, German Knight of kingdom, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1568 Jul 23, Don Carlos (c23), son of Spanish king Philip II, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1588 Jul 23, English army assembles at Tilbury to repel invasion of England by Spanish Armada.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1595 Jul 23, Spanish soldiers landed at Cornwall, England, and burned Mousehold and Penzance before returning to their ships.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1599 Jul 23, Caravaggio received his 1st public commission for paintings.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1627 Jul 23, Sir George Calvert arrived in Newfoundland to develop his land grant.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1631 Jul 23, Sweden's King Gustavus II repulsed an imperialist force at Werben, Russia.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1637 Jul 23, King Charles of England handed over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Fernando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1664 Jul 23, Wealthy non-church members in Massachusetts were given the right to vote.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1664 Jul 23, 4 British ships arrived in Boston to drive the Dutch out of NY.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1726 Jul 23, Benjamin Franklin sailed back to Philadelphia.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1745 Jul 23, Charles Stuart (1720-1788), the Younger, and 7 companions landed at Eriskay Island, in the Hebrides.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart)
1757 Jul 23, Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (71), Italian composer (La Silvia), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1759 Jul 23, Russians under Saltikov defeated Prussians at Kay in eastern Germany, and one-fourth of Prussian army of 27,000 was lost.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1785 Jul 23, Prussia's Frederick the Great formed Die Furstenbund (League of German Princes).
(AP, 7/23/97)
1789 Jul 23, The Great Fear swept through France as the Revolution continued.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1793 Jul 23, The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, fell to the Prussians.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1794 Jul 23, Chaos and anarchy were averted temporarily when Robespierre joined conciliation talks in Paris.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1796 Jul 23, Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1803 Jul 23, Irish patriots throughout the country rebelled against Union with Great Britain. Robert Emmett led the insurrection in Dublin.
(HN, 7/23/98)(MC, 7/23/02)
1829 Jul 23, William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his "typographer," a forerunner of the typewriter.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1834 Jul 23, James Gibbons, American religious leader and founder of Catholic University, was born.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1846 Jul 23, The California Battalion was officially authorized under Commodore Robert F. Stockton (U.S. Navy), the senior military officer in California who had replaced Commodore John D. Sloat as the commander of the US Navy's Pacific Squadron in July 1846.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Battalion)
1849 Jul 23, German rebels in Baden capitulated to the Prussians.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1850 Jul 23, French priest Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888) received notice of his appointment as bishop of the recently created Vicariate of New Mexico. He was dispatched by Rome to bring order and discipline to the New Mexican territory. In 1875 he was named Archbishop for the area. He was the subject of Willa Cather’s novel “Death Comes for the Archbishop" (1927).
(WSJ, 9/13/06, p.D10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lamy)
1851 Jul 23, Sioux Indians and US signed the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1858 Jul 23, Jewish Disabilities Removal Act was passed by British Parliament.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1863 Jul 23, Bill Anderson and his Confederate Bushwackers gutted the railway station at Renick, Missouri.
(HN, 7/23/99)
1865 Jul 2, William Booth (1829-1912), British Methodist preacher, held his first meeting for the Salvation Army in London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Booth)
1866 Jul 23, Francesco Cilea, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1870 Jul 23, In France Marx completed what will become known as his "First Address."
(www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/timeline.htm)
1875 Jul 23, Isaac Merritt Singer (63), inventor (sewing machine), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1877 Jul 23, Riots broke out in San Francisco as the Workingmen's Party called for reforms near the unfinished City Hall. Over the next few days rioters killed several Chinese people and set fire to Chinese businesses. A brigade of 4,000 volunteers fought back the rioters and when order was restored 4 rioters lay dead and dozens of Chinese businesses destroyed.
(SFC, 2/20/21, p.B4)
1880 Jul 23, 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet began in Grand Rapids, Mich.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1883 Jul 23, Lord Allanbrooke (d.1963), English soldier, was born.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1885 Jul 23, Ulysses S. Grant (b.1822), commander of the Union forces at the end of the Civil War and the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, NY, at age 63. He had just completed the final revisions to his memoirs, which were published as a 2 volume set by Mark Twain. In 1928 W.E. Woodward authored "Meet General Grant," and in 1981 William S. McFreeley authored "Grant: A Biography." His tomb was placed in the largest mausoleum in the US on a bluff over the Hudson River. In 1998 Geoffrey Perret published the biography "Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President." In 2004 Mark Perry authored “Grant and Twain." In 2006 Edward G. Longacre authored “General Ulysses S. Grant: The Soldier and Man." In 2011 Charles Bracelen Flood authored “Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year."
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A7)(SFEC, 4/19/98, Par p.20)(AP, 7/23/98)(ON, p.11)(ON, 12/00, p.7)(WSJ, 5/14/04, p.W10)(WSJ, 8/5/06, p.P9)(SSFC, 12/4/11, p.F5)
1886 Jul 23, Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator, was born.
(HN, 7//2302)
1886 Jul 23, New York saloonkeeper Steve Brodie claimed to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River. However, few historians believe the jump actually occurred
(AP, 7/23/07)
1888 Jul 23, Raymond Chandler (d.1959), writer of detective stories, creator of the character Philip Marlow, was born in Chicago.
(HN, 7/23/98)(SSFC, 12/21/14, p.N3)
1892 Jul 23, Haile Selassie (d.1975), Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74), was born as Tafari Makonnen at Ejarsa Goro, near Harer. He pleaded with the League of Nations to halt the Italian invasion of his country. "Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other."
(AP, 7/23/02)(www.imperialethiopia.org/history3.htm)
1894 Jul 23, Japanese troops took over the Korean imperial palace in Seoul.
(AP, 7/23/97)(HN, 7/23/98)
1903 Jul 23, The Ford Motor Company sold its first automobile, the Model A.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1904 Jul 23, By some accounts, the ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. [see Sep 22, 1903]
(AP, 7/23/99)
1906 Jul 23, Marston Bates, American zoologist and author of "The Nature of Natural History," was born.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1906 Jul 23, Pogroms took place against Jews in Odessa.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1908 Jul 23, In Turkey Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (1842-1918) capitulated to the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which led a rebellion against the authoritarian his regime. The revolutionary organization was popularly known as the Young Turks. Since then, the term has been applied to other insurgent groups within organizations or political parties.
(HNQ, 11/4/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hamid_II)
1913 Jul 23, The "Second Revolution" broke out in south China.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1914 Jul 23, Austria and Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; the dispute led to World War I.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1917 Jul 23, Pres. Woodrow Wilson issued an executive order for saloons within a half mile of military reservations to close.
(SSFC, 7/23/17, DB p.50)
1920 Jul 23, King Faisal I's Arab Army was defeated at Maysaloun and Syria fell effectively under French.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1925 Jul 23, Gloria De Haven, U.S. actress, was born.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1930 Jul 23, Earthquake struck Ariano, Italy, and some 1,500 were killed.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1932 Jul 23, Alberto Santos-Dumont (b.1873), aviation pioneer, hanged himself in Guaraja, Brazil after hearing a bomber discharge its load on fellow countrymen. In 2003 Paul Hoffman authored "Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight."
(SSFC, 6/28/03, p.M1)
1936 Jul 23, Don Drysdale, pitcher (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962), was born in Van Nuys, Calif.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1939 Jul 23, Nicholas Gage, journalist and author (Eleni), was born.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1940 Jul 23, Don Imus, later radio personality, was born in Riverside, Ca.
(SSFC, 4/21/02, Par p.22)
1940 Jul 23, John Nichols, novelist and essayist (The Milagro Beanfield War), was born.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1940 Jul 23, German bombers began the "Blitz," the all-night air raids on London.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1941 Jul 23, German and Romanian troops reoccupied Moldova as part of Operation Barbarossa.
(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.A18)
1942 Jul 23, Harry James and his Orchestra recorded "I Had the Craziest Dream" in Hollywood for Columbia Records.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1942 Jul 23, A 2nd Treblinka Camp opened for the extermination of European Jews, as the evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto began. Nearly 750,000 people died in the gas chambers of Treblinka.
(www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/TreblinkaEng.html)
1943 Jul 23, In France Marcel Langer (b.1903), Polish-born Jew, was guillotined after being sentenced to death by a Vichy court. He was a member of the International Brigades and the Toulouse resistance.
(https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Langer_%281903-1943%29)
1943 Jul 23, Battle of Kursk, USSR, ended in Nazi defeat. 6,000 tanks took part.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1943 Jul 23, Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi of Sobibor, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1943 Jul 23, Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Lisa Alther, novelist (Kinflicks), was born.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, US forces invaded Japanese-held Tinian.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Bernard M. Cohen, attorney, was killed at Belsen concentration camp.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Helmuth J. von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), was executed.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Soviet troops took Lublin, Poland, as the German army retreated.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, A Ukrainian Self-Defense unit, directed to "liquidate all the residents" of Chlaniow, Poland, in a reprisal attack for the killing of German SS officer Siegfried Assmuss, killed 44 people including women and children. In 2013 Michael Karkoc (94), a retired Minnesota carpenter, was named as commander of the Nazi SS-led unit in the Chlaniov attack.
(AP, 6/14/13)(http://tinyurl.com/kk5e6s3)(AP, 11/18/13)
1945 Jul 23, French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War Two, went on trial, charged with treason. He was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted; Petain died in prison on this date in 1951.
(AP, 7/23/08)
1947 Jul 23, U.S. President Harry S Truman made the first Presidential surprise visit to Capitol Hill since 1789. "Give Em Hell Harry."
(MC, 7/23/02)
1948 July 23, American pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith, the director of such films as "The Birth of a Nation," "Intolerance," "Way Down East" and "Orphans of the Storm," died in Los Angeles at age 73.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1951 Jul 23, French Marshal Henri Petain (b.1856), who had headed the Vichy government during World War Two, was shot by firing squad. In 2005 Charles Williams authored “Petain."
(AP, 7/23/00)(Econ, 5/21/05, p.84)
1952 Jul 23, General Mohammed Neguib seized power in Egypt. There was a revolution in Egypt, King Farouk I abdicated. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew the monarchy and established Egyptian sovereignty after 2,300 years of foreign domination. The revolution was led by the group of Free Officers headed by Gamal Abdel Nasser and included Kamal Eddin Hussein.
(AP, 7/23/97)(NG, May 1985, p.584)(HFA, '96, p.34)(TMC, 1994, p.1952)(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A24)
1954 Jul 23, The Indochina settlement was approved by France's National Assembly.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1956 Jul 23, The Bell X-2 rocket plane set a world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1957 Jul 23, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (b.1896), Sicilian aristocrat and writer, died in Rome. His classic novel “Il Gattopardo" (The Leopard), was published in 1958. It was about Sicilian blue bloods struggling to adopt to the changes ushered in by Italian unification in the 1860s and included the line: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." David Gilmour later authored the biography “The Last Leopard" (1991). In 1963 the film "Leopard" starred Burt Lancaster as the prince who makes the ceremonial cut into the timballo. It was directed Luchino Visconti and based on the novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa.
(WSJ, 12/9/06, p.P24)(Econ, 12/12/09, p.61)(SFC, 10/2/96, zz1 p.8)(Econ., 10/24/20, p.56)
1958 Jul 23, Queen Elizabeth named four women to peerages, the 1st women to it in Britain's House of Lords.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1959 Jul 23, Vice President Richard M. Nixon flew to Moscow to open the US Trade and Cultural Fair in Sokolniki Park, organized as a goodwill gesture by the USSR.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1961 Jul 23, Woody Harrelson, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers), was born in Midland, Tx.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1962 Jul 23, In San Francisco a 10-ton granite and bronze monument to Robert Louis Stevenson was returned to Portsmouth Square as the 4-level, 800-car underground parking garage was completed.
(SSFC, 7/22/12, DB p.42)(SFC, 9/28/21, p.C2)
1962 Jul 23, The Geneva Conference on Laos forbade the United States to invade eastern Laos, site of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1966 Jul 23, [Edward] Montgomery Clift (45), actor (From Here to Eternity), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1967 Jul 23, In Michigan the 12th Street Riot erupted in Detroit after police busted an unlicensed drinking and gambling joint.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Motel_incident)(Econ 7/29/17, p.27)
1967 Jul 23-1967 Jul 30, Racial riots in the city of Detroit left 40 dead, 2,000 injured and 5,000 homeless in the worst riot of the summer. The rioting, looting and burning was quelled with the arrival of 4,700 paratroops dispatched by President Lyndon Johnson. Nearly all of America's large cities were wracked by racial violence during the 1965-'68 period. The event inspired Rev. William Cunningham (d.1997 at 67) to found Focus: Hope, a volunteer project that grew to become one of the largest programs in the country dedicated to feeding and teaching job skills to the urban poor.
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.C4)(HNQ, 7/11/98)
1970 Jul 23, Sultan Said of Oman was overthrown by his son, Qaboos.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1971 Jul 23, Walid Ahmad Nimer al-Naser (b.1934), aka, Abu Ali Iyad, a senior Palestinian field commander based in Syria and Jordan, was reported killed by the Jordanian army. The PLO claimed he was captured and tortured to death by Jordanian forces days earlier. A splinter group seeking revenge soon developed within Fatah and came to be known as the Black September Organization.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ali_Iyad)
1972 Jul 23, NASA launched the Landsat-1 satellite. It viewed Earth at different wavelengths and opened a new era in sensing the planet’s resources and environment.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)
1973 Jul 25, Pres Nixon refused to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation.
(www.cbc.ca/news/background/us-politics/watergate-timeline.html)
1973 Jul 25, Russia launched its Mars 5 Orbiter.
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1973-049A)
1974 Jul 23, Greece's military rulers announced they would turn the nation back to civilian rule. Constantine Karamanlis returned from 11 years of self-imposed exile and was sworn in as premier. Karamanlis later won a landslide election and served as prime minister until 1980. The Ioannides regime collapsed after plotting an aborted military takeover of Cyprus. The coup provoked a Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
(AP, 7/23/97)(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)
1976 Jul 23, Mario Soares (b.1924) became Prime Minister of Portugal.
(SFC, 4/19/00, p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_Soares)
1977 Jul 23, A jury in Washington, D.C., convicted 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1977 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka Junius Richard Jayewardene (1906-1996) was elected prime minister. Immediately thereafter, he drew up a national constitution which created an Executive Presidency with drastic and unchecked powers, and, on its adoption into law, became, in 1978, the first Sri Lankan Executive President.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_Richard_Jayewardene)
1978 Jul 23, Franklin Bradshow was killed in SLC, Utah. His daughter, Frances B. Schreuder (d.2004), had persuaded her son to kill her wealthy father due to "his stinginess." Schreuder was convicted in 1983.
(SFC, 4/3/04, p.B6)
1979 Jul 23, A Miami jury convicted Theodore Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of Florida State University sorority sisters Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy. In 1980 he was convicted of the murder and rape of Kimberly Leach (12). Bundy eventually confessed to more than 30 killings and was executed in 1989.
(www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/bundy/14.html)
1980 Jul 23, The US Senate Judiciary Committee was reported to be officially joining those investigating allegations of misconduct in Billy Carter's relationship with Libya.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1980-7/1980-07-23-ABC-2.html)
1982 Jul 23, The Intl. Whaling Commission (IWC) voted for a total ban on commercial whaling starting in 1985.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling)
1982 Jul 23, Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie." Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges in connection with the deaths.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1983 Jul 23, A regional struggle for independence by Tamil Tigers in the north escalated into a civil war when they killed 13 Sri Lankan Sinhalese soldiers. The nation's Sinhalese majority responded by killing thousands of Tamil civilians in the south.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)(AP, 7/23/97)
1984 Jul 23, Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1985 Jul 23, Bandleader Kay Kyser, known for his "Kollege of Musical Knowledge," died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at age 79.
(AP, 7/23/00)
1986 Jul 23, Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London with the appellation Duke and Duchess of York. The couple divorced in 1996.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1987 Jul 23, Hussein Hariri (21), a Lebanese hijacker, commandeered an Air Afrique DC-10 flying from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, to Paris. He was captured during a refueling stop in Geneva and was sentenced to life in prison for killing a passenger and seriously wounding a flight attendant. In 2004 he was released and deported to Lebanon.
(AP, 10/17/04)
1988 Jul 23, In his weekly radio address, President Reagan responded to the just-completed Democratic national convention by accusing Democrats of "singing the same sad song they sang four years ago."
(AP, 7/23/98)
1988 Jul 23, Iran accused Iraq of pushing deep into Iranian territory and using chemical weapons. The March 16 Iraqi chemical attack at Halabja killed thousands and in 1999 was still causing genetic damage and deaths.
(AP, 7/23/97)(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)
1989 Jul 23, Greg LeMond of the United States won the Tour de France.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1989 Jul 23, Donald Barthelme (b.1931), US writer, died. His work included over a hundred short stories and 4 novels. In 2009 Tracy Daugherty authored “Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme."
(WSJ, 2/21/09, p.W8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barthelme)
1989 Jul 23, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority in the upper house of the Diet in parliamentary elections.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1990 Jul 23, President George H.W. Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the US Supreme Court.
(AP, 7/23/00)
1990 Jul 23, As rebel forces closed in on presidential palace, Liberian President Samuel K. Doe refused to leave until the civil war was decided. Charles Taylor tried to take Monrovia in this year. He had begun the war in Liberia from the Ivory Coast in 1989.
(AP, 7/23/97)(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-8)(SFC, 5/11/96, p.A-9)
1991 Jul 23, The US Senate voted to impose a long list of strict new conditions on renewal of China’s normal trade status in 1992; however, the 55-to-44 vote fell short of the two-thirds majority later needed to override President Bush’s veto.
(AP, 7/23/01)
1991 Jul 23, The draft of a new platform for Soviet Communist Party was published, calling for private property, economic integration into world market and freedom of religion.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1992 Jul 23, US Secretary of State James A. Baker III, touring the Middle East, made a secret visit to Lebanon.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1993 Jul 23, US Surgeon General-designate Joycelyn Elders stuck by her firm stands on sex education and AIDS prevention in a one-day confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1993 Jul 23, White House deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. was buried near Hope, Ark., three days after taking his own life in a Virginia park.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1993 Jul 23, In South Carolina Larry Demery and Daniel Green came upon James Jordan sleeping in his car and proceeded to rob him. As Jordan awoke Green shot Jordan, the 56-year-old father of basketball star Michael Jordan.
(SFC, 5/21/96, p.A-3)
1993 Jul 23, British Prime Minister John Major survived a vote of confidence and a reluctant House of Commons approved a treaty of European union on his terms.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1993 July 23, A handful of men shot and killed 6 children and teenagers at the Candelaria Cathedral and 2 more at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1996 one of the four men accused, former police officer Nelson dos Santos Cunha, confessed to having taken part. About 2,000 children roam Rio’s streets and in 1994, 936 youths under 18 were murdered. In 1996 a court cleared 2 policemen and another man in killings. Two other policemen were convicted earlier. In 1997 a court reduced the sentence of Cunha from 261 years to 18 years. In 1998 Marcos Aurelio Alcantara (30) was convicted and sentenced to 204 years in jail.
(SFC, 4/28/96, A-14)(SFC, 11/28/96, p.B6)(WSJ, 12/11/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/20/97, p.A1)(SFC, 8/27/98, p.A14)
1993 Jul 23, The Russian government announced it would invalidate billions of pre-1993 rubles.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1994 Jul 23, Space shuttle Columbia returned to Earth after a 15-day mission which included experiments on the effects of weightlessness on aquatic animals.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1994 Jul 23, Gambian soldiers proclaimed military government in Dakar, Senegal.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1994 Jul 23, The Goodwill Games opened in St. Petersburg, Russia.
(www.goodwillgames.com/Past_games/past_1994_Summary.htm)
1995 Jul 23, American amateur astronomers first reported the discovery of the comet bearing their names: Hale-Bopp. Reconstruction of the orbit indicated that the comet repeatedly enters the inner solar system every 3,000 years or so. It travels in an orbit perpendicular to the solar system in an elongated ellipse that is about 33 million miles from the sun at its farthest point. Its closest approach to Earth will be on March 23, 1997. The nearest pass will be on April 1.
(Nat. Hist., 3/96, p.55)(SFEC, 10/27/96, p.A17)
1995 Jul 23, The United Nations ordered the first combat unit from its rapid reaction force to Sarajevo to take out any rebel Serb guns that fire at U.N. peacekeepers.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1996 Jul 23, At the Atlanta Olympics, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle as the US women gymnasts clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal.
(AP, 7/23/01)
1996 Jul 23, The US Senate passed a welfare overhaul bill.
(AP, 7/23/01)
1996 Jul 23, In Toronto, a police officer was charged with criminal negligence in the shooting of a protester who became the first Canadian Indian in modern times killed in a land dispute with the government.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1996 Jul 23, Canadian researchers found a hormone, GLP-2, that stimulates growth of the lining of the small intestine.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.B6)
1996 Jul 23, Jessica Mitford (78), author of "The American Way of Death," died. The 1963 book was an expose of the funeral industry in the US. Her attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, died in 2001. In 2001 Mary S. Lovell authored "The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family." In 2006 “Decca: The Letters of Jessica," edited by Peter Y. Sussman was published. In 2010 Leslie Brody authored “Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford."
(SFC, 6/30/96, Z1 p.3)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A18)(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.M1)(SFC, 11/3/06, p.E9)(SSFC, 11/14/10, p.F7)
1997 Jul 23, The US and Venezuela signed an agreement to allow authorities of both countries to board boats of each others flags if suspected of carrying drugs.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 23, The search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, Fla., an apparent suicide.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/98)
1997 Jul 23, The ASEAN trade bloc admitted Laos and Burma but barred Cambodia.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A12)
1997 Jul 23, In Britain the government announced that tuition fees would be imposed for the first time on all college students.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 23, In Cuba Elio Reve Matos, salsa musician, died in a road accident. He developed the rhythm known as "charangon," a combination of salsa styles that included "changui" and "son."
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A24)
1997 Jul 23, In Serbia Slobodan Milosevic was sworn in as president of Yugoslavia and crowds reacted by throwing shoes at his motorcade, symbolizing the young people who have left Serbia due to his regime.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 23, Swiss banks published a list of 2,000 WW II-era dormant accounts that included assets of holocaust victims.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A8)
1998 Jul 23, The US Senate voted to shut down the online gambling industry.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, It was reported that the US Congress made the Air Force buy more C-130 transport aircraft against its wishes. Since 1978 only 5 of 256 C-130s sent to the Air National Guard and Air Reserve were requested by the Air Force. The planes were built in Georgia.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 23, The Pacific Stock Exchange announced an agreement to merge with the Chicago Board of Options Exchange.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, Odwalla Inc. agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine for contaminated apple-based juices.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, Scientists at the University of Hawaii announced they had turned out more than 50 carbon-copy mice, with a cloning technique said to be more reliable than the one used to create Dolly the sheep.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1998 Jul 23, In Colombia Manuel Mejia Vallejo, novelist, died at age 75. His work included "It was Us," "The Marked Day," and "the House of the Two Palms."
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D5)
1998 Jul 23, In Chechnya Pres. Aslan Maskhadov received minor injuries from an assassination attempt in Grozny that killed 2 bodyguards. He had been cracking down on organized crime and Muslim militants.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)(WSJ, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, In Iran Tehran’s Mayor Karbaschi was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison for corruption.
(WSJ, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, In Kenya John Msafari, head of the revenue collection authority, was ordered arrested along with 15 other officials and businessmen on charges of defrauding the government of some $3.9 million.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 23, In Mexico three girls escaped capture by police in Mexico City. They had been held for 4 days and the two youngest were repeatedly raped. Sixteen officers were later arrested.
(SFC, 7/28/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 23, Russia planned to sell its Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to India for some $2 billion. The ship was launched in 1982 as the Baku.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 23, In Russia Vladimir Dudintsev (79), writer, died. His work included "Not By Bread Alone" and "White Garb." His work laid the foundation for a generation of dissident writers.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.D8)
1998 Jul 23, In Rwanda the army said that it had killed a top rebel commander. Colonel Leonard Nkundiye was killed along with at least 50 rebels on the Congo border.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)
1999 Jul 23, The 3-day Woodstock '99 music festival began at the decommissioned Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, NY, with some 225,000 people. The $35-38 million production ended in chaos with hundreds of concertgoers burning fires, looting and vandalizing.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.1D,5D)(SFC, 7/26/99, p.E3)(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 23, After a 2 day delay the Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the shuttle Columbia led by Commander Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a US space flight.
(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A3)(AP, 7/23/00)
1999 Jul 23, Members of the Kennedy family gathered in New York City for a private memorial Mass a week after John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died in a plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard.
(AP, 7/23/00)
1999 Jul 23, Jaquita Mack (11) was raped and strangled in Oakland’s Fruitvale district after she disappeared following a bike ride. Her body was found the next day in East Oakland, Ca. On Aug 8 police arrested Alex Demolle (24), a neighbor on Fruitvale Ave. In 2007 Demolle was convicted of 1st degree murder and was sentenced to death on Dec 14.
(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A13,15)(SFC, 8/9/99, p.A1)(SFC, 5/4/07, p.B5)(SFC, 12/15/07, p.B3)
1999 Jul 23, Kelvin Lancaster, economist, died in NYC at age 74. He outlined "The General Theory of the Second Best" and analyzed consumer demand by looking at the underlying characteristics of consumer demand.
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.C2)
1999 Jul 23, In Colombia a US anti-narcotics reconnaissance airplane crashed with 5 US Army personnel and 2 Colombians.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.7A)
1999 Jul 23, In Japan Yuzi Nishizawa (b.1970) attempted to hijack flight 61 from Tokyo and stabbed to death pilot Naoyuki Nagashima (51). The hijacker was overcome and the plane landed safely with 516 passengers. On March 23, 2005, Nishizawa was found to be guilty, but of unsound mind and thus only partly responsible for his actions. Presiding judge Hisaharu Yasui handed Nishizawa a life sentence in 2005.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANA_Flight_61)
1999 Jul 23, In Kosovo 14 Serb farmers were found shot dead near the village of Gracko.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 23, In Morocco King Hassan II died at age 70. He was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Sidi Mohamed (36), who became King Mohammed VI.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/00)
1999 Jul 23, Russia ended a 4-month boycott on contacts with NATO.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.C1)
2000 Jul 23, Tiger Woods, at 24, became the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking 19-under par in the British Open. Karrie Webb, 25, won the US Women’s Open.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, Lance Armstrong won the 21-day, 2,250-mile Tour de France for the 2nd year in a row.
(WSJ, 7/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 23, President Clinton rejoined the troubled Middle East talks at Camp David after hurrying back from a four-day trip to Asia.
(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, Leaders of the major industrial countries concluded their summit in Japan by announcing a campaign to slash the number of deaths worldwide from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, In Nigeria another pipeline fire broke out near the port of Warri and left 40 fuel scavengers dead.
(SFC,7/25/00, p.A14)(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 23, Ivory Coast voters cast ballots for a new constitution intended to restore civilian rule. The new constitution was approved overwhelmingly.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A14)(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2001 Jul 23, Pres. Bush met with Pope John Paul II at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and was urged to reject the use of human embryos for stem cell research.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/02)
2001 Jul 23, The US Pentagon shut down public access to its web sites due to a computer worm called the Code Red worm. It defaced web sites with the words "Hacked by Chinese."
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A2)
2001 Jul 23, Eudora Welty (92), Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, died in Jackson, Miss. Her work included the 1941 collection "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" and the 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning "The Optimist’s Daughter." In 1998 Ann Waldron authored the biography “Eudora" against the writer’s wishes. In 2005 Suzanne Marrs authored the biography “Eudora Welty."
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A17)(WSJ, 8/5/05, p.W6)
2001 Jul 23, In Bonn, Germany, negotiators from 178 nations, without the US, rescued the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and accepted rules to cut emissions of waste gases linked to global warming after marathon talks.
(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/02)
2001 Jul 23, Anarchist groups in Europe retaliated for the death in Genoa of protester Carlo Giuliani.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Burundi Pres. Buyoya survived a coup attempt by Tutsi soldiers and sealed a power-sharing accord with Hutu politicians. The Arusha accord called for Buyoya to lead for 18 months followed by a Hutu president for another 18 months with elections to follow.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 23, In Colombia retired Gen. Rito Alejo del Rio was arrested on charges of helping create right-wing paramilitary groups.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 23, It was reported that flooding in India’s Orissa state had killed some 83 people and left over 600,000 stranded.
(WSJ, 7/23/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 23, In Indonesia Pres. Wahid declared a state of emergency. The military refused to carry out his orders and parliament met to remove him. The parliament ousted Wahid with a 591 to 0 vote and swore in Megawati Sukarnoputri as the country’s 5th president.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A1)(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Iran a 19th woman was reported strangled in Mashad.
(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)
2001 Jul 23, Israeli police killed a Palestinian who drove a would-be bomber toward Haifa. In Gaza Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Macedonia security forces engaged ethnic Albanian rebels in fierce fighting around Tetovo. Macedonian mobs in Skopje, angered by Western efforts at mediation, attacked symbolic targets.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 23, Nepal’s new government declared a unilateral ceasefire and called on Maoist rebels to talk peace. In a recent skirmish guerrillas killed at least 17 police officers in Pandusen.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 23, In Pakistan flash floods killed at least 150 people. In Islamabad 24 inches of rain broke a 100-year record.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka Tamil separatists attack an air base, damaged a number of planes and shut down the Bandaranaike airport, the nation’s only int’l. airport. 7 soldiers and 8 guerrillas were killed. 3 jetliners and 8 warplanes were blown up in a suicide attack by 13 rebels.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/25/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)
2002 Jul 23, Pres. Bush signed legislation designating Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear waste repository.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, In California the Davis administration and Oracle Corp. agreed to cancel a $95 million DB software contract.
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A18)
2002 Jul 23, In California a growing fire in Sequoia Nat'l. Park consumed 48,200 acres in 3 days.
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, The DJIA fell 82 to 7702. The Nasdaq fell 53 to 1229.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.C1)
2002 Jul 23, Leo McKern (82), Australian actor, died in Bath, England. He played the barrister in the TV show "Rumpole of the Bailey."
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, Chaim Potok (73), rabbi and author of novels that included "The Chosen," died at his home in suburban Philadelphia. "Literature presents you with alternative mappings of the human experience."
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, William Pierce (d.2002), white supremacist author of the 1978 "Turner Diaries," died in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, Maria Adela Gard de Antokoletz (90), one of the founding members of the Argentine human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, died.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, A memo from 10 Downing St. described an earlier meeting of Sir Richard Dearlove, head of British Intelligence, with US officials in Washington in which he noted a shift in attitude in the Bush administration, which saw military action as inevitable in Iraq and that it would be justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. The memo became public in 2005.
(SFC, 7/4/05, p.B6)
2002 Jul 23, Welsh archbishop Rowan Williams was chosen to be the 104th archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2002 Jul 23, A frail Pope John Paul II walked down the steps of his plane instead of using a lift after arriving in Canada to join thousands of young Catholic pilgrims for World Youth Day. Tens of thousands of exuberant young Catholics massed in Toronto to greet the Pope.
(AP, 7/23/02)(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, In Colombia a bomb exploded in front of a Medellin restaurant where politicians and journalists traditionally gather, killing a former congressman and injuring nine other people.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, An Israeli F-16 warplane dropped a one ton bomb that flattened a Gaza City apartment building, killing Salah Shehadeh, the leader of Hamas' military wing, and at least 14 other Palestinians, including nine children. Shehadeh was at the top of Israel's most wanted list. The dead included Shehadeh’s wife and 3 kids. In 2009 a Spanish judge began an investigation into seven current or former Israeli officials over the 2002 bombing. In 2011 an Israeli inquiry ruled the air strike legal and blamed faulty intelligence for the civilian deaths.
(AP, 7/23/02)(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/29/09)(SFC, 2/28/11, p.A2)
2002 Jul 23, In Nepal floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 11 people over the last 2 days, bringing to 67 the number of deaths caused by bad weather over the past two weeks.
(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23-24, In Turkey floods and lightning caused by summer storms have killed at least 18 people. Three other people were missing.
(AP, 7/24/02)
2002 Jul 23, In Zimbabwe at least 15 people illegally mining gold were killed when an abandoned mine shaft in Mhondoro caved in.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2003 Jul 23, California's 1st statewide recall for Gov. Davis qualified for ballot, which was soon scheduled for Oct 7.
(SFC, 7/24/03, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 23, Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2003 Jul 23, New York City Councilman James Davis (41) was shot to death by political rival Othniel Askew (31) at City Hall; a police officer shot and killed Askew.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2003 Jul 23, A new audiotape, purported to be of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, was broadcast by an Arab satellite station. It called on former soldiers to rise up against the American occupation.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2003 Jul 23, In "Operation Helpem Fren" an Australian-led peacekeeping force poured into the Solomon Islands to keep the island chain from slipping deeper into anarchy.
(AP, 7/24/03)(Econ, 8/9/03, p.34)
2003 Jul 23, Iran acknowledged that it was holding senior al Qaeda figures, but would not identify them.
(WSJ, 7/24/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 23, In Peru 5 masked gunmen attacked a Canadian mining camp in the Andes, killing a Peruvian geologist, wounding another and stealing equipment.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2003 Jul 23, In Sao Tome rebel leaders ended a weeklong bloodless coup after the president signed an accord promising to replace the government and give them amnesty.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2003 Jul 23, In Uganda 2 passenger boats capsized in strong winds and rough waters on Lake Albert, and more than 20 people were believed to have drowned.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2004 Jul 23, President Bush froze the assets of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, his family and top aides and accused them of undermining the country's transition to democracy.
(AP, 7/24/04)
2004 Jul 23, The Pentagon released newly discovered payroll records from President Bush's 1972 service in the Alabama National Guard, though the records shed no new light on the future president's activities during that summer.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2004 Jul 23, In Bosnia Britain's Prince Charles and other foreign dignitaries gathered to reopen the Mostar bridge over the Neretva River. The original was built in 1566.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, In northwest Colombia police seized 4 1/2 tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of $90 million.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Gunmen in Mosul attacked a retired Iraqi general as he headed to a mosque to pray, killing him and another man. Maj. Gen. Salim Majeed Blesh (58) had worked for the former U.S. occupation government.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad kidnapped Muhammad Mamdouh Qutb, a 3rd ranking official of the Egyptian Embassy, demanding his country abandon any plans it had to send security experts to Iraq.
(SFC, 7/24/04, p.A13)(AP, 7/23/05)
2004 Jul 23, A van carrying Iraqi civilians collided with a U.S. tank near Baghdad, killing nine people and injuring 10.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Joe Cahill (b.1920), a founding father of the modern Irish Republican Army who once narrowly avoided the hangman's noose, died in Belfast.
(AP, 7/24/04)(SFC, 7/26/04, p.B4)
2004 Jul 23, The Japanese government reported that suicides in Japan in 2003 surged to an all-time high topping 34,000 deaths in a trend fueled by health and financial troubles.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Leaders from the 2 main rebel groups in Sudan's western Darfur region agreed to participate in "substantive negotiations" for a political solution to the humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 7/24/04)
2005 Jul 23, Myron Florin (85), accordionist with Lawrence Welk, died in California.
(WSJ, 7/25/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 23, In southern Afghanistan suspected Taliban militants fatally shot a district judge.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 23, The man shot at the Stockwell subway station on July 22 was identified as Jean Charles de Menezes (27) of Brazil. London police acknowledged that Menezes had nothing to do with recent bombings on the city’s transit system. Brazil's government demanded an explanation for the fatal police shooting of a Brazilian citizen on a London subway car.
(AP, 7/24/05)
2005 Jul 23, The Colombian government offered to buy farmers' illegal crops of coca, in the latest effort to stem illegal drug production in this South American nation. Pres. Alvaro Uribe said in a speech that farmers would have to sign a document promising to never again cultivate illegal crops in order to get the money. The government would destroy the purchased crop.
(AP, 7/24/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Egypt a rapid series of car bombs and another blast ripped through a luxury hotel and a coffeeshop in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, killing at least 83 people. The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, a group citing ties to al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the bombings. The previously unknown Mujahedi Masr or "Holy Warriors of Egypt" group disputed the claims of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, al-Qaida, and said five of its own members died carrying out seven explosions.
(AP, 7/23/05)(AP, 7/24/05)(Econ, 7/30/05, p.40)
2005 Jul 23, Kristina Miller (27) of Peachtree City, Ga., was the only American killed in the blasts at the Egyptian resort at Sharm el-Sheik.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Abidjan, Ivory Coast, unidentified assailants attacked two security force posts, sparking gunfights that reportedly killed at least four people.
(AP, 7/24/05)
2005 Jul 23, A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook the Tokyo area, injuring at least 27 people.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Turkey a bomb exploded at an Istanbul cafe frequented by tourists, injuring at least two people.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Umm Al-Quwain, UAR, a $3.3 billion deal for the Khor al-Beidah lagoon complex was signed. A few days later developers announced Umm Al-Quwain's desert interior would be the site for a new city that could eventually house as many as 500,000 people.
(AP, 8/7/05)
2005 Jul 23, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrived in Beijing for a visit expected to include a plea for oil and food to aid his state's failing economy.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2006 Jul 23, US cyclist Floyd Landis (31) won the 3-week, 2,267-mile Tour de France 57 seconds ahead of Oscar Pereiro of Spain. Reports on July 27 Landis said had tested positive for the male sex hormone testosterone.
(SFC, 7/24/06, p.D1)(Reuters, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 23, Tiger Woods won his 2nd consecutive British Open golf title.
(WSJ, 7/24/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 23, In southern Indiana 2 sets of sniper attacks within hours of each other left one man dead, another wounded and four vehicles peppered with bullet holes. On July 25 police said a Gaston youth (18) confessed to weekend sniping.
(AP, 7/24/06)(WSJ, 7/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 23, In Afghanistan 19 Taliban were killed and 17 fighters, including two Pakistani nationals, arrested in a raid by Afghan forces in southern Helmand province. Police said three policemen were killed and three others kidnapped in a Taliban attack on a police checkpoint in southeastern Ghazni province. Attackers hurled grenades into the home of a village postman in eastern Khost province, killing three of his daughters.
(AFP, 7/23/06)(AFP, 7/24/06)
2006 Jul 23, The 654-foot Singapore-flagged Cougar Ace, a cargo ship carrying 4,813 cars from Japan to Canada, began tilting to its port side late at night hundreds of miles off Alaska's Aleutian Islands. 23 crew members were rescued the next day. The ship was owned by Tokyo-based Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and listed for on its side for several weeks before being righted. 4,703 of the cars were new Mazdas valued at about $100 million. After a year of planning Mazda scheduled all the cars for complete reduction to scrap in Portland, Ore.
(AP, 7/25/06)(SFC, 7/25/06, p.A2)(WSJ, 4/29/08, p.A9)
2006 Jul 23, In England a gust of wind blew an inflatable art exhibit from its moorings at a park in Durham, killing two people and injuring 12. Up to 30 people were on the "Dreamspace", an inflatable network of multicolored tunnels, when wind blew it 30 feet in the air.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Police in India raided a forest hideout for communist rebels in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh state, killing Burra Chinnaiah, a guerrilla chief, and at least 7 other people.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, PM Al-Maliki left for Washington for talks on reversing the country's slide toward civil war. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden minibus amid a crowd of day laborers seeking work in a crowded market in Baghdad's mainly Shiite district of Sadr City, killing at least 34 people. This was followed by a bomb attack in front of the area's town hall, which killed eight. Three hours later a one-ton car bomb exploded outside a courthouse in the mixed northern city of Kirkuk, leaving at least 22 dead and 100 injured.
(AFP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Israeli warplanes struck a minibus carrying people fleeing the fighting in southern Lebanon, killing three people, Lebanese security officials said, and Israel said it would accept a NATO-led international force to keep the peace along the border. Hezbollah rockets killed two civilians in northern Israel. Layal Nejim (23), a photographer working for a Lebanese magazine, was killed when an Israeli missile exploded near her taxi.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, In Indian Kashmir 4 people were killed in three separate incidents.
(AFP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Palestinian militants in Gaza fired three rockets at Israel, despite reports that they had agreed to halt such attacks.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza (18) of Puerto Rico was crowned as Miss Universe 2006. She hoped to someday star in US and Latin American films.
(AP, 7/24/06)
2006 Jul 23, In Somalia a local rights group said gunmen have killed 682 civilians, including a foreign journalist, in executions over the past year.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Syria, one of Hezbollah's main backers, said it will press for a cease-fire to end the fighting between Israel and the Islamic militant group but only in the framework of a broader Middle East peace initiative.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2007 Jul 23, In the first political debate of its kind, all eight Democratic Party contenders, appearing on CNN, fielded questions submitted by the public on the Internet video-sharing site YouTube.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jul 23, US congressional investigators said the Agriculture Department has sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, The US FDA said people should immediately throw away more than 90 different products, from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a Castleberry plant in Augusta, Ga., linked to a botulism outbreak.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, In San Francisco Seu Kuka (28) was gunned down in the Sunnydale Housing projects of Visitacion Valley. In 2010 Jamal Trulove was convicted of 1st degree murder and sentenced 50 years to live in prison. Trulove had appeared on a VH1 reality show, "I Love New York 2," just 3 months after the slaying. On March 11, 2015, a SF jury acquitted Trulove saying they had trouble reconciling the evidence. On April 6 a federal jury awarded Trulove $10 million in damages with the city of San Francisco responsible.
(SSFC, 10/17/10, p.C2)(SFC, 3/12/15, p.D1)(SFC, 4/7/18, p.A1)
2007 Jul 23, In northern California a helicopter crashed while delivering water to firefighters in the Klamath National Forest, killing the pilot. More than 1,100 fire crews were battling a cluster of about 30 lightning-sparked fires covering 14 square miles near the Oregon state line. The fires started July 10 and had threatened up to 550 homes near the town of Happy Camp.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were killed during a violent home invasion in Cheshire, Conn. Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten but escaped. His wife and one daughter were sexually assaulted. The girls, aged 11 and 17, were tied to their beds, doused in gasoline, and left to die in a fire. Steven Hayes (44) and Joshua Komisarjevsky (27), on parole at the time for other burglaries, were accused of their murder. Prosecutors later said they will seek the death penalty. On Nov 8, 2010, Hayes was sentenced to death. Komisarjevsky was convicted of murder in 2011 and was sentenced to death. In 2013 HBO aired “The Cheshire Murders," a documentary based on the case.
(AP, 7/23/08)(AP, 10/5/10)(SFC, 11/27/10, p.A5)(SFC, 10/14/11, p.A6)(SFC, 12/10/11, p.A6)(SFC, 7/22/13, p.E1)
2007 Jul 23, A wildfire in southern Idaho had covered more than 880 square miles, growing by about 200 square miles in just 24 hours during the weekend. Fire officials said it threatened tracking and radar facilities at Mountain Home Air Force bombing and firing range, which is used by pilots training for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Firefighters in central Utah faced a threat of strong wind gusts as they battled a huge wildfire, where several small communities were evacuated.
(AP, 7/23/07)(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A5)
2007 Jul 23, Zhenli Ye Gon was arrested in a Maryland restaurant, four months after police discovered $207 million at his Mexico City mansion in what US officials have called the world's biggest seizure of drug cash. Mexican officials had 60 days to file their legal arguments for Ye Gon's extradition. Ye Gon has claimed that $150 million of the money belonged to Mexico's ruling party, and that he was forced to store it for party officials in his mansion under threat of death during the 2006 presidential race. Ye Gon later told US prosecutors he had sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market.
(AP, 7/24/07)(AP, 10/23/09)
2007 Jul 23, Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped to replace legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show "The Price is Right."
(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jul 23, Mohammad Zahir Shah (b.1914), the last king of Afghanistan (1933-1973), died. In 2002 he had returned from 3 decades of exile to bless his country's fragile course toward democracy. In southern Afghanistan troops killed at least 75 militants in three separate battles, while the Taliban extended the deadline for the lives of 23 South Korean hostages until the evening of July 24. Norway said one if its soldiers was killed in Logar province, and NATO said a soldier was killed in the south. A roadside blast killed 4 US soldiers in eastern Paktika province.
(AP, 7/23/07)(AP, 7/24/07)(Econ, 7/28/07, p.88)
2007 Jul 23, It was reported that Rio police had killed 449 people since January, many in clashes with drug traffickers, while more than 60 police officers lost their lives.
(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A13)
2007 Jul 23, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his new capacity as a Mideast envoy, opened his mission to help Palestinians build solid foundations for their future state.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jul 23, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said Canada will give the new Palestinian government C$8 million ($7.6 million) in direct aid and more could follow now that Hamas is no longer in the government.
(Reuters, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, John Gilman (65), developer of FieldTurf, an artificial grass that replaced AstroTurf, died at his home in Montreal. The FieldTurf technology was based on patents filed by golfer Freddie Haas Jr.
(WSJ, 1/28/07, p.A6)
2007 Jul 23, Fidel Castro suggested that a two-time Cuban Olympic boxing champion and his teammate had defected, blaming their disappearance at the Pan American Games in Brazil on American money.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, The European Union took the first step towards sending forces to Chad and the Central African Republican to help the United Nations protect refugees trapped in the violent region bordering Darfur.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, A Greek firefighting plane crashed, killing one of its two-member crew while trying to stop a forest fire reaching homes on the island of Evia.
(Reuters, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Indian officials said dozens of plastic bags stuffed with body parts believed to be from aborted female fetuses or newborn girls killed because their families wanted boys have been found in an abandoned well in eastern India.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Officials said flash floods and landslides in central Indonesia have inundated villages, destroyed bridges and roads, and sent thousands fleeing their homes with over 80 people killed.
(AFP, 7/24/07)(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 23, Three parked cars exploded within 30 minutes in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad, killing at least 12 people. Another car packed with explosives blew up on the main road about 200 yards from an entry point to the US-controlled Green Zone, killing at least 4 Iraqis. Also in Baghdad a bomb exploded on a minibus near a busy commercial area, killing one person and wounding nine others. A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army patrol near the Iranian border, killing five troops. Also near the Iranian border, gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks loaded with goods being sent from major wholesale markets in Baghdad to Khanaqin, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad. Five people were killed and three others kidnapped. In western Anbar province at least two policemen were killed and 10 wounded when a woman hiding an explosives belt under her Islamic gown blew herself up as she was about to be searched at a checkpoint on the western outskirts of Ramadi. At least 59 people were killed or found dead nationwide.
(AP, 7/23/07)(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, Israeli police said 9 Israelis suspected of trafficking in organs and humans have been arrested and remain in custody. The case was opened when an Israeli woman filed a police complaint charging that she was not paid after her kidney was removed in Ukraine.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Nigerian police said at least 10 people were killed over the weekend and dozens sustained burns in the southern Delta state after adulterated kerosene they were using in their stoves exploded. In southwest Nigeria at least six people were killed and several trapped when a three-storey building under construction collapsed.
(AFP, 7/23/07)(AFP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, In North Waziristan, Pakistan, 2 security posts came under rocket attack and an army convoy was attacked. At least 20 militants and two soldiers were killed in fighting.
(AP, 7/23/07)(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, Abel Mutsakani, the editor of an independent Zimbabwean news service based in South Africa, was shot and seriously wounded in Johannesburg.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 23, Spain arrested Roberto Florez Garcia in Tenerife, the Canary Islands, for selling the identity of Spanish spies and other information about the intelligence agency from 2001 until he left the service in 2004. Police accused him of being a double agent for Russia.
(AP, 7/24/07)(WSJ, 1/25/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 23, An attempt to break an aviation speed record went horribly wrong when a small "experimental" plane crashed through an apartment building in the Swiss city of Basel, killing the pilot and injuring at least three other people.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, The United Nations rejected Taiwan's application to become a member of the world body, citing UN adherence to the "one China" policy and its recognition of the Chinese government in Beijing.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2008 Jul 23, Bill Gates, former boss of Microsoft, joined Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of NYC, in announcing a combined $500 million package to stamp out smoking.
(www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-07-23-smoking_N.htm)
2008 Jul 23, It was reported that Napa Valley’s Chateau Montelena, winner of a 1976 wine tasting event in France, was being purchased by Cos d’Estournel of Bordeaux, France.
(SFC, 7/23/08, p.C1)
2008 Jul 23, In Louisiana an oil tanker and an oil barge collided near New Orleans creating a 12-mile oil slick and closing almost 100 miles of the Mississippi River. Over 400,000 gallons of fuel spilled into the river.
(SFC, 7/24/08, p.A3)(SFC, 7/25/08, p.A2)
2008 Jul 23, Google unveiled a new service dubbed “Knol," an Internet encyclopedia, in which contributing authors would share in ad revenue.
(SFC, 7/24/08, p.C4)
2008 Jul 23, Two environmental groups estimated that cement kilns in the US annually released mercury compounds totaling some 23,000 pounds. Two of the worst emitters were located in northern California in Cupertino and Davenport.
(SFC, 7/24/08, p.B1)
2008 Jul 23, In Afghanistan militants killed a district police chief in the eastern Nangarhar province after striking his convoy with a roadside bomb. Police clashed with Taliban fighters in Uruzgan province, killing three militants.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, The African Union said it was incapable of stabilizing the situation in Somalia and urged the UN take over peacekeeping operations in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
(Reuters, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, Australia announced an extra $29 million in aid for survivors of Myanmar's May cyclone, but pressed its recalcitrant military junta to democratize quickly and respect human rights.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, The European Commission froze almost euro500 million ($800 million) in aid to Bulgaria, citing corruption, organized crime, severe spending irregularities and alleged vote-buying in a country that only joined the EU last year.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, In Democratic Republic of Congo at least 45 people were killed and another 100 were missing after a boat sank on a remote stretch of the Ubangi river.
(Reuters, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 23, France passed a new law to let companies negotiate longer working hours with union representatives, all but squelching the 35-hour week.
(Econ, 7/26/08, p.61)
2008 Jul 23, Iraq's Kurdish government has denounced a draft law paving the way for US-backed provincial elections and urged the presidential council to reject it. The 18-year-old son of the chief editor of a US-sponsored newspaper was shot to death as an American patrol passed nearby in the northern city of Kirkuk.
(AP, 7/23/08)(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 23, US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama donned a Jewish skullcap at Israel's Holocaust memorial and vowed to preserve America's close ties with Israel in a dramatic visit to the Holy Land in which he also promised the Palestinians to push vigorously to win them a state.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, Hurricane Dolly toppled trees and sent billboards flying in the Mexican city of Matamoros, and authorities south of the US border warned of possible flooding. Dolly also hit south Texas, but by evening it had weakened to a tropical storm.
(AP, 7/24/08)(SFC, 7/24/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 23, Opposition lawmakers walked out of a Mongolian parliamentary session before they were to be sworn in, saying they refused to participate because last month's election was fraudulent.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, Nigeria's main militant group threatened to destroy the nation's major oil pipelines within 30 days to counter allegations it had struck a $12 million deal with the government to protect them.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, An international rights group pressed Pakistan's new government to quickly investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly rounded up by security agencies as part of the anti-terror campaign.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka government forces killed 25 rebels in battles in the Vavuniya, Mannar, Jaffna and Welioya regions along the front lines.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2008 Jul 23, In Sudan government planes bombed Karbala, a Darfur village, while Pres. Bashir was addressing cheering crowds in the nearby city of el-Fasher. according to a rebel faction 3 people were killed and 8 injured.
(Reuters, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 23, Turkish warplanes bombed 13 Kurdish rebel targets in the Zab region of northern Iraq.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2008 Jul 23, Venezuela signed over three more oil fields to a joint venture with Belarus, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declaring that the two nations were strongly united in their resistance to "US imperialism" and Washington's "lackeys."
(AP, 7/23/08)
2009 Jul 23, US Vice President Joe Biden pledged Washington's full support for Georgia a year after its war with Russia and urged Moscow to abide by a ceasefire pact and pull its troops back from two rebel regions.
(Reuters, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, US Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas was killed near Campo, Ca. On July 25 Mexican federal police detained four men suspected of involvement in the killing of Rosas. Included was Ernesto Parra Valenzuela, identified as the suspected killer of Rosas. In 2009 Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez (17) pleaded guilty to murdering Rosas. On April 29, 2010, Alvarez was sentenced to 40 years in prison. A 2nd suspect, Marcos Manuel Rodriguez Perez, was arrested on April 11, 2011.
(AP, 7/26/09)(http://texasfred.net/archives/4628)(SFC, 7/27/09, p.A4)(SFC, 11/21/09, p.A4)(AP, 4/29/10)(AP, 4/11/11)
2009 Jul 23, US counter-terrorism officials said that Saad bin Laden (27), the 2nd-eldest son of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, was apparently killed in a US missile strike inside Pakistan this year.
(SFC, 7/24/09, p.A4)
2009 Jul 23, Federal prosecutors arrested over 40 people in New Jersey and New York as part of a major corruption and international money laundering conspiracy probe. They included New Jersey Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano III, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell and Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini. Several rabbis in New York and New Jersey were also arrested. Some were accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars and of black-market trafficking of kidneys and fake Gucci handbags.
(AP, 7/23/09)(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, The Columbus Salame plant in South San Francisco, established in 1967, was devastated by fire.
(SFC, 7/24/09, p.D2)
2009 Jul 23, In Michigan the last edition of The Ann Arbor News rolled off the presses After 174 years, with a three-word headline: "Farewell, Ann Arbor." It is being replaced by AnnArbor.com, an online news site that will produce a print edition twice a week.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, E. Lynn Harris (b.1955), pioneer of gay black fiction, died while promoting his latest book in Los Angeles. Long before the secret world of closeted black gay men came to light in America, Harris introduced a generation of black women to the phenomenon known as the "down low." His debut "Invisible Life" (1994) was a coming-of-age story that dealt with the then-taboo topic.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Afghanistan an operation conducted by US-led coalition forces in the Baidar area of Gelan district killed eight Taliban, five of them foreigners.
(AFP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, Arab health ministers decided to ban children, the elderly and those with chronic medical conditions from attending the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia this year in effort to slow the spread of swine flu.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, Chinese researchers reported that they have produced living mice from connective tissue cells induced to revert to their embryonic state.
(SFC, 7/24/09, p.A11)
2009 Jul 23, In China a landslide triggered by heavy rain hit a county in southwestern Sichuan province, killing at least four people and leaving 53 others missing.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, In China female panda You You (pronounced Yo Yo) gave birth to the new cub at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in southwestern Sichuan. This was the first successful birth of a panda cub from artificial insemination using frozen sperm, giving a new option for the notoriously poor breeders.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, Iceland formally applied to join the European Union but said it would not accept a "rotten deal" for its fishing industry, a key sector of the island nation's troubled economy.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, The wife of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said that her brother is among the hundreds arrested in Iran's postelection crackdown, and she warned authorities not to publish any "forced confessions" from him or other detainees.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, Israeli defense officials said tests of a missile-defense system meant to shield Israel from Iranian attack were aborted over the past week on three occasions because of various malfunctions.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Japan Jerry Yu (30), a US citizen who worked for a Japanese communications company in Tokyo, was found dead of probable hypothermia off a trail just below the peak of Mount Fuji. His colleague, Takeshi Nakamura (27), was found dead the next day.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev, the main opposition candidate, said he was no longer taking part in this day’s presidential election, citing widespread ballot-stuffing and the intimidation of election monitors. Pres. Bakiyev (59) won another 5-year term with 76% of the ballots. International monitors said the election was marred by ballot-box stuffing and widespread irregularities in vote counting.
(AP, 7/23/09)(AP, 8/2/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Nigeria Wole Soyinka, 1986 Nobel laureate in literature, slammed Nigeria's handling of the crisis in the oil region and urged the government to adopt a "holistic" approach in tackling it. Excerpts of the news conference were reported the next day on private Channels television.
(AFP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Pakistan the Taliban denied claims that Maulana Fazlullah, architect of a brutal uprising in Pakistan's Swat valley, was wounded and threatened to unleash renewed holy war. Pakistan said on July 8 it had "credible" information that Fazlullah was injured during a blistering offensive designed to crush Taliban militants. Two policemen were killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a checkpoint in Shangla district. A bomb hidden in a supposed gift of a tape recorder killed another policeman at a checkpoint outside the town of Karak, which borders the Taliban-infested North Waziristan tribal district.
(AFP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, The Philippine government ordered its military to stop offensives against Muslim separatist rebels in a bid to restart peace talks, a move welcomed by the guerrillas.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Poland say seven people died in violent storms.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma's new government warned protesters they must respect the law as violent demonstrations against shoddy public services spread across townships.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, Yemeni security forces opened fire on thousands of protesters in the south chanting anti-government slogans, killing 12 and wounding scores of others. Demonstrations by former army members in southern Yemen demanding political reforms have been occurring regularly since August, 2007.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2010 Jul 23, Jesus Quinonez, the international liaison for the Baja California state attorney general's office, was among 43 defendants named in a US federal racketeering complaint that alleges murder, kidnapping and other crimes. They were accused of working for Fernando Sanchez Arellano, widely considered the most-wanted drug kingpin in Tijuana. Quinonez (49) was arrested a day earlier in San Diego during a traffic stop.
(AP, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 23, In Bell, Ca., 3 administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of LA agreed to resign. Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo (56) was being paid $787,637 a year. Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia made $376,288 a year, and Police Chief Randy Adams made $457,000. On July 26 the City Council voted to slash salaries by 90%. On April 14, 2014, Rizzo was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison on two counts of tax fraud. On April 16 Rizzo was sentenced to 12 years in state prison.
(AP, 7/23/10)(SFC, 7/27/10, p.A6)(SFC, 4/15/14, p.A6)(SFC, 4/17/14, p.A5)
2010 Jul 23, Work to permanently choke off BP's broken oil well stalled as Tropical Storm Bonnie raced toward the Gulf of Mexico and dozens of ships evacuated the area.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Daniel Schorr, veteran news reported died in Washington DC. In 1973 as a CBS reporter Schorr aired Pres. Nixon’s “enemies list," finding his own name as #17 of 20. Schorr’s book included “Clearing the Air" (1978).
(SFC, 7/24/10, p.C4)
2010 Jul 23, In eastern Afghanistan a bomb exploded inside a mosque, seriously wounding a candidate in upcoming parliamentary elections and at least 16 other people. Two American service members left their compound in Kabul and failed to return. They were believed to have been captured by insurgents somewhere in Logar province. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid later said the pair drove into an area of Logar province that is under insurgent control. He says that during a brief gunfight, one American was killed and the other was captured. The body of Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley (30) was found on July 25. On July 28 the body of the 2nd sailor, Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove (25) was recovered. In southern Helmand province at least 45 civilians, many women and children, were killed in a rocket attack by the NATO-led foreign force. Alliance and Afghan troops came under attack about 6 miles (10 km) south of the village and responded with helicopter-borne strikes. Coalition forces reported six insurgents killed, including a Taliban commander.
(AP, 7/23/10)(Reuters, 7/24/10)(AP, 7/25/10)(Reuters, 7/26/10)(AP, 7/28/10)(SFC, 7/28/10, p.A3)(AP, 7/29/10)
2010 Jul 23, The African Union said its forces battling Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Mogadishu will be boosted by a battalion from Guinea and could further swell to reach 10,000 troops.
(AFP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, A Chinese court sentenced a Uighur journalist to 15 years in jail for critical writings and comments he made to foreign media after last year's deadly ethnic riots in China's western Xinjiang region. Halaite Niyaze was found guilty of "endangering national security" and sentenced following a one-day trial in Urumqi.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Typhoon Chanthu killed three people before weakening into a tropical storm after making landfall in southern China's Guangdong province.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, In the Dominican Rep. 8 people who allegedly spent $170 million on apartments, cars and other goods using money from Jose Figueroa, the Caribbean's top drug trafficker, were formally charged with money laundering and other crimes.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Seven out of 91 banks failed European stress tests, which were organized in hope of reviving investor confidence in Europe's embattled banking sector. German state-owned lender Hypo Real Estate, five regional savings banks in Spain and ATEBank of Greece failed the test of whether they could resist a new financial shock. All have been ordered to recapitalize or take state aid.
(AFP, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 23, EU police investigating corruption arrested Hashim Rexhepi, Kosovo’s central bank governor.
(www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4b5155da-9666-11df-96a2-00144feab49a.html)
2010 Jul 23, In Indian Kashmir security forces fired teargas at stone-throwing protesters as fresh protests against Indian rule broke out. A minibus veered off a mountain road under construction and plunged into a river, killing at least 17 people.
(AP, 7/23/10)(AP, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 23, The Marshall Islands region of Ebeye, which has the unflattering reputation as the "slum of the Pacific" has now been damned in a US Army report as a health threat to residents.
(AFP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, A Dutch court slapped a one million euro fine on Trafigura, a Swiss-based company whose chartered ship dumped hazardous waste the Ivory Coast says killed 17 people on its soil. It was also found guilty of concealing what the charge sheet referred to as the "harmful nature" of the waste on board the Probo Koala ship that arrived at the port of Amsterdam on July 2, 2006, but was redirected to the Ivory Coast.
(AFP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Pakistan’s government said 30 people had been killed in flash floods in Baluchistan province, mostly in Barkhan district.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, In South Africa a police helicopter crashed, killing seven officers on board, as it flew to the scene of a suspected hostage-taking northeast of Johannesburg.
(AFP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Switzerland's popular Glacier Express tourist train derailed in the Alps, killing one person and injuring 42.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Thailand’s Culture Ministry said Facebook and Twitter are causing deteriorating language skills among Thai students and authorities want them to return to the bygone tradition of letter-writing.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2011 Jul 23, In Texas Tan Do (35) opened fire at a child's birthday celebration at the Forum Roller World in Grand Prairie, killing five people, wounding four others and then killing himself as the private party turned to panic and some fled screaming in their skates. The dead included Do’s estranged wife, two of her sisters, her brother and her sister-in-law.
(AP, 7/24/11)(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.A5)
2011 Jul 23, John Shalikashvili (b.1936), Polish-born former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993-1997), died in Washington state.
(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.C8)
2011 Jul 23, Asian football supremo Mohamed bin Hammam (62) was banned from the game for life after being found guilty of corruption following a two-day hearing of FIFA's ethics committee. The Qatari president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), had been accused of trying to buy votes in the FIFA presidential election with $40,000 cash gifts to Caribbean football officials.
(AFP, 7/24/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Afghanistan NATO troops handed control of the northern capital Mazar-i-Sharif to local forces. It was the sixth of seven areas to transition to Afghan control. A NATO helicopter attack wounded 5 children in Helmand province. On July 25 Britain took responsibility for the attack, voicing "deep regret" and saying an investigation was under way.
(AFP, 7/23/11)(AFP, 7/25/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Bahrain cleric Seyyed Abdullah al-Ghoreifi said authorities have demolished 30 Shiite mosques during their 5-month-old crackdown in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Thousands of people marched through the streets of Derby protesting the British government’s decision to award a contract for new trains to Siemens, German engineering company.
(Econ, 7/30/11, p.51)
2011 Jul 23, Amy Winehouse (b.1983), the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead in her London home. On Oct 26 an inquest was told she had suddenly drunk heavily after abstaining from alcohol for three weeks and was poisoned by alcohol.
(AP, 7/24/11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Winehouse)(AFP, 10/26/11)
2011 Jul 23, Canada returned Lai Changxing (52) to China where he is accused of running a $10 billion smuggling ring that dealt in everything from cars to oil in a scandal touching the government's highest levels.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, In eastern China a crash involving two high-speed trains in Wenzhou city killed 40 people with 171 others injured. Rail officials later admitted that a Chinese-made signaling system was to blame and said the company that built it has apologized. 3 days after the crash legal authorities ordered lawyers not to take on cases from the families of victims. On Dec 28 a government report found 54 officials responsible for the crash.
(AP, 7/24/11)(AFP, 7/30/11)(AFP, 8/11/11)(Econ, 8/6/11, p.34)(AP, 12/28/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Egypt groups of men armed with knives and sticks attacked thousands of protesters trying to march to the headquarters of the military rulers, setting off fierce street clashes and leaving more than 300 injured. The identity of the pro-army vigilantes could not immediately be determined.
(AP, 7/23/11)(Econ, 7/30/11, p.41)
2011 Jul 23, In Iran gunmen firing from motorcycles killed Dariush Rezaeinejad (35), said to be an electronics masters’ student at Khajeh Nasir University in Tehran. Initial reports said a pair of gunmen firing from motorcycles killed Darioush Rezaei (35), a physics professor whose area of expertise was neutron transport. It was later reported that he participated in developing high-voltage switches, a key component that is crucial to setting off the explosions needed to trigger a nuclear warhead.
(AP, 7/23/11)(AFP, 7/24/11)(AP, 7/28/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Israel tens of thousands marched in the coastal city of Tel Aviv to protest against rising housing prices and social inequalities in the Jewish state.
(AFP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Latvians voted by a large majority to sack their Parliament in a historic referendum, setting the stage for a snap election in September.
(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.A4)
2011 Jul 23, Nguyen Cao Ky (b.1930), the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years (1965-1967) during the Vietnam War, died in Malaysia. In 2002 he authored "Buddha's Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam."
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Mexico 6 suspected cartel gunmen were killed in an overnight clash with soldiers in Ayotlan, Jalisco state. The army alleged that the men were members of the Zetas drug cartel, and said they found assault rifles, grenade launchers and ammunition at the scene. In Guadalajara a man was arrested trying to board a plane to Panama at the international airport carrying more than $290,000 in US currency hidden in a suitcase. In Acapulco two human heads were found on a highway bridge, wrapped in colorful plastic. The body of a third, 20-year-old man was found nearby riddled with bullets.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Mexican soldiers found a series of marijuana fields covering 148 acres (60 hectares) in the northern state of Durango. The army patrol also found 40 metric tons (44 US tons) of harvested marijuana at the plantation.
(AP, 7/25/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Nigeria a bomb exploded in a busy neighborhood in Maiduguri. A witness said at least eight people were killed. Amnesty International said the Nigerian Joint Military Task Force responded by shooting and killing at least 23 people, apparently at random.
(AP, 7/24/11)(AFP, 7/25/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Pakistan an anti-Taliban militia killed 13 militants in 2 days of clashes in the northwestern Kurram tribal region. Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed five laborers at a construction site for a mosque in southwestern Baluchistan.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Rescuers in Scotland said they have guided 44 pilot whales stranded in an estuary back to sea, but 25 other whales from the pod did not survive the incident and died.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Senegal's opposition went ahead with a protest and thousands of demonstrators poured into a square after a last-minute change to the venue to skirt a ban on demonstrations issued by the government. They amassed at Place de l'Obelisque, just outside Dakar's downtown district, to demand the departure of President Abdoulaye Wade (85) who is attempting to run for a third term.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Spain several hundred people, angry about their country’s economic crises, protested on the outskirts of Madrid following a month-long march from their hometowns.
(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.A4)
2011 Jul 23, In South Sudan rebel leader Gatluak Gai was shot and killed by his own men in oil-rich Unity state days after he signed a peace deal to integrate his forces into the southern army.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Voters in Sri Lanka's northern Tamil heartland trickled to polling stations to elect local councils following the country's long civil war. Election monitoring group Campaign for Free and Fair Elections said in a statement that uniformed men suspected to be members of the military were forcibly collecting voting cards apparently to rig the elections. It reported such incidents took place in 20 villages.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, A Syrian passenger train derailed and caught fire near Homs, killing the driver and injuring 14 passengers, after "saboteurs" tore out part of the tracks.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, President Hugo Chavez (56) returned to Venezuela after spending almost a week in Cuba to receive chemotherapy treatment for his cancer.
(AP, 7/24/11)
2012 Jul 23, The US NCAA imposed penalties on Penn State and its football program related to the cover-up of pedophile charges against former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky. The penalties included $60 million and the abdicating of all wins since 1998.
(SFC, 7/25/12, p.A10)
2012 Jul 23, Sally Ride (61), the first US woman to travel into space and an advocate for science education, died in Florida after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Her death made it public that her surviving partner of 27 years was a woman. Ride first launched into space in 1983 aboard Challenger on the 7th mission of US space shuttle program. In 2014 Lynn Sherr authored “Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space."
(Reuters, 7/24/12)(SSFC, 7/13/14, p.N3)
2012 Jul 23, An Afghan army soldier turned his gun on his NATO colleagues injuring two US troops in Faryab province. Gunmen killed 3 people in an ambush on a van in northern Parvan province, including an American electrical engineer who had lived in the country for decades.
(AFP, 7/23/12)(AP, 7/24/12)
2012 Jul 23, China’s State-controlled CNOOC Ltd launched a takeover bids by agreeing to buy Canadian oil producer Nexen Inc for $15.1 billion, forcing Ottawa to decide whether national security concerns outweigh its desire for foreign investment in its energy resources.
(Reuters, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, Egypt began to release detainees held by the military following a decree last week by President Mohamed Morsi.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, Egypt's ambassador to the West Bank Yasser Othman said transiting Palestinians can enter Egypt for 72 hours to arrange their own travel. A Palestinian official in Cairo said more easing of restrictions are being negotiated.
(AP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, The European Union said it was ready to back the deployment of an African stabilization force under UN mandate in Mali, and threatened sanctions against those posing a threat to democratic change.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, The European Union promised to lift most of the sanctions slapped against Zimbabwe a decade ago if the country holds a "credible" vote on a new constitution.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, In Haiti 4 squatters were shot to death as police and other officials forced them to vacate a woodland in La Visite National Park. Haiti was down to about 2% of its original forest cover.
(SFC, 8/31/12, p.A4)
2012 Jul 23, India police said about 25,000 villagers have fled their homes in Assam state during clashes between Bodo tribal groups and Muslim settlers in which 15 people have been killed. Police issued shoot-on-sight orders in an attempt to quell ethnic violence in Assam state, after rioters burnt shops and houses and attacked rival gangs.
(AFP, 7/23/12)(AFP, 7/24/12)
2012 Jul 23, In India Lakshmi Sehgal (b.1914), a top Indian female revolutionary, died following a heart attack. She had fought Allied forces during World War II.
(AFP, 7/23/12)(Econ, 8/4/12, p.82)
2012 Jul 23, Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency reported that people had poured into the streets of Nishabur to protest a steep hike in the price of chicken.
(SFC, 7/24/12, p.A2)
2012 Jul 23, In Iraq bombings and shootings killed 115 people in the deadliest day this year. 29 coordinated attacks in 19 cities sent a chilling warning that al-Qaida is slowly resurging in the security vacuum created by a weak government in Baghdad and the departure of the US military seven months ago.
(AP, 7/23/12)(AFP, 7/24/12)(AP, 7/26/12)(AFP, 8/1/12)(AP, 8/17/12)
2012 Jul 23, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed the Table Mountain Declaration, a pledge drawn up by global media rights bodies to boost press freedom and stop the criminal prosecution of journalists. the declaration was adopted by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in Cape Town, South Africa in 2007. She became only the second African leader after Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou, to sign the declaration.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, In central Nigeria heavy rainfall overnight forced a dam to overflow, causing flooding that left at least 35 people dead and destroyed or damaged some 200 homes.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, In northwest Pakistan US drones fired missiles at a compound of militant commander Sadiq Noor killing 10 suspected insurgents.
(SFC, 7/24/12, p.A2)(AFP, 7/29/12)
2012 Jul 23, Spain's market regulator says it has temporarily banned short-selling of shares on its stock indexes owing to volatility in Spanish and European markets. It noted that Italy took similar steps today.
(AP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, Sudan turned down South Sudan's proposal of a higher oil transit fee and an $8.2 billion financial deal, ruling out any comprehensive settlement of outstanding issues by the August 2 deadline.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, The Syrian regime threatened to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack, in its first ever acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction. The Arab League offered Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family a "safe exit" if he steps down. EU foreign ministers began talks in Brussels with an agreement to freeze the assets of 26 Syrians and three firms close to the Assad regime in the 17th round of sanctions since protests erupted last year.
(AP, 7/23/12)(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, The WWF conservation group ranked Vietnam the worst country for wildlife crime in its first-ever report on how well 23 Asian and African countries protect rhinos, tigers and elephants.
(AP, 7/23/12)
2013 Jul 23, In Afghanistan 3 US and 4 Afghan soldiers were killed after an insurgent riding a donkey detonated a bomb in Wardak province.
(SFC, 7/24/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 23, The US Navy offered Australia any help it wanted to retrieve four bombs, mistakenly dropped on July 16 inside the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)(SFC, 7/23/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 23, A Cameroon court found two men guilty under the country's harsh law banning gay sex, continuing a string of recent convictions that has drawn international condemnation.
(AP, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, In China a man who was told by officials they couldn't register his fourth child because he didn't pay a penalty for breaking family planning laws stabbed to death 2 government workers and injured 4 others.
(AP, 7/24/13)
2013 Jul 23, In Egypt 6 people were killed in Cairo in clashes between opponents and Islamist supporters of deposed Pres. Morsi.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Greek shipowner Victor Restis was arrested on charges of money laundering and embezzlement, becoming one of just a few prominent businessmen to be detained by police since Greece sank into crisis.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, A boat sank off the southern coast of Indonesia. At least 15 people died. 189 of an estimated 204 suspected asylum seekers were rescued. Most were from Iraq, Iran and Sri Lanka.
(Reuters, 7/24/13)(SFC, 7/27/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 23, An Iraqi government spokesman said Baghdad has signed a 4-year deal with Iran to import natural gas for power generation, further intertwining the economies of the two Shiite-dominated countries. Police found the bodies of 4 off-duty policemen on a road with bullet wounds in their heads.
(AP, 7/23/13)(AP, 7/24/13)
2013 Jul 23, Madagascar police arrested an opposition leader on charges of holding an illegal rally, compounding the island nation's political crisis.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, In Mexico violent clashes between armed gangs and security forces killed 22 people, marking a surge in violence in Michoacan state, where President Enrique Pena Nieto is testing a new security strategy.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Myanmar said it is releasing another 73 political prisoners and more could be freed in coming months to honor a commitment made by the president during a recent trip to Europe.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Dutch judges blocked the extradition of a terror suspect, identified as Sabir K., to the United States, saying he was tortured in Pakistan after his 2010 arrest and it is unclear whether American authorities had any involvement. US authorities have accused him of working with al-Qaida from 2004 to 2010, and of plotting a suicide attack on an American military base in Afghanistan.
(AP, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Oman's Sultan Qaboos pardoned activists jailed for taking part in anti-government protests two years ago, his latest gesture to citizens worried about unemployment and inadequate pay.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, A Serbian court freed retail tycoon Miroslav Miskovic, accused of fraud and tax evasion, after he posted a record 12 million euro ($16 million) bail pending his trial.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, South Sudan media said President Salva Kiir has sacked his cabinet, the deputy president and suspended his top negotiator at talks to defuse tensions with Sudan.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Spanish police arrested 25 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang on the Mediterranean resort island of Mallorca. Police said they were wanted for suspected drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, extortion, money laundering and corruption.
(AP, 7/24/13)
2013 Jul 23, In Syria more than 150 soldiers were killed over the last two days in and around the town of Khan al-Assal. Reports said this this included 51 soldiers and officers who were executed.
(Reuters, 7/26/13)
2013 Jul 23, In Thailand a double-decker passenger bus caught fire after colliding with a truck on the Mitraphab highway in Kaeng Khoi district, killing 19 people and injuring 23.
(AP, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, A Turkish border patrol killed one of eight civilians trying to cross illegally from Turkey into Syria. The group had been trying to cross from Hatay province into northwestern Syria and had fired on the Turkish patrol after the troops had whistled a warning.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Yemen's president pardoned journalist Abdelela Shayie, who was jailed for three years on charges of helping al-Qaida and US born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
(AP, 7/24/13)
2014 Jul 23, Late today the US FAA lifted its ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Arizona convicted killer Joseph Wood gasped and snorted during the 117 minutes it took him to die after he was injected with a relatively untested combination of the sedative midazolam and painkiller hydromorphone. He had been sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend and her father.
(AFP, 7/24/14)(SFC, 7/24/14, p.A6)
2014 Jul 23, The Afghan intelligence service accused Pakistan of stoking instability in the country by backing militants who stage attacks in Afghanistan. A suicide bomber killed one policeman and wounded three in northern Kunduz province.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Aruba retired major general Hugo Carvajal, a former Venezuelan military intelligence chief, was arrested at US request to face drug trafficking charges. Carvajal flew home July 27 after the Netherlands government ruled he had diplomatic immunity on the Dutch-owned island.
(AFP, 7/26/14)(Reuters, 7/28/14)
2014 Jul 23, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria pledged to mobilize a joint force to tackle the growing regional threat posed by Boko Haram Islamist militants operating mainly in Nigeria.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, Chinese police detained five people from a unit of US food supplier OSI Group, in a case involving expired meat sold to fast food giants including McDonald's and KFC. The Chinese supplier also had provided 20% of the meat for chicken nuggets in Japan.
(AFP, 7/23/14)(SFC, 7/23/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, China’s state media said Beijing has closed the first of four large coal-fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, citing the local planning agency.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Chinese state media said the government would target pornography on smartphones and punish pornographic app creators.
(SFC, 7/24/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, In China tropical storm Matmo made landfall. It brought heavy rains and winds to parts of eastern China following another typhoon that killed at least 56 people in the country's south. Matmo left 9 dead in Jiangxi province and 4 dead in Guangdong province.
(AP, 7/24/14)(SFC, 7/28/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, Representatives of the Muslim and Christian factions battling in Central African Republic signed a cease-fire agreement in neighboring Republic of Congo.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, The Egyptian army reportedly killed 3 militants in their car during a raid in the Sinai region. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis later said the militants were killed by an Israeli drone.
(Reuters, 7/25/14)
2014 Jul 23, The European Union gave Lithuania the green light to adopt the euro currency starting next year.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Air France and Germany's two largest airlines canceled more flights to Tel Aviv because of ongoing safety concerns amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, The World Bank offered India up to $18 billion in financial support over the next three years while lavishly praising new right-wing PM Narendra Modi's "ambitious vision" for the country.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Israeli forces pounded Gaza, meeting stiff resistance from Hamas Islamists and sending thousands of residents fleeing. US Secretary of State John Kerry said on a visit to Israel ceasefire talks had made some progress. Gaza's Health Ministry said 18 Palestinians were killed today, many of them in the southern town of Khan Younis.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Libya at least 9 people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in Benghazi after heavy clashes between Islamist fighters and regular forces trying to oust the militants from the city.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Nigeria a bomb targeting an Imam in the center of Kaduna killed 32 of his followers. A 2nd bomb blast in Kaduna killed 50 in the crowded Kawo market. Boko Haram attackers entered the village of Garubula, in Biu district, late today and dragged victims out of their homes before shooting 12 of them.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)(AFP, 7/26/14)
2014 Jul 23, Polish state airline LOT suspended its flights to Israel from Warsaw until July 28 because of concern for passengers' safety.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Somalia member of parliament Saado Ali Warsame, believed to be in her 70s, was shot dead in Mogadishu by Islamist gunmen. She was famed for political and patriotic songs she sang over decades.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, A South African court jailed a rhino poacher for 77 years, one of the heaviest sentences handed out for the crime as poaching continues to escalate. Mandla Chauke was arrested in the iconic Kruger National Park in 2011 after he killed three rhino calves. This month two Mozambicans were each jailed 16 years for killing and dehorning rhino.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways plane crashed on landing on Penghu island off the west coast, killing 48 people. 10 people survived. Typhoon Matmo slammed into Taiwan today with heavy rains and strong winds.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)(Reuters, 7/24/14)(AP, 7/25/14)
2014 Jul 23, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said reverse gas flows from the EU to Ukraine had fallen because of opposition from Russian gas producer Gazprom.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets, not far from where a Malaysian airliner was brought down last week in eastern Ukraine. Local health officials said 432 people had been killed and 1,015 wounded since hostilities started in the Donetsk region.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In eastern Ukraine Graham Phillips, a British journalist reporting for a Russian television channel, went missing, with Moscow alleging he and another journalist (Vadim) were captured by Kiev's troops. CNN journalist Anton Skiba was reportedly abducted in Donetsk.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Late today the US FAA lifted its ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Arizona convicted killer Joseph Wood gasped and snorted during the 117 minutes it took him to die after he was injected with a relatively untested combination of the sedative midazolam and painkiller hydromorphone. He had been sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend and her father.
(AFP, 7/24/14)(SFC, 7/24/14, p.A6)
2014 Jul 23, The Afghan intelligence service accused Pakistan of stoking instability in the country by backing militants who stage attacks in Afghanistan. A suicide bomber killed one policeman and wounded three in northern Kunduz province.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Aruba retired major general Hugo Carvajal, a former Venezuelan military intelligence chief, was arrested at US request to face drug trafficking charges. Carvajal flew home July 27 after the Netherlands government ruled he had diplomatic immunity on the Dutch-owned island.
(AFP, 7/26/14)(Reuters, 7/28/14)
2014 Jul 23, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria pledged to mobilize a joint force to tackle the growing regional threat posed by Boko Haram Islamist militants operating mainly in Nigeria.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, Chinese police detained five people from a unit of US food supplier OSI Group, in a case involving expired meat sold to fast food giants including McDonald's and KFC. The Chinese supplier also had provided 20% of the meat for chicken nuggets in Japan.
(AFP, 7/23/14)(SFC, 7/23/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, China’s state media said Beijing has closed the first of four large coal-fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, citing the local planning agency.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Chinese state media said the government would target pornography on smartphones and punish pornographic app creators.
(SFC, 7/24/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, In China tropical storm Matmo made landfall. It brought heavy rains and winds to parts of eastern China following another typhoon that killed at least 56 people in the country's south. Matmo left 9 dead in Jiangxi province and 4 dead in Guangdong province.
(AP, 7/24/14)(SFC, 7/28/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, Representatives of the Muslim and Christian factions battling in Central African Republic signed a cease-fire agreement in neighboring Republic of Congo.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, The Egyptian army reportedly killed 3 militants in their car during a raid in the Sinai region. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis later said the militants were killed by an Israeli drone.
(Reuters, 7/25/14)
2014 Jul 23, The European Union gave Lithuania the green light to adopt the euro currency starting next year.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Air France and Germany's two largest airlines canceled more flights to Tel Aviv because of ongoing safety concerns amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, The World Bank offered India up to $18 billion in financial support over the next three years while lavishly praising new right-wing PM Narendra Modi's "ambitious vision" for the country.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Israeli forces pounded Gaza, meeting stiff resistance from Hamas Islamists and sending thousands of residents fleeing. US Secretary of State John Kerry said on a visit to Israel ceasefire talks had made some progress. Gaza's Health Ministry said 18 Palestinians were killed today, many of them in the southern town of Khan Younis.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Libya at least 9 people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in Benghazi after heavy clashes between Islamist fighters and regular forces trying to oust the militants from the city.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Nigeria a bomb targeting an Imam in the center of Kaduna killed 32 of his followers. A 2nd bomb blast in Kaduna killed 50 in the crowded Kawo market. Boko Haram attackers entered the village of Garubula, in Biu district, late today and dragged victims out of their homes before shooting 12 of them.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)(AFP, 7/26/14)
2014 Jul 23, Polish state airline LOT suspended its flights to Israel from Warsaw until July 28 because of concern for passengers' safety.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Somalia member of parliament Saado Ali Warsame, believed to be in her 70s, was shot dead in Mogadishu by Islamist gunmen. She was famed for political and patriotic songs she sang over decades.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, A South African court jailed a rhino poacher for 77 years, one of the heaviest sentences handed out for the crime as poaching continues to escalate. Mandla Chauke was arrested in the iconic Kruger National Park in 2011 after he killed three rhino calves. This month two Mozambicans were each jailed 16 years for killing and dehorning rhino.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways plane crashed on landing on Penghu island off the west coast, killing 48 people. 10 people survived. Typhoon Matmo slammed into Taiwan today with heavy rains and strong winds.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)(Reuters, 7/24/14)(AP, 7/25/14)
2014 Jul 23, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said reverse gas flows from the EU to Ukraine had fallen because of opposition from Russian gas producer Gazprom.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets, not far from where a Malaysian airliner was brought down last week in eastern Ukraine. Local health officials said 432 people had been killed and 1,015 wounded since hostilities started in the Donetsk region.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In eastern Ukraine Graham Phillips, a British journalist reporting for a Russian television channel, went missing, with Moscow alleging he and another journalist (Vadim) were captured by Kiev's troops. CNN journalist Anton Skiba was reportedly abducted in Donetsk.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2015 Jul 23, US defense officials said that Turkey has agreed to allow manned US planes to stage air strikes against Islamic State militants from an air base at Incirlik, close to the Syrian border. US drones are already launched from the base.
(Reuters, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Louisiana John Russell Houser (59), sitting in a packed movie theater, stood up about 20 minutes into the showing of "Trainwreck" and began firing into the crowd, killing two and wounding at least nine others before fatally shooting himself at the Grand 16 theater in Lafayette.
(AFP, 7/24/15)(SSFC, 7/26/15, p.A10)
2015 Jul 23, Oklahoma police found 5 members of the Bever family either dead or dying and a girl (13) stabbed but alive near the front door of a home in Broken Arrow. Brothers Michael (16) and Robert Bever (18) were taken into custody. Both faced trial as adults.
(SFC, 7/24/15, p.A11)(SFC, 7/25/15, p.A4)(SFC, 10/13/15, p.A6)
2015 Jul 23, Astronomers reported the discovery an Earth-like planet some 1,400 light-years away. Signals from the Kepler spacecraft indicated that Kepler-452b orbited around a star believed to be about 4.6 billion years old.
(SFC, 7/24/15, p.A8)
2015 Jul 23, In Belgium the center-right government of PM Charles Michel pushed through a tax shift to lighten the cost of labor for businesses and offset it with taxes on energy, alcohol and tobacco. After all-night negotiations that stretched into today, the Michel government announced it would balance the budget by 2018.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Belgium arrested two former detainees of Guantanamo prison on charges of terrorism, saying the men are suspected of seeking recruits to fight in Syria.
(Reuters, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, Brazil's government said the jobless rate in Latin America's largest country rose for the sixth straight month in June.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In England Simon Reynolds (50) was absent from the court in Sheffield as a jury returned a verdict of four counts of theft. The Church of England priest was convicted of pocketing around 24,000 pounds ($37,000) of church funds. Reynolds turned himself in to police on July 27. On July 28 a judge jailed Reynolds for two years and eight months for pocketing church funds.
(AP, 7/24/15)(AFP, 7/27/15)(AP, 7/28/15)
2015 Jul 23, Pearson PLC, the owner of the Financial Times, said it has agreed to sell FT Group to Nikkei Inc. for 844 million pounds ($1.3 billion), payable in cash.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Cameroon the governor of the East Region chaired a security meeting that included Muslim clerics where he "announced the ban of a full veil or burqa.
(AP, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Congo DRC Ugandan ADF rebels killed 3 women and burned down four buildings in the village of Mayi-Moya, North Kivu province.
(AFP, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, In the Czech Rep. a Prague court convicted David Rath, a former prominent member of the ruling Social Democrats, of corruption and sentenced him to eight and a half years in prison.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Egypt’s northern Sinai one officer and 3 soldiers died when their armored vehicle hit the bomb in Rafah. Clashes with militants then ensued, killing a fifth soldier.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, The European Union launched an antitrust case against six major US movie studios and British satellite broadcaster Sky UK, in a move that could profoundly shake up the highly lucrative pay-television market in Europe.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Angry French farmers blocked the Mont Saint-Michel causeway and highways leading to the Alps to denounce low milk and meat prices.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Amnesty Int’l. said Iran has executed 694 people between January 1 and July 15. Iran officially acknowledged only 246 executions in the same period.
(SFC, 7/24/15, p.A2)
2015 Jul 23, In Mexico 4 children were among 7 people from the same family killed in a devastating lightning strike in the town of Mesa Cuata, Guanajuato state.
(AFP, 7/25/15)
2015 Jul 23, A Palestinian man, Falah Abu Maria, (53) was killed during a clash between Palestinians and Israeli troops in the West Bank.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Reconstruction began on the first homes in Gaza since the war with Israel last summer destroyed some 11,900 homes and damaged some 140,000 dwellings.
(SFC, 7/24/15, p.A2)
2015 Jul 23, In Poland hundreds of police, firefighters and other uniformed workers picketed the main government building to demand higher pay and modernization of their sectors. The Interior Ministry said pay rises are planned for January.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Poland a bus traveling from Ukraine to Warsaw crashed, killing 5 people and injuring more than two dozen others.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Romanian police detained Gabriel Berca, a former interior minister (2012), on charges of illegally receiving 185,000 euros ($203,000) from a businessman.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, A Soyuz space capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Japanese docked smoothly with the International Space Station.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Spain raised the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16 to boost protection of minors and bring the country in line with its EU neighbors.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Tunisia one militant was killed and 16 others arrested in a late-night operation that foiled a planned attack.
(AFP, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Turkey suspected Islamic State militants fired at a Turkish military outpost from inside Syrian territory, killing a Turkish soldier and wounding two others. 5 members of Islamic State were also killed during the exchange of fire.
(AP, 7/23/15)(Reuters, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, Yemeni troops and local militias, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, seized full control of the strategic port city of Aden after repelling Shiite rebels from their last holdout in this southern city and pushed to solidify their gains.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2016 Jul 23, In Afghanistan a suicide attack on peaceful protesters in Kabul killed 81 people. The protesters were mainly Hazaras. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
(Reuters, 7/24/16)(Econ, 7/30/16, p.31)
2016 Jul 23, A drug bust in Chile resulted in the haul of cocaine worth more than €11 million ($12 million) that was bound for Spain. Three suspected traffickers were arrested, two of whom are confirmed Spanish nationals.
(Reuters, 7/29/16)
2016 Jul 23, In China Siberian tigers at the Badaling wildlife World in Beijing mauled a woman to death and wounded another when they stepped out of their carin an enclosure.
(SFC, 7/25/16, p.A2)
2016 Jul 23, In El Salvador four inmates at a prison were murdered amid a fight between inmates, members of the Barrio 18 gang, at a facility in the city of Quezaltepeque.
(Reuters, 7/24/16)
2016 Jul 23, El Salvador's president says he has begun talks with political parties on a new "national reconciliation" law. Earlier this month, the country's Supreme Court overturned an amnesty law enacted in 1993 covering crimes committed during the country's 1980-1992 civil war.
(AP, 7/24/16)
2016 Jul 23, In Madagascar a house fire broke out during a party. 38 people including 16 children were killed as the blaze ripped through a thatched roof.
(AFP, 7/25/16)
2016 Jul 23, In southern Mexico a mayor, a town councilman, two other town employees and a local resident were shot to death in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas state. Prosecutors said a crowd of about 35 people demanded to speak with Mayor Domingo Lopez Gonzalez about funding for public works when shots rang out, killing him and the other four.
(AP, 7/24/16)
2016 Jul 23, Turkey pushed on with a sweeping crackdown against suspected plotters of its failed coup. Using new emergency powers, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's cabinet decreed that police could now hold suspects for one month without charge, and announced it would shut down over 1,000 private schools it deems subversive.
(AFP, 7/24/16)
2016 Jul 23, Turkey said it has detained Hails Hanci a senior aide to the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it blames for the coup attempt aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Hanci was described as a "right-hand man" of Gulen and responsible for transferring funds to him. Gulen has denied being behind the failed coup.
(AFP, 7/23/16)
2016 Jul 23, In Turkey Muhammed Wisam Sankari, a gay Syrian refugee, went missing. His body was found mutilated and beheaded two days later in central Istanbul.
(AP, 8/4/16)
2017 Jul 23, Donald Trump's son-in-law and top White House advisor Jared Kushner denied colluding with Moscow to sway the 2016 election, insisting a string of undisclosed meetings with Russian officials were "proper."
(AFP, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Missouri almost 100,000 people woke up without power after severe storms swept through the Kansas City area overnight.
(SFC, 7/24/17, p.A5)
2017 Jul 23, In Nevada Scott Blumstein (25) of New Jersey won the series' marquee no-limit Texas Hold 'em main event early today in Las Vegas. He was more than $8.1 million richer after eliminating Pennsylvania's Daniel Ott on the 246th hand of the final table.
(AP, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, A woman who was accused of intentionally drowning her fiancé in the Hudson River by tampering with his kayak as part of a murderous plot to collect on his life insurance pleaded guilty to a lesser charge that could minimize the amount of additional time she spends in jail.
(AP, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Texas 8 people were found dead after emergency crews pulled dozens of smuggled migrants from a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer heat. A ninth victim died at the hospital. Adan Lara Vega (27) had been told the $5,500 he was being charged to be smuggled into the United States would include an air-conditioned truck ride. Instead, the Mexican laborer climbed with his friends into a pitch-black, metal tractor-trailer compartment that lacked ventilation -- a deadly oven that would claim 10 lives. Driver James Bradley Jr. (60) was later charged under a federal law against knowingly transporting people who are in the country illegally. On April 20, 2018, Bradley was sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 7/24/17)(SFC, 7/25/17, p.A1)(SFC, 4/21/18, p.A6)
2017 Jul 23, A federal judge in Seattle said that nonprofit legal groups around the country can keep assisting immigrants facing deportation, after a Justice Department decision threatened to curtail much of that work.
(AP,7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Afghanistan Taliban fighters overran a second district headquarters in as many days, this one in western Ghor province. At least eight police were killed in separate battles.
(AP, 7/23/17)(SFC, 7/24/17, p.A4)
2017 Jul 23, Christian militias in Central African Republic killed a Moroccan peacekeeper as the Moroccan contingent escorted water trucks filling up in a river in order to meet the humanitarian needs of Bangassou. Recent incidents prompted 14 humanitarian workers from six organizations to suspend their activities in the town.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, Preliminary results from East Timor's parliamentary election showed the Fretilin party has won the most votes while its partner in the national unity government suffered a slump in support.
(AP, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said his government would keep up a blockade of Qatar by four Arab states over charges it supports terrorism, in defiance of international efforts to end the crisis.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Germany former Vietnamese oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh was taken from the Tiergarten, a large forested park in central Berlin, by armed men.
(Reuters, 8/2/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Japan tens of thousands of people in the northeast were told to evacuate their homes as heavy rain caused major flooding and cut some rail links.
(Reuters, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, Israel installed metal detectors at the Haram al-Sharif mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount after a weekend of violence left eight people dead, with fears more unrest could follow.
(AFP, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Jordan an Israeli security guard shot and killed two Jordanians after being attacked by one of them with a screwdriver in Amman. Mohammed Jawawdeh (16) was killed after he argued with an Israeli guard during a furniture delivery next to the Israeli Embassy. A bystander was also killed in the altercation.
(AP, 7/24/17)(AP, 7/25/17)(SFC, 10/5/17, p.A2)
2017 Jul 23, In northeastern Nigeria female suicide bombers attacked two camps for those displaced by the Boko Haram conflict outside Maiduguri. At least 8 people were killed and another 15 wounded.
(AP, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Pakistan at least 150 people were killed when an overturned fuel tanker truck exploded as they collected spilled fuel.
(SFC, 7/26/17, p.A3)
2017 Jul 23, A chainsaw-wielding loner who mostly lived in the woods stormed into an insurance office in a Swiss town, wounding two members of staff and three other people before fleeing.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, Syria's regime carried out air raids on one of the last rebel strongholds near Damascus, a day after it declared a ceasefire in parts of the besieged enclave.
(AFP, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko demanded Russia's Vladimir Putin halt arms supplies to rebels as the leaders of France and Germany tried to revive a peace plan.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, Vatican authorities began to turn off some 100 fountains, including two Baroque masterpieces in St. Peter's Square, due to a prolonged drought affecting the tiny city state and the city of Rome which surrounds it.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2018 Jul 23, The White House blamed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for inciting a war of words with President Donald Trump, who warned that verbal threats could escalate into military conflict with the US.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In New Mexico flood waters rushed through the streets in Santa Fe late today, destroying homes and businesses and trapping motorists in vehicles as more than 3 inches (8 cm) of rain fell.
(Reuters, 7/24/18)
2018 Jul 23, French police cleared 455 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants from a park in the western city of Nantes where they had been camping for more than a month.
(AFP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Oksana Shachko (31), one of the founders of the Femen feminist protest movement, was found dead in her Paris apartment with a suicide note next to her body. She was one of four feminist activists who founded Femen in Ukraine in 2008.
(AFP, 7/24/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Greece a swift-moving forest fire burned through a mountainous area west of Athens, prompting residents to flee as smoke from the blaze turned the sky over the Greek capital a hazy orange. Hundreds of people were trapped in the eastern resort of Mati as flames whipped around them. The death toll reached 91 as another victim died on August 6. In December death toll from the fire rose to 100 as another victim died of severe burns.
(AP, 7/23/18)(Reuters, 7/24/18)(AP, 7/25/18)(Reuters, 7/28/18)(AP, 8/6/18)(AP, 12/15/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Greece a Pakistani man (29) was stabbed to death. He was with three compatriots heading illegally toward Greece's northern border with Macedonia. On August 3 police announced the arrest of eight migrants on suspicion of the murder. The eight, six Afghans and two Pakistanis, allegedly robbed the four near the border.
(AP, 8/3/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Iraq three teenage gunmen stormed the governor's headquarters in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, opening fire and killing one employee before being shot dead by Kurdish security forces. The assailants' motives were unclear.
(AFP, 7/23/18)(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Israel launched its newest air defense system on the Syrian frontier, where Damascus's Russian-backed forces have been routing rebels. Israeli air defenses fired at rockets that approached its territory from neighboring Syria, where regime troops were advancing on opposition forces close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)(AFP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Italy's foreign minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Rome will allow migrants rescued by a European Union naval operation to land over the coming weeks while EU nations figure out how to divide up new arrivals.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Japan recorded its highest temperature ever as a deadly heat wave continued to grip a wide swath of the country and nearby South and North Korea. Over the last two weeks more than 40 people have died in Japan and about 10 in South Korea.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In southern Laos hundreds of people went missing and several were feared dead after the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam under construction in Attapeu province collapsed, causing flash flooding that swept away homes. A least 27 people were killed when part of a newly built South Korean-built hydroelectric dam gave way. 131 people were listed as missing.
(AP, 7/24/18)(AFP, 7/25/18)(AP, 7/25/18)(AP, 7/26/18)
2018 Jul 23, Lebanon's army killed eight people and arrested 41 others in a raid in Brital to arrest Ali Zeid Ismael, a well-known drug dealer. Ismael was among those killed.
(AP, 7/23/18)(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, It was reported that homicides in Mexico have risen 16 percent in the first half of 2018, as the country again breaks its records for violence.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Myanmar small-scale miners who flouted repeated warnings in their search for jade at a defunct mining site were buried by muddy earth that slid off a cliff. 27 people were buried in a landslide.
(Reuters, 7/25/18)
2018 Jul 23, In northern Nigeria seven people were killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in Konduga town.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, The chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court appointed judge Tahira Safdar as the first woman chief justice to Baluchistan province's highest court.
(AP, 7/24/18)
2018 Jul 23, In the Philippines former leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (71) was elected speaker of the lower house of Congress, following a dramatic move by lawmakers to replace a loyalist of President Rodrigo Duterte with one of his most influential allies.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Rwanda's Pres. Paul Kagame signed bilateral agreements with the visiting Chinese president, Xi Jinping, the first Chinese president to visit Rwanda. Kagame praised China's treatment of Africa "as an equal," calling it "a revolutionary posture in world affairs" and "more precious than money".
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Somali military officer said troops have repulsed an extremist assault on a military base in Sanguni. 10 attackers were reported killed. A spokesman for al-Shabab claimed that its fighters managed to enter the base and killed 27 soldiers.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Diamond producer De Beers said it was relocating 200 elephants from its private reserve in South Africa to neighboring Mozambique, part of wider efforts to restore wildlife populations ravaged by conflict there.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In South Korea the body of Roh Hoe-chan (61), a prominent liberal lawmaker of the small opposition Justice Party, was found dead near a Seoul apartment building. He had been embroiled in a corruption scandal and left a suicide note of apology.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Sri Lanka's Pres. Maithripala Sirisena said the government will still end its 42-year moratorium on capital punishment despite requests by the European Union and other diplomatic missions not to do so.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Syria Russian air strikes late today killed four civilians in the pocket held by the Islamic State group in the southern province of Daraa.
(AFP, 7/24/18)
2018 Jul 23, Tunisia's Red Crescent said a Tunisian boat carrying around 40 African migrants has been stranded off the country's coast without aid for more than a week after authorities refused to let them disembark there.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, The UN Int'l Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the United Arab Emirates to immediately allow Qatari families affected by a dispute between the countries to reunite, imposing the measure before it hears the full case filed by Qatar at a later date.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, A court in Vietnam jailed 10 people for terms ranging from two to 3-1/2 years after they were arrested in last month's nationwide June 10 protests against new economic zones.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2019 Jul 23, Pres. Donald Trump sued the House Ways and Means Committee and New York state officials in an effort to block disclosure of his state tax returns.
(SFC, 7/24/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 23, It was reported that the US State Department has stopped publishing crime data involving Americans harmed in Jamaica — but it won't say why. The State Department did warn in its 2019 report that "rape and sexual assault are serious problems throughout Jamaica, including at resorts and hotels.
(USA Today, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, The US Justice Department said that four Chinese nationals and the Chinese company they worked for have been indicted on charges of money laundering and violating weapons of mass destruction safeguards tied to the banned export of sensitive equipment to North Korea. The four each face up to 45 years in prison and US$1.75 million in fines.
(South China Morning Post, 7/24/19)
2019 Jul 23, In Delaware the body of high school teacher Susan Morrissey Ledyard (50) was found, in the Brandywine River near Northeast Boulevard in Wilmington. An autopsy conducted by the Division of Forensic Science ruled Susan’s cause of death to be blunt force trauma and drowning.
(NBC News, 7/23/20)
2019 Jul 23, Lois Wille (87), a Chicago reporter and author, died at her downtown home. Her two books included "Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront" (1972) and "At Home in the Loop: How Clout and Community Built Chicago's Dearborn Park" (1997).
(SSFC, 7/28/19, p.B9)
2019 Jul 23, In North Carolina a federal judge approved a settlement saying state agencies and universities cannot ban transgender people from using the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.
(SFC, 7/24/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 23, In Virginia a jury convicted Bijan Kian, a one-time business partner of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, on charges that he illegally acted as a Turkish agent when he and Flynn undertook a project to discredit exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen.
(SFC, 7/24/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 23, Former soldier Mark Esper was sworn in as US secretary of defense after earning Senate confirmation, filling America's longest-ever Pentagon leadership vacuum.
(AFP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Insurance companies contending that Pacific Gas & Electric owes them more than $20 billion from wildfire claims want to take over the California utility and pull it out of bankruptcy. The insurers filed court documents to end PG&E's exclusive right to file a reorganization plan.
(AP, 7/24/19)
2019 Jul 23, The National Association of Realtors said US home sales fell more than expected in June as a persistent shortage of properties pushed prices to a record high, suggesting the housing market was struggling to regain speed since hitting a soft patch last year.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Storms broke the heat in the US Northeast and Midwest but also knocked out power to thousands in Michigan and New Jersey and caused flash flooding in some areas of NYC.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, The International Monetary Fund warned that global trade tensions, continued uncertainty and rising prospects for a no-deal Brexit are sapping the strength of the world economy, which faces a "precarious" 2020.
(AFP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Australia-based BHP, a leading resources company, said it will invest $400 million over five years to reduce emissions, becoming the first miner to pledge to tackle pollution caused when customers use its products.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Bangladesh officials said severe flooding has killed at least 61 people, displaced nearly 800,000 and inundated thousands of homes across a third of the country, after two weeks of heavy monsoon rains.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Boris Johnson, the Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by the end of October, won the leadership of the Conservative Party and will replace Theresa May as prime minister.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev vetoed a deal to buy eight new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets, describing a lack of consensus over the purchase as "extremely worrying".
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Cameroonian security forces moved into the capital's central prison overnight to put down an uprising by inmates protesting at the government's crackdown on the Anglophone separatist movement and poor conditions inside.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, In southwestern China a landslide buried 21 houses in the city of Liupanshui, Guizhou province. The death toll soon rose to 24 and more 27 people were reported missing.
(SFC, 7/27/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 23, France's parliament approved the EU-Canada trade agreement with a relatively small majority, meaning that a significant part of President Emmanuel Macron's party voted against it. France became the 14th EU country to approve CETA, which provisionally took effect from September 2017, but still needs to be approved by all 28 EU member states.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Guatemala's Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel blamed unnamed "national actors" for damaging relations with the United States and said they would be responsible if US President Donald Trump puts tariffs on the poor Central American nation.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, In eastern India lightning killed at least 39 people in Bihar state, raising the number of deaths in the state to 123 from lightning and flooding since the monsoon season started in June.
(SFC, 7/25/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 23, Iran threatened to cut its imports from Brazil unless it allows the refueling of at least two Iranian ships stranded off the Brazilian coast, a sign of the global repercussions of US sanctions on the Islamic republic.
(Bloomberg, 7/24/19)
2019 Jul 23, Iraqi security forces swept villages and farmland north of Baghdad as part of an operation aimed at clearing remnants of the Islamic State group from around the capital. The dragnet was part of the operation dubbed "Will to Victory," which started two weeks ago along the border with Syria and was extended last week to areas north of Baghdad and in the Diyala, Salahuddin and Anbar provinces.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak apologized for the killing of 13 Arab protesters by Israeli police in 2000 and said there is no place for protesters to be killed by their country's security forces".
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Kenya's Finance Minister Henry Rotich pleaded not guilty to corruption charges over the award of two dam tenders, in an unprecedented legal move against a sitting minister in a country notorious for graft.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Kenya's parliament voted to nationalize the country's main airline Kenya Airways to save it from mounting debts.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Nigerian troops and police clashed with Shi'ite Muslim marchers in the capital Abuja and gunfire could be heard.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Firefighters in Portugal brought a huge wildfire under control after the blaze raged for four days, injuring 39 people and leaving a trail of destruction.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Puerto Rican justice officials executed search warrants for the mobile phones of top associates of Governor Ricardo Rosselló amid a corruption scandal that provoked 10 days of protests demanding his resignation.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Saudi Arabia's cabinet said that Iran's interception of commercial vessels in Gulf waters, including its seizure of a British tanker, violated international law and must be prevented.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Pope Francis named Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Mark Brennan (72) to lead West Virginia's Catholics following a scandal over the former bishop's sexual harassment of adults and lavish spending of church money. He replaced Bishop Michael Bransfield, who resigned in September after a preliminary investigation into allegations of sexual and financial misconduct.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2020 Jul 23, President Donald Trump scrapped plans for a four-night Republican National Convention celebration in Florida that had been set to draw more than 10,000 people to a pandemic hot spot to mark his renomination.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, The Trump administration said that it is revoking an Obama-era housing regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs, a move that fair housing advocates have decried as an election year stunt designed to manipulate the fears of white voters.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, US and British officials claimed that a July 15 test of an anti-satellite weapon signaled a continuing Russian effort to develop technologies that could threaten space assets of the United States and its allies.
(AP, 7/24/20)
2020 Jul 23, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's outrage over a lawmaker’s verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women" whose adherents include President Donald Trump. This came a day after she rejected an offer of contrition from Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., for his language during this week's Capitol steps confrontation.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, The US Department of Justice announced that Alabama prisons have a pattern of using excessive force against male inmates, as it again accused the state of keeping prisoners in unconstitutional conditions.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, A federal judge ordered the release of Michael Cohen to home confinement, agreeing with his lawyers that he was wrongly sent back to prison after making public statements critical of President Donald Trump.
(Today, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, A US judge authorized the release of new records from a 2015 civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate who is facing criminal charges that she lured girls for the late financier to sexually abuse.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, The US baseball season officially began, four months late because of the coronavirus pandemic.
(Econ., 8/8/20, p.22)
2020 Jul 23, California to date had 428,980 cases of coronavirus and 8,187 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 45,857 cases and 740 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 4,027,741 with the death toll at 144,072.
(sfist.com, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Florida recorded 173 new coronavirus deaths, a daily high that pushed its toll from the pandemic to more than 5,500. Deaths inside nursing homes have also been on the rise, averaging about 40 per day in the last week after those numbers had dropped in mid-June to lower than 20 deaths per day.
(AP, 7/24/20)
2020 Jul 23, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a police accountability bill into law that included a ban on neck restraints, choke holds and so-called warrior-style training.
(SFC, 7/24/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 23, A federal judge specifically blocked US agents from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at protests in Oregon's largest city where President Donald Trump is testing the limits of federal power.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Texas set one-day records for increases in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the state, forcing one county to store bodies in refrigerated trucks and prompting a top health official there to call for new stay-at-home orders.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Australia rejected Beijing's territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea in a formal declaration to the United Nations, aligning itself more closely with Washington in the escalating row.
(AFP, 7/24/20)
2020 Jul 23, Bahrain, with a population of 1.6 million, has reported more than 37,000 cases of the coronavirus and 130 deaths. The government put the asymptomatic figure at 68%, mostly among healthy and young foreign laborers.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Britain and the EU broke up their latest round of post-Brexit trade negotiations by ruling out a quick deal but voicing hope for agreement in the coming months.
(AFP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, London-based Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult), a firm backed by the UK government, said it has purchased a vaccine manufacturing facility from healthcare company Benchmark Holdings for 16 million pounds ($20.36 million) in cash, as the country ramps up efforts to produce potential coronavirus vaccines.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, China launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet in a bold attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In northern Egypt four members of a family drowned at al-Safa beach off the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, It was reported that a hospital in the southern French city of Lyon is testing patients with a new machine that enables them to breathe into a tube to see whether they have COVID-19 in a matter of seconds.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Emmanuel Farhi (b.1978), French economist and professor of economics at Harvard University, died. His most cited work was on safe assets, written in 2008 with Ricardo Caballero of MIT.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Farhi)(Econ., 8/1/20, p.60)
2020 Jul 23, A German court found Bruno Day (93), a former Nazi SS camp guard, guilty of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder and one case of accessory to attempted murder — equal to the number of people believed to have been killed at Stutthof concentration camp during his service there. Dey was 17, and later 18, at the time of his alleged crimes which were consequently heard in juvenile court in Hamburg. He was given a two-year juvenile sentence, which has been suspended.
(NBC News, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In Germany 11 men were convicted of rape at the end of a year-long trial over a gang assault on an 18-year-old woman in October 2018. The case, in which most of the defendants were Syrian, added to tensions in Germany over migration.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Hong Kong reported 118 new coronavirus cases, a daily record, including 111 locally transmitted cases, adding to a deluge of new infections that have hit the global financial hub in the past two weeks. Total confirmed cases now numbered 2,250, including 14 deaths.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)(SFC, 7/24/20, p.A8)
2020 Jul 23, Indonesian authorities in Bali arrested Marcus Beam, an American fugitive accused of investment fraud. Police said Beam had been making and selling sex videos in Bali to support his living expenses there.
(https://tinyurl.com/y5woy5nm)
2020 Jul 23, Baghdad International Airport reopened for scheduled commercial flights after months of closure during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit Iraq especially hard in recent weeks. The country has recorded 102,226 coronavirus infections and 4,122 deaths. Today's tally was 2,361 new cases.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Tokyo announced a record 366 new daily coronavirus cases . Tokyo now has 10,420 confirmed cases including 327 deaths.
(SFC, 7/24/20, p.A8)
2020 Jul 23, It was reported that five aid workers abducted last month in north-east Nigeria's Borno State have been killed. Pres. Muhammadu Buhari blamed Boko Haram and vowed to bring the killers to justice.
(BBC, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In northwester Pakistan a bombing wounded at least 20 people in the town of Parachinar, a majority Shiite town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
(SFC, 7/24/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 23, Qatar, with a population of 2.8 million people, has reported more than 107,000 cases of the coronavirus and 163 deaths. Nearly 60% of those testing positive, mostly among healthy and young foreign laborers, showed little or no symptoms at all.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In Romania the number of coronavirus infections rose by a record amount for a second consecutive day. Romania announced 1,112 new cases, taking confirmed cases to 41,275. Some 2,126 people have died.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a wide-ranging investigation into claims that unscrupulous officials and private companies are looting efforts to protect the country’s 57 million people. South Africa now has more than 434,000 confirmed virus cases.
(AP, 7/26/20)
2020 Jul 23, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) announced a record increase of 572 coronavirus deaths over the previous 24 hours. South Africa witnessed some 17,000 extra deaths from natural causes or 59% more than would normally be expected between early May and mid-July, scientists said, suggesting many more people are dying of COVID-19 than shown in official figures.
(AFP, 7/23/20) (Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Regional authorities across Spain introduced fresh coronavirus restrictions aimed at stamping out a surge in infections that continues to defy efforts at containment and is damaging tourism. Health ministry data showed 2,615 new cases across the country, compared with a daily average of just 132 in June.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, A Sudanese paramilitary group attacked civilians in the war-scarred region of South Darfur, killing at least seven people and wounding 20 more.
(AP, 7/24/20)
2020 Jul 23, It was reported that a mass grave has been discovered in Sudan containing 28 bodies, thought to be the remains of army officers executed for carrying out a coup attempt in 1990 against former President Omar al-Bashir.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Sudan’s protest leaders announced that they oppose the government’s economic reform plan to slash fuel subsidies and float the Sudanese currency, raising the specter of unrest as the country makes a fragile transition to democracy.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In Uganda, at least 12 people have allegedly been killed by security officers enforcing measures to restrict the spread of coronavirus, while the country has only just confirmed its first death from Covid-19.
(BBC, 7/23/20)
2021 Jul 23, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman expressed sympathy for North Koreans facing hardships and food shortages linked to the pandemic, and renewed calls for the North to return to talks over its nuclear program.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The US Justice Department dropped individual cases against five Chinese researchers accused of hiding ties to the Chinese military. The academics were arrested last July after another researcher told law enforcement he had lied about his military service on his visa application and had been instructed to bring back information.
(Axios, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 34,286,314 with the death toll at 610,204.
(sfist.com, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, It was reported that 316 people are shot every day in the US and 106 of them die.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, A new poll showed that most Americans who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots and doubt they would work against the aggressive delta variant despite evidence they do.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, NASA said Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX has been awarded a $178 million launch services contract for NASA's first mission focusing on Jupiter's icy moon Europa and whether it may host conditions suitable for life.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, California's Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for four northern counties because of wildfires that he said were causing “conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property." Mandatory evacuation orders were issued in Butte County as the Dixie Fire continued to grow explosively eastward. The Tamarack Fire south of Lake Tahoe continued to burn through timber and chaparral and threatened communities on both sides of the California-Nevada state line.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, In Florida firefighters declared the end of their search for bodies at the site of the June 24 collapsed Champlain Towers South, concluding a month of painstaking work removing layers of dangerous debris that were once piled several stories high. 97 people were killed with at least one more missing person yet to be identified.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, Aspiring Florida rapper Money Mitch died from a self-inflicted gunshot after a shootout with Palm Beach sheriff’s deputies attempting to arrest the 23-year-old on outstanding warrants.
(The Grio, 7/29/21)
2021 Jul 23, Pandemic restrictions on Florida-based cruise ships are no longer in place under a ruling by a federal appeals court, while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seek to fight a Florida lawsuit challenging the regulations.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Oregon's Bootleg Fire, which has destroyed an area half the size of Rhode Island, was 40% surrounded after burning some 70 homes.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, In Tennessee the bust of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early KKK leader, was removed from its pedestal in the state Capitol. It had sparked protests since its 1978 installation.
(SFC, 7/24/21, p.A4)
2021 Jul 23, In Texas physicist Steven Weinberg (88), who won the Nobel prize in 1979 with two other scientists for their separate contributions unlocking mysteries of tiny particles and their electromagnetic interaction, died in Austin.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, AstraZeneca said its once-weekly diabetes medicine Bydureon was approved in the United States for use in patients as young as age 10, expanding the drug's access to a critical population.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech said the US government has purchased 200 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to help with pediatric vaccination as well as possible booster shots - if they are needed.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Australia garnered enough international support to defer for two years an attempt by the United Nations’ cultural organization to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status because of damage caused by climate change.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Australia's New South Wales state reported its biggest daily rise in new COVID-19 cases this year, prompting a tighter lockdown in Sydney and a request for additional vaccine doses that was rebuffed by other state leaders.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, A court in Azerbaijan sentenced 13 Armenian soldiers to six years in prison on convictions of terrorism and illegally entering the country. They were among more than 60 Armenian servicemen who were arrested in December, about a month after the end of a six-week war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Belarusian authorities announced the closure of 15 nongovernmental organizations, part of a sweeping crackdown on civil society activists and independent media.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Valentin Inzko, the outgoing head of Bosnia’s Office of the High Representative (OHR), banned denial of genocide in the Balkan country to counter attempts by Bosnia’s Serbs to deny the scope of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Europe's only post-World War II genocide.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England is estimated to have risen to 1 in 75 people in the week to July 17, up from 1 in 95 recorded the week before.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, China reported 35 new COVID-19 cases in the mainland, down from 48 cases a day earlier.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, It was reported that thousands of Eritrean refugees are increasingly caught in the middle of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where witnesses and UN officials say forces have attacked their camps, abducted or killed some of the residents, and stolen their food and possessions.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The European Medicines Agency recommended authorizing Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 17, the first time the shot has been authorized for people under 18.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, It was reported that France has established a “maritime bridge" to provide COVID-19 vaccines and medical oxygen to Tunisia, which is in the midst of one of Africa’s worst coronavirus outbreaks. In the past five days, France has flown 1.1 million vaccine doses to the North African country.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Germany said it is listing Spain and the Netherlands as “high-incidence areas," meaning that most people arriving from those countries who aren’t fully vaccinated will have to go into quarantine from next week.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Anti-corruption prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval fled Guatemala late today, arriving in neighboring El Salvador just hours after he was removed from his post. Sandoval said he was fired because of his investigations into top officials in the administration of President Alejandro Giammattei.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, Officials in India reported that landslides and flooding triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people over the last 24 hours in Maharashtra state.
(SFC, 7/24/21, p.A3)
2021 Jul 23, Indonesia recorded a record 1,565 coronavirus cases. Only 6.3% of the population was been fully vaccinated.
(SSFC, 7/25/21, p.A7)
2021 Jul 23, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he understands protesters' anger over a drought in the country's southwest, as a fourth death related to ongoing demonstrations there was reported.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, In southern Iran armed bandits killed four members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard in fighting late today in the Gounic district of Sistan and Baluchistan province.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, Israeli troops shot and killed Palestinian youth Mohammed Tamimi (17) during clashes in Nebi Saleh.
(AP, 7/26/21)
2021 Jul 23, The Olympic opening ceremony with all the usual pomp and tradition played out in Tokyo in front of a nearly empty stadium.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The Philippines said it will suspend travel from Malaysia and Thailand, as well as tighten restrictions in the Manila area, in a bid to prevent the spread of the contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Scottish climber Rick Allen (68) died in an avalanche while trying to reach the summit of K2 in northern Pakistan. He was on a route that had not been previously attempted.
(SFC, 7/26/21, p.A2)
2021 Jul 23, Lawmakers in Sierra Leone voted unanimously to abolish the death penalty, making it the 23rd African country to prohibit capital punishment.
(SFC, 7/24/21, p.A2)
2021 Jul 23, South Africa's acting health minister said the country's COVID-19 vaccination campaign is regaining momentum after being disrupted earlier this month by a week of riots sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. At least 337 people died during the riots, including 213 deaths that police are investigating as possible murders.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Swedish health authorities said cases of COVID-19 have increased in Sweden's main cities with the more contagious Delta having emerged as the dominant variant in the country.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The UN General Assembly approved its first-ever resolution on vision, calling on its 193 member nations to ensure access to eye care for everyone in their countries which would contribute to a global effort to help at least 1.1 billion people with vision impairment who currently lack eye services by 2030.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The UN Security Council condemned the decision by Turkey and Turkish Cypriots to reopen a residential section of an abandoned suburb and called for “the immediate reversal" of this unilateral action, warning that it could raise tensions on the divided Mediterranean island.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, State media reported that Vietnam will extend a strict lockdown in Ho Chi Minh City until Aug. 1.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
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306 Jul 23, Constantine was proclaimed Caesar of the west by the army, while Severus, the former Caesar, was proclaimed Augusta of the west by Galerius.
(HN, 7/23/98)
636 Jul 23, Arabs gained control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1298 Jul 23, Jews were massacred at Wurzburg, Germany.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1373 Jul 23, Birgitta of Sweden, Swedish saint, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1403 Jul 23, The Battle of Shrewsbury was fought by the Percys against King Henry IV. Henry Percy (39), [Harry Hotspur], was killed in the battle.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1558 Jul 23, Battle at Grevelingen: Gen. Lamoral van Egmont beat France. [see Jul 13]
(MC, 7/23/02)
1562 Jul 23, Gottfried, Gotz von Berlichingen, German Knight of kingdom, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1568 Jul 23, Don Carlos (c23), son of Spanish king Philip II, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1588 Jul 23, English army assembles at Tilbury to repel invasion of England by Spanish Armada.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1595 Jul 23, Spanish soldiers landed at Cornwall, England, and burned Mousehold and Penzance before returning to their ships.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1599 Jul 23, Caravaggio received his 1st public commission for paintings.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1627 Jul 23, Sir George Calvert arrived in Newfoundland to develop his land grant.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1631 Jul 23, Sweden's King Gustavus II repulsed an imperialist force at Werben, Russia.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1637 Jul 23, King Charles of England handed over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Fernando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1664 Jul 23, Wealthy non-church members in Massachusetts were given the right to vote.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1664 Jul 23, 4 British ships arrived in Boston to drive the Dutch out of NY.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1726 Jul 23, Benjamin Franklin sailed back to Philadelphia.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1745 Jul 23, Charles Stuart (1720-1788), the Younger, and 7 companions landed at Eriskay Island, in the Hebrides.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart)
1757 Jul 23, Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (71), Italian composer (La Silvia), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1759 Jul 23, Russians under Saltikov defeated Prussians at Kay in eastern Germany, and one-fourth of Prussian army of 27,000 was lost.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1785 Jul 23, Prussia's Frederick the Great formed Die Furstenbund (League of German Princes).
(AP, 7/23/97)
1789 Jul 23, The Great Fear swept through France as the Revolution continued.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1793 Jul 23, The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, fell to the Prussians.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1794 Jul 23, Chaos and anarchy were averted temporarily when Robespierre joined conciliation talks in Paris.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1796 Jul 23, Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1803 Jul 23, Irish patriots throughout the country rebelled against Union with Great Britain. Robert Emmett led the insurrection in Dublin.
(HN, 7/23/98)(MC, 7/23/02)
1829 Jul 23, William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his "typographer," a forerunner of the typewriter.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1834 Jul 23, James Gibbons, American religious leader and founder of Catholic University, was born.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1846 Jul 23, The California Battalion was officially authorized under Commodore Robert F. Stockton (U.S. Navy), the senior military officer in California who had replaced Commodore John D. Sloat as the commander of the US Navy's Pacific Squadron in July 1846.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Battalion)
1849 Jul 23, German rebels in Baden capitulated to the Prussians.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1850 Jul 23, French priest Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888) received notice of his appointment as bishop of the recently created Vicariate of New Mexico. He was dispatched by Rome to bring order and discipline to the New Mexican territory. In 1875 he was named Archbishop for the area. He was the subject of Willa Cather’s novel “Death Comes for the Archbishop" (1927).
(WSJ, 9/13/06, p.D10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lamy)
1851 Jul 23, Sioux Indians and US signed the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1858 Jul 23, Jewish Disabilities Removal Act was passed by British Parliament.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1863 Jul 23, Bill Anderson and his Confederate Bushwackers gutted the railway station at Renick, Missouri.
(HN, 7/23/99)
1865 Jul 2, William Booth (1829-1912), British Methodist preacher, held his first meeting for the Salvation Army in London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Booth)
1866 Jul 23, Francesco Cilea, composer, was born.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1870 Jul 23, In France Marx completed what will become known as his "First Address."
(www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/timeline.htm)
1875 Jul 23, Isaac Merritt Singer (63), inventor (sewing machine), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1877 Jul 23, Riots broke out in San Francisco as the Workingmen's Party called for reforms near the unfinished City Hall. Over the next few days rioters killed several Chinese people and set fire to Chinese businesses. A brigade of 4,000 volunteers fought back the rioters and when order was restored 4 rioters lay dead and dozens of Chinese businesses destroyed.
(SFC, 2/20/21, p.B4)
1880 Jul 23, 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet began in Grand Rapids, Mich.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1883 Jul 23, Lord Allanbrooke (d.1963), English soldier, was born.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1885 Jul 23, Ulysses S. Grant (b.1822), commander of the Union forces at the end of the Civil War and the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, NY, at age 63. He had just completed the final revisions to his memoirs, which were published as a 2 volume set by Mark Twain. In 1928 W.E. Woodward authored "Meet General Grant," and in 1981 William S. McFreeley authored "Grant: A Biography." His tomb was placed in the largest mausoleum in the US on a bluff over the Hudson River. In 1998 Geoffrey Perret published the biography "Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President." In 2004 Mark Perry authored “Grant and Twain." In 2006 Edward G. Longacre authored “General Ulysses S. Grant: The Soldier and Man." In 2011 Charles Bracelen Flood authored “Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year."
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A7)(SFEC, 4/19/98, Par p.20)(AP, 7/23/98)(ON, p.11)(ON, 12/00, p.7)(WSJ, 5/14/04, p.W10)(WSJ, 8/5/06, p.P9)(SSFC, 12/4/11, p.F5)
1886 Jul 23, Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator, was born.
(HN, 7//2302)
1886 Jul 23, New York saloonkeeper Steve Brodie claimed to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River. However, few historians believe the jump actually occurred
(AP, 7/23/07)
1888 Jul 23, Raymond Chandler (d.1959), writer of detective stories, creator of the character Philip Marlow, was born in Chicago.
(HN, 7/23/98)(SSFC, 12/21/14, p.N3)
1892 Jul 23, Haile Selassie (d.1975), Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74), was born as Tafari Makonnen at Ejarsa Goro, near Harer. He pleaded with the League of Nations to halt the Italian invasion of his country. "Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other."
(AP, 7/23/02)(www.imperialethiopia.org/history3.htm)
1894 Jul 23, Japanese troops took over the Korean imperial palace in Seoul.
(AP, 7/23/97)(HN, 7/23/98)
1903 Jul 23, The Ford Motor Company sold its first automobile, the Model A.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1904 Jul 23, By some accounts, the ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. [see Sep 22, 1903]
(AP, 7/23/99)
1906 Jul 23, Marston Bates, American zoologist and author of "The Nature of Natural History," was born.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1906 Jul 23, Pogroms took place against Jews in Odessa.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1908 Jul 23, In Turkey Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (1842-1918) capitulated to the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which led a rebellion against the authoritarian his regime. The revolutionary organization was popularly known as the Young Turks. Since then, the term has been applied to other insurgent groups within organizations or political parties.
(HNQ, 11/4/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hamid_II)
1913 Jul 23, The "Second Revolution" broke out in south China.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1914 Jul 23, Austria and Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; the dispute led to World War I.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1917 Jul 23, Pres. Woodrow Wilson issued an executive order for saloons within a half mile of military reservations to close.
(SSFC, 7/23/17, DB p.50)
1920 Jul 23, King Faisal I's Arab Army was defeated at Maysaloun and Syria fell effectively under French.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1925 Jul 23, Gloria De Haven, U.S. actress, was born.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1930 Jul 23, Earthquake struck Ariano, Italy, and some 1,500 were killed.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1932 Jul 23, Alberto Santos-Dumont (b.1873), aviation pioneer, hanged himself in Guaraja, Brazil after hearing a bomber discharge its load on fellow countrymen. In 2003 Paul Hoffman authored "Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight."
(SSFC, 6/28/03, p.M1)
1936 Jul 23, Don Drysdale, pitcher (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962), was born in Van Nuys, Calif.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1939 Jul 23, Nicholas Gage, journalist and author (Eleni), was born.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1940 Jul 23, Don Imus, later radio personality, was born in Riverside, Ca.
(SSFC, 4/21/02, Par p.22)
1940 Jul 23, John Nichols, novelist and essayist (The Milagro Beanfield War), was born.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1940 Jul 23, German bombers began the "Blitz," the all-night air raids on London.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1941 Jul 23, German and Romanian troops reoccupied Moldova as part of Operation Barbarossa.
(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.A18)
1942 Jul 23, Harry James and his Orchestra recorded "I Had the Craziest Dream" in Hollywood for Columbia Records.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1942 Jul 23, A 2nd Treblinka Camp opened for the extermination of European Jews, as the evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto began. Nearly 750,000 people died in the gas chambers of Treblinka.
(www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/TreblinkaEng.html)
1943 Jul 23, In France Marcel Langer (b.1903), Polish-born Jew, was guillotined after being sentenced to death by a Vichy court. He was a member of the International Brigades and the Toulouse resistance.
(https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Langer_%281903-1943%29)
1943 Jul 23, Battle of Kursk, USSR, ended in Nazi defeat. 6,000 tanks took part.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1943 Jul 23, Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi of Sobibor, died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1943 Jul 23, Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Lisa Alther, novelist (Kinflicks), was born.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, US forces invaded Japanese-held Tinian.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Bernard M. Cohen, attorney, was killed at Belsen concentration camp.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Helmuth J. von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), was executed.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, Soviet troops took Lublin, Poland, as the German army retreated.
(HN, 7/23/02)
1944 Jul 23, A Ukrainian Self-Defense unit, directed to "liquidate all the residents" of Chlaniow, Poland, in a reprisal attack for the killing of German SS officer Siegfried Assmuss, killed 44 people including women and children. In 2013 Michael Karkoc (94), a retired Minnesota carpenter, was named as commander of the Nazi SS-led unit in the Chlaniov attack.
(AP, 6/14/13)(http://tinyurl.com/kk5e6s3)(AP, 11/18/13)
1945 Jul 23, French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War Two, went on trial, charged with treason. He was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted; Petain died in prison on this date in 1951.
(AP, 7/23/08)
1947 Jul 23, U.S. President Harry S Truman made the first Presidential surprise visit to Capitol Hill since 1789. "Give Em Hell Harry."
(MC, 7/23/02)
1948 July 23, American pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith, the director of such films as "The Birth of a Nation," "Intolerance," "Way Down East" and "Orphans of the Storm," died in Los Angeles at age 73.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1951 Jul 23, French Marshal Henri Petain (b.1856), who had headed the Vichy government during World War Two, was shot by firing squad. In 2005 Charles Williams authored “Petain."
(AP, 7/23/00)(Econ, 5/21/05, p.84)
1952 Jul 23, General Mohammed Neguib seized power in Egypt. There was a revolution in Egypt, King Farouk I abdicated. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew the monarchy and established Egyptian sovereignty after 2,300 years of foreign domination. The revolution was led by the group of Free Officers headed by Gamal Abdel Nasser and included Kamal Eddin Hussein.
(AP, 7/23/97)(NG, May 1985, p.584)(HFA, '96, p.34)(TMC, 1994, p.1952)(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A24)
1954 Jul 23, The Indochina settlement was approved by France's National Assembly.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1956 Jul 23, The Bell X-2 rocket plane set a world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1957 Jul 23, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (b.1896), Sicilian aristocrat and writer, died in Rome. His classic novel “Il Gattopardo" (The Leopard), was published in 1958. It was about Sicilian blue bloods struggling to adopt to the changes ushered in by Italian unification in the 1860s and included the line: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." David Gilmour later authored the biography “The Last Leopard" (1991). In 1963 the film "Leopard" starred Burt Lancaster as the prince who makes the ceremonial cut into the timballo. It was directed Luchino Visconti and based on the novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa.
(WSJ, 12/9/06, p.P24)(Econ, 12/12/09, p.61)(SFC, 10/2/96, zz1 p.8)(Econ., 10/24/20, p.56)
1958 Jul 23, Queen Elizabeth named four women to peerages, the 1st women to it in Britain's House of Lords.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1959 Jul 23, Vice President Richard M. Nixon flew to Moscow to open the US Trade and Cultural Fair in Sokolniki Park, organized as a goodwill gesture by the USSR.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1961 Jul 23, Woody Harrelson, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers), was born in Midland, Tx.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1962 Jul 23, In San Francisco a 10-ton granite and bronze monument to Robert Louis Stevenson was returned to Portsmouth Square as the 4-level, 800-car underground parking garage was completed.
(SSFC, 7/22/12, DB p.42)(SFC, 9/28/21, p.C2)
1962 Jul 23, The Geneva Conference on Laos forbade the United States to invade eastern Laos, site of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1966 Jul 23, [Edward] Montgomery Clift (45), actor (From Here to Eternity), died.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1967 Jul 23, In Michigan the 12th Street Riot erupted in Detroit after police busted an unlicensed drinking and gambling joint.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Motel_incident)(Econ 7/29/17, p.27)
1967 Jul 23-1967 Jul 30, Racial riots in the city of Detroit left 40 dead, 2,000 injured and 5,000 homeless in the worst riot of the summer. The rioting, looting and burning was quelled with the arrival of 4,700 paratroops dispatched by President Lyndon Johnson. Nearly all of America's large cities were wracked by racial violence during the 1965-'68 period. The event inspired Rev. William Cunningham (d.1997 at 67) to found Focus: Hope, a volunteer project that grew to become one of the largest programs in the country dedicated to feeding and teaching job skills to the urban poor.
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.C4)(HNQ, 7/11/98)
1970 Jul 23, Sultan Said of Oman was overthrown by his son, Qaboos.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1971 Jul 23, Walid Ahmad Nimer al-Naser (b.1934), aka, Abu Ali Iyad, a senior Palestinian field commander based in Syria and Jordan, was reported killed by the Jordanian army. The PLO claimed he was captured and tortured to death by Jordanian forces days earlier. A splinter group seeking revenge soon developed within Fatah and came to be known as the Black September Organization.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ali_Iyad)
1972 Jul 23, NASA launched the Landsat-1 satellite. It viewed Earth at different wavelengths and opened a new era in sensing the planet’s resources and environment.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)
1973 Jul 25, Pres Nixon refused to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation.
(www.cbc.ca/news/background/us-politics/watergate-timeline.html)
1973 Jul 25, Russia launched its Mars 5 Orbiter.
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1973-049A)
1974 Jul 23, Greece's military rulers announced they would turn the nation back to civilian rule. Constantine Karamanlis returned from 11 years of self-imposed exile and was sworn in as premier. Karamanlis later won a landslide election and served as prime minister until 1980. The Ioannides regime collapsed after plotting an aborted military takeover of Cyprus. The coup provoked a Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
(AP, 7/23/97)(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)
1976 Jul 23, Mario Soares (b.1924) became Prime Minister of Portugal.
(SFC, 4/19/00, p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_Soares)
1977 Jul 23, A jury in Washington, D.C., convicted 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1977 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka Junius Richard Jayewardene (1906-1996) was elected prime minister. Immediately thereafter, he drew up a national constitution which created an Executive Presidency with drastic and unchecked powers, and, on its adoption into law, became, in 1978, the first Sri Lankan Executive President.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_Richard_Jayewardene)
1978 Jul 23, Franklin Bradshow was killed in SLC, Utah. His daughter, Frances B. Schreuder (d.2004), had persuaded her son to kill her wealthy father due to "his stinginess." Schreuder was convicted in 1983.
(SFC, 4/3/04, p.B6)
1979 Jul 23, A Miami jury convicted Theodore Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of Florida State University sorority sisters Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy. In 1980 he was convicted of the murder and rape of Kimberly Leach (12). Bundy eventually confessed to more than 30 killings and was executed in 1989.
(www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/bundy/14.html)
1980 Jul 23, The US Senate Judiciary Committee was reported to be officially joining those investigating allegations of misconduct in Billy Carter's relationship with Libya.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1980-7/1980-07-23-ABC-2.html)
1982 Jul 23, The Intl. Whaling Commission (IWC) voted for a total ban on commercial whaling starting in 1985.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling)
1982 Jul 23, Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie." Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter charges in connection with the deaths.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1983 Jul 23, A regional struggle for independence by Tamil Tigers in the north escalated into a civil war when they killed 13 Sri Lankan Sinhalese soldiers. The nation's Sinhalese majority responded by killing thousands of Tamil civilians in the south.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)(AP, 7/23/97)
1984 Jul 23, Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1985 Jul 23, Bandleader Kay Kyser, known for his "Kollege of Musical Knowledge," died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at age 79.
(AP, 7/23/00)
1986 Jul 23, Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London with the appellation Duke and Duchess of York. The couple divorced in 1996.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1987 Jul 23, Hussein Hariri (21), a Lebanese hijacker, commandeered an Air Afrique DC-10 flying from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, to Paris. He was captured during a refueling stop in Geneva and was sentenced to life in prison for killing a passenger and seriously wounding a flight attendant. In 2004 he was released and deported to Lebanon.
(AP, 10/17/04)
1988 Jul 23, In his weekly radio address, President Reagan responded to the just-completed Democratic national convention by accusing Democrats of "singing the same sad song they sang four years ago."
(AP, 7/23/98)
1988 Jul 23, Iran accused Iraq of pushing deep into Iranian territory and using chemical weapons. The March 16 Iraqi chemical attack at Halabja killed thousands and in 1999 was still causing genetic damage and deaths.
(AP, 7/23/97)(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)
1989 Jul 23, Greg LeMond of the United States won the Tour de France.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1989 Jul 23, Donald Barthelme (b.1931), US writer, died. His work included over a hundred short stories and 4 novels. In 2009 Tracy Daugherty authored “Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme."
(WSJ, 2/21/09, p.W8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barthelme)
1989 Jul 23, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority in the upper house of the Diet in parliamentary elections.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1990 Jul 23, President George H.W. Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the US Supreme Court.
(AP, 7/23/00)
1990 Jul 23, As rebel forces closed in on presidential palace, Liberian President Samuel K. Doe refused to leave until the civil war was decided. Charles Taylor tried to take Monrovia in this year. He had begun the war in Liberia from the Ivory Coast in 1989.
(AP, 7/23/97)(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-8)(SFC, 5/11/96, p.A-9)
1991 Jul 23, The US Senate voted to impose a long list of strict new conditions on renewal of China’s normal trade status in 1992; however, the 55-to-44 vote fell short of the two-thirds majority later needed to override President Bush’s veto.
(AP, 7/23/01)
1991 Jul 23, The draft of a new platform for Soviet Communist Party was published, calling for private property, economic integration into world market and freedom of religion.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1992 Jul 23, US Secretary of State James A. Baker III, touring the Middle East, made a secret visit to Lebanon.
(AP, 7/23/02)
1993 Jul 23, US Surgeon General-designate Joycelyn Elders stuck by her firm stands on sex education and AIDS prevention in a one-day confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1993 Jul 23, White House deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. was buried near Hope, Ark., three days after taking his own life in a Virginia park.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1993 Jul 23, In South Carolina Larry Demery and Daniel Green came upon James Jordan sleeping in his car and proceeded to rob him. As Jordan awoke Green shot Jordan, the 56-year-old father of basketball star Michael Jordan.
(SFC, 5/21/96, p.A-3)
1993 Jul 23, British Prime Minister John Major survived a vote of confidence and a reluctant House of Commons approved a treaty of European union on his terms.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1993 July 23, A handful of men shot and killed 6 children and teenagers at the Candelaria Cathedral and 2 more at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1996 one of the four men accused, former police officer Nelson dos Santos Cunha, confessed to having taken part. About 2,000 children roam Rio’s streets and in 1994, 936 youths under 18 were murdered. In 1996 a court cleared 2 policemen and another man in killings. Two other policemen were convicted earlier. In 1997 a court reduced the sentence of Cunha from 261 years to 18 years. In 1998 Marcos Aurelio Alcantara (30) was convicted and sentenced to 204 years in jail.
(SFC, 4/28/96, A-14)(SFC, 11/28/96, p.B6)(WSJ, 12/11/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/20/97, p.A1)(SFC, 8/27/98, p.A14)
1993 Jul 23, The Russian government announced it would invalidate billions of pre-1993 rubles.
(AP, 7/23/98)
1994 Jul 23, Space shuttle Columbia returned to Earth after a 15-day mission which included experiments on the effects of weightlessness on aquatic animals.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1994 Jul 23, Gambian soldiers proclaimed military government in Dakar, Senegal.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1994 Jul 23, The Goodwill Games opened in St. Petersburg, Russia.
(www.goodwillgames.com/Past_games/past_1994_Summary.htm)
1995 Jul 23, American amateur astronomers first reported the discovery of the comet bearing their names: Hale-Bopp. Reconstruction of the orbit indicated that the comet repeatedly enters the inner solar system every 3,000 years or so. It travels in an orbit perpendicular to the solar system in an elongated ellipse that is about 33 million miles from the sun at its farthest point. Its closest approach to Earth will be on March 23, 1997. The nearest pass will be on April 1.
(Nat. Hist., 3/96, p.55)(SFEC, 10/27/96, p.A17)
1995 Jul 23, The United Nations ordered the first combat unit from its rapid reaction force to Sarajevo to take out any rebel Serb guns that fire at U.N. peacekeepers.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1996 Jul 23, At the Atlanta Olympics, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle as the US women gymnasts clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal.
(AP, 7/23/01)
1996 Jul 23, The US Senate passed a welfare overhaul bill.
(AP, 7/23/01)
1996 Jul 23, In Toronto, a police officer was charged with criminal negligence in the shooting of a protester who became the first Canadian Indian in modern times killed in a land dispute with the government.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1996 Jul 23, Canadian researchers found a hormone, GLP-2, that stimulates growth of the lining of the small intestine.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.B6)
1996 Jul 23, Jessica Mitford (78), author of "The American Way of Death," died. The 1963 book was an expose of the funeral industry in the US. Her attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, died in 2001. In 2001 Mary S. Lovell authored "The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family." In 2006 “Decca: The Letters of Jessica," edited by Peter Y. Sussman was published. In 2010 Leslie Brody authored “Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford."
(SFC, 6/30/96, Z1 p.3)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A18)(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.M1)(SFC, 11/3/06, p.E9)(SSFC, 11/14/10, p.F7)
1997 Jul 23, The US and Venezuela signed an agreement to allow authorities of both countries to board boats of each others flags if suspected of carrying drugs.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 23, The search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, Fla., an apparent suicide.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/98)
1997 Jul 23, The ASEAN trade bloc admitted Laos and Burma but barred Cambodia.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A12)
1997 Jul 23, In Britain the government announced that tuition fees would be imposed for the first time on all college students.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A11)
1997 Jul 23, In Cuba Elio Reve Matos, salsa musician, died in a road accident. He developed the rhythm known as "charangon," a combination of salsa styles that included "changui" and "son."
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A24)
1997 Jul 23, In Serbia Slobodan Milosevic was sworn in as president of Yugoslavia and crowds reacted by throwing shoes at his motorcade, symbolizing the young people who have left Serbia due to his regime.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A10)
1997 Jul 23, Swiss banks published a list of 2,000 WW II-era dormant accounts that included assets of holocaust victims.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A8)
1998 Jul 23, The US Senate voted to shut down the online gambling industry.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, It was reported that the US Congress made the Air Force buy more C-130 transport aircraft against its wishes. Since 1978 only 5 of 256 C-130s sent to the Air National Guard and Air Reserve were requested by the Air Force. The planes were built in Georgia.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 23, The Pacific Stock Exchange announced an agreement to merge with the Chicago Board of Options Exchange.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, Odwalla Inc. agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine for contaminated apple-based juices.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, Scientists at the University of Hawaii announced they had turned out more than 50 carbon-copy mice, with a cloning technique said to be more reliable than the one used to create Dolly the sheep.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1998 Jul 23, In Colombia Manuel Mejia Vallejo, novelist, died at age 75. His work included "It was Us," "The Marked Day," and "the House of the Two Palms."
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D5)
1998 Jul 23, In Chechnya Pres. Aslan Maskhadov received minor injuries from an assassination attempt in Grozny that killed 2 bodyguards. He had been cracking down on organized crime and Muslim militants.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)(WSJ, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, In Iran Tehran’s Mayor Karbaschi was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison for corruption.
(WSJ, 7/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul 23, In Kenya John Msafari, head of the revenue collection authority, was ordered arrested along with 15 other officials and businessmen on charges of defrauding the government of some $3.9 million.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 23, In Mexico three girls escaped capture by police in Mexico City. They had been held for 4 days and the two youngest were repeatedly raped. Sixteen officers were later arrested.
(SFC, 7/28/98, p.A8)
1998 Jul 23, Russia planned to sell its Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to India for some $2 billion. The ship was launched in 1982 as the Baku.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)
1998 Jul 23, In Russia Vladimir Dudintsev (79), writer, died. His work included "Not By Bread Alone" and "White Garb." His work laid the foundation for a generation of dissident writers.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.D8)
1998 Jul 23, In Rwanda the army said that it had killed a top rebel commander. Colonel Leonard Nkundiye was killed along with at least 50 rebels on the Congo border.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.D2)
1999 Jul 23, The 3-day Woodstock '99 music festival began at the decommissioned Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, NY, with some 225,000 people. The $35-38 million production ended in chaos with hundreds of concertgoers burning fires, looting and vandalizing.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.1D,5D)(SFC, 7/26/99, p.E3)(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A3)
1999 Jul 23, After a 2 day delay the Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the shuttle Columbia led by Commander Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a US space flight.
(SFC, 7/23/99, p.A3)(AP, 7/23/00)
1999 Jul 23, Members of the Kennedy family gathered in New York City for a private memorial Mass a week after John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died in a plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard.
(AP, 7/23/00)
1999 Jul 23, Jaquita Mack (11) was raped and strangled in Oakland’s Fruitvale district after she disappeared following a bike ride. Her body was found the next day in East Oakland, Ca. On Aug 8 police arrested Alex Demolle (24), a neighbor on Fruitvale Ave. In 2007 Demolle was convicted of 1st degree murder and was sentenced to death on Dec 14.
(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A13,15)(SFC, 8/9/99, p.A1)(SFC, 5/4/07, p.B5)(SFC, 12/15/07, p.B3)
1999 Jul 23, Kelvin Lancaster, economist, died in NYC at age 74. He outlined "The General Theory of the Second Best" and analyzed consumer demand by looking at the underlying characteristics of consumer demand.
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.C2)
1999 Jul 23, In Colombia a US anti-narcotics reconnaissance airplane crashed with 5 US Army personnel and 2 Colombians.
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.7A)
1999 Jul 23, In Japan Yuzi Nishizawa (b.1970) attempted to hijack flight 61 from Tokyo and stabbed to death pilot Naoyuki Nagashima (51). The hijacker was overcome and the plane landed safely with 516 passengers. On March 23, 2005, Nishizawa was found to be guilty, but of unsound mind and thus only partly responsible for his actions. Presiding judge Hisaharu Yasui handed Nishizawa a life sentence in 2005.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANA_Flight_61)
1999 Jul 23, In Kosovo 14 Serb farmers were found shot dead near the village of Gracko.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 23, In Morocco King Hassan II died at age 70. He was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Sidi Mohamed (36), who became King Mohammed VI.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/00)
1999 Jul 23, Russia ended a 4-month boycott on contacts with NATO.
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.C1)
2000 Jul 23, Tiger Woods, at 24, became the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking 19-under par in the British Open. Karrie Webb, 25, won the US Women’s Open.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, Lance Armstrong won the 21-day, 2,250-mile Tour de France for the 2nd year in a row.
(WSJ, 7/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Jul 23, President Clinton rejoined the troubled Middle East talks at Camp David after hurrying back from a four-day trip to Asia.
(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, Leaders of the major industrial countries concluded their summit in Japan by announcing a campaign to slash the number of deaths worldwide from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
(AP, 7/23/01)
2000 Jul 23, In Nigeria another pipeline fire broke out near the port of Warri and left 40 fuel scavengers dead.
(SFC,7/25/00, p.A14)(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2000 Jul 23, Ivory Coast voters cast ballots for a new constitution intended to restore civilian rule. The new constitution was approved overwhelmingly.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A14)(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A14)
2001 Jul 23, Pres. Bush met with Pope John Paul II at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and was urged to reject the use of human embryos for stem cell research.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/02)
2001 Jul 23, The US Pentagon shut down public access to its web sites due to a computer worm called the Code Red worm. It defaced web sites with the words "Hacked by Chinese."
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A2)
2001 Jul 23, Eudora Welty (92), Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, died in Jackson, Miss. Her work included the 1941 collection "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" and the 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning "The Optimist’s Daughter." In 1998 Ann Waldron authored the biography “Eudora" against the writer’s wishes. In 2005 Suzanne Marrs authored the biography “Eudora Welty."
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A17)(WSJ, 8/5/05, p.W6)
2001 Jul 23, In Bonn, Germany, negotiators from 178 nations, without the US, rescued the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and accepted rules to cut emissions of waste gases linked to global warming after marathon talks.
(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)(AP, 7/23/02)
2001 Jul 23, Anarchist groups in Europe retaliated for the death in Genoa of protester Carlo Giuliani.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Burundi Pres. Buyoya survived a coup attempt by Tutsi soldiers and sealed a power-sharing accord with Hutu politicians. The Arusha accord called for Buyoya to lead for 18 months followed by a Hutu president for another 18 months with elections to follow.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 23, In Colombia retired Gen. Rito Alejo del Rio was arrested on charges of helping create right-wing paramilitary groups.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 23, It was reported that flooding in India’s Orissa state had killed some 83 people and left over 600,000 stranded.
(WSJ, 7/23/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 23, In Indonesia Pres. Wahid declared a state of emergency. The military refused to carry out his orders and parliament met to remove him. The parliament ousted Wahid with a 591 to 0 vote and swore in Megawati Sukarnoputri as the country’s 5th president.
(SFC, 7/23/01, p.A1)(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Iran a 19th woman was reported strangled in Mashad.
(DFP, 7/24/01, p.3A)
2001 Jul 23, Israeli police killed a Palestinian who drove a would-be bomber toward Haifa. In Gaza Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 23, In Macedonia security forces engaged ethnic Albanian rebels in fierce fighting around Tetovo. Macedonian mobs in Skopje, angered by Western efforts at mediation, attacked symbolic targets.
(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 23, Nepal’s new government declared a unilateral ceasefire and called on Maoist rebels to talk peace. In a recent skirmish guerrillas killed at least 17 police officers in Pandusen.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)(SFC, 7/31/01, p.A10)
2001 Jul 23, In Pakistan flash floods killed at least 150 people. In Islamabad 24 inches of rain broke a 100-year record.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/01, p.A9)
2001 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka Tamil separatists attack an air base, damaged a number of planes and shut down the Bandaranaike airport, the nation’s only int’l. airport. 7 soldiers and 8 guerrillas were killed. 3 jetliners and 8 warplanes were blown up in a suicide attack by 13 rebels.
(WSJ, 7/24/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/25/01, p.A1)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A12)
2002 Jul 23, Pres. Bush signed legislation designating Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear waste repository.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, In California the Davis administration and Oracle Corp. agreed to cancel a $95 million DB software contract.
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A18)
2002 Jul 23, In California a growing fire in Sequoia Nat'l. Park consumed 48,200 acres in 3 days.
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, The DJIA fell 82 to 7702. The Nasdaq fell 53 to 1229.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.C1)
2002 Jul 23, Leo McKern (82), Australian actor, died in Bath, England. He played the barrister in the TV show "Rumpole of the Bailey."
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, Chaim Potok (73), rabbi and author of novels that included "The Chosen," died at his home in suburban Philadelphia. "Literature presents you with alternative mappings of the human experience."
(SFC, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, William Pierce (d.2002), white supremacist author of the 1978 "Turner Diaries," died in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.A1)
2002 Jul 23, Maria Adela Gard de Antokoletz (90), one of the founding members of the Argentine human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, died.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, A memo from 10 Downing St. described an earlier meeting of Sir Richard Dearlove, head of British Intelligence, with US officials in Washington in which he noted a shift in attitude in the Bush administration, which saw military action as inevitable in Iraq and that it would be justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. The memo became public in 2005.
(SFC, 7/4/05, p.B6)
2002 Jul 23, Welsh archbishop Rowan Williams was chosen to be the 104th archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2002 Jul 23, A frail Pope John Paul II walked down the steps of his plane instead of using a lift after arriving in Canada to join thousands of young Catholic pilgrims for World Youth Day. Tens of thousands of exuberant young Catholics massed in Toronto to greet the Pope.
(AP, 7/23/02)(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, In Colombia a bomb exploded in front of a Medellin restaurant where politicians and journalists traditionally gather, killing a former congressman and injuring nine other people.
(AP, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23, An Israeli F-16 warplane dropped a one ton bomb that flattened a Gaza City apartment building, killing Salah Shehadeh, the leader of Hamas' military wing, and at least 14 other Palestinians, including nine children. Shehadeh was at the top of Israel's most wanted list. The dead included Shehadeh’s wife and 3 kids. In 2009 a Spanish judge began an investigation into seven current or former Israeli officials over the 2002 bombing. In 2011 an Israeli inquiry ruled the air strike legal and blamed faulty intelligence for the civilian deaths.
(AP, 7/23/02)(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/29/09)(SFC, 2/28/11, p.A2)
2002 Jul 23, In Nepal floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 11 people over the last 2 days, bringing to 67 the number of deaths caused by bad weather over the past two weeks.
(Reuters, 7/23/02)
2002 Jul 23-24, In Turkey floods and lightning caused by summer storms have killed at least 18 people. Three other people were missing.
(AP, 7/24/02)
2002 Jul 23, In Zimbabwe at least 15 people illegally mining gold were killed when an abandoned mine shaft in Mhondoro caved in.
(AP, 7/30/02)
2003 Jul 23, California's 1st statewide recall for Gov. Davis qualified for ballot, which was soon scheduled for Oct 7.
(SFC, 7/24/03, p.A1)(SFC, 7/25/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 23, Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2003 Jul 23, New York City Councilman James Davis (41) was shot to death by political rival Othniel Askew (31) at City Hall; a police officer shot and killed Askew.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2003 Jul 23, A new audiotape, purported to be of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, was broadcast by an Arab satellite station. It called on former soldiers to rise up against the American occupation.
(AP, 7/23/03)
2003 Jul 23, In "Operation Helpem Fren" an Australian-led peacekeeping force poured into the Solomon Islands to keep the island chain from slipping deeper into anarchy.
(AP, 7/24/03)(Econ, 8/9/03, p.34)
2003 Jul 23, Iran acknowledged that it was holding senior al Qaeda figures, but would not identify them.
(WSJ, 7/24/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 23, In Peru 5 masked gunmen attacked a Canadian mining camp in the Andes, killing a Peruvian geologist, wounding another and stealing equipment.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2003 Jul 23, In Sao Tome rebel leaders ended a weeklong bloodless coup after the president signed an accord promising to replace the government and give them amnesty.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2003 Jul 23, In Uganda 2 passenger boats capsized in strong winds and rough waters on Lake Albert, and more than 20 people were believed to have drowned.
(AP, 7/24/03)
2004 Jul 23, President Bush froze the assets of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, his family and top aides and accused them of undermining the country's transition to democracy.
(AP, 7/24/04)
2004 Jul 23, The Pentagon released newly discovered payroll records from President Bush's 1972 service in the Alabama National Guard, though the records shed no new light on the future president's activities during that summer.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2004 Jul 23, In Bosnia Britain's Prince Charles and other foreign dignitaries gathered to reopen the Mostar bridge over the Neretva River. The original was built in 1566.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, In northwest Colombia police seized 4 1/2 tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of $90 million.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Gunmen in Mosul attacked a retired Iraqi general as he headed to a mosque to pray, killing him and another man. Maj. Gen. Salim Majeed Blesh (58) had worked for the former U.S. occupation government.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad kidnapped Muhammad Mamdouh Qutb, a 3rd ranking official of the Egyptian Embassy, demanding his country abandon any plans it had to send security experts to Iraq.
(SFC, 7/24/04, p.A13)(AP, 7/23/05)
2004 Jul 23, A van carrying Iraqi civilians collided with a U.S. tank near Baghdad, killing nine people and injuring 10.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Joe Cahill (b.1920), a founding father of the modern Irish Republican Army who once narrowly avoided the hangman's noose, died in Belfast.
(AP, 7/24/04)(SFC, 7/26/04, p.B4)
2004 Jul 23, The Japanese government reported that suicides in Japan in 2003 surged to an all-time high topping 34,000 deaths in a trend fueled by health and financial troubles.
(AP, 7/23/04)
2004 Jul 23, Leaders from the 2 main rebel groups in Sudan's western Darfur region agreed to participate in "substantive negotiations" for a political solution to the humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 7/24/04)
2005 Jul 23, Myron Florin (85), accordionist with Lawrence Welk, died in California.
(WSJ, 7/25/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 23, In southern Afghanistan suspected Taliban militants fatally shot a district judge.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 23, The man shot at the Stockwell subway station on July 22 was identified as Jean Charles de Menezes (27) of Brazil. London police acknowledged that Menezes had nothing to do with recent bombings on the city’s transit system. Brazil's government demanded an explanation for the fatal police shooting of a Brazilian citizen on a London subway car.
(AP, 7/24/05)
2005 Jul 23, The Colombian government offered to buy farmers' illegal crops of coca, in the latest effort to stem illegal drug production in this South American nation. Pres. Alvaro Uribe said in a speech that farmers would have to sign a document promising to never again cultivate illegal crops in order to get the money. The government would destroy the purchased crop.
(AP, 7/24/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Egypt a rapid series of car bombs and another blast ripped through a luxury hotel and a coffeeshop in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, killing at least 83 people. The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, a group citing ties to al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the bombings. The previously unknown Mujahedi Masr or "Holy Warriors of Egypt" group disputed the claims of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, al-Qaida, and said five of its own members died carrying out seven explosions.
(AP, 7/23/05)(AP, 7/24/05)(Econ, 7/30/05, p.40)
2005 Jul 23, Kristina Miller (27) of Peachtree City, Ga., was the only American killed in the blasts at the Egyptian resort at Sharm el-Sheik.
(AP, 7/27/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Abidjan, Ivory Coast, unidentified assailants attacked two security force posts, sparking gunfights that reportedly killed at least four people.
(AP, 7/24/05)
2005 Jul 23, A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook the Tokyo area, injuring at least 27 people.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Turkey a bomb exploded at an Istanbul cafe frequented by tourists, injuring at least two people.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2005 Jul 23, In Umm Al-Quwain, UAR, a $3.3 billion deal for the Khor al-Beidah lagoon complex was signed. A few days later developers announced Umm Al-Quwain's desert interior would be the site for a new city that could eventually house as many as 500,000 people.
(AP, 8/7/05)
2005 Jul 23, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrived in Beijing for a visit expected to include a plea for oil and food to aid his state's failing economy.
(AP, 7/23/05)
2006 Jul 23, US cyclist Floyd Landis (31) won the 3-week, 2,267-mile Tour de France 57 seconds ahead of Oscar Pereiro of Spain. Reports on July 27 Landis said had tested positive for the male sex hormone testosterone.
(SFC, 7/24/06, p.D1)(Reuters, 7/27/06)
2006 Jul 23, Tiger Woods won his 2nd consecutive British Open golf title.
(WSJ, 7/24/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 23, In southern Indiana 2 sets of sniper attacks within hours of each other left one man dead, another wounded and four vehicles peppered with bullet holes. On July 25 police said a Gaston youth (18) confessed to weekend sniping.
(AP, 7/24/06)(WSJ, 7/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 23, In Afghanistan 19 Taliban were killed and 17 fighters, including two Pakistani nationals, arrested in a raid by Afghan forces in southern Helmand province. Police said three policemen were killed and three others kidnapped in a Taliban attack on a police checkpoint in southeastern Ghazni province. Attackers hurled grenades into the home of a village postman in eastern Khost province, killing three of his daughters.
(AFP, 7/23/06)(AFP, 7/24/06)
2006 Jul 23, The 654-foot Singapore-flagged Cougar Ace, a cargo ship carrying 4,813 cars from Japan to Canada, began tilting to its port side late at night hundreds of miles off Alaska's Aleutian Islands. 23 crew members were rescued the next day. The ship was owned by Tokyo-based Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and listed for on its side for several weeks before being righted. 4,703 of the cars were new Mazdas valued at about $100 million. After a year of planning Mazda scheduled all the cars for complete reduction to scrap in Portland, Ore.
(AP, 7/25/06)(SFC, 7/25/06, p.A2)(WSJ, 4/29/08, p.A9)
2006 Jul 23, In England a gust of wind blew an inflatable art exhibit from its moorings at a park in Durham, killing two people and injuring 12. Up to 30 people were on the "Dreamspace", an inflatable network of multicolored tunnels, when wind blew it 30 feet in the air.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Police in India raided a forest hideout for communist rebels in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh state, killing Burra Chinnaiah, a guerrilla chief, and at least 7 other people.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, PM Al-Maliki left for Washington for talks on reversing the country's slide toward civil war. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden minibus amid a crowd of day laborers seeking work in a crowded market in Baghdad's mainly Shiite district of Sadr City, killing at least 34 people. This was followed by a bomb attack in front of the area's town hall, which killed eight. Three hours later a one-ton car bomb exploded outside a courthouse in the mixed northern city of Kirkuk, leaving at least 22 dead and 100 injured.
(AFP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Israeli warplanes struck a minibus carrying people fleeing the fighting in southern Lebanon, killing three people, Lebanese security officials said, and Israel said it would accept a NATO-led international force to keep the peace along the border. Hezbollah rockets killed two civilians in northern Israel. Layal Nejim (23), a photographer working for a Lebanese magazine, was killed when an Israeli missile exploded near her taxi.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, In Indian Kashmir 4 people were killed in three separate incidents.
(AFP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Palestinian militants in Gaza fired three rockets at Israel, despite reports that they had agreed to halt such attacks.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza (18) of Puerto Rico was crowned as Miss Universe 2006. She hoped to someday star in US and Latin American films.
(AP, 7/24/06)
2006 Jul 23, In Somalia a local rights group said gunmen have killed 682 civilians, including a foreign journalist, in executions over the past year.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2006 Jul 23, Syria, one of Hezbollah's main backers, said it will press for a cease-fire to end the fighting between Israel and the Islamic militant group but only in the framework of a broader Middle East peace initiative.
(AP, 7/23/06)
2007 Jul 23, In the first political debate of its kind, all eight Democratic Party contenders, appearing on CNN, fielded questions submitted by the public on the Internet video-sharing site YouTube.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jul 23, US congressional investigators said the Agriculture Department has sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, The US FDA said people should immediately throw away more than 90 different products, from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a Castleberry plant in Augusta, Ga., linked to a botulism outbreak.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, In San Francisco Seu Kuka (28) was gunned down in the Sunnydale Housing projects of Visitacion Valley. In 2010 Jamal Trulove was convicted of 1st degree murder and sentenced 50 years to live in prison. Trulove had appeared on a VH1 reality show, "I Love New York 2," just 3 months after the slaying. On March 11, 2015, a SF jury acquitted Trulove saying they had trouble reconciling the evidence. On April 6 a federal jury awarded Trulove $10 million in damages with the city of San Francisco responsible.
(SSFC, 10/17/10, p.C2)(SFC, 3/12/15, p.D1)(SFC, 4/7/18, p.A1)
2007 Jul 23, In northern California a helicopter crashed while delivering water to firefighters in the Klamath National Forest, killing the pilot. More than 1,100 fire crews were battling a cluster of about 30 lightning-sparked fires covering 14 square miles near the Oregon state line. The fires started July 10 and had threatened up to 550 homes near the town of Happy Camp.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were killed during a violent home invasion in Cheshire, Conn. Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten but escaped. His wife and one daughter were sexually assaulted. The girls, aged 11 and 17, were tied to their beds, doused in gasoline, and left to die in a fire. Steven Hayes (44) and Joshua Komisarjevsky (27), on parole at the time for other burglaries, were accused of their murder. Prosecutors later said they will seek the death penalty. On Nov 8, 2010, Hayes was sentenced to death. Komisarjevsky was convicted of murder in 2011 and was sentenced to death. In 2013 HBO aired “The Cheshire Murders," a documentary based on the case.
(AP, 7/23/08)(AP, 10/5/10)(SFC, 11/27/10, p.A5)(SFC, 10/14/11, p.A6)(SFC, 12/10/11, p.A6)(SFC, 7/22/13, p.E1)
2007 Jul 23, A wildfire in southern Idaho had covered more than 880 square miles, growing by about 200 square miles in just 24 hours during the weekend. Fire officials said it threatened tracking and radar facilities at Mountain Home Air Force bombing and firing range, which is used by pilots training for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Firefighters in central Utah faced a threat of strong wind gusts as they battled a huge wildfire, where several small communities were evacuated.
(AP, 7/23/07)(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A5)
2007 Jul 23, Zhenli Ye Gon was arrested in a Maryland restaurant, four months after police discovered $207 million at his Mexico City mansion in what US officials have called the world's biggest seizure of drug cash. Mexican officials had 60 days to file their legal arguments for Ye Gon's extradition. Ye Gon has claimed that $150 million of the money belonged to Mexico's ruling party, and that he was forced to store it for party officials in his mansion under threat of death during the 2006 presidential race. Ye Gon later told US prosecutors he had sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market.
(AP, 7/24/07)(AP, 10/23/09)
2007 Jul 23, Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped to replace legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show "The Price is Right."
(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jul 23, Mohammad Zahir Shah (b.1914), the last king of Afghanistan (1933-1973), died. In 2002 he had returned from 3 decades of exile to bless his country's fragile course toward democracy. In southern Afghanistan troops killed at least 75 militants in three separate battles, while the Taliban extended the deadline for the lives of 23 South Korean hostages until the evening of July 24. Norway said one if its soldiers was killed in Logar province, and NATO said a soldier was killed in the south. A roadside blast killed 4 US soldiers in eastern Paktika province.
(AP, 7/23/07)(AP, 7/24/07)(Econ, 7/28/07, p.88)
2007 Jul 23, It was reported that Rio police had killed 449 people since January, many in clashes with drug traffickers, while more than 60 police officers lost their lives.
(SFC, 7/23/07, p.A13)
2007 Jul 23, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his new capacity as a Mideast envoy, opened his mission to help Palestinians build solid foundations for their future state.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2007 Jul 23, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said Canada will give the new Palestinian government C$8 million ($7.6 million) in direct aid and more could follow now that Hamas is no longer in the government.
(Reuters, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, John Gilman (65), developer of FieldTurf, an artificial grass that replaced AstroTurf, died at his home in Montreal. The FieldTurf technology was based on patents filed by golfer Freddie Haas Jr.
(WSJ, 1/28/07, p.A6)
2007 Jul 23, Fidel Castro suggested that a two-time Cuban Olympic boxing champion and his teammate had defected, blaming their disappearance at the Pan American Games in Brazil on American money.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, The European Union took the first step towards sending forces to Chad and the Central African Republican to help the United Nations protect refugees trapped in the violent region bordering Darfur.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, A Greek firefighting plane crashed, killing one of its two-member crew while trying to stop a forest fire reaching homes on the island of Evia.
(Reuters, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Indian officials said dozens of plastic bags stuffed with body parts believed to be from aborted female fetuses or newborn girls killed because their families wanted boys have been found in an abandoned well in eastern India.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Officials said flash floods and landslides in central Indonesia have inundated villages, destroyed bridges and roads, and sent thousands fleeing their homes with over 80 people killed.
(AFP, 7/24/07)(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 23, Three parked cars exploded within 30 minutes in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad, killing at least 12 people. Another car packed with explosives blew up on the main road about 200 yards from an entry point to the US-controlled Green Zone, killing at least 4 Iraqis. Also in Baghdad a bomb exploded on a minibus near a busy commercial area, killing one person and wounding nine others. A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army patrol near the Iranian border, killing five troops. Also near the Iranian border, gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks loaded with goods being sent from major wholesale markets in Baghdad to Khanaqin, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad. Five people were killed and three others kidnapped. In western Anbar province at least two policemen were killed and 10 wounded when a woman hiding an explosives belt under her Islamic gown blew herself up as she was about to be searched at a checkpoint on the western outskirts of Ramadi. At least 59 people were killed or found dead nationwide.
(AP, 7/23/07)(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, Israeli police said 9 Israelis suspected of trafficking in organs and humans have been arrested and remain in custody. The case was opened when an Israeli woman filed a police complaint charging that she was not paid after her kidney was removed in Ukraine.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, Nigerian police said at least 10 people were killed over the weekend and dozens sustained burns in the southern Delta state after adulterated kerosene they were using in their stoves exploded. In southwest Nigeria at least six people were killed and several trapped when a three-storey building under construction collapsed.
(AFP, 7/23/07)(AFP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, In North Waziristan, Pakistan, 2 security posts came under rocket attack and an army convoy was attacked. At least 20 militants and two soldiers were killed in fighting.
(AP, 7/23/07)(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Jul 23, Abel Mutsakani, the editor of an independent Zimbabwean news service based in South Africa, was shot and seriously wounded in Johannesburg.
(AP, 7/26/07)
2007 Jul 23, Spain arrested Roberto Florez Garcia in Tenerife, the Canary Islands, for selling the identity of Spanish spies and other information about the intelligence agency from 2001 until he left the service in 2004. Police accused him of being a double agent for Russia.
(AP, 7/24/07)(WSJ, 1/25/07, p.A1)
2007 Jul 23, An attempt to break an aviation speed record went horribly wrong when a small "experimental" plane crashed through an apartment building in the Swiss city of Basel, killing the pilot and injuring at least three other people.
(AP, 7/23/07)
2007 Jul 23, The United Nations rejected Taiwan's application to become a member of the world body, citing UN adherence to the "one China" policy and its recognition of the Chinese government in Beijing.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2008 Jul 23, Bill Gates, former boss of Microsoft, joined Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of NYC, in announcing a combined $500 million package to stamp out smoking.
(www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-07-23-smoking_N.htm)
2008 Jul 23, It was reported that Napa Valley’s Chateau Montelena, winner of a 1976 wine tasting event in France, was being purchased by Cos d’Estournel of Bordeaux, France.
(SFC, 7/23/08, p.C1)
2008 Jul 23, In Louisiana an oil tanker and an oil barge collided near New Orleans creating a 12-mile oil slick and closing almost 100 miles of the Mississippi River. Over 400,000 gallons of fuel spilled into the river.
(SFC, 7/24/08, p.A3)(SFC, 7/25/08, p.A2)
2008 Jul 23, Google unveiled a new service dubbed “Knol," an Internet encyclopedia, in which contributing authors would share in ad revenue.
(SFC, 7/24/08, p.C4)
2008 Jul 23, Two environmental groups estimated that cement kilns in the US annually released mercury compounds totaling some 23,000 pounds. Two of the worst emitters were located in northern California in Cupertino and Davenport.
(SFC, 7/24/08, p.B1)
2008 Jul 23, In Afghanistan militants killed a district police chief in the eastern Nangarhar province after striking his convoy with a roadside bomb. Police clashed with Taliban fighters in Uruzgan province, killing three militants.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, The African Union said it was incapable of stabilizing the situation in Somalia and urged the UN take over peacekeeping operations in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
(Reuters, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, Australia announced an extra $29 million in aid for survivors of Myanmar's May cyclone, but pressed its recalcitrant military junta to democratize quickly and respect human rights.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, The European Commission froze almost euro500 million ($800 million) in aid to Bulgaria, citing corruption, organized crime, severe spending irregularities and alleged vote-buying in a country that only joined the EU last year.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, In Democratic Republic of Congo at least 45 people were killed and another 100 were missing after a boat sank on a remote stretch of the Ubangi river.
(Reuters, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 23, France passed a new law to let companies negotiate longer working hours with union representatives, all but squelching the 35-hour week.
(Econ, 7/26/08, p.61)
2008 Jul 23, Iraq's Kurdish government has denounced a draft law paving the way for US-backed provincial elections and urged the presidential council to reject it. The 18-year-old son of the chief editor of a US-sponsored newspaper was shot to death as an American patrol passed nearby in the northern city of Kirkuk.
(AP, 7/23/08)(AP, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 23, US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama donned a Jewish skullcap at Israel's Holocaust memorial and vowed to preserve America's close ties with Israel in a dramatic visit to the Holy Land in which he also promised the Palestinians to push vigorously to win them a state.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, Hurricane Dolly toppled trees and sent billboards flying in the Mexican city of Matamoros, and authorities south of the US border warned of possible flooding. Dolly also hit south Texas, but by evening it had weakened to a tropical storm.
(AP, 7/24/08)(SFC, 7/24/08, p.A3)
2008 Jul 23, Opposition lawmakers walked out of a Mongolian parliamentary session before they were to be sworn in, saying they refused to participate because last month's election was fraudulent.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, Nigeria's main militant group threatened to destroy the nation's major oil pipelines within 30 days to counter allegations it had struck a $12 million deal with the government to protect them.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, An international rights group pressed Pakistan's new government to quickly investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly rounded up by security agencies as part of the anti-terror campaign.
(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 23, In Sri Lanka government forces killed 25 rebels in battles in the Vavuniya, Mannar, Jaffna and Welioya regions along the front lines.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2008 Jul 23, In Sudan government planes bombed Karbala, a Darfur village, while Pres. Bashir was addressing cheering crowds in the nearby city of el-Fasher. according to a rebel faction 3 people were killed and 8 injured.
(Reuters, 7/25/08)
2008 Jul 23, Turkish warplanes bombed 13 Kurdish rebel targets in the Zab region of northern Iraq.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2008 Jul 23, Venezuela signed over three more oil fields to a joint venture with Belarus, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declaring that the two nations were strongly united in their resistance to "US imperialism" and Washington's "lackeys."
(AP, 7/23/08)
2009 Jul 23, US Vice President Joe Biden pledged Washington's full support for Georgia a year after its war with Russia and urged Moscow to abide by a ceasefire pact and pull its troops back from two rebel regions.
(Reuters, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, US Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas was killed near Campo, Ca. On July 25 Mexican federal police detained four men suspected of involvement in the killing of Rosas. Included was Ernesto Parra Valenzuela, identified as the suspected killer of Rosas. In 2009 Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez (17) pleaded guilty to murdering Rosas. On April 29, 2010, Alvarez was sentenced to 40 years in prison. A 2nd suspect, Marcos Manuel Rodriguez Perez, was arrested on April 11, 2011.
(AP, 7/26/09)(http://texasfred.net/archives/4628)(SFC, 7/27/09, p.A4)(SFC, 11/21/09, p.A4)(AP, 4/29/10)(AP, 4/11/11)
2009 Jul 23, US counter-terrorism officials said that Saad bin Laden (27), the 2nd-eldest son of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, was apparently killed in a US missile strike inside Pakistan this year.
(SFC, 7/24/09, p.A4)
2009 Jul 23, Federal prosecutors arrested over 40 people in New Jersey and New York as part of a major corruption and international money laundering conspiracy probe. They included New Jersey Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano III, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell and Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini. Several rabbis in New York and New Jersey were also arrested. Some were accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars and of black-market trafficking of kidneys and fake Gucci handbags.
(AP, 7/23/09)(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, The Columbus Salame plant in South San Francisco, established in 1967, was devastated by fire.
(SFC, 7/24/09, p.D2)
2009 Jul 23, In Michigan the last edition of The Ann Arbor News rolled off the presses After 174 years, with a three-word headline: "Farewell, Ann Arbor." It is being replaced by AnnArbor.com, an online news site that will produce a print edition twice a week.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, E. Lynn Harris (b.1955), pioneer of gay black fiction, died while promoting his latest book in Los Angeles. Long before the secret world of closeted black gay men came to light in America, Harris introduced a generation of black women to the phenomenon known as the "down low." His debut "Invisible Life" (1994) was a coming-of-age story that dealt with the then-taboo topic.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Afghanistan an operation conducted by US-led coalition forces in the Baidar area of Gelan district killed eight Taliban, five of them foreigners.
(AFP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, Arab health ministers decided to ban children, the elderly and those with chronic medical conditions from attending the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia this year in effort to slow the spread of swine flu.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, Chinese researchers reported that they have produced living mice from connective tissue cells induced to revert to their embryonic state.
(SFC, 7/24/09, p.A11)
2009 Jul 23, In China a landslide triggered by heavy rain hit a county in southwestern Sichuan province, killing at least four people and leaving 53 others missing.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, In China female panda You You (pronounced Yo Yo) gave birth to the new cub at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in southwestern Sichuan. This was the first successful birth of a panda cub from artificial insemination using frozen sperm, giving a new option for the notoriously poor breeders.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, Iceland formally applied to join the European Union but said it would not accept a "rotten deal" for its fishing industry, a key sector of the island nation's troubled economy.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, The wife of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said that her brother is among the hundreds arrested in Iran's postelection crackdown, and she warned authorities not to publish any "forced confessions" from him or other detainees.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, Israeli defense officials said tests of a missile-defense system meant to shield Israel from Iranian attack were aborted over the past week on three occasions because of various malfunctions.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Japan Jerry Yu (30), a US citizen who worked for a Japanese communications company in Tokyo, was found dead of probable hypothermia off a trail just below the peak of Mount Fuji. His colleague, Takeshi Nakamura (27), was found dead the next day.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev, the main opposition candidate, said he was no longer taking part in this day’s presidential election, citing widespread ballot-stuffing and the intimidation of election monitors. Pres. Bakiyev (59) won another 5-year term with 76% of the ballots. International monitors said the election was marred by ballot-box stuffing and widespread irregularities in vote counting.
(AP, 7/23/09)(AP, 8/2/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Nigeria Wole Soyinka, 1986 Nobel laureate in literature, slammed Nigeria's handling of the crisis in the oil region and urged the government to adopt a "holistic" approach in tackling it. Excerpts of the news conference were reported the next day on private Channels television.
(AFP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Pakistan the Taliban denied claims that Maulana Fazlullah, architect of a brutal uprising in Pakistan's Swat valley, was wounded and threatened to unleash renewed holy war. Pakistan said on July 8 it had "credible" information that Fazlullah was injured during a blistering offensive designed to crush Taliban militants. Two policemen were killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a checkpoint in Shangla district. A bomb hidden in a supposed gift of a tape recorder killed another policeman at a checkpoint outside the town of Karak, which borders the Taliban-infested North Waziristan tribal district.
(AFP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, The Philippine government ordered its military to stop offensives against Muslim separatist rebels in a bid to restart peace talks, a move welcomed by the guerrillas.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, In Poland say seven people died in violent storms.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2009 Jul 23, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma's new government warned protesters they must respect the law as violent demonstrations against shoddy public services spread across townships.
(AP, 7/23/09)
2009 Jul 23, Yemeni security forces opened fire on thousands of protesters in the south chanting anti-government slogans, killing 12 and wounding scores of others. Demonstrations by former army members in southern Yemen demanding political reforms have been occurring regularly since August, 2007.
(AP, 7/24/09)
2010 Jul 23, Jesus Quinonez, the international liaison for the Baja California state attorney general's office, was among 43 defendants named in a US federal racketeering complaint that alleges murder, kidnapping and other crimes. They were accused of working for Fernando Sanchez Arellano, widely considered the most-wanted drug kingpin in Tijuana. Quinonez (49) was arrested a day earlier in San Diego during a traffic stop.
(AP, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 23, In Bell, Ca., 3 administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of LA agreed to resign. Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo (56) was being paid $787,637 a year. Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia made $376,288 a year, and Police Chief Randy Adams made $457,000. On July 26 the City Council voted to slash salaries by 90%. On April 14, 2014, Rizzo was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison on two counts of tax fraud. On April 16 Rizzo was sentenced to 12 years in state prison.
(AP, 7/23/10)(SFC, 7/27/10, p.A6)(SFC, 4/15/14, p.A6)(SFC, 4/17/14, p.A5)
2010 Jul 23, Work to permanently choke off BP's broken oil well stalled as Tropical Storm Bonnie raced toward the Gulf of Mexico and dozens of ships evacuated the area.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Daniel Schorr, veteran news reported died in Washington DC. In 1973 as a CBS reporter Schorr aired Pres. Nixon’s “enemies list," finding his own name as #17 of 20. Schorr’s book included “Clearing the Air" (1978).
(SFC, 7/24/10, p.C4)
2010 Jul 23, In eastern Afghanistan a bomb exploded inside a mosque, seriously wounding a candidate in upcoming parliamentary elections and at least 16 other people. Two American service members left their compound in Kabul and failed to return. They were believed to have been captured by insurgents somewhere in Logar province. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid later said the pair drove into an area of Logar province that is under insurgent control. He says that during a brief gunfight, one American was killed and the other was captured. The body of Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley (30) was found on July 25. On July 28 the body of the 2nd sailor, Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove (25) was recovered. In southern Helmand province at least 45 civilians, many women and children, were killed in a rocket attack by the NATO-led foreign force. Alliance and Afghan troops came under attack about 6 miles (10 km) south of the village and responded with helicopter-borne strikes. Coalition forces reported six insurgents killed, including a Taliban commander.
(AP, 7/23/10)(Reuters, 7/24/10)(AP, 7/25/10)(Reuters, 7/26/10)(AP, 7/28/10)(SFC, 7/28/10, p.A3)(AP, 7/29/10)
2010 Jul 23, The African Union said its forces battling Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Mogadishu will be boosted by a battalion from Guinea and could further swell to reach 10,000 troops.
(AFP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, A Chinese court sentenced a Uighur journalist to 15 years in jail for critical writings and comments he made to foreign media after last year's deadly ethnic riots in China's western Xinjiang region. Halaite Niyaze was found guilty of "endangering national security" and sentenced following a one-day trial in Urumqi.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Typhoon Chanthu killed three people before weakening into a tropical storm after making landfall in southern China's Guangdong province.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, In the Dominican Rep. 8 people who allegedly spent $170 million on apartments, cars and other goods using money from Jose Figueroa, the Caribbean's top drug trafficker, were formally charged with money laundering and other crimes.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Seven out of 91 banks failed European stress tests, which were organized in hope of reviving investor confidence in Europe's embattled banking sector. German state-owned lender Hypo Real Estate, five regional savings banks in Spain and ATEBank of Greece failed the test of whether they could resist a new financial shock. All have been ordered to recapitalize or take state aid.
(AFP, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 23, EU police investigating corruption arrested Hashim Rexhepi, Kosovo’s central bank governor.
(www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4b5155da-9666-11df-96a2-00144feab49a.html)
2010 Jul 23, In Indian Kashmir security forces fired teargas at stone-throwing protesters as fresh protests against Indian rule broke out. A minibus veered off a mountain road under construction and plunged into a river, killing at least 17 people.
(AP, 7/23/10)(AP, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 23, The Marshall Islands region of Ebeye, which has the unflattering reputation as the "slum of the Pacific" has now been damned in a US Army report as a health threat to residents.
(AFP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, A Dutch court slapped a one million euro fine on Trafigura, a Swiss-based company whose chartered ship dumped hazardous waste the Ivory Coast says killed 17 people on its soil. It was also found guilty of concealing what the charge sheet referred to as the "harmful nature" of the waste on board the Probo Koala ship that arrived at the port of Amsterdam on July 2, 2006, but was redirected to the Ivory Coast.
(AFP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Pakistan’s government said 30 people had been killed in flash floods in Baluchistan province, mostly in Barkhan district.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, In South Africa a police helicopter crashed, killing seven officers on board, as it flew to the scene of a suspected hostage-taking northeast of Johannesburg.
(AFP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Switzerland's popular Glacier Express tourist train derailed in the Alps, killing one person and injuring 42.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2010 Jul 23, Thailand’s Culture Ministry said Facebook and Twitter are causing deteriorating language skills among Thai students and authorities want them to return to the bygone tradition of letter-writing.
(AP, 7/23/10)
2011 Jul 23, In Texas Tan Do (35) opened fire at a child's birthday celebration at the Forum Roller World in Grand Prairie, killing five people, wounding four others and then killing himself as the private party turned to panic and some fled screaming in their skates. The dead included Do’s estranged wife, two of her sisters, her brother and her sister-in-law.
(AP, 7/24/11)(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.A5)
2011 Jul 23, John Shalikashvili (b.1936), Polish-born former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993-1997), died in Washington state.
(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.C8)
2011 Jul 23, Asian football supremo Mohamed bin Hammam (62) was banned from the game for life after being found guilty of corruption following a two-day hearing of FIFA's ethics committee. The Qatari president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), had been accused of trying to buy votes in the FIFA presidential election with $40,000 cash gifts to Caribbean football officials.
(AFP, 7/24/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Afghanistan NATO troops handed control of the northern capital Mazar-i-Sharif to local forces. It was the sixth of seven areas to transition to Afghan control. A NATO helicopter attack wounded 5 children in Helmand province. On July 25 Britain took responsibility for the attack, voicing "deep regret" and saying an investigation was under way.
(AFP, 7/23/11)(AFP, 7/25/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Bahrain cleric Seyyed Abdullah al-Ghoreifi said authorities have demolished 30 Shiite mosques during their 5-month-old crackdown in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Thousands of people marched through the streets of Derby protesting the British government’s decision to award a contract for new trains to Siemens, German engineering company.
(Econ, 7/30/11, p.51)
2011 Jul 23, Amy Winehouse (b.1983), the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead in her London home. On Oct 26 an inquest was told she had suddenly drunk heavily after abstaining from alcohol for three weeks and was poisoned by alcohol.
(AP, 7/24/11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Winehouse)(AFP, 10/26/11)
2011 Jul 23, Canada returned Lai Changxing (52) to China where he is accused of running a $10 billion smuggling ring that dealt in everything from cars to oil in a scandal touching the government's highest levels.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, In eastern China a crash involving two high-speed trains in Wenzhou city killed 40 people with 171 others injured. Rail officials later admitted that a Chinese-made signaling system was to blame and said the company that built it has apologized. 3 days after the crash legal authorities ordered lawyers not to take on cases from the families of victims. On Dec 28 a government report found 54 officials responsible for the crash.
(AP, 7/24/11)(AFP, 7/30/11)(AFP, 8/11/11)(Econ, 8/6/11, p.34)(AP, 12/28/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Egypt groups of men armed with knives and sticks attacked thousands of protesters trying to march to the headquarters of the military rulers, setting off fierce street clashes and leaving more than 300 injured. The identity of the pro-army vigilantes could not immediately be determined.
(AP, 7/23/11)(Econ, 7/30/11, p.41)
2011 Jul 23, In Iran gunmen firing from motorcycles killed Dariush Rezaeinejad (35), said to be an electronics masters’ student at Khajeh Nasir University in Tehran. Initial reports said a pair of gunmen firing from motorcycles killed Darioush Rezaei (35), a physics professor whose area of expertise was neutron transport. It was later reported that he participated in developing high-voltage switches, a key component that is crucial to setting off the explosions needed to trigger a nuclear warhead.
(AP, 7/23/11)(AFP, 7/24/11)(AP, 7/28/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Israel tens of thousands marched in the coastal city of Tel Aviv to protest against rising housing prices and social inequalities in the Jewish state.
(AFP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Latvians voted by a large majority to sack their Parliament in a historic referendum, setting the stage for a snap election in September.
(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.A4)
2011 Jul 23, Nguyen Cao Ky (b.1930), the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years (1965-1967) during the Vietnam War, died in Malaysia. In 2002 he authored "Buddha's Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam."
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Mexico 6 suspected cartel gunmen were killed in an overnight clash with soldiers in Ayotlan, Jalisco state. The army alleged that the men were members of the Zetas drug cartel, and said they found assault rifles, grenade launchers and ammunition at the scene. In Guadalajara a man was arrested trying to board a plane to Panama at the international airport carrying more than $290,000 in US currency hidden in a suitcase. In Acapulco two human heads were found on a highway bridge, wrapped in colorful plastic. The body of a third, 20-year-old man was found nearby riddled with bullets.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Mexican soldiers found a series of marijuana fields covering 148 acres (60 hectares) in the northern state of Durango. The army patrol also found 40 metric tons (44 US tons) of harvested marijuana at the plantation.
(AP, 7/25/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Nigeria a bomb exploded in a busy neighborhood in Maiduguri. A witness said at least eight people were killed. Amnesty International said the Nigerian Joint Military Task Force responded by shooting and killing at least 23 people, apparently at random.
(AP, 7/24/11)(AFP, 7/25/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Pakistan an anti-Taliban militia killed 13 militants in 2 days of clashes in the northwestern Kurram tribal region. Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed five laborers at a construction site for a mosque in southwestern Baluchistan.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Rescuers in Scotland said they have guided 44 pilot whales stranded in an estuary back to sea, but 25 other whales from the pod did not survive the incident and died.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Senegal's opposition went ahead with a protest and thousands of demonstrators poured into a square after a last-minute change to the venue to skirt a ban on demonstrations issued by the government. They amassed at Place de l'Obelisque, just outside Dakar's downtown district, to demand the departure of President Abdoulaye Wade (85) who is attempting to run for a third term.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, In Spain several hundred people, angry about their country’s economic crises, protested on the outskirts of Madrid following a month-long march from their hometowns.
(SSFC, 7/24/11, p.A4)
2011 Jul 23, In South Sudan rebel leader Gatluak Gai was shot and killed by his own men in oil-rich Unity state days after he signed a peace deal to integrate his forces into the southern army.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, Voters in Sri Lanka's northern Tamil heartland trickled to polling stations to elect local councils following the country's long civil war. Election monitoring group Campaign for Free and Fair Elections said in a statement that uniformed men suspected to be members of the military were forcibly collecting voting cards apparently to rig the elections. It reported such incidents took place in 20 villages.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, A Syrian passenger train derailed and caught fire near Homs, killing the driver and injuring 14 passengers, after "saboteurs" tore out part of the tracks.
(AP, 7/23/11)
2011 Jul 23, President Hugo Chavez (56) returned to Venezuela after spending almost a week in Cuba to receive chemotherapy treatment for his cancer.
(AP, 7/24/11)
2012 Jul 23, The US NCAA imposed penalties on Penn State and its football program related to the cover-up of pedophile charges against former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky. The penalties included $60 million and the abdicating of all wins since 1998.
(SFC, 7/25/12, p.A10)
2012 Jul 23, Sally Ride (61), the first US woman to travel into space and an advocate for science education, died in Florida after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Her death made it public that her surviving partner of 27 years was a woman. Ride first launched into space in 1983 aboard Challenger on the 7th mission of US space shuttle program. In 2014 Lynn Sherr authored “Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space."
(Reuters, 7/24/12)(SSFC, 7/13/14, p.N3)
2012 Jul 23, An Afghan army soldier turned his gun on his NATO colleagues injuring two US troops in Faryab province. Gunmen killed 3 people in an ambush on a van in northern Parvan province, including an American electrical engineer who had lived in the country for decades.
(AFP, 7/23/12)(AP, 7/24/12)
2012 Jul 23, China’s State-controlled CNOOC Ltd launched a takeover bids by agreeing to buy Canadian oil producer Nexen Inc for $15.1 billion, forcing Ottawa to decide whether national security concerns outweigh its desire for foreign investment in its energy resources.
(Reuters, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, Egypt began to release detainees held by the military following a decree last week by President Mohamed Morsi.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, Egypt's ambassador to the West Bank Yasser Othman said transiting Palestinians can enter Egypt for 72 hours to arrange their own travel. A Palestinian official in Cairo said more easing of restrictions are being negotiated.
(AP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, The European Union said it was ready to back the deployment of an African stabilization force under UN mandate in Mali, and threatened sanctions against those posing a threat to democratic change.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, The European Union promised to lift most of the sanctions slapped against Zimbabwe a decade ago if the country holds a "credible" vote on a new constitution.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, In Haiti 4 squatters were shot to death as police and other officials forced them to vacate a woodland in La Visite National Park. Haiti was down to about 2% of its original forest cover.
(SFC, 8/31/12, p.A4)
2012 Jul 23, India police said about 25,000 villagers have fled their homes in Assam state during clashes between Bodo tribal groups and Muslim settlers in which 15 people have been killed. Police issued shoot-on-sight orders in an attempt to quell ethnic violence in Assam state, after rioters burnt shops and houses and attacked rival gangs.
(AFP, 7/23/12)(AFP, 7/24/12)
2012 Jul 23, In India Lakshmi Sehgal (b.1914), a top Indian female revolutionary, died following a heart attack. She had fought Allied forces during World War II.
(AFP, 7/23/12)(Econ, 8/4/12, p.82)
2012 Jul 23, Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency reported that people had poured into the streets of Nishabur to protest a steep hike in the price of chicken.
(SFC, 7/24/12, p.A2)
2012 Jul 23, In Iraq bombings and shootings killed 115 people in the deadliest day this year. 29 coordinated attacks in 19 cities sent a chilling warning that al-Qaida is slowly resurging in the security vacuum created by a weak government in Baghdad and the departure of the US military seven months ago.
(AP, 7/23/12)(AFP, 7/24/12)(AP, 7/26/12)(AFP, 8/1/12)(AP, 8/17/12)
2012 Jul 23, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed the Table Mountain Declaration, a pledge drawn up by global media rights bodies to boost press freedom and stop the criminal prosecution of journalists. the declaration was adopted by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in Cape Town, South Africa in 2007. She became only the second African leader after Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou, to sign the declaration.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, In central Nigeria heavy rainfall overnight forced a dam to overflow, causing flooding that left at least 35 people dead and destroyed or damaged some 200 homes.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, In northwest Pakistan US drones fired missiles at a compound of militant commander Sadiq Noor killing 10 suspected insurgents.
(SFC, 7/24/12, p.A2)(AFP, 7/29/12)
2012 Jul 23, Spain's market regulator says it has temporarily banned short-selling of shares on its stock indexes owing to volatility in Spanish and European markets. It noted that Italy took similar steps today.
(AP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, Sudan turned down South Sudan's proposal of a higher oil transit fee and an $8.2 billion financial deal, ruling out any comprehensive settlement of outstanding issues by the August 2 deadline.
(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, The Syrian regime threatened to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack, in its first ever acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction. The Arab League offered Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family a "safe exit" if he steps down. EU foreign ministers began talks in Brussels with an agreement to freeze the assets of 26 Syrians and three firms close to the Assad regime in the 17th round of sanctions since protests erupted last year.
(AP, 7/23/12)(AFP, 7/23/12)
2012 Jul 23, The WWF conservation group ranked Vietnam the worst country for wildlife crime in its first-ever report on how well 23 Asian and African countries protect rhinos, tigers and elephants.
(AP, 7/23/12)
2013 Jul 23, In Afghanistan 3 US and 4 Afghan soldiers were killed after an insurgent riding a donkey detonated a bomb in Wardak province.
(SFC, 7/24/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 23, The US Navy offered Australia any help it wanted to retrieve four bombs, mistakenly dropped on July 16 inside the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)(SFC, 7/23/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 23, A Cameroon court found two men guilty under the country's harsh law banning gay sex, continuing a string of recent convictions that has drawn international condemnation.
(AP, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, In China a man who was told by officials they couldn't register his fourth child because he didn't pay a penalty for breaking family planning laws stabbed to death 2 government workers and injured 4 others.
(AP, 7/24/13)
2013 Jul 23, In Egypt 6 people were killed in Cairo in clashes between opponents and Islamist supporters of deposed Pres. Morsi.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Greek shipowner Victor Restis was arrested on charges of money laundering and embezzlement, becoming one of just a few prominent businessmen to be detained by police since Greece sank into crisis.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, A boat sank off the southern coast of Indonesia. At least 15 people died. 189 of an estimated 204 suspected asylum seekers were rescued. Most were from Iraq, Iran and Sri Lanka.
(Reuters, 7/24/13)(SFC, 7/27/13, p.A2)
2013 Jul 23, An Iraqi government spokesman said Baghdad has signed a 4-year deal with Iran to import natural gas for power generation, further intertwining the economies of the two Shiite-dominated countries. Police found the bodies of 4 off-duty policemen on a road with bullet wounds in their heads.
(AP, 7/23/13)(AP, 7/24/13)
2013 Jul 23, Madagascar police arrested an opposition leader on charges of holding an illegal rally, compounding the island nation's political crisis.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, In Mexico violent clashes between armed gangs and security forces killed 22 people, marking a surge in violence in Michoacan state, where President Enrique Pena Nieto is testing a new security strategy.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Myanmar said it is releasing another 73 political prisoners and more could be freed in coming months to honor a commitment made by the president during a recent trip to Europe.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Dutch judges blocked the extradition of a terror suspect, identified as Sabir K., to the United States, saying he was tortured in Pakistan after his 2010 arrest and it is unclear whether American authorities had any involvement. US authorities have accused him of working with al-Qaida from 2004 to 2010, and of plotting a suicide attack on an American military base in Afghanistan.
(AP, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Oman's Sultan Qaboos pardoned activists jailed for taking part in anti-government protests two years ago, his latest gesture to citizens worried about unemployment and inadequate pay.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, A Serbian court freed retail tycoon Miroslav Miskovic, accused of fraud and tax evasion, after he posted a record 12 million euro ($16 million) bail pending his trial.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, South Sudan media said President Salva Kiir has sacked his cabinet, the deputy president and suspended his top negotiator at talks to defuse tensions with Sudan.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Spanish police arrested 25 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang on the Mediterranean resort island of Mallorca. Police said they were wanted for suspected drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, extortion, money laundering and corruption.
(AP, 7/24/13)
2013 Jul 23, In Syria more than 150 soldiers were killed over the last two days in and around the town of Khan al-Assal. Reports said this this included 51 soldiers and officers who were executed.
(Reuters, 7/26/13)
2013 Jul 23, In Thailand a double-decker passenger bus caught fire after colliding with a truck on the Mitraphab highway in Kaeng Khoi district, killing 19 people and injuring 23.
(AP, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, A Turkish border patrol killed one of eight civilians trying to cross illegally from Turkey into Syria. The group had been trying to cross from Hatay province into northwestern Syria and had fired on the Turkish patrol after the troops had whistled a warning.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)
2013 Jul 23, Yemen's president pardoned journalist Abdelela Shayie, who was jailed for three years on charges of helping al-Qaida and US born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
(AP, 7/24/13)
2014 Jul 23, Late today the US FAA lifted its ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Arizona convicted killer Joseph Wood gasped and snorted during the 117 minutes it took him to die after he was injected with a relatively untested combination of the sedative midazolam and painkiller hydromorphone. He had been sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend and her father.
(AFP, 7/24/14)(SFC, 7/24/14, p.A6)
2014 Jul 23, The Afghan intelligence service accused Pakistan of stoking instability in the country by backing militants who stage attacks in Afghanistan. A suicide bomber killed one policeman and wounded three in northern Kunduz province.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Aruba retired major general Hugo Carvajal, a former Venezuelan military intelligence chief, was arrested at US request to face drug trafficking charges. Carvajal flew home July 27 after the Netherlands government ruled he had diplomatic immunity on the Dutch-owned island.
(AFP, 7/26/14)(Reuters, 7/28/14)
2014 Jul 23, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria pledged to mobilize a joint force to tackle the growing regional threat posed by Boko Haram Islamist militants operating mainly in Nigeria.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, Chinese police detained five people from a unit of US food supplier OSI Group, in a case involving expired meat sold to fast food giants including McDonald's and KFC. The Chinese supplier also had provided 20% of the meat for chicken nuggets in Japan.
(AFP, 7/23/14)(SFC, 7/23/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, China’s state media said Beijing has closed the first of four large coal-fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, citing the local planning agency.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Chinese state media said the government would target pornography on smartphones and punish pornographic app creators.
(SFC, 7/24/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, In China tropical storm Matmo made landfall. It brought heavy rains and winds to parts of eastern China following another typhoon that killed at least 56 people in the country's south. Matmo left 9 dead in Jiangxi province and 4 dead in Guangdong province.
(AP, 7/24/14)(SFC, 7/28/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, Representatives of the Muslim and Christian factions battling in Central African Republic signed a cease-fire agreement in neighboring Republic of Congo.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, The Egyptian army reportedly killed 3 militants in their car during a raid in the Sinai region. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis later said the militants were killed by an Israeli drone.
(Reuters, 7/25/14)
2014 Jul 23, The European Union gave Lithuania the green light to adopt the euro currency starting next year.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Air France and Germany's two largest airlines canceled more flights to Tel Aviv because of ongoing safety concerns amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, The World Bank offered India up to $18 billion in financial support over the next three years while lavishly praising new right-wing PM Narendra Modi's "ambitious vision" for the country.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Israeli forces pounded Gaza, meeting stiff resistance from Hamas Islamists and sending thousands of residents fleeing. US Secretary of State John Kerry said on a visit to Israel ceasefire talks had made some progress. Gaza's Health Ministry said 18 Palestinians were killed today, many of them in the southern town of Khan Younis.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Libya at least 9 people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in Benghazi after heavy clashes between Islamist fighters and regular forces trying to oust the militants from the city.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Nigeria a bomb targeting an Imam in the center of Kaduna killed 32 of his followers. A 2nd bomb blast in Kaduna killed 50 in the crowded Kawo market. Boko Haram attackers entered the village of Garubula, in Biu district, late today and dragged victims out of their homes before shooting 12 of them.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)(AFP, 7/26/14)
2014 Jul 23, Polish state airline LOT suspended its flights to Israel from Warsaw until July 28 because of concern for passengers' safety.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Somalia member of parliament Saado Ali Warsame, believed to be in her 70s, was shot dead in Mogadishu by Islamist gunmen. She was famed for political and patriotic songs she sang over decades.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, A South African court jailed a rhino poacher for 77 years, one of the heaviest sentences handed out for the crime as poaching continues to escalate. Mandla Chauke was arrested in the iconic Kruger National Park in 2011 after he killed three rhino calves. This month two Mozambicans were each jailed 16 years for killing and dehorning rhino.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways plane crashed on landing on Penghu island off the west coast, killing 48 people. 10 people survived. Typhoon Matmo slammed into Taiwan today with heavy rains and strong winds.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)(Reuters, 7/24/14)(AP, 7/25/14)
2014 Jul 23, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said reverse gas flows from the EU to Ukraine had fallen because of opposition from Russian gas producer Gazprom.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets, not far from where a Malaysian airliner was brought down last week in eastern Ukraine. Local health officials said 432 people had been killed and 1,015 wounded since hostilities started in the Donetsk region.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In eastern Ukraine Graham Phillips, a British journalist reporting for a Russian television channel, went missing, with Moscow alleging he and another journalist (Vadim) were captured by Kiev's troops. CNN journalist Anton Skiba was reportedly abducted in Donetsk.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Late today the US FAA lifted its ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Arizona convicted killer Joseph Wood gasped and snorted during the 117 minutes it took him to die after he was injected with a relatively untested combination of the sedative midazolam and painkiller hydromorphone. He had been sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend and her father.
(AFP, 7/24/14)(SFC, 7/24/14, p.A6)
2014 Jul 23, The Afghan intelligence service accused Pakistan of stoking instability in the country by backing militants who stage attacks in Afghanistan. A suicide bomber killed one policeman and wounded three in northern Kunduz province.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Aruba retired major general Hugo Carvajal, a former Venezuelan military intelligence chief, was arrested at US request to face drug trafficking charges. Carvajal flew home July 27 after the Netherlands government ruled he had diplomatic immunity on the Dutch-owned island.
(AFP, 7/26/14)(Reuters, 7/28/14)
2014 Jul 23, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria pledged to mobilize a joint force to tackle the growing regional threat posed by Boko Haram Islamist militants operating mainly in Nigeria.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, Chinese police detained five people from a unit of US food supplier OSI Group, in a case involving expired meat sold to fast food giants including McDonald's and KFC. The Chinese supplier also had provided 20% of the meat for chicken nuggets in Japan.
(AFP, 7/23/14)(SFC, 7/23/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, China’s state media said Beijing has closed the first of four large coal-fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, citing the local planning agency.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Chinese state media said the government would target pornography on smartphones and punish pornographic app creators.
(SFC, 7/24/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, In China tropical storm Matmo made landfall. It brought heavy rains and winds to parts of eastern China following another typhoon that killed at least 56 people in the country's south. Matmo left 9 dead in Jiangxi province and 4 dead in Guangdong province.
(AP, 7/24/14)(SFC, 7/28/14, p.A2)
2014 Jul 23, Representatives of the Muslim and Christian factions battling in Central African Republic signed a cease-fire agreement in neighboring Republic of Congo.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, The Egyptian army reportedly killed 3 militants in their car during a raid in the Sinai region. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis later said the militants were killed by an Israeli drone.
(Reuters, 7/25/14)
2014 Jul 23, The European Union gave Lithuania the green light to adopt the euro currency starting next year.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Air France and Germany's two largest airlines canceled more flights to Tel Aviv because of ongoing safety concerns amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
(AP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, The World Bank offered India up to $18 billion in financial support over the next three years while lavishly praising new right-wing PM Narendra Modi's "ambitious vision" for the country.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Israeli forces pounded Gaza, meeting stiff resistance from Hamas Islamists and sending thousands of residents fleeing. US Secretary of State John Kerry said on a visit to Israel ceasefire talks had made some progress. Gaza's Health Ministry said 18 Palestinians were killed today, many of them in the southern town of Khan Younis.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Libya at least 9 people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in Benghazi after heavy clashes between Islamist fighters and regular forces trying to oust the militants from the city.
(Reuters, 7/24/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Nigeria a bomb targeting an Imam in the center of Kaduna killed 32 of his followers. A 2nd bomb blast in Kaduna killed 50 in the crowded Kawo market. Boko Haram attackers entered the village of Garubula, in Biu district, late today and dragged victims out of their homes before shooting 12 of them.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)(AFP, 7/26/14)
2014 Jul 23, Polish state airline LOT suspended its flights to Israel from Warsaw until July 28 because of concern for passengers' safety.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In Somalia member of parliament Saado Ali Warsame, believed to be in her 70s, was shot dead in Mogadishu by Islamist gunmen. She was famed for political and patriotic songs she sang over decades.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, A South African court jailed a rhino poacher for 77 years, one of the heaviest sentences handed out for the crime as poaching continues to escalate. Mandla Chauke was arrested in the iconic Kruger National Park in 2011 after he killed three rhino calves. This month two Mozambicans were each jailed 16 years for killing and dehorning rhino.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways plane crashed on landing on Penghu island off the west coast, killing 48 people. 10 people survived. Typhoon Matmo slammed into Taiwan today with heavy rains and strong winds.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)(Reuters, 7/24/14)(AP, 7/25/14)
2014 Jul 23, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said reverse gas flows from the EU to Ukraine had fallen because of opposition from Russian gas producer Gazprom.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets, not far from where a Malaysian airliner was brought down last week in eastern Ukraine. Local health officials said 432 people had been killed and 1,015 wounded since hostilities started in the Donetsk region.
(Reuters, 7/23/14)
2014 Jul 23, In eastern Ukraine Graham Phillips, a British journalist reporting for a Russian television channel, went missing, with Moscow alleging he and another journalist (Vadim) were captured by Kiev's troops. CNN journalist Anton Skiba was reportedly abducted in Donetsk.
(AFP, 7/23/14)
2015 Jul 23, US defense officials said that Turkey has agreed to allow manned US planes to stage air strikes against Islamic State militants from an air base at Incirlik, close to the Syrian border. US drones are already launched from the base.
(Reuters, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Louisiana John Russell Houser (59), sitting in a packed movie theater, stood up about 20 minutes into the showing of "Trainwreck" and began firing into the crowd, killing two and wounding at least nine others before fatally shooting himself at the Grand 16 theater in Lafayette.
(AFP, 7/24/15)(SSFC, 7/26/15, p.A10)
2015 Jul 23, Oklahoma police found 5 members of the Bever family either dead or dying and a girl (13) stabbed but alive near the front door of a home in Broken Arrow. Brothers Michael (16) and Robert Bever (18) were taken into custody. Both faced trial as adults.
(SFC, 7/24/15, p.A11)(SFC, 7/25/15, p.A4)(SFC, 10/13/15, p.A6)
2015 Jul 23, Astronomers reported the discovery an Earth-like planet some 1,400 light-years away. Signals from the Kepler spacecraft indicated that Kepler-452b orbited around a star believed to be about 4.6 billion years old.
(SFC, 7/24/15, p.A8)
2015 Jul 23, In Belgium the center-right government of PM Charles Michel pushed through a tax shift to lighten the cost of labor for businesses and offset it with taxes on energy, alcohol and tobacco. After all-night negotiations that stretched into today, the Michel government announced it would balance the budget by 2018.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Belgium arrested two former detainees of Guantanamo prison on charges of terrorism, saying the men are suspected of seeking recruits to fight in Syria.
(Reuters, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, Brazil's government said the jobless rate in Latin America's largest country rose for the sixth straight month in June.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In England Simon Reynolds (50) was absent from the court in Sheffield as a jury returned a verdict of four counts of theft. The Church of England priest was convicted of pocketing around 24,000 pounds ($37,000) of church funds. Reynolds turned himself in to police on July 27. On July 28 a judge jailed Reynolds for two years and eight months for pocketing church funds.
(AP, 7/24/15)(AFP, 7/27/15)(AP, 7/28/15)
2015 Jul 23, Pearson PLC, the owner of the Financial Times, said it has agreed to sell FT Group to Nikkei Inc. for 844 million pounds ($1.3 billion), payable in cash.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Cameroon the governor of the East Region chaired a security meeting that included Muslim clerics where he "announced the ban of a full veil or burqa.
(AP, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Congo DRC Ugandan ADF rebels killed 3 women and burned down four buildings in the village of Mayi-Moya, North Kivu province.
(AFP, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, In the Czech Rep. a Prague court convicted David Rath, a former prominent member of the ruling Social Democrats, of corruption and sentenced him to eight and a half years in prison.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Egypt’s northern Sinai one officer and 3 soldiers died when their armored vehicle hit the bomb in Rafah. Clashes with militants then ensued, killing a fifth soldier.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, The European Union launched an antitrust case against six major US movie studios and British satellite broadcaster Sky UK, in a move that could profoundly shake up the highly lucrative pay-television market in Europe.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Angry French farmers blocked the Mont Saint-Michel causeway and highways leading to the Alps to denounce low milk and meat prices.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Amnesty Int’l. said Iran has executed 694 people between January 1 and July 15. Iran officially acknowledged only 246 executions in the same period.
(SFC, 7/24/15, p.A2)
2015 Jul 23, In Mexico 4 children were among 7 people from the same family killed in a devastating lightning strike in the town of Mesa Cuata, Guanajuato state.
(AFP, 7/25/15)
2015 Jul 23, A Palestinian man, Falah Abu Maria, (53) was killed during a clash between Palestinians and Israeli troops in the West Bank.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Reconstruction began on the first homes in Gaza since the war with Israel last summer destroyed some 11,900 homes and damaged some 140,000 dwellings.
(SFC, 7/24/15, p.A2)
2015 Jul 23, In Poland hundreds of police, firefighters and other uniformed workers picketed the main government building to demand higher pay and modernization of their sectors. The Interior Ministry said pay rises are planned for January.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Poland a bus traveling from Ukraine to Warsaw crashed, killing 5 people and injuring more than two dozen others.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Romanian police detained Gabriel Berca, a former interior minister (2012), on charges of illegally receiving 185,000 euros ($203,000) from a businessman.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, A Soyuz space capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Japanese docked smoothly with the International Space Station.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, Spain raised the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16 to boost protection of minors and bring the country in line with its EU neighbors.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Tunisia one militant was killed and 16 others arrested in a late-night operation that foiled a planned attack.
(AFP, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, In Turkey suspected Islamic State militants fired at a Turkish military outpost from inside Syrian territory, killing a Turkish soldier and wounding two others. 5 members of Islamic State were also killed during the exchange of fire.
(AP, 7/23/15)(Reuters, 7/24/15)
2015 Jul 23, Yemeni troops and local militias, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, seized full control of the strategic port city of Aden after repelling Shiite rebels from their last holdout in this southern city and pushed to solidify their gains.
(AP, 7/23/15)
2016 Jul 23, In Afghanistan a suicide attack on peaceful protesters in Kabul killed 81 people. The protesters were mainly Hazaras. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
(Reuters, 7/24/16)(Econ, 7/30/16, p.31)
2016 Jul 23, A drug bust in Chile resulted in the haul of cocaine worth more than €11 million ($12 million) that was bound for Spain. Three suspected traffickers were arrested, two of whom are confirmed Spanish nationals.
(Reuters, 7/29/16)
2016 Jul 23, In China Siberian tigers at the Badaling wildlife World in Beijing mauled a woman to death and wounded another when they stepped out of their carin an enclosure.
(SFC, 7/25/16, p.A2)
2016 Jul 23, In El Salvador four inmates at a prison were murdered amid a fight between inmates, members of the Barrio 18 gang, at a facility in the city of Quezaltepeque.
(Reuters, 7/24/16)
2016 Jul 23, El Salvador's president says he has begun talks with political parties on a new "national reconciliation" law. Earlier this month, the country's Supreme Court overturned an amnesty law enacted in 1993 covering crimes committed during the country's 1980-1992 civil war.
(AP, 7/24/16)
2016 Jul 23, In Madagascar a house fire broke out during a party. 38 people including 16 children were killed as the blaze ripped through a thatched roof.
(AFP, 7/25/16)
2016 Jul 23, In southern Mexico a mayor, a town councilman, two other town employees and a local resident were shot to death in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas state. Prosecutors said a crowd of about 35 people demanded to speak with Mayor Domingo Lopez Gonzalez about funding for public works when shots rang out, killing him and the other four.
(AP, 7/24/16)
2016 Jul 23, Turkey pushed on with a sweeping crackdown against suspected plotters of its failed coup. Using new emergency powers, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's cabinet decreed that police could now hold suspects for one month without charge, and announced it would shut down over 1,000 private schools it deems subversive.
(AFP, 7/24/16)
2016 Jul 23, Turkey said it has detained Hails Hanci a senior aide to the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it blames for the coup attempt aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Hanci was described as a "right-hand man" of Gulen and responsible for transferring funds to him. Gulen has denied being behind the failed coup.
(AFP, 7/23/16)
2016 Jul 23, In Turkey Muhammed Wisam Sankari, a gay Syrian refugee, went missing. His body was found mutilated and beheaded two days later in central Istanbul.
(AP, 8/4/16)
2017 Jul 23, Donald Trump's son-in-law and top White House advisor Jared Kushner denied colluding with Moscow to sway the 2016 election, insisting a string of undisclosed meetings with Russian officials were "proper."
(AFP, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Missouri almost 100,000 people woke up without power after severe storms swept through the Kansas City area overnight.
(SFC, 7/24/17, p.A5)
2017 Jul 23, In Nevada Scott Blumstein (25) of New Jersey won the series' marquee no-limit Texas Hold 'em main event early today in Las Vegas. He was more than $8.1 million richer after eliminating Pennsylvania's Daniel Ott on the 246th hand of the final table.
(AP, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, A woman who was accused of intentionally drowning her fiancé in the Hudson River by tampering with his kayak as part of a murderous plot to collect on his life insurance pleaded guilty to a lesser charge that could minimize the amount of additional time she spends in jail.
(AP, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Texas 8 people were found dead after emergency crews pulled dozens of smuggled migrants from a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer heat. A ninth victim died at the hospital. Adan Lara Vega (27) had been told the $5,500 he was being charged to be smuggled into the United States would include an air-conditioned truck ride. Instead, the Mexican laborer climbed with his friends into a pitch-black, metal tractor-trailer compartment that lacked ventilation -- a deadly oven that would claim 10 lives. Driver James Bradley Jr. (60) was later charged under a federal law against knowingly transporting people who are in the country illegally. On April 20, 2018, Bradley was sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 7/24/17)(SFC, 7/25/17, p.A1)(SFC, 4/21/18, p.A6)
2017 Jul 23, A federal judge in Seattle said that nonprofit legal groups around the country can keep assisting immigrants facing deportation, after a Justice Department decision threatened to curtail much of that work.
(AP,7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Afghanistan Taliban fighters overran a second district headquarters in as many days, this one in western Ghor province. At least eight police were killed in separate battles.
(AP, 7/23/17)(SFC, 7/24/17, p.A4)
2017 Jul 23, Christian militias in Central African Republic killed a Moroccan peacekeeper as the Moroccan contingent escorted water trucks filling up in a river in order to meet the humanitarian needs of Bangassou. Recent incidents prompted 14 humanitarian workers from six organizations to suspend their activities in the town.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, Preliminary results from East Timor's parliamentary election showed the Fretilin party has won the most votes while its partner in the national unity government suffered a slump in support.
(AP, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said his government would keep up a blockade of Qatar by four Arab states over charges it supports terrorism, in defiance of international efforts to end the crisis.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Germany former Vietnamese oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh was taken from the Tiergarten, a large forested park in central Berlin, by armed men.
(Reuters, 8/2/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Japan tens of thousands of people in the northeast were told to evacuate their homes as heavy rain caused major flooding and cut some rail links.
(Reuters, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, Israel installed metal detectors at the Haram al-Sharif mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount after a weekend of violence left eight people dead, with fears more unrest could follow.
(AFP, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Jordan an Israeli security guard shot and killed two Jordanians after being attacked by one of them with a screwdriver in Amman. Mohammed Jawawdeh (16) was killed after he argued with an Israeli guard during a furniture delivery next to the Israeli Embassy. A bystander was also killed in the altercation.
(AP, 7/24/17)(AP, 7/25/17)(SFC, 10/5/17, p.A2)
2017 Jul 23, In northeastern Nigeria female suicide bombers attacked two camps for those displaced by the Boko Haram conflict outside Maiduguri. At least 8 people were killed and another 15 wounded.
(AP, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, In Pakistan at least 150 people were killed when an overturned fuel tanker truck exploded as they collected spilled fuel.
(SFC, 7/26/17, p.A3)
2017 Jul 23, A chainsaw-wielding loner who mostly lived in the woods stormed into an insurance office in a Swiss town, wounding two members of staff and three other people before fleeing.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, Syria's regime carried out air raids on one of the last rebel strongholds near Damascus, a day after it declared a ceasefire in parts of the besieged enclave.
(AFP, 7/23/17)
2017 Jul 23, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko demanded Russia's Vladimir Putin halt arms supplies to rebels as the leaders of France and Germany tried to revive a peace plan.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2017 Jul 23, Vatican authorities began to turn off some 100 fountains, including two Baroque masterpieces in St. Peter's Square, due to a prolonged drought affecting the tiny city state and the city of Rome which surrounds it.
(Reuters, 7/24/17)
2018 Jul 23, The White House blamed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for inciting a war of words with President Donald Trump, who warned that verbal threats could escalate into military conflict with the US.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In New Mexico flood waters rushed through the streets in Santa Fe late today, destroying homes and businesses and trapping motorists in vehicles as more than 3 inches (8 cm) of rain fell.
(Reuters, 7/24/18)
2018 Jul 23, French police cleared 455 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants from a park in the western city of Nantes where they had been camping for more than a month.
(AFP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Oksana Shachko (31), one of the founders of the Femen feminist protest movement, was found dead in her Paris apartment with a suicide note next to her body. She was one of four feminist activists who founded Femen in Ukraine in 2008.
(AFP, 7/24/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Greece a swift-moving forest fire burned through a mountainous area west of Athens, prompting residents to flee as smoke from the blaze turned the sky over the Greek capital a hazy orange. Hundreds of people were trapped in the eastern resort of Mati as flames whipped around them. The death toll reached 91 as another victim died on August 6. In December death toll from the fire rose to 100 as another victim died of severe burns.
(AP, 7/23/18)(Reuters, 7/24/18)(AP, 7/25/18)(Reuters, 7/28/18)(AP, 8/6/18)(AP, 12/15/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Greece a Pakistani man (29) was stabbed to death. He was with three compatriots heading illegally toward Greece's northern border with Macedonia. On August 3 police announced the arrest of eight migrants on suspicion of the murder. The eight, six Afghans and two Pakistanis, allegedly robbed the four near the border.
(AP, 8/3/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Iraq three teenage gunmen stormed the governor's headquarters in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, opening fire and killing one employee before being shot dead by Kurdish security forces. The assailants' motives were unclear.
(AFP, 7/23/18)(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Israel launched its newest air defense system on the Syrian frontier, where Damascus's Russian-backed forces have been routing rebels. Israeli air defenses fired at rockets that approached its territory from neighboring Syria, where regime troops were advancing on opposition forces close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)(AFP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Italy's foreign minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Rome will allow migrants rescued by a European Union naval operation to land over the coming weeks while EU nations figure out how to divide up new arrivals.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Japan recorded its highest temperature ever as a deadly heat wave continued to grip a wide swath of the country and nearby South and North Korea. Over the last two weeks more than 40 people have died in Japan and about 10 in South Korea.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In southern Laos hundreds of people went missing and several were feared dead after the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam under construction in Attapeu province collapsed, causing flash flooding that swept away homes. A least 27 people were killed when part of a newly built South Korean-built hydroelectric dam gave way. 131 people were listed as missing.
(AP, 7/24/18)(AFP, 7/25/18)(AP, 7/25/18)(AP, 7/26/18)
2018 Jul 23, Lebanon's army killed eight people and arrested 41 others in a raid in Brital to arrest Ali Zeid Ismael, a well-known drug dealer. Ismael was among those killed.
(AP, 7/23/18)(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, It was reported that homicides in Mexico have risen 16 percent in the first half of 2018, as the country again breaks its records for violence.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Myanmar small-scale miners who flouted repeated warnings in their search for jade at a defunct mining site were buried by muddy earth that slid off a cliff. 27 people were buried in a landslide.
(Reuters, 7/25/18)
2018 Jul 23, In northern Nigeria seven people were killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in Konduga town.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, The chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court appointed judge Tahira Safdar as the first woman chief justice to Baluchistan province's highest court.
(AP, 7/24/18)
2018 Jul 23, In the Philippines former leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (71) was elected speaker of the lower house of Congress, following a dramatic move by lawmakers to replace a loyalist of President Rodrigo Duterte with one of his most influential allies.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Rwanda's Pres. Paul Kagame signed bilateral agreements with the visiting Chinese president, Xi Jinping, the first Chinese president to visit Rwanda. Kagame praised China's treatment of Africa "as an equal," calling it "a revolutionary posture in world affairs" and "more precious than money".
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Somali military officer said troops have repulsed an extremist assault on a military base in Sanguni. 10 attackers were reported killed. A spokesman for al-Shabab claimed that its fighters managed to enter the base and killed 27 soldiers.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Diamond producer De Beers said it was relocating 200 elephants from its private reserve in South Africa to neighboring Mozambique, part of wider efforts to restore wildlife populations ravaged by conflict there.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In South Korea the body of Roh Hoe-chan (61), a prominent liberal lawmaker of the small opposition Justice Party, was found dead near a Seoul apartment building. He had been embroiled in a corruption scandal and left a suicide note of apology.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, Sri Lanka's Pres. Maithripala Sirisena said the government will still end its 42-year moratorium on capital punishment despite requests by the European Union and other diplomatic missions not to do so.
(AP, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, In Syria Russian air strikes late today killed four civilians in the pocket held by the Islamic State group in the southern province of Daraa.
(AFP, 7/24/18)
2018 Jul 23, Tunisia's Red Crescent said a Tunisian boat carrying around 40 African migrants has been stranded off the country's coast without aid for more than a week after authorities refused to let them disembark there.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, The UN Int'l Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the United Arab Emirates to immediately allow Qatari families affected by a dispute between the countries to reunite, imposing the measure before it hears the full case filed by Qatar at a later date.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2018 Jul 23, A court in Vietnam jailed 10 people for terms ranging from two to 3-1/2 years after they were arrested in last month's nationwide June 10 protests against new economic zones.
(Reuters, 7/23/18)
2019 Jul 23, Pres. Donald Trump sued the House Ways and Means Committee and New York state officials in an effort to block disclosure of his state tax returns.
(SFC, 7/24/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 23, It was reported that the US State Department has stopped publishing crime data involving Americans harmed in Jamaica — but it won't say why. The State Department did warn in its 2019 report that "rape and sexual assault are serious problems throughout Jamaica, including at resorts and hotels.
(USA Today, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, The US Justice Department said that four Chinese nationals and the Chinese company they worked for have been indicted on charges of money laundering and violating weapons of mass destruction safeguards tied to the banned export of sensitive equipment to North Korea. The four each face up to 45 years in prison and US$1.75 million in fines.
(South China Morning Post, 7/24/19)
2019 Jul 23, In Delaware the body of high school teacher Susan Morrissey Ledyard (50) was found, in the Brandywine River near Northeast Boulevard in Wilmington. An autopsy conducted by the Division of Forensic Science ruled Susan’s cause of death to be blunt force trauma and drowning.
(NBC News, 7/23/20)
2019 Jul 23, Lois Wille (87), a Chicago reporter and author, died at her downtown home. Her two books included "Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront" (1972) and "At Home in the Loop: How Clout and Community Built Chicago's Dearborn Park" (1997).
(SSFC, 7/28/19, p.B9)
2019 Jul 23, In North Carolina a federal judge approved a settlement saying state agencies and universities cannot ban transgender people from using the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.
(SFC, 7/24/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 23, In Virginia a jury convicted Bijan Kian, a one-time business partner of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, on charges that he illegally acted as a Turkish agent when he and Flynn undertook a project to discredit exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen.
(SFC, 7/24/19, p.A5)
2019 Jul 23, Former soldier Mark Esper was sworn in as US secretary of defense after earning Senate confirmation, filling America's longest-ever Pentagon leadership vacuum.
(AFP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Insurance companies contending that Pacific Gas & Electric owes them more than $20 billion from wildfire claims want to take over the California utility and pull it out of bankruptcy. The insurers filed court documents to end PG&E's exclusive right to file a reorganization plan.
(AP, 7/24/19)
2019 Jul 23, The National Association of Realtors said US home sales fell more than expected in June as a persistent shortage of properties pushed prices to a record high, suggesting the housing market was struggling to regain speed since hitting a soft patch last year.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Storms broke the heat in the US Northeast and Midwest but also knocked out power to thousands in Michigan and New Jersey and caused flash flooding in some areas of NYC.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, The International Monetary Fund warned that global trade tensions, continued uncertainty and rising prospects for a no-deal Brexit are sapping the strength of the world economy, which faces a "precarious" 2020.
(AFP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Australia-based BHP, a leading resources company, said it will invest $400 million over five years to reduce emissions, becoming the first miner to pledge to tackle pollution caused when customers use its products.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Bangladesh officials said severe flooding has killed at least 61 people, displaced nearly 800,000 and inundated thousands of homes across a third of the country, after two weeks of heavy monsoon rains.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Boris Johnson, the Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by the end of October, won the leadership of the Conservative Party and will replace Theresa May as prime minister.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev vetoed a deal to buy eight new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets, describing a lack of consensus over the purchase as "extremely worrying".
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Cameroonian security forces moved into the capital's central prison overnight to put down an uprising by inmates protesting at the government's crackdown on the Anglophone separatist movement and poor conditions inside.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, In southwestern China a landslide buried 21 houses in the city of Liupanshui, Guizhou province. The death toll soon rose to 24 and more 27 people were reported missing.
(SFC, 7/27/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 23, France's parliament approved the EU-Canada trade agreement with a relatively small majority, meaning that a significant part of President Emmanuel Macron's party voted against it. France became the 14th EU country to approve CETA, which provisionally took effect from September 2017, but still needs to be approved by all 28 EU member states.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Guatemala's Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel blamed unnamed "national actors" for damaging relations with the United States and said they would be responsible if US President Donald Trump puts tariffs on the poor Central American nation.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, In eastern India lightning killed at least 39 people in Bihar state, raising the number of deaths in the state to 123 from lightning and flooding since the monsoon season started in June.
(SFC, 7/25/19, p.A2)
2019 Jul 23, Iran threatened to cut its imports from Brazil unless it allows the refueling of at least two Iranian ships stranded off the Brazilian coast, a sign of the global repercussions of US sanctions on the Islamic republic.
(Bloomberg, 7/24/19)
2019 Jul 23, Iraqi security forces swept villages and farmland north of Baghdad as part of an operation aimed at clearing remnants of the Islamic State group from around the capital. The dragnet was part of the operation dubbed "Will to Victory," which started two weeks ago along the border with Syria and was extended last week to areas north of Baghdad and in the Diyala, Salahuddin and Anbar provinces.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak apologized for the killing of 13 Arab protesters by Israeli police in 2000 and said there is no place for protesters to be killed by their country's security forces".
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Kenya's Finance Minister Henry Rotich pleaded not guilty to corruption charges over the award of two dam tenders, in an unprecedented legal move against a sitting minister in a country notorious for graft.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Kenya's parliament voted to nationalize the country's main airline Kenya Airways to save it from mounting debts.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Nigerian troops and police clashed with Shi'ite Muslim marchers in the capital Abuja and gunfire could be heard.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Firefighters in Portugal brought a huge wildfire under control after the blaze raged for four days, injuring 39 people and leaving a trail of destruction.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Puerto Rican justice officials executed search warrants for the mobile phones of top associates of Governor Ricardo Rosselló amid a corruption scandal that provoked 10 days of protests demanding his resignation.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Saudi Arabia's cabinet said that Iran's interception of commercial vessels in Gulf waters, including its seizure of a British tanker, violated international law and must be prevented.
(Reuters, 7/23/19)
2019 Jul 23, Pope Francis named Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Mark Brennan (72) to lead West Virginia's Catholics following a scandal over the former bishop's sexual harassment of adults and lavish spending of church money. He replaced Bishop Michael Bransfield, who resigned in September after a preliminary investigation into allegations of sexual and financial misconduct.
(AP, 7/23/19)
2020 Jul 23, President Donald Trump scrapped plans for a four-night Republican National Convention celebration in Florida that had been set to draw more than 10,000 people to a pandemic hot spot to mark his renomination.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, The Trump administration said that it is revoking an Obama-era housing regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs, a move that fair housing advocates have decried as an election year stunt designed to manipulate the fears of white voters.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, US and British officials claimed that a July 15 test of an anti-satellite weapon signaled a continuing Russian effort to develop technologies that could threaten space assets of the United States and its allies.
(AP, 7/24/20)
2020 Jul 23, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's outrage over a lawmaker’s verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women" whose adherents include President Donald Trump. This came a day after she rejected an offer of contrition from Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., for his language during this week's Capitol steps confrontation.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, The US Department of Justice announced that Alabama prisons have a pattern of using excessive force against male inmates, as it again accused the state of keeping prisoners in unconstitutional conditions.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, A federal judge ordered the release of Michael Cohen to home confinement, agreeing with his lawyers that he was wrongly sent back to prison after making public statements critical of President Donald Trump.
(Today, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, A US judge authorized the release of new records from a 2015 civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate who is facing criminal charges that she lured girls for the late financier to sexually abuse.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, The US baseball season officially began, four months late because of the coronavirus pandemic.
(Econ., 8/8/20, p.22)
2020 Jul 23, California to date had 428,980 cases of coronavirus and 8,187 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 45,857 cases and 740 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 4,027,741 with the death toll at 144,072.
(sfist.com, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Florida recorded 173 new coronavirus deaths, a daily high that pushed its toll from the pandemic to more than 5,500. Deaths inside nursing homes have also been on the rise, averaging about 40 per day in the last week after those numbers had dropped in mid-June to lower than 20 deaths per day.
(AP, 7/24/20)
2020 Jul 23, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a police accountability bill into law that included a ban on neck restraints, choke holds and so-called warrior-style training.
(SFC, 7/24/20, p.A5)
2020 Jul 23, A federal judge specifically blocked US agents from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at protests in Oregon's largest city where President Donald Trump is testing the limits of federal power.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Texas set one-day records for increases in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the state, forcing one county to store bodies in refrigerated trucks and prompting a top health official there to call for new stay-at-home orders.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Australia rejected Beijing's territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea in a formal declaration to the United Nations, aligning itself more closely with Washington in the escalating row.
(AFP, 7/24/20)
2020 Jul 23, Bahrain, with a population of 1.6 million, has reported more than 37,000 cases of the coronavirus and 130 deaths. The government put the asymptomatic figure at 68%, mostly among healthy and young foreign laborers.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Britain and the EU broke up their latest round of post-Brexit trade negotiations by ruling out a quick deal but voicing hope for agreement in the coming months.
(AFP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, London-based Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult), a firm backed by the UK government, said it has purchased a vaccine manufacturing facility from healthcare company Benchmark Holdings for 16 million pounds ($20.36 million) in cash, as the country ramps up efforts to produce potential coronavirus vaccines.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, China launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet in a bold attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In northern Egypt four members of a family drowned at al-Safa beach off the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, It was reported that a hospital in the southern French city of Lyon is testing patients with a new machine that enables them to breathe into a tube to see whether they have COVID-19 in a matter of seconds.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Emmanuel Farhi (b.1978), French economist and professor of economics at Harvard University, died. His most cited work was on safe assets, written in 2008 with Ricardo Caballero of MIT.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Farhi)(Econ., 8/1/20, p.60)
2020 Jul 23, A German court found Bruno Day (93), a former Nazi SS camp guard, guilty of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder and one case of accessory to attempted murder — equal to the number of people believed to have been killed at Stutthof concentration camp during his service there. Dey was 17, and later 18, at the time of his alleged crimes which were consequently heard in juvenile court in Hamburg. He was given a two-year juvenile sentence, which has been suspended.
(NBC News, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In Germany 11 men were convicted of rape at the end of a year-long trial over a gang assault on an 18-year-old woman in October 2018. The case, in which most of the defendants were Syrian, added to tensions in Germany over migration.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Hong Kong reported 118 new coronavirus cases, a daily record, including 111 locally transmitted cases, adding to a deluge of new infections that have hit the global financial hub in the past two weeks. Total confirmed cases now numbered 2,250, including 14 deaths.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)(SFC, 7/24/20, p.A8)
2020 Jul 23, Indonesian authorities in Bali arrested Marcus Beam, an American fugitive accused of investment fraud. Police said Beam had been making and selling sex videos in Bali to support his living expenses there.
(https://tinyurl.com/y5woy5nm)
2020 Jul 23, Baghdad International Airport reopened for scheduled commercial flights after months of closure during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit Iraq especially hard in recent weeks. The country has recorded 102,226 coronavirus infections and 4,122 deaths. Today's tally was 2,361 new cases.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Tokyo announced a record 366 new daily coronavirus cases . Tokyo now has 10,420 confirmed cases including 327 deaths.
(SFC, 7/24/20, p.A8)
2020 Jul 23, It was reported that five aid workers abducted last month in north-east Nigeria's Borno State have been killed. Pres. Muhammadu Buhari blamed Boko Haram and vowed to bring the killers to justice.
(BBC, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In northwester Pakistan a bombing wounded at least 20 people in the town of Parachinar, a majority Shiite town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
(SFC, 7/24/20, p.A2)
2020 Jul 23, Qatar, with a population of 2.8 million people, has reported more than 107,000 cases of the coronavirus and 163 deaths. Nearly 60% of those testing positive, mostly among healthy and young foreign laborers, showed little or no symptoms at all.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In Romania the number of coronavirus infections rose by a record amount for a second consecutive day. Romania announced 1,112 new cases, taking confirmed cases to 41,275. Some 2,126 people have died.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a wide-ranging investigation into claims that unscrupulous officials and private companies are looting efforts to protect the country’s 57 million people. South Africa now has more than 434,000 confirmed virus cases.
(AP, 7/26/20)
2020 Jul 23, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) announced a record increase of 572 coronavirus deaths over the previous 24 hours. South Africa witnessed some 17,000 extra deaths from natural causes or 59% more than would normally be expected between early May and mid-July, scientists said, suggesting many more people are dying of COVID-19 than shown in official figures.
(AFP, 7/23/20) (Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Regional authorities across Spain introduced fresh coronavirus restrictions aimed at stamping out a surge in infections that continues to defy efforts at containment and is damaging tourism. Health ministry data showed 2,615 new cases across the country, compared with a daily average of just 132 in June.
(Reuters, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, A Sudanese paramilitary group attacked civilians in the war-scarred region of South Darfur, killing at least seven people and wounding 20 more.
(AP, 7/24/20)
2020 Jul 23, It was reported that a mass grave has been discovered in Sudan containing 28 bodies, thought to be the remains of army officers executed for carrying out a coup attempt in 1990 against former President Omar al-Bashir.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, Sudan’s protest leaders announced that they oppose the government’s economic reform plan to slash fuel subsidies and float the Sudanese currency, raising the specter of unrest as the country makes a fragile transition to democracy.
(AP, 7/23/20)
2020 Jul 23, In Uganda, at least 12 people have allegedly been killed by security officers enforcing measures to restrict the spread of coronavirus, while the country has only just confirmed its first death from Covid-19.
(BBC, 7/23/20)
2021 Jul 23, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman expressed sympathy for North Koreans facing hardships and food shortages linked to the pandemic, and renewed calls for the North to return to talks over its nuclear program.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The US Justice Department dropped individual cases against five Chinese researchers accused of hiding ties to the Chinese military. The academics were arrested last July after another researcher told law enforcement he had lied about his military service on his visa application and had been instructed to bring back information.
(Axios, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, Total US COVID-19 cases reached over 34,286,314 with the death toll at 610,204.
(sfist.com, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, It was reported that 316 people are shot every day in the US and 106 of them die.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, A new poll showed that most Americans who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots and doubt they would work against the aggressive delta variant despite evidence they do.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, NASA said Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX has been awarded a $178 million launch services contract for NASA's first mission focusing on Jupiter's icy moon Europa and whether it may host conditions suitable for life.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, California's Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for four northern counties because of wildfires that he said were causing “conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property." Mandatory evacuation orders were issued in Butte County as the Dixie Fire continued to grow explosively eastward. The Tamarack Fire south of Lake Tahoe continued to burn through timber and chaparral and threatened communities on both sides of the California-Nevada state line.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, In Florida firefighters declared the end of their search for bodies at the site of the June 24 collapsed Champlain Towers South, concluding a month of painstaking work removing layers of dangerous debris that were once piled several stories high. 97 people were killed with at least one more missing person yet to be identified.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, Aspiring Florida rapper Money Mitch died from a self-inflicted gunshot after a shootout with Palm Beach sheriff’s deputies attempting to arrest the 23-year-old on outstanding warrants.
(The Grio, 7/29/21)
2021 Jul 23, Pandemic restrictions on Florida-based cruise ships are no longer in place under a ruling by a federal appeals court, while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seek to fight a Florida lawsuit challenging the regulations.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Oregon's Bootleg Fire, which has destroyed an area half the size of Rhode Island, was 40% surrounded after burning some 70 homes.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, In Tennessee the bust of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early KKK leader, was removed from its pedestal in the state Capitol. It had sparked protests since its 1978 installation.
(SFC, 7/24/21, p.A4)
2021 Jul 23, In Texas physicist Steven Weinberg (88), who won the Nobel prize in 1979 with two other scientists for their separate contributions unlocking mysteries of tiny particles and their electromagnetic interaction, died in Austin.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, AstraZeneca said its once-weekly diabetes medicine Bydureon was approved in the United States for use in patients as young as age 10, expanding the drug's access to a critical population.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech said the US government has purchased 200 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to help with pediatric vaccination as well as possible booster shots - if they are needed.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Australia garnered enough international support to defer for two years an attempt by the United Nations’ cultural organization to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status because of damage caused by climate change.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Australia's New South Wales state reported its biggest daily rise in new COVID-19 cases this year, prompting a tighter lockdown in Sydney and a request for additional vaccine doses that was rebuffed by other state leaders.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, A court in Azerbaijan sentenced 13 Armenian soldiers to six years in prison on convictions of terrorism and illegally entering the country. They were among more than 60 Armenian servicemen who were arrested in December, about a month after the end of a six-week war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Belarusian authorities announced the closure of 15 nongovernmental organizations, part of a sweeping crackdown on civil society activists and independent media.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Valentin Inzko, the outgoing head of Bosnia’s Office of the High Representative (OHR), banned denial of genocide in the Balkan country to counter attempts by Bosnia’s Serbs to deny the scope of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Europe's only post-World War II genocide.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England is estimated to have risen to 1 in 75 people in the week to July 17, up from 1 in 95 recorded the week before.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, China reported 35 new COVID-19 cases in the mainland, down from 48 cases a day earlier.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, It was reported that thousands of Eritrean refugees are increasingly caught in the middle of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where witnesses and UN officials say forces have attacked their camps, abducted or killed some of the residents, and stolen their food and possessions.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The European Medicines Agency recommended authorizing Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 17, the first time the shot has been authorized for people under 18.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, It was reported that France has established a “maritime bridge" to provide COVID-19 vaccines and medical oxygen to Tunisia, which is in the midst of one of Africa’s worst coronavirus outbreaks. In the past five days, France has flown 1.1 million vaccine doses to the North African country.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Germany said it is listing Spain and the Netherlands as “high-incidence areas," meaning that most people arriving from those countries who aren’t fully vaccinated will have to go into quarantine from next week.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Anti-corruption prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval fled Guatemala late today, arriving in neighboring El Salvador just hours after he was removed from his post. Sandoval said he was fired because of his investigations into top officials in the administration of President Alejandro Giammattei.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, Officials in India reported that landslides and flooding triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people over the last 24 hours in Maharashtra state.
(SFC, 7/24/21, p.A3)
2021 Jul 23, Indonesia recorded a record 1,565 coronavirus cases. Only 6.3% of the population was been fully vaccinated.
(SSFC, 7/25/21, p.A7)
2021 Jul 23, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he understands protesters' anger over a drought in the country's southwest, as a fourth death related to ongoing demonstrations there was reported.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, In southern Iran armed bandits killed four members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard in fighting late today in the Gounic district of Sistan and Baluchistan province.
(AP, 7/24/21)
2021 Jul 23, Israeli troops shot and killed Palestinian youth Mohammed Tamimi (17) during clashes in Nebi Saleh.
(AP, 7/26/21)
2021 Jul 23, The Olympic opening ceremony with all the usual pomp and tradition played out in Tokyo in front of a nearly empty stadium.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The Philippines said it will suspend travel from Malaysia and Thailand, as well as tighten restrictions in the Manila area, in a bid to prevent the spread of the contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Scottish climber Rick Allen (68) died in an avalanche while trying to reach the summit of K2 in northern Pakistan. He was on a route that had not been previously attempted.
(SFC, 7/26/21, p.A2)
2021 Jul 23, Lawmakers in Sierra Leone voted unanimously to abolish the death penalty, making it the 23rd African country to prohibit capital punishment.
(SFC, 7/24/21, p.A2)
2021 Jul 23, South Africa's acting health minister said the country's COVID-19 vaccination campaign is regaining momentum after being disrupted earlier this month by a week of riots sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. At least 337 people died during the riots, including 213 deaths that police are investigating as possible murders.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, Swedish health authorities said cases of COVID-19 have increased in Sweden's main cities with the more contagious Delta having emerged as the dominant variant in the country.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The UN General Assembly approved its first-ever resolution on vision, calling on its 193 member nations to ensure access to eye care for everyone in their countries which would contribute to a global effort to help at least 1.1 billion people with vision impairment who currently lack eye services by 2030.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, The UN Security Council condemned the decision by Turkey and Turkish Cypriots to reopen a residential section of an abandoned suburb and called for “the immediate reversal" of this unilateral action, warning that it could raise tensions on the divided Mediterranean island.
(AP, 7/23/21)
2021 Jul 23, State media reported that Vietnam will extend a strict lockdown in Ho Chi Minh City until Aug. 1.
(Reuters, 7/23/21)
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