Today in History - October 13
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54AD Oct 13, Roman emperor Claudius I died, after being poisoned with mushrooms by his wife, Agrippina. Nero (37-68AD), son of Agrippina, succeeded his great uncle Claudius, who was murdered by his wife, as the new emperor of Rome. After the murder of his wife, Octavia, Nero descended deep into a religious delirium. His acts became wild and unintelligible and he was displaced by his soldiers with Galba after which he committed suicide.
(WUD, 1994, p.959)(V.D.-H.K.p.78)(AP, 10/13/97)(HN, 10/13/01)
1307 Oct 13, The medieval order of the Knights Templar was suppressed by King Philip IV of France. Baphomet, a deity that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping, is an Old French corruption of the name Muhammad. Subsequently it was incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions. Since 1856, the name Baphomet has been associated with a "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Eliphas Levi which contains binary elements representing the "sum total of the universe".
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet)(HN, 10/13/98)
1399 Oct 13, Henry IV of England was crowned.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1537 Oct 13, Jane Grey, Queen of England for 9 days, was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1563 Oct 13, Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder and saint (Caracciolini), was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1582 Oct 13, This day was one of ten skipped to bring the calendar into sync. by order of the Council of Trent. Oct 5-14 were dropped.
(K.I.-365D, p.97)(NG, March 1990, J. Boslough)
1601 Oct 13, Tycho Brahe, astronomer, died in Prague.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1629 Oct 13, Dutch West Indies Co. granted religious freedom in West Indies.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1652 Oct 13, Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer and newspaper publisher, died.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1659 Oct 13, Gen. John Lambert drove out the English Rump government. The “Rump Parliament" was restored in Dec.
(PCh, 1992, p.247)(MC, 10/13/01)
1661 Oct 13, "I went to see Major General Harrison being drawn and quartered. He was looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition." Harrison (b.1606) had sided with Parliament in the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he was a leader of the Fifth Monarchists. In 1649 he signed the death warrant of Charles I and in 1660, shortly after the Restoration, he was found guilty of regicide.
(Samuel Pepys Diary)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harrison_%28soldier%29)
1670 Oct 13, Virginia passed a law that blacks arriving in the colonies as Christians could not be used as slaves.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1680 Oct 13, Daniel Elsevier, book publisher and publisher, died at 54.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1701 Oct 13, Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer, died at 47.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1710 Oct 13, English troops occupied Acadia, Nova Scotia.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1754 Oct 13, American Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher was born. During the American Revolution, at the Battle of Monmouth, NJ, Molly helped out as a water carrier, gaining her nickname, Molly Pitcher. Her husband, John, was wounded during the battle and Molly dropped the water pitcher, taking up her husband's job of loading and firing a cannon. General George Washington appointed her a noncommissioned officer. [see Jun 28, 1778]
(MC, 10/13/01)
1775 Oct 13, The U.S. Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet. The Continental Congress authorized construction of two warships. The 1st ship in the US Navy was the schooner Hannah. It was commissioned by George Washington and outfitted at Beverly, Mass. In 2006 Ian W. Toll authored “Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy.
(AP, 10/13/97)(HN, 10/13/98)(SFC, 2/12/00, p.B3)(Econ, 11/4/06, p.94)
1776 Oct 13, Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain by the British, who then retreated to Canada for the winter. Arnold’s efforts bought the colonists 9 months to consolidate their hold in northern New York. In 2006 James L. Nelson authored “Benedict Arnold’s Navy."
(HN, 10/13/98)(WSJ, 5/12/06, p.W5)
1784 Oct 13, Ferdinand VII, king of Spain, was born.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1792 Oct 13, The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
(AP, 10/13/97)(HN, 10/13/98)
1792 Oct 13, Robert Bailey Thomas (1766-1846), founded his Farmer's Almanac in Boston for the year 1893. It was renamed The Old Farmer's Almanac in 1832.
(https://tinyurl.com/2zwthz6w)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Farmer%27s_Almanac)
1795 Oct 13, William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, died.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1812 Oct 13, At the Battle of Queenston Heights, a Canadian and British army defeated the Americans who had tried to invade Canada. This was the 1st major land battle in the War of 1812.
(HN, 10/13/98)(HNQ, 1/31/02)
1812 Oct 13, Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), died in battle.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1813 Oct 16-1813, Oct 19, In the Battle at Leipzig (aka Battle of the Nations) Napoleon faced Prussia, Austria and Russia and suffered one of his worst defeats.
(DoW, 1999, p.325)
1815 Oct 13, Joachim Murat, marshal of France and King of Naples (1808-15), was executed.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1817 Oct 13, William Kirby, Canadian writer, was born.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1821 Oct 13, Rudolf Virchow, German politician and anthropologist (cell pathology), was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1822 Oct 13, Antonio Canova (b.1757), Italian sculptor, died at age 64. His work included a sculpture of Napoleon’s sister Pauline, as a semi-naked Venus Victrix.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Canova)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.105)
1843 Oct 13, The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1845 Oct 13, Texas voters ratified a state constitution.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1849 Oct 13, The California state constitution, which prohibited slavery, was signed in Monterey.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1853 Oct 13, Lillie Langtry (d.1929), British actress, was born. “The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges."
(AP, 7/27/98)(HN, 10/13/00)
1855 Oct 13, Gottfried Rieger, composer, died at 91.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1858 Oct 13, The sixth debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place in Quincy, Ill.
(AP, 10/13/08)
1860 Oct 13, The 1st US aerial photo was taken from a balloon over Boston.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1864 Oct 13, Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia resulted in 337 casualties.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1864 Oct 13, Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (Mosby's Raid).
(MC, 10/13/01)
1864 Oct 13, Maryland voters adopted a new constitution, including abolition of slavery.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1869 Oct 13, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French writer (Tableau Historique), died.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1870 Oct 13, Gustav Mahler (10) gave his 1st public piano concert.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1881 Oct 13, A revival of the Hebrew language began as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agreed to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1884 Oct 13, Greenwich was established as the universal time meridian of longitude. 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C. for the International Meridian Conference. This conference selected the Greenwich Meridian as the official Prime Meridian due to its popularity. However, France abstained from the vote and French maps continued to use the Paris Meridian for several decades.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Meridian)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_13)
1890 Oct 13, Conrad Richter, novelist and short story writer, was born.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1903 Oct 13, Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1903 Oct 13, Boston defeated Pittsburgh in baseball’s first World Series. In 2003 Roger I. Abrams authored “The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903;" Louis P. Masur authored "Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series;" and Bob Ryan authored "When Boston Won the World Series."
(WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A8)(HN, 10/13/98)(WSJ, 3/28/03, p.W9)(SSFC, 6/8/03, p.M6)
1904 Oct 13, Sigmund Freud's “The Interpretation of Dreams" was published.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1905 Oct 13, Henry Irving (b.1838), British actor, died in England. In 2008 Michael Holroyd authored “A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families." Irving was the first actor to be awarded a British knighthood (1895).
(WSJ, 3/6/09, p.W6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Terry)
1907 Oct 13, Yves Allégret, French film director, was born. His work included “Dédée d'Anvers" and “Une si jolie petite plage."
(HN, 10/13/00)
1908 Oct 13, The Chicago Cubs won Game 4 of the World Series, defeating the Detroit Tigers 3-0 to take a 3-1 Series lead.
(AP, 10/13/08)
1908 Oct 13, Some 60 thousand British suffragists led by Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the WSPU, gathered in Parliament Square the rush the House of Commons. 24 women and 13 men were arrested.
(ON, 10/2010, p.8)
1909 Oct 13, Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block), multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, was born.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1910 Oct 13, Ernest Kellogg Gann, pilot and adventure novelist, was born. His work included “Island in the Sky" and “The High and Mighty."
(HN, 10/13/00)
1910 Oct 13, Art Tatum, American jazz pianist, was born.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1913 Oct 13, The 16th amendment to the constitution was ratified and the modern income tax came into being. It lifted the constitutional ban on income taxes. The levy was 1% of GDP and the highest rate was 7%. An exemption on the first $20,000 in dividend income was revoked during WW I.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.D1)(CyCEO, 6/3/97, p.1,8)(WSJ, 3/11/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.D8)
1914 Oct 13, Garrett Morgan invented and patented the gas mask.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1921 Oct 13, In the Treaty of Kars Turkey formally recognized the Armenian Soviet Republic.
(EWH, 4th ed, p.1086)
1921 Oct 13, The Daily Colonist in Victoria BC mentioned the term “cold turkey" in reference to quitting an addiction. This was the first know use of the term in print.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, Z1 p.8)
1921 Oct 13, Yves Montand, French actor and singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix), was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1923 Oct 13, Angora (Ankara) became Turkey's capital.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1925 Oct 13, Frank D. Gilroy, American writer (Subject Was Roses), was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1925 Oct 13, Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider], comedian, was born. He was later arrested on obscenity charges.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1925 Oct 13, Margaret Thatcher, Great Britain’s first female Prime Minister (1979-90), was born in Grantham, England.
(HN, 10/13/98)(MC, 10/13/01)
1926 Oct 13, Ray Brown (d.2002), jazz bass player, was born in Pittsburgh.
(HN, 10/13/00)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A21)
1930 Oct 13, New German Reichstag opened with 107 Nazi Party members in uniform.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1931 Oct 13, Noel Coward's "Cavalcade," premiered in London.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1934 Oct 13, Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer (Try to Remember), was born in Crete.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1936 Oct 13, Cliff Gorman, actor (Boys in the Band, Lenny, Angel), was born in Jamaica, NY.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1941 Oct 13, Paul Simon, songwriter, singer, musician, was born. He played guitar and recorded with Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence; solo: Me and Julio, Kodachrome, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1941 Oct 13, Nazis killed 11,000 Jewish children and old people.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1942 Oct 13, In the first of four attacks, two Japanese battleships sail down the slot and shelled Henderson field on Guadalcanal, in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the American Cactus Air Force.
(HN, 10/13/99)
1943 Oct 13, During World War II, Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
(AP, 10/13/97)(HN, 10/13/98)
1944 Oct 13, The US 1st army entered Aachen, Germany.
(AP, 10/13/97)(MC, 10/13/01)
1944 Oct 13, British and Greek advance units landed at Piraeus during World War II.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1944 Oct 13, Riga, Latvia, was freed.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1945 Oct 13, Milton Hershey (b.1857), Philadelphia chocolate tycoon, died. In 2005 Michael D. Antonio authored “Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire and Utopian Dreams."
(WSJ, 8/12/99, p.A1)(www.hersheyhistory.com/milton.html)
1947 Oct 13, The popular children's television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premiered as a local Chicago show. In its first year, the show's name varied between "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" and "Junior Jamboree," but it was essentially the same show.
(http://www.kukla.tv/)
1953 Oct 13, A burglar alarm using ultrasonic or radio waves was patented by Samuel Bagno.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1954 Oct 13, R.P. Smith's and M. Shulman's "Tender Trap," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1955 Oct 13, A US Air Force B-47B crashed while taking off from March Air Base in California. Capt. Edward A. O'Brien Jr. (Pilot), Capt. David J. Clare (co-pilot), Major Thomas F. Mulligan (navigator), and Capt. Joseph M. Graeber (chaplain) were all killed.
(www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbadate.asp?thedate=551013&Submit2=Go)
1957 Oct 13, CBS-TV broadcast "The Edsel Show," a one-hour live special starring Bing Crosby designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile. It was the first special to use videotape technology to delay the broadcast to the West Coast.
(AP, 10/13/07)
1959 Oct 13, K. Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer (Amsterdam Concertgebouw), died at 67.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1960 Oct 13, The Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series at Forbes Field with a 9th inning homerun by Bill Mazeroski. A Univ. of Pittsburgh academic building was later built on the site.
(WSJ, 3/25/04, p.D1)
1960 Oct 13, Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of their presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in New York.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1960 Oct 13, Opponents of Fidel Castro were executed in Cuba.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1962 Oct 13, Jerry Rice, football player, was born. He played as a San Francisco '49er wide receiver: Super Bowl XXIII, XXIV, XXIX.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1962 Oct 13, The four-character drama "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," by Edward Albee, opened on Broadway with Uta Hagen (d.2004) as Martha and Arthur Hill as George. The opening coincided with co-star Melinda Dillon's 23rd birthday.
(SFC, 1/16/04, p.A23)(AP, 10/13/07)
1963 Oct 13, "Beatlemania" was coined after Beatles appeared at Palladium.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1966 Oct 13, 173 US airplanes bombed North-Vietnam.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1969 Oct 13-25, Pres. Nixon ordered a worldwide “secret" nuclear alert to scare the Soviets into forcing concessions from North Vietnam. Nixon called that tactic a “madman strategy," and it did not work.
(SFC, 12/25/02, p.A7)
1970 Oct 13, Canada established diplomatic relations with China.
(http://geo.international.gc.ca/asia/china/political_economic/diplomatic_relations-en.asp)
1972 Oct 13, Aeroflot Il-62 crashed in large pond outside Moscow and 176 died.
(http://tinyurl.com/5a6zlm)
1972 Oct 13, A Uruguay to Chile Fairchild FH-227 turboprop carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes Mountains. The event was concluded by December 23, 1972 when the last of 16 survivors were rescued. The group survived by collectively making a decision to eat flesh from the bodies of their dead comrades. The book “Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors," published two years after their rescue, was written by Piers Paul Read, who interviewed the survivors and their families.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571)(AP, 3/14/14)
1974 Oct 13, In the SF Bay Area Arlis Perry (19) was found sexually assaulted and killed at the Stanford Memorial Church. In 2018 DNA evidence led police to Stephen Blake Crawford, who shot himself on June 28 as police surrounded his home in San Jose.
(SFC, 6/29/18, p.A1)
1974 Oct 13, Television host Ed Sullivan died in New York City at age 72.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1977 Oct 13, A Lufthansa Boeing 737, bound for Frankfurt, was hijacked by Palestinians shortly after take-off. The plane is diverted to Rome's Fiumicino Airport. Almost all of the passengers are German vacationers. "This is Captain Martyr Mohammed speaking," announces one of the hijackers to the Rome air-traffic controllers. "The group I represent demands the release of our comrades in German prisons [see Oct 18].
(www.baader-meinhof.com/timeline/1977.html)
1980 Oct 13, In northern California Anne Evelyn Alderson (26) of San Rafael was raped and shot to death on Mount Tamalpais. David Joseph Carpenter was arrested in May 1981. In 1984 he was convicted of 2 murders in Santa Cruz and sentenced to death. In 1988 he was convicted of 4 killings in Marin County and again sentenced to death.
(SFC, 2/24/10, p.A7)
1980 Oct 13, In Houston Texas a delicatessen clerk was shot and killed by one bullet during a robbery. Willie Williams, who admitted to firing the fatal shot, was executed in 1995. His accomplice, Joseph Nichols, was convicted in 1982 at age 20 and in 2007 was also executed for the murder.
(http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR510332007)
1981 Oct 13, Voters in Egypt elected Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president in a referendum with a 98.5% vote, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
(AP, 10/13/97)(AP, 7/9/04)
1982 Oct 13, The IOC restored 2 gold medals post mortem from the 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe (1888-1953).
(http://nomas-nyc.com/2006/10/solid-gold.html)
1982 Oct 13, Guatemala’s army surrounded the mountain village of Santa Anita Las Canoas. 24 men were taken inside a church, where they were chained, tied with ropes and tortured all the night, their screams heard throughout the village. The following morning, 6 men were taken from the group, tied to the barbwire fence of the church and executed in front of the community.
{Guatemala, Atrocities}
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.A14)(www.law.wisc.edu/news/index.php?ID=567)
1983 Oct 13, The Space Shuttle Challenger, carrying seven, the largest crew to date, landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1987 Oct 13, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of a Central American peace plan to end the war in Nicaragua.
(AP, 10/13/97)(WSJ, 12/12/97, p.A19)
1988 Oct 13, Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was named recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(AP, 10/13/98)
1988 Oct 13, Vice President George Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis met in their second presidential debate of the 1988 campaign.
(AP, 10/13/98)
1988 Oct 13, In Italy Cardinal Archbishop Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero was forced to announce that the Shroud of Turin did not contain the image of Christ. Scientists at 3 leading universities carbon-dated samples to some time between 1260-1390. In 1998 it was reported that the dating work was not definitive. Lab tests showed Shroud of Turin was not Christ’s burial cloth. The Shroud of Turin Research Project (Sturp) performed radiocarbon dating on fibers of the shroud and found that the linen dated to between 1260 and 1390 AD. Ian Wilson wrote the 1978 book "The Shroud of Turin" and in 1998 "The Blood and the Shroud: New Evidence That the Most Sacred Relic Is Real."
(WSJ, 4/10/98, p.W6)(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.A24)(http://tinyurl.com/zuanz)
1989 Oct 13, The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 190 points, triggering memories of the 1987 crash.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1990 Oct 13, At the start of a three-day conference in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, the crown prince of Kuwait promised greater democracy for the emirate if it were freed from Iraqi occupation.
(AP, 10/13/00)
1990 Oct 13, In Lebanon, rebel Christian General Michel Aoun ended his mutiny against the government. Syrian forces defeated the army under Aoun. Jihad Georges Eid (20) a soldier in the Lebanese army, was taken from Lebanon by Syrian troops on the day of the last battle in the civil war. For the next 20 plus years, more than 600 families, Lebanese and Palestinian, Muslim and Christian, demanded authorities reveal the fate of thousands of political prisoners believed to have disappeared at the hands of Syrian troops.
(AP, 10/13/00)(SFC, 4/27/05, p.A8)(AFP, 10/13/11)
1990 Oct 13, The 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs was held in St. Basil's Cathedral.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1990-10/1990-10-13-NBC-20.html)
1990 Oct 13, Le Duc Tho, co-founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party, died in Hanoi at age 79. He was the 1975 North Vietnamese negotiator in Paris.
(AP, 10/13/00)(MC, 10/13/01)
1991 Oct 13, The Minnesota Twins won the American League pennant, defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 8-5 at SkyDome.
(AP, 10/13/01)
1991 Oct 13, The US Senate Judiciary Committee heard conflicting testimony from friends and associates of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, the University of Oklahoma law professor who'd accused Thomas of sexually harassing her.
(AP, 10/13/01)
1992 Oct 13, Vice President Dan Quayle, Senator Al Gore and retired admiral James B. Stockdale clashed in a freewheeling vice-presidential debate in Atlanta.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1993 Oct 13, The Philadelphia Phillies won the National League pennant, defeating the Atlanta Braves in game six.
(AP, 10/13/98)
1993 Oct 13, A German who had stabbed tennis star Monica Seles received a suspended jail term.
(AP, 10/13/03)
1993 Oct 13, The U.N. Security Council voted to reimpose sanctions on Haiti unless military leaders there stopped violating a U.N.-brokered accord.
(AP, 10/13/98)
1994 Oct 13, Kenzabuto Oe, Japanese novelist, won the Noble prize for literature. His work included “An Echo of Heaven."
(SFC, 7/7/96, BR p.9)(AP, 10/13/99)
1994 Oct 13, Pro-British Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland announced a cease-fire matching the Irish Republican Army's six-week-old truce.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1994 Oct 13, In Sri Lanka peace talks began in Jaffna.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Oct 13, The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Polish-born British physicist Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005) and the Pugwash Conferences (begun in Canada in 1957) for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat)(AP, 10/13/00)(SFC, 9/2/05, p.B5)(WSJ, 10/16/95, p. A1)
1996 Oct 13, The Yankees won the American League pennant, defeating the Baltimore Orioles.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1996 Oct 13, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," called on Congress to investigate campaign contributions made to President Clinton's re-election campaign by the Lippo Group, an Indonesian banking conglomerate.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1996 Oct 13, In Austria the far-right Freedom party of Joerg Haider received 27.6% of the vote. The Conservative People’s Party led by Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schuessel won with 29.6%, while the Social Democrats got 29.1%.
(SFC, 10/14/96, p.A12)
1996 Oct 13, In Iraq the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) regained Sulaymaniyah, its former headquarters.
(SFC, 10/14/96, p.A12)
1997 Oct 13, The Cassini spacecraft was scheduled to be launched aboard a Titan rocket from Cape Canaveral for a trip to end in 2004 at Saturn. It will carry the Huygens probe to be deployed on the Saturn moon Titan. It was postponed
(SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.1)
1997 Oct 13, A British jet car, Thrust SSC, driven by Andy Green of the Royal Air Force set a land speed record of 764.168 mph in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The record was not recorded as official because turn around time went over an hour due to braking problems. Green officially broke the record two days later.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A1,7)(AP, 10/13/98)
1997 Oct 13, In Quebec, Canada, a bus with 48 senior citizens overturned into a ravine near St. Joseph-de-la-Rive and 43 were killed.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)(AP, 10/13/98)
1997 Oct 13, In Italy the Communist Refounding Party reopened talks that were expected to restore Prodi to power and leave his budget intact.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1997 Oct 13, In Kenya teachers ended a 12-day strike after the government agreed to a 200% raise. Their salaries had averaged $35 per month.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 13, In South Korea Kim Hyun Chul (37), son of Pres. Kim Young Sam, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for bribery and tax evasion that amounted to about $2.1 million, an amount for which he was also fined.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A11)
1997 Oct 13, Swiss bank officials said that 4,000 more unclaimed accounts from the Holocaust era were found containing about $4 million.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 13, In Vietnam journalist Nguyen Hoang Linh of the business newspaper Enterprise, was arrested on charges of revealing state secrets. He had been investigating government corruption.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)
1998 Oct 13, In Conyers, Ga., Nancy Fowler (47) spoke her message from Mary, the mother of Jesus, to a crowd of over 100,000 pilgrims. It was the last of seven years of messages that Fowler said she received from the Virgin Mary.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A3)
1998 Oct 13, The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Robert B. Laughlin of Stanford, Horst L. Stormer of Columbia Univ. and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton for their work on the fractional quantum Hall effect where groups of electrons act as if they are quarks.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A1,6)
1998 Oct 13, The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to Walter Kohn of UC Santa Barbara and John Pople (d.2004) of Northwestern Univ. for their work in computational chemistry.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A1)(SFC, 3/19/04, p.B7)
1998 Oct 13, The NBA suspended the first two weeks of the 1998-99 pro basketball season after collective bargaining talks broke off.
(WSJ, 10/14/98, p.A1)(AP, 10/13/99)
1998 Oct 13, The New York Yankees won the American League pennant with a 9-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of their championship series.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1998 Oct 13, White House and congressional budget bargainers continued to seek agreement on issues snarling a $500 billion bill for the new fiscal year.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1998 Oct 13, Eric Robert Rudolph, a suspect in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala. abortion clinic, was reported to be linked to the 1996 Olympics bombing and would be charged for that and 2 other bombings in Atlanta.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A3)
1998 Oct 13, It was reported that Dutch auditors chastised the prime minister and other officials for spending $40 million to acquire the Piet Mondrian painting: “Victory Boogie Woogie."
(WSJ, 10/13/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 13, In the West Bank an Israeli man, Itamar Doron (24) was killed and another wounded by suspected terrorists. The slaying prompted Prime Minister Netanyahu to declare that there was no chance of signing a new peace deal with the Palestinians.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct 13, In Mexico a gas explosion in Tultepec killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens. The blast was related to the manufacture of illegal fireworks.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct 13, Serbian authorities announced that elections will be held in Kosovo under int’l. supervision next year. NATO authorized air strikes if Milosevic does no comply with UN demands.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A1)(SFC, 10/16/98, p.A14)
1999 Oct 13, Robert A. Mundell (66), a Canadian born professor at Columbia Univ., won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his study of cross-border capital flows, flexible foreign exchange rates, and supply side economics. A 1961 paper by Mundell had pioneered the theory of an “optimal currency area," which later helped shape the euro zone.
(WSJ, 10/14/99, p.A2)(Econ, 6/13/09, SR p.10)
1999 Oct 13, Pres. Clinton proposed to place 40 million acres of federal forest beyond the reach of loggers, miners and road-builders. He urged the forest service to engage the public in how best to manage and conserve over 50 million acres of the last roadless tracts.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A21)
1999 Oct 13, The US Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty 51-48.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A1)(AP, 10/13/00)
1999 Oct 13, Vice Pres. Al Gore received endorsement from the AFL-CIO for his presidential bid.
(SFC, 10/13/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 13, In Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the six-year-old’s strangulation.
(AP, 10/13/00)
1999 Oct 13, In Texas 3 Pleasanton law officers, Mark Stephenson, Thomas Monse and Terry Miller were shot and killed by Jeremiah Engleton (21), who had been arrested earlier for beating his wife.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A8)
1999 Oct 13, In Colombia drug police arrested 30 cocaine traffickers including Medellin cartel leader Fabio Ochoa and reputed distribution boss Alejandro Bernal-Madrigal. Some 1,290 traffickers were also arrested in Mexico, Ecuador, the US and other countries over the last 2 weeks.
(WSJ, 10/14/99, p.A1,22)(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A14)
1999 Oct 13, France legalized same sex unions under legislation called "civil solidarity pacts" pushed through by the Socialist-dominated National Assembly.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A12)
1999 Oct 13, In Georgia gunmen seized 6 UN observers and a translator as they delivered aid to Abkhazia. 4 of the observers were released the next day and the ransom was raised to $350,000. The last of the hostages were released 2 days later.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A14)(SFC, 10/15/99, p.D3)(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A16)
1999 Oct 13, In Indonesia the military chief, Gen'l. Wiranto, was picked by Golkar as the running mate to Pres. Habibie.
(WSJ, 10/14/99, p.A1,23)
2000 Oct 13, The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Pres. Kim Dae Jung (74) of South Korea for his efforts to make peace with North Korea.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 13, A US federal appeals court ruled that residents of Puerto Rico cannot vote in presidential elections unless the island becomes a state or the US Constitution is amended.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A4)
2000 Oct 13, The DJIA rose 157.61 to 10,192, while the NASDAQ rose 242 (7.9%) to 3316, in a possible dead cat bounce.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.D1)
2000 Oct 13, Chevron announced plans to acquire Texaco in a deal valued at $37 billion. Chevron and Texaco agreed to merge on Oct 15 for $35 billion in stock and $7.5 billion in debt.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 13, Gus Hall (90), longtime American communist, died in New York.
(AP, 10/13/01)
2000 Oct 13, Jean Peters, film actress and former wife of Howard Hughes, died at age 73.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)
2000 Oct 13, In Serbia a new agreement was reached to hold parliamentary elections on Dec 24.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 13, Janko “Tuta" Janjic (43), a war crimes suspect, killed himself in Foca, a town in the Serb section of Bosnia, when NATO troops came to arrest him.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A10)
2001 Oct 13, Anthrax was confirmed in 3 US states. In Florida 5 more employees tested positive; in Nevada a letter sent to a Microsoft office tested positive; and in NYC a letter sent to NBC News tested positive.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 13, The US confirmed that an errant 2,000-pound bomb hit residential buildings in Kabul and that 4 people were killed.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 13, In Nebraska a school bus carrying a high school band in Douglas County overturned and 3 people were killed.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 13, In London an estimated 20,000 people marched against the military strikes in Afghanistan. Other demonstrations took place in Europe.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 13, Ukraine's defense minister and air defense chief offered to resign, conceding that the military was involved in the explosion of a Russian airliner over the Black Sea Oct. 4 that killed 78 people.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 13, The Anaheim Angels routed the Minnesota Twins 13-5 to win the American League Championship Series in five games.
(AP, 10/13/03)
2002 Oct 13, In Lewiston, Maine, over 200 people marched in support of Somali immigrants. Over 1,000 Somalis had settled in the town over the last 18 months.
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 13, In Iowa up to 11 bodies of suspected Mexican immigrants were found in a Union Pacific rail car. The car had left Matamoros, Mexico, in June, and had been parked in Oklahoma since mid-June.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A3)
2002 Oct 13, Horace Logan (86), producer of the Louisiana Hayride country music show (b.1948), died in New Orleans.
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A26)
2002 Oct 13, Stephen Ambrose (b.Jan 10, 1936), historian, died in New Orleans. His books included "D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II."
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A26)
2002 Oct 13, In eastern Congo fighting broke out in a strategic port when pro-government tribal fighters tried to wrest control of the town from rebels.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Greece opposition conservatives claimed victory in local elections, but appeared to fall short of gaining a powerful protest vote against the long-governing Socialists.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Israel about 140,000 public workers went on strike to protest government plans to tax contributions to pension funds.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 13, Israeli troops backed by tanks and a helicopter entered the Rafah refugee camp hunting for tunnels used to smuggle weapons and drugs into the Gaza Strip. Two Palestinians were killed and 28 wounded.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 13, A Palestinian militant, whose clan has been targeted previously by Israeli security forces, was killed when a public telephone exploded in his hand. He was one of six Palestinians to die in a day of violence.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 13, Philippine troops pounded Muslim guerrilla positions with bombs and cannon fire, killing 20 rebels, as fighting raged for the second day in the country's troubled south.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Russia 10 people died of hypothermia in Moscow over the weekend, bringing the death toll for the current cold season to 32.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Serbia a moderate nationalist and a pro-Western pragmatist faced each other in the second round of presidential elections. Less than 50% of the electorate turned out rendering the results invalid.
(AP, 10/13/02)(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 13, In Somalia a boat that had carried 120 Somalis and Ethiopians from the village of Marear more than two weeks ago, landed with 50 survivors. The engine failed, leaving them drifting in the Gulf of Aden. At least 70 people who were headed to Persian Gulf states in search of jobs died.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Zimbabwe Sir Garfield Todd (93), the former prime minister of Southern Rhodesia (1953-1958), as Zimbabwe was once known, died after suffering a stroke.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2003 Oct 13, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it was doubling to $200 million the prevention funds for HIV and AIDS in India.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 13, It was reported that scientists in North Carolina had built a brain implant that lets monkeys control a robotic arm with their thoughts.
(SFC, 10/13/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 13, Ohio Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich formally kicked off his presidential bid.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2003 Oct 13, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a controversial redistricting bill designed to put more Republicans in the Texas congressional delegation.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2003 Oct 13, In Louisiana a bus crash on I-20 killed 8 members of a Texas church group after the driver fell asleep.
(WSJ, 10/14/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 13, Hundreds of Afghan troops backed by U.S. soldiers and helicopters attacked a suspected Taliban hide-out, killing at least 4 rebels and capturing 8 others.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 13, Bolivia's Pres. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada dropped plans to export natural gas in the face of massive protests that left 18 dead.
(SFC, 10/14/03, p.A3)(WSJ, 10/14/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 13, In western Nepal Communist rebels attacked a police training camp overnight, sparking a gunbattle that left at least 12 policemen and 15 guerrillas dead.
(AP, 10/13/03)
2003 Oct 13, In Nepal soldiers stormed a high school that had been taken over by rebels in a mountain village, starting a gunbattle that left at least 11 insurgents and four students dead.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 13, Paraguay's president named a new interior minister, in a change spurred by a contraband scandal.
(AP, 10/13/03)
2003 Oct 13, The Saudi Cabinet announced that first-ever elections would be held for local councils in 14 municipalities throughout the country.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 13, In Sudan, Hassan Turabi, hard-line Islamic leader and top opposition figure, was pardoned after more than 2 years under house arrest as part of a release of political prisoners.
(AP, 10/13/03)
2003 Oct 13, The UN Security Council approved a resolution expanding the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, In Tempe, Ariz., Pres. Bush and Sen John Kerry held their 3rd and final debate trading blows on taxes, gun control, abortion and jobs, striving to cement impressions in voters' minds in the run-up to Election Day.
(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A1)(AP, 10/13/05)
2004 Oct 13, National Hockey League games failed to begin as a lockout entered day 27.
(SFC, 10/12/04, p.A16)
2004 Oct 13, The US government approved a microchip that can be implanted under the skin to provide doctors with patient data. Two weeks after the device's approval took effect on Jan. 10, 2005, Tommy Thompson left his Cabinet post, and within five months was a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions. He was compensated in cash and stock options. In 2007 it was reported that a series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.
(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A1)(AP, 9/9/07)
2004 Oct 13, Bernice Rubens (76), author, died in London. She won the 1970 Booker Prize for “The Elected Member." Her book "Madame Sousatzka" was turned into a 1988 film.
(SFC, 12/28/04, p.D12)
2004 Oct 13, The Canadian federal government confirmed that its tax intake massively outweighed spending in the past fiscal year - producing a budget surplus of $9.1 billion.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, In Shanghai, China, the Houston Rockets, featuring Yao Ming, played an exhibition basketball game against the Sacramento Kings. Advertisers paid some $10 million to sponsor the game and another in Beijing.
(WSJ, 10/15/04, p.B1)
2004 Oct 13, In Iraq roadside bombings killed 4 American soldiers in Baghdad.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, The Israeli military killed 4 Palestinian militants as troops extended a 2-week operation in the Gaza Strip to silence Palestinian rocket fire.
(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A8)
2004 Oct 13, A Mexican judge found bus driver Victor Garcia Uribe, guilty of eight slayings, giving prosecutors their second conviction in the decade-long series of murders of women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, In Pakistan talks aimed at freeing two Chinese engineers taken hostage by al-Qaida-linked militants in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border have broken down and tribal elders said they would support the military using force to free the pair.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, Russia and China settled a dispute over their 2,700-mile border during a visit by Pres. Putin.
(WSJ, 10/14/04, p.A1)
2004 Oct 13, A Russian rocket lifted off in Kazakhstan carrying 2 Russians and an American to replace the crew of the int’l. space station.
(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A2)
2005 Oct 13, US intelligence officials announced the establishment of a National Clandestine Service to run CIA operations and coordinate activities with the Pentagon and FBI.
(SFC, 10/14/05, p.A7)
2005 Oct 13, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics agreed to plead guilty to US charges of price fixing memory chips from 1999-2002 and to pay a $300 million fine. In 2006 3 Samsung executives were sentenced to serve up to 8 months in federal prison and fined $250,000 each.
(SFC, 10/14/05, p.C1)(SFC, 3/23/06, p.C1)
2005 Oct 13, In Afghanistan Sargon Heinrich (40) of Rio Vista, Ca., head of a building company, was hauled from his boardinghouse in Kabul as Afghan agents arrested patrons there. He refused to pay a bribe for release and was charged on Nov 23 for gun-running, forged ID and refusal to cooperate with authorities. 2 Britons and an Indian faced the same plight. All 4 were released Dec 8.
(SFC, 12/6/05, p.A8)(SFC, 12/10/05, p.A3)
2005 Oct 13, An international group of artists, scientists, lawyers, politicians, economists, academics and business experts issued the Adelphi Charter, which set out new principles for copyrights and patents, and calls on governments to apply a new public interest test. The charter stemmed from the 1754 mission of Britain’s Royal Society of Arts.
(Econ, 10/15/05, p.67)(www.adelphicharter.org/default.asp)
2005 Oct 13, Argentina and Chile suspended imports of Brazilian meat, joining 28 other countries with similar bans after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, British playwright Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such works as "The Caretaker" and "The Birthday Party" and made an art form out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, Scientists announced the discovery in Argentina of a rooster-size fossil named Buitreraptor gonzalezorum. It dates back 90 million years and closely resembles fossils from the North. It was part of the class called dromaesaurs believed to have originated 180 million years ago in Laurasia.
(www.livescience.com/animalworld/051012_new_dino.html)
2005 Oct 13, Chinese archeologists reported their find of a 4,000 year-old container in northwestern China of noodles made from millet.
(SFC, 10/13/05, p.A2)
2005 Oct 13, At the Ibero-American Summit in Spain, foreign ministers from Latin America, Spain and Portugal backed Cuba on in two of its battles against the US, calling for an end to the US embargo and the expulsion from the U.S. of a Cuban militant wanted for a 1976 plane bombing.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, Lucio Gutierrez, ousted Ecuadorian President said he was renouncing his asylum in Colombia and would return to his own country, where he faces arrest, and attempt to regain power.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, The EU said the bird flu virus found in Turkish poultry was the H5N1 strain that scientists worry might mutate into a human virus and spark a pandemic. Turkey's health minister said the outbreak had been contained.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, Germany's highest administrative court has upheld claims to real estate in Berlin by heirs of the Jewish Wertheim family who lost their department store fortune under the Nazis. The department store site is worth some $20 million. The decision opened the way for claims on a total of 24 acres of former Wertheim property in Berlin, which was estimated to be worth some $200 million.
(AP, 10/26/05)
2005 Oct 13, Authorities said the number of people missing in Guatemala after last week's flooding and mudslides rose to 828, while the confirmed death toll held steady at 654.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, In Iraq a US soldier died when by a roadside bomb hit his combat patrol.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, A female suicide bomber blew herself up minutes before an army convoy was to pass on a key highway in Indian Kashmir, the first such attack by a woman in the region's Islamic separatist conflict.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, The UN adopted AU proposals giving Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo a year more in office with the caveat that he cede some powers to the prime minister.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.50)
2005 Oct 13, Soccer star George Weah took an early lead as results trickled in from Liberia's first post-war elections, but he seemed likely to face a run-off with former Finance Minister Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, Philippine police fired jets of water and used anti-riot shields to break up a march by about 300 left-wing student activists demanding the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, In Russia scores of Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in Nalchik, capital of the republic of Kabardino-Balkariya, sparking battles that killed 139 people, including 94 militants. Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for the attacks. President Putin ordered a total blockade of Nalchik, a city of 235,000, to prevent militants from slipping out, and he said armed resisters would be shot.
(SFC, 10/14/05, p.A11)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.25)(AP, 10/13/06)
2005 Oct 13, Spanish authorities said police have seized 3.5 tons of cocaine in a fishing boat bound for Spain from Venezuela after tip-offs from U.S. authorities.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2006 Oct 13, President Bush signed a law imposing sanctions against people responsible for genocide and war crimes in Sudan. He also signed the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act. It contained language barring the electronic settling of gambling debts, the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
(Reuters, 10/13/06)(WSJ, 10/14/06, p.A1)(Econ, 7/10/10, SR p.7)
2006 Oct 13, Ohio Representative Bob Ney pleaded guilty in a federal court to conspiracy and making false statements as part of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Air America Radio, a liberal talk radio network founded in 2004, filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
(SFC, 10/14/06, p.A2)
2006 Oct 13, A jury in Philadelphia said US retail giant Wal-Mart must pay 78 million dollars for violating labor laws in Pennsylvania.
(SFC, 10/14/06, p.C1)
2006 Oct 13, In New York a record-breaking early snowstorm walloped the Buffalo area, leaving thousands without power and 12 people left dead.
(AP, 10/14/06)(WSJ, 10/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 13, In St. Lucie County, Florida, 4 people, two of them young children, were found shot to death along an isolated stretch of Florida's Turnpike with obvious tire tracks nearby. In 2009 Daniel Troya (26) and co-defendant Ricardo Sanchez Jr. (25) received the death sentence for the slayings.
(AP, 10/13/06)(AP, 5/14/09)
2006 Oct 13, In southern Afghanistan a suicide car bomber targeted a NATO convoy, killing a NATO soldier and eight civilians.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans, microcredit, to lift millions out of poverty.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, In Brazil a small private plane with six people aboard went missing after losing contact with air traffic controllers in Vitoria.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, A British coroner ruled that US forces unlawfully killed Terry Lloyd (50), a veteran reporter for the British television network ITN, in the opening days of the Iraq war. He was shot in the back by Iraqi troops who overtook his car, then died after US fire hit a civilian minivan being used as an ambulance and struck him in the head.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, In Britain the chief of staff to the Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila was assaulted and robbed in northwest London while waiting to appear on a television program. Leonard She Okitundu was attacked by a gang who beat him around the head and body with a baseball bat, stripped him of his clothes, and posted pictures of them on the Internet. Okitundu said his attackers shouted that he was working for the Rwandans, and that they would kill anyone who obstructed Bemba.
(AFP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, The WHO said it has confirmed an outbreak of plague in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 42 deaths reported among 626 suspected cases over the past 10 weeks.
(Reuters, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, The EU condemned a French bill making it a crime to deny that the World War I-era killing of Armenians in Turkey was genocide, calling it unhelpful at a critical stage in the Muslim country's EU entry talks.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, EU and Indian leaders agreed to boost cooperation in fighting terrorism, particularly by focusing on improving the flow of intelligence.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, The French state rail network said some 1,200 claims for compensation have been leveled against the rail network for its role in helping transport people to Nazi camps during World War II.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, An Indonesia a woman (27) died from bird flu. 2 more deaths from the virus in the next 2 days brought the nation's toll to 55.
(AP, 10/17/06)
2006 Oct 13, At least 15 people were killed in attacks around Iraq, including the commander of a battalion of special Interior Ministry police and six women and two girls who were shot south of Baghdad near Suwayrah. Police found the corpses of 21 murder victims in Duluiyah many of them riddled with bullets and showing signs of torture. Gunmen attacked a farmhouse in Saifiyah and killed an entire family, including five women and three children, in an attack apparently motivated by sectarian hatred. A US soldier was killed in a roadside bombing southwest of Baghdad.
(AP, 10/13/06)(AFP, 10/14/06)(AP, 10/14/06)(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 13, Israeli forces killed at least four people in a series of attacks throughout the Gaza Strip. The deaths brought to 13 the number of Palestinians killed by the military in Gaza since the army launched its latest ground incursion early on Oct 12.
(AFP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Italy’s Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa said tax evasion is a "disease which exists in all countries, but in Italy it is an epidemic." The next day 2005 data on tax returns by the self-employed, among whom evasion is considered particularly rife, made front page news in most of newspapers.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, An Ivory Coast Health Ministry spokesman said the number of people who have died following the dumping of toxic waste around Abidjan has risen to 10.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Fire broke out at Lithuania's only oil refinery, causing millions of dollars in damage and forcing the evacuation of all its workers. No injuries were reported.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said security forces had arrested 8 militants with suspected links to Al-Qaeda for an attempted rocket blitz in and around Islamabad. Authorities also seized rockets, grenades, explosives and hundreds of sniper rifle rounds in the arrests at undisclosed locations.
(AFP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, In Peru Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, whose messianic communist vision inspired a 12-year rebellion that cost nearly 70,000 lives, was found guilty of aggravated terrorism and sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, Russia's Vladimir Kramnik became the first universally recognized world chess champion since 1993, winning a series of timed, tiebreaking games over Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov to take a tournament that reunified the title.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, A Russian court shut down the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, a human rights group that has exposed abuses against civilians in Chechnya. Director Stanislav Dmitriyevsky denounced the ruling as part of an effort to silence critics of the government's conduct in the violence-torn region.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Somalia's Islamic radicals repulsed an attack by pro-government forces to recapture Kismayo, a vital seaport. Islamic radicals carried out their second public execution in less than a month amid fears of increasing extremist violence. Mahad Osman Ugas (23) was executed by a six-man firing squad as several thousand people watched. A jury convicted him of killing a businessman while trying to steal the man's cell phone.
(AP, 10/13/06)(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, The UN General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as the next UN secretary-general. The veteran diplomat who grew up during a war that divided his country pledged to make peace with North Korea a top priority.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Pope Benedict XVI met privately with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, but the Vatican released no details of the low-key visit that was not even listed on the pontiff's official calendar.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2007 Oct 13, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after meeting with human-rights activists in Moscow, told reporters the Russian government under Vladimir Putin had amassed so much central authority that the power-grab could undermine its commitment to democracy.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2007 Oct 13, In San Leandro, Ca., Greg Ballard Jr. (17), was shot to death on the 9200 block of Sunnyside Street in East Oakland. Authorities identified suspect Dwayne Stancill (19), a gang member and son of a police detective, with the help of his picture on the gang’s MySpace page. In 2010 Stancill was convicted of 2nd degree murder.
(SFC, 10/25/07, p.B3)(SFC, 2/11/10, p.C2)
2007 Oct 13, A suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated his explosives in a crowded marketplace near Afghan police, killing nine people and injuring at least 29.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, Some 130 Muslim scholars from most of the world’s Islamic nations issued an inter-religious initiative calling for a strategic dialogue with Christian leaders.
(Econ, 10/13/07, p.65)
2007 Oct 13, In Algeria 4 armed Islamists were killed by security forces near the town of Thenia, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Algiers.
(AFP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 13, In southern Bangladesh 5 rear carriages of an overcrowded express train jumped their tracks, killing at least five passengers and injuring more than 100 others.
(AP, 10/13/07)
2007 Oct 13, Belgian Countess Andree De Jongh (90), who set up an escape route that helped hundreds of British airmen flee the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, died. De Jongh, a female nurse in a men's world of war resistance, helped found the Comet Line escape route while still in 1940. By the time she was arrested in 1943, she had already brought 118 people, including 80 downed pilots to safety.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, State media said China plans to carve a huge national park out of its vast northwest Xinjiang region that would eclipse Yellowstone National Park in size.
(AP, 10/13/07)
2007 Oct 13, In Colombia a landslide triggered by local residents digging for rumored deposits of gold in an abandoned mine near Suarez killed at least 21 people and injured another 26.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, Bob Denard (78), a French former mercenary who staged coups and led uprisings across Africa and the Middle East, died in Paris.
(AFP, 10/14/07)(Econ, 10/20/07, p.119)
2007 Oct 13, In Honduras 3 children and a woman were killed when their boat capsized, raising to 21 the death toll from days of torrential rains that have driven thousands from their homes across Central America.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, The police commander in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk escaped an assassination attempt, although the roadside bomb targeting his convoy killed one of his guards and wounded three others, along with one bystander. Police fatally shot a suicide bomber but his explosives-laden fuel tanker blew up near Samarra's police headquarters, killing 18 and wounding 27 others. Two Catholic priests were kidnapped on their way home from a funeral Mosul. The priests were released the next day.
(AP, 10/13/07)(AP, 10/14/07)(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 13, Amnesty International said 4 prominent political activists were arrested in Myanmar as the ruling junta kept up its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
(AP, 10/13/07)
2007 Oct 13, Dutch police arrested 11 Greenpeace activists who boarded a cargo ship to stop it unloading newsprint paper they suspected was made from ancient trees felled in Canadian forests.
(AP, 10/13/07)
2007 Oct 13, In southern Thailand 6 European tourists and their two Thai guides died when a flash flood engulfed a cave they were exploring.
(AFP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, At least 15 people were killed in a natural gas blast that partly destroyed an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk.
(AFP, 10/13/07)(AP, 10/15/07)
2008 Oct 13, Stock markets rejoiced after governments worldwide launched multibillion-dollar bailouts to shore up banks, and Britain called for a new Bretton Woods agreement to reshape the world financial system. The US Central Bank said it would provide unlimited dollars the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank. Britain committed £37 billion ($64 billion) to capitalize its big banks. Wall Street rebounded with the biggest stock rally since the Great Depression. The DJIA rose 936 points to close at 9,387.61, its largest point gain ever and one of its largest percentage increases.
(Reuters, 10/13/08)(SFC, 10/14/08, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/14/08, p.A3)(Econ, 10/18/08, p.83)
2008 Oct 13, Paul Krugman, the Princeton University scholar and New York Times columnist, won the Nobel prize in economics for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised Krugman for formulating a new theory to answer questions about free trade and said his theory has inspired an enormous field of research.
(AP, 10/13/08)(Econ, 10/18/08, p.90)
2008 Oct 13, ABC News reported that Tim Mahoney (52), a US Democratic Representative from Florida, had an affair with an aide and then paid her $121,000 to keep her quiet and avoid a sexual harassment suit. His affair with Patricia Allen (50) had begun in 2006.
(SFC, 10/15/08, p.A6)
2008 Oct 13, In the SF Bay Area fire crews extinguished a fire that had begun a day earlier on Angel Island. All the historic buildings on the island were saved. The fire burned 400 of the island’s 740 acres.
(SFC, 10/14/08, p.A1)
2008 Oct 13, In Afghanistan 8 civilians were killed in separate insurgent attacks. 5 Afghan men who worked as translators were abducted by unknown gunmen in the eastern province of Paktia as they were driving to Kabul by taxi. A coalition service member was killed and several others were wounded in southern Afghanistan when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
(AFP, 10/13/08)(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, First ladies from seven west African countries gather in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, for a conference on ways to end female circumcision, a widespread practice in the region despite efforts to end it.
(AFP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Cambodian PM Hun Sen gave Thailand an ultimatum to withdraw troops from a disputed stretch of jungle-clad border within 24 hours or his forces would turn the area into a "death zone." Thai troops retreated the next day.
(Reuters, 10/13/08)(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, Europe put $2.3 trillion on the line to protect the continent's banks, a figure that dwarfed the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue program.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, The EU temporarily lifted a travel ban on the president of Belarus, a country regarded as Europe's last dictatorship, as relations with the country start to thaw.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, The EU condemned Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's "unilateral decision" to form a new government and threatened fresh sanctions unless he respects a power-sharing deal. Mugabe swore in his two vice presidents, casting doubt on a new mediation effort aimed at saving a power-sharing deal with the opposition.
(AFP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Guillaume Depardieu (37), French film star, died of pneumonia. The often-troubled son of renowned French film star Gerard Depardieu had gained praise for his own career as an actor. In 2003 he Depardieu had his right leg amputated to end years of pain from a bacterial infection that followed a motorcycle accident in 1996.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, In India police arrested seven relatives of a 75-year-old widow for doing nothing to prevent the woman from killing herself by jumping into her husband's funeral pyre.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, Iraq's oil minister met 34 oil company representatives in London to set out the ground rules for foreign multinationals' first bite at the country's enormous energy reserves since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Israel shut down entry from the West Bank during the 7-day Sukkot holiday. The order bars almost all West Bank Palestinians from entering Israel until Oct. 21.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Italian police arrested five people in the Calabria region, including the mayor of Rosarno, for suspected ties to the local mob.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, In Pakistan ten Islamic extremists died in a gunbattle with soldiers in the Khawazakhela district of the Swat valley during an ongoing military operation against fighters loyal to local cleric Maulana Fazlullah. Security forces fired mortar and artillery rounds at militants in the Charmang area of the Bajur region overnight, killing nine insurgents. Pro-government tribesmen exchanged fire with militants in the Nawa and Kotkai areas of Bajur. Thirteen militants and two pro-government tribesmen were killed.
(AFP, 10/13/08)(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Singapore's High Court ruled that an opposition party and two of its leaders must pay $416,000 in defamation damages to PM Lee Hsien Loong and his father, former PM Lee Kuan Yew, related to criticism published in 2006 in the party's newspaper.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, In Somalia Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, triggering fierce clashes that killed a civilian and wounded five others.
(AFP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Barbara Hogan, South Africa’s new health minister, broke from a decade of discredited government policies declaring that AIDS is caused by HIV and must be treated by conventional medicine.
(SFC, 10/14/08, p.A3)
2008 Oct 13, In Sri Lanka fighting in the Kilinochchi region killed 11 rebel fighters and two soldiers. Fighting in Jaffna, Vavuniya and Mullaittivu killed nine other rebels.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, Sudanese officials disclosed the arrest of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman (aka Ali Kushayb), a Janjaweed militia leader who was charged by the Int’l. Criminal court in 2007 for crimes against humanity.
(SFC, 10/14/08, p.A6)
2008 Oct 13, Swiss authorities said they have found high concentrations of melamine in biscuits from Thailand and Sri Lanka and have called on other European countries to withdraw the products.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, A Venezuelan court issued arrest warrants for eight suspects in the Oct 1 killing of Julio Soto, a student leader who helped organize protests against constitutional amendments proposed by President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2009 Oct 13, It was reported that the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists comparing driver’s license photos with pictures of convicts. The project in North Carolina had already helped nab at least one suspect.
(SFC, 10/13/09, p.A6)
2009 Oct 13, The Missouri Dept. of Revenue sent letters to 140 yoga and Pilates telling them they must collect sales tax on fees for their classes and services.
(SFC, 11/5/09, p.A8)
2009 Oct 13, American International Group said it would sell its Taiwan unit for 2.15 billion US dollars as the insurance giant raised money to pay off a huge US government bail-out loan.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Record one-day rain fell in the SF Bay area with 2.64 inches recorded in San Francisco. It was the worst October storm since 1962 and knocked out power for 193,000.
(SFC, 10/14/09, p.A1)
2009 Oct 13, Montana wildlife commissioners shut down gray wolf hunting in backcountry adjacent to Yellowstone National Park after 9 wolves were killed in recent weeks. The statewide quota was kept at 75.
(SFC, 10/14/09, p.A4)
2009 Oct 13, In Ohio a woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a Burlington coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases. Linda Brown (44) ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. When the limousine driver realized he wasn't going to be paid the $900 Brown owed him for the day's rental, he turned her in to police.
(AP, 10/15/09)
2009 Oct 13, China and Russia signed a framework agreement that could see a steady flow of natural gas to energy-hungry China from its resource-rich neighbor.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, China’s Xinhua state news agency said 968 children in central China have tested positive for lead poisoning in the latest environmental scandal to erupt in the nation's smelting industry. Residents in Jiyuan city, Henan province, had protested over pollution from three local smelters last month.
(AFP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Activists from Congo, Rene Ngongo (48), and New Zealand, Alyn Ware (47), and an Ethiopia-based doctor from Australia, Catherine Hamlin (85), won the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "alternative Nobel," for work to protect rain forests, improve women's health and rid the world of nuclear weapons. The honorary part of the award, without prize money, went to Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki (73) for raising awareness of climate change. Each will receive euro50,000 (US$74,000).
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, A report by a coalition of 84 organizations said more than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo by Rwandan Hutu militiamen and Congolese forces since January.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, French soldiers in the Indian Ocean opened fire on pirates, warding off an attack on two French tuna fishing vessels off the Seychelles Islands.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, A German court convicted two men of supporting a radical Islamic group with links to al-Qaida and sentenced them to prison terms. It sentenced Omid Shirkhani, a German of Afghan background, to two years and nine months in prison; and co-defendant Huseyin Ozgun, a Turk, to a year and two months. The court found that both had links to Adem Yilmaz, a Turk living in Germany who is currently on trial over plans to attack US targets in Germany.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Guinea's military government said it has signed a $7 billion mining agreement with a Chinese company. Guinea is the world's largest producer of bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminum, and also produces diamonds and gold. The Hong Kong-based syndicate, China Int’l. Fund or China Sonangol, transferred $100 million to the cash-strapped junta.
(AP, 10/13/09)(Econ, 8/13/11, p.23)
2009 Oct 13, Iraqi lawmakers approved the return of a limited number of British troops to Iraq to help protect the country's southern oil ports, an area where Iraq is lagging in its ability to provide security. The Iraqi Human Rights Ministry released a report as part of a larger study on the country's human rights situation, saying 85,694 people were killed from 2004-08, and 147,195 were wounded during the same period that followed the US-led invasion. UNESCO said drought has forced more than 100,000 people in northern Iraq to abandon their homes since 2005, with 36,000 more on the verge of leaving.
(AP, 10/13/09)(AP, 10/14/09)
2009 Oct 13, Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of veteran US evangelist Billy Graham, arrived in North Korea to deliver aid to the impoverished country more than six months after the isolated regime kicked out all American humanitarian groups. Franklin Graham served as the head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the aid agency Samaritan's Purse, which have provided more than $10 million in aid to the North since 1997.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Pakistani jets bombed militant targets in the main insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border ahead of an expected ground offensive there. Helicopter gunship attacks killed 26 insurgents in Bajur. Terrorists fired 31 rockets" at a convoy of security forces in South Waziristan.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party accepted Egypt's plan for separate signings of a reconciliation deal with Hamas after the Islamist group balked at attending a unity ceremony.
(Reuters, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, A rocket fired by Palestinian militants hit southern Israel.
(AP, 10/14/09)
2009 Oct 13, Romania's government fell in a confidence vote in Parliament. Lawmakers said it failed to improve the economy after going into recession following 3 years of growth. A total of 254 parliamentary deputies and senators voted to oust PM Emil Boc, more than the 236 needed, and 176 voted against. Under the constitution it was up to Pres. Traian Basescu to name a new prime minister.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, In Saudi Arabia a shootout between Saudi security forces and al-Qaida militants near, two of whom were disguised as women and wearing explosives belts, left two of the militants and a soldier dead near the southern Yemen border. One of the assailants, Abdullah Hassan Tali Assiri, was captured. The two al-Qaida militants killed were planning to carry out a massive attack. 6 Yemeni accomplices. who were coordinating with the two militants, Youssef al-Shihri and Raed al-Harbi, were later arrested.
(AP, 10/14/09)(AP, 10/18/09)
2009 Oct 13, In South Africa police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, wounding several protesters demanding better sanitation, electricity and housing in impoverished black townships. Tires burned and rubbish littered the streets of Standerton, 150 km (90 miles) south-east of Johannesburg, and shops were closed after thousands of people marched on the municipal offices in the town from nearby Sakhile township.
(Reuters, 10/13/09)
2010 Oct 13, It was reported that officials in 50 US states and the District of Columbia have launched a joint investigation into allegations that mortgage companies mishandled documents and broke laws in foreclosing on hundreds of thousands of homeowners.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, US authorities said a vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history. Federal prosecutors in New York and elsewhere charged 73 people. The reputed boss, Armen Kazarian (46), was in custody in Los Angeles.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Tax officials in Billings, Montana, said developer Tim Blixseth and his wife owe the state $57 million in taxes on the money they drained from the Yellowstone Club. The state faced a deficit of $300 million.
(SFC, 10/14/10, p.A9)
2010 Oct 13, Mexican national Jose Antonio Medina Arreguin (36) was booked into a Ventura, Ca., county jail after being extradited from his home country. Court documents later showed Medina, accused of being Mexico's "King of Heroin," caught on wiretap conversations talking to coconspirators about drug transactions involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. In March 2011 Arreguin pleaded guilty and faced up to 24 years in prison.
(AP, 11/13/10)(AP, 3/17/11)
2010 Oct 13, Gen. David Petraeus, NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, offered a cautiously optimistic assessment of the transition of security duties to Afghan forces during a briefing with alliance representatives in Brussels. A senior NATO officials said the alliance had facilitated contacts between senior Taliban members and the highest levels of the Afghan government. In Afghanistan insurgents killed 6 NATO service members, including 4 who died in a single bomb blast in the volatile south. Insurgents at a market fatally shot Ahmed Khan, chief of Dihrawud district in southern Uruzgan province.
(AP, 10/13/10)(SFC, 10/14/10, p.A2)
2010 Oct 13, Australia and Indonesia agreed to further discuss plans for a refugee centre in East Timor to stem the flow of asylum seekers through Southeast Asia on their way to Australia.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Bahrain top justice official said 23 Shiite activists, detained in a sweeping crackdown by the country's Sunni rulers, have been charged with terrorism and conspiring against the government.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Bangladesh said it would deploy the army at the country's main seaport to keep cargo moving after days of strikes by dock workers hit crucial garment shipments.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Brazil Milton Marcondes of the Humpback Whale Institute said at least 75 humpback whales have died in 2010. The previous high was 41 in 2007.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Britain's Lloyds Banking Group said that it will axe another 4,500 jobs, including 1,750 posts outside the UK, as the crisis-hit lender continues its painful restructuring.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Canada declared that bisphenol A is a toxic chemical, prompting calls for far-reaching curbs on the industrial chemical that is used in everything from the linings of aluminum cans to coatings on electronic till receipts.
(Reuters, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Chile the 33 miners trapped for 69 days climbed into a rescue capsule and made a smooth ascent to the surface. All the miners were pulled up through a narrow escape chute from nearly a half-mile down in under 23 hours.
(AP, 10/13/10)(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Egypt was reported to have handed down new media requirements that will effectively put all live broadcasts, including TV talk shows and news bulletins, under the control of state television. Several private broadcast service providers said that they received letters from the telecom regulator ending their standing permits to offer live broadcast feeds from Egypt starting from Oct 15.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Hungarian authorities said the threat of another chemical spill had been averted and villagers could return home, as the plant responsible prepared to resume production. The municipal court in Veszprem released MAL's managing director Zoltan Bakonyi, who had been brought in for questioning.
(AFP, 10/13/10)(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, welcomed by thousands of Shiite supporters throwing rose petals, sought to pull Lebanon firmly into his country's fold in a visit that underscored the growing power of Tehran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Tehran's chief prosecutor said authorities have arrested five people on suspicion of spying for the country's "enemies," a common reference in Iran for the US and Israel.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Iraq targeted explosions in Baghdad and northern Iraq wounded 28 people, among them 7 Iranian pilgrims and 9 policemen.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Italy became the latest NATO ally to detail plans to scale down its military presence and hand over territory to Afghan security forces by the end of next year.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Kuwait gave 28 million euros to Mauritania during Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah's whistle-stop visit to the poor northwest African nation.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Malaysia criticized the WHO for failing to tackle the spread of dengue in the region, which saw 242,000 cases of the mosquito-borne disease in 2009 and 831 deaths so far this year.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Mexico six prison guards were killed while driving to work in Chihuahua city, capital of Chihuahua state. In the northern state of Sinaloa, two police officers were killed when gunmen ambushed their patrol in Mazatlan.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, A Pakistani government official said international lenders are estimating that this summer's floods caused $9.5 billion in damage to Pakistan's infrastructure, agriculture and other sectors. Gunmen killed Nooruddin Mengal, an ethnic Baluch political activist, as he headed from his suburban home to the city of Kalat. In central Pakistan police arrested a group of Islamist militants plotting to kill the prime minister in a gun and suicide bomb attack at his house. The 7 men were also accused of targeting other government leaders for assassination. A suspected US drone launched 4 missile strikes in North Waziristan killing 11 militants, including 3 foreigners.
(AP, 10/13/10)(AP, 10/14/10)(SFC, 10/14/10, p.A2)
2010 Oct 13, The Palestinians called on the US administration and Israel to define Israel's borders after Washington invited proposals to get peace talks back on track.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Senegal dancers, traditional praise singers and leaders of three African nations greeted 163 Haitian students who left their earthquake-ravaged country and flew to Senegal, where victims of the calamity are being offered free housing and scholarships.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told visiting Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki that better ties between the two nations will be strengthened by the formation of a new Iraqi government.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In the Ukraine for the second time in two days, a vehicle ignored a warning light at a railroad crossing and was hit by a train in a fatal accident killing 2 people.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2011 Oct 13, In NYC Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam (54) was sentenced to 11 years in prison, the longest insider trading sentence ever. He was also fined $10 million and ordered to forfeit $53.8 million. US District Judge Richard J. Holwell said he concluded that Rajaratnam made well over $50 million in profits from his illegal trades.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, In eastern Colorado a 5 children and man were killed when their van collided with a tractor-trailer.
(SFC, 10/14/11, p.A6)
2011 Oct 13, Afghan police took ousted parliamentarian Simeen Barakzai (30) to hospital by ambulance and dismantled the tent where she had observed a 12-day hunger strike to protest against being disqualified from parliament.
(AFP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Austria a Saudi-backed interfaith center, the "King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue," was inaugurated in Vienna, igniting debate over the subject of religious tolerance.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck (31), the fifth Dragon King, married his commoner bride, Jetsun Pema (21).
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Brazil an explosion, likely caused by a gas leak, ripped through a restaurant in downtown Rio de Janeiro, killing at least three people and injuring 13.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Ten Cameroonian presidential candidates were reported to have filed requests with the Supreme Court for the October 9 poll to be nullified over alleged irregularities.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Nguema Obiang signed a decree nominating his playboy son, Teodoro Obiang Mangue, as his deputy envoy to UNESCO in apparent retaliation for the UN body's refusal to award a prize named in his honor. The news was made public on Oct 19. Teodorin's appointment was announced on the same day that Human Rights Watch urged United States authorities to move quickly to probe his alleged corruption and money-laundering.
(AFP, 10/19/11)
2011 Oct 13, In France a high school math teacher in the city of Beziers sprayed herself with a flammable product and set herself alight in the school yard during recreation. She was hospitalized with serious burns.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, German police found bottles filled with a potentially explosive mix of liquid and powder beside train tracks in southwestern Berlin, the 16th firebomb discovered in four days.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Haitian President Michel Martelly said he's determined to move forward with a controversial plan to bring back the army to the Caribbean nation.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Indonesia a 6.0 earthquake jolted the island of Bali, injuring dozens of people and causing panic as hundreds of tourists fled violently shaking buildings.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Greenpeace UK director John Sauven was blocked by immigration officials on arrival at Jakarta international airport and was sent back that night to Britain. He had arrived to campaign against deforestation.
(AFP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Iraq 2 night time explosions in Sadr City, a Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, killed 17 people and wounded around 50 others.
(AP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, Kazakhstan's Pres. Nursultan Nazarbayev approved a bill tightening registration rules for religious groups that has been described by critics as a blow to freedom of belief in the ex-Soviet nation.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Libya new regime fighters moved from house to house in Sirte, hunting for weapons or suspected Kadhafi fighters and sometimes making off with bags full of looted possessions and leaving trashed homes in their wake. NTC commanders said the Kadhafi remnants were cornered within about two square km (500 acres) of the city.
(AFP, 10/13/11)(AFP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Nigeria protesters marched to an army barracks to demand justice for the death of the cell phone market chairman known as Umar Quality.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Pakistani and US diplomats vowed to strengthen their troubled alliance two days after Washington acknowledged for the first time that it is waging "war" against militants in Pakistan. US drone strikes killed 10 militants, including Janbaz Zadran, a commander in the Haqqani network that the US military has linked to Pakistani intelligence.
(AFP, 10/13/11)(AP, 10/16/11)
2011 Oct 13, A Hamas official said that close to 200 of the 450 Palestinians to be freed in the first phase of a swap for a captured Israeli soldier will not be allowed to return to their homes in the West Bank, Gaza or east Jerusalem, suggesting a substantial number may face deportation.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, A Papua New Guinea Dash 8 passenger plane carrying 32 people crashed near the coast. Witness reports said only four people on board had survived.
(AFP, 10/13/11)(SFC, 10/14/11, p.A2)
2011 Oct 13, Air traffic between Senegal and Mauritania resumed after a three-month pause, ending a row over onward flights.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Slovakia’s Parliament approved an expanded EU fund in a repeat vote after the opposition voted in favor in exchange for early elections.
(AP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, Somali Islamist Shebab rebels kidnapped two female Spanish aid workers from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, the third kidnapping of foreigners in just over a month.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Malawi for a regional trade summit, in defiance of the international war crimes warrant against him.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Syrian troops clashed with armed men believed to be military defectors in a southern village and a northwestern town, killing at least 13 people in the latest sign that the 7-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad is becoming increasingly militarized.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Thailand issued a flood warning for parts of Bangkok's northern outskirts after a dyke burst, in a setback to efforts to protect the city of 12 million people from the rising water. Unusually heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 283 people.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Turkey's foreign minister said that Iraq should move to prevent Kurdish attacks on his country from Iraqi soil as the two countries renewed their commitment to fight the rebels.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Uganda charged three top ruling party officials, including recently resigned foreign minister Sam Kutesa, with abuse of office on charges that they allegedly misused funds meant for hosting the 2007 Commonwealth summit.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Ukraine's Pres. Viktor Yanukovych, facing harsh Western criticism, said that he backs legal reforms that could allow the release of imprisoned former PM Yulia Tymoshenko.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2012 Oct 13, In southern Afghanistan 6 people, including 2 Americans, were killed an attack where a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up at a local intelligence office in Kandahar province. The bomber wore a uniform of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, or NDS. A second attack killed two Afghan policemen and left three others wounded in Qalat, the capital of neighboring Zabul province. A NATO service member with the US-led coalition was killed in a roadside bombing in the south.
(AP, 10/13/12)(AP, 10/16/12)
2012 Oct 13, In northwestern China's Gansu province Tamdrin Dorjee (52) died at the scene near Tsoe Monastery after setting himself on fire in protest of Chinese rule. Free Tibet said the man is the grandfather of the 7th Gungthang Rinpoche.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, Egypt's prosecutor general defied a presidential decision to remove him from his post, entering his office in a downtown Cairo courthouse flanked by security and hundreds of judicial officials. President Morsi had ordered Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud to step down in an apparent bid to appease public anger over the acquittals of ex-regime officials accused of orchestrating violence against protesters last year. Morsi backed down from his decision to remove Mahmoud, keeping him in his post and sidestepping a potential clash with the country's powerful judiciary.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, French President Francois Hollande said his country was committed to facilitating freedom of movement, exchange and trade within the French-speaking world during a visit to Congo for the Francophonie Summit.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, In Haiti visiting Nobel peace laureate Mohammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker, announced that his pro-business development group is financing several endeavors through a mix of loans and equity.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, An Israeli airstrike killed two people in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military says one is Hisham Saidani (43), a member of a faction of the ultraconservative Salafi trend believed to have ties to al-Qaida. Militants on jihadi websites identified the other dead man as Ashraf Sabah (37), leader of another al-Qaida inspired group, Ansar al-Sunnah.
(AP, 10/14/12)
2012 Oct 13, In Japan global financial ministers ended their annual IMF meeting with a call for quick and effective action to safeguard faltering economic growth.
(SSFC, 10/14/12, p.A7)
2012 Oct 13, Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was lightly wounded by friendly fire after his vehicle was fired upon by the military on the outskirts of the capital, Nouakchott.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, In northwestern Pakistan a car bomb tore through a crowded bazaar outside an office for anti-Taliban tribal elders, killing at least 17 people in Darra Adam Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said regime forces were pounding the rebel stronghold of Homs in central Syria with mortars and artillery. The southern province of Daraa also sustained shelling by the Syrian army. Fighting between army troops and rebels raged around Idlib province and in and around the northern city of Aleppo.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, Syria's state-run news agency SANA says Syria has decided to ban Turkish Airlines flights from Syrian airspace.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2013 Oct 13, In eastern Afghanistan an Afghan man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot at US soldiers, killing at least one serviceman. The so-called "insider attack" in Paktika province was the 4th in under a month.
(Reuters, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, A detachment of Angolan troops crossed into neighboring Congo Republic and detained a group of Congolese soldiers. The incident highlights tensions around Angola's oil-rich Cabinda enclave, which is separated from the rest of Angola and surrounded by Congo Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo. 55 soldiers of the Republic of Congo were released on Oct 18.
(Reuters, 10/17/13)(AFP, 10/18/13)
2013 Oct 13, Brazilian officials said at least 12 people were killed and six left missing when a boat carrying Catholic pilgrims capsized on the Amazon River.
(SFC, 10/14/13, p.A2)
2013 Oct 13, China’s PM Li Keqiang arrived in Vietnam for a 3-day visit.
(Econ, 10/19/13, p.49)
2013 Oct 13, Companies involved in a $1.27 billion project to develop a business district around Britain’s Manchester airpor announced that Chinese construction giant Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) has signed a deal with British firms to develop the area.
(AFP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Dubai 3 workers were killed when a crane collapsed at a construction site near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.
(AP, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, An Egyptian army MiG-21 aircraft crashed near the southern city of Luxor, leaving one person dead and three others injured on the ground after the crew ejected.
(AFP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, Egyptian security officials said James Henry (66), a retired US citizen detained in August for violating curfew in Sinai, was found dead in his jail cell after he used his belt and shoe laces to hang himself.
(AP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Ethiopia an explosion killed two people and impacted a home used by US Embassy personnel in Addis Ababa. Two Somali suicide bombers, who had planned to kill soccer fans during Ethiopia's World Cup qualifying match against Nigeria, blew themselves up accidentally.
(AP, 10/13/13)(Reuters, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, In India at least 115 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a stampede after a bridge collapsed near a remote Hindu temple in Ithe central state of Madhya Pradesh.
(Reuters, 10/13/13)(AP, 10/14/13)(AFP, 10/15/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Iraq a series of bombs killed at least 31 people in mostly Shi'ite Muslim provinces ahead of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha. Altogether 11 bombs were detonated by remote control.
(AP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, Israel displayed what it called a Palestinian "terror tunnel" running into its territory from the Gaza Strip and said it was subsequently freezing the transfer of building material to the enclave.
(Reuters, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In a report published by The Lancet Swiss radiation experts confirmed they found traces of polonium on clothing used by Yasser Arafat (d.2004) supporting the possibility the Palestinian leader was poisoned.
(AFP, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, A number of North Korean officers and sailors died while a submarine chaser was performing "combat duties." At least 19 sailors were believed killed. Photos of stone markers released by state media on Nov 2 showed "Oct. 13" inscribed on them.
(AP, 11/4/13)(Reuters, 11/4/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Romania thousands marched across the country to protest against a Canadian company's plans to open a gold mine seen as a threat to the environment, and called for the government's resignation.
(AFP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Russia a mob of nationalists, joined by locals and pensioners in the Moscow suburb of Biryulyovo, smashed up a vegetable market over the murder of an ethnic Russian by a Caucasian migrant.
(Econ, 10/19/13, p.58)
2013 Oct 13, In Saudi Arabia Muslims from across the world poured into a sprawling tent city in the Saudi desert before the start of the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage. The number of the pilgrims this year has been reduced in part by concerns over a respiratory virus centered in Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In South Africa Julius Malema, former head of the ANC’s Youth League, launched his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party in Marikana.
(Econ, 10/19/13, p.54)
2013 Oct 13, In Sudan 3 Senegalese UNAMID peacekeepers were killed and one injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen in West Darfur.
(AP, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, In northwest Syria gunmen kidnapped 7 Red Cross workers after opening fire on their vehicles. 3 ICRC and a Red Crescent colleague were soon released.
(Reuters, 10/13/13)(AFP, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, The Vatican beatified 522 people — mostly priests and nuns — who were killed in the turmoil that led to Spain's 1936-39 civil war.
(AP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Yemen Faisal al-Mikhlafi, a college professor and brother of a prominent tribal leader, was gunned down in Taiz.
(Econ, 10/19/13, p.53)
2014 Oct 13, US Central Command said the US and Saudi Arabia launched eight airstrikes yesterday and today against Islamic State targets in Syria, including seven near Kobani.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, US plane giant Boeing said Indonesian flag carrier Garuda has placed an order for 50 planes worth almost $5 billion.
(AFP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In Half Moon Bay, Ca., a pumpkin from Napa weighing 2,058 pounds, won first prize in the city’s 41st annual weigh-off. This was the biggest to date for the Half Moon Bay event.
(SFC, 10/14/14, p.C1)
2014 Oct 13, In northern Afghanistan Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of Afghan security forces in Sar-e-Pul province, killing 22 soldiers and police. A suicide car bomber killed one civilian in Kabul. A suicide bomber in Nangarhar province killed 2 people.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In Algeria clashes broken out between Arabs and Berbers near the southern desert town of Ghardaia, with two people killed and businesses torched. National Police Chief Abdelghani Hamel visited the province in a bid to restore calm after hundreds of policemen staged a march in Ghardaia to protest against attacks on them by gangs of youths.
(Reuters, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, Austria's top court reduced on appeal to three years a jail term imposed on an Ernst Strasser, an ex-European Parliament member, for offering to propose amendments to laws in exchange for 100,000 euros ($126,830) a year.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, The British House of Commons in a symbolic move voted 274 to 12 in favor of recognizing Palestine as a state.
(SFC, 10/14/14, p.A2)
2014 Oct 13, China’s state media said a court in western Xinjiang region has sentenced to death 12 people blamed for terrorist attacks that killed 37 people in July.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In China Comcast NBCUniversal and a consortium of four Chinese state-owned companies announced the approval of the development of a $3.3 billion Universal theme park in Beijing that would be the first major foreign-owned theme park in the Chinese capital.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In southern Egypt 30 people died in a collision between three minibuses in Aswan province.
(AFP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, A magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the Pacific coast of El Salvador disrupted power to several communities and claimed the life of one man who had been sleeping on a street. The quake was part of a series of strong temblors that rattled much of Central America.
(AP, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel economics prize for showing how to encourage better products and competitive prices in industries dominated by a few companies.
(AP, 10/13/14)(SFC, 10/14/14, p.D1)
2014 Oct 13, In Hong Kong police began removing some barricades in the areas of Central and Admiralty, home to global financial institutions and government buildings Hundreds of people, which included taxi and truck drivers, tore down protest barriers in the business district, scuffling with protesters who have occupied the streets for two weeks.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Typhoon Vongfong barreled into Japan's main islands, with at least 2 people killed, one person missing and scores injured while more than 550 flights were grounded.
(AFP, 10/13/14)(Reuters, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, Kurdish fighters engaged in fierce clashes with jihadists on the Turkish border near Kobane, as Ankara denied allowing Washington to use its bases against the Islamic State group.
(AFP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Madagascar's former president Marc Ravalomanana was arrested just hours after he returned to the island nation following years in exile in South Africa.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In southern Mexico hundreds of students and teachers smashed windows at a Guerrero state capital building complex before setting fire to some of the buildings in Chilpancingo in response to the Sept. 26 disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers' college.
(AP, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, In Mexico armed men seized Erica Alvarado Rivera (26), her boyfriend, and her brothers, Alex (22) and Jose Angel (21) in El Control, a small town near the Texas border west of Matamoros. The three siblings from Progreso, Texas, were visiting their father. Erica was the mother of four children aged 3-9. The armed men had identified themselves as part of Grupo Hercules, a recently formed police security unit for Matamoros city officials.
(AP, 10/30/14)
2014 Oct 13, In northern Nigeria 9 teenage girls died and three were listed missing after a passenger boat capsized on a river in Kano state.
(AFP, 10/15/14)
2014 Oct 13, South Korean messaging app Kakao Talk said it will stop fully cooperating with authorities seeking to access private messages as part of a government crackdown on online criticism.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Sri Lanka opened the rail link between the capital Colombo and the northern city of Jaffna, more than two decades after its destruction in a civil war, amid hopes that it will give a boost to reconciliation efforts.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In Syria Abu Aboud, the head of "White Shroud," said the group has killed more than 100 Islamic State fighters in attacks in Deir al-Zor province in recent months and that the group’s main aim is to generate fear in Islamic State's ranks. The government carried out some 40 air strikes in Hama and Idlib provinces.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)(Econ, 10/18/14, p.47)
2014 Oct 13, Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island. All but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh. The discovery brought to more than 130 the number of people found since Oct 11 in Phang Nga province.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Turkish air force bombed Kurdish fighters furious over Ankara's refusal to help protect their kin in Syria. Bombs on PKK targets after they reportedly attacked a military outpost in the Daglica region.
(Reuters, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, UN Sec.-Gen. Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to scrap plans to expand settlements in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as the capital of a future state, and urged both sides to return to peace talks.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Yemen's president appointed diplomat Khaled Bahah (b.1965), a former oil minister, as prime minister, after securing backing of Islamists as well as Shiite rebels who control the capital amid hopes of easing a political deadlock in the impoverished, violence-stricken country.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2015 Oct 13, Hillary Clinton emerged unscathed from the Democratic Party's first presidential debate, giving her renewed momentum as she gears for a showdown with Republicans over the 2012 Benghazi attack.
(AFP, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, The United States and its allies carried out 18 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria.
(Reuters, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, The American Civil Liberties Union sued two former Air Force psychologists who designed a CIA program that used harsh interrogation techniques to elicit intelligence from suspected terrorists, saying the pair endorsed and taught torture tactics under the guise of science. 10 months earlier the release of a damning Senate report said that the interrogation techniques had inflicted pain on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond the legal limits and did not yield lifesaving intelligence.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, In Florida a Pipe Cherokee 180 crashed into the Mar-Mak Colony Club killing the pilot and one person on the ground in Palm Beach County.
(SFC, 10/15/15, p.A8)
2015 Oct 13, Barbara Byrd-Bennett (66), the former head of Chicago Public Schools, pleaded guilty to her role in a scheme to steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to education firms for $2.3 million in bribes and kickbacks.
(SFC, 10/14/15, p.A7)
2015 Oct 13, In Pennsylvania Army veteran James Vernon (75) fended off a knife attack by Dustin Brown (19), a mentally ill man, at the Morton Public Library in Pittsburgh. Vernon suffered two slashed arteries and a damaged tendon in a finger. In 2017 he was one of 18 people honored with a Carnegie medal for heroism.
(SFC, 9/20/17 p.A6)
2015 Oct 13, In Wisconsin a Milwaukee state court jury ordered Badger Guns to pay $5.73 million after the store was found liable for negligence in the 2009 shooting of two local police officers.
(SFC, 10/15/15, p.A14)
2015 Oct 13, Planned Parenthood decided that to stop accepting compensation for tis fetal tissue program in an effort to deflect antiabortion activists’ allegations of profits.
(SFC, 10/14/15, p.D1)
2015 Oct 13, Playboy Enterprises announced that it would stop publishing full nudity pictures as of March 2016.
(Econ, 10/24/15, p.29)
2015 Oct 13, The Afghan Taliban said they were pulling back in the northern city of Kunduz in order to protect civilians, but fighting continued elsewhere in the country with government troops battling to reopen the main highway south of the capital Kabul.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, In Argentina Diana Sacayan (40), a prominent transgender activist, was found tied up and stabbed to death in Buenos Aires. This was the third violent transgender death in the country in the past month.
(www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34538052)
2015 Oct 13, In central Bosnia 4 miners were killed and two injured early today when a platform holding up the roof caved in on them in a mine.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, The British government pulled out of 5.9 million-pound ($9 million) deal to sell prison expertise to Saudi Arabia that had drawn opposition from rights groups and senior politicians.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, British-based brewer SABMiller accepted in principle an improved takeover bid worth 69 billion pounds ($106 billion) from Anheuser Busch InBev to create a company that would control nearly a third of the global market and threaten to dominate the US by bringing together Budweiser and Miller Genuine Draft. The new company is expected to be based in Belgium.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, In Burundi 9 civilians, including a staff member of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), were shot to death reportedly at close range. 2 police officers also died during exchanges of heavy gunfire in Bujumbura.
(AFP, 10/15/15)
2015 Oct 13, A Chinese court sentenced Wang Yongchun, a former senior executive of China National Petroleum Corp., to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption. A court in central China jailed Guo Yongxiang, a former senior provincial official, for 20 years after finding him guilty of corruption.
(AP, 10/13/15)(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, European lawmakers rejected a proposal that would have allowed countries to restrict or ban the use of imported GM crops that have secured EU approval.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, France and Saudi Arabia announced signed deals worth 10 billion euros, the latest example of the deepening alliance between the two nations.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Germany said it has extended controls along its borders until the end of October as refugees continue to stream in.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, German auto giant Volkswagen announced it would slash one billion euros off its annual investment budget and push ahead with its drive to develop electric cars in the wake of the diesel pollution scandal.
(AFP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Iran's conservative-dominated parliament passed a bill approving its nuclear deal with world powers, signaling victory for the government over hardline opponents.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Authorities in the French Caribbean island of Martinique said they have seized 1,180 pounds (535 kg) of cocaine destined for Europe. Martinique authorities have seized more than 8 tons (7 metric tons) of drugs so far this year.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, The Italian Senate approved sweeping constitutional reform that would turn the Senate into a 100-member house of regional and municipal representatives with the power to question, but not veto, legislation. It will be put to a referendum in 2016.
(Econ, 10/17/15, p.58)
2015 Oct 13, Italian finance police arrested Mario Mantovani, a high-ranking politician in the Lombardy regional government, for corruption just before he was due to attend a conference promoting legality in the public administration.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Jamaican author Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for "A Brief History of Seven Killings", a re-telling of the attempted assassination of musician Bob Marley.
(AFP, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, The Dutch Safety Board concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile in its final report on the crash in July 2014 that killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, In northeastern Nigeria three bombs exploded within minutes in Maiduguri killing at least 7 people.
(SFC, 10/15/15, p.A2)
2015 Oct 13, Amnesty Int’l. opened an office in Nigeria promising to investigate allegations of abuses from oil pollution and forced evictions to charges of military killings of civilians in the fight against Boko Haram extremists.
(SFC, 10/14/15, p.A2)
2015 Oct 13, Pakistani police arrested three police officers after a woman set herself on fire a day earlier and accused them on her deathbed of gang raping her near Multan. Also in Multan a man (42) died after setting himself on fire to protest the demolition of his home.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Pakistani authorities hanged 9 convicts, including four brothers. The executions brought the nationwide total to 255 since December, when Pakistan lifted the moratorium on the death penalty.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Palestinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least 3 people and wounded several others in a string of attacks in Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv on a "Day of Rage" declared by Palestinian groups.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Russia said its air force hit 86 "terrorist" targets in Syria in the past 24 hours.
(AFP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, South African coal mineworkers ended a 10-day strike after reaching a pay agreement with employers.
(AFP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Insurgents in Syria deployed more men and weapons, including significant quantities of anti-tank missiles, to resist ground attacks by the Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian air strikes.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Turkish security forces killed ten Kurdish militants during ground and air operations in southeastern Turkey, days after the insurgents called a unilateral ceasefire.
(Reuters, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, A Ukrainian soldier was killed and two were injured in eastern Ukraine in violation of a month-long ceasefire between government and rebel forces.
(AP, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, In Yemen airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels killed 8 rebel fighters in a renewed attempt to cut their supply lines to Taiz.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2016 Oct 13, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
(AP, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, The US death toll from Hurricane Matthew rose to 38 with 22 of the deaths in North Carolina. The NC town of Princeville became submerged in as much as ten feet of water.
(SFC, 10/14/16, p.A6)
2016 Oct 13, In the Central African Republic fighters from the mostly Muslim Seleka rebel group attacked the northern town of Kaga-Bandoro overnight killing at least 13 civilians. Int’l. forces repelled that attackers killing 10-15 fighters.
(SFC, 10/14/16, p.A2)
2016 Oct 13, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cambodia for a two-day visit, praising the close ties that have seen Cambodia side with Beijing on the South China Sea, and signed dozens of economic agreements.
(Reuters, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, In Hungary tax investigators raided the offices of environmental group Energia Klub, seizing hundreds of documents and computer files as part of what they said was a "criminal investigation into budgetary fraud".
(Reuters, 10/14/16)
2016 Oct 13, In Italy Dario Fo (90), playwright and 1997 Nobel Prize laureate, died. His plays included “The Accidental Death of an Anarchist" (1970).
(SFC, 10/14/16, p.D10)(Econ, 10/22/16, p.82)
2016 Oct 13, The Maldives government said it has decided to leave the 53-member British Commonwealth because the grouping of former British colonies has treated it "unjustly and unfairly" and sought to interfere in its politics.
(AP, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, South African President Jacob Zuma (74) moved to block a watchdog's potentially explosive report into graft allegations against him, in his latest legal bid to protect his battered reputation.
(AFP, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, In Syria air strikes killed 13 people, when warplanes hit several rebel-held districts, including al-Kalaseh, Bustan al-Qasr and al-Sakhour.
(Reuters, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, Rama IX, Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej (b.1927), died. He was revered as a demigod, a humble father figure and an anchor of stability through decades of upheaval at home and abroad. Bhumibol had succeeded his brother in 1946 and reigned for 70 years, the world's longest reigning monarch when he died. He was succeeded by Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn (64).
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej)(AP, 10/13/16) (Reuters, 5/2/19)
2017 Oct 13, US Pres. Donald Trump kicked the fate of the landmark Iran nuclear deal to the US Congress and said he might ultimately terminate the 2015 agreement that lifted sanctions in return for Tehran rolling back technologies with nuclear bomb-making potential.
(AFP, 10/14/17)(AP, 10/14/17)
2017 Oct 13, The US Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new restrictions on the use of the weed killer dicamba, which has caused widespread crop damage in the Midwest for the past two years.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, US military officers at Guantanamo Bay sentenced Saudi detainee Ahmed Muhammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi to 13 years in prison for his admitted role in a 2002 attack by al-Qaida on a French oil tanker off the Yemeni coast. Darbi received no credit for the nearly 12 years he was in custody before his 2014 guilty plea.
(SFC, 10/14/17, p.A2)
2017 Oct 13, In California 35 confirmed fatalities, with 19 in Sonoma County, marked the greatest loss of life from a single fire event on record in California. 235 people were still missing in Sonoma County alone. 17 major fires had already destroyed an estimated 5,700 homes.
(Reuters, 10/14/17)
2017 Oct 13, In southern California authorities in Orange County arrested Luke Ferguson (26), suspected of fatally shooting two people.
(SFC, 10/14/17, p.A6)
2017 Oct 13, A New Orleans police officer was fatally shot during a struggle after he and his patrol team left their cars to investigate something suspicious. Suspected gunman Darren Bridges (30) was taken into custody.
(SFC, 10/14/17, p.A6)
2017 Oct 13, Police in Ferguson, Mo., arrested five people following the latest round of protests over the acquittal of police Officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 killing of Anthony Lamar Smith.
(SSFC, 10/15/17, p.A5)
2017 Oct 13, It was reported that a recent report by JPMorgan Chase estimated that just 10% of daily stock trading is done by human stock pickers.
(SFC, 10/13/17, p.A1)
2017 Oct 13, Austria said it would launch a lawsuit against the European Union's approval of the Russian-financed expansion of a nuclear plant in Hungary. The approval, granted in March, removed the last major obstacle to the 12.5 billion euro ($13.2 billion) expansion of the Paks plant, Hungary's only nuclear facility.
(AFP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, A London court ruled that 1,826 Zambians can sue Vedanta Resources in the English courts over alleged pollution of their village after an appeal court threw out the miner's attempt to block their legal action.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Cameroon said it has opened a probe into recent deadly violence linked to a symbolic declaration of independence in the west African nation's English-speaking region. 14 people died in violence ahead of the symbolic October 1 declaration of independence of Ambazonia, the name of the state that separatists want to create. Amnesty International said that "at least 500 people remained detained.
(AFP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, American Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle and their three children, freed in Pakistan this week, returned to Canada where the husband said one of his children had been murdered and his wife had been raped. In early January Boyle was arrested and faced at least a dozen charges including sexual assault.
(AP, 10/14/17)(SFC, 1/3/18, p.A2)
2017 Oct 13, EU ministers said border controls inside what should normally be Europe's cherished zone of free travel are here to stay for now, citing continued terrorist threats and the need to control migration.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, EU environment ministers agreed national emissions-reduction targets in a push to show how the bloc is delivering on its climate goals ahead of United Nations talks next months to fight global warming.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, The Iraqi army launched an operation to retake Kurdish-held positions around the disputed oil city of Kirkuk amid a bitter row with the Kurds over a vote for independence last month. Kurdish forces overnight moved back their defensive line around the oil region of Kirkuk by 2 km (1.2 miles) to reduce the possibility of friction with nearby Iraqi forces.
(AFP, 10/13/17)(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, In Japan a scandal over product inspections data faked by materials and machinery giant Kobe Steel expanded to include products shipped to more than 500 customers.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Police in Kenya shot and killed two opposition protesters who allegedly stormed a police station with farm tools and rocks in the western part of the country, while police used tear gas on rallies in the capital and elsewhere demanding reforms ahead of the new election. Opposition leader Raila Odinga said he's willing to return to the race if the government is "ready to do business and deal" on reforms.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it is deploying its first-ever plague treatment center to Madagascar where dozens have been reported killed by the outbreak.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, In Mexico security cameras recorded fifteen state police officers apparently looting a property. The police were later charged with conducting an unlawful search, robbery and abuse of authority.
(AP, 10/22/17)
2017 Oct 13, Myanmar said its military has launched an internal probe into the conduct of soldiers during a counteroffensive that has sent more than half a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, In Nigeria four British missionaries giving free medical services were kidnapped in southern Delta state. After three weeks Ian Squire was reported killed and the other three released.
(Reuters, 10/18/17)(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Oct 13, The 33,205-ton Emerald Star, a Hong Kong-registered freighter, sank in rough seas off the Philippine coast, leaving 10 crewmembers missing.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Poland's Pres. Andrzej Duda signed into law a bill on funding for non-governmental organizations that critics fear the conservative government may use to undercut groups with missions that conflict with the ruling party's positions.
(AP, 10/14/17)
2017 Oct 13, Romania’s foreign minister said Ukraine has pledged not to close Romanian language schools under a new education law that has caused alarm in Romania, Russia and Hungary.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Russia successfully launched a satellite into orbit that will monitor Europe's atmosphere, helping to study air pollution. The European Space Agency's Sentinel-5P satellite was launched by a Rokot missile from the northwestern Plesetsk launch pad.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, On four voyages between Oct. 13, 2017, and May 7, 2018, the Russian Tantal tanker gave its destination as the Chinese port of Ningbo when it set sail. It then met up in international waters with a North Korean vessel to which it transferred its cargo of fuel.
(Reuters, 2/26/19)
2017 Oct 13, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic promised to lead the Balkan nation into the EU and said the fact that Russia is arming the Serbian military doesn't threaten that goal.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, The Seychelles government ordered schools to close, after the discovery of two suspected cases of plague thought to have been brought from Madagascar where the disease has killed scores.
(AFP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that President Jacob Zuma can face prosecution on almost 800 charges of corruption relating to a 1990s arms deal.
(AFP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, South Korea and China agreed to extend their currency swap deal, easing concerns the deal would fall through due to tensions over a US missile defense system. The two Asian countries renewed the deal worth 64 trillion won or 360 billion yuan ($57 billion) for another three years.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Spain's government says that Turkish-born writer Dogan Akhanly, who has German citizenship, won't be extradited to Turkey for his alleged involvement with an outlawed group.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, The UN human rights office said Azerbaijan, Egypt and Indonesia have all unjustly arrested dozens of people during anti-gay crackdowns in recent weeks, subjecting many to mistreatment in custody.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2018 Oct 13, US President Donald Trump said in a CBS interview that there would be "severe punishment" for Saudi Arabia if it turns out that missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In southern Texas gunfire erupted a a toddler's first birthday party leaving four men dead in Taft.
(SFC, 10/15/18, p.A6)
2018 Oct 13, In northeastern Afghanistan a motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated at an election rally in Takhar province killing at least 14 people, including civilians and security forces. The death toll soon climbed from 14 to 22.
(AP, 10/13/18)(AP, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Afghanistan the police chief of Mizan, a district in southern Zabul province, was killed late today in armed clashes with Taliban insurgents. Taliban fighters in Farah province killed 21 troops at two checkpoints in the district of Posht-e Rud. The Taliban captured 11 soldiers and seized their weapons as fighting continued into the next day.
(Reuters, 10/14/18)(SFC, 10/15/18, p.A4)
2018 Oct 13, In Afghanistan blast in Helmand went off inside the campaign office of Abdul Jabar Qahraman, killing him and wounding seven people.
(AP, 10/17/18)
2018 Oct 13, Taliban leaders said they will continue to meet for discussions with the newly appointed US special envoy for peace efforts in Afghanistan.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Bangladesh a small party led by prominent lawyer Kamal Hossain forged a new alliance with the country's main opposition party that could be seen as a boost against PM Sheikh Hasina's government ahead of national elections due in December.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Bangladesh an influential body of newspaper editors criticized the government for a new digital security law that they say will stifle constitutionally protected freedom of speech and curtail press freedom.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, The Bank of England said that a new 50-pound note will be printed on thin, flexible polymer with extra security measures to prevent forgeries. The new note will not be introduced until the newest version of the 20-pound note enters circulation in 2020.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Storm Callum left one man dead after a landslide in western Wales while another was swept away by rough seas in Brighton on the southern coast of England.
(AP, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, Mark Sutton (34), a Briton riding a mountain bike, was shot dead by a hunter (22) as he sped down a wooded track near Montriond in the French Alps.
(AFP, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, Cambodia's PM Hun Sen said he has agreed to the resumption of US military-led missions to search for the remains of Americans missing in action during the Vietnam War. The long-running program was suspended a year ago after the US government stopped issuing visas to senior Cambodian Foreign Ministry officials and their families. The visa ban remained in place.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In the Czech Rep. a conservative opposition party won an election for a third of the seats in Parliament's upper house as the ruling coalition of PM Andrej Babis suffered a setback. The Civic Democratic Party won 10 of the 27 seats up for grabs in the 81-seat Senate in the two-round election. Opposition parties now control the Senate.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Gabon's ruling party won just over half of the parliamentary seats in the first round of legislative elections in a vote marred by low turnout. The 2nd round will be held in 61 constituencies on October 27.
(AFP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Germany tens of thousands of people protested racism and discrimination in Berlin, a demonstration that came amid rising concerns about Germany's increasingly confident far right.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In northern Greece a speeding car carrying migrants collided with a truck, killing 11 people.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Indonesia global financial leaders meeting in Bali wrapped up an annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank by urging countries to brace for potential risks from trade disputes and other tensions.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Italy women's rights groups marched in protest in the northern city of Verona, after the local council passed a motion to fund Catholic anti-abortion groups.
(AFP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Charismatic Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim won a by-election for a parliamentary seat with a landslide victory in a grand political comeback to help him prepare for his eventual takeover from PM Mahathir Mohamad.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Palestinian security sources said Aisha Mohammed Rabi (48), a mother of eight, has died of her wounds in Nablus after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank threw stones a day earlier at the car she was traveling in.
(AFP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Polish police used tear gas and a water cannon against right-wing extremists who were trying to block the first equality parade in the city of Lublin.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, The Russian Orthodox Church said it would respond firmly to the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate over its decision to back Ukraine's request to establish an independent, or "autocephalous", Church.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Saudi Arabia dismissed accusations that Jamal Khashoggi was ordered murdered by a hit squad inside its Istanbul consulate as "lies and baseless allegations".
(AFP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Somalia two suspected suicide bombers struck in the southern city of Baidoa killing 20 people.
(Reuters, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, South Korea's Busan Film Festival closed after screening 324 films from 79 countries across its varied 10-day program, which included 115 world premieres, with just over 195,000 people attending.
(AFP, 10/12/18)
2018 Oct 13, In northwest Syria opposition fighters fired mortar shells from a planned buffer zone late today in Hama province, killing two soldiers. The deadly attack threatened a deal to protect the last major rebel bastion from a regime offensive.
(AFP, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Syria IS militants reportedly took around 700 hostages in Deir-al Zor province after attacking a refugee camp in an area controlled by US-backed forces.
(Reuters, 10/18/18)
2018 Oct 13, UN sanctions monitors in an unpublished report said banned charcoal exports from Somalia are thriving, generating millions of dollars a year for al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremists — and often passing through Iran to have their origins obscured.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, The Vatican said Pope Francis has defrocked Chilean bishops Francisco José Cox Huneeus (84), former archbishop emeritus of the city of La Serena, and Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández (53), former archbishop emeritus of Iquique, who have been caught up in the country's widening sexual abuse crisis.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Yemen air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group killed 10 civilians in Hodeidah province. The Houthi movement’s Al Massira TV said 17 died and many others were in a critical condition.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2019 Oct 13, The United States said it is poised to withdraw some 1,000 troops from northern Syria after learning that Turkey planned to extend a military incursion against Kurdish foes further south than originally planned.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Hunter Biden, the son of former US Vice President Joe Biden, for the first time defended his work in Ukraine and China, after sustained criticism from Republican President Donald Trump that has embroiled the White House in an impeachment inquiry.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, The Warner Bros. film "Joker" scored an easy victory in its second weekend with $55 million at 4,374 sites.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, The Indianapolis Zoo said it plans to open an international center devoted to saving threatened species, an effort that zoo officials call a natural extension of their biennial Indianapolis Prize honoring animal conservation leaders.
(AP, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, In Pearl River, New York, a two-car collision sent a Porsche SUV plummeting off an overpass onto train tracks below, where it burst into flames, killing two teenagers and sending a third to a hospital with serious injuries.
(AP, 10/14/19)
2019 Oct 13, Hundreds of Algerians protested in front of parliament against a proposed energy law that they say the caretaker government has no right to pass.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Ecuador's army patrolled the streets of Quito as the government of President Lenin Moreno and indigenous leaders prepared for talks to end more than a week of fuel price protests. Moreno and indigenous leaders struck a deal late today to cancel the disputed austerity package.
(AP, 10/13/19)(SFC, 10/15/19, p.A3)
2019 Oct 13, Hong Kong pro-democracy activists and riot police clashed in chaotic scenes around the city with police in full riot gear chasing protesters through crowds of horrified lunchtime shoppers.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's dominant right-wing Fidesz party faced a challenge from opposition parties, who backed joint candidates in many cities in the country's nationwide local election. Fidesz suffered large losses as opposition candidates won the mayoral race in Budapest and other large cities.
(AP, 10/13/19)(SFC, 10/14/19, p.A2)
2019 Oct 13, Israel's Pres. Reuven Rivlin in a letter asked Russian leader Vladimir Putin to pardon Naama Issachar, a young Israeli woman, imprisoned on drug charges in Russia.
(AP, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Japan sent tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the worst typhoons to hit the country in recent history. At least 63 people were killed by Typhoon Hagibis with 11 others presumed dead.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)(SFC, 10/14/19, p.A4)(SFC, 10/17/19, p.A2)
2019 Oct 13, In Japan a Panama-registered cargo ship was found sunk in waters near Tokyo after authorities lost track of it as Typhoon Hagibis lashed the country. A newspaper said at least five of the 12 crew were killed.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Kurdish forces long allied with the United States in Syria announced a new deal with the government in Damascus, a sworn enemy of Washington that is backed by Russia, as Turkish troops moved deeper into their territory and President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of the US military from northern Syria.
(NY Times, 10/14/19)
2019 Oct 13, In Nepal Chinese President Xi Jinping wound up two days of meetings with separate deals for a rail link to Tibet and a tunnel.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Pakistani PM Imran Khan on a visit to Iran said he was acting “not as a mediator but as a facilitator" for talks between Tehran and Riyadh, where he’s traveling tomorrow.
(Bloomberg, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Poles voted in a parliamentary election that the ruling nationalist Law and Justice party was favored to win, buoyed by the popularity of its conservative agenda and generous social spending. The Law and Justice party won just under 45% of votes for the 100-seat Senate, which translates to 49 senators, down from the 61 senators it now has. Opposition parties seem to have won 51 seats.
(AP, 10/13/19)(AP, 10/14/19)
2019 Oct 13, Saudi Arabia launched a new logistics zone open to private investors in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, as part of a wider industrial initiative to diversify the economy away from oil and create jobs for Saudis.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a Turkish air strike in the Syrian town of Ras al Ain killed nine people including five civilians.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, In northern Syria hundreds of Islamic State supporters escaped from a holding camp in amid heavy clashes between invading Turkish-led forces and Kurdish fighters. 780 IS supporters fled a camp for the displaced in the Syrian town of Ein Issa. US President Donald Trump ordered all US troops to withdraw from the north to avoid getting caught in the fighting. Approximately 1,000 US troops in Syria are not leaving the country entirely, but are trying to avoid becoming embroiled in the conflict.
(AP, 10/13/19)(AP, 10/17/19)
2019 Oct 13, Tunisians cast ballots to choose their next president. In the runoff Saied, an independent law professor, faced Nabil Karoui, a media mogul facing corruption allegations. Exit polls declared a landslide election win for Kais Saied.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)(Reuters, 10/14/19)
2019 Oct 13, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said the incursion into Syria will stretch from Kobani in the west to Hasaka in the east, going some 30 km (19 miles) into Syrian territory.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Pope Francis canonized Cardinal John Henry Newman, praising the 19th-century Anglican convert who became an influential, unifying figure in both the Anglican and Catholic churches. Newman was canonized along with four women, including three nuns from the 19th and 20th centuries — Sisters Giuseppina Vannini of Italy, Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan of India and Brazilian Dulce Lopes Pontes — as well as Swiss laywoman Margherita Bays.
(AP, 10/13/19)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that federal payments to American farmers was projected to hit a record $46 billion as the White House funnels money to Trump's rural based in the South and Midwest before election day.
(SFC, 10/13/20, p.A4)
2020 Oct 13, Financial leaders of the world's seven biggest economies vowed to fight rising ransomware attacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and said no stable coin operation should start until it is properly regulated.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by 215 Senate and House of Representatives Democrats of a lower court ruling that found that the lawmakers lacked the necessary legal standing to bring the case that focused on the Republican president's ownership of the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US Supreme Court turned away South Carolina's bid to cut off public funding to Planned Parenthood.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to halt the 2020 census count ahead of schedule, effectively shutting down what has been the most contentious and litigated census in memory and setting the stage for a bitter fight over how to use its numbers for the apportionment of the next Congress.
(NY Times, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US Justice Department sued Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a onetime close friend and aide to first lady Melania Trump, to try to recoup the profits from a tell-all book that disclosed embarrassing details about her, the third lawsuit in recent months where the department has taken on a White House antagonist.
(NY Times, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that a group of prominent Christians from both sides of the aisle, including a past faith adviser to former President Barack Obama, is forming a political action committee designed to chip away at Christian support for President Donald Trump in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) said it has started a study to evaluate two antibody treatments in COVID-19 patients. The trial will test AbbVie Inc's psoriasis drug risankizumab along with Gilead Sciences' antiviral remdesivir, compared to a placebo and remdesivir to help tackle the new coronavirus.. The study will also test Humanigen's experimental drug lenzilumab with remdesivir.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Int'l. arbitrators said the EU can impose tariffs and other penalties on up to $4 billion of US goods and services over illegal American support for plane maker Boeing.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A2)
2020 Oct 13, Arizona health officials reported more than 680 new coronavirus and eight death. Statewide totals rose to more than 226,000 cases and 5,767 deaths.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A6)
2020 Oct 13, California to date had 860,111 cases of coronavirus and 16,600 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 109,267 cases and 1,643 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 7,850,829 with the death toll at 215,775.
(sfist.com, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, North Dakota officials recorded a sixth straight day of record COVID-19 cases. 517 positive tests And 12 deaths in the last 24 hours put the state's total cases at 4,600 and 357 deaths.
(SFC, 10/15/20, p.A8)
2020 Oct 13, Ohio State Univ. said it will pay $5.8 million to settle lawsuits by about two dozen more survivors over decades-old sexual abuse by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, bringing total settlement so far to $46.7 million.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A3)
2020 Oct 13, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space company launched a New Shepard rocket for a seventh time from a remote corner of Texas, testing new lunar-landing technology for NASA that could help put astronauts back on the moon.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, In Virginia Varita V. Quincy, an American military contractor, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US and commit property theft. She also pleaded guilty to making false statements. In 20201 she was sentenced to 51 months in prison, and ordered to pay restitution totaling $179,708. Co-conspirator Larry Green pleaded guilty to similar charges and was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2020 to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay the same as Quincy in restitution for his role in the theft ring on a military installation in Afghanistan.
(AP, 4/28/21)
2020 Oct 13, In Virginia an accidentally severed fiber optic cable shut down the state's online voter registration system for several hours, the last day to register before the November general election. This prompted a lawsuit from a civil rights organization.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Texas began in-person voting.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Apple introduced the iPhone 12, but the faster internet speeds it promises may take years to develop.
(NY Times, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said that they will donate an additional $100 million to support election officials and fund infrastructure for the US election in November.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Ford Motor Co said it was moving production of its plug-in Escape sport utility vehicle to next year as it reviews its vehicles with the same engine and battery parts that were recalled in Europe. The automaker said it recalled 20,500 Kuga PHEV vehicles in Europe last month and suspended their sale as it looks into potential concern with the high voltage battery, which in certain cases could result in a fire.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that Johnson & Johnson has paused the late-stage clinical trial of its vaccine because of an “unexplained illness" in one of the volunteers.
(NY Times, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Novavax Inc said it has set up a team of company veterans as it seeks US. regulatory approval for its seasonal influenza vaccine and to help develop a combined influenza/COVID-19 vaccine for use after the pandemic.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Vaxart Inc said it had begun an early-stage study testing its oral tablet COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which the drug developer hopes would be a viable alternative to injectable vaccines.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Two Afghan helicopters collided while transporting wounded soldiers in Helmand province. Nine service members were killed.
(SFC, 10/15/20, p.A5)
2020 Oct 13, Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces raged for a third week over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, and the United States urged both sides to adhere to a cease-fire reached over the weekend. Nagorno-Karabakh military officials said 16 servicemen were killed, bringing the total number of dead among troops to 532 since Sept. 27, when the fighting flared up. Azerbaijani authorities said 42 civilians have been killed on their side since the start of the fighting.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, said it will ease restrictions despite reporting the biggest one-day jump in new COVID-19 cases in six weeks.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Bangladesh said it will not co-fund a late-stage domestic trial of a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech. The country reported 22 deaths and 1,537 new COVID-19 infections, taking the total number of reported cases in the country to 381,275, and the death toll to 5,577.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Britain reported 17,234 new confirmed cases and 143 new deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily figure since June, as parts of the country were facing tougher social distancing restrictions under a new three-tiered alert system. Total deaths reached 43,018.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that police in China have used a drone to capture footage of an alleged drug deal taking place.
(BBC, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, China was reelected to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), alongside Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Nepal. Saudi Arabia was the only country up for election that failed to be elected, mustering only 90 votes. Fifteen positions were up for grabs on the 47-seat body.
(AFP, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, French researchers say they have had encouraging initial results from trials of a COVID-19 testing system that, they say, can deliver results in 40 minutes with no swab and no need to send off samples to a lab. The French system showed 87.5 percent accuracy for detecting positive results when tested on a sample of 220 people.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Indonesia reported 3,906 new coronavirus infections and 92 new deaths. The new infections brought the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 340,622, while the death tally rose to 12,027.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Italian PM Giuseppe Conte imposed new restrictions on gatherings, restaurants, sports and school activities in an attempt to slow a recent surge in coronavirus infections.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Japan launched its latest three-yearly energy policy review, with the country grappling with a need to cut greenhouse gas emissions even as the public remains wary over nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, In central Mali suspected Islamic extremists have carried out a series of attacks killing at least 22 people. Ten civilians died when a car near a military convoy was ambushed between Bandiagara and Bankass. At least 12 soldiers died in two separate attacks elsewhere.
(AP, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, Nigeria's police chief ordered the unconditional release of all demonstrators arrested during protests against police brutality.
(BBC, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Norway's government said it will provide a vaccine against COVID-19 free of charge to its inhabitants when one becomes available.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, In Poland angry farmers protested in Warsaw against draft legislation that would ban fur farms, religious slaughter for export and the use of animals for entertainment and in circuses. The government has proposed to ease restrictions, offer copmpensation for closed farms and to delay the bill.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A2)
2020 Oct 13, Poland's Health Ministry reported 5,068 new coronavirus cases, only the second time the figure has passed 5,000 in a 24-hour period since the pandemic began. The country of 38 million has now reported a total of 135,278 cases of the novel coronavirus and 3,101 deaths.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Romania's centrist minority government introduced new progressive restrictions to stem a rise in new coronavirus infections and will extend a state of alert until mid-November. The total number of confirmed cases has risen to 160,461 since the pandemic reached the country in late February. 5,535 people have died.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Russia reported record high daily coronavirus cases and deaths, pushing total infections to 1,326,178, but authorities said they do not plan to impose lockdowns across the vast country.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, South Korea reported 102 new cases of the coronavirus brining its total cases to 24,805 and 434 deaths.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A6)
2020 Oct 13, In Spain hundreds of primary care doctors went on strike in the region of Catalonia calling for better working conditions as coronavirus cases rise. With close to 900,000 registered cases and more than 33,000 deaths, Spain has become the pandemic's hotspot in Western Europe with the capital Madrid and nearby suburbs on lockdown since last week.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, A judge in Spain allowed an alleged leading member of the ’Ndrangheta mafia organization to walk free after failing to realize that the arrested man was a most-wanted suspect in his native Italy. Vittorio Raso was arrested in Barcelona earlier this month after a two-year police operation to track him down following a tip from the Italian authorities.
(The Telegraph, 10/21/20)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that more than 4,500 people in Sudan's South Darfur province have been displaced in the past week by ongoing clashes between factions of a rebel group boycotting a recent peace deal between the transitional government and a rebel alliance.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, In Tunisia hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police in a provincial town after authorities bulldozed an unlicensed cigarette kiosk, killing its owner sleeping inside.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
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54AD Oct 13, Roman emperor Claudius I died, after being poisoned with mushrooms by his wife, Agrippina. Nero (37-68AD), son of Agrippina, succeeded his great uncle Claudius, who was murdered by his wife, as the new emperor of Rome. After the murder of his wife, Octavia, Nero descended deep into a religious delirium. His acts became wild and unintelligible and he was displaced by his soldiers with Galba after which he committed suicide.
(WUD, 1994, p.959)(V.D.-H.K.p.78)(AP, 10/13/97)(HN, 10/13/01)
1307 Oct 13, The medieval order of the Knights Templar was suppressed by King Philip IV of France. Baphomet, a deity that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping, is an Old French corruption of the name Muhammad. Subsequently it was incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions. Since 1856, the name Baphomet has been associated with a "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Eliphas Levi which contains binary elements representing the "sum total of the universe".
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet)(HN, 10/13/98)
1399 Oct 13, Henry IV of England was crowned.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1537 Oct 13, Jane Grey, Queen of England for 9 days, was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1563 Oct 13, Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder and saint (Caracciolini), was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1582 Oct 13, This day was one of ten skipped to bring the calendar into sync. by order of the Council of Trent. Oct 5-14 were dropped.
(K.I.-365D, p.97)(NG, March 1990, J. Boslough)
1601 Oct 13, Tycho Brahe, astronomer, died in Prague.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1629 Oct 13, Dutch West Indies Co. granted religious freedom in West Indies.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1652 Oct 13, Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer and newspaper publisher, died.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1659 Oct 13, Gen. John Lambert drove out the English Rump government. The “Rump Parliament" was restored in Dec.
(PCh, 1992, p.247)(MC, 10/13/01)
1661 Oct 13, "I went to see Major General Harrison being drawn and quartered. He was looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition." Harrison (b.1606) had sided with Parliament in the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he was a leader of the Fifth Monarchists. In 1649 he signed the death warrant of Charles I and in 1660, shortly after the Restoration, he was found guilty of regicide.
(Samuel Pepys Diary)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harrison_%28soldier%29)
1670 Oct 13, Virginia passed a law that blacks arriving in the colonies as Christians could not be used as slaves.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1680 Oct 13, Daniel Elsevier, book publisher and publisher, died at 54.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1701 Oct 13, Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer, died at 47.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1710 Oct 13, English troops occupied Acadia, Nova Scotia.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1754 Oct 13, American Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher was born. During the American Revolution, at the Battle of Monmouth, NJ, Molly helped out as a water carrier, gaining her nickname, Molly Pitcher. Her husband, John, was wounded during the battle and Molly dropped the water pitcher, taking up her husband's job of loading and firing a cannon. General George Washington appointed her a noncommissioned officer. [see Jun 28, 1778]
(MC, 10/13/01)
1775 Oct 13, The U.S. Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet. The Continental Congress authorized construction of two warships. The 1st ship in the US Navy was the schooner Hannah. It was commissioned by George Washington and outfitted at Beverly, Mass. In 2006 Ian W. Toll authored “Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy.
(AP, 10/13/97)(HN, 10/13/98)(SFC, 2/12/00, p.B3)(Econ, 11/4/06, p.94)
1776 Oct 13, Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain by the British, who then retreated to Canada for the winter. Arnold’s efforts bought the colonists 9 months to consolidate their hold in northern New York. In 2006 James L. Nelson authored “Benedict Arnold’s Navy."
(HN, 10/13/98)(WSJ, 5/12/06, p.W5)
1784 Oct 13, Ferdinand VII, king of Spain, was born.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1792 Oct 13, The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
(AP, 10/13/97)(HN, 10/13/98)
1792 Oct 13, Robert Bailey Thomas (1766-1846), founded his Farmer's Almanac in Boston for the year 1893. It was renamed The Old Farmer's Almanac in 1832.
(https://tinyurl.com/2zwthz6w)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Farmer%27s_Almanac)
1795 Oct 13, William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, died.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1812 Oct 13, At the Battle of Queenston Heights, a Canadian and British army defeated the Americans who had tried to invade Canada. This was the 1st major land battle in the War of 1812.
(HN, 10/13/98)(HNQ, 1/31/02)
1812 Oct 13, Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), died in battle.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1813 Oct 16-1813, Oct 19, In the Battle at Leipzig (aka Battle of the Nations) Napoleon faced Prussia, Austria and Russia and suffered one of his worst defeats.
(DoW, 1999, p.325)
1815 Oct 13, Joachim Murat, marshal of France and King of Naples (1808-15), was executed.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1817 Oct 13, William Kirby, Canadian writer, was born.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1821 Oct 13, Rudolf Virchow, German politician and anthropologist (cell pathology), was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1822 Oct 13, Antonio Canova (b.1757), Italian sculptor, died at age 64. His work included a sculpture of Napoleon’s sister Pauline, as a semi-naked Venus Victrix.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Canova)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.105)
1843 Oct 13, The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1845 Oct 13, Texas voters ratified a state constitution.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1849 Oct 13, The California state constitution, which prohibited slavery, was signed in Monterey.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1853 Oct 13, Lillie Langtry (d.1929), British actress, was born. “The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges."
(AP, 7/27/98)(HN, 10/13/00)
1855 Oct 13, Gottfried Rieger, composer, died at 91.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1858 Oct 13, The sixth debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place in Quincy, Ill.
(AP, 10/13/08)
1860 Oct 13, The 1st US aerial photo was taken from a balloon over Boston.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1864 Oct 13, Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia resulted in 337 casualties.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1864 Oct 13, Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (Mosby's Raid).
(MC, 10/13/01)
1864 Oct 13, Maryland voters adopted a new constitution, including abolition of slavery.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1869 Oct 13, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French writer (Tableau Historique), died.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1870 Oct 13, Gustav Mahler (10) gave his 1st public piano concert.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1881 Oct 13, A revival of the Hebrew language began as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agreed to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1884 Oct 13, Greenwich was established as the universal time meridian of longitude. 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C. for the International Meridian Conference. This conference selected the Greenwich Meridian as the official Prime Meridian due to its popularity. However, France abstained from the vote and French maps continued to use the Paris Meridian for several decades.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Meridian)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_13)
1890 Oct 13, Conrad Richter, novelist and short story writer, was born.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1903 Oct 13, Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1903 Oct 13, Boston defeated Pittsburgh in baseball’s first World Series. In 2003 Roger I. Abrams authored “The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903;" Louis P. Masur authored "Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series;" and Bob Ryan authored "When Boston Won the World Series."
(WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A8)(HN, 10/13/98)(WSJ, 3/28/03, p.W9)(SSFC, 6/8/03, p.M6)
1904 Oct 13, Sigmund Freud's “The Interpretation of Dreams" was published.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1905 Oct 13, Henry Irving (b.1838), British actor, died in England. In 2008 Michael Holroyd authored “A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families." Irving was the first actor to be awarded a British knighthood (1895).
(WSJ, 3/6/09, p.W6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Terry)
1907 Oct 13, Yves Allégret, French film director, was born. His work included “Dédée d'Anvers" and “Une si jolie petite plage."
(HN, 10/13/00)
1908 Oct 13, The Chicago Cubs won Game 4 of the World Series, defeating the Detroit Tigers 3-0 to take a 3-1 Series lead.
(AP, 10/13/08)
1908 Oct 13, Some 60 thousand British suffragists led by Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the WSPU, gathered in Parliament Square the rush the House of Commons. 24 women and 13 men were arrested.
(ON, 10/2010, p.8)
1909 Oct 13, Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block), multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, was born.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1910 Oct 13, Ernest Kellogg Gann, pilot and adventure novelist, was born. His work included “Island in the Sky" and “The High and Mighty."
(HN, 10/13/00)
1910 Oct 13, Art Tatum, American jazz pianist, was born.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1913 Oct 13, The 16th amendment to the constitution was ratified and the modern income tax came into being. It lifted the constitutional ban on income taxes. The levy was 1% of GDP and the highest rate was 7%. An exemption on the first $20,000 in dividend income was revoked during WW I.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.D1)(CyCEO, 6/3/97, p.1,8)(WSJ, 3/11/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 9/25/02, p.D8)
1914 Oct 13, Garrett Morgan invented and patented the gas mask.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1921 Oct 13, In the Treaty of Kars Turkey formally recognized the Armenian Soviet Republic.
(EWH, 4th ed, p.1086)
1921 Oct 13, The Daily Colonist in Victoria BC mentioned the term “cold turkey" in reference to quitting an addiction. This was the first know use of the term in print.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, Z1 p.8)
1921 Oct 13, Yves Montand, French actor and singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix), was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1923 Oct 13, Angora (Ankara) became Turkey's capital.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1925 Oct 13, Frank D. Gilroy, American writer (Subject Was Roses), was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1925 Oct 13, Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider], comedian, was born. He was later arrested on obscenity charges.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1925 Oct 13, Margaret Thatcher, Great Britain’s first female Prime Minister (1979-90), was born in Grantham, England.
(HN, 10/13/98)(MC, 10/13/01)
1926 Oct 13, Ray Brown (d.2002), jazz bass player, was born in Pittsburgh.
(HN, 10/13/00)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A21)
1930 Oct 13, New German Reichstag opened with 107 Nazi Party members in uniform.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1931 Oct 13, Noel Coward's "Cavalcade," premiered in London.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1934 Oct 13, Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer (Try to Remember), was born in Crete.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1936 Oct 13, Cliff Gorman, actor (Boys in the Band, Lenny, Angel), was born in Jamaica, NY.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1941 Oct 13, Paul Simon, songwriter, singer, musician, was born. He played guitar and recorded with Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence; solo: Me and Julio, Kodachrome, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1941 Oct 13, Nazis killed 11,000 Jewish children and old people.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1942 Oct 13, In the first of four attacks, two Japanese battleships sail down the slot and shelled Henderson field on Guadalcanal, in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the American Cactus Air Force.
(HN, 10/13/99)
1943 Oct 13, During World War II, Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
(AP, 10/13/97)(HN, 10/13/98)
1944 Oct 13, The US 1st army entered Aachen, Germany.
(AP, 10/13/97)(MC, 10/13/01)
1944 Oct 13, British and Greek advance units landed at Piraeus during World War II.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1944 Oct 13, Riga, Latvia, was freed.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1945 Oct 13, Milton Hershey (b.1857), Philadelphia chocolate tycoon, died. In 2005 Michael D. Antonio authored “Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire and Utopian Dreams."
(WSJ, 8/12/99, p.A1)(www.hersheyhistory.com/milton.html)
1947 Oct 13, The popular children's television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premiered as a local Chicago show. In its first year, the show's name varied between "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" and "Junior Jamboree," but it was essentially the same show.
(http://www.kukla.tv/)
1953 Oct 13, A burglar alarm using ultrasonic or radio waves was patented by Samuel Bagno.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1954 Oct 13, R.P. Smith's and M. Shulman's "Tender Trap," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1955 Oct 13, A US Air Force B-47B crashed while taking off from March Air Base in California. Capt. Edward A. O'Brien Jr. (Pilot), Capt. David J. Clare (co-pilot), Major Thomas F. Mulligan (navigator), and Capt. Joseph M. Graeber (chaplain) were all killed.
(www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbadate.asp?thedate=551013&Submit2=Go)
1957 Oct 13, CBS-TV broadcast "The Edsel Show," a one-hour live special starring Bing Crosby designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile. It was the first special to use videotape technology to delay the broadcast to the West Coast.
(AP, 10/13/07)
1959 Oct 13, K. Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer (Amsterdam Concertgebouw), died at 67.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1960 Oct 13, The Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series at Forbes Field with a 9th inning homerun by Bill Mazeroski. A Univ. of Pittsburgh academic building was later built on the site.
(WSJ, 3/25/04, p.D1)
1960 Oct 13, Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of their presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in New York.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1960 Oct 13, Opponents of Fidel Castro were executed in Cuba.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1962 Oct 13, Jerry Rice, football player, was born. He played as a San Francisco '49er wide receiver: Super Bowl XXIII, XXIV, XXIX.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1962 Oct 13, The four-character drama "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," by Edward Albee, opened on Broadway with Uta Hagen (d.2004) as Martha and Arthur Hill as George. The opening coincided with co-star Melinda Dillon's 23rd birthday.
(SFC, 1/16/04, p.A23)(AP, 10/13/07)
1963 Oct 13, "Beatlemania" was coined after Beatles appeared at Palladium.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1966 Oct 13, 173 US airplanes bombed North-Vietnam.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1969 Oct 13-25, Pres. Nixon ordered a worldwide “secret" nuclear alert to scare the Soviets into forcing concessions from North Vietnam. Nixon called that tactic a “madman strategy," and it did not work.
(SFC, 12/25/02, p.A7)
1970 Oct 13, Canada established diplomatic relations with China.
(http://geo.international.gc.ca/asia/china/political_economic/diplomatic_relations-en.asp)
1972 Oct 13, Aeroflot Il-62 crashed in large pond outside Moscow and 176 died.
(http://tinyurl.com/5a6zlm)
1972 Oct 13, A Uruguay to Chile Fairchild FH-227 turboprop carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes Mountains. The event was concluded by December 23, 1972 when the last of 16 survivors were rescued. The group survived by collectively making a decision to eat flesh from the bodies of their dead comrades. The book “Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors," published two years after their rescue, was written by Piers Paul Read, who interviewed the survivors and their families.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571)(AP, 3/14/14)
1974 Oct 13, In the SF Bay Area Arlis Perry (19) was found sexually assaulted and killed at the Stanford Memorial Church. In 2018 DNA evidence led police to Stephen Blake Crawford, who shot himself on June 28 as police surrounded his home in San Jose.
(SFC, 6/29/18, p.A1)
1974 Oct 13, Television host Ed Sullivan died in New York City at age 72.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1977 Oct 13, A Lufthansa Boeing 737, bound for Frankfurt, was hijacked by Palestinians shortly after take-off. The plane is diverted to Rome's Fiumicino Airport. Almost all of the passengers are German vacationers. "This is Captain Martyr Mohammed speaking," announces one of the hijackers to the Rome air-traffic controllers. "The group I represent demands the release of our comrades in German prisons [see Oct 18].
(www.baader-meinhof.com/timeline/1977.html)
1980 Oct 13, In northern California Anne Evelyn Alderson (26) of San Rafael was raped and shot to death on Mount Tamalpais. David Joseph Carpenter was arrested in May 1981. In 1984 he was convicted of 2 murders in Santa Cruz and sentenced to death. In 1988 he was convicted of 4 killings in Marin County and again sentenced to death.
(SFC, 2/24/10, p.A7)
1980 Oct 13, In Houston Texas a delicatessen clerk was shot and killed by one bullet during a robbery. Willie Williams, who admitted to firing the fatal shot, was executed in 1995. His accomplice, Joseph Nichols, was convicted in 1982 at age 20 and in 2007 was also executed for the murder.
(http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR510332007)
1981 Oct 13, Voters in Egypt elected Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president in a referendum with a 98.5% vote, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
(AP, 10/13/97)(AP, 7/9/04)
1982 Oct 13, The IOC restored 2 gold medals post mortem from the 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe (1888-1953).
(http://nomas-nyc.com/2006/10/solid-gold.html)
1982 Oct 13, Guatemala’s army surrounded the mountain village of Santa Anita Las Canoas. 24 men were taken inside a church, where they were chained, tied with ropes and tortured all the night, their screams heard throughout the village. The following morning, 6 men were taken from the group, tied to the barbwire fence of the church and executed in front of the community.
{Guatemala, Atrocities}
(SFC, 6/14/01, p.A14)(www.law.wisc.edu/news/index.php?ID=567)
1983 Oct 13, The Space Shuttle Challenger, carrying seven, the largest crew to date, landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
(HN, 10/13/98)
1987 Oct 13, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of a Central American peace plan to end the war in Nicaragua.
(AP, 10/13/97)(WSJ, 12/12/97, p.A19)
1988 Oct 13, Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was named recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(AP, 10/13/98)
1988 Oct 13, Vice President George Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis met in their second presidential debate of the 1988 campaign.
(AP, 10/13/98)
1988 Oct 13, In Italy Cardinal Archbishop Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero was forced to announce that the Shroud of Turin did not contain the image of Christ. Scientists at 3 leading universities carbon-dated samples to some time between 1260-1390. In 1998 it was reported that the dating work was not definitive. Lab tests showed Shroud of Turin was not Christ’s burial cloth. The Shroud of Turin Research Project (Sturp) performed radiocarbon dating on fibers of the shroud and found that the linen dated to between 1260 and 1390 AD. Ian Wilson wrote the 1978 book "The Shroud of Turin" and in 1998 "The Blood and the Shroud: New Evidence That the Most Sacred Relic Is Real."
(WSJ, 4/10/98, p.W6)(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.A24)(http://tinyurl.com/zuanz)
1989 Oct 13, The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 190 points, triggering memories of the 1987 crash.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1990 Oct 13, At the start of a three-day conference in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, the crown prince of Kuwait promised greater democracy for the emirate if it were freed from Iraqi occupation.
(AP, 10/13/00)
1990 Oct 13, In Lebanon, rebel Christian General Michel Aoun ended his mutiny against the government. Syrian forces defeated the army under Aoun. Jihad Georges Eid (20) a soldier in the Lebanese army, was taken from Lebanon by Syrian troops on the day of the last battle in the civil war. For the next 20 plus years, more than 600 families, Lebanese and Palestinian, Muslim and Christian, demanded authorities reveal the fate of thousands of political prisoners believed to have disappeared at the hands of Syrian troops.
(AP, 10/13/00)(SFC, 4/27/05, p.A8)(AFP, 10/13/11)
1990 Oct 13, The 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs was held in St. Basil's Cathedral.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1990-10/1990-10-13-NBC-20.html)
1990 Oct 13, Le Duc Tho, co-founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party, died in Hanoi at age 79. He was the 1975 North Vietnamese negotiator in Paris.
(AP, 10/13/00)(MC, 10/13/01)
1991 Oct 13, The Minnesota Twins won the American League pennant, defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 8-5 at SkyDome.
(AP, 10/13/01)
1991 Oct 13, The US Senate Judiciary Committee heard conflicting testimony from friends and associates of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, the University of Oklahoma law professor who'd accused Thomas of sexually harassing her.
(AP, 10/13/01)
1992 Oct 13, Vice President Dan Quayle, Senator Al Gore and retired admiral James B. Stockdale clashed in a freewheeling vice-presidential debate in Atlanta.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1993 Oct 13, The Philadelphia Phillies won the National League pennant, defeating the Atlanta Braves in game six.
(AP, 10/13/98)
1993 Oct 13, A German who had stabbed tennis star Monica Seles received a suspended jail term.
(AP, 10/13/03)
1993 Oct 13, The U.N. Security Council voted to reimpose sanctions on Haiti unless military leaders there stopped violating a U.N.-brokered accord.
(AP, 10/13/98)
1994 Oct 13, Kenzabuto Oe, Japanese novelist, won the Noble prize for literature. His work included “An Echo of Heaven."
(SFC, 7/7/96, BR p.9)(AP, 10/13/99)
1994 Oct 13, Pro-British Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland announced a cease-fire matching the Irish Republican Army's six-week-old truce.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1994 Oct 13, In Sri Lanka peace talks began in Jaffna.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1995 Oct 13, The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Polish-born British physicist Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005) and the Pugwash Conferences (begun in Canada in 1957) for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat)(AP, 10/13/00)(SFC, 9/2/05, p.B5)(WSJ, 10/16/95, p. A1)
1996 Oct 13, The Yankees won the American League pennant, defeating the Baltimore Orioles.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1996 Oct 13, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," called on Congress to investigate campaign contributions made to President Clinton's re-election campaign by the Lippo Group, an Indonesian banking conglomerate.
(AP, 10/13/97)
1996 Oct 13, In Austria the far-right Freedom party of Joerg Haider received 27.6% of the vote. The Conservative People’s Party led by Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schuessel won with 29.6%, while the Social Democrats got 29.1%.
(SFC, 10/14/96, p.A12)
1996 Oct 13, In Iraq the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) regained Sulaymaniyah, its former headquarters.
(SFC, 10/14/96, p.A12)
1997 Oct 13, The Cassini spacecraft was scheduled to be launched aboard a Titan rocket from Cape Canaveral for a trip to end in 2004 at Saturn. It will carry the Huygens probe to be deployed on the Saturn moon Titan. It was postponed
(SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.1)
1997 Oct 13, A British jet car, Thrust SSC, driven by Andy Green of the Royal Air Force set a land speed record of 764.168 mph in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The record was not recorded as official because turn around time went over an hour due to braking problems. Green officially broke the record two days later.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A1,7)(AP, 10/13/98)
1997 Oct 13, In Quebec, Canada, a bus with 48 senior citizens overturned into a ravine near St. Joseph-de-la-Rive and 43 were killed.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)(AP, 10/13/98)
1997 Oct 13, In Italy the Communist Refounding Party reopened talks that were expected to restore Prodi to power and leave his budget intact.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1997 Oct 13, In Kenya teachers ended a 12-day strike after the government agreed to a 200% raise. Their salaries had averaged $35 per month.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 13, In South Korea Kim Hyun Chul (37), son of Pres. Kim Young Sam, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for bribery and tax evasion that amounted to about $2.1 million, an amount for which he was also fined.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A11)
1997 Oct 13, Swiss bank officials said that 4,000 more unclaimed accounts from the Holocaust era were found containing about $4 million.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 13, In Vietnam journalist Nguyen Hoang Linh of the business newspaper Enterprise, was arrested on charges of revealing state secrets. He had been investigating government corruption.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A12)
1998 Oct 13, In Conyers, Ga., Nancy Fowler (47) spoke her message from Mary, the mother of Jesus, to a crowd of over 100,000 pilgrims. It was the last of seven years of messages that Fowler said she received from the Virgin Mary.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A3)
1998 Oct 13, The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Robert B. Laughlin of Stanford, Horst L. Stormer of Columbia Univ. and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton for their work on the fractional quantum Hall effect where groups of electrons act as if they are quarks.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A1,6)
1998 Oct 13, The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to Walter Kohn of UC Santa Barbara and John Pople (d.2004) of Northwestern Univ. for their work in computational chemistry.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A1)(SFC, 3/19/04, p.B7)
1998 Oct 13, The NBA suspended the first two weeks of the 1998-99 pro basketball season after collective bargaining talks broke off.
(WSJ, 10/14/98, p.A1)(AP, 10/13/99)
1998 Oct 13, The New York Yankees won the American League pennant with a 9-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of their championship series.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1998 Oct 13, White House and congressional budget bargainers continued to seek agreement on issues snarling a $500 billion bill for the new fiscal year.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1998 Oct 13, Eric Robert Rudolph, a suspect in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala. abortion clinic, was reported to be linked to the 1996 Olympics bombing and would be charged for that and 2 other bombings in Atlanta.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A3)
1998 Oct 13, It was reported that Dutch auditors chastised the prime minister and other officials for spending $40 million to acquire the Piet Mondrian painting: “Victory Boogie Woogie."
(WSJ, 10/13/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 13, In the West Bank an Israeli man, Itamar Doron (24) was killed and another wounded by suspected terrorists. The slaying prompted Prime Minister Netanyahu to declare that there was no chance of signing a new peace deal with the Palestinians.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct 13, In Mexico a gas explosion in Tultepec killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens. The blast was related to the manufacture of illegal fireworks.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct 13, Serbian authorities announced that elections will be held in Kosovo under int’l. supervision next year. NATO authorized air strikes if Milosevic does no comply with UN demands.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A1)(SFC, 10/16/98, p.A14)
1999 Oct 13, Robert A. Mundell (66), a Canadian born professor at Columbia Univ., won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his study of cross-border capital flows, flexible foreign exchange rates, and supply side economics. A 1961 paper by Mundell had pioneered the theory of an “optimal currency area," which later helped shape the euro zone.
(WSJ, 10/14/99, p.A2)(Econ, 6/13/09, SR p.10)
1999 Oct 13, Pres. Clinton proposed to place 40 million acres of federal forest beyond the reach of loggers, miners and road-builders. He urged the forest service to engage the public in how best to manage and conserve over 50 million acres of the last roadless tracts.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A1)(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A21)
1999 Oct 13, The US Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty 51-48.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A1)(AP, 10/13/00)
1999 Oct 13, Vice Pres. Al Gore received endorsement from the AFL-CIO for his presidential bid.
(SFC, 10/13/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 13, In Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the six-year-old’s strangulation.
(AP, 10/13/00)
1999 Oct 13, In Texas 3 Pleasanton law officers, Mark Stephenson, Thomas Monse and Terry Miller were shot and killed by Jeremiah Engleton (21), who had been arrested earlier for beating his wife.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A8)
1999 Oct 13, In Colombia drug police arrested 30 cocaine traffickers including Medellin cartel leader Fabio Ochoa and reputed distribution boss Alejandro Bernal-Madrigal. Some 1,290 traffickers were also arrested in Mexico, Ecuador, the US and other countries over the last 2 weeks.
(WSJ, 10/14/99, p.A1,22)(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A14)
1999 Oct 13, France legalized same sex unions under legislation called "civil solidarity pacts" pushed through by the Socialist-dominated National Assembly.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A12)
1999 Oct 13, In Georgia gunmen seized 6 UN observers and a translator as they delivered aid to Abkhazia. 4 of the observers were released the next day and the ransom was raised to $350,000. The last of the hostages were released 2 days later.
(SFC, 10/14/99, p.A14)(SFC, 10/15/99, p.D3)(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A16)
1999 Oct 13, In Indonesia the military chief, Gen'l. Wiranto, was picked by Golkar as the running mate to Pres. Habibie.
(WSJ, 10/14/99, p.A1,23)
2000 Oct 13, The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Pres. Kim Dae Jung (74) of South Korea for his efforts to make peace with North Korea.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 13, A US federal appeals court ruled that residents of Puerto Rico cannot vote in presidential elections unless the island becomes a state or the US Constitution is amended.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A4)
2000 Oct 13, The DJIA rose 157.61 to 10,192, while the NASDAQ rose 242 (7.9%) to 3316, in a possible dead cat bounce.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.D1)
2000 Oct 13, Chevron announced plans to acquire Texaco in a deal valued at $37 billion. Chevron and Texaco agreed to merge on Oct 15 for $35 billion in stock and $7.5 billion in debt.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/16/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 13, Gus Hall (90), longtime American communist, died in New York.
(AP, 10/13/01)
2000 Oct 13, Jean Peters, film actress and former wife of Howard Hughes, died at age 73.
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)
2000 Oct 13, In Serbia a new agreement was reached to hold parliamentary elections on Dec 24.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A10)
2000 Oct 13, Janko “Tuta" Janjic (43), a war crimes suspect, killed himself in Foca, a town in the Serb section of Bosnia, when NATO troops came to arrest him.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A10)
2001 Oct 13, Anthrax was confirmed in 3 US states. In Florida 5 more employees tested positive; in Nevada a letter sent to a Microsoft office tested positive; and in NYC a letter sent to NBC News tested positive.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 13, The US confirmed that an errant 2,000-pound bomb hit residential buildings in Kabul and that 4 people were killed.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A20)
2001 Oct 13, In Nebraska a school bus carrying a high school band in Douglas County overturned and 3 people were killed.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A17)
2001 Oct 13, In London an estimated 20,000 people marched against the military strikes in Afghanistan. Other demonstrations took place in Europe.
(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A16)
2001 Oct 13, Ukraine's defense minister and air defense chief offered to resign, conceding that the military was involved in the explosion of a Russian airliner over the Black Sea Oct. 4 that killed 78 people.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 13, The Anaheim Angels routed the Minnesota Twins 13-5 to win the American League Championship Series in five games.
(AP, 10/13/03)
2002 Oct 13, In Lewiston, Maine, over 200 people marched in support of Somali immigrants. Over 1,000 Somalis had settled in the town over the last 18 months.
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 13, In Iowa up to 11 bodies of suspected Mexican immigrants were found in a Union Pacific rail car. The car had left Matamoros, Mexico, in June, and had been parked in Oklahoma since mid-June.
(SFC, 10/16/02, p.A3)
2002 Oct 13, Horace Logan (86), producer of the Louisiana Hayride country music show (b.1948), died in New Orleans.
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A26)
2002 Oct 13, Stephen Ambrose (b.Jan 10, 1936), historian, died in New Orleans. His books included "D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II."
(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A26)
2002 Oct 13, In eastern Congo fighting broke out in a strategic port when pro-government tribal fighters tried to wrest control of the town from rebels.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Greece opposition conservatives claimed victory in local elections, but appeared to fall short of gaining a powerful protest vote against the long-governing Socialists.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Israel about 140,000 public workers went on strike to protest government plans to tax contributions to pension funds.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 13, Israeli troops backed by tanks and a helicopter entered the Rafah refugee camp hunting for tunnels used to smuggle weapons and drugs into the Gaza Strip. Two Palestinians were killed and 28 wounded.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 13, A Palestinian militant, whose clan has been targeted previously by Israeli security forces, was killed when a public telephone exploded in his hand. He was one of six Palestinians to die in a day of violence.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2002 Oct 13, Philippine troops pounded Muslim guerrilla positions with bombs and cannon fire, killing 20 rebels, as fighting raged for the second day in the country's troubled south.
(AP, 10/12/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Russia 10 people died of hypothermia in Moscow over the weekend, bringing the death toll for the current cold season to 32.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Serbia a moderate nationalist and a pro-Western pragmatist faced each other in the second round of presidential elections. Less than 50% of the electorate turned out rendering the results invalid.
(AP, 10/13/02)(SFC, 10/14/02, p.A9)
2002 Oct 13, In Somalia a boat that had carried 120 Somalis and Ethiopians from the village of Marear more than two weeks ago, landed with 50 survivors. The engine failed, leaving them drifting in the Gulf of Aden. At least 70 people who were headed to Persian Gulf states in search of jobs died.
(AP, 10/14/02)
2002 Oct 13, In Zimbabwe Sir Garfield Todd (93), the former prime minister of Southern Rhodesia (1953-1958), as Zimbabwe was once known, died after suffering a stroke.
(AP, 10/13/02)
2003 Oct 13, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it was doubling to $200 million the prevention funds for HIV and AIDS in India.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 13, It was reported that scientists in North Carolina had built a brain implant that lets monkeys control a robotic arm with their thoughts.
(SFC, 10/13/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 13, Ohio Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich formally kicked off his presidential bid.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2003 Oct 13, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a controversial redistricting bill designed to put more Republicans in the Texas congressional delegation.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2003 Oct 13, In Louisiana a bus crash on I-20 killed 8 members of a Texas church group after the driver fell asleep.
(WSJ, 10/14/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 13, Hundreds of Afghan troops backed by U.S. soldiers and helicopters attacked a suspected Taliban hide-out, killing at least 4 rebels and capturing 8 others.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 13, Bolivia's Pres. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada dropped plans to export natural gas in the face of massive protests that left 18 dead.
(SFC, 10/14/03, p.A3)(WSJ, 10/14/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 13, In western Nepal Communist rebels attacked a police training camp overnight, sparking a gunbattle that left at least 12 policemen and 15 guerrillas dead.
(AP, 10/13/03)
2003 Oct 13, In Nepal soldiers stormed a high school that had been taken over by rebels in a mountain village, starting a gunbattle that left at least 11 insurgents and four students dead.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 13, Paraguay's president named a new interior minister, in a change spurred by a contraband scandal.
(AP, 10/13/03)
2003 Oct 13, The Saudi Cabinet announced that first-ever elections would be held for local councils in 14 municipalities throughout the country.
(AP, 10/14/03)
2003 Oct 13, In Sudan, Hassan Turabi, hard-line Islamic leader and top opposition figure, was pardoned after more than 2 years under house arrest as part of a release of political prisoners.
(AP, 10/13/03)
2003 Oct 13, The UN Security Council approved a resolution expanding the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, In Tempe, Ariz., Pres. Bush and Sen John Kerry held their 3rd and final debate trading blows on taxes, gun control, abortion and jobs, striving to cement impressions in voters' minds in the run-up to Election Day.
(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A1)(AP, 10/13/05)
2004 Oct 13, National Hockey League games failed to begin as a lockout entered day 27.
(SFC, 10/12/04, p.A16)
2004 Oct 13, The US government approved a microchip that can be implanted under the skin to provide doctors with patient data. Two weeks after the device's approval took effect on Jan. 10, 2005, Tommy Thompson left his Cabinet post, and within five months was a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions. He was compensated in cash and stock options. In 2007 it was reported that a series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.
(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A1)(AP, 9/9/07)
2004 Oct 13, Bernice Rubens (76), author, died in London. She won the 1970 Booker Prize for “The Elected Member." Her book "Madame Sousatzka" was turned into a 1988 film.
(SFC, 12/28/04, p.D12)
2004 Oct 13, The Canadian federal government confirmed that its tax intake massively outweighed spending in the past fiscal year - producing a budget surplus of $9.1 billion.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, In Shanghai, China, the Houston Rockets, featuring Yao Ming, played an exhibition basketball game against the Sacramento Kings. Advertisers paid some $10 million to sponsor the game and another in Beijing.
(WSJ, 10/15/04, p.B1)
2004 Oct 13, In Iraq roadside bombings killed 4 American soldiers in Baghdad.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, The Israeli military killed 4 Palestinian militants as troops extended a 2-week operation in the Gaza Strip to silence Palestinian rocket fire.
(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A8)
2004 Oct 13, A Mexican judge found bus driver Victor Garcia Uribe, guilty of eight slayings, giving prosecutors their second conviction in the decade-long series of murders of women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, In Pakistan talks aimed at freeing two Chinese engineers taken hostage by al-Qaida-linked militants in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border have broken down and tribal elders said they would support the military using force to free the pair.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2004 Oct 13, Russia and China settled a dispute over their 2,700-mile border during a visit by Pres. Putin.
(WSJ, 10/14/04, p.A1)
2004 Oct 13, A Russian rocket lifted off in Kazakhstan carrying 2 Russians and an American to replace the crew of the int’l. space station.
(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A2)
2005 Oct 13, US intelligence officials announced the establishment of a National Clandestine Service to run CIA operations and coordinate activities with the Pentagon and FBI.
(SFC, 10/14/05, p.A7)
2005 Oct 13, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics agreed to plead guilty to US charges of price fixing memory chips from 1999-2002 and to pay a $300 million fine. In 2006 3 Samsung executives were sentenced to serve up to 8 months in federal prison and fined $250,000 each.
(SFC, 10/14/05, p.C1)(SFC, 3/23/06, p.C1)
2005 Oct 13, In Afghanistan Sargon Heinrich (40) of Rio Vista, Ca., head of a building company, was hauled from his boardinghouse in Kabul as Afghan agents arrested patrons there. He refused to pay a bribe for release and was charged on Nov 23 for gun-running, forged ID and refusal to cooperate with authorities. 2 Britons and an Indian faced the same plight. All 4 were released Dec 8.
(SFC, 12/6/05, p.A8)(SFC, 12/10/05, p.A3)
2005 Oct 13, An international group of artists, scientists, lawyers, politicians, economists, academics and business experts issued the Adelphi Charter, which set out new principles for copyrights and patents, and calls on governments to apply a new public interest test. The charter stemmed from the 1754 mission of Britain’s Royal Society of Arts.
(Econ, 10/15/05, p.67)(www.adelphicharter.org/default.asp)
2005 Oct 13, Argentina and Chile suspended imports of Brazilian meat, joining 28 other countries with similar bans after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, British playwright Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such works as "The Caretaker" and "The Birthday Party" and made an art form out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, Scientists announced the discovery in Argentina of a rooster-size fossil named Buitreraptor gonzalezorum. It dates back 90 million years and closely resembles fossils from the North. It was part of the class called dromaesaurs believed to have originated 180 million years ago in Laurasia.
(www.livescience.com/animalworld/051012_new_dino.html)
2005 Oct 13, Chinese archeologists reported their find of a 4,000 year-old container in northwestern China of noodles made from millet.
(SFC, 10/13/05, p.A2)
2005 Oct 13, At the Ibero-American Summit in Spain, foreign ministers from Latin America, Spain and Portugal backed Cuba on in two of its battles against the US, calling for an end to the US embargo and the expulsion from the U.S. of a Cuban militant wanted for a 1976 plane bombing.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, Lucio Gutierrez, ousted Ecuadorian President said he was renouncing his asylum in Colombia and would return to his own country, where he faces arrest, and attempt to regain power.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, The EU said the bird flu virus found in Turkish poultry was the H5N1 strain that scientists worry might mutate into a human virus and spark a pandemic. Turkey's health minister said the outbreak had been contained.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, Germany's highest administrative court has upheld claims to real estate in Berlin by heirs of the Jewish Wertheim family who lost their department store fortune under the Nazis. The department store site is worth some $20 million. The decision opened the way for claims on a total of 24 acres of former Wertheim property in Berlin, which was estimated to be worth some $200 million.
(AP, 10/26/05)
2005 Oct 13, Authorities said the number of people missing in Guatemala after last week's flooding and mudslides rose to 828, while the confirmed death toll held steady at 654.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, In Iraq a US soldier died when by a roadside bomb hit his combat patrol.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, A female suicide bomber blew herself up minutes before an army convoy was to pass on a key highway in Indian Kashmir, the first such attack by a woman in the region's Islamic separatist conflict.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, The UN adopted AU proposals giving Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo a year more in office with the caveat that he cede some powers to the prime minister.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.50)
2005 Oct 13, Soccer star George Weah took an early lead as results trickled in from Liberia's first post-war elections, but he seemed likely to face a run-off with former Finance Minister Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, Philippine police fired jets of water and used anti-riot shields to break up a march by about 300 left-wing student activists demanding the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 13, In Russia scores of Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in Nalchik, capital of the republic of Kabardino-Balkariya, sparking battles that killed 139 people, including 94 militants. Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for the attacks. President Putin ordered a total blockade of Nalchik, a city of 235,000, to prevent militants from slipping out, and he said armed resisters would be shot.
(SFC, 10/14/05, p.A11)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.25)(AP, 10/13/06)
2005 Oct 13, Spanish authorities said police have seized 3.5 tons of cocaine in a fishing boat bound for Spain from Venezuela after tip-offs from U.S. authorities.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2006 Oct 13, President Bush signed a law imposing sanctions against people responsible for genocide and war crimes in Sudan. He also signed the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act. It contained language barring the electronic settling of gambling debts, the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
(Reuters, 10/13/06)(WSJ, 10/14/06, p.A1)(Econ, 7/10/10, SR p.7)
2006 Oct 13, Ohio Representative Bob Ney pleaded guilty in a federal court to conspiracy and making false statements as part of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Air America Radio, a liberal talk radio network founded in 2004, filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
(SFC, 10/14/06, p.A2)
2006 Oct 13, A jury in Philadelphia said US retail giant Wal-Mart must pay 78 million dollars for violating labor laws in Pennsylvania.
(SFC, 10/14/06, p.C1)
2006 Oct 13, In New York a record-breaking early snowstorm walloped the Buffalo area, leaving thousands without power and 12 people left dead.
(AP, 10/14/06)(WSJ, 10/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Oct 13, In St. Lucie County, Florida, 4 people, two of them young children, were found shot to death along an isolated stretch of Florida's Turnpike with obvious tire tracks nearby. In 2009 Daniel Troya (26) and co-defendant Ricardo Sanchez Jr. (25) received the death sentence for the slayings.
(AP, 10/13/06)(AP, 5/14/09)
2006 Oct 13, In southern Afghanistan a suicide car bomber targeted a NATO convoy, killing a NATO soldier and eight civilians.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans, microcredit, to lift millions out of poverty.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, In Brazil a small private plane with six people aboard went missing after losing contact with air traffic controllers in Vitoria.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, A British coroner ruled that US forces unlawfully killed Terry Lloyd (50), a veteran reporter for the British television network ITN, in the opening days of the Iraq war. He was shot in the back by Iraqi troops who overtook his car, then died after US fire hit a civilian minivan being used as an ambulance and struck him in the head.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, In Britain the chief of staff to the Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila was assaulted and robbed in northwest London while waiting to appear on a television program. Leonard She Okitundu was attacked by a gang who beat him around the head and body with a baseball bat, stripped him of his clothes, and posted pictures of them on the Internet. Okitundu said his attackers shouted that he was working for the Rwandans, and that they would kill anyone who obstructed Bemba.
(AFP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, The WHO said it has confirmed an outbreak of plague in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 42 deaths reported among 626 suspected cases over the past 10 weeks.
(Reuters, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, The EU condemned a French bill making it a crime to deny that the World War I-era killing of Armenians in Turkey was genocide, calling it unhelpful at a critical stage in the Muslim country's EU entry talks.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, EU and Indian leaders agreed to boost cooperation in fighting terrorism, particularly by focusing on improving the flow of intelligence.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, The French state rail network said some 1,200 claims for compensation have been leveled against the rail network for its role in helping transport people to Nazi camps during World War II.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, An Indonesia a woman (27) died from bird flu. 2 more deaths from the virus in the next 2 days brought the nation's toll to 55.
(AP, 10/17/06)
2006 Oct 13, At least 15 people were killed in attacks around Iraq, including the commander of a battalion of special Interior Ministry police and six women and two girls who were shot south of Baghdad near Suwayrah. Police found the corpses of 21 murder victims in Duluiyah many of them riddled with bullets and showing signs of torture. Gunmen attacked a farmhouse in Saifiyah and killed an entire family, including five women and three children, in an attack apparently motivated by sectarian hatred. A US soldier was killed in a roadside bombing southwest of Baghdad.
(AP, 10/13/06)(AFP, 10/14/06)(AP, 10/14/06)(AP, 10/15/06)
2006 Oct 13, Israeli forces killed at least four people in a series of attacks throughout the Gaza Strip. The deaths brought to 13 the number of Palestinians killed by the military in Gaza since the army launched its latest ground incursion early on Oct 12.
(AFP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Italy’s Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa said tax evasion is a "disease which exists in all countries, but in Italy it is an epidemic." The next day 2005 data on tax returns by the self-employed, among whom evasion is considered particularly rife, made front page news in most of newspapers.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, An Ivory Coast Health Ministry spokesman said the number of people who have died following the dumping of toxic waste around Abidjan has risen to 10.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Fire broke out at Lithuania's only oil refinery, causing millions of dollars in damage and forcing the evacuation of all its workers. No injuries were reported.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said security forces had arrested 8 militants with suspected links to Al-Qaeda for an attempted rocket blitz in and around Islamabad. Authorities also seized rockets, grenades, explosives and hundreds of sniper rifle rounds in the arrests at undisclosed locations.
(AFP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, In Peru Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, whose messianic communist vision inspired a 12-year rebellion that cost nearly 70,000 lives, was found guilty of aggravated terrorism and sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, Russia's Vladimir Kramnik became the first universally recognized world chess champion since 1993, winning a series of timed, tiebreaking games over Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov to take a tournament that reunified the title.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, A Russian court shut down the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, a human rights group that has exposed abuses against civilians in Chechnya. Director Stanislav Dmitriyevsky denounced the ruling as part of an effort to silence critics of the government's conduct in the violence-torn region.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Somalia's Islamic radicals repulsed an attack by pro-government forces to recapture Kismayo, a vital seaport. Islamic radicals carried out their second public execution in less than a month amid fears of increasing extremist violence. Mahad Osman Ugas (23) was executed by a six-man firing squad as several thousand people watched. A jury convicted him of killing a businessman while trying to steal the man's cell phone.
(AP, 10/13/06)(AP, 10/14/06)
2006 Oct 13, The UN General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as the next UN secretary-general. The veteran diplomat who grew up during a war that divided his country pledged to make peace with North Korea a top priority.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 13, Pope Benedict XVI met privately with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, but the Vatican released no details of the low-key visit that was not even listed on the pontiff's official calendar.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2007 Oct 13, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after meeting with human-rights activists in Moscow, told reporters the Russian government under Vladimir Putin had amassed so much central authority that the power-grab could undermine its commitment to democracy.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2007 Oct 13, In San Leandro, Ca., Greg Ballard Jr. (17), was shot to death on the 9200 block of Sunnyside Street in East Oakland. Authorities identified suspect Dwayne Stancill (19), a gang member and son of a police detective, with the help of his picture on the gang’s MySpace page. In 2010 Stancill was convicted of 2nd degree murder.
(SFC, 10/25/07, p.B3)(SFC, 2/11/10, p.C2)
2007 Oct 13, A suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated his explosives in a crowded marketplace near Afghan police, killing nine people and injuring at least 29.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, Some 130 Muslim scholars from most of the world’s Islamic nations issued an inter-religious initiative calling for a strategic dialogue with Christian leaders.
(Econ, 10/13/07, p.65)
2007 Oct 13, In Algeria 4 armed Islamists were killed by security forces near the town of Thenia, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Algiers.
(AFP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 13, In southern Bangladesh 5 rear carriages of an overcrowded express train jumped their tracks, killing at least five passengers and injuring more than 100 others.
(AP, 10/13/07)
2007 Oct 13, Belgian Countess Andree De Jongh (90), who set up an escape route that helped hundreds of British airmen flee the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, died. De Jongh, a female nurse in a men's world of war resistance, helped found the Comet Line escape route while still in 1940. By the time she was arrested in 1943, she had already brought 118 people, including 80 downed pilots to safety.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, State media said China plans to carve a huge national park out of its vast northwest Xinjiang region that would eclipse Yellowstone National Park in size.
(AP, 10/13/07)
2007 Oct 13, In Colombia a landslide triggered by local residents digging for rumored deposits of gold in an abandoned mine near Suarez killed at least 21 people and injured another 26.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, Bob Denard (78), a French former mercenary who staged coups and led uprisings across Africa and the Middle East, died in Paris.
(AFP, 10/14/07)(Econ, 10/20/07, p.119)
2007 Oct 13, In Honduras 3 children and a woman were killed when their boat capsized, raising to 21 the death toll from days of torrential rains that have driven thousands from their homes across Central America.
(AP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, The police commander in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk escaped an assassination attempt, although the roadside bomb targeting his convoy killed one of his guards and wounded three others, along with one bystander. Police fatally shot a suicide bomber but his explosives-laden fuel tanker blew up near Samarra's police headquarters, killing 18 and wounding 27 others. Two Catholic priests were kidnapped on their way home from a funeral Mosul. The priests were released the next day.
(AP, 10/13/07)(AP, 10/14/07)(AP, 10/15/07)
2007 Oct 13, Amnesty International said 4 prominent political activists were arrested in Myanmar as the ruling junta kept up its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
(AP, 10/13/07)
2007 Oct 13, Dutch police arrested 11 Greenpeace activists who boarded a cargo ship to stop it unloading newsprint paper they suspected was made from ancient trees felled in Canadian forests.
(AP, 10/13/07)
2007 Oct 13, In southern Thailand 6 European tourists and their two Thai guides died when a flash flood engulfed a cave they were exploring.
(AFP, 10/14/07)
2007 Oct 13, At least 15 people were killed in a natural gas blast that partly destroyed an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk.
(AFP, 10/13/07)(AP, 10/15/07)
2008 Oct 13, Stock markets rejoiced after governments worldwide launched multibillion-dollar bailouts to shore up banks, and Britain called for a new Bretton Woods agreement to reshape the world financial system. The US Central Bank said it would provide unlimited dollars the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank. Britain committed £37 billion ($64 billion) to capitalize its big banks. Wall Street rebounded with the biggest stock rally since the Great Depression. The DJIA rose 936 points to close at 9,387.61, its largest point gain ever and one of its largest percentage increases.
(Reuters, 10/13/08)(SFC, 10/14/08, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/14/08, p.A3)(Econ, 10/18/08, p.83)
2008 Oct 13, Paul Krugman, the Princeton University scholar and New York Times columnist, won the Nobel prize in economics for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised Krugman for formulating a new theory to answer questions about free trade and said his theory has inspired an enormous field of research.
(AP, 10/13/08)(Econ, 10/18/08, p.90)
2008 Oct 13, ABC News reported that Tim Mahoney (52), a US Democratic Representative from Florida, had an affair with an aide and then paid her $121,000 to keep her quiet and avoid a sexual harassment suit. His affair with Patricia Allen (50) had begun in 2006.
(SFC, 10/15/08, p.A6)
2008 Oct 13, In the SF Bay Area fire crews extinguished a fire that had begun a day earlier on Angel Island. All the historic buildings on the island were saved. The fire burned 400 of the island’s 740 acres.
(SFC, 10/14/08, p.A1)
2008 Oct 13, In Afghanistan 8 civilians were killed in separate insurgent attacks. 5 Afghan men who worked as translators were abducted by unknown gunmen in the eastern province of Paktia as they were driving to Kabul by taxi. A coalition service member was killed and several others were wounded in southern Afghanistan when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
(AFP, 10/13/08)(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, First ladies from seven west African countries gather in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, for a conference on ways to end female circumcision, a widespread practice in the region despite efforts to end it.
(AFP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Cambodian PM Hun Sen gave Thailand an ultimatum to withdraw troops from a disputed stretch of jungle-clad border within 24 hours or his forces would turn the area into a "death zone." Thai troops retreated the next day.
(Reuters, 10/13/08)(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, Europe put $2.3 trillion on the line to protect the continent's banks, a figure that dwarfed the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue program.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, The EU temporarily lifted a travel ban on the president of Belarus, a country regarded as Europe's last dictatorship, as relations with the country start to thaw.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, The EU condemned Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's "unilateral decision" to form a new government and threatened fresh sanctions unless he respects a power-sharing deal. Mugabe swore in his two vice presidents, casting doubt on a new mediation effort aimed at saving a power-sharing deal with the opposition.
(AFP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Guillaume Depardieu (37), French film star, died of pneumonia. The often-troubled son of renowned French film star Gerard Depardieu had gained praise for his own career as an actor. In 2003 he Depardieu had his right leg amputated to end years of pain from a bacterial infection that followed a motorcycle accident in 1996.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, In India police arrested seven relatives of a 75-year-old widow for doing nothing to prevent the woman from killing herself by jumping into her husband's funeral pyre.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, Iraq's oil minister met 34 oil company representatives in London to set out the ground rules for foreign multinationals' first bite at the country's enormous energy reserves since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Israel shut down entry from the West Bank during the 7-day Sukkot holiday. The order bars almost all West Bank Palestinians from entering Israel until Oct. 21.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Italian police arrested five people in the Calabria region, including the mayor of Rosarno, for suspected ties to the local mob.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, In Pakistan ten Islamic extremists died in a gunbattle with soldiers in the Khawazakhela district of the Swat valley during an ongoing military operation against fighters loyal to local cleric Maulana Fazlullah. Security forces fired mortar and artillery rounds at militants in the Charmang area of the Bajur region overnight, killing nine insurgents. Pro-government tribesmen exchanged fire with militants in the Nawa and Kotkai areas of Bajur. Thirteen militants and two pro-government tribesmen were killed.
(AFP, 10/13/08)(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Singapore's High Court ruled that an opposition party and two of its leaders must pay $416,000 in defamation damages to PM Lee Hsien Loong and his father, former PM Lee Kuan Yew, related to criticism published in 2006 in the party's newspaper.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, In Somalia Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, triggering fierce clashes that killed a civilian and wounded five others.
(AFP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, Barbara Hogan, South Africa’s new health minister, broke from a decade of discredited government policies declaring that AIDS is caused by HIV and must be treated by conventional medicine.
(SFC, 10/14/08, p.A3)
2008 Oct 13, In Sri Lanka fighting in the Kilinochchi region killed 11 rebel fighters and two soldiers. Fighting in Jaffna, Vavuniya and Mullaittivu killed nine other rebels.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 13, Sudanese officials disclosed the arrest of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman (aka Ali Kushayb), a Janjaweed militia leader who was charged by the Int’l. Criminal court in 2007 for crimes against humanity.
(SFC, 10/14/08, p.A6)
2008 Oct 13, Swiss authorities said they have found high concentrations of melamine in biscuits from Thailand and Sri Lanka and have called on other European countries to withdraw the products.
(AP, 10/13/08)
2008 Oct 13, A Venezuelan court issued arrest warrants for eight suspects in the Oct 1 killing of Julio Soto, a student leader who helped organize protests against constitutional amendments proposed by President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2009 Oct 13, It was reported that the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists comparing driver’s license photos with pictures of convicts. The project in North Carolina had already helped nab at least one suspect.
(SFC, 10/13/09, p.A6)
2009 Oct 13, The Missouri Dept. of Revenue sent letters to 140 yoga and Pilates telling them they must collect sales tax on fees for their classes and services.
(SFC, 11/5/09, p.A8)
2009 Oct 13, American International Group said it would sell its Taiwan unit for 2.15 billion US dollars as the insurance giant raised money to pay off a huge US government bail-out loan.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Record one-day rain fell in the SF Bay area with 2.64 inches recorded in San Francisco. It was the worst October storm since 1962 and knocked out power for 193,000.
(SFC, 10/14/09, p.A1)
2009 Oct 13, Montana wildlife commissioners shut down gray wolf hunting in backcountry adjacent to Yellowstone National Park after 9 wolves were killed in recent weeks. The statewide quota was kept at 75.
(SFC, 10/14/09, p.A4)
2009 Oct 13, In Ohio a woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a Burlington coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases. Linda Brown (44) ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. When the limousine driver realized he wasn't going to be paid the $900 Brown owed him for the day's rental, he turned her in to police.
(AP, 10/15/09)
2009 Oct 13, China and Russia signed a framework agreement that could see a steady flow of natural gas to energy-hungry China from its resource-rich neighbor.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, China’s Xinhua state news agency said 968 children in central China have tested positive for lead poisoning in the latest environmental scandal to erupt in the nation's smelting industry. Residents in Jiyuan city, Henan province, had protested over pollution from three local smelters last month.
(AFP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Activists from Congo, Rene Ngongo (48), and New Zealand, Alyn Ware (47), and an Ethiopia-based doctor from Australia, Catherine Hamlin (85), won the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "alternative Nobel," for work to protect rain forests, improve women's health and rid the world of nuclear weapons. The honorary part of the award, without prize money, went to Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki (73) for raising awareness of climate change. Each will receive euro50,000 (US$74,000).
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, A report by a coalition of 84 organizations said more than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo by Rwandan Hutu militiamen and Congolese forces since January.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, French soldiers in the Indian Ocean opened fire on pirates, warding off an attack on two French tuna fishing vessels off the Seychelles Islands.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, A German court convicted two men of supporting a radical Islamic group with links to al-Qaida and sentenced them to prison terms. It sentenced Omid Shirkhani, a German of Afghan background, to two years and nine months in prison; and co-defendant Huseyin Ozgun, a Turk, to a year and two months. The court found that both had links to Adem Yilmaz, a Turk living in Germany who is currently on trial over plans to attack US targets in Germany.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Guinea's military government said it has signed a $7 billion mining agreement with a Chinese company. Guinea is the world's largest producer of bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminum, and also produces diamonds and gold. The Hong Kong-based syndicate, China Int’l. Fund or China Sonangol, transferred $100 million to the cash-strapped junta.
(AP, 10/13/09)(Econ, 8/13/11, p.23)
2009 Oct 13, Iraqi lawmakers approved the return of a limited number of British troops to Iraq to help protect the country's southern oil ports, an area where Iraq is lagging in its ability to provide security. The Iraqi Human Rights Ministry released a report as part of a larger study on the country's human rights situation, saying 85,694 people were killed from 2004-08, and 147,195 were wounded during the same period that followed the US-led invasion. UNESCO said drought has forced more than 100,000 people in northern Iraq to abandon their homes since 2005, with 36,000 more on the verge of leaving.
(AP, 10/13/09)(AP, 10/14/09)
2009 Oct 13, Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of veteran US evangelist Billy Graham, arrived in North Korea to deliver aid to the impoverished country more than six months after the isolated regime kicked out all American humanitarian groups. Franklin Graham served as the head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the aid agency Samaritan's Purse, which have provided more than $10 million in aid to the North since 1997.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Pakistani jets bombed militant targets in the main insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border ahead of an expected ground offensive there. Helicopter gunship attacks killed 26 insurgents in Bajur. Terrorists fired 31 rockets" at a convoy of security forces in South Waziristan.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party accepted Egypt's plan for separate signings of a reconciliation deal with Hamas after the Islamist group balked at attending a unity ceremony.
(Reuters, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, A rocket fired by Palestinian militants hit southern Israel.
(AP, 10/14/09)
2009 Oct 13, Romania's government fell in a confidence vote in Parliament. Lawmakers said it failed to improve the economy after going into recession following 3 years of growth. A total of 254 parliamentary deputies and senators voted to oust PM Emil Boc, more than the 236 needed, and 176 voted against. Under the constitution it was up to Pres. Traian Basescu to name a new prime minister.
(AP, 10/13/09)
2009 Oct 13, In Saudi Arabia a shootout between Saudi security forces and al-Qaida militants near, two of whom were disguised as women and wearing explosives belts, left two of the militants and a soldier dead near the southern Yemen border. One of the assailants, Abdullah Hassan Tali Assiri, was captured. The two al-Qaida militants killed were planning to carry out a massive attack. 6 Yemeni accomplices. who were coordinating with the two militants, Youssef al-Shihri and Raed al-Harbi, were later arrested.
(AP, 10/14/09)(AP, 10/18/09)
2009 Oct 13, In South Africa police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, wounding several protesters demanding better sanitation, electricity and housing in impoverished black townships. Tires burned and rubbish littered the streets of Standerton, 150 km (90 miles) south-east of Johannesburg, and shops were closed after thousands of people marched on the municipal offices in the town from nearby Sakhile township.
(Reuters, 10/13/09)
2010 Oct 13, It was reported that officials in 50 US states and the District of Columbia have launched a joint investigation into allegations that mortgage companies mishandled documents and broke laws in foreclosing on hundreds of thousands of homeowners.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, US authorities said a vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history. Federal prosecutors in New York and elsewhere charged 73 people. The reputed boss, Armen Kazarian (46), was in custody in Los Angeles.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Tax officials in Billings, Montana, said developer Tim Blixseth and his wife owe the state $57 million in taxes on the money they drained from the Yellowstone Club. The state faced a deficit of $300 million.
(SFC, 10/14/10, p.A9)
2010 Oct 13, Mexican national Jose Antonio Medina Arreguin (36) was booked into a Ventura, Ca., county jail after being extradited from his home country. Court documents later showed Medina, accused of being Mexico's "King of Heroin," caught on wiretap conversations talking to coconspirators about drug transactions involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. In March 2011 Arreguin pleaded guilty and faced up to 24 years in prison.
(AP, 11/13/10)(AP, 3/17/11)
2010 Oct 13, Gen. David Petraeus, NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, offered a cautiously optimistic assessment of the transition of security duties to Afghan forces during a briefing with alliance representatives in Brussels. A senior NATO officials said the alliance had facilitated contacts between senior Taliban members and the highest levels of the Afghan government. In Afghanistan insurgents killed 6 NATO service members, including 4 who died in a single bomb blast in the volatile south. Insurgents at a market fatally shot Ahmed Khan, chief of Dihrawud district in southern Uruzgan province.
(AP, 10/13/10)(SFC, 10/14/10, p.A2)
2010 Oct 13, Australia and Indonesia agreed to further discuss plans for a refugee centre in East Timor to stem the flow of asylum seekers through Southeast Asia on their way to Australia.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Bahrain top justice official said 23 Shiite activists, detained in a sweeping crackdown by the country's Sunni rulers, have been charged with terrorism and conspiring against the government.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Bangladesh said it would deploy the army at the country's main seaport to keep cargo moving after days of strikes by dock workers hit crucial garment shipments.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Brazil Milton Marcondes of the Humpback Whale Institute said at least 75 humpback whales have died in 2010. The previous high was 41 in 2007.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Britain's Lloyds Banking Group said that it will axe another 4,500 jobs, including 1,750 posts outside the UK, as the crisis-hit lender continues its painful restructuring.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Canada declared that bisphenol A is a toxic chemical, prompting calls for far-reaching curbs on the industrial chemical that is used in everything from the linings of aluminum cans to coatings on electronic till receipts.
(Reuters, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Chile the 33 miners trapped for 69 days climbed into a rescue capsule and made a smooth ascent to the surface. All the miners were pulled up through a narrow escape chute from nearly a half-mile down in under 23 hours.
(AP, 10/13/10)(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Egypt was reported to have handed down new media requirements that will effectively put all live broadcasts, including TV talk shows and news bulletins, under the control of state television. Several private broadcast service providers said that they received letters from the telecom regulator ending their standing permits to offer live broadcast feeds from Egypt starting from Oct 15.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Hungarian authorities said the threat of another chemical spill had been averted and villagers could return home, as the plant responsible prepared to resume production. The municipal court in Veszprem released MAL's managing director Zoltan Bakonyi, who had been brought in for questioning.
(AFP, 10/13/10)(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, welcomed by thousands of Shiite supporters throwing rose petals, sought to pull Lebanon firmly into his country's fold in a visit that underscored the growing power of Tehran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Tehran's chief prosecutor said authorities have arrested five people on suspicion of spying for the country's "enemies," a common reference in Iran for the US and Israel.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Iraq targeted explosions in Baghdad and northern Iraq wounded 28 people, among them 7 Iranian pilgrims and 9 policemen.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Italy became the latest NATO ally to detail plans to scale down its military presence and hand over territory to Afghan security forces by the end of next year.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Kuwait gave 28 million euros to Mauritania during Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah's whistle-stop visit to the poor northwest African nation.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, Malaysia criticized the WHO for failing to tackle the spread of dengue in the region, which saw 242,000 cases of the mosquito-borne disease in 2009 and 831 deaths so far this year.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Mexico six prison guards were killed while driving to work in Chihuahua city, capital of Chihuahua state. In the northern state of Sinaloa, two police officers were killed when gunmen ambushed their patrol in Mazatlan.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, A Pakistani government official said international lenders are estimating that this summer's floods caused $9.5 billion in damage to Pakistan's infrastructure, agriculture and other sectors. Gunmen killed Nooruddin Mengal, an ethnic Baluch political activist, as he headed from his suburban home to the city of Kalat. In central Pakistan police arrested a group of Islamist militants plotting to kill the prime minister in a gun and suicide bomb attack at his house. The 7 men were also accused of targeting other government leaders for assassination. A suspected US drone launched 4 missile strikes in North Waziristan killing 11 militants, including 3 foreigners.
(AP, 10/13/10)(AP, 10/14/10)(SFC, 10/14/10, p.A2)
2010 Oct 13, The Palestinians called on the US administration and Israel to define Israel's borders after Washington invited proposals to get peace talks back on track.
(AFP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In Senegal dancers, traditional praise singers and leaders of three African nations greeted 163 Haitian students who left their earthquake-ravaged country and flew to Senegal, where victims of the calamity are being offered free housing and scholarships.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2010 Oct 13, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told visiting Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki that better ties between the two nations will be strengthened by the formation of a new Iraqi government.
(AP, 10/13/10)
2010 Oct 13, In the Ukraine for the second time in two days, a vehicle ignored a warning light at a railroad crossing and was hit by a train in a fatal accident killing 2 people.
(AP, 10/14/10)
2011 Oct 13, In NYC Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam (54) was sentenced to 11 years in prison, the longest insider trading sentence ever. He was also fined $10 million and ordered to forfeit $53.8 million. US District Judge Richard J. Holwell said he concluded that Rajaratnam made well over $50 million in profits from his illegal trades.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, In eastern Colorado a 5 children and man were killed when their van collided with a tractor-trailer.
(SFC, 10/14/11, p.A6)
2011 Oct 13, Afghan police took ousted parliamentarian Simeen Barakzai (30) to hospital by ambulance and dismantled the tent where she had observed a 12-day hunger strike to protest against being disqualified from parliament.
(AFP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Austria a Saudi-backed interfaith center, the "King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue," was inaugurated in Vienna, igniting debate over the subject of religious tolerance.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck (31), the fifth Dragon King, married his commoner bride, Jetsun Pema (21).
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Brazil an explosion, likely caused by a gas leak, ripped through a restaurant in downtown Rio de Janeiro, killing at least three people and injuring 13.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Ten Cameroonian presidential candidates were reported to have filed requests with the Supreme Court for the October 9 poll to be nullified over alleged irregularities.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Nguema Obiang signed a decree nominating his playboy son, Teodoro Obiang Mangue, as his deputy envoy to UNESCO in apparent retaliation for the UN body's refusal to award a prize named in his honor. The news was made public on Oct 19. Teodorin's appointment was announced on the same day that Human Rights Watch urged United States authorities to move quickly to probe his alleged corruption and money-laundering.
(AFP, 10/19/11)
2011 Oct 13, In France a high school math teacher in the city of Beziers sprayed herself with a flammable product and set herself alight in the school yard during recreation. She was hospitalized with serious burns.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, German police found bottles filled with a potentially explosive mix of liquid and powder beside train tracks in southwestern Berlin, the 16th firebomb discovered in four days.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Haitian President Michel Martelly said he's determined to move forward with a controversial plan to bring back the army to the Caribbean nation.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Indonesia a 6.0 earthquake jolted the island of Bali, injuring dozens of people and causing panic as hundreds of tourists fled violently shaking buildings.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Greenpeace UK director John Sauven was blocked by immigration officials on arrival at Jakarta international airport and was sent back that night to Britain. He had arrived to campaign against deforestation.
(AFP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Iraq 2 night time explosions in Sadr City, a Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, killed 17 people and wounded around 50 others.
(AP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, Kazakhstan's Pres. Nursultan Nazarbayev approved a bill tightening registration rules for religious groups that has been described by critics as a blow to freedom of belief in the ex-Soviet nation.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Libya new regime fighters moved from house to house in Sirte, hunting for weapons or suspected Kadhafi fighters and sometimes making off with bags full of looted possessions and leaving trashed homes in their wake. NTC commanders said the Kadhafi remnants were cornered within about two square km (500 acres) of the city.
(AFP, 10/13/11)(AFP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, In Nigeria protesters marched to an army barracks to demand justice for the death of the cell phone market chairman known as Umar Quality.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Pakistani and US diplomats vowed to strengthen their troubled alliance two days after Washington acknowledged for the first time that it is waging "war" against militants in Pakistan. US drone strikes killed 10 militants, including Janbaz Zadran, a commander in the Haqqani network that the US military has linked to Pakistani intelligence.
(AFP, 10/13/11)(AP, 10/16/11)
2011 Oct 13, A Hamas official said that close to 200 of the 450 Palestinians to be freed in the first phase of a swap for a captured Israeli soldier will not be allowed to return to their homes in the West Bank, Gaza or east Jerusalem, suggesting a substantial number may face deportation.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, A Papua New Guinea Dash 8 passenger plane carrying 32 people crashed near the coast. Witness reports said only four people on board had survived.
(AFP, 10/13/11)(SFC, 10/14/11, p.A2)
2011 Oct 13, Air traffic between Senegal and Mauritania resumed after a three-month pause, ending a row over onward flights.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Slovakia’s Parliament approved an expanded EU fund in a repeat vote after the opposition voted in favor in exchange for early elections.
(AP, 10/14/11)
2011 Oct 13, Somali Islamist Shebab rebels kidnapped two female Spanish aid workers from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, the third kidnapping of foreigners in just over a month.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Malawi for a regional trade summit, in defiance of the international war crimes warrant against him.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Syrian troops clashed with armed men believed to be military defectors in a southern village and a northwestern town, killing at least 13 people in the latest sign that the 7-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad is becoming increasingly militarized.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Thailand issued a flood warning for parts of Bangkok's northern outskirts after a dyke burst, in a setback to efforts to protect the city of 12 million people from the rising water. Unusually heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 283 people.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Turkey's foreign minister said that Iraq should move to prevent Kurdish attacks on his country from Iraqi soil as the two countries renewed their commitment to fight the rebels.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Uganda charged three top ruling party officials, including recently resigned foreign minister Sam Kutesa, with abuse of office on charges that they allegedly misused funds meant for hosting the 2007 Commonwealth summit.
(AFP, 10/13/11)
2011 Oct 13, Ukraine's Pres. Viktor Yanukovych, facing harsh Western criticism, said that he backs legal reforms that could allow the release of imprisoned former PM Yulia Tymoshenko.
(AP, 10/13/11)
2012 Oct 13, In southern Afghanistan 6 people, including 2 Americans, were killed an attack where a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up at a local intelligence office in Kandahar province. The bomber wore a uniform of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, or NDS. A second attack killed two Afghan policemen and left three others wounded in Qalat, the capital of neighboring Zabul province. A NATO service member with the US-led coalition was killed in a roadside bombing in the south.
(AP, 10/13/12)(AP, 10/16/12)
2012 Oct 13, In northwestern China's Gansu province Tamdrin Dorjee (52) died at the scene near Tsoe Monastery after setting himself on fire in protest of Chinese rule. Free Tibet said the man is the grandfather of the 7th Gungthang Rinpoche.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, Egypt's prosecutor general defied a presidential decision to remove him from his post, entering his office in a downtown Cairo courthouse flanked by security and hundreds of judicial officials. President Morsi had ordered Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud to step down in an apparent bid to appease public anger over the acquittals of ex-regime officials accused of orchestrating violence against protesters last year. Morsi backed down from his decision to remove Mahmoud, keeping him in his post and sidestepping a potential clash with the country's powerful judiciary.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, French President Francois Hollande said his country was committed to facilitating freedom of movement, exchange and trade within the French-speaking world during a visit to Congo for the Francophonie Summit.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, In Haiti visiting Nobel peace laureate Mohammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker, announced that his pro-business development group is financing several endeavors through a mix of loans and equity.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, An Israeli airstrike killed two people in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military says one is Hisham Saidani (43), a member of a faction of the ultraconservative Salafi trend believed to have ties to al-Qaida. Militants on jihadi websites identified the other dead man as Ashraf Sabah (37), leader of another al-Qaida inspired group, Ansar al-Sunnah.
(AP, 10/14/12)
2012 Oct 13, In Japan global financial ministers ended their annual IMF meeting with a call for quick and effective action to safeguard faltering economic growth.
(SSFC, 10/14/12, p.A7)
2012 Oct 13, Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was lightly wounded by friendly fire after his vehicle was fired upon by the military on the outskirts of the capital, Nouakchott.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, In northwestern Pakistan a car bomb tore through a crowded bazaar outside an office for anti-Taliban tribal elders, killing at least 17 people in Darra Adam Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said regime forces were pounding the rebel stronghold of Homs in central Syria with mortars and artillery. The southern province of Daraa also sustained shelling by the Syrian army. Fighting between army troops and rebels raged around Idlib province and in and around the northern city of Aleppo.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2012 Oct 13, Syria's state-run news agency SANA says Syria has decided to ban Turkish Airlines flights from Syrian airspace.
(AP, 10/13/12)
2013 Oct 13, In eastern Afghanistan an Afghan man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot at US soldiers, killing at least one serviceman. The so-called "insider attack" in Paktika province was the 4th in under a month.
(Reuters, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, A detachment of Angolan troops crossed into neighboring Congo Republic and detained a group of Congolese soldiers. The incident highlights tensions around Angola's oil-rich Cabinda enclave, which is separated from the rest of Angola and surrounded by Congo Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo. 55 soldiers of the Republic of Congo were released on Oct 18.
(Reuters, 10/17/13)(AFP, 10/18/13)
2013 Oct 13, Brazilian officials said at least 12 people were killed and six left missing when a boat carrying Catholic pilgrims capsized on the Amazon River.
(SFC, 10/14/13, p.A2)
2013 Oct 13, China’s PM Li Keqiang arrived in Vietnam for a 3-day visit.
(Econ, 10/19/13, p.49)
2013 Oct 13, Companies involved in a $1.27 billion project to develop a business district around Britain’s Manchester airpor announced that Chinese construction giant Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) has signed a deal with British firms to develop the area.
(AFP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Dubai 3 workers were killed when a crane collapsed at a construction site near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.
(AP, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, An Egyptian army MiG-21 aircraft crashed near the southern city of Luxor, leaving one person dead and three others injured on the ground after the crew ejected.
(AFP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, Egyptian security officials said James Henry (66), a retired US citizen detained in August for violating curfew in Sinai, was found dead in his jail cell after he used his belt and shoe laces to hang himself.
(AP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Ethiopia an explosion killed two people and impacted a home used by US Embassy personnel in Addis Ababa. Two Somali suicide bombers, who had planned to kill soccer fans during Ethiopia's World Cup qualifying match against Nigeria, blew themselves up accidentally.
(AP, 10/13/13)(Reuters, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, In India at least 115 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a stampede after a bridge collapsed near a remote Hindu temple in Ithe central state of Madhya Pradesh.
(Reuters, 10/13/13)(AP, 10/14/13)(AFP, 10/15/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Iraq a series of bombs killed at least 31 people in mostly Shi'ite Muslim provinces ahead of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha. Altogether 11 bombs were detonated by remote control.
(AP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, Israel displayed what it called a Palestinian "terror tunnel" running into its territory from the Gaza Strip and said it was subsequently freezing the transfer of building material to the enclave.
(Reuters, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In a report published by The Lancet Swiss radiation experts confirmed they found traces of polonium on clothing used by Yasser Arafat (d.2004) supporting the possibility the Palestinian leader was poisoned.
(AFP, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, A number of North Korean officers and sailors died while a submarine chaser was performing "combat duties." At least 19 sailors were believed killed. Photos of stone markers released by state media on Nov 2 showed "Oct. 13" inscribed on them.
(AP, 11/4/13)(Reuters, 11/4/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Romania thousands marched across the country to protest against a Canadian company's plans to open a gold mine seen as a threat to the environment, and called for the government's resignation.
(AFP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Russia a mob of nationalists, joined by locals and pensioners in the Moscow suburb of Biryulyovo, smashed up a vegetable market over the murder of an ethnic Russian by a Caucasian migrant.
(Econ, 10/19/13, p.58)
2013 Oct 13, In Saudi Arabia Muslims from across the world poured into a sprawling tent city in the Saudi desert before the start of the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage. The number of the pilgrims this year has been reduced in part by concerns over a respiratory virus centered in Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In South Africa Julius Malema, former head of the ANC’s Youth League, launched his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party in Marikana.
(Econ, 10/19/13, p.54)
2013 Oct 13, In Sudan 3 Senegalese UNAMID peacekeepers were killed and one injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen in West Darfur.
(AP, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, In northwest Syria gunmen kidnapped 7 Red Cross workers after opening fire on their vehicles. 3 ICRC and a Red Crescent colleague were soon released.
(Reuters, 10/13/13)(AFP, 10/14/13)
2013 Oct 13, The Vatican beatified 522 people — mostly priests and nuns — who were killed in the turmoil that led to Spain's 1936-39 civil war.
(AP, 10/13/13)
2013 Oct 13, In Yemen Faisal al-Mikhlafi, a college professor and brother of a prominent tribal leader, was gunned down in Taiz.
(Econ, 10/19/13, p.53)
2014 Oct 13, US Central Command said the US and Saudi Arabia launched eight airstrikes yesterday and today against Islamic State targets in Syria, including seven near Kobani.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, US plane giant Boeing said Indonesian flag carrier Garuda has placed an order for 50 planes worth almost $5 billion.
(AFP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In Half Moon Bay, Ca., a pumpkin from Napa weighing 2,058 pounds, won first prize in the city’s 41st annual weigh-off. This was the biggest to date for the Half Moon Bay event.
(SFC, 10/14/14, p.C1)
2014 Oct 13, In northern Afghanistan Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of Afghan security forces in Sar-e-Pul province, killing 22 soldiers and police. A suicide car bomber killed one civilian in Kabul. A suicide bomber in Nangarhar province killed 2 people.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In Algeria clashes broken out between Arabs and Berbers near the southern desert town of Ghardaia, with two people killed and businesses torched. National Police Chief Abdelghani Hamel visited the province in a bid to restore calm after hundreds of policemen staged a march in Ghardaia to protest against attacks on them by gangs of youths.
(Reuters, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, Austria's top court reduced on appeal to three years a jail term imposed on an Ernst Strasser, an ex-European Parliament member, for offering to propose amendments to laws in exchange for 100,000 euros ($126,830) a year.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, The British House of Commons in a symbolic move voted 274 to 12 in favor of recognizing Palestine as a state.
(SFC, 10/14/14, p.A2)
2014 Oct 13, China’s state media said a court in western Xinjiang region has sentenced to death 12 people blamed for terrorist attacks that killed 37 people in July.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In China Comcast NBCUniversal and a consortium of four Chinese state-owned companies announced the approval of the development of a $3.3 billion Universal theme park in Beijing that would be the first major foreign-owned theme park in the Chinese capital.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In southern Egypt 30 people died in a collision between three minibuses in Aswan province.
(AFP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, A magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the Pacific coast of El Salvador disrupted power to several communities and claimed the life of one man who had been sleeping on a street. The quake was part of a series of strong temblors that rattled much of Central America.
(AP, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel economics prize for showing how to encourage better products and competitive prices in industries dominated by a few companies.
(AP, 10/13/14)(SFC, 10/14/14, p.D1)
2014 Oct 13, In Hong Kong police began removing some barricades in the areas of Central and Admiralty, home to global financial institutions and government buildings Hundreds of people, which included taxi and truck drivers, tore down protest barriers in the business district, scuffling with protesters who have occupied the streets for two weeks.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Typhoon Vongfong barreled into Japan's main islands, with at least 2 people killed, one person missing and scores injured while more than 550 flights were grounded.
(AFP, 10/13/14)(Reuters, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, Kurdish fighters engaged in fierce clashes with jihadists on the Turkish border near Kobane, as Ankara denied allowing Washington to use its bases against the Islamic State group.
(AFP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Madagascar's former president Marc Ravalomanana was arrested just hours after he returned to the island nation following years in exile in South Africa.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In southern Mexico hundreds of students and teachers smashed windows at a Guerrero state capital building complex before setting fire to some of the buildings in Chilpancingo in response to the Sept. 26 disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers' college.
(AP, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, In Mexico armed men seized Erica Alvarado Rivera (26), her boyfriend, and her brothers, Alex (22) and Jose Angel (21) in El Control, a small town near the Texas border west of Matamoros. The three siblings from Progreso, Texas, were visiting their father. Erica was the mother of four children aged 3-9. The armed men had identified themselves as part of Grupo Hercules, a recently formed police security unit for Matamoros city officials.
(AP, 10/30/14)
2014 Oct 13, In northern Nigeria 9 teenage girls died and three were listed missing after a passenger boat capsized on a river in Kano state.
(AFP, 10/15/14)
2014 Oct 13, South Korean messaging app Kakao Talk said it will stop fully cooperating with authorities seeking to access private messages as part of a government crackdown on online criticism.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Sri Lanka opened the rail link between the capital Colombo and the northern city of Jaffna, more than two decades after its destruction in a civil war, amid hopes that it will give a boost to reconciliation efforts.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, In Syria Abu Aboud, the head of "White Shroud," said the group has killed more than 100 Islamic State fighters in attacks in Deir al-Zor province in recent months and that the group’s main aim is to generate fear in Islamic State's ranks. The government carried out some 40 air strikes in Hama and Idlib provinces.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)(Econ, 10/18/14, p.47)
2014 Oct 13, Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island. All but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh. The discovery brought to more than 130 the number of people found since Oct 11 in Phang Nga province.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Turkish air force bombed Kurdish fighters furious over Ankara's refusal to help protect their kin in Syria. Bombs on PKK targets after they reportedly attacked a military outpost in the Daglica region.
(Reuters, 10/14/14)
2014 Oct 13, UN Sec.-Gen. Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to scrap plans to expand settlements in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as the capital of a future state, and urged both sides to return to peace talks.
(Reuters, 10/13/14)
2014 Oct 13, Yemen's president appointed diplomat Khaled Bahah (b.1965), a former oil minister, as prime minister, after securing backing of Islamists as well as Shiite rebels who control the capital amid hopes of easing a political deadlock in the impoverished, violence-stricken country.
(AP, 10/13/14)
2015 Oct 13, Hillary Clinton emerged unscathed from the Democratic Party's first presidential debate, giving her renewed momentum as she gears for a showdown with Republicans over the 2012 Benghazi attack.
(AFP, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, The United States and its allies carried out 18 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria.
(Reuters, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, The American Civil Liberties Union sued two former Air Force psychologists who designed a CIA program that used harsh interrogation techniques to elicit intelligence from suspected terrorists, saying the pair endorsed and taught torture tactics under the guise of science. 10 months earlier the release of a damning Senate report said that the interrogation techniques had inflicted pain on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond the legal limits and did not yield lifesaving intelligence.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, In Florida a Pipe Cherokee 180 crashed into the Mar-Mak Colony Club killing the pilot and one person on the ground in Palm Beach County.
(SFC, 10/15/15, p.A8)
2015 Oct 13, Barbara Byrd-Bennett (66), the former head of Chicago Public Schools, pleaded guilty to her role in a scheme to steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to education firms for $2.3 million in bribes and kickbacks.
(SFC, 10/14/15, p.A7)
2015 Oct 13, In Pennsylvania Army veteran James Vernon (75) fended off a knife attack by Dustin Brown (19), a mentally ill man, at the Morton Public Library in Pittsburgh. Vernon suffered two slashed arteries and a damaged tendon in a finger. In 2017 he was one of 18 people honored with a Carnegie medal for heroism.
(SFC, 9/20/17 p.A6)
2015 Oct 13, In Wisconsin a Milwaukee state court jury ordered Badger Guns to pay $5.73 million after the store was found liable for negligence in the 2009 shooting of two local police officers.
(SFC, 10/15/15, p.A14)
2015 Oct 13, Planned Parenthood decided that to stop accepting compensation for tis fetal tissue program in an effort to deflect antiabortion activists’ allegations of profits.
(SFC, 10/14/15, p.D1)
2015 Oct 13, Playboy Enterprises announced that it would stop publishing full nudity pictures as of March 2016.
(Econ, 10/24/15, p.29)
2015 Oct 13, The Afghan Taliban said they were pulling back in the northern city of Kunduz in order to protect civilians, but fighting continued elsewhere in the country with government troops battling to reopen the main highway south of the capital Kabul.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, In Argentina Diana Sacayan (40), a prominent transgender activist, was found tied up and stabbed to death in Buenos Aires. This was the third violent transgender death in the country in the past month.
(www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34538052)
2015 Oct 13, In central Bosnia 4 miners were killed and two injured early today when a platform holding up the roof caved in on them in a mine.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, The British government pulled out of 5.9 million-pound ($9 million) deal to sell prison expertise to Saudi Arabia that had drawn opposition from rights groups and senior politicians.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, British-based brewer SABMiller accepted in principle an improved takeover bid worth 69 billion pounds ($106 billion) from Anheuser Busch InBev to create a company that would control nearly a third of the global market and threaten to dominate the US by bringing together Budweiser and Miller Genuine Draft. The new company is expected to be based in Belgium.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, In Burundi 9 civilians, including a staff member of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), were shot to death reportedly at close range. 2 police officers also died during exchanges of heavy gunfire in Bujumbura.
(AFP, 10/15/15)
2015 Oct 13, A Chinese court sentenced Wang Yongchun, a former senior executive of China National Petroleum Corp., to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption. A court in central China jailed Guo Yongxiang, a former senior provincial official, for 20 years after finding him guilty of corruption.
(AP, 10/13/15)(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, European lawmakers rejected a proposal that would have allowed countries to restrict or ban the use of imported GM crops that have secured EU approval.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, France and Saudi Arabia announced signed deals worth 10 billion euros, the latest example of the deepening alliance between the two nations.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Germany said it has extended controls along its borders until the end of October as refugees continue to stream in.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, German auto giant Volkswagen announced it would slash one billion euros off its annual investment budget and push ahead with its drive to develop electric cars in the wake of the diesel pollution scandal.
(AFP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Iran's conservative-dominated parliament passed a bill approving its nuclear deal with world powers, signaling victory for the government over hardline opponents.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Authorities in the French Caribbean island of Martinique said they have seized 1,180 pounds (535 kg) of cocaine destined for Europe. Martinique authorities have seized more than 8 tons (7 metric tons) of drugs so far this year.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, The Italian Senate approved sweeping constitutional reform that would turn the Senate into a 100-member house of regional and municipal representatives with the power to question, but not veto, legislation. It will be put to a referendum in 2016.
(Econ, 10/17/15, p.58)
2015 Oct 13, Italian finance police arrested Mario Mantovani, a high-ranking politician in the Lombardy regional government, for corruption just before he was due to attend a conference promoting legality in the public administration.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Jamaican author Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for "A Brief History of Seven Killings", a re-telling of the attempted assassination of musician Bob Marley.
(AFP, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, The Dutch Safety Board concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile in its final report on the crash in July 2014 that killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, In northeastern Nigeria three bombs exploded within minutes in Maiduguri killing at least 7 people.
(SFC, 10/15/15, p.A2)
2015 Oct 13, Amnesty Int’l. opened an office in Nigeria promising to investigate allegations of abuses from oil pollution and forced evictions to charges of military killings of civilians in the fight against Boko Haram extremists.
(SFC, 10/14/15, p.A2)
2015 Oct 13, Pakistani police arrested three police officers after a woman set herself on fire a day earlier and accused them on her deathbed of gang raping her near Multan. Also in Multan a man (42) died after setting himself on fire to protest the demolition of his home.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Pakistani authorities hanged 9 convicts, including four brothers. The executions brought the nationwide total to 255 since December, when Pakistan lifted the moratorium on the death penalty.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Palestinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least 3 people and wounded several others in a string of attacks in Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv on a "Day of Rage" declared by Palestinian groups.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Russia said its air force hit 86 "terrorist" targets in Syria in the past 24 hours.
(AFP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, South African coal mineworkers ended a 10-day strike after reaching a pay agreement with employers.
(AFP, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Insurgents in Syria deployed more men and weapons, including significant quantities of anti-tank missiles, to resist ground attacks by the Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian air strikes.
(Reuters, 10/13/15)
2015 Oct 13, Turkish security forces killed ten Kurdish militants during ground and air operations in southeastern Turkey, days after the insurgents called a unilateral ceasefire.
(Reuters, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, A Ukrainian soldier was killed and two were injured in eastern Ukraine in violation of a month-long ceasefire between government and rebel forces.
(AP, 10/14/15)
2015 Oct 13, In Yemen airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels killed 8 rebel fighters in a renewed attempt to cut their supply lines to Taiz.
(AP, 10/13/15)
2016 Oct 13, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
(AP, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, The US death toll from Hurricane Matthew rose to 38 with 22 of the deaths in North Carolina. The NC town of Princeville became submerged in as much as ten feet of water.
(SFC, 10/14/16, p.A6)
2016 Oct 13, In the Central African Republic fighters from the mostly Muslim Seleka rebel group attacked the northern town of Kaga-Bandoro overnight killing at least 13 civilians. Int’l. forces repelled that attackers killing 10-15 fighters.
(SFC, 10/14/16, p.A2)
2016 Oct 13, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cambodia for a two-day visit, praising the close ties that have seen Cambodia side with Beijing on the South China Sea, and signed dozens of economic agreements.
(Reuters, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, In Hungary tax investigators raided the offices of environmental group Energia Klub, seizing hundreds of documents and computer files as part of what they said was a "criminal investigation into budgetary fraud".
(Reuters, 10/14/16)
2016 Oct 13, In Italy Dario Fo (90), playwright and 1997 Nobel Prize laureate, died. His plays included “The Accidental Death of an Anarchist" (1970).
(SFC, 10/14/16, p.D10)(Econ, 10/22/16, p.82)
2016 Oct 13, The Maldives government said it has decided to leave the 53-member British Commonwealth because the grouping of former British colonies has treated it "unjustly and unfairly" and sought to interfere in its politics.
(AP, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, South African President Jacob Zuma (74) moved to block a watchdog's potentially explosive report into graft allegations against him, in his latest legal bid to protect his battered reputation.
(AFP, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, In Syria air strikes killed 13 people, when warplanes hit several rebel-held districts, including al-Kalaseh, Bustan al-Qasr and al-Sakhour.
(Reuters, 10/13/16)
2016 Oct 13, Rama IX, Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej (b.1927), died. He was revered as a demigod, a humble father figure and an anchor of stability through decades of upheaval at home and abroad. Bhumibol had succeeded his brother in 1946 and reigned for 70 years, the world's longest reigning monarch when he died. He was succeeded by Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn (64).
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej)(AP, 10/13/16) (Reuters, 5/2/19)
2017 Oct 13, US Pres. Donald Trump kicked the fate of the landmark Iran nuclear deal to the US Congress and said he might ultimately terminate the 2015 agreement that lifted sanctions in return for Tehran rolling back technologies with nuclear bomb-making potential.
(AFP, 10/14/17)(AP, 10/14/17)
2017 Oct 13, The US Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new restrictions on the use of the weed killer dicamba, which has caused widespread crop damage in the Midwest for the past two years.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, US military officers at Guantanamo Bay sentenced Saudi detainee Ahmed Muhammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi to 13 years in prison for his admitted role in a 2002 attack by al-Qaida on a French oil tanker off the Yemeni coast. Darbi received no credit for the nearly 12 years he was in custody before his 2014 guilty plea.
(SFC, 10/14/17, p.A2)
2017 Oct 13, In California 35 confirmed fatalities, with 19 in Sonoma County, marked the greatest loss of life from a single fire event on record in California. 235 people were still missing in Sonoma County alone. 17 major fires had already destroyed an estimated 5,700 homes.
(Reuters, 10/14/17)
2017 Oct 13, In southern California authorities in Orange County arrested Luke Ferguson (26), suspected of fatally shooting two people.
(SFC, 10/14/17, p.A6)
2017 Oct 13, A New Orleans police officer was fatally shot during a struggle after he and his patrol team left their cars to investigate something suspicious. Suspected gunman Darren Bridges (30) was taken into custody.
(SFC, 10/14/17, p.A6)
2017 Oct 13, Police in Ferguson, Mo., arrested five people following the latest round of protests over the acquittal of police Officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 killing of Anthony Lamar Smith.
(SSFC, 10/15/17, p.A5)
2017 Oct 13, It was reported that a recent report by JPMorgan Chase estimated that just 10% of daily stock trading is done by human stock pickers.
(SFC, 10/13/17, p.A1)
2017 Oct 13, Austria said it would launch a lawsuit against the European Union's approval of the Russian-financed expansion of a nuclear plant in Hungary. The approval, granted in March, removed the last major obstacle to the 12.5 billion euro ($13.2 billion) expansion of the Paks plant, Hungary's only nuclear facility.
(AFP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, A London court ruled that 1,826 Zambians can sue Vedanta Resources in the English courts over alleged pollution of their village after an appeal court threw out the miner's attempt to block their legal action.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Cameroon said it has opened a probe into recent deadly violence linked to a symbolic declaration of independence in the west African nation's English-speaking region. 14 people died in violence ahead of the symbolic October 1 declaration of independence of Ambazonia, the name of the state that separatists want to create. Amnesty International said that "at least 500 people remained detained.
(AFP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, American Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle and their three children, freed in Pakistan this week, returned to Canada where the husband said one of his children had been murdered and his wife had been raped. In early January Boyle was arrested and faced at least a dozen charges including sexual assault.
(AP, 10/14/17)(SFC, 1/3/18, p.A2)
2017 Oct 13, EU ministers said border controls inside what should normally be Europe's cherished zone of free travel are here to stay for now, citing continued terrorist threats and the need to control migration.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, EU environment ministers agreed national emissions-reduction targets in a push to show how the bloc is delivering on its climate goals ahead of United Nations talks next months to fight global warming.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, The Iraqi army launched an operation to retake Kurdish-held positions around the disputed oil city of Kirkuk amid a bitter row with the Kurds over a vote for independence last month. Kurdish forces overnight moved back their defensive line around the oil region of Kirkuk by 2 km (1.2 miles) to reduce the possibility of friction with nearby Iraqi forces.
(AFP, 10/13/17)(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, In Japan a scandal over product inspections data faked by materials and machinery giant Kobe Steel expanded to include products shipped to more than 500 customers.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Police in Kenya shot and killed two opposition protesters who allegedly stormed a police station with farm tools and rocks in the western part of the country, while police used tear gas on rallies in the capital and elsewhere demanding reforms ahead of the new election. Opposition leader Raila Odinga said he's willing to return to the race if the government is "ready to do business and deal" on reforms.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it is deploying its first-ever plague treatment center to Madagascar where dozens have been reported killed by the outbreak.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, In Mexico security cameras recorded fifteen state police officers apparently looting a property. The police were later charged with conducting an unlawful search, robbery and abuse of authority.
(AP, 10/22/17)
2017 Oct 13, Myanmar said its military has launched an internal probe into the conduct of soldiers during a counteroffensive that has sent more than half a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, In Nigeria four British missionaries giving free medical services were kidnapped in southern Delta state. After three weeks Ian Squire was reported killed and the other three released.
(Reuters, 10/18/17)(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Oct 13, The 33,205-ton Emerald Star, a Hong Kong-registered freighter, sank in rough seas off the Philippine coast, leaving 10 crewmembers missing.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Poland's Pres. Andrzej Duda signed into law a bill on funding for non-governmental organizations that critics fear the conservative government may use to undercut groups with missions that conflict with the ruling party's positions.
(AP, 10/14/17)
2017 Oct 13, Romania’s foreign minister said Ukraine has pledged not to close Romanian language schools under a new education law that has caused alarm in Romania, Russia and Hungary.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Russia successfully launched a satellite into orbit that will monitor Europe's atmosphere, helping to study air pollution. The European Space Agency's Sentinel-5P satellite was launched by a Rokot missile from the northwestern Plesetsk launch pad.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, On four voyages between Oct. 13, 2017, and May 7, 2018, the Russian Tantal tanker gave its destination as the Chinese port of Ningbo when it set sail. It then met up in international waters with a North Korean vessel to which it transferred its cargo of fuel.
(Reuters, 2/26/19)
2017 Oct 13, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic promised to lead the Balkan nation into the EU and said the fact that Russia is arming the Serbian military doesn't threaten that goal.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, The Seychelles government ordered schools to close, after the discovery of two suspected cases of plague thought to have been brought from Madagascar where the disease has killed scores.
(AFP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that President Jacob Zuma can face prosecution on almost 800 charges of corruption relating to a 1990s arms deal.
(AFP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, South Korea and China agreed to extend their currency swap deal, easing concerns the deal would fall through due to tensions over a US missile defense system. The two Asian countries renewed the deal worth 64 trillion won or 360 billion yuan ($57 billion) for another three years.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, Spain's government says that Turkish-born writer Dogan Akhanly, who has German citizenship, won't be extradited to Turkey for his alleged involvement with an outlawed group.
(AP, 10/13/17)
2017 Oct 13, The UN human rights office said Azerbaijan, Egypt and Indonesia have all unjustly arrested dozens of people during anti-gay crackdowns in recent weeks, subjecting many to mistreatment in custody.
(Reuters, 10/13/17)
2018 Oct 13, US President Donald Trump said in a CBS interview that there would be "severe punishment" for Saudi Arabia if it turns out that missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In southern Texas gunfire erupted a a toddler's first birthday party leaving four men dead in Taft.
(SFC, 10/15/18, p.A6)
2018 Oct 13, In northeastern Afghanistan a motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated at an election rally in Takhar province killing at least 14 people, including civilians and security forces. The death toll soon climbed from 14 to 22.
(AP, 10/13/18)(AP, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Afghanistan the police chief of Mizan, a district in southern Zabul province, was killed late today in armed clashes with Taliban insurgents. Taliban fighters in Farah province killed 21 troops at two checkpoints in the district of Posht-e Rud. The Taliban captured 11 soldiers and seized their weapons as fighting continued into the next day.
(Reuters, 10/14/18)(SFC, 10/15/18, p.A4)
2018 Oct 13, In Afghanistan blast in Helmand went off inside the campaign office of Abdul Jabar Qahraman, killing him and wounding seven people.
(AP, 10/17/18)
2018 Oct 13, Taliban leaders said they will continue to meet for discussions with the newly appointed US special envoy for peace efforts in Afghanistan.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Bangladesh a small party led by prominent lawyer Kamal Hossain forged a new alliance with the country's main opposition party that could be seen as a boost against PM Sheikh Hasina's government ahead of national elections due in December.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Bangladesh an influential body of newspaper editors criticized the government for a new digital security law that they say will stifle constitutionally protected freedom of speech and curtail press freedom.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, The Bank of England said that a new 50-pound note will be printed on thin, flexible polymer with extra security measures to prevent forgeries. The new note will not be introduced until the newest version of the 20-pound note enters circulation in 2020.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Storm Callum left one man dead after a landslide in western Wales while another was swept away by rough seas in Brighton on the southern coast of England.
(AP, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, Mark Sutton (34), a Briton riding a mountain bike, was shot dead by a hunter (22) as he sped down a wooded track near Montriond in the French Alps.
(AFP, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, Cambodia's PM Hun Sen said he has agreed to the resumption of US military-led missions to search for the remains of Americans missing in action during the Vietnam War. The long-running program was suspended a year ago after the US government stopped issuing visas to senior Cambodian Foreign Ministry officials and their families. The visa ban remained in place.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In the Czech Rep. a conservative opposition party won an election for a third of the seats in Parliament's upper house as the ruling coalition of PM Andrej Babis suffered a setback. The Civic Democratic Party won 10 of the 27 seats up for grabs in the 81-seat Senate in the two-round election. Opposition parties now control the Senate.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Gabon's ruling party won just over half of the parliamentary seats in the first round of legislative elections in a vote marred by low turnout. The 2nd round will be held in 61 constituencies on October 27.
(AFP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Germany tens of thousands of people protested racism and discrimination in Berlin, a demonstration that came amid rising concerns about Germany's increasingly confident far right.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In northern Greece a speeding car carrying migrants collided with a truck, killing 11 people.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Indonesia global financial leaders meeting in Bali wrapped up an annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank by urging countries to brace for potential risks from trade disputes and other tensions.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Italy women's rights groups marched in protest in the northern city of Verona, after the local council passed a motion to fund Catholic anti-abortion groups.
(AFP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Charismatic Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim won a by-election for a parliamentary seat with a landslide victory in a grand political comeback to help him prepare for his eventual takeover from PM Mahathir Mohamad.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Palestinian security sources said Aisha Mohammed Rabi (48), a mother of eight, has died of her wounds in Nablus after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank threw stones a day earlier at the car she was traveling in.
(AFP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Polish police used tear gas and a water cannon against right-wing extremists who were trying to block the first equality parade in the city of Lublin.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, The Russian Orthodox Church said it would respond firmly to the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate over its decision to back Ukraine's request to establish an independent, or "autocephalous", Church.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, Saudi Arabia dismissed accusations that Jamal Khashoggi was ordered murdered by a hit squad inside its Istanbul consulate as "lies and baseless allegations".
(AFP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Somalia two suspected suicide bombers struck in the southern city of Baidoa killing 20 people.
(Reuters, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, South Korea's Busan Film Festival closed after screening 324 films from 79 countries across its varied 10-day program, which included 115 world premieres, with just over 195,000 people attending.
(AFP, 10/12/18)
2018 Oct 13, In northwest Syria opposition fighters fired mortar shells from a planned buffer zone late today in Hama province, killing two soldiers. The deadly attack threatened a deal to protect the last major rebel bastion from a regime offensive.
(AFP, 10/14/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Syria IS militants reportedly took around 700 hostages in Deir-al Zor province after attacking a refugee camp in an area controlled by US-backed forces.
(Reuters, 10/18/18)
2018 Oct 13, UN sanctions monitors in an unpublished report said banned charcoal exports from Somalia are thriving, generating millions of dollars a year for al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremists — and often passing through Iran to have their origins obscured.
(AP, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, The Vatican said Pope Francis has defrocked Chilean bishops Francisco José Cox Huneeus (84), former archbishop emeritus of the city of La Serena, and Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández (53), former archbishop emeritus of Iquique, who have been caught up in the country's widening sexual abuse crisis.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2018 Oct 13, In Yemen air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group killed 10 civilians in Hodeidah province. The Houthi movement’s Al Massira TV said 17 died and many others were in a critical condition.
(Reuters, 10/13/18)
2019 Oct 13, The United States said it is poised to withdraw some 1,000 troops from northern Syria after learning that Turkey planned to extend a military incursion against Kurdish foes further south than originally planned.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Hunter Biden, the son of former US Vice President Joe Biden, for the first time defended his work in Ukraine and China, after sustained criticism from Republican President Donald Trump that has embroiled the White House in an impeachment inquiry.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, The Warner Bros. film "Joker" scored an easy victory in its second weekend with $55 million at 4,374 sites.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, The Indianapolis Zoo said it plans to open an international center devoted to saving threatened species, an effort that zoo officials call a natural extension of their biennial Indianapolis Prize honoring animal conservation leaders.
(AP, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, In Pearl River, New York, a two-car collision sent a Porsche SUV plummeting off an overpass onto train tracks below, where it burst into flames, killing two teenagers and sending a third to a hospital with serious injuries.
(AP, 10/14/19)
2019 Oct 13, Hundreds of Algerians protested in front of parliament against a proposed energy law that they say the caretaker government has no right to pass.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Ecuador's army patrolled the streets of Quito as the government of President Lenin Moreno and indigenous leaders prepared for talks to end more than a week of fuel price protests. Moreno and indigenous leaders struck a deal late today to cancel the disputed austerity package.
(AP, 10/13/19)(SFC, 10/15/19, p.A3)
2019 Oct 13, Hong Kong pro-democracy activists and riot police clashed in chaotic scenes around the city with police in full riot gear chasing protesters through crowds of horrified lunchtime shoppers.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's dominant right-wing Fidesz party faced a challenge from opposition parties, who backed joint candidates in many cities in the country's nationwide local election. Fidesz suffered large losses as opposition candidates won the mayoral race in Budapest and other large cities.
(AP, 10/13/19)(SFC, 10/14/19, p.A2)
2019 Oct 13, Israel's Pres. Reuven Rivlin in a letter asked Russian leader Vladimir Putin to pardon Naama Issachar, a young Israeli woman, imprisoned on drug charges in Russia.
(AP, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Japan sent tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the worst typhoons to hit the country in recent history. At least 63 people were killed by Typhoon Hagibis with 11 others presumed dead.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)(SFC, 10/14/19, p.A4)(SFC, 10/17/19, p.A2)
2019 Oct 13, In Japan a Panama-registered cargo ship was found sunk in waters near Tokyo after authorities lost track of it as Typhoon Hagibis lashed the country. A newspaper said at least five of the 12 crew were killed.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Kurdish forces long allied with the United States in Syria announced a new deal with the government in Damascus, a sworn enemy of Washington that is backed by Russia, as Turkish troops moved deeper into their territory and President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of the US military from northern Syria.
(NY Times, 10/14/19)
2019 Oct 13, In Nepal Chinese President Xi Jinping wound up two days of meetings with separate deals for a rail link to Tibet and a tunnel.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Pakistani PM Imran Khan on a visit to Iran said he was acting “not as a mediator but as a facilitator" for talks between Tehran and Riyadh, where he’s traveling tomorrow.
(Bloomberg, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Poles voted in a parliamentary election that the ruling nationalist Law and Justice party was favored to win, buoyed by the popularity of its conservative agenda and generous social spending. The Law and Justice party won just under 45% of votes for the 100-seat Senate, which translates to 49 senators, down from the 61 senators it now has. Opposition parties seem to have won 51 seats.
(AP, 10/13/19)(AP, 10/14/19)
2019 Oct 13, Saudi Arabia launched a new logistics zone open to private investors in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, as part of a wider industrial initiative to diversify the economy away from oil and create jobs for Saudis.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a Turkish air strike in the Syrian town of Ras al Ain killed nine people including five civilians.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, In northern Syria hundreds of Islamic State supporters escaped from a holding camp in amid heavy clashes between invading Turkish-led forces and Kurdish fighters. 780 IS supporters fled a camp for the displaced in the Syrian town of Ein Issa. US President Donald Trump ordered all US troops to withdraw from the north to avoid getting caught in the fighting. Approximately 1,000 US troops in Syria are not leaving the country entirely, but are trying to avoid becoming embroiled in the conflict.
(AP, 10/13/19)(AP, 10/17/19)
2019 Oct 13, Tunisians cast ballots to choose their next president. In the runoff Saied, an independent law professor, faced Nabil Karoui, a media mogul facing corruption allegations. Exit polls declared a landslide election win for Kais Saied.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)(Reuters, 10/14/19)
2019 Oct 13, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said the incursion into Syria will stretch from Kobani in the west to Hasaka in the east, going some 30 km (19 miles) into Syrian territory.
(Reuters, 10/13/19)
2019 Oct 13, Pope Francis canonized Cardinal John Henry Newman, praising the 19th-century Anglican convert who became an influential, unifying figure in both the Anglican and Catholic churches. Newman was canonized along with four women, including three nuns from the 19th and 20th centuries — Sisters Giuseppina Vannini of Italy, Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan of India and Brazilian Dulce Lopes Pontes — as well as Swiss laywoman Margherita Bays.
(AP, 10/13/19)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that federal payments to American farmers was projected to hit a record $46 billion as the White House funnels money to Trump's rural based in the South and Midwest before election day.
(SFC, 10/13/20, p.A4)
2020 Oct 13, Financial leaders of the world's seven biggest economies vowed to fight rising ransomware attacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and said no stable coin operation should start until it is properly regulated.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by 215 Senate and House of Representatives Democrats of a lower court ruling that found that the lawmakers lacked the necessary legal standing to bring the case that focused on the Republican president's ownership of the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US Supreme Court turned away South Carolina's bid to cut off public funding to Planned Parenthood.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to halt the 2020 census count ahead of schedule, effectively shutting down what has been the most contentious and litigated census in memory and setting the stage for a bitter fight over how to use its numbers for the apportionment of the next Congress.
(NY Times, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US Justice Department sued Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a onetime close friend and aide to first lady Melania Trump, to try to recoup the profits from a tell-all book that disclosed embarrassing details about her, the third lawsuit in recent months where the department has taken on a White House antagonist.
(NY Times, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that a group of prominent Christians from both sides of the aisle, including a past faith adviser to former President Barack Obama, is forming a political action committee designed to chip away at Christian support for President Donald Trump in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) said it has started a study to evaluate two antibody treatments in COVID-19 patients. The trial will test AbbVie Inc's psoriasis drug risankizumab along with Gilead Sciences' antiviral remdesivir, compared to a placebo and remdesivir to help tackle the new coronavirus.. The study will also test Humanigen's experimental drug lenzilumab with remdesivir.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Int'l. arbitrators said the EU can impose tariffs and other penalties on up to $4 billion of US goods and services over illegal American support for plane maker Boeing.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A2)
2020 Oct 13, Arizona health officials reported more than 680 new coronavirus and eight death. Statewide totals rose to more than 226,000 cases and 5,767 deaths.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A6)
2020 Oct 13, California to date had 860,111 cases of coronavirus and 16,600 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 109,267 cases and 1,643 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 7,850,829 with the death toll at 215,775.
(sfist.com, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, North Dakota officials recorded a sixth straight day of record COVID-19 cases. 517 positive tests And 12 deaths in the last 24 hours put the state's total cases at 4,600 and 357 deaths.
(SFC, 10/15/20, p.A8)
2020 Oct 13, Ohio State Univ. said it will pay $5.8 million to settle lawsuits by about two dozen more survivors over decades-old sexual abuse by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, bringing total settlement so far to $46.7 million.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A3)
2020 Oct 13, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space company launched a New Shepard rocket for a seventh time from a remote corner of Texas, testing new lunar-landing technology for NASA that could help put astronauts back on the moon.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, In Virginia Varita V. Quincy, an American military contractor, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US and commit property theft. She also pleaded guilty to making false statements. In 20201 she was sentenced to 51 months in prison, and ordered to pay restitution totaling $179,708. Co-conspirator Larry Green pleaded guilty to similar charges and was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2020 to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay the same as Quincy in restitution for his role in the theft ring on a military installation in Afghanistan.
(AP, 4/28/21)
2020 Oct 13, In Virginia an accidentally severed fiber optic cable shut down the state's online voter registration system for several hours, the last day to register before the November general election. This prompted a lawsuit from a civil rights organization.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Texas began in-person voting.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Apple introduced the iPhone 12, but the faster internet speeds it promises may take years to develop.
(NY Times, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said that they will donate an additional $100 million to support election officials and fund infrastructure for the US election in November.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Ford Motor Co said it was moving production of its plug-in Escape sport utility vehicle to next year as it reviews its vehicles with the same engine and battery parts that were recalled in Europe. The automaker said it recalled 20,500 Kuga PHEV vehicles in Europe last month and suspended their sale as it looks into potential concern with the high voltage battery, which in certain cases could result in a fire.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that Johnson & Johnson has paused the late-stage clinical trial of its vaccine because of an “unexplained illness" in one of the volunteers.
(NY Times, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Novavax Inc said it has set up a team of company veterans as it seeks US. regulatory approval for its seasonal influenza vaccine and to help develop a combined influenza/COVID-19 vaccine for use after the pandemic.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Vaxart Inc said it had begun an early-stage study testing its oral tablet COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which the drug developer hopes would be a viable alternative to injectable vaccines.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Two Afghan helicopters collided while transporting wounded soldiers in Helmand province. Nine service members were killed.
(SFC, 10/15/20, p.A5)
2020 Oct 13, Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces raged for a third week over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, and the United States urged both sides to adhere to a cease-fire reached over the weekend. Nagorno-Karabakh military officials said 16 servicemen were killed, bringing the total number of dead among troops to 532 since Sept. 27, when the fighting flared up. Azerbaijani authorities said 42 civilians have been killed on their side since the start of the fighting.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, said it will ease restrictions despite reporting the biggest one-day jump in new COVID-19 cases in six weeks.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Bangladesh said it will not co-fund a late-stage domestic trial of a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech. The country reported 22 deaths and 1,537 new COVID-19 infections, taking the total number of reported cases in the country to 381,275, and the death toll to 5,577.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Britain reported 17,234 new confirmed cases and 143 new deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily figure since June, as parts of the country were facing tougher social distancing restrictions under a new three-tiered alert system. Total deaths reached 43,018.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that police in China have used a drone to capture footage of an alleged drug deal taking place.
(BBC, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, China was reelected to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), alongside Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Nepal. Saudi Arabia was the only country up for election that failed to be elected, mustering only 90 votes. Fifteen positions were up for grabs on the 47-seat body.
(AFP, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, French researchers say they have had encouraging initial results from trials of a COVID-19 testing system that, they say, can deliver results in 40 minutes with no swab and no need to send off samples to a lab. The French system showed 87.5 percent accuracy for detecting positive results when tested on a sample of 220 people.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Indonesia reported 3,906 new coronavirus infections and 92 new deaths. The new infections brought the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 340,622, while the death tally rose to 12,027.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Italian PM Giuseppe Conte imposed new restrictions on gatherings, restaurants, sports and school activities in an attempt to slow a recent surge in coronavirus infections.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Japan launched its latest three-yearly energy policy review, with the country grappling with a need to cut greenhouse gas emissions even as the public remains wary over nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, In central Mali suspected Islamic extremists have carried out a series of attacks killing at least 22 people. Ten civilians died when a car near a military convoy was ambushed between Bandiagara and Bankass. At least 12 soldiers died in two separate attacks elsewhere.
(AP, 10/14/20)
2020 Oct 13, Nigeria's police chief ordered the unconditional release of all demonstrators arrested during protests against police brutality.
(BBC, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Norway's government said it will provide a vaccine against COVID-19 free of charge to its inhabitants when one becomes available.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, In Poland angry farmers protested in Warsaw against draft legislation that would ban fur farms, religious slaughter for export and the use of animals for entertainment and in circuses. The government has proposed to ease restrictions, offer copmpensation for closed farms and to delay the bill.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A2)
2020 Oct 13, Poland's Health Ministry reported 5,068 new coronavirus cases, only the second time the figure has passed 5,000 in a 24-hour period since the pandemic began. The country of 38 million has now reported a total of 135,278 cases of the novel coronavirus and 3,101 deaths.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Romania's centrist minority government introduced new progressive restrictions to stem a rise in new coronavirus infections and will extend a state of alert until mid-November. The total number of confirmed cases has risen to 160,461 since the pandemic reached the country in late February. 5,535 people have died.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, Russia reported record high daily coronavirus cases and deaths, pushing total infections to 1,326,178, but authorities said they do not plan to impose lockdowns across the vast country.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, South Korea reported 102 new cases of the coronavirus brining its total cases to 24,805 and 434 deaths.
(SFC, 10/14/20, p.A6)
2020 Oct 13, In Spain hundreds of primary care doctors went on strike in the region of Catalonia calling for better working conditions as coronavirus cases rise. With close to 900,000 registered cases and more than 33,000 deaths, Spain has become the pandemic's hotspot in Western Europe with the capital Madrid and nearby suburbs on lockdown since last week.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, A judge in Spain allowed an alleged leading member of the ’Ndrangheta mafia organization to walk free after failing to realize that the arrested man was a most-wanted suspect in his native Italy. Vittorio Raso was arrested in Barcelona earlier this month after a two-year police operation to track him down following a tip from the Italian authorities.
(The Telegraph, 10/21/20)
2020 Oct 13, It was reported that more than 4,500 people in Sudan's South Darfur province have been displaced in the past week by ongoing clashes between factions of a rebel group boycotting a recent peace deal between the transitional government and a rebel alliance.
(AP, 10/13/20)
2020 Oct 13, In Tunisia hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police in a provincial town after authorities bulldozed an unlicensed cigarette kiosk, killing its owner sleeping inside.
(Reuters, 10/13/20)
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