Today in History - September 4
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c522BC Sep 4, Pindar (d.~443), Greek poet, was born.
(WUD, 1994 p.1094)(MC, 9/4/01)
1024 Sep 4, Conrad II (the Sailor) was chosen as German king.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1207 Sep 4, Boniface of Montferrat, leader of the 4th Crusade, was ambushed and killed by the Bulgarians.
(Nationmaster.com)
1260 Sep 4, At the Battle of Montaperto in Italy, the Tuscan Ghibellines, who supported the emperor, defeated the Florentine Guelfs, who supported papal power.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1383 Sep 4, Amadeus VIII, duke of Savoye, and the last antipope (Felix V (1439-48), was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1479 Sep 4, After four years of war, Spain agreed to allow a Portuguese monopoly of trade along Africa's west coast and Portugal acknowledged Spain's rights in the Canary Islands.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1553 Sep 4, Cornelia da Nomatalcino, a monk who converted to Judaism, was burned at the stake.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1564 Sep 4, A 10-ship Spanish fleet under Pedro Menendez de Aviles made landfall in Florida. Menendez was under orders from Phillip II to oust the French.
(Arch, 1/05, p.47)
1609 Sep 3-4, Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan. The exact date is not known.
(MC, 9/3/01)(www.hudsonriver.com)
1682 Sep 4, English astronomer Edmund Halley saw his namesake comet.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1768 Sep 4, Vicomte François René de Chateaubriand, French writer, novelist (Atala) and chef who gave his name to a style of steak, was born.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1781 Sep 4, Mexican Provincial Governor, Felipe de Neve, founded Los Angeles. He founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles (Valley of Smokes), originally named Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, by Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish army captain and Juan Crespi, a Franciscan priest, who had noticed the beautiful area as they traveled north from San Diego in 1769. 44 Spanish settlers named a tiny village near San Gabriel, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, first an Indian village Yangma, was founded by Spanish decree. 26 of the settlers were of African ancestry.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(AP, 9/4/97)(SFEC, 4/12/98, Par p.20)(HN, 9/4/98)(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.4)(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1787 Sep 4, Louis XVI of France recalled parliament.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1790 Sep 4, Jacques Necker was forced to resign as finance minister in France.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1802 Sep 4, A French aeronaut dropped eight-thousand feet equipped with a parachute.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1807 Sep 4, Robert Fulton began operating his steamboat. [see Aug 17]
(MC, 9/4/01)
1810 Sep 4, Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1820 Sep 4, Czar Alexander declared that Russian influence in North America extended as far south as Oregon and closed Alaskan waters to foreigners.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1824 Sep 4, Anton Bruckner, composer and Wagner disciple, was born in Austria.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1833 Sep 4, Barney Flaherty (10) answered an ad in "The New York Sun" and became the first newsboy, later called a paperboy.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1838 Sep 4, Henrietta d'Angeville (1794-1871) became the 1st woman to climb to the top of Mt. Blanc, France. In 1808 mountain guides had carried Marie Paradis, a local serving girl, to the top.
(ON, 4/04, p.1)
1842 Sep 4, Work on Cologne cathedral resumed after 284-year hiatus.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1846 Sep 4, Daniel Burnham, US architect, city planner and builder of skyscrapers, was born.
(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1862 Sep 4, Robert E. Lee's Confederate 50,000-man army invaded Maryland, starting the Antietam Campaign. New York Tribune reporter George Smalley scooped the world with his vivid account of the Battle of Antietam.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1864 Sep 4, Bread riots took place in Mobile, Alabama.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1870 Sep 4, At news of Sedan, Paris workers invaded the Palais Bourbon and forced the Legislative Assembly to proclaim the fall of the Empire. Emperor Louis Napoleon III was overthrown in a bloodless coup. The 3rd French Republic was proclaimed in Paris and a government of national defense was formed.
(HN, 9/4/98)(ON, 9/06, p.12)(www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/timeline.htm)
1882 Sep 4, Thomas Edison displayed the first practical electrical lighting system. He successfully turned on the lights in a one square mile area of New York City with the world’s 1st electricity generating plant.
(MC, 9/4/01)(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.R6)
1886 Sep 4, Elusive Apache leader Geronimo (1829-1909) surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles (1839-1925) at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz. This ended the last major US-Indian war.
(HN, 9/4/98)(ON, 10/06, p.4)
1888 Sep 4, George Eastman received patent #388,850 for his roll-film camera and registered his trademark: "Kodak." George Eastman introduced the box camera.
(V.D.-H.K.p.273)(AP, 9/4/97)(MC, 9/4/01)
1892 Sep 4, Darius Milhaud, Aix-en-Provence France, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1893 Sep 4, Beatrix Potter, English author, first told the story of Peter Rabbit in the form of a "picture letter" to Noel Moore, the son of Potter's former governess. A 2nd illustrated letter the same month later became “The Tale of Jeremy Fisher." The “Tale of Peter Rabbit" was published in 1901.
(HN, 9/4/00)(AP, 9/4/04)(Econ, 1/6/07, p.67)
1894 Sep 4, Some 12,000 tailors in New York City went on strike to protest the existence of sweatshops.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1904 Sep 4, Dali Lama signed a treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1905 Sep 4, Mary Renault (Mary Challans), author who wrote about her wartime experiences in “The Last of the Wine" and “The King Must Die," was born. She also wrote “Funeral Games."
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1907 Sep 4, In Washington state five hundred white working men in Bellingham gathered to drive a community of South Asian migrant workers (Sikhs) out of the city. Within ten days the entire South Asian population departed town.
(http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/bham_history.htm)
1907 Sep 4, Edvard Hagerup Grieg (b.1843), Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), died.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Grieg)
1908 Sep 4, Richard Wright (d.1960), novelist who wrote about the abuses of blacks in white society, best known for “Native Son" (1940), was born near Natchez, Miss.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, DB p.61)(AP, 9/4/08)
1912 Sep 4, Alexander Liberman, editor, painter and photographer (639), was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1914 Sep 4, General von Moltke ceased German advance in France.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1915 Sep 4, Rudolf Schock, German opera and operetta tenor, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1915 Sep 4, The U.S. military placed Haiti under martial law to quell a rebellion in its capital Port-au-Prince.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1917 Sep 4, The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I when a German plane attacked a British-run base hospital.
(AP, 9/4/08)
1918 Sep 4, Paul Harvey, conservative radio commentator, was born in Tulsa, Okla.
(HN, 9/4/98)(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)
1920 Sep 4, Craig Claiborne, food critic, food columnist (NY Times Cookbook) and cookbook author, was born.
(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1920 Sep 4, Maggie Higgins, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1951) for international reporting, for her work in Korean war zones, was born.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1923 Sep 4, Noel Coward's revue "London Calling," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1939 Sep 4, German troops stormed into Danzig (Gdansk).
(MC, 9/4/01)
1939 Sep 4, The Nazis marched into Czestochowa, Poland, two days after they invaded Poland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cz%C4%99stochowa)
1939 Sep 4, The Polish ghetto of Mir was exterminated.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1941 Sep 4, German submarine U-652 fired at the U.S. destroyer Greer off Iceland, beginning an undeclared shooting war.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1942 Sep 4, Soviet planes bombed Budapest in the war's first air raid on the Hungarian capital.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1943 Sep 4, Allied troops captured Lae-Salamaua, in New Guinea.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1943 Sep 4, British 8th army landed at Taranto in South Italy.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1944 Sep 4, British troops liberated Antwerp, Belgium.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1945 Sep 4, US regained possession of Wake Island from Japan. The American flag was raised on Wake Island after surrender ceremonies there.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1948 Sep 4, Queen Wilhelmina abdicated the Dutch throne for health reasons.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1950 Sep 4, The Beetle Bailey cartoon appeared for the 1st time in syndication. Beatle Bailey, the laziest private in the army, was created by Mort Walker.
(USAT, 8/31/00, p.1D)(SFC, 6/18/96, p.B2)
1950 Sep 4, The 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
(www.rafmuseum.org.uk/milestones-of-flight/world/1950.html)
1950 Sep 4, A heavy typhoon struck Japan and killed about 250 people.
(www.todayinhistory.com/s75-9-04-event-results.html)
1951 Sep 4, President Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast. The broadcast was carried by 94 stations.
(AP, 9/4/97)(HN, 9/4/98)
1951 Sep 4, Juozas Luksa (b.1921), aka “Skirmantas" or “Daumantas," Lithuanian partisan, was killed by Soviet counterintelligence. In 2003, director Jonas Vaitkus released a movie based on his life, “Utterly Alone."
(VilNews, 5/10/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juozas_Luk%C5%A1a)
1954 Sep 4, The 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage, completed.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1957 Sep 4, Arkansas National guardsmen turned away Black students from Central High School in Little Rock. 9 students made it into the school on September 24 under the protection of federal troops sent by Pres. Eisenhower. In 2007 Elizabeth Jacoway authored “Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crises That Shocked the Nation."
(AH, 10/07, p.61)
1957 Sep 4, Ford Motor Co. introduced the 1958 Edsel. It was designed by Roy Brown and sold only 173,000 units through 1960.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, p.D12)(AP, 9/4/97)
1959 Sep 4, "Mack the Knife" was banned from radio -- at least from WCBS Radio in New York City. The ban was due to teenage stabbings in NYC.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1965 Sep 4, Beatles' "Help!" single went #1 for 3 weeks.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1965 Sep 4, Philosopher, musician, doctor, theologian and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer died in Lambaréné, Gabon. Born near Alsace, Germany, in 1875, Schweitzer decided to devote himself to providing health care to people in Africa at the age of 30. Schweitzer and his wife Hélène moved to Gabon in 1913 and opened a hospital in Lambaréné, which he later expanded with money from the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 1952. Schweitzer also spoke out against the dangers of nuclear weapons, became an organist and expert on Johann Sebastian Bach, and served as a church pastor and university professor. He lived by the principle of "reverence for life."
(HNPD, 9/4/98)
1967 Sep 4, Michigan Gov. George Romney told a TV interview he'd undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam, a comment that apparently damaged Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1968 Sep 4, In the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville, an army coup deposed Pres. Masemba-Debat.
(WUD, 1994, p.1687)
1969 Sep 4, The US Food and Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills safe, despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1969 Sep 4, In California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce package into law, effective January 1, 1970.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, Z1 p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce)
1969 Sep 4, In Brazil Fernando Gabeira helped kidnap the US ambassador in Rio, Charles Elbrick (d.1983), to protest the military dictatorship. Elbrick was released unhurt four days later, but Gabeira was banned from entering the US.
(AP, 10/27/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burke_Elbrick)
1970 Sep 4, Natalia Makarova (b.1940), Russian ballet dancer, requested asylum while on tour in Britain.
(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A20)(www.abt.org/education/archive/choreographers/makarova_n.html)
1970 Sep 4, Salvador Allende Gossens (1908-1973) won the presidential election in Chile. A week later in Washington Henry Kissinger discussed a "covert action program" to oust Allende.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.D1)
1971 Sep 4, "The Lawrence Welk Show" was seen for the last time on ABC-TV. A week later it opened on the Lawrence Welk Network.
(www.accordionusa.com/fe_01_07.htm)
1971 Sep 4, An Alaska Airlines jet crashed near Juneau, killing 111 people.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1972 Sep 4, The TV game show "The Price Is Right" returned with Bob Barker and continued for 35 seasons. A nighttime version also began this year hosted by Dennis James (1917-1997) up to 1977.
(SFC, 6/5/97, p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_James)
1972 Sep 4, U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter relay at the Munich Summer Olympics.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1972 Sep 4, In San Francisco the Playland-at-the-Beach amusement park was bulldozed on Labor Day Weekend. Playland shut its gates and some 40 Fascination tables were transferred to a Market Street arcade. Fascination was invented by John Gibbs of Los Angeles and combined the skill of bowling with the luck of Bingo. The head of Laughing Sal was stolen on closure and turned up in 2004.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A1)(SSFC, 3/14/04, p.B2)(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.F6)(SFC, 5/31/08, p.B2)
1973 Sep 4, William E Colby (1920-1996), became the 10th director of the CIA.
(http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/wcolby.htm)
1974 Sep 4, The US & German DR established diplomatic relations.
(http://tinyurl.com/6xdex7)
1974 Sep 4, General Creighton Williams Abrams, US commander in Vietnam (1968-1972), died in Washington DC of lung cancer. In 2005 the “Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes" transcribed and edited by Lewis Sorley was published.
(WSJ, 3/18/05, p.W6)
1977 Sep 4, The Golden Dragon Massacre occurred in San Francisco’s Chinatown. 5 people were killed and 11 wounded, none of them gang members, during a shootout between the rival Wah Ching and Joe Boys. Four men were convicted. In 1999 Bill Lee, a former gang member, published "Chinese Playground," a memoir of his experiences in the 60s and 70s. Assailant Curtis Tam was released in 1991 after he testified against two others. In 2015 assailant Melvin Yu was paroled. Peter Ng remained in prison in Vacaville. Tom Yu, the chief plotter and not at the scene, was up for parole in 2017.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A18)(SFEC, 5/2/99, BR p.6)(SSFC, 9/3/17, p.A14,15)
1981 Sep 4, David Brinkley (1920-2003) ended an illustrious 38-year career with NBC News this day. ABC had offered him an opportunity too good to refuse.
(http://tinyurl.com/38bq4z)
1981 Sep 4, In Florida Linda Patterson Slaten (31) was found strangled to death in her Lakeland apartment. In 2019 genetic genealogy led police to arrest Joseph Mills (58), her son's former football coach for the crime.
(ABC News, 12/19/19)
1984 Sep 4, Canada's Progressive Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney, won a landslide victory in general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime Minister John N. Turner.
(AP, 9/4/04)
1987 Sep 4, A Soviet court convicted West German pilot Mathias Rust of charges stemming from his daring flight to Moscow's Red Square, and sentenced him to four years in a labor camp. He was released the following August.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1988 Sep 4, Officials in Bangladesh reported that floods had inundated three-quarters of their impoverished nation, claiming at least 882 lives. Monsoon floods left over 3,000 dead this year.
(AP, 9/4/98)(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A15)
1989 Sep 4, The US Air Force launched its last Titan 3 rocket, which reportedly carried a reconnaissance satellite. Since 1964, the Titan 3 had sent more than 200 satellites into space.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1989 Sep 4, Georges Simenon (86), Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), died. The Belgian born writer, authored some 200 novels. Many featured the crime-busting hero Inspector Maigret.
(SFC, 6/9/00, p.D5)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/simenon.htm)
1990 Sep 4, The air evacuation of Western women and children stranded in Iraq and Kuwait resumed, with 25 Americans among the nearly 300 who made it to Jordan.
(AP, 9/4/00)
1991 Sep 4, South African President F.W. de Klerk proposed a new constitution that would allow blacks to vote and govern; the African National Congress rejected the plan, charging it was designed to maintain white privileges.
(AP, 9/4/01)
1992 Sep 4, The US government reported the nation's unemployment rate had edged down to 7.6 percent in August 1992, but also said adult joblessness had worsened slightly and the economy had lost thousands of crucial manufacturing jobs.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1993 Sep 4, The Fatah faction of the PLO endorsed a peace accord with Israel.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1993 Sep 4, Pope John Paul II launched the first papal visit to the former Soviet Union as he began a tour of the Baltic republics.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1993 Sep 4, Herve Hillechaize (50) died in Los Angeles. The Fantasy Island actor shot himself to death.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1994 Sep 4, On the eve of a U.N.-sponsored conference on population in Cairo, Egypt, Vice President Al Gore told NBC the United States was seeking a blueprint for world population growth that rejected abortion as a family planning tool and an international right.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1995 Sep 4, Attorney William Moses Kunstler (b.1919) died in NYC. The UCLA attorney spoke out for the politically unpopular in a controversial career and defended the Chicago 7.
(SFC, 4/8/96, p.A3)(www.nndb.com/people/218/000025143/)
1995 Sep 4-1995 Sep 7, Hurricane Luis hit the Virgin Islands.
(NH, 10/96, p.60)(www.nhc.noaa.gov/1995luis.html)
1995 Sep 4, The Fourth World Conference on Women opened in Beijing with more than 4,750 delegates from 181 countries.
(AP, 9/4/00)
1996 Sep 4, The Smashing Pumpkins rock group won 7 MTV music awards including Best Video for “Tonight, Tonight," and Best Alternative Music Video for 1979.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B4)
1996 Sep 4, Actor Jack Lemon, Singer Johnny Cash, playwright Edward Albee, saxophonist Benny Carter and ballet dancer Maria Tallchief were the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors for their life work in the performing arts.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B2)
1996 Sep 4, Whitewater prosecutors had Susan McDougal held in contempt for refusing to tell a grand jury whether President Clinton had lied at her trial.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1996 Sep 4, Anti-aircraft fire lit up the skies of Baghdad, hours after the United States fired a new round of cruise missiles into southern Iraq and destroyed an Iraqi radar site. The US again launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraqi air defense sites. The 2nd launch was deemed a success after the first launch failed to destroy intended targets. The Tomahawks were made by Hughes Aircraft Co. and cost about $1 mil apiece. Kurdish leader Barzani wrote a latter to Sec. of State Christopher Warren and asked that the US mediate. 44 cruise missiles were launched over 2 days plus a rocket from an F-16 fighter.
(AP, 9/4/97)(SFC, 4/9/96, A1)(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A8)(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 4, In Columbia the government will require businesses with a net worth of more than 85k to buy war bonds to finance the war against leftist rebels.
(WSJ, 9/4/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 4, In the Congo authorities found 200 slaughtered elephants in a marsh of the National Park of Odzala.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 4, France said it will stop changing its clocks twice a year.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 4, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Palestinian leader Arafat and agreed to pursue a peace settlement.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.1)
1997 Sep 4, A trio of Buddhist nuns acknowledged in Senate testimony that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore and later destroyed or altered records to avoid embarrassment.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1997 Sep 4, It was reported that scientists have pinpointed the gene, Torsin 1, responsible for dystonia, a condition marked by uncontrolled movements.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A6)
1997 Sep 4, In Algeria 22 people were killed in El Arbi. Their throats were slit and bodies burned.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 4, In Cuba an explosion shook 3 tourist hotels and one Italian tourist was killed. Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon (25) of Salvador was arrested and accused of carrying out a half-dozen hotel attacks. He worked for Luis Posada Carriles, who was supported by the Cuban-American National Foundation. Cruz was sentenced to death in 1999. In 2010 Cuba's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence ruling that he should serve 30 years in prison instead. Francisco Chavez Abarca of El Salvador was later arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison for planting some of the bombs.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A21)(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A1)(AP, 12/3/10)(SFC, 5/24/11, p.A2)
1997 Sep 4, In Israel a triple suicide bombing in a mall in the heart of Jerusalem claimed the lives of seven people, including the three assailants.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A1)(AP, 9/4/98)
1997 Sep 4, From Kenya it was reported that the unemployment rate was 35%.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 4, In Turkey 33 people were killed when 2 buses collided near Ankara. Turkey has the highest incidence of road traffic deaths with 2,713 killed in the first 7 months of this year.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)
1998 Sep 4, During a visit to Ireland, President Clinton said the words "I'm sorry" for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, describing his behavior as indefensible.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1998 Sep 4, In NYC the Million Youth March ended in a wild melee as police rushed the speaking platform after the event ran minutes over the allotted time. An estimated 20,000 people were in attendance. Mayor Giuliani later supported the police action at the rally where 6,000 people had gathered. Some 3,000 officers were massed in the area. A grand jury was later asked to investigate.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A3)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A3)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 4, In Yarmouth Harbor, New Brunswick, the new Incat 046 catamaran collided with a fishing dragger and killed Captain Clifford Hood (33). The new ferry carried up to 900 passengers and 240 cars from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Yarmouth across the Bay of Fundy at 50 mph. Travel time was cut in half from 6.5 hours for the 105 mile run.
(SFC, 10/5/98, p.A3,5)
1998 Sep 4, In Nevada two Air Force helicopters crashed during training and all 12 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 4, In Brazil the Central Bank raised interest rates from 20 to 30%.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D2)
1998 Sep 4, In Osasco, Brazil, near Sao Paulo a Universal Church roof collapsed and killed at least 23 people and injured 500.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A19)
1998 Sep 4, Flooding and mudslides in India was reported to have killed over 2,000 this year.
(WSJ, 9/4/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 4, Former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1994 killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 4, Ukraine clinched a $2.2 billion IMF loan and announced a de facto currency devaluation for its hryvnia to between 2.5 and 3.5 to the dollar.
(WSJ, 9/8/98, p.A23)
1999 Sep 4, In NYC the 2nd Million Youth March headed by Khalid Abdul Muhammad was attended by 1-2 thousand people and watched over by 1,400 police officers.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A2)
1999 Sep 4, Martin R. Frankel, a Connecticut money manager, accused of cheating insurance companies in five states out of more than $200 million, was arrested in at the Hotel Prem in Hamburg, Germany.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A6)(AP, 9/4/00)
1999 Sep 4, In Dagestan a car bomb killed at least 22 people at a Russian military housing block in Buinaksk. The death toll son expanded to 64. Russian officials believed that Khattab, a Jordanian operating in Chechnya, ordered the bombing. In 2000 5 suspects were charged in the bombing. In 2001 six men were convicted. In 2004 Magomed Salikhov was arrested in Baku for his role in the bombing. In Feb, 2006, Salikhov was acquitted of organizing the explosion, but was sentenced to over 4 years in prison for membership a rebel group. The Russian Supreme Court overturned the acquittal on June 15 and ordered the investigation to be reopened. A Dagestan jury acquitted Salikhov on Nov 10.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A16)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.C1)(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)(AP, 11/13/04)(AP, 6/15/06)(AP, 11/11/06)
1999 Sep 4, Ethiopia claimed that the proposed outline for the implementation of a peace plan contradicted an original agreement regarding the withdrawal of Eritrea's forces. Eritrea the next day took the statement as "tantamount to a declaration of war."
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 4, At Sharm El-Sheikh (Sharm Al Sheik), Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Pres. Yasser Arafat signed a new deal that ceded West Bank land to the Palestinians and set up a timetable for peace.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/21/99, p.A21)
1999 Sep 4, In East Timor pro-Indonesia militia took control of much of the country in defiance of the election results hours after the United Nations announced that residents had overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. A dozen people were reported killed in Dili.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A11)(AP, 9/4/00)
2000 Sep 4, In Australia a Beechcraft King Air 200 plane crashed near Mount Isa after flying for 6 hours on autopilot. 8 people were killed and believed to have blacked out after loss of cabin pressure following takeoff from Perth.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 4, French investigators announced that a stray length of metal which had gashed a tire of a supersonic Concorde, leading to a fuel tank fire and the plane's fatal crash the previous July, probably came from a Continental Airlines plane that had taken off on the same runway four minutes earlier.
(AP, 9/4/01)
2000 Sep 4, In France farmers along with and truckers and taxi drivers protested high fuel costs with demonstrations at 80 facilities.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Sri Lanka the government “Operation Sunrise" left some 144 government soldiers and over 230 rebels dead along with some 766 wounded.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Uganda at least 41 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in Lake Albert, 140 miles north of Kampala.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.D2)
2001 Sep 4, President Bush opened the door to a future cut in the capital gains tax, but said he first wanted to see the effects of the previous spring's income tax cut.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, Texas Republican Phil Gramm announced he would leave the U.S. Senate at the end of his third term, following fellow conservatives Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond into retirement.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, The US and Mexico agreed on small measures to improve food safety, enhance law enforcement and fight money laundering as Pres. Fox came to visit with Pres. Bush.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 4, SF Bay Area BART reached a tentative agreement with its 2 largest unions. An injunction against a strike was ordered the next day against the AFSCME.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A13)
2001 Sep 4, Police shot and killed Rolland Rohm (28) at the Rainbow Farms campground in Vandalia, Mich., after he allegedly pointed a weapon at an officer. The campground had been set up for marijuana advocates. Owner Grover T. Crosslin was killed by FBI snipers a day earlier.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A5)(http://cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17211.shtml)
2001 Sep 4, In the Bahamas a fire destroyed Bay Street businesses in Nassau’s Straw Market.
(WSJ, 9/6/01, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, President Bush promised to seek Congress' approval for "whatever is necessary" to oust Saddam Hussein including using military force.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Secretary of State Colin Powell was heckled by dozens of activists on the closing day of the World Summit in South Africa as he defended America's record on the environment and helping the developing world.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Texas cocktail waitress and aspiring pop star Kelly Clarkson was voted the first "American Idol" at the conclusion of the Fox TV series.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, In California it was reported that the Phytophthora ramorum microbe, responsible for sudden oak death, had infected the coastal redwood saplings.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, In Afghanistan Pres. Karzai announced a new currency to replace the array of inflated banknotes issued by the Taliban and regional warlords. Warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former US ally, called for a jihad against US forces.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, China reported that flooding had killed 1,532 people this year.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 4, Colombian authorities reported the break up of an international kidnapping ring organized by the nation's second-largest rebel group to fund its insurgency. The leader of the ring was captured in July, and authorities have arrested his successor and other rebels within the last couple of days, said Gen. Reynaldo Castellanos. The crime network was run out of Bogota by members of the National Liberation Army. It included leftist groups from Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico that kidnapped people and stole cars, among other crimes.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, In Puerto Rico US Navy security officers fired tear gas at protesters who hurled rocks over a fence during bombing exercises on the island of Vieques.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, The World Summit on Sustainable Development closed with just a handful of small victories and some promising new initiatives. Colin Powell was heckled and the US was viewed as a key obstacle to setting firm targets on many issues. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an anti-corruption scheme to oversee oil production, was launched by UK PM Tony Blair, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, SA.
(AP, 9/5/02)(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A10)(www.osi-az.org/eitiabout.shtml)
2003 Sep 4, Pres. Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) into law. It required the collection of data on sexual abuse in prison and the creation of a commission to recommend ways of prevention.
(Econ, 8/6/05, p.25)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003)(Econ, 5/7/11, p.32)
2003 Sep 4, Miguel Estrada, whose nomination became a flash point for Democratic opposition to President Bush's judicial choices, withdrew from consideration for an appeals court seat after Republicans failed in seven attempts to break a Senate filibuster.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2003 Sep 4, The US House agreed to a 2.2 percent pay raise for Congress, enough to boost lawmakers' annual salaries to about $158,000 next year.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2003 Sep 4, Verizon Communications and two unions, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, reached a tentative, five-year contract agreement after four months of talks.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2003 Sep 4, Researchers reported that the hormone YY3-36 appeared to curb the appetite of obese people.
(SFC, 9/4/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 4, British and Colombian authorities said they had seized nearly $7 billion in securities from an international drug and money-laundering ring. Authorities arrested 14 alleged members of the ring, 10 in England, two in Colombia and two in Ecuador.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2003 Sep 4, Mario Monteforte Toledo, Guatemalan writer and activist, died. His work included the 1952 novel "En Donde Acaban los Caminos" (Where the Roads End).
(SFC, 9/5/03, p.A23)
2004 Sep 4, Hurricane Frances ripped apart roofs, shattered windows and flooded neighborhoods as it raged through the Bahamas leaving 2 people dead.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 4, A gunfight broke out in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia, leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 4, India's PM Singh said his government was ready to talk to any militant group, including those in Kashmir, abandoning previous preconditions that the rebels must first disarm.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2004 Sep 4, Insurgents clashed with American and Iraqi troops in northern Iraq, and local officials said eight Iraqis were killed and more than 50 wounded. A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside a police academy in the northern city of Kirkuk as hundreds of trainees and civilians were leaving for the day, killing 17 people and wounding 36. Saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline in southern Iraq.
(AP, 9/4/04)(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 4, Lebanese lawmakers amended their constitution to keep pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud in office, boldly reaffirming their loyalty to Damascus and defying a U.N. resolution calling for presidential elections.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2004 Sep 4, A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness after more than 330 people were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, US Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In New Orleans police killed at least 4 people who shot at contractors. The official Louisiana state death toll stood at 59 but the number was expected to rise to thousands.
(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, European Union and NATO said the US has asked for emergency assistance, requesting blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In southern Afghanistan 13 suspected Taliban fighters were killed in fighting with US and Afghan forces in Kandahar province. More than 40 suspected militants were arrested.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In France fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building south of Paris, killing 16 people, two of them children. 4 people were detained in connection with the suspected arson attack. 3 teenage girls confessed to starting the fire.
(AP, 9/4/05)(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Iraq US troops killed 7 insurgents in Tal Afar, including six who fired at the Americans from a mosque.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, The oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait said it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Nepal police fired tear gas and used bamboo batons to stop pro-democracy demonstrators from marching into the capital's center, arresting former PM Girija Prasad Koirala (80) and dozens of other protesters.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Pakistan's opposition called for a country-wide strike to press their demand for the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov. The military faced criticism over its handling of a mini-submarine accident last month.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said it had signed a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
(www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=2640)
2005 Sep 4, In eastern Saudi Arabia police fought running gun battles with al-Qaida militants in Dammam in clashes that killed two extremists and a police officer. The militants aimed to attack oil facilities.
(AP, 9/4/05)(WSJ, 2/25/06, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, In Turkey a group of nationalist Turks attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish demonstrators with stones, following violent clashes between Kurdish demonstrators and police in Istanbul.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, US Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In New Orleans police killed at least 4 people, who allegedly shot at contractors. The official Louisiana state death toll due to Hurricane Katrina stood at 59 but the number was expected to rise to thousands. In 2008 federal officials opened an investigations into shootings on the Danziger Bridge where 2 people were killed and 4 wounded. In 2010 former Lt. Michael Lohman pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice. He and others filed false reports to make the shootings on the Danziger Bridge seem justifiable. On April 16, 2010, officer Robert Barrios was charged with conspiring to obstruct justice in relation to the bridge shootings. On April 20, 2016, five former police officers pleaded guilty to a reduced number of charges in the Danziger Bridge shootings.
(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/08, p.A5)(SFC, 2/25/10, p.A4)(SFC, 4/17/10, p.A4)(SFC, 4/20/16, p.A6)
2005 Sep 4, European Union and NATO said the US has asked for emergency assistance, requesting blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In southern Afghanistan 13 suspected Taliban fighters were killed in fighting with US and Afghan forces in Kandahar province. More than 40 suspected militants were arrested.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In France fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building south of Paris, killing 16 people, two of them children. 4 people were detained in connection with the suspected arson attack. 3 teenage girls confessed to starting the fire.
(AP, 9/4/05)(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Iraq US troops killed 7 insurgents in Tal Afar, including six who fired at the Americans from a mosque.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, The oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait said it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Nepal police fired tear gas and used bamboo batons to stop pro-democracy demonstrators from marching into the capital's center, arresting former PM Girija Prasad Koirala (80) and dozens of other protesters.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Pakistan's opposition called for a country-wide strike to press their demand for the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov. The military faced criticism over its handling of a mini-submarine accident last month.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said it had signed a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
(www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=2640)
2005 Sep 4, In eastern Saudi Arabia police fought running gun battles with al-Qaida militants in Dammam in clashes that killed two extremists and a police officer. The militants aimed to attack oil facilities.
(AP, 9/4/05)(WSJ, 2/25/06, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, In Turkey a group of nationalist Turks attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish demonstrators with stones, following violent clashes between Kurdish demonstrators and police in Istanbul.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2006 Sep 4, Tropical storm Ernesto soaked the East Coast of the US claiming 6 lives and left 19,000 customers in the new York area without power.
(WSJ, 9/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 4, In south-central Montana a wildfire had spread across 180,000 acres, over 280 sq. miles, since it was sparked by lightning on Aug 22. It was only 20% contained.
(SFC, 9/5/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 4, In Newry, Maine, 4 people were found killed at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast. The victims were shot and then dismembered. Christian Nielsen (31), a resident at the inn for 2-months, was arrested. The dead included owner Julie Bullard (65), her daughter Selby (30), her friend Cindy Beatson (43), and Arkansas resident James Whitehurst.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 4, In Berkeley, Ca., Nicholas Beaudreaux shot and killed Wayne Drummond in front of Blake’s Restaurant. In 2009 Lamar Crowder (21) pleaded no contests to voluntary manslaughter and testified against Beaudreaux (23), who was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting.
(SFC, 7/9/09, p.D2)
2006 Sep 4, In southern Afghanistan 2 US warplanes accidentally strafed their own forces, killing one Canadian soldier and seriously wounding five others. A British soldier attached to NATO was also killed in a Kabul suicide bombing, which left another four Afghans dead. 16 suspected Taliban militants and five Afghan police died in separate Afghan violence.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Steve Irwin (44), world-famous Australian "crocodile hunter" and television environmentalist, was killed by a stingray blow to the chest while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. His "Crocodile Hunter" show, in which the adventurer appeared in his trademark khaki shorts and shirt, was first broadcast in 1992 and has been shown around the world on the Discovery cable network ever since.
(AFP, 9/4/06)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.82)
2006 Sep 4, Global press titan Rupert Murdoch launched a new free title: thelondonpaper, a 48-page color paper, dominated by gossip and real-life stories, in the city centre. The first free paper in London was launched seven years ago, in 1999. Metro, a daily morning paper published by Associated Newspapers, has a circulation of around a million copies in the capital and 13 other big towns.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In CongoDRC a boat overloaded with passengers and freight sank in choppy waters on Lake Kivu, killing at least 35 people.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Cyprus 3 British holidaymakers were charged with willful manslaughter over the death of a Cypriot teenager in a hit-and-run accident in the coastal resort of Protaras last month. A rented Opel "repeatedly rammed" the moped in what police described as a revenge attack following a fight outside a Protaras disco in which a friend of the accused was beaten up.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Egypt a passenger train collided with a cargo train north of Cairo, killing 5 people and injuring 30 others.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In France the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet, took off with a full load of passengers for the first time. Carrying 474 Airbus employees, the 308-ton jet left from Toulouse, southern France, on the first of four test flights.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Iraq a popular Iraqi soccer star was kidnapped. 33 bullet-riddled bodies were found in Baghdad and 2 more in Kut. At least two people also were killed and six were wounded in and around Baqouba. Two suicide bombers slammed into a checkpoint on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing an Iraqi soldier and wounding eight. Gunmen in Ramadi killed Maj. Gen. Mohammad Thumeil, who had served in former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's military. An American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, while a 2nd soldier died of non-combat related injuries. 2 US Marines and one sailor were killed in fighting Anbar province.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, Nabeel Ahmed Issa al-Jaourah opened fire on tourists near a popular Roman ruins site in Jordan's capital, killing Christopher Stokes, a British man, and wounding five other foreigners and a local police officer. Police overpowered and arrested the attacker at the scene. Al-Jaourah was sentenced to death in December.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/21/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Lebanon US civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson met with Hezbollah officials and called on them to show proof that two captured Israeli soldiers are still alive. A UN spokesman said Secretary-General Kofi Annan has agreed to requests by Hezbollah and Israel that he mediate in negotiations over the release of two abducted Israeli soldiers. Qatar announced that it would contribute 200 to 300 troops to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, making the Persian Gulf state the first Arab country to commit soldiers to the peace effort in Lebanon.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Philippine marines clashed with nearly 200 al-Qaida-linked rebels on Jolo Island. 6 government troops were killed and 19 wounded in the monthlong US-backed offensive. In Dec the military said Khaddafy Janjalani, head of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf, was killed in the fighting and that his remains had been found. DNA evidence confirmed his death.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/27/06)(AP, 1/20/07)
2006 Sep 4, Somalia's weak government and an Islamic militia that controls much of the south signed an agreement to eventually form a unified national army.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse said security forces had captured Sampur, a key town used by Tamil Tigers to target artillery at a major naval port. Rajapakse urged the rebels to return to peace talks.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sudan said it would allow African troops to remain in Darfur only under African Union control and accused Washington of attempting "regime change" in Khartoum by trying to bring in a UN force.
(Reuters, 9/4/06)
2007 Sep 4, US President George W. Bush arrived in Sydney for a regional summit with the city locked down in the biggest security operation in Australian history.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Mattel Inc.'s reputation took another hit after the world's largest toy maker announced a third major recall of Chinese-made toys in little more than a month because of excessive amounts of lead paint.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Florida Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to federal tax evasion and mail fraud charges.
(SFC, 9/5/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 4, New York city’s first Arab-language school opened.
(Econ, 9/8/07, p.36)
2007 Sep 4, 5-nation war games began in the Bay of Bengal. Indian and US aircraft carriers launched fighter jets into the air as American submarines cruised below Japanese, Australian and Singaporean warships.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 4, Afghan security forces in overnight fighting said they have killed Mullah Mateen, a Taliban commander alleged to be behind the July kidnappings of 23 South Korean church workers. The Taliban denied the dead man was one of their militants. Up to 27 other insurgents were also slain. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said 7 insurgents were killed in the clash, all of them ordinary fighters. He said the Taliban had no commander called Mullah Mateen, and said he did not know who the government was referring to. Afghan and coalition soldiers in Shah Wali Kot district, in southern Kandahar province, came under attack while on patrol. They fought back before calling in air support and over a dozen insurgents were killed in the engagement. About 18 miles away, insurgents sheltering in a traditional low-walled Afghan compound attacked another joint patrol. Airstrikes later pounded the position, killing six insurgents.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Australia 2 Indonesians were jailed over a people-smuggling operation to bring 83 Sri Lankans into Australia. The two pleaded guilty to smuggling 83 Sri Lankans into Australian waters in February near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, A skirmish near the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh killed two Azerbaijani soldiers and three Armenian troops.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, A Eurostar train shattered the record for the quickest rail journey between Paris and London, using a new high-speed track that shaved some 30 minutes off the previous fastest time. The 306 mile (492 kilometer) journey from the Gare du Nord in Paris to Saint Pancras took just two hours, three minutes and 39 seconds from station to station.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Most of London's sprawling transport network shut down after maintenance workers walked off the job, arousing commuter anger and drawing warnings the strike will inconvenience millions of Britons. Subway maintenance workers agreed to cut short the strike.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Jane Tomlinson (43), terminal cancer sufferer, died in London following a 7-year battle against the disease. Tomlinson had raised thousands of pounds after being diagnosed with terminal breast cancer by taking on a series of grueling physical challenges.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Canada’s PM Stephen Harper suspended Parliament and reconvened a new session on October 16, setting up a vote of confidence in his minority Conservative government that could trigger an election.
(Reuters, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, An official said China's environmental watchdog has closed down 400 factories since it started a national campaign in July to tackle water pollution.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Rangers and 300 villagers abandoned a gorilla reserve in eastern Congo as government soldiers battled troops loyal to a renegade general in sections of Virunga park. The UN said ten thousand Congolese refugees have fled to neighboring Uganda following clashes between the Congolese army and renegade troops in its eastern provinces.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/4/07)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.52)
2007 Sep 4, Denmark's intelligence service arrested eight Islamic militants linked to leading al-Qaida figures, and said the suspects were plotting an attack involving explosives.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, It was reported that Ethiopian authorities plan to kill tens of thousands of stray dogs in the capital using strychnine-laced meat, saying they want to eradicate rabies before next week's celebration of the Coptic millennium.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Germany 3 suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on US facilities in Germany. In 2008 Fritz Martin Gelowicz (29), Daniel Martin Schneider (22) and Adem Yilmaz (29) were charged with membership in a terrorist organization. In 2016 Gelowicz was released from prison after serving two-thirds of a twelve year sentence.
(AP, 9/5/07)(SFC, 9/3/08, p.A8)(AP, 8/17/16)
2007 Sep 4, Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked to head a key clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader, state media reported, in a vote seen as a setback for hard-liners in Iran's ruling establishment.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, An Iraqi appeals court upheld death sentences imposed against "Chemical Ali" al-Majid and two other Saddam Hussein lieutenants convicted of crimes against humanity for their roles in a massacre of Kurds. 3 separate attacks in Baghdad killed four US soldiers and at least 11 civilians.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, Hurricane Felix roared ashore as a fearsome Category 5 storm, the first time in recorded history that two top-scale storms have made landfall in the same season. The storm hit near the swampy Nicaragua-Honduras border, home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians dependent on canoes to make their way to safety. Some 332 people left dead or missing.
(AP, 9/4/07)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.45)
2007 Sep 4, Nigeria’s national news agency said Nigeria will spend 950 million naira (7.3 million dollars/ 5.3 million euros) to resettle nationals living in the disputed Bakassi Peninsula ceded to Cameroon last year.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, A senior US diplomat said North Korea remains on a list of states that sponsor terrorism, dismissing North Korean claims that Washington decided to remove the designation.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Pakistan suicide bombers attacked a bus filled with government workers and a commercial area near Islamabad, killing at least 25 people and deepening the sense of crisis in a country beset with political uncertainty and Islamic militants.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Russia’s Voronezh region an explosion killed three people at a sugar refinery owned by Prodimex Group, one of the country's largest producers.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Alain Robert climbed to the top of Moscow’s 795-feet-high West Federation Tower, in less than a half-hour using a ladder.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2008 Sep 4, The musical “Fela!" premiered off-Broadway at 37 Arts Theatre B in New York City. It was based on the work of Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo-Fela (1938-1997). In 2010 the show won 3 Tony awards.
(SFC, 8/3/11, p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela!)
2008 Sep 4, In St. Paul, Minn., John McCain claimed the GOP presidential nomination portraying himself as a maverick warrior and agent of change.
(AP, 9/5/08)(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 4, Jack Abramoff (49), once powerful DC lobbyist, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for his part in a political corruption scandal. He had already spent 2 years in prison for a fraudulent casino boat deal in Florida. On Sep 10 a federal judge shaved 2 years from his Florida sentence guaranteeing the Abramoff will serve no more that 4 additional years. Abramoff was released from jail in June 2010.
(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A4)(SFC, 9/11/08, p.A7)(SFC, 6/23/10, p.A6)
2008 Sep 4, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (38) pleaded guilty to a pair of felony obstruction charges in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city. Kilpatrick’s sentence included 4 months behind bars, a $1 million fine and forfeiture of his license to practice law.
(AP, 9/4/08)(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A4)
2008 Sep 4, A US coast Guard helicopter went down off Oahu, Ha., killing 4 crew members.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 4, Albanian artist Saimir Strati in Tirana glued 229,764 corks of various shapes and colors over a plastic banner measuring 12.94 meters by 7.1 meters to make the art piece "Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing with the sea and the sun". He worked 14 hours a day for 28 days to complete his project.
(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Ethiopia unveiled its famed Axum Obelisk after more than three years of work to re-erect the 150-ton stela plundered by fascist Italy 70 years ago and returned only in 2005.
(AFP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Tropical Storm Hanna roared along the edge of the Bahamas ahead of a possible hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 137 dead in Haiti.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, In northeast China 24 people were killed and six injured in a coal mine gas explosion, that left 3 miners trapped.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, In Georgia US Vice President Dick Cheney condemned Russia for what he called an "illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to redraw this US ally's borders by force.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, German ministers agreed to update data protection laws for the digital age in the wake of scandals showing how easily personal details can be bought on the Internet.
(AFP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Some 20 Greek anarchists stormed a supermarket in Thesaaloniki and handed out food for free in the latest of a wave of raids provoked by soaring consumer prices.
(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, The US military arrested an Iraqi cameraman and three of his family members during a raid on their home in Baghdad. Omar Husham (28) was arrested in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Pakistan’s Parliament passed resolutions condemning an American-led attack in Pakistani territory after the government summoned the US ambassador to protest the unusually bold raid that officials say killed at least 15 people. Four Islamist militants were killed and five wounded in a missile attack by a suspected US drone in the village of Char Khel in North Waziristan near Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/08)(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Middle East envoy Tony Blair toured a Palestinian aluminum factory in Beit Iba and was told it runs at one-third capacity because of Israeli import restrictions. He promised he'll take it up with Israeli authorities.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 4, In Moscow officials said BP PLC and its billionaire Russian partners in the joint venture TNK-BP have agreed on a deal that forces out its embattled CEO and signals an end to a bitter struggle for control of the Russian-British company.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Russian troops killed 5 suspected Muslim rebels in Dagestan.
(WSJ, 9/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 4, Spanish police arrested Vallejo-Guarin (47), a suspected Colombian drug trafficker, listed among the most wanted by the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 4, Syrian President Bashar Assad announced that his country has handed over proposals for peace with Israel to Turkish mediators and would wait for Israel's response before holding any face-to-face negotiations.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Teachers in Zimbabwe's public schools went on strike to press for higher pay, despite a pay rise for civil servants announced by the government.
(AFP, 9/7/08)
2009 Sep 4, A US federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued by people who claim they were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11, and called the government practice "repugnant to the Constitution." The ruling allows Abdullah al-Kidd, a US citizen, to proceed with a lawsuit that claims his constitutional rights were violated when he was detained in 2003 as a material witness in a federal terrorism case.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 4, US regulators closed the First Bank of Kansas in Missouri, pushing to 85 the number of US banks that have failed this year.
(SFC, 9/5/09, p.D1)
2009 Sep 4, The US Embassy in Afghanistan says it has fired eight security guards following allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living quarters. Two other guards resigned and also left. All of them appeared in photographs that depicted guards and supervisors in various stages of nudity at parties flowing with alcohol. The management team of the private contractor that provided the guards was also to being replaced immediately.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In northern Afghanistan a US jet blasted two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in Kunduz province, setting off a huge fireball that killed dozens of civilians who had rushed to the scene to collect fuel. As many as 142 civilians died in the German-ordered NATO airstrike. The strike was ordered by the commander of the German base in Kunduz, Georg Klein, who feared insurgents could use the trucks to carry out attacks. A French soldier was killed and nine others injured when their vehicles were hit by a bomb near Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. A Polish soldier was killed in the east. A French marine was killed in an IED attack.
(AP, 9/4/09)(AFP, 9/5/09)(AP, 9/17/09)(AP, 10/8/09)(Econ, 1/2/10, p.37)(AP, 9/4/19)
2009 Sep 4, Arab League chief Amr Moussa, speaking in Italy, said any Israeli offer for a settlement freeze that doesn't include east Jerusalem is unacceptable and "will suspend the peace process." Aides of Israel’s PM said Benjamin Netanyahu will approve hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before slowing settlement construction, in an apparent snub of Washington's public demand for a total settlement freeze.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, The Belgian government said it has accepted a US request to take in one detainee from U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In China security forces in the far-west city of Urumqi used tear gas to break up fresh protests, as thousands of Han Chinese demanded better security after a reported spate of attacks with syringes.
(Reuters, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In Ingushetia a roadside bomb blast ripped through a police car, killing three officers and wounding two others. Ingush authorities shot dead 3 insurgents. One man, identified as Rustam Dzortov, was a suspected ringleader of rebel operations in Ingushetia and had organized the suicide bombing of Ingush President Yunus Bek Yevkurov's motorcade earlier this year. The two others may have been planning a terrorist act in Moscow. In neighboring Chechnya two suspected insurgents were killed in a similar incident. The suspected insurgents were found to have explosives strapped to them, hand grenades, and train tickets to Moscow.
(AP, 9/4/09)(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 4, Mexican federal police detained Armando Medina (49), a small-town mayor of Mugica, Michoacan state, on suspicion of aiding drug traffickers. This is the same state where eight other city chiefs have been arrested since May on similar charges. In the northern state of Durango, two gunmen were killed in a shootout with federal police in the city of Gomez Palacio. The federal government auctioned off property seized from drug traffickers, smugglers, money launderers and tax evaders, including a DC-9 jet that was used to transport 5.5 metric tons of cocaine in 2006. The agency did not disclose the identity of winning bidders. Mexican soldiers, acting on a tip about armed men, detained Jose Rodolfo Escajeda in Nuevo Casas Grandes, in northern Chihuahua state. The suspected drug gang leader was linked to a 2006 border incursion by armed traffickers into Texas and the killing of an anti-crime activist in July. Five gunmen and a bystander were killed in a shootout at a lake that began when assailants opened fire on an army patrol on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey. A Ciudad Juarez police officer was shot to death outside his home.
(AP, 9/5/09)(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Sep 4, Pakistan said paramilitary troops have killed five suspected militants and arrested 24 in an ongoing operation in the northwestern Khyber tribal region.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In southern Sudan heavily armed fighters attacked an ethnic Dinka settlement in Bony-Thiang, north of the state capital Malakal, killing 20 people. Angry Dinka groups then launched a retaliatory raid on the nearby Shilluk village of Bon, killing five people including a woman and two children.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 4, In southern Thailand bomb believed to have been planted by Islamic insurgents exploded outside a restaurant where security forces were eating breakfast, killing a policeman and wounding 12 other people.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, Thousands of opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president across Latin America, accusing him of everything from authoritarianism to international meddling. The protests, coordinated through Twitter and Facebook, drew more than 5,000 people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of Venezuela and Honduras. Smaller demonstrations were held in other Latin American capitals, as well as New York and Madrid.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2010 Sep 4, Hurricane Earl brushed past the Northeast US and dumped heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages, but caused little damage. It continued north and made landfall near Western Head, Nova Scotia. Earl lost its tropical storm status over Canada, but the storm still left one person dead and nearly one million people without power in the northeastern.
(AP, 9/4/10)(AFP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 4, Paul Conrad ((b.1924), LA Times political cartoonist, died. His 50 year career included 3 Pulitzer Prizes.
(SSFC, 9/5/10, p.C9)
2010 Sep 4, President Hamid Karzai said an Afghan peace council to pursue talks with the Taliban has been set up, the latest step in a gradual move toward reconciliation with the Islamist insurgents.
(Reuters, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, Bahrain state media released the photographs of 23 Shiites — ranging from opposition figures to professors and taxi drivers — accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. They include opposition leader Abdul-Jalil al-Singace, whose arrest on Aug. 13 marked the first salvo by officials against members of a Shiite majority, 60-70% of the population being cast as coup plotters who could open the door to Iranian influence.
(AP, 9/5/10)(Econ, 10/16/10, p.56)
2010 Sep 4, British tax collectors said a new computer system has revealed that almost 6 million people have paid the wrong amount of income tax, and 1.4 million will be told to repay an average of 1,500 pounds ($2,300) each.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In southern Congo at least 200 people were feared dead after a boat engine caught fire and led the vessel to overturn on the Kasai River. Survivors who swam to safety said nearby fishermen refused to help drowning passengers in the dark of night, instead looting the goods aboard the burning vessel and beating people with oars. Earlier the same day, a boat on a river in northwest Equateur Province hit a rock and capsized. More than 70 people were believed dead among 100 estimated passengers.
(AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 4, In France Roma migrants whose camp was bulldozed led a protest in Paris against the French government's security crackdown, with similar demonstrations taking place across the country and abroad.
(AFP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In Guatemala torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides killed at least 48 people, most of them in separate disasters along the same highway.
(AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 4, Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the US Embassy in Jakarta to denounce an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has said it will burn the Islamic holy book on Sep 11, the ninth anniversary of the NYC terror attacks.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, Iran’s hardline Kayhan newspaper reported that security forces have killed four members of an outlawed Kurdish group in the western province of Kordestan. Nasrin Sotoudeh (45) was summoned by official notice to Tehran's Evin Prison, and did return home. She had represented opposition activists and political figures. State media reported in December that she was accused of spreading propaganda against the ruling system. On Jan 10, 2011, her husband said has been convicted of security offenses and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
(AFP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/8/10)(AP, 1/10/11)
2010 Sep 4, In New Zealand chimneys and walls crumbled to the ground, roads cracked in half and residents were knocked off their feet as a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake rocked the South Island. No one was killed.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In New Zealand's Southern Alps a light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular tourist spot, killing nine people including four foreign tourists.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, Two Palestinians were killed and another three were wounded in Israeli air strikes carried out after a rocket attack from Gaza. This was the first exchange of fire since the relaunch of Middle East peace talks last week. Two raids targeted smuggling tunnels along the border with Egypt, causing a tunnel to collapse on the two men, and a third struck a former base used by the militant Hamas movement.
(AFP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 4, Philippine police commandos killed an Abu Sayyaf commander linked to last year's kidnapping of Red Cross workers and gunned down two other militants in a clash in the south. Gafur Jumdail and two of his men were killed near Maimbung town on Jolo island after clashing with commandos tracking a Malaysian militant and allied Filipino fighters.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 4, In Sudan a Darfur rebel group said 10 people were killed in clashes with Sudanese police in two camps for displaced people in West Darfur state. U.N.-African Union peacekeepers said 9 people were killed in the clashes.
(AFP, 9/4/10)(AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/8/10)
2010 Sep 4, Yemeni police arrested 14 suspected members of al-Qaida in a raid on one of the group's alleged hideouts in Abyan province in the town of Lawder. Gunmen from a separatist movement attacked an army post in Rabwa near the town of Habalein and killed four soldiers. Two of the attackers died as well.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2011 Sep 4, Tropical Storm Lee dumped over a foot of rain in New Orleans and weakened to a tropical depression.
(SFC, 9/5/11, p.A7)
2011 Sep 4, In Nevada the annual burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert drew nearly 54,000 people, more than the 50,000 allowed under its permit.
(SFC, 9/5/11, p.A6)
2011 Sep 4, In Afghanistan a suicide car bomber killed three Afghan private security guards and wounded another 20 in Kandahar city.
(AP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Australia a shark bit the legs off a bodyboarder, killing the man, at a popular surfing spot at Bunker Bay near the western town of Dunsborough.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Haitian President Michel Martelly "vigorously condemned" an alleged sexual assault by UN troops against an 18-year-old man. The incident aggravated mistrust between Haitians and the peacekeeping mission. The UN was investigating allegations that five Uruguayan naval personnel at a UN base in the south sexually molested an 18-year-old man in an attack reportedly captured by a cell phone camera.
(AP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, In northern India bus fell into the Tons River swollen by monsoon rains, killing 12 passengers in Uttrakhand state.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Iranian state radio said the country's first nuclear power plant has been connected to the national power grid for a test run. The power plant in the southern port of Bushehr, with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, was built with Russian help.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Iran executed three men for homosexuality. They were hanged in the south-western city of Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan province.
(Econ, 2/4/12, p.63)(http://tinyurl.com/3jkjmyn)
2011 Sep 4, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pledged "real" economic change after massive nationwide protests that broke Israeli records and prompted questions about the future of the social movement.
(AFP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Italian police detained a man who confessed to knocking two chunks of marble off a statue in Rome's famed Piazza Navona and of trying to damage the nearby Trevi Fountain a day earlier.
(AP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Japan record rain and mudslides from powerful Typhoon Talas left at least 37 people dead as the storm moved slowly northward past the country's western coast. Over 50 others remained missing.
(AP, 9/4/11)(AFP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, Libyan rebels said that tribal leaders in Bani Walid, a besieged pro-Moammar Gadhafi stronghold, are divided over what to do and will likely surrender rather than see their followers fight one another. NATO reported bombing a military barracks, a police camp and several other targets near Sirte overnight.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Mexican federal congressman Moises Villanueva (46) and his driver went missing after leaving a party held by a fellow member of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party in the town of Tlapa de Comonfort in Villanueva's district. On Sep 17 their badly decomposed bodies were found in a river in the town of Huamuxtitlan, Guerrero state.
(AP, 9/18/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Nigeria 3 people were killed near the city of Jos. Islamic cleric Mallam Dala was shot and killed after two men burst into his house. Attacks in two villages in central Nigeria, Targom-Babale and Dabwak, killed 11 people, including children.
(AFP, 9/4/11)(AP, 9/4/11)(AFP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, Somali leaders began gathering for a 3-day national reconciliation conference under UN auspices amid high security in war-shattered Mogadishu.
(AFP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Syria saw a wave of violence and arrests as the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited Damascus to address issues including caring for the wounded and access to detainees. The state-run news agency reported that nine people were killed in central Syria in an ambush by armed groups.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Taiwan some 1,000 chanting pro-independence activists took to the streets of Taipei, President Ma Ying-jeou of surrendering the island's sovereignty to China.
(AFP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago extended a state of emergency by three months, citing continued security concerns since the measure was first imposed last month to dismantle gangs and decrease crime.
(AP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Yemen troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh deployed in force in Sanaa after opposition groups called new mass demonstrations demanding his ouster. The Defense Ministry said 17 al-Qaida militants have been killed in airstrikes in the south.
(AFP, 9/4/11)(AP, 9/5/11)
2012 Sep 4, In California CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom was shot by Christopher Boone Lacy (36) during a traffic stop on I-680 near Alamo. Lacy was shot a killed by another officer. Youngstrom died of his wounds the next day.
(SFC, 9/6/12, p.A1,13)
2012 Sep 4, A US federal judge ordered Massachusetts’ state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to Robert Kosilek, a transgender inmate serving life in prison for the murder of his wife in 1990.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, US fast food giant McDonald's, famed for its beef-based Big Mac burgers, said it will open its first ever vegetarian-only restaurant in the world in India next year.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, American activist Michael Strong signed an agreement for a small project to create jobs and cheap housing in Honduras. This outmaneuvered plans by Paul Romer, an economist at New York Univ., for a larger int’l. project to build a charter city in Honduras.
(Economist, 10/6/12, p.71)
2012 Sep 4, In eastern Afghanistan a suicide bomber killed at least 25 civilians and wounded another 30 at a funeral for a village elder in the village of Shagai in the Durbaba district of Nangarhar province.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, In Canada Quebec’s ruling Liberals were defeated in a provincial election after nine years in power. Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois became Quebec’s first female premier as she replaced Premier Jean Charest. He had held the seat since November 1998. The left-leaning Parti Quebecois (PQ) captured only 54 of the 125 seats in the legislature.
(Reuters, 9/4/12)(Reuters, 9/5/12)
2012 Sep 4, In Canada Richard Henry Bain (62) entered a theater and shot two people where Pauline Marois, leader of the Parti Quebecois, was speaking on behalf of the party’s narrow election victory. One of the victims died. Bain also set fire to the building and was soon arrested.
(Economist, 9/8/12, p.35)
2012 Sep 4, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced an accord with the peasant-based FARC to seek "a definitive peace." The pact, signed Aug. 27 after six months of secret exploratory talks in Cuba, called for talks to begin in Norway the first half of October, then return to Havana.
(AP, 9/5/12)
2012 Sep 4, Congo and China signed accords worth 975 million euros as part of a project to rebuild parts of the capital Brazzaville devastated by a deadly munitions depot blast in early March.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, The World Health Organization said the number of people with Ebola, a rare haemorrhagic disease, in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has tripled since mid-August, after 14 patients died in two weeks.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, The foreign ministers of Germany and Pakistan signed an agreement in which the two countries committed to a "strategic dialogue" on security issues, particularly regarding Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Volkswagen AG unveiled the latest version of its mainstay Golf hatchback at a Berlin museum, ahead of its premiere later this month at the Paris Auto Show. This was the 7th edition of the model introduced in 1974.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Guinea’s minister in charge of national defense said that an arms shipment was intercepted around a month ago at the port of Conakry. Abdoul Kabele Camara said the arms appear to have been ordered by Mali's ex-President Amadou Toumani Toure, known by his initials "ATT," who was ousted in a coup in March. Representatives from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS were meeting with the government of Guinea in order to decide what to do with a container of arms.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony announced that joint military exercises between India and China will be resumed after a four-year gap, after talks in New Delhi with his Beijing counterpart.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Indian police opened a probe into five coal companies after raiding premises across the country over the alleged misallocation of lucrative mining rights.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Indonesia's justice minister said that his country would extradite Sayed Abbas, an Afghan-born human trafficking kingpin, to Australia next year. He was suspected of having arranged the voyage of a vessel that sank in December, killing some 200 Australia-bound asylum seekers.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, In northern Iraq bombings and shootings, mostly targeting security forces, left eight people dead, including six soldiers and a police general.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, A Jordanian teenager (17) stabbed to death Cheryll Harvey (55), a Texas missionary living in the kingdom, during an argument that broke out when she caught him stealing from her apartment.
(AP, 9/7/12)
2012 Sep 4, The Kenyan Navy said it has shelled Somalia's port town of Kismayo, the remaining significant stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants, in preparation for the ground forces to capture the town. 7 people believed to be members of the al-Shabab militia group were killed in the shelling that occurred on Sep 1 and Sep 3.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Global Witness said international logging companies are skirting the rules and have used a loophole in Liberian law which has granted them access to as much as one-quarter of Liberia's landmass. Private use permits, now covering 40 percent of the country's forests, were being used by major companies to cut trees on their own property.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Mexico’s Navy detained Mario Cardenas Guillen, a top leader of the Gulf drug cartel, in the northern city of Altamira.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, In Morocco 42 people were killed when the bus overturned between the desert cities of Marrakesh and Ouarzazate and plunged down a 500-foot (150-meter) ravine. Another 24 people were injured, four of them seriously.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Pirates attacked and seized the MT Abu Dhabi Star, an oil tanker off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria, kidnapping an unknown number of sailors who were trying to hide from their assailants.
(AP, 9/5/12)
2012 Sep 4, Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in West Bank cities against the high cost of living, directing their anger at prime minister Salam Fayyad.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Singapore said it will restrict the growth of "shoebox" private apartments in the suburbs, effective Nov 4, to ease overcrowding concerns and encourage couples to have children.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Spain’s government lifted a 6-year ban on televising live bullfights.
(SFC, 9/5/12, p.A2)
2012 Sep 4, Spanish police evicted more than 80 illegal migrants that had occupied Isla de Tierra, a tiny island off Africa's Mediterranean coast.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Sudan and South Sudan resumed talks in the Ethiopian capital to resolve outstanding disputes over oil, border demarcation, security and the Abyei region.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Red Cross chief Peter Maurer launched a mercy mission in Syria to seek greater protection for civilians, as activists said rebel-held areas of Aleppo faced severe food shortages under a regime offensive.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, The Ugandan military killed a rebel fighter and captured another in its campaign against Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the Central African Republic. Rebel general Dominic Ongwen escaped unhurt in the raid on his camp.
(AP, 9/5/12)
2012 Sep 4, The three UN food agencies urged governments to take quick action to curb rising prices of corn, wheat and soybeans and avoid a repeat of the 2007-2008 food crises.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Vietnamese police seized four tiger cubs and 118 endangered pangolins from suspected wildlife smugglers.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2013 Sep 4, President Barack Obama opened a three-day overseas trip with a stop in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
(AP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a legislative decree giving minority Hindus and Sikhs a reserved seat in the country's lower house of parliament for the next parliamentary elections in 2015.
(AP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, In Bulgaria hundreds of protesters rallied in Sofia in front of parliament, demanding the resignation of the Socialist-led government that they accuse of having murky links to influential business circles.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Chinese state media reported that Zhang Shugung (57), a former deputy chief from the Railroad Ministry, has been charged with accepting nearly $8 million in bribes. His house in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut had drawn the attention of anticorruption officials and he was fired in 2011.
(SFC, 9/5/13, p.A7)
2013 Sep 4, An Egyptian policeman was shot dead and another wounded at a checkpoint in the southern town of Aswan. The attack was carried out by relatives of a man killed earlier in an exchange of fire with police at the checkpoint.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Gabon officials said a corruption investigation has revealed the existence of about 3,000 fake civil servants who receive monthly government salaries despite holding no official positions.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, In India Raghuram Rajan became the nation’s 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
(Econ, 9/7/13, p.69)
2013 Sep 4, India's lower house of parliament approved changes aimed at luring foreign asset managers to run retirement funds, a small victory in government efforts to rescue the economy before elections next year.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Indian security forces nabbed Talib Lali, a commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, one of five militant groups at large in Kashmir.
(Econ, 9/7/13, p.42)
2013 Sep 4, In India holyman Baba Premdas (60) was found bleeding late in northern Uttar Pradesh state after severing his genitals in what reports said was a protest at last week's arrest of Asaram Bapu, a self-styled Hindu holyman.
(AFP, 9/5/13)
2013 Sep 4, In Iraq gunmen shot dead at least 16 members of a Shi'ite Muslim family before blowing up their two homes overnight in Latifiya. A suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in Mosul, killing 5 policemen. A roadside bomb also struck a patrol in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, killing 5 soldiers.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly passed a sweeping reform of the notoriously dysfunctional public school system, handing President Enrique Pena Nieto an important victory in his push to remake some of his country's worst-run institutions.
(AP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, In Pakistan a senior navy officer was shot dead and his Swedish wife wounded in the port city of Karachi.
(AFP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, The IMF approved a $6.7 billion loan for Pakistan in an effort to help the strategic country stave off an economic crisis.
(AP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Qatar reported that a woman has died after contracting the MERS coronavirus, becoming the first recorded fatality from the SARS-like virus in the Gulf state.
(AFP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, In South Africa two of the seven gold mine producers touched by a pay strike said they have struck a wage settlement with unions as the work stoppage entered day two.
(AFP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, South Korea's parliament voted overwhelmingly on to allow the arrest of Lee Seok-ki, one of its members accused of conspiracy to overthrow the government and introduce a North Korean-style regime. On Feb 17, 2014, Seok-ki was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)(Econ, 1/17/15, p.3)
2013 Sep 4, South Korea’s Samsung set the price of its new Galaxy Gear wristwatch at $299 with sales to begin Sep 25.
(SFC, 9/5/13, p.C3)
2013 Sep 4, Spanish correspondent Marc Marginedas was abducted near the central Syrian city of Hama by Islamic State fighters. He was released on Mar 3, 2014.
(AP, 3/2/14)
2013 Sep 4, In Thailand tens of thousands of rubber farmers, protesting against a sharp drop in prices, escalated protests across southern Thailand, cutting off access to large swathes of the region by blocking roads leading to tourist and commercial hubs.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2014 Sep 4, US police handcuffed dozens of protesters around the country as they blocked traffic in their efforts to get fast food companies to pay employees at least $15 and hour.
(SFC, 9/5/14, p.A6)
2014 Sep 4, Florida police found 4 bodies at a home in Hudson, Pasco County. Suspect Adam Matos (28) was soon arrested in a downtown Tampa hotel.
(Reuters, 9/5/14)
2014 Sep 4, Joan Rivers (81), award winning comedienne, died in New York. The caustic stand-up comic and television host had blazed a trail at a time when comedy was all but off-limits to women.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, Tesla Motors announced plans to build its new $5 billion battery factory in Nevada.
(SFC, 9/4/14, p.A1)
2014 Sep 4, South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert shot and wounded an unarmed black man seconds after a traffic stop. In 2016 Groubert pleaded guilty to assault and battery and faced up to 20 years in prison.
(http://www.inquisitr.com/2888744/sean-groubert-guilty/)(SFC, 3/15/16, p.A7)
2014 Sep 4, Tennessee became the first state to make use of the electric chair mandatory when lethal injection drugs are unavailable.
(http://tinyurl.com/nghyzbw)
2014 Sep 4, Texas teenager Tyler Lane Holder (18) was sentenced to life in prison for killing Alanna Gallagher (6), wrapping her body in a tarp and leaving it on the side of a road. DNA evidence linking him to the 2013 crime when he was 17. Holder also pleaded guilty to arson for setting fire to the home of the victim's family and with attempted capital murder for shooting at a police officer trying to arrest him.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife were convicted of using his office to promote a dietary supplement in exchange for gifts in a public corruption case.
(SFC, 9/5/14, p.A7)
2014 Sep 4, Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates pledged to NATO leaders that they would form a government of national unity and sign legal agreements allowing foreign troops to stay on next year.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Afghanistan Taliban insurgents detonated truck bombs and fired rocket-propelled grenades outside the office of the country’s spy agency and a police compound in Ghazni, killing 18 people.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Argentina Gustavo Cerati (55), one of Latin America's most influential musicians, died, four years after a stroke put him in a coma.
(AP, 9/6/14)
2014 Sep 4, Bangladesh said it has resumed sending workers to Iraq after a 3-month ban, despite reports of hundreds of Bangladeshi construction laborers being dragged into the country's bloody sectarian conflict.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In central Bosnia a coal mine collapsed in Zenica and trapped 34 miners following a 3.5 magnitude earthquake. 20 miners were rescued the next day and 5 were preseumed dead in rubble deep underground.
(SFC, 9/6/14, p.A2)
2014 Sep 4, Palmira Silva (82), a grandmother who still worked at her family's cafe, was attacked in her garden in Edmonton, north London. She was found beheaded with a machete. Nicholas Salvador (25) was soon arrested and charged with her murder.
(AFP, 9/6/14)
2014 Sep 4, Al-Qaida announced it had created an Indian branch that the terror network vowed would bring Islamic rule to the entire subcontinent.
(AP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Iraq jihadists kidnapped some 50 residents of the northern village of Tal Ali in Kirkuk province after villagers burned one of their positions along with a jihadist flag. Air strikes in Ninevah province killed Abu Hajr al-Suri, the top aide of jihadist Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Two car bombs exploded in Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad, killing at least 23 people.
(AFP, 9/4/14)(AP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In northern Kenya anthropologists discovered a complete skull of a baby ape dating back 13 million years. It belonged to an undiscovered species and was named Nyanazpithecus alesi.
(http://tinyurl.com/ydfq4ev8)(SFC, 8/19/17, p.A9)
2014 Sep 4, A UN report on Libya said four months of fighting by militias in Libya's two biggest cities, Tripoli and Benghazi, has forced some 250,000 people to flee, including 100,000 who have been internally displaced.
(AP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, NATO leaders converged in Wales for a high-stakes summit also focused on the crisis in Ukraine and next steps in Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, The Palestinian Authority said rebuilding Gaza will cost $7.8 billion. Fighting between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in Gaza killed over 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, along with 64 Israeli soldiers and 6 civilians.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)(Econ, 8/30/14, p.44)
2014 Sep 4, Philippines’ President Benigno Aquino III and Al Haj Murad Ebrahim of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front agreed to endorse a draft of a proposed autonomy law after meeting for more than two hours at the presidential palace.
(AP, 9/8/14)
2014 Sep 4, South Korea said it would create a joint military unit with the US, as a report suggested the contingent would target North Korea's weapons of mass destruction if a full-scale conflict broke out.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Switzerland some 200 experts huddled in Geneva to debate experimental treatments for the Ebola virus as the world's worst-ever outbreak raged in west Africa.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In eastern Syria 18 foreign fighters from the Islamic State, including an American jihadist, were killed in a Syrian air raid on a town near the militant group's main stronghold city of Raqqa. Top Islamic State leaders who happened to be in the municipal building of Gharbiya at the time of the raid were among the foreign fighters killed. Two raids on southern and northern parts of Raqqa killed 53 people including 31 civilians. Another air raid hit a former intelligence headquarters in Abu Kamal also killed an undisclosed number of IS members. Residents of Ashara, in the mostly IS-controlled eastern province of Deir Ezzor, protested in front of an IS headquarters, hours after government air strikes killed 2 children, 5 women and a man.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)(AFP, 9/5/14)(AFP, 9/6/14)
2014 Sep 4, Thai PM Prayuth Chan-ocha set out broad criteria for the selection of a 250-member council to draw up sweeping political reforms and approve a new constitution.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Turkey Gaziantep province governor Erdal Ata said 19 militants affiliated with the Islamic State have been arrested. Ata also said police had caught suspected IS-linked jihadists coming from Europe or Caucasus, carrying backpacks, at the Gaziantep airport or at the border.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the main pro-Russian rebel leader said they would both order ceasefires on Sep 5, provided that an agreement is signed on a new peace plan to end the five month war in Ukraine's east.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, Zimbabwe launched a $533-million project with China to scale up electricity generation at one of its major power plants in a bid to ease perennial energy woes.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2015 Sep 4, President Barack Obama hosted Saudi Arabia's new monarch for the first time and said that the US shares King Salman's desire for an inclusive government in Yemen that can relieve that impoverished Arab country's humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Florida Boeing celebrated the opening of its commercial crew and cargo processing facility which will serve as home to its future space fleet and named it Starliner.
(SFC, 9/5/15, p.A7)
2015 Sep 4, In NYC Deniss Calovskis (30), a Latvian computer code writer, pleaded guilty to helping create the Gozi virus, which spread to more than a million computers worldwide and corrupted some at NASA. He admitted that he was hired to write code for the virus.
(SSFC, 9/6/15, p.A5)
2015 Sep 4, Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants, bussed to the Hungarian border by a right-wing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers.
(Reuters, 9/5/15)(Econ, 10/1/16, p.54)
2015 Sep 4, Bolivia said an air force captain was detained as he tried to take off from near the Peru border with 362 kg (796 pounds) of cocaine in his plane.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, PM David Cameron said Britain will provide an extra 100 million pounds (137 million euros, $153 million) in humanitarian aid for the Syrian crisis, bringing its total contribution to more than 1.0 billion pounds. Cameron said Britain will take in thousands more Syrian refugees.
(AFP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia rejected any quota system for accepting migrants in the European Union's 28 members.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Greece a fire broke out at the Dafni psychiatric hospital in western Athens killing at least 3 people.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, Guatemala’s Pres. Perez Molina resigned as president after prosecutors and a UN comission investigation corruption alleged that he was part of a multimillion-dollar graft ring.
(SFC, 12/10/15, p.A2)
2015 Sep 4, Hungary's parliament introduced emergency anti-migration laws, in a tough response to the record number of refugees and migrants crossing the EU member's border as they try to reach western Europe. Hundreds of migrants broke out of a border camp and others set off on foot from Budapest as authorities scrambled to contain a migrant crisis that has brought Europe’s asylum system to breaking point.
(AFP, 9/4/15)(Reuters, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Lebanon the civil campaign that has organized protests against politicians in Beirut called for a nationwide mobilization against a government they say is too corrupt to function.
(AFP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Libya clashes broke out between Islamic State and army units loyal to the country's official government near the eastern city of Derna, killing 4 soldiers.
(Reuters, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, Mexican authorities said police have seized a ton of so-called "black cocaine" at Mexico City's airport and destroyed more than 100 tons of marijuana plants in western state of Nayarit.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, Moroccans began voting in local elections seen as a test for the ruling Islamists. The Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) formed by a close associate of Morocco's king secured most seats in local elections. It was closely followed by the ruling PJD Islamist party which also won in major cities.
(AFP, 9/4/15)(Reuters, 9/5/15)
2015 Sep 4, A Nepali policeman was shot dead in the latest round of clashes to hit the country's southern plains as protests intensify against a proposed new constitution.
(AFP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new crew docked at the International Space Station.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, A Saudi policeman was killed and two others wounded when a terrorist attacked a security site in the Abqaiq region in the country's Eastern province.
(AP, 9/5/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Syria two explosions late today and ensuing protests killed at least 37 people including Druze leader Sheikh Wahid al-Balous in and around the town of Sweida. 20 Islamist and other rebel fighters were killed in the clashes throughout the day centered on the town of Marea, Aleppo province, along with 27 IS jihadists.
(Reuters, 9/5/15)(AFP, 9/5/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Tajikistan 9 policemen were killed in attacks the authorities blamed on gunmen loyal to the country's own deputy defense minister. 13 rebels were also killed. The interior ministry blamed the attacks on a group led by Major General Abdulkhalim Mirzo Nazarzoda, the deputy defense minister, who was soon dismissed by Imomali Rakhmon, the president, for committing a crime.
(Reuters, 9/4/15)(AP, 9/5/15)
2015 Sep 4, Turkey imposed a curfew on Cizre, a city of 120,000 on the border with Syria and close to Iraq, in an effort to cripple the PKK. The curfew was lifted on Sep 12. The government said that up to 32 Kurdish militants were killed during the curfew and anti-terror operations. The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said 21 civilians were killed.
(AFP, 9/13/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Yemen Iranian-allied Houthis attacked a weapons storage facility in Marib killing 45 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 5 Bahrainis, 10 Saudis and 4 Yemenis.
(Reuters, 9/4/15)(AFP, 9/5/15)(Reuters, 9/6/15)
2016 Sep 4, President Barack Obama met with Myanmar leader Suu Kyi at the White House to discuss rolling back more of the sanctions that were applied when the nation was under military rule. Obama said the US will "soon" lift restrictions on military-owned companies and officials and associates of the former ruling junta.
(AP, 9/14/16)(AP, 9/15/16)
2016 Sep 4, In southern Afghanistan at least 38 people were killed when a bus collided with a fuel tanker and burst into flames in Zabul province.
(Reuters, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged G20 world leaders to avoid "empty talk" and confront sluggish economic growth and rising protectionism as their summit opened Sunday in the scenic city of Hangzhou.
(AFP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Voters turned out in force for Hong Kong's most crucial election since the handover from Britain in 1997. Pro-democracy candidates won 30 of 70 seats in the Legislative Council, gaining a foothold in the southern Chinese city's legislature and setting the stage for a new round of political confrontations with Beijing. Six of the winning Legco candidates wanted Hong Kong to be more independent from China. Pro-democracy and environmentalist candidate Eddie Chu won more votes than any other candidate. Chu soon faced death threats stemming from his campaign promises.
(AP, 9/4/16)(AP, 9/5/16)(SFC, 9/21/16, p.A5)(Econ, 9/10/16, p.35)
2016 Sep 4, In the Indian portion of Kashmir around 100 people were injured as Indian government forces fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to quell thousands of protesters who pelted rocks and burned a government office.
(AP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Iranian state TV reported that the Islamic Republic has appointed its envoy to London for the first time since 2011.
(AP, 9/5/16)
2016 Sep 4, Israel’s transport minister, Yisrael Katz, canceled key train routes because of the delayed repairs. The government dispatched extra buses for some 90,000 affected commuters.
(AP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Israeli tank fire targeted a Hamas post on the Gaza Strip border overnight after gunfire at Israeli forces in the area, with no injuries reported.
(AFP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said cross-border shelling from Yemen has killed a Saudi woman and wounded two other citizens in the southern Jazan region.
(AFP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Thai police seized 3,155 kg (6,940 pounds) of marijuana from a warehouse in Chonburi. Police arrested two men from Thailand and Taiwan suspected of smuggling the marijuana from Laos for shipment to Australia.
(AP, 9/5/16)
2017 Sep 4, In Florida Jabez Spann (14) disappeared a week after he witnessed the slaying of Travis Combs (31). In 2019 Spann's body was found in Manatee County.
(SFC, 2/21/19, p.A6)
2017 Sep 4, Boston police arrested Francisco Carlos Ramires (20) and two other men. He was also wanted in connection with several assaults in Boston, where he used the alias Carlos Campos-Cutone. The suspected member of a violent Central American gang was also wanted in connection with an August 25 homicide in New Jersey.
(AP, 9/5/17)
2017 Sep 4, Officials said the confirmed death toll in southern Texas from Hurricane Harvey rose to at least 60 across 11 counties. The death toll was soon raised to at least 70 with some 200,000 homes destroyed or damaged.
(SFC, 9/5/17, p.A4)(SSFC, 9/10/17 p.A13)
2017 Sep 4, United Technologies, an American aerospace conglomerate, announed that it had agree to buy Rockwell Collins, an avionics firm, for $30 billion.
(Econ, 9/9/17, p.61)
2017 Sep 4, In Afghanistan two people were killed and two others wounded when a helicopter appeared to come under fire from guests at a wedding party near Kabul and fired back. Afghan officials said the helicopter came from the NATO-led Resolute Support coalition.
(Reuters, 9/5/17)
2017 Sep 4, In Brazil more than 800 federal police fanned out in five states and the federal district to serve 190 search and seizure warrants and more than 120 arrest warrants in a crackdown on a drug-trafficking ring.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, The English-language Cambodia's Daily appeared in newsstands for the last time, the latest victim of a determined push by the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen to silence critics in the run-up to 2018 elections.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov brought tens of thousands of people to the streets of the capital Grozny to protest what he called the "genocide of Muslims" in Myanmar.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, China criticized President Donald Trump's threat to cut off US trade with countries that deal with North Korea and rejected pressure to do more to halt the North's nuclear development.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, President Xi Jinping said China will give $80 million in funding for BRICS cooperation plans, while the bloc of five emerging countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) pledged to oppose protectionism. The BRICS group called for reform of the United Nations and tougher measures against terrorist groups, while denouncing North Korea's latest nuclear test.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, The China’s central bank announced that that firms would no longer be able to issue electronic currency units to raise funds.
(AFP, 9/19/17)
2017 Sep 4, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed that the government has agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with the ELN rebel group that will last 102 days after months of talks in the Ecuadoran capital Quito.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)(AFP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, A Congo DRC officials said at least eight people have died after a bolt of lightning struck a small-scale goldmine in Haut-Uele province.
(AFP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, Denmark's energy minister said China will tap Denmark, home to some of the world's largest offshore energy companies, to help it build a wind farm.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced plans to double to 1 billion euros ($1.19 billion) a fund aimed at cleaning up urban transport, in an effort to avert bans of diesel vehicles in some cities.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, In India Murray Dennis Ward, a 54-year-old British man, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing three blind students at a school in New Delhi.
(AP, 9/5/17)
2017 Sep 4, A former Indonesian Constitutional Court judge was jailed for eight years for accepting bribes to influence court rulings. Patrialis Akbar, the second constitutional court judge to be convicted of corruption in three years, was also fined 300 million rupiah ($22,500).
(Reuters, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, In Pakistan a suspect involved in an attack on a lawmaker killed one police officer and wounded another during a raid at his house and he was able to escape from his eastern Karachi neighborhood. Abdul Karim Siddiqi was the mastermind of an attack on an ethnic lawmaker Sep 2.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, In South Africa ANC party member Sindiso Magaqa died after he was shot inside his car by two hit men in Umzimkhulu following his exposure of corruption in a public works project. In 2019 politician Mluleki Ndobe was arrested for his involvement in the murder.
(http://tinyurl.com/yya47lcq)(SFC, 3/19/19, p.A2)
2017 Sep 4, Syria's army battled the Islamic State group on the edges of Deir Ezzor, seeking to break the siege of a government enclave and oust the jihadists from a key stronghold.
(AFP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, In Syria the SDF said it holds 65 percent of Raqqa in total. US-backed Syrian militias have taken the historic old city of Raqqa and its ancient mosque as they pressed their offensive to defeat Islamic State.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, Taiwan's Premier Lin Chuan tendered his resignation, raising the possibility of changes in the island's troubled relationship with mainland China. The official Central News Agency said Pres. Tsai Ing-wen’s pick will be William Lai, mayor of the southern city of Tainan.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, The UN Security Council held its second emergency meeting in a week about North Korea after a powerful nuclear test explosion added another layer of urgency for diplomats wrestling with what to do about the North's persistent weapons programs.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, UN investigators accused Burundi's government of crimes against humanity, including executions and torture, and urged the International Criminal Court to open a case "as soon as possible". Burundi formally announced it was withdrawing from the court, with the move set to take effect on October 27.
(AFP, 9/4/17)
2018 Sep 4, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he will name Zalmay Khalilzad to be special adviser for Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/5/18)
2018 Sep 4, The EPA office of the Inspector General concluded that the Environmental Protection Agency had no proper justification for spending more than $3.5 million on round-the-clock security for former head Scott Pruitt.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A5)
2018 Sep 4, The Ninth US Circuit court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that cities cannot make it a crime to sleep on a public street or sidewalk when no homeless shelters are available.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.D1)
2018 Sep 4, A US federal judge in San Francisco signed off on a $480 million class-action shareholder lawsuit over Wells Fargo's unauthorized accounts scandal.
(SFC, 9/7/18, p.C3)
2018 Sep 4, An early copy of Bob Woodward's new book "Fear: Trump in the White House," set off a firestorm in the White House with descriptions of current and former aides calling Pres. Trump an "idiot" and a "liar".
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A5)
2018 Sep 4, In Texas the body of Melissa Ramirez (29), a mother of two, was found dead with a shot to the head in rural Webb County. Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz (35) later admitted to having shot her a day earlier.
(SFC, 9/17/18, p.A5)
2018 Sep 4, Seattle police found the bodies of two Univ. of Washington female law students from Thailand in an apartment. Medical examiners later ruled murder and suicide. Kornkamon Leenawarat (25) died from multiple stab wounds. Thithi-on Chotechuangsab (32) died of a single stab wound.
(SFC, 9/8/18, p.A6)
2018 Sep 4, Nike announced that former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be the face of its 30th anniversary "Just Do It" campaign. His kneel down protest against police brutality has split America roughly down the middle.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A1)
2018 Sep 4, In northwestern Afghanistan insurgents attacked a security checkpoint in Badghis province. Two police officers were killed and four others were wounded in the attack near Qala-i-Now. 11 attackers were reported killed and 16 wounded in the battle. NATO said that a US service member died in a non-combat related incident in eastern Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Elephants Without Borders said ninety elephant carcasses have been discovered in Botswana with their tusks hacked off, in what is believed to be one of Africa's worst mass poaching sprees.
(AFP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Former DR Congo warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba denounced a long-delayed December presidential election as a "parody" after he was banned from contesting and accused President Joseph Kabila of trying to hand pick a successor by eliminating serious rivals. Bemba was one of six presidential hopefuls who was excluded by the election commission from the December 23 vote.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Danish police say prosecutors have given them permission to issue a nationwide ban on the Loyal to Familia (LTF) criminal gang, even before a court case aimed at dissolving it.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Egyptian Abdullah Ayman Abdel-Sameea (24) was arrested outside the US Embassy in Cairo after chemicals in his backpack caught fire, in what authorities said was a botched attack.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In Germany lawmaker Sahra Wagenknecht, whose Left Party grew out of the former East Germany's communist party, and two members of the Greens and the Social Democrats said more than 100,000 people have pledged online to support a new movement called "Aufstehen" (Stand Up) with the aim of reviving the fortunes of the country's ailing left by attracting like-minded people across party lines.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Greek ferry crews have ended a strike that left tens of thousands of travelers and islanders stranded for more than a day after ferry operators offered them a 2-percent pay increase after an eight-year freeze because of Greece's debt crisis.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In India a highway overpass collapsed in the crowded city of Kolkata, and some injured people were being treated at a nearby hospital.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, President Hassan Rouhani announced that Iran is to move its main oil export terminal from the Gulf to the Oman Sea, sparing its tankers from using the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
(AFP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Iranian authorities arrested the husband of detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has campaigned for her release.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In Iraq hundreds of protesters clashed with security forces in the southern oil hub Basra for a second day, after a protester died from injuries sustained during demonstrations.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Israeli jets struck at targets inside Syria killing at least one person. Syria's SANA state news reported strikes on the Wadi Ayoun area in western Hama province and on the town of Baniyas in Tartous province.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A2)
2018 Sep 4, In Israel Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte praised his country's close security ties with Israel as dozens protested Israeli arms sales to his government. At a meeting with his Israeli counterpart, Duterte said he considers Israel a key strategic partner and weapons supplier.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Italy's Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said the government will draw up new rules for the concession of the nation's motorways, obliging the company running the toll highways to reinvest most of their profits in renovating the network. Toninelli reiterated that the cabinet was determined to revoke concessions held by Autostrade per l'Italia to operate toll highways after a bridge it managed collapsed last month in Genoa.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Typhoon Jebi slammed into western Japan, causing heavy rain to flood the region's main international airport and strong winds to blow a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel and leaving thousands stranded. The storm left at least 11 people dead.
(AP, 9/4/18)(AP, 9/5/18)
2018 Sep 4, Libyan authorities said the death toll from more than a week of fighting between armed groups in Tripoli has climbed to at least 50 people, including civilians. The United Nations brokered a truce after a week of violence between local fighters.
(AP, 9/4/18)(Reuters, 9/7/18)
2018 Sep 4, In Libya hundreds of migrants fled a detention center in Tripoli as fighting raged nearby. An aid official working at an international organization said as many as 1,800 might have left the facility located near airport road.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (73) was been sworn in to a new five-year term in the presence of former rebels and several other personalities although the opposition continues to dispute his election win.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Nauru hosted the Pacific Islands Forum, which is being attended this week by leaders from 18 member nations and delegations from other countries including the US and China.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Dutch prosecutors said bank ING has paid 775 million euros ($897 million) to settle a huge money laundering case in the Netherlands.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Pakistani lawmakers elected Arif Alvi, a nominee from PM Imran Khan's party, to the ceremonial office of president.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, It was reported that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the arrest of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, his fiercest critic in Congress after revoking the senator's amnesty for involvement in unsuccessful military uprisings years ago. Trillanes condemned the move as arresting officers waited outside the Senate in a looming standoff.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, A new Amnesty Int'l. report accused authorities in South Sudan of torturing people to death and letting many others languish behind bars since the civil war began in late 2013.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A3)
2018 Sep 4, The Spanish Defence Ministry said Spain has halted the sale of a shipment of bombs to Saudi Arabia amid concerns about their use in the conflict in Yemen. Spain said it has cancelled a 2015 deal to sell 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 9/4/18)(AFP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In Syria Russia resumed its air strikes against insurgents in Idlib after 22 days, following weeks of aerial bombardment and shelling against rebels by pro-Syrian government forces in an apparent prelude to a full-scale offensive. The next day the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the Russian strikes killed 13 civilians, including children, but no fighters.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)(Reuters, 9/5/18)
2018 Sep 4, Turkey told the United States that Kurdish militants must completely abandon Syria, as violence in the rebel-held northern Syrian enclave of Idlib escalated.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In the Ukraine Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (32) held talks with President Petro Poroshenko and afterward said "I speak not only as Chancellor but also as President of the EU Council, we need a clear reaction to the Russian aggression" in eastern Ukraine.
(AFP, 9/4/18)
2019 Sep 4, The Trump administration announced that the United States will pay people up to $15 million for information that disrupts the finances of an elite Iranian military force.
(Politico, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, The US Commerce Department said it imposed duties on Chinese and Mexican structural steel after making a preliminary determination that producers in both countries had dumped fabricated structural steel on the US market at prices below fair market value.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, The Pentagon said it would pull funding from 127 Defense Department projects, including schools and daycare centers for military families, as it diverts $3.6 billion to fund President Donald Trump's wall along the US border with Mexico.
(Reuters, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, The US sanctioned a sprawling network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that supplied Syria with oil worth tens of millions of dollars in a breach of US sanctions.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A senior US official ruled out issuing waivers to Iran sanctions to permit a French-proposed credit line, which Tehran says could bring it back to full compliance with the nuclear deal.
(AFP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A US federal judge ruled that the government's watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as "known or suspected terrorists" violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, It was reported that an Alabama couple has been sentenced to prison on charges related to producing child porn. Kenneth Earl Hooks (36) got two life sentences and 120 years, to run consecutively. Sarah Pauline Morris (28) was sentenced to about 16 years.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, In southern Florida Bee Love Slater, a black, transgender 23-year-old was found murdered fat the edge of Harlem, a small community about 65 miles west of West Palm.
(The Independent, 9/14/19)
2019 Sep 4, The FBI arrested New Jersey man, Rubbin Sarpong, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He was part of a complex and brazen fraud that swindled more than 30 people out of about $2.1 (£1.71) million and led one woman to commit suicide. The scheme was run by two people in New Jersey and their associates in Ghana.
(The Independent, 9/6/19)
2019 Sep 4, In Texas Billy Jack Crutsinger (64) was executed by lethal injection for the 2003 killings of Pearl Magouirk (89) and her daughter Patricia Syren (71). Authorities say Crutsinger killed the women then stole Syren's car and credit card. He was arrested three days later at a bar in Galveston, more than 300 miles (480 km) away.
(AP, 9/4/19)(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A5)
2019 Sep 4, Bahamas PM Hubert Minnis said the death toll of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has risen to 20 people with officials certain the number will continue to rise. Minnis declared a “historic tragedy" on the archipelago. The UN said 70,000 people needed immediate humanitarian relief after one of the most powerful Caribbean storms on record devastated the island group.
(AP, 9/5/19)(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro accused Chile's former leader Michelle Bachelet, now the UN human rights chief, of meddling in his country's affairs after she criticized a rise police violence and an erosion of democracy.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, British PM Boris Johnson demanded an Oct. 15 snap election after lawmakers seeking to prevent a no-deal Brexit dealt him a humiliating defeat in parliament which he cast as an attempt to surrender to the European Union. Rebellious British lawmakers rejected a call by PM Boris Johnson to trigger a snap poll and moved to block his plan to leave the EU next month without a divorce deal.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)(AP, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, Britain's government announced a three-year immigration scheme to cover most European citizens wanting to come to Britain after a no deal Brexit, in a move aimed at reassuring business they will still be able to recruit the staff they need.
(AFP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, British finance minister Sajid Javid said he was "turning the page on austerity" as he promised the biggest spending increases in 15 years, a move widely seen as part of PM Boris Johnson's push for an election to break the Brexit impasse.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, The Bank of England lowered its estimate for the scale of damage to Britain's economy in a worst-case Brexit scenario because of preparations undertaken since the end of last year. The central bank now estimated that gross domestic product would contract by 5.5% peak to trough, less than the 8% seen in a set of scenarios published in November.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, The EU said it currently sees no alternative to the so-called "Irish backstop" in a Brexit withdrawal deal and warned the risk of Britain crashing out without an agreement has increased.
(AFP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s moved to formally withdraw a bill allowing extraditions to China. This may well have ended the Hong Kong unrest in June, but now protesters want a lot more, and they’re ready and willing to fight.
(Bloomberg, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, India officially declared that the leaders of two Pakistan-based militant groups are terrorists under a new law. The Home Ministry named Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, as terrorists under the amended Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, In northern India a large explosion at a fireworks factory killed at least 16 people in Batala, Punjab state.
(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A2)
2019 Sep 4, Iran said it would take another step away from a 2015 nuclear deal by starting to develop centrifuges to speed up its uranium enrichment but it also gave European powers two more months to try to save the multilateral pact. President Hassan Rouhani ordered all limits on nuclear research and development to be lifted, the country's third step in scaling down its commitments to a 2015 deal with world powers.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)(AFP, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, Bezeq, Israel's largest telecoms group, was fined 30 million shekels ($8.6 million) for what the competition regulator said was an "abuse of the firm's monopolistic position" in telecommunications infrastructure. The antitrust authority also imposed a financial penalty of 500,000 shekels on a senior Bezeq official and said it intended to levy a further 8 million shekel fine on Bezeq for misinformation during the authority's investigation.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Italian PM Giuseppe Conte unveiled his new cabinet, uniting two rival political parties in an unlikely coalition that is expected to improve ties with the European Union and adopt a softer stance on immigration. The team of ministers were drawn primarily from the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party (PD).
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A court in Kosovo said it had jailed six people, including a woman, for terms ranging from one to 10 years, for planning attacks last year on NATO troops and the public in Kosovo, Belgium and France.
(Reuters, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, In New Zealand a tour bus carrying Chinese tourists flipped in rainy weather killing five Chinese nationals north of Rotorua.
(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A2)
2019 Sep 4, North Korea told the United Nations to cut the number of international staff it deploys in the country because the world body's programs have failed "due to the politicization of UN assistance by hostile forces".
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said that while he was not a fan of online gambling he was unwilling to ban the business, as China has called for, because of the harm that would do to the country's economy.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, In the Philippines US citizen Jennifer Erin Talbot (43) was arrested as she tried to board a jet with a 6-day-old baby hidden inside a sling bag. Talbot was charged with human trafficking.
(SFC, 9/6/19, p.A5)
2019 Sep 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Indian PM Narendra Modi for talks in Vladivostok on boosting investment and trade, with a special emphasis on energy and arms deals.
(AFP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A Russian court sentenced protester Yevgeny Kovalenko (48) to 3-1/2 years in jail after finding him guilty of using violence against the police at an opposition rally in July. Another protester was sentenced to three years in jail on similar charges.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent their top diplomats to Pakistan to help Islamabad defuse tensions with India over the disputed Kashmir region.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A Scottish judge declined to block Boris Johnson’s plan to suspend Parliament, dealing a blow to lawmakers who argued that there isn’t enough time to thwart a no-deal Brexit.
(Bloomberg, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Sweden's foreign minister confirmed that Iran has released seven of the 23 crew members of the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero that was seized earlier this summer. The Swedish-owned Stena Impero was detained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards on July 19 in the Strait of Hormuz waterway for alleged marine violations.
(AP, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, Turkey's Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said Turkey may lose trade with Britain worth up to $3 billion in the event of a no-deal Brexit, adding that many Turkish companies lacked information on the consequences of such a scenario.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Pope Francis opened a 3-nation pilgrimage to southern Africa with a visit to Mozambique.
(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A4)
2019 Sep 4, A Yemeni official said government officials have begun indirect talks with United Arab Emirates-backed southern separatists in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah to end fighting in Aden and other southern provinces.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2020 Sep 4, President Donald Trump announced that Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to normalize economic ties as part of US-brokered talks that include Belgrade moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, and mutual recognition between Israel and Kosovo.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, US Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration has reached a deal with lawmakers in Congress to ensure the government is funded past Sept. 30, removing the threat of a near-term government shutdown.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, The United States' largest police union endorsed President Donald Trump's re-election bid, boosting the Republican's message that he is the candidate of "law and order" amid US protests against police brutality and racial injustice.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration to resume issuing diversity visas for immigrants from underrepresented countries, partially reversing a pandemic-related freeze on a wide range of immigrant and temporary visas.
(SFC, 9/8/20, p.A4)
2020 Sep 4, A US federal judge ruled that two American men accused of smuggling Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan while he was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges can be extradited. The final decision rests with the State Department.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, A US federal judge temporarily barred Detroit police from the use of striking weapons, chokeholds, chemical agents and rubber bullets against demonstrators, medical support personnel and legal observers in the city's ongoing anti-racism protests. The order will be in effect for at least 14 days.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, California to date had 729,876 cases of coronavirus and 13,611 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 89,308 cases and 1,204 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 6,199,998 with the death toll at 187,750.
(sfist.com, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, In California the fast-spreading Creek Fire began late today near the Mammoth Pool Reservoir about 50 miles south of Yosemite National Park in the Sierra National Forest. At least 63 of the more than 150 people trapped by the massive fire were rescued by military helicopter.
(AP, 9/6/20)
2020 Sep 4, Mail balloting in the presidential election began as North Carolina started sending out more than 600,000 ballots to voters — responding to a massive spike in requests that has played out across the country as voters look for a safer way to cast ballots during the pandemic.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Mississippi dropped the charges against Curtis Flowers. He was the victim of a campaign by Doug Evans, a white local prosecutor, to convict him for a 1996 quadruple murder, despite no good evidence tying Flowers to the crime.
(NY Times, 10/15/20)
2020 Sep 4, In Oregon law enforcement declared an unlawful assembly late today and arrested 27 people after protesters marched through the streets of Portland on to a police building, where officers stood waiting outside.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, In Texas a San Antonio police officer and a security guard fatally shot a Black shoplifting suspect after he stabbed the officer in the face.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Disney premiered its Mulan film on Disney+ for a premium fee in countries where the service had launched. Disney had spent 5 years and $200 million on the live-action remake of its 22-year old animation. Mulan's world premiere was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 9, 2020.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulan_(2020_film))
2020 Sep 4, It was reported that US drugmaker AbbVie Inc will pay $180 million in upfront payment to develop and sell Chinese biotech company I-Mab's cancer drug.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Moderna Inc said it has been asking sites that are conducting clinical trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine to focus on enrolling at-risk minorities, even if that slows down the trial speed.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, In Bangladesh an underground gas pipeline at the Baitus Jalat Jame mosque exploded during evening prayers outside Dhaka, leaving 16 Muslim worshipers dead and dozens injured with critical burns. The death toll soon rose to 33. Eight people were later arrested for alleged negligence.
(AP, 9/4/20)(SFC, 9/7/20, p.A2)(SFC, 9/21/20, p.A2)
2020 Sep 4, In Belarus hundreds of demonstrators rallied again in Minsk to protest the disputed reelection of the nation's authoritarian president. Police dispersed university students attempting to show solidarity with peers who were detained earlier in the week. Police entered the State Linguistics University in Minsk to disperse an action by students who were expressing solidarity with classmates detained earlier. Officers rounded up several participants.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the main opposition challenger in Belarus’ disputed presidential election, spoke to the UN Security Council and urged the international community to impose sanctions on “the individuals that committed electoral violations and crimes against humanity" and take other measures to stop the violence against protesters.
(AP, 9/5/20)
2020 Sep 4, Brazil’s health ministry to date has confirmed more than 4 million cases of the coronavirus disease and 125,000 deaths. President Jair Bolsonaro has expressed opposition to administering vaccines that are yet to be proven on Brazilian soil.
(AP, 9/5/20)
2020 Sep 4, Britain appointed Australia's former prime minister Tony Abbott (62) as a trade adviser as it seeks to agree new post-Brexit deals. The appointment sparked criticism from the opposition Labour party and campaign groups due to his past use of sexist language, skepticism of man-made climate change, and opposition to same-sex marriage.
(AFP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Virgin Atlantic announced 1,150 more job cuts due to the coronavirus crisis, saying its 1.2 billion pound ($1.6 billion) rescue deal alone was not enough to secure its future.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, A new investigation into companies trading in the Chinese city of Dandong, on the border with North Korea, shed a spotlight on Pyongyang’s global money laundering networks and raised fresh questions about China’s complicity in bypassing United Nations sanctions against Kim Jong-un’s regime.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, French President Emmanuel Macron criticized what he called “Islamic separatism" in his country and those who seek French citizenship without accepting France’s “right to commit blasphemy".
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, German biotech firm Curevac said it had won nearly $300 million in government funding to speed up work on its prototype COVID-19 vaccine and build capacity to produce it at scale. Curevac's technology uses mRNA as a data carrier to instruct the human body to produce proteins that can fight against diseases.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Hungary has registered 459 new cases of the coronavirus. The country has registered 7,381 confirmed cases and 621 deaths.
(SFC, 9/5/20, p.A5)
2020 Sep 4, India reported a daily jump of 83,341 coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 3.94 million. 1,096 people died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 68,472.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, The International Atomic Energy Agency reported (IAEA) that Iran continues to increase its stockpile of enriched uranium in violation of limitations set in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, but has begun providing access to sites where the country was suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, NATO demanded Russia cooperate with an international investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, as EU diplomats cast doubt over whether the bloc could impose sanctions on Moscow.
(The Telegraph, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern retained the restrictions put in place to beat the spread of the coronavirus until at least mid-September, as the country reported a new death related to the virus.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Russian scientists have belatedly published first results from early trials into the experimental Sputnik V vaccine. Developers of the vaccine said it appeared to be safe and to prompt an antibody response in all 40 people tested in the second phase of the study within three weeks. However, the authors noted that participants were only followed for 42 days, the study sample was small and there was no placebo or control vaccine used.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, South Korea said it will extend elevated social distancing restrictions for another week after reporting 198 new coronavirus cases.
(SFC, 9/5/20, p.A5)
2020 Sep 4, Sudanese authorities declared their country a natural disaster area and imposed a three-month state of emergency across the country after rising floodwaters and heavy rainfall killed around 100 people and inundated over 100,000 houses since late July.
(AP, 9/5/20)
2020 Sep 4, Swiss-based Roche Holding AG said a therapy it co-developed with Cambridge-based Blueprint Medicines Corp was approved by the US health regulator for the treatment of patients with a type of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said it has begun withdrawing troops from various camps around the country where tens of thousands of civilians sought protection during its civil war.
(AFP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, The UN said locusts are threatening another part of Africa, with up to 7 million people in the southern region facing further food insecurity. The outbreaks of African migratory locusts in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe are not related to the huge outbreak of billions of desert locusts that has affected East Africa for months.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Seven human rights experts affiliated with the UN raised concerns over Hong Kong’s new national security law in a letter addressed to Chinese authorities, saying the legislation limits certain fundamental freedoms.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a risk of famine and widespread food insecurity in four countries affected by conflict — Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria and South Sudan — and that the lives of millions of people are in danger.
(AP, 9/4/20)
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c522BC Sep 4, Pindar (d.~443), Greek poet, was born.
(WUD, 1994 p.1094)(MC, 9/4/01)
1024 Sep 4, Conrad II (the Sailor) was chosen as German king.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1207 Sep 4, Boniface of Montferrat, leader of the 4th Crusade, was ambushed and killed by the Bulgarians.
(Nationmaster.com)
1260 Sep 4, At the Battle of Montaperto in Italy, the Tuscan Ghibellines, who supported the emperor, defeated the Florentine Guelfs, who supported papal power.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1383 Sep 4, Amadeus VIII, duke of Savoye, and the last antipope (Felix V (1439-48), was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1479 Sep 4, After four years of war, Spain agreed to allow a Portuguese monopoly of trade along Africa's west coast and Portugal acknowledged Spain's rights in the Canary Islands.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1553 Sep 4, Cornelia da Nomatalcino, a monk who converted to Judaism, was burned at the stake.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1564 Sep 4, A 10-ship Spanish fleet under Pedro Menendez de Aviles made landfall in Florida. Menendez was under orders from Phillip II to oust the French.
(Arch, 1/05, p.47)
1609 Sep 3-4, Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan. The exact date is not known.
(MC, 9/3/01)(www.hudsonriver.com)
1682 Sep 4, English astronomer Edmund Halley saw his namesake comet.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1768 Sep 4, Vicomte François René de Chateaubriand, French writer, novelist (Atala) and chef who gave his name to a style of steak, was born.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1781 Sep 4, Mexican Provincial Governor, Felipe de Neve, founded Los Angeles. He founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles (Valley of Smokes), originally named Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, by Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish army captain and Juan Crespi, a Franciscan priest, who had noticed the beautiful area as they traveled north from San Diego in 1769. 44 Spanish settlers named a tiny village near San Gabriel, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, first an Indian village Yangma, was founded by Spanish decree. 26 of the settlers were of African ancestry.
(HFA, '96, p.38)(AP, 9/4/97)(SFEC, 4/12/98, Par p.20)(HN, 9/4/98)(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.4)(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1787 Sep 4, Louis XVI of France recalled parliament.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1790 Sep 4, Jacques Necker was forced to resign as finance minister in France.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1802 Sep 4, A French aeronaut dropped eight-thousand feet equipped with a parachute.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1807 Sep 4, Robert Fulton began operating his steamboat. [see Aug 17]
(MC, 9/4/01)
1810 Sep 4, Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1820 Sep 4, Czar Alexander declared that Russian influence in North America extended as far south as Oregon and closed Alaskan waters to foreigners.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1824 Sep 4, Anton Bruckner, composer and Wagner disciple, was born in Austria.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1833 Sep 4, Barney Flaherty (10) answered an ad in "The New York Sun" and became the first newsboy, later called a paperboy.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1838 Sep 4, Henrietta d'Angeville (1794-1871) became the 1st woman to climb to the top of Mt. Blanc, France. In 1808 mountain guides had carried Marie Paradis, a local serving girl, to the top.
(ON, 4/04, p.1)
1842 Sep 4, Work on Cologne cathedral resumed after 284-year hiatus.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1846 Sep 4, Daniel Burnham, US architect, city planner and builder of skyscrapers, was born.
(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1862 Sep 4, Robert E. Lee's Confederate 50,000-man army invaded Maryland, starting the Antietam Campaign. New York Tribune reporter George Smalley scooped the world with his vivid account of the Battle of Antietam.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1864 Sep 4, Bread riots took place in Mobile, Alabama.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1870 Sep 4, At news of Sedan, Paris workers invaded the Palais Bourbon and forced the Legislative Assembly to proclaim the fall of the Empire. Emperor Louis Napoleon III was overthrown in a bloodless coup. The 3rd French Republic was proclaimed in Paris and a government of national defense was formed.
(HN, 9/4/98)(ON, 9/06, p.12)(www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/timeline.htm)
1882 Sep 4, Thomas Edison displayed the first practical electrical lighting system. He successfully turned on the lights in a one square mile area of New York City with the world’s 1st electricity generating plant.
(MC, 9/4/01)(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.R6)
1886 Sep 4, Elusive Apache leader Geronimo (1829-1909) surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles (1839-1925) at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz. This ended the last major US-Indian war.
(HN, 9/4/98)(ON, 10/06, p.4)
1888 Sep 4, George Eastman received patent #388,850 for his roll-film camera and registered his trademark: "Kodak." George Eastman introduced the box camera.
(V.D.-H.K.p.273)(AP, 9/4/97)(MC, 9/4/01)
1892 Sep 4, Darius Milhaud, Aix-en-Provence France, composer, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1893 Sep 4, Beatrix Potter, English author, first told the story of Peter Rabbit in the form of a "picture letter" to Noel Moore, the son of Potter's former governess. A 2nd illustrated letter the same month later became “The Tale of Jeremy Fisher." The “Tale of Peter Rabbit" was published in 1901.
(HN, 9/4/00)(AP, 9/4/04)(Econ, 1/6/07, p.67)
1894 Sep 4, Some 12,000 tailors in New York City went on strike to protest the existence of sweatshops.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1904 Sep 4, Dali Lama signed a treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1905 Sep 4, Mary Renault (Mary Challans), author who wrote about her wartime experiences in “The Last of the Wine" and “The King Must Die," was born. She also wrote “Funeral Games."
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1907 Sep 4, In Washington state five hundred white working men in Bellingham gathered to drive a community of South Asian migrant workers (Sikhs) out of the city. Within ten days the entire South Asian population departed town.
(http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/bham_history.htm)
1907 Sep 4, Edvard Hagerup Grieg (b.1843), Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), died.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Grieg)
1908 Sep 4, Richard Wright (d.1960), novelist who wrote about the abuses of blacks in white society, best known for “Native Son" (1940), was born near Natchez, Miss.
(SSFC, 8/12/01, DB p.61)(AP, 9/4/08)
1912 Sep 4, Alexander Liberman, editor, painter and photographer (639), was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1914 Sep 4, General von Moltke ceased German advance in France.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1915 Sep 4, Rudolf Schock, German opera and operetta tenor, was born.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1915 Sep 4, The U.S. military placed Haiti under martial law to quell a rebellion in its capital Port-au-Prince.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1917 Sep 4, The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I when a German plane attacked a British-run base hospital.
(AP, 9/4/08)
1918 Sep 4, Paul Harvey, conservative radio commentator, was born in Tulsa, Okla.
(HN, 9/4/98)(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)
1920 Sep 4, Craig Claiborne, food critic, food columnist (NY Times Cookbook) and cookbook author, was born.
(HN, 9/4/00)(MC, 9/4/01)
1920 Sep 4, Maggie Higgins, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1951) for international reporting, for her work in Korean war zones, was born.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1923 Sep 4, Noel Coward's revue "London Calling," premiered in London.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1939 Sep 4, German troops stormed into Danzig (Gdansk).
(MC, 9/4/01)
1939 Sep 4, The Nazis marched into Czestochowa, Poland, two days after they invaded Poland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cz%C4%99stochowa)
1939 Sep 4, The Polish ghetto of Mir was exterminated.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1941 Sep 4, German submarine U-652 fired at the U.S. destroyer Greer off Iceland, beginning an undeclared shooting war.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1942 Sep 4, Soviet planes bombed Budapest in the war's first air raid on the Hungarian capital.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1943 Sep 4, Allied troops captured Lae-Salamaua, in New Guinea.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1943 Sep 4, British 8th army landed at Taranto in South Italy.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1944 Sep 4, British troops liberated Antwerp, Belgium.
(HN, 9/4/98)
1945 Sep 4, US regained possession of Wake Island from Japan. The American flag was raised on Wake Island after surrender ceremonies there.
(HN, 9/4/98)(MC, 9/4/01)
1948 Sep 4, Queen Wilhelmina abdicated the Dutch throne for health reasons.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1950 Sep 4, The Beetle Bailey cartoon appeared for the 1st time in syndication. Beatle Bailey, the laziest private in the army, was created by Mort Walker.
(USAT, 8/31/00, p.1D)(SFC, 6/18/96, p.B2)
1950 Sep 4, The 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
(www.rafmuseum.org.uk/milestones-of-flight/world/1950.html)
1950 Sep 4, A heavy typhoon struck Japan and killed about 250 people.
(www.todayinhistory.com/s75-9-04-event-results.html)
1951 Sep 4, President Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast. The broadcast was carried by 94 stations.
(AP, 9/4/97)(HN, 9/4/98)
1951 Sep 4, Juozas Luksa (b.1921), aka “Skirmantas" or “Daumantas," Lithuanian partisan, was killed by Soviet counterintelligence. In 2003, director Jonas Vaitkus released a movie based on his life, “Utterly Alone."
(VilNews, 5/10/10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juozas_Luk%C5%A1a)
1954 Sep 4, The 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage, completed.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1957 Sep 4, Arkansas National guardsmen turned away Black students from Central High School in Little Rock. 9 students made it into the school on September 24 under the protection of federal troops sent by Pres. Eisenhower. In 2007 Elizabeth Jacoway authored “Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crises That Shocked the Nation."
(AH, 10/07, p.61)
1957 Sep 4, Ford Motor Co. introduced the 1958 Edsel. It was designed by Roy Brown and sold only 173,000 units through 1960.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, p.D12)(AP, 9/4/97)
1959 Sep 4, "Mack the Knife" was banned from radio -- at least from WCBS Radio in New York City. The ban was due to teenage stabbings in NYC.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1965 Sep 4, Beatles' "Help!" single went #1 for 3 weeks.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1965 Sep 4, Philosopher, musician, doctor, theologian and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer died in Lambaréné, Gabon. Born near Alsace, Germany, in 1875, Schweitzer decided to devote himself to providing health care to people in Africa at the age of 30. Schweitzer and his wife Hélène moved to Gabon in 1913 and opened a hospital in Lambaréné, which he later expanded with money from the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 1952. Schweitzer also spoke out against the dangers of nuclear weapons, became an organist and expert on Johann Sebastian Bach, and served as a church pastor and university professor. He lived by the principle of "reverence for life."
(HNPD, 9/4/98)
1967 Sep 4, Michigan Gov. George Romney told a TV interview he'd undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam, a comment that apparently damaged Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1968 Sep 4, In the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville, an army coup deposed Pres. Masemba-Debat.
(WUD, 1994, p.1687)
1969 Sep 4, The US Food and Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills safe, despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1969 Sep 4, In California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce package into law, effective January 1, 1970.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, Z1 p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce)
1969 Sep 4, In Brazil Fernando Gabeira helped kidnap the US ambassador in Rio, Charles Elbrick (d.1983), to protest the military dictatorship. Elbrick was released unhurt four days later, but Gabeira was banned from entering the US.
(AP, 10/27/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burke_Elbrick)
1970 Sep 4, Natalia Makarova (b.1940), Russian ballet dancer, requested asylum while on tour in Britain.
(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A20)(www.abt.org/education/archive/choreographers/makarova_n.html)
1970 Sep 4, Salvador Allende Gossens (1908-1973) won the presidential election in Chile. A week later in Washington Henry Kissinger discussed a "covert action program" to oust Allende.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.D1)
1971 Sep 4, "The Lawrence Welk Show" was seen for the last time on ABC-TV. A week later it opened on the Lawrence Welk Network.
(www.accordionusa.com/fe_01_07.htm)
1971 Sep 4, An Alaska Airlines jet crashed near Juneau, killing 111 people.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1972 Sep 4, The TV game show "The Price Is Right" returned with Bob Barker and continued for 35 seasons. A nighttime version also began this year hosted by Dennis James (1917-1997) up to 1977.
(SFC, 6/5/97, p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_James)
1972 Sep 4, U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter relay at the Munich Summer Olympics.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1972 Sep 4, In San Francisco the Playland-at-the-Beach amusement park was bulldozed on Labor Day Weekend. Playland shut its gates and some 40 Fascination tables were transferred to a Market Street arcade. Fascination was invented by John Gibbs of Los Angeles and combined the skill of bowling with the luck of Bingo. The head of Laughing Sal was stolen on closure and turned up in 2004.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A1)(SSFC, 3/14/04, p.B2)(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.F6)(SFC, 5/31/08, p.B2)
1973 Sep 4, William E Colby (1920-1996), became the 10th director of the CIA.
(http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/wcolby.htm)
1974 Sep 4, The US & German DR established diplomatic relations.
(http://tinyurl.com/6xdex7)
1974 Sep 4, General Creighton Williams Abrams, US commander in Vietnam (1968-1972), died in Washington DC of lung cancer. In 2005 the “Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes" transcribed and edited by Lewis Sorley was published.
(WSJ, 3/18/05, p.W6)
1977 Sep 4, The Golden Dragon Massacre occurred in San Francisco’s Chinatown. 5 people were killed and 11 wounded, none of them gang members, during a shootout between the rival Wah Ching and Joe Boys. Four men were convicted. In 1999 Bill Lee, a former gang member, published "Chinese Playground," a memoir of his experiences in the 60s and 70s. Assailant Curtis Tam was released in 1991 after he testified against two others. In 2015 assailant Melvin Yu was paroled. Peter Ng remained in prison in Vacaville. Tom Yu, the chief plotter and not at the scene, was up for parole in 2017.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A18)(SFEC, 5/2/99, BR p.6)(SSFC, 9/3/17, p.A14,15)
1981 Sep 4, David Brinkley (1920-2003) ended an illustrious 38-year career with NBC News this day. ABC had offered him an opportunity too good to refuse.
(http://tinyurl.com/38bq4z)
1981 Sep 4, In Florida Linda Patterson Slaten (31) was found strangled to death in her Lakeland apartment. In 2019 genetic genealogy led police to arrest Joseph Mills (58), her son's former football coach for the crime.
(ABC News, 12/19/19)
1984 Sep 4, Canada's Progressive Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney, won a landslide victory in general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime Minister John N. Turner.
(AP, 9/4/04)
1987 Sep 4, A Soviet court convicted West German pilot Mathias Rust of charges stemming from his daring flight to Moscow's Red Square, and sentenced him to four years in a labor camp. He was released the following August.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1988 Sep 4, Officials in Bangladesh reported that floods had inundated three-quarters of their impoverished nation, claiming at least 882 lives. Monsoon floods left over 3,000 dead this year.
(AP, 9/4/98)(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A15)
1989 Sep 4, The US Air Force launched its last Titan 3 rocket, which reportedly carried a reconnaissance satellite. Since 1964, the Titan 3 had sent more than 200 satellites into space.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1989 Sep 4, Georges Simenon (86), Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), died. The Belgian born writer, authored some 200 novels. Many featured the crime-busting hero Inspector Maigret.
(SFC, 6/9/00, p.D5)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/simenon.htm)
1990 Sep 4, The air evacuation of Western women and children stranded in Iraq and Kuwait resumed, with 25 Americans among the nearly 300 who made it to Jordan.
(AP, 9/4/00)
1991 Sep 4, South African President F.W. de Klerk proposed a new constitution that would allow blacks to vote and govern; the African National Congress rejected the plan, charging it was designed to maintain white privileges.
(AP, 9/4/01)
1992 Sep 4, The US government reported the nation's unemployment rate had edged down to 7.6 percent in August 1992, but also said adult joblessness had worsened slightly and the economy had lost thousands of crucial manufacturing jobs.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1993 Sep 4, The Fatah faction of the PLO endorsed a peace accord with Israel.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1993 Sep 4, Pope John Paul II launched the first papal visit to the former Soviet Union as he began a tour of the Baltic republics.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1993 Sep 4, Herve Hillechaize (50) died in Los Angeles. The Fantasy Island actor shot himself to death.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1994 Sep 4, On the eve of a U.N.-sponsored conference on population in Cairo, Egypt, Vice President Al Gore told NBC the United States was seeking a blueprint for world population growth that rejected abortion as a family planning tool and an international right.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1995 Sep 4, Attorney William Moses Kunstler (b.1919) died in NYC. The UCLA attorney spoke out for the politically unpopular in a controversial career and defended the Chicago 7.
(SFC, 4/8/96, p.A3)(www.nndb.com/people/218/000025143/)
1995 Sep 4-1995 Sep 7, Hurricane Luis hit the Virgin Islands.
(NH, 10/96, p.60)(www.nhc.noaa.gov/1995luis.html)
1995 Sep 4, The Fourth World Conference on Women opened in Beijing with more than 4,750 delegates from 181 countries.
(AP, 9/4/00)
1996 Sep 4, The Smashing Pumpkins rock group won 7 MTV music awards including Best Video for “Tonight, Tonight," and Best Alternative Music Video for 1979.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B4)
1996 Sep 4, Actor Jack Lemon, Singer Johnny Cash, playwright Edward Albee, saxophonist Benny Carter and ballet dancer Maria Tallchief were the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors for their life work in the performing arts.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.B2)
1996 Sep 4, Whitewater prosecutors had Susan McDougal held in contempt for refusing to tell a grand jury whether President Clinton had lied at her trial.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1996 Sep 4, Anti-aircraft fire lit up the skies of Baghdad, hours after the United States fired a new round of cruise missiles into southern Iraq and destroyed an Iraqi radar site. The US again launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraqi air defense sites. The 2nd launch was deemed a success after the first launch failed to destroy intended targets. The Tomahawks were made by Hughes Aircraft Co. and cost about $1 mil apiece. Kurdish leader Barzani wrote a latter to Sec. of State Christopher Warren and asked that the US mediate. 44 cruise missiles were launched over 2 days plus a rocket from an F-16 fighter.
(AP, 9/4/97)(SFC, 4/9/96, A1)(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A8)(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A8)
1996 Sep 4, In Columbia the government will require businesses with a net worth of more than 85k to buy war bonds to finance the war against leftist rebels.
(WSJ, 9/4/96, p.A1)
1996 Sep 4, In the Congo authorities found 200 slaughtered elephants in a marsh of the National Park of Odzala.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 4, France said it will stop changing its clocks twice a year.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)
1996 Sep 4, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Palestinian leader Arafat and agreed to pursue a peace settlement.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.1)
1997 Sep 4, A trio of Buddhist nuns acknowledged in Senate testimony that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore and later destroyed or altered records to avoid embarrassment.
(AP, 9/4/98)
1997 Sep 4, It was reported that scientists have pinpointed the gene, Torsin 1, responsible for dystonia, a condition marked by uncontrolled movements.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A6)
1997 Sep 4, In Algeria 22 people were killed in El Arbi. Their throats were slit and bodies burned.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)
1997 Sep 4, In Cuba an explosion shook 3 tourist hotels and one Italian tourist was killed. Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon (25) of Salvador was arrested and accused of carrying out a half-dozen hotel attacks. He worked for Luis Posada Carriles, who was supported by the Cuban-American National Foundation. Cruz was sentenced to death in 1999. In 2010 Cuba's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence ruling that he should serve 30 years in prison instead. Francisco Chavez Abarca of El Salvador was later arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison for planting some of the bombs.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A21)(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A1)(AP, 12/3/10)(SFC, 5/24/11, p.A2)
1997 Sep 4, In Israel a triple suicide bombing in a mall in the heart of Jerusalem claimed the lives of seven people, including the three assailants.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A1)(AP, 9/4/98)
1997 Sep 4, From Kenya it was reported that the unemployment rate was 35%.
(SFC, 9/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 4, In Turkey 33 people were killed when 2 buses collided near Ankara. Turkey has the highest incidence of road traffic deaths with 2,713 killed in the first 7 months of this year.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A12)
1998 Sep 4, During a visit to Ireland, President Clinton said the words "I'm sorry" for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, describing his behavior as indefensible.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1998 Sep 4, In NYC the Million Youth March ended in a wild melee as police rushed the speaking platform after the event ran minutes over the allotted time. An estimated 20,000 people were in attendance. Mayor Giuliani later supported the police action at the rally where 6,000 people had gathered. Some 3,000 officers were massed in the area. A grand jury was later asked to investigate.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A3)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A3)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 4, In Yarmouth Harbor, New Brunswick, the new Incat 046 catamaran collided with a fishing dragger and killed Captain Clifford Hood (33). The new ferry carried up to 900 passengers and 240 cars from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Yarmouth across the Bay of Fundy at 50 mph. Travel time was cut in half from 6.5 hours for the 105 mile run.
(SFC, 10/5/98, p.A3,5)
1998 Sep 4, In Nevada two Air Force helicopters crashed during training and all 12 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 4, In Brazil the Central Bank raised interest rates from 20 to 30%.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.D2)
1998 Sep 4, In Osasco, Brazil, near Sao Paulo a Universal Church roof collapsed and killed at least 23 people and injured 500.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A19)
1998 Sep 4, Flooding and mudslides in India was reported to have killed over 2,000 this year.
(WSJ, 9/4/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 4, Former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1994 killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
(SFC, 9/5/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 4, Ukraine clinched a $2.2 billion IMF loan and announced a de facto currency devaluation for its hryvnia to between 2.5 and 3.5 to the dollar.
(WSJ, 9/8/98, p.A23)
1999 Sep 4, In NYC the 2nd Million Youth March headed by Khalid Abdul Muhammad was attended by 1-2 thousand people and watched over by 1,400 police officers.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A2)
1999 Sep 4, Martin R. Frankel, a Connecticut money manager, accused of cheating insurance companies in five states out of more than $200 million, was arrested in at the Hotel Prem in Hamburg, Germany.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A6)(AP, 9/4/00)
1999 Sep 4, In Dagestan a car bomb killed at least 22 people at a Russian military housing block in Buinaksk. The death toll son expanded to 64. Russian officials believed that Khattab, a Jordanian operating in Chechnya, ordered the bombing. In 2000 5 suspects were charged in the bombing. In 2001 six men were convicted. In 2004 Magomed Salikhov was arrested in Baku for his role in the bombing. In Feb, 2006, Salikhov was acquitted of organizing the explosion, but was sentenced to over 4 years in prison for membership a rebel group. The Russian Supreme Court overturned the acquittal on June 15 and ordered the investigation to be reopened. A Dagestan jury acquitted Salikhov on Nov 10.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A12)(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A16)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.C1)(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A11)(AP, 11/13/04)(AP, 6/15/06)(AP, 11/11/06)
1999 Sep 4, Ethiopia claimed that the proposed outline for the implementation of a peace plan contradicted an original agreement regarding the withdrawal of Eritrea's forces. Eritrea the next day took the statement as "tantamount to a declaration of war."
(SFC, 9/7/99, p.A14)
1999 Sep 4, At Sharm El-Sheikh (Sharm Al Sheik), Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Pres. Yasser Arafat signed a new deal that ceded West Bank land to the Palestinians and set up a timetable for peace.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/21/99, p.A21)
1999 Sep 4, In East Timor pro-Indonesia militia took control of much of the country in defiance of the election results hours after the United Nations announced that residents had overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. A dozen people were reported killed in Dili.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A11)(AP, 9/4/00)
2000 Sep 4, In Australia a Beechcraft King Air 200 plane crashed near Mount Isa after flying for 6 hours on autopilot. 8 people were killed and believed to have blacked out after loss of cabin pressure following takeoff from Perth.
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A11)
2000 Sep 4, French investigators announced that a stray length of metal which had gashed a tire of a supersonic Concorde, leading to a fuel tank fire and the plane's fatal crash the previous July, probably came from a Continental Airlines plane that had taken off on the same runway four minutes earlier.
(AP, 9/4/01)
2000 Sep 4, In France farmers along with and truckers and taxi drivers protested high fuel costs with demonstrations at 80 facilities.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Sri Lanka the government “Operation Sunrise" left some 144 government soldiers and over 230 rebels dead along with some 766 wounded.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Sep 4, In Uganda at least 41 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in Lake Albert, 140 miles north of Kampala.
(SFC, 9/8/00, p.D2)
2001 Sep 4, President Bush opened the door to a future cut in the capital gains tax, but said he first wanted to see the effects of the previous spring's income tax cut.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, Texas Republican Phil Gramm announced he would leave the U.S. Senate at the end of his third term, following fellow conservatives Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond into retirement.
(AP, 9/4/02)
2001 Sep 4, The US and Mexico agreed on small measures to improve food safety, enhance law enforcement and fight money laundering as Pres. Fox came to visit with Pres. Bush.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 4, SF Bay Area BART reached a tentative agreement with its 2 largest unions. An injunction against a strike was ordered the next day against the AFSCME.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.A13)
2001 Sep 4, Police shot and killed Rolland Rohm (28) at the Rainbow Farms campground in Vandalia, Mich., after he allegedly pointed a weapon at an officer. The campground had been set up for marijuana advocates. Owner Grover T. Crosslin was killed by FBI snipers a day earlier.
(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A5)(http://cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17211.shtml)
2001 Sep 4, In the Bahamas a fire destroyed Bay Street businesses in Nassau’s Straw Market.
(WSJ, 9/6/01, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, President Bush promised to seek Congress' approval for "whatever is necessary" to oust Saddam Hussein including using military force.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Secretary of State Colin Powell was heckled by dozens of activists on the closing day of the World Summit in South Africa as he defended America's record on the environment and helping the developing world.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, Texas cocktail waitress and aspiring pop star Kelly Clarkson was voted the first "American Idol" at the conclusion of the Fox TV series.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2002 Sep 4, In California it was reported that the Phytophthora ramorum microbe, responsible for sudden oak death, had infected the coastal redwood saplings.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, In Afghanistan Pres. Karzai announced a new currency to replace the array of inflated banknotes issued by the Taliban and regional warlords. Warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former US ally, called for a jihad against US forces.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/5/02, p.A1)
2002 Sep 4, China reported that flooding had killed 1,532 people this year.
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A11)
2002 Sep 4, Colombian authorities reported the break up of an international kidnapping ring organized by the nation's second-largest rebel group to fund its insurgency. The leader of the ring was captured in July, and authorities have arrested his successor and other rebels within the last couple of days, said Gen. Reynaldo Castellanos. The crime network was run out of Bogota by members of the National Liberation Army. It included leftist groups from Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico that kidnapped people and stole cars, among other crimes.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, In Puerto Rico US Navy security officers fired tear gas at protesters who hurled rocks over a fence during bombing exercises on the island of Vieques.
(AP, 9/5/02)
2002 Sep 4, The World Summit on Sustainable Development closed with just a handful of small victories and some promising new initiatives. Colin Powell was heckled and the US was viewed as a key obstacle to setting firm targets on many issues. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an anti-corruption scheme to oversee oil production, was launched by UK PM Tony Blair, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, SA.
(AP, 9/5/02)(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A10)(www.osi-az.org/eitiabout.shtml)
2003 Sep 4, Pres. Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) into law. It required the collection of data on sexual abuse in prison and the creation of a commission to recommend ways of prevention.
(Econ, 8/6/05, p.25)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003)(Econ, 5/7/11, p.32)
2003 Sep 4, Miguel Estrada, whose nomination became a flash point for Democratic opposition to President Bush's judicial choices, withdrew from consideration for an appeals court seat after Republicans failed in seven attempts to break a Senate filibuster.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2003 Sep 4, The US House agreed to a 2.2 percent pay raise for Congress, enough to boost lawmakers' annual salaries to about $158,000 next year.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2003 Sep 4, Verizon Communications and two unions, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, reached a tentative, five-year contract agreement after four months of talks.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2003 Sep 4, Researchers reported that the hormone YY3-36 appeared to curb the appetite of obese people.
(SFC, 9/4/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 4, British and Colombian authorities said they had seized nearly $7 billion in securities from an international drug and money-laundering ring. Authorities arrested 14 alleged members of the ring, 10 in England, two in Colombia and two in Ecuador.
(AP, 9/4/03)
2003 Sep 4, Mario Monteforte Toledo, Guatemalan writer and activist, died. His work included the 1952 novel "En Donde Acaban los Caminos" (Where the Roads End).
(SFC, 9/5/03, p.A23)
2004 Sep 4, Hurricane Frances ripped apart roofs, shattered windows and flooded neighborhoods as it raged through the Bahamas leaving 2 people dead.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 4, A gunfight broke out in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia, leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded.
(AP, 9/5/04)
2004 Sep 4, India's PM Singh said his government was ready to talk to any militant group, including those in Kashmir, abandoning previous preconditions that the rebels must first disarm.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2004 Sep 4, Insurgents clashed with American and Iraqi troops in northern Iraq, and local officials said eight Iraqis were killed and more than 50 wounded. A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside a police academy in the northern city of Kirkuk as hundreds of trainees and civilians were leaving for the day, killing 17 people and wounding 36. Saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline in southern Iraq.
(AP, 9/4/04)(SSFC, 9/5/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 4, Lebanese lawmakers amended their constitution to keep pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud in office, boldly reaffirming their loyalty to Damascus and defying a U.N. resolution calling for presidential elections.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2004 Sep 4, A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness after more than 330 people were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, US Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In New Orleans police killed at least 4 people who shot at contractors. The official Louisiana state death toll stood at 59 but the number was expected to rise to thousands.
(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, European Union and NATO said the US has asked for emergency assistance, requesting blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In southern Afghanistan 13 suspected Taliban fighters were killed in fighting with US and Afghan forces in Kandahar province. More than 40 suspected militants were arrested.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In France fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building south of Paris, killing 16 people, two of them children. 4 people were detained in connection with the suspected arson attack. 3 teenage girls confessed to starting the fire.
(AP, 9/4/05)(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Iraq US troops killed 7 insurgents in Tal Afar, including six who fired at the Americans from a mosque.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, The oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait said it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Nepal police fired tear gas and used bamboo batons to stop pro-democracy demonstrators from marching into the capital's center, arresting former PM Girija Prasad Koirala (80) and dozens of other protesters.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Pakistan's opposition called for a country-wide strike to press their demand for the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov. The military faced criticism over its handling of a mini-submarine accident last month.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said it had signed a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
(www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=2640)
2005 Sep 4, In eastern Saudi Arabia police fought running gun battles with al-Qaida militants in Dammam in clashes that killed two extremists and a police officer. The militants aimed to attack oil facilities.
(AP, 9/4/05)(WSJ, 2/25/06, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, In Turkey a group of nationalist Turks attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish demonstrators with stones, following violent clashes between Kurdish demonstrators and police in Istanbul.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, US Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In New Orleans police killed at least 4 people, who allegedly shot at contractors. The official Louisiana state death toll due to Hurricane Katrina stood at 59 but the number was expected to rise to thousands. In 2008 federal officials opened an investigations into shootings on the Danziger Bridge where 2 people were killed and 4 wounded. In 2010 former Lt. Michael Lohman pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice. He and others filed false reports to make the shootings on the Danziger Bridge seem justifiable. On April 16, 2010, officer Robert Barrios was charged with conspiring to obstruct justice in relation to the bridge shootings. On April 20, 2016, five former police officers pleaded guilty to a reduced number of charges in the Danziger Bridge shootings.
(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/08, p.A5)(SFC, 2/25/10, p.A4)(SFC, 4/17/10, p.A4)(SFC, 4/20/16, p.A6)
2005 Sep 4, European Union and NATO said the US has asked for emergency assistance, requesting blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In southern Afghanistan 13 suspected Taliban fighters were killed in fighting with US and Afghan forces in Kandahar province. More than 40 suspected militants were arrested.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In France fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building south of Paris, killing 16 people, two of them children. 4 people were detained in connection with the suspected arson attack. 3 teenage girls confessed to starting the fire.
(AP, 9/4/05)(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Iraq US troops killed 7 insurgents in Tal Afar, including six who fired at the Americans from a mosque.
(AP, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 4, The oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait said it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, In Nepal police fired tear gas and used bamboo batons to stop pro-democracy demonstrators from marching into the capital's center, arresting former PM Girija Prasad Koirala (80) and dozens of other protesters.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Pakistan's opposition called for a country-wide strike to press their demand for the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov. The military faced criticism over its handling of a mini-submarine accident last month.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2005 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said it had signed a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
(www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=2640)
2005 Sep 4, In eastern Saudi Arabia police fought running gun battles with al-Qaida militants in Dammam in clashes that killed two extremists and a police officer. The militants aimed to attack oil facilities.
(AP, 9/4/05)(WSJ, 2/25/06, p.A1)
2005 Sep 4, In Turkey a group of nationalist Turks attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish demonstrators with stones, following violent clashes between Kurdish demonstrators and police in Istanbul.
(AP, 9/4/05)
2006 Sep 4, Tropical storm Ernesto soaked the East Coast of the US claiming 6 lives and left 19,000 customers in the new York area without power.
(WSJ, 9/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 4, In south-central Montana a wildfire had spread across 180,000 acres, over 280 sq. miles, since it was sparked by lightning on Aug 22. It was only 20% contained.
(SFC, 9/5/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 4, In Newry, Maine, 4 people were found killed at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast. The victims were shot and then dismembered. Christian Nielsen (31), a resident at the inn for 2-months, was arrested. The dead included owner Julie Bullard (65), her daughter Selby (30), her friend Cindy Beatson (43), and Arkansas resident James Whitehurst.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 4, In Berkeley, Ca., Nicholas Beaudreaux shot and killed Wayne Drummond in front of Blake’s Restaurant. In 2009 Lamar Crowder (21) pleaded no contests to voluntary manslaughter and testified against Beaudreaux (23), who was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting.
(SFC, 7/9/09, p.D2)
2006 Sep 4, In southern Afghanistan 2 US warplanes accidentally strafed their own forces, killing one Canadian soldier and seriously wounding five others. A British soldier attached to NATO was also killed in a Kabul suicide bombing, which left another four Afghans dead. 16 suspected Taliban militants and five Afghan police died in separate Afghan violence.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Steve Irwin (44), world-famous Australian "crocodile hunter" and television environmentalist, was killed by a stingray blow to the chest while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. His "Crocodile Hunter" show, in which the adventurer appeared in his trademark khaki shorts and shirt, was first broadcast in 1992 and has been shown around the world on the Discovery cable network ever since.
(AFP, 9/4/06)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.82)
2006 Sep 4, Global press titan Rupert Murdoch launched a new free title: thelondonpaper, a 48-page color paper, dominated by gossip and real-life stories, in the city centre. The first free paper in London was launched seven years ago, in 1999. Metro, a daily morning paper published by Associated Newspapers, has a circulation of around a million copies in the capital and 13 other big towns.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In CongoDRC a boat overloaded with passengers and freight sank in choppy waters on Lake Kivu, killing at least 35 people.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Cyprus 3 British holidaymakers were charged with willful manslaughter over the death of a Cypriot teenager in a hit-and-run accident in the coastal resort of Protaras last month. A rented Opel "repeatedly rammed" the moped in what police described as a revenge attack following a fight outside a Protaras disco in which a friend of the accused was beaten up.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Egypt a passenger train collided with a cargo train north of Cairo, killing 5 people and injuring 30 others.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In France the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet, took off with a full load of passengers for the first time. Carrying 474 Airbus employees, the 308-ton jet left from Toulouse, southern France, on the first of four test flights.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Iraq a popular Iraqi soccer star was kidnapped. 33 bullet-riddled bodies were found in Baghdad and 2 more in Kut. At least two people also were killed and six were wounded in and around Baqouba. Two suicide bombers slammed into a checkpoint on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing an Iraqi soldier and wounding eight. Gunmen in Ramadi killed Maj. Gen. Mohammad Thumeil, who had served in former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's military. An American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, while a 2nd soldier died of non-combat related injuries. 2 US Marines and one sailor were killed in fighting Anbar province.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, Nabeel Ahmed Issa al-Jaourah opened fire on tourists near a popular Roman ruins site in Jordan's capital, killing Christopher Stokes, a British man, and wounding five other foreigners and a local police officer. Police overpowered and arrested the attacker at the scene. Al-Jaourah was sentenced to death in December.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/21/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Lebanon US civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson met with Hezbollah officials and called on them to show proof that two captured Israeli soldiers are still alive. A UN spokesman said Secretary-General Kofi Annan has agreed to requests by Hezbollah and Israel that he mediate in negotiations over the release of two abducted Israeli soldiers. Qatar announced that it would contribute 200 to 300 troops to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, making the Persian Gulf state the first Arab country to commit soldiers to the peace effort in Lebanon.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Philippine marines clashed with nearly 200 al-Qaida-linked rebels on Jolo Island. 6 government troops were killed and 19 wounded in the monthlong US-backed offensive. In Dec the military said Khaddafy Janjalani, head of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf, was killed in the fighting and that his remains had been found. DNA evidence confirmed his death.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/27/06)(AP, 1/20/07)
2006 Sep 4, Somalia's weak government and an Islamic militia that controls much of the south signed an agreement to eventually form a unified national army.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse said security forces had captured Sampur, a key town used by Tamil Tigers to target artillery at a major naval port. Rajapakse urged the rebels to return to peace talks.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sudan said it would allow African troops to remain in Darfur only under African Union control and accused Washington of attempting "regime change" in Khartoum by trying to bring in a UN force.
(Reuters, 9/4/06)
2007 Sep 4, US President George W. Bush arrived in Sydney for a regional summit with the city locked down in the biggest security operation in Australian history.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Mattel Inc.'s reputation took another hit after the world's largest toy maker announced a third major recall of Chinese-made toys in little more than a month because of excessive amounts of lead paint.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Florida Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to federal tax evasion and mail fraud charges.
(SFC, 9/5/07, p.A3)
2007 Sep 4, New York city’s first Arab-language school opened.
(Econ, 9/8/07, p.36)
2007 Sep 4, 5-nation war games began in the Bay of Bengal. Indian and US aircraft carriers launched fighter jets into the air as American submarines cruised below Japanese, Australian and Singaporean warships.
(AP, 9/6/07)
2007 Sep 4, Afghan security forces in overnight fighting said they have killed Mullah Mateen, a Taliban commander alleged to be behind the July kidnappings of 23 South Korean church workers. The Taliban denied the dead man was one of their militants. Up to 27 other insurgents were also slain. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said 7 insurgents were killed in the clash, all of them ordinary fighters. He said the Taliban had no commander called Mullah Mateen, and said he did not know who the government was referring to. Afghan and coalition soldiers in Shah Wali Kot district, in southern Kandahar province, came under attack while on patrol. They fought back before calling in air support and over a dozen insurgents were killed in the engagement. About 18 miles away, insurgents sheltering in a traditional low-walled Afghan compound attacked another joint patrol. Airstrikes later pounded the position, killing six insurgents.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Australia 2 Indonesians were jailed over a people-smuggling operation to bring 83 Sri Lankans into Australia. The two pleaded guilty to smuggling 83 Sri Lankans into Australian waters in February near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, A skirmish near the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh killed two Azerbaijani soldiers and three Armenian troops.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, A Eurostar train shattered the record for the quickest rail journey between Paris and London, using a new high-speed track that shaved some 30 minutes off the previous fastest time. The 306 mile (492 kilometer) journey from the Gare du Nord in Paris to Saint Pancras took just two hours, three minutes and 39 seconds from station to station.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Most of London's sprawling transport network shut down after maintenance workers walked off the job, arousing commuter anger and drawing warnings the strike will inconvenience millions of Britons. Subway maintenance workers agreed to cut short the strike.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Jane Tomlinson (43), terminal cancer sufferer, died in London following a 7-year battle against the disease. Tomlinson had raised thousands of pounds after being diagnosed with terminal breast cancer by taking on a series of grueling physical challenges.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Canada’s PM Stephen Harper suspended Parliament and reconvened a new session on October 16, setting up a vote of confidence in his minority Conservative government that could trigger an election.
(Reuters, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, An official said China's environmental watchdog has closed down 400 factories since it started a national campaign in July to tackle water pollution.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Rangers and 300 villagers abandoned a gorilla reserve in eastern Congo as government soldiers battled troops loyal to a renegade general in sections of Virunga park. The UN said ten thousand Congolese refugees have fled to neighboring Uganda following clashes between the Congolese army and renegade troops in its eastern provinces.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/4/07)(Econ, 9/8/07, p.52)
2007 Sep 4, Denmark's intelligence service arrested eight Islamic militants linked to leading al-Qaida figures, and said the suspects were plotting an attack involving explosives.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, It was reported that Ethiopian authorities plan to kill tens of thousands of stray dogs in the capital using strychnine-laced meat, saying they want to eradicate rabies before next week's celebration of the Coptic millennium.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Germany 3 suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on US facilities in Germany. In 2008 Fritz Martin Gelowicz (29), Daniel Martin Schneider (22) and Adem Yilmaz (29) were charged with membership in a terrorist organization. In 2016 Gelowicz was released from prison after serving two-thirds of a twelve year sentence.
(AP, 9/5/07)(SFC, 9/3/08, p.A8)(AP, 8/17/16)
2007 Sep 4, Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked to head a key clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader, state media reported, in a vote seen as a setback for hard-liners in Iran's ruling establishment.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, An Iraqi appeals court upheld death sentences imposed against "Chemical Ali" al-Majid and two other Saddam Hussein lieutenants convicted of crimes against humanity for their roles in a massacre of Kurds. 3 separate attacks in Baghdad killed four US soldiers and at least 11 civilians.
(AP, 9/4/07)(AP, 9/5/07)
2007 Sep 4, Hurricane Felix roared ashore as a fearsome Category 5 storm, the first time in recorded history that two top-scale storms have made landfall in the same season. The storm hit near the swampy Nicaragua-Honduras border, home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians dependent on canoes to make their way to safety. Some 332 people left dead or missing.
(AP, 9/4/07)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.45)
2007 Sep 4, Nigeria’s national news agency said Nigeria will spend 950 million naira (7.3 million dollars/ 5.3 million euros) to resettle nationals living in the disputed Bakassi Peninsula ceded to Cameroon last year.
(AFP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, A senior US diplomat said North Korea remains on a list of states that sponsor terrorism, dismissing North Korean claims that Washington decided to remove the designation.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Pakistan suicide bombers attacked a bus filled with government workers and a commercial area near Islamabad, killing at least 25 people and deepening the sense of crisis in a country beset with political uncertainty and Islamic militants.
(AP, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, In Russia’s Voronezh region an explosion killed three people at a sugar refinery owned by Prodimex Group, one of the country's largest producers.
(Reuters, 9/4/07)
2007 Sep 4, Alain Robert climbed to the top of Moscow’s 795-feet-high West Federation Tower, in less than a half-hour using a ladder.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2008 Sep 4, The musical “Fela!" premiered off-Broadway at 37 Arts Theatre B in New York City. It was based on the work of Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo-Fela (1938-1997). In 2010 the show won 3 Tony awards.
(SFC, 8/3/11, p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela!)
2008 Sep 4, In St. Paul, Minn., John McCain claimed the GOP presidential nomination portraying himself as a maverick warrior and agent of change.
(AP, 9/5/08)(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 4, Jack Abramoff (49), once powerful DC lobbyist, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for his part in a political corruption scandal. He had already spent 2 years in prison for a fraudulent casino boat deal in Florida. On Sep 10 a federal judge shaved 2 years from his Florida sentence guaranteeing the Abramoff will serve no more that 4 additional years. Abramoff was released from jail in June 2010.
(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A4)(SFC, 9/11/08, p.A7)(SFC, 6/23/10, p.A6)
2008 Sep 4, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (38) pleaded guilty to a pair of felony obstruction charges in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city. Kilpatrick’s sentence included 4 months behind bars, a $1 million fine and forfeiture of his license to practice law.
(AP, 9/4/08)(SFC, 9/5/08, p.A4)
2008 Sep 4, A US coast Guard helicopter went down off Oahu, Ha., killing 4 crew members.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 4, Albanian artist Saimir Strati in Tirana glued 229,764 corks of various shapes and colors over a plastic banner measuring 12.94 meters by 7.1 meters to make the art piece "Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing with the sea and the sun". He worked 14 hours a day for 28 days to complete his project.
(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Ethiopia unveiled its famed Axum Obelisk after more than three years of work to re-erect the 150-ton stela plundered by fascist Italy 70 years ago and returned only in 2005.
(AFP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Tropical Storm Hanna roared along the edge of the Bahamas ahead of a possible hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 137 dead in Haiti.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, In northeast China 24 people were killed and six injured in a coal mine gas explosion, that left 3 miners trapped.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, In Georgia US Vice President Dick Cheney condemned Russia for what he called an "illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to redraw this US ally's borders by force.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, German ministers agreed to update data protection laws for the digital age in the wake of scandals showing how easily personal details can be bought on the Internet.
(AFP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Some 20 Greek anarchists stormed a supermarket in Thesaaloniki and handed out food for free in the latest of a wave of raids provoked by soaring consumer prices.
(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, The US military arrested an Iraqi cameraman and three of his family members during a raid on their home in Baghdad. Omar Husham (28) was arrested in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Pakistan’s Parliament passed resolutions condemning an American-led attack in Pakistani territory after the government summoned the US ambassador to protest the unusually bold raid that officials say killed at least 15 people. Four Islamist militants were killed and five wounded in a missile attack by a suspected US drone in the village of Char Khel in North Waziristan near Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/08)(Reuters, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Middle East envoy Tony Blair toured a Palestinian aluminum factory in Beit Iba and was told it runs at one-third capacity because of Israeli import restrictions. He promised he'll take it up with Israeli authorities.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 4, In Moscow officials said BP PLC and its billionaire Russian partners in the joint venture TNK-BP have agreed on a deal that forces out its embattled CEO and signals an end to a bitter struggle for control of the Russian-British company.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Russian troops killed 5 suspected Muslim rebels in Dagestan.
(WSJ, 9/5/08, p.A1)
2008 Sep 4, Spanish police arrested Vallejo-Guarin (47), a suspected Colombian drug trafficker, listed among the most wanted by the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
(AP, 9/5/08)
2008 Sep 4, Syrian President Bashar Assad announced that his country has handed over proposals for peace with Israel to Turkish mediators and would wait for Israel's response before holding any face-to-face negotiations.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, Teachers in Zimbabwe's public schools went on strike to press for higher pay, despite a pay rise for civil servants announced by the government.
(AFP, 9/7/08)
2009 Sep 4, A US federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued by people who claim they were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11, and called the government practice "repugnant to the Constitution." The ruling allows Abdullah al-Kidd, a US citizen, to proceed with a lawsuit that claims his constitutional rights were violated when he was detained in 2003 as a material witness in a federal terrorism case.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 4, US regulators closed the First Bank of Kansas in Missouri, pushing to 85 the number of US banks that have failed this year.
(SFC, 9/5/09, p.D1)
2009 Sep 4, The US Embassy in Afghanistan says it has fired eight security guards following allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living quarters. Two other guards resigned and also left. All of them appeared in photographs that depicted guards and supervisors in various stages of nudity at parties flowing with alcohol. The management team of the private contractor that provided the guards was also to being replaced immediately.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In northern Afghanistan a US jet blasted two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in Kunduz province, setting off a huge fireball that killed dozens of civilians who had rushed to the scene to collect fuel. As many as 142 civilians died in the German-ordered NATO airstrike. The strike was ordered by the commander of the German base in Kunduz, Georg Klein, who feared insurgents could use the trucks to carry out attacks. A French soldier was killed and nine others injured when their vehicles were hit by a bomb near Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. A Polish soldier was killed in the east. A French marine was killed in an IED attack.
(AP, 9/4/09)(AFP, 9/5/09)(AP, 9/17/09)(AP, 10/8/09)(Econ, 1/2/10, p.37)(AP, 9/4/19)
2009 Sep 4, Arab League chief Amr Moussa, speaking in Italy, said any Israeli offer for a settlement freeze that doesn't include east Jerusalem is unacceptable and "will suspend the peace process." Aides of Israel’s PM said Benjamin Netanyahu will approve hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before slowing settlement construction, in an apparent snub of Washington's public demand for a total settlement freeze.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, The Belgian government said it has accepted a US request to take in one detainee from U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In China security forces in the far-west city of Urumqi used tear gas to break up fresh protests, as thousands of Han Chinese demanded better security after a reported spate of attacks with syringes.
(Reuters, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In Ingushetia a roadside bomb blast ripped through a police car, killing three officers and wounding two others. Ingush authorities shot dead 3 insurgents. One man, identified as Rustam Dzortov, was a suspected ringleader of rebel operations in Ingushetia and had organized the suicide bombing of Ingush President Yunus Bek Yevkurov's motorcade earlier this year. The two others may have been planning a terrorist act in Moscow. In neighboring Chechnya two suspected insurgents were killed in a similar incident. The suspected insurgents were found to have explosives strapped to them, hand grenades, and train tickets to Moscow.
(AP, 9/4/09)(AP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 4, Mexican federal police detained Armando Medina (49), a small-town mayor of Mugica, Michoacan state, on suspicion of aiding drug traffickers. This is the same state where eight other city chiefs have been arrested since May on similar charges. In the northern state of Durango, two gunmen were killed in a shootout with federal police in the city of Gomez Palacio. The federal government auctioned off property seized from drug traffickers, smugglers, money launderers and tax evaders, including a DC-9 jet that was used to transport 5.5 metric tons of cocaine in 2006. The agency did not disclose the identity of winning bidders. Mexican soldiers, acting on a tip about armed men, detained Jose Rodolfo Escajeda in Nuevo Casas Grandes, in northern Chihuahua state. The suspected drug gang leader was linked to a 2006 border incursion by armed traffickers into Texas and the killing of an anti-crime activist in July. Five gunmen and a bystander were killed in a shootout at a lake that began when assailants opened fire on an army patrol on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey. A Ciudad Juarez police officer was shot to death outside his home.
(AP, 9/5/09)(AP, 9/6/09)
2009 Sep 4, Pakistan said paramilitary troops have killed five suspected militants and arrested 24 in an ongoing operation in the northwestern Khyber tribal region.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, In southern Sudan heavily armed fighters attacked an ethnic Dinka settlement in Bony-Thiang, north of the state capital Malakal, killing 20 people. Angry Dinka groups then launched a retaliatory raid on the nearby Shilluk village of Bon, killing five people including a woman and two children.
(AFP, 9/5/09)
2009 Sep 4, In southern Thailand bomb believed to have been planted by Islamic insurgents exploded outside a restaurant where security forces were eating breakfast, killing a policeman and wounding 12 other people.
(AP, 9/4/09)
2009 Sep 4, Thousands of opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president across Latin America, accusing him of everything from authoritarianism to international meddling. The protests, coordinated through Twitter and Facebook, drew more than 5,000 people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of Venezuela and Honduras. Smaller demonstrations were held in other Latin American capitals, as well as New York and Madrid.
(AP, 9/5/09)
2010 Sep 4, Hurricane Earl brushed past the Northeast US and dumped heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages, but caused little damage. It continued north and made landfall near Western Head, Nova Scotia. Earl lost its tropical storm status over Canada, but the storm still left one person dead and nearly one million people without power in the northeastern.
(AP, 9/4/10)(AFP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 4, Paul Conrad ((b.1924), LA Times political cartoonist, died. His 50 year career included 3 Pulitzer Prizes.
(SSFC, 9/5/10, p.C9)
2010 Sep 4, President Hamid Karzai said an Afghan peace council to pursue talks with the Taliban has been set up, the latest step in a gradual move toward reconciliation with the Islamist insurgents.
(Reuters, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, Bahrain state media released the photographs of 23 Shiites — ranging from opposition figures to professors and taxi drivers — accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. They include opposition leader Abdul-Jalil al-Singace, whose arrest on Aug. 13 marked the first salvo by officials against members of a Shiite majority, 60-70% of the population being cast as coup plotters who could open the door to Iranian influence.
(AP, 9/5/10)(Econ, 10/16/10, p.56)
2010 Sep 4, British tax collectors said a new computer system has revealed that almost 6 million people have paid the wrong amount of income tax, and 1.4 million will be told to repay an average of 1,500 pounds ($2,300) each.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In southern Congo at least 200 people were feared dead after a boat engine caught fire and led the vessel to overturn on the Kasai River. Survivors who swam to safety said nearby fishermen refused to help drowning passengers in the dark of night, instead looting the goods aboard the burning vessel and beating people with oars. Earlier the same day, a boat on a river in northwest Equateur Province hit a rock and capsized. More than 70 people were believed dead among 100 estimated passengers.
(AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 4, In France Roma migrants whose camp was bulldozed led a protest in Paris against the French government's security crackdown, with similar demonstrations taking place across the country and abroad.
(AFP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In Guatemala torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides killed at least 48 people, most of them in separate disasters along the same highway.
(AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 4, Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the US Embassy in Jakarta to denounce an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has said it will burn the Islamic holy book on Sep 11, the ninth anniversary of the NYC terror attacks.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, Iran’s hardline Kayhan newspaper reported that security forces have killed four members of an outlawed Kurdish group in the western province of Kordestan. Nasrin Sotoudeh (45) was summoned by official notice to Tehran's Evin Prison, and did return home. She had represented opposition activists and political figures. State media reported in December that she was accused of spreading propaganda against the ruling system. On Jan 10, 2011, her husband said has been convicted of security offenses and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
(AFP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/8/10)(AP, 1/10/11)
2010 Sep 4, In New Zealand chimneys and walls crumbled to the ground, roads cracked in half and residents were knocked off their feet as a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake rocked the South Island. No one was killed.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, In New Zealand's Southern Alps a light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular tourist spot, killing nine people including four foreign tourists.
(AP, 9/4/10)
2010 Sep 4, Two Palestinians were killed and another three were wounded in Israeli air strikes carried out after a rocket attack from Gaza. This was the first exchange of fire since the relaunch of Middle East peace talks last week. Two raids targeted smuggling tunnels along the border with Egypt, causing a tunnel to collapse on the two men, and a third struck a former base used by the militant Hamas movement.
(AFP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 4, Philippine police commandos killed an Abu Sayyaf commander linked to last year's kidnapping of Red Cross workers and gunned down two other militants in a clash in the south. Gafur Jumdail and two of his men were killed near Maimbung town on Jolo island after clashing with commandos tracking a Malaysian militant and allied Filipino fighters.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2010 Sep 4, In Sudan a Darfur rebel group said 10 people were killed in clashes with Sudanese police in two camps for displaced people in West Darfur state. U.N.-African Union peacekeepers said 9 people were killed in the clashes.
(AFP, 9/4/10)(AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/8/10)
2010 Sep 4, Yemeni police arrested 14 suspected members of al-Qaida in a raid on one of the group's alleged hideouts in Abyan province in the town of Lawder. Gunmen from a separatist movement attacked an army post in Rabwa near the town of Habalein and killed four soldiers. Two of the attackers died as well.
(AP, 9/5/10)
2011 Sep 4, Tropical Storm Lee dumped over a foot of rain in New Orleans and weakened to a tropical depression.
(SFC, 9/5/11, p.A7)
2011 Sep 4, In Nevada the annual burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert drew nearly 54,000 people, more than the 50,000 allowed under its permit.
(SFC, 9/5/11, p.A6)
2011 Sep 4, In Afghanistan a suicide car bomber killed three Afghan private security guards and wounded another 20 in Kandahar city.
(AP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Australia a shark bit the legs off a bodyboarder, killing the man, at a popular surfing spot at Bunker Bay near the western town of Dunsborough.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Haitian President Michel Martelly "vigorously condemned" an alleged sexual assault by UN troops against an 18-year-old man. The incident aggravated mistrust between Haitians and the peacekeeping mission. The UN was investigating allegations that five Uruguayan naval personnel at a UN base in the south sexually molested an 18-year-old man in an attack reportedly captured by a cell phone camera.
(AP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, In northern India bus fell into the Tons River swollen by monsoon rains, killing 12 passengers in Uttrakhand state.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Iranian state radio said the country's first nuclear power plant has been connected to the national power grid for a test run. The power plant in the southern port of Bushehr, with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, was built with Russian help.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Iran executed three men for homosexuality. They were hanged in the south-western city of Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan province.
(Econ, 2/4/12, p.63)(http://tinyurl.com/3jkjmyn)
2011 Sep 4, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pledged "real" economic change after massive nationwide protests that broke Israeli records and prompted questions about the future of the social movement.
(AFP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Italian police detained a man who confessed to knocking two chunks of marble off a statue in Rome's famed Piazza Navona and of trying to damage the nearby Trevi Fountain a day earlier.
(AP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Japan record rain and mudslides from powerful Typhoon Talas left at least 37 people dead as the storm moved slowly northward past the country's western coast. Over 50 others remained missing.
(AP, 9/4/11)(AFP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, Libyan rebels said that tribal leaders in Bani Walid, a besieged pro-Moammar Gadhafi stronghold, are divided over what to do and will likely surrender rather than see their followers fight one another. NATO reported bombing a military barracks, a police camp and several other targets near Sirte overnight.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Mexican federal congressman Moises Villanueva (46) and his driver went missing after leaving a party held by a fellow member of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party in the town of Tlapa de Comonfort in Villanueva's district. On Sep 17 their badly decomposed bodies were found in a river in the town of Huamuxtitlan, Guerrero state.
(AP, 9/18/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Nigeria 3 people were killed near the city of Jos. Islamic cleric Mallam Dala was shot and killed after two men burst into his house. Attacks in two villages in central Nigeria, Targom-Babale and Dabwak, killed 11 people, including children.
(AFP, 9/4/11)(AP, 9/4/11)(AFP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, Somali leaders began gathering for a 3-day national reconciliation conference under UN auspices amid high security in war-shattered Mogadishu.
(AFP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Syria saw a wave of violence and arrests as the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited Damascus to address issues including caring for the wounded and access to detainees. The state-run news agency reported that nine people were killed in central Syria in an ambush by armed groups.
(AP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Taiwan some 1,000 chanting pro-independence activists took to the streets of Taipei, President Ma Ying-jeou of surrendering the island's sovereignty to China.
(AFP, 9/4/11)
2011 Sep 4, Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago extended a state of emergency by three months, citing continued security concerns since the measure was first imposed last month to dismantle gangs and decrease crime.
(AP, 9/5/11)
2011 Sep 4, In Yemen troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh deployed in force in Sanaa after opposition groups called new mass demonstrations demanding his ouster. The Defense Ministry said 17 al-Qaida militants have been killed in airstrikes in the south.
(AFP, 9/4/11)(AP, 9/5/11)
2012 Sep 4, In California CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom was shot by Christopher Boone Lacy (36) during a traffic stop on I-680 near Alamo. Lacy was shot a killed by another officer. Youngstrom died of his wounds the next day.
(SFC, 9/6/12, p.A1,13)
2012 Sep 4, A US federal judge ordered Massachusetts’ state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to Robert Kosilek, a transgender inmate serving life in prison for the murder of his wife in 1990.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, US fast food giant McDonald's, famed for its beef-based Big Mac burgers, said it will open its first ever vegetarian-only restaurant in the world in India next year.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, American activist Michael Strong signed an agreement for a small project to create jobs and cheap housing in Honduras. This outmaneuvered plans by Paul Romer, an economist at New York Univ., for a larger int’l. project to build a charter city in Honduras.
(Economist, 10/6/12, p.71)
2012 Sep 4, In eastern Afghanistan a suicide bomber killed at least 25 civilians and wounded another 30 at a funeral for a village elder in the village of Shagai in the Durbaba district of Nangarhar province.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, In Canada Quebec’s ruling Liberals were defeated in a provincial election after nine years in power. Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois became Quebec’s first female premier as she replaced Premier Jean Charest. He had held the seat since November 1998. The left-leaning Parti Quebecois (PQ) captured only 54 of the 125 seats in the legislature.
(Reuters, 9/4/12)(Reuters, 9/5/12)
2012 Sep 4, In Canada Richard Henry Bain (62) entered a theater and shot two people where Pauline Marois, leader of the Parti Quebecois, was speaking on behalf of the party’s narrow election victory. One of the victims died. Bain also set fire to the building and was soon arrested.
(Economist, 9/8/12, p.35)
2012 Sep 4, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced an accord with the peasant-based FARC to seek "a definitive peace." The pact, signed Aug. 27 after six months of secret exploratory talks in Cuba, called for talks to begin in Norway the first half of October, then return to Havana.
(AP, 9/5/12)
2012 Sep 4, Congo and China signed accords worth 975 million euros as part of a project to rebuild parts of the capital Brazzaville devastated by a deadly munitions depot blast in early March.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, The World Health Organization said the number of people with Ebola, a rare haemorrhagic disease, in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has tripled since mid-August, after 14 patients died in two weeks.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, The foreign ministers of Germany and Pakistan signed an agreement in which the two countries committed to a "strategic dialogue" on security issues, particularly regarding Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Volkswagen AG unveiled the latest version of its mainstay Golf hatchback at a Berlin museum, ahead of its premiere later this month at the Paris Auto Show. This was the 7th edition of the model introduced in 1974.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Guinea’s minister in charge of national defense said that an arms shipment was intercepted around a month ago at the port of Conakry. Abdoul Kabele Camara said the arms appear to have been ordered by Mali's ex-President Amadou Toumani Toure, known by his initials "ATT," who was ousted in a coup in March. Representatives from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS were meeting with the government of Guinea in order to decide what to do with a container of arms.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony announced that joint military exercises between India and China will be resumed after a four-year gap, after talks in New Delhi with his Beijing counterpart.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Indian police opened a probe into five coal companies after raiding premises across the country over the alleged misallocation of lucrative mining rights.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Indonesia's justice minister said that his country would extradite Sayed Abbas, an Afghan-born human trafficking kingpin, to Australia next year. He was suspected of having arranged the voyage of a vessel that sank in December, killing some 200 Australia-bound asylum seekers.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, In northern Iraq bombings and shootings, mostly targeting security forces, left eight people dead, including six soldiers and a police general.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, A Jordanian teenager (17) stabbed to death Cheryll Harvey (55), a Texas missionary living in the kingdom, during an argument that broke out when she caught him stealing from her apartment.
(AP, 9/7/12)
2012 Sep 4, The Kenyan Navy said it has shelled Somalia's port town of Kismayo, the remaining significant stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants, in preparation for the ground forces to capture the town. 7 people believed to be members of the al-Shabab militia group were killed in the shelling that occurred on Sep 1 and Sep 3.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Global Witness said international logging companies are skirting the rules and have used a loophole in Liberian law which has granted them access to as much as one-quarter of Liberia's landmass. Private use permits, now covering 40 percent of the country's forests, were being used by major companies to cut trees on their own property.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Mexico’s Navy detained Mario Cardenas Guillen, a top leader of the Gulf drug cartel, in the northern city of Altamira.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, In Morocco 42 people were killed when the bus overturned between the desert cities of Marrakesh and Ouarzazate and plunged down a 500-foot (150-meter) ravine. Another 24 people were injured, four of them seriously.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Pirates attacked and seized the MT Abu Dhabi Star, an oil tanker off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria, kidnapping an unknown number of sailors who were trying to hide from their assailants.
(AP, 9/5/12)
2012 Sep 4, Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in West Bank cities against the high cost of living, directing their anger at prime minister Salam Fayyad.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Singapore said it will restrict the growth of "shoebox" private apartments in the suburbs, effective Nov 4, to ease overcrowding concerns and encourage couples to have children.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Spain’s government lifted a 6-year ban on televising live bullfights.
(SFC, 9/5/12, p.A2)
2012 Sep 4, Spanish police evicted more than 80 illegal migrants that had occupied Isla de Tierra, a tiny island off Africa's Mediterranean coast.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Sudan and South Sudan resumed talks in the Ethiopian capital to resolve outstanding disputes over oil, border demarcation, security and the Abyei region.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Red Cross chief Peter Maurer launched a mercy mission in Syria to seek greater protection for civilians, as activists said rebel-held areas of Aleppo faced severe food shortages under a regime offensive.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, The Ugandan military killed a rebel fighter and captured another in its campaign against Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the Central African Republic. Rebel general Dominic Ongwen escaped unhurt in the raid on his camp.
(AP, 9/5/12)
2012 Sep 4, The three UN food agencies urged governments to take quick action to curb rising prices of corn, wheat and soybeans and avoid a repeat of the 2007-2008 food crises.
(AP, 9/4/12)
2012 Sep 4, Vietnamese police seized four tiger cubs and 118 endangered pangolins from suspected wildlife smugglers.
(AFP, 9/4/12)
2013 Sep 4, President Barack Obama opened a three-day overseas trip with a stop in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
(AP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a legislative decree giving minority Hindus and Sikhs a reserved seat in the country's lower house of parliament for the next parliamentary elections in 2015.
(AP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, In Bulgaria hundreds of protesters rallied in Sofia in front of parliament, demanding the resignation of the Socialist-led government that they accuse of having murky links to influential business circles.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Chinese state media reported that Zhang Shugung (57), a former deputy chief from the Railroad Ministry, has been charged with accepting nearly $8 million in bribes. His house in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut had drawn the attention of anticorruption officials and he was fired in 2011.
(SFC, 9/5/13, p.A7)
2013 Sep 4, An Egyptian policeman was shot dead and another wounded at a checkpoint in the southern town of Aswan. The attack was carried out by relatives of a man killed earlier in an exchange of fire with police at the checkpoint.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Gabon officials said a corruption investigation has revealed the existence of about 3,000 fake civil servants who receive monthly government salaries despite holding no official positions.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, In India Raghuram Rajan became the nation’s 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
(Econ, 9/7/13, p.69)
2013 Sep 4, India's lower house of parliament approved changes aimed at luring foreign asset managers to run retirement funds, a small victory in government efforts to rescue the economy before elections next year.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Indian security forces nabbed Talib Lali, a commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, one of five militant groups at large in Kashmir.
(Econ, 9/7/13, p.42)
2013 Sep 4, In India holyman Baba Premdas (60) was found bleeding late in northern Uttar Pradesh state after severing his genitals in what reports said was a protest at last week's arrest of Asaram Bapu, a self-styled Hindu holyman.
(AFP, 9/5/13)
2013 Sep 4, In Iraq gunmen shot dead at least 16 members of a Shi'ite Muslim family before blowing up their two homes overnight in Latifiya. A suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in Mosul, killing 5 policemen. A roadside bomb also struck a patrol in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, killing 5 soldiers.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly passed a sweeping reform of the notoriously dysfunctional public school system, handing President Enrique Pena Nieto an important victory in his push to remake some of his country's worst-run institutions.
(AP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, In Pakistan a senior navy officer was shot dead and his Swedish wife wounded in the port city of Karachi.
(AFP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, The IMF approved a $6.7 billion loan for Pakistan in an effort to help the strategic country stave off an economic crisis.
(AP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, Qatar reported that a woman has died after contracting the MERS coronavirus, becoming the first recorded fatality from the SARS-like virus in the Gulf state.
(AFP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, In South Africa two of the seven gold mine producers touched by a pay strike said they have struck a wage settlement with unions as the work stoppage entered day two.
(AFP, 9/4/13)
2013 Sep 4, South Korea's parliament voted overwhelmingly on to allow the arrest of Lee Seok-ki, one of its members accused of conspiracy to overthrow the government and introduce a North Korean-style regime. On Feb 17, 2014, Seok-ki was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)(Econ, 1/17/15, p.3)
2013 Sep 4, South Korea’s Samsung set the price of its new Galaxy Gear wristwatch at $299 with sales to begin Sep 25.
(SFC, 9/5/13, p.C3)
2013 Sep 4, Spanish correspondent Marc Marginedas was abducted near the central Syrian city of Hama by Islamic State fighters. He was released on Mar 3, 2014.
(AP, 3/2/14)
2013 Sep 4, In Thailand tens of thousands of rubber farmers, protesting against a sharp drop in prices, escalated protests across southern Thailand, cutting off access to large swathes of the region by blocking roads leading to tourist and commercial hubs.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)
2014 Sep 4, US police handcuffed dozens of protesters around the country as they blocked traffic in their efforts to get fast food companies to pay employees at least $15 and hour.
(SFC, 9/5/14, p.A6)
2014 Sep 4, Florida police found 4 bodies at a home in Hudson, Pasco County. Suspect Adam Matos (28) was soon arrested in a downtown Tampa hotel.
(Reuters, 9/5/14)
2014 Sep 4, Joan Rivers (81), award winning comedienne, died in New York. The caustic stand-up comic and television host had blazed a trail at a time when comedy was all but off-limits to women.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, Tesla Motors announced plans to build its new $5 billion battery factory in Nevada.
(SFC, 9/4/14, p.A1)
2014 Sep 4, South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert shot and wounded an unarmed black man seconds after a traffic stop. In 2016 Groubert pleaded guilty to assault and battery and faced up to 20 years in prison.
(http://www.inquisitr.com/2888744/sean-groubert-guilty/)(SFC, 3/15/16, p.A7)
2014 Sep 4, Tennessee became the first state to make use of the electric chair mandatory when lethal injection drugs are unavailable.
(http://tinyurl.com/nghyzbw)
2014 Sep 4, Texas teenager Tyler Lane Holder (18) was sentenced to life in prison for killing Alanna Gallagher (6), wrapping her body in a tarp and leaving it on the side of a road. DNA evidence linking him to the 2013 crime when he was 17. Holder also pleaded guilty to arson for setting fire to the home of the victim's family and with attempted capital murder for shooting at a police officer trying to arrest him.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife were convicted of using his office to promote a dietary supplement in exchange for gifts in a public corruption case.
(SFC, 9/5/14, p.A7)
2014 Sep 4, Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates pledged to NATO leaders that they would form a government of national unity and sign legal agreements allowing foreign troops to stay on next year.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Afghanistan Taliban insurgents detonated truck bombs and fired rocket-propelled grenades outside the office of the country’s spy agency and a police compound in Ghazni, killing 18 people.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Argentina Gustavo Cerati (55), one of Latin America's most influential musicians, died, four years after a stroke put him in a coma.
(AP, 9/6/14)
2014 Sep 4, Bangladesh said it has resumed sending workers to Iraq after a 3-month ban, despite reports of hundreds of Bangladeshi construction laborers being dragged into the country's bloody sectarian conflict.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In central Bosnia a coal mine collapsed in Zenica and trapped 34 miners following a 3.5 magnitude earthquake. 20 miners were rescued the next day and 5 were preseumed dead in rubble deep underground.
(SFC, 9/6/14, p.A2)
2014 Sep 4, Palmira Silva (82), a grandmother who still worked at her family's cafe, was attacked in her garden in Edmonton, north London. She was found beheaded with a machete. Nicholas Salvador (25) was soon arrested and charged with her murder.
(AFP, 9/6/14)
2014 Sep 4, Al-Qaida announced it had created an Indian branch that the terror network vowed would bring Islamic rule to the entire subcontinent.
(AP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Iraq jihadists kidnapped some 50 residents of the northern village of Tal Ali in Kirkuk province after villagers burned one of their positions along with a jihadist flag. Air strikes in Ninevah province killed Abu Hajr al-Suri, the top aide of jihadist Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Two car bombs exploded in Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad, killing at least 23 people.
(AFP, 9/4/14)(AP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In northern Kenya anthropologists discovered a complete skull of a baby ape dating back 13 million years. It belonged to an undiscovered species and was named Nyanazpithecus alesi.
(http://tinyurl.com/ydfq4ev8)(SFC, 8/19/17, p.A9)
2014 Sep 4, A UN report on Libya said four months of fighting by militias in Libya's two biggest cities, Tripoli and Benghazi, has forced some 250,000 people to flee, including 100,000 who have been internally displaced.
(AP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, NATO leaders converged in Wales for a high-stakes summit also focused on the crisis in Ukraine and next steps in Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, The Palestinian Authority said rebuilding Gaza will cost $7.8 billion. Fighting between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in Gaza killed over 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, along with 64 Israeli soldiers and 6 civilians.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)(Econ, 8/30/14, p.44)
2014 Sep 4, Philippines’ President Benigno Aquino III and Al Haj Murad Ebrahim of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front agreed to endorse a draft of a proposed autonomy law after meeting for more than two hours at the presidential palace.
(AP, 9/8/14)
2014 Sep 4, South Korea said it would create a joint military unit with the US, as a report suggested the contingent would target North Korea's weapons of mass destruction if a full-scale conflict broke out.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Switzerland some 200 experts huddled in Geneva to debate experimental treatments for the Ebola virus as the world's worst-ever outbreak raged in west Africa.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In eastern Syria 18 foreign fighters from the Islamic State, including an American jihadist, were killed in a Syrian air raid on a town near the militant group's main stronghold city of Raqqa. Top Islamic State leaders who happened to be in the municipal building of Gharbiya at the time of the raid were among the foreign fighters killed. Two raids on southern and northern parts of Raqqa killed 53 people including 31 civilians. Another air raid hit a former intelligence headquarters in Abu Kamal also killed an undisclosed number of IS members. Residents of Ashara, in the mostly IS-controlled eastern province of Deir Ezzor, protested in front of an IS headquarters, hours after government air strikes killed 2 children, 5 women and a man.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)(AFP, 9/5/14)(AFP, 9/6/14)
2014 Sep 4, Thai PM Prayuth Chan-ocha set out broad criteria for the selection of a 250-member council to draw up sweeping political reforms and approve a new constitution.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, In Turkey Gaziantep province governor Erdal Ata said 19 militants affiliated with the Islamic State have been arrested. Ata also said police had caught suspected IS-linked jihadists coming from Europe or Caucasus, carrying backpacks, at the Gaziantep airport or at the border.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the main pro-Russian rebel leader said they would both order ceasefires on Sep 5, provided that an agreement is signed on a new peace plan to end the five month war in Ukraine's east.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)
2014 Sep 4, Zimbabwe launched a $533-million project with China to scale up electricity generation at one of its major power plants in a bid to ease perennial energy woes.
(AFP, 9/4/14)
2015 Sep 4, President Barack Obama hosted Saudi Arabia's new monarch for the first time and said that the US shares King Salman's desire for an inclusive government in Yemen that can relieve that impoverished Arab country's humanitarian crisis.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Florida Boeing celebrated the opening of its commercial crew and cargo processing facility which will serve as home to its future space fleet and named it Starliner.
(SFC, 9/5/15, p.A7)
2015 Sep 4, In NYC Deniss Calovskis (30), a Latvian computer code writer, pleaded guilty to helping create the Gozi virus, which spread to more than a million computers worldwide and corrupted some at NASA. He admitted that he was hired to write code for the virus.
(SSFC, 9/6/15, p.A5)
2015 Sep 4, Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants, bussed to the Hungarian border by a right-wing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers.
(Reuters, 9/5/15)(Econ, 10/1/16, p.54)
2015 Sep 4, Bolivia said an air force captain was detained as he tried to take off from near the Peru border with 362 kg (796 pounds) of cocaine in his plane.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, PM David Cameron said Britain will provide an extra 100 million pounds (137 million euros, $153 million) in humanitarian aid for the Syrian crisis, bringing its total contribution to more than 1.0 billion pounds. Cameron said Britain will take in thousands more Syrian refugees.
(AFP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia rejected any quota system for accepting migrants in the European Union's 28 members.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Greece a fire broke out at the Dafni psychiatric hospital in western Athens killing at least 3 people.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, Guatemala’s Pres. Perez Molina resigned as president after prosecutors and a UN comission investigation corruption alleged that he was part of a multimillion-dollar graft ring.
(SFC, 12/10/15, p.A2)
2015 Sep 4, Hungary's parliament introduced emergency anti-migration laws, in a tough response to the record number of refugees and migrants crossing the EU member's border as they try to reach western Europe. Hundreds of migrants broke out of a border camp and others set off on foot from Budapest as authorities scrambled to contain a migrant crisis that has brought Europe’s asylum system to breaking point.
(AFP, 9/4/15)(Reuters, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Lebanon the civil campaign that has organized protests against politicians in Beirut called for a nationwide mobilization against a government they say is too corrupt to function.
(AFP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Libya clashes broke out between Islamic State and army units loyal to the country's official government near the eastern city of Derna, killing 4 soldiers.
(Reuters, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, Mexican authorities said police have seized a ton of so-called "black cocaine" at Mexico City's airport and destroyed more than 100 tons of marijuana plants in western state of Nayarit.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, Moroccans began voting in local elections seen as a test for the ruling Islamists. The Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) formed by a close associate of Morocco's king secured most seats in local elections. It was closely followed by the ruling PJD Islamist party which also won in major cities.
(AFP, 9/4/15)(Reuters, 9/5/15)
2015 Sep 4, A Nepali policeman was shot dead in the latest round of clashes to hit the country's southern plains as protests intensify against a proposed new constitution.
(AFP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new crew docked at the International Space Station.
(AP, 9/4/15)
2015 Sep 4, A Saudi policeman was killed and two others wounded when a terrorist attacked a security site in the Abqaiq region in the country's Eastern province.
(AP, 9/5/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Syria two explosions late today and ensuing protests killed at least 37 people including Druze leader Sheikh Wahid al-Balous in and around the town of Sweida. 20 Islamist and other rebel fighters were killed in the clashes throughout the day centered on the town of Marea, Aleppo province, along with 27 IS jihadists.
(Reuters, 9/5/15)(AFP, 9/5/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Tajikistan 9 policemen were killed in attacks the authorities blamed on gunmen loyal to the country's own deputy defense minister. 13 rebels were also killed. The interior ministry blamed the attacks on a group led by Major General Abdulkhalim Mirzo Nazarzoda, the deputy defense minister, who was soon dismissed by Imomali Rakhmon, the president, for committing a crime.
(Reuters, 9/4/15)(AP, 9/5/15)
2015 Sep 4, Turkey imposed a curfew on Cizre, a city of 120,000 on the border with Syria and close to Iraq, in an effort to cripple the PKK. The curfew was lifted on Sep 12. The government said that up to 32 Kurdish militants were killed during the curfew and anti-terror operations. The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said 21 civilians were killed.
(AFP, 9/13/15)
2015 Sep 4, In Yemen Iranian-allied Houthis attacked a weapons storage facility in Marib killing 45 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 5 Bahrainis, 10 Saudis and 4 Yemenis.
(Reuters, 9/4/15)(AFP, 9/5/15)(Reuters, 9/6/15)
2016 Sep 4, President Barack Obama met with Myanmar leader Suu Kyi at the White House to discuss rolling back more of the sanctions that were applied when the nation was under military rule. Obama said the US will "soon" lift restrictions on military-owned companies and officials and associates of the former ruling junta.
(AP, 9/14/16)(AP, 9/15/16)
2016 Sep 4, In southern Afghanistan at least 38 people were killed when a bus collided with a fuel tanker and burst into flames in Zabul province.
(Reuters, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged G20 world leaders to avoid "empty talk" and confront sluggish economic growth and rising protectionism as their summit opened Sunday in the scenic city of Hangzhou.
(AFP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Voters turned out in force for Hong Kong's most crucial election since the handover from Britain in 1997. Pro-democracy candidates won 30 of 70 seats in the Legislative Council, gaining a foothold in the southern Chinese city's legislature and setting the stage for a new round of political confrontations with Beijing. Six of the winning Legco candidates wanted Hong Kong to be more independent from China. Pro-democracy and environmentalist candidate Eddie Chu won more votes than any other candidate. Chu soon faced death threats stemming from his campaign promises.
(AP, 9/4/16)(AP, 9/5/16)(SFC, 9/21/16, p.A5)(Econ, 9/10/16, p.35)
2016 Sep 4, In the Indian portion of Kashmir around 100 people were injured as Indian government forces fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to quell thousands of protesters who pelted rocks and burned a government office.
(AP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Iranian state TV reported that the Islamic Republic has appointed its envoy to London for the first time since 2011.
(AP, 9/5/16)
2016 Sep 4, Israel’s transport minister, Yisrael Katz, canceled key train routes because of the delayed repairs. The government dispatched extra buses for some 90,000 affected commuters.
(AP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Israeli tank fire targeted a Hamas post on the Gaza Strip border overnight after gunfire at Israeli forces in the area, with no injuries reported.
(AFP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia said cross-border shelling from Yemen has killed a Saudi woman and wounded two other citizens in the southern Jazan region.
(AFP, 9/4/16)
2016 Sep 4, Thai police seized 3,155 kg (6,940 pounds) of marijuana from a warehouse in Chonburi. Police arrested two men from Thailand and Taiwan suspected of smuggling the marijuana from Laos for shipment to Australia.
(AP, 9/5/16)
2017 Sep 4, In Florida Jabez Spann (14) disappeared a week after he witnessed the slaying of Travis Combs (31). In 2019 Spann's body was found in Manatee County.
(SFC, 2/21/19, p.A6)
2017 Sep 4, Boston police arrested Francisco Carlos Ramires (20) and two other men. He was also wanted in connection with several assaults in Boston, where he used the alias Carlos Campos-Cutone. The suspected member of a violent Central American gang was also wanted in connection with an August 25 homicide in New Jersey.
(AP, 9/5/17)
2017 Sep 4, Officials said the confirmed death toll in southern Texas from Hurricane Harvey rose to at least 60 across 11 counties. The death toll was soon raised to at least 70 with some 200,000 homes destroyed or damaged.
(SFC, 9/5/17, p.A4)(SSFC, 9/10/17 p.A13)
2017 Sep 4, United Technologies, an American aerospace conglomerate, announed that it had agree to buy Rockwell Collins, an avionics firm, for $30 billion.
(Econ, 9/9/17, p.61)
2017 Sep 4, In Afghanistan two people were killed and two others wounded when a helicopter appeared to come under fire from guests at a wedding party near Kabul and fired back. Afghan officials said the helicopter came from the NATO-led Resolute Support coalition.
(Reuters, 9/5/17)
2017 Sep 4, In Brazil more than 800 federal police fanned out in five states and the federal district to serve 190 search and seizure warrants and more than 120 arrest warrants in a crackdown on a drug-trafficking ring.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, The English-language Cambodia's Daily appeared in newsstands for the last time, the latest victim of a determined push by the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen to silence critics in the run-up to 2018 elections.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov brought tens of thousands of people to the streets of the capital Grozny to protest what he called the "genocide of Muslims" in Myanmar.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, China criticized President Donald Trump's threat to cut off US trade with countries that deal with North Korea and rejected pressure to do more to halt the North's nuclear development.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, President Xi Jinping said China will give $80 million in funding for BRICS cooperation plans, while the bloc of five emerging countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) pledged to oppose protectionism. The BRICS group called for reform of the United Nations and tougher measures against terrorist groups, while denouncing North Korea's latest nuclear test.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, The China’s central bank announced that that firms would no longer be able to issue electronic currency units to raise funds.
(AFP, 9/19/17)
2017 Sep 4, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed that the government has agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with the ELN rebel group that will last 102 days after months of talks in the Ecuadoran capital Quito.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)(AFP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, A Congo DRC officials said at least eight people have died after a bolt of lightning struck a small-scale goldmine in Haut-Uele province.
(AFP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, Denmark's energy minister said China will tap Denmark, home to some of the world's largest offshore energy companies, to help it build a wind farm.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced plans to double to 1 billion euros ($1.19 billion) a fund aimed at cleaning up urban transport, in an effort to avert bans of diesel vehicles in some cities.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, In India Murray Dennis Ward, a 54-year-old British man, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing three blind students at a school in New Delhi.
(AP, 9/5/17)
2017 Sep 4, A former Indonesian Constitutional Court judge was jailed for eight years for accepting bribes to influence court rulings. Patrialis Akbar, the second constitutional court judge to be convicted of corruption in three years, was also fined 300 million rupiah ($22,500).
(Reuters, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, In Pakistan a suspect involved in an attack on a lawmaker killed one police officer and wounded another during a raid at his house and he was able to escape from his eastern Karachi neighborhood. Abdul Karim Siddiqi was the mastermind of an attack on an ethnic lawmaker Sep 2.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, In South Africa ANC party member Sindiso Magaqa died after he was shot inside his car by two hit men in Umzimkhulu following his exposure of corruption in a public works project. In 2019 politician Mluleki Ndobe was arrested for his involvement in the murder.
(http://tinyurl.com/yya47lcq)(SFC, 3/19/19, p.A2)
2017 Sep 4, Syria's army battled the Islamic State group on the edges of Deir Ezzor, seeking to break the siege of a government enclave and oust the jihadists from a key stronghold.
(AFP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, In Syria the SDF said it holds 65 percent of Raqqa in total. US-backed Syrian militias have taken the historic old city of Raqqa and its ancient mosque as they pressed their offensive to defeat Islamic State.
(Reuters, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, Taiwan's Premier Lin Chuan tendered his resignation, raising the possibility of changes in the island's troubled relationship with mainland China. The official Central News Agency said Pres. Tsai Ing-wen’s pick will be William Lai, mayor of the southern city of Tainan.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, The UN Security Council held its second emergency meeting in a week about North Korea after a powerful nuclear test explosion added another layer of urgency for diplomats wrestling with what to do about the North's persistent weapons programs.
(AP, 9/4/17)
2017 Sep 4, UN investigators accused Burundi's government of crimes against humanity, including executions and torture, and urged the International Criminal Court to open a case "as soon as possible". Burundi formally announced it was withdrawing from the court, with the move set to take effect on October 27.
(AFP, 9/4/17)
2018 Sep 4, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he will name Zalmay Khalilzad to be special adviser for Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/5/18)
2018 Sep 4, The EPA office of the Inspector General concluded that the Environmental Protection Agency had no proper justification for spending more than $3.5 million on round-the-clock security for former head Scott Pruitt.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A5)
2018 Sep 4, The Ninth US Circuit court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that cities cannot make it a crime to sleep on a public street or sidewalk when no homeless shelters are available.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.D1)
2018 Sep 4, A US federal judge in San Francisco signed off on a $480 million class-action shareholder lawsuit over Wells Fargo's unauthorized accounts scandal.
(SFC, 9/7/18, p.C3)
2018 Sep 4, An early copy of Bob Woodward's new book "Fear: Trump in the White House," set off a firestorm in the White House with descriptions of current and former aides calling Pres. Trump an "idiot" and a "liar".
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A5)
2018 Sep 4, In Texas the body of Melissa Ramirez (29), a mother of two, was found dead with a shot to the head in rural Webb County. Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz (35) later admitted to having shot her a day earlier.
(SFC, 9/17/18, p.A5)
2018 Sep 4, Seattle police found the bodies of two Univ. of Washington female law students from Thailand in an apartment. Medical examiners later ruled murder and suicide. Kornkamon Leenawarat (25) died from multiple stab wounds. Thithi-on Chotechuangsab (32) died of a single stab wound.
(SFC, 9/8/18, p.A6)
2018 Sep 4, Nike announced that former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be the face of its 30th anniversary "Just Do It" campaign. His kneel down protest against police brutality has split America roughly down the middle.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A1)
2018 Sep 4, In northwestern Afghanistan insurgents attacked a security checkpoint in Badghis province. Two police officers were killed and four others were wounded in the attack near Qala-i-Now. 11 attackers were reported killed and 16 wounded in the battle. NATO said that a US service member died in a non-combat related incident in eastern Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Elephants Without Borders said ninety elephant carcasses have been discovered in Botswana with their tusks hacked off, in what is believed to be one of Africa's worst mass poaching sprees.
(AFP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Former DR Congo warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba denounced a long-delayed December presidential election as a "parody" after he was banned from contesting and accused President Joseph Kabila of trying to hand pick a successor by eliminating serious rivals. Bemba was one of six presidential hopefuls who was excluded by the election commission from the December 23 vote.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Danish police say prosecutors have given them permission to issue a nationwide ban on the Loyal to Familia (LTF) criminal gang, even before a court case aimed at dissolving it.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Egyptian Abdullah Ayman Abdel-Sameea (24) was arrested outside the US Embassy in Cairo after chemicals in his backpack caught fire, in what authorities said was a botched attack.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In Germany lawmaker Sahra Wagenknecht, whose Left Party grew out of the former East Germany's communist party, and two members of the Greens and the Social Democrats said more than 100,000 people have pledged online to support a new movement called "Aufstehen" (Stand Up) with the aim of reviving the fortunes of the country's ailing left by attracting like-minded people across party lines.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Greek ferry crews have ended a strike that left tens of thousands of travelers and islanders stranded for more than a day after ferry operators offered them a 2-percent pay increase after an eight-year freeze because of Greece's debt crisis.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In India a highway overpass collapsed in the crowded city of Kolkata, and some injured people were being treated at a nearby hospital.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, President Hassan Rouhani announced that Iran is to move its main oil export terminal from the Gulf to the Oman Sea, sparing its tankers from using the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
(AFP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Iranian authorities arrested the husband of detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has campaigned for her release.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In Iraq hundreds of protesters clashed with security forces in the southern oil hub Basra for a second day, after a protester died from injuries sustained during demonstrations.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Israeli jets struck at targets inside Syria killing at least one person. Syria's SANA state news reported strikes on the Wadi Ayoun area in western Hama province and on the town of Baniyas in Tartous province.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A2)
2018 Sep 4, In Israel Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte praised his country's close security ties with Israel as dozens protested Israeli arms sales to his government. At a meeting with his Israeli counterpart, Duterte said he considers Israel a key strategic partner and weapons supplier.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Italy's Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said the government will draw up new rules for the concession of the nation's motorways, obliging the company running the toll highways to reinvest most of their profits in renovating the network. Toninelli reiterated that the cabinet was determined to revoke concessions held by Autostrade per l'Italia to operate toll highways after a bridge it managed collapsed last month in Genoa.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Typhoon Jebi slammed into western Japan, causing heavy rain to flood the region's main international airport and strong winds to blow a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel and leaving thousands stranded. The storm left at least 11 people dead.
(AP, 9/4/18)(AP, 9/5/18)
2018 Sep 4, Libyan authorities said the death toll from more than a week of fighting between armed groups in Tripoli has climbed to at least 50 people, including civilians. The United Nations brokered a truce after a week of violence between local fighters.
(AP, 9/4/18)(Reuters, 9/7/18)
2018 Sep 4, In Libya hundreds of migrants fled a detention center in Tripoli as fighting raged nearby. An aid official working at an international organization said as many as 1,800 might have left the facility located near airport road.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (73) was been sworn in to a new five-year term in the presence of former rebels and several other personalities although the opposition continues to dispute his election win.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Nauru hosted the Pacific Islands Forum, which is being attended this week by leaders from 18 member nations and delegations from other countries including the US and China.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Dutch prosecutors said bank ING has paid 775 million euros ($897 million) to settle a huge money laundering case in the Netherlands.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, Pakistani lawmakers elected Arif Alvi, a nominee from PM Imran Khan's party, to the ceremonial office of president.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, It was reported that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the arrest of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, his fiercest critic in Congress after revoking the senator's amnesty for involvement in unsuccessful military uprisings years ago. Trillanes condemned the move as arresting officers waited outside the Senate in a looming standoff.
(AP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, A new Amnesty Int'l. report accused authorities in South Sudan of torturing people to death and letting many others languish behind bars since the civil war began in late 2013.
(SFC, 9/5/18, p.A3)
2018 Sep 4, The Spanish Defence Ministry said Spain has halted the sale of a shipment of bombs to Saudi Arabia amid concerns about their use in the conflict in Yemen. Spain said it has cancelled a 2015 deal to sell 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 9/4/18)(AFP, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In Syria Russia resumed its air strikes against insurgents in Idlib after 22 days, following weeks of aerial bombardment and shelling against rebels by pro-Syrian government forces in an apparent prelude to a full-scale offensive. The next day the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the Russian strikes killed 13 civilians, including children, but no fighters.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)(Reuters, 9/5/18)
2018 Sep 4, Turkey told the United States that Kurdish militants must completely abandon Syria, as violence in the rebel-held northern Syrian enclave of Idlib escalated.
(Reuters, 9/4/18)
2018 Sep 4, In the Ukraine Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (32) held talks with President Petro Poroshenko and afterward said "I speak not only as Chancellor but also as President of the EU Council, we need a clear reaction to the Russian aggression" in eastern Ukraine.
(AFP, 9/4/18)
2019 Sep 4, The Trump administration announced that the United States will pay people up to $15 million for information that disrupts the finances of an elite Iranian military force.
(Politico, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, The US Commerce Department said it imposed duties on Chinese and Mexican structural steel after making a preliminary determination that producers in both countries had dumped fabricated structural steel on the US market at prices below fair market value.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, The Pentagon said it would pull funding from 127 Defense Department projects, including schools and daycare centers for military families, as it diverts $3.6 billion to fund President Donald Trump's wall along the US border with Mexico.
(Reuters, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, The US sanctioned a sprawling network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that supplied Syria with oil worth tens of millions of dollars in a breach of US sanctions.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A senior US official ruled out issuing waivers to Iran sanctions to permit a French-proposed credit line, which Tehran says could bring it back to full compliance with the nuclear deal.
(AFP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A US federal judge ruled that the government's watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as "known or suspected terrorists" violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, It was reported that an Alabama couple has been sentenced to prison on charges related to producing child porn. Kenneth Earl Hooks (36) got two life sentences and 120 years, to run consecutively. Sarah Pauline Morris (28) was sentenced to about 16 years.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, In southern Florida Bee Love Slater, a black, transgender 23-year-old was found murdered fat the edge of Harlem, a small community about 65 miles west of West Palm.
(The Independent, 9/14/19)
2019 Sep 4, The FBI arrested New Jersey man, Rubbin Sarpong, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He was part of a complex and brazen fraud that swindled more than 30 people out of about $2.1 (£1.71) million and led one woman to commit suicide. The scheme was run by two people in New Jersey and their associates in Ghana.
(The Independent, 9/6/19)
2019 Sep 4, In Texas Billy Jack Crutsinger (64) was executed by lethal injection for the 2003 killings of Pearl Magouirk (89) and her daughter Patricia Syren (71). Authorities say Crutsinger killed the women then stole Syren's car and credit card. He was arrested three days later at a bar in Galveston, more than 300 miles (480 km) away.
(AP, 9/4/19)(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A5)
2019 Sep 4, Bahamas PM Hubert Minnis said the death toll of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has risen to 20 people with officials certain the number will continue to rise. Minnis declared a “historic tragedy" on the archipelago. The UN said 70,000 people needed immediate humanitarian relief after one of the most powerful Caribbean storms on record devastated the island group.
(AP, 9/5/19)(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro accused Chile's former leader Michelle Bachelet, now the UN human rights chief, of meddling in his country's affairs after she criticized a rise police violence and an erosion of democracy.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, British PM Boris Johnson demanded an Oct. 15 snap election after lawmakers seeking to prevent a no-deal Brexit dealt him a humiliating defeat in parliament which he cast as an attempt to surrender to the European Union. Rebellious British lawmakers rejected a call by PM Boris Johnson to trigger a snap poll and moved to block his plan to leave the EU next month without a divorce deal.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)(AP, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, Britain's government announced a three-year immigration scheme to cover most European citizens wanting to come to Britain after a no deal Brexit, in a move aimed at reassuring business they will still be able to recruit the staff they need.
(AFP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, British finance minister Sajid Javid said he was "turning the page on austerity" as he promised the biggest spending increases in 15 years, a move widely seen as part of PM Boris Johnson's push for an election to break the Brexit impasse.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, The Bank of England lowered its estimate for the scale of damage to Britain's economy in a worst-case Brexit scenario because of preparations undertaken since the end of last year. The central bank now estimated that gross domestic product would contract by 5.5% peak to trough, less than the 8% seen in a set of scenarios published in November.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, The EU said it currently sees no alternative to the so-called "Irish backstop" in a Brexit withdrawal deal and warned the risk of Britain crashing out without an agreement has increased.
(AFP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s moved to formally withdraw a bill allowing extraditions to China. This may well have ended the Hong Kong unrest in June, but now protesters want a lot more, and they’re ready and willing to fight.
(Bloomberg, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, India officially declared that the leaders of two Pakistan-based militant groups are terrorists under a new law. The Home Ministry named Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, as terrorists under the amended Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, In northern India a large explosion at a fireworks factory killed at least 16 people in Batala, Punjab state.
(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A2)
2019 Sep 4, Iran said it would take another step away from a 2015 nuclear deal by starting to develop centrifuges to speed up its uranium enrichment but it also gave European powers two more months to try to save the multilateral pact. President Hassan Rouhani ordered all limits on nuclear research and development to be lifted, the country's third step in scaling down its commitments to a 2015 deal with world powers.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)(AFP, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, Bezeq, Israel's largest telecoms group, was fined 30 million shekels ($8.6 million) for what the competition regulator said was an "abuse of the firm's monopolistic position" in telecommunications infrastructure. The antitrust authority also imposed a financial penalty of 500,000 shekels on a senior Bezeq official and said it intended to levy a further 8 million shekel fine on Bezeq for misinformation during the authority's investigation.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Italian PM Giuseppe Conte unveiled his new cabinet, uniting two rival political parties in an unlikely coalition that is expected to improve ties with the European Union and adopt a softer stance on immigration. The team of ministers were drawn primarily from the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party (PD).
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A court in Kosovo said it had jailed six people, including a woman, for terms ranging from one to 10 years, for planning attacks last year on NATO troops and the public in Kosovo, Belgium and France.
(Reuters, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, In New Zealand a tour bus carrying Chinese tourists flipped in rainy weather killing five Chinese nationals north of Rotorua.
(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A2)
2019 Sep 4, North Korea told the United Nations to cut the number of international staff it deploys in the country because the world body's programs have failed "due to the politicization of UN assistance by hostile forces".
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said that while he was not a fan of online gambling he was unwilling to ban the business, as China has called for, because of the harm that would do to the country's economy.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, In the Philippines US citizen Jennifer Erin Talbot (43) was arrested as she tried to board a jet with a 6-day-old baby hidden inside a sling bag. Talbot was charged with human trafficking.
(SFC, 9/6/19, p.A5)
2019 Sep 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Indian PM Narendra Modi for talks in Vladivostok on boosting investment and trade, with a special emphasis on energy and arms deals.
(AFP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A Russian court sentenced protester Yevgeny Kovalenko (48) to 3-1/2 years in jail after finding him guilty of using violence against the police at an opposition rally in July. Another protester was sentenced to three years in jail on similar charges.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent their top diplomats to Pakistan to help Islamabad defuse tensions with India over the disputed Kashmir region.
(AP, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, A Scottish judge declined to block Boris Johnson’s plan to suspend Parliament, dealing a blow to lawmakers who argued that there isn’t enough time to thwart a no-deal Brexit.
(Bloomberg, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Sweden's foreign minister confirmed that Iran has released seven of the 23 crew members of the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero that was seized earlier this summer. The Swedish-owned Stena Impero was detained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards on July 19 in the Strait of Hormuz waterway for alleged marine violations.
(AP, 9/5/19)
2019 Sep 4, Turkey's Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said Turkey may lose trade with Britain worth up to $3 billion in the event of a no-deal Brexit, adding that many Turkish companies lacked information on the consequences of such a scenario.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2019 Sep 4, Pope Francis opened a 3-nation pilgrimage to southern Africa with a visit to Mozambique.
(SFC, 9/5/19, p.A4)
2019 Sep 4, A Yemeni official said government officials have begun indirect talks with United Arab Emirates-backed southern separatists in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah to end fighting in Aden and other southern provinces.
(Reuters, 9/4/19)
2020 Sep 4, President Donald Trump announced that Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to normalize economic ties as part of US-brokered talks that include Belgrade moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, and mutual recognition between Israel and Kosovo.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, US Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration has reached a deal with lawmakers in Congress to ensure the government is funded past Sept. 30, removing the threat of a near-term government shutdown.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, The United States' largest police union endorsed President Donald Trump's re-election bid, boosting the Republican's message that he is the candidate of "law and order" amid US protests against police brutality and racial injustice.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration to resume issuing diversity visas for immigrants from underrepresented countries, partially reversing a pandemic-related freeze on a wide range of immigrant and temporary visas.
(SFC, 9/8/20, p.A4)
2020 Sep 4, A US federal judge ruled that two American men accused of smuggling Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan while he was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges can be extradited. The final decision rests with the State Department.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, A US federal judge temporarily barred Detroit police from the use of striking weapons, chokeholds, chemical agents and rubber bullets against demonstrators, medical support personnel and legal observers in the city's ongoing anti-racism protests. The order will be in effect for at least 14 days.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, California to date had 729,876 cases of coronavirus and 13,611 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 89,308 cases and 1,204 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 6,199,998 with the death toll at 187,750.
(sfist.com, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, In California the fast-spreading Creek Fire began late today near the Mammoth Pool Reservoir about 50 miles south of Yosemite National Park in the Sierra National Forest. At least 63 of the more than 150 people trapped by the massive fire were rescued by military helicopter.
(AP, 9/6/20)
2020 Sep 4, Mail balloting in the presidential election began as North Carolina started sending out more than 600,000 ballots to voters — responding to a massive spike in requests that has played out across the country as voters look for a safer way to cast ballots during the pandemic.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Mississippi dropped the charges against Curtis Flowers. He was the victim of a campaign by Doug Evans, a white local prosecutor, to convict him for a 1996 quadruple murder, despite no good evidence tying Flowers to the crime.
(NY Times, 10/15/20)
2020 Sep 4, In Oregon law enforcement declared an unlawful assembly late today and arrested 27 people after protesters marched through the streets of Portland on to a police building, where officers stood waiting outside.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, In Texas a San Antonio police officer and a security guard fatally shot a Black shoplifting suspect after he stabbed the officer in the face.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Disney premiered its Mulan film on Disney+ for a premium fee in countries where the service had launched. Disney had spent 5 years and $200 million on the live-action remake of its 22-year old animation. Mulan's world premiere was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 9, 2020.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulan_(2020_film))
2020 Sep 4, It was reported that US drugmaker AbbVie Inc will pay $180 million in upfront payment to develop and sell Chinese biotech company I-Mab's cancer drug.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Moderna Inc said it has been asking sites that are conducting clinical trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine to focus on enrolling at-risk minorities, even if that slows down the trial speed.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, In Bangladesh an underground gas pipeline at the Baitus Jalat Jame mosque exploded during evening prayers outside Dhaka, leaving 16 Muslim worshipers dead and dozens injured with critical burns. The death toll soon rose to 33. Eight people were later arrested for alleged negligence.
(AP, 9/4/20)(SFC, 9/7/20, p.A2)(SFC, 9/21/20, p.A2)
2020 Sep 4, In Belarus hundreds of demonstrators rallied again in Minsk to protest the disputed reelection of the nation's authoritarian president. Police dispersed university students attempting to show solidarity with peers who were detained earlier in the week. Police entered the State Linguistics University in Minsk to disperse an action by students who were expressing solidarity with classmates detained earlier. Officers rounded up several participants.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the main opposition challenger in Belarus’ disputed presidential election, spoke to the UN Security Council and urged the international community to impose sanctions on “the individuals that committed electoral violations and crimes against humanity" and take other measures to stop the violence against protesters.
(AP, 9/5/20)
2020 Sep 4, Brazil’s health ministry to date has confirmed more than 4 million cases of the coronavirus disease and 125,000 deaths. President Jair Bolsonaro has expressed opposition to administering vaccines that are yet to be proven on Brazilian soil.
(AP, 9/5/20)
2020 Sep 4, Britain appointed Australia's former prime minister Tony Abbott (62) as a trade adviser as it seeks to agree new post-Brexit deals. The appointment sparked criticism from the opposition Labour party and campaign groups due to his past use of sexist language, skepticism of man-made climate change, and opposition to same-sex marriage.
(AFP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Virgin Atlantic announced 1,150 more job cuts due to the coronavirus crisis, saying its 1.2 billion pound ($1.6 billion) rescue deal alone was not enough to secure its future.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, A new investigation into companies trading in the Chinese city of Dandong, on the border with North Korea, shed a spotlight on Pyongyang’s global money laundering networks and raised fresh questions about China’s complicity in bypassing United Nations sanctions against Kim Jong-un’s regime.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, French President Emmanuel Macron criticized what he called “Islamic separatism" in his country and those who seek French citizenship without accepting France’s “right to commit blasphemy".
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, German biotech firm Curevac said it had won nearly $300 million in government funding to speed up work on its prototype COVID-19 vaccine and build capacity to produce it at scale. Curevac's technology uses mRNA as a data carrier to instruct the human body to produce proteins that can fight against diseases.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Hungary has registered 459 new cases of the coronavirus. The country has registered 7,381 confirmed cases and 621 deaths.
(SFC, 9/5/20, p.A5)
2020 Sep 4, India reported a daily jump of 83,341 coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 3.94 million. 1,096 people died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 68,472.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, The International Atomic Energy Agency reported (IAEA) that Iran continues to increase its stockpile of enriched uranium in violation of limitations set in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, but has begun providing access to sites where the country was suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, NATO demanded Russia cooperate with an international investigation into the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, as EU diplomats cast doubt over whether the bloc could impose sanctions on Moscow.
(The Telegraph, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern retained the restrictions put in place to beat the spread of the coronavirus until at least mid-September, as the country reported a new death related to the virus.
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Russian scientists have belatedly published first results from early trials into the experimental Sputnik V vaccine. Developers of the vaccine said it appeared to be safe and to prompt an antibody response in all 40 people tested in the second phase of the study within three weeks. However, the authors noted that participants were only followed for 42 days, the study sample was small and there was no placebo or control vaccine used.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, South Korea said it will extend elevated social distancing restrictions for another week after reporting 198 new coronavirus cases.
(SFC, 9/5/20, p.A5)
2020 Sep 4, Sudanese authorities declared their country a natural disaster area and imposed a three-month state of emergency across the country after rising floodwaters and heavy rainfall killed around 100 people and inundated over 100,000 houses since late July.
(AP, 9/5/20)
2020 Sep 4, Swiss-based Roche Holding AG said a therapy it co-developed with Cambridge-based Blueprint Medicines Corp was approved by the US health regulator for the treatment of patients with a type of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
(Reuters, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said it has begun withdrawing troops from various camps around the country where tens of thousands of civilians sought protection during its civil war.
(AFP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, The UN said locusts are threatening another part of Africa, with up to 7 million people in the southern region facing further food insecurity. The outbreaks of African migratory locusts in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe are not related to the huge outbreak of billions of desert locusts that has affected East Africa for months.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, Seven human rights experts affiliated with the UN raised concerns over Hong Kong’s new national security law in a letter addressed to Chinese authorities, saying the legislation limits certain fundamental freedoms.
(AP, 9/4/20)
2020 Sep 4, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a risk of famine and widespread food insecurity in four countries affected by conflict — Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria and South Sudan — and that the lives of millions of people are in danger.
(AP, 9/4/20)
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